Chapter Ninety-Nine: The War That Can't End
The war of conquest of India has lasted for several years, from the conflict in 202 of the republican calendar, the formal war in 204 of the republican calendar, to the full-scale war in 206 of the republican calendar, the original quick war has become a luxury, and the 1.5 million elite troops have gone deep into the quagmire and cannot get out, and the entire republic is silent in a faint melancholy. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 The INFO military department was caught in a controversy, first with confusion and hesitation, and then with a frenzied determination to fight, shouting, "If you don't destroy the scorpion, the war will not stop." "Be sure to conquer the demon scorpion for Your Majesty. "Three years, thirty years, three hundred years, it's all the same. "Disgusted by parliamentarians and disgusted by countless anti-war activists, the military was constantly protesting, but they were suppressed by the determined military of the military department.
In the words of Doranakinka, "A general staff controls the army, and the army controls the actual foreign strategy of the country, and we are the decorations, and His Majesty is the military observer behind the scenes, but fortunately, the situation is not too bad, at least they are not yet completely above the state." ”
Just when the military was clamoring that the war would be won, the reality gave them a huge shame, and their face was gone.
In the Third Southern Campaign, which broke out in March, the mixed Fifth Army went deep alone, was surrounded from the left and right flanks, and the whole army fell into a besieged situation. Under the blow of ten times the absolute strength of their own side, after three months of stubborn resistance, all of them were martyred.
During the campaign, having refused to surrender and killed the messengers who persuaded them to surrender, the Goliaths tried to resist with the built city walls, first destroying the large number of artillery of the Southern Alliance with suicide attacks to gain time to prepare. The city was then slaughtered and large underground warehouses were built into underground bunkers. Harassment and attacks on the Southern Army were carried out day and night.
After seeing that the Goliaths were planning to resist stubbornly, the Southern Army attacked decisively and did not choose to besiege. Then the arrival of the magicians began the attack, and after using the remaining artillery and magical power to raze almost the entire city, the attack began.
But the attack was extremely fierce, the Goliaths carried out a frantic resistance, every window, every corner, had to fall countless people, not a single step forward were killed and wounded, in the first month, the Southern Army could not even go deep, the Goliaths from time to time sent elite troops to carry out sudden interspersed attacks, resulting in a stalemate.
However, after a month, all resistance had become weak, and the Goliaths had lost all their supplies, and it was clear that their fighting power could not be sustained. After the battle, it became relatively easy, the Goliaths began to fight in close quarters, obviously the Southern Army was not as good as the Goliaths in the fighting, but it would not be a gap to the point that the number could not be made up, at the beginning, almost every Goliath was killed or wounded, it would be dozens of Southern Army wounded or killed, not only the Southern Army could not be deployed, but also because of the Goliaths' long-term cruel training, they were well-trained, and the coordination between the squads was far better than the relationship between the opponents, they fought back to back, and they could support each other. But as the battle continued, the Goliaths began to lose their strength, and the superiority of the Southern Army began to manifest itself. At the beginning, the advantage over the Goliaths due to tactical reasons and the narrow space of the city no longer existed, and the battle began to enter the counteroffensive phase of the Southern Army.
The battle was clear, Goliath was constantly being compressed, all positions in the city began to be lost, even if they were tenacious and desperate, it was useless, and the morale was declining, on the contrary, the morale of the southern army was extremely high.
Inside the underground bunker, it was silent and oppressive, and it was dark.
"So, it's a complete failure?" Wu Shimeng's eyes looked around in a trance, and his face was just calm.
"Yes, Your Excellency Legion Commander, we are preparing for the final decisive battle, and the soldiers will not give up, only for the sake of the country, for the sake of Your Majesty. The flag bearer laughed.
"Yes, for Your Majesty's sake, but the shameful defeat is still uncomfortable, and we are the first, the first to accept this disgrace. He stood up and said weakly.
Then he took out the gun in his hand and said, "You know, this gun was given by someone from that company, and there are many people like me, but now it has become the last thing to end." ”
He smiled, then bowed down to the portrait of His Majesty in armor.
"Long live Your Majesty! Long live Your Majesty!!Long live Your Majesty!!" shouted three times.
"It is the incompetence of your subordinates that has caused your country to suffer losses, and it can only be punished with death, long live the Holy Great Goliath Empire. ”
"Bang. ”
"It's the Republic, Your Excellency. The quartermaster looked at the corpse on the ground, bent down and picked up the gun on the ground, and then said suddenly.
"Long live the republic!! long live the country!
"Bang. ”
The adjutant slowly walked to the captain's room・・・・・・
After the defeat on the ground, they began to retreat into the underground bunkers that gave hope for the final decisive battle, and continued to resist stubbornly, but the magicians of the Southern Army also recovered their mana, and they often released flames directly into the underground bunkers, and the recalcitrant defenders did not come to the decisive battle of hope, they were all burned to death, and after seeing that there was no hope, the remaining Goliaths began their final madness, they began to rush out of the bunkers, and then carried out an act that impressed the Southern Army, charging, charging against the long-range attacks of the mages and the steel-armored chariots, including cavalry。
And the supreme commander had already committed suicide to apologize to their majesty, and Goliath, who had been burned in large numbers and could not charge, had also committed suicide, and now the Southern Army seemed to know why they were so brutal, and an army that did not take its own life as a matter of course could still expect them to be merciful to others, and the generals of the Southern Army would use this to educate their soldiers that they must recognize the brutality and danger of the enemy.
"In fact, they were not afraid of death, but the result was that they all died. A general of the Confederate commented.
In this battle, which ended in the destruction of the 50,000 Goliath army, the Southern Alliance suffered more than 200,000 casualties, but it still dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the entire expeditionary force, and at the same time, the supreme commander suppressed the defeat and did not immediately inform the parliament, but intended to report after fighting a battle to regain face, thus withholding the 'military proposal' of the commander of the Fifth Army.
The retaliatory campaign then left the exhibition, gathered three reinforced armies, 150,000 men, and launched a large-scale attack on the entire south for four months, destroying the 400,000 southern army, while they themselves lost more than 70,000 men, and the army was even weaker. The goal of retaliation was achieved, but it had almost no effect on the whole war, and they did not even dare to occupy more areas, because there were not enough troops to control, but they would disperse their forces and be eliminated one by one, which would mean more military spending and greater losses.
It was only after the retaliatory campaign that the council learned the contents of the 'proposal' sent back by the military headquarters of the theater:
During this period, the Fifth Army put up extremely stubborn resistance, slaughtering the cities they occupied, engaging in fierce street battles in the cities, and at the same time intending to have a 'final battle' in makeshift bunkers that belonged to the samurai, belonged to the great Ghazi idea, and belonged to the holy war acts encouraged by the scriptures, so that after most of the city was bombed and ruins, its troops retreated to continue to resist. During this period, several counterattacks were carried out at night, interspersed and harassed with small units, but they were all repulsed.
At the beginning of February, it still controlled most of the city, relying on the cover of the ruins to resist the enemy. A large number of troops were lost contact, but fighting continued between the various divisions, and by the middle of February, a large number had been divided and encircled, and one by one the enemy was annihilated, and the soldiers of the Fifth Army made a large number of suicidal counterattacks, but they were not very effective, and the real meaningful resistance was no longer there.
At the end of the second month, after the irretrievable defeat of the battle, after the final military report to the General Command, he committed suicide, and his adjutant led his troops in a final battle, making a Ghazi charge, which was subsequently killed by the enemy, and the remaining resistance should be gradually eliminated afterwards. The entire legion was completely annihilated by the formation, becoming the first special legion of the Demon Scorpion Expeditionary Force to be completely annihilated.
It should be pointed out that in this battle, the tactics of the demon scorpion people have been greatly improved, and the quality of the army has also been greatly improved. Moreover, the commander attacked decisively and commanded in an orderly manner.
However, our army's tactics were rigid, and they did not immediately break through the encirclement at the first time, but asked for support, and after receiving the results of support, they only chose to defend instead of taking the initiative to attack, and in the initial battle, they did not choose to counterattack on all fronts when the enemy was tired, but only scattered street battles.
A large number of officers will only order their soldiers to make senseless death charges, without properly using various means to consume the enemy.
This defeat is a great shame for the soldiers of the Republic, and it also shows the great threat of the Southern Demon Scorpion, who are carrying out a terrible war counterattack against the Republic and planning to increase their determination to fight, and the reason for the defeat can only be said that our will to fight is still too weak, and the soldiers are not brave enough to dedicate themselves to His Majesty and the country. It was the Commander's stupidity, not because of what the Scorpion Man said, 'The power of the Scorpion people. That's a very wrong statement.
The army of the Great Goliath was still invincible, and it could not say anything at once, and those who commented, all of them should be hanged, burned, and executed for disturbing the army, and they should all be executed at the front line or at the hands of the enemy.
"Wrong tactics. "Soldiers don't have a strong will, they don't have the consciousness to die. "The enemy's advance. "The theater command came to the conclusion of defeat, and at the same time indicated that the subsequent retaliation was a great victory, but the parliament was already running out of patience.
The war in the Scorpion area has dragged on for a long time, and even the Cyris people have begun to wait and see and be surprised, and this is also the last thing the Goliaths want to see, and the purpose of their joint Tufan is also the purpose of containing Seris, but under the blow of the general of the Seris, the Tufan people have been defeated and retreated, and peace has been negotiated. At this time, the Goliaths felt a strong uneasiness, afraid of the interference of the Seris, but they also had a slight desire to leave with the intervention of the Seris.
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