Cross rushed back to the command post at 10 a.m. and prepared to go to bed again, thinking that he could finally sleep peacefully for a night, and no longer have to worry about humans coming to attack his position tomorrow, because tonight's infighting and bào zhà were enough for humans to eat and walk around.

However, after only two quarters of an hour's sleep, Adjutant Nord woke him up

"Your Excellency General, something happened, something happened!"

"What's the matter, is it bào zhà that let the cannonballs fly to our side?"

Cross first thought of the bào zhà of the arsenal and let the human shells fly on his position, but the next Kenod said

"It's our tunnel, and Pits 2, 5, 6, 11, 18, 19, and 20 have collapsed severely."

Cross's face froze when he heard the news, and he felt bad

"Oh no, the bào zhà on the ground has spread to the underground."

"What to do now, whether to detonate immediately."

Cross was silent for a moment, then said for a moment

"zhà yào hasn't been piled up yet, and the explosion can't achieve its goal now, so evacuate everyone first, and wait for tomorrow."

"Yes, Your Excellency."

Cross dug twenty-six tunnels underground, thirty-two underground spaces, and the collapse of four underground spaces would not affect the entire bào pò effect, and at the same time, the bào zhà on the ground would also cover up the collapse of the underground, but thousands of people were transferred underground, and if there was a mistake, it would cause the underground bào zhà, which was what he was worried about.

However, the bào zhà in the direction of Liang County showed no signs of stopping, and became more and more intense after the early hours of the morning, the bào zhà reached an unprecedented level, the qiāng sound also became fierce and rapid, and the infighting seemed to trigger a larger-scale firefight.

But Cross was not happy, as the ground became more and more extensive, and the underground collapse became more and more serious, so severe that the efforts of the past two months were almost wiped out overnight.

By the early hours of the morning, twenty-seven of the thirty-two underground spaces had collapsed, and more than half of the twenty-six tunnels leading to and behind the coalition positions had collapsed, and the two-month plan had almost collapsed.

On the morning of the same day, through the relay of the messengers, the situation in Liang County reached Marshal Oka's flagship, and the sudden "accident" shocked Oka and deeply annoyed at the same time.

"It's really a hell of a life, but the foreign animal fight has affected us, and all the plans have been ruined."

At this time, Admiral Kusa said yoyo

"But the situation is not too bad, at least let the previous losses be evened out, maybe the loss of alien beasts will be even greater."

"But without tunnels, we won't be able to break through them head-on. We don't know how many troops we have behind us, we don't know how many weapons they have, and it is very detrimental to us to continue to consume the confrontation. ”

"What, are you going to withdraw your troops?" Cusa was serious this time, because he thought it was long overdue to withdraw his troops, but he couldn't say it explicitly.

The next Keoka said

"They have been using poison gas for days, and the wind and weather are favorable to them, and we have no anti-poison equipment, if they wait for them to recover and use poison gas to attack us, Cross's front army will die without a place to be buried, but they must not be cheapened."

"And what do you want?"

"Give up here and hold that port."

"What about the poison gas, what about the aircraft in the air, we can't solve this problem at the moment."

"They use chlorine, which can be filtered out with charcoal or activated charcoal, so we just plug our nose and mouth and do the rest."

Chlorine is a water-soluble gas that enters the respiratory tract and causes severe burns to the mucous membranes, which in turn causes respiratory edema and death.

Compared with the self-healing physiology of axillary people, chlorine is far more harmful to the respiratory tract than to their eyes, even if they are blind, as long as the organs and tissues remain in the body, they can still heal themselves and restore their vision.

However, when chlorine enters the respiratory system in large quantities, it will increase the burden of their self-healing function, and then consume too many stored human stem cells, and finally die after making ends meet.

Marshal Oka's decision was very simple, exchanging pain for space, he could accept a brief blindness, and at the same time make a proposed gas mask out of charcoal against chlorine.

Although the city of Jinye could not be breached, the port of Jinye and the mountains and forests east of it all fell into the hands of the Cross Front, which was conducive to holding out for a long time and continuing the offensive along the coastline to the west.

The landing operation at Whirlpool Beach, which was formulated in early May, was originally intended to attack from the east and to coordinate with the landing at Tianyun and Jinye, but in the end it was still necessary to capture at least one fixed port in Tianyun and Jinye.

Just because the main forces of Yuke and the Liang army were assembling in Liang County, and Liang County was advancing relatively smoothly, Oka temporarily adjusted his strategy in an attempt to tear a gap in Liang County and Yongping to attract the human vitality entrenched in Tianyun and Jinye.

Now that the purpose of occupying the port and the surrounding points has been achieved, it is very detrimental to him to continue to stalemate in the open field outside Liang County, and now he has suffered huge losses, and it is worthwhile to stay here.

So in the afternoon of the same day, Cross received an order from Oka to arrange an alternate retreat to Jinye Port as soon as possible.

"Oka, you bastard, I'm going to accuse you!"

At this time, another dwarf, Cross's chief of staff, said

"Your Excellency, the plan has now completely failed, and the alien animals have sent us a large number of frontal reinforcements in the morning to suppress the rebellion, and we will continue to face off and engage head-on, and we will still have to pay a great price.

Now that the port has been captured, we should rush to the port defense, where the terrain is more conducive to our long-term stationing. ”

"But I'm not willing to let the aliens kill so many of us, and this blood debt will have to be paid by them sooner or later. Immediately order all armies, major officers and above, to come to our headquarters for a meeting. ”

"Yes, Your Excellency."

Two days later, at night, the enemy in front of Liang County poured artillery fire on the coalition positions and Liang County, which made Bai Liyan feel nervous, and he successively called the forward positions to learn about the situation from Jiang Jie and Mo Yunfeng, but the fire was too fierce and the vision at night was not good, so it was impossible to determine the enemy's situation.

Bai Liyan looked at the sand table in front of him, and became more and more worried about the ground bào pò two days ago, which caused an underground landslide that angered them, but it may also be that there was no landslide underground, and the armpit tried to take advantage of the coalition army's "internal strife and firefight" to prepare for the large-scale underground bào pò and frontal attack, so the key question now is whether the armpit has seen through the fire fight two days ago.

The artillery fire continued all night, and there was no sign of stopping after dawn, and at the same time it was found that the enemy, who was pressed on the front line, had made preparations before the attack, and seemed to be about to launch a full-scale attack.

"Lord Si Nong, it seems that the armpit is going to attack me on all fronts, but it is the bào zhà that day has not been reaped." Zhao Huan was worried, and he was equally worried that Bào Pò did not achieve the desired effect, but instead accelerated the course of the war.

Bailiyan put down the binoculars and said expressionlessly

"With such a large area of bào pò, the collapse must have collapsed a little, maybe it didn't hurt the muscles and bones. If so, the next battle will be extremely dangerous. The herald pressed behind Jiang Jie and Mo Yunfeng, and the Liang army and Yuke retreated five miles, retreated from the main battlefield of the front and retreated to the southwest and southeast, so as not to cause more casualties underground. ”

"What about our army?" Zhao Huan asked.

"Continue to hold the front line, and if necessary, jump out of the trench and crawl forward two hundred steps to avoid the underground bào pò."

Previous exploration results have shown that the axillary eye dug the tunnel to the front position and the underground of Liangxian County, and even if the zhà yào was buried, it was under the position, not in front of the position, and he was forced to jump out of the trench and crawl to save his life.

Although there was no guarantee that the majority would be effective, the Liang County Wài Wéi position could not be lost, and it was better to pay casualties than to block the first wave of attacks.

The various departments were ordered one after another, and the Yuke and Liang armies, who were pressed behind the first-line Xian army, attacked and evacuated the existing positions. At this time, Cross, who was closely watching the movements of the coalition forces, also got the news that because only the Liang army and Yuke had been withdrawn, the Xian army did not retreat, which created a false impression for Cross and his staff.

After several encounters, Cross knew the coalition forces in front of him very well, the uniforms of the Liang army, the Xian army, and the royal guest were different, and Cross obviously felt that the Xian army was the well-equipped human army, followed by the royal guest, and the Liang army was even more rubbish, and it was the Liang army and the royal guest who withdrew, which was obviously the result of the internal strife two days ago.

This means that the frontal enemy is only the most combat-ready Xian army, which may soon be reinforced to the front line to replenish its forces.

In view of all these possibilities, Cross hastened the pace of withdrawal, but continued to maintain a high-pressure posture on the front line to conceal his true intentions.

The shelling lasted for two days, and the air boats continued to take a large number of photographs at the same time, and due to technical constraints, the results of the reconnaissance could not reflect the situation of the battlefield, but the situation in the port of Vortex Niutan aroused Bailiyan's suspicion.

Photographs and telescope observations show that the number of ships calling at the temporary port of Whirlpool is increasing day by day, and only a small number of ironclad ships are calling at the port during the day, but the volume ratio of ironclad ships is much higher than that of traditional sailing ships.

"They're running away!"

"How do you know?" Furious asked.

"Intuition and judgment. Your conclusions are based on known quantifiable data, and you can't give relatively accurate results without data premises. But living beings think from instinct and the logic of reality.

If that's right, the tunnels and spaces underground should have been devastated, and the planes that would attack me would have been lost. ”

"According to your conclusions, my results show that they have changed their strategic goals, and at the same time, the wind direction has changed, and they are worried that your use of chlorine will prompt them to weigh the pros and cons, and no longer intend to seek a head-on breakthrough in Liang County."

"That's it, their feint in Liang County is over, and they want to return to their original strategy of controlling the port."

"Yes, so what are you going to do?"

"It's too late to attack now, and it's not cost-effective, but it can't be so cheap."

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