At the last moment of the Second Battle of Vaham, the Battle of the Corpse Mountain and the Sea of Blood, the defenders of the Tasman Empire, who were about to be wiped out, miraculously sounded the horn of victory. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThis is the praise of those who are dying in their own great achievements.

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On 16 August, the United Empire launched an even more intense attack.

The breakthrough point of this day, which was also the main attack site, was chosen at the Camel Fortress, which the Tasman Empire probably did not expect to be this place at all. Just the day before, the United Empire had almost captured the fortress.

In the early morning of August 15, the new 29th Division of the 10th Infantry Corps of the United Imperial Army launched a surprise attack on the fortress of Camel Village, broke through the outer defense line and captured part of the positions before dawn, and then adopted the infantry and artillery coordination mode to seize most of the positions in the fortified area that morning. By noon, the MIKA fort was the last bastion of the Tasman Empire, and this fortified fortress caused more than 1,100 casualties in the first attack of the new 29th Division. The Tasman Empire then organized a continuous counterattack under the cover of artillery fire and aircraft, and after a full four hours of brutal tearing and killing, both sides were exhausted. At dusk, the Tasman Army used a large number of poison gas bombs, causing heavy casualties on both sides. In the end, the United Imperial Army was forced to abandon the camel fortified positions.

On August 16, after reorganization, the United Imperial Army attacked Camel Village again with the new 28th Division with the artillery regiment of the army heavy artillery regiment and two garrison divisions, and the elite troops with super luxury fire support. In the last battle, the fortifications of the fortress were badly damaged, and the artillery shelling caused heavy casualties to the defenders. The attack was launched at 4 o'clock at dawn on the 16th, and the fierce fighting lasted until 11 o'clock, when the United Imperial Army captured most of the positions except for the fortress of MIKA. At this time, there were more than 2,500 elite troops of the Imperial Army in the positions of the fortress and its surrounding positions, and a large number of enemy troops were gathering behind the fortress, preparing to repeat the counterattack of August 15. At this time, a turning point occurred, perhaps by chance, on the battlefield.

Shortly before noon on the morning of 16 August, the newly formed United Imperial Air Force used cloud cover to carry out reconnaissance and bombed a number of heavy artillery positions of the Tasman Imperial Army, including 160mm siege howitzer positions. The position was then reported to the Imperial artillery, but before the artillery could be transferred, 150mm grenades exploded on the position, the ammunition was detonated, and a large amount of poison gas was leaked, causing great casualties. Some of the pilots who participated in the battle believed that the bomb dropped by the plane caused the explosion of the enemy's ammunition stack, but the friendly plane was shot down by the enemy. However, it was also true that a battalion of 120mm howitzers was destroyed by air force bombing. If the Air Force's response is true, this is the first time in the history of human warfare that an air strike force has been formed to eliminate regimental ground troops, and this is a great event in the military history of mankind. A by-product of the great event was the collapse of the Imperial Army's counterattack for fear of poison gas. This allowed the United Imperial Army assault force to concentrate on attacking the MIKA fortress.

The pillboxes were effective defenses against small arms, but they could not withstand the bombardment of artillery, especially heavy artillery, but the fortified MIKA fort stood still under the bombardment of the Union Artillery, and the 150mm infantry guns could only blow shallow craters or even leave only a white mark on its solid and unimaginable granite outer wall.

At 15 p.m. on August 16, the newly formed 28th Division, in cooperation with artillery units, launched a final onslaught on the fortress of MIKA. Towards dusk, the division launched three attacks, carried out six large-scale explosions, and after consuming up to seven tons of explosives, finally blew a gap in the mythical hero of the Tasman Empire, and the attacking force rushed in. After the fall of the core fortress, the defenders of the camel village lost their confidence, and in the night battle that night, the defenders resisted desperately, and before dawn the next day, our army cleared the enemy in this area.

The sun came out on August 17th, and the battle began early in the morning, and unlike the previous days, it was a battle without suspense. The United Imperial Army, which attacked the fortified area, used infantry and artillery coordination tactics to methodically clear the Tasman Imperial Army that was holding its position. In the sky are the planes of the United Imperial Air Force, and on the ground are the heavy artillery of the United Imperial Army. Any reinforcement of the fortified area by the Tasman Empire turned out to be futile. Before nine o'clock in the morning, the remnants of the enemy forces in the Eastern Fortress went to reunite with their comrades. The siege of the fortress ended with a crushing victory for our United Imperial Army.

It was an extremely difficult battle for the fortress. The bloody battle for the Eastern Fortress group lasted for four days and nights (13, 14, 15, 16). The battle for the Eastern Fortress was one of the most arduous and tragic battles in the campaign, and it was also the most tragic battle in the war for the loss of the Tasman Empire, and its intensity was rare in the entire history of the United Empire Army's war. This is an extremely powerful fortress, beyond the imagination of our army. In the last battle of Vaham launched by the rebel army, Lieutenant General Rumgaru had only arrived at the time, and he did not know anything about the fortress area in the east of the city, and the imperial army's defense in the fortress in the east was relatively weak, and only made a symbolic defense and retreated. If the Imperial Army had heavily garrisoned these fortifications and deployed heavy artillery, the rebels' siege would have been abandoned halfway, even without reinforcements and counterattacks.

According to the figures released after the war, more than 8,500 United Empire troops were killed in the battle of the Eastern Fortress alone (this is external propaganda, not actual figures). Foreign military historians have verified that the number of dead in battle is more than 15,000, perhaps as many as 20,000. The figure recorded in our army's archives is 17,964 killed or killed, and the actual number is definitely more than the number that these black people who do not know how to pretend to understand in order to discredit our army or stir up trouble. You figured out this historical casualty figure, even if it's true, what's the point of pinching it?! Our army is still in a stable position, and some small countries are still afraid of our army to death. Take a step back, the master's team is hundreds of thousands, or even millions, but in the end, the master knocked you down and wiped you out, annihilating the master how much you blow with your lost lackey, "You're done with a ball", this is an unchangeable truth.

On the morning of August 17, B96, the battle for the Eastern Fortress ended, and the first phase of the Battle of Vaham ended. The four major points, such as Camel Village and Woma Mountain, were all occupied by the United Imperial Army. In addition to the numerical and overall combat superiority, the destruction of the heavy artillery positions of the Tasman Imperial Army by the air force or artillery on the morning of August 16 was definitely an extremely important reason for the difficult victory of the United Imperial Army after four days of bloody fighting.

Battle of Warham Phase 2 (17-20 August)

On the afternoon of August 17, B96, the second phase of the Battle of Vaham officially began. At this stage, the new forces united with the Fifth Army of the Imperial Army, and the units of the Sixth Army were put into battle.

At noon on 17 August, after both sides had paid a very heavy price, the battlefield entered a brief lull. But this was only the calm before the big war.

The first inscription poem on the Tasman Empire territory map of the Tasman Empire in the Waham Battle Memorial Hall reads:

(The Fall of the Tasman Empire)

In the past, it was a barbaric country, a thousand-year-old country, and one of the three great powers in the world.

The scimitar is on the horse, the riding skills are heroic, and the city stands proudly, and the crescent moon flag flutters.

I want to survive for 10,000 years, and my reputation is immense, who knows that science and technology are shining, and the sun is shining and frosty.

The sea was defeated miserably, the battle flags of the strong neighbors were fluttering, the empire was embered, and the rebels raised their swords.

The warrior heart of the clan, but outnumbered, the fierce general led the tiger division, and there was no male in the rear.

The rebels are as vast as the sea, the stormy waves overturn the emperor's boat, the situation is aided by the old enemy, and the heavy artillery is as dense as a forest.

It is difficult to defeat the enemy on the battlefield, and in the wild season, there are seven emperors in a country, how can it be reasonable not to die.

At this time, the defenders of the city were about to experience "heavy artillery dense like a forest". More than 800 large-caliber heavy artillery pieces and thousands or even tens of thousands of tons of ammunition brought by our army for the siege of the city are on the way, and they will be able to reach the war zone on the morning of 18 August.

Whoever rises by the sword will surely perish by the sword - a medieval English proverb. The implication was that any expansion by force could be taken away by greater force, and the Tasmans had thought of this when they took this important city, and they had repeatedly fortified the city in the hope that it would be able to rely on it in the event of greater force in the future. It can be said that the city has a fortified fortification that has been unimaginably strong for thousands of years. In the era of cold weapons, this was an almost impregnable defensive barrier, but what is the use of this stone wall in the face of modern siege weapons? The greater force that the Imperial Army's ancestors feared had finally arrived, but the fortifications they relied on were outdated.

Before the artillery arrived, our troops had to clear the enemy's stronghold outside the city and prepare a large and safe firing position for the artillery. Admiral Valentine drew a circle on the map, Vaham airfield. There is no doubt that the airfield in the south of the city, which is already within the firing range of our army's artillery position on the hill of Camel Ridge in the east of the city, is the best location for the siege artillery position. This battle was the beginning of the second phase of the campaign, a precursor to the final battle for the capture of the city of Vaham.

The airfield was dubbed the "Air Supply Depot" and "Fortress of Hope for the Defenders" by the defenders, Rumgeru.

Since 12 August, more than 20 sorties have been carried out every day to bring ammunition and medicines, and some of the wounded, especially the wounded officers, have been carried away. Through this airfield, the defenders could get 20 tons of ammunition and other supplies per day. However, this is not interesting for the defenders of Vaham City in the difficult and fierce battle surrounded by our army, 200,000 people are divided into 20 tons of supplies, an average of one kilogram per person, which is a drop in the bucket. In addition, the defenders were also not short of supplies, especially ammunition, until the fall of the city, there were still a lot of supplies in the city, and the defenders were not short of ammunition. The symbolism of this airlift is far greater than the practical significance, and it is the lifeline in the hearts of the defenders, "a light in the dark world".

The "Fortress of Hope" is also true. It was almost really the only hope for the defenders to hold out, and for the defenders, the value of the airfield on a psychological level was far greater than the actual military value. On August 13, his old superior, Zacharhan, personally led his troops to rescue the defenders here. Admiral Sagarhan ordered Lieutenant General Rumgairu to lead his troops to break out of the siege, but the Imperial Army Headquarters overstepped the order and forced Rumgeru and all the troops in the city to hold on to the city of Waham. Just as Rum Geru hesitated, at noon on August 14, several elite independent divisions led by the general were repulsed. The rescue forces suffered heavy losses, and Admiral Sacharkhand himself was seriously wounded by a cannon and died a day later. It was a cost-loss rescue, and the losses of the rescue force were far greater than the troops they rescued. Admiral Sacharkhand invested only five independent divisions, and also fought for his own life, only rescuing a little more than two and a half divisions of the besieged troops, but the reinforcements of four divisions were violently beaten by the enemy and lost their combat effectiveness. To make matters worse, the defense of Samlar, the old nest of Admiral Sagarhan, was weak and already in the hands of the United Empire Vanguard Division.

On the night of 15 August, Lieutenant General Rumgairu learned from his colleagues outside the encirclement of the death of his old superior and the loss of Samral, a key position in the rear. One message, two woes, which means that no one will come to the rescue of this force in the future. The city of Waham in the encirclement was besieged to death, and the enemy army outside the city had a large number of tanks and heavy artillery, and the nearest friendly troops were probably 100 kilometers away, and even if they broke out, they would be annihilated in the field. Waiting for reinforcements to relieve the siege or break out on their own, it is all an absurd fairy tale to deceive children, and the destruction of the entire army is a reality. Reality is always cold, and the battle situation is like this, and this cruelty must always be faced calmly. Sticking to it, defending to the death, and defending to the death is also the end of the annihilation of the whole army, but at least it can cause a lot of casualties to the enemy army.

The airport is guarded by a group of 5 bunkers, consisting of 22 large bunkers and 45 small bunkers. In the airfield defense circle, there is a military headquarters of the mobile defense unit of the defending army and some units directly under the army. The Tasman Army also felt that the airfield was suitable for artillery erection, and 24 100mm cannons and a battalion of 105mm independent heavy artillery (11 105 grenades, unknown source) of this corps artillery regiment were also deployed there. At that time, the defenders here were about 5,000 people.

At 14 o'clock in the afternoon of August 17, the 5th Infantry Corps of the United Imperial Army, which had just arrived on the battlefield, launched an attack on the airfield fortress, and the 1st Separate Tank Brigade supported the battle. The multi-arm coordinated tactics of infantry, tanks, artillery, and artillery showed great power, and it took only two hours to capture this well-fortified fortress.

In the heat of battle, in order to contain the artillery fire of the defenders, the Union Imperial Army bombarded the airfield fortress from the Camel Ridge position with heavy artillery. Large-caliber artillery was constantly used to bombard the airfield enemy artillery, which could not carry out barrage fire. The tanks covered the infantry to carry out the assault action, and a wave of shock successfully broke through the enemy fortified positions, and then began to directly attack various firing points. During the battle, the shortcomings of the tank's artillery were exposed, and it was almost impossible to hit strong pillboxes, and could only bombard machine gun fire points protected by improvised fortifications. But it was not without positive effects, the tanks greatly covered the tactical attack actions of the infantry, the infantry units used the tanks to attract enemy fire, the infantry artillery detachments seized the opportunity to shoot at the enemy's strong pillboxes, or the infantry demolition groups approached the enemy pillboxes to carry out blasting operations.

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With the help of tanks, the infantry units quickly succeeded in the attack, which was simply unimaginable before, and the casualties were surprisingly small. Subsequently, tanks also played a large role in clearing out the remnants of the enemy and repelling the counterattacking enemy forces. Before sunset that day, the Fifth Army held the airfield south of the city of Vaham. For the defenders, their hope remained, as it was not the only airport in Wahamqi, there was a small one in the city. Until noon on the 20th, before the small airfield in the city was breached, the senior generals of the defending army still had the opportunity to leave by plane, but General Rumgeru and his generals did not leave, and they all chose to fight until the last moment.

On 18 August, the enemy did not launch a counterattack, and the enemy defending the city spent the whole day reinforcing the city's defenses. Our troops began to clear the perimeter. The terrain in the north of the city was gentle, and the newly formed Sixth Army and the tank units directly under the military region attacked together, swept away the enemy's fortifications under the cover of heavy artillery fire, cut off the connection between the west and north of the city, and drove the main force of the enemy army north of the city into the city. The Chengnan infantry, with the cooperation of tanks, cleared the entire area around the Chengnan airfield, providing a safe enough firing position for the artillery. The newly formed N 15th Infantry Division of the Fifth Infantry Corps (B85 Type Standardized Division) of our army's forward unit has arrived less than half a kilometer from the front line of the outer fortifications of the city defense in the southern suburbs of the city. These officers and men of our army admired with great interest the fortifications built by the Tasman Imperial Army. In their opinion, this must be a very difficult battle for the fortified city.

The commander of the newly formed Fifth Army of the United Imperial Army, and the senior staff officer of the Tasman Imperial Army with the rank of Major General half a year ago, came to the forward position of our army under the city to survey the terrain, and unexpectedly met his old friend, Lieutenant General Rumgeru, the commander of the defenders who was scouting the enemy army on the city wall. Lieutenant General Rumgairu spotted Major General Ulkachem first, and he fired a friendly signal flare to signal to his old friend, and then ordered his subordinates to signal to his old friend Major General Ulkahim, who was already an enemy, "Old friend, you are within the range of our artillery fire, pay attention to safety." ”

Major General Ulkachem ordered his subordinates to respond with a banner, "Thank you for reminding you, our army is besieging the city with heavy troops, and the siege is imminent, so please take care." Both of them should have left immediately, but Major General Ulkachem made an unusually nonsensical move. He left the bunker in the uniform of a major general, and appeared in the range of all the fire of the enemy's forward position......

This was followed by a meeting between the generals of the noble fan, and the discussion was about how the two armies could protect the people of the city during the battle. In order to prevent the commander from being shot cold, all the officers and men on both sides broke out of their bunkers and stood up, and their guns were thrown aside. The chivalry of the officers and men of the two sides in this meeting with a very romantic atmosphere is commendable. Just like the city of Waham, which was held by more than 200,000 Tasman troops led by Lieutenant General Rumgeru, it is rich in classicism and aristocratic style and chivalrous romance.

The city of Vaham is an ancient city with a history of more than 1,500 years, and was once the capital of a thousand-year-old kingdom that has been extinct for thousands of years. When the Tasman Empire fell, heavy troops gathered under the city. About 600 years ago, the last king of the city led his generals and knights out of the city gates proudly and faced a formidable enemy, and these defenders proposed to fight outside the city to save the lives and property of the people in the city. The Tasman army was even more generous, and the commander ordered the encirclement to be opened, asking their enemies to leave with weapons and belongings, and promising the last king that the Tasman Empire would rule the kingdom and treat its people well.

From noon on the same day, the gates of Waham were opened, and the civilians in the city flocked out, which was a pre-war clearance, and the two armies could show their strength.

Our army got a general idea of the structure of the city by asking the people of the city. This ancient capital city once had three walls, the imperial city, the inner city, and the outer city.

The imperial city was the northernmost part of the city, with a moat up to 200 meters wide to the north, and the inner city wall to the north, which circled the city and was 200 to 20 meters wide. There is a bridge built in the south of the city, which is the only way between the imperial city and the outside world. It was an extremely fortified military fortress-like castle that is still used as a military fortress today. There are several barracks and large warehouses built inside. The multi-faceted angular fortress structure of almost regular hexagonal shape, with a diameter of about 1.2 kilometers, is a pure masonry structure, the wall is 10 meters high, the base is about 8 meters to 12 meters thick, and the top is about 7 meters to 11 meters wide. Outside the Imperial Castle is an open area about 300 meters deep to prevent enemy attacks.

The inner city is the main fortification, the circumference of the whole city is 20 kilometers, a total of 10 city gates are opened, and 10 fortification towers and 4 fortification corner towers are built. The inner city wall is 10 meters high, 6 to 10 meters wide at the top, 13 meters wide at the bottom, the core of the wall is the original concrete composed of rammed earth sand and gravel, the outer sides of the wall are covered with masonry, the masonry layer is up to 1.5 meters thick, the top is a masonry layer, the city wall has an outward protrusion every 150 meters, and the crossbowmen are fired sideways to flank the siege troops. The inner city is divided into a number of regular blocks, with all street-level buildings under three storeys and no more than 10 meters in height; There are no buildings in the block that exceed two floors. Most of these civilian buildings are brick and timber, while the public buildings, commercial buildings, and some wealthy people's mansions on the main street are solid masonry.

The outer wall is an inner wall that extends from 2 to 3 kilometers and is a 2.5-meter-high stone and brick wall, with a breastplate on the outward side to protect the garrison outside the city from enemy cavalry raids. At that time, the exterior wall was completely demolished due to many historical renovations, and only a few sections were relatively intact.

In the era of hot weapons, the city walls have been renovated many times. In the last defensive battle, Rumgeru added bunkers and fortifications around the inner city walls, built blockhouses on some sections of the city walls, and increased artillery bunkers and machine gun bunkers on the battlements. The location of the corner tower and the city gate tower is the most heavily defended area, and the city gate fortification support point is from the front of the city outside the city to the city tower, from the inside to the outside, from top to bottom, with a total of six layers of firepower; The location of the corner tower is based on the corner tower and the brick ring fortification is rebuilt, which is a large machine gun bunker with three floors.

In the age of cold weapons, the city walls were a solid bulwark to defend the city. In the era of hot weapons, in the face of the attack of modern troops, can the ancient city walls play a role? The answer is hardly possible. You have to refute it, don't say anything else, but say that this ancient city in North China, that didn't work?? The defense of Zhuozhou and the classic city defense battle of "Two Tigers Guarding Chang'an", Fu Zuoyi, Yang Hucheng, embattled and lone for several months, didn't they rely on the ancient city!! But are the two of them dealing with a real modern army? The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, in these two quasi-modern wars, there are battles that rely on the city wall to defend the city? Wood has !! The real history of the war is there. Did Nanjing hold on??!! Did Jinan hold on!?? Did Jinzhou hold on??!! As long as the attacking troops want to take the city, the defenders will definitely not be able to hold it.

At 3 a.m. on August 19, B96, the siege force of the United Imperial Army launched a general assault on the city of Waham after using more than 1,300 artillery pieces of various calibers for fire preparation.

I saw red signal flares tearing through the night sky before dawn, and more than 1,300 cannons roared in unison, bombarding the impregnable ancient city wall in the heart of the Tasman Imperial Army. After four hours of intensive shelling, the old city walls of these supposedly impregnable cultural relics collapsed one by one, and dozens of breaches were blown out.

At about 7 o'clock on the 19th, part of our army's artillery fire moderately extended into the city, and part launched a rapid attack on the forward fortifications outside the city, and the siege troops immediately launched a charge, and tens of thousands of infantry rushed in through these dozens of openings. The position of the city gate on the south side of the city wall has long been blown to pieces, and the three city gate support points have all been broken through by our army in one fell swoop, and there is almost no obstacle; The rest of the breakthroughs were also successfully achieved.

According to the UEF Tactical Manual, the walls are the last line of defense in the minds of the defenders of the traditional defensive model of antique tactical thinking, and once the walls are lost, the morale and morale of these defenders will also collapse. General Krumgaru and his men were not such antiques, and the loss of the walls was expected.

War history has repeatedly proved that in the face of an enemy army with a large number of heavy artillery, it is impossible to hold the city by relying on the fortifications of the city walls. At that time, Lieutenant General Rumgairu should have been well aware of this, although in order to stabilize the morale of the army, in front of his subordinates, he repeatedly emphasized that the walls of the city were strong and could definitely be defended. But those with a little military common sense will understand that in the face of the massive heavy artillery of the United Imperial Army, this ancient city wall is really as fragile as a layer of window paper. He and his subordinates had long been prepared for the armament. His focus was on the fortified buildings in the city, and instead of throwing his forces on the walls, he built a number of independent ring fortifications around key targets with a number of barricades, and used barricades and corner bunkers to resist the attack of the United Empire. Each company, each platoon, and even each squad of the defending forces has its own defensive area and reserve defensive area; There were also a large number of mobile defense units using automatic weapons and grenades to weave through the alleys, from the flanks, from behind, to surprise the intrusion of the United Imperial Army units. Lieutenant General Rumgeru's purpose in the battle at that time was very clear, to drag down the United Imperial Army, consume the United Imperial Army, buy time for friendly forces to deploy defenses, and reduce the pressure on friendly defensive operations.

What was really staged in the city was by no means the collapse and surrender of the defenders in batches as the United Imperial Army had thought, but the organized and tactical systematic resistance. On the morning of August 19, the United Imperial Army paid tens of thousands of casualties, advanced only a few hundred meters, suffered great losses and achieved very little results. The machine guns in the corner bunkers inflicted a large number of casualties on the attacking troops, and the elusive mobile defensive units inflicted a large number of casualties on the attacking troops. "It's a big loss."

At noon on the same day, the United Imperial Army changed its tactics, implemented the method of flattening the front and mopping the front, and put in tank troops. The attacking troops used artillery fire to open the way, destroying enemy barricades, and on the streets, tanks led the infantry to charge; In the alleys, assault infantry commandos armed with automatic weapons sweep enemy troops house by house; Rear infantry units followed, occupied one piece, consolidated another. Heavy artillery fire constantly bombarded the enemy's controlled areas, causing more casualties to the enemy, demoralizing the enemy, and disrupting the enemy's deployment. This series of tactics was extremely effective in striking at the defenders.

The defenders were helpless against the attackers' artillery, and they lacked effective tactics against the tanks, so they had to fight and retreat, and a large number of men were annihilated. In the afternoon of the same day, near dusk, the defenders were forced to concentrate their forces and implement a defensive point. The attackers took advantage of the situation to adopt siege tactics, and after fierce night fighting, the attackers realized the encirclement of the defenders' key defense areas, in other words, the defenders of the city had been divided and surrounded.

On the morning of August 20, the fierce fighting that had been fought all night continued. Fierce fighting continued all morning. The attackers used infantry and tank coordinated assault tactics, strong infantry group tactics, and artillery fire coverage tactics, repeatedly inflicting asymmetric casualties on the defenders. The defenders were red-eyed, and many officers and men launched man-to-man attacks, and some even planted explosives to kill and injure the attacking troops in large quantities. The mobile ambush tactics on which the defenders had high hopes also had some effect. However, under the fierce attack of the attacker without hurrying the cost, the defender's various defensive areas have been seriously compressed, and many of them only have core strongholds left, and some have even been completely lost.

At noon on August 20, the attackers had already assaulted near the city defense headquarters. It is a three-storey hollow-shaped building that is also a barracks, with a total area of about 60,000 square meters, and a playground in the middle. The building is made of reinforced concrete and is designed as a large fort for the city, with more than a dozen machine-gun bunkers on top and cannon carvings in the corner towers. The building is surrounded by open space of about 100 meters. It was a strong enough fortress for a guerrilla force that could only carry out demolition operations, and it was almost impossible to take it. But for a modern army armed with a large number of heavy artillery, it was only a matter of time and determination to take this barracks and headquarters.

After the heavy artillery outside the city fired a few test shots of colored smoke grenades, hundreds of cannons quickly calculated the number of shots. A heart-wrenching shelling reduced the stronghold to almost rubble. The 75mm infantry guns fired straight at the remaining fire points, and the infantry submachine gunners rushed into the ruins under the cover of tanks, completely clearing the defenders in the ruins. Our troops also used flamethrowers in this battle, which was very effective in cleaning out enemy troops hidden in the basement with grenades. In addition, our troops used dry ice (carbon dioxide) bombs that suffocated and killed away to destroy enemy troops in strong fortresses. The next day, our troops cleaned up the battlefield and dragged out the corpses of many enemy generals from the basement, including Lieutenant General Rumgairu, who had suffocated to death. There had always been a plane ready for him at the small airport in the city, but the general chose to fight for his empire until the last moment.

Most of the remnants of the defenders of the city gathered in the imperial city, and the city gates were sealed. This enemy force numbered about 36,000 men, and the city had ammunition depots and supply depots, which were abundant, well stocked, wells, and food, and the defenders had a large number of artillery. After the other strongholds were cleared, the enemy here began to fire indiscriminately with non-stop artillery fire, causing some casualties to us. The enemy's seemingly huddled together for warmth, clenched their fists and gathered strength, quickly brought them a catastrophe. This target is large enough for the artilleryman that there is no reason to miss it, and any artillery can accurately shoot the shell into it. At 15 p.m., our troops used phosgene bombs against this target. In the afternoon of the same day, our artillery used up all the poison gas bombs they brought, and at 16:10 in the afternoon, more than 1,000 infantry with gas masks picked up dead bodies and rushed into the city gate. As the commandos dispersed and advanced, they shot the dead and the dying one by one. During this trip, the assault team repeatedly engaged in fierce firefights with the remaining enemy troops wearing gas masks, and eliminated them. Before sunset on August 20, the Imperial City was cleared. The poison gas bomb is so neat, high-efficiency, low-cost, energy-saving and low-carbon.

Later, it was discovered that most of the 36,000 enemy troops here were strong men and recruits who had been coerced, and there were less than 6,000 hard-boiled militants of the Tasman Imperial Army. If they had the opportunity to carry out this operation, it would have ended up with dead bodies all the way, but it would have caused me about five figures in casualties.

At 7:20 p.m. on the night of 20 August, the tower in the northeast corner of the inner city of Waham, the last Tasman stronghold still resisting, was destroyed by our concentrated artillery fire, and the organized resistance of the defenders in the city ceased to exist.

From the afternoon of the 19th, our army mobilized artillery fire to fiercely attack the besieged enemy stronghold outside the city on a hill to the west of the city, and then the infantry launched an attack, and after more than ten hours of fierce fighting, at 12:25 noon on the 20th, the enemy here was completely annihilated by our army.

On August 20, B96, the Second Battle of Vaham ended in victory.

In the next two days, the participating units of our army cleared the remnants of the enemy and cleaned up the battlefield.

The tactical significance, strategic significance and historical position of the Second Battle of Vaham

Compared to the huge casualties of this battle, its significance is even greater. Tactically, our troops annihilated most of the nearly 220,000 defenders of Vaham, and only a small number of enemy defenders broke through with the help of other enemy units. The enemy's losses were more than 200,000.

Strategically, our troops captured the city of Vaham, a key place in Siesenstan, and opened the way to attack Samral.

This is the first time that our army has directly intervened in the civil war of the Tasman Empire on a large scale, and it has dealt a fatal blow to the Tasman Imperial Army.

The above is how to write a history textbook for children. It is written in the internal documents of the army:

Tactical level:

In the Second Battle of Vaham, a key battle of the Assenstan War of Independence, our army suffered extremely heavy losses but did not achieve corresponding results. The Tasman Empire took advantage of the fact that our army was caught in the battle of Vaham to build a strong defensive barrier along the Cragg River, and our army lost the opportunity to destroy the main force of the country's army in World War I. This battle also caused almost incalculable heavy casualties among our officers and men, and the massive loss of ammunition, materials, and personnel made it impossible for our army to effectively carry out the offensive on the Imperial Army's Krag River defense line in a short period of time.

Strategic level:

The damage was reported to Parliament, and the majority of the MPs argued that it was not worth it to pay such a price to open up territory for an ally like Yasenstein, and that the Tasman Empire could no longer pose a threat to the United Empire, and that it was possible to destroy this traditional enemy in a cheaper way. The parliament ultimately decided to continue the proxy war model against the Tasman Empire.

Heavy casualties and heavy material losses caused the planned second phase of Operation Storm to be abandoned halfway. On August 23, B58, the Battle of Storm ended, and the participating units of our army began to retreat. But people are not as good as heaven, and the final outcome is that our country used various means to attack and weaken the Tasman Empire, and soon after, the Tasman Empire army came to an internal strife, and the barbarian empire finally solved itself in self-detonation mode.

Romeo Aemilius Caesar: "The Tasman Empire is a barbarian country, the scientific and technological strength of this empire is very weak, he has never paid attention to education and science, he cannot make good weapons, and the equipment of his army will only become more and more backward." The equipment in his army with a little technical content was bought from other countries at high prices, and with the accumulated wealth, he could buy a large number of advanced weapons at any price, but he could never really master the leading military science and technology. He can buy a temporary ranking of the top military powers in the world, but one day he will fall behind...... There was a limit to the wealth of this empire, which came entirely from the plundering of the peoples of its dependencies and conquered territories. The dawn of science and technology released by the industrial revolution has begun to shine on mankind, and civilization will surely usher in liberation. In the near future, both the empire and the armies on which it rests will be obsolete. ”

The course of history was as predicted by the United Emperor.

The Tasman Empire, once one of the world's three great powers, was ranked sixth in the list of world powers a few years before its demise; In the arms race in the B century, the gold-level buyers in the international arms market were VIP customers in the eyes of various arms selling countries. It's a pity that the big donor is no longer there. Today, this mighty ancient empire has been gone for more than 100 years. Its centuries-old history as a great power has long since vanished, leaving almost no trace. Even within the former borders of the Empire, few people remember this barbarian state, and the barbarians may have conquered civilization, but it was only a gust of wind.