Chapter 1883: "The Great Tsunami" (I.)
On April 7, 1625, the Far Southeastern Legion successfully captured the most important front-line fortress of the Naraku Order, the "Dusk Fortress", but the cost was very small, the total casualties of the entire battle were less than 1,000, of which only a quarter were killed, most of them had a chance to be resurrected by the chaplains, and the wounded were quickly able to recover their health after receiving divine healing, and returned to their own units to participate in the follow-up battles.
That evening, the good news from the front reached Krasbourg. The Far Eastern Magic Broadcasting Company immediately reacted, temporarily inserted front-line battle reports, and sent a broadcasting team to the front line overnight, and visited the twilight fortress that had become the temporary garrison of the Far Southeast Corps early the next morning, and interviewed commanders at all levels, grass-roots officers and soldiers, and His Royal Highness the Regent who was inspecting the front line at the forefront of the front line where the smoke of gunpowder had not yet cleared and the ruins of the walls remained.
The broadcaster did its homework for the April 8 episode, and the Capital Broadcasting Studio connected with the reporters in front of the broadcast, and presented the interviews to the audience in front of the radio in a live broadcast. The effect of the live broadcast is of course not as good as the recording and editing, except for Roland and several senior generals who are accustomed to seeing strong winds and waves when they are interviewed, they can calmly organize the language, and answer questions in a clear manner, middle and lower-level officers and ordinary soldiers never dreamed that they would be the subject of an interview, and the thought of millions of people listening to their speeches at the moment, their hearts can't help but beat faster, and they are even more nervous than when they charge under artillery fire, and the words they say are intermittent and stumbling, and even the preface does not match the afterword. However, this tension reflects a sense of reality that is far more touching than lip service, especially when the interviewed soldiers reported their safety to their parents in their distant hometown through the radio, choking up and emphasizing that they had not disappointed their parents and did not disgrace their hometown, countless listeners who stayed in front of the radio to follow the situation on the front line wept. Most of these families who are in front of the radio also have relatives and friends who are soldiers on the front line, and they are also paying close attention to the battle situation on the front line, hoping that their relatives and friends will be able to bravely kill the enemy on the battlefield to win glory for the country, and they are also worried about the safety of the other party. The slightly shy voice on the radio deeply touched the hearts of countless military families, and reminded their parents, wives, children, brothers and sisters who were in the rear of their sons, husbands, fathers, and brothers who were fighting on the front line.
The Far Eastern Magic Broadcasting Company, headquartered in Krasburg, is not limited to the Far East, and the program was spread to all corners of the world on the cloud network, and soon caused a strong response in the international community.
On the same day that the news was broadcast on the front, the member states of the "Far Eastern Court" sent congratulatory letters to the authorities in Krasbourg and published them in the newspapers, so that the whole population could share the good news of this victory. Later, Bethlehem also sent a congratulatory letter, and the ministers of the Canaanite government of the Zion royal family jointly congratulated the Kolasan army on its "victory at the fortress of twilight", and incidentally announced the breakthrough progress made by the Canaanite army under the command of Prince Colossa, which showed that the courage of the Canaanite officers and soldiers was not inferior to that of the Far Eastern officers and soldiers, and the Canaanite army did not hold back the allies.
Judging from the current situation, the three-way army that launched the southward operation at the same time, the Kolas Legion has achieved the greatest results, the Canaanite Legion has also achieved a breakthrough victory, and the overall strength of the Parnia Legion is relatively weak, although the results achieved are not as dazzling as the two major allies, but they have also advanced their positions to two hundred miles in front of the Mulberry Bay defense line, and from the overall perspective of the battlefield map, it is that the Parnians are closer to the planned meeting place of the coalition army - the shore of the Acid Lake, It is likely that they will advance to the meeting point before the Koraz and Canaanite armies.
There are no impermeable walls in the world, and despite the best attempts of the Yashan Empire authorities to block the news, the news of the major victory of the Far Southeast Army is quickly transmitted to the territory of the Empire through the pervasive magic radio network, and the Imperial military has no good news to comfort the public.
Since the opening of the Imperial Expeditionary Corps in February, more than two months have passed in a blink of an eye, the main force is still stationed in the Olevi Fortress without progress, and the turbidity river in front of it has stumped the footsteps of the army to the east, General Engel has sent several troops to try to erect pontoon bridges on the river, but without exception by the interference of the garrisons of the Far East and West Lines and the local militia, none of the pontoon bridges can be successfully completed, and they are often destroyed as soon as they are erected, not only wasting a lot of manpower and materials, but also losing a lot of officers and soldiers and even elite knights.
General Engel and his generals did not bother to consider the eastward advance of the army, and were overwhelmed by the endless and elusive guerrillas on both sides of the Turbid River. The guerrillas in the Far East were not only numerous but also complex, with regular troops and militias from all over the Far East, as well as natives who had lived on both sides of the river for generations, and in the eyes of the officers and generals from the interior of the empire, these people spoke with similar accents, had similar manners, and did not wear military uniforms, so that it was impossible to tell who was a guerrilla and who was a good law-abiding citizen.
The staff officers of the Eastern Expedition Command racked their brains to deal with guerrilla warfare in the Far East, and in just two months, they collected hundreds of examples of local guerrilla warfare and summed up the four major characteristics of the guerrillas in the Far East:
One is that the organization is flexible, and the attacks are highly random and almost untraceable. The vast majority of guerrilla forces in the Far East were small, with fewer than 100 members, and had no fixed camps, but were scattered to towns and villages in normal times, and most of them had a legitimate occupation to cover their true identities, and they looked indistinguishable from civilians. The guerrillas kept in touch with each other through magic telegraphs or military cipher broadcasts, and quickly gathered upon receiving a summons order to attack the Crusade Corps' squad responsible for policing the occupied territories, or plant bombs on railroads to sabotage Imperial trains carrying military supplies. After the attack, the guerrillas were immediately disbanded, and all the members hid their weapons and went home, resuming their role as good citizens.
The movements of the Far Eastern guerrillas were irregular, and they often launched attacks suddenly. Not to mention that the imperial military was unaware of it in advance, I am afraid that even the guerrillas who carried out the sneak attack did not formulate a perfect plan in advance, and in many cases they launched an attack on the impromptu basis, and when they hit it, they resolutely retreated when they found that the opponent was well defended, and there was no way to prevent it.
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