Chapter XIV: The Coalition
Finger crossing, inside the front-line battlefield command post.
At the pre-war meeting, Count Cecia sat silently in the corner of the command post wearing a veil.
Dragons have a very high status in the Western countries... It is normal to be directly involved in national decision-making.
But Cecia belongs to the kind of dragon whose tactical literacy is not very high, so she still has to listen to the advice of various marshals and generals of the Republic of Phalo in war decisions.
But this meeting was not only gathered by the marshals of the Republic of Falot, but also by the Ainland Empire, the Prud Empire, the Shari Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Kingdom of Austria-Hungary...
In short, it is a meeting of the commanders of the Western countries led by the Ainland Empire.
"You want a piece of this war... Send your own dragon! ”
Marshal Asir Sovald stood in front of the sand table of the conference table and shouted at the commanders from other countries!
"How do you know we haven't deployed our own dragons into battle? Your Excellency Asir. ”
There was a hint of sadism in the voice of one of the generals of the Ainland Empire.
Marshal Asir listened to this, but he did not respond with anger in his chest, and glanced helplessly at Count Cecia, who was sitting in the corner with his eyes closed.
"At least you have enough allies in the battlefield war, do you dislike too many reinforcements, Your Excellency Asir?" Another general asked.
The atmosphere of this pre-war meeting was full of gunpowder, but the matter of the combined army attacking Bactria had long been finalized, and Marshal Alsi could only accept the assistance of these allies.
When the battle meeting was over, and the generals of the other countries had left, Marshal Asir went outside the tent and lit the pipe in his hand, his expression was slightly solemn, and Count Cecia also stepped out of the tent and came to the side of the marshal.
"Isn't it a good thing to have reinforcements?"
Count Cecia did not understand why the marshal's expression was so bad.
"Reinforcements?" Marshal Asir was very disdainful when he heard this word.
"Is it the enemy?"
Count Cecia was also well aware that the relationship between the Western countries was not harmonious, but they did not think that they would stab themselves in the back in such a foreign war.
"It's not appropriate to describe it as an enemy, it should be said that it is an opponent."
Marshal Asir took a deep puff of the tobacco in his pipe, looked at the generals of the coalition forces in the distance, and said.
"What does the opponent mean..."
"They didn't see Great Xia as an enemy from the beginning, Lord Earl."
Marshal Asir spoke out the thoughts of most of the generals present.
"At the beginning of this war, our opponents... It is the other countries in the coalition army, they have wanted to divide the land of Great Xia for a long time, but they lack an opportunity, and your declaration of war is this opportunity, Lord Earl, so they are now eager to go back and lead their army into Great Xia to seize the land. ”
"But our current enemy is not Great Xia." Count Cecia sensed a slight hint in the marshal's tone... Satirize.
He was satirizing the dragon for being too willful and acting on its own initiative, upsetting the balance between the nations.
"Whether it's Great Xia or Huaguo, as long as you are in us, we will be invincible, isn't it?" Marshal Asir asked.
"I think we should be cautious about this war."
Count Cecia has full confidence in his own strength, but there are too many unknown things in that country.
"We've been cautious enough, I'm afraid other countries have deployed their own dragons in this battle, and then our coalition forces march on multiple fronts... You are hidden in one of these forces, and as long as the territory of Great Xia comes within range of your breath, it will be our victory. ”
While Marshal Asir was talking to Count Cecia, one of the scouts from the front had already rushed back to his position...
"General!" The scout saluted Marshal Asir.
"How many troops did the enemy have on the front line?"
"The report... For the time being, the deployment of enemy forces on the front was not observed. The scout responded.
"None? The scope of your investigation is determined to be the border south of Xishuang County? When Marshal Asir heard this answer, his first reaction was that there was an ambush, but there was no reason...
The scope of this scout's reconnaissance has already reached the border of Great Xia, which can be said to be the last line of defense of Great Xia, if the enemy does not fortify there, it is equivalent to opening the country to let the coalition forces of the western countries enter.
"Yes, according to the front-line battle reports, no trace of the enemy has been observed on the front line in the Beibu Gulf, and all the ironclad ships of the coalition forces have arrived in the Beibu Gulf." The scout reported something even more outrageous.
The enemy did not fortify not only the land border, but also the coastline.
Is this directly giving the right to control the sea to others?
Great Xia also had at least three ironclad ships purchased from Western countries and had coastal defense lines in the Beibu Gulf.
Now the ironclad ships are gone, and the coastal defense guns in the harbor are nowhere to be seen...
The ironclad ships of the coalition forces poured into the waters near the Gulf of Tonkin without any problems.
This may be that the coalition forces do not need to rely on dragons, as long as they rely on the soldiers and ironclad ships of the coalition army, they can easily take the entire territory of Great Xia.
Don't the enemy generals know the importance of sea supremacy?
"Decoy strategy?"
Marshal Asir did not rule out that this was a strategy of the enemy to lure the enemy deeper, but this strategy was useless in front of the dragon ...
The only way for Great Xia or Hua to win is to keep the dragon's footsteps out of the border.
What are the generals on the Huaguo side thinking?
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Huaguo Frontline Combat Command Center.
Yi Zheng had the privilege of standing here as an advisor, and of course he had signed a bunch of non-disclosure agreements before he came.
And the mood now may not have many adjectives to say except shock.
The large screen in the command center was divided into several bird's-eye views, in which all the positions of the Western coalition forces were in full view.
All the layouts of the enemy battlefield were seen by Yi Zheng, which gave Yi Zheng the illusion that he was looking down on mortals from the perspective of a god.
"Dragon... Where is it? ”
Zhao Chen stood beside Yi Zheng and asked about the key to this war.
The multinational coalition would participate in this war under the pretext of the declaration of war by the Republic of Falot, which was also expected by the Chinese commanders.
The only thing that really destabilizing this war is the dragon, and of course it does not rule out the possibility that the enemy's transcendents have infiltrated our country to wreak havoc.
But in the big battle, the only ones who can really determine the outcome of the war balance are the dragons with nuclear-level destructive power.
"Dragons can take on human form in non-wartime situations, so they may be hiding in the armies of Western nations." Yi Zheng said.
Yi Zheng shared a lot of trivia about dragons before he came, and one of the weaknesses of dragons is...
They will try to avoid fighting outside their home territory as much as possible.
Because the dragon wants to absorb the energy in the dragon vein, it must have the cooperation of the earth spirit, or allow, if it is forcibly absorbed, then the dragon's combat power will drop by a step.
Of course, for example, the first thing they did in Tianzhu, the countries that had been conquered by the Western countries, was to domesticate the local spirits.
But the earth spirits of Great Xia are not yet.
Therefore, if the earth spirit of Xishuang County fell into the hands of the Falo Republic before, it was simply unimaginable.
If it really succeeds, it is enough for the Republic of Falot to directly let the dragon land on the mainland of Xishuang County, and then use Xishuang County as the base point... A single dragon can threaten the entire territory of Great Xia.
Now the allied forces of the Western countries can only prepare for an attack in this area near the border south of China.
"If you are unsure of the location of the dragon, send me and my students to the front, the monks have the ability to perceive dragons and fellow transcendents."
Yi Zheng also wanted to contribute to this war, at least with modern technology, there was no way to find out the position of the dragon in human form in the coalition from a bird's eye view.
"There's no need, it says blow them up." Zhao Chen replied.
"Fried... Come out? ”
Yi Zheng's first reaction when he heard this word was... How to fry?
Soon Yi Zheng's doubts were answered, and on the big screen in the command center... One of the Western coalition forces suddenly burned with red flames, and an explosion appeared in the center of the position without warning!
What's going on? Sky Thunder? I'm staring at the scene on that screen with wide eyes.
"The bomb dropped on Eagle 3, and the enemy position did not react."
"Four, five ready to drop bombs."
Yi Zheng heard the sound of communication in the command post, and soon the positions of the two coalition forces were burning with flames that represented death.
After the explosion, the soldiers in the position didn't even react to what was happening, they raised their weapons and fired in confusion.
At this moment, Yi Zheng deeply felt the fear of modern information warfare.
In the midst of this war, the killing of a group of well-trained soldiers may only require the operator in the command center to gently press a button.
In Yi Zheng's eyes, this is no less than the power of God, and the Western countries also have the power of God in their hands.
With this sudden attack, it might be time for them to let their dragon appear.