The dryland unions formed a larger alliance of dryland unions, selected dangerous terrain, guarded them with large armies, and sent a large number of craftsmen to build the city!

Build a strong fortress based on the terrain and start expanding your territory into the swamps! In response to this expansion of the Dryland Trade Union Union, the Wind and Rain Union does not seem to be in a hurry to take action.

This also encouraged further action by the Dryland Union Confederation, who attacked a mine owned by the Wind and Rain Union! There are not many garrisons here, and they are basically taken in one fell swoop. Unlike Linde's previous raids, the Drylands Guild did not rush to retreat after this raid, but quickly adjusted their defenses. Cooperate with the peripheral reinforcements to fight the small group of giant frog knight troops who come to the rescue.

With the advantage of the first move, the coordination of the terrain, and the huge numerical advantage of the Dryland Union Union, the Giant Frog Riders have suffered a heavy blow! And the dryland trade unions did not follow the example of the Aerospace Forces, but built fortifications on the spot.

Basically, inch by inch, they built complex and huge fortresses and trenches. Echo each other, rescue each other, and move the whole body!

The Wind and Rain Union, which is dominated by the Giant Frog Knight, is more suitable for large-scale sports warfare, small-group guerrilla warfare, and ambush warfare in jungle swamps. There is no advantage in this kind of positional warfare that needs to be attacked.

Even the temporary expansion of the army has reduced the combat effectiveness of the originally strong combat units due to the high rate of recruits.

Even amphibious tanks and other combat vehicles were never seen again, and the Dryland Alliance also produced anti-tank weapons that could be made at this stage specifically for the amphibious tanks. Much like the "Iron Fist" anti-tank launcher used by Germany in World War 2, weighing 9 kg, the technical difficulty and cost of production are not much greater than that of hand grenades.

The knights of the Dryland Alliance will not be too heavy to hang them on the Dyrpen, and the weight is acceptable when they need to hold it in their hands, and the armor-piercing depth can solve the wind and rain of all the current chariots, including a few heavy chariots.

Fighting quality with quantity, the Dragoons, paired with an iron-fisted anti-tank launcher, should instead have a certain advantage over the dryland union union. However, they did not advance with superiority as they did in the air-space forces before, but adopted a prudent and even conservative step-by-step strategy. With the goal of cutting off the lines of communication of the Wind and Rain Union, the fort was built on the dangerous terrain, supplemented by trenches and small boats. Even many of the Wind and Rain unions have switched to the Giant Frog Riders of the Dryland Trade Union Confederation to take on the task of transporting supplies to many waterway strongholds.

The strategy may seem slow, but it is not, and in just three months, the area under the control of the Dryland Trade Union Confederation has nearly doubled. The Storm and Rain unions seem to have lost a lot of important mines and crop bases.

At a time when many people were shouting for a big stride, the top brass of the Dryland Trade Union Union felt that they had to learn the lessons of the previous Aerospace Forces and decided not to advance for the time being and to consolidate their defenses. They knew in their hearts that they had not dealt a substantial blow to the vital forces of the trade unions, and still more could not underestimate the production capacity of their huge industrial system. If you rush in, it will be worth the loss to cause a fiasco like that of the Aerospace Forces.

However, they stepped up the reconnaissance of various directions, but they never saw the main force of the Wind and Rain Union assembled. As a result, the Dryland Trade Union Confederation had no choice but to adopt a defensive strategy in a very passive manner.

On the one hand, such a prudent and conservative approach does make the wind and rain union unable to find a flaw.

But on the other hand, the relatively slow progress has also given the wind and rain unions time to adjust their military strength, equipment, and industry.

When another large flood has passed, there are almost no dry roads in the middle of the bunkers.

A large number of amphibious tanks and giant frog riders appeared.

Instead of storming forts, they disrupt supply lines, cruising in the middle of forts, attacking ships that were transporting to and fro.

At this time, it was almost surface warfare, and the combat power of the dryland unions was far behind, and the numerous fortresses lost contact with each other. Some of the forts that are close to each other can see each other, and the range of fire can cover the middle, while many of the forts that are a little farther away can't.

Especially when the fog rises every morning, it is the time for the wind and rain to pull out the battle. After uprooting some of the forts on the main transportation routes, the other forts were already divided into several small pieces in the overall situation. Since a large number of troops are trapped in the fortress in front, the losses will be very huge if they go out of the city to give up their advantageous conditions and attack the enemy's strengths with their own shortcomings. At the same time, communications were interrupted, and most of the troops did not know the distribution of the enemy in the front and back, and did not dare to rush into battle.

At this time, the wind-blown and rainy army was not in a hurry to attack the city, but drove straight into the rear. Some of the frontier forts that had been built on dry land prior to the fortress advance strategy were breached, and they were still ready for battle due to the superiority in numbers and terrain. Now that the inferior forces could not be compromised, the Wind and Rain Union captured some important facilities in the rear. Some have been badly damaged, while others have been used by them to further attack the Confederation of Dryland Trade Unions.

When the dryland trade union saw that the front troops were trapped and the rear was attacked, they also quickly adjusted and ordered the front troops to rush out of the fortress and fight the enemy to the death. First, it is a helpless move to do so, at least it can reduce the pressure on the rear. The second is that the Dryland Trade Union Union Union has judged that when the Wind and Rain Trade Union attacks the rear on a large scale, the forces to control the waterway will inevitably be limited.

Because of limited communications, this order could only be sent to the forts ahead by death squads breaking through the land and water blockade, or even by diving for a long time.

In the fog of another morning, the soldiers in the fortress in front rushed out, and sure enough, the wind and rain union did not have enough troops to block the waterway, and many of the fortresses were released from the siege. So they gathered from the rear together and launched an encirclement offensive against the troops of the Wind and Rain Union attacking the hinterland of the Dryland Trade Union Union!

Although the battle was won, it lacked the ability to maneuver by water, which made most of the wind and rain unions retreat under the unfavorable situation of the battle! The tug-of-war continues on both sides.

The Confederation of Dryland Trade Unions launched their attack boat, a four-man boat, piloting, manipulating machine guns, and two iron-fisted anti-tank shooters. About one boat carries 4-6 Iron Fist anti-tank launchers. Such a dinghy has a high firepower density and is anti-tank capable. There is also a lower scope on the hull of the boat to observe the giant frog rider lurking underwater. There are also a few more angles of spears under the hull that can be angled to kill other knights who are wreaking havoc on the bottom of the ship.

Such small boats, in small groups of 5, fought against the wind and rain between the forts to fight for the waterway. In fact, it gradually made up for the disadvantages, and the dryland trade union union and the wind and rain trade union no longer had a disparity in strength. In terms of manpower, although the Wind and Rain Trade Union has an advantage, the ratio of soldiers to population in the past was too low, and now it is temporarily necessary to transfer the industrial population to train and fight, and it has fallen behind for a while.

(End of chapter)