Chapter 525 Our War (VII)
The Rhine People's Army, which was extremely powerful but overly cautious, patiently waited outside the Nosk camp for nearly an hour and a half, waiting for ammunition supplies to be delivered from the rear.
During this period, the People's Army soldiers shot and killed several messengers returning from the Nosk front, but the main coalition forces never appeared...
It's not that the coalition forces don't care about their own base camp, but that the coalition forces really can't spare the energy at this time - after the "blue bar" of the Mage Corps was exhausted and lost the means to quickly clear the field, the enraged Undead army completely stuck to this force.
The number of players was already several times that of the coalition forces, and there was a serious shortage of resources. The coalition forces also took the initiative to "send" them to a place only a few kilometers away from the players' resurrection point. If the players could still let this group of "humanoid monsters" run away, it would be unless the players had an internal conflict again.
Considering the unreliable nature of the players, it is not surprising that they would start an internal conflict in front of the enemy during such a serious war against invaders.
However, the Nosk coalition had previously beaten the players' heads for more than an hour and chased them for more than ten kilometers, so the hatred value that had just been established was still very fresh; at least before the coalition was completely defeated and all the important BOSS (coalition front-line officers) were taken down, the vengeful players were unlikely to fight among themselves for the time being.
Jerome had originally planned to wait until the Undead Army defeated the coalition forces and then go out to kill the defeated soldiers. However, he did not expect that the Undead Army did not even give the other side a chance to be defeated. Relying on their large numbers and fast running speed, they directly played the game of closing the door and beating the dog, and surrounded the entire coalition army...
Although this encirclement is relatively "weak", it is absolutely impossible for any unit in the coalition forces to break away from the main force and act independently... It will not be the end unless they are chased down, exhausted and captured.
"These aliens are so warlike, they are worthy of being Mr. Yang's compatriots."
Jerome put away the tablet in admiration, took the well-rested soldiers and the temporary logistics personnel (operators, clerks, and grassroots cadres) who had rushed up from the rear, and went directly to occupy the enemy camp.
When the People's Army attacked the camp for the second time, they did not use fire cannons to clear the area... Although this thing is cheap, it still costs money, so the more you can save, the better.
The Nosk camp, whose remaining troops were completely wiped out, was now unable to resist the fully armed and surviving Rhine People's Army. More than a hundred gendarmes who were trying their best to maintain order in the camp saw a grass-green figure passing by from a distance, and they dropped their weapons and surrendered on the spot.
The People's Army, which did not encounter any decent resistance, quickly took over the defense of the camp. Rows of 107 fire cannons were placed on the camp wall facing the battlefield, and anti-aircraft fire-guided bomb launchers used to deal with spellcasters and storm priests were also placed on the defense towers inside and outside the camp.
Jerome was able to pay attention to the captives in the camp after being prepared to deal with extraordinary threats at any time.
"Those four Norsk spellcasters are still alive?!" Jerome's eyes nearly popped out of his head when he heard Ms. Shirley's report on the conditions of the prisoners in the camp. "This is outrageous! That's enough firepower to flatten the top of a mountain!"
"Isn't this just in time? Mr. Yang has been collecting spellcasters." Ms. Shirley, who had no clear idea of the People's Army's firepower, said solemnly, "This is not important. Compared to this, there is a more troublesome matter. The Nosk coalition brought more than 4,000 civilians. We randomly selected and interrogated them. Most of these civilians are Lionel and Kashmiri civilians who were forcibly conscripted. We have to make up our minds how to resettle these people."
"The Nosk Federal Army is still conscripting civilians?!" When Jerome heard this, he was immediately overwhelmed.
It was common for nobles to conscript civilians in civil wars, but if the scale of the war escalated to that between countries, it would be rare to hear of a country bringing civilians with it when going abroad to fight.
The reason is simple. Randomly conscripted civilians are not only useless, but also slow down the army's marching speed and reaction speed...
When the Rhine Kingdom organized the National Defense War, it recruited militiamen from all over the country instead of civilian laborers. Although the quality of the militiamen varied, most of them were young and strong men from well-off families who had received certain training. They usually had their own horses, armor, and weapons, so they could play a certain role in battle.
Ms. Shirley
Jerome's mouth twitched...
"Well... if we dismiss these civilians right now, they may not dare to return home. Being treated as deserters is still a light punishment. If someone accuses these civilians of causing the defeat of the coalition forces, I'm afraid their entire families will not be able to survive."
Jerome pressed his forehead with a headache and said, "Ms. Shirley, you have to think of a way to deal with these people. You can either recruit them temporarily and arrange for them to do short-term work or do anything else. When the situation is stabilized, you can let these civilians go home."
"I think so too. After all, there are more than 4,000 living people. We can't just watch them die." Ms. Shirley sighed, "The resources in Moses Port must be used for reconstruction. I will go back to Mr. Rex to borrow some funds to resettle these civilians."
After informing Jerome, Ms. Shirley turned around and went about comforting the conscripted laborers.
In order to prevent these frightened civilians huddled in the labor camps from misunderstanding that the Rhine people were going to massacre them, Ms. Shirley and more than 600 clerks, staff members, and grassroots cadres who were accompanying the army went out to do face-to-face, one-on-one ideological work and explain the Rhine people's resettlement policy for non-war criminals.
By 3:30 in the afternoon, when the Allied Vanguard was still struggling with the Undead Army, the more than 4,000 civilians in the Allied Camp had been organized by the Rhine Operators to dig pits to fill with the bodies of the remaining troops, dismantle and rebuild the damaged barracks, and count the stored supplies in the camp...
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the Allied vanguard soldiers, who were surrounded by heavy siege, were exhausted and gradually unable to withstand the Undead army's tireless all-round harassment tactics. The number of soldiers captured on the battlefield gradually increased.
What's worse is that the more soldiers are captured, the more motivated the Undead Army becomes. They rush to attack the Allied Forces more and more frantically...
At the front line of the coalition forces, Federal Colonel Burke Philemon, the front-line commander of the vanguard and Admiral Lucien's right-hand man, raised his telescope again.
In the camera, to the west, there are still countless undead rushing towards the battlefield, with no end in sight.
Colonel Felimon put down the telescope with a grim look on his face, waved his hand and called for his personal soldiers: "Go and ask the spellcasters how they are recovering."
The personal soldier took the order and left, and returned shortly afterwards to report: "Colonel, it will take about half an hour."
Veins bulged on Colonel Felimon's forehead. If he wasn't worried about shaking the morale of the troops, he would have wanted to roar to vent his anger. The physical strength and energy of the coalition soldiers were not as endless as the undead. As the battle dragged on, soldiers were captured every moment. The coalition forces were not in an advantageous position in terms of manpower. If they continued to waste their manpower, how many manpower would they have left? !
However, the breakout still depended on the spellcaster to clear the area, so Colonel Feremon could only suppress his dissatisfaction and grit his teeth to order his personal soldiers to wait on the side of the spellcaster.
Admiral Lucien handed over the important task of commanding the battlefield to Colonel Feremon in order to train the younger generation - the admiral was no longer young and would have to retire in a few years. Colonel Feremon, who was related to the Lucien family by marriage, needed to be promoted to the position of general as soon as possible to ensure the status of the two families in the army.
It was also because of this relationship that when Admiral Lucien sent an ambiguous order to return to the camp to support it about three hours ago, Colonel Felimon did not hesitate to dispatch an elite force to return and obey the order.
After that... there was no more movement from the direction of the main camp, and even the messengers sent back by Colonel Felimon no longer returned to report, which made Colonel Felimon feel vaguely uneasy - but at this time, because the Mage Corps was exhausted and the army was heavily besieged by the Undead, he had no time to be distracted.
"Including the troops sent back, the main camp has a total of 4,000 troops. There shouldn't be any problems."
Looking up at the sky, Colonel Felimon felt a little heavy in his heart.
"If we can't end the battle before nightfall... the whole army will have difficulty returning to the camp due to the entanglement of the undead, and that will be really bad."
No matter how elite the coalition soldiers are, fighting the undead at night is not an option - the cavalry, having lost their mobility advantage, cannot counterattack the undead and can only passively take the beating. It is only a matter of time before they are captured alive!
Colonel Felimon's only solution is to endure the anxiety of the troops being constantly eroded, patiently wait for all members of the Mage Corps to recover their combat strength, advance to the undead resurrection area in one breath, and destroy the undead resurrection magic circle in one fell swoop.
Amidst the anxiety and fear, the personal soldiers sent to the Mage Corps' resting place finally brought back good news: the eight spellcasters have rested enough and are ready to join the battle at any time; the two storm priests also said that they would no longer wait for the Nightmare Butcher to show up, and were willing to take the initiative to help deal with the undead army.
Colonel Felimon was cheered up, and immediately issued the order that had been brewing for a long time: ordering the entire army to be ready to cooperate with the Mage Corps, and ordering two Federal Army troops that had suffered heavy casualties to act as a lure, break out to the northeast and southeast, and lead away as many undead as possible to relieve the pressure on the large army.
This federal colonel has discovered the shortcomings exposed by the undead army during battle - these undead seem to be able to cooperate with each other and know how to use tactics, but in fact they just gather wherever there are coalition soldiers!
It must be said that this federal colonel was indeed very insightful and could see through the true nature of the undead at a glance.
The two federal armies that were ordered to act as a lure dared not disobey orders, and carried out the task of luring the enemy head-on, and actually led away quite a few players...
More than 20,000 undead followed the more than 1,000 "deserters" who had left the main force and swarmed away. The pressure on the coalition's eastern defense line suddenly decreased, and they were able to turn their guns and face the west.
Eight Nosk spellcasters took off at the right time, and a round of large-scale magic coverage reduced the number of undead besieging the coalition forces by more than half.
The federal vanguard army, which had been trapped in place for a long time, was finally able to crush the troublesome and annoying undead army again and continue to advance westward.
