Chapter 415 Smoke

After paying a heavy price, the 304th Armored Division has arranged new defenses. The archers of the 2nd Regiment of the City Defense Army were added to the front line, and everyone knew that the army of the Orc Empire was trying to occupy Newport within 24 hours.

After suffering losses, the orc troops changed the direction of their attack and no longer assaulted the human defense line from the front, but steadily broke through the junction of Xingang City and the seaside port from both sides. The walls there have been completely destroyed, and there are relatively few tall buildings. Almost all of them are fragile warehouses, which are easy to be broken by the orc troops. Bad. Orc forces intend to surround Newport from flanks.

However, in a short period of time, the soldiers still skillfully established a solid defense. The battalion commander of the 5th Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the 304th Armored Division reported the battle readiness to Colonel Myer:

The soldiers have strengthened their previous defensive positions, deployed infantry bunkers and set up crossbow positions in the ruins of factories and warehouses. The block was blocked with three magic cannons, and the bombed houses were decorated with groups of soldiers, mortars, and even a tank.

Stacks of rubble or charred furniture were thrown into the street, becoming an obstacle to the advance of the orc troops. The configuration of defense support points has been carefully selected and disguised, and most of them have reinforced barbed wire defense lines. Some trenches were even dug on important streets.

At about 10 a.m. on the sixth day, the orc army finally launched an attack while human beings were waiting quietly. At the beginning, it was still quiet, and many soldiers were still smoking or chatting behind the bunkers in the position, but the loud noise of the huge stones thrown by the orc catapult in the distance on the ground reminded everyone that the battle had begun.

The remaining tanks were concentrated at noon, launched a limited counterattack, and retreated after losing two. Although the success hindered the opponent's attack, the tank played a smaller and smaller role. In the face of the absolute number of the orc army, these fewer and fewer tanks seemed powerless.

Due to the lack of ammunition and weapons and equipment, the horror of the Orc Empire army began to appear slowly. Bimon's attack pushed further and further, and the resistance to the attacks of these monsters became more and more difficult. Humans began to lose the urban areas in pieces, and the battle was increasingly concentrated near the port.

"If it goes on like this, our defense will collapse tomorrow morning." Colonel Myer looked at the map of Xingang City and frowned and said that he had successfully saved at least 300,000 civilians these days. Now he commands less than 8,000 soldiers and fights against about 220,000 orcs.

About one-third of the whole Xingang has been lost, and only some of the walls are still under his control. His soldiers are exhausted, and most of them are injured. If it hadn't been for the excellent quality of the sword empire's weapons and armor, maybe half of these people would have been very good now.

Originally, after communication, the navy was ready to leave two warships to cruise off the sea to provide artillery support to Mayer's troops, but later, because of the difficulty of communication, it finally failed to pull away civilians within its ability and reduce the pressure on the army.

"Everyone around me watched this terrible scene like a demon. The boulder thrown by the orc empire catapult flew over our heads with a sharp roar. Everyone tried their best to crawl down and their noses close to the wet ground..." A soldier wrote desperately in his diary that he died in an attack by an orc force an hour and a half later. His head was pierced by a spear. At the moment of death, he did not make any sound, as quiet as a stone under his feet.

In the whole day's battle, at least 70 Bimon beasts were killed by human soldiers who were killed in the ruins, but in order to kill the infantry of these terrible war monster Holy Sword Empire also suffered heavy losses. More than 700 soldiers were killed, 3 magic cannons were damaged, and the positions of these magic cannons were lost. .

These loyal soldiers stuck to the crumbling defense line, the mortar shell exploded not far away, and the tank stretched out its barrel from the ruins to fight back against the Bimon beast that rushed up. Then after the fire, he rumbled over the ruins and hurriedly shifted the position to avoid being killed by the boulder thrown by the subsequent catapult.

Human defenders who suffered heavy losses in some positions had to retreat. Give up part of the defense line that can be defended if some more troops are invested. Meyer really has no troops to send. There is only one chief of staff, a messenger in his division headquarters, and the rest of the people are already on the front line.

Jockreley is a second lieutenant of the 1st Archer Battalion of the 2nd Defense Regiment. He desperately reported to his superiors: "The troops that were originally archers have been fighting with long guns all day. These young lives can be described as laymen in the face of strange opponents. They don't know how to fight and how to face the enemy. The only thing they have is their responsibility for the civilians behind them. The only thing they have is their oath to the flag of the sword and vine.

The cannonballs of the magic guide gun had been used up, and finally several cannonballs were rewarded to the rushing Bimon beast. These unlucky people were hit by the cannonballs and collapsed on the ruins with blood. The poor sword imperial soldiers had no heavy weapons and could only hold their infantry spears tightly.

The battle lasted incredibly until the seventh day. Even the generals of the Orc Empire could not believe that it would be so difficult for them to eat such a city with such a superior force.

These days, the Sword Empire has saved more than 650,000 civilians with unprecedented efficiency and moved almost three-quarters of Xingang City. Under the struggle of the 304 Armored Division, the strategic attempt of the Orc Empire to seize Newport quickly failed.

After discovering that his attempt had failed, the offensive forces of the Orc Empire also lost the power to attack fiercely. In the following days, the army of the Orc Empire continued to test the defense line of the 304th Armored Division, and the defense system of the Holy Sword Empire Army had been destroyed. On the battlefield full of wolf smoke, there are ruins and walls everywhere, and it is a desolate scene. As far as the eyesight can see, you can see the soldiers killed on both sides, the destroyed weapons and equipment and the long-dead beasts of the orc empire, lying dead on the battlefield.

The battle in Xingang has been dragged on for too long, and such a heavy loss has failed to make decent progress, which has forced the senior officials of the Orc Empire to re-examine the combat power of this emerging human empire in front of them.