Chapter 532 Battle of Kowloon City

"20 days later, on the day of Ye Shengwen's funeral! Millions of troops, tens of thousands of cannons and 10,000 tanks of the Holy Sword Empire will play a national war for the Eternal Night Empire!" Arcado stood up and said loudly, "Marshal McVlon! I'll give you the Eastern Front!"

"H Long live the Sword Empire! Long live His Majesty Emperor St. Rudolph!" McVlon stood up and stood up straight and saluted: "I've been waiting for this day for a long time."

"However, the air force should not be dispatched for the time being! As a killer, it is temporarily hidden and standby! I'm worried that the Sophia Empire will step in, and I need enough backhands to deal with that puppet-filled country!" Arcado ordered.

On January 19 of the 5th Gregorian calendar, taking advantage of the mournful moment when the two emperors of the Yongye Empire died one after another, the Holy Sword Empire launched a sudden attack mercilessly. This time, the whole world saw the real strength that the Holy Sword Empire has been hiding.

The 18th Army stormed the Tito Fortress under the cover of magic cannons, captured this huge defensive fortress in just two days, and annihilated more than 100,000 defenders of the Yongye Empire.

A total of 810,000 troops of the 1st Army, 2nd Army and 7th Army attacked the Nanling Defense Line of the Yongye Empire. The eldest prince Ye Shengwu strictly ordered his troops to defend their positions and were still broken through by the armored forces of the Holy Sword Empire. The Nanling Defense Line, which was mainly deployed by Ye Shengwen before his death, has been highly expected by the Yongye Empire and is expected to resist the Holy After half a year of fierce attack, the sword empire collapsed after defending the whole line for 4 days.

The 13th Army of the Holy Sword Empire commanded by General Drayton did not even take action, and McVallon's eastern army took the territory of the Eternal Night Empire south of Kowloon City.

Without stopping, McVlon's eastern cluster went straight to Kowloon City, the southern defense core of the Eternal Night Empire, and launched an unprecedented decisive battle with Ye Shengwu, the commander-in-chief of the front line of the Eternal Night Empire.

The Holy Sword Empire troops in the direction of Kowloon City gathered a full of 30 divisions and 450,000 troops. Among them, 11 divisions directly attacked Kowloon City, with a total strength of 170,000. Although the Yongye Empire has 700,000 troops deployed near Kowloon City, its combat ability cannot be compared with the vigorous sword empire army.

The actual defense of Kowloon City is about 200,000 of the main force of the White Tiger Army, as well as more than 90,000 remnants of the Xuanwu Army who retreated from the Nanling defense line, more than 2,000 artillery and more than 270 armored vehicles.

Compared with the secret weapon air force hidden by the Sword Empire at the beginning of the war, as well as more than 2,000 tanks and more than 7,000 magic cannons, the defense force of the Eternal Night Empire does not seem to be very strong.

On January 22 of the 5th year of the Gregorian calendar, the army of the Holy Sword Empire began to attack the city. Before that, the artillery units of the Great Sword Empire used large-caliber magic cannonballs to blow up the Kowloon City District into ruins, and the moat was almost filled with collapsed rubble and green bricks of the city walls. Ruins and fires have affected the reinforcements of the Eternal Night Empire in Kowloon City.

General Valandu's 1st Armored Army was the main force for the siege, and he concentrated his tanks and armored vehicles to carry out a fierce assault from the southwest of Kowloon City. The 7th Armored Army under the command of Karus advanced from the southeast of Kowloon City to the center, responding to the main attack of Valandu's troops in the southwest of the city.

The Yongye imperial army launched a fierce counterattack under the command of the eldest prince, and the endless street battles finally turned into a nightmare and appeared in front of the general of the Holy Sword Empire who besieged the city.

On January 24, the tanks of the 1st Armored Army of the Holy Sword Empire burst into the city from the southwest of the city and launched a fierce street battle with the direct forces of the White Tiger Army stationed here, and the two sides repeatedly competed for each street by building and house. Kowloon City has turned into a rubble field, 80% of the residential areas in the city have been destroyed, and the worst places seem to be no different from the desert.

In the city full of rubble and ruins, the direct forces of the White Tiger of the Yongye Empire, which were expected to be defeated, resisted tenaciously, and there was a fierce battle in every street, every building and every house in the city.

The number of casualties of the armored forces of the Sword Empire who invaded the city is increasing. Despite the frequent shelling of the artillery units of the Sword Empire on the positions controlled by the Yongye Empire, the Yongye Empire troops still received continuous supplies and support from the rear.

The average survival time of the Yongye Imperial Army soldiers who just rushed to the city is not more than 24 hours, and the average survival time of officers is only about three days. Most of the soldiers were blown into mud by the shelling of the Seiken Empire before they even had time to write their suicide note.

General Valand's main siege tactic is to fight together, using the firepower of artillery and tank forces to consume the elite power of the Yongye Imperial army. In order to fight against this tactic, the generals of the Yongye Imperial Army adopted a close-fitting strategy to make their front line as close as possible to the defense of the Sword Empire, and their dog teeth were intertwined. It is hoped that this can offset the advantages of the artillery of the Sword Empire and make it unable to play the advantages of long-range attacks.

McVlon, who originally thought he could break through Kowloon City as quickly as the Nanling defense line, had to reassess the Kowloon City defense line. This fortress, which was built 210 years ago and was recently improved by Ye Shengwen himself after the efforts of several generations of the Yue family, should not be underestimated.

In order to deal with the armored forces of the Sword Empire, the magicians were scattered and deployed to every corner of the street battle. They used flame magic or lightning magic to attack the tanks of the Holy Sword Empire at close range. This smart anti-tank method is simply a disaster for the armored forces of the Sword Empire.

Through this kind of flexible operation similar to the modern anti-tank team, the tanks of the Holy Sword Empire entering the city were seriously killed and injured. On January 27, the Holy Sword Empire, which lost more than 110 tanks, had to withdraw most of its tanks and fought hard with the defenders of the Yongye Empire with infantry.

The next day, on the 28th, the infantry of the 1st Army of the Holy Sword Empire carried out a key assault on the highlands of the city lord's mansion in Kowloon City. The highland is the commanding height in Kowloon City, from which you can overlook and control the whole city. The legion headquarters of the White Tiger Army was originally located here. After the most brutal battle of the day, the infantry of the Sword Empire finally occupied the highland of the city lord's palace. But just one night, 100,000 people from the Yongye Empire Reserve entered Kowloon City and suddenly launched a full-scale counterattack against the defenders of the Sword Empire and recaptured the highland.

Many important strongholds have been repeatedly contested, and the battle for an aristocratic compound in the south of the city began on the 22nd and continued on the 29th, a week later. Despite this, the army of the Sword Empire was still desperate to approach the center of Kowloon City step by step.

In the week's battle, most of Kowloon City is still under the control of the eldest prince Ye Shengwu. After 7 days of time, more than 170 tanks and 7638 soldiers, the Holy Sword Empire still failed to expand its results.