Chapter 533 Battle of Kowloon City

If you ask me which war impressed me when I conquered the Eternal Night Empire, I want to tell you that it was the Battle of Kowloon City! Because there, we experienced the tenacity and bravery of the soldiers of Yongye. I hope this kind of thing will never happen again. Only after fighting in the ruins there will we know the value of peace.

——Walando, First Marquis of the Holy Sword Empire*

On the afternoon of January 30, 5, the infantry of the Sword Empire finally occupied the Qinglong Courtyard, the central building of Kowloon City, with the cooperation of several tanks.

Subsequently, the sword imperial army, which adapted to the street fighting, rushed into the civilian residential area in the north on the night of 30th, reoccupied the highland of the city's main palace, and deployed barbed wire defense lines.

Despite careful deployment, the city lord's mansion, which has become completely gravel, and the highlands that have long been full of craters were recaptured by the Eternal Night Empire on February 1. As a result, the Eternal Night Empire lost more than 7,000 people in World War I.

After that, the battle became more fierce, and the two armies continued to occupy this highland alternately. The Kowloon City Industrial Zone is built in the hills in the west of the city, and the buildings are made of huge stones. When competing here, the speed of the brave and fighting elite troops of the Sword Empire is no longer measured by kilometers, but by meters.

Valando*, the new commander of the 1st Army, wrote in a report submitted to China: "The enemy and we have fought fiercely for every house, a street, a yard, and even a wall, a basement and every pile of rubble. Its intensity is unprecedented.

The repeated competition for the highlands of the city lord's mansion has reached 14 times. In a bombed barracks, the soldiers of the two armies were so close that they could even hear each other's breathing. After a week of bitter fighting, the infantry of the Holy Sword Empire had to withdraw from this warehouse for fear of being attacked.

On the second day of February 5 of the Gregorian calendar, Kowloon City has been engaged in fierce street fighting. The army of the Sword Empire fought house by house, hiding ways from the ruins. Even the soldiers of the Sword Empire joked with each other: "Even if we occupy the kitchen, we still need to fight with the soldiers of the Eternal Night Empire in the living room."

For the Sword Empire and the Eternal Night Empire, the Battle of Kowloon City is a key battle for success or failure. The Sword Empire needs to fight quickly to deceive the Sophia Empire, and Yongye is a life-and-death battle.

Ye Shengwu, the commander-in-chief of the Yongye Empire, mobilized all the forces he could find to support the street fighting in Kowloon City. In late January and early February, the Yongye Imperial troops transferred 130,000 elite troops to Kowloon City, but the total number of Yongye troops in the city still fell to 270,000 - about 150,000 Yongye soldiers slept in the ruins.

The Sword Empire is not idle, and the Eastern Front Command transferred about 100,000 orc troops from Draiden, including 30,000 wolf knights and 70,000 orc infantry, to Kowloon City.

McVlon hoped that these orc troops would defeat the defenders of the Eternal Night Empire in the street battle. In fact, such a move did have an effect. Records show that after these orc troops entered the city, the losses of the Yongye Empire army increased by 30%.

The commanders of both forces are under great pressure. The number of casualties is unacceptable to both sides. Valando*, the commander of the army of the Holy Sword Empire, suffered from diarrhea, and Ye Shengwu, the eldest prince of the eternal night empire, also endured a headache caused by tension in the basement headquarters where the sun did not see the sun.

For the night saint who has just succeeded to the throne, the fortress city, the largest, most important and last line of defense in the south of the eternal night must not fall into the hands of the Sword Empire.

He personally ordered Ye Shengwu, who no longer had any reserve team, and asked Ye Shengwu to stick to Kowloon City under any circumstances. Every house, as long as there are soldiers of the Eternal Night Empire, even if there is only one person, will become an unbreakable fortress for the enemy.

When the messenger who went back to ask for help suggested giving up Kowloon City, Ye Shengcai sternly replied to him, "Where are the soldiers of the Yongye Empire now, where will they be?"

For McVlon, the marshal of the Holy Sword Empire, Kowloon City has become his shame, and he vowed to capture it.

After two weeks of bloody fighting, by February 6, the army of the Holy Sword Empire finally slowly advanced near the northern wall of Kowloon City. At this moment, they have occupied 80% of the whole city, dividing the remaining White Tiger Army and the remnants of the Xuanwu Army into two narrow pockets.

But that day, until midnight, the infantry of the Sword Empire failed to completely occupy the nearly collapsed Kowloon City.

On February 7, the sword empire army formed an attack cluster with three infantry divisions and one armor division, and launched a strong attack on the front of the 5-kilometer-wide position of the Yongye Empire.

The combat formation is highly dense. Within a day, the two armies of the Sword Empire and the Eternal Night Empire fought extremely fiercely for every inch of land and every house, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.

Although the army of the Sword Empire rushed under the northern wall of Kowloon City in the slums and barracks, the troops were exhausted, and then Valando* was forced to order the 1st Army to stop the attack and rest its troops the next day.

The last remnants of the Yongye Empire's defense of the city were also very serious on that day, and only about 170,000 troops lost 75% of their soldiers.

Without giving the Eternal Night Empire any chance to breathe, McVlon was determined to put the remaining troops of the 13th Army into battle. The Bright Orcs finally swept the remnants of the Eternal Night Empire in Kowloon City and tore the broken Yongye position.

On February 9, the royal flag of the Holy Sword Empire was inserted into the northern wall of Kowloon City. The 2nd Armored Army crossed the ruins of Kowloon City and encircled it. When it was unprepared, it defeated 310,000 troops of the White Tiger Army deployed on the east side of Kowloon City, captured 3 people in Yongye*3, and completely torn off the defense line of Kowloon City.

In this battle, more than 79,200 human soldiers were killed in the Holy Sword Empire, more than 21,400 orc soldiers were killed, 317 tanks were lost, and more than 60,000 tons of magic cannonballs were consumed, erasing Kowloon City directly from the map.

Although it won, it lost more than 100,000 troops under advantageous circumstances, making it the most lost in a single battle in the history of the Holy Sword Empire army.

On the other hand, the Yongye Empire has invested more than 460,000 troops and killed 400,000. The surrounding 690,000 troops have collapsed, more than 300,000 have been captured, and the painstakingly managed White Tiger Army and Xuanwu Army have been destroyed.

Of course, the sporadic battles in Kowloon City continued, and the resistance in the aristocratic area in the east of the city did not gradually stop until mid-February. The soldiers of the Eternal Night Empire wrote a thrilling epic with their lives, and they proved their courage to the world with sacrifices.

In the face of the fierce attack of the elite of the Million Sword Empire, they miraculously persisted in the ruins and rubble for nearly a month. They branded a dark red in the dazzling victory light of the victorious sword empire with blood.