Chapter 546 Battle for Anxi Province

On March 21 of the 5th Gregorian calendar, the Holy Sword Empire decided to stabilize its western and southwest battlefields before the Sophia Empire fully occupied the fortress empire. So a large-scale battle for Anxi Province was launched.

In order to ensure the safety of the supply line and protect the hard-won grain-producing areas, the orcs have invested more than 500,000 troops and ordered the orc prince Clayton to personally command.

Humans concentrated 300,000 elites of the 3rd Army, determined to completely cut off the supply line of the million troops of the main force of the Orc Empire and regain the wall of Sighs to complete the comprehensive encirclement of the Orc Empire troops.

This battle, known as the end of the Western Front war, began with Edward's 3rd Army's attack on Ansi Province under the control of the Orc Empire. For the first time in more than 3,000 years, human troops launched a counterattack against the Orc Empire in the plains.

Under the cover of the plane, the 1st Armored Division raided the eastern part of Anxi Province, which was defended by the heavy troops of the Orc Empire, and launched a battle at the foot of the mountain. 300,000 elite human troops killed 150,000 orc troops in the way like cutting melons and vegetables, breaking through the defense line behind the main force of the Orc Empire.

At the same time, the strengthened 19th Army, under the command of Yue Linger, counterattacked on all sides. 330,000 troops stuck to the main orc led by the Beast Emperor, making it impossible for its million troops to return to the flank smoothly. They could only watch Edward*'s 3rd Army attack Anxi Province.

The 3rd Army, which was very fast, took the eastern border of Anxi Province, crossed the orc defense line, and then appeared under the capital of Anxi Province on the seventh day.

And here, he is bumping into Prince Clayton, an orc empire who was ordered to return to defend. The two sides set up a position in the central part of Anxi Province and began the famous battle of Anxi Province in history.

At the beginning of the battle, the Orc Empire had to take the lead in launching an offensive in order to ensure the absolute security of the rear. The army of about 100,000 bearmen and wolf knights under the Orc Prince Clayton launched a mountain-like attack on Edward's four infantry divisions.

However, 60,000 human troops relied on magic cannons for stable defense, which completely dragged down the elite troops attacked by the Orc Empire and successfully forced the Orc Empire to draw troops from other troops to strengthen the offensive.

The second phase of the battle was then launched. Edward commanded the skeleton division of the 1st Armored Division of the Empire, the 11th Armored Division, and the 15th Armored Division to form an offensive cluster, counterattacked from the flanks, and rushed more than 290 kilometers in four days on several defense lines of the Orc Empire, completely disrupting Clayton's strategic deployment and ate it in one bite. 160,000 offensive corps in the hands of the orc prince Clayton.

The Orc Empire, which lost its military advantage, was forced to turn to a comprehensive defense and began to fully shrink its troops, trying to ensure the supply line of the main forces on the front line. The remnants of these orcs in Anxi Province huddled on the west side of Anxi Province, waiting for reinforcements from the domestic and front lines.

Edward* did not give the orc empire a chance to breathe, led his troops to attack more than 400 kilometers, burned the frontline grain hoardment points of the orc troops, defeated the 50,000 orc troops who came to rescue, and completely established the victory of the provincial capital of Anxi.

The Orc Empire lost a large amount of land in the eastern part of Anxi Province, the front-line grain reserves were hijacked and burned, and the troops in Anxi Province were defeated on the whole line. Edward's human army captured eight towns controlled by the Orc Empire within 9 days, and it was like no one for a while.

The Beast Emperor had to send other generals to support Prince Clayton. The already overstretched orc empire troops once again transferred 200,000 elites from the front line back to Anxi Province, hoping to rely on this last counterattack to save the collapsed war situation.

However, with Arcado's correct instructions, Edward* gave up the plan to immediately recover the wall of sighs and shrink the scattered troops to fight against the army returned by the Orc Empire.

So on April 15 of the 5th Gregorian calendar, the second battle of Anxi Province broke out, and the main force of the 110,000 Third Army fought against the elite of the 270,000 Orc Empire.

Because it is the key battle of the war between orcs and humans, the orc empire and human forces have put out all their combat power. The battle was very fierce, and the position was covered with the corpses of soldiers from both sides.

With the fearless barbarism and the courage accumulated for thousands of years, the elite of the Orc Empire even broke through the defense line of human garrison in part. In the sea of corpses, they interpreted the cruelty of war with death.

However, due to heavy casualties, lack of follow-up troops, and difficulties in resupply, these orc troops were finally unable to expand their victory. In the subsequent counterattack of human forces, they could only watch their fruits of victory taken away by human beings.

Edward* lived up to expectations and commanded the 3rd Army to successfully counterattack. More than 2,000 tanks and more than 300 armored vehicles of the 3rd Army, under the cover of 11,000 magic cannons, completely defeated the 270,000 troops returned by the Orc Empire and destroyed the last trace of the Orc Empire to stabilize Anxi Province. Hope.

However, this decisive victory was not easy to come by. Edward*'s 3rd Army paid a heavy price for the death of more than 30,000 soldiers. This is also the most casualty battle for the sword imperial troops in the field defense state on record, which is enough to prove the strength of the Orc Empire troops from the side.

Because of the complete failure of the counterattack, the Orc Empire could only let human troops fight back everywhere in Anxi Province. Where the 3rd Army passed, the Orc Empire's defense collapsed. In the next few days, the 3rd Army received more than 70,000 surrendered prisoners of the Orc troops.

On the night of April 29, Gregorian calendar, the leading troops of the 15th Edward's Armored Division arrived at the foot of the Dragon Mountains, annihilated an orc unit carrying food on the muddy road, and set up their own defensive positions on both sides of the road.

Three days later, the supply line of the Orc Empire was completely cut off, and about 970,000 troops commanded by the Beast Emperor on the front line lost their food and supplies and had to retreat. However, due to the fierce counterattack of the Yuelinger troops in the front, the retreat of the Orc Empire was very slow, sometimes only a few kilometers a day later. At the same time, the Beast Emperor sent his own wolf knight troops to infiltrate back on a large scale. One was to reduce the supply pressure of the front-line troops, and the other was to contact the orc defenders of the Sigh Wall and guard the only way back to the Orc Empire.

This is the first initiative to retreat since the orc empire captured the Wall of Sighs. Zoe Province was completely free from the trouble of war, and the Holy Sword Empire had a reputation among civilians for a while.