The daytime fighting on October 25 was fierce, and Dayne's troops suffered heavy losses.
The detailed battle report has not yet come out, but according to the estimated results, Dempsey's only about 2,000 direct troops left, lost half of them during the whole day's battle with Dane's army in the main points of the city. about. As for those local troops with low fighting will, there are very few left, and most of them have been scattered and run away.
However, relying on a direct army of 1,000 people and hundreds of miscellaneous soldiers, the Tiedinggang Overseer, who has just taken office for less than four months, still has no intention of giving up, and is still stubbornly preparing to stick to it.
This attitude would definitely give Dane a headache.
This whole day, counting the commando team led by Anka in the ambush and the local troops that were wiped out, Dane's legion has already formed three regiments with more than 4,000 people. up. The casualties on our own side were about five or six hundred people, and most of the losses were of course the loss of manpower when they competed with the Tiedinggang army for the defense points in various parts of the city.
A battle loss ratio of seven to eight to one, in fact, for any army, especially the main attacker, it should be regarded as quite a brilliant result. Even the most demanding general cannot be dissatisfied with such a casualty ratio.
But this kind of thing needs to be viewed as a whole, and this battle cannot be viewed alone.
The overall number of troops in Dane's hands is so large. Even with such a high rate of battle damage, all of his troops are dead, and it is estimated that he will be able to wipe out Governor Conley's main force. But then again, the initiative to attack the core area of Tiedinggang this time is somewhat of a strategic advantage. If Dempsey hadn't been able to mobilize his troops smoothly after Anka's entire army was annihilated, and his control over the city had declined seriously in a short period of time, it would have been difficult for Dane to push the army to the central square of the city so smoothly.
Scratching his head and independently fighting against Governor Conley was indeed an impossible task, and Dane quickly put this unrealistic idea behind him.
The next thing he needs to consider is how to completely clear Dempsey out of Nail Hill, and even find some way to completely annihilate him.
However, that old guy is holding on to the stronghold in the south of the city right now, and will not retreat.
On the night of the 25th, Dane ordered the troops to rest overnight and did not continue to attack. By the daytime on the 26th, the rested army began to press towards the south of the city.
Not in a hurry, Dane first asked the Griffon team and some other ground reconnaissance teams to observe the movement of Dempsey's army.
The feedback came back a little bit bad.
More than 1,000 infantrymen from Chaos City, with a local army of 500 to 600, totaled less than 2,000. However, although the number of people is definitely not large, their defensive range is not as large as in yesterday's battle. This way, it will be easier to gather troops and carry out defensive operations.
Dane decided to be cautious. He did not directly launch a full-scale onslaught, but sent troops to make tentative attack attempts from various aspects.
Under Dane's temptation, Dempsey's defense in the south of the city was almost watertight. The tentative attack continued until the evening of the day, and it was getting dark, but Dane didn't find any flaws that could be exploited.
"Is it really necessary to rely on human life to fill it up?" Dane thought gloomily, the last thing he wanted to see was that kind of scene.
He predicted that if he really wanted to fight like that, not to mention the 78:1 battle loss ratio during the day on the 25th, under Dempsey's steadfast defense, if he really wanted to forcefully clear him out of the city, I'm afraid Dai En's troops, how many Dempsey's soldiers are killed, will have to pay as many casualties.
Obviously, this is not what Dane wanted.
The probing on the 26th was in vain. On the 27th, Dane strengthened his offensive to the south of the city and achieved certain results. He knocked down a few strongholds of the Tiedinggang defenders in the south of the city, but this completely wiped them out. There is still a long way to go out of the city.
Moreover, in order to capture those two strongholds, Dane lost a large group of soldiers.
This made Dane quite distressed, and stopped the offensive after noon.
Two consecutive days of futility proved that Dempsey's skill in defending himself was really great. Especially, when this guy no longer thinks about taking the initiative to attack at all, he doesn't even have the idea of fleeing the city, and just wants to persist for a longer time in the south of Tiedinggang City, then he becomes even more difficult to deal with.
After all, no matter what, Dempsey has a reason to stick to it.
This veteran who has been on the battlefield for more than 20 years will not do meaningless things. He stood stiffly on the front line in the south of Tiedinggang, waiting for reinforcements.
Long before the war broke out, when Governor Conley was planning to move towards the Ice Cave City in the north, he had already predicted that Dane would inevitably attack Dempsey at Iron Spike Hill. At that time, he asked Governor Conley reinforce.
At that time, Governor Conley promised to send reinforcements to him. Later, Dempsey also received news that reinforcements were on the way. It was an army with three wings, led by General Arnold.
Arnold is not Conley's subordinate, on the contrary, he used to be a warlord who was very close to Bernier. After the death of Governor Bernier, Arnold also resisted Governor Conley's rule over Cinderella. However, after losing a battle, he was also the fastest one in the anti-Conley camp.
For Kangli, Arnold, who was the first person to "abandon the dark and turn to the bright", was a person who was used as a role model. Kangli treated him very well and gave him a lot of support in all aspects, just to set an example for other warlords. Set an example of 'follow me and have meat to eat'.
It's hard to say how much this effect has played, but at the very least, after a year or two of support, Arnold has followed Conley with all his heart.
This time, Dempsey asked for help, because Kangli's forces themselves were preparing for the war to go north to Ice Cave City, and at the same time, they had to guard against Governor Oze in the east. And it just so happened that Arnold's sphere of influence was not too far from Iron Spike Hill, so he was sent here.
Arnold has no excuses. In his opinion, although Dane, who rose in the south, has a great reputation, but Dane's total strength is only so much. With 4,500 people, plus the 3,000 Confused City infantry in Dempsey's hands, and some local troops from Iron Spike Hill, the total strength is going to exceed 10,000.
Going directly south, overthrowing Dane is a breeze! (To be continued.)