The temporary camp in the shape of the empire was boiling everywhere, and groups of soldiers rushed out of the camp and headed for the designated location. Behind them, there are half-built camps and engineering machinery that has stopped.
The Nangong family sent a reorganized division to fight this time. Although there are quite a few of them, they are not considered the most elite army. This is very unusual for the Nangong family who have to compete with the four big clans everywhere. In fact, due to the huge losses in the bloody battle and not much gain, the Nangong family has been seriously injured, so they can only deliberately keep a low profile and save their young children.
The two elders in charge of the army received the military order, opened it and looked at each other, feeling lucky. The blank area on that line of defense was also one of the war zones they were concerned about. The military strength was relatively weak, and the terrain outside the line of defense was relatively flat. Although there is no danger when launching an attack, it is also conducive to deploying troops.
The Eternal Night camp is just a temporary camp, and the overall planning of the dark race has always been inferior to that of the empire, and the defense facilities are insufficient. As long as the dark army on the front line is defeated, the camp behind will attack immediately, and this shortcoming will not become a shortcoming.
Getting such a task is easy and conducive to winning, it is really great. Without any hesitation, the two Nangong elders immediately led the army to set off, rushing towards the predetermined battle area.
In this kind of large-scale battle, the situation on the battlefield changes rapidly. Once you go late and the fat is swallowed by others, there is no reason to go.
Under the night, the imperial army kept moving, and dozens of torrents of steel rolled forward, rushing towards the Yongye camp.
The Nangong family's army kept rushing forward, overtaking one imperial army after another, like a pack of wolves that had been hungry for a long time, and rushed towards the Yongye camp.
At this moment, Qianye hadn't set off yet, and according to the military order in his hand, it would take another half an hour for them to dispatch. Qianye casually stacked two ammunition boxes together, took out a crumpled cigarette, lit it on an unextinguished embers near his feet, and smoked slowly, the flame flickering from time to time.
At this moment, most of the soldiers of the Vanguard Battalion fell to the ground, sleeping soundly, taking the time to rest, and getting over the fatigue after using stimulants as soon as possible. The blazing flames and roaring explosions in the distance have no effect on these veterans who have experienced many battles.
As time passed by, the origin sundial on Qianye's wrist suddenly beeped. Qianye pressed the alarm and said in a deep voice, "It's time, get ready to go!"
The soldiers of the Qianfeng Battalion who were still sleeping just now jumped up from the ground, quickly arranged their weapons and equipment and lined up on the spot, ready to go. Qianye jumped on the off-road vehicle and drove towards the Yongye camp first. The soldiers of the vanguard battalion lined up on the nearest troop carrier and followed the command vehicle.
Under the night, flames lit up the perimeter of the Yongye Camp, which occupied the entire mountain top, illuminating the dark sky. Hundreds of thousands of troops are desperately fighting, and many lives are lost in the flames of war every moment.
Although there are no solid fortifications ahead, the battle is still much harder than many generals of the empire expected. The fighters on the Yongye side seem to have fallen into madness. From the strong with titles to ordinary fighters, they are fighting desperately, and even in despair. Choose to die with your opponent, and never back down.
At this moment, the two elders of the Nangong Family were ashen-faced, they kept intercepting the incoming heavy artillery shells one after another, and exploded them one by one in midair. But in this way, their force is also rapidly consumed.
At this time, an officer with half of his face covered in blood rushed over and hissed, "Elder! Reinforcement, reinforcement! Reinforcement is needed ahead!"
An elder who was resting temporarily stood up and shouted, "Didn't I just send you two companies?"
"It's all gone! It's all gone! Those black blood bastards are all crazy. There are still hundreds of brothers trapped inside. I want reinforcements and I must bring them out!"
The elder said angrily: "Isn't there only less than a thousand black-blooded bastards there? I gave you three thousand people, and there are more than a thousand reinforcements. Why are there only so few left?"
The officer shouted: "It's more than a thousand! They can't finish it no matter what, and their heavy artillery doesn't care about their own people at all, they have been covering this area with shelling! It seems that all the heavy artillery are bombarding us!"
"I'll give you two more companies. No matter what method you use, I must take down this channel!"
After the officer led the soldiers away, the elder had nowhere to vent his anger, so he punched the broken wall next to him so hard that a section of the brick wall collapsed.
If you look down from the air, on the entire front, the area in charge of the Nangong family is the most fiercely fought, and the battle situation is the most stalemate. Almost every step the Nangong family took was a passage filled with human lives.
But the progress of the other fronts was much smoother. Several places quickly broke through, and then some began to attack the Yongye camp in depth, and some made a detour horizontally, encircling the Yongye garrison there with friendly forces in adjacent theaters.
After several hours of fierce fighting, the defenses of the Eternal Night Camp finally collapsed. The Nangong Family killed the last dark warrior in front, and finally they were able to set foot on the land of the Eternal Night Camp. However, the two elders didn't feel happy at all. Looking at the corpses in the ruins of the battlefield, the corners of their mouths kept twitching.
From the beginning to the end, they were under heavy artillery bombardment and never stopped. If it weren't for the two elders and several generals taking turns to cover them, the casualties would have been even more severe, and it was not even known if this section of the city wall could be captured.
The heavy artillery of the dark race didn't distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, they just poured it out crazily. Most of the Nangong soldiers were killed by the heavy artillery when they were fighting with the enemy. Even soldiers of the eighth and ninth ranks will inevitably be injured under continuous bombardment, but on the battlefield, the accumulation of such injuries is death.
In order to capture this seemingly fragile line of defense, the Nangong family actually paid thousands of casualties, more than half of which were lost. It can be said that this army has been disabled, and it will not be able to recover its combat power without a long rest.
This is all the mobile private army that the Nangong family can produce now. They didn't expect that they would be beaten like this right after the battle started. And it is impossible for the family to transport troops from the upper mainland, otherwise it will affect the defense of the core territory of the Nangong family.
The two elders felt pain and anger in their hearts, and they couldn't figure out why the artillery fire of the dark race was so fierce. According to the intensity of the shelling, it is likely that more than half of the heavy artillery firepower of the entire Yongye camp is concentrated on this small area. In other words, the Nangong family contributed more than half of the empire's defensive firepower.
"Elder, what should we do now?" an officer asked.
The two elders looked at each other, and said sadly and helplessly: "Recover on the spot and rescue the wounded."
The expressions of the officers were generally pained and helpless, resting on the spot at this moment meant that they had no chance of fighting in the future. Obviously, the real rewards are in the back, regardless of military exploits or trophies, stopping here is just a pass. In this way, the gains of the Nangong Family could not even make up for the losses in this battle.
However, more than half of the troops have been killed or injured. If a large number of wounded are not treated in time, their injuries will deteriorate or even die. Just to keep them, there is no way to go any further.
Now, in fact, many people have doubts in their hearts, the battle line is so long, why is this part of the battle so fierce? The other places broke through quickly, and the firepower of the Yongye garrison was ridiculously weak. From the beginning to the end, there were not a few shells falling on some fronts.
The two elders thought of the military order at the same time, and couldn't help but exchanged glances, their faces gloomy.
At this moment, in the imperial temporary camp, the busyness has come to an end. Half an hour ago, the last army left the camp. Now there are only the headquarters and a little defense force left here, and the rest are non-combatants such as engineers and doctors.
Song Zining had already slipped out of the General Staff Headquarters, found an empty military tent, was hanging out with those two beautiful officers, and was secretly tasting the good wine that Qi Shao secretly kept. The two little beauties have a moderate capacity for alcohol, and after only a few drinks, they are already blushing, and they don't know if they are drunk or if they are drunk.
A little beauty said: "Drinking is not allowed in the army, you are so brave!"
Song Zining laughed, and said, "Tryst meetings are not allowed in the army, you guys are not timid."
Another young girl glared at Song Zining and asked, "You seem to be in a particularly good mood today, why?"
"Because I figured out a truth." Song Zining said with a smile.
"Reason? About what?" The two young girls were very curious and looking forward to it. They could always hear many thought-provoking words from Song Zining.
"This principle is about rights." Song Zining didn't hold back this time, and continued: "Rights are a good thing. With it, one can do things that many people can't do. For example, I can Sneak in wine, and you, you can sneak into this imperial camp."
"Then what else?"
Song Zining stretched out his hand to push a wine glass, watched it slide off the edge of the low table and smashed to pieces on the ground, Fang smiled and said: "Also, after you have the right, you can send other people to the edge of the cliff with your fingers , and then gently push it down. What about stupid people, maybe they won’t know what’s going on until they die.”
"What about the smart ones?"
Song Zining laughed and said, "Smart people can naturally guess the reason, otherwise how can they be called smart?"
A girl looked at the debris all over the floor, thoughtfully, and suddenly sighed softly, and said, "Then, do you think it's better to be a stupid person or a smart person?"
Another girl rushed: "Of course he is a smart person!"
Song Zining shook his head with a smile, and said, "No, it's better to be a stupid person. Even if a smart person knows that there is a cliff ahead, he will have to be pushed down. This is the real benefit of rights."
The girl in front sighed again, and said faintly: "It's true, it's like us, knowing that our future marriage is just a sea of bitterness, but we can't help ourselves and have to jump down."
Song Zining was taken aback, he didn't expect her to think of this aspect. But what kind of person Qi Shao is, when the conversation changed, it was so comforting, and soon turned the little girl's worries into joy.
At this moment, in Song Zining's mind, what he was actually thinking about was the map of the Yongye Camp. In the previous battles, most of the heavy artillery positions of Yongye's side have been ascertained and marked on the map.
Looking at the distribution of heavy artillery positions, it is obvious that many heavy artillery were moved in order to bombard the imperial vanguard. Under Zhang Boqian's order, the imperial army immediately launched a full-scale attack without taking a rest, and the Yongye garrison did not have time to return those heavy artillery to their original positions. In this way, the area covered by heavy artillery firepower becomes fragmented, and many defense areas cannot be taken care of.
However, the area that the Nangong family was in charge of could be covered by most of the heavy artillery firepower. Until now, I don't know if the generals of the Nangong family have guessed the reason. But as Song Zining said just now, even if they saw through the situation, the result was the same.