Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 11641165The situation is difficult

 In the slightly dim underground passage, the lights on the walls flickered faintly. The goblin guard standing at the door used the little light to see clearly the epaulettes on the visitor's shoulders, and immediately stood at attention and saluted.

Hong Haiping opened the door and walked into his new office. The facilities here are very simple, but fortunately the chandeliers on the roof are a little brighter than those in the corridor.

 Only the commander's office has such treatment. If it weren't for the poor air circulation inside the mountain, kerosene lamps or candles would have been forced to be used.

Mirage Haiping, who was not tall among goblins, took off his military hat and hung it on the hook on the wall. There is no decoration here, the walls are just dug out of the cave and reinforced with some cement.

Because it was humid and poorly ventilated, and there was an indescribable smell in the air, Haiping missed his old office where he could open the windows and enjoy the sea breeze, but he could no longer go back.

The Mirage Kingdom has no way of returning. The war has reached its current state, and everyone knows that defeat is certain. But when and how to defeat...still requires the people of Mirage to struggle.

As a symbol, or a symbol, the naval admiral personally went to the front line where the fiercest fighting was the most intense to supervise the battle. This was sending a signal to all the fighting Mirage soldiers: The Mirage has not lost this war yet! We still need to keep fighting!

 In fact, it only has a little symbolic meaning to encourage morale. As a naval admiral, Mirage Haiping's ability to command army operations is actually basically zero.

To put it more troublingly, he is actually just a more senior organizational leader general. The one who can really lead troops to fight and command the fleet to fight more powerfully is the commander of Mirage's main fleet, Mirage Haifeng, who died on the battlefield.

As the commander-in-chief of the Navy, Mirage Haiping is also responsible for logistics, personnel, supervision of naval shipbuilding, etc. In fact, he no longer has much energy to devote to command.

 But even such an old man can only choose a cave for himself and coexist with the hundreds of thousands of mirage troops also stationed in the cave.

In fact, he didn’t have to complain, because he was quite safe where he was, without the risk of constant shelling, and he couldn’t hear the continuous gunshots.

And the living environment is also very good: at least its walls are smooth, and except for the fact that there are no windows, the rest of the room still looks like a room.

 Except for some specially built similar rooms, the vast majority of rooms or warehouses in the entire underground bunker are directly dug out, without any modifications at all except for necessary supports.

At least there is a portrait of His Majesty the Mirage hanging on the wall of Mirage Haiping's room. This is already quite difficult in the frontline cave that lacks decoration.

Judging from the situation, the current situation of the Mirage Kingdom is not very good: after losing the western defense line, the situation of the Mirage Kingdom has begun to become passive: the central defense line is not a defense line that traverses the entire Mirage Kingdom. It is still far from the coastline. There is some distance.

 The south side is okay, because it is a key defense area. It is about 30 to 40 kilometers away from the coastline. The gap is not too big, and there are defense nodes like Dingcheng.

The problem is bigger on the north side of the central defense line. The main problem is actually that the central mountain range, which is the support of the mirage defense line, does not extend to the northernmost beach.

The entire mountain range is still close to 50 kilometers away from the northern coastline, and there is no decent defense line in this distance.

 Because the construction period was relatively tight when the central defense line was built, and the northern coastline was mostly steep, which was not suitable for landing operations, the Mirage did not consider the possibility of an enemy attack in this direction.

 In fact, there is no use even considering it. The construction period is not enough and it cannot be repaired at all. It would be good to dig out the southern defense line that is easily attacked.

Originally, this was not a big problem. Anyway, workers have been digging hard, trying to improve the defenses on the north.

The mirage troops deployed on the western defense line collapsed too quickly. Now the orc troops have begun to approach the gap where there are not many fortifications, the number of defenders is insufficient, and even the weapons and equipment are not enough!

Assuming that the orc troops break through the Mirage Army's defense line from this gap, they can move south along the edge of the central mountain range from north to south, threatening the rear of the Mirage Army's central defense line.

The mirage army without a defense line will definitely not be able to defeat the orc troops whose air superiority is becoming more and more stable in the field. At that time, the mirage army stationed in the central mountainous area will be at risk of being surrounded.

If the attack of the orc troops goes smoothly, then they are likely to break through Dingcheng and join forces with the troops that have bypassed the north. Then the situation of the Mirage Army will not be far from collapse. Apart from supervising the war on behalf of the Mirage Emperor, Mirage Haiping did not have any real power here, and of course he had no government affairs, so he actually had no work to do.

Just as he was looking at the portrait of the Mirage hanging on the wall with boredom, there was a knock on his door.

"General! General You is here." Xu Haiping's adjutant opened the door and reported to Xu Haiping. Mirage Haiping withdrew his gaze and ordered: "Invite him in."

"Ah, General Ping! It's really great to see you." In fact, he had known that Mirage Haiping was coming early, but did not choose to wait to greet Army Lieutenant General Mirage Wuyou. After the announcement, he quickly walked into Mirage Ping. 's office.

He stood at attention and saluted symbolically, and then took off his military hat: "The front line is tight. I just came back from the direction of Dingcheng. I couldn't greet the general. I'm sorry."

Knowing that the army did not want to see the navy, Xu Haiping did not care about saving face. He smiled and made a gesture of invitation: "The war is in full swing. General You is busy with affairs. I understand that the situation is difficult... so you don't need to worry so much about etiquette."

If the naval fleet was still there, he could slap him in the face now and let the other party know that a little lieutenant general could not make any excuses for the so-called disrespect.

But don't do such showy things now. After all, his navy is gone. Whether he can eat here or not depends on the army's face.

Finding that the other party had no intention of competing for the command, Mingwuyou was relieved. He did not really have a bitter feud with the navy. Everyone's differences were just a competition for interests, and there were no personal conflicts.

The reason why he gave the admiral a slap in the face when he came up was just to warn Haiping, telling him to be a mascot honestly and not to fantasize about stupid things like dry doves occupying magpie's nests.

Actually, he was overthinking it. In today’s situation, who with a normal IQ cares about such trivial matters as command authority? The current command power is completely a hot potato, and whoever holds it will bear the blame.

The two people had different ideas, so they naturally did what they thought was right: Xu Wuyou was afraid that Xu Haiping, an outsider and an expert, would lead them to die faster; Xu Haiping had already settled down and had no intention of fighting for power.

"General Ping, you can understand our difficulties. It is really comforting." This sentence about the difficult situation resonated a little with Mirage Wuyou. He sat down and sighed and said: "The situation is difficult, and the country has already It’s a matter of life and death. Since the collapse of the western defense line, the situation has taken a turn for the worse. Now the northern part of the defense line is tight and the situation is not optimistic.”

The adjutant poured water for the two generals, and the air replacement system started working at this time. A distant buzzing sound made people irritated. Every once in a while, this system has to work for a while, otherwise the people in the bunker will suffocate themselves to death.

"How did the western defense line suddenly collapse?" Haiping took a sip of water and asked the question he had always been curious about.

 As a former naval admiral, he actually didn't know much about the collapse of the western defense line. After all, he had not been assigned to this place before the defeat of the West.

"The orcs' attack to the north has almost cut off the connection between us and the western defense line." Mirage Wuyou explained to Mirage Haiping: "The ammunition reserves in the west have been exhausted, and it is useless to guard the defense line in the air. We can only break out. "

The Western Defense Line has almost no weapons manufacturing capabilities, and it is of little use if it does. Because of the lack of raw materials, even if there are factories, there is no way to organize production.

 Lack of ammunition and weapons replenishment capabilities, even if the main defense line is strong, it will eventually be unable to hold on and will have to abandon its position to break through.

 In fact, the western defense line is not only out of ammunition, but also out of food. With nearly 40,000 frontline troops, plus local garrison troops, and 100,000 people eating and drinking, the hoarded supplies were consumed at an astonishing rate.

In addition, there is also a problem with medical supplies. The wounded cannot receive treatment, minor injuries become serious injuries, and serious injuries can only wait to die. The morale of the military is shaken, and the combat effectiveness has been affected.

With no choice but to do so, the commander of the western defense line, who could only eat one full meal a day, had no choice but to abandon the still strong defense line and take the initiative to "turn" northward.

As a result, they ran into the troops of the 1st and 6th Orc Divisions. They had air support and replenished their troops, and they had just won a battle and were in full swing... The troops on the west side of the main island of the Mirage Army, which had no intention of fighting, were almost completely wiped out overnight. The army collapsed, and all that was left were the orc troops capturing goblin prisoners all over the mountains and plains.

 The problem now is that without the restraint of the western troops, the central defense line is also at risk of being surrounded... In the not-too-distant future, they will also face a similar problem: What to do with the central defense line after they run out of ammunition and food?

 This is a tangled question, a dilemma. If you abandon the central defense line, it will be a waste of the solid defenses you have carefully built; but if you continue to stick here, you need to prepare for a rainy day and think about whether to quickly replenish and store more supplies.

 (End of this chapter)