Imperial warlords: Cannons are the only truth

The bombardment by the Daqian Zhenguo Army lasted for more than three hours.

Thousands of heavy artillery pieces unleashed their power, raining down shells that shaved down more than a dozen mountain peaks along the Liaofu defense line by three meters!

The order issued by the headquarters of the anti-rebel army was: fire all 15 tons of artillery shells in three hours!

The sheer spectacle of such a scene is unimaginable...................

They were well prepared for the artillery barrage from the Daqian Zhenguo army.

Moreover, the independent army troops along the Liaofu defense line also took refuge in artillery emplacements.

However, this high-intensity, high-density heavy artillery barrage still caused great psychological and physical shock to the defenders of the Liaofu defense line.

After the shelling, the Daqian Zhenguo Army launched its third attack.

The artillery of the Daqian Zhenguo Army provided cover for the attacking troops using the tactic of advancing barrages.

The Daqian Zhenguo Army's attacking forces simultaneously launched an attack on thirteen high grounds along the Liaofu defense line.

Each attacking force was accompanied by at least one hundred tanks.

The simultaneous use of rapid-fire barrage tactics combined with tank-infantry coordination perfectly demonstrates the superb tactical level of the Daqian Zhenguo Army.

It's important to understand that this kind of fighting style isn't something every army can afford to do.

Such tactical coordination is no laughing matter if even the slightest mistake occurs.

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A few hours later.

The phone rang incessantly in Zhu Gaoqi's command post.

Several operational telephones had been ringing almost non-stop since the start of the battle...

"What? You can't hold on?"

"We must hold on! Even if everyone dies, we must not retreat!"

"Hold on, I'll send in the reserves right away!"

"Hey! What? Another request for reinforcements? Didn't we just send a battalion of reserves up there?"

"All wiped out? Don't retreat! Hold the line! You fucking die on this battlefield!!!"

Zhu Gaoqi held a phone in each hand and kept shouting angrily into the other end of the line.

Every position was filled with calls requesting reinforcements.

As soon as the phone rings, you know what it's about without even asking...

"Commander Feng, the Zhenguo Army's offensive is even more intense than we anticipated."

"Their shells came like a whirlwind; the Zhenguo Army's artillery has never stopped firing since the start of the fighting!"

"Their tanks are ridiculously numerous!"

"In just a few hours, the defenders on many positions have been wiped out. I've already started mobilizing the reserves..."

Zhu Gaoqi reported the current predicament of the Liaofu defense line to Feng Dafei, who had called to inquire about the battle situation.

At this moment, Zhu Gaoqi no longer possessed his previous arrogance.

Those wild and outrageous words were rendered speechless for a moment...

There was a long silence on the other end of the phone before Feng Dafeng's extremely deep voice came through: "Can we hold out? How much longer can we hold out?"

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"We can hold it!" Zhu Gaoqi gritted his teeth: "Please rest assured, Commander Feng, the Liaofu defense line can be held for three months without any problem!"

On the first day of the war, Zhu Gaoqi changed his earlier confident assurance that the Liaofu defense line could hold for at least six months to a very reluctant and clearly unconvincing estimate of three months.

"I swear on my life that I will fulfill the three-month agreement no matter what!"

"The Liaofu defense line has 20 troops; we can afford to wait it out..."

"Yes! Don't worry, we can overcome any difficulties..."

"Hello! Hello! Hello!" Before he could finish speaking, the phone went dead.

Zhu Gaoqi roared angrily, "What's going on! I haven't finished speaking yet, how did the communication get cut off!"

"Sir, all communications are down. The enemy must have blown up the phone lines..."

"Quickly repair and restore communications!"

Zhu Gaoqi immediately instructed the communications soldier: "Send a telegram to Commander Feng, telling him not to worry, that our telephone communications have only been temporarily interrupted!"

"Tell the communications chief that if communications aren't restored within half an hour, I'll smash his head in!"

"My God! Just how many tanks and artillery does the Zhenguo Army have...?" Listening to the constant artillery fire outside, someone muttered, "With this kind of fighting style, even 20 million wouldn't be enough to keep them going, let alone 200."

"Who can argue with that! We'd heard the Zhenguo Army was incredibly fierce in battle, but no one expected them to be this fierce..."

"I think even those great powers would have a hard time sustaining this kind of fighting!"

"The barbarian people might not be able to afford this kind of fighting, but the main force of the Sharo people and the old powers of the Western Luo Continent should be able to..."

"What the hell is going on? You guys are still spouting this useless nonsense!"

"No foreign powers can help us now! The success or failure of the Liaofu defense line depends entirely on our 20 defenders holding on!"

Zhu Gaoqi stared at the battle sand table with a gloomy expression; his mood had reached its lowest point...

"Officer Wu, didn't you say you studied divination?"

"Come and tell my fortune, see if our Liaofu defense line can hold!"

"Yes! Then I'll give it a try..."

At this point, Zhu Gaoqi was in a state of desperation and decided to try anything, so he asked the staff officer who usually did divination to do it on the spot.

"Sir, Wupi is in Kan, this is..."

"This is a divination result that suggests more bad luck than good..."

"What? The odds are against us?" Zhu Gaoqi looked into the bowl in disbelief.

The three dice used for divination are two sixes, two sixes, and one five...

"Nonsense! Do you need to tell me the worst that could happen?"

As Zhu Gaoqi listened to the unabated roar of artillery fire, his heart grew increasingly agitated.

"Even if it's mostly bad luck, isn't that also a bit of good luck?"

Zhu Gaoqi consoled himself, "I, Zhu the Madman, refuse to believe in this nonsense."

"I'm going to make sure he escapes this time, no matter what!"