Imperial warlords: Cannons are the only truth

"Commander, the Sharo army in the Dagasa region has begun a full-scale withdrawal."

Should we send troops to pursue and encircle them?

"No need, it's no longer necessary." Cao Hanfei looked at the scene of the battlefield being cleaned up and shook his head helplessly: "The outcome of the Dagasa region is no longer in doubt."

"Without the barrier of the Dagasa fortress, the Salo people no longer have any advantage in fighting against our army."

"We can have the air force harass and pursue the Sharo forces, that's fine..."

Cao Hanfei pointed to the busy soldiers beside him and said to the senior officers around him: "Right now, there is an even bigger problem facing us."

"How to quickly dispose of the hundreds of thousands of enemy corpses and clear the ruins at the Dagasa fortress defense line is a real headache..."

"It took us less than a day to take the Dagasa fortress."

"Clearing up the ruins and cleaning up the battlefield is a huge undertaking."

"Yes! It's really not easy to clean up these hundreds of thousands of corpses, and many of them are still buried in the rubble."

“Cleanup is especially difficult in those underground fortifications.”

Chief of Staff Hu Jiancheng suggested, "Why don't we hire some cleanup teams from the local area to be responsible for cleaning up the post-war ruins of the Dagasa Fortress?"

"In that case, we can quickly withdraw our troops to take over the entire territory of Dagasa."

"You've all seen the situation on site, especially the scene inside the underground fortifications. Even our veterans are finding it hard to bear."

"If they organize a local cleanup team to come in, it will scare people... who knows what kind of trouble it will cause."

"We need to consider other aspects of the impact."

"Anyway, the Dagasa region is already in our hands."

"Let's do the cleaning ourselves, it's okay if it's slow."

"The commander's consideration is indeed thorough." Hu Jiancheng suddenly realized, "After this battle, the Sharo people will definitely spare no effort to criticize the tactics we used in the Dagasa Fortress."

"Under these circumstances, it's indeed not appropriate to let the local cleanup teams in..."

"Hasn't the Salo army already begun to withdraw? This means they have abandoned their plan to hold out in Dagasa."

"A portion of the troops will be diverted to continue the takeover of the Dagasa region."

"Leave more troops at the Dagasa fortress for cleanup work."

Cao Hanfei then instructed: "Dispatch guard troops to establish military restricted areas along the Dagasa Fortress defense line, and prohibit civilians from entering until the battlefield cleanup is completed."

"In particular, we must be vigilant against the infiltration of Salo spies."

"While we don't care if foreigners make a big deal out of this, it doesn't mean we're so generous as to let them come in and take photos at will!"

As he spoke, Cao Hanfei looked at the ruins of the Dagasa Fortress beneath his feet with a sigh, and couldn't help but say, "What a pity..."

"To be honest, the Dagaza Fortress, which the Salo people spent more than a decade building, is indeed a masterpiece of permanent fortification."

"If we hadn't used fuel-air explosives, a secret weapon specifically designed to counter concealed fortifications, it would have been far from easy for us to break through the Dagasa Fortress from the front."

"Yes! Moreover, the Salo people have deployed a very dense force along the Dagasa fortress defense line in order to resist our army's offensive."

"Otherwise, we wouldn't have achieved such amazing results with our 10,000 tons of fuel-air explosives..."

"By a twist of fate, the dense deployment of troops by the Salo people out of their high regard for our Great Qian Zhenguo Army actually led to the first classic battle of fuel-air explosives."

Hu Jiancheng also sighed, "I'm afraid it won't be so easy to create such amazing results again in the future..."

"This is fate!" Cao Hanfei said to the crowd behind him, "It seems that our luck was just too good in the first battle of Dagasa, and the Salo people had terrible luck!"

"But in the end, it is still the will of Heaven—a victory of justice over injustice."

“We tried to reason with the Salo people, but they wouldn’t listen. They just kept trying to fob us off with their bandit-like and scoundrel theories.”

"What's stolen is still stolen no matter how grandly you claim it is!"

"It is perfectly justifiable for us to take back the Dagasa region now."

"The process of recapture was a bit brutal, but who can we blame for that?"

After expressing his feelings, Cao Hanfei continued, "By the way, hurry up and compile statistics on the enemy casualties in this battle and report them to the Supreme Command."

"The Chief of Staff is still waiting to see..."

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On the other side, in the capital city—the Supreme Command Headquarters of the Empire.

Shen Moshen looked at the latest battle report from Dagasa and a hint of surprise appeared on his face.

"A conservative estimate is that this battle annihilated at least 60 to 80 enemy soldiers..."

"The results achieved by this 10,000-ton fuel-air explosive bomb are truly astonishing!"

Shen Moshen looked up at Li Xiangyun, the expert in thermobaric weapons: "Is this data reasonable?"

"Could Cao Hanfei be exaggerating his battle results?"

"That's not right either..." Shen Moshen immediately dismissed his own idea: "Could it be that the statistical data is wrong?"

Upon seeing the reported enemy annihilation data, Shen Moshen's first reaction was—isn't this achievement too exaggerated?

Could it be a mistake?

When Shen Moshen first saw the number of enemy casualties, he almost had a moment of disbelief—we used fuel-air explosives, right? Or something else?

If it weren't for the fact that generals like Cao Hanfei were all from the system, Shen Moshen would have seriously doubted whether this data was an exaggerated victory deliberately inflated by frontline generals to claim credit.

"Chief, may I take a look at what you have in your hand..." Li Xiangyun did not immediately answer Shen Moshen's question, but pointed to the documents in the other party's hand.

"Look! Take a good look!"

Shen Moshen immediately handed the documents in his hand to Li Xiangyun: "These contain detailed information about the battle situation, including the dosage of fuel-air explosives dropped at each target location."

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After a while.

Li Xiangyun thoughtfully placed the documents gently on the table.

"Chief, I have just carefully read through the battle report in detail."

"The enemy kill data should be accurate."

Li Xiangyun said solemnly, "The Salo people have deployed too many troops in the Dagasa fortress."

"Moreover, they filled almost the entire underground fortifications with garrison troops."

"Under such circumstances, to be subjected to such a powerful barrage of fuel-air explosives from our army....................."

"Don't even mention 60 to 80, with this population density, you'd have to throw a million away!"

"It's fair to say that the Sharo's deployment at the Dagasa fortress was practically a sitting duck!"

"It can only be said that the first battle of the fuel-air explosive weapon encountered the best 'testing' environment."

Li Xiangyun exclaimed repeatedly, "The first combat use of fuel-air explosives achieved such results was something we never expected before the war..."

"We were incredibly lucky in this battle..."

"Therefore, we cannot regard the results achieved by fuel-air explosives at the Dagasa fortress as the normal combat effect of fuel-air explosives."

"After all, we are unlikely to encounter such a suitable scenario for fuel-air explosives again in the future."

"I see.............."

Hearing Li Xiangyun's explanation, Shen Moshen was somewhat disappointed: "I think I understand."

"In other words, the first battle of the fuel-air explosive weapon achieved such great results, which is an extraordinary performance."

"The timing, location, and people were all perfectly aligned, which is why we achieved this amazing result!"

"Originally, I thought our improved fuel-air explosives could replace mushroom weapons."

Shen Moshen chuckled and said, "Now it seems I was overthinking it..."