Chapter 2894 - 965: The Dwarf Marshal Is About to Show His Might!

Chapter 2894: Chapter 965: The Dwarf Marshal Is About to Show His Might!

On the very day Murphy received the distress letter from the Ligurian Peninsula(Liguria), a battle report about the front line on the Ligurian Peninsula(Liguria) was also delivered to Dorod Fortress by Lake Xiuerpres. At this moment, Marshal Loren, who was conducting a battlefield simulation with several Generals, exploded on the spot the moment he saw that report.

"Bang."

Without saying a word, he darkened his face and slammed the pointer he used to move the pieces on the sand table hard against the edge of his hand.

This scene made the several Generals beside him look at each other, then everyone reacted.

For Marshal Loren, who paid great attention to etiquette in daily life, such a direct emotional outburst could only mean one thing: something had definitely gone wrong at the front.

Under the subtle hint in General Solos’s eyes, several Generals in charge of specific affairs decisively put down their pointers and temporarily left the simulation room with their respective Staff Officers. Only after everyone else had left did Loren, his face dark, finally let his suppressed anger erupt.

"Seventeen towns in the Northern Peninsula of Rhenia have had eight breached! I have no idea how those Commanders are fighting this war! In almost a single night they turned a front that could still be held into this mess."

The Marshal bellowed in a way very much in line with a Dwarf’s temper:

"Because of their failure, our first line of blockade has been completely torn open, and the remaining nine towns have been forced into fighting alone, each on its own. At this point it’s too late to pull our warriors back.

The Wolf People’s speed advantage means they must have already completed their encirclement, but those bastards aren’t storming the cities...

They’re trying to lure us into abandoning our positions on the second blockade line and launching an offensive to rescue the trapped.

They’re forcing us to give up our firepower advantage and fight them in mobile warfare.

Those Half-body Men didn’t destroy those damned toys they made when they evacuated the cities, and now my Soldiers have to face a pack of savage Wolf People armed with Half-body Man firearms. Those bastards have already started using catapults to lob bombs; give it a bit more time and what other monsters am I going to have to deal with?

A bunch of mechanized Wolf Man Rioters driving steam walkers, assaulting cities under artillery cover?!

Those weak little shorties are good for nothing but screwing things up!"

Even though he knew the situation was critical, when he heard the words "weak little shorties" coming out of the mouth of Loren the Dwarf, General Solos still almost burst out laughing.

Hold it in!

Do not laugh!

If he laughed now, his glorious military career would probably end right here.

"Ahem, there is another way, Marshal."

General Solos reminded him in the tone of a professional Soldier:

"We don’t have to send ground troops to rescue our warriors. The Third Armed Airship Brigade from Charldo Harbor is currently resting and resupplying right here at Dorod Fortress.

We can imitate the Transia People’s airship bombing tactics and temporarily borrow the Half-body Man Airship to carry out a large-scale bombing of the encircled areas, letting firepower from the sky suppress the enemy and create an opportunity for our Soldiers to withdraw.

The Wolf People have absolutely no air power. There’s nothing they can do about it."

"But we don’t have those deranged incendiary bombs the Transia People use, Solos."

Loren sat down in his chair, unbuttoned his top button, and pulled out his Dwarf Pipe. Thinking it over, he said:

"According to the analysis of those reports sent back by Colonel Fraser... mm, I should say ’Brigadier General Fraser’ now, in the absence of the corresponding weapons, it’s hard for the Half-body Man Airship’s firepower advantage to fully come into play.

The heavy bombs we currently have are more suited for breaching fortifications than for large-scale fire bombardment. It’s very difficult to replicate the Transia People’s tactics.

The Half-body Men we’ve taken in are all stubborn blockheads; they absolutely refuse to copy the Transia People’s weapons of annihilation. They say that would break the bottom line of the civilized camp... Damn their bottom line! Their cities are about to fall.

Right now it’s the Golden Flower who are bleeding and dying for their land. This is the first time I’ve discovered that these Half-body Men are even more stubborn than my own kin."

"That is indeed a problem."

General Solos nodded.

He glanced at the sand table behind him and, after pondering for a moment, said:

"Do you remember Brigadier General Fraser’s report on the war at the Lord’s position on the Maginot Line? Besides bombing, the Transia People’s three Armed Airship also carried out a rather stunning airborne decapitation strike on the Wolf People’s The Grand Marshal.

Given our lack of bombing firepower, we might adopt a similar decision. If we can’t cover our warriors’ retreat, then why not flip the script?

We could airdrop the necessary supplies and elite warriors into those encircled towns, bolstering their confidence in holding out and buying time for larger-scale redeployment?"

"Now that is a good idea!"

Marshal Loren exhaled a smoke ring, thinking as he spoke:

"The Half-body Man Airship are equipped with enough engineering parachutes. As long as the warriors have enough courage and guts, they can achieve a deployment speed far beyond normal conditions. The Third Airship Brigade has six airships; they’d only need two round trips to deliver enough supplies and reinforcements to the besieged towns.

And this new style of warfare has already proven its value on the Maginot Line. We must learn it as quickly as possible and master it proficiently.