Chapter 1623: Chapter 1540: Bombing the Cities Begins
In the command cabin of the Bernard Naval Marshal ship, the commander of naval aviation was reporting on their recent combat situation to Bernard: “We’ve dropped a significant amount of ammunition on the Steel Rampart and have occupied substantial air strike forces. Now, it is time to let the Dwarves know that war has indeed erupted.”
They have demonstrated their strength through practical performance: Dwarf ground forces have been heavily paralyzed, all anti-aircraft systems are almost nonfunctional, and almost no Dwarf aircraft posed any threat to the Tang Army during combat.
Bernard nodded in satisfaction, agreeing with their judgment to change the focus of strikes: “Indeed, paralyzing the enemy’s routes, attacking their cities, and creating mass chaos is a more efficient attack model.”
“The carrier-based aircraft unit will dispatch 110 planes to carry out airstrikes on five targets within the strike radius’s depth.” Glancing at Tagg standing nearby, the commander of the carrier-based aircraft unit continued his briefing.
As he spoke, he pointed to the strike targets marked on the map: “The city with the fewest planes has 4 planes dropping bombs, and the city with the most planes has 38 planes implementing strikes.”
“We will hit the public facilities of these cities, paralyze their power supply, or directly destroy docks. These include Eternal Winter City, as well as Ben.” As he spoke, he placed some captured satellite photos onto the corresponding positions on the map.
After placing the photos, he straightened up and concluded: “Planes have already taken off, and in a matter of minutes, they will drop bombs, making the enemy realize that we do have time to strike their critical industrial cities.”
“How about it?” Bernard looked at Tagg.
Tagg stroked his chin: “Nothing to say, do you want to hear my compliments?”
“Ha!” Bernard laughed.
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“Woo… Woo…” Air raid sirens suddenly sounded over the city. Moss was still in his headquarters, when soon a guard rushed into his command post. The captain of the guard disregarded Moss’s objections and directly took him into the underground air defense shelter.
Afterward, Tang Army bombers reached Eternal Winter Port and dropped over 40 tons of various types of bombs on the city.
Intruder Attack Aircraft skimmed over the warehouse-filled port area at low altitude, the roar of their engines terrified the panicked Dwarf Civilians.
Despite the development of the war situation, various countries began to pay attention to constructing urban air defense facilities, and many cities converted facilities like sewers into air raid shelters. However, most cities’ air defense facilities are still insufficient.
More than half of the Dwarf Civilians can only look up at the sky on the streets or in various buildings, watching the Tang Army bombers whistling by, revealing strange bombs with Glide Wings hanging under their fuselage.
These bombs destroyed a large thermal power plant outside Eternal Winter Port. This power plant has a long history. It was built with funds from the Great Tang Group and has been operating almost without malfunctioning to this day.
Now, under the devastation of bombs, it has completely lost its ability to generate electricity: the factory building full of generators collapsed, destroying the generator sets inside, and plunged more than half of the city into a power outage.
Tang Army’s bombs also hit the water plant, large explosions destroyed a reservoir, causing many Nobility residences in Eternal Winter Port to lose their water supply.
However, this is not what pains Moss the most. What bothers him most is that Tang Army planes bombed the crucial docks of Eternal Winter Port, using bombs to destroy the docks full of ships.
These places are important nodes for the Dwarves to deploy troops, and now the docks cannot be used in the short term. The Dwarves cannot rely on the ports of Eternal Winter City to quickly transport troops to support the Steel Rampart.
“Around 40 planes, although Radar warned us in advance, subsequent interference paralyzed our air defense systems.” The liaison officer of the Dwarven Air Force awkwardly reported the latest battle results to the furious Moss.
All battles previously erupted near the coastline, far from Eternal Winter City. So Moss still managed everything with confidence, appearing as if everything was under control.
But now, Tang People’s bombs have exploded on his doorstep, so Moss began to lose composure: he almost personally felt the danger and roughly understood how rotten the frontline has become.
The Air Force liaison officer saw Moss silent and could only continue, saying: “We launched 20 fighter jets trying to intercept, but 12 were shot down. The Air Force has been very brave, but it’s all to no avail.”
To be honest, the Dwarf Air Force pilots were indeed brave. Despite the losses, they continued to lift off and fight fiercely that day, even if losing more than a dozen pilots, they still did not retreat.
Up to now, the Dwarf side has been shot down dozens of planes again. Counting planes destroyed on the ground, they have lost over 500 various models of combat aircraft.
Yet they continued to launch planes, attempting to use their bravery to intimidate the Tang Nation Air Force and force the opponent to abandon some combat plans.
But their madness is destined to be futile, because Tang Army’s attack plan was almost unaffected, and the Dwarf side didn’t achieve any substantial combat results.
Not bothering with the useless Air Force, Moss turned to another officer, bitterly asking: “How are the losses? Especially at the docks!”
That officer had just called to ask the dock manager, so he immediately replied: “About this time tomorrow, some can be restored, but it definitely has an impact… Estimated recovery is about 70%…”
Hearing this result, Moss finally breathed a sigh of relief. At least they can restore most of the unloading capacity, which counts as good news to some extent.
So, he plans to protect the remaining seventy percent of the docks: “Can additional anti-aircraft gun troops have any effect?”
The officer shook his head, answered: “It’s estimated to be ineffective. The bombs used by the opponent… are not the ones we use. Our people went to the scene and picked up some devices that look very sophisticated.”
Tang Army used guided bombs to attack power plants and docks, these bombs have some parts not completely destroyed after hitting targets, leaving some remnants.
The Dwarves, who picked up these remnants, immediately realized that these things are the Tang People’s “Zentran Technology,” which they naturally want to study.
Upon hearing this, Moss immediately reminded the other party: “Write these situations clearly and send them back to Furnace Fortress!”
“Yes!” The subordinates stood at attention and agreed.