You call me a big treacherous evil?

They also began to deploy troops, preparing to go to the two areas that are now called Corridor No. [-] and Corridor No. [-] to withstand Kanglian's offensive.

At the same time, Paul also ordered several large-scale feints to be launched in other areas of the front line in order to support the actions on the main battlefield.

For the sake of victory on the Western Front, Teutonic cannot lose these elite divisions.

At this moment, both sides of the battlefield focused their attention on this nameless wasteland.

While the artillery unit was trying to convince the opponent, the Kanglian unit, which had been fighting for six hours, ushered in the first wave of support.

As the advance was faster than expected, the follow-up troops never caught up with the forward.

In addition, even after the line of defense was breached, the surviving Teutons in the trenches did not give up their resistance, which caused a lot of trouble for the advancing troops.

So at this time, the support force that was supposed to take over the offensive of the forward troops three hours ago finally arrived at the front line, taking over the exhausted forward troops after fighting for six hours.

At the same time, the brave maintenance company also carried out a round of repairs on the damaged mechs on the front line. Even after repairing a few damaged Teutonic mechas, they just sprayed a paint on the mechas in a hurry. The hammer and sickle emblem incorporated these mechs into the army.

At [-] o'clock in the afternoon, after the Kanglian troops wiped out the Teutonic people in the second line of defense, they began to attack the third line of defense.

At this time, the Teutonic commander, who was already in a hurry, began to violate the regulations and deployed large-caliber heavy artillery in the trenches, directly using them to counter Kanglian's vast number of mechs.

This approach has achieved miraculous results. Due to the slow forward speed of the mechas and the lack of training of Kanglian mecha soldiers, it is only at close range that the 37mm howitzer can be used to accurately hit the target.

At 40:[-] p.m., the Kanglian troops failed in their first round of attack on the Teutonic third line of defense, and returned to their starting position after dropping more than [-] burning mechs.



055 The Longest Day 【Second Update】

After the first round of offensive was blocked, the Kanglian army prepared for another hour of artillery fire, and carefully plowed the third line of defense of the Teutonic people.

At the same time, during the artillery preparation, the attacking force was reorganized again.

It is said to be a reorganization, but it is actually allowing the mech pilots to rest while allowing more relatively energetic companies to join the next wave of attack sequences.

Although it only advanced 4 kilometers in half a day, if it was placed in a large-scale battle on the Western Front, it could advance up to 5-[-] kilometers a day, and this speed can be called amazing.

But Victor, in command, knew that such an offensive would come at a price.

The price is that the loss rate of the frontline troops is astonishingly high, especially the most inexperienced mecha company, and the loss rate including mechanical failures has exceeded half.

All the results now are based on the combat effectiveness of the overdrawn troops. If this wave cannot penetrate the Teutonic defense line, they will completely encircle the elite Teutonic divisions.

Then I will completely lose the chance to encircle them, because I have no reserve team except for the cavalry regiment in my hand.

The battle reports sent by the troops on other parts of the front are not optimistic.

The consequences of the heavy deployment of artillery units have now been shown elsewhere in the show.

Even in the face of the tentative feint of the Teutons, they can only barely support it now.

It is completely impossible to deploy troops to support the war situation in the salient.

It was already 47:[-] in the afternoon, and there were only two or three hours before dark, and there was only enough time to launch another attack.

However, it is still necessary to break through the distance of ten kilometers to completely encircle these divisions.

And after nightfall, relying on the current technical conditions, if the already exhausted troops are allowed to fight at night, the result will be either a big defeat or a disastrous defeat.

Breaking through the defense in depth of ten kilometers in three hours, even if the Teutons started from the second line of defense, they no longer had a good trench system.

It's basically a foxhole plus a short section of trenches used to cover machine gun and artillery positions, but whether the exhausted Kanglian troops can rush through is a problem.

After a final hesitation, Victor dispatched his last reserve team, the Ninth Freeman Cavalry Regiment.

Although most of the free men's troops supported the emperor, they were classified into a separate book by Victor before, and they were basically ready to abolish these troops when they had time.

But the Ninth Freemen Cavalry was an anomaly.

Because unlike those freemen who receive imperial subsidies, most of the members of the Ninth Freeman Cavalry Regiment are poor freemen.

These free people only own very little land and livestock, and their lives are even inferior to those serfs who are good-looking or have special skills.

Therefore, during the process of reorganization, this army accepted the Commie idea very smoothly, and had a harmonious relationship with the political commissars who had worked with Joseph on finance.

This made Victor keep this unit for the time being, and planned to see if he could change to an experimental motorized infantry regiment in the future.

But now, in order to strengthen the offensive and breakthrough speed, Victor also pushed up the last bargaining chip in his hand.

Thirteen minutes later, although the Freeman Cavalry has not yet arrived.

But the front-line troops still launched an attack on exactly four o'clock.

With the rise of three red flares, the front whistle sounded again.

The Teutons also quickly rushed out of the artillery trenches and set up the machine guns to the firing point.

He unscrewed the cover of the grenade in front of himself, and while watching the Lucians who might appear at the other end of the defense line at any time, he prayed to all the gods he knew.

As the first banner appeared in front of their eyes, the Teutonic positions broke out again with violent firepower.

At the same time, on the other side of the battle line, Joseph, who was in charge of boosting morale here, made a decision against Victor.

In Victor's plan, these five semi-encircled divisions had suffered heavy losses in previous battles, and now most of the troops are recruits who have just been added.

Therefore, Victor did not assign offensive tasks to these five divisions. As long as they can hold their positions, they will win.

In order to prevent these five divisions from being encircled before Victor encircled the Teutonic troops, Victor also reinforced a valuable heavy artillery brigade to these five divisions.

But when the battle began, as the battle line continued to approach them, even the soldiers in the first line of defense could see the smoke caused by the bombardment of the Teutonic positions by the Confederate troops.

The commanders of the front-line troops began to ask their superiors to fight, asking them to attack, break through the Teuton defense line and join the friendly forces.

At first Joseph refused.

You can't attack when you want to attack. We are planned and organized, not random.

However, when the time came to five o'clock, the troops that launched the storm still hadn't made any progress.

Joseph was shaken.

Before the start of the battle, Victor had already analyzed the importance of the battle and the goals of the battle with him, so Joseph knew that as long as the encirclement could be completed, even without destroying the Teutonic troops in the encirclement, their goal would be achieved.

So at [-]:[-] in the afternoon, Joseph issued an attack order, asking the troops to cooperate with the First Army to launch a pincer offensive.

Because the order was issued very suddenly, and it was only about an hour before dark at this time.

So both sides of the front are not fully prepared.

The troops here in Joseph dispersed their forces on the front line, launched an artillery attack, and then suddenly attacked in an all-round way.

Played an unexpected effect.

It never occurred to the Lucians on the opposite side of the trench that after a day of silence, the Teutons, who suddenly attacked when the sun was already close to the horizon, were driven out of the line of defense before they could react.

At this time, there is only a short distance of four kilometers between Victor and Joseph's pliers, as long as the distance of four kilometers is crossed.

The battle is half won.

Victor knew this, Joseph knew it, and Paul, the chief of the Teutonic General Staff, knew it too.

When Paul received that passages No. [-] and No. [-] were about to be closed by the Lucians at this time.

The time has come to a quarter past six. At this time, half of the sun has sunk below the horizon, and night is coming.

And the only thing he can do is to urge the reinforcements to hurry up and those troops that are about to be surrounded to hold on. Once it gets dark, Kanglian's large-scale offensive is bound to end.

While urging the troops, Paul was also thinking about how Kanglian managed to break through such a deep distance in the defense line in one day.

If in last year's Battle of Wanden, the Teutonic troops could penetrate the nearly fifteen-kilometer defense line in one go like today's Kanglian troops, then the war should be over this year.

Just when Paul began to prepare to study how Kanglian did this, when the last sunset was about to disappear.

The Ninth Freemen Cavalry Regiment finally arrived on the battlefield.

Then these free cavalrymen, after changing horses, launched an attack that the Teutonic veterans who experienced this battle in the future called "death charge".

These cavalrymen with black roll hats brandished their sabers like a group of evil spirits rushing out of a nightmare in the dark evening and attacked the exhausted Teutonic people.

At this time, after several hours of fierce fighting, the barrel of the Teutonic light machine gun had already burned red, and the cooling water in the heavy machine gun had also been exhausted.

In desperation, some soldiers even jumped into the trenches and took off their pants to try to forcibly water-cool the barrel.

The water-cooling speed of these soldiers in tension is obviously not as fast as the charging speed of the freeman cavalry.

The cavalrymen running wildly on the dimly lit battlefield did not notice how their comrades beside them fell down.

The bullet craters produced by shelling on the battlefield, the cold guns of soldiers in foxholes, and the remaining barbed wire are all deadly threats to these high-speed cavalry.

But at this moment, these cavalry have only one thought in their minds, and that is to hurry up, and hurry up, to break through the Teutonic defense line before the night falls completely.

The motherland is waiting for news from us, the Soviet is waiting for our struggle.

Behind them, the infantry shouted "Hurrah!"

Finally, before the night completely enveloped the land, the freeman cavalry rushing to the front saw a red flag waving in the wind.

He turned his head and found that he was alone, looking ahead were a few excited faces.

10 minutes later, Victor received the message.

The encirclement has been completed, and now the frontline troops are building defenses to prevent the Teutonic troops from breaking out.

Although they suffered heavy losses, they had successfully surrounded two of the most elite Teutonic military units.

After hearing the news, Victor was stunned for a moment, then walked a few steps beside the map in a daze and sat down on the chair.

After staring at the map for a while, he said to the officers in the headquarters who were celebrating.

"Send a report to the Politburo that we have reached the campaign goal and let them start negotiations with the Teutons."

Victor paused and continued.

"Also, let the front line report the casualties. I want to know how much loss there is today."

News of the encirclement of the two Teutonic armies quickly reached the Politburo and the Teutonic Eastern Command.

After receiving the news from Victor that the two Teutonic armies had been surrounded, Ilyich couldn't help himself with excitement.

Ever since Victor sent the news that [the dice has been thrown] this morning, he has been waiting for the follow-up news.

Victor told Ilic the night before departure that with the current strength of Kanglian, it is almost impossible to defeat the Teutons. The best situation that can be achieved is after a miserable victory , to seek a decent peace.

Although I don't know how tragic this victory was, it was a victory after all.

Ilich stood up from his chair, took two excited steps, and looked at the world map hanging in the office.

Holding the telegram, he walked directly to Lev's office.

The sacrifice of the front line cannot be wasted, and everything must be finalized on the negotiating table as soon as possible.

In the Teutonic Eastern Front Command, no one dared to make a sound. A group of generals and school officers stared at Paul sitting in front of the map with bated breath.

"As long as Schneider attacks, everything will be fine."

Paul made a few strokes with a pencil on the map.

"He has two infantry divisions with reinforced mechas. As long as he launches an attack and breaks through Lucia's defenses, everything will be fine."

"marshal……"

An officer wearing a colonel's uniform said nervously to Paul who was sitting behind the map.

"Schneider can't attack, his mecha company is now out of energy, waiting for resupply and it's night..."

Paul raised his head and looked at the colonel who had just spoken, his expression was cold as if he wanted to eat the colonel.

Then he got up from his chair and slammed the pencil on the map.

"That's an order! It's an order for me to let him attack! Does he know what consequences we will face if he can't tear through the Lucians' line of defense now!"

Paul's roar resounded throughout the headquarters.

And just as Paul was yelling at the officers under him, an officer wearing a major's uniform ran over.

"Yuan... Marshal... The General Staff urgently calls!"

"Speak well! What about your manners!"

After berating the flustered major, Paul snatched the telegram from his hand.

After scanning the content of the telegram with his eyes, Paul walked back and forth a little anxiously, and then patted the telegram on the table with a "snap!"

"Cheap on those Commie bastards! Contact the Lucians and we can make peace."

The telegram that Paul photographed on the table reads [Mole has confirmed that most of the Knights of the Confederate Virginia Legion have boarded the ship in Norfolk the day before yesterday, and the destination of the voyage has not yet been confirmed. 】