16 rounds of rifle ammunition and 2 spinion rounds, this is the combat supply that each rifleman received after the whole regiment cleared the position and collected and sorted out the ammunition. In order to preserve the combat effectiveness of the troops as much as possible, one out of every five members of the Baston Student Regiment used captured weapons. The shooting performance of the Norman rifle is not inferior to that of the "Grumman Burning Stick", the problem is that most Union soldiers have never seen the standard rifle of the Norman army before, and it must be a relative adaptation period from contact to adaptation. In the absence of professional guidance, it depends on the individual's skills and understanding to be able to exert several percent of combat effectiveness.

After continuous combat attrition, the Basston Student Corps has been reduced from 2,490 people in full strength to more than 600 people now, and more than 70% of the people killed, wounded, discharged, missing, and lost contact. In the case of a shortage of combat power, the cadets who served as acting officers took up the "Grumman burning sticks" like ordinary soldiers, and were always ready to resist the new attack of the Norman army.

In the trenches, Weiss used his "human radar" to keep a close eye on the enemy's every move. A few days ago, after a round of attacks, the Normans would not attack until the next day, but in the last two days, despite the casualties and fatigue of their troops, they launched wave after wave of offensives, and two attacks a day became the norm. No, after the early morning attack had been thwarted, and before noon, the Normans were moving their troops frequently, and it seemed that the horn of the attack would soon be sounded.

In the sky, the two fleets that had come to meet each other had been facing each other for several hours. The Normans dispatched 11 warships, and the Federation fleet dispatched 12, and the strength of the two sides seemed to be almost the same. The Norman fleet has the "devil's bomb" that the opponent fears, and the Federation fleet has ground anti-aircraft fire to provide support, once the battle is fought, the two sides have their own support, and no one wants to take advantage easily, not to mention that in that thrilling air battle duel, the Normans paid the price of 16 ships damaged in battle and 31 ships damaged, and the available combat power of the aviation unit was directly discounted, while the Federation fleet lost 17 ships in battle and 44 ships were damaged in battle, plus the losses of the 2nd Fleet and the Munster garrison fleet, the available ships to deal with the current war were also stretched. In view of this, both sides have been much more cautious in the use of combat vessels.

In order to prevent the Normans from attacking in the afternoon, Weiss, after consulting with Lunders, brought the lunch time of the Baston student group forward by an hour. The friends of the baggage company hurried to deliver the hot battlefield meal to the position, but before the meal was finished, the rumbling sound of artillery fire came from the opposite woods.

Weiss shoved the food into his mouth with three clicks, covered his ears and squatted down. This round of artillery fire by the Norman army, which lasted for about ten minutes, seemed to have weakened in intensity. When the artillery fire subsided and the Norman army attacked, Weiss found that the enemy was still attacking the same way, but adjusting the priority of the attack and placing the spearhead on the left flank of the line. The fortifications there were easier to defend than the middle of the line and the right flank, and the defensive forces on this side consisted of six divisions, the 67th and 70th Combat Divisions, the 93rd and 124th Garrison Divisions, and the 142nd and 144th Reserve Divisions. In this way, the 6 combat units are close to 100,000 fighters at full strength, but the 70th Combat Division and the 93rd Combat Division previously participated in the battle to defend Mespold Airport, and the main forces of the 67th Combat Division, the 124th Garrison Division, and the 142nd Garrison Division were incorporated into the Durm Battle Group to attack the Norman Airborne Forces, and their attrition rate was more than 60 percent, and the 144th Reserve Division was the only fully organized unit among them, but most of its troops were the second batch of reserve personnel, and the quality of the soldiers was inferior. The training time is shorter.

For the purpose of improving the combat effectiveness of the reserve forces, the command of the defensive line carried out wartime reorganization of the remnants of the 67th and 70th combat divisions according to the standards of reinforced regiments, and the "overstaffed" officers and non-commissioned officers were added to the 144th reserve division, and the 93rd and 124th garrison divisions and the 142nd reserve division were also downsized. In this way, the lineup of the units on the right flank of the defense line has been filled in, and the structure of the troops has been reasonable, but this is only a situation on paper, and in order to truly enhance the combat effectiveness of these troops, it is necessary to conduct sufficient training and sufficient running-in; and in the past week, the officers and men have devoted most of their time and energy to consolidating their own positions and resisting the enemy's attack, and the officers and non-commissioned officers who have been supplemented have given full play to the fine tradition of taking the lead in battle, and some of them have not yet recognized that their own soldiers have been killed or wounded.

Through air supply at night, the Royal 1st Marine Division of the Norman Empire, which landed in the rear of the Union Army, always maintained a combat strength of 2-30,000 men, and defeated more than a dozen divisions on the Union Army defense line with the strength of one division. After a new offensive was launched, they feinted the middle of the defender's line with part of their forces, and invested nearly 10,000 troops to storm the right flank of the defense line - four or five Norman infantry regiments poured into the Union positions in waves after waves, and the sound of dense gunfire came from that direction without stopping. In Weiss's special vision, the rows of red frames turned lifeless gray, and hundreds of Norman soldiers were killed every minute, and the bloody scene was sure to be shocking, but the Norman soldiers went one after another, and at this moment, they seemed to be possessed by the souls of those fanatical and warlike ancestors, or the bloodthirsty genes hidden in their bones and blood. Despite the resistance of the Union officers and men of the right flank and the urgent deployment of some mobile units by the command of the defensive line to strengthen the defense, in the face of this irrational and almost frenzied offensive of the Normans, the first line of positions held out for only one round before changing hands in the disadvantageous situation of lack of ammunition and unstable morale.

Having broken through the first line of positions on the right flank of the line, the Norman troops did not advance laterally along the positions, but pursued the defenders' butts and advanced towards the second line of positions. The Union Army's border line, with a long distance of communication trenches between the first and second line positions, had twice played the role of a defensive tempo converter, but this time, the Normans were outstanding. Unable to hold the fork in the face of their brutal onslaught, the defenders on the right flank hurried into hand-to-hand combat, only to be defeated by the high morale of the Normans, who hastily withdrew to the last line of defense, exposing the flanks of the friendly forces to the bayonets of the Normans.

After penetrating the two main lines of the Union Army in succession, the Normans did not swing their scythes, but continued to advance into the depth of the defensive line, their attack was unusually ferocious, and they had no intention of stopping to rest for a while. It is true that the commander's operational decision was dictated by the commander's operational decision to attack continuously regardless of casualties and fatigue, but this abnormal style of work reflected the changes in the battlefield situation from the side: the 1st Mixed Combat Group of the Federal Army, which rushed north to aid the border defense line, overcame the problem of the destruction of railway tracks, roads, bridges, and other transportation facilities by the Normans, traveled long distances, slept in the open air, and went through a lot of hardships, and was getting closer and closer to the Ulster-Wessex border. The outgoing combat force, with the 2nd and 4th Corps as the main force, also retreated to the southeastern border of Wessex with great difficulty, only a few steps away from the border under the pursuit and continuous harassment of the Norman army. The Confederate troops, moving north and south, gradually formed a counter-encirclement trend against the Norman forces that had entered the Ulster-Wessex border. Once they strike together, the good fortune of the Norman army, which had once prevailed, will be reversed.

Under the onslaught, the assault forces of the Royal Norman 1st Marine Division gradually approached the defenders' third line of defense from the right flank of the front, and if they broke through this line, they would directly threaten the Allied line north of the border, where the Union Army and Wessex forces had been working together to resist the Norman attack for five days. The Norman army, which had fought all the way from Mespol to the border, was not as famous as the Royal 1st Marine Division, nor did it perform brilliantly in the last war, and they fought for many days, and their long supply lines were sometimes harassed by the Wessex guerrillas, and even so, they came with a winning streak, with high morale and full of fighting spirit, and launched six rounds of attacks on the fifth day, although they failed to capture the defensive line, but inflicted heavy casualties on the coalition forces. The defense system built by the coalition forces on the basis of the Wessex border defense line was crumbling. This knife from the back is very likely to destroy the coalition defenses. Once the Ars-Wessex border was occupied by the Normans, the federal army that went out to fight would be dealt a heavy blow, and even the possibility of total annihilation.

Seeing that the right flank of the defense line had been broken through, and the reserves were still unable to recover the situation, the command of the defense line had no choice but to draw troops from the center and left flank troops to carry out a local counterattack against the Norman army that broke into its own position. As the most special unit on the Ulster-Wessex border line, the Baston Student Regiment was outnumbered, but it resolutely drew a company of troops to join the operation. As usual, Weiss resolutely put on the battle and led his friends to rush to the Normans. In the fierce battle that followed, he was always mentally prepared to dedicate himself to the country - although there were such and such problems and shortcomings in the federal military and political and social system, if he chose to flee or surrender to the enemy at this time, to put it more lofty, he was destined to live in the shadow of being despised and looked down upon by others in this life.

Seeing that the situation of its ground forces was precarious, the Federation fleet decisively sent two cruisers to support the battle. They quickly lowered their altitude and launched a precise artillery attack on the Norman troops who broke through the defenders' positions. The Norman fleet showed no signs of weakness, and 11 battleships, including 2 cruisers that were likely to carry "devil's bombs", advanced in formation. If the Norman fleet was allowed to enter the effective range of the "devil's bomb", the Federation fleet would probably not be able to hold out for even a quarter of an hour, but in order to help its ground forces, the Federation fleet did not recall the two cruisers sent to shell the enemy, and only used the remaining 10 battleships, including 3 cruisers and 7 frigates, to meet in a double battle formation.