When the last rays of the sun disappeared into the sky, many Federation officers and soldiers stared at the north in unison. The North, once a solid ally of steel, is now making waves of turmoil. When the 1st Army Corps and the new Defence Division troops were holding the Norman Eastern Army on the defensive line of the Monamolin Mountains, being able to resist the Norman Northern Army had become the key to the direction of the war.

With the arrival of the 129th Reserve Division, the "self-replenishment" of the 1st Field Battalion came to an abrupt end. Even so, the 700+ fighters and the ample weapons and ammunition still reached the level of the reinforced battalion, which gave Weiss more confidence to face the coming night.

As General Casen said, the main force of the Norman infantry reached Hoffentis at nightfall after a day's march, and was immediately engaged in a total erosion of the Union front. The clouds in the night sky seemed to be ignited by fire amid the rumbling of cannons, a scorching and suffocating hue.

From the rising sun to the setting sun, the Union army came out by land and air: combat planes did their best to harass and attack the Norman troops in the left theater of operations, and the headquarters of General Faros deployed troops to fill in the gaps and plug the gaps in the nearly collapsed front. These efforts turned the tide of the battle in a positive and optimistic direction, but after the arrival of the main Norman army on the ground, it only took one round of attacks to quickly collapse the re-established Union front. When the bad news came, Weiss sat in the bunker of the battalion headquarters, silently wiping the pistol parts and filling all the magazines with bullets. At present, in the position of a battalion-level officer, no tricks of gods and ghosts can play an effective role, but it is better to simplify the complex and prepare for a life-and-death battle in both spiritual and material aspects.

From the collapse of the front line to the arrival of the Norman army, there was more than an hour left for the 9th Corps to make a decision between advance and retreat. General Kaisen may have hesitated and struggled, but the orders passed on to the corps were resolute and resolute - to hold on until powerful reinforcements arrived, or all friendly units were out of danger.

Whether the reinforcements will be strong enough and whether the reinforcements will arrive on time is unknown, but he believes that as long as it is a sword-to-sword, blood-melting battle, then the firmer, more tenacious, and more fearless side has a better chance of raising the banner of victory.

Yes, the brave wins. Weiss used this path not only to inspire himself, but also to encourage the officers and soldiers around him. When the Norman army that had swept through the line was like the deep cold of winter, inexorably invading, he carried two guns and walked back and forth in the front less than a thousand feet wide, reminding the soldiers in a calm and resolute voice that it was difficult for a coward to turn over, and that there was no way to survive.

Perhaps in the eyes of the Normans, the ring of defense deployed by the 1st Field Battalion of the 129th Reserve Division of the Union Army was nothing more than a roadblock that could be easily kicked away. Before launching a frontal attack, they fired only a few symbolic shots, and then opened the way with twenty or thirty armored fighting vehicles, and thousands of infantry swarmed up.

For this wave of Norman army's unseen attack, Weiss and his old seniors very readily accepted the "human head". In less than ten minutes, their troops broke up the enemy offensive with intensive fire. According to rough estimates, this battle directly destroyed more than a dozen enemy chariots and killed or wounded four or five hundred soldiers......

After a beautiful battle with insignificant losses, the confidence and morale of the troops naturally increased in a straight line. As the enemy's attacking forces quickly retreated, Weiss swam through the trenches, shouting to his soldiers to move to the anti-shelling bunkers behind the positions. Without waiting for all the officers and men of each company to move, the Normans came roaring. Judging from the momentum, the Norman army mainly invested light field artillery, which had limited destructive power, but there were a lot of artillery, and continuous artillery bombardment could still weaken and destroy the fortifications on the position, and damage and kill the soldiers in it.

The Normans, who had suffered a loss, frantically poured thousands of shells on the 129th Reserve Division and the 1st Field Battalion in more than half an hour. And at the beginning, artillery fire came from the north, and shells fell from all directions. The commanders didn't even have to go out to observe, knowing empirically that their troops were surrounded by the enemy—although not a complete ground blockade, artillery fire and bullets had cut them off from their neighbors.

As soon as the enemy's artillery fire stopped, Weiss jumped out of the anti-artillery bunker and shouted to the companies to go to their designated positions - 40 percent to the north, 40 percent to the east, and 20 percent to be left as independent reserves, ready to support the positions in critical situations.

In the second wave of the attack, the Norman army attacked from the east, west, and north at the same time. Before the hand-to-hand engagement, the defending troops were already oppressed in terms of momentum and prestige. Fortunately, at this time, the federal officers and soldiers are no longer the inexperienced and uninformed junior brothers in the early days of the war, after experiencing the cruel baptism of war, the officers have gradually grown up, and the veterans have also explored and mastered various practical skills on the battlefield, their calmness and calmness, their ease, leading the novices to quickly adapt to the battlefield, and also correspondingly improving the hardness and toughness of the troops.

It was a good thing for Weiss to keep his teammates getting stronger, he shuttled back and forth between the northern and eastern positions, and occasionally took time to pay attention to the western position where the 129th Reserve Division was stationed, almost everyone was calmly responding, the shooting was orderly, the treatment and transfer of the wounded were calm, whenever the enemy approached the position, the timing of the thunder was very accurate, and the bayonet fight would definitely only appear at the last resort, and it must be sent and received freely......

Everything was under control, and Weiss should not have been worried, but when the Norman army approached the position one after another, and forced the federal army to use bayonets to kill the defending position, uneasiness quietly grew, and his thoughts were interrupted twice in succession by the Norman soldiers who rushed into the trench: the Normans threw the thunder and took advantage of the weakening of the defenders' firepower by the explosion, and rushed at full speed through the last hundred feet distance. Weiss had seen this kind of tactics of the enemy during the border battle, but if you look closely, you will find that the contrast between the two is obvious. Here, the defenders deployed crossfire in various positions, even if the firing of a section of the position was blocked, the oblique fire of the positions on both sides was still playing a blocking effect, and the Norman soldiers' "last hundred feet" charge must have paid a great price, but what Weiss saw was that the Norman soldiers rushed up regardless of casualties and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Union troops without flinching. Even three or four Norman soldiers pounced on twice or three times as many Union soldiers. This fierce reminded Weiss of the hyena he encountered on a snowy night in the barren mountains, and remembered the pair of breathtaking eyes.

How so?

Fighting, one after another; Wrestling, one after another. Before he knew it, Weiss had exhausted the pistol magazines he had carried, and many of the Union soldiers he saw were already covered in blood, like a god of murder who had returned from hell. Eventually, the second wave of Norman attacks was completely repulsed, and all the survivors were out of range, except for the wounded soldiers who could not evacuate on their own. Seeing this, Weiss did not hesitate, and hurriedly reminded everyone to withdraw from the front-line positions and move to the anti-shelling bunkers behind the positions. Before leaving, he glanced at the corpses of the enemy soldiers lying on the edge of the trenches, and found several bearded faces, not untended or haphazardly grown, but old-fashioned mustaches that had been stored for years. If you look closely, you can see that the faces with such a mustache have obvious wrinkles on the forehead and at the corners of the eyes, indicating that they are over forty years old.

Are these people Norman veterans who fought in the last war?

The cannon sounded, and Weiss hurried through the communication trench with this meaningful idea to the bunker at the rear of the position. The so-called anti-shelling bunkers are trenches that are dug deeper, and holes are dug at the bottom to the sides to accommodate them, and reinforced with wood and stone. This kind of bunker can safely avoid shelling without being directly patronized by enemy artillery fire, but as long as the enemy's artillery fire looks backwards from the forward position, especially when heavy artillery is used to bombard, the anti-shelling bunker cannot avoid casualties - this time, the Norman artillery fire gradually extended, not only the light shells fired by ordinary field guns, but also many heavy shells that had the effect of shaking the ground and shaking the mountains. The ferocious attack just now, coupled with such a fierce artillery bombardment, made Weiss clearly aware that the Normans had the idea of leaving no future for this stumbling block, even if they slowed down the pace of the attack on the whole front, they had to get rid of it quickly. This kind of bestiality has rarely appeared in the Norman army before! Could it be that the Norman army, which had terrified their opponents in the last war, had returned?

The continuous shelling filled the Federal Army's defense area with gunsmoke, and officers and soldiers took out towels, poured water, and covered their mouths and noses to weaken the irritation and damage caused by the smoke, and Weiss was no exception. The coolness from the towel made his originally chaotic consciousness much clearer. This war has been fought so far, it can be said that it has passed the initial stage, the Union army has undergone a lot of changes, there are many positive factors that make people see hope, the Normans do not seem to be satisfied with the fruitful results obtained in the early stage, whether it is active or passive, their army is also "evolving", and the speed and results are not inferior to the Union army. This point reminds Weiss of Germany in World War II, when fighting Poland, although the German army has achieved a crushing trend on the whole, many details have exposed the lack of fighting spirit and confidence of young soldiers, and the problem of soft fighting style, and so on to the Western Front Battle and even Barbarossa, the German army is getting better and better, fighting more and more fiercely, and once beat the old Maozi, who is known for his toughness, to the north, and later in the case of inferior troops and equipment, in North Africa, Italy and Western Europe, the Allies have suffered a lot......

Thinking back to the present, the Norman army is already difficult to deal with, wouldn't the upgraded and strengthened Norman army be even more deadly? Thinking clearly, Weiss became more and more worried and troubled. If this continues, if you get closer, the result of the desperate defense of the 129th Reserve Division and the 1st Field Battalion is that the whole of them will be explained here, and the 9th Corps and even the entire left flank are also in danger of rout or even collapse; In the long run, the industrial superiority of the Free Federation is constantly weakening, and as time goes by, the qualitative and quantitative superiority in weaponry will soon be leveled or even reversed, and the hope of winning the peace will be even more slim.

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