As the saying goes, a soldier can be killed, not humiliated. How could a group of bloody professional soldiers, especially Norman soldiers, who regarded honor as their life, endure the destruction of their robes under the deliberate siege of the enemy, and then used by the enemy to hype up?

So, the Normans were enraged, genuinely angry, and seemed to have forgotten their proud scheming and careful planning, and set off a frenzy of attacks in a rage. In Lorraine, they were active everywhere, launching night raids on the air bases of the Federal Army, important towns, as well as transportation hubs and various military facilities. When night broke down and dawn rose, they disappeared again into the forest, just as the Lorraine guerrillas had done in the previous war.

Successfully luring the snake out of the hole, the regular troops of the Federation Army under General Arteus were given the opportunity to engage the enemy in a dignified manner, which made them both excited and stressed. In Lorraine, the Federation Army has a huge air advantage and home advantage, the people of Lorraine do their best to support them, and Lorraine's transportation facilities have also been greatly improved compared to the last war, whether it is railways, roads, canals or air transportation, all of which provide convenience for the Federation Army fighting at home. As a result of these factors, the Union Army was able to deal with a more difficult enemy in a modern way than in the previous war. In the northwestern and northern regions of Lorraine, the Normans had the upper hand in the confrontation, while in the western and southern parts of central Lorraine, the Lorrainians put the Normans in a difficult position......

No war is won by reserves alone, and there is no war that is won without reserves. In the battle of Russell, Weiss and his reserve troops won respect and honor, but at the same time they also paid a very heavy price, five well-equipped reserve battalions, the average loss of combat effectiveness was more than forty percent, although it is not a problem to replenish the source of troops in Lorraine, but the newly replenished rookies need longer to adapt to the war, and the reservists who have just transformed from rookies to qualified soldiers also need some time to digest and run-in.

In view of the fact that "guerrilla" is a combat operation carried out in enemy-occupied areas, and now that Lorraine has not fallen, and there is no guerrilla theory in the armed forces of the Federation, after repeated considerations, the military decided to award the honorary title of "Chasseur Battalion" to the Lorraine Reserve Force that performed well in the Battle of Russell, and the number remains unchanged, that is, the 1901st Chasseur Battalion, the 1904th Chasseur Battalion, the 1909th Chasseur Battalion, the 1910th Chasseur Battalion, and the 1912th Chasseur Battalion. It is advisable to maintain between 1,200 and 1,500 battalion-sized combat units.

Strategically positioned, Weiss continued to lead the Lorraine Reserve to actively prepare for General Arteus's regular forces to compete with the formidable Norman Marine forces. The second strategically important battle in Lorraine moved north from Russell Air Base to Wallens. As the oldest industrial town in northern Lorraine, Wallens has experienced many wars in the past 20 years. Due to its unique geographical and resource advantages, it quickly regained its position as an energy supply center in peacetime, with most of Lorraine's electricity supply and more than 23% of its coal supply being exported through Wallens, and it is also Lorraine's largest integrated hub for inland shipping, aviation and railroad. The Union Air Force, which used the air base outside Wallens as a combat platform, was an important outpost against Norman air raids. When the war broke out, the most prestigious destroyer group of the Union Army entered the North Wallence Air Base. After the Normans invaded Lorraine, it quickly became the front line for a fierce confrontation between the two sides.

The Battle of Wallens is the second link in a series of combat operations jointly planned by General Arteus and Weiss, this time the Federation Army is also showing weakness to the enemy and luring the enemy to attack itself, but unlike the operation of Russell Air Base, this time only a small part of the Union Army units used to encircle and annihilate the Norman army were deployed around Wallens, and the rest of the troops were delivered to the predetermined area by flying ships and transport planes after the battle began. Creativity as well as execution of combat operations. In order to achieve the operational intent, the aviation units of the Federal Army carried out air deliveries to the maximum extent possible in the limited conditions at night. In addition, as the battle was about to begin, other Union troops deployed in central and northern Lorraine also moved to the beat, for example, the Union troops from Somsonas drove to Wallence overnight, guided and protected by pre-positioned reservists and reconnaissance units along the way, fully demonstrating the operational capability of the mechanized troops.

The scale of the Battle of Wallens, far exceeding that of Russell Air Base, the Normans invested more than 4,000 marines and soldiers, and the Union army used nearly 100,000 troops before and after. In the Battle of Russell, Weiss and Lorraine's reserve forces played a key role and made a significant contribution to the victory of the battle, and in the Battle of Wallens, General Arteus's regular troops were the protagonists, especially in the first half of the battle, when they pinned down the Norman Marines who entered the Wallensian City in several important blocks, and the regiments responsible for cutting off the enemy's retreat paid a heavy price and showed tenacity, and in the second half of the battle, Weiss led ten reserve battalions into the operation of rounding up the breakthrough enemy army, and engaged the enemy in two days and two nights of fighting. In this battle, the Union Army annihilated more than 2000 Normans, and the results were more lucrative than the Battle of Russell, and the casualty ratio of the Union Army was similar to or even slightly lower than the Battle of Russell, but compared to the Battle of Russell, this was not a perfect war of annihilation, most of the Norman troops who participated in the battle still successfully broke through in the battle, but in the process of breaking through and the long road to withdraw from the battlefield, they lost a large number of troops under the tireless pursuit of the Union Army, It's like a vicious thief who breaks into a house and is beaten up with his head and face. Standby station

Clearly, the Normans' anger was not extinguished by the defeat at the Battle of Wallens, which was more like a pot of boiling hot oil that made the fire burn even stronger. Soon, a third strategic battle to influence the situation in Lorraine was staged in Slane, a major town in the west of Lorraine. This fortress city is worthy of the historical honor of being a battleground for the soldiers of Lorraine, even in the modern era, no war has missed it, and even in a single war it has to go through many battles and change hands several times. When the war resumed, Slane became the largest ship base of the Union army in Lorraine with its complete aviation facilities, indicating that it would become the focus of attention on both sides of the war.

The battle, from General Arteus to the most ordinary soldiers, was mentally and materially prepared, but the factors of the battlefield were always changing - they could not accurately determine where the third battle would take place and how many troops the enemy would commit. When the Normans carried out sabotage operations near Slane, the Federation troops stationed in Slane relied on flying ships to move quickly, intending to bite the attackers at night and start a large-scale round-up after dawn, even if the enemy was only a few hundred people, and the Federation army needed to use thousands or even tens of thousands of troops It was worth it, and just after the operation began, the Norman troops who had sneaked near Slane suddenly launched an attack on it. To some extent, they borrowed from the two raids launched by the Lorrainian guerrillas against Slane in the previous war, and perfected the original combat techniques and tactics: a Norman unit of about 3,000 men broke through the outer line of Slien to the hinterland in a very short time with a powerful offensive, and concentrated the bombardment of Slien's aviation facilities with short-barreled warp guns, detonating some of the temporary storage points for ammunition and fuel.

In addition to the actions of the ground forces, the Normans also demonstrated their superiority in three-dimensional warfare, with a fast elite fleet suddenly crossing the Monamolin Mountains at high speed and cutting out of range of the Slien air defense forces, firing short but accurate fire. Norman forces that broke into Slane used smoke flares to direct long-range artillery fire from their own fleets, causing even greater damage to Union facilities in Slane.

In order to contain and annihilate this elite Norman army at Slane, General Arteus mobilized seven battle regiments as quickly as possible, and the two sides immediately engaged in a fierce exchange northwest of Slien, and the Normans' fickle tactics took it by surprise, and their assault forces did not force a breakthrough, but lured the Federation army to surround it. After nightfall, another Norman army suddenly appeared in the northwest corner of Slane. Although the combined strength of the two armies was still no more than 6,000 men, they fought on both sides of the Union army, and after a fierce battle, the two infantry combat regiments of the Union Army were severely damaged, and the two Norman forces converged and successfully jumped out of the first round of encirclement organized by the Union Army.

General Arteus organized a second wave of projection troops to reach the outskirts of Slien overnight, and the two elite combat divisions, although not evenly armed, still blocked the Normans' retreat with an unstoppable momentum. There was a fierce battle between the two sides, and the Normans had to flee into the mountains.

Over the course of the day, the speed of the battlefield changed dramatically. The mountain fog, which had greatly distressed the invaders in the last war, became an accomplice of the Normans, who used the fog to ambush and surprise the Union troops in the mountains and forests. In such chaotic battles, the resilience of the troops and their tactical level are particularly crucial. Although the federal army had several times the superiority in strength, it was not strong, and seeing that the Normans had to open the way if they got the advantage, General Arteus decisively pressed all the reserve forces.

It was an almost historic force projection for the Federal Air Forces stationed on the Western Front, transporting 12 regiments and nine battalions of combat troops to the Slane Front in 23 transports over the course of 12 hours, and safely into the foggy mountains and forests. As Weiss and his reserves join the fray, especially with the help of his eyes that can cut through the fog to track the enemy, the tide of battle changes again.