One night six months later, a violent explosion occurred at a Norman army camp on the northern outskirts of Mason. The sleeping Norman soldiers rushed out of the barracks in rags, only to be greeted by a burst of fire. In just half a minute, dozens of Norman soldiers fell in pools of blood. Nearby Norman troops rushed to hear the news, and wheeled armored fighting vehicles sped down the road. Suddenly, there was a violent explosion in the haystack on the side of the road. With this haystack as the center, there were almost no intact objects in a radius of a hundred feet, and several wheeled chariots passing by were blown into parts, and those that were a little farther away were also swept over by the violent shock wave.

The vehicle behind came to an emergency stop, and the Norman soldiers, with live nuclear guns, quickly stabilized their positions and launched a search formation after this sudden attack with excellent combat qualities. A short time later, a light ship flew low, its searchlight drifting near the haystack where the explosion had occurred. On the ground, Norman chariots and Norman soldiers searched the searchlights, but after a long time of commotion, no one was found, only some broken cables were found near the haystack.

In just one night, the Norman troops within a radius of more than ten miles were ambushed one after another, centering on the initial attack post, in the process of supporting or searching, injuring hundreds of officers and soldiers and a considerable amount of combat equipment. What made the Normans nervous was that in the face of such a massive attack, they had not been able to catch the enemy's whereabouts, as if they were ghosts from hell who had disappeared without a trace as the sun rose.

In the following period, the Normans carried out a large-scale raid on the northern part of Mason. With perseverance, they discovered a number of facilities for concealment and evacuation, and although they were unable to apprehend the attackers, they found some clues from extensive interrogation.

During these interrogations, the Normans learned that the guerrillas were about to launch an operation against a prison near Slien to free the partisans and the civilians who supported the guerrillas. So, they painstakingly laid a trap and waited and waited, but instead of waiting for the guerrillas, an army headquarters in Warrens in the north was turned to the bottom by the guerrillas. Not to mention the loss of one colonel and several lieutenants, the guerrillas also took away a lot of important military materials and some ammunition supplies.

In pursuit of the attackers, a Norman army was ambushed in the woods north of Wallens. In this battle, the Normans lost face and actually lost a company of infantry. To make them even more irritable, a Norman combat ship that rushed to the rescue that night was attacked from the ground during the flight and nearly crashed there. Due to the untimely rescue, the infantry of that company was always isolated and helpless in the nearly half-hour battle. Even so, the ability to annihilate a well-trained combat company in just half an hour amazed them by the strength of the guerrillas.

All this happened after the withdrawal of the regular army of the Union from Lorraine. As he had told General Arteus, Weiss did not leave the place, but led the Lorrainians to resist the Norman invasion and occupation. With the experience of the last two guerrilla wars and the experience of this war, they became more flexible and efficient in their approach to the Normans.

Similar to the first guerrilla war in Lorraine, this time it was the armed men who remained to fight alongside Weiss, with volunteers from the Lorraine Reserve Force as their team. They received sufficient military training and honed their courage and skill during the most difficult years of the war. On the special battlefield of guerrilla warfare, they were not afraid of the strength of the enemy, and together with their spiritual leaders, they made the Normans suffer with their flexible and whimsical methods of warfare.

The time between the two wars is very short, but times are changing. In terms of weaponry technology, the Normans developed and equipped more dexterous and multi-purpose flying ships, and equipped with a large number of various aircraft, which allowed them to provide more powerful air support to the ground forces at any time, and correspondingly increased the difficulty of survival for the enemy theater guerrilla forces. If the difficulty of the previous Lorraine guerrilla warfare was hellish, now it is considered an abyss.

What is the abyss, that is, the terrible existence that cannot be seen at the bottom even from hell. For example, in the last war, when a partisan detachment attacked a relatively remote Norman camp, it took almost half an hour for the enemy's air support to arrive, but now even far from the town, it hardly takes a quarter of an hour for the Norman air power to appear, and after half an hour a sufficient amount of air power will arrive. This meant that the time left for the guerrillas to settle the battle and retreat was cut in half.

On the other hand, the Normans stationed more troops in Lorraine, and only a small number of these troops were front-line combat forces, and most of them were new reserve troops and security forces composed of old and weak soldiers. Although the combat effectiveness of these reserve forces and security forces is far from that of front-line troops, let alone elite marine units, they are after all regular military forces, even if the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers is limited, and the advantages of tactical literacy and equipment are there. In the last war, the Normans had to use the local security forces of Lorraine, and these Norman forces were clearly more reliable than the Norman forces.

Recall that the first guerrilla war in Lorraine in the last war lasted for more than a year. There has been a glorious history, and then it has fallen into a long trough. The strength of the people of Lorraine, with the few support from the rear, proved to be difficult to sustain for long under the iron heel of the Normans, and even required great courage and willpower for each day to hold out, and this time, Weiss and his companions were also subjected to unprecedented trials.

For half a year, the Normans continued to invade the territory of the Union from the west and north, and opened up a number of bridgeheads on the eastern front, but the foundation of the Federation was that the Normans could not conquer his moat. Over time, the Union army became more and more defeated, and the resources and industrial power of the Union also played a key role.

In order to destroy the industrial production in the Federation, the Normans organized large-scale air raids again and again, but the Federal Air Force seized the few opportunities to achieve a turnaround, and greatly weakened the aviation power of the Norman Empire in two important battles, and at the beginning of the war, the Federal Army carried out strategic bombing of strategic targets in the Norman Empire for two months, which also made the Normans lose a lot of vitality, and in the past six months, the Normans did not advance into the western front of the hinterland of the Federation, They were held back by the Federal Army in the vicinity of Aocheng.

On the Northern Front, the combined forces of the Normans and Wessex fell into the trap of the Union army, suffered an unprecedented defeat at the Battle of Walla, and their front remained stalled about 400 miles south of the border.

On the Eastern Front, although the Norman bridgeheads strategically put the Federation in an unprecedented predicament, the maintenance of these bridgeheads also cost them a great deal of manpower and material resources. In this unusually fierce war of attrition, the Normans lost to the long supply lines.

The Norman attack gradually reduced to the end of the crossbow, but the trumpet of the Union counterattack sounded not from any city, but from the air. The Federal Air Force, which used Aocheng and other places as its forward base, sent thousands of ultra-long-range heavy bombers and attack planes to cross the Western Front and cross the Monamolin Mountains to launch strategic bombing against the Norman Empire and its allies.

There is no doubt that no country on the planet Orensian has ever carved out such a long and difficult line of non-landing attack. From Aocheng to Tosa, an important industrial town in the eastern part of the Norman Empire, the distance reached 6,000 miles in a straight line. Even in very good weather conditions, it's a long voyage that takes almost 20 hours to make a round trip.

The super-heavy bombers used by the Federal Army were based on the heavy bombers that had been deployed on the Western Front at the beginning of the war, and they used a combination of artificial new source stone technology and aerodynamic principles to derive aerial vehicles weighing hundreds of tons. Because it is mainly based on conventional materials, including steel, aluminum alloy and chemical raw materials, it is basically not limited by the output of Xingyuan stone, which is just suitable for giving full play to the characteristics of federal resources and industry.

Thus, in the following period, the guerrillas who remained in Lorraine to fight the Normans could often see huge fleets of aircraft whizzing through the sky. They flew at an altitude of more than 30,000 feet, fearless of Norman interception and blockade, and brought powerful bombs to the Norman hinterland.

With the opening of this ultra-long-range bombing route, the Lorraine Resistance quietly assumed another role, that is, to rescue the pilots of the Union bombers who had been damaged during the bombing and forced to land. Carrying out such an operation in enemy-occupied territory requires not only courage, but also wisdom and some luck. For a long time, Weiss and his companions shifted their focus from raiding operations to rescuing their own bomber pilots who had landed in Lorraine, and the Lorraine population was particularly supportive of such operations, using their own conditions to hide the surviving Union pilots from the Normans and then transport them to the Federated territory.

The continuous large-scale strategic bombing gradually changed the situation of the war, the war potential of the Norman Empire continued to weaken, the quantity and quality of equipment and ammunition of the front-line troops began to decline, and Wessex, which was also bombed by the Federation Army, was even more shaky. The officer corps in power had long since split, and the faction that insisted on independence and autonomy had long been dissatisfied with the faction that had defected to the Normans. With the support of the lower ranks, soldiers, and the population, they gathered strength and then staged a military coup d'état, quickly announcing their withdrawal from the war.

The Normans, of course, would not sit idly by and watch their greatest allies in the north pull out, nor would they tolerate a stable northern front for the Union Army. Thus, the Norman army raised its butcher's knife against its former allies and minions. Within two weeks, the new Wessex regime and its supporters were bloodily attacked by the Normans, and after that, Wessex was completely in disarray.

Wessex is in a mess, and the top brass of the Federal Army will naturally not miss such an opportunity. They immediately launched a fierce strategic counteroffensive on the northern front, and it took only a week to drive the enemy army from the north of the Union out of the border, and then slowly entered Wessex with elite troops, and reached a cooperation agreement with the Wessex resistance to help them drive the Norman army away, and after the war, maintain the independence of Wessex without punishing them for being involved in the war.

As a result, many Wessex people joined the Confederate side, allowing the Confederate military operations in Wessex to proceed smoothly. Taking advantage of the war in the north to contain the Normans, the Union Army followed closely behind and launched a strategic counteroffensive in the Federal State of Nachâtar on the Western Front, codenamed Steel Torrent. They deployed tens of thousands of combat aircraft and more than 300,000 ground troops to attack the Norman forces entrenched in the federal state of Neuchâtel in a frontal push.

This frontal push is not an archaic-style line array advance, but rather makes it difficult for the enemy to capture the main and feint points. During this operation, the open terrain of Neuchâtel became the stage for a fierce confrontation between the ground armored forces of the two sides. The Normans were not inferior in number and quality to the Union Army in terms of the number and quality of their armored fighting vehicles, but in the face of overwhelming air combat power, it was difficult for the ground forces to exert their due combat effectiveness.

After half a month of fierce fighting, the federal army successfully recaptured Neuchâtel, and at this time, the territory occupied by the enemy on the Western Front was only Lorraine, a federal state.

The momentum of the Union army on the frontal battlefield made the Normans feel more and more uncomfortable, and the Norman army occupying Lorraine fell into a restless situation, and the more restless, the more tyrannical they treated the rebels. As the Allied forces began to bomb targets in the heart of the Norman Empire from the air base in Neuchâtel, and even threatened their capital, the number of Confederate bombers forced to land in Lorraine was drastically reduced, and the partisans returned to their jobs, harassing the Normans everywhere and destroying their facilities. Under these circumstances, the Normans issued an unprecedented ban in Lorraine: all the inhabitants of the area where the partisans were operating were to be left untouched by no one or animal.

This is a warning to the partisans, but also to the population of Lorraine. In order to avoid the persecution of innocent people by the enemy, the guerrillas had to choose to operate in relatively sparsely populated or even uninhabited areas, but this was obviously not a long-term solution. Finally, one day, the guerrillas were hunted by the Normans in Mason's eyeline, and in the process of escaping, the guerrillas killed several Norman soldiers. Although they were later killed by the Normans in the fighting, the Normans used this as a reason to launch a massive manhunt in Mason, arresting more than 4,000 people they considered suspicious and throwing them in prison.

The inhabitants of Lorraine were then subjected to brutal torture to extract confessions. The Normans hanged them in the square in the center of Mason at a rate of ten a day, a brutal act that provoked a violent reaction from the people of Lorraine. The Lorraine guerrillas captured 16 Norman soldiers in a combat operation north of Wallens, and warned the occupying forces that if they continued to strangle innocent people on the ground, they would be hanged from a tree beside the road, but the Normans did nothing. A few days later, the Normans found the bodies of their comrades hanged in trees in the woods north of Wallens, and in a fit of rage, they carried out a brutal sweep in and around Wallens, throwing thousands of innocent residents into prison and continuing to hang in public what they considered to be partisan supporters.

Strategically, the Normans continued to strengthen their strongholds in Lorraine, believing that the Union army would not advance further into the Norman Empire until Lorraine was recaptured, and within the Union Army, the call for the recovery of Lorraine was unprecedentedly high, especially under the stimulus of this cruelty, and the people were even more indignant, but the wise strategic decision-makers made the deployment of the westward advance. They quickly invaded the kingdom of Fries, and then used the Fries as a base to advance around the Monamolin Mountains to the Norman border.