The northern shore of the Sea of Azov in late June is the hottest season of the year.

However, due to the sea breeze blowing from the direction of the Black Sea, the temperature still drops to about 20 degrees Celsius at night, which is very cool, and the woodland destroyed by the war is still lush and green, but there are many more black craters.

The 182nd Regiment of the 11th Marine Division followed behind the 11th Panzer Division and captured the small town of Marat, which had been reduced to ruins.

Nearly half a month of continuous combat has reduced the 11th Army Division by nearly one-third, Ling Kaiyue's platoon also had 4 killed and 10 wounded, machine gunners Tang Fengnian and Alaiti were both dead, and there was also the experienced Sergeant Zhang Xiangyu, this hapless veteran was swept away by an East Franconian plane on the march, and every time he thought of the three fist-sized blood holes that the 12.7 mm aviation machine gun punched in Sergeant Zhang Xiangyu's body, Ling Kaiyue would feel a burst of shock.

As an infantry unit, the 182nd Regiment was ordered to clear some of the enemy fire points in the town that were still resisting stubbornly. Although most of the East Franconian troops defending the station had withdrawn, some of the encircled Croat strongholds were still holding on. On the battlefield, these Croatian or Serbian troops were much more tenacious than the Hungarian Army.

The officers and men of the 11th Army Division were covered with dust and dirt on their faces and bodies, and since the battle began on 15 June, this unit had not rested at all, and all the personnel had not taken off their clothes and slept peacefully for more than half a month. This unit, which was reorganized into the Marine Corps, went deep into the land and returned to its old job as a mountain infantry division.

Infantry squads marched forward as they searched for possible enemy bunkers among the ruins of the post-apocalyptic town. Many were sleepy and tired, preferring to find a broken wall to sleep at the foot of the wall rather than to clear the Croats of the remnants.

The incessant exchange of fire with the enemy and the absence of sleep for several days and nights had stretched the nerves of the soldiers to the limit, and they had become numb to the occasional battles. Sometimes, even when you see the enemy waving a white flag, you won't stop firing.

After the threat was completely removed, the soldiers collapsed between the ruins, staring at each other dumbfoundedly, and no one would speak. More than a hundred captured Crodians were herded into a large courtyard with two less walls, and no one cared for them.

There was a roar of motors in the sky, and several East Frankish planes painted with eagle emblems flew over, and they actually made two circles around the town.

Liu Lin spat at the sky: "Riding horses, where did those dogs die before?" Just come over now! ”

The East Francians had a lot of planes, and the 11th Army Division had been bombed a lot these days, and most of the time it could not get timely support from the air force. On the battlefields of Donets and the Crimea, several air battles broke out almost every day, and until now, neither of the opposing sides has been able to grasp air superiority in this area.

In air combat, the performance of the "Swift" and "Saker" fighters of the Tang people was no better than that of the enemy's "Fokker" and "Messersmidt" fighters, and their numbers were about the same. The 10th Air Force had more than 2,600 combat aircraft, compared to more than 2,200 European Allied aircraft in the area, so the Imperial Army Air Force was unable to seize air superiority in the region.

The 11th Army Division rested and resped for only an hour and a half in the small town called Marat, and then the officers were caught up in cars and a small number of armored transports and sent to a new position.

The 3rd Battalion of the 182nd Regiment began to build its own defensive position on a high ground.

The first thing they had to do was remove the dozens of corpses left behind in the dilapidated positions of the original Hungarian army, which had been lifted out of the collapsed trenches and placed in the clearing. The sun shone on the faces of the dead European soldiers, and most of them had their eyes wide open, some of them were blurred with flesh.

Looking at these corpses, and then thinking of those comrades who have died, it can't help but make people feel a little sad and desolate about the death of rabbits and foxes.

"Don't look at me like that, man, we're in charge of burying you, what happened to you is the work of those guys from the 11th Panzer Division, if you want revenge, go to them!" Gomba was trying to close the eyes of a corpse and muttered nervously in his mouth. But the corpse's eyes would open on their own after a while, and the Qingtang people tossed for a while, and finally reluctantly gave up their plans to let him bare after death.

Liu Lin found a shelter abandoned by the Croatians on the hillside towards the road, which was supported by logs and covered with more than two meters of mud, which was an ideal place to defend against artillery. Ling Kaiyue and the rest of their class were overjoyed, and immediately dug a trench in front of it and threw dirt at the top of it, continuing to strengthen the place where they could stay. The Sudetenland were thrilled to find an ideal place to take refuge, while Becker and Klaus flanked it with a machine-gun emplacement.

The sight of a squad of Stuka bombers flying overhead was a sign that the battle was about to begin again, and the battles these days had almost always begun with plane bombing. The 7th Company was located in a good position on this high ground, and it was almost possible to see the battle situation on the open grassland in front of it.

There were several destroyed British cruisers and American-style M3 "General Lee" tanks emitting black smoke, which should be traces of previous battles, and the sound of artillery could be faintly heard in the distance.

It seems that the East Franconian offensive is about to begin again.

The Hungarian 2nd Army, which had been transferred from the Crimean battlefield, and the 19th East Francian Army came ashore from Kherson, where they attacked northeast along the road, preparing to open the westward retreat of East Francian Group B. The fledgling Hungarian Army and the Tang Army clashed on the battlefield for the first time, but they were defeated by the cluster on the southern front of the Don River Theater commanded by General Su Youting and fled.

After landing on the Sea of Azov, the Suyouting cluster crushed the East Frankish defenders of Tokmak and Podanovka, and rushed straight to Zaporia along the Dnieper, intending to cut off the retreat of cluster B in the south of East Francia.

The Imperial Army's 18th Panzer Division, 116th Infantry Division, and Anthy's 2nd Army defeated the attack of the 19th East Franconian Army under the command of Lieutenant General Gesennow at Melitopol, while Lieutenant General Dendal commanded the Hungarian 2nd Army to rapidly advance eastward along the road from the northern front.

Su Youting's eyes were fixed on the Hungarian army, and he was ready to attack westward before Prince Eugen's main force of East Francian Group B had not crossed the Tulapo River, defeat the Hungarian 2nd Army and the 19th Army of East Francia, and then wave his army north, and together with An Zongxing's group, encircle and annihilate the main force of East Francian Group B on the line of the Tulapo River.

Although the Hungarian army in front of them was quite numerous and well-equipped, it had no combat experience, and Su Youting was ready to find this "soft persimmon" first.

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