Chapter 6: The Crusaders' Response

At eight o'clock in the morning, the sixth wave of air force had just landed in the sky over Arianata, and a formation of transport planes also came to the sky over Arianata under the cover of fighters.

Airborne is the 101st Regiment of the 303rd Division of the Airborne Army!

Ye Xiao had already gathered all the team members and cleared an airborne landing area under the cover of the gunners before the airborne.

When more than fifty transport planes sprinkled countless "dandelions" from the sky, Ye Xiao had already led the team to prepare for the "welcome".

The unwilling enemies quietly began to emerge, and the ghost blades and fangs in small groups immediately attacked, killing all the enemies who came up, and welcoming the airborne troops of friendly troops.

The dandelion landed.

The 101st Airborne Division is the ace in the Airborne Army, and the 303rd Regiment is not worthy of the title of trump card, after the airborne landing, quickly began to form formations, clear the airborne area, the remaining enemy faced the morale of the airborne troops, trapped beasts after the fight chose to surrender - less than a hundred enemies with weapons out of the ruin-like bunker, ending their combat career.

Just when these enemies surrendered, Ye Xiao also met the commander of the 303rd Regiment, a colonel who had a deep memory of Ye Xiao.

"Is that you?" Colonel Nankai didn't expect that he would actually meet the culprit who had almost nailed the 303rd Regiment to the pillar of shame, and after seeing Ye Xiao, who would never forget, the colonel in charge of the 303rd Regiment wanted to kick it hard.

Ye Xiao was helpless, the "damage" of the assault battalion to the airborne troops was too deep, and he may now be the number one resentment collection of the airborne troops.

"Colonel, Fang Commander Ye Xiao reports to you." Ye Xiao's greeting interrupted Nan Kai's bad memories, and after the colonel shook his head and shook off those grievances, he asked bluntly: "Tell me about the current situation." ”

Ye Xiao immediately said: "Sir, the Air Force brothers have carried out repeated cultivation bombardment within a range of eighty kilometers of the enemy's defense line in the Arinata, and basically pulled out all the fortification groups, although the enemy is still struggling on the defensive line, the threat is extremely small, and the only trouble is in Alinata City." ”

Speaking of this, Ye Xiaoyao pointed to the Alinata thirty kilometers away: "Although the Air Force has carried out four waves of bombing attacks on the Alinata, the fortifications of that military city are very complete, although it is a military city built for the tide of Warcraft, it is still a big trouble. ”

Colonel Nan Kai motioned to the staff officer to mark the situation Ye Xiao said, and then asked, "Where is the right place for the spaceship group to land?" ”

"Two kilometers away, the terrain is flat, an irregular rectangle, 8 kilometers long and 6 kilometers wide, and there is no enemy line of defense, just a little flattening of the crater can allow the ship group to land." Ye Xiao did his homework and answered quickly.

The main task of the 303rd Regiment is to play the vanguard for the two synthetic brigades, and since Ye Xiao has made sufficient preparations, Colonel Nankai naturally followed Ye Xiao's advice.

This time airborne, the 303rd Regiment carried a large number of Dragon four-step combat vehicles, which could be used as engineering vehicles for leveling the land after a little modification, and the 303rd Regiment was divided into a battalion to be on alert, and the other two battalions rushed to the target area under the cover of the Air Force artillery and aircraft formation, and began to level the land.

Just as the 303rd Regiment was leveling the land, the 7th wave of the air force roared over.

More than 100 warplanes and 300 gunners and bombers came to the Arinata Line as if they were about to occupy the entire sky, and the defenders of Alinata City were completely desperate when they saw the darkened sky.

It is impossible for reinforcements to break through such a large group of aircraft.

The Arinata Line is finished!

After seeing their huge aircraft group formation, whether it was the airborne troops of the 303rd Regiment, the Ghost Blade Detachment, or the Fangs Squad, they all showed a victorious smile.

There is no doubt that the spaceship cluster that will come later will definitely not encounter any obstacles, and the battlefield that has been ravaged by the 6 waves of imperial aircraft has now undergone an even more brutal cultivation, how can it still be organized to resist?

Gunners and bombers continued their performances in the sky, while the 303rd Regiment was busy laying the landing field for the spacecraft cluster.

The requirements for the landing site of the spacecraft are very simple, unlike the need for a fighter to slow down on the runway, and the spacecraft that lands vertically can be completed as long as the space is wide enough.

Such a small request is difficult for the 303rd Regiment that has been wantonly modified by Long Si.

Although there were still small groups of the enemy doing the final battle of the trapped beasts, they could not threaten the construction of the 303rd Regiment at all, and in less than two hours, the landing field was wide enough, and the craters that had been blown up by the shells were filled in, and the uneven places were also repaired.

"The spaceship formation is coming!"

When he heard this, Ye Xiao was leading the team to clean up the enemy hiding in the bunker like a mouse, and after a grenade reimbursed the enemy in a trench defense hole, Ye Xiao raised his head and looked into the distance.

A large dark cloud spread from the east.

"Holy!"

There was an exclamation from his subordinates in his ears, and the sound of gasping for air was very clear, even Ye Xiao, who had seen a big scene in his dream, subconsciously held his breath.

That's not a dark cloud!

It was an overwhelming array of ships and escort fighters.

"How many ships are this......"

Even Ye Zhan was amazed.

Two synthetic brigades are more than 10,000 people, and if they are transported by large transport ships, a hundred ships can easily transport them all.

However, an army of more than 10,000 people, even a composite brigade without heavy combat vehicles, the equipment carried by the two brigades is dozens of times heavier than all the members combined!

More than 500 large transport spaceships, plus more than 200 armed spaceships and the same number of escort fighters, the number of spacecraft fighters flying in the air of 5,000 meters is completely a large dark cloud covering the sky!

"I even sent the equipment here! What a big deal! Generous!! Ye Xiao sighed, he thought that the two synthetic brigades should be sent over lightly, but he didn't expect to be sent over together with equipment, in this world, only the empire has such strength!

Just when they were amazed, the spaceship formation began to reduce its flight altitude, and the black-pressed spaceship formation pressed down like the sky was falling, and dozens of spaceships carrying soldiers landed first, and after the spaceship hatch opened, the morale-boosting imperial soldiers poured out of the spaceship, and followed the guidance of the 303rd Regiment to quickly pounce on the preset combat readiness fortifications.

The landing is expected to take an hour, and in order to prevent the enemy from counterattacking, they must enter the combat readiness fortifications to prevent a possible enemy attack.

Although there were escort fighters and gunners, detachable ships were the most vulnerable and could not withstand enemy attacks.

"Expand the alert!" Ye Xiao also gave an order, and his subordinates quickly began to attack in small groups.

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Crusader Command.

"Marshal, the Chinese transport ship formation has landed thirty kilometers west of the city of Alinata, and at least one division of troops and equipment have been transported."

Listening to the staff officer's report, Marshal Colin, who was the supreme commander of the crusaders, had no expression on his gloomy face.

Because of Lieutenant General Osinsweis's reluctance to the Bayesk incident, most of the Crusader's special forces participated in the encirclement and interception operation, and before the special forces were in place, the special forces of the Reich began to attack from all directions, and most of the airfields were accurately guided.

As a result, after the Imperial Air Force was dispatched, the Crusaders were at a disadvantage on all fronts - when an astonishing number of fighters and waves appeared on the side of Arinata, the Crusader Command realized that Arinata would be the breakthrough point of the Imperial army.

In a state of war, the Tianyun Mountain Range was originally the best barrier for the Arinata Defense Line, after all, no matter which force, as long as it dared to pass through the Tianyun Mountain Range, it would inevitably be the weakest when it appeared in the Arinata Defense Line.

This is also the confidence of the Crusader Command after the defeat in the Breakthrough Battle, recklessly transferring eighty percent of the garrison of a legion of the Arinata Line.

In the eyes of the headquarters, even if the imperial army really uses Alinata as a breakthrough point, with the defenders of a division, it can definitely withstand the assault of the airborne troops after the airborne landing, and as long as the imperial army is detected passing through the Tianyun Mountain Range, even if it is an army 800 kilometers away, it can support Alinata before the imperial army appears.

There is an infinite distance between the assumption and the reality, a qualitative distance......

The Crusaders did not expect that the Imperial Army could concentrate more than 2,000 sorties and more than 500 missiles to attack Alinata, let alone that the Imperial Army could transport a division at a time - even equipment could be transported!

Spacecraft airlift, especially the airlift across the battle line, is the most dangerous, even if the huge transport formation is escorted by fighters, but in the process of flying, it itself is a fragile lamb, as long as the planes kill into the formation group, it will be like harvesting wheat, harvesting the spacecraft one by one.

But who would have thought that the imperial army would use its absolute superiority to suppress and beat the air force units to which the crusaders belonged, and the air force units, which had been organized with great difficulty, were blocked several times in a row before they could come to Arinata.

At least more than 2,000 sorties of fighters are still covering Alinata—the number of air forces that China has invested in covering Arinata is almost equal to the number of fighters that the Crusaders have now!

"If I have three more air forces, I will definitely turn Alinata into a bloody grave for the Chinese army!" Marshal Colin lamented in his heart, but this is only a fantasy!

The size of the Crusader's air force before was not small, and the ratio of air force to the air force of the Central Theater of China was 4:5, although it was weaker than the Central Theater of China, it was not without the power to fight back.

However, in the battle to break through, China concentrated naval aviation units and foreign aid air units, and reimbursed more than half of the Crusader's air force with an absolute advantage; although the Crusader air force units were replenished to a certain extent, compared with China, which directly expanded its air force with deep financial resources, its air force had completely fallen into disadvantage.

The point is that China can support the navy's aviation units at will, while the Crusaders need to negotiate with the Holy See, the Demon Temple, and several major Western powers if they want to obtain reinforcements.

The lack of stamina was the fatal weakness of the Crusaders, and in this battle, the Crusaders suffered a big loss in the stamina of the Air Force.

The whole line was pressed and beaten, the fighters of the Air Force continued to fall from the sky like dumplings, and the defeat of the Air Force also led to the success of China in laying down a division and all the heavy equipment of the division in Alinata.

Four days, it only takes four days for the Chinese army to pass through the Tianyun Mountains and launch an attack from the flank of the Crusader defense area, and along the offensive line, the Chinese army can even easily take Bayesk and other places into its arms, and then the Crusaders will be divided again.

What a cruel knife!

Marshal Colin lamented in his heart, this knife stabbed him in the heart and disrupted all his defenses!

"Alinata must be captured in four days!" The marshal slammed his fist on the table, and his cold eyes stared at Lieutenant General Ossin who had made a big mistake: "I give you four days to recapture the Alinata and rebuild the Alinata defense line, and the Chinese army that has passed through the Tianyun Mountain Range must be blocked in the Tianyun Mountain Range!" ”

As long as the Arinata defense line is recaptured and heavily defended, the Chinese army that crosses the Tianyun Mountain Range will be stuck in the mountain range, and this knife will be easily dissolved, and even allow China to break off an attacking arm.

"Yes!" When the lieutenant general heard that the marshal gave him a task, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, he would not be killed by the perverted marshal, and his life was at least saved.

"The only troops I can give you are the 'Stubborn Stone Legion' that has been newly reinforced, if you can't recapture Alinata before the Chinese army crosses the Tianyun Mountain Range, you don't have to come back!" The marshal looked coldly at the lieutenant general who had disappointed him, and his tone was cold and piercing.

The Legion of the Boulder is not an ordinary army, the legion is the most famous and fierce legion of the Western power Merrick Empire, and after the defeat of the breakthrough battle, Merric gritted his teeth and forced the legion to support the land bridge under pressure.

It is true that the vanguard of the Stonestone Legion is only more than 100 kilometers away from Alinata, but because the march pulled out the Stoneball Legion with a length of more than 800 kilometers, the main force is still in Trim City, which is 500 kilometers away from Alinata.

Looking at the murderous face of the marshal, Osinswys cleverly did not mention this, it is impossible for the marshal not to know where the highly-anticipated Stoner Legion is now, not to mention that the vanguard of the Grimstone Legion, the "Glorious Ranger Division", can act as the first wave of attacking troops!

"Your Excellency Marshal, you promise to complete the mission!" After the lieutenant general verbally made the military order, he immediately left the headquarters that had suffocated him, and the pressure of facing the notorious marshal was very great.

After leaving the headquarters, the lieutenant general immediately ordered his direct troops to assemble, and then under the escort of the guards, he went straight to the "Glorious Ranger Division".

The characteristics of the generals of the Western Continent are that they each have a direct force, Osinswys is from a famous family, and the direct force is a brigade (2 regiments), if the threat of the air force is not considered, with his own direct troops plus the "Glorious Ranger Division", Osinswys has full confidence to take Alinata.

However, the imperial army now has an absolute air force advantage, and judging from the size of its air force, in order to cover the Chinese army of Alinata, it will inevitably dispatch a huge air force, a division and a brigade, and it is too difficult and difficult to shake Alinata......

The division headquarters of the Glorious Ranger Division was located in Lorimp, and by the time the lieutenant general arrived, the division had already begun to mobilize, and it was clear that the orders of the command had already reached the division.

For the arrival of Orsinsweiss, Major General Annrod, the commander of the Glorious Ranger Division, was prepared, but he didn't expect Orsinswyth to come over in such a hurry.

However, he didn't expect that Osinsweis, who was born in the Amrock Empire, would come to his division headquarters so eagerly, and he didn't bring his direct troops!

"Major General, the task is urgent, your department must be dispatched immediately, except for weapons, ammunition and equipment, all the materials are left to the servant army to escort!"

Seeing the lieutenant general's fiery appearance and urgent urging, Major General An Rode, who had to deal with the Chinese army for the first time, felt the pressure, he had only seen the Chinese air force performing, but now from Ossinsweis's tone, An Rod sensed the fear.

"Yes, sir." Ann Rod responded.