Chapter Twenty-Three: The Uprising

The 308th Division of the Crusaders, after three hours of bloody fighting, captured four salients and tore through an eight-kilometer blockade, plunging the crusader top brassers trapped on the left into ecstasy.

The 308th Division, which claimed to have lost more than half of the battle, was arranged to repair on the spot, and the 7 divisions quickly attacked, while expanding the results of the battle, while cutting into the dividing line, wanting to converge with the encircled crusaders on the right, and then form a strategic counter-encirclement of the imperial assault cluster, while solving the dilemma, it can also turn defeat into victory.

4 salients were occupied and breached, so that the rest of the salient positions were full of holes, in the face of the crusaders' pressing attacks, the defenders of each salient could only flee in a hurry, by the time it was dark, there were already 17 salients completely occupied by the crusaders, the entire dividing line, the length of 34 kilometers changed hands, and the crusaders in order to cut off the entire dividing line, even sent more than 30 divisions, taking turns to attack the 50 kilometers of wide defensive line, by dark, the crusaders on the left were already like nails, Mosaic into 24 km!

In order to open up the connection and form a strategic counter-encirclement of the salient, the left crusaders did not stop fighting at night, and even mobilized more troops to attack the last 20 kilometers of position, and wanted to join the right crusaders with the momentum of breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat.

Not to be outdone, the crusaders on the right drew more troops to attack, and finally broke through the defense line of the imperial army when it was dark.

The Imperial Army, of course, was unwilling and impossible to accept that it had been turned around, and sent more troops to join the final line of resistance, desperately defending, while at the same time gathering a large army in an attempt to regain lost territory, regain control of the entire dividing line, and divide the two parts of the Crusaders.

The Crusaders had to withdraw the troops on the left and right, which were guarded by strong fortifications, and as the fighting intensified, more troops were drawn out and stepped into the attacking battlefield.

It was not that no one saw such a disadvantage at the Crusader headquarters - once defeated, the troops that lost the strength of the fortification group would be slaughtered by the imperial army like chickens, and surrendered in air raids and bombardments, but at this point in the battle, the Crusaders could only grit their teeth and constantly put their troops into the offensive in order to win.

Every additional combat strength of the attacking troops means that the garrison of the fortification group will have less combat effectiveness, but it is difficult to ride a tiger!

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"Another division has passed, and in two hours, there are really three divisions from here!" The wolf warrior was taken aback by the results of the calculation, oh my God, how many troops did the crusaders put into this 600 square kilometers of land?

Ye Xiao was also stunned by such a handiwork - it was the appetite of the imperial army that stunned him, as long as the airborne troops were directly airborne here, it would definitely be easy to gain a foothold with the cooperation of the 308th Division, and at that time, the hundreds of thousands of enemies who were caught in these hundreds of square kilometers would face a two-sided attack from the assault cluster and the main force in the theater, and it would also be a situation where the logistics were cut off.

What a big appetite!

However, Ye Xiao likes such an appetite so much!

Just when Ye Xiaole was hehe, an order came, saying that the lights must be controlled, and all units should turn off the lights.

"Looks like there's a big guy coming!" The wolf warrior wearing the crusader uniform as Ye Xiao's guard muttered on the side, if the light control can be implemented, there must be a big guy coming, this is a sure thing, but I don't know what it is - is it a chariot cluster? Or an important person?

The answer soon appeared - it turned out to be a heavy artillery division, yes, a heavy artillery division, the 21st Crusader Heavy Artillery Division, which was particularly well hidden by the Crusaders.

The smallest caliber of the cannons equipped by the division is 120 mm, and it has always been a headache for the imperial army in the previous battles.

"Made, you're rich!"

Watching the 21st Heavy Artillery Division place heavy artillery in the trenches, Ye Xiao burst out foul language, almost dying of joy, the 21st Heavy Artillery Division hid in the Yonggu fortification group, the imperial army had no choice but to stare at him, but now he moved it out, and stupidly sent it to the 308th Division, which is simply a fat meat sent to the door for the imperial army - how much loss can more than a hundred heavy artillery pieces on the battlefield cause to the imperial army? But now, this is the fat on Ye Xiao's mouth!

It is estimated that the crusaders were also beaten by the imperial army on the dividing line, so they brought out the treasure of the housekeeper, in the left crusader, the establishment of the heavy artillery division was only two, of which the 39th heavy artillery division was already half abandoned, although after killing the 21st heavy artillery division, the crusaders still had a few heavy artillery regiments in their hands to support the façade, but when it came to threats, how could there be a heavy artillery division to come directly and violently?

The 32nd Bulge was used by the enemy as a position for a heavy artillery group, and the 308th Division was also used as an engineer to dig a bunker for the heavy artillery group and construct an artillery position.

By the time dawn, the position of the heavy artillery group had been almost repaired, with the 32nd salient as the center, covering a radius of 40 kilometers - a position of this size could effectively avoid the bombing of the imperial air force in an air attack, and this was also the only way for the crusaders to protect the heavy artillery.

At the beginning of the war, the imperial army concentrated missile troops and the air force staged a perfect assault, focusing on the crusaders' radars, airfields, artillery and missile bases, and the intelligence work over the years was not wasted, and most of the missile troops and air force of the crusaders suffered heavy losses at the outbreak of the war, which is also the reason why the crusaders could only rely on artillery as the only support, and the way to preserve most of the artillery was to build a very wide position.

Just when the Crusaders were desperate to let the 21st Heavy Artillery Division carry out the first round of shelling, Ye Xiao, who had been waiting for a long time, finally received an order from the headquarters of the 308th Division of the "Crusaders".

The 308th Division has revolted!

From now on, they will not fight for the ignorant theocracy, want the Holy Chinese Empire to surrender, and assist the Chinese Empire in its offensive against the evil crusaders.

Long before the order was issued, the 308th Division held an officer meeting in the name of pre-war mobilization, as for how the meeting was conducted, Ye Xiao didn't know, after all, he essentially belonged to the guest army, but the result was that most of the officers attending the meeting were coerced.

The troops of the Principality of Ogilvy on the Western Continent of the 308th Division, the special essence of the army of this principality is to hold together, the families of the officers of the 308th Division gathered together in Ogilvy, and just twenty minutes ago, the Tesla Empire, the only support of the empire in the Western Continent, sent troops to occupy a place in Ogilvy, and the families of the officers of the 308th Division were collectively controlled by Tesla.

For the safety of their families and their own lives, seventy percent of the officers of the 308th Division responded to Brigadier General An Luode's call along the river, and as for the other one percent of diehards, they naturally became snatched away because they couldn't see the form clearly.

The entire 308th Division naturally became a rebel army anyway.