Chapter 435: Attack on the British Isles?
Wehrmacht Colonel Mark Vida and Captain Hans Leedler took the lead in tank-converted forklifts and soon broke through the long-standing trenches of the left-wing Paladhal rebels. Subsequently, the search forces of various countries also used this equipment one after another, and achieved good results.
As the remnants of the anti-government forces collapsed one after another, the encirclement laid by the Seven-Nation Alliance became smaller and smaller, and the pockets of capture became tighter and tighter. While the militants hiding in the ravines were in constant fear, the British and the Soviet Union kept sending encouraging telegrams to the remnants of the militants, claiming that the aid operation between the two countries was about to begin.
At this time, Defense Minister Zeckert, who was in command in Rome, Italy, also received a communication from Berlin that the Soviet Union and Britain were doing everything possible to send tactical experts to the Spanish left-wing radical forces, and even possibly airdrop food and ammunition to the remnants of the forces entrenched in the ravines south of Valladolid.
In addition, in a telegram, Eric demanded that the Seven-Nation Coalition seal the Pyrenees to prevent the rebels from going into exile in France. After receiving the telegram, Zecht immediately spoke on the phone with the soldiers who were on the front line of the search, asking the Seven-Nation Coalition to do everything possible while striving for precision strikes, and to pay close attention to the air movements from the direction of France.
At the same time, the Spanish and Jose governments, with the support of Germany, Switzerland and Turkey, were intensively preparing for the founding ceremony of the federal state. Eric assigned Stresemann to assist José on behalf of Germany, and presented a complete production line of Type III tanks to the Spanish federal government as a gift.
At the same time that the land search and arrest force received a telephone call from Zeckert, the navies of the seven countries also received a telegram from Rome, and Reinhardt, as the commander-in-chief of the huge fleet, immediately asked all ships to form a formation, conscientiously perform their duties, and rush to each other's aid, and deployed five large cruisers in the Strait of Gibraltar for a long time.
In order to prevent Britain from going to extremes, Eric personally instructed the commander-in-chief of the navy, General Franz von Hipper, to deploy the USS Hanover aircraft carrier strike group in the Cantabrian Sea in the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula and the USS Bremen aircraft carrier strike group in the North Sea, posing as if it could attack the British Isles at any time.
At this time, in order to prevent the Soviet Union's radical moves, Eric immediately ordered General Hoffmann, commander-in-chief of the Eastern Theater of Operations, to step up live-fire exercises of various troops on the border and make emergency measures at any time. At the same time, Finland, Czechoslovakia, including Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, are also facing the enemy.
For a time, people in Germany were also panicked, talking about the tiger's color, and many families even prepared for air defense in advance.
In order to stabilize people's minds, the Hanseasa Palace held a series of domestic and foreign press conferences, using the mouthpiece of the media to publicize the country's security index to the general public. On the one hand, it exaggerated the overall strength of the Wehrmacht in order to intimidate its neighbors, and on the other hand, it actively filled the loopholes in national defense to calm the panic of the people in the country.
At this moment, the remnants of the forces entrenched in the ravines south of Valladolid were like injected with chicken blood, ignoring the fierce artillery fire of the Seven-Nation Alliance, frantically blocking the attack, which once again brought great difficulties to the search and arrest operation. The closer they got to the bandits' lair, the more ferocious the resistance became, and some fortresses even engaged in evenly matched positional battles with the Seven-Nation Alliance.
Due to the complex terrain, the manhunt turned into a tough battle.
Through repeated battles, the soldiers found that the rebels not only possessed advanced American submachine guns, grenades, and mortars, but also French artillery and British single-shot rifles with extremely high aiming accuracy. After several rounds of fighting, Colonel Mark Vida once again discovered that the rebels were still possessing anti-tank weapons that were being tested by the Soviet Union. While this weapon is not as magical and missable as it is claimed, the threat it poses to armored forces is still there.
The fighting was harsher than expected, and several charges of the Seven-Nation Coalition were suppressed by the rebels' powerful firepower.
"Oh! God, these bitches are like a bunch of crazy people, and they are all some kind of people who are not afraid of death. No wonder Mr. Jose has fought so many civil wars and consumed so many friendly troops' combat readiness materials, but he can't eliminate these damn diehards. Vida looked at the soldiers who had retreated under the suppression of the firepower, and felt very uncomfortable.
"Your Excellency Colonel, let's let the No. 4 tank go, this battle can't be fought like this again, otherwise our people will all fight out." Captain Hans Leedler was also in a hurry.
"No, Captain. Such a slope, not to mention a tank, is very difficult for people who do not carry weights to climb up, fuck! We suffer from this kind of terrain. Okay, tell all the troops to retire and rest first. "Vida did not agree to the request of Captain Hans Leedler, and in fact there is no geographical condition for tank attack now.
"Alas! Now it would be nice to have air support. Hans sighed, and motioned for the herald to blow the rest trumpet.
"Don't be whimsical, Captain. Your Excellency the Minister has also considered aircraft support, but now Spain is in shambles, several old airstrips have long been unrecognizable, and our aircraft carriers are too large to carry out air strike missions because of the large combat radius of the Iberian Peninsula. Vader said helplessly.
"Mr. Colonel, we can urgently repair Madrid's runway now, yes, why not? Doesn't this solve the problem of aircraft take-off and landing? ”
"You're naïve, my captain, in fact there is no shortage of planes in the Spanish army, and they are all American, and they are even new guys who have not removed the oil seals. Do you understand? Vader's answer left Hans puzzled.
"Oh! God, I don't understand even more, Colonel. We are helping the Spaniards, and the Spaniards are not offering air support to us. The more Hans listened, the more confused he became.
"I'm very sorry, Captain. Although Spain is a non-ferrous metal power, it does not have liquid energy, and the planes provided by the Americans only fluttered around the Iberian Peninsula a few times, and then all of them lay on their stomachs because of the lack of fuel. Vader said with regret.
"Oh God! How so. "Hanston couldn't say anything.
"Alright, Captain. It's time to think about what's next, we can't let those bitches laugh at us on the hills. "Vader's tough-guy personality can never be changed.
"There's a cliff over there, Your Excellency Colonel. Descending from the mountainside was a shooting corner, and I was going to climb up from Broken Ya with a small detachment and flank the enemy. Hans pointed not far away to Vader.
"Looks like a good idea, Captain. However, such an obvious loophole should have been noticed by the rebels a long time ago, you say? I think it's better to think carefully about other options. "Vader is a man of the thick.
"Anyway, let's try it first, maybe it can really change the situation of the two armies." Hans insisted on his idea.
"Alright then, Captain. Good luck. Vader couldn't think of a better way, so she agreed to Hans's request.
Strictly speaking, the rebels occupy not a mountain, but a plateau uplift, and the Seven-Nation Coalition is located only in a ravine, or the bottom of a fault, that has been washed away by rains for many years.
Completely unfamiliar with the terrain, Vader's troops were unable to find a path to the top of the slope. At the same time, tanks could neither climb nor shoot at angles, and large-caliber artillery could not be delivered to such places, as a result of which the troops paid heavy casualties. Even so, the Seven-Nation Coalition failed to shake the rebels.
Hans set out with a small detachment, and Vader quickly mobilized mortars to aim at the slope to cover the climb of a dozen warriors to the diagonal opposite side.
Artillery fire exploded intensively at the top of the slope, and loose earth and gravel on the slope flowed down the slope in a concussion. The soldiers, waiting for the order to charge, hid behind boulders in the ravine, ready to rush up the steep ramp.
Because the coalition forces have not yet launched a charge, the rebels at the top of the slope have not reacted violently. Under the continuous mortar shelling, the rebels hid in artificial bunkers and were unharmed, so angry that Vida stomped his feet.
Ten minutes passed, and the assault team led by Hans appeared on the broken end. Vader pinched a handful of sweat, for fear that the team members would accidentally fall off the broken career and fall to pieces.
Seeing that the commando team was about to climb to the top of the mountain, Vader's hanging heart finally fell to the ground. However, at this moment, the rebels' machine guns suddenly erupted a series of red tongues of fire, and the team members fell down like ants.
"Oh God!" Vader's heart froze, and she watched Hans and the commandos fall off the cliff one by one.
"Beat me up on these bitches!" Vader roared as she raised her feet and ran to the spot where Hans had fallen.
Mortar shells rained down on the hill again, and freshly sprouted branches and rocks flew everywhere with thick smoke. Some of the rebels' bunkers were destroyed and there were some casualties, but the positions remained firmly in their hands.
Several of the health soldiers didn't think much of it, and immediately followed Vader to the bottom of the cliff at the same time, fortunately, including Hans, there were still several commandos who still had vital signs.
"Hurry up and give first aid!" Vader took Hans in his arms and hurriedly called the health guards over.
Hans fell right on the body of one of the gunners and although he avoided a hard landing, he fainted after suffering a head injury. With a simple first aid, Hans quickly regained his senses, but his body felt so heavy that he couldn't stand up.
"Let's go, get them out of here." Vader gently put Hans on his shoulder, and several medics hurriedly carried the wounded on their backs, and then quickly ran back behind the boulder.
At this time, the mortars were still firing heavily, and the mud and rocks on the top of the slope were rolling down.
Veda made a gesture to stop firing and ordered the buglers to sound the rallying horn before retreating all troops to safety and clearing the casualties of weapons and ammunition.
"You can't do it like this, you have to think of a perfect solution." Vader said to herself.
As the sky gradually darkened, the troops quickly set up guard posts in all directions, and then began to light fires and cook in companies.
The Seven-Nation Coalition was beaten to the ground, the first major loss since the suppression of the rebels. Vader felt so uncomfortable that he had no intention of eating, so he got up and went to Hans's camp to recuperate, wanting to see his brother who had lived and died with him for several rounds.