Chapter 5: The Crisis on the Right

Seeing the opposing infantry retreating from the city, Marshal Kemal finally breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at his watch, it was already 10 o'clock, and in another hour the troops on the right flank could withdraw from their first line of positions. According to the commanders of the right flank forces, they had so far lost a third of their troops, their ammunition consumption was very high, and their opponents had not made any moves for the time being after the failure of the first two attacks.

Judging from the previous time the government cavalry and infantry entered the city, Kemal was still very satisfied with the street fighting tactics he designed, while consuming a large number of opponents' troops, his own losses were very small, and most of the casualties of the troops in the center were during the defense outside the city and the enemy's artillery bombardment. He felt that even if the left flank of the government army chose to attack the city of Uzunkeplu from the south after conquering the first line of positions on his right flank, he could hold out until Oli's right flank troops defeated the opponent and completed the outflanking, but this idea seemed to underestimate his opponent, Marshal Carter, after all, being able to suppress the old Marshal Tavante and become the commander of the government army would definitely not be a lamp with leftovers.

When his own artillery bombarded the city again, Marshal Carter did not let the infantry who had withdrawn from the city stay where he was, but divided two divisions of about 10,000 troops from outside the city to go around Kemal's right flank, and after flanking and destroying Kemal's right flank with Marshal Tawante's troops, they could flank the city of Uzunkeplü from the southeast and southeast.

At this time, the 1st and 2nd Regiments of the Mercenaries and the 15th Regiment of the KPA were taking advantage of the rare respite to consolidate their positions and treat the wounded.

In the trenches, Hildeland waved his freshly bandaged arm at Hakkari, "It's just shrapnel, it's fine!" Hakkari nodded as if he understood, grinning.

"Strange! Why didn't the Turks move for so long? Hildrand climbed up the trench and looked outside, the battlefield was quiet, some Turks with white flags were treating wounded soldiers, and the roar of planes hovering in the air in the distance was very clear.

It was the same plane that spotted the government forces around the city two minutes later and alerted the ground troops, and the commanders of both the mercenary corps and the KPA watched in amazement at the enemy who appeared north of the position, and they quickly drew part of their forces to defend in that direction.

Looking at the officers and soldiers in the trenches shouting and running, Hildrand realized that something new was happening, and Hakkari pulled his sleeve, and the enemy in front of them began to move.

Soon, a new round of shelling began.

Half an hour later, the artillery fire of the bombardment of the city of Uzunkeplü and Kemal's right flank stopped, and Kemal was surprised to find that the opposing troops did not continue to attack the city. At this time, the troops of the three regiments on the right flank were horrified to see the enemy on both sides of them attacking at the same time.

"Brother, it looks like we're going to hang here!" Hildeland, who was lying on the edge of the trench, suddenly put down his gun and sat back in the trench, lit his cigarette and took a big gulp, there were at least 20,000 enemies in front of him, and about 10,000 government soldiers also began to attack from the north, and the atmosphere in the trench suddenly became tense, and both Germans and Turks sweated on their cheeks.

"Oh......" The government soldiers suddenly burst into an earth-shattering roar and rushed towards the defenders' positions. Viewed from the air, the defensive position looks like a boat facing a huge wave. The machine gun roared weakly, and the shells exploded in the crowd, creating a small gap that was instantly filled by the soldiers following behind.

The six Sky X-planes soon flew over the battlefield again, but because the government soldiers had already seen their power, and because their officers had done a great deal of ideological work before the attack, the charging soldiers did not even raise their heads, and allowed the planes to drop bombs one after another, or to strafe them with their boots tickling.

The makeshift defensive position to the north of the defending side, consisting only of a battalion and 10 machine guns that had been temporarily transferred, did not give much resistance to their enemy, and the government troops from the direction of Uzunkeplu soon rushed to the front of the trenches.

"Get on the bayonet!" The bloody German men rushed out of the trench with all their bayonets and immediately rushed into the ranks of the opposing side. The excellent German veterans are basically very good at bayonet fighting, their huge bodies are very flexible, and they will see red when they pick up the bayonet, but there are too many people on the other side, often several or even a dozen Turkish soldiers against a German soldier, and gradually the defense line is constantly broken, and finally these heroic soldiers are drowned in the crowd of the other party......

"Don't kill him!"

Hildrán, who had been stabbed several times, was kicked to the ground by the Turkish government soldiers, and just as several bright bayonets were about to stab at him, Hakkari threw down his guns and rushed in front of him, pleading loudly in Turkish with the government soldiers, perhaps out of surprise, they put down their bayonets, looked at each other, smashed the two of them to the ground with the butts of their guns, and continued to rush forward.

Eventually, the defense collapsed, and the soldiers of the 15th KPA Regiment retreated to the rear in large numbers, followed by German soldiers from the mercenary regiments, who were also joined by the retreat, and all the heavy machine guns, artillery and mortars were discarded on their positions. After pursuing some distance back, the government offensive stopped, and with the exception of a small number of soldiers who stayed behind to clean up the battlefield, more than 30,000 men marched north, where they were to attack the city of Uzunkeplü from the south.

"What? The troops on the right flank lost their positions, and all three regiments were routed? Kemal fell into the chair behind him in distraction, and he looked at his watch, where the hands were just past 11 o'clock. Although his right flank troops had held out for 6 hours, they did not retreat slowly according to the plan to attract the enemy to the second line of defense, such a rout could not hold back the opponent's troops, and now in addition to hoping that Ollie's side would go well, he could only rely on the defense of the city.

At 12 o'clock in the afternoon, Rudra, who was taking a nap under the bed, dreamed that he had shot a Turkish general in the head, and then the Kaiser himself gave him a medal, and he actually laughed so much that his mouth watered. The simultaneous sound of cannons in the south and east of the city did not disturb his dreams, but when the cannons stopped, he would transform into a messenger of hell......