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"Hurry, hurry! Pull things over. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info "In the city of Liège, a sergeant of the Ming army with a dozen soldiers hurriedly ran out of a small two-story building on the side of the road, and pulled an umbrella bag not far away back to the next room with an unusually fast speed.

"What?!" After opening the umbrella bag, more than a dozen Ming officers and soldiers shouted in unison.

The bag did not contain the weapons, ammunition, and medical medicines they urgently needed right now, but jars of canned fruit and chocolate. Well, although the officers and soldiers also like these things very much, they don't really need them now.

The Ming officers and soldiers who stormed the city of Liège were each carrying their own standard base ammunition, and each of them also had a first-aid kit. The battalions carried extra ammunition and other supplies. However, after the fierce fighting of the previous night, the Ming army had lost most of its ammunition replenishment.

Unlike the armies of other countries, the Ming army is a modern army in the true sense of the word. Their infantry is armed with a large number of automatic weapons, and even the most basic rifles are semi-automatic. This made the ammunition consumption of the Ming army extremely high. Just like the MG42 machine gun that the main armament of the Ming army, even an experienced machine gunner can quickly wipe out a whole chain of bullets when using burst fire. This was a very high logistical pressure on the Ming army.

By the morning of August 27, the Ming troops in the city of Liege were already running out of ammunition. Although each soldier carries a very large amount of ammunition, the accuracy of firearms in this era is definitely very low, and it is heartbreaking. It's all too normal that a few hundred bullets can't hit a person. More often than not, it is the so-called suppressive shooting, which can also be called blind shooting.

"Okay, let's send the things to the company first. Let's go out and find another umbrella bag. The bearded sergeant picked up a can of fruit, pried it open with a dagger, and immediately began to eat it. The soldiers were in dire need of recuperation after a night of fierce fighting. Even the military rations, which were disdained in the past, have been eaten up.

Fortunately, the transport aircraft unit of the Ming Army Aviation is not a fool, and there are still a large number of weapons and ammunition in the umbrella bags they throw. Most of the materials dropped by the Ming army's army and air force fell in the area controlled by the Ming army, after all, the army air transport plane unit took a huge risk to carry out low-altitude airdrops, and its throwing accuracy was still guaranteed to a certain extent. However, some of the umbrella bags still floated to the Allied positions.

Many of the Allied officers and soldiers who had good luck had mixed expressions after opening their umbrella bags. Weapons and ammunition are not of much use, and their own are very sufficient. But the bags containing a large number of other supplies soon became a hot spot for the Allied officers and soldiers to grab them.

There are all kinds of umbrella bags thrown by the Ming army, and there are all kinds of things. The most prevalent is food, from canned fruit to chocolate, from honey to high-calorie candy bars. In addition, there are even large quantities of well-sealed filled beer and even drinking water flown in from the country. These things are trophies that the officers and soldiers of the allied countries are eager to see.

There were even Allied officers and soldiers who were lucky enough to pick up umbrella bags containing a large number of cigarettes and social magazines, and caused a rush to grab them.

Allied officers valued umbrella bags containing medical supplies and equipment more than ordinary officers and soldiers. These umbrella bags contain a large number of precision equipment and plasma bags, in addition to penicillin, which has been sold on the black market of the allies and is more expensive than gold.

Looking at those tightly wrapped boxes of penicillin, the feelings of the Allied officers were mixed. This life-saving miracle medicine is the most basic medical medicine in the Ming army, but on their side, it is more expensive than gold, and only officers above the rank of lieutenant can have the opportunity to use it. This is the difference in national strength between the two sides.

In the previous battles with the Ming army, the most priority captured materials were this penicillin and various other drugs. And many times, the officers and soldiers of the allied countries will take the initiative to hand over some of the wounded that the military doctors thought could not be saved. Although they became prisoners of war, most of the time they were able to survive the treatment of the Ming army.

In the morning, the rain became weaker, and many Daming Army Air fighters took off at risk to the front line to provide support to the ground forces. Their airdrops and ground attacks greatly helped the Ming army trapped in the city of Liège. Again and again, the Allied offensive was disintegrated.

The Ming army held the city, and the Allies did not have any decent armor to help the attacking troops. The Allied forces near Liège had only one battalion-sized armored unit, and they were deployed outside the city. In this kind of road environment and the sky is full of Ming fighters, it is impossible for this army to appear in the wilderness to seek death.

Without the support of armored forces, it was impossible for the Allies to destroy the Ming army in the city in a short period of time with the charge of infantry clusters. Moreover, as time went on, more and more follow-up troops of the Ming army came to the banks of the Maas River.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the headquarters of the Ming Army's Sixth Panzer Army arrived at the front, and Lieutenant General Huang Gu took over the command.

The Ming army used powerful artillery to bombard all the batteries of the fortress of Liege fiercely, and the density was so strong that all those batteries were shrouded in gunsmoke and explosions. However, the field artillery fire of the Ming army was obviously unable to destroy those strong fortifications, they were too thick.

The front-line commander of the Ming army had no intention of stopping at all, and was still constantly ordering the artillery to continue the attack. In their words, even if the battery cannot be destroyed, it must be covered with artillery fire so that they cannot shoot.

In the afternoon, the sky was still cloudy, but it finally stopped raining. The troops of the Daming Army Aviation in the vicinity almost poured out, and the dense group of aircraft covered the entire sky.

Although the roads on the ground are still muddy, it is impossible to carry out large-scale armored attacks. However, the Ming army still mobilized a large number of infantry to continuously infiltrate into the wilderness and near various forts, and engaged in fierce battles with the defenders to contain their combat forces.

Among the daytime battles, the most famous battle was the bomber unit of the Ming Army Air Force attacking the Allied reinforcements sent from the Brussels area to the Liège area. Ming bombers took turns blowing up trains full of soldiers, and the long railway lines were blown up in a mess. The reinforcements of the allies simply could not quickly reach the area of engagement.

During the day's fighting, several of the defenders' batteries were blown up. By the time the super heavy artillery of the Ming Army's heavy artillery division finally arrived at the front line in the evening, the defenders were left with only four usable batteries. These forts were destroyed one by one by the heavy artillery of the Ming army's heavy artillery division within a few hours.

It's not just a casemate. None of the fortifications built by the defenders escaped the Ming army's attacks, no matter how strong their fortifications were. Under the heavy bombardment of the Ming army's heavy artillery and bomber units, all of them were reduced to rubble.

Having lost all the forts, it became clear to the defenders that they could no longer hold it. That night, the defenders stationed at the fortress of Liège received an order to retreat, and the defenders tried to evacuate the Liège area under the cover of night, but where would the Ming army, who had already suffered a big loss here, let them leave so easily?

Tens of thousands of Ming infantry had already infiltrated the battlefield and entangled the defenders with fierce attacks as soon as they began to retreat. At the same time, the Ming army trapped in the city of Liège also made a quick attack to intercept the defenders who were trying to retreat.

It was another unusually fierce night battle. And this time, without strong fortifications to rely on, the defenders in the wilderness who were fighting fiercely with the elite troops of the Ming army were immediately beaten with their heads and faces.

At dawn the next day, the battle for the fortress of Liège, which had lasted for several days, was finally over. The Ming army succeeded in capturing this important site at great cost. About 50,000 of the nearly 70,000 defenders were killed and wounded and captured, and thousands of them died in prisoner-of-war camps as a result of the Ming army's retaliatory killings.

The losses of the Ming army were also significant, especially the officers and men of the two mechanized infantry divisions under the 19th Panzer Army. They were hit by intensive fire during the rainy night assault operation, and later suffered considerable losses when they held their stronghold in the city of Liège. The Ming army suffered nearly 30,000 casualties and prisoners, most of whom were killed or wounded in that rainy night assault.

In the end, Lieutenant General Huang Gu was not brought to court-martial. In his desperate situation, he ordered his troops to enter the city of Liège and save himself. After much consideration, Zhang Cheng chose to pardon Huang Gu's faults and only asked him to be transferred to the reserve instead of being court-martialed.

After successfully breaking through the Maas River and capturing the area of Liège, the Ming army opened the way to Brussels. The Allies had no danger to defend in the Brussels area, which was a plain area with a large number of troops but no natural danger to defend. And the Allies were very short of armored forces and air support. Under these circumstances, when the vanguard of the Ming army reached the outskirts of Brussels, the Allied forces stationed there quickly chose to retreat.

The Ming army occupied all of Belgium in only one week, and the Netherlands in the north, except for some areas blocked by swampy areas, had also fallen into the hands of the Ming army.

By the beginning of September, the forward units of the Ming Army's Army Group Center had successfully entered French territory, and in a day they had captured Lille, which was almost undefended. Subsequently, the forces of the Ming Army's Central Army Group were divided into two, and one part turned to the English Channel and attacked the coastline with the intention of blocking the passage of the Allied troops to the north to Britain.

The other part was to make a rapid advance in the direction of Paris, trying to capture the last capital city of the Allies on the Eurasian continent.

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