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"Hidden!" With the screams of the German commander, the surrounding German officers and soldiers quickly fell to the ground. Many soldiers who had never been on the battlefield fired desperately in all directions, and yelled wildly until the veterans on the side quieted them down.

Before the smoke of gunpowder had dissipated, when the German army was highly nervous, a series of strange sounds whistled from mid-air.

"Shelling!" The German veterans, whose expressions had changed drastically, curled up and hid on the ground with their steel helmets in their arms, knowing that this was a deadly shelling. However, many of the recruits were still a little ignorant and at a loss, but no one had time to explain what they should do at this time. Veterans on the battlefield are all like this, and only after experiencing blood will they understand how to do things on the battlefield, and any can survive. Of course, it's up to them whether they survive or not.

A series of dense explosions rang out, flames flew everywhere, and shrapnel flew sideways. The group of German officers and soldiers, who had been exposed to the streets, fell in pools of blood. A moment later, another large group of German troops rushed up again. They pushed along the sides of the street, smashed open the glass of the house and threw grenades, then broke down the door and fired at the inside of the house. As for whether it was the Ming army or the local civilians who were killed, it didn't matter so much.

This steady tactic usually works very well, but now it is not enough in the face of elite Call of Duty forces.

Call of Duty troops, who are trained almost every day, are very familiar with urban street fighting, and they don't know how many times they have trained in their daily training. In general, the trap is set immediately after a round, and then quickly transferred under the cover of other fire points. There were very few times when they were blocked by the Germans.

And the traps they set were very ruthless, usually high-explosive military explosives were detonated when the Germans stormed into the house or near the building, burying a large group of German troops in the rubble.

In the fierce battle so far, the casualties of the Ming army are very few, but the casualties of the German army are very large. Although the Germans had the advantage in numbers, it was difficult for them to exert their strength in the dark night. In particular, they were not accompanied by armored troops, nor did they come with heavy artillery units, so they could only fill with human lives.

It's a pity that even if you use human life to fill it, you can't fill it in a short time. Empoli isn't a big city, but it's not small. It was not a simple matter for the Germans to take it. And most importantly, the Germans did not have time.

Waves of Ming transport planes have taken off and flew to the area around Pisa with tens of thousands of paratroopers. The Germans ran out of time.

"All rush in! Fast! Major General Schurrle, whose eyes were bloodshot, sharply ordered his troops to rush into the city of Empoli and fight the Ming army to the death. He really didn't have time, and if he was stopped here, then when the Ming army's paratroopers arrived in the area around Pisa, the entire German Army Group South would suffer unprecedented losses.

Schurrle didn't think about a detour from the side of Empoli. However, although the distance from Florence to Pisa is only a few tens of kilometers, the only road that can really pass through the city of Empoli is a major road that can really pass through the city on a large scale.

The trucks of this era are not the advanced things of modern time and space, and they will not be able to drive long in the field before breaking down and stopping. Although the distance is not far, it is impossible to run these tens of kilometers in such a short time with only two legs.

"Hmph, want to go crazy? How can it be so easy! In a church on the banks of the Arno River, watching the Germans begin to rush over regardless of the cost of casualties, Zhang Da, the commander of the Call of Duty force, sneered, turned his head and ordered his subordinates to "detonate the explosives and give the Germans a big gift!" ”

Call of Duty forces had secretly arrived in Empoli before dark, and had cleanly cleared the city of resistance before setting up defenses. In addition to the extensive laying of mines, high military explosives were planted in various parts of the city. The sheer number of them was staggering, and it was used to deal with the intensive attacks of the German army.

"Boom, boom, boom!!"

There was chaos in Empoli, with violent explosions everywhere and countless German troops buried in smoke and rubble. The German casualties skyrocketed, and the troops thrown into the city seemed to be swallowed up by ferocious beasts, and the hundreds of battle losses made Schurrle jump to his feet. Not only were there casualties, but many roads were completely destroyed.

The entire city of Empoli was constantly flickering with bright points of light in the night, and each flicker took away countless lives. By the time the German 219th Infantry Division finally captured Empoli with great difficulty and thousands of casualties, it was half past ten o'clock in the night. At this time, Schurrle sat on the ground with a painful face. He has just received a notification that a large number of Ming airborne troops have begun airborne operations near Pisa!

At half past ten o'clock in the evening of March 31, 1942, nearly 20,000 Daming airborne troops launched a large-scale airborne operation on the line from Pisa to Livorno. The German garrison was empty, with only a few battalion-sized troops guarding these areas, and it was simply unable to resist the fierce attack of the Ming Airborne Forces.

The Ming airborne troops soon occupied the San Giusto airport outside the city of Pisa, and turned on night flight equipment to guide transport planes to carry a large number of airborne troops and heavy equipment to the vicinity of Pisa. At the same time, the Ming airborne troops attacked everywhere and soon took control of many strategic points and various communication arteries. And firmly grasped all the important bridges on both sides of the Arno River.

A few hours later, when the strength of the Ming Airborne Forces near Pisa had increased to nearly 30,000. The landing force from the sea, after heavy shelling, forced a landing on the line of Livorno, and quickly routed the defenders, who were less than a regiment, to occupy the beachhead and join the airborne troops from Pisa. A large number of armored units were sent ashore.

After daybreak, the Ming army had completely controlled the line from Pisa to Livorno. and marched eastward to join forces with the Ming Panzer Corps, which had driven from the direction of Florence. Thus completely encircling the hundreds of thousands of German heavy troops commanded by Rommel in the encirclement.

Zhou Heng, who was stationed in Florence, immediately issued the order to retreat when he received the large-scale airborne landing of the Ming Airborne Forces in Pisa and the German 219th Infantry Division was still blocked on the Empoli line. With the remnants of the American army, he retreated from Florence all the way north to Prato. After arriving in Prato, he continued north in the direction of Bologna without stopping.

Because the main attention of the Ming army was to attack Pisa and block the passage from which Rommel had escaped. For Zhou Heng's subordinates, who simply abandoned their positions and fled, they did not pursue too much. As a result, Zhou Heng successfully escaped with most of the remnants of the American army. Although he took the initiative to give up his position, he had successfully held on for a period of time before, and Zhou Heng's department, as a guest army, had fulfilled his responsibilities as an ally.

At the same time, Zhou Heng also successfully brought back tens of thousands of American troops from under the noses of the Ming army, and his performance was definitely a commendable type. Therefore, Zhou Heng was rewarded by the top brass of the US military, and successfully removed the word "agent" in front of his position.

Zhou Heng managed to run away, but the Germans were terrible. The first to be unlucky was the German 219th Infantry Division near Empoli. After they had fought so hard to capture Empoli, they were still unable to continue their march in the direction of Pisa. After inflicting heavy casualties on the Germans, the Call of Duty Force voluntarily withdrew from Empoli and continued to play its role along the way. Mines, bombs, night raids, and other attacks exhausted the 219th Infantry Division. It can only travel less than three kilometers in an hour.

After daybreak, the Ming Panzer Corps and the troops coming from the direction of Pisa successfully surrounded most of the 219th Infantry Division and were quickly wiped out. With the continuous influx of Ming armored troops and landing troops, the defense force on the front line of Pisa became stronger than ever. At this time, the vanguard of Rommel's breakout force had just arrived in the area of Rocinia, less than 30 kilometers south of Pisa, on the morning of April 1.

It was only a few tens of kilometers away, and it took less than twelve hours. Rommel's breakout fell short at the last minute.

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"Your Excellency, Marshal, please come with us." Several officers from the German Army General Staff walked into Rommel's headquarters in a church near Checina, showed Rommel orders from the German Prime Minister, and asked Rommel to leave with them.

The atmosphere in the headquarters, where everyone looked serious and nervous, suddenly became strange. All eyes were on Marshal Rommel. These gazes are full of complex and inexplicable meanings. There is envy, calmness, indifference, disdain, ridicule, and anger. Rommel himself, on the other hand, was flushed as if he was about to drip blood.

The reason is very simple, after Rommel's decisive assault on the Ming positions near Pisa was repulsed again and again, and at the same time, the main force of the Ming army continued to compress and encircle the heavy group of the German Army Group South. Field Marshal Rommel, the commander of the German Army Group South, who had reached the critical moment of life and death, received an order from the German Chancellor at this time to leave the battlefield and return to Berlin immediately!

Run away. That's right, it's to run away. When his troops were about to be surrounded and annihilated, Field Marshal Rommel, as the supreme commander, was asked to flee and abandon his troops and flee alone!

"I am a German Field Marshal! I must not do such a thing that damages my reputation! The red-eyed Rommel roared sharply: "I am the marshal!" (To be continued.) )