The Guards Panzer Battalion was very fast, and it took less than twenty minutes in total to reach the rear port line, and by the time they arrived, the American ski assault force had already broken through two lines of defense and was rushing towards the third line.

In the past, Li Yongji only obtained information from the front line through a walkie-talkie, but now after visiting the front line, he realized how serious the situation was.

You must know that there are three outer defense lines in the expeditionary force camp, presenting three circular defense lines, firmly enveloping the entire camp, and the reason why the outer defense line is so small is because Li Yongji was too confident at the beginning, he thought that in terms of the firepower configuration of the expeditionary force, one defense line is enough, and the three defense lines are just for insurance.

But who knows, the attack with the largest number of people in front of it has only broken through one, but the direction of the port has been broken through two in succession, which is simply incredible.

Soon, Li Yongji inquired in many ways, especially after finding a company commander surnamed Liang who was said to have defended in the first line of defense of the port, but now came here, he knew why this situation happened.

It turned out that when the Americans' ski troops sneaked to the outskirts of the harbor through the Ohio River and launched a surprise attack, the defenders here were very few in number, and most of them were defenseless, and many of them were sleeping in the barracks, and what was even more outrageous was that their weapons were not in the barracks where they were sleeping, but locked in the arsenal.

So, after the lightly armed American elite cleared the sentry in one fell swoop, they immediately rushed forward along the trench, and when they found that there were several boxy houses, that is, prefabricated barracks, they hurriedly turned on the lights, and quickly rushed in.

As a result, many of the barracks in those barracks were kicked open by the Americans, and then blocked inside to kill them, even if these Chinese were well trained. You can't fight the Americans with sabers and revolvers with bare butts.

That is to say, the reason why the first line of defense in the direction of the port was quickly broken through was because the defenders here were negligent and lazy, and felt that the port was a large rear, with artillery positions in front and a fleet to help guard them behind, and they were just caught in the middle, which was the safest, so they only sent a very small number of people as sentry. Most of the people went into the warm camp and fell asleep, which allowed the Americans to succeed in the attack, blocking them in the barracks and killing them.

Of course, because the first line of defense covers a lot of area and there are a lot of barracks, there are still many people who ran out in time, but after they saw this situation, the first thing they thought of was not to go to the arsenal to get weapons to resist, but to turn around and run away!

All right. Even if it was instinctive to escape, and according to the situation at the time, it seemed that the chances of survival were a little higher when they escaped, but they were soldiers. They fled without even resisting, which shows how much they are afraid of death.

The Americans did not let them go, and they chased after the fleeing soldiers. Immediately after, the Americans heard a rumbling artillery fire nearby and realized that it was actually an artillery position of the Chinese. So they concentrated their forces and rushed to the artillery positions.

After the defenders on the artillery position found that the Americans were rushing over, although they fired a few shots, when they found that the opponent was too numerous and their own numbers were too small, and felt that they could not stop it, they turned around and ran away regardless of it.

At this moment, some of the artillerymen followed, while others stopped to inquire about the news, and soon, the Americans rushed over, and it was another hand-to-hand combat at close range.

Although the artillerymen were also given guns, they thought that the pistols were in the way when they opened the artillery, so they were all locked in their bags, so the artillery itself had no weapons except for a few guards, and at this moment the Americans with sabers and revolvers rushed in, and immediately became lambs to the slaughter.

As a result, soon, the artillery positions fell, and what was even more terrifying was that most of the people, after finding that they could not run, actually chose to surrender.

Originally, the Americans wanted to continue to attack the second line of defense, but the defenders of the second line of defense had already reacted at this time and stopped the charge of the Americans with ferocious fire, and the Americans had nothing to do with the second line of defense except to throw a pile of corpses.

At this time, the officers of the US sneak attack unit thought of a way, that is, to use local materials and use captured Chinese equipment.

However, the weapons of the Chinese are too different from the weapons of the Americans, and the Americans will not use them for a while, but it doesn't matter, first, there are many Chinese who understand English among the captured Chinese, and second, since it is to sneak attack the camp of the Chinese, the Americans are also equipped with many people who understand Chinese in advance to accompany the army, so it is not difficult to communicate with the Chinese prisoners, after all, the two sides have been fighting for so long, if they don't even bring a translator, it is too unusual.

In short, the Americans used their own interpreters and the interpreters in the Chinese captives to communicate with each other, and they talked about their requirements to learn how to use weapons, and then threatened them, and soon found a few soft bones and learned how to use firearms.

Firearms are easy to learn, for example, weapons such as 56 punches are inherently easy to handle, even if no one teaches them, experienced soldiers can figure it out by themselves with a few clicks, but artillery is different.

The Chinese's artillery is very powerful, but their shells are completely different from the solid shells used by the Americans, which are all one-piece shells, and they must be temporarily equipped with a fuse to fire, otherwise they cannot be fired.

But fortunately, because the Americans rushed too fast, many Chinese artillery were captured, so they forced these Chinese artillery to fire at the second line of defense of the Chinese.

At first, many of the captured artillerymen did not do it, but when the Americans killed a group of people in public, the rest of them were afraid, so they obediently turned the muzzle of the gun, and put a good fuse on the shell, and obediently attacked the second line of defense.

The result can be imagined, it is rocket artillery and mortars, such a wanton and indiscriminate bombardment, the second line of defense can not be raised up, and it is simply impossible to strafe as unscrupulously as before.

At this time, the Americans launched another charge, this time, not only did they have captured Chinese artillery fire as cover, but many people in the stormtrooping unit used captured 56 charges, firing while charging.

Although the Americans have just captured 56 punches of these weapons, they are not good at all. But the action of rushing and shooting on this side still frightened the Chinese in the second line of defense, plus I heard that the artillery position was captured by the other side, and they were also really bearing the artillery bombardment, so when the Americans rushed closer, they quickly collapsed, except for a very few people who retreated to the support point fortress because they could not run, most of the others retreated, or fled.

That's it. The Americans used captured Chinese artillery and light weapons to break down the first and second lines of defense in a lightning speed.

Originally, the Americans wanted to make persistent efforts to continue to use this method to break through the third line of defense, and began to bombard the third line of defense indiscriminately, but as a result, they met with strong resistance at this time.

The third line of defense is stronger in defense and more resolute in its will to resist. In addition, at this time, several warships of the task force finally repelled the American sneak attack force that came to seize the ship, and finally relieved the air.

You must know that the scene of artillery fire on the camp of the expeditionary force can be seen clearly from the fleet. They all knew that they were being bombed, but they were also resisting the surprise attack of the Americans before, and they had no time to take care of anything else, so they couldn't give support.

But now. When they had finally recovered from the attack of the Americans with their secondary guns, they quickly made contact with the defenders on land by radio. And know the specific situation.

When the people in the fleet knew that the Americans had broken through the second line of defense using Chinese's own artillery and were storming the third line of defense, the commander of the task force, Mo Haiwen, immediately made a decision and ordered to quickly turn the main gun muzzle and carry out a round of bombardment of the original artillery position.

These warships are all modern frigates, and the main guns on them are either 76 mm rapid-fire guns or 122 mm 40-tube shipborne rocket artillery, which is much more powerful than ordinary land artillery, plus the coordinates of the Chinese artillery positions are clear and the targets are large, so just one salvo, the Chinese artillery positions fell into a sea of fire, and the rocket artillery and mortars originally deployed in the local area were almost completely destroyed.

Although it was a bit heart-wrenching, it was much better than the collapse of the whole front, and when Mo Haiwen ordered the shelling, he called Li Yongji and reported the situation here.

It was only after hearing the news that Li Yongji made up his mind to go out in person. Originally, Li Yongji still wanted to block the news, but he soon realized that it was useless to block the news, because the communication system of the entire army was too efficient, and when Li Yongji received this news, many people already knew the news that the rear artillery positions had been destroyed by their own fleet.

Originally, Mo Haiwen still wanted to continue to bombard the Americans who came ashore, but first, considering that the Americans who went ashore also captured many Chinese prisoners, and second, there were still many useful facilities and materials in the port, and it was not like the artillery position that posed a great threat to the camp, so after consulting Li Yongji, he no longer bombarded the sneak attack troops, but continued to use it as support firepower to support the frontal front.

It was at this time that Li Yongji arrived in time with his troops, and when he arrived, the Americans still did not give up their attempt to storm the third line of defense, and were still organizing their troops and waiting for an opportunity to break through the third line of defense.

"Well, when the front was fighting fiercely, you actually slept in the barracks in the rear, which led the Americans to call." Looking at the Liang Company Commander with a face full of shame, Li Yongji, who was still wearing full-body armor, said expressionlessly, "So, in the final analysis, if you hadn't violated military regulations, were lazy and slippery, and were greedy for life and feared death, you wouldn't have been beaten like this by the Americans!" Hmph, what kind of battle is this? The more equipped side is blocked in the barracks by the poorly equipped side? It's a joke! Could it be that I've worked so hard to train for so long to come up with such a bunch of things? ”

"Commander!" Seeing the commander who was covered in armor and looked like a demon god, listening to his indifferent words, the company commander was afraid and remorseful, and fell to his knees with a puff, kowtowing and crying, "It's all our fault, we don't ask for mercy, we just want to give us a chance, so that we can wash away our shame." ”

"Good." Li Yongji nodded, "Originally, I didn't want to keep you who were undisciplined and greedy for life and afraid of death, but I do have regrets when I look at you now...... That's it, I'll give you a chance to make meritorious deeds. ”

Speaking of this, Li Yongji raised his hand and took out a plum blossom badge representing the royal symbol to the other party: "You wear this badge, go and organize all the people who fled here for me, don't care about the formation, if you don't have that time, you will each issue a gun, form a death squad, follow my troops to charge, recapture our defense line, and completely beat back this American sneak attack force!"

You want to sue them, this is their last chance, and if they retreat and run away, or if they are cowardly, not only will they be shot, and their family property will be confiscated, but they will also be implicated in the three clans, and their families will be implicated, and all of them will be taken into custody, do you understand? ”

"Yes, Commander." The company commander hurriedly kowtowed again, "I understand the humble position, I must bring the words!" ”

After the company commander left, Li Fei, the commander of the second regiment next to him, suddenly asked: "Master (Li Fei is a member of the Young Guards Regiment, and theoretically he is still Li Yongji's house slave, so he still calls Li Yongji the master in private, to show that he is different), these people are innocent, I didn't order them to be arrested, they were already forced by the form, and they had to be extrajudicial and gracious, I originally wanted to wait for the war to end and then clean them up, why did you still let them form a death squad to follow you to charge?" What if something bad happens to them in the middle of the way, like running away again? ”

"You still have the face to tell me this?" Li Yongji suddenly scolded, subconsciously raised his foot, and originally wanted to kick the other party, but temporarily remembered that his strength was too great, and the other party couldn't bear it, so he retracted and said, "These people are all your soldiers, see what you have brought with you?" Okay, it seems that it is indeed mine to let you be a regiment leader, and you should not have been made such a high official in the first place! ”

"Master!" Li Fei was so frightened that he also knelt on the ground, kowtowed three times in succession, and then buried his head deeply, and said loudly, "The slave and maid should die, the slave and the maid know their mistakes, please punish the master heavily, no matter what the punishment, the slave and the maid have no complaints, but please also give the slave and the maid a chance to make meritorious contributions, so that the slave and the maid can follow the tail of the master and personally go into battle to kill the enemy, so as to wash away the shame of the slave and the maid." ”

"I don't need to." Li Yongji said expressionlessly, "Your mistake will be assessed afterwards, as for now, your duty is to defend this third line of defense, and you must not let anyone break through, do you understand?" ”

"But ......"

"No, but!" Li Yongji said coldly, "If you resolutely disobey the order and have to make trouble with me as a death squad, I will withdraw you now, but even if you are withdrawn, you will not be able to go into battle to kill the enemy, but will be arrested immediately, where to go, you choose!" ”

"Master!" Li Fei suddenly hugged Li Yongji's calf and shouted loudly, "The life of a slave and maid is nothing, and the status of a slave and maid is nothing, but your status is noble, and you must not charge in person!" Even if it's to boost morale, you don't have to, you can sit here and have the slave charge instead of you! In short, the slave and maid are good, the master can never be lightly involved, if you have any three long and two short, the slave and maid will not be able to withstand it even if they die 10,000 times! ”

Seeing his miserable appearance of snot and tears, thinking of the time when he taught him hand-in-hand before, Li Yongji was also soft-hearted for no reason, and shook his head: "Okay, since you have to be with me, then hand over your command to your deputy, and you yourself will act as my bodyguard." ”

"Thank you for your grace!" Li Fei happily kowtowed three times in a row, with so much force that even his forehead broke, "The slave knows that she is guilty, and she doesn't ask for anything else, but she begs to be killed by the master's side again, no matter what kind of punishment she will suffer in the future, she is willing!" (To be continued......)