In the face of the dense artillery shells on the other side of the river, the commanders of the five armored corps couldn't help but curse secretly, who said that they have few heavy weapons and weak combat effectiveness, if so many artillery pieces are still weak in combat effectiveness, then how many troops with such weak combat effectiveness are on their own side?

However, fortunately, there were many combat vehicles in the Boston army, and the M4 combat vehicles were fast, and many combat vehicles quickly rushed to the bridgehead under intensive artillery fire, and the soldiers stationed here began to use the anti-tank rocket launchers in their hands to aim at the Axis tanks to fire, and the first tank was quickly destroyed, and the rear tank was intercepted.

The Boston Army had no choice but to fight back with its own chariot guns while being covered by the enemy's artillery fire, and on the other hand asked the follow-up troops to transport large-caliber towed artillery to the front line, but the more than 2 million troops surrounded from all sides had already begun to attack.

Many units of the Fifth Army were in makeshift fortifications, struggling to resist the increasingly ferocious attack, and there was not enough artillery on the front line, who could bring it to them, and even many tanks without fuel were used as batteries.

Without artillery support and radio communications, the communications of the Fifth Army in Boston suddenly returned to the level before World War I, and they even had to gather all the jeeps used by the officers and distribute them to the heralds, while the Chinese army, which used high-frequency communications, was not subject to any interference.

The air force of the Chinese Empire was dispatched in large numbers, and vulture ground attack planes and albatross dive bombers took turns to bombard the Chariot units of the Bostonians, leaving them with nowhere to go, and the chariots were destroyed in large numbers, but there was nothing they could do.

Without air force cover, there would be no air supremacy, and in desperation, the commanders of the five armored corps could only order the soldiers to test the depth of the Dnieper River, hoping to find a shallow place and let the chariots cross directly to attack the Chinese Imperial Army guarding the bridge from the rear.

An M4 tank that had just retreated from the front line was reloading ammunition in the rear, several tankeers were moving shells for 76 mm caliber tank guns into the tank, and there were many tanks near them, either restocking shells or refueling.

At this moment, a strange buzzing sound came from afar, and many soldiers stopped what they were doing and looked at the sky in amazement, and some clever soldiers jumped on the chariot and adjusted the 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine gun with a long barrel on the roof of the car to prevent the attack aircraft of the Chinese Empire from appearing.

A group of strange-looking planes, inciting the huge rotors overhead, flew from afar, their speed was not fast, but they were able to fly steadily in the air, which surprised the Boston soldiers who were accustomed to seeing fixed-wing aircraft, and they looked at these uninvited guests in a daze, not knowing how to react to the road, and did not know what the purpose of these strange planes was for.

Seeing a large number of M4 combat vehicles, the helicopters several kilometers away stopped, and under the order of the commander, these all-colored Viom attack helicopters formed a formation and hovered in the air.

"They can actually stop in the air." A Boston soldier looked at the airways in amazement. As soon as he finished speaking, the sides of the helicopter on the opposite side flashed with fire, and a series of seventy-millimeter rockets with tail flames erupted, striking at the many M4 vehicles.

"Oh my God, it's an enemy attack, it's an enemy attack." Many Boston soldiers reacted at this time, and they hurriedly climbed up the chariot to operate the anti-aircraft machine gun that had little effect, and some soldiers who had prepared in advance had even begun to use the anti-aircraft machine gun but the high-speed rockets were already in the air.

These tiny 70-millimeter rockets are like scratching their boots if they attack the frontal armor of the combat vehicle, and now the bazookas used to counter the combat vehicles in the hands of the infantry are also 80 millimeters, or even 127 millimeters.

Helicopters attack differently, as they aim at weak vehicle top armor. Compared to the heavy front armor, the weak top armor of the combat vehicle is like a piece of paper, let alone a 70mm rocket, even the 23mm six-barreled super-high-speed cannon on the helicopter can be torn apart.

After a series of attacks, a large number of M4 vehicles have risen to billowing smoke and are completely incapacitated. The pilots of the more than 600 Venom Bee attack helicopters were also engaged in actual combat for the first time, and they themselves did not expect that such a huge result would be achieved; under the orders of the commander, these excited pilots quickly surrounded these combat vehicles, and they either used rockets, or anti-tank missiles, or directly strafed them with machine guns.

In the face of defenseless tanks, such a battle has turned into a one-sided slaughter, the M4 tank and the Hellcat anti-tank destroyer have no hope of victory except for passive beating, and when the helicopter group leaves, there is no complete armored vehicle left on the battlefield.

Faced with a large number of losses in armored vehicles, General Gordon could only smile bitterly and ordered the remnants of the five armored corps to shrink their defenses and wait for the headquarters to rescue.

Because in other directions, the losses of the Boston army were also very huge, the defensive area of the Fifth Army was continuously compressed, and hundreds of thousands of remnants of troops were compressed in a small area, enduring the intensive bombardment of various types of artillery of the Chinese Empire, especially rocket artillery, at any time, and a large number of soldiers were killed and wounded at every moment, but Gordon had no way out.

The Air Force did not keep up, the tank was destroyed or had no fuel, and now he had no hope but to resist desperately and wait for rescue from the headquarters.

After losing contact with the Fifth Army for a day and a night, General Howell finally realized that something was wrong, so he immediately ordered several fighters to take to the Fastov area, where the Fifth Army was in contact with them, to conduct aerial reconnaissance to determine the situation.

Eighty kilometers into Fastov's perimeter, the Boston pilots quickly discovered that something was wrong, and the radio on their plane had actually lost its effect, and nothing could be heard on the radio except for a rattling noise.

Although the radio failed, their mission continued, and the pilots drove their planes to maximum speed towards Fastov, where they soon encountered a group of Golden Eagle 4 fighters. These Golden Eagle 4 fighters of the Chinese Air Force were ordered to take off and intercept enemy planes after the radar spotted them. In the face of a large number of swarming enemy planes, the Boston pilots of course knew what was going on, but in order to complete the mission, they still increased their horsepower and flew towards Fastov.

Although there is a gap in the performance of the two aircraft, it is still more troublesome in the case of one party insisting on escaping, so an F84 fighter miraculously crossed the blockade line of the Chinese Imperial Air Force and entered the sky over Fastov, but in his eyes, it has become a battlefield with thick smoke.

A large number of Boston Army armored vehicles were completely destroyed, and the smoking wreckage was scattered almost everywhere on the battlefield, and just as he was about to continue to reconnoiter some distance so that he could report back, a strange plane rushed straight at him.

It's a poison bee gunship patrolling the battlefield, and their mission is to find the fish that slipped through the net and destroy them completely, but today he finds a special prey. Relying on the radar system, the co-pilot quickly spotted the lone F84 fighter.

"Number 1, you've found your target." The co-pilot reported excitedly.

The pilot said calmly: "It's a Boston F84 fighter, it's not easy for us to get too close, after all, it's a fighter, its speed is not comparable to us, let's prepare to launch missiles." ”

Just in case, these patrolling Vistrin attack helicopters carried two Petrel-1 air-to-air missiles on their short wings when they were on duty, and these missiles, which had been idle, finally came in handy today. A few kilometers away, the radar of the Venom Bee attack helicopter locked onto the F84 fighter, and the co-pilot pressed the launch button without hesitation, and to be on the safe side, he launched both air-to-air missiles at once.

"Oh my God, what's that?" The pilot of the F84 screamed in amazement, and before he could figure out what was going on, the first Petrel-1 air-to-air missile, flying at twice the speed of sound, was in front of him.

With a loud bang, the near-detonation missile warhead inserted countless fragments into the fuselage of the F84, and the entire plane instantly rose into smoke. But that wasn't all, the second missile quickly reached its destination, it hit the front of the plane directly, exploding the pilot and the cockpit directly into a fireball.

"It seems to be a bit overly cautious." The co-pilot and weapons operator scratched his head and felt a little nervous and wasted precious missiles.

"It doesn't matter, it's the first time to fight, it's safe, and it's not a loss to exchange two missiles for one F84." The driver comforted the co-pilot and then broke the lever, and they started the normal cruise again.

After sending three groups of fighters to reconnoiter without receiving any information, General Howell knew that something might have happened, and he mobilized thousands of fighters to rush to Fastov while sending the 2nd and 8th armies for rapid reinforcement, but it was already too late.

The fastest were thousands of F84 fighters, but when they reached the skies over Fastov, they were immediately besieged by Golden Eagle 4 fighters three times their size. The Golden Eagle 84 fighter, which is slightly higher than the F4 fighter, has an absolute advantage in numbers, and the result of the air battle can be imagined.