Chapter 402: Loyalty and Honor
Qi Long turned around and pointed at the staff officer: "Have you forgotten the words engraved on the guns of each of the Iron and Blood Army, the oath you took on the first day of enlistment?" You tell me, what that sentence is. ”
Hearing Qi Long's question, the staff officer replied loudly: "Our honor is loyalty. ”
"Yes, our honor is loyalty. Now is the time for us to show our loyalty, and this line of defense must be held. Call the commanders of the positions and convey my words, all positions must hold out to the last man. Qi Long looked firmly at the staff officers in the room who had already raised their heads, and ordered loudly.
"Our honor is loyalty, and our honor is loyalty." The commanders at all levels who received the call were using this sentence to motivate their fighters.
"Our honor is loyalty." The artillerymen shouted this slogan and desperately fired shells at the Cossacks.
"Our honor is loyalty." Seeing that the Cossacks had rushed to the vicinity of the position, the soldiers of the Iron Blood Army shouted this slogan and launched a counter-charge without hesitation, and the soldiers of the Iron Blood Army on the entire front were like crazy, bursting out with huge combat effectiveness, beating the Cossacks who were attacking fiercely to retreat, and the momentum of the attack was completely suppressed.
Not only the Iron Army, but also the soldiers of the 391st Division of the Reserve were also infected, and they also launched a counter-charge with rifles. The sudden counter-charge of the Chinese Imperial Army on all fronts caught the unprepared Cossacks by surprise.
In the face of such a strong counter-charge, the Cossacks suffered heavy losses, and the two commanders of the angry Cossack corps slapped the table, and they strictly ordered the army guard unit to act as a supervising team, and set up machine guns on the position, and if anyone dared to retreat, they would be dealt with directly as deserters, and they could be shot on the spot without trial.
The high-pressure policy of the Cossack army had a certain effect, and the soldiers had no way to retreat, they could only desperately charge forward, and the battle was extremely fierce. Although the Predators used a variety of new weapons to destroy all the Cossacks' chariots, countless Cossacks still relied on their numerical superiority to charge towards the Predators' positions in waves, making it extremely difficult for the smaller Predators to defend.
It was getting late, and the intensity of the Cossacks' attacks was still not much lower. At this moment, Qi Long was carrying a pistol and walking on the position of the three regiments, a few minutes ago, he had already put the guard company into battle, and now he no longer had any reserves in his hands.
There was only one hour before the deadline for their defense from the command, but the strength of the Predator soldiers had reached the limit, and every minute of their perseverance was supported by perseverance, and they still whispered the loud slogan, repelling the Cossacks' attacks again and again.
"The Cossacks are coming up again." With the end of the shelling of the Cossack artillery, the Cossacks launched a new round of attacks.
"The infantry is in position, block them." Qi Long shouted loudly, picked up a machine gun, and fired a long shot at the Cossacks who rushed over.
The dense bullets knocked down the Cossacks who rushed to the front, and the road of the charge was already layered on the ground, covered with the corpses of the Cossacks, and its density made the Cossack troops who were charging a little stumbling, but they still ignored death and desperately charged forward.
"Everyone, give me bayonets, rush." Qi Long picked up a semi-automatic rifle that had flicked off the bayonet, and jumped out of the trench first with a few guards.
"For our loyalty, for our honor, charge." Some of the commanders encouraged their subordinates.
"Charge, charge." The shouts of charging rang out everywhere on the battlefield, and the slogan of loyalty and honor resounded throughout the battlefield.
The infantry of the two countries mixed together, and the tragic white-knuckle battle made both sides red-eyed, and no one flinched here, because at this time, whoever retreated was likely to face death, and only killing, constantly killing the enemy could give him hope of life, and everyone was mechanically waving their bayonets, stabbing the blades that had been stained red with blood into the new flesh.
There were too many Cossacks, and although everyone on the smaller side of the Predators had pistols to help them fight, the disparity between the enemy and the enemy was too great for them to support them, and the soldiers were forced to retreat again and again. The position of the Iron Blood Army was extremely critical, and Qi Long, who had been fighting hard with his bayonet, was sweating profusely, but he no longer had any reserves to use, and he was helpless when he saw his side retreating step by step.
At the moment of crisis, a loud rumbling sound suddenly came from afar, and when he heard this voice, Qi Long's eyes lit up, and he knew that his reinforcements had finally arrived at the most critical time. Loud noises came from far and near, and a large force gradually appeared on the horizon, which turned out to be a mixture of the powerful engines of countless tanks, trucks, and tractors.
With a bang, the Grizzly 1 at the front began firing with its 50-millimeter cannon as it went. In this era, there was no four-way stabilizer, and the hit rate of the tank's artillery on the march was extremely low, but the distance between the two sides was already very close, and the Cossack soldiers were all over the mountains, as long as they found the general direction and bombarded them, they would always knock people down.
The two armies of the Wehrmacht did not take any rest, and when they arrived at the battlefield, they immediately attacked from two directions behind the Cossacks, wedged the chariot groups into the Cossack formation. Numerous coaxial machine guns wreaked havoc on the field, shooting the unsheltered Cossack soldiers one after another. In the blink of an eye, the Cossack army's very disciplined offensive formation turned into a mess.
The chariot units of the two armies of the Wehrmacht broke directly into the Cossack formation, while the infantry behind jumped out of the trucks and surrounded them in straggler lines from both directions. The artillery units, hiding behind the Cossack infantry, were the first to suffer, and they were in the back, the safest place. But when the Wehrmacht came up from behind, these running soldiers who had no melee ability were exposed to the forefront.
Taking advantage of the fact that the Cossack infantry could not defend itself, the Wehrmacht infantry easily forced the Cossack artillery to surrender, and at the same time captured a large number of artillery. Having lost artillery, the Cossack army had no weapons to counterbalance the chariots, and under the repeated charging of the chariots, the Cossack corps had no choice but to surrender on their knees.
The battle of annihilation outside Tara was over, as was the battle east of Katerinburg. The same scene arose just as the Cossack soldiers of the four corps stormed the defense line of the second division of the third army of the Predators. Just when the battle was raging, the main force of the Wehrmacht led by Lin Yangchun protruded from its rear and instantly disrupted the formation of the Cossacks, and most of the Cossack soldiers of the four corps were captured, and a small part broke through to the north and went into the deep mountains and old forests to become guerrillas.
The Chinese Empire and the Cossack Empire were fighting fiercely, and the Western Continent was also not calm, although the ground battle was relatively dull, but the battle in the sky was extremely fierce. Without the supply of aircraft from the Chinese Empire, the air forces of the Saar and Nantes empires weakened for a time, but the situation improved after a genius, or rather a mad designer, invented the rotary engine.
The rotary engine uses a triangular rotor rotational motion to control the cylinder compression and discharge kinetic energy, which is very different from the linear motion of a conventional piston reciprocating engine.
Because the self-made engines of the Nantes Empire at that time were generally water-cooled, the water-cooled engine was too heavy, and there was no problem with installing it on the combat vehicle, but it was too heavy when installed on the aircraft, especially when the engine power was not strong, every penny of weight on the aircraft had to be carefully calculated.
At this time, on the side of the Entente, the technology and materials of various countries could not reach the level of the Chinese Empire, the friction coefficient between the elements was too large, and the heat generated was much higher, so that once the air-cooled engine was installed in the aircraft, the high heat would greatly reduce the service life of the engine, and the rotary engine could speed up the heat dissipation through the rotation of the cylinder itself, not only greater horsepower, but also lighter weight.
Soon the 150 hp rotary engines were put to practical use, and they were installed in the latest Camel fighters of the Saar Empire and the Newber aircraft of the Nantes Empire, and their power made them far superior to the Eagle 1.
Although the rotary engine has many advantages, it has a very strange place, all the aircraft that uses the rotary engine, due to the centrifugal force of the engine, all flight actions will be deflected ninety degrees, if you pull the trolley plane will turn right, if you turn right the plane will plunge headlong.
At first, many pilots had accidents because of this, but as they became familiar with this strange airplane operation, the air force of the Yaman Empire was a little overwhelmed. In the face of more powerful Allied fighters, the Yaman Air Force, which still used the Eagle 1 fighters, suffered heavy losses, and Wilhelm II had to appeal to the Chinese Empire for help.
Fang Xiaoyu was quite surprised when he learned that the Entente had produced a better fighter than the Eagle 1 aircraft, and he immediately ordered the Aircraft Design Institute to start designing a better Eagle 2 fighter for the use of the allies and stop the rampant use of the new aircraft of the Allied countries.
Fang Xiaoyu found that the current war situation was a bit out of his control, originally he thought that the focus of the Entente was on the Western Continent, and the Cossack Empire should not fight with him, but they mobilized nearly two million troops to come over, making themselves a little too lost, and at the same time containing most of the army strength of the Chinese Empire, after all, the Chinese Empire now only has about three million troops plus reserves.