Chapter 722: The Plague Rages
By the time the Axis armies were in a panic, no one cared about how to kill the enemy. The unobstructed Grizzly 3 vehicles rumbled past the position, and the Axis soldiers who had no time to turn around and stop were crushed into meatloaf. The siege position, which was originally considered very strong by Lieutenant General Handy, was broken through in this way.
A breakthrough was made, the NATO allies quickly tore open the gap to expand the results, and the army attacked the other positions of the Axis army from the flanks and rear in two directions to the left and right, and all the defending armies collapsed one after another, at this time Lieutenant General Handy looked at everything in front of him in amazement, and no longer knew what to do.
Lieutenant General Handy fled south with the rout, leaving the huge city of Odessa to Li Guojun's troops. Li Guojun led the guard troops, drove into the city of Odessa, where the battle was not over, and he wanted to see the results of Wu Yunduo.
Wu Yunduo was already waiting on the side of the road, and when he saw the jeep convoy coming, he smiled and waved to Li Guojun. The jeep stopped next to Wu Yunduo, and Li Guojun poked his head out and said, "Come on, take me to see your achievements." ”
Wu Yunduo smiled and walked onto the jeep lane: "Commander, we can make a fortune this time, there are really a lot of good things, let's go to see the heavy artillery position first." ”
The group drove to the heavy artillery position guarded by the artillery of the Chinese army, and the guards quickly opened the cordon area and sealed all the commanding heights and entrances and exits around it, which allowed Li Guojun to get out of the jeep. "Wow, that's a lot of heavy artillery." Li Guojun said with a smile.
"Yes, there are a lot of these heavy guns, there are more than forty of them of two hundred and three millimeters alone, and six of them are two hundred and eighty millimeters, and as for those one hundred and fifty-five millimeters and one hundred and five millimeters of artillery there are more than two hundred, I think these cannons should not only belong to the defenders, maybe some of them are pulled out of the warehouse." Wu Yunduo introduced.
Li Guojun nodded and said, "Yes, although we have all replaced self-propelled guns, these guns are very good choices for using them as fixed batteries or supplementing friendly troops." Have you taken the material warehouse, let's go and see it too. ”
Wu Yunduo nodded and said, "Okay, the material warehouse is in Nancheng, and it is at least half an hour's drive from here." Li Guojun and Wu Yunduo drove to the warehouse area with the guard troops. The warehouse area covers a full two square kilometers and is lined with warehouses that look quite spectacular.
"Is it all full? Looks like a lot of good stuff. Li Guojun looked at the dense warehouses and couldn't help but sigh.
Kong Chengdong, the commander of the third division, greeted him with a smile and said: "The commander is right, this time we have captured one million rounds of large-caliber artillery shells alone, and there are countless other weapons and ammunition, and there are even more than 30 rat fighting vehicles and 50 18-barrel rocket artillery vehicles, which are all good things for the Axis countries to press the bottom of the box." ”
Li Guojun nodded and said: "Very good, immediately contact the headquarters and ask them to drive all the transport ships to the port of Odessa, we have to transport these materials back, the sooner the better." ”
"Commander, are we going to give up here?" Wu Yunduo heard Li Guojun's words and said in some surprise.
Li Guojun said: "Of course we have to give up, if we don't go back to the division, what if we are cut off?" What's more, there are more than a million Axis troops in the south, and we have cut off their supplies now, can those guys not be in a hurry? If they do, we won't have enough men. ”
Knowing that what Li Guojun said was reasonable, although he was a little reluctant to a big city like Odessa, Wu Yunduo still nodded, he knew very well that the most important thing in the 51st Group Army was mobility, once it was firmly defended to one place, with this army, it would not be enough to see it at all.
In the battle in the occupied area of the Cossack hinterland, Li Guojun was not supported alone, because the combined forces of the Cossacks and Gothenburg in the north saw that the Saar army was moving south, intending to contain the other side and prevent the Axis powers from mobilizing too many troops to threaten Li Guojun's safety. After two days of preparation, they quickly began to move, launching a fierce attack on the Saar army stationed in Pskaux with superior forces.
Under the attack of superior forces, the Saar army could not hold the city of Psco, so they had to choose to retreat. The Cossack and Gothenburg forces fought a succession of battles and quickly recovered more than a dozen cities north of Smolensk, directly threatening the security of the rear of Howell's army. After receiving the news, the Saar army, which was heading south, had to rush back to help, which stopped their offensive momentum, but the reinforcements to the south had to be abandoned.
Seeing that the rear of the army was in a hurry, and the activities of NATO forces in the south were becoming more and more rampant, Howell knew that in the case of successive defeats on both flanks, his troops were too prominent, so that it would be easy to cut off the way of retreat, and once that situation arose, the Axis powers would be finished.
Now that the Axis bloc has lost one after another on various battlefields, Howell had to be careful as the only direction of the offensive with outstanding achievements, so he had to abandon the plan to attack the Donbas region, and command the Central Army to shrink the defensive line to prevent being flanked, and the army began to slowly retreat, retreating through the Khabkiv region to Kyiv.
Seeing the retreat of the Axis army, Li Guojun feared that he would be alone, so he abandoned Odessa and many nearby cities, and returned to the Crimean Peninsula with his army, and at the same time, before retreating, the Chinese army helped the Iranian army to eliminate Lieutenant General Briinen's troops.
With a large amount of booty and prisoners, Li Guojun's troops retreated to the Crimean Peninsula, they blocked the isthmus, relying on the narrow terrain and the support of the Istanbul navy, it was still very certain to stop the Axis Central Route Army, which did not have the control of the Black Sea. Just when the war was raging in the Western Continent and the two sides were engaged in fierce offensive and defensive battles on all fronts, a new crisis began in the New World.
After the virus-carrying refugees in Chicago's industrial area were scattered, plague germs were brought to various parts of Boston and soon a massive outbreak of plague occurred. There are more and more people who are in a fever coma, lymphatic swelling, difficulty breathing, and even confusion, and when someone dies in a hospital bed again in a purple and black state, the whole country has fallen into endless panic.
The epidemic of plague was fuelled by the fact that the national government was focused on the war during the war, the inability to import medicines, the starvation of the population due to the reduced grain production, the severe decline in physical health, and the lack of attention to environmental sanitation. Doctors were recruited into the military in large numbers, making the epidemic very difficult to control, and soon the plague spread to the port of Gotham. As an international trade port and an important port on the route from the New World to the Western Continent, the Port of Gotham has a very large flow of people.