Chapter 552: Great Power Game (2)

Among the many countries in the Western Continent, except for the Yaman soldiers, there is no concept of hardship and hard work, and in cold weather like this, no one in the Reese army would be stupid enough to go out for a morning run. Hiding in the warm bed, the Reese soldiers were sleeping soundly, when suddenly the rumbling of engines and the cracking of wings in the sky made the startled soldiers get up with a bone, and they have formed a conditioned reflex in the trenches.

Some of the soldiers wrapped themselves in cotton coats and tried to go out of the barracks to see what was going on, but before they could get out of the door, huge aerial bombs had already fallen near the barracks, and the loud explosion knocked down all the soldiers standing on the ground.

"Something's wrong." Many soldiers ran around in a panic, and some didn't even have time to get dressed, so they ran out wrapped in quilts.

Just when the fighting between the two sides was at a stalemate, and the soldiers on both sides had already relaxed, the Nantes Volunteer Army launched an attack. In order to prevent the radar of the Grand Duchy of Reisbly from detecting it, the bomber group of the Nantes Volunteer Air Force flew at an ultra-low altitude, and many pilots even flew at an ultra-low altitude of 20 meters, with their wings crossing the treetops and blowing gusts of wind.

"It has reached the sky above the target and is ready to drop the bomb." A squadron leader of the Nantes Air Force, who was in charge of air command, shouted the order to start climbing the altitude, and their goal was to start climbing the first bomber group, which was the barracks with a large number of soldiers, and his target happened to be the Glaal barracks.

The plane slashed across the roof of the barracks' dormitory, and the bombardier flipped the switch, and a 500-kilogram bomb fell into the dormitory area, blowing up a three-story dormitory building into rubble, the explosion felt by the Reese soldiers on the ground.

After the squadron leader first began to attack, the other bombers flew over the dormitory area at once, dropping their own bombs one after another. Twelve B25 bombers wreaked havoc over the barracks, knocking down dormitory buildings one after another, and the chaotic soldiers could not find their commanders at all, nor did they have time to take out their weapons, and many people gathered around the quilt runway playground, burrowing their heads into the craters and hiding, and the entire barracks was completely chaotic.

The Nantes Air Force bombed not only the barracks, but also the three nearby transportation hubs, five supply warehouses and four field airfields of the Condor Legion were all bombed by the Nantes Volunteer Air Force.

With the suddenness of the attack, the Nantes army crossed the Douro River almost by surprise, and surrounded all the troops of the Reese government army near Mirandera, and the two sides fought fiercely for several days, the Reese government army suffered heavy losses, and the troops in the encirclement were about to collapse.

The Yaman Empire soon learned of the Nantes Empire's actions, and Wilhelm II, who received this information, was furious, and he immediately ordered the Yaman Army to deploy a million troops on the Nantes border, but the Nantes Army seemed to have been prepared, and they also stationed a large army on the border, with a posture of being ready for war at any time.

In order to salvage the unfavorable situation of the government army, Wilhelm II immediately demanded that the Condor Legion in the Grand Duchy of Lysbon destroy the Nantes Volunteer Air Force, and at the same time negotiated with the Grand Duchy of Sardinia, hoping that they could send volunteers to fight in the Kingdom of Sero in order to save the decline.

Originally, the Yaman Empire wanted to send its own troops, but the arrival of the Boston fleet blocked the sea passage from the Yaman Empire to the Sero Kingdom, and only the Grand Duchy of Sardinia, which was closest to the Sero Kingdom, could support the troops, because the route between them and the Sero Kingdom was in the Mediterranean, and after the last World War, the Strait of Gibraltar was in the hands of the Yaman Empire, at least it was safe here, and the Boston Fleet could not come here to spread the wilderness.

After some bargaining, the Grand Duchy of Sardinia finally decided to send an army of 210,000 men into the Kingdom of Sero to fight. Carlos I could not ask for this, and in the name of the country, he announced that he would hire these Sardinian troops to fight for him, and at the same time he mobilized a large number of logistical supplies to support them, and arranged for them to land in the port of Cartagena.

This time the allies also invested a lot of money, although it was the Grand Duchy of Sardinia to send troops, the three countries shared the cost of the troops, and the Yaman Empire also strengthened the strength of the Condor Legion to provide air support for the army of the Grand Duchy of Sardinia, and even the Kingdom of Habfsburg also sent two fighter wings, as a support for the allies, the civil war of the Grand Duchy of Sero gradually evolved into a small world war, which is also a rehearsal before the new world war.

In the post-war convention, it was stipulated that the Toulon industrial area of the Nantes Empire was assigned to the Grand Duchy of Sardinia, and the Grand Duchy of Sardinia had always deployed heavy troops here, for fear that the Nantes Empire would make any small moves. This time, the troops stationed in the port of Toulon became the first mercenaries, and they soon boarded merchant ships and sailed to the Grand Duchy of Sero.

The port of Toulon is very close to the port of Cartagena, with a straight-line distance of only more than 100 nautical miles, and even a merchant ship with a low speed can travel back and forth in more than ten hours. Relying on a large number of merchant fleets, the Sardinia mercenaries were continuously transported to the Grand Duchy of Sero, and after receiving their equipment, they were quickly sent to the battlefields in the north.

The Axis group soon received the news that the Grand Duchy of Sardinia had sent troops to the kingdom of Sero, and they were surprised by the news, so they asked Franco to strengthen the defenses, and at the same time ordered the Nantes Volunteer Army to intensify the offensive and try to eliminate the Reese army as quickly as possible and solve the threat from the flanks.

With the Allies paying for the military expenses, the Grand Duchy of Sardinia was also relieved, and the 150,000 troops of the five armies, all armed with trucks, drove as fast as possible towards Zaragoza, the closest stronghold of the government army to the north, with more than 5,000 defenders.

The Nantes Army accelerated its attack, and the rebel 77th Army, in conjunction with the 3rd Army of the Volunteer Army, surrounded a corps of the Reese government army at Milan de la Ga. The rest of the Nantes Volunteer Army pursued the Rout of Reis, advancing towards the territory of the Grand Duchy of Reesb, advancing all the way to Coimbra.

Coimbra is the northern barrier of Barreru, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lis, and is also an important transportation hub in its country, once the Nantes Volunteer Army occupies here, it will cut off the railway artery from the Grand Duchy of Lisbly to the Kingdom of Sero, so that the two countries can not take care of each other, so the Grand Duchy of Lisbly urgently dispatched troops, intending to use this place as a barrier to block the attack of the Nantes army.

A week later, the Nantes army attacked outside Coimbra, and as soon as they arrived, they were attacked by the Condors. Escorted by two hundred and seventy BF109E fighters, one hundred and twenty DO17 bombers and two hundred and ten Junkers 87A dive bombers pounced on the Nantes Volunteer Army.

On the radar, the planes of the Condor Regiment were seen taking off, and the 220 Mustang fighters of the Nantes Volunteer Air Force also took off to meet the enemy, in addition to more than 40 Sony 406 fighters. This was when Boston's weapons did not have time to be transported, and an air force unit was transferred from within the Nantes Empire, which shows how many fighters of the Nantes Volunteer Air Force have been destroyed by the sharp attack of the Condor Legion these days.

"Brothers, get to work, kick them in the ass and tell them to go back." Hartman was the first to rush forward with a smile, and the Yaman pilots who followed closely behind him also rushed forward with full speed excitedly.

Hartmann, who already had thirty-seven crashes, clenched the joystick and operated the fighter with excitement, and now he saw the battle as enjoyment, and the Nantes pilots who were not skilled in operation were regarded by him as merit, and today he was going to kill again.

With a whistle, Hartman snapped the joystick, and the fighter he piloted made a nimble S-shaped maneuver sideways, and the plane drew a snake-like arc, directly avoiding the oncoming stream of catapults. Putting an enemy fighter into the sight, Hartmann pressed the button of the cannon, and two accurate short bursts were fired, and one wing of the opposite plane was knocked off, and the plane that lost control spiraled to the ground.

"Thirty-eighth." Hartman shouted excitedly, because no one could keep up with his whimsical driving trajectory, so he was the only single plane on the battlefield without a wingman, but no one dared to underestimate him even this single plane.

"Captain, how much are you going to kill today?" One of the pilots couldn't help but ask. Hearing his question, the other pilots followed suit and made Hartman set his goal for the day.

Hartman made a rising and undercut motion, biting a Mustang fighter again, and smiled: "Today I have a record of more than fifty." Then he pressed the cannon button hard, and several shells made a short thud, directly crushing the tail of the opponent's plane.

In the face of the Condor Legion of the Yaman Empire with outstanding piloting skills, the Nantes Volunteer Army could only fight with the number of aircraft, endured its own huge casualties, and exchanged the number of downed opponents in a ratio of nearly ten to one, but the casualties of the Nantes Volunteer Air Force became larger and larger, and the Yaman Empire attached great importance to the support of the Cerro Kingdom, and the strength of the Condor Legion was greatly strengthened, resulting in the strength of the two sides, and the Nantes Volunteer Air Force was more and more powerless.

Under Hartmann's leadership, the Condor Legion was in full swing, and the fighter units of the Nantes Volunteer Air Force were beaten back again and again, and there was no chance to care about the bombers of the Condor Legion. After their own fighters entangled the enemy's interceptor group, these bombers flew unhindered over the Nantes Volunteer Army.

Seeing the opposing bombers approaching the air, the Nantes Volunteer Army quickly began to organize air defense. The Nantes Volunteer Army is completely configured according to the regular army, and all kinds of weapons in the unit are complete, and when the enemy bomber group is in the air, all kinds of anti-aircraft artillery fire of the Nantes Volunteer Army are pointed at the sky.