No one was taking care of the observer at this point, as everyone didn't have much time left. The only anti-tank guns on the position immediately began to roar, blocking the Yaman tanks that were pushing straight in, and these brand new tanks had not even had time to polish the burrs in the welds or apply anti-rust paint, they were apparently just produced from the occupied tractor factory on the outskirts of Essen.

The Axis soldiers were desperately shooting, using the remaining weapons in their hands, desperately resisting the enemy's large-scale attack, and the situation on the front line became more and more critical. Suddenly, there was an extremely noisy sound of motors in the sky, even the well-informed Admiral Mack had never heard the sound of so many motors roaring together, he looked up curiously, and found that the number of planes had blocked the sunlight, and the whole land seemed to be plunged into darkness for a moment.

"Oops, the Allies are going to launch a massive air strike." As soon as Lieutenant General Patton's words came out, his eyes widened because he noticed that a low-flying dive bomber was depicted with a white five-pointed star, the symbol of the Boston Air Force.

"Our reinforcements have arrived, and we have been saved." Admiral Mack exclaimed in surprise and waved his arms to the sky, and Lieutenant General Patton on the side quickly pulled him back into the trench for fear that the commander would be hit by a stray bullet.

The attacking Allied soldiers looked at the sky in amazement, countless planes were already in the air, and before they could identify the force of the planes and react, a string of bombs had already fallen on the heads of the charging team. More than 5,000 bombers of various types, loaded with bombs of various calibers, launched air strikes on the Axis lands, and countless bombs fell on the positions, so that the Allied soldiers did not know how to dodge, they could only wail helplessly, and were gradually swallowed up by the smoke and dust raised by the bombs.

The air raid was only a prelude to the counterattack, and on the far horizon, thousands of chariots shimmered silver in the reflection of the rising sun, dazzling everyone's eyes, and the resolute countenance under the steel helmet made all the Allied soldiers fearful. At the most critical moment, more than 5 million Boston Army troops quickly came up and counter-encircled more than 1 million Allied troops that had been encircling the Axis forces.

The bombing of the air force, the barrage of heavy artillery, and the wanton crushing of combat vehicles completely shattered the dream of a counteroffensive by the Allied troops. In extreme times, the belligerents changed their offensive and defensive positions, and the Allied forces had to begin to shrink their fronts and enter into a difficult defensive battle.

Marshal Pershing personally took command of this classic rescue operation, the mobilization of the five million army was not idle, its daily consumption of various materials was terrifying, even if a capable general could make such a large army move, it was a very remarkable ability, but Marshal Pershing commanded this army, landed in the port of The Hague at a fairly fast speed, and quickly advanced to the vicinity of the city of Essen.

The Boston Empire's five million armies were so terrifying that they attacked the Confederate front with absolute superiority, and soon opened up contact with the landing force, and Admiral Mack finally breathed a sigh of relief that his hundreds of thousands of troops were not in danger of being wiped out.

The Axis offensive was in full swing, the Allied forces were being repulsed from all directions, their defensive areas were getting smaller and more difficult, and Wilhelm II had to meet with the General Staff Headquarters and the heads of the allied forces of the Kingdom of Habfsburg and the Grand Duchy of Sardinia. In the case of being oppressed by the strong military of the other side, they could not think of it, and in the end, all the high-level leaders unanimously decided to break out of the encirclement first, and then reorganize their forces to confront the Axis powers.

After careful planning, the Allies took advantage of the darkness of the night to begin a breakthrough from all four directions at the same time. In the dark of night, the power of the Axis air force could not be exerted, and they had no way to judge which way to break through the four-way encirclement, so they could only move the encircled army in all directions, and use superior forces to defend each Allied breakout team, but Marshal Pershing did not find that such a transfer made a gap in his encirclement.

Seeing that the time was ripe, the Allied top brass led the most elite chariot troops to launch a fierce attack to the east, and the previous four breakouts were actually real, none of them were feints, although they dispersed their forces in this way, but they successfully attracted the Axis army to the past.

In the consciousness of the Axis high-level leaders, the Allies wanted to disperse and break through, and among the four-way breakout, one of them must be a real breakout, and the other three were the victims of a feint, but they never expected that the four-way breakout was real, and what was even worse was that there was a fifth way to break through.

Just when the Axis soldiers were concentrated in the direction of the four directions of the breakout, and the defenses of the rest of the encirclement were weak, the breakthrough of the Allied high-level began, and under the concentrated use of chariot troops, the Allied breakout troops directly ran over the Axis positions and quickly broke out of the encirclement.

Hearing that another breakthrough army had successfully broken out of the encirclement, Marshal Pershing knew that the big fish had escaped, and he immediately ordered the army to pursue, so that the strength of the encirclement was reduced accordingly, so that the other four-way breakthrough troops found a glimmer of opportunity, and some of their remnants broke out of the encirclement. The Siege of Essen was very successful, and the Allied top leaders managed to break out, but the capital city of Essen had fallen, and the royal family and government of the Yaman Empire were forced to relocate to Erfurt.

The news of the capture of Essen spread, causing great confusion in the Yaman army on the front line, and the allied forces of Nantes, Sahr, Sero, and Rees took advantage of the opportunity of the opponent's army to launch a general attack on the Yaman army, and the Yaman army, which was already in chaos, only held out for two days before being forced to retreat on all fronts.

The main forces of the Central Powers retreated, and the armies of the Kingdom of Habsburg and the Grand Duchy of Sardinia had to retreat with them. The relieved Four-Nation Coalition pursued and fought wildly all the way, quickly recovering a large amount of the territory of the Nantes Empire, and the millions of landing troops with the Boston Army as the main force also laid solid defenses around Essen, using it as a base to attack cities everywhere, and quickly pocketed the largest industrial area of Essen in the Yaman Empire.

The tide of war on the Western Continent took a turn for the worse, and the Allies were losing ground one after another, seeing that defeat was inevitable. In the Angolan region of the Southern Subcontinent, the situation is also not optimistic. Although Walbeck had made full preparations before the war, his strength was too weak after all, and it was difficult to confront the well-equipped regular army of the Boston Empire head-on by relying only on the poorly trained and unequipped indigenous army with no equipment and supplies, not to mention that in order to control the colony as soon as possible, the Boston Empire invested 500,000 troops and more than 300 aircraft in this tricky Angolan region.

The Bostonians did not fight to the death, with the threat of force and money buying, many indigenous tribes chose to submit, and the 300,000 guerrillas that Walbeck had built up with great effort also disappeared as a result, and they either disbanded and went home or surrendered, and with the small forces that were wiped out by force, the size of the guerrillas is now one in ten.

What was really still in Walbeck's hands was the 30,000 regular army he had assembled and personally controlled, these people were disciplined and morale-high, and they were truly elite troops, but even in the elite troops, it was not easy to face the environment of continuous combat without a source of supply, and in the months of continuous fighting, their personnel were also seriously damaged, and by this time there were less than 20,000 men.

"Your Excellency the Governor, the wounded have all been sent to the Chinese Empire, and new weapons and ammunition have been brought back." Lieutenant Colonel Baden reported to Walbeck, a position he had taken over after the death of his deputy, Holm, a month earlier.

"How many more do we have now?" Walbeck nodded and asked, now that he was most concerned about numbers, weapons were a secondary issue. In the absence of replenishment, there are fewer and fewer people, and if there are not enough soldiers to fight, even if there are good weapons, it is useless, so Walbeck did not ask what the new weapons were, but asked how many soldiers he still had to fight.

"According to last week's statistics, we still have more than 18,300 people, and we haven't had any major engagements lately, and the losses are small." Lieutenant Colonel Baden replied quickly, apparently concerned about the question.

Closing the map, Walbeck sighed and said: "Judging from the news from the radio, the recent war situation in the Western Continent is very unfavorable to us, and we should make another big move to attract the forces of the Axis powers and relieve the pressure on the Empire." ”

Lieutenant Colonel Baden said: "With all due respect, Your Excellency the Governor, you have dragged down 500,000 Axis troops with tens of thousands of natives, which is good enough, and I don't think any general in the country can do better, what we need most is persistence, not the consumption of our own strength because of recklessness." ”

Walbeck slammed to his feet and said, "No, we're not good enough. Remember, if we attract one more enemy, the pressure on the country will be relieved. Convey my order, the whole army eats in advance, rests early, and we will do a big one tonight. ”

It was already dark, but Walbeck and Lieutenant Colonel Baden were lying in a bush, observing the situation on the other side with binoculars. Not far from them is the airfield of the Boston Air Force, where all the combat aircraft of the Axis powers in the Angola region are docked. Walbeck's telescope was not glow-in-the-dark, but fortunately, there were a lot of lights in the other party's airport, and with the help of these dim lights, he could barely see everything on the other side.

"Your Excellency the Governor, are we taking too much risk in doing this?" Lieutenant Colonel Baden looked at the heavily guarded airport opposite, and he was a little uncertain.

Walbeck put down the binoculars and turned his head and smiled: "Here we have to knock it out, now the domestic situation is erosive, it seems that defeat is inevitable, once the country is defeated, we need to flee to the territory of the Chinese Empire to continue fighting." ”