"Commander, there's an urgent call." A staff officer rushed into the war room and sent a telegram to Lin Yangchun, which had been forwarded to him by the Joint Command, and was said to be information obtained from an insider. This information really came from the Cossack staff officer, and the young staff officer, who was a Cossack no matter how you look at it, was actually a member of Fang Xiaoyu's orphanage.

In the eyes of outsiders, Fang Xiaoyu has only one orphanage dedicated to adopting street children from all over the country, and the children who came out of this orphanage have become Fang Xiaoyu's staunchest supporters, they are distributed to the imperial government, the military, and even all aspects of the China Foundation, loyally fulfilling every instruction of Fang Xiaoyu, so that Fang Xiaoyu can easily control the overall situation, they are called the pro-health department by insiders.

But most people don't know that Fang Xiaoyu also has another international orphanage, this orphanage adopts orphans from abroad, they are trained and cultivated in complete secrecy, and when they grow up, they all become intelligence officers under the intelligence bureau, or members of the secret business investigation department.

These people were directly subordinate to Fang Xiaoyu and were assigned to various parts of the world to collect intelligence, because the people from this orphanage were all in the dark intelligence system, so it was little known, and that Cossack staff officer came out of this place.

"Send out aerial reconnaissance immediately, I want to know all enemy movements within a hundred kilometers of the city of Tara." Lin Yangchun raised his head violently and looked at the staff officer next to him, and the staff officer immediately went to carry out the order.

"What, Lao Lin, what's wrong." Zhang Zhonglin was stunned for a moment when he heard Lin Yangchun's order, and then asked.

Lin Yangchun nodded: "Our inner line found an order from the former commander of the Central Continent, Kurkin, to mobilize two armies to sneak attack our logistics base Tara City. ”

"What?" Zhang Zhonglin was shocked when he heard this, Tara City is now an important supply node on the way to the Wehrmacht's attack, once it is lost, it is likely to create a chain reaction, there is currently only one division in Tara City, and it belongs to a reserve division that does not have many heavy weapons.

"No matter where the Cossack corps is, we must reinforce there as soon as possible." Lin Yangchun touched his chin and said.

Zhang Zhonglin sighed and said, "How to reinforce?" It was not occupied for a long time, there were no airfields for large aircraft to take off and land, and if reinforcements were to be taken from land, the nearest troops would also take two days, and I am afraid that by that time it would be too late. ”

Lin Yangchun said: "Isn't there still a division of the Iron Blood Army that has not been used? ”

"Let them go?" Zhang Zhonglin was taken aback: "The battle in Katerinburg is also fierce, and reinforcements are urgently needed there, so we won't send them over, can we withstand it?" "The airport in Katerinburg is also not big enough, and the transport of supplies is airdropped, and soldiers who are not trained in parachuting cannot rely on airlift to support them.

Lin Yangchun sighed and said: "But the loss of Tara City is even more dangerous, according to the battle reports of the past two days, they can still hold out for a while, as long as our attacking troops advance fast enough." Now it's all about time, and we have to gamble once. ”

The Air Force sent a number of long-range bombers to reconnoitre, and under the scout-like reconnaissance, the sneak attack unit of the Cossack army soon showed its feet, and a bomber found them in a small town thirty kilometers from the city of Tara.

Originally, in order to avoid the aerial reconnaissance of the Chinese Empire, they adopted the method of day and night, and even when they were hidden during the day, they also used fishing nets to hang a large number of branches and leaves to cover large vehicles such as chariots to avoid being discovered by aerial reconnaissance.

With such cautious action, they were able to arrive here quietly, and it was already daylight and they were resting. The 3rd Division of the 3rd Army of the Predator Army was soon airdropped by a large number of bombers to Tara City, which is a logistics supply base on the mainland front in the Chinese Empire, with very comprehensive weapons and equipment, so the soldiers of the Predator Army parachuted in Tara City with only the light weapons they carried with them.

The soldiers of the Predator Army did not rest, and they soon joined the soldiers of the 391st Division in reserve to build fortifications outside the city. The city of Tara was also conquered by a large army, and there are still a lot of fortifications left around the city, which are now in good use, and only need a little renovation before they can be used.

The reconnaissance from the air did not alarm the Cossack sneak attack troops, who thought that they had once again been fooled, but did not know that their own actions were already under the control of the other side. In order not to be detected by the reconnaissance aircraft of the Chinese Air Force, the Cossacks would set off only after dark, and the Iron and Blood Army had enough time to prepare the fortifications and place various weapons in place.

The rumbling artillery continued to sound, and the main force led by Lin Yangchun was attacking Kurtal, which was already the last barrier to Katerinburg and the key defense area of the Cossack army, where they gathered 300,000 troops and set up a super defensive position of 27 kilometers long and 13 kilometers deep, to resolutely stop the attack of the Chinese Imperial Army.

The first exchange of fire was between the air forces of both sides, where most of the air forces of the Chinese Empire were concentrated, and the Cossack Empire, after emergency reinforcements from the Western Continent, also had more than 300 Eagle fighters to confront, and fierce battles broke out in the skies.

The Chinese Empire was well-equipped and numerically superior, and nearly 500 Golden Eagle 1 fighters pounced on more than 300 Cossack Eagle fighters, and the results can be imagined. The Chinese Air Force first relied on its own hill-climbing performance advantage to seize the height, and then began the attack in a dive, and under the strangulation of the Imperial Chinese Air Force, the Cossack fighters fell one after another, and the sky turned into a one-sided slaughter.

After the fighters were entangled, more than 200 bombers flew to the Cossack positions, and a series of 250 kg bombs fell, blowing up a series of craters on the Cossacks' positions. Even the 280 mm caliber heavy guns of the Python 1 train gun, the most powerful of the heavy artillery regiment, weighed only more than 100 kilograms per warhead, which was completely incomparable with 250 kilograms of aerial bombs.

Under the bombardment of aerial bombs, the Cossack troops suffered heavy casualties, and they could only crouch in the trenches and suffer in silence, praying that the bombs would not find them. The heavy artillery of the accompanying army did not stop, and all kinds of artillery of more than one hundred and five mm began to bombard the positions of the Cossack army, and the Cossacks did not dare to return fire with heavy artillery, because as long as they fired a shot, bombers would find them, and at that time the retreat would become a luxury.

The main force of the Chinese Empire relied on a large number of chariots, heavy artillery and aircraft to violently attack the positions of the Cossack army, so that they constantly put reserves into it, and a complete division pulled up the position, and after half an hour the whole army would be annihilated, and the Cossacks were blocking the advance of the Chinese army with flesh and blood.

At this time, the attack and defense of Tara City also began, and the Cossack infantry, who thought that their sneak attack had been successful, launched a charge with rifles, in order to ensure that they did not use the chariot at the first time, but this time they made a mistake. One of the first infantrymen stepped on a mine, which was the latest individual broadsword mine in the Chinese Empire.

Broadcut mine is also called directional mine, the mine is loaded with several kilograms of TNT explosives and about 700 steel balls, when an enemy soldier steps on the mine, the mine explodes, and uses the power of the explosives to shoot all the steel balls in a specific direction, on a fan, causing enough lethality.

When the Cossack soldier stepped on the mine, the mine exploded, and seven hundred steel balls, along with fragments of the mine, flew to his rear, knocking a dozen soldiers who were charging behind him into a sieve. The Cossack soldiers next to them were stunned when the steel balls sparkled in the sunlight, but when the deadly steel balls hit the human body, the splattered flesh and blood splashed on the faces of the soldiers around them, and they finally freaked out.

The charging Cossack infantry kept stepping on the mines, the formation of the charge was eliminated layer by layer, and the battlefield was littered with Cossack corpses. When the opponent approached two kilometers from the Predator's position, the mortar began to fire.

A large number of mortars relied on an extremely high rate of fire to shoot desperately, and the Cossacks saw this situation and immediately returned fire with heavy artillery, and soon the Iron Bloods also returned fire with the heavy artillery brought out of the warehouse, and the battle between the two sides was extremely fierce, but with superior weapons, the Cossacks could not get close to the position.

The Cossack army, which had chariot troops, under the cover of a large number of chariots, used the tactics of crowds to break through to Katerinburg, although the Predators relied on the geographical advantage and complete weapons to fight back, but after all, the number was too small, and the defense line began to show some signs of being unable to support.

"Bazooka launch." With an order, several fighters with bazookas on their shoulders straightened up and aimed at the armored car that was about to rush to the edge of the trench.

The rear of the bazooka shot out a long thick smoke, which made the soldiers carrying the bazooka shake a little, and with an orange-red flame, one rocket after another rushed towards the armored car with weak defense in a spiral course, and with a few loud noises, the armored car that rushed to the front was shot one after another.

After all, the armored car was a temporarily modified weapon, its weight was lighter, its structure was not very strong, and the entire front of the car was lifted into the air under the explosive power of the rocket. The power of the rockets is great, but the range is relatively short, and it is more dangerous for personnel when used, but in order to destroy those armored targets, the soldiers of the Predator Army still fire rockets firmly regardless of their own safety.

"Assault, assault on all fronts." As the Cossack Army's front-line supplies gradually ran out, the Cossack Corps defending in Kurtal gradually became somewhat overwhelmed, and the firepower of the troops weakened a lot. Lin Yangchun keenly discovered this situation, and Lin Yangchun, who had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, immediately ordered all the troops to attack in an all-round way, and all the bombers also went out in a row, bombing the positions of the Cossack army.