Ivan VI had no doubt that the Cossack army could not stop a charge from the Axis powers, and if the Chinese army withdrew from the Cossack Empire today, then he would become the king of the fallen country tomorrow, so he could only watch his land gradually occupied by the Axis troops under the policy of clearing the wilderness. Now, in addition to being distressed, Ivan VI can only choose to believe in the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Army, but his distress will not last long, because Gao Deyu has already decided to engage in a war of annihilation.

Half a month of smooth offensive made General Howell a little complacent, originally because the myth of the Chinese army's invincibility brought him strong pressure, so that his nerves have always been tense, and after a series of 'victories', he gradually relaxed, this is a kind of excessive expansion of confidence and inferiority, and now the entire Axis army is permeated with this kind of thought, but no one corrects it.

In Howell's mind, the huge number of his own army has completely offset the well-trained and advanced weapons of the Chinese Army, and now he can attack cities and lands unscrupulously, becoming the most martial general in the history of the Boston Empire.

As for the soldiers who were killed and injured because of the other party's small tricks, Howell didn't care, such a small flaw could not cover up his attack on expanding the territory, not to mention that most of the dead and wounded were the Allied troops, the army of the Boston Empire, in fact, the losses were not great, but it was a pity that he forgot the most important point, war is not a simple number of piles up, any factor can cause a defeat, especially the psychological factor is the most deadly.

Commanding the already chaotic Axis armies, the coordination between the attacking forces gradually became a little disjointed, and the speed of the attack was also quite different, among which the Fifth Army, led by General Gordon, which had made the fastest progress, had reached Fastov, and the distance with other friendly forces was at least 100 kilometers, and at this time the first autumn rain of the Cossack Empire had arrived.

The Cossack Empire had just recovered from the civil war, and the country's infrastructure was still quite backward, which made the march of the Fifth Army have disastrous consequences. The ground was turned into a mud swamp after the autumn rains, and the soldiers had to trude through knee-deep mud, and the mud that almost sucked people in was exhausted if they didn't go far.

As for the vehicles, the vehicles that traveled on tracks were better, and the wheeled personnel carriers were unlucky, and in the mire, their tires were only slippery, and if it were not for the tanks pulling them out of the mire again and again, these wheeled vehicles would have been abandoned long ago.

The difficulty of the roads caused the slow delivery of supplies, and the frequent use of vehicles to pull wheeled vehicles consumed more fuel, in addition to the considerable consumption of vehicle tracks, so that by the time they arrived in Fastov, the troops began to experience a significant shortage of fuel, and many of the vehicles ran out of spare tracks. General Gordon had to halt the army to wait for the fuel supplies to follow, which gave Gordon the opportunity to wipe out Boston's Fifth Army.

After seeing this good opportunity, all the troops of the Ural Military District under Gao Deyu were nervously mobilized. With the cooperation of the Cossack army, they began to quietly outflank them from all directions, and at the same time, the newly installed thirty electronic warfare planes took turns to take off, and began to interfere with all the radar and communication signals of the Axis countries on a large scale.

All of the Imperial Chinese Army's vehicles were tracked or semi-tracked, and due to the wide tracks and horsepower of the vehicles designed for the northern terrain of the Chinese Empire, they could easily pass on dirt roads. The Cossack soldiers threw their heavy towed guns directly in the rear, and the infantry advanced on the roof of the Chinese Army's chariots.

The first sortie was not these armored units, but the three air assault corps that had just been created by the Wehrmacht, which were armed with several types of helicopters. The helicopters of the Chinese Empire are divided into four types, the first is the Wasp medium anti-submarine multi-purpose helicopter and the double Wasp transport helicopter that has been equipped with the Navy, especially the Wasp anti-submarine multi-purpose helicopter, which is arranged on the 'far sea' class cruiser Navy helicopter, which has not made the submarine of the Boston Empire suffer, in addition to the anti-submarine It also has the ability to lay mines in the air, of course, this anti-submarine helicopter will not be equipped with the army, but the double Wasp transport helicopter is the main model of the army.

The third type is the land wasp reconnaissance and rescue multi-purpose helicopter, which has a maximum take-off weight of 10 tons, a maximum speed of 292 kilometers per hour, and a range of 603 kilometers. This nearly 20-meter-long multi-purpose helicopter is specially designed for battlefield ambulance, and its weapons are not powerful, with only four rockets and two six-barreled super-high-speed machine guns, one mounted in the nose operated by the pilot, and the other mounted in the side hatch, allowing the machine gunner to flexibly cover the ambulance operation. The aircraft can carry up to two tons of materiel, accommodate up to fourteen soldiers and six stretchers, and can also be used as a troop carrier helicopter on an ad hoc basis.

The fourth type of poison bee helicopter is a specialized attack helicopter, this helicopter is specially designed for combat, it has a narrow fuselage and numerous weapon systems, and the cockpit with a tandem layout can seat two people in front and rear, the first one is the pilot, and the back is the co-pilot and gunner.

The Venom Bee helicopter, which uses two 1,300-kilowatt turboprop engines, can reach a maximum speed of 277 kilometers per hour, and has a short wing with weapons on the left and right sides of the helicopter, on which a 70-millimeter 19-round rocket nest and four missiles can be installed, and the missiles can be equipped with Red Arrow-1 anti-tank missiles or Tianyan-1 light air-to-air missiles.

In addition, there is a six-barreled ultra-high-speed cannon in the nose, and this gunship with many radars is simply the nemesis of armored vehicles, and it also has a certain air combat ability, at least its missiles can barely shoot down Boston-made F84 fighters.

Of these four types of helicopters, except for the first one, which is a specialized carrier-based helicopter, the other three are equipped in the air assault force. The establishment and combat methods of the air assault force were left by Fang Xiaoyu, and this brand-new combat method and establishment made the generals of the army very uncomfortable, and the generals who had no experience in this matter could not estimate its combat effectiveness, so the country was only equipped with the establishment of these three armies in the national defense force for testing.

The discerning Gao Deyu quickly discovered the benefits of these troops, so when he accepted the defensive mission, he first brought this unit under his command that other military regions were unwilling to want, and this time they finally came in handy.

Without the knowledge of the Fifth Army in Boston, 2,000 twin Wasp transport helicopters of the three assault armies, plus some Land Wasp multi-role helicopters, combined operations, transported 60,000 soldiers behind enemy lines.

They were covered by more than 600 Venom Bee helicopters and Golden Eagle 4 fighters from five wings of the Air Force, but their fears were unfounded, and the Boston Fifth Army had no idea of the army that had infiltrated its rear.

Unprepared by the Fifth Army in Boston, the three air assault armies, relying on a large number of towed artillery pieces from helicopter lifts, attacked several major bridges over the Dnieper controlled by the Fifth Army and took full control of them.

General Gordon was startled by the movements of the air assault force, and he did not expect that an army of the Chinese Empire had already run to his rear and cut off his retreat route. Faced with this situation, he immediately realized that he was afraid that he had fallen into a trap, and now the priority was to escape from the encirclement.

In order to confidently break out of the encirclement, he immediately sent a telegram to the headquarters, hoping to get the support of a large force, but he soon discovered that all the radio stations in the group army could not communicate with the headquarters, and this was the result of the electronic warfare aircraft unit of the Imperial Chinese Air Force, which was carrying out electronic jamming 24 hours a day.

General Gordon, who had completely lost contact with the headquarters, was completely panicked, he knew very well that he was already surrounded by enemy forces, and if he could not break out of the siege, then he would face only two paths: being eliminated or captured. Now that he had lost contact with the headquarters, he was left to himself, so he immediately concentrated his five most elite heavy armored corps and began a surprise attack on several major bridges over the Dnieper.

In his consciousness, it must be the paratroopers who can silently enter his rear to carry out a sneak attack, and the paratroopers have a well-known and very fatal weakness, which is the lack of heavy weapons. Therefore, he hoped to recapture the bridge with a large number of tanks and open the way for his retreat, so that he could rescue the one million troops of the Fifth Army from Lu.

As a Boston officer who was well versed in combat theory, General Gordon made an almost infallible decision, a decision that was not wrong in Boston's army, even among the generals of the Chinese Empire. However, after encountering this new tactic of using helicopters to carry out air assaults, it was destined to surprise these generals who had not seen its power, and also doomed the Fifth Army led by Gordon to a tragic end.

When the five heavily armed armies of the Fifth Army in Boston quickly advanced and brought all the tank units to the banks of the Dnieper River, they were greeted by thousands of artillery pieces of the Air Assault Army.

These multi-purpose guns, which can be used for both anti-tank and fire suppression, although their caliber is only one hundred and five millimeters, are quite enough to deal with M4 tanks and those thinly armored Wildcat tank destroyers.