Chapter 447: Battle of the Bulge (1)

"The Bostonians are doing a good job, and they are so strong in their will to fight, but if they don't go for reinforcements, they are in danger." Xiao Hua, who was holding the binoculars, smiled and muttered to himself. He then ordered his troops to immediately prepare reinforcements for the Bostonians.

The frenzy had exhausted the Bostonians, and after repelling the Nantes attack, the more than 8,000 soldiers who were still alive jumped back into the trenches, most of them gasping for breath and looking exhausted.

The shelling of the Nantes army soon began, and after twenty minutes of preparation for the shelling, more Nantes soldiers rushed up. Just now he was driven back in the white-knuckle battle, and the commander of the Nantes army was furious, and he couldn't imagine that the small number of defenders was so difficult.

This time, in order to completely defeat the defenders, the Nantes army sent more soldiers and rushed towards the mountain. Looking at the dense array of enemy soldiers, and then at his own soldiers who were already tired to death, Admiral Pershing sighed, he knew that this time he would not be able to hold it anyway.

Looking at the approaching Nantes soldiers, Pershing had closed his eyes in despair. Suddenly, there was a dense whooshing sound, and Pershing opened his eyes in surprise, just in time to see the Nantes soldiers on the opposite side covered in a cloud of smoke.

The sound of explosions came intensively, and the charging Nantes soldiers were covered by the explosion of a rocket, and the stumps and flesh flew everywhere, and most of the Nantes soldiers who were suddenly hit were killed and wounded.

A large number of soldiers of the Iron Blood Army quickly entered the position, and looking at Xiao Hua who came to the front, General Pershing was stunned for a while. "You guys, why are you here?" Admiral Pershing was already a little stunned with excitement, and this feeling of desperate survival really made him unable to control his emotions.

Xiao Hua smiled and said, "You have fought very well, and you have played with the momentum of the Boston army, now let's do it." ”

Unlike the Boston Empire, the Third Division brought by Xiao Hua was equipped with all kinds of weapons and equipment, except for the lack of heavy artillery. The rocket artillery had a much closer range than the heavy artillery, so the Predators did not use them against the Nantes artillery.

The Predator's artillery moved positions flexibly, firing only one salvo when the enemy attacked, inflicting heavy casualties on the charging Nantes soldiers. A salvo of rocket artillery fires is fierce, but it takes a long time to reload. These iron-blooded artillerymen took advantage of this feature to make the rocket artillery no longer reload after a salvo, but immediately transfer their positions, reload elsewhere, and then make the next salvo, and by the time the retaliatory artillery bombardment of the Nantes army arrived, they had already left.

Relying on flexible tactics, the Predators firmly controlled the position on the top of the hill, and in their spare time, the Predators deepened and lengthened the Bostonian trenches, and also built a large number of anti-artillery holes and communication trenches, which were admired by the Boston soldiers who were still at the level of elementary school students in digging trenches.

With the help of a division of iron-blooded troops, the Bostonians held their ground until the arrival of Yaman reinforcements, which were later written into his report by Admiral Pershing, in which he repeatedly stressed that unless the Chinese Empire disintegrated itself into chaos, the Boston Empire would be self-defeating to wage war against this powerful nation.

Unfortunately, the Boston Empire's top brass did not accept his advice, and decades later the Boston Empire preemptively launched the war, and the outcome was as predicted by Admiral Pershing, and the Boston Empire was devastated.

In order to attack Munich and gain the strategic initiative, the Allies mobilized a large army to prepare to attack the Baden area again, hoping to encircle and annihilate the Yaman army defending this area in one fell swoop.

The Entente was busy mobilizing troops and preparing supplies, and the fighting on the front line slowed down for a while. The Yaman Empire was also aware of this, and they sent more troops on the one hand, and asked for help from the Chinese Empire on the other, hoping that they would be able to send more troops.

With this buffer, Denikin had managed to occupy large swathes of territory in the south, firmly holding in his hands the coastal railway lines that Russia had previously controlled.

With the support of this railway line, the troops of the Chinese Empire quickly passed through here and entered the territory of the Habsburg Kingdom in a steady stream. Then they continued to march westward, through the entire Yaman Empire to the front line, the Chinese Empire's army officially entered the Western Continent to fight, this force will be led by Thor himself, and together with the third army of the Iron Blood Army, which arrived in advance, it was personally named the Chinese Expeditionary Force by Fang Xiaoyu.

The first to arrive at the Baden front was an engineering unit of the Wehrmacht, and to their surprise the Jamans began to build a temporary railway on a plain near Munich with the large amount of material they had with them, and to their surprise, their railroad was made in the shape of a butterfly. Some Yaman officials, who were puzzled, privately inquired about the purpose of the railroad by senior Wehrmacht officials, but were blocked by the other party on the grounds that they were also military secrets.

The first Chinese Empire troops to enter the Western Continent amounted to half a million men in ten armies, and they were soon deployed in Baden and nearby areas, defending more than 300 kilometers of defense along with the two armies of the Yaman Empire.

For Wilhelm II's polite handing over the command of this area to the main force of the Chinese Expeditionary Force to defend this area, Tobul, who was in charge of the command of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, agreed without the slightest hesitation.

Tobul's deployment of forces was not favoritism, and instead of deploying the Yaman army to the most dangerous positions, he deployed them to a more relaxed defensive line in the vicinity. In the most important Baden region, he placed the four strongest armies of the Wehrmacht, and at the same time put the Third Army of the Predator Army, which had just been on a combat mission, as a reserve behind them, so that they could rest and be ready to fill in the gaps at any time.

In the salient that is most likely to be encircled, the 100,000 Japanese troops of the two armies are placed here, of course, Tobul will not let them be completely cannon fodder, not far behind them there are a large number of rocket artillery groups, close to the city of Munich, there is a heavy artillery corps secretly drawn from the heavy artillery regiment to cover their fire, in general, Tobul has arranged a large depth position in this area, and the deployment of troops is light in front and heavy in the rear, absolutely very standard.

If the Allied top brass had known that they had strengthened the other side's defenses so much in the two months they had been preparing, they would have regretted it, and they would have learned an extremely memorable lesson when they began to attack.

The Entente has more and more troops in the vicinity, with a tendency to exceed one million, and all kinds of war materials and military aircraft are also continuing to increase, and the Entente side has even built several large field military airfields fifty or sixty kilometers behind the front line to house military planes drawn from various units, and the atmosphere of the great war is getting stronger and stronger.

The meeting was held in the headquarters of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Munich, and before the meeting, the division commanders successively reported on the deployment of their troops' defense areas, these people were all veterans who had been in regular military academies and had been in battle for a long time, and they were well aware of all kinds of new tactics and new military ideas, and Tobul was still very relieved about their position layout and firepower, and even several divisions of the Japanese soldiers had built a solid defensive line with the help of the staff officers of the Chinese Empire.

Hearing that the division commanders had finished their reports, Tobul stood up and said: "During this time, everyone worked very hard, and the preparation before the war was quite sufficient. Although the Entente has mobilized heavy troops this time to occupy the Baden area again, I know very well that they will not succeed, and there is no doubt that with the combat strength of our Chinese Expeditionary Force, we can completely defeat the enemy in front of us. ”

Seeing that although the senior officers sitting there were not moving at all, their eyes were full of excitement, and it was obvious that they were not nervous but excited about the upcoming big battle. Tobul was very satisfied with the desire of his subordinates to fight, and he continued: "Commanders at all levels must be clear that they must not be negligent at any time, and even if the opponent's weapons and equipment and the quality of the army are inferior to ours, we must attach great importance to it and strive to minimize the losses of the troops." ”

"Chief of Staff, if we defeat the Entente army, is it permissible to pursue." The officers at all levels of the current Chinese Expeditionary Force were very confident in their own victory, and their greatest concern was not whether they could hold their positions, but whether they would allow the pursuit after defeating their opponents, so when one of the commanders couldn't help but ask out loud, all the officers present stretched out their ears and waited for Tobul's answer.

Tobul smiled and said: "The pursuit is absolutely allowed, as for the scale of the pursuit, it is up to you to control, but I want to remind you that you can't pursue too far, and you can take it when you see it, we are fighting for the Allies, and there is no need to put yourself in danger in order to recover the lost territory for them." ”

Looking at the officers who nodded their heads again and again, Tobul asked, "I want to ask you, if you start the pursuit, what is the first priority?" ”

The commander who had just answered replied: "It is to carry out the penetration as quickly as possible, to divide and encircle the Allied army, and annihilate it." ”

Thobul shook his head, smiled and pointed to his head, "Think about it with your own brain, I just said, there is no need to put yourself in danger in order to regain lost territory for the allies. ”

"Chief of Staff, what do you mean...... Take advantage? The other commander seemed to sense something, and asked tentatively.