Chapter 719: The Crimean Peninsula (2)

The Axis troops on the docks were withdrawn, which saved the landing force a lot of effort, and after taking full control of the docks, a large number of soldiers were transported ashore. To the surprise of Vice Admiral Briinen, at this time the ships on the Black Sea were shuttling back and forth, and their number was quite terrifying.

Since the Black Sea is an inland sea, the wind and waves here are calm, and there is no danger even for small boats to sail far, so the transportation of the Chinese army and even the fishing boats are mobilized. The small fishing boats, capable of carrying more than a dozen people at a time, departed from the port of Sinop on the Istan Peninsula and reached the port of Sevastopol in just over six hours.

These fishing boats, although small in capacity, are numerous in number, and with their addition, a large number of transports can free up space for the transport of heavy weapons, including equipment such as heavy artillery and combat vehicles, as well as large quantities of ammunition. This pattern greatly accelerated the speed of transportation, and in just one day, 70,000 Chinese troops had already landed in the port of Sevastopol.

With sufficient equipment and sufficient troops, the Chinese army began to attack the city. The heavy weapons of the Boston Army were placed on the coastal batteries, but they were destroyed before they could be used, and now the remaining two battalions of soldiers and horses did not have decent artillery at all, so they could only watch the other side calmly land without any way.

The experienced Chinese army and the Iraqi army jointly entered the city, they put the Grizzly 3 tank in front, and fired wildly at any suspicious target in the city, such a way of fire advancement, so that the Boston army suffered heavy losses, seeing that the losses of resistance were too heavy, Lieutenant General Briinen had to withdraw his troops from the city, hoping to build a defensive position in a location after replenishing heavy equipment in the rear.

Li Guojun, who commanded the landing operation, led the troops to advance rapidly, and the landing 51st Army was allocated several units to attack various key points on the Rim Peninsula, and 100,000 Iranian troops who followed the landing also cooperated. In just three days, the NATO coalition forces reached the vicinity of the Crimean Isthmus, where Lieutenant General Briinen gathered more than 10,000 men to build fortifications, hoping to hold off the NATO coalition forces for a while and buy Howell time to react.

The Chinese troops of the Mediterranean Military District did not waste time at all, and as soon as the positions of Lieutenant General Brinnin were laid out, the bomber group was in the air. After the full retreat of the troops of the 141st Army in Boston to the isthmus, the NATO allies took full control of the Crimean Peninsula. Engineer units arrived first, and they quickly built a large number of runways with airlifted quick-drying cement.

Before the construction of the airport was completed, planes of the Chinese Air Force and the Istanbul Air Force had already landed on the runway that had just been repaired. The ships were loaded with spare parts and kerosene, and the planes began to take off and land at the airfield that was still under construction, while the logisticians overhauled the planes in the open to ensure the high uptime of the Air Force.

It was precisely because of such a rapid movement of the NATO Air Force that the bomber group had already flown to the Crimean Isthmus before the other side could react. The narrowness of the terrain left the Axis armies with little area to deploy, and such terrain was preferred by bomber groups. Under the horrified eyes of the Axis soldiers, the Kunpeng 3 bombers relied on their large bomb load to drop batches of bombs to the ground.

The intensive bombardment completely undid the efforts of Lieutenant General Briinin for several days, and in the cramped area, the soldiers had nowhere to hide, and were killed in large areas, while the makeshift fortification group was destroyed by repeated bombardment by bombers, and after heavy losses, Lieutenant General Briinen was forced to retreat before the attacking forces of the opposing army could be seen.

The remaining 6,000 Boston troops were forced to retreat to Sofiev City, where they joined up with a battalion of the Boston Army stationed there, while reporting the battle to their superiors and requesting rapid support. Howell, who was fighting feverishly on the front line, was shocked when he received the telegram, and he never imagined that in only a day or two, the situation had taken a sharp turn for the worse, and his flank was greatly threatened.

Howell immediately telegraphed and ordered the nearby garrison to assemble in Sofiev City to block the rapidly advancing NATO Allied forces, but the forces in the vast occupied areas had already been very thin, and it was difficult to gather them for a while, and under Howell's strict orders, the nearby garrisons were starry and nightly, and only more than 30,000 people arrived within three days, and at this time, the NATO coalition forces had already been seen outside the city.

Li Guojun could have arrived in the city a long time ago, but when he found that the Axis garrisons in the vicinity had begun to assemble here, he slowed down the pace of his march. For these scattered Axis garrisons scattered over a vast area, it is the most troublesome thing for him, once these people blend into the countryside and become guerrillas, it will become a big trouble for them, so it is the best situation to gather these people together and annihilate them, not to mention that they will definitely give up a lot of heavy equipment that is difficult to carry when they come in a hurry, which is conducive to weakening their combat effectiveness. For this reason, Li Guojun ordered his troops to slow down, consolidating the occupied areas in the rear on the one hand, and delaying time on the other hand, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements from the other side.

Howell's stupid move provided convenient conditions for Li Guojun, and when he saw that the nearby garrisons were almost gathered, Li Guojun led the 51st Army of the Wehrmacht to quickly surround the city of Sofiyev. Seeing the strong military appearance of the Chinese army under the city, Brienin was so frightened that he knew very well that the less than 40,000 horses in his hands could not stop the Chinese army of hundreds of thousands at all.

To Burinin's surprise, Li Guojun's troops did not immediately attack after surrounding the entire city of Sofiev, but the whole army began to dig trenches around the city, which made Brinnin puzzled, but since they didn't call, he didn't dare to fire the cannon first, teasing the other party to attack, thinking that it was purely looking for death, so the Axis troops in the city had to watch the heat outside the city and stare at the sky.

Just when Brienin did not understand what Li Guojun was doing, in fact, half of the forces of the Islamic Army and the 51st Army of the Wehrmacht Army had already dispersed and attacked, and with the intelligence support of high-altitude reconnaissance planes, they divided their forces into multiple routes, relying on ambushes, sneak attacks, and other means to annihilate a large number of Axis troops that were on their way to reinforcements.

If these small Axis forces stay in the cities they control, the NATO coalition forces will need to fight street battles one city after another, which will be a very time-consuming and energy-consuming thing. One of Howell's orders, which freed these troops from the protection of the city, sent them to the field to die.