Chapter 656: Encircling and Annihilating the Third Legion (8)
Occupying the entire port of Anroda, Walbeck ordered his troops to clean up the battlefield as soon as possible and prepare for retreat, while he himself personally led the commandos to blockade the port and inspect the merchant ships in the port one by one. Sure enough, there were a lot of slaves in these merchant ships, because they were ready to set sail this morning, in order to solve the time, the slave merchants let the slaves sleep on the ships last night, and in this way, these slaves were lucky to avoid the night shootout.
Walbeck was thrilled to see the yellow-skinned natives, strung together by ropes, and placed in the silos like pigs, and he immediately ordered the natives to be released, and at the same time demanded that the soldiers find the slave traders and execute them directly.
Walbeck's actions were embraced by the natives. The natives were already desperate, but they didn't expect salvation to come so quickly, and they were freed so quickly. Walbeck's liberation of the natives was strongly supported by the local natives, and his prestige in Angola was greatly increased, and many natives asked to join his team and help him fight the evil Bostonians.
With a large amount of Boston arms seized from the port of Anroda, Walbeck recruited quite a few new soldiers. In addition to retaining the backbone of 800 people, he assigned all the soldiers to be officers, and led those recruits who had grown to 20,000 for training, and the strength of the Yugoslav Army was growing rapidly.
Walbeck fought vigorously in Angola, and Brigadier General Baden and Senior Colonel Ouyang Zhe's troops were also nimbly attacking Boston's Seventh Army in the rainforest, but these were only harassing and sluggish battles, and they were not important to the overall strategic situation, and the most important war was still going on in the Brand Mountains, and it was about to go to the most critical moment.
A 1005-millimeter grenade landed less than 20 meters to the left of Regiment Commander Hou Yu, and if he hadn't seen the opportunity quickly and hid in a nearby anti-artillery hole in advance, I'm afraid he would have turned into a corpse by now. Even if he dodged fast enough, the power of the cannonball was too great if he was too close, and he was also dizzy from the huge shock wave of the cannonball, and his ears were buzzing.
"Hold on, withstand the enemy's attack." Even though his mind was dizzy, he still remembered the order given to him by his superiors, to hold on to the Brand Mountains, and not to let the Third Army advance even a single step. At this time, there were only more than 300 people left in his full regiment, and in the two days of operation, despite the strong support of the division's artillery, they still lost too many soldiers, and in the positions in several other directions, the battle was also very fierce, all the units of the entire division were fighting, the casualties of each unit were very large, and there were no reserves to send at all.
Hou Yu was in charge of the frontal blocking mission, and he was under the greatest pressure in this battle, but even so, he never asked Gao Dazhuang for reinforcements, because he knew very well that the division commander actually had no reserves in his hands at all.
"Insist, you must persevere, reinforcements are coming." Hou Yu muttered, not knowing if he was encouraging the soldiers or himself. There were no more soldiers by Hou Yu's side, and his personal guard battalion Zhou Peng was also seriously injured and unconscious in yesterday's battle to protect him, and had to be carried down by the stretcher team.
"Come up, the enemy is coming up, hit me, hit hard." Hou Yu shouted, picking up an automatic rifle is a shuttle. When the bullets were empty, he didn't bother to change the magazine, so he picked up a grenade from the side of the trench in each hand, bit off the pull ring with his teeth, and threw it out in succession. The explosion of the grenade knocked out several Boston soldiers, but many more charged up the hillside, and with a much smaller number of Wehrmacht soldiers, they were simply not able to kill.
Hou Yu's head was bruised, and the enemy he saw was getting closer and closer, and his hand reached for an anti-tank cannonball. Removing the safety of the shell fuse, he threw the shell out with a wave of his hand. The weight of the 88-mm shell was not light, and even if Hou Yu's arm strength was outstanding, it was only thrown more than ten meters away. This shell was not a solid armor-piercing shell, but a fully charged armor-fragmenting shell. A loud explosion was soon heard, dozens of Boston soldiers were knocked down, and he himself was cut in the head by a piece of shrapnel.
Throwing shells is desperate, throwing such a large-caliber shell at such a close distance, there is really not much difference between throwing such a large-caliber shell and ending up together, but at this time Hou Yu has no choice, he must fight hard in order to hold the position.
picked up another cannonball, Hou Yu wanted to repeat the old trick, and at this time, a strong big hand held him down. "You kid deserves to be called a monkey maniac, and you dare to do such a dangerous thing." A thick voice came from behind him, making Hou Yu stunned when he heard it, he turned to look, and sure enough, it was the division commander who came to his position.
"Commander, why are you here?" Hou Yu looked at Gao Dazhuang in surprise and said, "It's too dangerous here, you better go back." ”
Gao Dazhuang glared at him and said, "If I don't come again, the position will be lost." You are now a regiment commander, not a recruit, you have to coordinate and command the battle, don't always fight alone and fight bravely, when you can't hold on, you don't ask me for reinforcements, in case the position is lost, even if you die in battle, you are guilty, you know? ”
Hou Yu knew that he had made a major mistake and almost caused an irreparable situation, so he quickly lowered his head and didn't dare to squeak. Seeing Hou Yu's appearance, Gao Dazhuang laughed and said: "Okay, as long as the position is not lost, you are considered a meritorious hero, you see that I have brought the guard company, and the main force will arrive soon, we will definitely be able to hold on." ”
At this moment, a dense sound of artillery came from a distance, and a number of people in Wehrmacht uniforms suddenly poured out of the hills in the distance, and launched an attack on the rear of the Bostonians. The attention of the Bostonians was all drawn to the frontal battlefield, and in order to eliminate the blocking force in front of them as quickly as possible, they threw all their forces into the attack, leaving no reserves in the rear.
Summerville was furious that he had lost more than 10,000 men in the past two days, but still had not opened the way forward, and just as he was about to launch his next attack, he was suddenly attacked from the rear. Protected at the rear, the artillerymen, who were firing vigorously, were caught off guard and were quickly dispersed by the Wehrmacht.
After capturing the heavy artillery brought by the Bostonians, the Wehrmacht artillerymen who came with the team immediately turned their guns around and aimed them at the rear of the Boston Army and began to bombard them fiercely. Hit by heavy firepower, the Boston Army had a lot of confusion, Cheng Guangling led the 192nd Army that had just arrived to launch an attack from the left flank, and Liang Yichao, who led the 199th Army, also cooperated to launch an attack from the right flank.