Chapter 577: The Offensive of the Allies

Due to the call of the corps headquarters, most of the Boston search team hurried back to the port, but the 218th Brigade was delayed by constant attacks, and there were no friendly troops in the vicinity of the 218th Brigade. The Bostons did not have the light infantry guns of the Chinese Empire, and mortars could not be used in the rainforest, so the heaviest weapon of the search team was only machine guns.

Under the artillery fire of Walbeck's direct forces, the Bostonians were crushed and could not hold their heads up. The gunfire became more and more intense, killing many of the Bostonians exposed to the muddy water, and they had to slowly shrink their defenses, relying on a few large trees on the side of the road to resist stubbornly, but the big trees could not stop the bombardment of infantry artillery. Many of the trees that the Boston soldiers were relying on were blown down, but the scattered pieces of wood became their life-killing talisman like throwing knives, and many pieces of wood flying out at high speed even inserted into the human body, beating the soldiers to blood.

The Bostonians wanted to surrender, but Walbeck knew that he couldn't let the other side know the truth and that their guerrilla warfare was destined not to carry prisoners, so he didn't care about the white flag raised by the other side, and still killed and injured the other party with intensive firepower.

Under the onslaught of the native soldiers, the Bostonians became fewer and fewer, and at the end of the day, they were strangled and killed an hour later. Since the caliber of the Garand rifles of the Bostonians was the same as the Type 07 semi-automatic rifles of the Chinese Empire, the indigenous soldiers collected all the weapons of the Bostonians to replenish their ammunition, and they soon disappeared into the dense forest.

"What? The 218 Brigade was completely annihilated? When Major General McLean heard the news, his eyes widened out in shock, he had already overestimated the strength of the other party, but he never expected that the other side actually had the strength to completely annihilate a brigade of the regular army in Boston, and the enemy corpses found by the search team that followed were also some natives, and it was impossible to find out which side of the soldiers it was.

The only thing that gave him some clues was that these soldiers were wearing jackets made in the Chinese Empire without epaulettes and collar emblems, but this kind of clothing had long been sold by the Chinese Empire to all parts of the world, and even in the Western Continent and the New World, it was even popular as fashion for a period of time.

While Major General McLean was struggling with whether to continue the search, Walbeck had already taken advantage of the darkness of the night to sneak across the Congo River from between the river gunboat patrols and return to his possessions.

Walbeck fought so well in the south, but not in the north, the colonial armies of the Habfsburg Kingdom and the Grand Duchy of Sardinia were already of poor quality, and with too few men and inferior weapons, they were basically crushed after engaging the Boston army. The Boston Empire's attacking forces made their way through the Niger River, and the Yaman Empire's colonies in the northern part of the Southern Subcontinent were already in jeopardy.

Boston's Southern Subcontinent Expeditionary Force was well-equipped, morale-high, and supported by a steady stream of soldiers and supplies from the Boston Empire at sea, making it inevitable that the attack would be fairly easy.

In the face of the colonies' distress telegrams three times a day, the Central countries were naturally anxious, but they knew in their hearts that without the advantage of the sea, except for the Grand Duchy of Sardinia using transport planes to carry out some airdrop operations, they could not provide any support to the colonial forces in the southern subcontinent, and even sea transportation was impossible because of the large number of submarine forces of the Axis countries.

For this reason, the Yaman Empire sent special envoys to discuss with the Chinese Empire to jointly contain the aggression of the Axis bloc, and on the other hand, it mobilized troops in the hope of defeating Hungary and Slovakia in the east, so as to avoid its own situation of fighting on two fronts.

Taking advantage of the fact that the main forces of the Axis powers were trapped in the southern subcontinent, the Yaman Empire and the Habfsburg Kingdom mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops and launched a surprise attack on the border of more than 1,000 kilometers. The superior air force and tank units were frantically wreaking havoc, so that Hungary and Slovakia, which had a small land area and no strategic depth, suffered from the catastrophe from the beginning.

Although the two countries were prepared, they had always believed that the center of gravity of the Allied attack was in the direction of the Nantes Empire, so they were ill-prepared for a possible attack. The two countries were attacked suddenly, and a large number of planes were destroyed on the airfield before they could take off, and because they were sandwiched between the allies and NATO, their strategic position was quite unfavorable, and there were no allies at all who could support them nearby.

It is precisely because of this situation that the Boston Empire did not give the best equipment to these two countries, which means that in the eyes of the Boston Empire, these two countries are used to delay time, and they have indeed become such characters.

With equipment slightly inferior to that of the Allied bloc, heavy losses in the early stages of the war, and a lack of strategic depth and troops, the two countries thoroughly experienced the treatment of the Grand Duchy of Sayre in the First World War. Under the rapid interspersed offensive of the powerful Yaman Army, the two countries held out for only a week before surrendering.

After occupying the territory of both countries, the forces of the Allied bloc quickly withdrew and were again deployed to the border of the Nantes Empire. The defeat and surrender of the two countries so quickly that the Boston military was extremely annoyed.

It's just that now the attack on the Southern Subcontinent has reached a critical moment, and although the colonial army is low, there are too many areas that need to be controlled. The Boston military had no idea in advance that it would require so many troops to disperse its troops across the country, and that they would have to take full control of the Allied resistance due to the overwhelming strength of the Allies. So far, the Boston Empire has invested more than a million troops, and it is still overstretched.

In order to speed up the pace of the offensive and liberate its troops from the Southern Subcontinent and plunge them into the Western Continent Battlefield, the Boston Empire once again increased its troops and launched a fierce attack on the colonies of the Allied bloc in the Southern Subcontinent with a great superiority in troops.

With the assistance of a large number of air forces, the Allied colonies were quickly encroached upon, except for the southern Angola region, only a small area near the area controlled by the Chinese Empire in Port Alexandra, and tens of thousands of Yaman colonial troops remained, relying on the covert support of the Chinese Empire.

The Boston Empire did not have time to continue to grind in the southern subcontinent, and after leaving the 300,000 Thar Army and 50,000 Dosero Army to continue to attack the remnants of the Central Powers, and using the newly recruited troops in the country to take over the control of the colony, the main army began to assemble near the port of Ceuta, and the Boston Empire began to hoard supplies and prepare to land on the Western Continent to fight.

But in the operation of a million troops, the preparation of materials is an astronomical amount, not to mention that the materials need to be transferred from within the Boston Empire, which cannot be replenished in a short period of time, so it will take at least a month for the Boston army to enter the Western Continent to fight. The Confederates will not sit idly by, and when the Boston Empire is still fighting in the southern subcontinent, they have already launched an attack on the Nantes Empire in order to gain the strategic initiative.

The Nantes Empire can be described as the eternal pain of the Yaman Empire, the last time the world war, the Yaman Empire was in the territory of the Nantes Empire for a hard tug of war, has been fighting here for several years, seriously depleting its own national strength and soldiers, directly resulting in millions of soldiers buried here, until nearly 20 years later, the number of young adults has not recovered.

In order to attack the Nantes Empire, the Yaman Empire military can be described as painstaking, after studying a number of fortress fortifications in the Nantes Empire, they planned a combat plan to bypass the border fortress group and carry out a surprise attack from the direction of the Ardennes Forest, and on March 17, 923 AD, this bold combat operation finally began.

"Tell the front to speed up, we must get to Maubge City before sunset tonight." The commander of the Second Army of the Yaman Army, Admiral Guderian, ordered loudly. At this time, his troops were struggling to march through the Ardennes Forest, and at the forefront were the engineer units belonging to the Fourth Army.

The Ardennes was low-lying and close to the coast, so it was not equipped to build large underground permanent fortifications, and could only build some completely above-ground pillboxes, which could easily become targets for the Yaman army's artillery, so this impenetrable line was quickly breached under the heavy artillery and bomber attacks.

Under the fierce attack of the Yaman army, 70,000 Nantes troops were annihilated, many more were wounded or captured, and the remaining twelve armies had already suffered more than half of the casualties, and some even had only an empty shelf left, and they had to retreat in a hurry. At this time, in order to defend against the combined pressure of the main forces of the three allies of the Central Powers, the main force of the Nantes Army has been hiding in the border fortifications and cannot move, and they are powerless against the defeat in the north.

Regarding the erroneous command of the Boston Empire first in the Southern Subcontinent and then in the Western Continent, the Nantes military has already greeted all the female relatives of the eighteenth generation of its royal family, but the Boston Empire is the boss, even if its command is wrong, it cannot be ignored, so it will cause the Nantes Army to face the situation of the joint attack of the Three Kingdoms Alliance alone.

Admiral Guderian's troops stopped because the front of the troops had turned into a swamp, and although the chariot units were quite sure to pass through these swampy areas, the Yaman Empire did not have the complete armored forces of the Chinese Empire.

In addition to combat vehicles, infantry trucks and supply vehicles, especially fuel tankers, were all ordinary wheeled vehicles, which were more demanding on the terrain, so Admiral Guderian had to stop and let the sappers cut down trees and pave roads large enough for wheeled vehicles.

There are a lot of such swamps in the Ardennes Forest, and it is not the first time that the Yaman Second Army has encountered it, because their own equipment is not good, they can only be patient, and slowly advance by paving the road little by little, Guderian looked at the distance of less than thirty kilometers on the map and cursed in his heart, if the country had started to develop tracked armored vehicles and similar material transport vehicles earlier, he would have already inserted himself into the territory of the Nantes Empire, and now in order to wait for those wheeled vehicles, he had to wait here, and let his precious time be wasted.