Under the strong firepower of NATO Allied forces, the relatively simple terrain in the field could not give these troops effective protection, and in just one week, more than 70 troops were ambushed, killing and wounding and capturing as many as 150,000, many of whom chose to surrender when there was no hope of breaking through.

Ten days after the order was issued, Howell realized that he had made a mistake. At this time, a large number of troops had lost contact, and even the city of Sofiev was completely cut off due to the continuous interference of the Chinese army's high-power jammers, and the troops led by Li Guojun had begun to divide their forces to control the nearby cities.

After completely encircling the city of Sofiev with anti-tank trenches and criss-crossing groups of infantry trenches, the Wehrmacht left only 50,000 troops and some heavy artillery to continue the siege, and other units began to occupy the city that was already undefended, and in a very short time, the NATO coalition forces took control of a vast area south of Mironovka at a very slight cost, completely cutting off the southern railway line of the Cossack Empire, and at the same time threatening the Kiev defenders.

As a large base for logistical supplies, the defenders of Kyiv exceeded 300,000 people, and despite the large number, they did not dare to leave the city, because there were supplies here that were very important to the front line, the number of which was enough to last 10 million troops on the front line for two months. If the city of Kyiv is successfully attacked, it is safe to assume that Howell's army will collapse immediately.

The Axis forces guarding the city of Kyiv watched as the NATO allies wreaked havoc outside the city and even vandalized the railway line, but they could do nothing. When the logistics troops were transporting supplies, they could only bring a group of railroad and railroad soldiers to let them walk while repairing, and every time they escorted supplies, they wanted to send out a large army, mobilizing tens of thousands of troops to accompany them, and they were nervous all the time, for fear that the NATO allies would sneak attack.

After discovering that the offensive of Li Guojun's troops was becoming more and more rampant, Howell withdrew some of his air force from the front to counter the Gao Hongbu air force, which was gradually shifting the center of gravity of its garrison north, but this reduced the pressure on the Gao De language department and allowed them to gradually suppress the Axis air force.

The Axis Air Force began to replace the F104 fighter in large numbers, and this new fighter was the result of the cooperation of Boston scientists, who used their extraordinary intelligence to improve the fighter in a very short period of time, while also minimizing modifications to ensure that the parts could be used. The new aircraft increased horsepower to more than four thousand horsepower, allowing it to reach a top speed of more than Mach 1.5.

The F104 fighter fuselage is very long, the wings are wide and short, and the tail has become a T-shape, which is a design made purely to increase the speed of the aircraft, but it has been proved in actual combat that although such a design increases speed, it has caused many defects.

First of all, because the wing of the aircraft is too short, the wing load is too large, and the lift will naturally be limited, and once the aircraft encounters engine failure in the air, other long-wing aircraft can rely on gliding to land, while the F104 fighter will fall in a straight line.

In addition, due to the limited lift of the aircraft, it is difficult to change out when the aircraft enters a stall state, at which point the pilot can only choose to parachute, but what is even more tragic is that it has a T-tail. When the plane fell at high speed, the pilots used the ejection seat to escape, often cutting the T-tail in two on the way, which made the Axis pilots hate the aircraft.

After the improvements, these areas received certain modifications, mainly the addition of a new flap system to help the aircraft get out of a stall state, the use of new ejection seats to ensure that the pilot was able to avoid the huge T-tail, and the simplification of the control system so that the new pilots with little experience could master it as soon as possible, but despite this, the performance of this aircraft could not surpass that of the Golden Eagle 4C.

Relying on the joint production of several industrial powers on the western continent, the number of F104 fighters received by the Axis powers is three times that of the Northwest aircraft factory, which allows the two air forces to still have a tie. This time, Howell did not dare to send too many air forces, for fear that the air supremacy of the front line would be obtained by the Chinese Air Force again, so they only sent three fighter wings.

The Mediterranean Military Region of the Chinese Air Force has not yet had time to replace it with a new type of aircraft, they still use the Golden Eagle 4B fighters, and the Istanbul Air Force uses the Golden Eagle 4A, but their number of fighters is as high as 2,000, and with the more superb technology of the pilots, they are enough to suppress more than 200 F104 fighters.

The air threat was partially alleviated, and the Axis forces began to mobilize reinforcements in this direction, whether it was the Saar Army in the north or the Boston Army guarding the Strait in the south, they all drew part of their forces and surrounded Kyiv.

Li Guojun only had 500,000 troops in his hands, many of which were Iraqi troops, and the fighters were slightly lower than the Chinese army, but the other side divided troops to reinforce them, giving Li Guojun a chance to break through. After the information of the other side's reinforcements was sent to the headquarters, Li Guojun decisively ordered the troops to retreat, stopped the harassment of the Kiev region, and after sending an additional 50,000 Iraqi troops to the garrison besieging the city of Sofiev, he led the troops of eight corps to surround the Odessa region.

The increase in strength of the besieging forces was to enable them to defend against reinforcements from the Axis forces from the east at a critical moment to ensure that the Crimean Peninsula was not lost, and to lead the main force south was to annihilate the southern reinforcements of the Axis powers.

200,000 troops drawn from the straits were advancing along the Black Sea coast, and they planned to cross the Odessa region, and then enter Kherson, threatening to surround the city of Sofiev from the west. The Axis plan was for reinforcements from the south to wait for an opportunity to relieve the Axis forces there, retake the Crimean Peninsula, and cut off the supply lines of the landed Chinese forces. But Li Guojun will not let their dream come true, just as the reinforcements have just left Odessa and are advancing towards Kherson, Li Guojun's troops have already set up an ambush circle on the South Bug River.

"Hurry up, hurry up and cross the river." An Axis commander in the uniform of a lieutenant colonel in Boston brandished a pistol and shouted orders to the soldiers who were pulling the raft. Since there were no boats, the soldiers took local materials, cut down trees and tied up a large number of rafts, which they were about to use to start crossing the river.

Paddled desperately with homemade wooden paddles, groups of soldiers began to cross the river one after another. Without any attack, the first soldiers successfully climbed the riverbank, and they stepped onto the riverbank. The soldiers sat around and rested, while a few rowed the raft back across the river to pick up the next group of soldiers.

The number of soldiers on the east bank gradually increased, but because the people who crossed the river belonged to different units, they had not yet been integrated into a group, and the commanders could not find their own team, they shouted on the embankment, ordering their soldiers to come and line up, and for a time the whole embankment was in chaos.

"Why didn't the company commander let us attack?" One of the Wehrmacht soldiers looked anxiously at the Axis troops, who had already crossed most of the river, wondering why they had not yet been allowed to start shooting. By this time the Wehrmacht soldiers had already laid an ambush on both sides of the river, and in order not to be seen by the enemy, they dug earth pits in the ground and camouflaged them on the top of the pits, so that it would be difficult to spot them unless they approached.

The Axis commander looked at the flat land on both sides of the river, and he thought that there would be no ambush in this place with an open horizon, so he still commanded the Axis troops to cross the river slowly, and also let those commanders slowly gather their troops without the slightest hurry.

At this moment, a whistling sound sounded from the air, and the commander, who was accustomed to hearing this sound on the battlefield, looked up in astonishment, and he saw a group of black dots approaching rapidly. The black dots grew larger and larger, and soon they were flying over the Axis armies, and it was only then that he could see what they were.

"Enemy attack, there is artillery bombardment, quickly hide." The commander shouted loudly, but the people he wanted to warn could not hear him, because the shells were directed at the troops on the other side who had just landed. The sound of the bombardment sounded one after another, and the already chaotic group of soldiers became even more chaotic, and they all lay on the embankment, dodging the shrapnel produced by the explosion of the shells, but soon the second wave of shelling came.

This time the shelling was rockets, and the Storm Bear 2E rocket artillery group, which was twenty kilometers away, began to exert its might. Dense rockets covered the entire embankment, hiding the Axis soldiers lying on the ground in a cloud of dust kicked up by the explosion, and most of those who were not killed by shrapnel were killed by the shock wave from the ground.

Dense gunfire suddenly rang out on both sides of the South Bug River at the same time, and countless soldiers emerged from the ground, firing desperately at the unstoppable Axis soldiers. The soldiers who stood on the embankment were killed, while some of the quicker ones rushed into the river to avoid the heavy rain of bullets.

The soldiers who were in the river looked stupidly at the falling friendly troops on both banks, they didn't know which direction to reinforce, but soon they didn't have to worry about it, because the heavy artillery group of the NATO army that was extending its fire began to take care of them in the middle of the river.

Faced with an all-out attack from both directions, the Axis commanders had to shrink their forces and spread everyone out on the embankment, relying on the high embankment to withstand the rain of bullets, but it took a lot of time for the heavy artillery to pull up the embankment, and in the dense battlefield of bullets, they had to be abandoned.

Li Guojun ordered the troops to shrink slowly, squeezing the defensive space of the Axis troops little by little, and using the artillery with superior range to abuse the nerves of the Axis soldiers. Under the intense shelling, the Axis soldiers were overwhelmed and had to retreat slowly, gradually being driven into the river.