Chapter 721: Pretending to be an enemy soldier
After two hours of shelling, the unbearable Axis soldiers were forced to retreat gradually, they had been completely driven into the river by artillery fire, and when the NATO Allied soldiers who were following the barrage appeared on the river embankment and pointed at them with various automatic weapons, they had no choice but to surrender.
Li Guojun was quite adaptable, and after capturing more than 30,000 Axis soldiers, he immediately had a plan. A unit of the Wehrmacht quickly changed into the Axis uniforms of the captured soldiers, pretended to be defeated and fled in the direction of Odessa, while Li Guojun personally followed behind with an army of more than 100,000 troops, looking like he was desperately pursuing.
The 'Axis Defeated Army', dressed in a dirty uniform, but surprisingly unarmed with weapons in everyone's hands, approached the city of Odessa at a fairly fast pace. Listening to the fierce gunfire from far and near, the defenders of Odessa, who had already entered the fortifications around the city, were the first to see the defeated soldiers rushing towards the city. The commander of the defenders also wanted to send someone to interrogate them, but the large number of NATO allied pursuers that soon appeared on the horizon made them dare not move.
Seeing that the defeated soldiers of the friendly army were approaching, they could not be too unkind, and the defenders could only let these defeated soldiers pass through and let them enter the city to take refuge. With the 'Friendly Defeated' in the city, the defenders immediately redeployed their positions and prepared for their upcoming attack.
The defeated soldiers, who hurried past with their hats lowered, ran through the positions and headed deeper into the city, but none of the defenders doubted. If one takes a closer look, one will see that many of them are dressed a little oversized, as if they were not their own, and most of them are yellow-skinned, unlike the white skin of the Bostonians.
In fact, even if you don't look at it, as long as someone thinks about it carefully, they will have questions, how can these people who escaped with two legs escape the pursuit of mechanized troops. But no one will be so attentive at this time, because they simply do not have time to think about anything else at the moment, and they do not have time to observe the awkward image of these defeated soldiers, because the pursuers of the NATO allies are already approaching.
Li Guojun's troops came prepared, and a large number of self-propelled guns began to fire a series of shells as they marched, and the dense shells bombarded the Axis defense lines, while the charging troops were led by Grizzly 3 tanks, and a large number of infantry fighting vehicles followed behind to charge the position.
The Axis troops, who were in full array, immediately began to fire back with the anti-tank guns on the position, and the anti-tank guns of various calibers began to shoot desperately, and even many large-caliber anti-aircraft guns were flattened and fired at the tanks with armor-piercing shells, while the heavy artillery in the rear also began to block and fire to cut off the follow-up units of the Chinese army.
Most of the shells did not work at all against the Grizzly 3 tanks, and only a few dozen vehicles were destroyed by direct hits from heavy artillery, and the continuous bombardment of the Chinese army's tank guns reduced more anti-tank guns to a part state. The NATO tanker units were getting closer, and this time many Axis soldiers straightened up from their trenches, their shoulders all fighting against the 80mm bazookas copied by the Boston Empire, relying on these short-range anti-tank weapons, the losses of NATO tanks began to increase.
Lieutenant General Handy, the Odessa commander of the Axis forces, nodded with satisfaction when he saw the bazooka sent to the battlefield for the first time, according to his estimate, the NATO Allied forces would soon retreat, but to his consternation, the NATO tank group was still advancing, they were constantly machine-gun firing the trenches, and at the same time bombarding all the targets that could be seen with the tank guns.
Lieutenant General Handy was a little stunned by the NATO army's attrition at all costs, and he didn't understand why the other side would do this. With such an outrageous hard charge, even if they were able to defeat the Odessa garrison and occupy the city, their losses would be quite heavy, which was not worth the loss, but soon the answer appeared.
"Commander, the search team is back, the troops in the city are very weak, there are not many infantry at all, their material warehouse area is in the south city, and the artillery is in the square in the north of the city, we can start the operation." The commander of the third division, Kong Chengdong, leaned over to the side of the army commander Wu Yunduo and whispered.
Wu Yunduo is just thirty-five years old, but he is already the commander of the main force of the National Defense Force, and officers below his rank, including Kong Chengdong and others, are already a new generation who have grown up from the Chinese leader, and these people have infinite loyalty to Fang Xiaoyu, and they are willing to give everything for the motherland. In such a dangerous hidden mission, it was with the other party's Xiaoyu and infinite loyalty to the country that Wu Yunduo, as the military commander, would come in person, and this task was snatched by him by all means, because there were not a few people in the army who thought the same as him.
Seeing that the search team had returned, Wu Yunduo nodded and said: "Very good, our troops are divided into three routes and start acting immediately, the first and second divisions will go with me to destroy the enemy's artillery positions, and the third division will go to the warehouse area in the south of the city to try to take it down." ”
Hearing the task assigned by the army commander, the three division commanders immediately went to gather the team and prepared for action. Half an hour later, the two divisions led by Wu Yunduo had already moved to the north of the city, and on the way he sent the general sniper brigade out, and all the enemy troops he saw were sniped in advance, anyway, there was a dense gunfire outside the city as a cover, and no one cared.
Secretly coming to the south of the city, Wu Yunduo quickly climbed a three-story building, and through the gap in the building, he used a telescope to carefully observe the artillerymen who were shooting hard in the square not far away. The garrison in the city was insufficient, and in order to cope with the attack of the troops led by Li Guojun, all the infantry were pushed onto the defensive line, and at this time, except for a few recruit patrols to maintain law and order, there was no infantry unit in the city, and even near the heavy artillery position, there was no covering infantry.
Perhaps thinking that they should be very safe behind their positions, these artillerymen did not pay attention to the movements around them, but single-mindedly operated the artillery according to the coordinates from the observation post, and fired shells at the attacking Chinese army.
"All the troops surround this place, and then send a company to knock out that artillery observation post." Wu Yunduo said and pointed to the observation post located on the top of the tallest building nearby, at which time a slender telephone line was being pulled down from the roof and connected to the command post near the artillery position, apparently as a temporary measure by the Axis troops after radio interference.
The second division commander nodded and said, "I'll go to that observation post myself." ”
Nearly 20,000 soldiers of the two divisions quietly dispersed and slowly surrounded the square, while the commander of the second division quickly rushed into the building with his own guard company. Without any infantry defense, the guard company controlled the building floor by floor, and with the clatter of military leather boots on the concrete steps, one of the soldiers in front stretched out his leg and kicked open the iron door of the top floor.
When the second soldier saw the iron door open, he rushed in with a semi-automatic rifle and shouted, "Don't move, raise your hands." The artillery observers, who were nervously observing, looked stunned, and turned to find a group of soldiers in Boston uniforms standing behind them with Garand rifles.
The observers did not yet know what had taken place, and several of the fighters of the guard company had already stepped forward and tied them up, and the artillery observation post was completely controlled. As the signal of the second division commander was issued, Wu Yunduo, who saw that the observation post had been controlled, immediately issued an order to attack.
Twenty thousand soldiers armed with semi-automatic rifles rushed out of the streets and rushed to the wide southern square of the city. The Axis artillerymen, who were working hard to carry out the shelling, had no idea what was happening, and the muzzles of the black holes were already aimed at their chests. How could the artillery without light weapons resist these infantry with semi-automatic rifles, they were quickly dispersed or captured, and a large number of heavy artillery also fell into the hands of Wu Yunduo.
Gathering all the prisoners together, Wu Yunduo ordered the artillerymen who followed the troops to quickly debug the artillery, and some artillery observers of the Chinese army also climbed the tall building and began to measure the distance for their artillery.
As soon as the artillery fire in the rear stopped, Lieutenant General Handy sensed that something was wrong. Before he could send someone to inquire, several of the escaped Axis artillerymen had already been brought to the front command and reported to Lieutenant General Handy. When Lieutenant General Handy learns that they have been attacked by those pretended routers and have lost their heavy artillery positions, he realizes that he has fallen into the trap of NATO's allies.
There were only more than 40,000 defenders fighting fiercely with NATO allies in the position, and if he sent troops to attack those 'routs' in the city, the troops on the front line would be insufficient, so he was also in a dilemma, not knowing what to do.
Wu Yunduo did not give Lieutenant General Handy much time to think, because under the operation of the Chinese artillery, the sound of those heavy artillery soon sounded from the artillery positions in the city again, but this time their target was changed to the Axis troops who were holding their positions.
The artillery bombardment from the rear blew up the Axis defenders who were caught off guard, and the entire front line was suddenly agitated by the front and rear, and most of the 'routers' had already turned back to their positions on the edge of the city, and under the cover of artillery fire, they charged the defenders' positions from behind.
The dense shelling made it impossible for the defenders to raise their heads at all, and from the very beginning of the design, it was difficult to defend against attacks from behind with only positions in the face of external threats in mind. The situation of the enemy on the back caused a lot of confusion in the positions of the defenders, and Lieutenant General Handy managed to calm the morale of the army, but the defeat of the Axis defenders was assured.
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