"Alas". Stilwell sighed and picked up the main points to elaborate briefly.

It turned out that after Montgomery sent Grant and others to intercept the military transport vehicles, the news from the headquarters of Guò, combined with the information provided by the monitoring radar, found that the garrison of Mondstadt was heading towards the Gangt Mountains in the north, and it was rumored that there was a large-scale riot in the resource mining area, and the rebellious miners were preparing to advance to the southwest and occupy a military base on the Diromos Plateau.

"Unite the forces that can be united" was the slogan shouted by Marion, and likewise, the strategic policy of the rebel army.

The garrison of Mondstadt rushed to support, and the miners were bound to be defeated by their fighting prowess. After much consideration, Montgomery felt that it was necessary to rescue them and strengthen the forces of the Northern Union Army, and of course, if he could uproot the air base on the Diromos Plateau, it would be a double win.

So, about a battalion of troops was sent to guide the miners to evacuate.

The garrison of Mondstadt came to the aid of the Diromos Plateau, and the city's defensive capabilities were greatly reduced, which was a good time to expand the victory. After discussion and research by the General Staff, an action plan was finally made to repair the plank road in the open and Chen Cang in the dark.

In addition to the 500 troops who supported the miners' uprising, the number of coalition troops stationed at the Macanda plant was about 15,000. Montgomery divided the 15,000 into three groups.

The first group of 3,000 men attacked an airlift terminal 100 kilometers north of the Dala salt works in the northeast where the government was hoarding grain and waiting for it to be transported.

The second group of 1,800 men, all in armored vehicles with excellent speed performance, bypassed the city of Mondstadt from the north, interspersed behind enemy lines, and maneuvered left and right around the logistics supply lines of the First Army, bluffing, creating a sign of cutting off the enemy's rear route.

The two groups were only trying to confuse the military, but in fact, a force of 10,000 men was marching from the Makanda Arsenal to the west of Mondstadt.

The distance between the Makanda Arsenal and the city of Mondstadt was only 47 kilometers, and Montgomery did not move the operational command center, but only took about 300 defensive troops with him, and remained in Makanda to command the operation.

The assault on Mondstadt went smoothly, and in less than three hours, the two battalions of soldiers left behind in the city hoisted white flags and surrendered. At the same time, news of the victory in the war also came from the troops attacking the air terminal from the north.

Montgomery and others rejoiced that the loss of Mondstadt would result in the loss of the First Army's front-line stronghold to suppress the Allied forces in Northern Jiangsu, which was undoubtedly a very heavy blow to the government forces. On the other hand, after occupying the city of Mondstadt, the Northern Union Army could use this as a springboard to radiate its military influence to the west, north, and south, and to connect with the Southern Soviet Alliance Army operating in the southern part of the Sunaru River, bringing most of the eastern coast of the Odin continent under the control of the rebel army. Directly forced the First Army Corps to retreat to the western interior.

In addition, the occupation of Mondstadt would bring another benefit: a large number of peasants, laborers, and proletariats who longed for the rebels would enthusiastically join the revolutionary ranks and become members of the Northern Union Army, and the power of the rebels would naturally rise.

Montgomery's ideas were good and his strategic calculations were good, however, something unexpected happened to him. An elite unit of the government army suddenly appeared on the outskirts of the Makanda Arsenal, surrounded the headquarters of the Northern Union Army and launched a ferocious offensive.

The garrison of the rebel army was only 300 people, and under the attack of the elite troops of half a brigade of the opposing side, all they could do was to retreat and defend. At the same time, the Second Fleet in the South China Sea, which had been lying in a military port for a long time, took advantage of the fact that the main fleets of the two sides were tug-of-war in the North Sea, bypassed the southeast coast occupied by the Soviet Union Army, and went all the way to the north, plunging into the Root Bay from the east, like a sharp knife, directly approaching the throat of the coalition army.

Now Montgomery was stupid, combined with the movement of the enemy army and the tactical layout, he recognized a fact. He was overshadowed, and the military played a trick to lure the enemy deeper. Taking the riot on the Diromos Plateau as an opportunity, and then using the city of Mondstadt as a bait, he lured the Northern Union Army to use troops to the east. So that the elite troops of the offensive command, as well as the missile destroyer formations in Lut Bay, were cut off from the rear and cut off the rear of the rebels.

I was afraid that the 408th Armored Division of the Government Army, which had rushed to the northwest from Mondstadt to support the northwest, would launch an attack on the Allied Army from the northwest and southwest directions in cooperation with the 508th Armored Division stationed at the headquarters of the First Army Corps in the western interior. At that time, in the face of the military's attack from three sides, our own army will inevitably be defeated. Even if you are entrenched in Mondstadt, you will still have a fluctuating military spirit under siege, and it will be difficult to hold on for long.

Thinking that the Confederate army was about to face such a situation, Montgomery gritted his teeth and informed the front line of the attack on the Arsenal of Makanda, and ordered the rebel army in Mondstadt to abandon its original goal and withdraw south to join the Allied forces in Southern Sudan.

By making such a decision, he has given up saving himself and died generously for the sake of justice.

Unfortunately, his men refused to cooperate. The Arsenal of Macanda is less than 50 kilometers from the city of Mondstadt, and it can take at most half an hour to get there on a rapid march.

The top brass of the Northern Union Army headed by Stilwell and Schonet decided to return to the west for reinforcements, and after rescuing Montgomery, they turned north to join up with a group of troops attacking the airlift terminal, and then retreated north along the coastline, so that as long as they could reach the northeast coast, they could take refuge under the wings of the First and Second Fleets in the North Sea and preserve the strength of their troops.

However, what they never expected was that the 1,500-man unit besieging the headquarters, under the cover of the missile destroyer formation in Root Bay, was stunned to withstand the onslaught of more than half of the rebel army's armored divisions again and again.

What made them even more angry was that the communication with the command was electronically interfered with and paralyzed. If the headquarters falls and Montgomery dies, they will immediately turn around and retreat, but the key is that Montgomery and the others are still alive.

Abandonment of Command? Watching a comrade die in battle? They are not reconciled. Don't give up? Go on the offensive? Even fools can see that the enemy is clearly playing delaying tactics, and once the enemy troops from the northwest and southwest arrive in the northwest, they will eat them all like dumplings. For a time, the coalition army was in a dilemma.

After listening to the narration, Grant's face became a little embarrassed, thinking that they were the only ones in danger, but he didn't expect that even the command department experienced a nightmare scene.

"So what do we do next?"

Stilwell was just about to speak, when a conscript, carrying a bloodied warrior, passed by.

"Wait." Stilwell stepped forward, ignoring the filth of the blood, wiped the blood from the warrior's face with his sleeve, and gently brushed his angry eyes: "Let's go." ”

A stretcher passed by in the back, and a large hole was blown out of the left abdomen of the wounded soldier, and blood gushed out, falling to the ground drop by drop along the steel plate below.

He was shaking, his face was pale without a trace of blood, listening attentively, a voice like a whisper, and a low hum like ** lingering in his ears.

Stilwell's eyes flashed with sadness, and he waved his hand to signal the medic to pause, casually took off his T-shirt, lightly covered the soldier's body, and then beckoned the medic to continue.

He didn't speak, just turned his head to look at where the explosion lit up. His swarthy back was covered with numerous scars, ranging from long, narrow knife wounds to burns from electrodes and pestles on the skin, as well as circular scars from bullets entering his body.

Glancing at the devastated front-line battlefield, Grant tightened the assault rifle in his hand: "Major, otherwise, I'll take someone to try it." ”

Stilwell turned his head and swept over Joey, Monroe, Sam Jr. and others behind Grant, and shook his head: "The enemy this time is all elite in the military, well-armed, with many large-caliber machine guns and snipers, and also relying on the high ground, as well as the artillery support of the battleship, you can only be sent to death if you go up." ”

"They...... It's all still small......"

Grant clenched his fists vigorously and didn't speak, but little Sam suddenly grabbed the corner of his clothes and said, "Tarossa, they ...... They said they would help us, and maybe, they could...... Can ......"

Stilwell glared back at him, "Who's Tarossa?" ”

He ...... They ...... "Little Sam was frightened and shrank back. The Stilwell man was tall, dark-looking, and had a fierce face, and there were many blood stains on his body, and he looked like a god from afar.

"People just say it casually." Monroe interrupted Sam's stumbling speech and shook his head, a bitter smile curling into his lips.

"Sam, don't be stupid." Walton rubbed little Sam's head: "If he really wants to help us, how can he get off halfway." After all, this is our war and has nothing to do with them. ”

"But...... But ......" little Sam argued, thinking about what Hausen had said to him in the bar, and thinking about Don Fang's smile, and he didn't believe in his heart that they were a bunch of backsliding.

"Yes, Sam, you have to learn to grow up, to be gullible, and many times you will lose your life in vain." Joy also persuaded him: "They are all strangers, they don't understand the suffering of our Crotans, they don't understand our hatred for this damned empire, and they don't understand our persistence. ”

"As long as we have a breath left, we will fight to the end against this decadent, degenerate, and hopeless dynasty. This is our vow, and it is also the courage that sustains us to live. ”

Little Sam stopped talking, and looked at the clear sky in the south with a puzzled expression, and the western mountain pass lit up a line of dusk. The remnant sun is like blood, and the sunset is thick.