Gukohain's determination was great, but he didn't expect to encounter so many problems. Compared to the battle he had fought through the Glacier Line eight years ago, his opponent was noticeably smarter this time. On all the beaches along the glacier suitable for landing, the dense anti-landing stakes and the dense barbed wire turned the landing operation into a nightmare. His scheduled attack was midnight, but was delayed until dawn by those hateful anti-landing facilities. And his soldiers, because they had to cut barbed wire in icy water, were already hundreds of people hors combat before the landing operation was launched. As for the sentry and warning devices that he carefully avoided but failed to dodge in the end, he finally turned his surprise attack into a strong attack. Fortunately, the will to fight and military literacy of the elite army of the empire are still very high, and the enemy's will to defend the line along the river is not resolute. The Fifth Division made only brief contact with them, and withdrew as soon as it spotted the troops on their flanks. Although the 6th Division had a strong will to resist, after being surrounded, it also rationally chose to retreat with a small batch of reinforcements who came to support. Gukohein was busy building a pontoon bridge that would allow tanks to pass through at this time, and did not pursue. He hoped to be able to complete the deployment of his armored forces before the arrival of the enemy's Behemoth Warband.

Hundreds of chariots had to rely on two pontoon bridges to cross the glacier, which would take at least half a day, and in order not to disrupt the crossing, Gukohain decided to continue the feint. He sent the 9th Army, which had already completed the river crossing, to press the front to the front of the enemy's permanent defensive line.

The name of the permanent defense line is eternal, but it is a new thing. After Charlie Roninger declared Roninger's independence, he built this line to protect the province of Ambor and Changfeng Mountain, and the entire line was originally planned to be defended by an iron shield breastwork, but was forced to replace it with sandbags due to the tension of the war and lack of funds. But even the sandbags did not complete the expected amount of work, and by the time Elena's army accepted it, this supposedly permanent line of defense had actually completed only 40% of the total amount of work. After that, for the sake of the local defense, the Reclamation Legion, a large collective of Elena, broke out with an unimaginable labor force, and by the time Gukohain launched the attack, this line of defense had truly been capable of being designed when it was originally designed.

Defend against the massive invasion of the Alonte Empire.

"This battle is not easy to fight!"

Gu Kohain was actually prepared, but he didn't expect that when the permanent defense line was really displayed in front of it, it would look so strong. Long, endless trenches, barbed wire, and long wooden piles made the entire position an impassable swamp. Behind those positions and defenses were the enemy's machine-gun positions, although Gukohain could not see them clearly because of the distance. But with his knowledge of the enemy's weapons and morale, he knew it was going to be a tough battle.

"If it's not easy to fight, we have to fight, and now the beachhead has not been consolidated, and we have to buy time to pave the way for the whole plan. Our 9th Army will never back down in the face of such difficulties. ”

The commander of the 9th Army, Ruth Hedges, had a positive attitude, and in his opinion, although the enemy was in a strong position, the focus of his own attack was not here, and if it was only a feint, the 9th Army would be fully capable of this task. Even, he felt that it was an insult to him to let the absolute main army of the empire make a feint. If it weren't for the fact that the Gukohain in front of him was a red man in front of His Majesty the Emperor, he would not have thrown his troops into this kind of battle.

"Good, I know I was right to come to you!"

Goukhain smiled with relief, he knew Ruth Hedges' thoughts, but he didn't care. The battle would not really begin in such a simple and clumsy way, and he would prove that his methods and tactics were capable of confronting and even defeating those mud-legged serfs.

"Bang-"

"Bang-"

The crisp sound of consecutive victories in no particular order, Gu Kehein only felt a stagnation in his chest, and the whole person was brought down by the huge impact of the bullet. The soldiers who surrounded them around them hurriedly took out the long shields they had prepared, blocking the view around them. Gukohain lay on the ground and coughed for a moment, recovering from the shock of being attacked. He turned his head to look at Ruth Hedges beside him, trying to ask him how he was, only to see a smashed head.

"Fuck!"

Gu Kohein cursed, knowing that he had lost a good general. The enemy's sniper unit had played a huge role in the Ankenrein Civil War and the war against Negru, and he knew and prepared for the power of this force. He put thick armor plates under his coat. Ruth, who was beside him, was also equipped with armor plates, just like him. It's just that Ruth Hedges's life doesn't seem to be as good as his own, and the sniper who attacked him chose his head instead of his body as a target.

"The commander of the 9th Army was killed by enemy sniper guns. If you want revenge, go on the attack! ”

Gukohain got up from the ground, dusted off the soil, walked over to Ruth Hedges' body, looked carefully at the commander who had just spoken beside him, and sighed softly. It seems that it is simply unrealistic to hope that the enemy's sniper unit is not nearby.

Ruth Hedges' death provoked the wrath of the 9th Army, and the feint turned into a real attack, and the elite of the Imperial army burst into their amazing combat effectiveness. Even in the face of the enemy's almost impenetrable defensive line and dense defensive fire, they launched several waves of extremely deterrent attacks, and even approached the enemy's machine-gun position at one point. However, the sacrifice of this method of attack was still too great, and when nearly 7,000 people were killed and wounded and nothing was achieved, Gukohain ordered the offensive to be stopped.

And by this time, they had already bought half a day for the preparation of the armored group at the beachhead.

Giving the 9th Army to the Chief of Staff Jet Yuppé and telling him to continue the offensive, but not to suffer too many casualties, Gukohain left the front. He was to return to the river beach position, put the ranks in order, and then, at the agreed time, use armored forces to tear through the enemy's defenses.

In November, the ground was already very hard because of the ice, and large swathes of land that were not suitable for armoured vehicles became a smooth road. Having completed the rearmament of the tidal flats, the hunters and slaughterers, equipped with fence armor, began to roar towards the enemy's permanent defensive line. Gukohain rode his own warhorse and followed his own armored troops, his heart full of passion.

Come on, let me prove myself, let me show the world that Anken Rein's army is not invincible!

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"Chief of Staff, our front-line scouts have spotted the enemy's armored units, probably a hundred or so hunters and slaughterers, advancing towards the permanent defensive line."

At the forward headquarters behind the permanent defensive line, intelligence from various sources is gathering like water. Gleason Warren, chief of staff of the Fourth Regiment of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, looked at the sand table in front of him with a serious expression.

"Armored troops?" , he raised his head and looked at the other line of defense, "What about our Behemoth Warband, why didn't they come?" ”

"I don't know yet, we've already arranged for someone to dock. Theoretically, they should have arrived, and the Behemoth Warband's camp is not far from us, so it shouldn't take so much time. ”

Combat Staff Officer Nierro Totem's reply didn't calm Gleason's emotions, and he had a gut feeling that something must have gone wrong with the belberry warband, and it was most likely because of Gukohain. However, instead of worrying about the missing Behemoth Warband, he now had a trickier problem to face.

"We may have to use infantry against the enemy's armored forces."

Gleason's judgment quieted the entire staff. As the first users of armored units, everyone present knew the unstoppable advantages of armored charges over infantry units. They have studied countless tactics of using armored charges to break through enemy lines and crush enemy resistance, but they have rarely studied how to deal with the enemy when they have mastered the superiority of armor.

"Okay, don't worry too much, although we don't have armored troops, and the defense line lacks facilities to fight armored troops, but our Behemoth Legion will not disappear forever, what we have to do is to hold on and wait for the arrival of the Behemoth Legion. In addition, if there are too many casualties, I can abandon the permanent defensive line, retreat, give up the field, and wait for the assistance of armored forces. ”

"Understood, let's convey it."

The Signal Soldier replied loudly and turned to leave. Gleason's brow furrowed even more as he looked at the map in front of him. The loss of contact with the Behemoth Warband, and the fact that Legion Leader Domnar Byrne had not appeared, made him a little worried. In this battle, it seems, the enemy's preparations were much more adequate than he had expected.

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"Where the fuck did these tanks come from?!"

At the rear of the Permanent Line, in the command vehicle of the Third Behemoth Warband, Commander Brudley Auden was scolding. As a self-confessed intellectual, he has proven his ability to rise to the position of commander of an armored regiment in Elena's previous wars. However, in the face of the enemy who suddenly appeared in the course of their rapid march, nearly two hundred armored combat vehicles hidden on the side of the main road, it was a person, no matter how good his temper was, he would have to scold his mother.

A small number of the core members of the Third Behemoth Warband came from the earliest Behemoth Warband, and most of the crews were not very experienced in combat. In the face of the enemy's sudden attack, the Behemoth Warband, which was in a marching formation rather than a combat state, fell into a panic. In the early days when the enemy rushed out from the flanks, nearly ten tanks were destroyed by the tracks, which became artillery batteries that could only shoot in place.

However, thanks to the excellent design and strong protection of the Behemoth Tank, the enemy attack did not completely destroy your own tank. Only one tank received the intensive care of more than six of the enemy's slaughterers, and after repeated destruction of the external armor, it was pierced by a spear, and the crew abandoned the vehicle and escaped, and the other tanks were still in combat condition. At the same time, the responding crews also showed the results of their years of training. The quickly entered crew began to engage in a fierce battle with the enemy. And the enemy's disadvantage in protection and mobility began to be magnified, and enemy vehicles were constantly destroyed. Although the enemy has almost four times as many vehicles as your own, the inability to destroy is still the greatest characteristic of the Behemoth.

"Attack, attack, seventeen degrees in front of the left, armor-piercing bullets!"

Brudley Auden's voice was hoarse, but still hoarse. They have already destroyed seven enemy vehicles, and the record is remarkable. However, they themselves withstood a large number of attacks, the outer fence armor was almost completely destroyed, and the tracks on one side were also broken and became an in-situ battery. However, relying on a movable track, he still continued to fight.

As the battle between the two sides deepened, the numerical superiority of the enemy's tanks began to be rapidly compressed, many destroyed vehicles were abandoned, and the enemy's vehicle crews were killed by the machine gunners of the Behemoth Warband. Brudley Oden knew that if they continued at this pace, they should be able to pull off the ambush battle.

However, things deviated from his predictions, and after losing more than seventy tanks, the enemy's armored forces began to attack the support forces that were following behind the Behemoth Warband. The support forces, which had long seen that the situation was not good, had begun to retreat, leaving space for the warring parties. The enemy's chariots moved slowly, and after some time of pursuit, they abandoned the pursuit and drove in the direction of Amborg. Brudley speculated that they might attack Amborg, but didn't have time to worry about that much. Only then did he realize that his fifty monster tanks, except for three that were destroyed, more than thirty tracks were destroyed by the enemy.

"They're going to abolish our mobility?"

In the moment of muttering to himself, Brudley realized the problem, what if the enemy attacked almost suicidally this time, with a battle loss ratio of more than 3:60, the purpose was not to destroy his own side, but to destroy his own ability to act? What if the enemy's goal is to prevent him from coming to the aid of the permanent line? If the enemy can evade his own monitoring and transport so many armored combat vehicles to the interior of Amber Province, what is the situation facing the permanent defense line?

"Let the logistics crew come over for maintenance as soon as possible! Send out the sentinels to be on guard, and as soon as the enemy turns back, we will immediately enter combat mode! ”

Seeing the situation, Brudley knew what he was going to do. The destruction of the tracks was not an irreparable failure, and it would take him about half a day to repair the tracks of all the Behemoth Tanks before supporting the front line. He hesitated for a moment and sent eleven of the sixteen vehicles that could move in the best condition to support the front line. As for the rest, he can only pray that the brothers on the front line can be delayed until his arrival.