Chapter 137: The Final Battle
As the unit that deals with Hydra the most, the 107th Infantry Brigade can be said to be the most familiar and familiar with Hydra among all the combat units of the Allied Forces, and it is precisely because of this that the main task of stopping Hydra's crazy plan this time fell on the 107th Infantry Brigade.
Perhaps it was because of the series of military operations launched by the Allies some time ago that caused great damage to Hydra, forcing Red Skull and Baron Straker to work together to prepare for this attack plan. And Zhang Yang also unexpectedly learned afterwards that the one who planned this series of counterattacks was one of the other Big Three, Baron Zemo, who had never shown up.
After receiving the order, everyone up and down the unit immediately moved into action to prepare for the crucial final battle.
Since Zhang Yang and Phillips had already prepared to launch the final fatal blow against Hydra before this, they had already sent the Dire Brigade scattered to various places to collect a lot of information about Hydra. In the attack some time ago, the base under the control of Red Skull and Baron Straker was basically destroyed, and the Hydra soldiers who stayed at the base were killed and wounded. The Dire Brigade also learned from some of the more death-fearing Hydra soldiers that some of their troops had been secretly withdrawn by the Baron, and they didn't know where they were hiding.
And Steve and the roaring commandos he led are also sparing no effort to fight Hydra. It didn't take long for an important piece of information to arrive from a subordinate detachment of the Second Squadron of the Night Banquet Brigade, who had spotted the shadow of a Hydra base near a place in the Alps. The size of the base and the number of guards far exceed that of any of the bases destroyed before, and it is very likely that it is the last hiding place of Hydra!
Due to the imminence of the offensive plan. And after the Red Skull learns that Dr. Zola has been arrested, he will probably speed up the time for the plan to start, so there is not much time left for Zhang Yang to do so. Other teams near the Alps also went to the suspected location to investigate, and finally confirmed that this base was indeed the hiding place of the Red Skull, because one of the team members saw the Red Skull appear in the base.
The red skin that pulls the wind. It was too conspicuous in the uniforms of a group of black Hydra soldiers, and the other squads quickly ruled out the possibility that the other party was disguised, and the probability that it was Red Skull himself was as high as more than 80%.
And according to the detailed reconnaissance around the base by these squads. A short flat and wide platform was found halfway up the mountain, which looked like a section of the runway, and the rest of the main part of the runway was obviously hidden under the long Alpine mass. Typically easy to defend and hard to attack.
After aggregating this intelligence to the command. In order to prevent long nights, Phillips decisively decided to launch an attack on the base the day after tomorrow.
The journey from Paris to the vicinity of the Alps was a long one, and even if it was an overnight transport by guò plane, the soldiers needed a break to fight. Then, after consulting with the rest of the troops, Phillips scheduled the official attack for the morning after tomorrow. Except for the armored battalion, which could no longer arrive in Paris at the scheduled time, the rest of the infantry brigade was transported overnight by Allied transport planes to the vicinity of the Alps for ambush.
According to follow-up reports from the Dire squad on the front, the number of Hydra soldiers at this base is probably no less than three thousand. A single 107 Infantry Brigade can't eat. In order to achieve a one-hit kill, Phillips contacted the general command of the US military in Britain. An armored regiment and an infantry division of the U.S. Army were seconded to the nearest range, with a combined strength of more than 12,000 men, to block all the routes around the base and cooperate with the 107th Infantry Brigade to carry out the final general attack.
In order to prevent the planes from taking off from the base and flying directly to the United States, Spatz of the Eighth Air Force also made a contribution, allowing most of the troops of the newly formed Eighth Air Force to be transferred to an airfield in France, where they could replenish fuel and ammunition at any time and take off to intercept the Hydra's plane.
Spatz also gave the rare order that if necessary, even if it was a collision, the Hydra's plane had to be stopped.
On the other hand, there was disagreement about how to attack the base.
Phillips believes that this operation is a matter of importance, even if there are casualties, the United States is a country that pays attention to human rights, but an infantry brigade of more than 1,000 people, compared with the large number of people and cities on the east coast of the United States, can only be the one to be sacrificed.
Therefore, Phillips's plan was to directly attack from the gate with the forces of the armored battalion and infantry division, and the two sides of the battle were completely hard to fight. The only good news is probably that the remaining elite troops of Hydra are all concentrated here, as long as this battle can be won, Hydra will completely fall apart, and it will be impossible to recover in five or six years.
And five or six years later, World War II has ended, and it is not easy for Britain, the United States and European countries that have freed up their hands at that time to completely encircle and suppress Hydra?
However, this plan was opposed, and most of the middle-level officers, whether it was Zhang Yang or other middle-level officers, were opposed, believing that with the existence of the Dire Brigade, a special team, it was completely possible to infiltrate the base first, and then cooperate with the outside to break through the enemy from the inside.
Even if you can't kill Red Skull and Straker on the spot, as long as you disrupt the command of Hydra, the chaotic Hydra and the long-prepared Allied forces will be decided.
And Steve and Carter are also opposed, Steve, as in the movie plot, made a decoy to use himself as a bait to break through the Hydra gate from the front, and the Night Banquet Brigade took the opportunity to infiltrate the Hydra, making sure to disrupt the normal deployment of the Hydra, so as to create an opportunity for the main attacking force outside.
As a crucial battle, half of the Dire Brigade rushed back, and even Perez flew from England overnight. The rest of the men were either scattered across Europe and could not get out immediately, or they did not have enough time to feel that they had been ordered to make a move that they wanted to make while fighting.
The bike, which has been modified by Howard's free play, looks more edgy from the outside, with several buttons under the handlebars. And this huge black metal mount was specially modified by Howard for Steve's decoy operation. (To be continued......)