The pursuit battle outside Norin City finally ended, in this battle the Second Army of the Fifth Front of the Imperial Army was killed and captured about 10,000 people, lost all the heavy weapons and most of the weapons and ammunition, had lost its combat effectiveness and was withdrawn to the rear to rest, the 11th Brigade and the Guard Regiment of the Fifth Cavalry Corps that came to reinforce were crushed, especially the 11th Cavalry Brigade, with more than two-thirds of the casualties, the military flag was captured and its poetic brigade number was forced to be canceled, and the Fifth Cavalry Army lost a total of more than 4,000 people.

And Ouyang Yu's side was not having a good time, because her careless eight battalions were wiped out as a whole, plus other losses, the number of losses exceeded 4,000, and it also prematurely exposed the armored force and aviation she had, even if more than 10,000 enemies were annihilated, it would be worth the loss.

Grand Duke Philip, commander of the Fifth Front Army of the Imperial Army, attached great importance to Ouyang Yu, and immediately adjusted the offensive plan after learning that Ouyang Yu also had tanks and fighters, leaving the Gallic coalition army aside, leaving only a small number of troops, and the Gallic coalition army, which had been frightened, did not have the courage to counterattack, and retreated behind the newly established defense line to survive, and then mobilized most of the forces in an attempt to eliminate Ouyang Yu, a major henchman, in one fell swoop.

In the headquarters of Ouyang Yu in Norin City, Ouyang Yu, who looked at the large-scale military map, frowned into two embroidered eyebrows, and on the desk behind her was the commendation order and new order that Admiral Bonaparte had just ordered to be sent, the commendation order was nothing, but Ouyang Yu's military rank was promoted from colonel to brigadier general, and he was also given the position of commander of the 88th Division of the Lucerne Coalition Army, but the 88th Division was just an empty shelf, and all the personnel and equipment needed to be recruited and purchased by Ouyang Yu himself, fortunately, Admiral Bonaparte rewarded Ouyang Yu with 1.5 million silver coins for the formation of the 88th Division, otherwise she still needed to pay for it herself。

Admiral Bonaparte's new order required Ouyang Yu to hold on to Norin City for at least a month, so that the Gallic coalition would have enough time to form a new army from the rear and mobilize supplies, which was a death order that Ouyang Yu had to abide by unless he defected to the Imperial Army or went it alone.

Through aerial reconnaissance, the number of imperial troops moving towards Norin City exceeded 200,000, and Ouyang Yu's current army number was only 26,000 people, almost a difference of 1 to 8 people, although Ouyang Yu's army had a certain advantage in equipment, but it was only a single soldier equipment, and the performance of tanks and fighters was actually similar compared to that of the imperial army, in order for his army to survive the upcoming fierce battle, Ouyang Yu asked the political commissars of the army to strengthen the ideological work of ordinary soldiers while trying to improve the combat effectiveness of the army.

After locking himself in the room for a long time, Ouyang Yuxuan lit up some equipment, the infantry equipment did not change much, mainly the ZB-26 machine gun was replaced by a DP light machine gun, and the MG-08 heavy machine gun was replaced by a Makqin M1910 heavy machine gun, the gun is not fundamentally different from the Makqin machine gun produced in Britain and Germany, but it uses a unique Sokolov wheeled gun mount, and a small shield is also installed on the gun rack, which greatly improves the survival rate of the shooter, and the 7.62 mm ammunition makes Ouyang Yu's infantry squad finally form a unified bullet caliber, and there is no need to fight with two different caliber bullets.

Tanks and artillery have not changed, Ouyang Yu originally wanted to light up the famous T-34 tank, but when he saw the required merit value, he immediately gave up the idea of lighting up, there are too many, it takes a full 30,000 merit points to light up the T-34 tank, and the infantry equipment in the war system needs the least merit value, followed by artillery, tanks, There are many more aircraft than the previous two, and the most are the battleships of the Navy, and the later the development time, the more merit points are required for equipment, such as the T-62 tank, which requires 160,000 merit points.

Ouyang Yu's army only has two merit points for a soldier to eliminate an enemy, and an officer has at least five merit points according to the difference in rank, from the first battle to the present half a year, in addition to the merit value in her hands now, it is only more than 40,000 yuan, if it takes half of the merit value to light up the T-34 tank, then she will not have the merit value to light it up if she likes anything.

In order to enhance the anti-tank capabilities of the infantry, Ouyang Yu thought about it for a long time and spent 10,000 merit points to light up the famous ZIS-3 76-mm cannon.

In the late 30s of the 20th century, the Soviet Armed Forces began a new round of military reform. At that time, Soviet infantry divisions were still heavily equipped with 1902/30 3-inch (76.2 mm) cannons designed during the Imperial Russian era, and this old artillery was far from being adapted to the battlefield environment at that time. In response to this situation, the famous Grabin Artillery Design Bureau (that is, the 92nd Design Bureau of the Gorky Plant named after Grabin when the gun was fired) successively designed the F-22 and F-22USV 76mm cannons in 1936~1939, although the performance has been improved to a certain extent, but the overall design is still not ideal.

At the same time, the Soviet Union also believed that Germany was developing a heavily protected tank. For this purpose, Grabin designed the ZIS-2 57-mm anti-tank gun at the beginning of 1941. Grabin later mounted the F-22USV's gun body on the ZIS-2 gun mount, thus obtaining an excellent divisional cannon - the ZIS-3.

The combat mission of the ZIS-3 76-mm cannon is to destroy the enemy's living forces, destroy enemy infantry fire points and suppress enemy artillery, destroy enemy tanks and armored vehicles, destroy enemy barbed wire barriers, destroy enemy shelters and permanent fire points. In the Great Patriotic War, the ZIS-3 mainly performed infantry shocks, fire support and anti-tank tasks, with a maximum range of thirteen km.

Ouyang Yu assembled ten artillery batteries armed with eight ZIS-3 76mm cannons, greatly enhancing the ability of her army to attack local armored units, civil fortifications, and unprotected infantry.

In addition to the ZIS-3 76 mm cannon, Ouyang Yu also lit up the A-19 type 122 mm heavy howitzer, the A-19 howitzer is better than the ZIS-3 76 mm cannon in terms of power, range and performance, but the merit value spent is less than 2,000, only 7,000 points, this is because the ZIS-3 76 mm cannon design was finalized in 1942, and the A-19 howitzer was designed and finalized in 1931, which was earlier than the ZIS-3, so it will be less than 3,000, and Ouyang Yu can't help but feel why T-34 and KVThe -1 tank had not been developed a few years earlier, otherwise she would not have needed to continue to use the T-26 and T-35 tanks.

The A-19 122mm heavy howitzer was developed in the late 20s of the 20th century by the Soviet Red Army to replace the artillery left over from Tsarist Russia. In 1927, the Red Army High Command issued a mission book for a new corps-class cannon, and the first prototype gun was completed in June 1929. Range testing began in October 1931, was sent to Factory No. 38 for improvement in May 1932, and was given the A-19 model, completed in March 1935, the second round of testing began in November 1935, and was officially installed as a standard 122mm cannon by the Soviet Red Army in March 1936.

In addition to the army, the air force is also valued by Ouyang Yu, if you want to hold on to it for a month surrounded by more than 200,000 troops, the air force is an indispensable and important combat capability, after all, the camel fighter is only an aircraft during World War I, and the air combat and ground capabilities are limited, so Ouyang Yu spent all the remaining merit points to light up the I-153 fighter.

Claimed to be the best biplane, the I-153 was designed in 1938 by the Soviet Karpov Design Bureau, and the I-15 is a highly maneuverable biplane. Developed from I-5/I-6 design experience. The upper wings of the early models were arranged in a gull style to provide better visibility to the pilot, the landing gear was fixed, the shape was simpler, and some models had fairings added to the wheels. The front fuselage of the aircraft is covered with aluminum, while the rest is covered with cloth and disc brakes. Test flight fashion Wright-Whirlwind-SGR-1820F-3 engine (630/715 hp) with two PV-1 machine guns with synchronous firing devices. On October 11, 1933, a test flight was carried out, which was followed by mass production.

After the war in Spain, the leadership of the Soviet Air Force mistakenly believed that the biplane fighter with better performance in future wars would still occupy an important place. So, the I-153 type fighter was further developed. The I-153 is equipped with Shvetsov M62R engines (1000 horsepower), the landing gear can be retracted, according to the test results of the Central Institute of Fluid Mechanics of the Soviet Union, the wing was changed back to the gull arrangement, and the performance of the aircraft has been greatly improved, with 3437 aircraft produced. The I-152/I-153 participated in the 1938 Battle of Lake Hassan and the 1939 Battle of the Khalkhin River, giving them a performance advantage over the Japanese aircraft of the time.

After the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War in 1941, the I-153 in the Soviet Air Force persisted in fighting until 1943, despite being far inferior in performance to the Luftwaffe fighters. However, the I-153 was no longer able to fight with German fighters, mainly using six RS-82/RS-132 rockets on board to attack German aircraft from a long distance. The last battle of the I-153 "Seagull" was in the offensive campaign of the German army's large-scale attack on the mountainous areas of the North Caucasus with the intention of cutting off the Soviet Union's access to foreign aid weapons through Iran.

Ouyang Yu chose the I-153 fighter because it can be used to attack the air and has a relatively strong ground attack capability, which is a fairly good multi-role fighter, and plans to use the I-153 fighter to perform tasks such as fighting for air supremacy, striking at imperial artillery groups, logistics supply lines, and troop assembly points.

The inhabitants of Norin City had been driven away by Ouyang Yu, and the square near the center of the city had been razed to the ground by Ouyang Yu's sappers to build a proposed airfield, on which one hundred and twenty I-153 fighters were parked.

On February 14, the 316th year of the imperial calendar, the 240,000 troops of the imperial army surrounded the city of Norin where Ouyang Yu's army was stationed, and the fierce battle was about to begin.