On February 16, 316 of the imperial calendar, it was a day of shame for the imperial army on the northern front, on this day, the air force of the Ouyang Yu army launched a continuous air raid, dispatching more than 1,000 sorties, and bombarded the command organs, airfields, artillery positions, material warehouses, and troop assembly places of the Fifth Front Army in turn, the Fifth Front Army and the headquarters of several group armies were destroyed, and all the fighters were wiped out while they were still on the ground. The ammunition storage depot was destroyed, and even if there were new fighters in the future, they would not be able to dispatch because of the magic crystal liquid and ammunition that were not used as fuel, the five heavy artillery regiments were all wiped out, two infantry regiments were directly disabled, more than 100 tanks were destroyed, and the loss of materials and ammunition was difficult to count.

After nightfall, looking at the loss report sent by his subordinates, Archduke Philip felt a tightness in his chest, vomited out a mouthful of blood and fainted to the ground, so frightened that the surrounding officers hurriedly helped him up, and called a military doctor to rescue him, and Archduke Philip finally came to his senses.

Archduke Philip did not vomit blood because of the number of casualties among the soldiers, but was shocked by the amount of equipment and materials lost, the number of dead and wounded soldiers in the air raid on the Fifth Front on the 16th was less than 6,000, but this included half of the technical arms, such as artillery and pilots, especially the loss of valuable pilots made Archduke Philip feel sad the most, as many infantry as there were, but it was too difficult to train a pilot.

Then there was the loss of war materials, the Fifth Front Army lost more than half of its ammunition reserves, the military rations were only enough for more than 200,000 people to eat for a week, and the spare winter cotton clothes and medicines were almost all destroyed, which made the soldiers of the Imperial Army face the point of having no cure if they were wounded, and the blow to morale was huge.

The military doctor said to Grand Duke Philip, "Your Highness, you need to recuperate for a while because of your anger, and you must leave the battlefield for the sake of your body. ”

"I see. Grand Duke Philip was very weak, even when he spoke, he seemed to be very laborious, and he said to General Eugene, Chief of the General Staff of the Fifth Front Army: "I will hand over the Fifth Front Army to you during this period of rest, and now the supply loss of our army is serious and we can't fight for a long time, you must launch an attack on Norin City as soon as possible, if you find that you can't quickly eliminate Ouyang Yu's army, then you must retreat decisively, and you must not retreat when you run out of ammunition and food, do you hear clearly?"

"I hear you clearly, please rest assured. ”

After listening to the words of Archduke Philip, Admiral Eugene signaled the military doctor and guards to return him to his tent, and it was not long before Archduke Philip left the front-line command post under the protection of the guards and returned to the rear to recuperate.

After the Grand Duke Philip left, General Eugene, who took over the command of the Fifth Front, immediately launched an attack on Norin City according to the instructions of the Grand Duke Philip.

Because of the loss of large-caliber magic crystal cannons, Admiral Eugene concentrated the small and medium-caliber magic crystal cannons that were lucky not to be attacked by air attacks, the number exceeded three hundred, he dispersed all the magic crystal cannons to ten firing positions and made a certain camouflage, so as not to be wiped out by Ouyang Yujun's air force, and also temporarily prepared a large number of anti-aircraft machine gun mounts made of wood, and then put the magic crystal machine gun on it to temporarily act as an air defense machine gun, whether it has any effect Admiral Charles does not know, but at least it can play a role in comforting the hearts of the army.

All the preparations of the Fifth Front were carried out in the evening, and when the sun had just risen on February 17, the Fifth Front, which was all ready, finally began the siege battle.

The position of Ouyang Yujun's army around Norin City continued to explode with magic bullets, making the ordinary soldiers of Ouyang Yujun's army hiding in the anti-artillery hole scared to death, while those system soldiers were leisurely squatting on the ground, smoking camel cigarettes, their calmness also affected the ordinary soldiers around them to some extent, so that the ordinary soldiers were not so afraid.

Not long after the artillery bombardment of the Imperial Army began, Ouyang Yujun fired a counterattack fire, and ten camel fighters acting as reconnaissance planes also flew into the sky to guide the artillery group to shoot at the target and rest the projectile impact point.

Forty-eight 1902 76-mm field guns, twelve 1904 152-mm-200p cannons, twenty-four A-19 122-mm howitzers and eighty ZIS-3 76-mm cannons, a total of 164 guns, raised their muzzles high and counterattacked under the guidance of camel fighters.

Ouyang Yujun's accurate and fierce counterattack artillery fire exploded on the various artillery positions of the Imperial Army, although the Imperial Army's magic crystal cannon was relatively spaced, but Ouyang Yujun's artillery had a pair of bright "eyes" in the sky, and the magic crystal cannon was blown into the sky together with the artillery that operated it.

Admiral Eugene, who was hiding in the concealed command post, listened to the report of the staff officers and was bleeding in his heart, he deliberately used artillery units to attract the firepower of Ouyang Yu's army in order to reduce the casualties of the attacking troops, and at the same time as the artillery bombardment of the imperial army began, the armored troops and infantry of the imperial army besieging Norin City launched an attack from eight directions at the same time.

Because of the destruction of ordinary tanks on the 16th, the Fifth Front Army only had less than 100 tanks left, and these less than 100 tanks were mistakenly dispersed in all directions by Admiral Eugene, with an average of only 11 tanks in eight directions.

Because of the seizure of absolute air supremacy, Ouyang Yu put a large number of anti-aircraft guns in the first and second line positions as anti-tank and anti-infantry fire points, 40 mm anti-aircraft guns in the first line, M1917 88 mm anti-aircraft guns in the second line, when the tanks of the imperial army approached to 800 meters, the two anti-aircraft guns fired together, the wolf cannon shot the wolf bush, the 88 mm anti-aircraft gun shot the turtle, only three rounds of fire eliminated all the tanks of the imperial army, and then turned the muzzle and used the time fuse of the high-explosive bomb bombardment to bombard the infantry that followed.

When the battle report reached the ears of Admiral Eugene, he couldn't believe that this was true, the tanks that were invincible in the past were now made of tofu and easily destroyed by the enemy, and he couldn't help but have the idea that tanks were useless, in fact, not only the generals and officers of the Imperial Army who were present also had similar thoughts.

"Sir, now that we have no artillery and tank support, do we want to stop the attack?"

A major general suggested to Admiral Eugene, but Admiral Eugene refused without even thinking about it.

"Why don't you know you should fight without the magic crystal cannon and tank?" Admiral Eugene reprimanded loudly: "I think that when the Aotian Emperor rebelled against the tyrant at the beginning, it was even more difficult than now, but the imperial soldiers at that time defeated the powerful enemy with their blood, and now our conditions are much better than those of the Aotian Emperor at that time, and we have an absolute superiority in strength, if more than 200,000 people can't beat more than 20,000 people, we will commit suicide collectively!"

"But ....... ”

The major general wanted to persuade again, but was rudely interrupted by Admiral Eugene, "Enough, I am now the supreme commander of the Fifth Front Army, follow my orders and continue to attack!"

"Yes. ”

Now it will be difficult for the ordinary soldiers of the Fifth Front Army.

Because of the limited battlefield, it was impossible for all the more than 200,000 people of the Fifth Front Army to be put into battle, and there were only more than 40,000 people fighting against Ouyang Yu's army.

The soldiers of the Imperial Army were crawling on the ground a little bit, not daring to raise their bodies a little higher, and in addition to the dense rain of bullets on their heads, there were constantly falling shells.

The timed fuse high-explosive shells fired by the anti-aircraft guns placed on the position of Ouyang Yu's army, and the air-burst howitzer shells fired by various types of artillery kept exploding five to fifteen meters above the battlefield, and each explosion could take the lives of at least three or four, and at most thirty-four imperial infantrymen.

In particular, the air-burst howitzer fired by large-caliber artillery can cover an area the size of half a basketball court at a time, and a large area will die with a single shot, and there is no place to hide, and it is most effective against infantry lying on the ground.

The infantry of the Imperial Army showed their greatest courage, braved the rain of bullets shot by Ouyang Yujun, crawled over the corpses of their comrades, and finally approached the position of Ouyang Yujun, three hundred meters away, after paying a huge price.

"Rush!"

"Kill!" × N.

The infantry of the Imperial Army jumped up from the ground and ran towards Ouyang Yujun's position with their bayonet rifles loaded, their mouths shouting as if they could shout out the fear in their bodies.

"Free Fire!"

The light and heavy machine guns and rifles on Ouyang Yu's position rang out at the same time, and the bullets that were denser than the torrential rain were like a wall, so that all the infantry of the Imperial Army fell two hundred meters away from the position, and no soldier of the Imperial Army could cross two hundred meters, and the distance of two hundred meters became a trench for the infantry of the Imperial Army, and they could not cross the death line in the past no matter what.

Ouyang Yu's army, which was not short of ammunition, exerted all its firepower to the fullest, and the stupid brainless pigs of the Fifth Front Army made the soldiers die in vain and became Ouyang Yu's merit value, and the Fifth Front Army launched eighteen charges one after another throughout the day, each time they were defeated by the powerful firepower of Ouyang Yu's army, leaving nearly 20,000 corpses before retreating in a hurry, so panicked that they did not even take the wounded away, and the screams of the wounded left on the battlefield became a nightmare for all the soldiers of the Imperial Army.