"Before it gets dark, you have to take the bank building. The weather is getting unfavorable and we don't have that much time. ”

Rundstedt loudly reprimanded his men!

Out of awe of the fighting power of the Ming army, his subordinates actually took advantage of the fact that Rundstedt was recalled to Madegburg and ordered the Nordic army to attack in their place.

As expected, the Nordic army was bloodied in front of the Ming army.

In just 10 days, more than 34,000 people were killed.

Today, four hours before dark, more than two thousand people have already been killed or wounded.

"Let the Allies rush to the front, and you shrink behind, you have tarnished the honor of the Prussian soldiers!" Returning to the front, Rundstedt was furious and pointed out that his generals and officers were scolding.

"General, we have taken three-quarters of Smolensk. If it weren't for the bank's sturdiness, we would have taken the bank building. ”

The subordinates were a little unconvinced, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was obvious to all, and it was good to be able to fight like this.

Moreover, except for the battle around the bank building, all the remaining results were bought by the Prussian soldiers with their own blood.

When Rundstedt said this, everyone was very unconvinced.

"The Ming officer who was captured on the outskirts of Minsk turned out to be the son of a Ming general.

Moreover, he himself was also a middle-level officer of the Ming Dynasty.

His Majesty the Emperor and His Excellency the Prime Minister personally persuaded him to surrender, and finally let him speak.

The Ming strategy was to lure us into attacking Moscow, and then take advantage of the exhaustion of our army to send their tanks from both flanks.

In this way, it is easy to surround us. Then, even if we resist stubbornly, we will be defeated by the bitter cold of Russia. ”

Rundstedt looked at his men as majestic as a lion.

"Then they can also attack now and surround us directly." Some stubborn officers were still not convinced.

"Climate!

This year's climate has helped us!

This year it is a warm winter in Russia, and so far the ground has not frozen hard.

Moreover, the Dnieper did not freeze.

Now, when enemy tanks are dispatched, they will get bogged down in the quagmire. Moreover, they could not cross the Dnieper either.

Do you think they will not attack after the ground freezes hard and the Dnieper freezes?

It's all been fought to this point, have you ever seen one of their tanks?

Hum! ”

Rundstedt snorted heavily, and the generals and officers below stopped talking.

Indeed, the muddy roads also made it difficult for the coalition forces to supply logistically.

The hundreds of kilometers of road from Minsk to Smolensk are already almost a mud pool. Without the full transport of airships, ammunition on the front line could not be guaranteed.

"If it weren't for this time, the weather would have been very bad. Do you think enemy fighters will come and strangle our airships? ”

With the lion-like roar of Rundstedt, all the Prussian officers stopped talking.

The battle during this period of time, everyone can see it clearly.

For airships, the fighter is the Grim Reaper.

In the face of extremely fast fighters, the airship is not even qualified to run.

What's more, the huge airbag on the airship is not even qualified to dodge.

It's so easy to hit such a big target.

Moreover, the airbag also obscures the cannon in the pod below.

That is, the Daming aircraft used the empowerment attack. If the airship wants to fight back, the cannon will directly blow up its own airbags.

However, the huge airbag of the airship also has an advantage.

That is, in such gloomy weather, it is still possible to fly in the sky.

But Daming's plane seems to be very unsuitable for such gloomy weather. Recently, it is rare to see a Ming plane overhead.

That's why there was a bombing of Smolensk with airships.

Who would have thought that as soon as the airship appeared here, a fighter plane appeared over there.

It was just a fighter jet, and it shot down five airships directly, and then they were still shaking their wings and shooting at the Allied soldiers below.

Seeing the embarrassed appearance of the Allied soldiers, they swaggered back to Moscow.

The air force against the army, this advantage is a natural advantage.

"Then General, Your Majesty and the Chief of the General Staff mean ......!"

"Our army must take Smolensk as soon as possible, and we will deploy defenses along the Dnieper before it freezes.

Then use this winter to consolidate our logistical supplies.

In the following spring, the ground will turn back into a muddy swamp. At that time, we will attack Moscow again. ”

Rundstedt had a cold face, this is also something that there is no way to do. The Dnieper River is a natural danger, as long as you deploy defenses along the Dnieper, you will not be afraid of the attack of the Ming army.

In the rear, according to the suggestion of the Ming officer, the strategy is being rearranged and the corresponding weapons and equipment are being mobilized.

Strive to defeat the long-planned offensive of the Ming army along the Dnieper.

"Do we have new weapons that can deal with enemy tanks?" The officers were excited.

So far, the vast majority of the Prussian army has never seen a tank, let alone had combat experience with it.

The tanks they knew, were completely painful memories of the Polish army.

Everyone described it as something like a steel monster.

These things spew green smoke, are invulnerable and extremely lethal. There are no bullets, or shells that can damage them.

Faced with a mythical narrative, many Prussian officers felt that they were stupid by the tank.

Most of what they say is just alarmist crazy words after being scared stupid.

However, when I heard that Prussia already had a unique weapon against these monsters, everyone was very excited and curious.

"Manufacturing is being stepped up in the rear, and the first batch is already on its way." Rundstedt said with a smile.

Before attacking the Ming Dynasty, he was most worried about tanks.

He did not think that the Polish army had been frightened into surrendering by rumors.

He collected many descriptions of Polish officers, and even talked to some of the surviving officers.

Just talk about tanks, they have a look of horror on their faces.

Some of them he had known for a long time, and he didn't think that they, who had been predators, would be scared like that by some kind of false rumor.

"Well, those things will be shipped in a few moments.

Now our priority is to eliminate Smolensk. Completely pull out this nail on the west bank of the Dnieper.

Otherwise, we would not have been able to lay out the Dnieper line.

Now I order, let all our North European forces withdraw. All fronts were replaced by Prussian troops, and the bank building must be taken before dark.

Without this strong point of support, tomorrow we will be able to take Smolensk. ”

"Yes!"

The Prussian generals and officers agreed in unison.

Ding San and Zhang Laojiu were looking through the cracks in the bank wall at the raging fire of the falling airship outside.

"This, all the way down, I almost thought we were going to be finished.

A big bomb like that, fucking one, can send us to the west. ”

Zhang Laojiu looked at the raging fire of the falling airship, and his face was full of schadenfreude as he smoked.

"Rest!

It's not always so lucky, damn it, what bullshit weather this Russia is.

It's snowing for a while, and it's raining damn for a while. The raindrops fell to the ground and turned into ice particles. Ding San took out a box of cigarettes from Zhang Laojiu's pocket, lit one and naturally put the cigarette into his pocket.

"You keep one for me!" Zhang Laojiu laughed for a while, realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly rescued his box of cigarettes.

The war has reached this point, but the military needs have not been broken. Every night, the airship would bring in a large number of supplies and evacuate the wounded soldiers.

Even the bodies of the fallen soldiers who could be found had to be brought back.

"Company commander, Mao Zibing has withdrawn."

On the top of the third floor, the soldier in charge of the lookout ran down breathlessly.

"Withdrawn?

I can tell you, I killed you by lying about the military situation. Zhang Laojiu was a little unconvinced, if it wasn't for the attack just now, if it wasn't for the airship falling and smashing on the enemy's marching route.

I have these twenty-five or six people left, and it's really two to say whether I can withstand it.

Now, after the fall of the airship. It fell to the ground and exploded, forming a wall of fire, and it is estimated that the fire will not be extinguished, and it is impossible for Mao Zibing to attack.

However, it is unlikely that you will retreat.

"Company commander, just come up and take a look." When he heard that he was going to be shot, the sentry was in a hurry.

Zhang Laojiu and Ding San glanced at it, hurriedly wiped out the cigarette on the wall, hung it on their ears and climbed to the top of the third floor.

His eyes were close to a bullet hole, and Zhang Laojiu glanced at it.

", it's really retreating."

Zhang Laojiu took a step to the side and gave up the bullet hole to Ding San.

"Really, fucking retreated?" Ding San was also full of doubts.

Inside the bank building, there are now only about two dozen people left.

If the enemy really wants to fight, a charge will be almost enough, and at this time it will actually retreat.

"That's not right! Don't fucking change the guard, you see, they even carried the mortar. ”

"Changing guards?

How can there be a change of guard in broad daylight? ”

The two brothers didn't understand for a while, looked at the gloomy sky, and went back to the building.

There were five brothers left on the second floor, who were crouching behind the pillars, their hands in their crotches, all frozen with snot like turtles.

"Hold on, and I'll have another half an hour for you to go down." Zhang Laojiu took out a cigarette from Ding San's pocket, and one of them scattered.

On the first floor, you can make a fire in the corner below the stairs.

It's relatively closed and you can't see it from the outside.

Now, life and death are actually nothing, and having the opportunity to bake a fire is considered a New Year.

Those who have never experienced the taste of freezing have no way to understand it.

Both feet hurt like pins and needles, although the Ming army's winter cotton hat had cap ears and a mask that could cover the mouth and nose.

But the two eye sockets are a little painful when they are frozen.

The cold wind blew, and people shed tears.

"Company commander! I heard just now that Mao Zibing retired? "Everyone was looking forward to the retreat of the enemy forces.

As long as the enemy army retreats, they can go to the basement in the back.

Not only is it warmer, but there is also hot soup and hot rice.

Now for them, there is hot soup to drink and hot rice to eat, and that is the life of people.

The days in China are the days that can only be lived by his mother's gods.

"Maybe it's not a retreat, it's a change of guard. The big guy still has to keep an eye on it, and there are few of us today. You can change the guard at 8 o'clock in the evening!

When I go back, I can still have a hot meal to eat. ”

"Company commander, I want to eat braised pork."

"Yes, there are braised pork, there are roast chicken, you can drink two sips if you want. Our Ming army has not heard of any army running out of ammunition and food. ”

Ding San smoked a cigarette and patted the soldier on the head with a smile. This kid looks like he is seventeen or eighteen years old, with a Guanzhong accent.

He didn't ask what the soldier's name was, he knew the name and considered it an acquaintance.

Watching an acquaintance die is obviously different from watching an unfamiliar person die.

There are too many dead people to see, and the recruits add a batch of dead ones.

Ding San had already made up his mind not to ask what these recruits were called.

"The meat buns in our hometown, as well as the mutton steamed buns, are called authentic. When we return to China, I will take you to Xi'an for a good meal.

After Huaiyuan Gate, it is the best place in our pass. ”

"Good! Good! ”

The recruits began to imagine what they would do after the battle.

There are those who want to go home to become the village chief and marry their daughters-in-law, and there are those who want to go to the factory to be officials. There's a lot of everything!

Anyway, Daming will never treat people who come down from the front line badly.

At the very least, you can generally be a village chief or something in the countryside.

In the city, you can also mix a foreman in the factory for the most time.

As for the daughter-in-law, it makes you even more dazzled.

The people who came down from the battlefield, the top one was a big hero.

Beautiful women love heroes, not to mention that these heroes generally have a large amount of money from the state.

Zhang Laojiu and Ding San were just smoking cigarettes and watching the five soldiers brag nonsense.

On the battlefield, there is no need to stop.

Three times in ten days, they came to the bank to guard it.

Every time the people around me are different, and this kind of nonsense full of obscene clichés is not the first time.

The people who used to be, now they are all corpses.

The brothers sincerely hope that the wishes of these people can come true. The truth is truly a reality, not in the kingdom of heaven.

After staying on the second floor for a while, he sent a soldier to report to the back battalion. By the way, I was able to bring a few reinforcements back.

Relying on these two dozen people alone, they were not sure that they would be able to hold out until eight o'clock in the evening.

Zhang Laojiu looked at the watch in his hand, it was only 10:50 at noon.

The wreckage of the airship spilled a lot of fuel, which stuck to the broken bricks and tiles, turning the ruins into torches.

From a distance, it was as if a mountain of flames had fallen from the edge of the bank.

The so-called warmth is nothing more than psychological.

The strong northwest wind blew away all the burning temperatures.

The soldiers sent to deliver the letter returned, bringing back not only eight soldiers, but also two large barrels of rice and a large bucket of braised pork and stewed potatoes.

There are few potatoes, they are all large pieces of fat and lean pork.

The bucket is the kind of insulated bucket with a lid, and it is still hot when it is delivered to the bank.

What made Zhang Laojiu even more excited was that he also brought a new order from the battalion headquarters.

"The battalion commander said to hold out until six o'clock in the evening and then retreat.

The sappers will send a lot of mines in a while, and you can withdraw them after you have planted them. ”

If it wasn't the deputy battalion commander who was standing beside him, he would suspect that this kid was pretending to spread military information.