"Captain, division telephone, launch a counterattack in ten minutes!"

"Ten minutes?"

Hearing the deputy's report, Weiss raised his hand and looked at the watch, then turned his gaze forward, with a solemn expression in sharp contrast with his longing for the first time he joined the war.

He is located at this moment, a street south of the central city of Ao City. There is a building with only frames left. It is neither suitable for guarding nor concealing, but it is a battlefield reconnaissance point with a good view. Here, Weiss can clearly see the remains of the Grumman Building. The main building of the skyscraper has fallen into a shattered collapse, but the ruins are still hundreds of feet high, like a large artificial orodo. Also in the center of the city, there are three ruins with small specifications and similar shapes, namely the Casten Building, the Padras Building and the August Steel Building. Like the Grumman Building, they are also witnesses of the glorious era of Ao City. They were all the leaders at the beginning of their birth. At that time, probably no one expected them to have such a different ending.

Since the Battle of Aocheng, the Norman army has once advanced to the hinterland of the south of the city. The day before yesterday, the federal army launched a large-scale counterattack. Before dawn, it had crossed the center of the city and arrived near the stadium in the north of the city. It was only ten miles away from the goal of expelling the Norman army from Aocheng. Although there was no thorn in these ten miles, it was hard to move forward.

It has been more than two hours since he was appointed as the commander of the task force of the 16th Combat Division's direct reconnaissance battalion. During this period, Weiss temporarily put aside the distracting thoughts that troubled him and devoted himself to a new role. 36 old subordinates, plus 64 new aids dispatched by General Carl from the reserve team, formed this 100-man company. Weiss divided them into four groups, two groups carried out ground reconnaissance, and two groups entered the sewer exploration - as he expected, the special service forces blasted several skyscrapers and the purposeful destruction of the Norman army. The sewers in the central area of ​​the city were less than one-third of the accessible areas. Even so, as long as they were carefully planned, there was still a chance to send elite troops to the rear of the enemy's positions when the fierce battle was in progress.

On the front battlefield, under the wave after wave of attacks of the Federal Flight Forces, the Norman Fleet retreated from the sky over the city to the northern suburbs of Aocheng, and used artillery fire to support the Norman army in the city. On the other hand, the fighter army was always the fighter force to support the scene. After expelling the Norman Fleet from the city, they tried to continue chasing, but the losses increased sharply under the attack of the Norman Fleet and the ground air defense fire. Then they adjusted the combat direction and instead attacked the Norman army in the city. In this way, the air combat temporarily formed a confrontation, and the ground battlefield caused a bloody storm: the Norman ground artillery group covered the vast battlefield from the north of the city to the center of the city, and the single artillery fire projection was connected to the neighborhood within the block.

The state army has devastating lethality. No matter how brave the federal officers and soldiers are, they are even ignoring their lives, it is difficult to continue to advance their fronts north. The front lines fought fiercely with the Norman army that was constantly counterattacking, and casualties continued to increase. The fronts did not advance but retreated. With the support of artillery, the Norman army captured one block after another that they had occupied, but they also paid a bloody price to break through the ravine of bullets and bullets of the federal fighter jets. The bombs and strafing of the federal fighter jets also made them suffer, so that wherever the Norman army reached, on the streets and among the ruins, there were no fewer Norman soldiers who died than their opponents. Perhaps as General Carl said, this critical battle has reached a critical stage. Which side is more sacrificed, which side has a better chance to win.

Ten minutes passed in a blink of an eye. At the street intersection that is visible to the naked eye, hundreds of Norman soldiers launched a strong attack under the guidance of armored combat vehicles. Opposite the street intersection, many federal soldiers were still standing in the ruins, but judging from the scene, this street fighting position was obviously unable to be defended.

At this moment, three green signal flares rose slowly, which meant that more than 50,000 officers and soldiers from four infantry divisions, including the 16th Combat Division, were about to launch a counterattack against the Norman army's attack in the center of Ao City. The green signal flares had not yet fallen, and dust and smoke spread in the south of the city, and the rumbling sound of cannons gathered together. Countless shells flew over their heads and roared towards the Norman army controlled area. In an instant, the dense explosion sounded completely filled people's auditory senses, the ground continued to tremble, and the broken walls were trembling.

Weiss patted his deputy who was following him and made a gesture of "follow me". The two climbed down the brick corner along the wall, ran quickly to the street, drilled in from the unveiled manhole cover, and returned to the familiar underground world in a few seconds. Following the route the Federal Army took when they counterattacked, they could lead to the North City Stadium, but it had been re-occupied by the Norman army. The Norman warship that had finally been taken was also abandoned by the Federal army because it was severely damaged by the Norman artillery fire. It is meaningless to venture through the artillery covered area to the north of the city. At a fork in the sewer, Weiss and

The two team leaders gathered together, ignored the influence of the shelling, and studied and discussed the next tactical countermeasures against the familiar sewer distribution map. The main task was to find a suitable breakthrough for their combat troops behind enemy lines. This process lasted for more than ten minutes, and the shelling outside had not stopped. Although the sewer could collapse at any time in the artillery covered area, the brave scouts rushed to the target area they had just selected without hesitation. Every time they passed a fork, they either placed a kerosene lamp in the passageway or allowed a soldier to stay for the subsequent combat commando to guide the way.

As before, Weiss personally led a team to take action. As some "navigators" were scattered along the way, when they arrived at an exit behind the enemy's front, there were still six companions around Weiss. These capable scouts came to the ground calmly and looked for hidden combat reconnaissance points in the collapsed buildings. They not only had to beware of the nearby Norman soldiers, but also prayed not to be hit by their own artillery shells. Fortunately, neither of these tragedies occurred. Soon, the artillery bombardment of the federal army began to extend deep into the battlefield. The federal army troops deployed behind the front quickly crossed their fronts, passed through the firefighting area, and stabbed into the Norman army's positions like arrows...

Observing the battlefield from the rear of the Norman front-line positions was a new perspective for Weiss: he clearly saw the street combat offensive and defensive system of the Norman army, and was surprised to find that the firepower support of the Normans in front-line positions was neither light and heavy machine guns nor field artillery, nor weapons in the hands of infantry, but armored combat vehicles equipped with machine guns, machine guns and short-barrel artillery!

War is a natural catalyst for military progress, but its effects are often very different in different countries and armies. The federal army "evolved" a fighter force that did not rely on star source stones, and repeatedly staged air battles that "many ants bite to death" and saved the precarious situation in an unconventional way. The "evolution" of the Norman army was previously mainly reflected in the artificial star source stones. They cleverly used aerial lightning strike tactics and defeated the flying fleets of Wessex and the Free Federation, which was obviously not their only "evolution direction". As early as the Northern Frontier Campaign, Weiss had seen the magnificence of the armored troops of the Norman army. The further down the road, the more difficult the federal army was in field and mobile warfare, which was inseparable from the Norman army's use of armored vehicles.

What Weiss was worried about was also the place where General Carl's melancholy became reality. On the battlefield filled with smoke, the federal army rushed through the streets one after another, pouring into the rubble-filled blocks, swallowing the Norman soldiers who were in front and unable to retreat. This inspiring scene seemed to have never happened after the Norman army attacked Ao City. However, such brave and fearless behavior was not the victory like mercury, but the sharp rise in casualties. Although the Norman army was lost, it was

The frontier positions did not lose their positions, but instead the central army covered the front army and the rear army supported the central army, and organized a strong blocking line in the second-line positions. On this blocking line, a considerable number of armored vehicles were either still or moving, each in their positions and fired violently. Many federal soldiers fell under their firepower. Even if the federal army called for artillery support in time, it would be difficult for the cross-fire artillery fire from the rear of the front to destroy the Norman armored combat vehicles one by one. As a result, even if the federal army could break the enemy's front line, it would be necessary to exhaust their strength and shed all their blood here.

The battle situation ahead was terrible. Weiss stared at her eyes, clenched her fists, and squeezed out words from his teeth that he could only hear: "Why hasn't the combat commando come up yet?"

Taking advantage of the fierce battle between the two sides, they sent elite combat commandos to cross the enemy's front through the sewer and launch an attack from behind the enemy. This was Weiss' strategy for General Carl. Since the sewer was not convenient to transport heavy equipment, the combat commandos could only carry ordinary firearms and a certain number of grenades and explosives, and attacked them from the front and back to achieve the unexpected effect. Although the light equipment has weak firepower, as long as the enemy's attention is restrained on the front, this surprise soldier has a chance to disrupt the enemy's battle formation. The superposition of courage, technology and opportunity, the Norman warship can be taken down. What are the few dozen armored vehicles?

The counter-strike of the federal army has just begun. It is obviously not the best time for the combat commando to appear. Weiss certainly understood this, but he only looked at the battlefield with hundreds of thousands of federal soldiers, and every second was so painful, and every second was so long. But even so, he still stared at the battlefield intently, observing the enemy's troops and firepower distribution, and trying to explore the enemy's flaws and loopholes. As time went by and the increase in remains on the battlefield, the frontal attack of the federal army seemed to show signs of weakening, and this trend of weakness only existed for only two or three minutes - a short burst of artillery fire without warning.
Chapter completed!