The tug-of-war occurred in Somsonas, which lasted for four days with the frequency of the two sides swapping roles twice a day on average. As the front-line troops suffered extremely heavy casualties, the Lorraine reserve troops under Weiss finally received orders to replenish the front line.

Weiss was frightened by the casualties data on Somsonas' battlefield. Such a tug-of-war is not as simple as it seems. You and I will come on stage. The attacking side drove the defenders out of the position, and then the defenders took back the position at night. Whether it was attacking or counterattack, it was accompanied by terrifying artillery fire and bombing. To take the position, one side usually needs to eliminate most of the enemy troops stationed on the position, and the defeated side suffered a lot of losses while retreating.

In this battle, the federal army adopted a flexible defense strategy on the long line of defense. The defense of Somsonas City initially followed this method, but because the city area is not large and the depth of the defense is small, the effect of elastic defense is not so outstanding. As the competition between the two sides becomes more and more intense, after each confrontation, the remains of the dead are almost everywhere on the positions.

The front-line command of this battle is nominally in the hands of the three-man committee. In fact, the air force is under the control of the air force, the army is under the control of the army, and Weiss is responsible for dispatching the reserve forces and ensuring supplies. This is a very heavy task. The Normans have learned the essence of guerrilla warfare through the previous war and improved it, which has put the federal army under great pressure from the beginning of the war. On all fronts, they must be careful. If they are not careful, the supply and material storage points will be destroyed by the enemy guerrilla forces. The federal army often faces a passive situation when fighting on their own territory. It is obvious that when the regular army is limited, the power of the reserve forces and the people can fundamentally solve this problem. Weiss knows this that he devotes a large part of his energy to protect his own supply lines and the tactical strongholds of sentient beings.

In accordance with the resolution of the three-man committee, Weiss sent the reserve troops of six battalions to the front line, but he still stood in the rear and did not go with the team. These reserve troops were the best reserve troops for the Lorraines, and five of them received the honorary title of the Hunting Battalion. They were fully trained in their early combat operations. Although they were only reserve troops and their combat strength could not be compared with the front-line troops, let alone comparable to the elite troops of the Normans, the two armies had been fighting for a long time, and the participating troops had consumed a considerable amount of strength and energy in the continuous tug-of-war and competition.

After entering the battlefield, these reserve troops used their familiarity with the environment and the secret paths pre-set before the war to quickly break into the Somsonas city occupied by the Norman army. The area is not large, but it is no problem to deploy thousands of troops. Due to the opponent's heavy weapons and bombing of air force, the two sides have deliberately limited the number of garrisons. In the past few days, the federal army has invested in the Somsonas war in a single time.

At most, the force on the field reached one division, and later it gradually reduced to half of the force, that is, about two to three regiments were invested in each counterattack. The Normans they faced, except for the initial attack, investing a large amount of troops, whether they defend or counterattack, did not exceed two regiments at each time. Only when the battle was the most critical, would the mobile reserve team be mobilized to increase the front line. At that time, four regiments might be reached, but usually no more than ten thousand.

Even under such circumstances, the casualties on the battlefield were quite amazing. In just one night, Weiss received news that more than 60% of the six reserve battalions participated in the battle had suffered losses, and more than half of the troops had lost their combat effectiveness, and the rest were struggling to support them. After learning about the battle that night in detail, he realized that such heavy casualties were not due to command or problems in the battle process, but a terrible normal, which made a word in his mind: meat grinder.

People often use "meat grinders" to describe tragic and continuous battles. In the last war, Aocheng was the notorious meat grinder. Both sides successively invested millions of troops and lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers. On the Somsonas battlefield, if they continue to fight at this speed, not only the front-line troops cannot stand it, but the reserve troops will soon fight all their strength. However, the battlefield is a state of killing one thousand enemies and losing 800 themselves. For every loss of a group of troops in the Federal Army, the Normans also lost troops on this battlefield. It is hard to say who can withstand it, but those who persist can win.

The next morning, the Normans launched an attack on Sosomsonas again. After more than two hours of fierce fighting, they once again drove the federal army out of the city. During this process, the Federal Army mobilized heavy artillery to cover the city of Somsomsonas, and sent a group of bombers to launch two rounds of bombings on the city. The Normans were not showing any weakness. They dispatched flying ships to sweep the Federal Army's defense zone with powerful artillery fire, and then sent dozens of combat aircraft to bomb the federal army withdrawing from Somsomsonas from early morning to dusk, and launched a fierce artillery attack before nightfall.

Regarding the situation of Somsonas, Weiss and his two partners had a special talk. They both believed that this violent meat-mincing war deviated from the trend of civilization development and returned to the most primitive and bloodiest instinct. However, if Somsonas is given up, it will not only lead to tactical failure, but may also trigger a chain reaction and lead to strategic retreat.

However, if you want to defend Somsonas, you have to constantly fill in the forces and withstand the enemy's firepower. You must know that the Normans have prepared some fresh weapons for this war, such as high-speed transport ships equipped with multiple large-caliber heavy artillery. They installed large-caliber artillery comparable to battleships on these transport ships with strong maneuvers as mobile artillery, and used them as mobile artillery batteries, and provided cover with combat ships and combat aircraft. As long as one or two such terrifying gunboats are invested, a town can be turned into ruins. Somsonas has suffered multiple rounds of such terrifying heavy artillery strikes in the battle in the previous few days, and many federal officers and soldiers died under this artillery fire.

The Federal Army is not without response. In peacetime, with the efforts of a group of knowledgeable people, the Federal flight technology is still developing continuously. After the outbreak of the war, relying on the mature aviation industry and flight clubs and the reserve forces cultivated by the flight competition, the Federal Air Force quickly expanded its scale, and the fighter troops that could come and fight became the key force for the Federal Army to resist strong enemies on all fronts. On the Somsonas battlefield, the Federal Air Force's attack aircraft and bombers were constantly burning.

Incendiary bombs, high-explosive bombs and special bombs hit the Normans' heads. Several waves of bombing can also razed a town to the ground. If the Normans continue to occupy Somsonas and continuously strengthen fortifications, they will not hide in a solid underground bunker, and the bombing effect of the Federal Air Force will become lower and lower. Only through repeated confrontations can the Normans never be able to build solid fortifications here, so that the advantages of the Federal Air Force can be used as much as possible and constantly consume the enemy's new forces...

At dusk, the three-person committee made a difficult choice: to send 2000 front-line troops and 2000 reserve troops to counterattack at night, and use a newly transferred assault regiment and four reserve battalions as combat reserves. The 4,000 officers and soldiers who were incorporated into the counterattack were temporarily drawn from the previously damaged troops and organized into 8 combat columns. Most of them had seen the purgatory scene of the Somsonas battlefield. Some people participated in the battle for two consecutive days, and even went to the front three. In the night counterattack battle, the federal troops were always as powerful as rainbows and destroyed, but during the day, they could not support the Normans' attack regardless of casualties.

In the Free Lorraine Canal Industrial Zone southeast of Somsonas, this fierce offensive and defensive battle was also going on repeatedly. The Normans' offense failed to achieve a stream of victory. They worked hard to move forward every day, but the daily gain was limited. Sometimes, they could win more than a dozen factories a day, but at night, the federal army would use preset paths to regain some factories. The solid factories gradually turned into ruins in the fierce artillery fire, but even the ruins could become a solid battle fortress. Both sides invested tens of thousands of troops here, and suffered thousands of losses every day. Although the battle situation here is not as close to the purgatory on earth as Somsonas, the situation is quite tragic.

The reason why both sides kept filling in people was obviously that they had their own plans: the Federal Army here blocked the opponents and consumed the enemy's troops and morale. Although the Normans could not capture each other for a long time, they seemed to feel that they could attract and restrain the main forces of the Federal Army through such battles.

On the tenth day after the Battle of Somsonas, the two sides had not decided the outcome, and the Normans finally used the aerial assault landing tactics they were good at. They used heavily armored transport ships to send tens of thousands of elite soldiers to the depths behind the Federal Army's defense line. They made sufficient preparations and carried out a large number of reconnaissance and sabotage operations, but the airborne assault operations of this heavy army group did not achieve the expected results. In the next two days, the Federal Army guarded various tactical strongholds, so that the enemy landing troops could not achieve tactical echo with the offensive forces on the front line of the defense line, nor did they pose a fatal threat to the key parts of the Federal Army in the depths.
Chapter completed!