Chapter 76: Still not leaving? Okay, okay, let me go and save you?

(parallel world)
Bank of the river.

Soldiers kept rushing up. The Iron Blood Army had already lost this defense!

They could only keep shrinking their defense lines to slow down the enemy's attack.

From then on, the Allied forces assembled a million troops and launched a counterattack.

Their target is not only the city of Gler, but also the Iron Blood Army on the Eastern Front!
The iron-blooded troops on the Eastern Front were composed of multiple groups, mixed with a number of foreign Turkish troops. Their numbers were no less than those of the Allied forces. There were nearly eighty divisions stationed along the line, with a million soldiers, hundreds of tanks, thousands of aircraft, and tens of thousands of artillery pieces!
But they also have fatal flaws.

Gler City!
The 6th Army occupied Grad and stationed nearly soldiers there. In addition, there were also tens of thousands of Turkish troops along the river.

Now, facing the Allied forces that are about to encircle them, how will they resist?
Winter is coming.

The fuel is gone.

The encirclement and cutting off of logistics, the Iron Blood's logistics can only be provided by airdrop, but it is impossible to provide logistics for the entire army!

The situation changes rapidly.

The situation, which was originally favorable, was equalized by the Allied forces!

the other side.

The Allied forces broke through the Anhe River and stationed their troops outside the city of Zagreb. They later planned to tie down the main force in the city and attack the weak forces outside.

After all, this is an army of nearly 100,000 people.

It is impossible to eat this piece of meat in one bite. If you choose to attack forcefully, your own losses will only be greater!
Moreover, with an iron-blooded army of more than 100,000 soldiers collaborating with tens of thousands of foreign troops, it is not impossible to break through!
The Allies wanted to surround the enemy and attack their reinforcements, but as long as the Iron Blood Group did not break out immediately, they could slowly wear down the enemy as the climate changed.

This is the difference in the strengths of both parties.

The Iron Bloods excel at violent assaults, breakthroughs, and armored combinations, while the Allies have more experience in fighting in icy and snowy weather and inclement weather.

night.

Hundreds of heavy trucks equipped with Katyusha rockets bombed the target positions. In the past, they had used iron-blooded bombings, but this time they would also feel it.

As time goes by.

The weather is getting colder in November.

It's snowing in Gullah.

The Allied forces were stationed outside the city of Gle and they slowly invaded the city.

Various defensive lines were opened.

The Southwestern Army fought against the Iron Blood in heavy snow and broke through the enemy lines in the counterattack. With the strong support of the Air Force, the Iron Blood 3rd Army's position was broken!
It is thirty kilometers away from the city of Gle.

The foreign Turkish troops stationed on the An River also suffered a counterattack. The Allied forces not only broke through the river defense line, but also annihilated their special cavalry.

In the picture, many viewers felt that the cavalry were familiar, as if they had seen them somewhere.

The river defense line was occupied by the Allies.

This covered more troops to cross the river.

After that, they quickly headed north to join forces with the Southwestern Army, and integrated the encirclement of the Iron Blood Fortress, Outer Land 1, and Outer Land 2!

At this time, there were nearly 300,000 enemy troops surrounding Gle City!
Outside the encirclement, tens of thousands of enemy troops were separated.

At this point, Grad was completely surrounded!

at the same time.

The Iron Blood Legion received news that the Allied forces were surrounding and counterattacking Grad.

The decision-making department submitted a command, hoping that the Sixth Army would abandon Grad and join the troops on the Eastern Front.

Reason: Iron Blood is invincible, but Iron Blood without logistics is a toothless tiger!

But even if the situation is so critical.

The Iron Blood camp is still unwilling to retreat!

July to August.

Their army spent too much from the first siege to the complete occupation of Gerakim.

Outposts outside the city, train stations, factories, city centers, strategic heights...

On the banks of the river, in the back of the river, and along the coast, the battle stretched for more than ten kilometers.

In order to capture the city of Gler, they lost nearly 700,000 soldiers, more than 1,000 tanks, more than 2,000 artillery and mortars, and 1,400 aircraft.

Just give up when you say so?

impossible!
Some decision-makers believed that if Grad was occupied for just one day, it would be a huge blow to the morale of the Allied forces!
But they forgot that as long as Grad was not recaptured, the anger and resentment of the Allies would increase!
Of course, none of this is the deciding factor.

The real reason why the Sixth Group decided to defend Grenoble was the Air Force commander.

The Air Force's highest commander told you that he could guarantee that the Air Force would provide sufficient daily military supplies to the Sixth Group stationed in Grad via the "air bridge"!
This can ensure the combat effectiveness of their group. When facing a counterattack, someone must stop them!

Reason enough, sir, give the order.

After receiving the reply, the Sixth Group not only received the order to station, but was also renamed the Fortress Army.

The master's order was straightforward: "Wherever the iron-blooded soldiers go, they must defend there!"

But the fact is that the Iron-Blooded Air Force does not have such a huge transportation capacity.

The promised daily transportation of 700 tons of supplies was only 300 tons! They also had to take care of other fronts!

……

The city of Gler.

It's time for the Fortress Army to receive the airdropped supplies.

However, extreme weather hindered the progress of the Air Force, and the transport team arrived in Gler City three hours late.

At the moment of approaching, the Allied anti-aircraft firepower obstructed the transport plane, and it was severely damaged and crashed in the city of Gleri and exploded.

From now on, the air bridge plan has failed.

Fortress Group received less than 10% of the supplies.

Hunger and cold threatened them, and the Allied forces continued to infiltrate and shrink their defense lines.

Iron Blood Command.

The Iron-Blooded Command integrated the 11th Army Group, the 4th Panzer Group, the 6th Group trapped in the Grad Fortress, and the 3rd and 4th Groups into the Riverbank Army Group and handed it over to another commander. The goal was to hinder the Allied counterattack and recapture the lost positions.

But the commander-in-chief and the commander had different opinions. He believed that if the Iron Blood wanted to win, they needed to abandon Gle and let the fortress army trapped in Gle break out to the southwest and cooperate with the 4th Armored Group in the Northeast to encircle the Allied forces.

Regardless of the outcome, at least you won’t become passive!
But ten days later, the commander made a public statement, stating that the Fortress Group would not retreat and emphasized that the Fortress Group could not surrender.

This requires the commander to fight his way out and reach Gerd!
Half a month.

The weather is getting colder.

Heavy snow fell in many places in the war zone. They didn't expect that the climate change in winter would be so different. It was snowing in November!

Most of the soldiers in Gler City suffered frostbite, and they began to lack resources in large numbers.

Food, cotton clothes, medicine, fuel...

There are not enough cotton clothes in this weather.

A thousand Iron Blood soldiers are frostbitten every day! Before the cold came, they could still fight, but now facing the extreme cold, a large number of Iron Blood soldiers have lost their fighting power.

On the other hand, the Allied forces were able to obtain sufficient supplies every day as the river banks were frozen.

Train transport was not affected by the weather, and they kept themselves warm by drinking strong liquor in their white uniforms.

at the same time.

The iron-blooded commander of the army group formulated the "Winter Storm" plan to counterattack the Allied forces.

Led by the 4th Armored Group, they broke through the Allied 51st Army's garrison defense line.

In this vast snowfield, countless tanks and armored vehicles broke through the defense line.

But when they broke through the defense line and advanced rapidly, they found themselves trapped in the iron grip of the Allied forces!

The number of allied forces is too large, and more and more militiamen are entering the battlefield. Their combat effectiveness may not be strong, but militiamen are also soldiers!
If the 4th Panzer Group continues to advance in this way, it will face an iron-clad encirclement of enemies several times its size!

So he issued a secret order to the fortress group in Grad to break out. If the breakout was successful, they would meet up with the 4th Armored Group.

Faced with two army groups, if the Allies want to stop them by force, they must be prepared for sacrifice!

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(End of this chapter)