What Bayan and Hugjiril didn't know was that the battle situation had changed drastically on the morning they conducted the fire reconnaissance.

On that morning, the Russian and Ming armies launched a large-scale attack on the coalition forces on the northern front.

The coalition forces in the Vyalzima area were defeated by the fierce attacks of the Russian and Ming armies.

The Prussian army, which had never really fought against the Ming army, finally understood what a rain of shells was.

This time, the Ming army concentrated thirty rocket launcher battalions.

In the darkest hour before dawn, in just thirty seconds, nearly 10,000 rocket shells fell on the Prussian army's position.

This rocket launcher battalion is not the kind of 120mm division-level rocket launchers.

It was a 280mm battle-grade heavy rocket launcher. One shell went down and dug out a large crater ten meters deep in the ground!

This kind of depth cannot even be reached by ordinary tactical level bunkers.

Even if it is mixed with steel and concrete, as long as it is hit directly on the head by a rocket, the shock can still kill the people in the bunker.

After the shells were fired, Ao Canghai, who was twenty kilometers away, felt his feet trembling.

The sound of exploding artillery shells came rolling against the ground like muffled thunder.

A Swedish battalion deployed at the front was unprepared and evaporated without even taking a chance.

Other coalition forces also suffered heavy losses.

After the shelling, coalition soldiers were everywhere.

The officers shouted loudly to their men, while others were digging hard to rescue the brothers buried under the bunker.

Just when the battlefield was in chaos, another sharp ghost-like roar came from the sky.

This time it is not a battle-level rocket launcher. The shells are very large and require a crane to load them. The loading speed is very slow.

After firing a salvo, it would take at least half an hour to continue shooting.

Now what falls on the heads of the coalition forces are all 120mm tactical grade rockets.

Tactical-grade rockets are filled with a large number of steel balls, and the fuze is an instant-fire fuze.

When it falls, it may explode if it hits a branch.

The shell exploded in the air and countless steel balls fell from the sky.

The steel balls hit the ground, causing soil to scatter in all directions, and the coalition soldiers were beaten until blood spurted all over their bodies.

Almost instantly, corpses of coalition soldiers littered the fields!

There were mutilated corpses everywhere on the battlefield, and there were only squirming bloody things in the forward positions, not a single human being.

According to intelligence, there are two Prussian divisions stationed in the Vialzima area.

But that's the usual number of troops stationed there, and today's situation is a bit special.

Today is the day when the Prussian army changes its defenses. Two divisions that have just been reorganized and reorganized are coming up from behind. The divisions originally stationed in the army are preparing to change their defenses and then return to the rear to change their equipment.

The situation faced by the Ming and Russian armies was that the troops who had changed their defenses had arrived, but the troops originally stationed had not yet left.

In other words, there were originally two divisions to deal with.

But now we have four divisions to deal with!

The number of people has doubled!

As the number of troops increases, the intensity of the troops will naturally increase.

Under the heavy artillery fire, the casualties were naturally much higher.

It had just dawned, and when Bayan and the others were being bombarded, Ming army aircraft appeared over the Vyalzima area to evaluate the effect of the bombardment.

The pilot was in the sky and marked the points on the map that were not damaged one by one.

Then quickly fly back to the airport and land on the ground. The artillery command post is inside the airport.

The jeep braked violently, and the tires rubbed against the ground, sending out large plumes of smoke.

The map was sent to the artillery command post, which quickly determined the value of the target.

Then according to the coordinates, arrange howitzers to bombard.

For Moltke, this was an ordinary morning.

Although he had a very late meeting with his staff last night, he still got up on time at six o'clock in the morning.

After having breakfast and drinking two glasses of milk, I was about to walk around the headquarters twice.

Suddenly, the staff officer ran over like a mule that had been hit by an arrow.

"Chief of General Staff, the Russian army and the Ming army launched an attack on us." He said and handed over a folder.

Mao Qi's heart thumped. He was still planning an attack with his staff last night.

However, they did not expect that the Ming army and the Russian army launched an attack first without any warning.

I glanced at my watch, it was already nine o'clock in the morning.

At this time, Bayan and the others were having breakfast.

In the afternoon, when Bayan and the others were basking in the sun six kilometers behind the British army.

The anxious German Chief of General Staff Moltke was landing in Smolensk in an airship.

With the support of radio waves, news of the attack by the Ming Army on the northern front spread quickly.

The British troops, who were about to encircle and suppress the small Ming army behind them, immediately stopped their actions and turned to guard their positions with high vigilance.

Lieutenant General Haig of the Royal Army looked at the map and felt a little confused.

He didn't care about such a small battalion-sized force. What he was afraid of was that the Ming army's attack on the northern front was just a feint attack. The real attack was on the southern front to eat up the small protrusion guarded by the British army.

Once the Royal Army encircles and suppresses this small-scale Ming army, if the Ming army on the opposite side takes the opportunity to launch an attack, the entire front will be in danger of collapse.

Therefore, he immediately stopped the order to retake the position, and instead defended it strictly to ensure that there would be no problems with the existing position.

There is nothing we can do about this!

Looking at the large number of coalition forces, they seem to be stronger than the Ming army.

But compared to the Ming army, the coalition army should be regarded as an ancient army.

Although they were holding rifles in their hands, they also had cannons behind them.

But inside the army, there were mules, horses, and even ox carts everywhere.

Such an army moves slowly.

Originally, there could have been cavalry to make up for the lack of mobility of the army.

But the problem is that in this era when machine guns are prevalent all over the world, it is really difficult for the cavalry to live.

As for the Ming Army, they have been blessed with tractors.

The tanks and armored vehicles of the mobile army are everywhere in the world, marching 200 kilometers a day seems like a joke.

Even if we advance while fighting, we can march a hundred kilometers a day.

All coalition troops rely on two legs and can march sixty kilometers a day, which means they are elite troops.

Relying on the advantage of mobility, the initiative on the battlefield was actually in the hands of the Ming army.

Basically, the Ming army could fight wherever they wanted and whomever they wanted.

The surprise attack on the Austro-Hungarian Empire is an example. The Ming army could suddenly launch an attack in certain areas.

Before the huge coalition forces could react, they quickly completed the division and encirclement.

In addition, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was unlucky. The heavy snow in those days was so heavy that people were buried alive. The Austro-Hungarian Army, which had average mobility, was even worse.

Basically, they were trapped in place and couldn't move. In the end, other than being starved to death and beaten to death, they had no choice but to surrender.

There are currently only a few hundred thousand British troops on the front line in Kharkov, although their equipment and training are much better than those of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

But Haig was not sure whether the Ming army would suddenly make a bold move and directly divide his hundreds of thousands of people into many pieces.

Then……!

Then I can die to thank Her Majesty the Queen.

The capital in hand was too small, and Haig did not dare to do this.

From the Ming army's side, it sounds very nonsense.

The General Headquarters ordered that frequent fire reconnaissance be conducted on the front line.

What Li Xiao wanted to do was to draw the attention of the coalition forces to the southern front and relieve some of the pressure on the northern front.

The Ming army on the southern front had some misunderstandings. They thought they were going to make a full-scale breakthrough on the southern front and directly extend the front to Kiev.

So, from Kursk to Belgorod to Rostov.

Within the vast front line, the Ming army frequently launched small-scale company and platoon-level attacks.

So much so that Napoleon, who was on the southern front, was always talking about whether he was being attacked this way or that.
To be continued...