Following an order, under the cover of artillery fire, the 5th and 6th Divisions of the Free Army transformed into company-based combat units, alternately covering the collapsed east wall of Bitburg City, and then quickly
Cross the city wall and rush into the city...
I saw that these soldiers were skilled in tactical movements and organized the attack very smoothly.
They first found bunkers in the rubble of the ruined city wall, climbed to the commanding heights, and then set up machine guns and mortars, using fire nets to drive away the approaching Thunderbolts and cover the advance of the rear team.
Once you encounter a strong fortress or obstacle, hide on the spot and call in artillery from the rear to deal with it. In this way, casualties can be minimized.
If the artillery cannot reach it temporarily, then under the cover of the infantry, engineers carrying explosives will rush forward and blast it away.
This siege battle was fought in a stylish manner, somewhat like the Nai'an security forces. It can be seen that these soldiers have been trained hard and seriously.
Unlike other Free Army troops that originated from local forces, the 5th and 6th Divisions were formerly the Lingshan Guards, Lingshan's most elite unit.
Although one-third of the new recruits have been added, in terms of soldiers' combat qualities and officer abilities, they are all among the best among the Semitic tribes and are very good.
And as the Imperial Guards, they have a very close relationship with Mero.
General Mero was originally the commander of the Fifth Division, and the Sixth Division was a brother army.
Because they are both from the Guards system, these two divisions have a unique status in the Free Army. Whether before or now, their relationship with other units of the Free Army is very unharmonious. Especially with
Known as the Caribbean Division of the Republic's Guardsmen.
In the eyes of these elite elites, the damn fruit vendors in the Caribbean Division are all a bunch of scum with only six combat abilities. At most, they just bully the defenseless people.
If we talk about real ability, those mud-legged people in the Caribbean are not even worthy of carrying their shoes~!
Just relying on Lorraine's nepotism, he obtained the best and most advanced weapons, and the equipment level is almost the same as that of the world-leading security forces.
This made them very unhappy. Why do good things always happen to these Caribbean bastards?
They even lamented privately that the only thing that General Mero was worse than Brad was that he could not have a daughter. If he also gave birth to a beautiful daughter like a flower, she would be washed white and fragrant and go to the bed of that rogue Lord Luo.
Once released, everyone will have new weapons.
The position of the president is naturally within General Mero's pocket. There is no need to jump up and down like he is doing now. No matter how hard he tries, he won't get much benefit.
The battle went very smoothly. In just half an hour, the Free Army captured several blocks of Dongcheng and established a solid defense.
At the same time, they also encountered their first difficulty.
The people of Bitburg had long expected that the city walls would not be able to stop the Ling Shan people, and they would eventually have to fight in the streets with their enemies. Therefore, they built strong barricades in the city.
These barricades are all made of stone and thick timber, and cannot be penetrated by rifles or machine guns.
Constrained by dense buildings and narrow alleys, the Free Army had to fight in close combat with the Bitburg people. The close-range street fighting prevented them from taking full advantage of their firepower advantage. Instead, it gave the Thunderbolts and crossbows room to use, and the offensive suddenly
blocked.
When the news from the front line came back to Melo, the two coalition major generals gloated and snickered secretly: The Free Army had no problem fighting in the field, but street fighting was a technical job.
Especially a city that is tightly blocked by barricades is like a maze with too many obstacles.
There is no good way to deal with this kind of troublesome street fighting.
Either gnaw forward bit by bit like ants gnawing on bones. Or, close the door and let the dogs out... er, no, go to the war fortress and use heavy bombs to clear it all the way.
The commander of the 7th Flying Group of the Allied Forces is Joseph Sabo, a young mage who graduated from the second Maple Leaf Danlin flight training class.
He folded his hands and leaned back leisurely on the chair, waiting for Mello to ask him to let the flying troops go up to help.
This is not because he is arrogant, but because he is a member of the human coalition. After all, they are invited foreign aid, and they are not his biological father, so there is no need to take advantage of him.
If you don't put on airs at this time, but jump out and ask for a fight on your own initiative, then your posture is really too low.
Looking back, it is not impossible that I will be scolded by my colleagues, and even scolded as a "traitor for national glory".
But Mero didn't even look at Sabo, and said without hesitation: "Clear a road, drag the cannon into the city, get close and shoot.
What a bunch of rubbish, you can’t blow up a road when there is no road, do you still need me to teach you about such a small thing?"
The commander of the Fifth Division who came back to ask for instructions was scolded by Mero, ran back in despair, and then sent someone to help drag the cannon into the city.
Major General Sabo of the Flying Brigade sighed, then moved a chair, sat outside the camp, and began to bask in the sun.
While the officers were yelling and scolding, in this late October weather, the artillerymen took off their shirts one by one, and then shouted slogans and pushed the cannon into the city with all their strength.
With their efforts, cannons weighing nearly two tons were pushed into the city.
The cannon was placed on the street, its muzzle almost flat, and it continuously bombarded the Bitburg barricades.
At the same time, the infantrymen hiding on both sides began to tear down the walls, or simply blow up the houses, broke into the Leishan people's yards, bypassed the main road, and detoured from both sides. Then they used grenades and shotguns to eliminate the people hiding in the house.
Thunderman behind the bunker.
The machine gunner even found a way to mount the machine gun on the roof of a building and shoot down at the Thunderbolts.
The front was bombarded by artillery shells, and there were threats of bullets and grenades overhead, on both sides, and even in the rear from time to time. The morale of the Bitburg people suddenly collapsed. Many of them were not even soldiers, but ordinary citizens.
Although these people are very enthusiastic about defending their homeland, not many of them have undergone strict military training. Once they see the people around them having their heads smashed by bullets flying from the opposite direction, or being blown to pieces by grenades, they will
Suddenly I realize that "life is so beautiful", or think of life aphorisms such as "it is better to die than to live".
Immediately, these people shouted and turned around and ran away.
Under their leadership, even the soldiers who originally stood firm turned and fled.
When the officers supervising the battle saw this happening, they immediately wanted to step forward to stop him, but they were immediately pushed to the ground, and then countless pairs of big feet stepped on the officer's body mercilessly.
The collapse of the Bitburg people's eastern defense had a chain effect, and all the defenders began to retreat toward the inner city's main palace.
Seeing this situation, Mero took advantage of the situation and invested more troops. He also sent two divisions to join the battle and surrounded the inner city from three sides.
At 5:30 in the afternoon, with the sky getting dark soon, the Free Army blasted through the walls of the inner city from three directions at the same time and broke into the Bitburg people's last line of defense.
In the end, the Free Army of four divisions compressed the tens of thousands of remaining defenders in Bitburg into an area of less than one square kilometer between the city's main palace and two surrounding streets.
When the Free Army pushed dozens of artillery pieces onto the street, with the black muzzles pointing towards the last barricade of the Bitburg people, the city lord of Bitburg finally couldn't bear it any longer and raised the white flag and surrendered.
The Free Army ordered all the people of Bitburg to put down their weapons and gather in the square outside the city lord's palace to wait for disposal.
Melo swaggered into Bitburg before dark, while the generals of the Free Army were arrogant. The two major generals of the coalition simply stayed at the end, so as not to look at their proud faces.
At this time, Bitburg, which once had nearly 150,000 residents, was like a hell. The entire east city area had been completely razed. The walls fell to the ground, the houses collapsed, or large holes were exposed. The streets were filled with rubble, and even a clean road surface was left.
None.
The roadside was littered with the corpses of Lei Shan who had been beaten to death. Many women and children held the mutilated bodies and cried bitterly.
Lei Shan's wounded were lying on the rubble, and the Free Army couldn't care less about them.
The devastated Leishan people were frightened by the war, wandering like ghosts over their bombed-out homes, confused and at a loss.
Seeing the Lingshan people passing by in a show of force, they were so frightened that they ran away like rabbits, or hid in the ruins and did not dare to show their heads.
Major General Sabo saw half of human bodies exposed in many ruins, apparently civilians buried in collapsed buildings.
He couldn't help but look up at Mello at the front of the team. At this time, it was not time to rescue civilians, clean up the battlefield, and it was not a battle to subjugate the country and exterminate the species. After all, they were still of the same clan, but Mello made no comment about this.
In fact, Melo was looking at the results created by his men with a satisfied smile, and was very satisfied with the performance of the Free Army in the battle.
It only took less than four hours to capture a well-fortified city of the Leishan people. This speed can be said to be the fastest in the world. Lord Lorraine has never beaten Hardou so fast.
I believe that whether the news reaches Arkadelin or Thunder Castle, it will definitely cause a sensation.
Feeling proud of the spring breeze, Merlot kicked the horse's belly and trotted straight towards the inner city.
The damage in the inner city is not much better than that in the east city, but these are big houses with wide buildings, so it doesn't look as miserable as the east city.
The weapons thrown down by the people of Bitburg were aimed at the five tall metal mountains in front of the city lord's palace. Tens of thousands of young adults sat on the ground, watching uneasily at General Lingshan who appeared in front of them.
The soldiers escorted the surrendered Lord of Bitburg, officials and officers to Meloma.
The clothes on these people were in a mess, and it seemed that they had been thoroughly searched by the Free Army soldiers. Of course, some of the shiny golden things on their bodies also fell into the hands of the Free Army soldiers.
This kind of robbery has become a rule on the battlefield.
Merlot sat high on his horse, smiling and looking down at the group of Thunderbolts who had been defeated by him, feeling very happy.
The leader was the Lord of Bitburg, a royal nobleman from the Zatan clan, but his appearance was very miserable at the moment, his clothes were torn apart violently, revealing his fair and fat skin, his hair was disheveled, and his face was stained with dirt.
But he was full of momentum, raised his head and stared at Mello without any sign of weakness.
Mero took out a piece of paper and read from it: "Go back to your hometown. Well, the writing is pretty good. Who wrote this note?"
The Lord of Bitburg raised his head, snorted coldly, and said: "I wrote it, do whatever you want, kill or behead whoever you want, it's up to you."
Mero stretched out a finger and pointed at him, and said "Hmm" in his nose. A guard took the note, walked up to the Lord of Bitburg, and looked at him with a sinister smile.
The Lord of Bitburg struggled twice, but was held tightly by the soldiers on both sides. He could only lean back as much as possible and asked sternly: "What do you want to do?"
The attendant grabbed the city lord's fat chin and squeezed it hard, forcing the city lord to open his mouth and said with the contempt typical of a victor: "Our commander said, whoever wrote it should eat this."
Then he forced the note into the city lord's mouth. He did it very roughly and forced half of his hand into the city lord's mouth. The city lord couldn't help but scream.
When the Leishan people saw their city lord being so humiliated, they showed angry expressions, but they were afraid that the Lingshan people would see it, so they could only lower their heads. Some even couldn't help but cry.
Seeing the funny look of the Lord of Bitburg, the Spirit Flash laughed heartily.
The reporters accompanying the army rushed to record this interesting episode, preparing to go back and write an article to make fun of Lei Shanren.
Major General Sabo saw everything in his eyes, and was quite concerned about Mero's performance, because there was absolutely no need to insult the Thunderman in this way.
Another artillery major general was already thinking about how to write a report to Lord Lorraine. He was from the security army, and Lord Lorraine sent him here with the intention of monitoring Merlot.
Mero held the reins and rode around the Lord of Bitburg and his companions. Then he looked at the Thunder Flash people gathered in the square. Suddenly he waved to his opponent and said loudly: "Take all the Thunder Flash people."
Drive them all out of the city."
This mindless order made both Lingshan and Leishan stunned. They didn't know what he wanted to do on a whim.
Mero looked at his men who were dumbfounded and shouted with a straight face: "What are you still doing? Execute, I will drive them to the west of the city before dark."
A division commander was the first to react and then sent down the order, ordering the soldiers to assemble and escort the prisoners out of the city. At the same time, they searched the whole city and drove everyone out. The city suddenly fell into chaos.
Melo looked at the still confused Free Army soldiers and the tall and gorgeous City Lord's Palace in front of him, sneered and said, "Now, burn down the entire Bitburg, starting from this City Lord's Palace."
The general of the Fifth Division looked at his colleagues on the left and right, took a step forward, and asked as if he had heard wrongly: "General, do you want us to... burn this place down?"
Mero nodded affirmatively and said: "Not only do I want you to burn down every building in the city, but I also want you to fill in every well in the city and destroy all the surrounding towns and farmland.
In short, I want you to completely turn Bitburg into ruins."
The Lord of Bitburg struggled violently and cursed ferociously at Mello: "What do you want to do, you devil, we Thunder Flash people will not give in, if you dare, kill us."
The Thunder Flash prisoners who were being driven out also became agitated. They rushed towards the wall of Spirit Flash soldiers, waved their fists and cursed angrily at Mello. The situation was about to get out of control.
"Bang bang bang..." There was a loud gunshot.
A group of Free Army soldiers opened fire in the air, then leveled the smoking muzzles and pointed them at the Thunder Flash prisoners.
Immediately, there was a messy metal collision, and the machine guns around them also cocked their bolts and aimed at them.
The soldiers behind the machine guns watched them coldly, waiting for anyone who dared to move, and immediately beat him into a sieve.
Under the threat of death, these Thunderbolt people quickly calmed down, but still stared at Mello fiercely.
Mero looked at the city lord who was being held down by several soldiers and was still struggling and yelling. He rolled his eyes at him with disdain and said, "If killing works, I will kill you all without hesitation."
The cold light in Mello's eyes made the Lord of Bitburg feel like he was showered with cold water, and he immediately became quiet. He immediately knew that this hateful guy was telling the truth.
Mero turned his horse's head, looked at the generals under his command, and said loudly: "Leishan has 30 million people, and we can't kill them all no matter what.
For the sake of a unified Semitic race, we must conquer them, not only from the physical point of view, but also from the soul to make them surrender and make them fear us.
If necessary, I will order you to burn down their cities and towns, destroy all their farmlands and wells, and kill everyone who dares to resist us until the fear of us sinks deep into their souls and until they become docile.
I want them to never dare to read again, and even if they just think about it, I want them to tremble with fear.
We are not doing it for ourselves, we are doing it for the future of the entire Semitic race."
The generals of the Free Army quickly understood what Mero meant: a terrifying deterrent.
Warning the Thunder Flash people with the cruel truth, this is the price they pay for daring to oppose the Ling Shan People.
If they dare to oppose the Lingshan people in the future, the Lingshan people will do the same again.
At night, a fire in Bitburg City soared into the sky. The flames spread outward from the city lord's palace and burned throughout the city in a short period of time.
The raging fire rushed tens of meters into the sky, and the firelight illuminated the sky above the city. It could be seen clearly from as far as forty miles away.
At this time, there were still many citizens in the city who were unwilling to leave Bitburg.
The fire burned all night and showed no signs of abating.
The thick smoke from the burning Bitburg rolled up into the sky, forming a cloud of smoke that covered the sky and blocked the sun. The surrounding area of Bitburg was like night, and even the war fortress had to move to avoid it.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians who had fled the war rushed back to Bitburg, but they could only watch their homes being burned to the ground a few miles away. At that time, the mourners were everywhere and the cries were loud.
The Free Army faithfully carried out Mello's orders. After Mello said that he wanted to defeat the Thunder Flashers from the soul, the soldiers' respect for him quickly increased, and no one doubted Mello's orders anymore.
They burned hundreds of villages and towns around them, forced the Leishan people to fill their wells, trampled the farmland with their horses, and killed all Leishan's livestock, including cattle, horses, donkeys, pigs, sheep, and even chickens.
Don't let it go.
While he was recklessly preventing fires and slaughtering animals, Mero strictly restricted the military discipline of the Free Army and did not allow them to attack the unarmed Thunderbolts.
The human soldiers sent by the coalition forces to support them were stunned by this. Even the Ruman people, who were determined to retaliate, had never treated the people of Haligard City under Hadu like this.
The two coalition major generals changed their understanding of Mero and affirmed that this guy is a ruthless person, and a smart and cunning ruthless person.
Letting him serve as the commander of the first expeditionary force may be a mistake that does not serve the interests of the coalition forces.
They unanimously sent a secret letter to Lord Lorraine, and they all wrote a sentence with the same meaning at the end: Be careful with this son of a bitch~! (To be continued.