But no matter what, this is just a turning point. At least so far, Xiao Diji has an unprecedented hard battle in land warfare. You should know that the number of Albion's army is not large, but in terms of quality, it is one of the highest quality troops in the world, not to mention the number of Marines that can be called the first elite overseas. On the other hand, Cape has invested 100,000 troops successively.

When the war developed to this point, the Albion had already bet on its own destiny for the future of the Christian world. According to the Albion themselves, it was "the weight that Albion could not bear."

But the Albion people could not withdraw. The military expenditure of tens of millions of Albion pounds, foreign military loans, the depression of hundreds of warships, the death of tens of thousands of young people, and the loss of the Far East colonies... and these numbers are still turning around. Once they are withdrawn, Albion may be a small island country in the Christian world, not the great empire with sunshine everywhere.

The entire Christian world cheered for the courage of Albion and Cape, and the pope said: "Go to the East... and have another crusade!" The royal families of various countries are willing to support the Albion in the cause of attacking pagans for one reason or another, at least verbally. So far, the Albion recruited only two thousand volunteers in the West, not even as many as the number of Hesse mercenaries employed on the Far East battlefield.

Mosen, that is the legendary tragedy and the source of war, "How many days are there in a year, Hesen will have many countries..." In fact, this number is even more. The king and the candidates are competing to sell their troops to exchange for shining gold coins. They are just cheap consumables for Albion gold coins.

Now in the Far East front, the Albion Expeditionary Force has reached a peak of 60,000 troops. Although only one-third of this comes from the army troops before the war, the troops that were either temporary troops formed during the war or from the volunteers and mercenaries hired.

Xiao Diji was not feeling well. He only had fifty battalions of troops at hand. He relied on these only fifty battalions to fight against the two strongest powers in the Western world. It was unrealistic to turn the entire battle with one or two victory.

However, this news also had a great impact on the Liefeng Army, which was the day after Liu Jingxiao received the news. The 11th Army of the Liefeng Army Aimizu Saburo gathered and suddenly launched a general attack.

Before the war, Emperor Liefeng issued an imperial edict: "Cangzhou natural danger, Shandong bandits were responsible for natural dangers, and they were labor-intensive. It was actually a Tangchi in Jincheng. Its strategy is not easy, which is not surprising. I am deeply invading your hard work day and night. There are actually those who cannot be slowed down when the opportunity of the Cangzhou strategy was not slow. At that time, when I heard that the Sixth Front Army had a general attack, I was very happy to get the opportunity and hoped to succeed. Your generals and soldiers would each help me!"

As a result, the senior officers of the entire North China Army could not sleep because of this. Only Ai Mizusaburo had sex and was sleeping. He also took time to watch two literary and artistic performances. He was confident in his continued attacks.

This is the third general attack of the fifth Hebei Battle. But the attack of the Liefeng army started almost silently before dawn, without the long-term rumbling of cannons, without the roar of beasts, without the intensive charge of thousands, and only the eyes burning with the desire to fight.

War is the best teacher. After countless setbacks, the Liefeng Army also summarized a set of attack tactics for consolidating the position. They used civil fortifications to dig into the very close place, and then jumped out and rushed into the Liu Army's position to launch hand-to-hand combat.

The results of the assault at the level of the 16 squadrons of the Liefeng Army can be said to be very brilliant. The artillery assault of the Liefeng Army was only after the commando. The eighteen 280 heavy grenades were extremely powerful. After a long scream, many semi-permanent fortifications were devastatingly hit.

The Liefeng Army's infantry and artillery coordination was also very good. The engineering team, commando, second commando, and large troops were very good. There was no previous scene of thousands of troops, only the infantry attacks that were just right.

Three hours later, Ding Ning discovered in pain that the Liefeng Army had not suffered much casualties, but the Liu Army had lost six fortresses. Especially after the three fortresses near the Tianshan Fortress were lost, the Tianshan Fortress was under the direct threat of the Liefeng people, and several companies that entered the counter-assault operation had all suffered casualties.

In this case, Ding Ning gave a death order to Deputy Commander Li Zongyun, who was responsible for guarding the fortresses east of the Tianshan Fortress: "I know you are an old cadre who came out of seclusion with the division commander. You are much older than me, but if you don't defend the Tianshan Fortress, I have to take action first and then report!"

Li Zongyun didn't say anything, he just assembled a battalion's reserve team and said loudly: "Nothing to say! We have to take back the lost position!"

As the deputy division commander, Li Zongyun personally led this small army to launch an assault, braved the extremely dense artillery fire and bullets, and fought with a squadron of the Liefeng people. The other party had the courage to fight to the death. As a result, one cold corpse after another. Li Zongyun stepped on the corpses of his subordinates and the Liefeng people and moved forward step by step, but Liefeng also retreated to reinforcements here.

The two sides launched repeated tug-of-war, measuring the corpses with each other. Li Zongyun also mobilized one company after another, and then watched it exhausted, the corpses of both sides were piled up one after another. After four hours of fighting, Li Zongyun announced that he would take back the fortress.

However, only one of the three small fortresses lost by Li's tribe was recovered, and Li Zongyun paid the price of one thousand casualties for this small fortress.

"It should be said that the firepower organization, infantry tactics, and troops coordination of the Liefeng people this time are very clever, and we have paid a great price..." This statement does not indicate the bloodiness of the battlefield. In fact, in many battles on this day, the price paid by the Liu army was even higher than that of the Liefeng people. In order to get back the fortifications thrown back, the troops repeatedly carried out repeated assaults, and the result was a huge consumption of infantry power. Moreover, according to past experience, the first wave of artillery attacks by the Liefeng people will be the most tragic and intensive, and as a result, several troops were at the cost of destruction of artillery fire.

When the sun set, Liu Jingxiao's troops paid the price of five thousand casualties. The Liefeng Army only paid 7,000 casualties due to its effective organization of the offensive.

However, Liu Jingxiao, who has exchanged at this level, can no longer afford to consume: his reserve team is already very little left.

But after nightfall, the Liefeng people did not have this kind of spirit. The suicide squads of the three infantry squadrons of the Fourth Division had just jumped out of the fortification and fell into the rain of fire carefully prepared by the Liu army. Ten minutes later, the three infantry squadrons were exhausted, but the Third Division once again organized two suicide squadrons. This time, although they rushed to the edge of the outer trench, they were still in a dilemma of the dense artillery fire of the defenders.

The Sixth Division was not lucky. One of their infantry brigades successfully crossed the outer trench under the cover of the engineers and rushed into the Liu Army's position. However, after a moment, the Liu Army spontaneously organized a fierce counterattack to block the breakthrough. After the infantry brigade lost contact with the successor team, it could only fight to trap beasts, but this scene didn't last long. Except for a soldier who was hiding in the pile of corpses and escaping, there was no survivor or a prisoner in this brigade. The "strongest division in Liefeng" was not a false reputation.

But overall, the Liefeng Army made some progress in the attack that night and during the day the next day. After all, after so long blood and fire tests, the Liefeng Army had already learned some experience in conquering the permanent fortifications and semi-permanent fortifications. They rushed into the outer trenches many times, and were then killed by the firepower carefully organized by the Liu army.

However, neither side could afford this kind of fighting style. The third general attack has reached now. Liu's army has suffered 9,000 casualties, while the Fiery Army has 15,000. For this reason, under the auspices of Aisu Saburo, the staff officer of Qianwang Shendu specially organized the "Special Slash into the Advance Team".

This is the "largest night attack force in history" legendary by the Liefeng History Book. It consists of 3,400 soldiers. Qianwang Shendu is determined to put this force into the night raid on the side of the 17th Division, trying to break through the defense of Liu's army in one fell swoop. Even Aisu Saburo had high hopes: "I hope your troops will intersperse quickly, not be in love with fighting, not entangled, and give the enemy a fatal blow."

Commander Hojo Shizuki expressed his greatest determination to the advance team with white belts wrapped in shoulders. Before setting off, he said: "This time, we must have the determination to go without returning! All generals and soldiers obey orders, and never fire a shot or an ammunition before rushing into the enemy formation. I will use a shiny bayonet to serve the emperor allegiance! No one is allowed to speak loudly, no one is allowed to retreat, and those who disobey military orders will be killed without any hesitation..."

The Hojo Detachment's night attack team was not smooth at first. They encountered blind shooting from the Liu army's artillery, which led to a slow progress. However, they broke through the fortress not as the garrison of the 17th Army, but as an independent garrison battalion belonging to the 17th Division, and had weak combat power. Therefore, the Hojo Detachment successfully rushed into the fortress, and the two sides started hand-to-hand combat, and once occupied most of the fortress.

But Sima Kan quickly reacted and mobilized two infantry regiments to reinforce. The two sides piled up corpses in the narrow area in the fortress. On the outside of the fortress, the Liu army's troops surrounded more and more.

As the battle was about to dawn, the Hojo Detachment had more than 2,300 casualties, and Major General Hojo himself was seriously injured. The troops were at the risk of the entire army being destroyed at any time. In this case, the Liefeng Army could only retreat.

In front of the fortress, the Liefeng Army left a thousand corpses.

In this situation, the Liefeng Army once again turned its attention to the "Tianshan Fortress", which was a core focus of the entire Cangzhou defense line of Liu's army. The Liefeng Army immediately organized five infantry teams to launch an assault on the Tianshan Fortress and restrain the attacks for the four external brigades.

However, the Liu army also attached great importance to the Tianshan Fortress and arranged a new elite infantry regiment on the fortress, which was an old army in the northern border of the Dingbian Army.

The Liefeng Army concentrated most of the artillery and concentrated in the Tianshan Fortress. The entire fortress was like a volcano erupting, which was covered by heavy smoke and sound waves, and the fortifications were severely damaged.

Then the Liefeng Army mobilized nine infantry brigades to start attacking the Tianshan Fortress, but the left wing was quickly pressed down at the foot of the mountain. Although the right wing made progress for a while, it was soon repelled. The battle was fought until nightfall. All the attacks of the Liefeng Army ended in failure.

The next day, the Liefeng Army made a comeback and once again carried out extremely fierce artillery preparations, especially the attack of the 280 heavy howitzer, which completely overturned the entire Tianshan Fortress.

Then Liefeng and two brigades used the artillery effect to attack along the blind spots, and once broke into the Shangen position to defeat Liu's army. However, the Liu army quickly concentrated artillery fire to counterattack, and successfully launched a counterattack with two infantry companies, leading the Liefeng army to the original position. However, the Liefeng army organized an attack again. The defenders suffered too much casualties and were forced to withdraw from the Shangen position. The Liefeng army attacked the mountainside and occupied a corner of the top of the mountain at dusk.

After seeing the chance of winning on the front line, the Liefeng people launched attacks overnight, but were repelled again and again. At twenty-one that night, Aishui Saburo threw a complete infantry company and launched the fiercest attack of the day. The two sides fought wildly, and the Liu Jun shouted: "Look at the voice of my Chinese men!" He killed waves of Liefeng Army in front of the formation. Even though the Liefeng Army was corpses everywhere and blood flowed into a river, they shouted loudly and repeatedly charged. The soldiers of the rear team stepped on the cold bodies of the soldiers in the front team and attacked forward. Until the next day at dawn, the Liefeng Army had occupied many fortifications.

Liu Jingxiao and Ding Ning were quite shocked at the attack of the Liefeng Army in the Tianshan Fortress. Bai Ling did not need Liu Jingxiao's order and immediately led the two strengthened infantry teams of the 23rd Division to fight the most classic battle in history, killing all the Liefeng Army down the mountain.

However, the Liefeng Army quickly organized several large groups of suicide squads to rush up and attacked the top of the mountain again. However, Liu's resistance was extremely tenacious, and he frantically promoted his shooting advantages. Sometimes he simply pushed the huge rock down the mountain. The Liefeng Army's suicide squad either died by drinking bullets or was smashed into meat mud by falling rocks. On this day, more than half of the two Liefeng divisions suffered casualties and were really unable to attack.

The next day, the Liefeng Army launched another unprecedented fierce attack, with the 101st infantry division as the foundation, and fifteen infantry brigades launched an attack. The soldiers of the 101st Division rushed up the mountain with a loud roar, and were then shot down again.

The Liu army defenders on the Tianshan Fortress were also unbearable. The 23rd Division almost put all its more complete infantry companies here. However, Su Xue and Bai Ling were just four infantry companies that were temporarily added after the merger yesterday. If Liu Jingxiao had not urgently dispatched two infantry battalions to reinforce, the Tianshan Fortress would have been very likely to have been lost.

But the Liefeng Army also put all the pressure on the Tianshan Fortress.
Chapter completed!