Chapter 5 Right-wing Crisis
Seeing the opponent's infantry withdraw from the city, Marshal Kemal finally breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at his watch and it was already 10 o'clock, and the right wing troops could withdraw their first position in another hour. According to the commander report of the right wing troops, they have suffered one-third of their troops so far and consumed a lot of ammunition, and their opponents have not yet made any moves after the failure of the first two attacks.
Judging from the previous situation of the government cavalry and infantry entering the city, Kemal was very satisfied with the street fighting tactics he designed. While consuming a large amount of opponent's troops, his own losses were very small. Most of the casualties of the middle troops appeared during defense and shelling outside the city. He felt that even after conquering the first position of his right wing, the government troops chose to attack the Uzunkeplu city from the south, he could still hold on until Oli's right wing defeated the opponent and completed the encirclement. However, this idea seemed to underestimate his opponent Marshal Carter. After all, he could suppress the experienced Marshal Tavante and become the commander of the government troops. He would definitely not be a waste of oil.
When his artillery troops shot the city again, Marshal Carter did not let the infantry who had withdrawn from the city stay in place and wait, but divided two divisions of about 10,000 troops from outside the city to Kemal's right wing troops. After attacking Marshal's troops and destroying Kemal's right wing troops, they could attack the Uzunkeplu city from both sides of the southeast.
At this time, the 1, 2nd Regiments of the Mercenaries and the 15th Regiments of the People's Army were taking advantage of the rare respite to consolidate their positions and treat the wounded.
In the trenches, Hilderland waved his newly bandaged arm at Hakari, "It's just scratched by shrapnel, it's okay!" Hakari nodded as if he could understand it, and grinned and smiled.
"Strange! Why haven't those Turks been moving for so long?" Hilderland climbed into the trenches and looked outside. The battlefield was quiet. Some Turks holding white flags were treating the injured soldiers. The roar of the hovering planes in the distance seemed very clear.
It was the plane that discovered the government troops around the city two minutes later and issued an alarm to the ground troops. The commanders of the employing corps and the People's Army were surprised to see the enemy appearing on the north side of the position. They quickly transferred some of the troops to defend that direction.
Looking at the officers and soldiers running in the trench, Hilderan realized that something new had happened. At this time, Hakari pulled his sleeve and the enemy ahead of them began to act.
Soon, a new round of artillery bombardment began.
Half an hour later, the artillery fire that bombarded the Uzunkeplu city and Kemal's right wing troops stopped at the same time. Kemal was surprised to find that the opponent's troops did not continue to attack the city. At this time, the troops of the three right wing regiments were frightened to see the enemy on both sides of them launching an attack at the same time.
"Brother, it seems we are going to hang here!" Hilderland, who was lying on the edge of the trench, suddenly put down his gun and sat back into the trench, igniting his cigarette and sucking it in big mouthfuls. There were at least 20,000 enemies in front of him, and about 10,000 government soldiers also started attacking from the north. The atmosphere in the trench suddenly became tense. Whether it was Germans or Turks, sweating was unknowingly.
"Oh..." The government soldiers suddenly burst out with earth-shaking roars and rushed towards the defensive position. At this time, when viewing from the air, the defensive position was like a small boat facing huge waves. The machine gun roared weakly, and the shells exploded in the crowd and produced small gaps and were instantly filled by the soldiers following behind.
Six Sky X-type aircraft soon flew over the battlefield again, but because the government soldiers had seen their power, and their officers had done a lot of ideological work before the attack, the chargers did not even raise their heads, allowing the planes to drop bombs in a drop of water, or shoot them like a strait through the shoe.
The temporary defense positions on the north side of the defense side were only a temporary battalion and about 10 machine guns. They did not bring much resistance to their enemies. The government troops from Uzunkeplu quickly rushed to the trenches.
"Get a bayonet!" All the bloody German men installed bayonets and rushed out of the trench, then rushed into the other party's queue. Excellent German veterans were basically good at bayonet fighting. Their huge bodies were very flexible, and they turned red with one round of bayonets. However, there were too many people coming from the other party. Often, several or even a dozen Turkish soldiers were dealing with a German soldier. Gradually, the defense line was constantly broken. In the end, these brave soldiers were drowned in the other party's crowd...
"Don't kill him!"
Hilderan, who had been stabbed several times, was kicked to the ground by Turkish government soldiers. Just as several bright bayonets were about to stab him, Hakari threw down his gun and rushed forward, begging the government soldiers loudly in Turkish. Perhaps out of surprise, they put the bayonets down, looked at each other, smashed the two of them to the ground with a butt, and continued to rush forward.
Finally, the defense collapsed completely. The soldiers of the 15th Regiment of the People's Army retreated to the rear in large numbers. Then the German soldiers hired the corps also joined the retreating queue. All heavy machine guns, artillery and mortars were discarded on the position. After chasing back for a distance, the government's attack stopped. In addition to a small number of soldiers staying to clean the battlefield, more than 30,000 people immediately marched north and they would attack the Wuzunkeplu city area from the south.
"What? The right wing troops lost their positions and all three regiments were defeated?" Kemal fell to the chair behind him in a daze. He looked at his watch. The pointer had just passed 11 o'clock. Although his right wing troops had lasted for 6 hours, they did not retreat slowly according to the plan to attract the enemy to the second line of defense. Such a defeat could not hold back the opponent's troops. Now, in addition to expecting Oli to make a smooth progress, they can only rely on the city's defense.
Chapter completed!