Imperial Elite

Chapter 155 London is a bunch of insects

The Red Knights clearly had their own ideas on how to address the army's need for air force during the Eastern Campaign.

First, although the army performed well in the Gallic campaign, the armored forces were not only exhausted but also suffered heavy losses. It would take at least several weeks for them to recover their combat effectiveness and move to their target locations.

During this period, the air force had more than enough time to complete its air campaign against Bonitania.

After all, for the Führer, this air campaign was entirely aimed at destroying the operational capabilities of the Bunitania Air Force and preventing it from continuing to attack targets, including Germania.

Therefore, this air campaign should be basically over in two or three weeks.

Considering various issues, including range, dive bombers, which are primarily designed for ground support, are clearly not suitable for this type of combat.

The main force in this air battle should be fighter jets and medium and large bombers.

Dive bombers and light bombers, for example, can now begin to be redeployed to the eastern front.

After two to three weeks of air strikes against Bunitania to destroy their air power, the air force will be able to move toward the eastern front.

Therefore, considering that Italy had encountered some minor problems in the south, coupled with the upcoming Battle of Buntania, even though Poland had already defected.

Therefore, the Führer postponed the launch of the Eastern Campaign for a period of time.

The leader's decision was also revealed to the People's Revolutionary Alliance through the Lucia military government.

If the People's Revolutionary Alliance finds out, then Old Joe will find out; if Old Joe finds out, then Buntania will find out.

Oh, so the Führer has broken down and wants to launch an air campaign...

Then I'll have to make some arrangements for you.

For Bonitania at this time, although an agreement was reached with Joe, and thanks to Joe's influence, the Bonitania people's support for the war had increased somewhat.

At the same time, Citibank finally began to be willing to negotiate with Bonitania on the issue of military aid.

There's no way around it; without Joe, the Brittany is like a car without an engine, or a battleship without cannons.

You can't say it's not Britannia, but you can certainly question its fighting capabilities.

After all, there is indeed a slight difference between the last great war in which we dominated the Teutons and the current great war in which we are dominated by the Teutons.

This small difference stemmed from the presence of some people within Bunitania who disliked Joe, and the major overhaul of the army after Joe's falling out with Bunitania.

This was known not only to the people of Bonitania, but even to the people of America.

After all, after being thoroughly thrashed by the Teutons on the Old World, Britannia finally realized that they still had to listen to Joe's advice on some things, and prepared to restart the MCS project that Joe had proposed almost ten years ago.

The Britannians discovered that they couldn't even find the original version of Old Joe's plan.

To build a usable tank now, we can only make do with the emergency tanks available within the NATO system.

Moreover, what troubles the Bonitania army even more than producing tanks is...

Because Bonitania was short of money at the time, even if the army was rearmed, the standard was only to stuff a few submachine guns into the infantry squads.

Normally, stuffing submachine guns into infantry squads wouldn't be a big deal. After all, the Bonitania army had seen the submachine guns that Wagner was equipped with before he withdrew from his base in Bonitania.

Now that I have these equipment myself, it's theoretically a good thing.

However, because some troops were incorporated into the NATO order, those troops who were not incorporated into the NATO order saw that those who were incorporated into the NATO order were carrying assault rifles and squad automatic weapons.

These Buntanian troops had only one thought: to go to the Ministry of War and ask them to do the same for them. At the same time, the Buntanian army was also filled with anger towards the higher-ups.

Damn it, if it weren't for your messes, we would have been equipped with those new toys by now.

So you're still trying to fob us off with these toys? I won't stand for it!
In short, faced with the mess left by his predecessor, beset by internal and external troubles, although James helped boost morale and war support, Winston also understood that they desperately needed a victory to inspire the people and foreign powers to believe that Britannia was still... capable!

Now that he has learned that the Führer is preparing to use the Air Force to challenge him, Winston feels he should give the Führer a big one.

Since the Führer's Eastern Front plan had been exposed at this time, the staff of Bunitania began to deduce when the Teutonic Air Force was preparing to launch a surprise attack on Bunitania.

Buntania also issued orders to the Gallic guerrillas: "Young men, go and scout out which of the airports in northern Gaul are currently occupied by the Teutonic Air Force."

In northern Gaul, there were guerrillas—that's basically a nod to Andrei's name.

As for the orders from London, Andrei, who was playing hide-and-seek with the Teutons in the woods, once again understood why his father always had so much praise for London.

As the son of a celebrity, and given that London desperately needed to achieve some results to create some publicity for themselves.

Therefore, London publicized Andrei's victories behind enemy lines as if they could fight their way from the forest all the way to Germania or Paris.

Although broadcasting Andrei's achievements did increase support for the war in Bonitania to some extent.

Many Buntanians felt that since Old Joe's son was still serving in the Buntanian army, what else could they say but join the army and beat up the Teutons!
This idea was particularly strong on Emerald Isle.

But just like many of the impulsive decisions made by the Buntania, the London side, focused solely on boosting morale, failed to consider what such massive propaganda would mean for a guerrilla force's work behind enemy lines.

On the bright side, for those Gauls who didn't want to go to Gaul, it was much easier to go directly to the northern forests to find Andrei than to go south to find a ship and then go around half the Old World to seek refuge with Old Joe.

After the Paris side began its promotional campaign, André did indeed attract quite a few Gauls.

Some of the Gallic ace pilots, after realizing they couldn't escape by plane, simply walked north to find Andrei's team.

But just as the Führer's response to Bunitania's bombing of Germania was to prepare an air campaign to destroy Bunitania's air force, the Führer's choice regarding Andrei, who was hiding in the forest, was to directly deploy two guard divisions originally intended for maintaining order on the Eastern Front, along with an elite mountain infantry regiment, to confront Andrei.

If those guard divisions were of no use to Andrei except for their numbers...

That elite mountain infantry regiment, however, gave Andrei a lot of trouble.

As most people know, the combat effectiveness of mountain troops is no joke.

Even among the Italian troops who are now a laughing stock, those with black feathers in their hair and those mountain troops, no one still questions their fighting prowess.

Andrei, in particular, who grew up in Wagner, had a lot of dealings with those former elite Italian mountain infantrymen.

So when the Führer mobilized troops, intending to give Andrei a little Teutonic shock.

Andrei had already devised their counter-encirclement plan, which involved taking advantage of the complex terrain and the large number of locals in their ranks.

Lead them into the woods, using sniping and setting up mines and traps to wear down the mountain infantry.

Unless those mountain troops leave, they will absolutely not engage in large-scale battles with these encirclement forces.

Of course, if given the opportunity, Andrei would not refuse to lead a small squad to raid the logistics department of these mountain infantrymen, doing things like kicking over pots, killing cooks, and setting blankets on fire.

In short, Andrei was under tremendous pressure during this period due to the Führer's attention.

Basically, he not only had to sleep with his gun in his arms every day, but he also had to sleep with one eye open. Often, he would wake up halfway through his sleep, realize that something was wrong, and then lead his troops to relocate.

Then, shortly after they moved, the sound of booby traps exploding at their previous campsite would remind them that they had once again narrowly escaped death.

In this kind of mobile warfare, the vehicles and tanks captured earlier were naturally hidden with booby traps, and everyone carried nothing but weapons, ammunition, and necessary food.

Even the radio is only broadcast occasionally, just to let people know that they still exist and are not, as the Teutonic radio portrays them, beaten into cavemen.

Under these circumstances, London did not dare to ask Andrei to go and see northern Gaul.

After all, Andrei had joined the army anonymously, while those who were more familiar with Andrei were either scattered and overgrown with weeds or counting ants in the Teutonic prisoner-of-war camp.

Therefore, London couldn't quite figure out Andre's temperament.

However, John was very familiar with London. He was a loyal and brave man, and if you called on him, he would go. So, in the telegram, London asked John to take some men to scout out some of the air bases in northern Gaul and see the Teutonic Air Force's deployment.

However, given the current situation, not to mention Andrei, even John felt that the gentlemen of London had gone too far. In our current state of being chased all over the mountains by the Teutons, it's already quite remarkable that we're alive.

They want us to go out and conduct reconnaissance activities? They're dreaming.

Faced with the orders from London, even the taciturn Andre joined John in praising them highly.

But after the not-so-intense oral gymnastics, Andrei, having calmed down, felt that they actually seemed capable of doing this.

The reason they were so capable was not because they were particularly loyal to London. After all, once Andrei established contact with London, he discovered that his father's past comments about London had been somewhat conservative.

Especially now that they've started guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, Andrei's only attitude toward London is to ask for equipment to be airdropped before making any demands.

However, after fighting as a guerrilla for a while, Andrei realized that if he continued to fight as a guerrilla in the forest, his space for maneuver would be compressed by the Teutons, and sooner or later he would have nowhere to escape.

Moreover, judging from the current firefight, these mountain infantry are indeed elite troops. Even if they dig pits and set traps for a sneak attack, after calculating the exchange ratio, they will definitely be the ones to be wiped out first.

In that case, we must change our tactics.

Change the location, or make them think they've changed locations.

Andrei felt it was time to divide his forces.

John continued to lead the main force in a game of hide-and-seek with the Teutons in the woods, while Andrei led a small force to try and outmaneuver the Teutons from behind, making them think that they were no longer in the woods.

After the Teutons left, Andrei returned with the anti-Teutonic heroes he had met outside.

Although John initially volunteered to complete the mission, as an experienced Britannian officer with service experience in the Far East, he had driven all over places like the Old World and was far more familiar with the roads than Andrei.

But John soon discovered that although he had many advantages, he had one disadvantage that he could not overcome in a short time compared to Andrei: Andrei knew eight languages.

His Teutonic accent was as fluent as that of a Mr. Feng from the Old Germanic Plain Black Flag.

The Low Countries, as seaside havens, also have three official languages, so Andrei selected some people who were fluent in Teutonic English and set off.

While Andrei was assembling his troops and preparing to depart, Joe was also hastily completing his battle preparations in Bohemia.

Since the Teutonic forces have already begun to deploy eastward, this operation against Poland must be swift.

This vital lifeline for the People's Revolutionary Union and NATO must be secured before the Teutons intervene.

At the same time, a buffer zone was established in Poland.

Whether intentionally or unintentionally, the commander sent by the People's Revolutionary Alliance to the west to prepare for this battle was Constantine, a student whom Joe had not seen for a long time.

However, this was different from the situation where, even if Qiao sold everything he owned, he could only scrape together a little over 300,000 people.

In order to quickly stabilize the situation in the West and prevent the country from falling into the predicament of fighting on two fronts, the People's Revolutionary League prepared a full million troops to give Poland a hard blow.

(End of this chapter)