Imperial Elite

Chapter 156 Before the Eagle's Sun
It is virtually impossible to cover up a troop movement of this scale.

Therefore, in order to make the operation sufficiently sudden, Old Joe and the People's Revolutionary Union also carried out some strategic deception against the Teutons during this period.

Simply put, it's about questioning each other's sovereignty.

After all, there are indeed some territorial disputes and conflicts between Plug and the People's Revolutionary Union. For example, Plug is too close to St. Petersburg, so there have always been voices within the People's Revolutionary Union wanting Plug to exchange some territory with them.

Using this pretext, the People's Revolutionary League began to feign claims to NATO for the Plug region.

Then, naturally, Old Joe also angrily denounced the People's Revolutionary Alliance in the media as a robber taking advantage of the chaos, and then stated that NATO has no superfluous land.

While the Teutonic Grand Commander found it somewhat strange that this was happening at this moment, he was also pleased to see his two most dangerous adversaries weaken themselves before he could make his move.

Therefore, although the Teutonic leader was somewhat wary of the troop movements of the People's Revolutionary League, he was not entirely vigilant. At this time, most of the Teutonic troops were still resting and reorganizing within Teutonic territory or deploying along the Sudetenland region, preparing to completely destroy Bohemia.

While the Führer and Old Joe were making preparations, Andrei, who had led his troops out of the forest, had now transformed into a guard officer.

After all, the Teutonic Grand Commander had mobilized the Guard to participate in the encirclement and suppression. Since the Guard was involved, Andrei would naturally have obtained uniforms for disguise from the Guard after the ambush.

Furthermore, as a craftsman, Andrei made a small alteration to the identification he obtained from the Guard organization, replacing the photos with those of himself and the team members who participated in the operation with him.

Wearing guard uniforms, not only would ordinary military checkpoints ignore them, but even the military police wouldn't bother them.

They arrived in northern Gaul without any problems and began to conduct reconnaissance of the airports in northern Gaul according to London's instructions, while also recruiting some more personnel.

Logically speaking, when carrying out such covert operations, one should try to keep a low profile.

However, besides scouting for London, Andrei's other objective was to lure away the mountain infantry that were surrounding him in the forest.

So, in addition to scouting airports, Andrei did not forget to attack guard facilities or police stations along the way.

Since they attacked guard facilities and police stations, naturally many people were released from prison for various reasons.

So Andrei's team quickly expanded from about ten people to several dozen.

They even made contact with another guerrilla group and the local left-wing forces in Gaul. Just as they were preparing to join forces, Andrei did not hesitate to lead his troops south toward Paris.

It's not that Andrei was more arrogant than the Teutons, daring to attack Paris with only a few dozen men under his command.

This was because Andrei had roughly confirmed that a large number of Teutonic air wing squadrons had indeed been stationed at those airports.

Knowing that the Teutons were planning a surprise attack, Winston did not hesitate to order the Royal Air Force to launch a preemptive strike against the Teutonic Flying Squadron stationed in northern Gaul, hoping to destroy the Teutonic planes on the airfield.

In order to launch a surprise attack on the Teutons, the Royal Air Force of Buntania mobilized its entire force.

The Royal Air Force deployed almost every flying device available. Furthermore, due to the need for precision bombing of airfields, the Royal Air Force was not planning to conduct any more random nighttime bombing raids.

Instead, they would strike at dawn, dropping bombs on the Teutons' tables while they were having breakfast.

The Buntanians' air raid was half successful; they did indeed strike at dawn and drop quite a few bombs on the Teutonic tables where the Teutons were having breakfast.

However, what the Buntanians did not expect was that the Red Knight, who had carried out several dawn attack missions since the last war, had strict regulations for the Teutonic Air Force.

Although technical issues have prevented night-fighting fighter jets from being developed at this time.

However, the Teutonic Air Force's patrols began at dawn.

So when the Bunitania Air Force's attacking force encountered the Teutonic Air Force's patrol, the original assault immediately turned into a full-scale attack.

As the Teutonic Air Force scrambled to take off amidst alarms, the Bunitania bomber squadron, fully loaded with bombs, also launched a sprint toward the airfield where the Teutonic Air Force was located.

Ultimately, before the Eagle Day of the Red Knights, the Teutons and Bunitas clashed in a large-scale aerial battle in northern Gaul.

Faced with such terrifying bombing, Andrei did not hesitate to lead his troops to flee, after all, bombs have no eyes and cannot distinguish between friendly forces and enemy forces.

Although the air battle lasted only half a day, both sides paid a considerable price.

The Buntanian fighter squadron, which had crossed the sea, engaged in a fierce battle with the Teutonic pilots in the sky in order to cover the bomber formation in completing its mission.

Meanwhile, the Bunitania bomber force, under heavy attack from Teutonic fighters, carried out a fierce bombing campaign against those airfields.

After a brief but intense battle, both sides declared victory.

The Buntanians announced that they had successfully destroyed several airfields occupied by the Teutons, destroying a large number of Teutonic aircraft that had not yet taken off.

The Teutons announced that they had thwarted the Bunitania's attack attempt and shot down a large number of Bunitania's aircraft.

However, in the end, for a long time after this large-scale attack, the bomber forces of Buntania only organized small-scale night bombings and did not launch large-scale daytime bombings.

The Teutonic Air Force, however, pushed back Eagle Day by three days.

Then, as Eagle Day approached, the Teutonic Air Force, which had recently been dealt a blow by the Royal Air Force of Bunitania, took off with an unprecedentedly large formation of aircraft, ready to send greetings to the Bunitas.

On the eastern front, the situation changed slightly.

That morning, as the Teutonic Air Force took off, the People's Revolutionary Union's air force and NATO air forces also took off simultaneously, and subsequently crossed the border to launch a fierce bombing raid on Polish-German air bases and military camps.

Then, in the morning glow, the troops, spearheaded by the People's Revolutionary Union's armored forces, crossed the border and entered Polish-German territory.

Although the People's Revolutionary Union (PRU) strengthened its forces in this direction, leading to a corresponding increase in Polish and German border defenses, the limited industrial capacity and tank design meant that Poland's main tanks and armored vehicles were still primarily lightly armored, consisting mostly of tanks weighing less than ten tons.

The People's Revolutionary Alliance, which obtained the MCS plan written by Old Joe through certain channels, had a strong need to race against the Lucia military government on the plains in the south. After making some modifications to the plan to adapt it to the industrial level of the People's Revolutionary Alliance, they decided to adapt it to their own industrial capabilities.

The People's Revolutionary Alliance's armored forces were built almost entirely in accordance with the MCS plan.

In addition to the 20-ton tanks that serve as infantry fire support and reconnaissance vehicles.

The mainstay tanks of the People's Revolutionary Alliance are medium tanks weighing 34 tons, equipped with an 85mm tank gun, only 2.4 meters high, with thick frontal armor and a hexagonal cast turret, and heavy tanks equipped only by heavy tank battalions, with a powerful 122mm gun and 120mm thick frontal armor.

In the sky, it seemed that the Human Revolutionary Alliance only envisioned a scenario of an armored decisive battle with Russia on the southern front.

Therefore, the development of the People's Revolutionary Alliance's air force was also extremely radical.

The People's Revolutionary Alliance's air force was basically composed of a large number of attack aircraft and fighters that provided low-altitude cover for the attack aircraft.

At the same time, the People's Revolutionary Alliance's infantry units, unlike NATO forces, did not possess the terrifying firepower of assault rifles, squad automatic weapons, and rocket launchers.

However, during the long, low-intensity war, the People's Revolutionary Union's infantry units were not only experienced, but also, like the Teutons, emphasized the importance of firepower in terms of equipment.

In one of their standard twelve-man infantry squads, although there is only one light machine gun as the core of their firepower, their squad leader, deputy squad leader, and two submachine gunners are all equipped with submachine guns that use 61-round drum magazines or 41-round magazines.

After having close-range water-spraying firepower, the remaining four riflemen were equipped with semi-automatic rifles or bolt-action rifles. The specific type of rifle they were equipped with depended mainly on the soldiers' education level and quality.

After all, the maintenance of a semi-automatic rifle is much more complicated than that of a bolt-action rifle. If you dare to make do with maintenance today, it will dare to make do on the battlefield tomorrow.

The last two members of this squad were a marksman and an anti-tank soldier.

Of course, as a designated marksman, the weapon used by this marksman is obviously slightly different from that of the other riflemen.

They were not using 7.62mm caliber rifles, but rather the powerful 14.5mm anti-tank rifles.

This precision marksman rifle is capable of destroying almost everything common on the battlefield, from light tanks and armored vehicles to machine gun positions and field fortifications.

During low-intensity warfare, the Luzanian government forces frequently deployed unusual tanks to the front lines for combat testing or sent armored units to conduct combat training.

Therefore, in order to prevent infantry squads from being helpless against tanks, each infantry squad would select the strongest and bravest soldier to become an anti-tank soldier.

When the marksmen couldn't handle the tanks attacking their own positions, these anti-tank soldiers were the last resort on their positions.

In addition to a submachine gun or a pistol, the most important equipment of this anti-tank soldier is two 8-kilogram anti-tank mines and three 3-kilogram magnetic anti-tank grenades.

When enemy tanks approach one's own position, if the enemy tanks have not laid pre-buried anti-tank mines, then the enemy must find a way to take out those tanks with magnetic anti-tank grenades.

When this force, capable of holding its own against any enemy, rolled over to the Polish-Germans under the cover of a massive air force and armored units, the Polish-German defenses crumbled in an instant.

Although these Polish German defenders, like their glorious ancestors, put up a resolute resistance on the battlefield.

However, individual bravery is futile against a systematic attack, like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

On the first day after the attack was launched, the People's Revolutionary Alliance forces achieved a brilliant victory. On the first day, their armored forces, which were advancing rapidly, opened up land links with Upper Silesia.

Although the Bohemian forces, under Old Joe's command, suddenly crossed the defensive line and launched an attack, they also broke through the Polish defenses and were rushing towards the Vistula River, if the People's Revolutionary Union's Steppe Front could capture Lublin.

The Bohemian forces would then meet up with the People's Revolutionary Army forces at the Vistula River and encircle one-third of the Polish-German forces on the border.

But at least today, the fighting power displayed by the People's Revolutionary Alliance has shocked the entire world.

After all, in the past, due to low-intensity warfare, which was seen by any military professional as an enhanced version of trench warfare, most countries believed that the People's Revolutionary Alliance's army was not very effective in combat.

Basically, it's just a large number of troops that have retained the level of the last major war.

Now, with Polish-German forces losing their border defenses in a single day, and even the Upper Silesia Front of the People's Revolutionary Union not having prepared for a cross-border advance with the Minsk Front at the very beginning of the war.

Instead, they launched an attack to the east, capturing Danzig within five hours and engaging in a standoff with the still-shocked Teutonic forces.

Then, when the Teutonic commander finally realized what was happening and ordered his troops to enter Poland to support the Polish-German battle, the Teutonic troops that had just entered Poland were brutally beaten by the Upper Silesia Front of the People's Revolutionary Union.

You can't tell at all of his arrogance when he was speeding around in Gaul.

Even after nightfall, the People's Revolutionary Alliance's troops did not stop their westward advance. Instead, while the armored units, acting as the vanguard, stopped to rest, the mechanized infantry crossed the front line and continued westward.

The Polish Germans were dismayed to discover that without help, they would have to start the Battle of Warsaw again within three weeks.

Faced with this situation, the Teutonic commander ordered the Teutonic troops, who were still resting and not fully prepared, to enter Poland and Germany to help them stabilize their defenses.

They are also asking their staunchest ally, the Lucia military government, whether it is now possible to launch a preemptive strike against the soft underbelly of the People's Revolutionary Union.

Faced with this situation, the Lucia military government had nothing but a string of profanities to vent.

According to the original plan, when the attack was launched, the Teutons were supposed to reinforce a southern group of about 1.2 million men as a strike force to launch a pincer attack together with them.

However, judging from the current situation, the planned southern cluster of 1.2 million people is basically gone.

(End of this chapter)