"We must capture the bank building before dark. The weather is getting worse and worse, and we don't have so much time."

Rundstedt reprimanded his men loudly!

Out of awe of the Ming army's combat effectiveness, their men actually ordered the Nordic army to attack on their behalf when Rundstedt was recalled to Magdeburg.

As expected, the Nordic army suffered a bloody defeat in front of the Ming army.

In just ten days, more than 34,000 people were killed.

There are still four hours until dark today, and more than 2,000 people have been killed or injured.

"Let the Allied troops charge in the front, and you cower in the back. You have soiled the honor of the Prussian soldiers!" Rundstedt, who returned to the front line, was furious, pointing at his generals and officers and yelling.

"General, we have captured three-quarters of Smolensk. If the bank had not been particularly strong, we would have captured the bank building."

The subordinates were a little unconvinced. The combat effectiveness of the Ming army was obvious to all, and it was good to be able to fight like this.

Moreover, except for the battle around the bank building, all the remaining results were obtained by Prussian soldiers with their own blood.

When Rundstedt said this, everyone was very unconvinced.

"The Ming officer captured on the outskirts of Minsk proved to be the son of a Ming general.

Moreover, he himself was also a mid-level officer of the Ming Dynasty.

His Majesty the Emperor and His Excellency the Prime Minister personally persuaded him to surrender and finally got him to speak.

The Ming Dynasty's strategy was to lure us into attacking Moscow, and then send their tanks to penetrate from both sides while our army was tired.

In this way, we can be easily surrounded. Then, even if we resist stubbornly, we will be defeated by the Russian cold."

Rundstedt was as majestic as a lion, looking at his subordinates.

"Then they can launch an attack now and directly surround us." Some stubborn officers were still unconvinced.

"climate!

The weather helped us this year!

It is a mild winter in Russia this year, and so far, the ground has not frozen hard.

Moreover, the Dnieper River did not freeze.

Now, when enemy tanks are dispatched, they will get stuck in the quagmire. Moreover, they will not be able to cross the Dnieper River.

Do you think they will not attack after the ground freezes and the Dnieper River freezes?

The war has gone so far, have you ever seen one of their tanks?

snort!"

Rundstedt snorted heavily, and the generals and officers below stopped talking.

Indeed, the muddy roads also made the coalition's logistical supplies extremely difficult.

The hundreds of kilometers of road from Minsk to Smolensk are almost turning into a quagmire. Without the full transportation of airships, the frontline ammunition cannot be guaranteed.

"If it hadn't been for this period, the weather would have been very bad. Do you think the enemy's fighter jets would have come to strangle our airship?"

Amid the lion-like roar of Rundstedt, all the Prussian officers fell silent.

The battle during this period was clearly visible to everyone.

For airships, fighter jets are the god of death.

Facing extremely fast fighter jets, the airship is not even qualified to run.

What's more, the huge airbag on the airship is not even qualified to dodge.

It is too easy to hit such a big target.

Moreover, the airbag also blocked the cannon in the pod below.

In other words, if the Ming Dynasty aircraft uses initiation attack. If the airship wants to fight back, the cannon will directly explode its own air bag.

But the airship's huge airbag also has an advantage.

That means you can still fly in the sky in such gloomy weather.

But Ming Dynasty aircraft seem to be very uncomfortable with such gloomy weather. Recently, it is rare to see Ming Dynasty aircraft overhead.

That's why airships were used to bomb Smolensk.

Who would have thought that as soon as the airship appeared here, a fighter jet appeared over there.

Just one fighter jet shot down five airships, then flapped its wings and fired at the Allied soldiers below.

Seeing the embarrassment of the Allied soldiers, they flew back to Moscow with great pride.

This advantage is a natural advantage for the air force against the army.

"The general, His Majesty and the Chief of General Staff mean...!"

"Our army must take Smolensk as soon as possible, and we can set up defenses along the Dnieper River before it freezes.

Then we will use this winter to consolidate our logistical supplies.

In the spring of next year, the ground will turn into a muddy swamp again. At that time, we will attack Moscow again."

Rundstedt had a cold face. There was nothing he could do about it. The Dnieper River was a natural danger. As long as defenses were deployed along the Dnieper River, there was no fear of the Ming army's attack.

In the rear, according to the Ming officer's suggestion, strategies were being rearranged and corresponding weapons and equipment were mobilized.

Strive to defeat the long-planned attack of the Ming army along the Dnieper River.

"Do we have new weapons that can deal with enemy tanks?" The officers were very excited.

So far, the vast majority of the Prussian army has never seen a tank, let alone had combat experience with tanks.

The tanks they knew were nothing but painful memories of the Polish army.

Everyone described it as something like a steel monster.

These things spit out green smoke, are invulnerable and extremely lethal. No bullets or artillery shells can harm them.

Faced with the myth-like narrative, many Prussian officers felt that they were frightened by the tanks.

Most of what they said was just alarmist and crazy talk after being frightened.

However, I heard that Prussia already had a unique weapon to deal with these monsters, and everyone was very excited and curious.

"The rear is stepping up production, and the first batch is already on its way," Rundstedt said with a smile.

Before attacking the Ming Dynasty, he was most worried about tanks.

He did not think that the Polish army was frightened into surrendering by the rumors.

He collected descriptions from many Polish officers and even talked to some surviving officers.

Whenever they talk about tanks, they all have a look of horror on their faces.

He had known some of them for a long time, and he didn't think that they, who were once iron-blooded soldiers, would be frightened like that by some kind of rumors that were spread around.

"Okay, those things will be shipped soon.

Our top priority now is to destroy Smolensk and completely pull out this nail on the west bank of the Dnieper River.

Otherwise, we would not be able to deploy the Dnieper River defense line.

Now I am ordering our Nordic troops to withdraw. All fronts will be replaced by Prussian troops. We must capture the bank building before dark.

Without this solid support point, we can take Smolensk tomorrow."

"yes!"

The Prussian generals and officers agreed in unison.

Ding San and Zhang Laojiu were looking at the raging fire of the crashing airship outside through the cracks in the bank wall.

"This piece of shit dropped bombs all the way, and I almost thought we were doomed.

Such a big bomb, one fucking bomb could send us to the West."

Zhang Laojiu looked at the blazing fire as the airship crashed, with an expression of gloating on his smoking face.

"Have a rest!

I'm not always so lucky. Damn it, what kind of bullshit weather is this in Russia?

Sometimes it snows, and sometimes it rains. The raindrops fall on the ground and turn into ice particles." Ding San took out a pack of cigarettes from Zhang Laojiu's pocket, lit one and put the cigarette in naturally.

In your own pocket.

"Leave one for me!" Zhang Laojiu laughed for a while, realized something was wrong, and quickly rescued his box of cigarettes.

Even though the war has reached this point, military supplies have not been cut off. Every night, airships will transport large quantities of supplies and evacuate wounded soldiers along the way.

Even the bodies of fallen soldiers that could be found had to be brought back.

"Company commander, Mao Zibing has withdrawn."

On the top of the third floor, the soldier in charge of the lookout ran down panting.

"Withdrawn?
To be continued...