Obviously, the Ottomans had seen the Americans' hesitation.
Therefore, they decided to strike first. Once they strike, the Americans will have no room for maneuver.
At midnight local time, nearly two hundred tanks and armored vehicles from two Ottoman armored battalions crossed the border between Georgia and East Slavia in the night, and the coalition forces launched their first ground attack.
Along the way, they did not encounter much resistance. They quickly occupied Andrel, a coastal city in the southeast of the East Slavic region, and headed north, aiming at Sochi, a tourist city in the East Slavic region.
However, most of their forces did not go northward. In Andrel City, they still sent an armored battalion to the northeast to capture the local Andrel Airport.
But when they went to occupy the airport, they encountered an ambush by the local militia.
It is a militia organization rather than a regular East Slavic Field Army.
The local militia organization used various RPGs and individual anti-tank missiles to hide in residential buildings in the town and attack the attacking troops from both sides.
The Ottomans didn't take it seriously at first, because the opponent's accuracy seemed to be somewhat poor, and this was also expected.
However, as reinforcements arrived one after another and were preparing to conduct a sweeping sweep on both sides of the alley, an accident happened.
Militia groups came from all directions and detonated several large landmines.
Under siege by at least dozens of RPGs and individual anti-tank missiles.
Three of the most advanced Leopard II tanks and four armored vehicles in the armored battalion were quickly destroyed, and more than a dozen soldiers were killed.
And the road to the airport doesn't look that easy.
Of course, the Ottomans also bombed several buildings and killed many people.
But what they didn't expect was that the video of them bombing buildings and killing civilians would be posted online almost immediately.
Unable to attack for a long time, the other armored force headed for Sochi had to retreat again, preparing to outflank Andel Airport.
But as soon as they retreated, the East Slavs appeared, using fierce artillery from behind to bombard the Ottoman armored forces that turned around to support Andreel.
Then, a large number of eastern armed field troops appeared midway. They surrounded and divided the entire armored battalion.
And use various RPGs and individual anti-tank missiles to violently attack a large number of armored vehicles.
After damaging dozens of tanks, the Ottomans had to retreat in disgrace.
And finally it dawned on him that he had to call for air support.
Probably out of fear of losing face, they only called in Ottoman air support.
Subsequently, more than a dozen armed helicopters roared over.
But the Ottomans were obviously too optimistic, and the supporting aircraft were immediately attacked by anti-aircraft missiles, destroying three helicopters in the blink of an eye.
After seeing how ferocious the enemy's firepower was, the remaining armed helicopters were so frightened that they turned around and returned to Georgian territory, ignoring the surrounded armored forces.
The surrounded Ottoman armored forces panicked.
Many soldiers simply abandoned their vehicles and fled.
But he was quickly captured or killed by the surrounding eastern armed forces.
The Ottoman officer leading the group was dumbfounded and hurriedly ordered everyone to break out of the encirclement and retreat to the Georgian border.
At the same time, he finally woke up and quickly asked the Americans for support.
After receiving the notification, the Americans had no choice but to send more than a dozen -16 fighter jets to quickly fly to the scene of the firefight, air raids on several suspicious firepower points, and then sent Apaches to escort a dozen Black Hawks to transport hundreds of soldiers for the assault.
Andrel Airport.
At the same time, a vanguard tank battalion of the heavy armored force entered the East Slavic area directly.
Prepare to support the trapped Ottomans.
Americans are relatively lucky and basically have no losses.
However, while occupying the airport, a Black Hawk helicopter was shot down, and seven of more than a dozen American soldiers were killed.
But of course, the Americans were still very strong. Although the losses were quite heavy, they quickly occupied the Andel Airport.
Once the airport is captured, subsequent attacks will be easier.
But what the Americans didn't expect was that in order to snipe the Americans and cut off their retreat, the local armed forces actually blew up the two bridges over the Mzimta River on the A147 highway.
Completely isolate the airport from the south side.
So now, the American advance team is now trapped at Andel Airport on the north shore, while the main force of the Ottomans is trapped south of the airport.
After being divided, people on both sides were besieged.
On the Ottoman side were local militias and almost two battalions of the regular field army of the East Slavic Republic.
At the airport, there are three battalions of the East Slavic Republic's Field Army with approximately a thousand people.
Theoretically, the pressure on the American troops at the airport is greater.
Although the Ottomans were divided and surrounded, their equipment had the advantage. And their retreat path was still intact.
But the Americans were different. After more than 100 meters of military soldiers were parachuted in, and after one of the armed helicopters in the sky was shot down, they did not dare to expose themselves to the air at will.
But after the battle started, the outcome was completely different.
The Ottomans were unwilling to fight. After a few false shots, under the leadership of the commander, they left more than 30 destroyed tanks and more than 40 dead and wounded soldiers and returned to the Georgian border.
They have forgotten the American military brothers who were trapped at the airport.
At this time, the Americans faced the East Slavic armed forces that were nearly ten times their strength, but they showed the style of the first military power.
Although their opponent, the East Slavic Field Army, was also experienced in many battles, they were still a bit immature in front of the Americans.
The Americans relied on their equipment and tactical advantages to withstand the siege of the East Slavs.
And with the support of the air force, they even began to organize a counterattack and drove out all the East Slavic armed forces who entered the airport.
After regaining control of the airport, the Americans assessed the situation and decided to rely on the more than 90 people remaining at the airport to defend the airport and wait for a large-scale counterattack by daylight.
But the fighting lasted until about six o'clock in the morning. An accident happened.
An Eastern Slavic assault force with only about twenty people in black armor appeared. Under the cover of a dense firepower, they rushed into the airport building.
Then they dispersed and entered various important areas of the airport.
Not long after, various screams were heard from the American troops stationed at various key checkpoints.
"Fake Doug, lead the third platoon and set off with me immediately." The leading American officer who occupied Andreel Airport was Lieutenant Colonel Pallester. He organized his own men to search for these intruding East Slavic death squad members.
They thought it was some East Slavic suicide attacker.
Although these suicide attackers appear to be very skilled.
The Eastern Slavs on the periphery began to attack again, and this time the firepower was more fierce, and they were not afraid of death. Some of them kept falling, but people kept popping up.
After expressing his contempt, Lieutenant Colonel Paleste immediately called for air support.
It will take some time for the fighter planes to arrive.
But Pallester was not in a hurry. He was even more depressed now that he had to deal with about twenty suicide squads who had rushed into the airport.
He led the team to search several defensive areas, and he discovered a shocking fact. All the people in several of his firepower points were killed.
The ground was dripping with blood. There were no broken limbs or broken arms on the ground.
A sergeant stepped forward to inspect the body of a soldier and came back with a solemn expression: "It was not a gunshot wound, it was killed with a knife."
"Knife?" Pallester was confused for a moment, "No, they are warriors."
He suddenly imagined the possibility that the intruders were not death squads at all, but warriors with incredible strength.
"Ah! Ah! Fake Squid! help"
Screams and calls for help continued to sound, and it was obvious that the soldiers stationed at the airport were still under continuous attack.
The opponent's fire attack is just to attract them to expose their firepower points. When these people come in, they will deal with the firepower points one by one.
"Everyone, immediately retreat to the lobby of Building A of the airport." Lieutenant Colonel Paleste reacted quickly. In such a dark and small location, ordinary American soldiers, no matter how experienced they are in combat, will not
They are the opponents of those warriors with terrifying cultivation.
While he was talking, he heard a sound of movement on the ceiling above his head.
He immediately raised the muzzle of his gun and fired a shot at the ceiling.
"boom!"
The soldiers who were alerted by the noise immediately scattered forward and backward.
Immediately, a grenade landed next to Lieutenant Colonel Pallister.
Paleste's face darkened and his body rolled. Then he fell down.
"Boom!" The fierce explosion shock wave lifted his body up, and he rolled several times before he realized what he was doing.
In his gray head, from the ceiling, seven or eight people covered in black armor fell from the sky.
A guard next to Paleste immediately pulled out a tactical pistol and shot a person who ran to the front.
"Bang bang bang!"
Several shots were fired at the opponent, but only a series of sparks burst out. After the opponent took a few steps back, he quickly approached again. With a wave of the sword in his hand, a ball of red energy instantly rose up, killing the guard.
With the gun in his hand, he cut it with a knife.
Then he stepped forward, kicked the injured soldier in the chest, and cut the soldier's neck with a knife.
"Damn it!" Pallester himself is also a warrior, but his cultivation level is not high. At the early stage of Red Level, when he saw that the other party's cultivation level was basically Red Level or above, his heart dropped.
"Retreat!" he yelled at the top of his lungs.
In this geographical environment, it is impossible for a person in his own platoon to be an opponent of the other party.
But his shout was a little late.
Moreover, because of his shout, he attracted the other party's attention.
Just as he was about to escape, he felt a ball of terrifying energy coming towards him.
Taking a closer look, a bright yellow crescent moon-like air mass roared towards me.
Pallester rolled on the spot subconsciously, and then threw himself at the window on one side.
"Bang!" After using all his strength to break the glass, his body immediately fell from the nine-meter-high floor.
With his physical condition, it is difficult to predict whether he will live or die at such a height.
Fortunately, the place where he fell was a lawn, and his body was strong enough, so he only felt a burst of extreme pain and his mobility was not lost.
He looked at the towers on the high-rise building and gave a sharp sweep: "I'll repeat it again. Everyone, please retreat to the lobby on the first floor of Building A immediately."
There are about twenty warriors on the other side, as well as yellow-level masters. Needless to say, this airport cannot be defended.
Pallester ignored the pain and danger. After getting up from the ground with difficulty, he immediately contacted the headquarters: "We were attacked by the opponent's special forces and suffered heavy casualties. There were more than 20 warriors on the other side. We can't hold on. Please ask for support. Please ask for support."
, we must retreat, repeat. The airport has been lost, we must retreat."
After receiving the order, the American soldiers finally assembled one after another from the firepower point they were guarding to the lobby of Building A.
More than ten minutes later, several -15 fighter jets dropped cluster bombs outside the airport, leveling all the surrounding houses and some obstacles.
Then a dozen or so -16s came over and bombed suspicious firepower points in the periphery in turn.
After that, more than a dozen Apaches finally arrived, escorted about a dozen Black Hawks, and forced to land on the airport runway despite artillery fire.
Of course, these black hawks were immediately attacked by the opponent's RPGs.
Two Black Hawks and an Apache were destroyed on the spot.
But the remaining American troops still staggered away from the airport where they were stationed.
Withdraw to the Georgian base.
The American's face immediately turned green.
After counting the casualties, they discovered.
In addition to the loss of four Apaches and four Black Hawks, the American soldiers also lost thirty-two American soldiers including the pilots on the spot. Twenty-three were injured and twenty-seven were missing. It was obvious that they had been
Captured or dead.
The Ottomans, who advanced recklessly at the beginning, suffered more than forty casualties in total.
For the American army, this was simply a humiliating battle. The American army had never lost so many soldiers on a frontal battlefield since it invaded the Republic of Babylon.
To put it simply, the biggest responsibility for why this battle was so miserable was that the American army was not fully prepared and was completely fooled by the Ottomans.
Of course, the sudden appearance of the opponent's warrior special forces was actually the direct cause of the disastrous defeat of the American army.
Brigadier General McCain of the 19th Armored Brigade of the U.S. coalition's southeastern front directly drove a car into the Ottoman camp and cursed the Ottoman supreme commander Major General Emre Beask.
The guards on both sides almost took action directly.
Later, after Emre sincerely expressed his apology, the commander of the coalition forces, Lieutenant General Edward, called him personally, and McCain let him go.
However, things obviously did not end so quickly.
The war ended around nine o'clock in the morning.
Around ten o'clock, the results of the battle were posted on the Internet in the United States.
As soon as the battle scenes, which were obviously filmed by people from the East Slavic region, spread, the entire United States exploded.
The East Slavs laid out the more than ten wounded American prisoners of war they had captured, and published their ranks and names online.
Some injured soldiers are still in the video shouting loudly for their mother, "Mom, I don't want to die, please save me," etc.
I saw the miserable scenes of prisoners of war and the corpses of American soldiers all over the ground.
Americans were stunned for a moment.
A large number of people began to speak out against this inexplicable war. They opposed the fact that the lives of American soldiers were wasted in the distant East Slavic region.
Public opinion, which had initially overwhelmingly supported the war, began to hesitate.
Polls show that for the first time, the number of people who support the war is below 50%, while the number of people who oppose it is as high as 49%. The number of people who approve and support the war is almost evenly divided.
The families of those captured even went directly to the White House to petition, asking the government to rescue them.
The US government is also drunk.
It was depressing enough to have so many people die, but now even the direction of public opinion has begun to slowly change.
"We don't have much time left." In a vacation villa owned by the Ron family in Washington state, Terry Ron said calmly as he looked at Dodge Ron walking around with his hands behind his back.
Dodge Ron finally stopped, looked at Allen Ron who looked like he was sitting firmly on the fishing platform, and couldn't help but ask: "Dear brother, what do you think?"
"Sixty-nine people were killed, thirty-eight were injured, twenty-seven were missing, seventeen fighter planes, twenty-four tanks, and one destroyer was lost. This is what we have gained so far in this war.
." Alan Ron turned the cigar in his hand, knocked on the table, and replied expressionlessly.
"The losses of aircraft and tanks are nothing. It just so happens that our military factories can work overtime again, but the loss of personnel is also too much. This is the largest loss we have suffered in a foreign war in the past twelve years. More importantly,
So far, we haven't even taken an inch of land." Terry Rowe echoed, "Dodge, if you want to run for president, this situation is not feasible."
"That's why I came to you two to discuss countermeasures. Have you read the polls?"
Alan Ron waved his hand and said calmly: "Things like polls are nothing to worry about. Which war will have a high support rate when it reaches a difficult moment? Just follow [Must Die] and [Twitter]
] Say hello well, make the video of the East Slavs abusing our soldiers a hot topic, and then block those videos that are not good for us, and the polls will soon change."
He paused and then continued: "The most important thing now is how to use a victory to boost morale. Otherwise, the time left for us will only become less and less. According to the original estimate, we can have a month
time, but now it seems that it is estimated that there are only twenty days. If we do not win a big victory within twenty days, we will lose this war."
"That's right. We must use a big victory to improve our morale. But one thing I'm very curious about is who is commanding the defense battle at Andrel Airport this time? So that we can lose so much.
Tragic, I heard that Hanovich is not dead at all? Is this true?" Dodge Ron looked at Alan Ron and asked.
"This is true!" Alan Rowan nodded, "I'm sure." (To be continued)
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