"One, two! Three!" In the engineering unit, a group of soldiers pushed the fixed pedal between the two pontoons. The engineering soldiers on standby used tools to fix the pedal in an instant.
A huge pontoon bridge just crossed the Mullen River. Before the smoke protecting the pontoon bridge dissipated, an M4 tank rolled up its tracks and rushed onto the pontoon bridge.
Following this tank were tanks one after another. On the other side of the pontoon bridge, a larger pontoon bridge had been erected in the center of the river. There were countless ships surrounding this giant pontoon bridge.
, transporting various bridge-building materials.
Between the two pontoons, on numerous assault boats, Army soldiers wearing life jackets leaned against the bumpy hulls of the boats and quickly passed through this wide river.
On the south bank of the Malon River, the Airan Hill soldiers who had already boarded the river bank, carrying their own weapons, bent down and rushed into the defensive position that had changed beyond recognition.
The original trenches have now been damaged by artillery fire, and their original appearance is no longer visible. There are scattered sandbags and bunker fortifications that have been destroyed long ago and become incomplete. The enemy's resistance is almost zero.
The Airanhill soldiers with flamethrowers sprayed pungent flames at the bunker, which had no idea if there were any living people inside. The fire kept beating for a long time in the places where it was stained by tar.
Soldiers carrying AK-47 assault rifles jumped into the trenches and found that the remains of puppet soldiers were everywhere, as well as the broken corpses of human soldiers of the puppet empire lying on the ground.
You can vaguely see the stock and parts of the Mauser 98k rifle, and occasionally you can see grenades, scattered bullets, and broken bullet transport boxes.
Among the corpses and debris, some puppet empire soldiers were kneeling with their hands raised in the air. They shouted loudly that they had never fired a gun, and begged the Elanshir soldiers for forgiveness.
Amidst the shouts of surrender, another huge hovercraft rushed onto the river beach, sending an entire heavily armed infantry company to the river bank.
The jeep moved sideways on the beach. The soldiers sitting on the jeep were holding the 12.7 mm caliber heavy machine guns mounted in the back of the jeep, eyeing the puppet empire soldiers who had gathered together after being captured.
Soon, the tank troops crossed the Mullen River, and hundreds of tanks began to expand to the surrounding defensive positions. The thick smoke covering the troops crossing the river and the pontoon gradually began to dissipate as time went by.
However, the expected blocking artillery fire from the Puppet Empire has not arrived. So far, the retaliatory gunfire in the entire position has been sparse and scattered.
More than half of the bunkers and hidden heavy weapons positions were destroyed by the previous preparatory artillery fire. As for the remaining part, the defenders inside had long lost the mood to continue fighting. They waited until they saw Eiland Hill's army.
After killing him, he immediately handed over his weapon.
In a crater, several demons who were stubbornly resisting, as well as dozens of soldiers from the puppet empire, were holding weapons and firing non-stop.
They were one of the few small troops nearby who dared to fight back. These soldiers fired their rifles and Maxim heavy machine guns into the thick fog, seemingly proving their determination to resist to the end.
However, their attack hardly caused any trouble to Ailanthil's landing. As the fog gradually began to dissipate, Ailanthil's troops finally discovered that there were still remaining enemies around them.
The Irish soldier leaning on the edge of the trench moved the infrared telescope in front of him and shouted loudly to his comrades: "11 o'clock direction! About 200 meters! Let the armored troops or air cavalry clean up the garbage!"
The soldier holding the walkie-talkie in his hand nodded and called for support into the microphone: "Coordinates 33-51! Enemy troops are firing! Enemy troops are firing!"
The sound on the radio attracted the attention of the pilot of the armed helicopter hovering in the sky. The weapons operator in front of him was originally looking for targets that could be attacked. After hearing the contact from the ground forces, he immediately adjusted the search mode.
"I saw it, the infrared signature is obvious! There is no identification mark of friend or foe! It's not a friendly force! I fired! I fired!" After the weapon operator identified the target, he began his own attack.
The armed helicopter he was on hovered in mid-air, pointing its nose in the direction of the enemy through the diffuse smoke.
Then, in the next second, the rotary cannon equipped on the nose of the aircraft spurted out fierce tongues of flame, and the rocket nests hanging under the short wings also fired a series of rockets.
Using the crater as a cover, this small force composed of demons and puppet empire soldiers who stubbornly resisted was instantly submerged in the white smoke raised by the continuous explosions.
The long swords in their hands, as well as the backward Maxim and Mauser 98k rifles, were all ineffective. There was silence in the crater after the explosion, leaving only the slightly rising smoke.
After a while, a surviving demon climbed out of the floating soil. His legs had been blown off, leaving only half of his body. He crawled twice and found a more comfortable position, leaning there and breathing heavily.
Sighing.
Even at this point, he still did not give up the long sword in his hand. He held the hilt of the sword and stared at the edge of the crater in front of him, waiting for the moment when the enemy approached.
Then, he saw an Airan Hill soldier with a strange device on his eyes, slowly sticking his head out from the edge of the crater, looking down at him.
Standing on the edge of the crater, this Airan Hill soldier held an AK-47 assault rifle, with night vision goggles on his eyes, looking down at the panting demon, without any mercy on his face.
Then, he picked up his weapon, pointed it at the devil's face, and gently pulled the trigger.
"Chug!" A short burst of fire, the bullet pierced the demon's face, leaving deep holes in the eyes and bridge of the nose. Black blood soaked the ground, and there was no more gunfire here.
In just 4 hours, 4 armored divisions, 6 mechanized infantry divisions, and 3 light infantry divisions of the 3rd Army Group of Eiland Hill crossed the Mullen River defense line.
The entire defense line collapsed in an instant, and resistance ceased across the board within 5 hours. Now, the puppet empire was undefendable, and the entire fertile Three Rivers Plain area had become a target for the Airan Hill troops.
The only regret is that the demon general who was in charge of commanding the demon army took advantage of the chaos and escaped with more than two thousand demons, becoming the only lucky person to escape in this battle.
The remaining hundreds of thousands of puppet imperial troops, 50,000 demon troops, and 10 floating castles have all become the achievements of the sky fleet...