Chapter 1049 The Battle of the Nieper River

While Jiang Chen and Evelin were worrying about the future of Germany, it was late at night in Ukraine on the other side of the world.

It is already late May, and the air in the suburbs of Dnipropetrovsk is already a bit hot.

The ancient church stood alone among the ruins. Perhaps it survived because both warring parties deliberately avoided firing at it. In the cemetery behind the church, dark smoke slowly rose. In order to prevent the plague, the citizens of the suburbs cooperated with the government troops in a tacit understanding, dragging the dead bodies that could be seen everywhere on the battlefield here, dousing them with gasoline and burning them together.

Two streets away from the church is the front line.

The old mother in ragged clothes walked tremblingly, wandering on the bank of the Dnieper River where corpses were piled up. She was numb to the distant sound of cannons that pierced the night sky from time to time. She mechanically touched the faces soaked by the river water with her hands. He muttered trivial words such as "God", "Jesus" and "no".

The mother river that gave birth to the Ukrainian people is now filled with countless floating corpses.

Zhang Feng sighed, raised his hand and pressed on the outside of the helmet.

"Area A05, a civilian was found...someone go and bring her back."

After ending the communication, he looked at the time on his watch and saw that it was time to change shifts, so he switched the communication to the team channel.

"Okay, guys, pack your things and prepare to change defense."

"receive."

Soon, a small team sent by civilian armed forces took over the defense area from Zhang Feng. Several militiamen in worker uniforms set up machine guns behind the bunker, seemingly maintaining their posts professionally. However, Zhang Feng knew very well that except for the captain who led the team, these people had probably just joined the army and had not even received serious training.

However, even though he knew this, he didn't say anything.

What does it matter? Anyway, the situation on the other side is similar. The veterans have run out of luck, and it's time for new recruits. At least the morale of the civilian armed forces is high. They are fighting for freedom.

At least that's what they think.

Out of good intentions, Zhang Feng patted the Ukrainian man on the shoulder when leaving and pointed to the ruins on the other side of the river.

"At three o'clock, the firepower point of the government forces."

The captain wearing a beige sweatshirt glanced across the river.

He grinned.

"Thanks."

"Good luck--"

"boom--!"

Before Zhang Feng finished speaking, the roar of the artillery salvo interrupted his blessing.

The two subconsciously bent down to protect their eyes, blocking the rubble shaking from the ceiling. The glass on the window was shattered into pieces. The machine gunner shrank into a corner while cursing in horror. .

"Damn, cough--, what are they doing?"

After choking, the captain straightened up, shook off the dirt on his arms, walked quickly to the window, looked at the shallows of the river, his eyes widened suddenly, and he subconsciously uttered a curse word, " Grass……"

Tanks and armored vehicles formed a torrent of steel. Accompanied by the roar of artillery fire, they launched an impact from the shoal to the defense line on the other side of the river. The soldier roared "Ula", held the rifle to his chest, followed the roaring torrent of steel, crossed the burning ruins, and charged towards the smoke-filled position.

The machine gunners on both sides vented their firepower on each other, and the orange-yellow ballistics flew randomly above the Dnieper River, tearing the quiet night sky into pieces. On the other side of the river, a dozen transport helicopters, escorted by armed helicopters, had broken through the flank of the Ukrainian government forces.

Leaning on the other side of the window, Zhang Feng stared blankly at the street in the distance.

"Sir?" Sergey walked up to Zhang Feng and asked him with his eyes.

Just when Zhang Feng was about to answer "I don't know", the signal light in his field of vision flickered slightly, and the commander's holographic image appeared on the left side of his field of vision. Raising his hand to stop Sergey, Zhang Feng walked to the side, listened to the commander's order in silence, stood at attention, saluted, and yelled: "Yes, sir!"

Sergey and Hans looked at each other in confusion, then stood at attention and looked at the captain who was walking towards them.

After taking a deep look at his team members, Zhang Feng took a deep breath and said.

"Sorry, guys, the event is temporarily canceled for a while."

"Ten minutes ago, the Starring Trade General Command issued the highest operational order, ordering the frontline troops to cooperate with the civilian armed forces, seize the Dnipropetrovsk Airport before dawn, and advance our defense line to the city center."

"It's time to end this war and let's get across the river and take care of those fools."

"The terminal is the airport. You have one minute to check your equipment! Now follow me to the first checkpoint. Get moving! Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!"

The air filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke rushed towards our faces, blowing away the remaining sleepiness of everyone. Following the first echelon of troops charging into the battle, the Star Ring trade soldiers wearing mechanical exoskeletons rushed out of the bunker and advanced through the shoal area full of track indentations at an unusually fast speed.

The sky was flashing with firelight, Aurora-20 and F18 were fighting together above the clouds, and after a while, a rain of death belonging to the F18 fighter fell.

The anti-aircraft firepower deployed by the Ukrainian army in the eastern part of the city had already been marked by the Star Ring special forces wearing K2 exoskeletons, and was smashed into pieces by tungsten balls falling from the sky. Under the cover of optical invisibility, they wandered the battlefield like ghosts. Even though the Ukrainian army deployed a large number of infrared sensors on the front line, they were still avoided by these veterans with their rich experience.

In just ten minutes, five Aurora-20s had seized air superiority from the Ukrainian army. The aerial bombs falling from the sky set off bursts of explosive dust in the city, clearing the way for the 1st Armored Brigade of the civilian armed forces to charge wantonly. the way.

The fierce battle seemed to shake the clouds from the sky, and light rain fell from the originally clear night sky.

Arrow Company's armed helicopters appeared in the north of the city, trying to outflank the civilian armed armored forces. However, without air superiority, they were as powerless as chickens under the talons of an eagle. Without even using missiles, the Aurora-20's cannon shot over, and the armed helicopter exposed on the radar tilted its head and smashed into a tall building nearby.

"Damn it! Did they hoist all the tanks? These madmen!" The Ukrainian soldiers were squatting behind the defense line, using their rifles to vent their fragile firepower. The Ukrainian soldiers shouted in fear, "Where are our anti-aircraft guns? Who's going to take care of those planes—"

Before he finished speaking, an aerial bomb landed on the head of their defense line. When the smoke cleared, his unrecognizable corpse had flown to a billboard ten meters away and was hung up.

It was not only the Ukrainian army who served as the main force of the battle, but also the Arrow Company mercenaries who supported the battle.

Unlike the temporarily armed refugees and European volunteers who fought on the northern front, they were all veterans from the Iran-Iraq War who were sent to guard the city by Arrow Company out of respect for this city. Having fought two asymmetric wars, this was the first time they had tasted the feeling of being the disadvantaged side.

Strong people still resist in vain, while weak-minded people cry out the name of God and even forget to resist.

In half an hour, the Ukrainian army was crippled by two armored brigades, while the civilian armed forces advanced the front two kilometers at the cost of less than 20 tanks.

The whole city was covered with flames. The Ukrainian army, which had already understood that there was nothing they could do, began to have deserters. The first ones to flee were the mercenaries of Arrow Company. They had no sense of honor for this war that belonged to others, and naturally they ran without any sense of guilt.

Immediately afterwards, government soldiers also began to flee. Many of them were forcibly recruited into the army. When they saw their commanders being shot dead, almost all of them chose to take off their military uniforms and hide in nearby houses.

Looking at the battlefield with a telescope, a joyful smile appeared on the face of the civilian armed commander.

Anyone can see that there is no suspense in this war.

Victory is only a matter of time. (To be continued.) Activate new URL