62 Battle of Kursk part 3

On Meng Yi, Guan Yu, and Yue Fei's side. Meng Yi was talking to the other two.

(MY) "This is a most advantageous positioning that the enemy has moved into. However, the most important battlefield will be the Kursk one here. I believe my brother Meng Tian is the one that is leading the army that is coming to Kursk."

(YF) "Yes, but we shouldn't completely put all of our eggs in one basket, should we? I mean the three of us should just be overkill for Meng Tian."

(GY) "I think you have misunderstood one of the important facets of war, Yue Fei. Dealing a massive blow to them like losing one of their best strategists in such an upset like this would be way too demoralizing for the troops to even continue to fight."

(YF) "While that may be true, Guan Yu, that does not mean the war will be over just by the death of one of the two generals. Baron is still a force to be reckoned with even if all of us have more experience than him."

(MY) "That matters not. We will just eliminate Meng Tian before the two of them even begins to comprehend our strategy. Once we manage to do that then even if Baron receives any reinforcements, he will not be able to do anything about this situation."

(YF) "Alright. Then let's make this battle a speedy one."

With this, the three of them pooled their knowledge together to form a battle plan in which to beat Meng Tian with as fast as possible. They only had a day or so to set everything up once they did and immediately began to set their army up accordingly. Now the only thing to do was to wait for Meng Tian to arrive.

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On Meng Tian's side.

The army of Meng Tian took a few days to get to where the battle of Kursk and immediately began their preparations as well. Meng Tian was the commanding general for this army and the lieutenant went by the name of King.

(LK) "General Meng Tian sir, all the preparations have been completed and we are ready to strike the enemy at any time you desire."

(MT) "Good, we will begin our barrage immediately. For now, only have the mortar corps take action and we will see just how the enemy reacts. We must not allow our aircraft to take too much damage since they are the crux of our plan. Do you understand Lieutenant King?"

(LK) "Yes sir, I will relay this message to the others and get this battle underway."

(MT) "Excellent, you are dismissed."

Lieutenant King saluted to Meng Tian and left to carry out his orders. The battle began quickly after and the Russian army lead by Meng Yi reacted blindingly fast. There were a few platoons of tanks that rolled into battle to combat Meng Tians mortars.

Once Meng Tian heard the news he had his own tanks go engage them. However, he had them engage the enemy tanks by cutting into their sides from such an angle that made it hard for the enemy to shoot them down without taking quite heavy damage first. Once that maneuver was tried out, both sides were just content with shooting each other with mortars and infantry. This lasted for a few days with neither sides gaining any ground. Then a messenger informed Lieutenant King of some very bad news.

(LK) "Sir!"

(MT) "What is it King? Have we had any successes yet?"

(LK) "No that's not it sir. We have received some very troubling news. There seems to be an army headed for us, an army that is coming attack us from behind."

(MT) "Behind? How large is this army?"

(LK) "Going by what our reports say, easily half as powerful as the enemy we are currently engaged with. Going by their speed, they should get here by another day of travel."

(MT) "Hoh. The emergence of this new enemy is distressing indeed. Leave me for now. I will attempt to come up with a strategy that we can use."

(LK) "As you say." Lieutenant King said and did another salute before leaving.

This was not a good omen for Meng Tian by any means. To have to fight on two fronts is very difficult to do for very long. Though his army now may be stronger than the enemy, this new army will upset the balance and tip the favor of battle to his enemies' side.

(MT) "Humph, let's see just how you will be able to defeat me!" Meng Tian said aloud and immediately began to formulate a strategy.

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On Baron's side.

Baron's intuition was telling him something was off. He had been at this battlefield for a few days now, yet his enemies did not have the same combat capabilities as one should expect to see of Meng Yi, Guan Yu, nor Yue Fei. This led him to conclude that, in fact, none of those three were here to begin with and he and Meng Tian had been played. Quite flawlessly as well.

At this moment, Baron received a message from Meng Tian via radio.

(MT) "Baron, it seems we have been outplayed in this simulation."

(BM) "Are all three of them at your location?"

(MT) "Yes, by what I can see at least. I didn't peg them to bet the majority of their resources on taking me down first. Now it seems I'm being flanked by another army."

(BM) "What? This new army can't be all that big can it?"

(MT) "It's quite big, this new force will tip the balance and I believe that at most I can hold out for 3 days once they get here."

(BM) "Got it, I'll be there as soon as I can. With none of them here at my battlefield this battle that I'm at has no more value. Plus I've damaged them to the point of them not being able to interfere anymore."

(MT) "Alright."

(BM) "Messenger. Give the signal that we are to retreat our forces to go to General Meng Tian's aid. Also, have the reinforcements that we have stationed in Germany and the oil mines to meet us there as well."

(M) "Sir."