Chapter 692 Chapter 16.16 (Part 2) The Destruction of the Empire
In October 3229 of the Fire Emblem Calendar, that is, fifteen days after the Sky Empire launched a new round of "offensive" campaign, as all fronts made good "breakthroughs", when the rear court got the news and toasted to celebrate, the battle
Things took a turn for the worse.
In the city of Rota, the soldiers of the Sky Empire, carrying rifles on their backs and dragging supplies, struggled to reach the front position. Everyone knew that they were climbing from a trench to a trench further forward, so the morale was not very high, but the people were listless.
, he was quickly pushed into the "melting pot of panic" by the new situation.
Directly ahead, a large amount of black smoke appeared, and in the black smoke, the iconic diamond-shaped land cruiser of the Anglo Empire emerged.
The design structure of these diamond-shaped tanks is similar to the Great Wanderer tank in World War I. The only difference is that it is thirty meters long and eight meters high. There is a twin main turret on the top and four machine gun auxiliary turrets. The weight tonnage is 400 tons.
, a proper land cruiser level.
Its tracks are on both sides of the vehicle body, and its design does not have the torsion bar suspension of modern tanks. If it is placed on the earth, the tank will vibrate when it encounters uneven roads. This vibration will cause bumps and collisions, which will make the machine extremely unstable. However,
This is the arcane world.
When Wei Keng was in the Austrian plane last time, his technology developed the part that "forms an air cushion at the bottom, allowing heavy armor to move quickly." At this time, white steam accumulated at the bottom of these diamond-shaped tanks, and these steam were at the bottom of the vehicle body.
Condensed but not dispersed, just like balloons, when these diamond-shaped behemoths drive through trenches, the air pressure restraint system in the chassis forms a "force field membrane airbag" to provide landing cushioning for the Land Cruiser.
At this time, the perspective came to the battlefield. In the trench that Sky Empire had just occupied, the white helmets of the soldiers were like duckweed in the ditch, shaking in the vibration.
The recruits who came here for the first time in the Sky Empire stretched out their heads and watched the huge thing that caused the ground to tremble as it came towards them, as if they were lying in the middle of the train tracks and feeling the roar of the steam train.
The veterans yelled at the new recruits to cover their ears.
Sure enough, when they were five hundred meters away from the trench, the rows of tanks rushing into the trench let out a super loud roar of trumpets. A sound wave of 180 decibels swept across the front, which can be called a
It's a sonic weapon.
Some Sky Empire soldiers in the trench who had not had time to put on their helmets fainted.
These land cruisers, emitting white gas, covered the soldiers as they charged at a speed of twenty kilometers per hour. The firefight began in front of the Sky Empire position.
Sky Empire's artillery groups hurriedly deployed 150mm anti-tank guns in places that lacked the protection of earthen barriers.
The twenty-man artillery team hurriedly used mechanical crowbars and other tools to turn the heavy gun body around, and finally fired a shot, which ricocheted two thousand meters away.
The land cruisers turned around at this time. The three land cruisers turned their huge 200 mm gun barrels and aimed a salvo of fire in the direction of resistance. As the heavy artillery opened fire, the artillery on the Sky Empire side changed.
Became parts.
At this time, everyone has seen that the Anglo attack group has a total of 28 units, including 14 diamond tanks, followed by a large mechanical spider, and two 350mm long-barreled mechanical heavy guns with four tracks.
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This is a heavily mechanized unit led by a hero.
With millions of troops facing each other on the front lines and fighting trench warfare, only mechanized unit groups led by heroes can complete assault missions.
These swarms are not composed of hundreds of combat vehicles like those on earth, but a dozen super-heavy units standing in front of them.
Because the development direction of land warfare in the Austrian Age is similar to the naval warfare system. The situation in naval warfare is that small gunboats cannot sink battleships (excluding torpedoes). The situation in land warfare is also the same at this time. The caliber is not large enough and cannot break through the defenses.
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...Under the bombardment of the giant cannon, the soil on the ground spurted into the sky like sea water exploding...
On the mechanical spider, on the Anglo side, Oro (the hero unit) looked at the base of the Sky Empire in front and the bi-wing fighter approaching in the distance. He whispered: "Then let's get started."
He raised his hand, and a high-pressure energy bubble appeared in front of the mechanical spider. This energy bubble began to grow in size, and then after reaching three meters, it turned into light waves and spread into his own position.
His skill is called "War Cry", and as the name suggests, it can increase attack power. This means that the energy of the nuclear reactor is tunneled into all ammunition, increasing the energy of chemical bonds in the ammunition, and the damage of all high-explosive ammunition is increased by 7%.
to 18 percent.
Boom boom boom, fiery red explosion clouds erupted on the imperial position, and when the propeller plane flew into the sky, it was greeted by hundreds of rockets.
On the back of the thousand-ton mechanical spider, there were rows of launch tubes like fan blades, loading rockets in turn, and together with the anti-aircraft artillery batteries of the tanks on the ground, they formed a dense barrage.
This kind of hill-like heavy steel impact scene is far beyond what the "regional peasant rebellion" can understand.
Due to high-temperature particle tunneling, normal aero-engine materials cannot be found on Wanlun Continent, so it is difficult for aircraft vehicles to be enlarged...
Although the Sky Empire's dozens of propeller-driven attack planes scrambled into the air, they kept firing their 30mm cannons at the tops of these steel monsters on the ground. Their attacks penetrated many turrets, but they failed to stop the Anglos.
This heroic unit leads the armored column forward.
In fact, in the contemporary air force, the only ones that can effectively kill heavy armored units on the ground are heavily armed airships. On these heavily armed airships, whether it is a one-ton rocket glide missile or a 100mm machine gun for self-defense,
It can sweep out ground units.
However, Sky Empire's heavily equipped airships currently lack the resources to build air response shields and are afraid of aircraft carrying small rockets. Currently, commanders do not dare to put them on the front line.
Two hours after the battle
Aoluo successfully defeated the defenders of Rota City and ignored the scattered troops. Instead, he notified the rear infantry and cavalry troops to come and receive them. He himself continued to penetrate.
Judging from the strategic map of the Lightning Alliance at this time, the combat troops led by fifteen heroes, including Aoluo, formed a series of iron pincers and came to divide and surround the empire. The empire's previous offensive advance on the front line suddenly fell into pieces.
, and hundreds of thousands of troops also walked out of the trenches during the advancement process, and are now falling into danger.
A counterattack like this from the Lightning Alliance is the last remaining fighting potential of the Sky Empire on the Eastern Front that will completely defeat it.
This kind of card game seems to be a crushing of the skills of the generals, but like the battle of Changping, it is due to the gap in national power.
When the army accounts for 3% of the population, it enters a low-consumption state; when it accounts for 7% of the total population, it enters a high-consumption state.
This kind of consumption is all-round.
In the "total war", an empire that has not completely reformed will suffer huge amounts of corruption and wastage due to insufficient organizational strength, and in the process of urging the upper management to increase industrial output, agricultural output, and various transportation links.
…Big countries can fight against small countries in spring and autumn, using their own resources to hurt others, while emerging countries can fight against old countries in a war of attrition...
The Sky Empire could no longer hold on. Continuous wars had depleted a large number of men from the countryside, leading to an imbalance in the countryside. Some manor owners began large-scale mergers and drove the population into urban factories.
Therefore, in the past two years, the Agricultural Youth League has begun to spread from the center to large areas of the empire.
Since the imperial city allowed "large-scale armed fighting" in the north, there has been no response.
In the year from October 28 to October 29, the Peasant Youth Army expanded from five towns in the north to the south, reaching eighty-four towns. From the beginning, there were only more than 2,000 people, and it grew to ten
Tens of thousands of troops, oh, at this level, here in the imperial city, it is still defined as "countryside fighting".
The first reason is that the Peasant Youth Army still pays food. The second reason is that big cities have no time to suppress bandits.
A small number of city officers worked with their relatives in the countryside to suppress bandits. As a result, they brought heavy tanks and advanced weapons and were mortared by agricultural vehicles of the Peasant Youth Army. After several months of mushrooming in the countryside, the delivery of these equipment to the front line was delayed.
We had to end the bandit suppression and declare success.
Once the Land Cruiser's heavy equipment was loaded onto the train and sent to the front line, the Peasant Youth Army counterattacked the farm owners who participated in the suppression of the bandits, telling them with facts that going to the city to move reinforcements was "inserting straws into the cesspit and begging for death."
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In fact, from the perspective of material collection, Enma alleviated the empire's material shortage.
The expansion of the Peasant Youth Army completed agricultural production to a certain extent, and stabilized food prices while maintaining transactions with the imperial army.
Of course, the empire is too weak. Just like the traditional Chinese medicine theory of "finding supplements from other places to maintain balance", it is like a smoker who is too weak and no matter how much supplements are taken, it will be useless.
Enma has supplemented the "material supply chain" of the empire's rural areas, but if this "medicine" continues to be used, it will be highly toxic to other "organs" of the empire.
The Peasants' Youth Association competed for manpower and maintained material supplies to the empire, which damaged the empire's conscription system in rural and rural areas. The empire had to increase conscription in cities.
However, the bureaucrats in the imperial court have no idea why the recruiting officers of the various generals in the empire "less recruited troops here in the city" in the past.
Different from the lower Liba people in rural areas, Lao Shibajiao comes from scattered villages and has good obedience. People in the city are gathered together. When they encounter injustice during recruitment, they are more likely to join forces.
After the "good news" of the defeat at the front came, the unscrupulous people in the city knew about the empire's trick of "converting defeat into victory". As the empire's new round of conscription was implemented, flames grew in various places in the city.
Strikes and assassinations by revolutionaries occurred one after another.
The Sky Empire needed a victory, so it had to be strategically passive and aggressive, and was calculated.
