Chapter 710 Chapter 16.28 The final confrontation in Swan City
On March 28, 3231 in the Fire Emblem Calendar, forty-three cities, large and small, in the huge sky empire had openly declared their independence. Although the remaining cities did not immediately oppose the empire, the revolutionary forces within the empire had already fallen out with the empire.
The factions formed a rivalry.
However, the state of mutual hostility has shifted from a comprehensive military confrontation to a "theoretical war" in the form of mutual electrification.
Affirmative debater: It is inevitable that a republic will replace the empire.
Opponent debater: The imperial system still has the feasibility of continuing. Changing the state system rashly may cause greater disasters.
At this time, those who dominate the public opinion field in the empire are all giants in the academic field, but there is no room for small rural newspapers to intervene. The Peasant Youth Association in rural areas can express their views on the current changes. At this time, they are limited to speaking in rural areas.
In the media broadcast, there is no chance to express one's own voice in the huge debate at this time.
…The world doesn’t want to use force, so the experts start to open the way with their mouths…
Enma: "Behind these scholars, which the world cannot see, there are interest groups. Some are imperial loyalists, and some are compradors who tend to the outside world. This is not so much a debate as it is undoubtedly a bargaining.
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These "holy ladies" who "reduce bloodshed" come to set "cannot" restrictions on Ge Ding who has already bled. In fact, they regard the "bleeding" of others as their own bargaining chips and hastily set limits. They are just afraid of "
The "flame" grew in size and burned itself.
…When it was impossible to carry out a full-scale war in the sky empire, violent collisions began at some nodes…
Swan City has ushered in its most critical moment. The three surrounding imperial armies have found interest groups to align themselves with. Under the instructions of these interest groups, they launched the strongest attack on Swan City.
Imperial Capital "Light News": Under the fierce bombardment and the impact of a large number of imperial soldiers, a large number of Swan City rebel defense lines were crumbling.
But in fact, Enma stood in the smoke-filled stronghold outside the city, watching the imperial soldiers facing off in the front trenches being defeated once again by the insurgents' skillful interposition, and he exhaled and said: "You are not making progress."
The empire's generals were indeed "not good enough" according to Wei Keng's standards.
In the early suppression, the old-style army could indeed rely on "adequate training" and "standardized weapons" to exert a crushing advantage over the changing rebel army. But now Enma has organized a modern army in an orderly manner. In this defensive battle
The tactics of modern troops have gradually been developed.
Enma: The command system of your imperial troops is only at the "platoon" level at most. In foreign operations, even the company commander (captain) supervises the battle with a firearm. Two or three officers drive more than a hundred "gray animals", you
Do you expect complex cooperation among "gray animals"? (It's similar to the 21st century boss offering a salary of two thousand yuan and expecting employees to actively discuss tomorrow's work after work)
The new type of troops can reach the squad level. In a complex battlefield environment, the squad discovers loopholes in the enemy's defense line and will subjectively break through. Even officers at this level can directly make decisions that are far superior to those of the old army and quickly intersperse and seize them.
Terrain, setting up firepower points, sometimes defeating the opponent's attack of a battalion or even a regiment.
Enma (Wei Keng) adheres to the self-perception that he is a man of strength, and does not regard his "command ability" as the key to overpowering the empire in the military. Instead, he regards army building as the key to determining victory.
Negative key.
Each squadron and company is equipped with instructors to determine combat merit. After confirming combat merit, military training is arranged. After passing the exam, the military rank is promoted. This means that as long as a soldier is brave and has excellent knowledge, he can become a general.
.Even though most of the soldiers are indeed bumpkins, those who can be selected are definitely qualified military generals.
In this way, on the short four-kilometer-thick defense line outside Swan City, every attack by the empire was defeated.
Enma returned to the headquarters, picked up the latest newspapers in the empire and flipped through them. After a while, he slapped his palm on the table and snorted coldly.
Enma hates his job and is regarded as "dedication" by others. He hates it even more when the people at the top use this "dedication" to complete their own little ideas.
…In this world, there are some beings who are born to be proud of sucking blood…
The empire now has a new military hardliner who wants to take over Swan City as a bargaining chip.
This group of military hardliners were actually the "reformers" in the empire in the past.
Even if the Imperial Army conquers "Swan City" now, it is impossible for the Empire to conquer all other rebel cities one by one, but it can severely damage "the arrogance of the most radical party members."
Master Wei suddenly discovered that he was originally a supporter, but after jumping in, these guys took the opportunity to turn Swan City into a big pit.
Nowadays, the urban factions have begun to mix. Some guys have been corrupted under the imperial system, and now they are speculating on the "renovation faction" and they still can't stop eating shit.
During the entire half month, the Peasants and Youth League accumulated a large amount of grain, and cloth began to be transported to Swan City. This truckload of supplies passed through the so-called Guangfu District, and only 70% of it was taken advantage of by the cities along the way before it was transported to Swan City.
In the city.
The troops at the front are currently stable. There are fast food packed in vacuum plastics in the factory, and gauze and alcohol are available in the hospital. However, for Enma, this war has consumed too much.
After another round of shelling by the Empire in March, as batches of wounded soldiers were being evacuated from the frontline tunnels, Enma inspected the hospital. After facing the group of wounded soldiers singing songs, he smiled heavily and turned around to leave.
Enma came to the Swan City No. 3 Underground Fortress Center and held a decision-making meeting.
The content of this meeting is: "Transfer".
Enma explained from the worst perspective: If it is really impossible to take down the industrial furnace equipment and has to abandon this big city. How to deal with it.
At this time, the industrial working group in Swan City gave the answer: return to the northern base area, and rely on the technical personnel who have been transferred and various technical materials to accumulate an industrial base in the north, which is the time of the two five-year plans.
Of course, Enma admitted that if our own side (the Peasant Youth Army) had an "intention to retreat", it would be translated as "surrender" by those who were interested. At this time, with the high morale of the "National Revolutionary Forces" pursuing victory, it emerged as the "Souyi City"
Any statement of "backing down" is like pouring cold water into a thousand-degree steel furnace. The cold water will immediately turn into flames and burn you.
…There is a kind of intellectual who sits in an office and always thinks that the people working in front of him are not as smart as him, so they should all listen to him.…
Therefore, Enma promised all members: "If necessary to retreat, this order will be signed by himself alone and executed by everyone."
The participants in the meeting, whether they were farmers or local reformists in Swan City, were all silent about this, but then Willy said, "I am a committee member, so you can't sign without me when signing." After that, the responsible persons of other departments stepped forward and said,
Express support.
Now in the melting pot of Swan City, no matter where they came from before, they are now being tempered by artillery fire and forged by the impact of crawler tracks, and are smelted together.
Everyone began to become angry at the inaction of "other reformed tripod factions in the Sky Country".
After all, the materials currently being transported to Swan City are being pumped out at all levels during the transportation process, which arouses everyone's sensitive nerves time and time again, and every time they ask questions via telegram, they are all perfunctory by the bureaucracy.
Just like the petty bourgeoisie people find it interesting when they see their free-range stray dogs stealing takeaways from poor students, and think that poor students should not care and should learn to be loving.
The current reformists in the Sky Empire believe that the rebels in Swan City should focus on fighting bravely and should not worry about supplies with other brother cities.
...The Sky Empire, in addition to a superior environment, has also created a large number of "egoism" in culture, lacking a "thoroughness"...
Enma's proposal to "transfer" was taking a huge risk.
If the "retreat" remarks were not made by Enma.
Then the entire Swan City Revolutionary Committee will immediately conduct a trial.
But now, in the battle that lasted for more than a month, Enma's commanding ability, as well as the overall arrangement of the situation, and the majesty established suppressed these people.
But after the meeting, we still had a series of
When Enma was preparing to plan the escape route, another student (and lover) of Greve, Gnilina, came in and tried to persuade.
Gnilina: "We are in a great situation."
Enma stared at Grave's admirer. He took a deep breath and did not argue. He glanced at her and ignored her. He continued to make arrangements for many people: "Get ready for the final battle to counterattack, technicians, children, women first."
Transfer, the revolutionary backbone stabilizes order, and tell everyone in the organization that we will leave last."
Originally, Grave wanted Willy to dissuade Enma, but Willy avoided seeing him.
As Enma began to give orders, it was like a huge machine running. Everyone was passive and could only obey the arrangements. Although these opponents had something to say, they could not say anything after they opened their mouths.
The Battle of Swan City has determined the rebel forces here, with Enma as the center.
Enma proved in dozens of days of defensive battles that "scheduling" was the only feasible way to maintain confrontation.
The war has reached this point, "ideal" and "feasibility" are in conflict, and everyone can only choose "feasibility".
Even the earliest urban revolutionaries now tacitly agree that they must unite around the "Enma" center.
In past uprisings, everyone was accustomed to the minority obeying the majority.
But in less than two months, Enma changed the atmosphere during the meeting to one where "investigation" was the main focus, and "whoever makes the decision is responsible."
…Fourteen hours later, the war broke out again…
Enma came to the railway center and said to Willy: "You stay for a while."
Enma saw this passionate young man. He was mobilizing enthusiastically on the front line. The injury on his forehead caused by shrapnel had not healed yet, and now there was a bandage wrapped under his hat.
How many articles from the outside world described him as a hero and a strong Great Wall, and publicized his impassioned words as inspirational words. This made him grit his teeth and "withstand" every time he encountered a front-line attack.
In Enma's eyes, this young man was not so much on the side of the main war faction as he was being put on a high shelf by the "main war" faction clamoring from behind, making it impossible for him to get off.
When Willy entered the room, he was just about to say something.
Enma was the first to say: "The situation is very serious now. I don't want to listen to your personal remarks. Give me the suggestions of the people in your department."
Willy paused slightly and nodded.
The personnel on the railway platform now also have the attitude of "gritting their teeth" about this war, "holding on until their last breath", and "hoping that the war will end in the next moment."
After listening to this, Enma took a pen and wrote down everything, but did not speak.
Willy looked at the silent Enma and asked tentatively: "The Imperial Army may not be able to hold on for much longer?" His tone was very weak in front of Enma.
After a long time, Enma sighed, first criticizing Willy's "lucky", and then expressed his inner thoughts: "As a member of the decision-making team, you must always be prepared for the "worst case scenario."
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Before the great uprising in Swan City, I followed the route of surrounding the center in the countryside, but that was not the case. During the great revolution, those in the countryside who supported the change were sacrificed by the city and forcibly expropriated! - This is what I saw you say at that time
At that time (before going to Swan City), I was prepared for the worst possibility.
Now do you know what the “worst case scenario” is that I’m worried about?”
Willy looked at Enma, feeling confused.
Enma: "What is the most important thing for a dragon slayer? It is not to kill the dragon, but to be vigilant and become a dragon after being stained with dragon blood."
Enma spread out a large number of cities now occupied by the reformists, and the leaders in many of them are old bureaucrats.
Enmara stopped Willie: "From now on, my faction and the faction determined to overthrow the empire are just a cooperative relationship, and we will have to settle accounts in the future."
During Willy's deep reflection.
Enma looked at the "recovered" cities on the map, pressed his finger on Swan City, and said sarcastically in his heart: The purpose of my visit this time is to obtain "industrial production materials" for my faction, not to ask for help.
Your faction surrenders. Nowadays, your faction is mixed with a large number of middle factions with unknown intentions. The high cost of controlling the city and the high risk of confrontation at the front have been largely shared by my faction. This is your city faction.
, the way to treat gays?
Graves, I don’t care what elegant methods you have and how cleverly you have cooperated with the imperial reformists. But we cannot sustain this situation indefinitely."
When Enma said "we" and "you", the tone was very serious, indicating that the first cooperation was about to end.
Willy, who was in a daze for five minutes, was woken up by Enma who had finished pressing the map.
Willy: "Uh, sorry, I got distracted."
Enma: "You can evacuate first tomorrow."
Willy shook his head: "I can't withdraw."
Enma smiled: "You must evacuate, because so far in the war, I have caught two hidden lines, which are near you, but dealing with them now will affect morale. If not dealt with, there will be major problems in the next battle.
So I need you to leave for a while."
Willy was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes were filled with tears after seeing the evidence given by Enma. As a passionate person, he did not expect that there would be a traitor around him.
Enma: "Remember, there is a team of skilled workers from Swan City evacuating with you. They must be brought to the north."
Willy opened his mouth and then asked dryly: "What about you?"
Enma: "Everything has been arranged. I will fight back without any worries." Enma raised his head and said, "Don't worry, I won't die so easily. I have to practice hard before giving the empire enough eye medicine."
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Willy paused. He could not refute Enma's strategic judgment, because within this month, all the advanced preparations carried out by Enma were proven correct by various serious situations that followed.
Willy had to be a little discouraged and said, "Do you think I'm stupid?"
Enma: "Huh? It's not stupid to do something you've never done before and fail. It's stupid only to make the same mistake after doing it once."
Willy: "You never laughed at anyone."
Enma calmly said with emotion: "We are all mortals. If I laugh at you, then who will laugh at me? Gods? Even as a mortal, you must raise your head in front of gods."
Willy paused: "I heard that you know occultism and predict the future?"
Enma smiled and said, "Never believe in God. As a life, you should believe in all your own preparations."
Willy: "I didn't believe in "gods" before, but now I think you may be the real chosen one."
Enma's tone suddenly became serious: "I am an ordinary person, comrade, stop your wrong thinking."
...The starlight in the sky is very cold, and a chill shines on the Swan City, but the red chimneys in the city emit smoke forming a barrier...
When Enma was preparing for the evacuation, outside Swan City, three imperial generals were also looking at the fortifications of Swan City through the cutting-edge magic crystal camera projection system.
The three generals, Hughes, Sugamat, and Lilot, took turns attacking Swan City within a month.
Enma's so-called shaky position was considered impregnable in the eyes of these three imperial generals. Often the position would be compressed for another round during the day, and would be cut off by infiltration and taken back at night.
The Swan City war zone was watched by all the forces in the entire empire. The imperial generals were also put under great pressure. From the beginning, three people took turns to fight in a wheel-to-wheel battle. Now, they no longer care about martial ethics and are preparing to fight three against one. Heavy artillery cannot be used.
Intermittently bombing houses and railways in the city.
But even so, when the outskirts of Swan City were almost in ruins, the confrontation still continued. A red iron star still hung high on the highest industrial furnace in Swan City. And on the water transportation route behind, there were armed escorts one by one.
The ship is still cruising, and the three steel bridges, which were blown up twelve times, have all been restored.
In fact, the morale of the entire empire's frontline troops in the suppression forces outside Swan City has almost collapsed. If they continue to fight, they will really be doomed.
…The soldiers were tired, and for the imperial general, it was just that the sugar cubes used to make the coffee had been used up, and his mouth tasted bitter…
Lilot put down the telescope and asked Hughes: "Are they really preparing to evacuate?"
Hughes nodded: "Yes, according to inside information, there is a split among the revolutionaries in Swan City. Those who have been holding on to the big city for the past half month are all members of the fringe faction of the revolution. Oh, well, originally it was a
Country people." There was a hint of pity in his tone.
Hughes looked at Sugmat and asked: "Sugmat, I heard that the commander named Postman is very young?"
Sugmat frowned: "Maybe so. Times make heroes now."
Lilot: "Now that the other side is about to withdraw, should we pursue it? Or?"
Hughes interrupted: "Of course we have to pursue it. The current structure of the empire means that there must be a winner in the battle of Swan City, and then it is us."
…The general holding the coffee felt that he could be wronged and suffer a little more.…
In the afternoon, a large-scale artillery bombardment started again. After the artillery bombardment, the empire's elite armored forces, namely tanks more than forty meters long, roared toward Swan City with steam and heat waves rising from their tails.
Enma looked at the direction of the empire's attack in the command post where the sand and soil were shaking from the forward artillery fire, and determined that the imperial army was preparing to directly insert into the central train station.
Enma looked at the rows of six-meter-high combat robots on the front line that were faster than buses, and muttered: "What is this? Zaku?"
This is Hughes' battlefield skill.
This skill: extract the power machinery from the battle-damaged machinery and modify it into this kind of construct! For example, the knight level has two engines, and after the battle, there are two such mecha constructs.
Climb out. Hughes can paint skulls on this construct, which means skeleton soldiers who are dying and coming back to life.
After reading the illustration, Wei Keng said: "What the hell is this?"
Oh, regarding the repair of battle-damaged machinery, Enma destroyed large combat mechas many times in previous wars. However, after defeating these combat machines, they cannot be dragged to the factory for repair, because the machinery in this plane is not only,
The metal transmission mechanism and the "concept" protect the machinery.
A damaged combat machine is not only mechanically broken, but its "concept" (machine soul) is also broken.
…“Concepts” are everywhere in this universe…
When Wei Keng first came to the Arcane Plane, when he launched a large steel ship into the water, the draft of the ship's hull was obviously higher than normal. This was the impact of the viewers at the dock who thought that the ship made of iron should sink.
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After several epochs of development, in today's most modern era of gods, the rules have been much improved, and the "concept" has been integrated with large machinery. Therefore, when these large mechanical vehicles are destroyed, the concept will also be "destroyed".
Therefore, even if the machine is repaired, it will still not be able to operate. Only by "burning a complete set of mechanical operation models in the mind" can the damaged machine be resurrected on the battlefield! Of course, that is the ultimate move of a level six hero.
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Back to the present, as for these mechanical puppets crawling out of the big machinery.
What Enma can think of most is the "strange machine" he encountered during his last time travel.
Although several mythological eras have passed, the mode of resummoning this kind of "mechanical wreckage" still has "the same principle" as the ancient existence of "cunning machines".
Enma: Once you find the reference object, it will be easy to deal with.
In the ancient arcane stage, this kind of "cunning machine" can be dispelled by using the arcane principle of "elemental mixing".
Today, the same principle is naturally used to create "special artillery shells."
...In the factory in Swan City, the old rust on the pipes was scraped off and entered the chemical synthesis room...
In the front trench, we faced the torrent of "weird machines" composed of fifty mechanical puppets leading the charge.
The rebel army's defensive front in the city's third ring area mobilized tractors and vehicles, put up five-meter-high launchers, and then stuffed gas tank warheads into them. Fifty kilograms of gas tank warheads were mixed inside.
Gas, and the steel drum is wrapped with circles of metal powder.
As the trampling sound of the forward armor became louder and louder, the rebel soldiers in the tunnel pressed the button, and the current quickly locked all the emitters, and the ammunition flew out from the blind spot behind the ruins of the building.
One kilometer away, a torrent of strange machines was submerged in the rising fire cloud, and these strange machines hit him head-on.
When these simple artillery shells flew up in large numbers, Lilot said: "The firepower of these rebels is still very strong. If the soldiers are allowed to charge, we will suffer heavy casualties." The general is not worried about the "mechanical puppets" on the front line.
The large walking mecha approaching a hundred tons seemed to be able to withstand the explosion and fire cloud.
But Hughes, who had summoned these puppets, stood up and stared at the rising fire: "Blazing metal bullet, where did the rebels know the information?"
Lilot paused for a moment, then opened the telescope again. From his battlefield perspective:
Under the cross mirror, those magical machines looked like paper-shell machines soaked in water. On the "death machine" that was originally forcibly put together, a large number of giant nut parts were loose, and the welded steel shell was wrinkled and broken.
The original "health bar" of these summoned machines is able to withstand dozens of rounds of 100mm caliber artillery shells, but their weakness lies in the welded parts.
If it is a machine processed in a normal factory, and the mechanical link parts are welded and fixed with rivets, there will be no problem of loosening under the "heat dissipation" warhead.
But this is a necromantic weapon. The destroyed machinery was kneaded by the concept field. During the kneading process, the "Heroic Concept Arcana" melted the aluminum alloy in the wreckage of the machinery, glued the wreckage of the machinery together, and sent it to the battlefield.
If the rebel army uses kinetic energy bombs, the machines assembled from these wreckage can serve as the "human shield defense line" of the imperial army.
However, Enma found a way to deal with it. Once "aluminum alloy powder and rust powder that were repeatedly heated more than a hundred times in a smelting furnace" entered the battlefield with melting concept information, he would immediately tunnel into those "
The strange concept melted on the aluminum alloy, dispersing the entire strange machine.
...In war, no matter how strange the means are, they must be combined with "righteousness" and counted on "oddness" to reverse the situation. Sometimes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment...
Enma looked at the large machinery clusters that collapsed on the front line, as well as the trench defense strongholds that survived the torrent of steel on the front line.
Because the rebel army successfully defeated this huge "metal torrent", the concept of spiritual excitement arose.
Enma was fed back by the complex conceptual structures (upgrade experience) in the etheric world. Enma whispered: "You want to drive me away! But you have to use some real skills!"