Chapter 734 Chapter 17.10 Caught off guard, bloody battle
Fire Emblem Calendar Year 3232, November 18th, when the second wave of Anglo intervention forces arrived in the northern part of Iron Star, the Anglo parliamentary gentlemen were still hammering the parliamentary table with their fists, discussing what lessons to teach the mud-legged people.
Iron Star has successfully moved 200,000 attack groups, 3,450 (ten to 40 tons) fuel-heavy vehicles, and 24 large land cruiser-level equipment to the western teleportation point.
Enma was in the cement square of the industrial city, looking at all the steel vehicles. After packing the supplies and putting them in place, Enma boarded the central electromagnetic tower. The top of this tower was very Eiffel Tower-style, but the top was a metal ball cage.
Ma is on the top floor of the tower feeling whether the charge accumulated in the atmosphere reaches the transmission standard.
Five hours later, in the Kingdom of Osima and the Grand Canyon of Shilor, as Anjiexin's soldiers passed through this dangerous road and entered the Wind Whispering Plain, there was lightning and thunder in the sky, and Enma's great teleportation was completed.
The group of protective towers was instantly captured.
The sudden appearance of such a main force exceeded the expectations of observers from various countries in Wanlun Continent.
Narrator: After the Lance Group was eliminated, the Sky Domestic Forces, led by Willy, put pressure on the northern ports occupied by the Anglo. This gave the Anglo analysts the "illusion that the main force of the Iron Star is heading north."
However, Enma, with the main force of Iron Star, led the war out of the "Sky Federation" in an unconventional manner.
Iron Star's domestic uprising in the sky developed from rural areas and was very rustic. However, observers born from noble families have always looked at it through colored glasses and ignored changes. It is no wonder that they cannot grasp the situation of the war.
... Enma: You fight yours and I'll fight mine. Are you going to fight? Don't expect your rhythm to go smoothly. I'm not a computer...
In the Empire of the Sky, the peasant army was still relying on donkeys to pull carts and swaying oars on the lake. After the revolution, urban industrialization shifted, and crawler tractors and freight trucks appeared in the countryside, as well as Dura aluminum biplanes hovering in the sky (
Beginner's Level 6)
Fifteen-ton large rubber-wheeled trucks are now produced in Mills, the earliest industrial automobile city in Iron Star, using assembly lines, with an annual output of 230,000 trucks.
These civilian industrial productivity were used in the development of transportation capacity for this war.
Iron Star's mechanical transport capacity, which was once the ant's moving power, is currently looked down upon by the major empires on the continent.
In short, the current internal situation in the Sky Empire is that Iron Star is a wave of "peasants" who have stepped forward (compared to the "mining farmers" of regular arms in Star Wars and World of Warcraft)
Of course, Iron Star's "farmers" are also the most sophisticated in the continent.
When the Iron Star "Peasant Army" opened a base in the Sky Empire towards the south, telegrams from all parties in the Sky Empire emphasized that the Iron Star Peasant Army was now well-equipped!
In the governor's mansion of some imperial cities, Wei Keng (undercover), who was responsible for writing reports, burst out laughing after reading the imperial intelligence.
Enma: "We have only arranged a total of 200 light aircraft for local surveying and mapping in the entire south. Among them, the three key production areas on the West Road have only invested more than 6,000 tractors to supplement the problem of insufficient livestock transportation capacity. Why is this report
The reporting was in the same manner as 'The Banshee Takes Off' and 'The Apocalypse Rides on the Face', the rhetoric of the literati is truly remarkable."
Of course, it was because of the nonsense reported by the governors in the Sky Empire. The Anglos did not realize the strategic trend of the main force of the Iron Star Army moving eastward this time.
… Enma: “Our goal is to liberate the whole world”…
Even now, these galloping Iron Star Land Cruiser regiments are racing inside the Kingdom of Osimar. This has forced the Kingdom of Osimar, which was originally preparing to intervene across the border, to return its attention to the country and be unable to cooperate with the Anglo-American Empire.
Vigorous intervention in Sky Empire.
For the newly born Iron Star, this was a super bold strategy. When the Anglo intervention forces and the reactionary forces of the Sky Empire still had some remaining strength, the main force jumped directly to the west. It completed a perfect detour and directly separated the Sky Empire and Thunder.
The barrier of bloody battles between the Flash Alliance and the decades of confrontation was bypassed.
When a full 32 large units separated the industrial urban area of the Kingdom of Osima from the semi-permanent standing armed area at the front, things really got serious.
War is related to economics.
On the front line of Osima, every soldier became panic-stricken. Although there were still six "Land Cruisers" of the Lightning Alliance making careful deployments within the defense line, the kingdom's generals inside the defense line were hiding huge hidden dangers.
This hidden danger was created by themselves, and now they are working hard to send military police to suppress the rumors. This rumor is that "military rations have been resold."
…Economic corruption during war is a common problem among all military governments in mainland China.…
On November 25, in the royal capital of Osima, the Hot Spring Palace, the nobles took their seats in accordance with the democratic system.
On the highest seat, as crystal projection communications appeared in various luxurious rooms, guys dressed in gorgeous clothes, who claimed that their every move could determine the fate of tens of millions of people, were facing the Iron Star Rebels who suddenly crossed over on the map.
frown.
The generals participated in the meeting through magic crystals, and the young king sat on the throne, but in fact the authority was composed of three powerful ministers who were responsible for all political matters.
At the meeting, the highest power center of the Kingdom of Osima sent a question: "General Simon, how is the frontline defense situation?"
At this time, General Simon, who was in charge of the forward defense line of the original Thunder and Lightning Alliance: "The defense is very good, but I need supplies."
The problem on the map now is that the train is separated from the frontline fortress. General Simon seems to have a plan, but in fact he is worried about this problem.
…The Iron Star Force is a lonely force, but its supplies are quite sufficient.…
In the eastern part of the Osima Kingdom, Enma, who had already followed with his troops, was watching his super teleportation.
In the center of the teleported light, the Iron Star infrastructure troops deployed defense tower facilities.
A simple steel furnace is forging steel bars, and the surrounding transport vehicles are camouflaged with cement bricks buried under the ground. Hemispherical armed bunkers with a height of 20 meters have been built here.
In addition to the main structure of reinforced concrete, these bunkers also have additional protection, five meters of thick sand and soil. The internal corridors are deliberately bent to prevent blast fragments from flowing unimpeded.
The two-meter-thick reinforced concrete cement cylinder head on the top is covered with a five- to six-meter-thick camouflage layer. This can only be effectively taken down by a siege cannon blasting attack.
Regarding the placement of the tower in front of Osima's house, Enma has always been targeting the Anglo-Saxon movement.
Osima is an important ally of the Anglo. When the Anglo announced that they would intervene in the revolution, the Kingdom of Osima jumped to the top and allowed the Angles to open the port to provide supplies. It can be said that the most important purpose of the Anglo is to "break the military line"
Wei Keng made a note in the system: "Encircle Wei and save Zhao", and by entering the Kingdom of Osima, he interrupted the Anglos' interference in Iron Star.
…Since we were fighting behind enemy lines, everything had to be done at a high speed. Enma and the officers in Osimar were hurriedly preparing…
Enma: "The static defensive heavy group at the junction of the Sky Empire and Osima, the Anglo Naval Group stationed in the northern part of the Kingdom of Osima (this is also the mainstream of the intervention army), and the central heavy army group in the Royal Capital of Osima, for
For Iron Star, it is a huge hidden danger. It is impossible for the Iron Star Corps to win in this three-on-one battle. Over time, after the three parties reach an agreement, Iron Star will face a joint stranglehold. But now, through such intervening, geopolitics will emerge.
Subtle changes have occurred. For the Osima people, whether the Anglo allies are reliable, and whether the Imperial Army of the Sky Empire at the front will take the opportunity to take a bite, these are "difficult to determine" risks. The existence of such risks makes
The possibility of the three parties reaching an agreement to suppress Iron Star in the future has disappeared."
In this operation, Enma also provided insurance.
When necessary, enable large-scale teleportation for strategic support.
"Of course, before retreating, we must cause enough damage to the opponent, which is greater than the damage caused to us by their interference with us."
Just as Enma was explaining his strategic views, the intelligence department reported a piece of information.
Iron Star just happened to capture a baggage team transporting supplies towards the border reinforced concrete defense line outside the legion.
The Iron Star Ideological Education Team identified a certain sign while chatting with the team captains and listening to these unlucky men complain about their treatment.
…In the continuous war, thunder broke out in the Sky Empire, and thunder also occurred in the Kingdom of Osima…
In the prisoner camp, Enma personally took a look at these Osimar Kingdom soldiers. They were smacking their faces. The sound of sucking and sucking could be heard endlessly.
Enma carefully looked at the calluses on their hands and the wear and tear on various parts of their clothes, and read through what they told them that they were doing the physical work of "trench drainage" on the defensive front today.
A veteran who has served for more than ten years cannot pretend, and the appearance of hungry soldiers with food to eat is also real.
And if it is indeed what the intelligence department speculated, then this battle now has some favorable elements.
…For all the people at the bottom of Wanlun Continent, this is an era of oppression.…
On Wanlun Continent, when the "Iron Star" was being minted, the opposite side of the "bad omen gold coin" was also growing day by day. The large amount of gold flowing out from the Sky Empire allowed merchants engaged in cross-border trade to make a lot of money.
In the Thunder and Flash Alliance organized by the Anglos, in order to strengthen the integration of resources in various countries, it has damaged the normal internal operation of materials in each country.
The Rise of Iron Star passed and forcibly controlled prices, making key strategic materials such as food, minerals, and fuel unable to be purchased by the victor. The gold coins only allowed the giants of the Thunder and Lightning Alliance to strengthen their monopoly on domestic materials.
Especially the Kingdom of Osima, although it is a military ally with the Anglos, how can it have so many allies economically (in modern times, this did not prevent the Bald Eagle from signing a joint military convention with its European brothers while also economically
Slaughter Europe).
The Kingdom of Osima has just finished fighting this war, and seems to be relieved militarily, but it is rapidly decaying internally. As the prices of food, cotton, and fuel soar.
In this "price frenzy", the Osima officers who controlled the military warehouse used their "business acumen"
China Times Wei Keng: The biggest villain of commercialism is that “in order to wipe out other people’s money from society, it is obvious that the supply of materials will be suddenly reduced to 90%.
As for the remaining 10% who lack food and clothing? The upper-class mouthpieces controlled by business and private enterprises will make most people think through propaganda that these lower-class 10% are beggars, sick men, and old people.
It would be better for a population that has no value to disappear."
...For the "Shovel Dancer", such a kingdom is worthy of setting fire to him...
Enma stared at the strategic map, and his original strategic plan suddenly stopped, and his eyes were fixed on Kaidi City in the north.
This is the most important warehouse city on the entire static defense front. In past wars, this city was located at the rear, but now, our side is making a major detour. As an important node, it is now "cold and feverish"
After returning from the prisoner camp, Enma said to Anjiexin and Bess: "I want to take this place, even if I lose more than half of it.
So, on the 26th, the Enma Group, which had completed its military assembly, quickly attacked Kaidi City.
As the storage force on the eastern front of the empire, the most elite "devourer regiment" of the Kingdom of Osima is stationed here. The most distinctive vehicle of this regiment is the battlefield scavenger. This vehicle has eight mechanical legs and an internal
furnace.
The huge magnetic suction port on the chassis of the battlefield scavenger (nicknamed the Ghoul) helps it scavenge on the battlefield. It enters the furnace to cut and weld war metal to the damaged shell, which can replenish the destroyed armor.
The total weight of "Battlefield Scavengers" is 200 tons to 260 tons, and there is a large amount of liquid metal inside. This liquid metal allows them to digest steel fragments.
Iron Star technicians analyzed this land-crawling chariot: Plasma weapons will do a lot of damage to its (battlefield scavenger) liquid metal activity, just like the "Holy Illumination Undead".
The general in charge of guarding this place in the Kingdom of Osima is a third-level hero. This general was also temporarily transferred here by Osima after the war, because if this important place is controlled by the generals with great military exploits at the front, the king will
They are all worried.
…The aristocratic culture of the Kingdom of Osima makes them also have unreasonable contempt for the Iron Star Corps, which was born from mud-legged people.…
On the night of the 26th, Enma set up an offensive posture, but did not attack immediately.
Facing this city with many defensive buildings, if we use the traditional large-scale shelling and plucking them out one by one, it will take seven or eight days. Or even fifteen days and a half. But the time is definitely not enough, Wei Keng decided
The attack plan was to take down the enemy within three days. It had to be covered with large-scale artillery, and then the soldiers rushed to the front and implemented close-range blasting tactics. This war was particularly costly to elite troops.
And Enma’s attitude towards this strategic point is: “We can pay a lot of money to win it.”
At dawn on the 27th, while the other heavy military groups of the Thunder and Flash Alliance were still mobilizing, the artillery bombardment began, and the Wei Keng of the Assault Halo was activated, always watching the various situations in Kaidi City.
Large-scale artillery successfully suppressed counterattacks from various strongholds.
At this time, looking down at the battlefield from a sky perspective, the bulging outline of the Kaidi City Fortress of the Kingdom of Osima is faintly visible in the smoke of artillery fire.
As Iron Star's Storm Troopers rode battlefield unicycles (with four auxiliary mechanical legs) in skirmishing positions, they quickly attached themselves.
During the engineer assault, they only encountered four bunkers.
The sudden fire from these dark fortresses caused casualties to the commandos. Of course, for the Iron Star commander, injuring dozens of people in the process is not the key. At this time, time is most important. If it is stopped after one minute,
Let the enemy's heavy artillery react, and hundreds and thousands of people will be killed.
After Iron Star's stormtroopers were blocked by the bunker, they immediately climbed down and notified the trench clearing team.
As the flamethrowers on the battlefield swept towards these bunkers, they became silent.
...Iron Star's military summary system penetrates deeply into the team, making battlefield assault tactics coordinated like a biting machine...
Five minutes later, the Stormtroopers arrived at the fortress wall.
They carried ten kilograms of explosive bags, stacked several on top of each other, and placed them at the corners of the bunkers. As the fire broke out, gaps were opened in these fortresses that needed to be pulled out with heavy artillery.
Of course, the entire fortress did not collapse, which shows how strong its concrete and steel reinforcements are. (And it is also blessed by faith)
However, as the commando team rushed in through the gap and ignited the enemy's random piles of debris on the first floor of the military stronghold, the fortress was so strong that it could not be defended by the thick smoke. The stubborn Osimar soldiers on the upper floors had to jump off the building to seek help.
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Narrator: After analysis, the discipline of the soldiers stationed in Osima in this rear stronghold was very problematic. They basically did not clean up their housekeeping, so that some corners on the first floor were used as garbage dumps. Broken telegraph machines and wine bottles were piled up, many of which were ignited.
things.
The internal affairs of soldiers may seem to have nothing to do with actual combat, but when stationed on the battlefield, habitual laxity can be fatal.
...a soldier is in a raging state, a general is in a raging den, a kennel...
Five hours later, the outer strongholds were removed at once. The Iron Star flags were raised on the high-point buildings of Kaidi City in sequence, from outside to inside.
Churches, warehouses, railway working buildings, coal storage sheds...
Following these flags, the Iron Star Artillery extended towards the city step by step.
Under the cover of land cruisers, light infantry and light armored vehicles, the Iron Star Corps moved into the core area of the fortress. Later, during the ordering of the city, they captured the commander of the Osimar Fortress who was about to escape.
Cooperative operations under the Iron Star system are battles under the post-industrial culture of the earth's modern era. Only when "money worship" and "self-interest" are suppressed to a very small minority can we be able to cooperate bravely on such a large scale.
In this assault war, a total of 78 of Wei Keng's second wave of descendants participated in the battle. Since almost all of them joined the assault team, there were 64 casualties.
…The descendants of Wei Keng are not only from the Sky Empire, but also from Osimar itself.…
On the battlefield, each fortress entrance of those concrete fortresses that are often twenty meters high, like small black holes exposed on the cliffs, is as terrifying as the big black mouth. The assault cannons sprayed from the big mouth below the fortress could have been used.
It strafes all infantry, and the top heavy artillery can hit all "land cruisers". In theory, it is a perfect defense.
However, Iron Star's land cruisers carried the heavy firepower at the top of these fortresses and suppressed the light firepower at the bottom of the fortresses, while the infantrymen rushed in and set fire after the rapid-fire firepower at the bottom of the fortresses was suppressed. This perfect defense was broken.
What is also broken is that the concept of reinforced concrete static fortifications has been dominant on the entire continent for almost hundreds of years. As long as the tactics are appropriate and the legion's determination to fight is strong, no matter how strong the fortifications are, they can be taken down.
…engineer tactics began to become famous on this continent.…
In this battle, Iron Star lost a total of 3,443 people. It lost 6 large land cruiser-level units, 15 light land-based armored vehicles of various types, and 6 battlefield scavengers from the Devourer Legion here (which were actually semi-mining vehicles).
), two combat mechanical spiders (400-ton level) and three mechanical puppet tanks (which can summon 70-ton level wreckage mechanical warriors and can be dispersed by the heat tunnel of cloud blast bombs) were all wiped out.
Osimar's strength here was 6,000, and he eventually captured 4,733 people.
The northern quarter of this grand defense line of the Lightning Alliance was cut off, and the entire static defense line was like a big snake that had been chopped into pieces by seven inches.
Since then, Iron Star has strategically expanded beyond the Sky Empire, catching the entire Wanlun Continent off guard.
…When the barrier was breached, every brick was oozing with blood…
Enma walked on the battlefield without any smile. Only after actually breaking through this iron wall did Wei Keng know how much blood had seeped into this land.
This front was formed four hundred years ago. Together with the other three fronts on the mainland, it is known as the Four Bloody Defense Lines. For hundreds of years, the two sides have relied on layers of rear fortresses and railway lines to strangle each other here like a meat grinder.
, the number of casualties reaches tens of millions every hundred years.
Therefore, a "concept" is also formed here. Any soldier who can survive on this battlefield will have a physique affected by the concept that is slightly better than ordinary people.
And if the general completes the defeat on the battle line, the "reward" he will get will be greater. Many junior hero units have gained experience on this battlefield. Similarly, many veteran heroes have also failed on this battlefield.
He is getting old.
In the multiverse, everything has the property of quantum information storage. When a person is instilled with the concept of heroes, and when a family has the meaning of the blood of heroes, it will always last for thousands of years.
[Earth has conducted research on this aspect and found that after a warrior obtains the concept of a hero, the genetic information of his or her descendants will be like a key to open the information library of the etheric world. People with heroic bloodline will be better than ordinary warriors even if they sleep every day.
Study hard and practice hard to become strong.]
As the hero who directly penetrated this defensive stronghold, Enma is now at level eight, while An Jiexin, who participated in the battle, has been promoted to level four, and Bess has also been upgraded to level three. They are already orthodox heroes.
But the "upgraded" Enma stared at the "bloody battle ground" at his feet with unprecedented seriousness.
Enma thought about the "future history of fighting": This kind of thing is something only demons would do.