Build a Swarm Tech Tree in Konoha

Chapter 625 Shocking Siege

Two months before gaining the upper hand in the air battle, the Army of the Red Army had already gained an absolute advantage in the ground war. They defeated the newly formed army of the Sark Empire and pushed towards the "last castle" of the empire.

The group of castles stuck between the mountains and the sea was suppressed by [-] red-clothed troops, and they could only counteract the opponent's offensive with the help of strong multiple walls.

Fortunately, this strong fortress group has its own advantages that cannot be ignored, that is, the Sak Empire Army with a total number of 16.

This group of fortresses has a wide front and a complete defense system, which can completely shield the soldiers of the Red Army and provide sufficient protection for the territory of the Sak Empire behind them.

As a result, the fortress group can receive sufficient supplies. Food, weapons, soldiers, and even building materials can be transported in an endless supply to supplement the loss of the fortress group at any time.

The red army attacked the fortress one month after the start of the war. After destroying two walls, the giant dragon and the defenders cooperated and lost more than 4000 people, and suffered a considerable defeat.

Afterwards, the Red Clothes Army stopped at the city and made no progress for two whole months. They didn't even try to launch an attack. They bombarded the castles regularly every day.

And that victory was publicized by the Sark Empire as a great victory, and a series of victories have been completed on paper since then.

The hearty great victories again and again made the Red Army "eliminated" more than ten times when it was replenished to 2 people.

The commander-in-chief of the castle is a candidate for the emperor of the empire, and the Marquis of the Elector, the Marquis of Portman, became famous because of this, and was called "the wall of the empire" and "the great general".

Even the current emperor, Paul, felt threatened and began to worry that Borman's reputation as a victorious man would dethrone him from the emperor's throne.

After all, this is a deformed empire that was forcibly kneaded by the gods and aimed at the capital empire of the Red Dynasty purely militarily. Even the gods have not figured out the operating rules of the centralized dynasty.

Therefore, the various core political rules are still the same as those of the traditional aristocrats. At most, they learned from the system of the Chi Dynasty Empire and put on a centralized shell.

So in the imperial court, the nobles started to act according to their habits, and some unspoken conspiracies began to brew.

Some were aimed at Emperor Paul, and some were aimed at the Grand Marquis Boman. Seeing that a coup d'état that could be debated by the nobles for 100 years was imminent.

But the Marquis of Portman didn't care about it at all. Although he was a mess in the military, his political acumen was quite good.

He has realized that the core essence of a centralized empire is still violence, but the carrier of violence has changed from domestic knights to imperial professional legions.

The Marquis of Bowman thought it over clearly, as long as he can firmly grasp the 10,000+ army in his hands, the empire will have the final say.

As long as the Red Army retreats, he can kill that Paul at any time, so don't worry.

The key to everything lies only in the army, only in the morale of the army, and only in his reputation as Boman.

Coupled with the "victory" that lasted for two months, the Marquis of Portman could no longer see that a fatal crisis was approaching, so he declared optimistically: "In the end, the castle can last forever, no matter whether it is autumn or winter."

"Wait until winter, the hateful enemies will be frozen to death under the city wall by the cold winter wind!"

The core meaning of this sentence is that he does not have the slightest confidence in defeating the Red Army.

All his expectations for victory were pinned on the cold weather that would enter winter five months later.

The Marquis of Portman didn't realize one thing at all, that is, the Sark Empire is a warm region with a low latitude, almost no snow in winter, and very little ice.

However, more than half of the capital empire of the Red Dynasty under the control of the Red Army will snow, and there are even cold areas where the snow will not melt in April.

It really dragged on until winter, and it was definitely more difficult for the army of the Sak Empire to withstand the cold invasion.

Moreover, there is a qualitative difference between the Chi Dynasty capital empire and the Sark feudal empire, and the ability of the two sides to mobilize national power and resources is even more different.

In the cold winter, there is no doubt about who was frozen to death.

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It's just that Younv Tetsumaru cannot accept that the war has been delayed for such a long time, and the thirteen chaebols who control the capital are also instinctively doing their best to catalyze the rhythm of the war.

They have invested too much in the war, and these immature capital beasts have already felt guilty. Only when the war ends as soon as possible can the current occupied areas be converted into profits.

It's just that only by ending the war with a gesture of victory, or with a gesture of greater victory, can they exchange for the greatest profit.

Therefore, the capital plutocrats gritted their teeth, squeezed their own potential, and sold everything they could to support the attack on the last bastion.

Well, that day has finally arrived.

The fundamental reason for their refusal to launch an attack before was because the giant dragons held the air supremacy.

By controlling the sky, these huge lizards can attack the red-clothed army at any time, forcing the red-clothed army to keep vigilant at all times, which seriously consumes the spirit of the soldiers and weakens their combat effectiveness.

Especially when approaching the fortress area, the dragons can use mountains, castle towers, etc. to hide themselves, and then attack suddenly, so that the red army has no time to react, and will be attacked by the dragon's breath.

But now, the Air Force has spent two months using sacrifice and courage to drive the dragon out of the sky of this battlefield.

In just two months, the fledgling Air Force lost seven Air Force commanders, three of whom died in fights with dragons, and four died in takeoff and landing accidents.

In similar accidents, five commanders had to retire because they were not too fast and survived, but lost limbs or eyes, or suffered serious damage to internal organs.

The sacrifices made by the Air Force are not insignificant.

This is due to the fact that the Air Force recruits lunatics who are not afraid of death, and there is also a problem with the aircraft itself.

The biggest problem is that Younv Tiewan has not found reliable oil. It is not that there is no oil, but that it is rare and scattered, and it does not have the value of mining at all.

So much so that the vehicles used by the Red Clothes Army are still cumbersome steam power.

However, the Air Force cannot use steam engines, because the power-to-weight ratio cannot be reduced, and water and coal are used as working fluids, so the cumbersomeness is not acceptable for aircraft.

The air force of the red army initially chose coal tar, which has insufficient energy density, is easy to carbonize, and is easy to cause malfunctions. In actual combat, it was abused by the giant dragon.

Afterwards, soybean oil is used to convert soybean oil into a reactor, and a large amount of unsaturated acid soybean oil is filled into a reactor, hydrogenated, pressurized and heated, and cracked under the influence of a catalyst.

What flows out of the outlet of the reactor is standard alkanes aviation diesel, mixed with a small amount of pure alcohol, which is an ideal fuel for internal combustion engines.

With the right fuel, Younv Tiewan can come up with a suitable piston engine, and a mature fighter design is not a problem.

The descendants of Zhou Wenming, in the early days of developing the industrialization system, restored and verified all types of aircraft during World War II, and the relevant data is very rich.

The P-51 Mustang fighter, or a mustang-like piston fighter, became the obvious choice for the Redcoats.

The result was that the giant dragons could not be beaten at all in the dogfight, but they had obvious advantages in straight-line high-speed flight, so the tactic of flying high and diving with one blow was widely used, and finally beat the dragons all over their heads, and headed southeast. Moved the Dragon Nest.

With aerial cover, the real land monsters can come into play.

Twenty Yugong-type heavy siege artillery were sent to the front line by a steam train. It took a day to unload them, and then slowly rushed to the fortress group at a speed of three kilometers per hour.

No way, these big guys really can't get up fast.

With a total length of 41 meters, a width of 640 meters, four crawlers, and a self-weight of [-] tons, it can only go so fast.

Even if the firepower of the six boilers is fully turned on, and the thick black smoke from the six chimneys rises to a height of 600 meters in one breath, it can only drive this big guy forward at a speed slower than a person walking.

Because it is carrying a giant cannon with a caliber of 380 mm and a self-weight of 330 tons, as well as those shells with a weight of one ton per round. If it can run fast, it will be hell.

In addition to these heavy artillery, there are more violent throwing bombs, one weighing fifteen tons.

Only a giant heavy aircraft with hundreds of arms removed all the weapons and equipment, and even removed part of the shell of the fuselage, which could meet the load requirement of carrying a bomb.

These extremely violent gadgets arrived at the front line on July 25. Before that, more ordinary ammunition was transported to the front line, and they were secretly distributed to the artillery positions.

The siege guns slowly entered their respective battle positions, and the heavy brackets and gun picks were deeply inserted into the ground, tightly fixing the gun body and vehicle body.

With the order given, the shelling began.

There was a clear rhythmic shelling sound from the position of the cannon, and the ground blown by the gust of the gun muzzle seemed to be hit by a bomb, and the sand and dust in the circular area were stirred up and then blown away.

The bombardment follows a strict plan, with older guns with lower projectile speeds or longer-range siege guns firing first, followed by various other types of cannon according to time.

The shells are in a dark red hot state, spinning at high speed and rushing towards the target area.

A few seconds later, dense flames jumped out of the fortress group, which was the scene where the shells landed and exploded within two seconds.

These shells, large and small, hit the target like raindrops. Because the long-delay detonation fuze was uniformly adopted, all the shells penetrated deeply into the target, and then formed an internal explosion inside.

The same explosion, on the surface and inside, causes completely different damage.

As a result, the castle, which claimed to be able to survive for a thousand years, collapsed, just like a sand sculpture fortress on the beach was kicked by a child.

The huge rocks that built the castle were blown away, the walls and the main building of the castle collapsed obviously, and tragic cries erupted immediately inside, and it is unknown how many people died in this round of shelling.

The planes in the air appeared, and they judged the effect of the shelling according to the different landing points, and recorded them, and finally dropped these records when they flew over the command post.

According to these records, the artillerymen of the Red Clothes Army fine-tuned the muzzle parameters, then fired a second volley, then adjusted again and fired a third volley, finally confirming that the accuracy of the shelling had reached the standard.

After that, it was played casually, and the pursuit was to shoot out all the full shells as soon as possible, causing the greatest damage and casualties to the enemy.

The densely packed artillery on the artillery position fired rapidly, and the red warheads followed a fixed arc, spanning a distance of six kilometers, covering the target fortress group he had selected in advance.

After receiving the alarm, the Marquis of Portman hurriedly put on his shirt, coat, and linen smock with the help of his servants, and then put on his thick armor.

When he finished all this and came to the balcony with a little haste, the front half of the fortress group was completely shrouded in gunpowder smoke.

But the shells are still like shooting stars, scrambling to get into the smoky battlefield, reaping lives and destroying buildings.

The stunned Marquis Borman was completely dumbfounded, his mind went blank, and he couldn't think about anything, as if he had been drunk.

Not only the Marquis, but in fact, all the officers in the Sark Empire army didn't know what to do. They stood together like meerkats, staring at the explosion ahead in a daze.

But the red-clothed army didn't have the idea of ​​showing appreciation to the enemy, and the artillery shells from manufactured products began to strike backwards.

Just when the officers of the Sark Empire were at a loss, a heavy buzz sounded, and a modified hundred-armed giant plane flew over the fortress group.

It was the first time for the pilots flying the plane to see such a large-scale bombardment, and they were shocked and disturbed.

The officer in charge of the pilot was the first to get rid of this abnormal emotion, and he loudly woke up the driver who was so shocked that he was dazed.

Then the officer shouted loudly: "The artillerymen showed us what is called a cover strike, now let us show the artillerymen what is called the power of the bomb king."

"It's now! Drop the bomb!"

The bombardier moved the mechanism according to the order, and threw the huge fifteen-ton steel column that was mounted on it.

The first bomb king accidentally fell into a castle, and the next second the whole castle unfolded like a flowering sea anemone.

Every boulder was shattered by the shock wave of the explosion, turning into fist-sized gravel, flying all over the sky.

But the perfectly shaped rubble was instantly destroyed by another explosion, and one bomb king after another fell, setting off a rainstorm of flying rubble and more complete destruction.

The Marquis of Portman shivered tremblingly, and he shouted tremblingly: "Come and help me take off the armor, let's go, we will retreat immediately!"

The generals around him also woke up as if they had just woken up from a dream, howling words such as "retreat", and frantically calling for the soldiers to serve them and retreat.

Now, what kind of honor, what kind of aristocratic demeanor, everything can't be taken care of, if you slow down, you will die!
But it was too late, a bomb king inserted obliquely from outside the castle wall into the ground, and pierced straight into the castle's underground prison.

In the next instant, the entire castle fell to one side as if it had been overturned by an invisible iron shovel, turning into a large pile of building ruins.

The Marquis of Portman and his trusted officers and generals failed to escape, and they were buried under the rubble together with the retreat order.

The unprecedented density of shelling and shocking bombing caused the defenders of the fortress group to lose their organizational structure, from defenders of the empire to bewildered stragglers.

This fortress group has no ability to resist.

What Younv Tetsuwan valued the most was the shock of this big scene to people's hearts. An idea sprouted in the hearts of the soldiers of the Red Army and the soldiers of the Sak Empire Army who witnessed the big bombing.

[God, there is such a powerful power? 】

(End of this chapter)