Tomorrow's Ark, the journey of hardcore and ruthless people

"But, but." Comand suddenly changed the topic, "According to the next step, the industrial sector of the integration movement will build small power plants, small textile factories, small printing factories, small waterworks and small food factories for To meet the needs of the people's lives, to achieve complete self-sufficiency in the most basic products needed for the daily operation of an industrialized society. Now, because of the need to counter encirclement and suppression, these constructions have stopped."

Everyone's excitement was poured cold water on, and the patriots began to hang up the plans.The scalp of those who were poured felt numb, as if a wire was thrown into the water: multiple mining, power, metallurgical and military factories are located close to Kursk - of course, Kursk It is the choke point leading to the outside of Beiyuan.

Command spread his hands: "If the invaders are forced to the doorstep, how many companies will have to relocate? How many years will production and construction be delayed? The losses will be greater than a full-scale war!"

The stimulation effect is very good.Living in underdeveloped areas with no industry, the integration movement is extremely eager for powerful material power - and the secondary industry that can create these things.At the thought of the empire taking away these things again, the aura of "Death to anyone who dares to invade" burst out from the cadres.

Tallulah slowly stood up from the crowd and stood next to Commander, using her well-honed gestures, movements and expressions to boost morale: "Comrades, I want to remind everyone that the Ursus Empire has used its last resort; they have used The most important pillar of the ruling power - the army. Their purpose is very clear: to completely destroy us revolutionaries physically and mentally!

"Why do we escape? Is it possible to escape?

"The People's Protection Army is the most important part of the integration movement. Now, the time has come for the party and the people to test us! Are you ready?"

The cadres who had made up their minds jumped up one after another: "Always be ready!"

**

After announcing the adjournment of the meeting, people walked out of the tent in twos and threes.But Commander's voice suddenly came from behind them: "Berkonsky, Zhukov, please stay for a while."

The head and political commissar of the cavalry regiment turned their heads and walked back to Comand with a feeling of agitation.At this moment, everyone else has basically left, except for Comand and Tallulah, only Patriot and these two regiment chiefs are left.

Commander looked at Berkonsky with the expression of seeing an old friend suffering from terminal illness, and said in a low voice: "Andre, according to our intelligence, the 42nd Line Infantry Regiment joined this siege. Its The leader is..."

Andre's face suddenly turned pale: "Valery..."

PS: In any case, this sentence is correct:

Long live the people!

PS1: Followed by yesterday's.

In fact, the evaluation of "The Wandering Earth 2" stays at the levels of special effects, graphics, narrative, science fiction, realism, and the development of new genres, science fiction works, the film industry, and Chinese films. It is far from exploring everything.

As I once said, hasn’t the Chinese science fiction rooted in our traditional cultural environment and the history of modern times already appeared?

It is a history of the future based on 5000 years of history.

What it inherits and carries forward is not only the spiritual power of the golden age of science fiction literature, but also great science fiction movies such as "2001: A Space Odyssey".It is also an extended embodiment of the historical and cultural environment of the past thousands of years, and it is also a reflection of the Chinese people's unafraid sacrifice and hard work since 1840. The core of "The Wandering Earth 2" comes from the modern history of Dayu's water control, Yu Gong's removal of mountains, and suffering.

"The Wandering Earth 2" introduces from a practical level how our country will face global problems in the future, how our people will get along with other nations in human society, what role they will play, and what historical mission they will complete.

At the personal level, it introduces how an ordinary person will survive when our country encounters a serious crisis in the near future, and how other countries and people will cope with it together.

At the historical level, it tells us how the past and present are connected and consistent with future development.What impact does past history have on determining where we will go, and what impact it will have on humanity as a whole.

Historical inheritance, national spirit, cultural continuity, film industry, special effects production, science fiction genre, storytelling, character construction, science fiction ideas and world view setting...

What a lot of surprises.

Chapter 29 Before the Battle 1

In general, Command and the special advisory group's crossing crowd, the advance team of the 113th Division and the staff of the Taila People's Defense Army chose the anti-encirclement and suppression policy to "lure the enemy to go deep", but it was the Kursk Mountains on the border of the base area. as the bottom line of defense.The previous process of weakening and exhausting the enemy began as early as outside the city of Tsaritjin, the base camp of the encirclement and suppression forces.

If the entire army of the Ursus Empire is "mechanized", with large land ships as the main body, supplemented by a large number of motor vehicles as transportation and combat tools, then the strength of the Terra Conservation Army is not even qualified to harass the enemy. No.But the actual situation is not the case. Among the current Ursus Empire army, only the most elite troops and the most important supplies can carry transport ships, and the majority, or the vast majority of troops, can only use their own Her feet measured the broad breast of Ursus' mother.

As early as a long time ago, the armies of various countries on Terra realized that "we must rely on the soles of the soldiers' feet to win" and must weigh complex factors such as fighter aircraft, marching speed, and personnel physical strength.Generally speaking, the walking march speed of a division-level corps should be 5 kilometers per hour, and the daily journey of soldiers carrying a load of 10 kilograms is 30 to 40 kilometers; the "hurry march" is about 10 kilometers per hour; the "forced march" is more than 50 kilometers per day, all day and night March continuously for more than 12 hours.

Under normal circumstances, infantry normally march for 2 to 3 hours and rest once, about 20 to 30 minutes.After a day and night journey, it takes about 2 to 4 hours; when marching forcibly, when marching continuously for more than 4 hours, take a rest day after every 2 days of marching.

For artillery drawn by animal power, the speed is slightly slower, about 4 kilometers per hour; as for cavalry, the speed can reach more than 20 kilometers per hour.Of course, this correlation is not certain.For example, marching in the plains and marching in the mountains and jungles have different requirements for speed.

From Tsaritsyn to the so-called "rebel capital" in the northwest tundra, the total march of the Sixth Army of the Ursas Fourth Army is about 480 kilometers, and it is planned to arrive within 20 days after leaving enough space.During this time, it passes through the Kursk Mountains, which are located almost halfway between the start and the end.

On the way from Tsaritsyn to Kursk, the terrain is mostly plains and highlands, and the road is flat. The 350-kilometer journey takes at most about a week to reach the destination; however, from Kursk, the shorter distance takes much more time.

Therefore, all the officers and soldiers of the Sixth Army of the Ursus Fourth Army, from the commander of the army, Earl Wrangel, to the staff officers of the general staff and the heads of divisions, brigades, and regiments, to the officers and soldiers at the grassroots level, have all been concerned about the issue of marching. It was after considering how troublesome it would be to enter the northwest tundra.

But the reality was completely unexpected.Before leaving Tsaritsyn, troubles are like shadows that cannot be shaken off.

As a preliminary preparation, the Terra Conservation Army once again sacrificed the martial arts team, and used these small forces to infiltrate the depths of the empire's ruled area.

The situation here is completely different from the Northwest Tundra, and the rural areas in the northern part of Ursus are far more complex than the Northwest Tundra.Because the village community system under the supervision of landlords is implemented here, and many of them are even serfdom.

In the so-called village commune under the supervision of the landlord, livestock, farm tools, housing, and products are privately owned, but the land is under the control of the village commune, and the land is redistributed among farmers on a regular basis.The landlord is the "protector" of the village community and is responsible for supervising and maintaining order and security within the scope of his land. He has the right to replace the village chief or other public officials, and has the right to propose to the village community the dismissal of farmers until they are expelled from the village community.Village communities are not allowed to change the form of crop rotation and reclaim idle land without the permission of the landowner.

In short, this is the grass-roots production and administrative unit formed by legal and administrative means in Ursus.There are a large number of remnants of serfdom.

In order to create difficulties for the enemy, and because this place will not be a base for the time being, various armed workers' teams here adopted the tactics of "igniting fire" - wherever the troops arrived, they immediately started "fighting landlords" and "distributing floating wealth" to crush The landlord militia armed themselves, distributed the property and food of landlords and serf owners to poor serfs, and recruited people.

Such "acute land reform" can certainly arouse the revolutionary enthusiasm of poor farmers and serfs as quickly as possible, crush the grassroots organizations of the Ursus Empire, and expand the available manpower for the integration movement.But as a method that lacks meticulous work and pursues quick results, it has many problems——

First of all, this method can only be a one-off. It only destroys but does not stay to organize the grassroots to resume production. When you come back next time, you will have no money to collect and no food to collect. It is good luck not to invest resources to assist in recovery; secondly, Uprooting the original ruling structure without establishing a new political power will rapidly deteriorate the local social security and social order.Finally, to put it bluntly, there is no grassroots unit that can cooperate with the "running counter" and there is no forced relocation. Even if some local people join the army and flee to the old base areas in fear of reprisals, there will still be many of them staying. They were thrown to the invading Ursus army...

But there will be some time.

The combat infantry and engineers of the 113th Division of the People's Federation of Extraterrestrial Corps brought integrated movement snipers and special forces to slow down the enemy and slow down their marching speed.The Sixth Army sets off, only to find to their horror that they appear to be on the road to hell.

The sluggish troops set fires in many places in the forest where the road passed, blowing up all the bridges and piers, and the marching avenue was a collection of various traps—a small pit the size of a horseshoe, specially used to break the hooves of pack animals; It can be stuffed into a heavy tank, and the bottom is filled with pits filled with sharpened sticks coated with feces; mines of different styles and effects, and even various rush-made IEDs...

The efforts of the snow monsters and engineers brought huge trouble to the Sixth Army. The [-]-strong army had to be careful every step forward, and every patch of grass, every inch of land, and every stone had to be carefully inspected.The casualty list and the screams that tortured morale continued to increase, but important food, medicine and water were rarely seen - these had to be collected from the distant rear and then slowly delivered.It is completely conceivable that on such a road that "no animals can walk", the movement of the troops became very slow.

Of course, after all, this place will soon become a new base for the integration movement, and too many wildfires, minefields, and traps will easily end up causing trouble for themselves.So these things are just additions to force the Sixth Army to be suspicious, and the number and scale are very limited.The main force of the delayed mission is the army's own sneak attack.

The barrenness of the northwest tundra makes hunting an important means of production here.Tundra people are rich in excellent shooters, and they also have a set of field survival and camouflage techniques that have been passed down from generation to generation and are constantly being explored and perfected.Whether it was the guerrillas back then or the current Civil Protection Army, it is natural to select a group of good shooters from the many Orion children, and then use strict military training and discipline to hone them and finally form a group of elite snipers things.

This group of "invisible devils" used the lives of Ursus officers and soldiers one after another to lay a carpet for themselves to achieve military success.It's easy to spot a well-dressed target in the ranks of the Ursus Empire troops, and the orderlies running back and forth on both sides of the ranks are also good targets.The two-person sniper teams happily selected their prey, and used the "Dragunov" 7.62MM semi-automatic sniper rifle, 8.6 and 12.7mm high-precision sniper rifles to send the target to the gods who did not know where.

By the evening of the first day of the march, the 33rd Infantry Regiment, the pioneer line of the Sixth Army, had few squadron commanders available.The head of the regiment told the division headquarters and the military headquarters in despair that he had lost control of the troops, and all the soldiers were doing different things in a mess: from deserting and running away, to holding their heads and crouching in a corner they thought was safe, not daring to move, and then ignoring All looking for something to quench their thirst.

The key to preventing the chaos from spreading further is the messengers who should deliver the orders and the officers who ensure the execution of the orders. Because of their overly eye-catching attire, they have become "positive" on the sniper's record sheet, and quite a few corpses are still lying around. Looking at three or five comrades who tried to rescue but were shot dead...

At night, the situation worsened.As a fully integrated special warfare and reconnaissance force selected from the best of the best, the Snow Monster happily started the night battle.

As a special warfare force that has received the focus of the integration movement, the Snow Monster has too many advantages: more automatic weapons and explosives, technical and tactical advantages of personnel, higher density of communication equipment, and special vehicles High mobility, high-performance night vision equipment and a variety of sensors including small drones.In this way, in terms of intelligence, maneuverability and instant firepower, the snow monsters have an overwhelming advantage-even if the whole team of snow monsters only has more than 33 people, the 3000rd regiment alone has nearly [-] people.

The Yeti continued to launch infiltrations and short bursts.Use a sniper rifle equipped with night vision goggles to name the enemy on a one-way transparent battlefield, or drive an off-road vehicle full of machine guns to touch it quietly, and run away with a sweep.Sometimes they dared to sneak into the enemy formation, suddenly opened fire in all directions, and then fled, leaving behind the Ursus Empire army who started to kill each other suspiciously in the chaos, and even drove a truck equipped with an anti-aircraft machine gun to shoot a line two kilometers away. The bullet chain left, leaving only a piece of meat in the distance and the Ursus soldiers who peed their pants in the meat...

Wearing night vision goggles and an exoskeleton, the snow monster would not be out of place on a near-future science fiction set. It is constantly beating the Ursus soldiers wearing helmets and armors and holding muskets.Each blow caused certain losses and a much more serious morale blow to the frightened 33rd Regiment.

In fact, special forces are far from impossible to deal with.If you simply compare the strength and ability to withstand casualties, the 33rd Regiment now greatly exceeds the Wendigo.But they couldn't stick to the snow monster, and then used their numerical advantage to eat the snow monster directly.

The difficulty lies in "stickiness".

Compared with general local security forces or even field forces, special forces will always have a short-term explosive advantage, because they have higher equipment and training levels, and after careful planning, they will have a short-term force advantage, and communication and intelligence are also stronger. , and there are high-level delivery and recovery methods.To put it simply, it just popped up suddenly, took a bite and then ran away without a trace.

It is very difficult for regular infantry or even second-line security forces to have the same combat effectiveness as special forces-they spend more money, train more, and equip so many things more than you.Therefore, the key is that the conventional anti-special operations forces must have a smooth chain of command to allow the troops to respond quickly; they must also have a reasonable deployment of troops to arrive in time.

So here comes the question - does the 33rd Regiment still have such a thing as a "chain of command"?

Look at the heart-touching grass-roots radio configuration rate of the Ursus army. The main force of their field communications is sound and light signals and even messengers.So the answer is obvious:

The Yeti started a one-sided massacre.

The long and chaotic night finally passed, and when the sun rose again, the entire Sixth Army was shocked.

**

"My regiment has lost its fighting capacity."

Lying in the field all night, the 33rd regiment leader's expression was numb and empty, like a walking corpse whose soul had been sucked out.Valery Berkonsky thought of the other retired soldiers of the 33rd Regiment.Without exception, most of them looked like that, ignoring their surroundings and letting the friendly soldiers watch them pass by with a look of displeasure.

The leader numbly introduced everything he encountered last night: various insidious traps and sudden explosions.The bullets fired from unknown directions targeted the orderlies and officers. Occasionally, they would deliberately deviate slightly from the vital position, and then shoot the people who rushed to the rescue one by one.

Camping, eating, going to the toilet, sleeping - any time you might relax, one unlucky guy's head will suddenly explode, spraying blood and brains into the face of the nearest guy.The attackers used this method to remind the officers and soldiers of the Ursus Imperial Army not to forget their existence at any time.The only organized response was several cavalry roundups and pursuits, but the effect was not good. Instead, the excellent light cavalry was sent into the fire net of automatic weapons.

This almost endless cat-and-mouse game almost broke the nerves of the 33rd Pioneer Regiment.Before finding and killing all the attacking rebels, they must maintain a high degree of vigilance at all times. All activities, including physical needs, are carried out collectively as a team and in shifts.All soldiers opened their eyes wide and carefully searched for any place where the enemy might be hiding. They counted the passage of time on their fingers in suspicion, waiting expectantly for night or the arrival of the order to retreat...

After hearing these few words, Count Wrangel no longer had any violent emotions towards the commander of the 33rd Regiment.He was fully aware of the psychological stress this would cause.The commander waved his hand for him to sit down, and then looked around at the division commanders, brigade commanders, and regimental commanders in the transport ship's conference room.

"Integration movement, is it... What do you think, everyone?" The lieutenant general's deep and hoarse voice vibrated.

"The opponents this time are a bit troublesome, a bit like the Sami, but compared with this group of guys, the Sami are simply a group of children who have just learned how to shoot."

It was Chief of Staff Koropev who spoke. The colonel in his early 30s is also the son of an earl. After graduating from the military academy, he was awarded the rank of major and worked as a staff officer.

As for Sami, it is a small country in the north near Ursas, with dense lakes and undulating mountains, and frigid forests all over the border. It is also rich in hunters, sharpshooters, and elite light infantry.The Sami hunters have impressed the Ursus soldiers in several anti-aggression wars and several border conflicts provoked by each side.

"Our staff department simply conducted a survey." Kopelov replied, "Judging from the results, the enemy's main method is to create a battlefield environment where the enemy is in darkness and we are clear, so that he can understand the battlefield situation, but the 33rd Regiment was completely unaware of the situation. Fog. They even deliberately caused our army to fight each other due to difficulty in identification. Their actual attack intensity is far from causing such damage to an entire line infantry regiment under normal circumstances."

"It seems that the previous method of using light infantry against Sami light infantry is not feasible." Wrangel shook his head, "The enemy has great equipment and technological advantages, otherwise it would be impossible to cause such an effect."

"The cavalry is not good either. If you rush out in a daze, you will only fall into an ambush." ​​Several cavalry officers frowned.

"Then it seems that us mules have to look down and beg the masters of the fleet to lend a hand." Earl Wrangel smiled wryly.

(PS: There is a copywriting describing that the Kasimir knights ran [-] kilometers a day and night to intercept Ursus's invasion vanguard in a certain valley. This... Are all the Kasimir knights riding Krieg's biochemical beasts?)

Chapter 30 Before the Battle 2

From the front-loading rifle to the current breech-loading bolt-action rifle, there are actually many revolutionary firearm technology advancements in the middle.For example, the paper-wrapped ammunition of the front-loading gun is only to accommodate a certain amount of projectiles and gunpowder, which is convenient for quick loading and prevents charging errors. When loading, the shooter needs to tear the package with his teeth and then use a cleaning rod to load the gunpowder and projectiles from the muzzle.

Now the "Berdan Type 1" used by the Sixth Army of the Ursus Empire is a so-called needle-gun. The propellant is ignited, and the projectile is shot out. The hard paper shell bullet does not need to be bitten, and the outer layer of paper is playing a part of the shell case.The disadvantage of this type of gun mechanism is that the airtightness of the gun mechanism is very poor, and the high-temperature and high-pressure gunpowder gas leaking out will interfere with the shooter's aiming, and even burn the skin in severe cases.As for the solution, the palliative is to install a rubber air-tight ring to prevent gas leakage, and the permanent solution is to use metal cartridge cases to solve the air-tightness problem. (See PS at the end of the chapter)

As the first trial unit of the new breech-loading gun, although the Sixth Army "changes early and enjoys it early," other armies "change late and become more advanced" and are all using the "Berdan 2" with an improved bolt mechanism that fires metal fixed-loading ammunition. "Rifles, the Sixth Army has to consume all the paper-packed ammunition before it can return these Berdan 1s for new guns. For applications for replacement of new batches of Berdan 2 rifles, the Ordnance Bureau will always answer this :

"It's not that it can't be used."

This process takes time, so the Sixth Army is currently using two types of ammunition that have similar combat performance but are completely incompatible, and a considerable number of parts of the two rifles are incompatible.

To be fair, although there are many problems in the Ursus Empire from the upper ruling institutions to the lower basic organizations, its work efficiency is still quite good even in a feudal empire.And its ruling class does not lack elites with outstanding abilities, and its average level is not bad.

Take the replacement of a new-style rifle as an example. The cost of a single rifle of the current Berdan rifle is about three times that of the old-style rifle, and the ammunition consumed in one minute is about four to five times that of the past.As far as a rifle is concerned, this is nothing, but multiplying this multiple by the two bases of the total number of Ursas active troops and the inventory requirements will form a terrifying figure.

"Back-loading gun" is a very broad concept. The old-fashioned front-loading gun is cut at the breech close to the trigger, and modified into a valve structure with a simple locking device. Such a modification is also a breech-loading gun that can be loaded with bullets lying down. The speed of the gun is also faster than that of the front-loading gun; and it is quick and low-cost in any aspect from the troop replacement to the factory production line-but the operation of the valve rear-loading gun is cumbersome, serious air leakage, and low performance, and it is at most an expedient measure.

Even more advanced, chemists from the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Ursus Empire have discovered the excellent properties of the first-generation nitro propellants/explosives such as nitro-grain, nitro-starch and nitro-cellulose, and have also discovered the original passivating agent and are experimenting with it. Early smokeless gunpowder was trial-produced in the room, and current sample firearms and ammunition have been enthusiastically sought after by the military.

If given a few more years, the Ursus Empire could have produced a rifle with the same technical level as the Mosin Nagant - however, the sample gun relied on special Originium technology to achieve the required processing accuracy, smokeless gunpowder It is still in the laboratory manufacturing stage.

If the sample gun is to be put into mass production, it requires new general-purpose production processes and higher-precision machine tools, rather than relying on a few related warlocks with unique Originium skills to rub the bolt by hand; the mass production of new custom-made ammunition, Better propellants are also needed to mature into industrial production... In short, it requires skilled technicians, machine tool equipment, chemical industry, funds and time that are an order of magnitude higher than other options.

Considering the limitations of many related conditions such as weapon replacement requirements, combat performance, production performance, and technical level, the relevant departments of the Ursus Empire have made an optimal solution based on the current situation of Ursus on this issue.

……

Just as Commander pointed at the two rifles that had just been captured and delivered two days ago on the table, and emphasized that the Ursus Empire should not be underestimated from the development of small arms technology, and started to talk at length to Tallulah, a shout interrupted his words.

"The enemy has changed their tactics!"

Frost Star, who rushed into the underground shelter in a hurry, stood at attention, saluted, and hurriedly reported the situation without even drinking his saliva: "Now, the enemy has started to use land ships to protect the marching route.

"They use patrol ships, frigates and other small land ships plus cavalry and light infantry as the flank patrol force of the marching column; at the same time, they use a similar combination to establish a fortified camp in advance of the enemy column. At that time, the main force just rushed to the camp to rest, and the night was strictly guarded, and the flares never stopped.

"The light firepower of the snow monster alone can't deal with the land ship, but the enemy's artillery fire can cause great damage to us. Under such circumstances, any rash attack will easily bring unnecessary losses. Our harassment The efficiency is plummeting, but the enemy's cavalry is basically disabled."