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

The people listening to the report looked at each other, and Comand nodded slightly: "Look, this is still proof that the enemy must not be treated as a fool. The commanders of the Sixth Army immediately grasped the key point of this harassment tactic and used the best method made a response.

"As for the snow monsters, you can stop harassing and only do reconnaissance and monitoring of the enemy."

Frost Star stood at attention, saluted: "Understood!" and stepped aside.

Commander continued to say to his comrades in this command: "However, this also has a good point. This means that the enemy admits that they cannot beat us in outpost battles. The Sixth Army does not know our details, and does not know who is like Xue It’s strange how many troops there are like that. Therefore, they can only take the shortest route. Otherwise, other longer routes will only leave more opportunities for us and cause the troops to suffer more heavy losses."

He stood up from the chair he had placed in front of the hanging map: "Let's go, let's go and see how the dishes prepared for the guests are doing."

Tallulah handed over her coat, and the patriot got up and stood beside him in a dignified manner.Comand put on his coat, pushed open the cabin door first, and walked down the ladder, watching the busy labor scene in front of him.

While the Sixth Army was being attacked and harassed, the various groups of troops of the integration movement were gradually arriving at the predetermined combat location.But the first to reach the Kursk Valley was the engineering unit of the 113th Division of the People's Federation of Extraterrestrial Corps.

Under the freezing weather, the soil that is frozen for nine months a year is like reinforced concrete. When you shovel it up, sparks almost pop out, but you just can't see the effect.It took five hours for the first company to reach the Kursk Valley. The green paint on the sapper shovel was worn away, and the hands were already blistered.Not to mention foxholes, the hollows dug in wouldn't even hide a foot.

However, Comand had been prepared for a long time, and a communication called the engineering unit of the People's Federation.

The commanders and fighters of the Terra Conservation Army watched in bewilderment as the Valkyrie transport planes equipped with mechanized chemical soldiers came roaring in groups, and began to take over the pile of ditches they had dug out to squat into which half of the body could be exposed.

An hour's work by honorable diggers is worth a whole day's work by a battalion of infantry.A large number of machines took turns to go into battle without rest for 24 hours. In two days, they dug out a cobweb-like and intricate trench on the North Ridge.

It's not over yet.The commanders and fighters of the Terra Conservation Army began to learn how to use directional blasting to build fortifications from the big brother of the People's Federation on the spot: directional blasting can actually be used to dig foxholes!

It's not that everyone couldn't understand what was going on, but they all gritted their teeth and sighed in their hearts: He, the People's Federation, actually used precious explosives to dig a hole, he deserves to be a rich man...

However, the main fortifications were still taken care of by the engineers of the People's Federation.They used excavators to dig out a large-scale deep pit, and then moved several kinds of iron boxes and put them into the pit-prefabricated fortifications.

Composed of metal piles, cross braces and arched skeletons, covered with wire mesh cloth, and topped with layers of corrugated steel, section steel and fiberglass, the prefabricated fortification is indeed an iron box in essence.However, the overall strength of its frame is quite good, and when the upper cover is more than half a meter, it can block the direct hit of the 155 howitzer.

The excavated soil was used to fill the blast wall.Everyone watched the folded iron cage net with a layer of asbestos cloth spread out, filled with sand to form a solid parapet, and had to sigh with emotion: Hey, there are so many good things!

This scene is everywhere on the six-kilometer-long mountain range.

Comand, who was in a good mood following the scene along the way, came to the material accumulation field behind in a few steps.A light rail line from the north terminates here.Tallulah and Patriot watched in bewilderment as Comand stood on the rails, spread his arms, and walked cautiously.

Then Patriot Jiongjiong looked at Tallulah eagerly, stood on another rail, and walked cautiously with his arms outstretched.

A gust of cold wind blew, and Comand shook his hands desperately to maintain his balance, but one of them lost his balance and fell.Just as Tallulah sneered at the back, when Comand turned around, she also danced and stepped on the roadbed.

Frost Star, who followed more than ten meters behind, laughed loudly, shrinking his neck when the Patriot turned his head.

**

Soldiers of the cavalry guard platoon of the 42nd infantry regiment of the Sixth Army line were escorting a small group of prisoners, walking slowly in the noisy marching column of the Sixth Army.

Among the well-dressed cavalry with their horses and whips, these captives, who couldn't even make up a squad, looked extremely shabby.The cotton coats on them were stripped off as soon as they were captured, and now they are walking barefoot in the snow.If they hadn't had to walk to the army headquarters alive, there would only be a few single clothes left on them.

Colonel Valery Berkonsky chatted casually with the rebel officer: "For the children? Do you have any children?"

The platoon leader of the Civil Protection Army, who was full of vicissitudes, looked at this officer who was young enough to be his own son, and smiled: "It used to be."

"...Oh." Valery responded.

A considerable number of children on the northwest tundra will die before they reach adulthood.

"The current one and a half years old is called the Northwest Tundra Base."

The colonel silently glanced at the prisoner walking beside his saddle, nodded and rode away.Another prisoner came forward with a sort of crude flattery—he still had his coat and boots on: "Hey, sir Colonel."

Valer raised his whip expressionlessly, and the prisoner who pointed out that the man was a platoon leader immediately shrank and moved aside after being captured, and was kicked out by the prisoners again.

A cavalryman with a basket in his arms galloped out of the orchard not far away, and the poor greenhouse orchard was being ransacked by Ursus soldiers swarming in.He happily asked for credit to the captain, and Valery took one out of the basket and tasted it: "It's not bad, let's share it... Give them some too."

From the line of captives came a young boy's cry: "Forget it, sir! We have discipline and don't eat what we haven't paid for!"

The cavalry laughed mockingly.

Valery didn't make a statement, but just shook the reins, and led the guards and prisoners to the army headquarters not far away.

Ten minutes later, Chief of Staff Koropev began to interrogate the prisoners.

The chief of staff played with the hard-covered ID in his hand: "You claim to be mobilized by the People's Armed Forces of the Northwest Tundra Base?"

The captured platoon leader was shivering because of the cold - I just said that the Ursus soldiers did not take off their clothes because the prisoners had to walk to the military headquarters alive, so as soon as the prisoners entered the military headquarters, they were stripped down to only a single piece of clothing - —Answer: "Yes."

"Is it last fall?"

"At the end of autumn."

"You lied!"

"I am telling the truth."

"I have evidence..."

The prisoner silently shrugged his shoulders. Koperov glanced at Valery, tilted his head contemptuously and said: "Please appreciate it. I used to be a sergeant in the imperial army. Now you see, he has become an integrationist." . As soon as he fell into our hands, he made it up as if he joined some kind of militia just by chance, as if he was taken by force... Scared, you bastard!"

The prisoner said slowly: "Master Colonel, I think you have the courage of a soldier to show your prestige to an unarmed prisoner..."

"I don't talk to assholes!"

"Of course you can keep silent, but you can't control my mouth."

"Asshole, do you want to eat a gun?"

"Oh, that's very easy. You can drag me out and shoot me without risking anything!"

Valery looked at the prisoner who spoke back without fear with a sympathetic smile, and glanced at the nervously twitching cheeks of Mr. Chief of Staff with a little glee.

Koperov was silent for a while, squinting his eyes; the gold ring on his right hand kept bumping against the table because his palm was shaking with anger, making a rattling sound.

"Listen up, bastard!" His voice was hoarse with excitement. "I ordered you to be brought to me, not to quarrel with you! You can't escape! I think you want to hasten the end!"

"Please!"

"..." Koperov opened the cigarette box with trembling hands, lit a cigarette, took two greedy puffs, and then said: "So, you refuse to answer the question?"

"My experience has spoken."

"Go to hell! Your personal history is the least interesting to me. Our troops saw you in battle with cavalry cover. What kind of troops is that?"

"I do not know."

"You know!"

"Well, let me satisfy you: yes, I know, but I refuse to answer."

"Then I'll have the guards whip you with a pistol!"

"I repeat to you: I do not answer such questions."

"Tell the truth, or shoot you in 10 minutes! Choose yourself!"

"I choose the second option!"

Koperov turned pale and clutched the holster of his pistol.At this moment Valery stood up unhurriedly, raising a hand in warning.

"Okay! That's enough! I think you two are too angry...Okay, since the words are not speculative, let's forget it, what else is there to say? He did the right thing and refused to betray his own people. Wow, that's great! I didn't expect that at all!"

Koperov was furious and tried to open the holster of his pistol: "You bastard, I'm going to kill him!"

Valery gloated and moved his position between the prisoner and the chief of staff: "Ah, dear swivel chair hussar, what kind of hero is killing a prisoner. A man who has surrendered his weapon and lost his freedom, look, He has been stripped without even a piece of clothing, but you still want to do it..."

Koperov pushed Valery away and leveled the pistol.There was a look of fear on the captive's face, but he continued to stare at the muzzle of the gun.But the chief of staff just whirled around, then turned his guns down and turned away.He gasped and said, "Forget it, it's not good to have dirty hands."

Valery couldn't help laughing: "Really? You must not have a single bullet in your gun, and it hasn't been wiped for about two months!"

Koperov laughed dryly, and threw out the magazine of the revolver: "Damn it! That's how it is..."

The lieutenant next to the interrogation record closed the book with a funny expression and stood up.

Koperov frowned and shouted, "Come on, take it away!"

Before the prisoner was taken away by two guards, he turned his face and smiled at Valery, and then walked towards the door.After the sound of footsteps disappeared, Koropev wearily took off his glasses, wiped them carefully with a cloth, and said angrily:

"You did an excellent job of protecting the bastard. What's going on?"

"How do you think I know he's a platoon leader? The Reunification Movement hasn't established a military rank for its troops." Valery didn't answer, but asked himself, "One of his Ministries soldiers confessed .”

"Come on, you really call them by their funny names! 'Terra People's Guards'! Haha! Bragging is great, but they don't even dare to come out of the Northwest Tundra!"

"First, as soldiers, I think they are well-trained, well-disciplined, and well-equipped regular troops." Valery pointed to his guards, who had a captured automatic rifle hanging from his body. Advanced automatic weapons, the enemy uses a large number of such guns, and the rockets and mortars are as numerous as fireworks. The firepower of a company can beat our battalion badly.

"Second, if someone is going to be shot, I think the soldier should be shot and the platoon leader should be left alone!"

Koropev showed his expression when he heard a bad joke: "No kidding, what do you think?"

"What do you think? You're encouraging the soldiers to betray their commanders, aren't you? What are you teaching our soldiers? If we're in this situation one day, what's the point? No, excuse me, sorry for that." I'm going to stick to my opinion! I'm against it."

"Oh, that's another matter..." Kopelov curled his lips. "Let's make it clear: these people rebelled against the Empire for very good reasons, even very legitimate. And Those who follow us are the executioners of privilege who want to protect themselves by force. These executioners include you and me, of course. I am for the old times, for the old times that were good to me. Otherwise, I am I won't fight here and there like this, I can't even move a finger.

"Only those who know exactly why they are fighting and who are confident in what they are doing will win. The fewer such people we have among our enemies, the better. That is my attitude."

Valery opened his mouth, said nothing, snorted, turned and walked out of the room.

PS: However, in the universe we live in, the typical representatives of "needle-fired guns" are Dreiser 1841 and Chasepo 1866; Type 1 of the Berdan rifle is a valve rifle, and Type 2 is a metal fixed bullet that is rotated and pulled A rifle with a bolt-action action is not a needle-fired gun.

PS1: To be honest, if movies are considered industrial production, writing online articles is no different from a manual workshop.

Chapter 31 Before the Battle 3

When Alina heard that Comand asked her to go with the army, she refused.

"It's not that I'm modest. You say that I, a village girl who just got a junior high school diploma, have never killed a feathered beast. What am I doing in the army? Tallulah's assistant, please hire someone else!"

But Commander scoffed at this statement: "This is not determined by any research. It is up to you to alleviate Tallulah's mental internal friction!"

So, in addition to being a "popular vase", Tallulah, who actually functions as Comand's work secretary, administrative assistant and security guard, was shocked to find that she didn't know when this secretary was assigned again. got a private secretary...

Now, two girls are walking on the North Ridge of the Kursk Valley.With her usual calm smile, Alina listened to Tallulah talk endlessly: "The village in the valley is a collective livestock farm, and the people and animals have just been evacuated. It is the protrusion on the right wing of the defense line, and left a horizontal There are several fences across the entire valley. These fences can stop the pack beasts from colliding, and they are very good obstacles. Now several excellent troops are vying for the qualification to be stationed in the livestock farm, and the voice of the shield guard is the highest..."

Tallulah stopped talking suddenly: "Do you have anything to say?"

"Commander asked me to follow you to see your situation." Alina smiled, "So, what I should do is to listen to what you say."

"I'd rather you not come." Tallulah shook her head slightly, "There may be 5 people fighting here, with more than [-] casualties. You are not suitable for this kind of place."

"When I imagined the scene where you burned your enemies to death with flames, my scalp tingled. But the problem is that such things cannot be avoided." Alina replied softly, while slightly opening the coat, "When necessary, I will will also be responsible.”

Tallulah glanced at the grenade in Alina's arms, and sighed: "Okay, I will also help you fulfill your responsibilities... Well, talking about my words, my mentality is fine. Since I came out of the village, I have been I feel like I'm being crushed. What kind of environment did that guy grow up in?"

Alina's smile became bitter: "I have the same idea."

There are many things about Comander that are completely different from the nobles and commoners of Ursus.When it comes to his personal character, there is nothing extraordinary about this guy: sometimes he is free and loose, making people mutter "This is just setting an example"; sometimes he seems a bit greasy; and sometimes he is so awesome...

However, things are not that simple.To evaluate him from the perspective of a soldier, he must have received high-standard military training and education, which reflects the unfathomable comprehensive national strength of the People's Federation from the side.But do soldiers need to know so much sociology?