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

"Music, March of the Ursus Armed Forces!" The herald ordered the military band according to standard procedures.The flag officer moves the general flag to the front of the team formation, and stands at the same level as the military band.Amidst the brisk drum beat, the commander of the [-]th Infantry Division waved his command knife inlaid with gold and diamonds with one hand, and gave the order to attack.

In the loud shouts of the heralds, the flag officers of each regiment raised the military flags in their hands and leaned forward; the chief officers of each unit followed the bursts of bugles and drums, and issued "infantry battalion, advance!" Cavalry company, move forward!" commanded, took out the command saber at his waist, and took the first step; the company commanders of each squadron yelled vigorously, and led their soldiers to line up one by one, forming waves of people, rushing towards the enemy positions.

The continuous drumbeat came faintly amidst the covering fire of the Ursus artillerymen.Immediately afterwards, crowds of people wearing cotton hats with ear protection and gray military overcoats appeared from behind the hillside and rushed straight ahead. The rows seemed endless.

Thousands of troops need machine-like close coordination to fight.Once the machine is in motion, it must continue to the end, to victory or defeat.

When the huge column of the enemy infantry division climbed over the hills and rushed towards the cattle ranch support point on the right flank of the Terranian line of defense.The shield guards also rushed out of the bullet shelter under the alarm of the observers, and rushed to their respective combat positions.Guns, helmets, kettles, and other hard objects rubbed against each other, the humming of power armor engines, and the slight creaking of electromagnetic muscle movements converged into a unique sound in the trenches, and the tense atmosphere quickly spread.

A small livestock farm can be filled to the brim with a reinforced company, which is really not conducive to defense-there are too few defenders here.Therefore, it can only be defended by the "Shield Guard" heavy infantry company, which is currently the only company equipped with power armor in the All Terra Conservation Army.Then assign a small number of elite units.

Dare to take on this porcelain job because the shield guards have their own diamonds.The regular infantry of the Integrated Movement is all dismounted infantry equipped with automatic and semi-automatic rifles, general-purpose machine guns in the lower platoon, and mortars and heavy rocket launchers in the lower platoon.The equipment requirements for shield guards are to overwhelm such an infantry company with the firepower of a squad.

A sword chainsaw with a length exceeding the height of an ordinary person, a 12.7MM "self-defense" assault pistol, a 12.7MM large-caliber machine gun scheduled to be used with a shield in one hand, and a 14.5MM and 23MM "armored rifle" held in both hands like a rifle. The self-loading 120MM rocket launcher and 82MM recoilless gun, the backpack-style automatic grenade launcher and 60MM rapid-fire mortar, and even the miniature vertical launch system that can launch high-speed small drones and loitering bombs can all be backpack-style...

It is this kind of company that allows the Patriot, a heavyweight in every sense, to be only a company commander without dispute.Relying on his absolute confidence in his fighters, Bodrokasti even ordered only one platoon of shield guards into combat positions to establish defenses against the surging [-]th Infantry Division.

This is an unpleasant thing, but the origin of the "unpleasant" is somewhat unexpected:

"The enemy's leader is also the shield guard!"

Along with the whispers in the communication channel, the Patriots also saw clearly the parade-like formation of the [-]th Infantry Division from the periscope.In the forefront of them is a group of tall warriors wearing armor and holding shields——

"Normally, when we defected, there was a company of shield guards in the standard infantry regiment of Ursus." Patriot said calmly, "Their equipment is exactly the same as the armor before we switched to power armor."

He took one last look at the Ursus shieldguards, and ordered, "Go!"

Now, everything depends on the company commanders, platoon leaders, squad leaders, and chief soldiers on both sides.

At 1091 hours on the morning of February 2, 23, the "Shield Guard" heavy infantry company of the Terra People's Protection Army fired the first shot of the first counter-encirclement and suppression of the Kursk defensive campaign.

It's actually quite fun to "watch" a line infantry fight.Unlike the layman's eyes, both sides stand in place and shoot at each other until one side dies. Battlefield maneuver and formation change are crucial parts of line infantry combat.The column is convenient for troops to maneuver and charge, the horizontal line is convenient for firepower, and the phalanx is used to resist cavalry and multi-directional siege. Whether the formation can be changed at the right position and timing is the main criterion for testing an infantry commander.

But now, all this has lost its meaning.

The so-called "elite detachment" reinforced for the shield guards of the livestock farm included a full ten machine gun groups.They set up positions in the repeatedly reinforced buildings of the livestock farm, or simply drilled perforations in the walls to form a firepower network with high and low combined with far and near coverage.Those general-purpose machine guns that looked like PKMs fired at the Ursus soldiers who were coming in rows with a sound of intensive shooting like tearing cloth.

The strong Ursus shield guards were knocked over by the strong impact of the bullets. Some were unlucky and the bullets pierced through the weak points of the armor, and some were lucky and even barely got up without any serious problems.And the riflemen behind with only a rifle and cloth uniforms began to fall like dominoes.

The rate of fire of 700 rounds per minute makes the sound of machine gun firing into one, indistinguishable. The downpour of 7.62MM machine gun bullets fell on the Ursas who were caught off guard.Wherever the muzzle of the flame-spitting gun points, the death's scythe that harvests souls will swing down there.The tribune machine gunners fired one point at a time, and 5 or 6 lives were ended; the tribune machine gunners moved their guns sideways, and an Ursus infantry company was finished...

On the top of the Northridge defense line on the northerly side of the livestock farm, the 12.7MM heavy machine guns let out a majestic and powerful slow roar, and the muffled sound of the 82MM mortar continued.And the front of the column of the Seventh Infantry Division rushing towards the livestock farm immediately had gaps made up of stumped limbs and broken arms, covered by dense pillars of dust.

Under such fierce firepower, the advancement of the leading regiment of the Seventh Infantry Division immediately stalled.

In response, two of the following three infantry regiments had already formed a horizontal line, launched a salvo under the orders of the officers, and then switched to free fire.

A fierce battle began.

PS:

Joke of the day:

"Numerical superiority should be regarded as a basic principle, no matter where it is, it should be the first and try to strive for it."

This is a military theorem that applies in most situations, and there are countless examples in military history.But the most darkly humorous thing is that this sentence comes from Clausewitz's "On War":

Yuanshou and many German generals did not agree with this book, but it was these guys who were younger who did not agree with Clausewitz, who used themselves to prove that Clausewitz was correct——with the attitude of a complete loser identity.

By the way, for some groups who repeat Maozi Renhai Shengzhi's Incompetence, this sentence is quite something-"Do you have any opinions on the opinions of the German ancestors?"

Chapter 35 Visitors

"A numerically outnumbered army can overwhelm a numerically superior enemy by using more automatic weapons or deploying fire more rapidly."

——Erwin Rommel

"What kind of talent is suitable to be called a military genius? This kind of person is not so much a creative person as a researcher; rather than a unilateral development person, it is better to say that he is an all-round development person." ; not so much an excitable person as a level-headed one."

——Carl von Clausewitz

The salvo of more than [-] rifles from the two infantry regiments directly covered the entire livestock farm with smoke and dust at the point of impact; the land ship and field artillery also fired one after another, and the explosion surrounded the livestock farm again, and at the same time, some impact points were outside the livestock farm. The northern defense line appeared on the west side.In a cloud of flying dirt and debris, the clang of power armor being hit by bullets and shrapnel followed one after another.The machine gun crews with low levels of protective equipment could only be forced to retreat and move their positions. Only a few machine guns in better positions continued to shoot due to the narrow perforation and reinforced concrete tens of centimeters.

At the first moment when the defensive firepower weakened, the stagnant or even retreating crowd became active again.Although the line infantry regiment, which was the vanguard of the whole division, suffered a lot of casualties in the short fire attack just now, they still continued to charge forward unrelentingly!

The thunderous "Ula!" faintly covered the guns, and the surging waves of people rolled in.In response, on the North Ridge defense line north of the livestock farm, the 82rd Infantry Regiment of the People's Liberation Army, which is responsible for protecting the western section of the defense line, has concentrated all [-]MM mortars with sufficient range to organize concentrated firing against the group's impact.

When conducting defensive operations, it is the basic skills of a slightly decent army to conduct on-site surveys of the battlefield terrain and environment, to measure and record the enemy's possible assembly points and impact routes in advance, and to record shooting elements.Therefore, a total of eighteen mortars from the three battalion fire companies of the Third Infantry Regiment did not need to test fire at all. With the order from the shooting command post, the eighteen mortars fired wildly at a burst rate of fire. A tumbling wall of fire was woven in between.

From the periscope, the Patriot saw the silhouette of the enemy exposed in a cloud of explosion smoke.They suffered heavy casualties, and they were staggered by the shock wave... However, these Ursus soldiers were not broken by the shelling. They rushed out of the shelling area. Although the formation was scattered and the formation was chaotic, they had the same goal, He rushed towards the position of the shield guard company desperately.

In the dilapidated buildings of the livestock farm, gun barrels were protruding from well-camouflaged perforations.

As the shock troops, who had overcome layers of blocking fire, finally approached the livestock farm, the rifles and covering artillery of the entire regiment in the rear ceased firing.

At this moment, the patriots shouted loudly: "Fire!"

Before the words were finished, a large curtain of fire whizzed past, fiercely covering the waves of people swarming in.

That was a curtain of fire formed by more than twenty large-caliber automatic rifles and light machine guns firing at full speed!

Ten seconds later, the more than 100 Ursus officers and soldiers who led the charge, whether they were officers, sergeants or soldiers, whether they were riflemen, shield guards or noble warlocks, all turned into...

Please forgive me, that scene is really difficult to describe in words. If it were recorded and put into any country's war movie, the movie would probably be edited down to the opening and cast list.

After the leading soldiers were finely chopped into scorpions by the heavy guns and light cannons of the power armor, the extended firepower also tightly covered the swarming enemy troops in the fire net, and the long queue was boiling and rolling at the same time, Ursas The soldiers were in a mess and fell in pieces.

The shield guards are indeed well trained.Although the Patriots had no special orders, they still grasped several crucial details based on their training habits.

According to the Ursas infantry combat regulations, each battalion must always attack with one part of the company while the other part of the company shoots, and keep suppressing the enemy's firepower until the bayonets start to see red.But those soldiers who rushed through the firepower, and the adrenaline burst into blood at this moment rarely raised their guns to shoot.Only a few companies at the back had time to follow the officer's order to disperse - the officers' heads were caught in the crosshairs of the scope by the sniper gloves, and the soldiers were knocked down in a row by the machine guns that suddenly swept in. The corpses fell in firing formation.

Ursus troops also had mortars.In this land, this kind of weapon appeared to attack the warlocks who were protected by layers of enemy formations.It is different from direct-fire artillery. It must use a triggering shell to be of practical significance - so there are not many shells and not many cannons.

The shield guards are being protected by the mortars behind them, so they also pay special attention to the enemy's mortars.These ultra-light mortars with a range of just 500 meters, which can be carried by one person, are being focused on.Those mortar groups were swept away almost as soon as they crouched.

In contrast, Warlocks at least have room to play.

Different from various legends that are so strange that they are unbelievable or so powerful that they can destroy the world, the main task of the warlocks in the army is to throw fireballs to act as direct-fire cannons, and then do various fancy things from healing to divination.According to the graduation examination requirements for the warlock major of Ursus Military Academy, the fireballs they throw are as powerful as light disposable rocket launchers.Even a direct hit to the X-01 powered armor of the Shield Guards is dangerous.

The effect of hitting them is not very good. The uniform of the Ursus infantry warlock is not much different from that of regular infantry. Even the staff is deliberately made to look like a rifle.As the defensive firepower of the livestock farm was launched again, the Ursus soldiers were unable to attack.But they did not retreat, and would rather lie on the ground and use black powder single-action rifles and machine guns to shoot at each other in vain, and also maintained the front line close to the livestock farm.The warlocks also lay between their comrades and corpses, throwing fireballs.Although it is not effective against machine guns and power armor behind the embrasure, it also involves the defensive firepower of the defenders.But the effect is nothing more than that.

"Attack failed." Wrangel put down the binoculars sullenly.

"The livestock farm is fine." Comand turned back from the periscope of the command post.

Frost Star's slender eyebrows twitched into a ball: "The enemy still maintains fire contact, and the follow-up attack echelon is continuous, so how can there be no problem there?"

"The enemy's attack force is mainly infantry. Enough troops must be released to the target to pose a threat." Command replied calmly, "The livestock farm is small, so the enemy's attack front is also very small. They use dense troops to The enemy was caught in the firepower of our machine guns and mortars. Although the enemy had an absolutely superior force, he had no advantage in firepower, no, he was at an absolute disadvantage.

"So their attack has failed. They barely maintained a position close to the livestock farm despite being repeatedly bombarded by machine guns and mortars. They then continued to fill the position with people to ensure that this position was under our uninterrupted firepower. It won’t collapse.”

"Then why don't they use artillery?"

"It's useless to shoot at the livestock farm. The distance between the two sides is too close, and the area of ​​the livestock farm is small, while the Ursus [-]th Infantry Division has a large area. Shooting large-scale coverage with their artillery accuracy... um." Comand smiled strangely, "What if They want to hit our mortars, but their artillery positions are still on the reverse slope."

Tallulah looked at the map: "Next, they should make up their minds on the eastern section of the line of defense."

It was 1135 when a messenger rushed in. Even though the people in the command post were used to the smell of black powder explosion, the strong smell of gunpowder on his body made people tremble.

"Comrade General Political Commissar, the delegation from the Tower of Babel is here," he said.

"So what?" Command asked, looking at the map.

"The Filin woman who leads the team requests to meet you now."

Frost star replied loudly: "Nonsense!"

"Tell her to come here in person if she wants to see me," Commander replied.

"Understood." The correspondent turned and rushed out of the command post.

Everyone continued to look at the map to discuss the battle situation, and did not pay attention to this matter.But not long after, the correspondent rushed in again: "Chief, Ms. Kelsey is here."

……

Times change too fast.

This was Kelsey's first reaction to the position of the Integration Movement, no, now called the Terra YPG.

As a long-lived person who has lived for tens of thousands of years after several continuations, in Kelsey's memory, the word "war" still refers to long knives and big swords, strong bows and crossbows, armor and shields, and tall horses.Too long memory makes her easy to be caught off guard by unprecedented things.Before he could react, many things changed drastically.

For example, the position of the Terran Protectorate Army: there are no forts, bastions, and mobile city modules equipped with huge cannons. Instead, there are only ditches.

Still, such thinking is certainly shallow and probably ridiculous.Whether it was the politeness necessary to win new allies under the orders of Her Majesty Teresia, or the shock she received in the integration movement last time, she honestly suppressed the complaints in her heart and maintained her usual paralyzed face.

Yaye who followed behind flinched.It's no wonder that although she is a strong girl, is the current war such a big movement...

In the distance, the large-caliber naval guns are dull and powerful, and the medium-caliber rapid-fire guns are ping-pong; the cannons, howitzers, and mortars in the field guns are all replaced with flower bombs, incendiary bombs, and even high-explosive bombs.

Comand realized from the explosion of several times denser shells that the Sixth Army of the Fourth Army confirmed that these opponents were extraordinary and were going all out.He had no time to waste, so he simply greeted Kelsey in the traffic trench outside the command post.

It was still the same green military overcoat, but this time the left sleeve was off, and the tablet-style command terminal was supported on the left hand, and Tallulah behind her was carrying the radio on her back.Frost Star, who is now the commander of the guard company of the headquarters, followed on the other side.

The dust column of the shell explosion kept rising and falling, pouring a pile of debris on people's heads from time to time; In the ground; the shrapnel shells that burned out their fuses in mid-air exploded in the air, scattering a pile of screaming steel balls, scrap metal fragments, and even dismantled gears from old clocks.

From the moment he walked out of the command post's shelter, Froststar kept whispering in Comand's ear endlessly.Sometimes almost begging in a low voice, sometimes almost exasperated, "order you with the responsibility of security work".But Comand just calmly waited for the old lynx in the traffic trench two meters deep.

"What did you bring?" This was the first sentence he said when they met.

"The sincerity of Her Majesty Thearesia, Princess Kazdel."

"Please tell me something useful!" Comand rolled his eyes.

"Babel is a—"

A high-explosive bomb exploded not far away, interrupting Kelsey's words.Everyone turned their heads that way, only Command was still staring at Kelsey's face.

Kelsey was the first to look back, and went on: "A—"

An incendiary bomb spread out in the sky, turning into fiery trees and silver flowers in the air.Yaye squatted down subconsciously, and Talula and Frost Star subconsciously began to prepare the origin stone skills to control and extinguish fire.Only Comand remained calm, because the incendiary bomb just exploded above his head, and the inertia caused the flame to fly dozens of meters away and land in the snow.

"one--"

Kelsey stopped talking again: a shell fired from a mortar fell from the sky, bounced happily on the dirt outside, and finally rolled into the traffic trench, smashing into the wet and muddy trench between Comand and Kelsey end.

Yaye suddenly believed in the dying carousels in those vulgar TV series and animations.She really thought of a lot of things in one second.

Command calmly glanced at the fuse tube that had slipped out of the oversized gun, and moved aside the duds that were sure not to explode: "Outdated design, poor quality... please don't waste my time, if We'll keep an eye on every shell, and there's no end to it—hey!"

Tallulah and Frost Star, who were stunned, came back to their senses, grabbed one shoulder of Comand and dragged him into the command post.Kelsey pulled up Yaye who was sitting on the ground, and followed silently.After passing through the one-meter-thick blast-proof wall at the door and several turns, she was inside the command post.

Comand broke away from the involvement of the two "plot characters", and asked the third plot character: "What is it?"

Kelsey replied calmly: "Medical institutions, my assistants and I will go to your field hospital to help soon. If you need it, a team of Sarkaz mercenaries will join your camp soon, how about it? "

"As for the military doctor, please convey my thanks to His Highness for me." Comand said calmly, "As for the mercenaries, you are on this battlefield now, do you think they are useful here?"