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

The emperor of Ursus placed high hopes on this expedition—a military mobile city that paralyzed or even captured the red rebels would greatly boost the hesitation and fear of the Ursus Empire army under failure, and it is likely to gain a lot of advanced Technical samples.

In any case, since the Terra People's Guards put a small military mobile city—the city of "Tsaritsin" captured before—in a prominent position without any covering troops, the Ursus Empire must find a way shame.Either paralyze the city, or take it back.

Under the strict military discipline of the fleet, the lookouts kept their eyes on the horizon day and night.In this era of skewed technological development.Although this land fleet directly belonging to the Emperor Ursus carried medium-sized drones, the CMOS components on the drones relied on senior Warlock technicians to barely overcome process problems and put them into small batch production. They are indeed advanced, but expensive and It's a fragile thing that can't work properly in low-light environments, and the image transmission will only show noise like snowflakes.

The heavy task of finding the enemy in the night battle still fell on the large-caliber optical equipment and the eyeballs of the lookouts that have been nourished by cod liver oil all the year round.

"Commander, the lookout of the 'Nikolaev' reported that a suspicious ship was found 113km away from the direction of 10°, and it was identified as an old Chinese destroyer."

Kirilenko regained consciousness from his daydreams, and stretched his dead muscles: "Maintain the current formation and bombard the ship!"

The destroyer seemed to have heard Kirilenko's order, the lights on the hull were brightly lit, the vents of the Originium power furnace turned red and billowing heat flowed out; the artillery on the ship turned to the fleet, spraying orange-red fireworks indiscriminately , the shells dragged gray smoke crookedly to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dirty mud and snow.

The battle begins.

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The track group of the land destroyer flying the red flag is speeding up. Are those tough, brave and tenacious opponents about to flee in a hurry?

This strange lone army couldn't help but make Kirilenko suspicious, but he couldn't help but eat the meat that came to his mouth.

The flare with a brightness of 100 million candela landed slowly with a parachute, covering the battleship in the center of the beam of light.In the eyes of the officers and soldiers of the "Sacred Mission" fast battle group, the destroyers running wildly on the snow field looked like cockroaches that had seen the light.The electric light of the searchlight caught the small enemy ship like an invisible hand, and there was a slight vibration under Kirilenko's feet. The flagship of the "Holy Reign" fleet, the 152mm secondary gun of the battleship "Holy Reign" spit out a shot first. A filthy black cloud, the tracer tube at the tail of the shell glowed conspicuously red in the darkness.The low figure of the destroyer was instantly covered by the dense pillars of dust.

So far, everything is proceeding normally according to Kirilenko's orders. These young men who originally worried him made him have to secretly praise: the cost of crew training was not wasted.

Good soldiers also got good things.With the advancement of technology and the development of experimental demonstrations, the weapon system of the land fleet of the Ursus Empire is developing rapidly.Among the layers of towers of the battleship command tower, above the command bridge where he is located is the artillery command center.

The chief gunner of the battleship "Holy Dominion" and more than 20 other officers and soldiers are there, connecting all artillery-related departments on the battleship through more than 20 in-ship wired communication lines: the optical rangefinder on the top of the command tower transmits observation data. The gunnery officers in the artillery command center selected the target location, type of ammunition, and shooting method, and passed them to the central fire control room protected by layers of armor at the bottom of the command tower.There, the data was manually input into an integrated circuit ballistic computer that the Terrans could not fully understand so far, and the output firing parameters were then reported to the gunners operating the naval guns.

After a brief trial firing, the secondary battery guns of the three fast battleships began firing.

"All the battleship's secondary batteries fired a salvo of 18 rounds. The first round was straddled. Four hits hit!" The gunnery officer in the commander's bridge put his eyes on the leather-covered eyepiece, plugged a wired microphone into his ear, and repeated the gunfire command loudly. The impact observation results reported by the center.

"Very good." Kirilenko nodded. The officers on the bridge also thought that the commander was satisfied with the appetizer that was about to be eaten, and cheered in a low voice. In fact, Kirilenko was satisfied with the new naval gun. system results.

Although it is only a secondary gun, the 152mm semi-armour-piercing projectile is devastating to this fragile destroyer. A bullet that penetrated the horizontal armor and smashed into the second deck rang, sweeping the cabin around the impact point; Hitting the top of the ship tower, the red flag waving in the wind was blown into rags fluttering in the wind, and the watchtower welded with iron sheets was full of holes; the other two shots fell obliquely on the side, and the fragments blew across the ship like a gust of wind. On the side of the battle position, open a few rotary guns.The guns on the destroyer fell silent after only a few rounds of inaccurate firing, and the gunners were undoubtedly dead.

The gunners happily fed the golden fixed-loading ammunition into the gun chamber, and then pulled the handle of the electric percussion trigger.The blazing warhead flew out of the gun barrel, crossed the cold wind from the north of Ursus, and entered the cabin wrapped in fragments of the destroyer's hull.A few minutes later, the completely out-of-control power furnace exploded the destroyer into a ball of bright fireworks, and the shattered wreckage fell into the snow with little flashes of fire, becoming evidence of its past existence.

"This ship's mission has ended."

This kind of scene makes people unbearable to think about the tragic situation of the soldiers who stood firm-it's a pity that there is no one on this destroyer.

With the moonlight and the flash of fire, the photoelectric tower on this unmanned destroyer has fully revealed the murder weapon carried by the "Divine Reign" class. Relevant representatives of the military industry department of the 113th Division stared at the frozen picture in the rear. Ursus's large-caliber naval gun made him worried: "It seems that these natives are progressing much faster than we thought."

After correcting with the historical data brought by the Blue Star traversers, the historians of the human empire finally stopped talking about some ancient history issues. "This kind of cold joke.

In terms of the technical indicators of warships, the Ursus Land Fleet has leaped from the pre-dreadnought era to the inter-war era, and the progress is undoubtedly rapid.However, the commanders on the front line of the battlefield are still determined to win - the progress of Ursus is just a flashback, and our victory is bound to come.

Yang Weili, who temporarily switched from a space battleship commander to a land-based sampan captain, commented on his opponent in a very pretentious tone: "Restraint, but not enough."

This space warrior is not a member of the special advisory group, but a native fleet master and an excellent space battleship commander in that cold and dark galaxy.But now the space fleet of the 113th Division is useless in the Terra planetary system. In order not to be discovered by the Terra natives, it is very aggrieved to hide in the outer circle of the planetary system to develop remote areas, or squat in two On the back of the tower guard, there are only a handful of sailing operations.So Yang Wenli took the initiative to apply to be moved to a position where he could play a role.

He would rather lower his identity, run from the space fleet to the resident advance team, and command the land-ships that are not even considered as ships in space, and the mobile urban armed modules that are barely considered small ships, and it will take a lot of time and energy to master them. Technical and tactical knowledge for commanding land craft - this type of super giant ground vehicle is neither a tank, nor a surface ship, nor a spacecraft.

"Weapon testing begins in five minutes."

Yes, weapons testing.

Gary's helmet was filled with smoke from tobacco, and his military micro one-way human-machine interface immediately began sending signals as the helmet's laser display displayed new information on his retinal laser projection.

At the same time, Kirilenko was deeply disturbed by the enemy's silence.

The enemy remained silent from beginning to end, as if there was no one in such a brightly lit mobile city, or a military mobile fortress, and there was only one destroyer in the nearby tribal army unit.

It's impossible to have only this kind of resistance... Kirilenko was keenly aware that it was just cannon fodder to test the firepower.He ordered the units to intensify the search to the herald next to him, and then muttered to himself: "...does my decision have any loopholes in front of them?"

Any bugs?

It's all loopholes!

"Enemy artillery flash detected at 115°!" The observer's shrill cry pierced the top of Kirilenko's head and the four ears on the side of his skull.

He didn't need to say anything. Everyone who could look outside the ship saw the flash of enemy artillery.It was not the red and yellow that everyone is used to, but the terrifying blue-purple!

In the old days, when enemy fire came, one had time to recognize it from the flash, and then all the officers and men of the fleet waited in terror for the fateful fall.But this time was different. Almost at the moment when the enemy's muzzle flames lit up, a huge pillar of bright blue flames with terrifying brightness rose into the sky on one side of the battle line, and the loud noise like thunder shook the entire fleet.

The tens of thousands of tons of land battleships swayed in the terrifying air waves, and the Ursus crew members in the ship felt that they were in a big bell that was ringing.

Battleship No. 5, the battlecruiser "Peter the Great" was unfortunately hit in the middle. A ball of flames burst out from under the chassis and lifted it high. The hull let out a scream and broke cleanly from it!

Kirilenko is like falling into an ice cellar: An epoch-making warship built with the empire's cutting-edge technology is so vulnerable?

At the same time, in the combat intelligence center of the "Steel Grad" mobile city, Yang Wenli was looking at the dense information window in front of him, which displayed the detection results of various sensors such as radar, photoelectric and thermal imaging.

Yang Wen-li calmly ordered: "Gary, curb your firepower and try out all the new toys in the foundry hall."

The 113th Division and the intelligence department of the Integration Movement learned a year ago that Ursus was building a new land carrier. However, after aerial photography and satellites were over-the-top, further intelligence reconnaissance was difficult to progress: The intelligence agency of the Integration Movement The "GPU" is a rookie with eggshells hanging on its butt. It will not be as powerful as the Soviet state security agency in some universe just because its name is "GPU".After several rounds of battles with the Imperial counterpart, the "Public Security and Order Protection Service" (Okrina), several of the GPU's intelligence scouts died, and underground work in some areas fell into a low ebb, but they failed to exchange for the battleships. performance intelligence.

The 113th Division's principle of helping the reunification movement has always been that it will only act when the reunification movement really has tried its best and is unable to do anything, and it is indeed the objective conditions that cannot be overcome.This is because I am raising a trumpet. If there are a bunch of indigenous daddies who will only call Renlian Dad to save me when something happens, it will be a complete failure.But now, facing the Ursus Empire's most elite battleship fast battle group, the 113th Division decided to roll up their sleeves and play.

In order to hang the big fish, Yang Weili lifted the light control of Steel Grad, allowing it to become the most conspicuous target on the snowy field.Now, the veil of mystery is finally about to be lifted.

The Ursus fleet's main gun, which had been silent just now, adjusted its firing direction early, and could be fired in the shortest possible time as long as the various elements were input.Now, the three surviving battleships and one battlecruiser received firing orders one after another. After a while, 27 406MM gun barrels and 8 381MM gun barrels sprayed out dense artillery firepower and rushed towards the distant enemy.

The observers of the Ursus battleship shouted hoarsely: "The first round of straddle shots! Almost all hits!"

Even though the mobile city module has a size that far exceeds that of a battleship, it has to be shaken by it.Yang Weili watched the falling bombs from different observation points through the screen. Part of the monitoring probes on the mobile city had been smashed by the exploding shells, and their images only showed a bunch of noise; it is convenient for daily maintenance. The simple corridor for workers and maintenance robots to walk through was distorted into a pile of twists by countless debris and shock waves; the crew in the outer cabin felt the violent vibrations and loud noises, praying that the giant beast would not be torn apart .

Not long ago, the exterior of the military mobile city module of the "Steel Grad" that had been freshly painted with cement gray paint was scorched black, the paint leather was cracked, and large areas of pale white were exposed at the impact points, like the wounds of a whale poked by a harpoon.The entire mobile city module is shrouded in a cloud of gunpowder.

The deck wind formed when the high-speed battleship was running at full power quickly blew away the gun smoke, forming the most favorable viewing conditions for observing the impact of the bombs.Kirilenko is complacent, even if it is a powerful mobile city, it will inevitably be severely disabled-this experience has been tested in foreign wars.He thought of the horror of those rebels being swallowed by the flames, and unconsciously licked his dry lips.However, the scene after that made him unforgettable all his life:

After the smoke cleared, apart from a slightly embarrassed appearance, the enemy's mobile city showed no signs of fire or power outage!

Except for the nearly one-meter-thick giant pottery steel armor box, the deflection position and the close-in weapon system did not cause any substantial damage to the mobile city. The eight wide tracks on the chassis inject huge power.

The land vehicles and mobile cities classified as "giant ground vehicles" are also valuable assets for the 113th Division and are of great significance.With its size, even if it doesn't have a powerful Geller shield system, isn't it normal to have a simple and practical protective stance and a close-in weapon system?

After a short fight that was neither painful nor itchy for both sides, Steel Gradler finally recovered.Kirilenko is a veteran of the Land Fleet with arrogance in his bones. He stared at this city blessed by ghosts and gods, and felt for the first time that the battleship under him could not give him a sense of security:

The city of Steel Grad is like a knight in full body armor, with weapons shining with terrifying reflections; he despises the flying arrows in the opponent's team, and drives the mount under his crotch to walk around the courtyard, just because he has a plan in his chest, and only one violent impact is needed. Crush the mob in front of you.

This fantasy made Kirilenko very uncomfortable. He wiped the sweat rolling off his head and continued to direct the fleet to project fire.

Mobile City began to fight back.

Two single-mounted 800mm electrothermal chemical cannons gave the gunner Gary the confidence to smoke the X.This system is not installed in the turret now, but has an omnidirectional shooting frame like an anti-aircraft gun. The gun body is exposed, and it is mounted on the base of the core tower of the original mobile city module.Using this kind of weapon that is equivalent to a short-range ballistic missile to shoot directly, exposing this fragile thing to the enemy's firepower, is somewhat mind-blowing, and looks like performance art no matter how you look at it.But having said that, it is not unacceptable in the current situation-this thing has an exclusive close-in defense system and deflection position protection.

If the caliber alone was large, then this thing wouldn't be a big deal.What makes this system unique is its ammunition - this high-end artillery uses a special nano-meta-stable material for its warhead and propellant.It can absorb and store a large amount of energy in a short period of time, at which time it will be in a metastable state; and as the warhead hits the target, the delayed fuze triggers the release of the catalyst, and the large amount of energy stored in the metastable material will be released in a very short time. All released.

Compared with the traditional artillery system, the new type of special artillery has unique advantages: when the shell is loaded, all materials are in an inactive state, and the shell needs to be charged quickly through the power supply device attached to the barrel of the main gun. After the energy is saturated, it can be ignited and fired through a special firing device.This thing can determine the performance of the warhead through the combination of various energy input frequencies during rapid charging, allowing the warhead to change between types such as high-explosive bombs and self-sharpening armor-piercing bombs.

There is no need to push the cartridge when the whole shell is fired, and the type of ammunition depends entirely on the charging type selection process that will be carried out after it is loaded into the chamber and just before firing. and reloading the propellant pack; this makes the reloading process more efficient, and the overall reliability and reload rate of fire have also been improved.

Renlian, which has inherited the technological system of the Empire of Mankind, has never been short of high-energy materials.The power of this kind of thing is not second to none. It is because of its unique advantages that it can become the most important artillery propellant and warhead charge in the arsenal of the People's Federation.

As for the Ursus Empire's most powerful and cutting-edge military explosive, it is...

Trinitrotoluene.

The giant bomb was shot out from the gun barrel with a terrifying air wave, and the snowfield looked like a volcano had erupted for a while.The deadly artillery fire was first directed at the No. 3 battleship "Alexander II" in the center of the line, and the near-missed bullets fell on the surroundings, and the dust raised by the shells seemed to grow mountains around the battleship.Another shell directly hit its port side, and everything from the deck to the track was shattered and disintegrated in the detonation. Flames sprayed out from the breach and the turret ring, reflecting half of the night sky red.

Group friends extra chapter: Part [-] of the fleet

The "Alexander II" was finished in this way, and the survivors who escaped from the gangways and elevators after the battleship was destroyed in the usual way could not see a single one.

Kirilenko's heart almost stopped. He thought that his artillery fire was enough to refresh the knowledge of all soldiers in this regard, but the firepower of these rebels was unheard of. What's more, it was night, which was a thrilling sight. precise.What is even more frightening is that they extinguished the lights of the moving city. Under the moonlight, the black figure of the moving city ignored the shells and approached the fleet step by step.

"Raise the Z-flag!" Kirilenko made a decisive decision, trying to strengthen the will of the fleet. "There is nothing to be afraid of! The rebels only have one mobile city module, and we have three capital ships. Everyone, the rise and fall of the empire is on this day." Fight, the Tsar protects us!"

Even an infantryman on foot will proudly puff up his chest when he mentions the tall battleships of the empire-after all, compared to the chattering and repeating machine clusters on the Internet, the land ships of the empire really know how to use artillery and battleships. Armor cover army.

However, the phased-array fire control radar on the mobile city radiated light of death to the fleet. In this area where Ursus had not set foot, the tall warships they were proud of were shining like decorations on a Christmas tree. Provides strong echoes to all weapons of the Integrative Movement.

A few minutes later, the mobile city once again fired the soul-stirring heavy artillery.

"Damn, how could they fire again so fast!"

The panic of some officers spread to the soldiers, and some timid soldiers escaped from their positions, only to be knocked down by the officers' swords and pistols.

The No. 4 ship is not afraid of the previous tragedy, and is fearlessly fighting back against the mobile city.In contrast, this battlecruiser was a little more lucky. None of the two armor-piercing projectiles fired in salvo directly hit the cabin, and the fireball formed a straddle shot at it, like a big red flower to praise its courage.However, one of them grazed the side, smashed the suspension, and then hit the huge axle with a hammer, breaking the axle with an explosion; the oil cap of the road wheel burst under the heavy impact, and the red The oil gushes from the center of the road wheel like a bleeding eye.

Ship No. 4 was tilted to one side of the queue. The Originium power furnace located in the bilge was severely shaken, and the lights inside the ship flickered, temporarily losing its combat capability.

Kirilenko was vaguely aware that an evil being was staring at him, and that the fleet's movements were under the enemy's control.

"My lord, what should we do?"

The officers who gathered around Kirilenko anxiously sought the opinions of the highest ranking officials. Kirilenko read fear in the eyes of these proud men - the epoch-making crystallization of imperial science, in this group of mysterious rebels. They are still like lambs waiting to be slaughtered in front of the bandits.

"Retreat to the west." Kirilenko issued a humiliating order. In order to save some face and gain an opportunity to evacuate, he shouted: "Fire and aim at their tracks to fight back!"

The silent snow field was shrouded by fireworks again.

Commander Kirilenko fired salvos at the common weaknesses of most vehicles in the world, and achieved unexpected results: the technical sergeants of the 113th Division were far from transforming this thing into an invincible super fortress.Although the slanted cannonballs are not very effective in hitting the moving track, there are still a few lucky shells hitting the track due to the large number, causing a broken track to relax and spread limply on the ground, like a dead dog. of Python.Here lies the monster's Achilles' heel.

"Captain, we lost one track, and three tracks were severely damaged, but we can still drive for another 15 minutes." The damage control department sent a report.The Mobile City Command has already studied the corresponding plan for such giant vehicles after the action mechanism is damaged, and its conclusion is pessimistic: there is no possibility of any maintenance in the field environment.Although the extended terraces and corridors provided some shelter from the attack from the direction of the zenith, the damage could not be avoided.As for more extensive modifications - that will take time.

"Stop, don't chase after them, give them the last blow." Yang Weili instructed the gunner, "Launch simple guided heavy anti-ship rockets."

A lookout used the moonlight to see three plumes of smoke rising vertically from the deck of the mobile city, and exclaimed: "Heavy mortar - the emperor is on top!"

Kirilenko was distraught: What kind of threat could curved-fire weapons like mortars pose to land-ships moving at high speed?He walked quickly to the porthole on that side, frowning and preparing to reprimand the crew member.However, the following scene shattered his common sense: a column thicker than the heaviest shell on a battleship drilled out of the smoke column, trailing flames and white smoke, deftly turned an arc in the air, and rushed straight To the remaining two battleships!

Two heavy anti-ship rockets with long tail flames roared towards them.The first one came with unburned solid fuel. With the leading armor-piercing-piercing blasting series warhead specially designed for heavy armor structures, the simple guided heavy rocket pierced into the port side of No. 2 ship, and then burst out on the starboard side. A ball of fire, with flames emanating from openings on both sides.

Another fire dragon flying in the night sky has already sealed the fate of the battle group flagship "Divine Reign".Kirilenko felt a burst of energy deep beneath his feet, as if he had experienced a terrible earthquake, and he was thrown from the ground and fell hard on the teak floor.There was no need to assess the damage of the battleship. He felt pain in his internal organs, and the fleet commander issued the last order of his military career: "Abandon ship, run for your life! Run for your life!"

The ridicule of his peers, the trial of the military court, the anger of the emperor... Kirilenko can no longer take care of these, let alone the majesty of the fleet commander.He threw aside his coat, embroidered with gold and tassels, and his sword with its golden double-headed eagle and gems on its hilt—these would only get in the way when going up and down the rope ladder.He and his lieutenants were bloodied by the debris and nearly suffocated by the smoke.The lift was out of order, and he went on deck, and like a lowly sailor, with the cable between his feet, slipped over the side of the ship into the snow, and they saved their lives for the time being.

For the land carriers, the land carrier carries everything: weapons, ammunition, food, dormitories, first aid stations, and all the things needed for war.Now that the crew of the "Holy Dominion" class has lost their cars, it can be said that they have nothing.They surrounded the wounded in the middle, gathered in a pile to keep warm in the cold wind, and were terrified of the upcoming fate - no rules of engagement had been developed on this land, and the crew who landed would only be attacked by the victor's rapid-fire guns. The cannons will turn them into a pile of minced meat, and those who are lucky can become unlucky prisoners of war.

Some officers drew their pistols, and some crew members carried carbines while escaping and loaded them all - no matter what, it is more honorable to die in battle than to be massacred.

But Kirilenko was hesitant. He had heard those weird rumors: These rebels who called themselves the Integration Movement were not as cruel as the imperial propaganda claimed. They treated the common people and prisoners very well, and everyone in the "base area" could Food and clothing.

In fact, in his personal safe were several thick red books that the church denounced as "heretical doctrines" - this was a little secret that he could not let anyone see. Fortunately, it had been burned together with the confidential documents on the ship. .

An adjutant came up to him with interest and whispered: "Your Excellency, the crew have already given their allegiance to the empire. What they need most after the bloody battle are hot soup and blankets."

Kirilenko understood, and his vacillating determination completely turned to the easiest end; he sighed, and ordered to his little orderly who followed him: "Go and find a white cloth and a stick, if we still want to live .”

It was already dawn, and armored vehicles and trucks full of infantry, and mobile hospitals with heavy-duty carrier chassis began to drive in—in Kirilenko's eyes, they were rare miniature land vehicles.They drove to the side of the crowd, and the machine guns on the roof aimed at the crowd who groaned in pain from time to time.