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

"Oh friend, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye!

"The flower belonged to the soldier of the Self-Defense Forces; he died for freedom!"

Then he suddenly realized that the slight melody was not only the distant singing weakened by the distance, but also someone singing low in front of him.

Humming the melody of "Goodbye, Friend", Tracys turned around and said, "It's really a good song."

Monk Zhang Er was puzzled by Manfred, so he remained silent.

"I don't know when there are a lot of good songs in the east." Tracy shook her head, "There are passionate, melancholy, and optimistic songs."

He continued: "Flesh and blood can't defeat steel after all. But... they are obviously just a group of miscellaneous troops, even militias, and they don't even have uniform uniforms! But they can kill and die far more than us, obviously we Even when the most elite troops can't support it, they still hold their ground unyieldingly, without the slightest compromise or any concession!"

He punched the wooden wall of the observation post.

The regent's action made all the generals of the Wang Ting army in this small shelter feel ashamed, so they all lowered their heads.

"Okay." The regent sighed, "You will have the help of the royal court. We are going to throw those killing machines in the civil war again... I want you to promise to take this damn city After that, this civil war must be ended as quickly as possible, this futile bloodshed! Do you understand?!"

"understand!"

Chapter 29 The road ahead

The Gorefiend Lord stood silently on the streets of Hamburg, watching the houses riddled with holes, the ruins everywhere, the ground strewn with corpses and the red flag flying high, and for the first time he felt that killing and blood were tasteless.

Even at the end of the day, Hamburg's defenders still had an impressive performance.Even if the soldiers of the Royal Army, blessed by the Gorefiend King's Court, rampaged through the houses with inhuman agility and strength, sweeping away the resisters house by house; Screams and wailing were clearly audible outside the house; even though the captured captives had not had food or water for days...

They still refused to surrender.

Just now, a brief surrender and prisoner release ceremony was held in front of the Hamburg Defense Command building.The desperate defenders of the National Guard handed over a group of wounded Wang Tingjun captured in previous battles to the Wang Ting army who surrounded the building.With the serious shortage of supplies, the medical conditions of the defenders have deteriorated extremely, and there is no room for dealing with the wounded. Therefore, the National Self-Defense Forces will release all the wounded Wang Tingjun captured at this stage on the spot.

Followed by the defenders and civilians led by the captured Wang Tingjun... Before the final battle, the defenders ordered all civilians in the fortifications to withdraw from their positions and surrender to the Wang Tingjun.Although there were sporadic wounded defenders among them, the vast majority of soldiers still refused to surrender.

The actions of the defenders extremely powerfully shook the fighting will of the officers and soldiers of the royal court army present, making them doubt the legitimacy of their own camp.But the final attack is something no one can stop.The blood demon lord cast a blood curtain covering the entire building, draining the blood of all the living people in the headquarters building, turning them into mummies.

The pale-faced Gorefiend leader slowly entered the headquarters building again, calmly shuttling through the corridors and rooms.His tusks protruding from the lips and even the three-petal mouth race greeted him on one knee.

The Maharaja didn't say anything to them, but walked slowly into the office of the commander of the garrison.The dead body that had shot itself in the chair had just been removed, and the wall behind the seat was neither a portrait of anyone nor Kazdel's flag, but a red flag, freshly colored with blood, depicting the Three Kingdoms in bright yellow. like things:

Hammer, sickle and steel gun.

**

"As far as the current battlefield situation is concerned, the situation in which the Military Council is strong and the Tower of Babel is weak will continue for a long time."

Comand drew a detailed battlefield situation down to the battalion on the electronic map in the large conference room of the border base, then turned around and faced all the decision-making committee members of the Kazdale column: "Comrades, the next period is to decide the situation of the Kazdel column. This is a critical period for Zdel's future; it is too late for us to start making armed mediation a top priority.

"The results of the advance battle group have proved that our military technology has a huge advantage in the Kazdel Civil War. The question now is how to use this advantage to win us politically in the following Kazdel political and military environment." And military bargaining chips to effectively guide the development path of Kazdel's new regime in the next stage?

"According to the analysis of Kazdel's current situation, our highest goal is to strive for Kazdel to establish an integrationist regime that unifies the country; the lowest goal is to use economic and military means to make the new Kazdel government lean towards us.

"In any case, when the balance of power between the two sides reaches the maximum absolute value, it will be very beneficial to our work to launch a military operation to quickly and accurately disarm the stronger side's war capabilities."

Most of the people present showed expressions of eagerness to try—of course, soldiers accounted for the majority of Kazdel's column at this stage.

"However, the work in the previous stage also sounded the alarm for us. Comrades! The report of Chief of Staff Lin has already explained the process of Tracy's entry into the demilitarized zone and the reasons why we failed to find out in time. It is relatively clear, and the summary of the behavior of all parties involved in the incident is relatively in place. I will not say more. Now I want to take this opportunity to talk about the work attitude we should have.

"First of all, let's be a bit alarmist. There is something wrong with our current work attitude, a big problem! If we cannot solve these problems, we will not be able to go further in the great cause.

"For example, I paid too much attention to the interaction with Kazdel's local forces, and I didn't make a thorough investigation and serious research on my working environment. After showing a low profile, he began to be complacent. He was divorced from both the masses and the organization.

"Secondly, there are issues of technological determinism and psychological superiority. The People's Federation Army is an army that upholds the principles of 'building an army with technology' and 'strengthening an army with technology', with long-distance information-based self-propelled artillery, large-scale long-endurance drones, and reconnaissance satellites. It brings us a great advantage, but it also allows us to form a mental set. From the report, we can see that we think we know everything, but in fact we don’t know what we don’t know. Heavy technology reconnaissance , the fault of emphasizing aviation, satellite and electronic countermeasures reconnaissance, while despising on-the-spot reconnaissance and social reconnaissance is very obvious, and has not deeply realized the limitations of "tallness".

"We are separated from the masses and have not deeply established contact with the Kazdel masses. We are actually very ignorant of our intelligence methods and reconnaissance measures, and we are completely blind to what they can and cannot do. Moreover, we have no interest in seriously understanding the actual situation when we sink. When we arrange our work and make plans, to a large extent, we proceed from subjective desires rather than objective reality. There are already scouts active on the highway east of Hamburg, and the head of the technical scouting department still patted his chest at the meeting and said, "Everything is under control, and the reserve team of Teresis is still squatting in Bonn" Such absurd things! Therefore, Tracy's surprise soldiers made the advance battle group scrambled, and ran back from Hamburg in a desperate manner.

"On closer inspection, are Tracys' methods surprising? No. It's still the old-fashioned things: lighting and sound control, military camouflage and military deception; creating the illusion that the troops are still in the same place, but in fact the ants are deployed to the place where they moved. On the new position. The specific plan will never be reported by radio, but only delivered by manpower.

"Old? Very old. Backward? Very backward. Effective? Very effective!

"Some comrades just argued that the work of the department should not be negated because of problems, and successful experience should not be ignored. I agree with this statement. After all, we are in a complex and large-scale society, where there are too many uncertainties. However, this is the case with the work of the extraterrestrial corps intervening in indigenous society, and this is the case with political, economic and military interventions. It affects the whole body. The enemy But regardless of your hard work, if you make a mistake, it may bring immeasurable losses to our work.

"Those of us who are engaged in social work on Terra have very few resources in the entire 113th Division. After all, the main work is still in space; and Kazdel's direction is not all social work on Terra. So we can use The resources are very few - satellite overhead frequency is counted in weeks, and there are only a few long-range reconnaissance aircraft. Considering our mission and the size of the department, this configuration is too shabby. So I have to say that our Kazdale Column has so far In work, the achievements are great, and the credit is the main one.

"However, we also have to think about it the other way around: Why did our negligence not cause serious consequences? It was because we hadn't sunk too deep into Kazdare and something went wrong with Theresia. , we can just pat our butts and leave, there is no loss in doing so. And for the comprehensive intervention that will be carried out next, will there still be such conditions?

"In Tracys' actions, we fought back against those who came directly at us; this shows that our political defense and security work have done a good job, which is worthy of praise. However, in terms of strategic reconnaissance and campaign reconnaissance Negligence also poses a serious threat to our strategic planning, almost disrupting our plans and steps. This shows that we must not have a 'sit back and relax' attitude. Because our goal is not that everything will be fine as long as we are not threatened !

"I have to say that a sense of superiority, or arrogance, has emerged among many comrades in many departments. This has seriously affected our work style and work results!

"The next work is different from the past. Once a military operation occurs, the entire column will be out! The previous negligence did not cause us a lot of losses. This is a kind of luck, but next, this kind of luck no longer exists.

"We have to rectify our work attitude and improve our working methods. Look at ourselves, how many people have made such and such mistakes? Now that we have begun to open up the situation in Terra society, the pressure in all aspects has become less, and many people They have become less serious and less desperate.

"Some comrades think they are superior people in their hearts, and they always think 'I am sent by a high-level civilization to civilize the indigenous people'. They put on airs and play bureaucratic attitudes towards the local comrades-in-arms in Terra. Mud legs that are dry in the small star area;

"Some comrades have excessive technology worship thoughts and a sense of contempt for 'lowly' jobs in their hearts, thinking that Terrans are not real people, they can't use their brains to analyze and find ways to deal with our advanced technology, and think that we don't need boots Stepping on the soil and talking face to face, relying on technology and military strength will be able to go your way and be invincible in the world;

“There are some comrades—such as me, who don’t keep the mass line in mind all the time, and unconsciously focus on probing, communicating, negotiating, cooperating, and confronting feudal monarchs and medical-military complexes. , To a considerable extent, it ignored the promotion of mass work, so there was no support from the masses, and it lost the intelligence advantage it used to have in the past.

"Comrades, we should correct our attitudes and recognize our position. We cooperate with the local forces in Terra, rather than one party over the other. Of course we have huge advantages, but this is not the case. The local forces representing Terra do not have their own advantages. They have a huge scale, home field advantage, long-term operation, and various cards. If we are not careful, we will suffer a lot!

"Comrades, the world we have come to is a Darwinian society that enforces the law of the jungle; but our collective is not! Here, who can each of us rely on? The comrades around us, the organization we form Without such a solidarity, without an organization to support us as individuals, we would have been slave labor in the mines of Ursus, what else are we talking about?

"Comrades, starting today, we must face up to our current enemies and allies, not be greedy for merit, not aggressive, deal with them patiently, use a thunderous blow to solve the problem at the right moment, and strive for the final victory!"

**

While doing self-criticism, criticism and self-criticism on the Atlas side, the company also changed its work direction. While negotiating with Theresia for the next step of cooperation, the other side also started new actions alone.

In the west of Hamburg City, there is a bakery called "Sylvanas' Seal".The flames of war have just left the streets of Hamburg. Although people are full of hatred for Teresis and Wang Tingjun, life must go on.So the bakery is still open.

But the post-war depression has not left, and the bakery is usually empty.People can't help worrying about how the operators will maintain the store.

It seems to correspond to the bleak business. The shop windows also give people a feeling that they have not been taken care of at all. All the bread is so soft that it does not give people the slightest appetite.

All in all, it looks like this is one of the many makeshift bakeries in Hamburg after the siege, indistinguishable from countless others of its kind in the city.

But in fact, this is the contact point and meeting place of the underground resistance organization of the Kazdel Anti-military Council.Just after the siege was over, this place had just been used twice, and the resisters gathered in this bakery welcomed a group of guests from the East.

......

"...Atlas?"

The boy Bambino, who was wearing a felt hat and blue overalls stained with engine oil, exclaimed in a low voice when he saw the stranger who followed the Hamburg regional branch chief "Tiger" into the basement: "Why is there an Atlas here?" People from Sri Lanka?”

Bambino looked back and forth at the dozen or so other people who attended the rally—the last remaining backbone of the underground resistance movement in Hamburg.The battle line has just left Hamburg and is advancing eastward, and the military council is busy rectifying order in Hamburg so that it can serve the war effort of the Royal Court Army.The search and raids in this environment are very severe, and the underground resistance movement has not yet opened up the situation.The people who can appear at this rally at this time are all good fighters who have experienced many battles.

Bambino's inquiry was not answered by anyone, and it seemed that the other comrades were as confused as he was.In desperation, Bambino had no choice but to turn his attention to the head of the branch.

"Hey, Tiger, tell me, what are the people from Atlas doing here?"

The white-eared Custer girl in urban camouflage uniform, tactical gear, an automatic rifle on her shoulder, and a bright Atlas Logo on her armband replied in fluent Kazdelian, "Come to help you open the situation. "

Bambino snorted: "Really? Your cannons were blown up to the sky, but we were blown up block by block by the Wang Tingjun's city defense artillery. Where were you?"

"Withdrawn." Castor replied in a calm tone, "We have objective reasons, but it doesn't make sense to say these now, and you are not willing to accept them.

"But let me make it clear that we are mercenaries who only take money to do things and do what is stipulated in the contract. We are not obliged to die for Theresa's career. Now the two parties have reached a new agreement, and we have accepted the superior command, so I sneaked into the dangerous enemy's rear and was responsible for fighting alongside you."

"You!" Bambino jumped up angrily, and "Tiger" glanced at him calmly.The young man had no choice but to sit down and gritted his teeth, grinding his teeth while looking at that cold and indifferent face.

"Of course, you can rest assured. We have a wealth of urban warfare skills and experience, and are also good at guerrilla warfare." The Atlas soldier pointed to his armband, "We dare to wear this thing in enemy-occupied areas. There are many. You can relax, our survival will try not to drag you down.

"We can assist you in military and communications, as well as the guerrillas outside. Such as helping you attack and sabotage, covering your radio communications. In these things, we are professional!"

"We dare not trust you," Bambino said sullenly.

"I think we can trust them." A sharp female voice suddenly came from the door.

People turned their heads to look at the newcomers.

"Huh, long time no see, W." Miss Custer said with a blank expression.

"Yes, long time no see, Instructor Frost Star." W, the former Sakaz mercenary and current "Walter" commander of the Hamburg detachment of the sabotage force behind enemy lines, showed a dangerous smile.

Chapter 30 Dilemma

For the fourth time, the attacking troops of the Wang Ting Army stood up and charged from the trenches of the attacking starting position, but fell down again under the violent machine gun fire of the East Kazdale coalition forces.

Several coalition artillery companies hidden in the woods in the distance bombarded the starting position of the Wang Ting army's attack from early in the morning, and then extended the artillery fire round after round from here, wantonly destroying the positions, fortifications, communication lines, and forward lines of the Wang Ting army. Athletic reserve team.Continuous clouds of milky white smoke billowed over the battlefield, which were left by the shrapnel exploded in the air.Although the smoke continued to dissipate, the coalition artillery was always able to make up for the vacancy of the smoke group in time-another shrapnel exploded above the heads of the Wang Ting army's attacking troops...

Manfred is in the observation post of the artillery position of the [-]th Infantry Division of the Royal Army, using the scissors to observe the situation on the front line of the battlefield.He saw the company-level commandos of the [-]th Infantry Division, despite the blocking of machine gun and mortar fire, enduring continuous casualties, and still tenaciously leaping forward.When the firepower of the defenders was fierce, they would lie down and dig bunkers; when the enemy's firepower turned to other directions, they would get up suddenly and advance quickly.

However, in other directions and behind them, the main force of Wang Ting's infantry did not dare to stand up.

Manfred wrote a note to the commander of the [-]th Infantry Division and sent an orderly to it.After half an hour, the commander of the Seventh Division drove over.The jeep wagged its tail and stopped not far from the observation post, and the teacher jumped off before it stopped.Panting with difficulty, he walked towards the observation trench on the small mound.

"You're fucking easy to say! I can't call the soldiers to attack, they can't stand up!" From a long distance, he waved his hands and shouted, "Didn't you see how powerful the machine guns and artillery fire of the Easterners are? "

"The commandos are still advancing, but you can't tell others to stand up?" Manfred said to his old comrades angrily.

"That's because the standard of food for the commando soldiers is about the same as mine, and the entire platoon and company are equipped with automatic guns. But you look at the other side, they are all like this, and there is freshly baked bread in the trenches! Each company has two There are heavy machine guns and six light machine guns. There are so many automatic rifles and bullets. One division has two artillery battalions. They feed us thousands of field shells and mortar shells above 75mm every day. What do we use to fight? ?!"

"Yes, so should we surrender directly?"

The commander of the Seventh Division cursed, turned around and left.Manfred turned and walked to the nearby artillery emplacement.Next to a 75mm cannon camouflaged with hawthorn branches, he found the artillery battalion commander.

"Why don't you fire? According to the conclusion of previous battles, as long as you don't hit a high-throwing trajectory and shoot directly within a certain distance, Atlas will not be able to detect the position of the artillery."

The commander of the artillery battalion was full of resentment: "General, I really want to shoot a few shots! But there is not a single shell! The last shell was fired half an hour ago. Even if there are still twenty shells, I can do it." Get rid of those damn machine guns. I don't know how many people they're going to kill? Look how they're clacking!"

Manfred then shifted his gaze to the stretching trenches of the East Kazdale coalition forces.Not far away, there was a Wang Tingjun commando lying on the open space under the pressure of machine gun fire.The defenders patiently and repeatedly shot at the commandos who were digging holes with engineering shovels in a prone position like crazy.Where the machine gun bullets hit, a cloud of smoke and dust was raised, as if an invisible person drew a gray line along the shallow pits like lightning, which was gradually dissipating.

Immediately afterwards, the roar of mortars, light howitzers, and light cannons sounded.Dozens of 75MM and 82MM artillery shells roared in, drowning the commandos of the Wang Ting Army closest to the defenders' positions in the tumbling wall of fire...

......

"The progress of the attack is bound to stall, General."

Most of the people standing in this meeting room are generals of Wang Tingjun.Tracy is the only person who can be called "General" by them.

"The armament and supplies of East Casdales have been increased to an astonishing extent. The artillery and automatic weapons in the force are greatly increased, and ammunition is more abundant than ever before; even the quality of troop food has been greatly improved. "

Massive photos, reports, documents, audio-visual materials, they all point to a fact:

"The enemy's power is increasing rapidly, and will likely be stronger than ever. Obviously, there is only one source for these things—"

"Atlas..."

Tracy stared at the mountains of containers in the photo, the densely packed machine guns and mortars that hadn’t wiped off the butter, and the whole boxes of prepared food and flour in the open container, and began to grind her teeth slowly.

"We can't go on like this!" He stood up from his chair abruptly, with a high voice, "We must sell her half of Kazdel before Teresia is fully armed to the teeth by Atlas, End this war!—

"So in this case, we should attack immediately. I remember that according to the plan, even with the addition of the rest time after the capture of Hamburg, our offensive preparations can be completed by the end of this month."