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

Regret and remorse enveloped Therasia, as well as hatred for the powerful family members and ridicule of herself.After learning from the experience and thinking over and over, Theresia decided to make a decision that was beyond the expectations of most people.

Just as she was recalling her mental journey in the past few hours, the adjutant pushed the door open and said, "Mr. Speaker, Mr. Conman has arrived."

Teresia stood up: "Okay, take me there."

...The adjutant's eyes widened in surprise: Go to meet him in person?

Five minutes later, Comand followed Teresia into the empty war room.

"How's the situation?" Comand asked Teresia directly without even exchanging pleasantries.

"...I doubt whether East Kasdale can see winter." Theresa looked haggard, her face was full of tiredness and frustration, and her voice was low and broken.I haven't seen her in just a few days, and the slender Theresia has become even more slender.Her hair is lacklustre and her dark circles under her eyes make a panda fall in love at first sight. "Of course, it's great to have you back safe and sound."

Command did not answer, the silence lasted for a moment, and Teresia continued: "The doctor is at stake, but the business of the coalition headquarters collapsed all of a sudden. As the Wang Ting army has made a breakthrough, the battle lines are disintegrating one after another like dominoes. We don't even know which units were annihilated and routed.

"And the troops that can be contacted—"

Teresia pointed to the map, on which the blue team logo had been cut into countless disconnected parts by red arrows.

This means that these troops are completely unable to support each other, ammunition cannot be supplied, and the wounded cannot receive effective treatment.Many of their units will quickly lose the will to fight and begin to retreat, others will continue to fight until their ammunition is almost exhausted, while the most determined units will hold out until they are actually eliminated.

There are troops that can still fight after being divided and encircled. As long as the morale is high enough and the officers and soldiers have enough initiative, these troops can fully exert almost the same combat effectiveness as before being encircled.

However, the vast majority of the East Kazdale coalition forces do not have such a fighting will and technical and tactical level. Most of the troops will quickly lose their fighting desire and ability after finding themselves isolated and surrounded.

And those few National Self-Defense Forces and Queen's Guards who have been resisting will be hit hard by the follow-up attacks of the Wang Ting Army, and will be wiped out one by one by superior forces and firepower.In most areas, Wang Tingjun's follow-up troops will continue to pour into the former coalition-controlled area from the breakthroughs on the coalition front.

The attack arrows formed by these troops will continue to assault the coalition forces in depth, until they can't go any further.And the chaotic coalition forces cannot stop the enemy's advance on the spot, they must retreat to reorganize the defense line——

However, Kazdel City is only more than a hundred kilometers away from this breached front.For the coalition forces, if they are broken through again like this, Wang Tingjun will plant the military flag on the top of Kazdaele City to complete the great cause of unification.

The situation had deteriorated to this point, but Teresia didn't start talking about it right away.She smiled bitterly: "Do you remember when I got mad at you before the Hamburg retreat? I apologize again for my gaffe."

Commander nodded slightly, without further expression, and continued to look at the map.

"Thinking about it now, I still feel ashamed of my naivety and willfulness. You have faithfully fulfilled the obligations stipulated in the contract, providing advice, training, and supplies. Our failure is ultimately due to our inferior skills. You have no responsibility.

"Ah, I may be excusing myself by saying this. But my anger has become accustomed to those powerful generals, and they have even changed from fear to disapproval." Theresia paused for a moment, "I have to Said, they are useless. The traditional, ancient way of ruling the Kingdom of Kazdaele by various royal courts and clans forming a parliament is powerless in front of Tresis. The enemy is very powerful, but unfortunately, between us There are also what can almost be called enemies. A few big powers have publicly refused to send troops to be dispatched by East Kazdale Council."

Comand said indifferently: "Oh."

Teresia nodded slightly, as if Comand's reaction was within her expectation: "However, the situation is not at the end of the mountain. I saw unexpected performances in the relevant reports on the Battle of Hamburg. Up to now, Ah The National Self-Defense Forces that Telas is responsible for the main training work are also unexpectedly tenacious. Most of the troops that are still resisting on the front line are trained by your side...I saw it Unprecedented power. And you are obviously better at using this power.

"It's not as far away as advanced technology, it's among the majority of the Kazdelians. I have to wake it up."

Comand remained calm: "Awakening it requires specific actions, requires everyone to clarify their position and identity, and invest a lot of resources and energy. Just talking about it is useless."

"The Soldiers' Council should become an unshakable institution of the National Guard," said Theresia quietly.

Comand turned around abruptly.

Atlas instructors carried out underground work through soldiers' committees in the National Guard trained by themselves.Nominally, the Soldiers' Committee is an autonomous organization of soldiers used to guarantee the personal rights and living standards of National Guard soldiers; in fact...

That is the main channel of dissemination of the unspeakable trend of thought, and it is also an underground organization built in the grassroots company.

"Really?" Commander asked.

"I have no choice." Theresa replied in a low voice.

After a moment of silence, Command took out a roll of maps from his briefcase and handed them to Teresia.

The speaker of the royal courts and state parliaments in the Kazdaele Kingdom, the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Kazdaele coalition forces and the temporary chief of general staff took the military map, unfolded it, and took a breath of cold air.

From the frontier of the battlefield to the depths, from the No.12 Infantry Division of the Third Army of the Royal Court Army rushing to the forefront of the battlefield to the warehouses of the Royal Court Army Logistics Supply Command in Bonn, the information of the Kazdel Royal Army troops is crowded here densely and meticulously. on a map.Even the map that Tracy himself looked at in the General Staff of the Wang Ting Army couldn't be more detailed than this.

"We have stepped up our radio and aerial reconnaissance of the Royal Army... Of course, we are ahead of the land in this regard. But as you already knew in Hamburg, they are not omnipotent.

"We have learned our lesson. Efforts that began long before the war broke out are now beginning to pay off. We have led an underground organization that has taken shape and deceived most people - including you. From the citizens and workers of Hamburg to Bonn Peasants on the outskirts of the city, our comrades all over the world, from the officers of the Wang Ting Army to the underground resistance movement. They gave us all kinds of seemingly insignificant numbers, even just counted down by the side of the road. Finally, there is this. It will be more accurate when corroborated with the information you now have.

"Finally, we at Atlas are also actively preparing to fully participate in the Kazdel Civil War.

"Ms. Theresia, I promise you that victory will eventually come."

"......Well."

Teresia responded softly, and her tense body gradually relaxed.The next moment she raised her head and looked at Comand solemnly: "In this case, please tell me what I should do for this victory."

Chapter 37 Turning Point

After the crushing defeat in early June, East Kasdales began to retreat eastward in haste.

The pursuing Wang Ting Army defeated all obstructions along the way. Under the cover of the land fleet, ten infantry divisions violently assaulted Kazdaele City and achieved many tactical victories.

On June 12th, the No.12 Infantry Division of the Wangting Army collided head-on with the No.12 Infantry Division of the East Kazdale Allied Forces on the Hamburg-Cazdale City Highway.In this bloody battle between the two No.[-] infantry divisions competing for the title of "genuine", the Wang Ting Army, which was attacking with all its strength, pushed forward at all costs and by any means, directly rushing into the coalition positions that had been hastily defending, and started bloody hand-to-hand combat. Killed a battalion of the coalition army with a bayonet.

By June 12, the assault group on the center line of the Wang Ting Army completely defeated the blockade of the No. 40 Infantry Division and the No. [-] [-]th Infantry Division of the Allied Forces on the Magdeburg line, and took advantage of the victory to pursue it to the Bensdorf-Michlenflis line. Then he took the initiative to launch a night battle. While attacking frontally, he detoured the East Kazdare Coalition Defense Line from the north. The infiltrating scout detachment threw grenades into the headquarters of the East Kazdare Coalition Third Army at night, and the main force followed. Launched a fierce attack and completely defeated the Allied Third Army with only one division left.The door to Kazdaele City is open!

Immediately, the two divisions of Wang Tingjun's northern line outflanked and attacked from the north side, surrounded and annihilated the coalition forces in Stiednitz-Schönelmark County, and were officially located in the northwest direction of Kazdale City; the two divisions on the southern line also Successfully smashed the defense of Nut Urs.

The north-south outflank of Kazdale City was taking shape. At the same time, the central group of Wang Ting's army began to attack Potsdam City, the gateway to the west of Kazdale City, officially knocking on the gate of Kazdale City.

Wang Tingjun won a brilliant victory.In the twelve days since June, the "irrecoverable losses" such as deaths, serious injuries, and captures of the East Kazdale coalition forces have exceeded [-].From the beginning of the war to the present, the main force of the East Kazdale coalition has changed from the private soldiers of various clans to the newly mobilized National Self-Defense Forces.

However, for Wang Tingjun, the situation is also extremely severe.

Clausewitz once said, "Most strategic offensives can only be carried out until the moment when its strength can still be defended to wait for peace. Beyond this moment, the situation will change drastically, and it will be attacked beyond its own power. hit back, the attacker is in debt."

"That moment" is called "offensive peak".

However, Wang Tingjun had already passed the peak of his attack.

Although The Teresia Group was faintly shaken by the failure, it was still working effectively in many aspects.Apart from the decline of the war, there was another important reason why various families began to separate from Theresa, that is, the National Self-Defense Forces were still recruiting soldiers from various states.

Theresa did not hesitate to create rifts between herself and various factions and consume a lot of political resources. This move has now paid off: as a new batch of National Guard troops have completed mobilization and training and entered the battlefield, the front-line troops of both sides The comparison was officially reversed, from the slight advantage of the Wang Ting Army to 25 Wang Ting Army and 28 East Kazdare Alliance Army, and the coalition's strength advantage continued to expand.

From the start of the war on May [-]st to mid-June, the total casualties of Wang Ting's army exceeded [-], almost one-third of Teresis' pre-war standing troops, and the vast majority of those killed and wounded were from the army Indispensable backbone officers and soldiers in the army, the combat effectiveness of the Wang Ting Army is declining sharply, and it is gradually being thinned by the protracted war.

Behind Teresis, the heavy casualties of the war, high war taxes and Teresia's political legitimacy as the Sarkaz Demon King erased the "invaded" popularity bonus.West Kazdale's anti-war movement came and went, and strikes, tax resistance, and conscription actions continued one after another.The resistance movement in the occupied area is supported by the Atlas organization, and the effect is needless to say, especially the strike and sabotage of the railway workers and land ship-land port workers, so that all kinds of materials necessary for the war are always Unable to reach the front line smoothly.

The Royal Army's front-line troops, who are fighting bloody battles with the East Kazdale coalition, are short of food, ammunition, people, and medicines, while Theresia, who has made major concessions to Atlas, is receiving troops from the Atlas base in the Oder River Basin. A steady stream of supplies.

The only thing that the officers and soldiers of the Wang Ting Army do not lack is the determination to sacrifice any sacrifice for the unification of the motherland.

On June [-], Wang Tingjun launched an attack on the center line, aiming directly at Potsdam.

And Atlas's artillery appeared on a large scale again, and the effect was even more terrifying.In addition to the 155 long-range self-propelled howitzer that Wang Tingjun hated with gnashing of teeth, Atlas also invested in a new artillery battalion——

203MM self-propelled howitzer battalion.

On the twelfth, this battalion single-handedly brought the Wang Ting army's offensive to a standstill: they disabled an entire reinforced infantry battalion of the Wang Ting army in one salvo!

The frightened Wang Tingjun's center line assault group stopped the attack urgently, only [-] kilometers away from Kazdale City.Attacks from other directions also hit a snag to a greater or lesser extent.Based on this, the staff officers of Wang Tingjun quickly outlined a defense line around Kazdale City that stretched for nearly [-] kilometers, with Potsdam as the axis.

Gritting his teeth, Tracy sent the Independence City anti-gun module to the front line again, and then began the last attack towards Kazdale City.

As an afterthought, or even judged from the perspective of God, Wang Tingjun should have turned to defense or even retreated on the spot.But let's use Clausewitz's exact words to explain it.

"In the torrent of movement, the offensive side unknowingly exceeds the limit of the balance of power and exceeds the peak of the attack. It may even happen that the attacker, supported by the unique mental strength of the attack, is exhausted, but it is like pulling a heavy weight. Like a horse going up a hill, it will be less difficult to keep going than to stop."

Faced with the dual disadvantages of military strength and firepower, the Kazdaele Royal Court Army relied on the excellent tactical qualities and tenacious fighting spirit of its officers and soldiers to once again inflict great suffering on the Eastern Kazdaele Allied Forces, which was well-equipped and sufficient in supplies but whose personnel quality was worse than in early June. .

To the northwest of Kazdale City, the Third Army of the Royal Army posed the most direct threat to the north of Kazdale City.Three days later, the infantry regiments of the Wang Ting Army and the National Self-Defense Forces in this area were all formed into reinforced infantry companies, and there were only 200 infantrymen left on the front line.At this price, the Third Army of the Wang Ting Army finally took down Legbru.

On the fourth day, the 15th and 18th Infantry Divisions of the National Self-Defense Forces launched a counterattack and drove the No. 11 Infantry Division of the Third Army of the Royal Court from a position about 35 kilometers away from the Royal Palace of Kazdale City, but it has troops and firepower The double advantage of the National Guard paid three times the casualties of the Royal Army.

The Fourth Army of the Royal Court Army on the southern front rushed even closer, less than 30 kilometers away from Kazdaele City.Tracy received a report from the army: they could already see the spiers of the buildings in Kazdaele City through their binoculars.

On the center line, on the west side of Kazdale City, the assault group composed of the Royal Court Army's First Army and Second Army also stormed the National Guard positions at all costs.Despite receiving absolute orders to hold their ground, the National Guards approaching Kazdale City were being repulsed step by step.

On June [-]th, Teresi issued a general mobilization order to the entire Wang Ting army.He announced that July would be the month Kazdel was reunited!

On the other side, Lieutenant Colonel Lin Huaisheng, chief of staff of the Kazdare Column of the 113th Division of the People's Federation of Foreign Affairs Corps, wrote in the war diary of the East Kazdare Allied Forces General Staff Headquarters that day:

"Although they were exhausted by the war, and the supply stocks of each unit never exceeded two days' worth, and in many cases there was even no food, the Wang Ting Army faced huge disadvantages and still persisted in the offensive tenaciously, heroically, and unyieldingly. Brave and courageous , the power generated by soldiers who are full of confidence in victory is extremely fully demonstrated by the Kazdaele Royal Court Army in the summer of 1093!"

You may have noticed that the people who recorded the war log in the General Staff of the East Casdale Alliance are the soldiers of the People's Alliance.

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Throughout the entire Kazdel Civil War, although its front movement and changes are not as fixed as the Western Front of World War I.But the expression of its battlefield is still very World War I:

Dismounted infantry and towed artillery are the main force of the war. Although land craft and mobile city modules are powerful, they are sparse in number and slow in movement. Their attributes at the operational level are very different from those of the army's mechanized troops. When implementing high-speed mechanized assaults, The effect is very poor.Coupled with their extremely rare and precious attributes to the Terran civilization, land cruisers and mobile cities are almost impossible to lose.This makes it unacceptable to move deep into enemy-occupied territory.

Although the combat power of the land ship is extremely amazing, the number is too small to be used as the backbone of the battle line, and the moving cities are slower and rarer.This makes the form of the Kazdel Civil War dominated by infantry mobile warfare, and the density of troops is not enough to form a dense and continuous front. Therefore, the means of army breakthrough in this war are stronger than the effectiveness of firepower, and the form of war has become infantry. mobile warfare.Trenches and land ships have become important tactical means, but they are not the protagonists.

However, the main force of mobile warfare is still the legs of the infantry, which makes the movement of the front line not fast from a certain point of view: only 20 kilometers were moved in 120 days.Coupled with the tenacious resistance of the East Kazdale coalition forces and the lack of logistical supplies, although the Wang Ting army's frontline troops attacked fiercely, they were at the end of their strength.

Teresia was staring at the dirty footprints on the ground, which were left by a group of Wang Tingjun prisoners who had just been escorted out.

The front line is only forty kilometers away from here, and the captured prisoners can be brought into Kazdale City in only one hour.This group of ragged, dirty, and hungry soldiers made the most intuitive argument for the judgment of the coalition forces: Wang Tingjun was almost overwhelmed.

However, compared to the situation that was not so hopelessly easy, Teresia only felt a burst of bitterness:

The captives still maintained the bearing and posture that soldiers should have.But Sarkaz's natural admiration and love for the Demon King made them flinch and respect again. They called her "His Royal Highness" and answered her questions a little awkwardly...

However, they were still fighting to the death with their Sarkaz compatriots not more than forty kilometers away.

Theresa could certainly treat these captives with gentleness and kindness.However, can she end this war by surrendering to Teresis out of kindness and intolerance, and live up to her followers and all the blood they have shed so far?

Therefore, the only option is to defeat Tracys.Although Teresia has begun to doubt herself up to now, she feels that she is not more capable or smarter than Teresia.

She stood up and walked towards the war room of the General Staff Headquarters.

Since she made a big concession to Atlas, Atlas moved so quickly that she believed that these guys were already ready to fully intervene in the Kazdel civil war:

Atlas's staff sent a large number of personnel and equipment to the Allied General Staff in Kazdel City two hours later; within 24 hours, the main combat force of the Kazdel column arrived in Kazdel In the military area around the city of Zdale; even as many as five divisions of the National Guard troops began to cooperate with Atlas's actions spontaneously, far beyond Teresia's statement about Atlas's penetration of the National Guard. Estimated degree of...

Theresa's wariness and hesitation about Atlas once again arose in her heart.But things had reached this point, and she had no choice but to deal with Traces first, at least until Traces had to stop and provide an opportunity for the next stage of negotiations.

She strode into the combat hall and looked at the staff officers of both sides who were discussing.And Command was standing next to the newly erected large vertical electronic map display screen, staring at the battle plan just described to the allies by the Kazdel column staff.

Unbelievable—that was the only comment Teresia could make.

Teresia is no stranger to the military.As early as the Kazdel Kingdom’s anti-aggression war against the Allied Forces of the Four Nations, she gradually grew from a commoner to a war hero, and finally succeeded in inheriting the power of the previous generation of demon kings—the demon king is just a qualification based on Sarkaz witchcraft , rather than blood.

Even in the recent war, she has been exercising power as the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces who determines strategic directions and policies, and briefly also served as the chief of staff of the coalition forces.

That's why she found Atlas's battle plan incredible: Atlas's plan was to cover the distance that Wang Ting's army spent 20 days to cover in three days, and to use a pincer-shaped offensive to rush into Hamburg, which was the mouth of the encirclement. , and responded to a large-scale urban uprising initiated by local underground organizations.

How can this be?

"Of course it's possible," Comander said to Teresia.

"In the establishment of our Kazdale column, the army has only three brigade-level synthetic battle groups. But the troops of the three brigades have all realized shipboard and mechanization, and some troops have realized informationization, intelligence, and unmanned combat. They can attack without touching the ground, and they are capable of assaulting hundreds of kilometers in one day! Marching 120 kilometers in three days is already a cautious and conservative plan we choose.

"In addition, we also have air assault groups and air forces. Although the air assault groups, whether they are mortals or space fighters, are vulnerable to the contemporary army field troops. But on this land, we are ahead of the times! The commandos who crossed the Wang Ting Army's defense line from the air and seized key points were completely unstoppable by the Wang Ting Army with only light infantry.