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

The No. 70 1000th Regiment, which was the division reserve, was also finished very quickly. The regiment tried to launch a counterattack, but the obstruction of communications made the counterattack under unified command non-existent.The officers and soldiers of the Royal Court, who launched the attack with only courage and courage, really lived up to their expectations. They only advanced [-] meters before breaking into He Fan's chopping block.When they finally saw a long line of tanks and armored vehicles lined up in front of them, they heard shrapnel, arrow shells and incendiary bombs fired by the "Pansilk" self-propelled howitzer and "Gryphon" self-propelled mortar roaring in the sky. .

The commanders and fighters of the battle group did not even realize that this was an entire Royal Court Army infantry regiment launching a counterattack against them, and the troops effortlessly ran over the regiment.At 09:30 in the morning, the battle group began to besiege the core position where the No. 20 Fourth Division command post was located.

The 125MM tank gun of the "Rhino"-B main battle tank and the 30MM cannon of the Bullfrog infantry fighting vehicle educated Wang Tingjun with bloody facts. Fold the paper in half.The largest bunker on the core position was killed by a tank gun:

A thick tracer ballistic trajectory draws a straight line in the air, and together with the scream of a copper whistle, it sinks into the inclined cement layer above the shooting port, and the flames are ejected from all the holes and gaps in the bunker, and four water-cooled weights are plugged in. The bunker of machine guns and two 75MM cannons immediately turned into a pillar of erupting fire.

The officers and soldiers of the Wang Ting Army who witnessed that scene were stunned. It was not until three seconds later that the red rain mixed with blood, pieces of meat and gravel hit their heads, and the soldiers screamed and retreated into the trenches, crouching with their G98 bolt-action rifles in their arms. Shivering in a damp, smelly blasthole.

So in order to boost morale, Brigadier General Hans von Reinhardt, the commander of the No. 20 Fourth Infantry Division of the Wang Ting Army, personally conducted artillery during the battle to block the East Kazdare coalition, using a 75MM light cannon to watch his headquarters in front of the position. A tank company, a total of fourteen Rhino-B main battle tanks bombarded——

Brigadier General Reinhardt became the highest-ranking officer killed in the Kazdel King's Court on the day of the launch of the "Thunderstorm" campaign.

泰拉通用历1093年6月22日1010时，在王庭军第四军的指挥部旁，赫德雷兴高采烈地向贺凡展示了自己部队的战利品：王庭军No.20四步兵师、No.20五步兵师的军旗。

This means that the Fourth Army, one of the only four armies of the Wang Ting Army, has ceased to exist in fact in just three hours.The flag of the Fourth Army was not captured simply because the headquarters of the Army ran fast enough.

Lieutenant Colonel He Fan, accompanied by the chief officers of each unit of the battle group, walked to the two battered and burned military flags.The Fourth Army headquarters next to it was burning, and the flames reflected He Fan's cold and stern face, and there was no trace of joy on his face:

"The real test is yet to come."

This is what he told his commanders.

Chapter 42 The Rebels

"Get me through to the Southern Front Assault Battle Group's advanced command post."

In the combat hall of the East Kazdale coalition general staff in Kazdale City, Comand picked up the microphone.While the narrow and bumpy cabin of the armored command vehicle was displayed on the big screen, Comand's calm and stern voice immediately silenced the noisy combat hall:

"He Fan."

The person in charge of the southern assault simply responded: "Arrival!"

"You and the backbone of your brigade are all veterans. You all know the weight of this mission, but I still have to say a few words to you. This mission is too important, and the history of Kazdaele will be determined by it. Therefore, I must Let me make it clear to you that you must guarantee your party spirit, not compromise, and resolutely complete your tasks!"

"Yes!" He Fan responded concisely.

Commander began to dictate the orders one by one:

"[-]. The successful defeat of the Fourth Army of the Wangting Army is just the beginning. It can be said that it is of little significance. You must ensure that you resume the offensive posture within half an hour. Starting from the current location, we will make a roundabout approach to Hamburg City. There will be a mess. The follow-up troops will go and clean up, do you understand?"

"understand!"

"Second, no matter how many difficulties and casualties there are on the way to attack, you can only move forward, forward, and fearlessly forward! Only one person left will go to Hamburg City! Do you understand!"

"understand!"

"[-]. When arriving in Hamburg, immediately support the local uprising troops, join up with the Northern Front Assault Battle Group, and completely surround Tresis! Even in the worst environment when the uprising was suppressed and the Northern Front Assault did not arrive on time, You must also completely surround it and cut off the enemy's logistics artery! Whether our Kazdare Column can complete its mission, what the outcome of this war will be, and what the future of this country will be all depends on you. Do you understand? !”

"understand!"

"After the battle, I will check your brigade's fighting style based on these three points. Let's go!"

He Fan saw Command banging the table on the video screen, and he replied: "Resolutely complete the task!"

The screen disappears.

Comand put down the microphone and turned around, ignoring the entire battle hall that was silently watching him, but walked slowly to Lin Huaisheng, who was actually the chief of staff of the coalition forces.

"I'm curious, what are you worried about?" Lin Huaisheng stared at the dynamic situation display on the electronic map table. "You and He Fan are old comrades in arms. We worked closely together when we were in Casavallok. Besides, what ability does Wang Tingjun have to stop Wang Tingjun? An assault by an entire heavy combined brigade?”

"The 1102nd Brigade on the Southern Front and the 1103rd Brigade on the Northern Front are both newly established units. There are many new local soldiers, and they have never had any experience in conducting long-distance mechanized assaults in actual combat." Command shook his head, "They train in every The results in the exercises are very good, but will it definitely work this time? I can’t say. The northern front has not yet completely defeated the defense of Wang Tingjun’s Third Army.”

A cold female voice suddenly sounded next to her: "I don't know whether it's easy or not, but Comrade Commander, I must remind you that you haven't slept a wink for 24 hours."

Commander turned his head and looked at Tallulah, who had a cold expression next to him. Ever since he was rescued, Tallulah had maintained a cold and chilling aura, just like the northwest tundra when the two met.

"Two brigades are attacking separately on the north and south lines, and one brigade is on its way to Kazdale City as a battle reserve. The army, fleet, air force, and the combat troops of the entire Kazdale column have already come out, and the fate of a country will be determined." Decided within these 72 hours, the reserve in my hand is only a company of Space Marines and the marines of the various land ships-how can I sleep? How much sleepiness does that have to be?"

Tallulah frowned slenderly: "Then you can guarantee the smooth success of the battle if you collapse?"

Teresia next to him chimed in: "Mr. Commander, I personally suggest that you should take a break."

Commander glanced at the two of them, then turned around and continued looking at the electronic map: "No need, the Red Sickle and Hammer warriors are all made of special materials."

Tallulah exhaled slowly from her high bridge of nose, and shook her head helplessly.

Command asked: "The assault has begun. We as leaders have to wipe the butt of our subordinates who are rushing forward... How many National Guard troops have started taking action as planned?"

Lin Huaisheng shrugged: "Only the No. 14 National Self-Defense Division and the No. 17 National Self-Defense Division began to take action, following up behind the assault arrows on the southern and northern lines, and extending the front to establish an encirclement of the first and second armies of the Wang Ting Army."

"What about the rest?"

Staff Lin paused for a moment and replied slowly: "The National Guard is a new force that was built up in a few months from top to bottom. It is difficult to train usable soldiers at this time, and most of the commanders have not received formal training. Military education, and the staff is even more... As a chief of staff, I can only say... You can read their battle plans as a collection of jokes.

"The attack stop line, rest points and retreat routes of the attacking force, field supply points in the expected occupation area, the action route and assault movements of the second echelon attack, the assembly and evacuation of the wounded, the action plan of the independent artillery unit - these are the most No basic gadgets!”

Commander also sighed: "The chief of staff of the No. 14 National Self-Defense Division is a philosophy teacher, and the chief of staff of the No. 17 National Self-Defense Division is an accountant."

"I..." Lin Huaisheng held his chest and slowly sat on the chair.

"Then the only option is to continue to invest in troops." Comand thought for a moment, and then said, "Use the fleet, artillery and... super-heavy tanks to support the National Guard's assault."

"There is only one battalion of Emperor's Baneblades, and this battalion only has twelve vehicles - super heavy tanks are too difficult to maintain and their mobility is too poor."

"The Wang Ting Army can even carry out a large-scale infantry infiltration attack. Without this, can the National Guards, who only know how to attack during the day and death squads at night, can stop the Wang Ting Army's breakout?"

"...I am not optimistic. As for whether they can successfully follow up the two assault arrows and establish a tight enough encirclement, I am also not optimistic. But no matter what, they can force Wang Tingjun to pay an extremely heavy sacrifice. In order to break through the encirclement only if we suffer losses, we have to throw away all our heavy weapons and be completely light-armed.”

The political commissar (in charge of military command work) of the 113th Division of the Extraterrestrial Corps of the People's Federation of Extraterrestrial Corps sighed together with the chief of staff.

"There is good news." Lin Huaisheng said suddenly, "The uprising in Hamburg and the entire West Kasdale went smoothly, and Thalmann did a great job."

**

At 6:22 am on June 27, ten kilometers west of Hamburg.

The land freighter from West Catsdale is traveling at standard cruising speed and the crew on deck are handling ship duties as usual.The city in the distance is clearly visible, and the Wang Tingjun communication antenna newly erected after the occupation is quite conspicuous.But people no longer have the intention to pay attention to this scenery.

This is just the most common standard cargo ship. It is the product of the balance between cost and efficiency under the current land-based ship technology. Its tonnage and volume are not very large, so the number of workers on the ship is still not large.

Now, there is only one trainee operator on duty in the ship's radio room.The young man hesitantly put the black bread soaked in hot soup into his mouth, while enduring the pain of chaff and even sawdust piercing his throat, he probed to observe the situation on the deck.

The fat captain was still sleeping, and the two Wang Tingjun soldiers accompanying the ship were at the bow of the ship, looking like they wouldn't be coming for a while.So the young trainee operator looked at his watch, turned on the radio, and adjusted it to the frequency mentioned by the buddy from the east.

After a brief radio background noise, voices are heard over the speakers.

"The air was shaking."

It was a steady male voice, and he said in an accent as if he were reciting opera lines: "As if the sky is burning."

The black bread in the young man's hand fell to the cabin floor with a bang, and the crumbs mixed with chaff and even sawdust shattered all over the floor.

At this time, the voice on the radio turned into a determined female voice: "Yes, the storm is coming!"

The trainee operator jumped up as if he were sitting on a stove, smashed open the porthole window of the operator room, and shouted to the busy crew members outside: "The air is shaking! The sky is burning!"

The feeble movements on the deck stopped in unison, and someone asked loudly, "Are you sure?"

Before the words fell, with an explosion coming from a distance, the huge Wang Tingjun antenna roared and fell down.Then three red signal flares flew high from the city of Hamburg, drawing an unsightly arc in the sky.

"I'm sure!"

The operator drew back and began to work, so the voice on the radio came directly from the speakers of the ship's internal public address system, and could be heard even in the engine room.

The captain shook his fat body menacingly and yelled at the door of the radio room: "What are you doing - ah!"

The operator punched him in the face.

The two Royal Army soldiers at the bow unloaded their rifles from their shoulders and planned to rush this way.However, the moment they turned around, a powerful iron fist hit their faces.

The crew stared dumbfounded at the sudden change, then cheered in unison, and at the same time swarmed the two rifles and turned in the two resisting soldiers.

"Comrades! It's time! Let's say goodbye to the shit Tracys stuffed in our mouths!"

At the same time, similar incidents on a larger scale were also taking place in Hamburg.

This city that once resisted fiercely has not surrendered yet.

It all started in a semi-shutdown textile factory.A group of female textile workers walked out of the factory in silence, holding high the rough homemade red flags.There were not many people in this group, with flags in their hands made from the cheapest cloth and dyes, and only tools that must have been picked up casually in the factory, they strode onto the street in large strides.

There were no slogans shouted, nor slogans appealing for anything. The stout working women just kept silent and strode forward, which belonged to the workers, even though their faces were pale because of long-term hunger. Yellow, even pale, but still able to step over several pavement bricks in one step, full of power in the movement.

Their expressions were uniform, a kind of stern silence, the kind that could tell at a glance that they were determined to die and were ready to fight hard.

Passers-by stopped and looked at the group of people, gazing at them with the same expression.When the female textile workers passed through the first intersection, they encountered a long queue in front of a grain and oil sales store.

The clothes of this group of people are almost the same as those of the people carrying the red flag: gray coats with black patches; the old ocher aprons can barely be seen as bright as when they were not destroyed by soap and life.These colors appear dull due to the stains of life and simple and rough scrubbing.

But the difference is that all the people in line are carrying big bags.

People buying flour, like other passers-by, looked at this group of silent people silently.The person at the front of the queue lowered his head, looked at the bag in his hand, then turned to look at the blackboard in the unopened window, his eyes scanning the long list of dazzling zeros under "Today's Price" repeatedly.

The brief silence was finally broken—the man suddenly raised the sack in his hand and threw it on the dusty street.

The military coupons issued by the Kazdaele Military Committee were spattered out of the bag, but the owners of these paper marks didn't even look at them. They walked straight over and joined the silent group of female textile workers.

The rest of the people looked at each other in blank dismay, and then the person who dropped the purse had a second and a third.Banknotes and military tickets issued by the Kazdale Military Council regime flew like snowflakes, and people who had been waiting to buy flour disappeared-they joined the crowd of people waving red flags.

Taking this as a starting point, more and more Hamburg citizens joined this silent team. Every time the red flag passed through an intersection, the size of the team behind it would expand.

Workers from the machinery factory joined the team with hammers and wrenches;

A small civil servant whose loved one died in the siege took out a shotgun;

The butcher who had no supply left his stall and joined the team with a bone chopping knife and ax in hand;

In the small townsman's house by the roadside, the husband kisses his wife and children goodbye, and goes out with a kitchen knife in order to maintain the family;

Even the soldiers of the Royal Court Army pinned the veteran who beat him to the wall with a bayonet, then took off his military uniform jacket and joined the team with a rifle and bullet belt.

These are unremarkable people with vastly different careers and life histories.They are ordinary people who make up the majority.But inspired by something, they came together and moved in the same direction.

More people are still joining the team one after another.

People took out all the red cloth and propped it up on various poles; or simply tied red cloth strips on their arms, necks, and weapons.The dark crowd gradually turned bright red, as if molten steel had just been poured from a steel-making furnace, flooding the streets of Hamburg one after another.

Thousands of ordinary people made their choice.The fire ignited in silence is hotter than this midsummer.In their hearts, solemn male voices and firm female voices still echoed:

"The air is trembling, as if the sky is burning!"

"Yeah, the storm is coming!"

On June 1093, 6, a large-scale civil uprising broke out in Hamburg, and the city announced on that day that it would be separated from the rule of the Kazdel Military Council.