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

Chapter 43 The Rebels II

For He Fan, although Command gave orders to him and his troops in a very serious tone, and although the burden on his shoulders made him feel nervous all the time, the enemy is really not worthy of too much attention-they are completely No anti-armor capability.

The real thing to watch out for is Kazdel's road problems.

As we all know, the most fundamental reason why the Terran civilization built mobile cities is that large-scale natural disasters collectively referred to as "natural disasters" are extremely frequent in the extremely harsh natural environment.This makes the fixed settlements established by the Terran civilization often be seriously threatened, and people's life safety and social production and life will be greatly affected.

Therefore, Terran civilization chose to use mobile cities as the main mode of carrying human society.As for "infrastructure" in the traditional sense, such as roads, the construction level can be imagined.

A rough and dilapidated road, paved with gravel, meanders and extends westward-this is the channel that carries the entire southern assault battle group to advance 72 kilometers in 130 hours!

Even so, such a road is far better than letting the vehicle drive in the wild.That will greatly reduce the marching speed, increase equipment loss, and cause serious losses to the assault speed.Therefore, the implementation of mechanized assault along the highway is a condition that the troops must strive for as much as possible.

However, it is far too easy to destroy such roads, since only a small amount of explosives can cause extensive road damage on gravel roads.Although such an obstacle is not difficult to recover in theory, if the gravel road is dug out and explosives are detonated on the roadbed, it can create an obstacle that is difficult for heavy tracked vehicles to pass through, and it is quite difficult to repair.

The possibility of this is really too great, for example, a Wang Tingjun squad as a rear security unit - it doesn't need to be large, just rank one level.As long as they still have a sense of responsibility to be loyal to their duties, and don't just run away in a panic when they hear the enemy is coming, then whether they are setting up roadblocks, blasting roads or launching a suicide ambush, they can delay time at a very high cost performance.

For Atlas, the most precious thing now is time.

Therefore, for the current Atlas Air Force units in the entire Kazdale area, rather than acting as flying artillery to provide close air support to the two assault groups on the north and south lines, the more important task is: The roads along the route are subject to intensive monitoring for a long time without dead ends, trying to detect acts of attempting to sabotage the roads at the first time, then stop their actions, and report the situation to the assault group.

This is not an easy task for the People's Alliance Air Force in the Kazdaele region.As a space-age army, the People's Alliance Army is roughly divided into the Marine Corps, which fights in the planet's atmosphere, and the Space Fleet, which fights in interstellar space.The situation of the aviation force is more subtle - it has both parts that fight in space and parts that fight in the atmosphere, and there are even amphibious aircraft.

In this way, the division of Army Aviation and Air Force is out of date.The closest to the definition of "Air Force" in the sequence of the People's Federation of Armed Forces is "Marine Corps Aviation".But it is only a combination of tactical air force and army aviation. Even if it is equipped with a large number of dual-purpose super-high-speed military aircraft, the speed and range of movement are extremely powerful, and there are advanced drone swarms responsible for dangerous and dirty close air support. However, the main task of the Marine Corps Aviation is to fight for air supremacy, air support and air interdiction.

This is not a disadvantage in most circumstances: most of the functions of the strategic air force are assumed by the space fleet-such as strategic bombing and long-term continuous surveillance.However, the unique environment of Terra is not suitable for the space fleet to intervene.

For the aviation force, although the Kazdare area is a small place as big as a palm, the tactical aircraft are too few and cannot provide enough sorties, and the aviation reconnaissance is not timely and rigorous enough.The Awami League forces do have advanced technology, but the "fog of war" still shrouds the battlefield in large quantities, and the power currently invested is not enough to uncover them at all times.In this way, it seems inevitable that the enemy from nowhere will blow up the road and cause traffic jams and delays?

But to everyone's surprise, these things didn't happen.On the two highways with a length of more than [-] kilometers, dense settlements and populations along the way, and as an important part of the Wang Ting Army's logistics supply line, the Wang Ting Army troops did not even have a company-scale exchange of fire with the two assault groups.

There are many reasons for this.Undoubtedly, the strict secrecy measures of Atlas before the war, the aviation force's efforts to search and attack all Wang Tingjun units on the road, the suddenness and high speed of mechanized assaults, and the electronic countermeasures and hard killing methods against Wang Tingjun's communication methods are very important. important role.

However, the most important reason is that Atlas's impressive advanced weapons and new tactics seem to be incompatible at first glance.

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"Boss, there is a situation!"

A concise voice and image report came from the first car.Captain Bidenfeld looked at the large display screen in front of him, showing a surprised expression: a young man dressed as a farmer stood in the middle of the road, waving at the Atlas advance unit with red cloth strips wrapped around the gun barrel and antenna. Hands - Red strips were wrapped around his arms too.

"Stop advancing! Put on the second squad and go up to contact."

The armored infantry of the mechanized troops of the Marine Corps of the People's Republic of China will wear medium-sized power armor with a height of two meters in combat.Although this thing has strong firepower and good defense, it has an excellent military information system that allows users to successfully complete combat missions in the most extreme environments. It is a very practical infantry equipment.However, although an overly deterrent appearance can scare the enemy, it is likely to be a disservice in civil actions.

The two-meter-high iron can and the even more terrifying remote-controlled fighting iron man obviously awed the young man so much that he was unable to speak clearly.It wasn't until the second squad leader opened his helmet and proved that there was a big living person under the ferocious and thick metal armor that he straightened his tongue:

"...Comrade Atlas, I was sent by the village to be your guide!"

The second squad leader asked him: "What's the situation?"

"After hearing your movement in the morning, the military workers in our village messed up all the road signs in this area, trying to mislead the West Rangers for reinforcements! Then we learned from the radio that you are coming..."

The second squad leader showed an expression like "I heard that the large intestine that was eaten into the mouth was not washed clean": "You...you can do it."

"Also! We have a platoon of Wang Tingjun stationed in our village! We just blocked them in the yard, but we couldn't beat them..."

The second squad leader's eyes widened in surprise: "It's blocked?"

"There must be no one running out! The superior ordered us to hold back all the enemies approaching the road as much as possible and protect the road as much as possible, then we will do a good job!"

The young man's words made the second squad leader have a little respect for the friendly army.Then the company commander directly ordered: "Assist in the second squad and help them solve their problems. I only give you 5 minutes! Also, watch out for traps, no matter which side they are from!"

——Who knows if this young man will be "Wang Erxiao".

The second squad leader thought for a while, and then he clicked a few times on the touch screen panel on the left forearm of his power armor, and used a miniature stereoscopic projection head to display a map of the village based on the aerial photography of the small drone on the left arm. Displayed in front of him: "Show me the deployment and firepower configuration of the Wang Ting Army."

"Okay sir, this abandoned yard, thirty people, one machine gun, no magicians and others. They ran to our village a week ago, and we let them go to the abandoned yard in the east of the village where they were stationed four days ago Cold gun..."

The second squad leader quickly marked on the digital map, and then pointed to a diagonal alley in the village: "Can our armored vehicles drive through this alley?"

The young man looked at the tanks and infantry fighting vehicles on the road, and the admiration and envy in his eyes were undisguised: "No, they are too wide!"

"Well, it doesn't matter if it's just infantry...you lead the way, what's your name?"

"Otto Karius!"

"Okay, Otto." The second squad leader pointed to the small village on the side of the road where there was no sound of gunshots, "Remember to always stay by my side—"

"I understand, comrade, if I were a traitor, then I should be shot on the spot. There is no problem, I would do the same if I were you. However, please allow me to participate in the attack, give me weapons, I want to kill the special forces Resis! They hanged my father because he demanded money from them. They also killed Stockmann, my teacher! They also..."

"Okay." The second squad leader hesitated. Although he is already a veteran of the People's Federation Army, his actual age is not much different from this young man. The young man's words moved him somewhat, "You can participate in the attack, but follow me closely. . You have to lead the way from now on, do you understand?"

"understand!"

The human infantry and combat ironmen of the second infantry squad immediately rushed into the village lanes - a standard People's Alliance heavy armored infantry squad may only have three or four people from the infantry fighting vehicle crew to the dismounted infantry, but it can still provide ten The combat power of a combat infantry and an infantry fighting vehicle all relies on automation technology.

Three minutes later, the gunfire in the village completely subsided, and a dull-faced young man came out behind the People's Federation armored infantry. Yes, but our task is to rush to Hamburg within three days, and we can't afford the delay!"

The military worker captain was stunned: "What? Three days?! How is that possible?"

"That's our business! You have to inform all the military workers and guerrillas like you along the way, and do everything possible to help us rush to the place on time, everyone!"

"We will do our best to notify you! Otto, you follow them to show the way!"

"Okay!" the boy replied cheerfully.

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As a result, Bittenfeldt found that his assault eventually turned into a long-distance march training.Every village on the road passed by had red flags hung on the roadside.The worst situation encountered was when the guerrillas tightly entangled the Wang Ting Army detachment trying to rush to the road.Then any car in the company passed by and let go of the Wang Tingjun who were so unlucky that their teeth could not drink cold water.

The most intense "resistance" encountered by the advance team was just a few guerrillas who directed the way and threw bouquets of flowers on the car.The People's Alliance commanders and fighters who originally looked down upon the people of Terra are now sincerely grateful to these Sakaz people.

Karius, the only one in the village who had been to Hamburg, had no time to get out of the car between the hasty march and the battle.Although theoretically he only needs to point out the road near his own village, but he was taken to the outskirts of Hamburg in a hurry——

And saw the bridge over the Elbe River with bullets flying and guns firing all around.

Most of the city has been captured by the insurgents, but the Wang Ting army in Hamburg did not collapse immediately.These garrison, logistics, communication, teaching, replenishment, training, engineering, and other messy units were temporarily assembled to form a battle group, and they temporarily fought back and forth with the more rabble-like insurgents who only had blood and courage.Even without receiving any orders, they sent troops to seize the bridge on the eastern outskirts of Hamburg!

From volunteer citizens to defectors to the royal court army, from workers' armed forces to underground organizations, from the enemy's rear troops to workers' armed forces, and then to Atlas's infiltration team, the insurgents also violently attacked the bridge.But Wang Tingjun had seized most of the bridges, and even braved the fierce firepower of the insurgents to install explosives!

——You must know that blasting bridges is considered a high-risk task even in the army. Engineers must hang on safety ropes and descend to the load-bearing structure of the bridge to place explosives. If the bridge is made of stone or cement, they must also carry drilling equipment .At this time, if an engineering accident occurs, he will either be killed on the spot or fall to his death.

When the Atlas tank with red cloth strips appeared in the distance, the morale of the rebel army was immediately boosted, while the Wang Ting army fell into panic.

The commander of the Hamburg unit of the "Walter" sabotage force behind enemy lines, the former Sarkaz mercenary and Theresia's single pusher Miss W, who led her own unit to participate in the battle, ran over to prepare to meet with friendly forces in person regardless of the stray bullets around them.

Then what happened... In the words of her subordinates: "Every time she laughs, it's always bad. But she always laughs—this time she finally can't laugh!"

In W’s own words: “[Sarkaz’s swearing]—Actually, if you want me to go to those armored vehicles again, I refuse in my heart, because if you can’t let me post it, I will post it immediately. First of all, I have to think about it, because I don't want to encounter something that will blind my eyes after posting it, and my hair will stand on end at once, which is very numb and awkward.

"At that time, regardless of the machine guns sweeping in my direction, I crawled to the side of the road and stood up. I was just about to guide those chariots over. When I came back to my senses and wanted to retreat, more than a dozen cars ran over the track marks of the lead car and followed-even if one of the gangsters shook their hands, I would become fucking It's W sauce!

"Can you imagine? More than a dozen tanks and infantry fighting vehicles lined up to play drifting and rushed towards the curve. After the battle, we walked on the road and found that there was only one track mark on the ground—the dozen or so tanks The car actually drifted against the track marks of the first tank!"

——In response to this extremely anxious scene, the royal army was anxious, the rebel army was anxious, and Bittenfeldt was equally anxious:

If the bridge was destroyed, there would be absolutely nothing his company could do in the face of a considerable water system obstacle like the Elbe River.Either go to the trouble of finding a ford to cross, or wait until the engineers from the brigade come up to assist.God knows how much effort that would be wasted.

In order to hurry up, the captain didn't care about anything, and rushed up with the entire company's tanks and infantry fighting vehicles:

"There are all of them, the column remains the same all the way, follow me!"

"Wait, old Bi, those bastards are installing explosives—"

"Don't care! The whole battle depends on our company! Take down the bridge!"

This move of the "Black Lancers" seems reckless, but the effect is quite good. The two four-vehicle tank platoons, two four-vehicle armored infantry platoons and the two tanks of the command group of this tank-armored infantry composite company , a total of 18 steel monsters weighing dozens of tons rushed over at a speed of hundreds of kilometers.While crushing the earth and shaking, while spitting flames crazily, the weapon station on the roof sent lasers, bombs and plasma balls flying all over the sky, and even the armored infantry all passed through the shooting holes in the car body or opened the infantry vehicle crew compartment On the top cover, all kinds of long guns and short cannons were used to sweep and shoot indiscriminately.

The deterrent effect of this action is astonishing.Two full companies of Wang Tingjun collapsed immediately. As the "Black Lancer" company rushed to the west bank, the other two companies of Wang Tingjun only lasted for 5 minutes before they dispersed.

Judging from the report afterwards, the bridge had piled up a lot of explosives on the bridge at that time. If it hadn’t been installed in time, or even plugged in the fuse, the engineers were frightened again, “The black gun The whole company of "Cavalry" may have been collectively included in the list of martyrs of the People's Federation with a bang.

But in any case, the People's Alliance Army once again demonstrated its professionalism. The estimated three days was too conservative: the brigade-level regiment responsible for carrying out the main assault mission took only 130 hours to advance 24 kilometers in a hilly area. , the first 23 kilometers of which were completed within [-] hours; the advance detachment of the company even joined the Hamburg rebels at [-] o'clock in the morning on June [-] - in contrast, Wang Tingjun had not even been able to Confirm what happened to the defeated Third Army and Fourth Army that were selected as the breach.

As the "Black Lancers" entered the city of Hamburg after a short rest, they used their own firepower and armor to assist the rebel army to pull out points; and the advance detachments of the friendly forces on the northern line and the main assault forces on the northern and southern lines arrived one after another. On June 1093, 6, With the "acquiescence" of the Atlas electronic countermeasure force, the defenders of Hamburg City sent the first and last telegram to Teresis under Kazdel City:

"The troops are approaching the city, there is a full-scale riot, the mountains and rivers are exhausted, God bless my king!"

The end of the Kazdel Civil War has been sealed.

Chapter 44 The Tide Turns

By June 6th, Wang Tingjun, who was in a hurry during heavy shelling, air interception, electronic countermeasures and diversionary attacks, finally figured out what happened——

As time passed, the scattered troops finally brought the information into the encirclement.At the same time, the National Guard, advancing under the cover of powerful firepower from Atlas land ships, ground artillery, and aviation, was also on their way without stopping.

Facts once again brutally prove that an iron army that must overcome offense and defend must win, never waver and never be discouraged can not be created casually.The National Guard was full of enthusiasm under the propaganda of the Teresia Group and the ideological and political work of Atlas, and the material conditions were sufficient under the logistical support of Atlas; then there were more problems.

The infantrymen of the National Self-Defense Forces who are responsible for forming the main encirclement are unsatisfactory in terms of marching speed and assault speed-their morale can be regarded as strong, but the organization is really not good.Without officers and non-commissioned officers with sufficient experience, the tactical operations of the troops are poorly organized or even impossible to organize, even if everyone wants to fight.

Until June 6, the encirclement front between the two endpoints of Hamburg and Kazdale City was still not completely connected.

However, on the other side, the situation facing Wang Tingjun is much more severe.

As the Atlas assault group successfully rushed to Hamburg to cut off the transportation hub and logistics artery, the already difficult logistics supply work of the Wang Ting Army completely collapsed.But Wang Tingjun began to counterattack in front of the East Kazdale coalition forces, and Wang Tingjun also tried hard to stop the National Self-Defense Forces from the two breakthroughs in the northwest and southwest. Wang Tingjun's insufficient frontier material reserves were now completely bottomed out.

It should be noted that a division-level combat unit consumes at least 100 tons of supplies every day.Of course, this number is not rigorous. For example, the daily material consumption of the German infantry division in World War II was about [-] tons, while the U.S. infantry division consumed [-] to [-] tons a day; The daily consumption of materials can reach tens of thousands of tons, and the consumption of contemporary brigade-level units can also reach thousands of tons; although the People's Federation Army is highly mechanized, it avoids fuel, which accounts for the majority of material consumption, by virtue of the full electrification of transportation and combat vehicles. largest share of items.

The main force of Wang Ting's army is nothing but infantry on foot with two legs and one gun. The proportion of automatic weapons is very small, and there are powerful transportation vehicles such as land transport ships that do not conform to the times.From this point of view, Wang Tingjun's logistics pressure is not that great.

However, it is also an extremely difficult task for the military council regime to maintain a long-term battle of more than 20 people.Wang Ting’s army also suffered from insufficient supplies during the battle deep into the East Casdale area. Food, quilts, ammunition, medical equipment, harnesses, spare parts for animal-drawn carts and Originium-powered vehicles, stationery, paper, etc. were never available. I've been rich.Of course, on the other hand, Wang Tingjun can still guarantee the basic combat needs of the troops, and has not been reduced to the point of snatching shoes from ordinary people's homes-the consumption of shoes by soldiers walking on two legs is amazing.

But now, this already unsatisfactory logistics has completely pulled the crotch.Aurora's ballistic missile fire assault directly aimed at Wang Tingjun's strategic high-value targets.Wang Tingjun, who is far away in Bonn, don't even think about safety.

For example, the Bonn Ordnance Industry Cluster, where the Wang Ting Army implements military control, is the most important node in the supply of weapons and equipment for the Wang Ting Army, and it is located on the exclusive independent mobile city module of Bonn.Then the warhead that fell from the sky pierced the mobile arsenal that Teresis had devoted countless efforts from the top floor to the bottom of the chassis.Together with the technical and management personnel who enjoy the treatment of generals and colonels of the Wang Tingjun Army, the loyal technical and managerial personnel to Tracys; and the workers who have a sense of belonging here because of the triple salary exploded into gorgeous fireworks.

With 24 ballistic missiles, for the pauper Kazdale, it can be said that he will lose money wherever he bombs.But in order to seize the extremely precious opportunity and achieve the greatest strike effect, the decision-making committee of Kazdel's column directly decided that Aurora should launch a double number of ballistic missiles to ensure the killing effect.

The Wang Ting Army's land fleet, which was undergoing maintenance and rotation at the local dry port in Bonn, was attacked in the port, and a considerable number of military port facilities suffered heavy losses.Wang Tingjun lost 5% of the land fleet's capital ships and the largest military land port base in 40.00 minutes - I have to say that although the mobile city is very romantic and spectacular, a big problem as a military base is that it can The space and area used are too small, the density of personnel and equipment is high, and the interior is crowded.It is certainly not feasible to expect a few ballistic missiles to completely destroy a large naval base or air force station, but it is not difficult to paralyze a mobile city that is closer to a ship in nature.

The most terrible thing was the attack on the warehouse directly under the Wangting Army Logistics Supply Command in the outer suburbs of Bonn.In the face of multiple ballistic missiles equipped with cluster warheads falling from the sky, Wang Tingjun's warehouse management security work level is obviously completely unable to cope.Millions of rounds of shells in stock and being released from the warehouse all exploded within a few minutes, ripples like water splashed across the entire land, and all the glass windows in Bonn, more than ten kilometers away, shattered.

If it weren't for the consideration that the headquarters of the Wang Ting Army is located in the urban area of ​​Bonn, and the use of ballistic missiles would inevitably cause heavy casualties to civilians, the generals and academies of the Wang Ting Army would not even have the opportunity to worry about this huge pile of troubles.

When the news of the Hamburg uprising came, the frightened Wang Tingjun General Staff realized that there were only two new divisions in the reserve team that they could dispatch immediately.Even if the two divisions were ordered to set off for Hamburg immediately, it would be too late.By the time these two divisions rushed to the outskirts of Hamburg, there were no longer any established Wangting Army units in Hamburg.Immediately afterwards came the cordial greetings from the Atlas aviation and artillery. The air force violently attacked any active target within a radius of [-] kilometers centered on Hamburg. all roads.

These two divisions are not like the frontline troops who have seen the artillery and air force of Atlas. They actually marched swaggeringly on the road, and were directly blown into collapse from the marching state. They couldn't even complete the most basic reassembly...

At the same time, although the level was limited, the active National Guard still stumbled along the assault route of the two combined brigades of Atlas and successfully formed an encirclement that was at least about to close.

The poor performance of the National Self-Defense Forces left a large area behind Wang Tingjun completely unguarded for at least 36 hours.However, these precious opportunities were wasted——

Communication interference and air interdiction have seriously hindered the speed at which the Royal Court Army's frontline headquarters can obtain information; the tactical counterattacks of the East Kazdel Alliance Army and the National Guard on the defense line around Kadsdale City have interfered with the judgment of the Royal Court Army commander, sticking to the situation that might have been dispatched. At the moment, the main force of the Wang Ting Army is gathered under the city of Kazdel, and there is no force larger than the battalion on the assault route, which can neither stop the breakthrough of Atlas's mechanized troops nor stop the follow-up Entire divisions of the National Guard forming an encirclement...

Therefore, amidst the chaos, Wang Tingjun was in great trouble!