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

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"Chariots! Chariots! Terrible chariots! We have no chariots!"

The screams of the broken soldiers came from outside the shelter.Fortunately, this is not the forward position that was completely panicked in the Atlas counterattack, and a scream could trigger a collapse.The gendarmes of Wang Tingjun fired guns at the sky and shouted orders, and finally succeeded in suppressing the chaos of the rout soldiers.

Tracys was deaf to the screams outside, he was just leaning over the map with colored pencils, a ruler, and a counting marker, and personally marked the judgment results of the piles of intelligence on the map.

Today is already June 6th, and Wang Tingjun found himself an unlucky guy caught between a hammer and an anvil, and the East Kazdale coalition launched a full-scale counterattack.

That terrible land battleship opened the way for the counterattack on the Eastern Front with unimaginable and terrifying artillery fire. Each shell of the 460mm giant naval gun weighs [-] tons, and its power can be imagined.All the positions of the Wang Ting army that became the target of its bombing, those winding trenches and the officers and soldiers hiding in them all literally disappeared, disappeared in the blue-purple explosion flames, leaving only the continuous giant pits.

The coalition forces took these positions with ease.

The Wang Ting army, with its back on its back, tried to fight back, but soon there was a sense of astonishment that the moon became one and the sun became a square: swarms of armed drones and vertical take-off and landing gunboats rushed towards them like cheetahs seeing their prey !

The officers and soldiers of the Royal Court have always been proud of being the most advanced army in the entire Kazdaele: the original dense horizontal column tactics were replaced by the wave-like charge of new infantry equipped with machine guns, mortars, and close cooperation with engineers; land cruisers The long and inefficient fire preparation of mobile city defense artillery was supplemented by new mobile and flexible field artillery.

The unprecedented super heavy artillery is still within the scope of everyone's understanding, but hordes of military aircraft attack them with skillful coordination and perfect tactics-this is fucking unscientific!The promotion of bolt-action rifles and heavy machine guns is already one of the best in this land!This is the wrong way to open it!

No matter how much you think about it in your heart, it can't change the cruel reality on the battlefield:

The cheap armed drones responsible for sticking to the face and licking the ground are in groups every time they appear. First, they use promethium incendiary bombs to cover the entire row and company of the royal army officers and soldiers into a sea of ​​​​flames, and then the Gatling under the nose of the aircraft assaults them. The gunboats fired fiercely, smashing the officers and soldiers of the Wang Ting army into pieces on the ground; the "Thunderhawk" and "Valkyrie" gunboats, which were full of various direct and projectile weapons, let the soldiers on the ground The soldiers of Wang Tingjun were blown into flying fragments and died horribly.

Damn Atlas made it worse—he still threw the grenade with the safety tab pulled out: Under the cover of armed drones and armed gunboats, general-purpose and transport gunboats roared, and the whole squad of Atlas The infantry planes landed and embedded into the defense line of Wang Ting's army like nails, making Tracy's troops miserable.

It’s true that the airborne squads were small in number, but they were well-equipped to the point where they could completely overcome the disadvantage of numbers: there were quite a few whole companies of Wang Ting’s army who tried to wipe out the helpless enemy all at once, but ended up being used by a squad on the opposite side. Las rifles and pulse plasma guns have seen heavy casualties.

Those guys with a set of power armor and plenty of firepower and ammunition are difficult enough to deal with, not to mention that these guys can call in abnormally accurate artillery fire.There are often cases where the firepower of 132 or even 155 guns directly "smashed" the skirmish line of Wang Ting's army, while the Atlas infantry who were only 50 meters away were unscathed.

Although these infiltrators are small in number, they are very troublesome.With the unprecedented means of air maneuvering, they could exist anywhere in Wang Tingjun's territory, which really caused Wang Tingjun to shed enough blood.

But then again, if Atlas only relied on this set of scouts to get close to calling artillery fire, the battle would not be completely impossible to fight.No matter how fierce the firepower is, it is impossible to completely wipe out the enemy in the position.Even if Wang Tingjun only had hands and shovels to build fortifications, relying on field fortifications to launch defenses and use the terrain to ambush and block the infantry on the attacking side may be a little passive, and the casualties will inevitably be tragic, but it is the one that can offset the technological gap between the two sides to the greatest extent under the current conditions Method.

However, Atlas is not only good at this trick.

When the large number of infantrymen of the National Self-Defense Forces followed the battle group with the mechanized infantry of the People's Federation and the "Emperor Bane" super heavy tanks as the core, the officers and soldiers of the Wang Ting Army were in a terrible mood.

In the reform of the former imperial armed forces after the establishment of the People's Federation, improving the military technology and military theory of this army is a crucial task.In this tide of reform, the status of super-heavy tanks has plummeted.The reason is that the super-heavy tanks represented by the Emperor Bane are at a loss in the firepower, mobility and information-oriented army reform.

However, the galaxy is too big, and the battlefields and enemies faced by the former imperial army are also too complicated.Any kind of military theory, and the army built under its guidance, has its own shortcomings.It is beneficial to maintain diversity in the military's fighting style and weaponry.

——Using the Emperor Shiv to deal with the company's first-level units synthesized suspension tanks and flying power armors. Of course, it is not suitable for the highly informatized Tau Empire army. It is said that "penetrating and defending" was defeated by "Xinhuoyiyi".But isn't it just right to use their eleven guns and solid armor against the endless variety of fortifications in the fortified area?

Therefore, after the supreme sacred object has become a consumable, and the high-end main battle tank has become a special unit with a narrow range of application, the super-heavy tanks are responsible for breaking through the enemy's strong fortified areas in the offensive battle of the People's Federation Army The fortification group in the defensive battle is responsible for serving as a mobile fort to strengthen the defensive zone and move forward to the warning position.Here, relying on firepower and armor to slowly gnaw at Wang Tingjun's position, it happens to be a professional counterpart.

For the Terran army, super-heavy tanks are closer to small land ships, and are more familiar than conventional tanks in terms of use, tactical logic, and cooperative operations.Therefore, when the Emperor's Poison Blades came out, the Tyrayans were not as shocked as they were when they saw the aviation soldiers for a whole year, nor did they see the unbelievable feeling when they saw the conventional tanks, only there were "land assault boats" to support their group of big heads Soldiers rejoice, or feel a headache because the enemy actually pulled out this thing.

But when Baneblade fired, both sides of the Kazdel Civil War were shaken—

The giant battle cannon on the Emperor's Baneblade turret only used one shot, and Wang Tingjun tried his best to protect it like an eyeball. Now, the front half of the land combat ship that was launched to face off was shattered, and the second half was blown into the air... ..

The giant battle cannon and the "Destroyer" mortar on the front of the vehicle roared, and the strongest fortifications and armor were torn apart; every time the small laser turret on the vehicle fired, the air was filled with ionization effects and the stench of burning human bodies. , the melted armor flowed down like tears; the automatic cannon juxtaposed with the main gun and the heavy bolt machine gun turret on the car body roared fiercely, beating all enemy infantry trying to approach into blood mist filling the air.

The people of Terra finally found a weapon with a similar purpose and design in Atlas, and then felt the technological gap between the two sides most intuitively from this thing:

The technical officers of Wang Tingjun calmly analyzed and pointed out the possible weaknesses of these things to the commanders.First of all, they admit that it is difficult for Terra technology to achieve this kind of firepower effect with a weapon system of this size, even with Originium technology weapons.And for the Terrans, allocating so much load and space to weapons on a land speeder/super-heavy tank of this size will make the weapon system lack the necessary protection measures, and let the crew burn their faces with a single shot Infected from the Originium Dust.

However, even if Atlas can avoid the above-mentioned problems, too many guns will inevitably affect the protection performance. The technical officers analyzed the theoretical protection weaknesses of this thing from the perspective of vehicle engineering; The suspension system of ships has always been a serious problem. In the current hilly area, let it break through a few positions, and it will lie down on its own.

These beautiful fantasies were shattered by cruel reality one after another.

The technical officers received a record taken by a colleague who died in battle before his death: all the firepower of the entire battalion was desperately shooting at a certain Baneblade, only to be swept away by the calm super-heavy tank mobilizing various guns.The most powerful warlock in the battalion used self-destruct to leave a tennis ball-sized dent in the super-heavy tank, and—

The twisted, dented metal deformed eerily of its own accord, like a spring gushing from the bottom of a puddle to fill it up, making it level with the surrounding ground.Within seconds, the dimples in the tank's armor were smoothed back to their original shape.The camera even fully recorded the process of the tank armor "rising" from the bottom of the pit like a liquid, and then "solidifying" into armor.

Of course, Wang Tingjun's technical officers would not know about the powerful aliens called "Necromancers" and their memory metals in another universe. They just stared at the video ending with the muzzle of a heavy-bomber machine gun aimed at the camera in silence—— The abnormal technology gap overturns all engineering practical analysis based on the existing technical level.

"Self-healing..."

As for the reliability of this thing, it is more intuitive - when one position after another fell, none of these things were paralyzed. It seems that there is no problem with the suspension system. The speed is not very fast, but the reliability is guaranteed.

The form on the battlefield is still massacre. The difference is nothing more than eating artillery shells and air strikes when rushing towards the Atlas airborne infantry squad; or giving everything that can hit, explode and burn to the Emperor's Baneblade super-heavy tanks. , but only a variety of things were not penetrated, and then the huge gun barrel was pressed against the face and killed with one shot.

In the face of these novel or reliable attack methods, Wang Tingjun had to waver and retreat at the beginning of the blockade on the eastern front of the battlefield.The overwhelmed generals reported to Teresis: "The enemy is advancing...but we can't stop them by all means!"

The lower-level officers and soldiers of the Wang Ting Army were hungry, dizzy, and at a loss. They suffered physical and psychological damage from being crushed by artillery fire and tanks. Speed ​​learned the word "Panzer!"

But on the western front of the battlefield, the breakout operation that opened up a way out for the entire army also fell into desperation.

Chapter 45 Fog of War

"Swooping down, we spew flames, leaving a roar from hell!

"We either live in glory or die in flames!"

——A minor tune of the Marine Corps Air Force of the People's United Army

"After the fall of Hamburg, the Atlas Air Force began to carry out violent attacks on our troops in the vast area from Kazdaele to Hamburg. We completely cannot understand why such a complete and powerful air force appeared in the city. On this battlefield, it is obvious that the current technical level is still difficult to mass-produce manned aircraft... But in the face of the cruel reality, this logic is meaningless:

"The war suddenly changed from a flat battlefield to a three-dimensional battlefield, and the sky was completely used by the enemy - the enemy's air force held absolute air supremacy. The First Army and the Second Army were hit by seven large-scale air strikes in three days, each Each wave has 8 to 40 enemy aircraft of various types. There are fires and bomb craters everywhere in the roads, plains, hills and woods. Fleets are almost completely crippled by air strikes. Sometimes even an orderly on a bicycle on a road can bring in an air strike."

——王庭军前线司令部，1093年度6月份第4号作战报告，1093年6月28日

Traces, who was lying on the map, stood up and looked at the commanders and division commanders of the Royal Court Army who had just exhausted their efforts and finally arrived at him.He showed the map: "Everyone should know how urgent the situation is - our troops melt and disappear like snow in spring, but they can hardly cause casualties to the enemy."

The generals of Wang Tingjun couldn't even smile wryly: everyone had an antenna in their command post, so they recruited planes to come over.Even the senior commanders of the army are like this, and the situation on the front line can be imagined.

"On the Kazdale City defense line, the East Kazdale coalition forces have invested in reserves, cannons, land fleets, and land assault boats-Atlas has fully intervened in the war. Their strength is very strong. It can be said that Our attack on Kadsdale City has come to an end."

Tracy's expression was calm and his voice was calm: "Moreover, the situation is not as simple as 'we can't take Kazdale City'. On June 22, the enemy's 'mushroom cloud bombs' and tank clusters assaulted in three Within hours, the Third Army on the Northern Front and the Fourth Army on the Southern Front were defeated. Large-scale civil riots broke out in Hamburg, and Hamburg fell on June 25.

"Our current reconnaissance of the northern and southern flanks and the rear shows that the National Guard is advancing as fast as possible, and that an encirclement encircling the entire First and Second Armies and the remnants of the Third and Fourth Armies is forming; it may even have already been formed. "

The generals of the Wang Ting Army looked at the map in silence, looking at the huge red encirclement surrounding their own troops and even the entire main force of the Wang Ting Army.

"We must immediately launch a breakout and retreat operation, give up the attack on Kazdale City, and preserve our vital forces...There are 16 people in this encirclement. They are the most elite part of the Royal Court Army. Losing them, Wang Tingjun has virtually ceased to exist.” Teresi said, taking off his glasses—the result of his long-term responsibility for the headquarters—“but the difficulties are also obvious. For a long time, both our land ships and the enemy’s land ships have been attacked. Kazdel’s topographical conditions are so restrictive that throughout the war, the Land Fleet has never been able to serve as an assault force, but only a mobile artillery position.”

Lieutenant General Alfred Tirpitz, the commander of the frontline land fleet of the Wangting Army, took a step forward: "General, I have to remind you that our fleet actually does not exist anymore. Since the enemy launched a large-scale air strike, The land fleet with the largest target suffered the heaviest blow. Just yesterday, the last intact large battleship, the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, was also moderately damaged in the air attack..."

"So the land fleet, which has absorbed 60.00% of the military expenditure of the Wang Ting Army, is now just a pile of scrap metal." Tresis said.

Tirpitz stopped talking, his face turning blood red with anger and embarrassment.

"Considering the current realistic needs of our army, I order: All the sailors who lost their warships should be armed with light weapons and formed into infantry units. And all the maneuverable ships of the Land Fleet should be gathered and head towards Brunswick in the northwest direction. -A full-scale assault on the Hannover axis."

There was a moment of silence.Then Tirpitz said: "General, I must point out to you that although looking at the current situation on the entire battlefield, going straight to Hanover is currently the enemy's weakest defense route to break through. But the current problem is that the land fleet is scattered. If we come to concealment, concentrated operations will be severely hit by the enemy's air power, and considering the loss of the capital ship; the city of Hamburg, where the Atlas ground troops gather, is also relatively close to us, I can hardly guarantee... .”

"This is just misleading, my Fleet Minister." Teresis stared at the map, "Reduce the crew configuration of the remaining ships to the minimum, as long as they can start. The rest of the crew will break through on foot. The intention to storm Hanover is too obvious , Leave the seeds of the land fleet, and then let our fleet play its final role."

Tirpitz showed an extremely contorted expression, but in the end he just let out a long sigh.

Manfred asked: "So, General, which will be our breakout route?"

Tracys did not answer, but continued: "At the same time, I need a regiment of troops to follow the land fleet to attack Hannover. This false attack force must be disguised as a large-scale main force as much as possible to attract the attention of the enemy." force.

"Then, after confirming that the enemy's air and tank forces are being drawn northwards and departing from Hamburg for the Hannover area - draw up orders, and after the deception of the enemy has been successfully carried out, our army will follow the route south of Hamburg The Göttingen-Paderborn axis to force through the enemy lines and return to West Kazdale... Ready? Show me."

Manfred handed over the paper.Include written orders, timetables of operations, and roadmaps for operations.Tracy checked and inspected them one by one, and then returned to Manfred: "Very good. Find a way for the enemy to get it."

There was an eerie silence in the shelter.

Tracys went on: "Find a dead body, put him in a staff uniform or something, and put that in the briefcase of the fake staff officer—and the fake troop on the south side of Hamburg was a regiment at most. .But the radio from the front headquarters will follow them directly. The regiment in charge of the feint will move rapidly south of the Hamburg area, and the radio will also make a feint."

"Finally, the main force of the entire army must use the highest level of camouflage and concealment measures, turn off the radio, and head southwest. We will rush through the Fulda Valley and return to West Kasdale!"

After further refining and arranging some details, and re-planning the means of communication and plans, the generals broke up the meeting.

When only Manfred and Tracys were left in the shelter, Manfred finally couldn't help it anymore: "General!"

"What's the problem?"

"Why do we have to let our troops do the mission of dying, and even sacrifice our last battleship? If the enemy in the direction of the feint finds that he has been attacked by the Royal Court's troops, the probability of thinking that this is the main attack will definitely be high." Higher than our soldiers jumping up and down with their teeth and claws! And they are smaller, and they are easier to hide and leave the battlefield-"

Tracy raised a hand, and Manfred stopped talking.

Tracy said calmly, "Manfred, what's the difference between a scavenger, a shapeshifter, an absolutist, and a gorefiend?"

"...The first three are realists. Compared with Your Highness Theresa, I agree with your realistic policy as a soldier. The blood demon is literally bloodthirsty."

"Yeah... I also want to tell you that judging from my relationship with the Gorefiend Lord, that bloodthirsty, arrogant and power-hungry guy would never mind killing me to control half of Kazdel. But now that we are failing, mistakes are most likely to occur at this time, no, mistakes at this time are most likely to kill.

"Therefore, we must not let the royal court have suspicions about us, and we must avoid any measures that may cause a rift between the two parties. Otherwise, we are seeking death. I must also tell you that in my opinion, blood Maharaja Mo already has an opinion."

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The failure caused undercurrents to surge in Teresia's camp, and the success failed to bridge the differences within Therecia's group.

At 6 a.m. on June 29th, in the meeting room of the Allied General Staff Headquarters in Kazdale City, the coalition generals and staff officers sitting in rows were listening to Chief of Staff Lin’s introduction:

"In the first phase of the just-concluded 'Big Thunderstorm' campaign, we shattered Tracys' determination to conquer Kazdale City, and saved the East Kazdale regime from extinction. At the same time, we defeated the first army of the Royal Court The Third Army and the Fourth Army suffered heavy losses. Since our purpose is to quickly intersperse and change the battlefield situation, and not to annihilate the enemy's vital force as the first goal, about 30.00% of the personnel in these two armies succeeded Join the first and second armies of the Wang Ting Army in the middle of the front line. At the same time, there are still a large number of small groups of Wang Ting Army personnel active on the battlefield.

"Next, we will enter the second stage of the 'Great Thunderstorm' plan. The main purpose of this stage is to annihilate the vital forces of the Royal Court Army and completely eliminate the support of the Kazdel Military Council regime.

"On the eastern front of the current battlefield, Wang Ting's army is being gradually oppressed by our army's overwhelming firepower superiority. Although our army did not launch a large-scale assault to quickly end the battle due to the complex terrain, it is advancing slowly and unstoppably. , achieved great results with very few casualties.

"On the western front, our army has established a battle line relying on the Hamburg area, forming a continuous warning screen. Once the enemy's main force is found, we can use ground long-range firepower and aviation to violently kill it, and use two assault troops located in Hamburg. Battlegroups intercept and annihilate.

"Our army is now smashing the Wang Ting army with a hammer on the eastern front, and placed an anvil on the western front. When the hammer finally hits the anvil, it will be the moment when the main force of the Wang Ting army will be wiped out."

Lin Huaisheng paused the introduction.

Then Theresa started clapping.

Kelsey, who was sitting next to her, had a sullen face, but immediately followed up and applauded with the same intensity as Theresia herself; among the Kazdaele military commanders sitting in rows behind, the commanders of the National Guard Their expressions were bright, their attitudes were excited, and they clapped their hands vigorously; the officers of the country's elite army looked as if their whole family had died, and their applause was only for the sake of meaning.

Commander stood up from the front row, turned around and waved his hand behind.The applause subsided immediately.He walked up to the front desk, took the remote control from Lin Huaisheng, pressed it, and said at the same time:

"However, I would like to remind you that the problem is not completely solved."

The battle map on the large display changed with a click, from the exciting scene where two red arrows set off from the northwest and southwest of Kazdale City to smash the two wings of the Royal Army's battle line and meet in Hamburg, to a more pleasing situation: The Atlas unit is leading, and the National Guard with the Atlas Land Fleet is being pushed all the way from west to east; another group of Atlas units is leading the follow-up and rendezvous of the National Guard units to Hamburg as the base point Expand the north-south line of defense.On both sides of these two lines, National Guard troops extended along the two roads in the south and the north—that is, the routes of the two assaults—to form a slightly thin encirclement.

In the large area between the two lines, the densely packed Wang Tingjun troops made people feel frightened and excited at the same time - the dumplings will be made soon!

Some of the elites in the audience have even begun to think about what kind of new political ecology Atlas will create after the war, and how they should deal with this environment...

"Tracey will never sit still, and our encirclement is not tight. It is entirely possible for the enemy to break through the encirclement and return to West Kazdale!"

The people in the audience visibly became nervous all of a sudden.

Command pressed the remote control again, and the team logo pattern and arrows on the display began to change, showing the staff's prediction of Wang Tingjun's breakout action on the map:

"The first possibility is to break out to the northwest. The terrain here is flat and open, and it is transitioning from hills to plains. After rushing through the Hannover area, the Royal Army can directly return to West Kazdale.

"The second possibility is to break through due west. Directly rushing towards Hamburg seems to be death, but the terrain here is becoming more and more complicated, and the vegetation is beginning to flourish, which limits our advanced weapons. If Wang Tingjun forces to pass through, he will suffer heavy losses. Loss...however, they still have a good chance of breaking through as an establishment.

"The third possibility is to break out to the southwest. The terrain here gradually transitions from hills to mountains. There is almost no place for large-scale regiments to pass, and the only passage is... the Fulda Valley.