Chapter 133: The Coming of War
Chapter 133: The Coming of War
The war came very suddenly, but it did not surprise Kellal and Lelouch.
After all, both sides had already begun preparations for this war, so it was not surprising that the Britannian Empire would come whenever it came.
On June 6, two months after Khalal's visit to District 11. The Britannian Empire sent troops to the Indian Military District. Their enemy was Lelouch, the 11th prince of the Britannian Empire. And standing with Lelouch is their former robe.
It can be said that this matter is no longer as simple as a simple war. Rather, it is a political struggle over who the future emperor of the Bunitalia Empire is. All knew in their hearts that the person opposite them was not an Indian, but an enemy from the same camp as them.
In the past two months, they have already been given plenty of time to choose their own side. In addition to a staunch Princess Mariana supporter. Most of the others were wavering but rallying only to the righteousness of the Emperor of the Bunitarian Empire.
But even so, Princess Mariana's adherents are definitely not many. These people were extremely confident that, with their support, Lelouch would become the next emperor of the Bunitarian Empire.
It's a battle between beliefs, where the winner has everything and the loser has no bones.
Some of them are opportunists, but under Lelouch's superpowers. These people have become stalwarts. The spies don't have to worry about it. Lelouch just needs to do his own thing.
The landing craft of the Bunitalia Empire landed directly from Chennai. The other party obviously wants to take down the port directly. A steady stream of troops were being sent to the Indian Military Region.
Honezel's expectation that it would take countless hours to take the city was so simply taken down.
The commander of the battle was Schunezel himself, who was sitting on a command ship dozens of kilometers away from Chennai and directing the entire battle. It wasn't that he didn't want to trust Cornelia's tactical command abilities. But as before, a sympathizer, admirer and supporter of Princess Mariana. Can Cornelia, who even felt a little guilty about Princess Mariana, really use all her strength to push the entire battle in favor of the Bunitalia Empire?
To be on the safe side, Honezel asked Cornelia to maintain the supply lines in the Japanese rear. And he himself went to the sea of the Indian Ocean with his army. Prepare to complete the war with Lelouch.
The other party's rush to land on the beach in such a hurry couldn't help but make Kailar and Lelouch laugh. Khalal was right, and Honezel wanted a quick fix. This may not be the wrong decision. But since Kailar guessed correctly, it means that Honezel is not prepared for this tug-of-war.
If he is not prepared, he will have a psychological gap. More importantly, if the weakness of lack of preparation is known to them. Schunezel is in some danger.
And this means that Schunezel is very unprepared for logistics. His understanding of the Indian Military Region and Lelouch was still a few years ago, more than ten years ago.
In his opinion, Lelouch was indeed a smart child, but Lelouch had never experienced war in all these years. I have not experienced a political internship. Even going to school should be a matter of swallowing dates, and there is no complete systematic learning.
Such an opponent, even with the support of Kailar, as long as it is not the kind of naked and conspicuous. There was nothing to fear him in Schunezel.
He mobilized two legions, about 60,000 men, and Knightmare also in the thousands. On paper, these bodies are comparable to all the steel skeletons of the Indian Military Region, and the total number of steel skeletons in the entire Indian Military Region is only a thousand.
What's more, the fifth-generation knightmare of Honezel has a flight bag, and these fifth-generation knightmare with a flight bag almost hit a target when attacking the fifth-generation knightmare without a flight bag, and the other party has no power to fight back at all.
Sorry, but with air supremacy you can really do whatever you want.
It's just that what Shunezel didn't expect was after entering the meridian Chennai.
What was supposed to be a smooth sailing march has become tricky at every turn.
The first challenge was the muddy road. No, it's not a road, it's barely enough for a car to move forward. Dirt roads only. Such trails abound in rural India. There are even some officially repaired roads that have a section of this kind of path.
Obviously, it was because someone had misappropriated the funds to build the road. This is the kind of road that the people of Bunitarians have never felt and have not experienced. You know, even the country roads of the Bunitalia Empire are the kind of asphalt concrete roads. The bottom is covered with sand, then with cement, and the top is asphalted. The load capacity is up to 20 tons. But here, even a major road is a mud road, which really makes the people of the Britannian Empire miserable.
These roads first abolished most of the Britannian Empire's delivery trucks, because it was wartime, so those knightmare did not get on the trucks, but when those knightmare were advancing on the ground, their pulleys got involved in the mud and caused the rollers to fail.
Some of the drivers of the Britannian Empire took off directly in Knightmare. Floating in the sky, accompanied by the slow advance of the large army.
They are indeed handsome and graceful. It is also able to act together with ground forces on the grounds of monitoring the ground in the sky.
But that's all Lelouch wants.
In the dense forest on both sides of the road. Quite a few dark-skinned Indian soldiers have already worn them. Multi-functional display. After marking those machines in the sky, they began to mark the troops on the ground.
They may be scouts. But they alone have no way to deal with the knightmare of the sky. But it's not the same after they mark.
Look at the red markers on the top of the enemy's heads and the blue markers on your own side. The commander, lurking in the forest, took out a button and pressed it.
All those who wore this helmet, a Chinese appeared in front of their eyes - free fire.
Picked up the electromagnetic rifle. This group of infantry lying in ambush on both sides of the dense forest. Aimed at the Britannian soldiers who were walking on the road.
I only heard the sound of a muzzle coming from all directions, a gunfire that was completely different from the ordinary gunshots. So that the soldiers of the Britannian Empire did not react for a moment.
They couldn't react, and without finding cover, there were a large number of casualties in an instant.
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I'm so sleepy, I feel like I'm going to fall asleep in the next second