"According to intelligence, the new governor of the 11th district is already on his way to Japan."

In the submarine of the deep sea, Lelouch announced his grand plan to the people of the Black Knights.

"Hijack the Governor!?"

"But it's up to us?"

Everyone in the audience immediately discussed, and no one thought that this time would be such a dangerous mission.

"It's not impossible! As long as I follow my plan, it will only take a small number of troops to do it! ”

Lelouch replied loudly and stopped everyone's chatter.

General Oakes, who was in charge of the guards, was an arrogant and arrogant man, and the Emperor's reaction was completely expected, and the Knightmare flying device and the replenishment of the mech that he had dug from Kamiyu was a surprise. Although it is unclear what exactly Kamiyu's plans are, whether he will stay as a surveillance person or as a mere contact, Lelouch believes that the 'cooperation' is still just beginning, and there are still many opportunities for mutual testing and exploitation.

"That's right! We have to believe in Zero! ”

Karin was the first to stand up for Lelouch.

"Yes! Zero is the epitome of miracles! ”

"Miracle..... We have Zero! ”

“Zero！”

“Zero！”

“Zero！ Zero！ Zero！ Zero......”

The cries gradually converged, and an infinite confidence and strength were born from the heart, and the people of the Black Knights began to call Zero's name unwillingly.

"Nanali, wait for me!"

And on the land of Eastern Europe 6 time zones away ....

In the morning mist-filled forest, the silence of the early morning was broken by the muffled sound of engines. Vehicles with rough shapes, larger than ordinary tanks, marched in an orderly manner through the forest.

The chariot at the head of the platoon suddenly stopped, the hatch in front of the hull was lifted, and an officer probed out. After taking a look at his surroundings, the officer quickly emerged from the vehicle.

"The predetermined place for the operation arrived, and the units began to deploy according to the predetermined plan."

The engine sounded again, which had been silent for a while, and the tanks in the back lined up around it.

Only the screeching sound of airtight unsealing was heard, and the four support shafts spread out from the left and right ends of the tank, and then nailed deep into the ground, and the square turret and the muzzle parted and stretched from it, and the re-raised muzzle formed two huge magnetic tracks. Knightmare, armed with a variety of weapons, and armored vehicles equipped with anti-aircraft weapons quickly deployed in a vigilant formation.

40 km away from Smolensk ....

"I didn't expect that Honezel still has a gambler's side, which really surprised me."

Compared with the total strength of the emperor at the time of the Baltic Sea Battle of 800,000, the garrison of the Bunitanian Empire in the whole of Eastern Europe has now dropped by nearly half. It's not that the Empire's military strength has reached the point of being stretched, it's just that as the Prime Minister of the Empire, Schunezel has to think about the Empire's tight finances.

The territory occupied by the empire was so large that the invasion of Eurasia in particular had more than doubled the territory of the empire, and even doubling the army in the occupied territories was not enough under such a premise.

Therefore, Schunezel simply concentrated the remaining troops near Moscow, shrinking the area of control to concentrate forces, and at the same time forcing the rebels to abandon guerrilla harassment tactics and fight a decisive battle with the Empire. If you win, you will eliminate all the hidden dangers of the occupied area, and completely incorporate this rich region into the territory of the empire, and if you lose, the empire will be completely driven out of Eurasia. Judging by the results, it was indeed a big gamble.

It's just that the plain area as a battlefield seems to be equal to both sides, but in fact, it is more beneficial to the emperor. The strip between Smolensk and Moscow was built by the emperor ** A number of defensive nodes were built by the emperor, and these defensive nodes were like tentacles that firmly controlled the entire battlefield. As for the superiority in equipment, soldiers' combat quality, and the allocation of troops, it is also a commonplace issue.

But is that really the case?

"General, the time is up."

Habitually glancing at his watch, the staff officer, who always had a poker face standing behind Barkly, spoke.

"Then let's get an appetizer for Bunitania first." Balklay said lightly.

"Understood! The shelling begins! ”

The heavy cannon that had been erected in the jungle, the magnetic track on the inside of the muzzle emitted a scorching orange-orange color, and as the wide magnetic track retreated, the sound of explosion, and a ripple of impact followed by the fierce fire from the muzzle. The next moment, a huge shock shook the air, and once again erupted into an earth-shattering roar.

...............

"Your Highness, a report has been sent from the Western Front, and at 6 o'clock this morning, the contact with Moslesk was cut off, after which the defense of the Western Front has received reports of encounters with the enemy one after another."

"Is it finally here?" This was expected, and Schunezel calmly accepted the news.

"It's just...."

"Just?" Canon's hesitation made Schunezel care.

"Mosensk is gone..... To be precise, it has been completely erased. ”

"Smoothed!?" The news finally moved Shonezel slightly.

In fact, not to mention the emperor's ** side, even the people who used siege tanks were taken aback.....

In this era when the force value far exceeds the armor defense value, the defense ability of heavily armored tanks is becoming more and more weak. Faced with the all-terrain, more agile maneuvering, and equipped with anti-materiel weapons, the main battle tank has been ousted from the throne of land warfare.

But even so, it is impossible for Knightmare to completely replace the tank, the size, weight, and stable structure of the body determine that Knightmare cannot use weapons with a caliber of more than 40mm, which means that Knightmare cannot cause effective damage to armored targets at long distances, and can only conduct close-range assault combat.

Since it could not compete with a humanoid weapon in terms of mobility in any way, it was simply used to the extreme of the tank's heavy armor and powerful guns, providing more powerful fire support and having a longer range strike capability, and the siege tank was born based on this idea.

Compared with the small-caliber electromagnetic weapon with the same projectile mass as the rifle bullet, with the increase in mass and volume, the increase in energy consumption of large-caliber electromagnetic weapons is geometrically multiplied, and the traditional Sakurashi energy can not provide enough energy at all, even if the tritium battery that Kamiyu is ready to use to combat the Sakurashi market, it cannot fully meet the requirements of high-frequency shooting of the main gun, so it has to be combined with the traditional artillery firing method.

In order to avoid the influence of the huge bore pressure generated by gunpowder excitation on the electromagnetic coil, the main gun not only uses liquid decompression internally, but also adopts the design of graded acceleration, that is to say, after the shell is boosted out of the chamber by gunpowder, a strong electromagnetic field is generated through two rectangular coils separated from the upper and lower levels, and the second stage of acceleration is carried out when the shell passes through the electromagnetic field.

Depending on the type of shell, the firing method of this type of artillery can reach an instantaneous speed of 2,700 to 4,000 meters per second, and the maximum range can reach 280 kilometers.

The terrifying kinetic energy can easily penetrate any defensive offensive and armor, but for the Free Army, the most favorite is the high-powered vacuum bomb warhead called the [Nanny].

Due to the use of electromagnetic two-stage acceleration, the warhead does not have to strictly limit the ratio of the warhead to the propellant charge like ordinary artillery shells, which makes the warhead reach a terrifying mass of 102kg at the 120mm caliber specification, which is more than double the weight of the same caliber.

Therefrom. T, when the shell explodes, it also produces an ultrasonic impact and an extremely high temperature that can burn everything in the vicinity to ashes, and the shock wave increases the radius of destruction to 10 meters.

This frenzied combination of electromagnetic acceleration and vacuum bombs creates a chemical reaction that turns any place targeted by siege tanks into hell on earth.

It's not that no one understands the destructive power of siege tanks, it's just that these enthusiastic young people of the Free Army are completely immersed in the emotional catharsis of destroying the invaders, and every time they fire, they still think in their hearts: It's not enough... Not enough...

As a result, several of the shelling positions reluctantly stopped after they had exhausted all the shells they had prepared for a battle, unaware that they had completely wiped a historic city off the map, and that the debut of the siege tanks was notorious for their mistakes.

........

"These crazy people...."

Unlike other people who only received battle reports, Kamiyu was one of the people who watched the entire process of Smolensk, the eastern gateway to the Eastern European Plain, completely wiped out from the world through satellite - the person who originally wanted to follow the development of the war situation and test the actual combat effectiveness of many new weapons in passing.

"It's a good thing that Kamiyu-sama didn't produce a 72-ton miniature tactical artillery nuclear bomb..."

Musashi's statement immediately made Kamiyu feel very happy, and he really couldn't believe that this group of people would do something terrible after getting the tactical nuclear weapons.

"Is it too late for us to cut ties with them?"

"Kamiyu-sama, if you have time to laugh, why don't you pay attention to the progress of the EU. Just now, the EU raised the alert level of the defenders of the Eastern Line. ”