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The salvo shelling of hundreds of heavy artillery pieces and rocket artillery of all kinds instantly turned the area around the town into a sea of fire, and the Sijing troops who had originally surrounded it suffered a lot of losses.

If it weren't for the fact that almost all of the Sijing people's combat weapons were protected by a shield system, which effectively weakened the power and fragment lethality generated by the explosion of the cannonballs, the troops deployed by the Sijing people on the outskirts of the town would have suffered heavy losses under this round of large-scale shelling.

But even with the protection of the shield, the situation of this group of troops of the Sijing people will not be much better. Knowing the performance of Sijing people's weapons, it is naturally impossible for humans not to upgrade their own weapons and ammunition.

In addition to the old ammunition that could be used to fight World War III, GDI also urgently provided a batch of new artillery shells to the E Army, which were specially used to deal with the ground weapons of the Sijing people.

As a result, the E army first used the ammunition they had been hoarding for many years to weaken the shield and armor of the ground combat weapons of the Sijing people, and then finished it with a small number of new GDI ammunition - the troops of the Sijing people who originally surrounded the town directly lost one-third of their troops in such a blow, and the remaining two-thirds also had varying degrees of damage, and their combat effectiveness was sharply reduced, although they were not completely destroyed, they also lost a lot of combat effectiveness.

In view of this, the remnants of the Sijing people who surrounded the town could only retreat, and they were seriously injured and could no longer besiege the human troops in the town, but the Sijing people still had enough reserve troops, and the withdrawal of this group of troops was just to make room for the follow-up troops, not to mention that the combat boat troops had noticed the situation here, and a new batch of combat boats had set off and began to rush in this direction to support.

However, the main target of the reinforced combat boat force is still the twelve GDI ground suppression attack aircraft, so their number is not much, only twenty-four, and after shooting down or expelling the attack aircraft, they will return to high altitude to reinforce the friendly forces of the human air superiority fighter force to continue to seize air supremacy.

The surface-to-air missile positions deployed by Army E near the artillery positions immediately opened fire after discovering the movement of the Sijingren combat boats, and dozens of long-range anti-aircraft missiles rose into the air to intercept the 24 combat boats. Whether the opponent intends to attack its own attack aircraft or directly attack the artillery positions, it is not an acceptable outcome on the human side.

With the temporary withdrawal of the ground troops of the Sijing people, the crisis of the material transfer station also disappeared temporarily, and the experimental unit of the E army, which suffered a lot of losses, immediately withdrew from the town and replaced their posts by other troops, and the other garrison units were also quickly replaced by new troops, and the light infantry units were replaced by heavy troops.

The retreating ground troops of the Sijing people were also constantly pursued by human long-range artillery fire, and they fled back to the base through the wormhole all the way. Naturally, it is impossible for them to continue to send new reinforcements from the wormholes that have been discovered by humans, and they can only reopen new wormholes to send reinforcements to the rear of the E Army for destruction.

Naturally, efficiency suffers.

At the same time, although the progress of the offensive troops of the E Army was not fast enough, in addition to the poor roads and the continuous occurrence of Sijing troops jumping out to harass and block, the upper and lower commands of various units were affected by the strong interference of Sijing people.

Although GDI has provided a lot of advanced communication equipment to the E army in advance, it still can't stop the E army from being able to give full play to all the performance of the equipment because it is not familiar with the new equipment, and on the other hand, it is also because the Sijing people are also the defenders and have a natural advantage in electronic warfare - of course, they also have technical advantages, and the mass-produced advanced communication equipment provided by GDI cannot completely solve the problem.

Fortunately, before the battle began, the E Army had already drawn up a strict battle plan, which also included how to deal with the loss of communication between troops at all levels, and the officers and men of the troops only needed to follow the planned arrangements - they had done this before.

And thanks to country M, the first power of the Blue Star, in order to deal with various possible electronic warfare situations, Army E has also conducted similar military exercises many times before, and it is not a big problem in terms of response experience.

Communication jamming only affected the speed of their advance, anyway, even if the communication equipment provided by GDI was not completely immune to the electronic jamming of the Sijing people, at least it would not allow their own communications to be used by the enemy.

But after all, this affected the progress of the entire battle.

The longer the time drags on, the more advantageous the Sijing people will be who can produce troops while fighting, and the human troops will be exhausted in the endless sea of soldiers. So the time of the battle is equally important for humans.

However, in the end, the E army has prepared a full ten heavy divisions, more than 100,000 troops, and thousands of heavy tanks, and from the very beginning, the Sijing base they need to attack cannot put so many troops, and the army has a lot of reserve troops, and they also have relatively sufficient troops to make up for the losses, and launch a counterattack against the Sijing troops that have raided the rear of the army.

The ground battle has reached a stalemate, and it seems that the situation can be resolved depends on whether there can be a result of the air engagement.

The combat boat units of the Sijing people are not much afraid of the ground air defense missile fire of the E Army, they also have missile interception capabilities, when the number of air defense missiles is not large, and the performance is not much different, the missiles fired at them will only be destroyed by them in the air, and GDI urgently transferred a group of Skyhawk air superiority fighters from the high-altitude combat area to expel them.

Because the Sijing people noticed the GDI's attack aircraft group and sent combat boats to deal with them, and the Sijing people's sneak attack troops that originally needed them to suppress had withdrawn, the twelve Auger attack planes also evacuated the town as a material transfer station after pouring most of the ground attack ammunition, and returned the battlefield to the E army troops.

And the battle for air supremacy between the high-altitude humans and the Sijing people is still going on. There are a large number of combat boats on the Sijing side, which are well maneuverable, and some models are protected by shields; Although the overall number of fighters on the human side is not as large as that of the other side, the fighters' straight-line acceleration performance is higher than that of the Wind Pilot, and they are designed for intra-atmospheric operations, and with air-to-air missiles used regardless of the cost, they still have certain advantages in the same number and local engagements - of course, if there is no GDI or the advanced fighters provided by Iron Eagle, the combat boat force of the Sijing people could have crushed the human troops, just like in the Battle of New York.

The only problem is that human pilots will be tired, fighters need to be replenished and maintained, and all fighters cannot be sent to the battlefield, but a part of the fighters need to be left as reserves to replace the friendly troops who return to supply and rest; The Wind Rider of the Sijing people is an unmanned combat boat, although the tactics are too rigid and rarely changeable, but the advanced intelligent system and numerical superiority are enough to offset all the human elite pilots with a less-to-many advantage.

This is also the reason why the two sides have been fighting in the air until now, but they have not been able to tell a result. Like the ground forces, after a long time, the human air force will not be able to consume the Sijing people.

"We need artillery, more artillery!" In the coalition headquarters, the commander of the E Army said. If they can be supported by more artillery and rocket artillery, they will be able to provide more adequate fire support for the troops in the front with these long-range firepower, without the need for the air force to spare time to carry out ground attack missions in such a fierce battle for air supremacy.

"If you want to support the entire battlefield, you need at least a thousand pieces of artillery." The commander sent by the GDI side shook his head, and with some regret dismissed the hope of his companions, "Not to mention that we are too late, even you yourself will not be able to deliver enough artillery in one day to break through the harassment of the Sijing people." Eastern Europe is so large that the gravitational traps we have provided to country E have only covered all the cities and major communication routes in country E so far, and it is not known when the generators will be deployed in those inaccessible places. What's more, the gravity trap generator we have deployed here now is already working at full power, and the area that can be covered is only the range of the headquarters and those hundreds of artillery positions. ”

"Of course I do!" The commander of the E Army grabbed his hair quite irritably, and said anxiously, "The problem is that we have made no progress now, and the ammunition and supplies consumed are astronomical!" In this way, even if we win, we will not gain anything! ”

"Hey, don't be so pessimistic." The GDI commander patted the shoulder of the E-nationals and comforted, "Didn't you say that after capturing the Sijing base, after we obtain the intelligence information of the Sijing people, their technology will all belong to you." ”

"That's because you've had enough." The officer of Country E also pointed in the direction of the sky, "You even got the wreckage of their starship, which is worth far more than a ruined ground base!" ”

"It's better than nothing, man." The officer of GDI just shrugged, "Besides, even if you are given the wreckage of the starship, it is impossible for you to crack the technology of the Sijing people in a short period of time." For this reason, didn't your president only allow GDI troops to participate in the operation, and deny requests from other countries' troops to enter the country to assist in the operation? This situation is ugly, but it is not without solutions. ”

Hearing the GDI officer say this, the people of country E suddenly came to the spirit: "You have a way? ”

"It's not a good idea, but it's better than the current stalemate." The GDI officer looked at the electronic watch on his wrist and confirmed the time, "It doesn't matter if I tell you, you can see it yourself anyway." The plan is to send an orbital alert fleet to support the battlefield, and then we will be able to apply to the orbital space fleet for orbital bombardment. Moreover, it is also a precision bombing, and the error is guaranteed to be within 10 meters. In addition, a new batch of precision artillery shells and rockets will also arrive, and when the time comes, we will use both pronged actions to strike directly at the front and rear of the Sijing troops and tear through their defensive lines. At that time, it will be time for your ironclad army to take the action. Just do the same as when I was in the West. ”

"That's right, I've been to that exercise before." The officer of country E looked at the officer of GDI again, "I almost forgot, you are also from country E." ”