The spring of 1030 soon returned, and the roads north of Saint-Sauc, which had been pulped by the melting spring snow, began to become dry and solid.

While there was still a slight internal strife going on within the Saint-Sauc Empire, war broke out suddenly.

On June 22, 1030 in the steam calendar, the tracks from the north began to roll towards the south.

Although the Saint Sauc Empire had received signs of an imminent attack by the Hela before this, it supported the military lines led by the Grand Duke of Dragon's Tooth in the north. Three elite divisions arrived at the northern garrison, the defenses around the fortress were repaired, ammunition and food and other military supplies were replenished.

But the scale and quality of the Hela attack exceeded all expectations, with 600,000 troops and 3,000 mechanical vehicles participating.

There are two types of armored fighting vehicles used by the Hela in this attack, the first is the kind of tank that Bing Core imitated in the Celestial Tower, which is small in size and its armor can only block bullets. This small chariot with internal combustion power was grouped by the generals of the Hela people, and is now cooperating with the attack of the cavalry group.

The other is a large chariot powered by a steam engine, which has a total of 240 chariots and is carried on the chassis of the chariot. Five-meter gun body, two hundred and fifty mm caliber. These thirty-ton self-propelled mortars, at a speed of twenty kilometers per hour, followed the infantry forward.

The picture that the falcon saw in the sky was: on the earth, on the chariot, the columns of smoke emitted by the vertically upward exhaust pipes were like rows of beacon wolf smoke, forming a flowing steel cluster on the ground.

[In the early morning of June 23, the collision between the two sides unfolded around part of the fortifications. In the small town of Migna, Saint Sock's Dragonscale Armored Brigade, forty-six bipedal mechs, encountered the vanguard of the Hela chariot group. 】

The Dragonscale Armored Brigade is the title of the four elite armored knights in the hands of Grand Duke Dragon's Tooth. And from the early morning of the 23rd to 6 o'clock in the morning, the performance of this armored knight brigade in the encounter on the 23rd was worthy of the title of elite unit.

Relying on the pre-repaired anti-armor trenches and the advantage of night vision magic, they attacked the 16th, 18th, and 49th armored brigades of the Hella people head-on.

During the night, with the repeated fire of anti-tank guns, the Dragonscale Panzer Knights destroyed one hundred and twenty-four iron tanks in four hours, with minor losses of their own.

The commander of the Dragonscale Armored Brigade was the nephew of the Grand Duke, and the sightman commanded the battle well.

He used a four-meter-deep tank trench dug in advance - the trench was a slope on one side and a vertical ground on the other, and the bipedal mecha walked down the slope and leaned against the trench, revealing only one head on the surface.

The lightly armed mechanized troops, which came at night at a gallop, suffered a considerable loss when firing at each other. In the dark, the anti-tank guns of both sides pulled out clusters of light in the dark night, and the light tracked armored vehicles of the Hella were repeatedly destroyed due to insufficient frontal armor protection.

The most vulnerable of the bipedal mech's feet are completely protected in the trenches, and the bending of the feet allows the bipedal to crouch down immediately after the fight, which is faster than the liquid suspension of the 21st century main battle tank. Just one head could have been hit by an anti-tank gun, and after a night of fighting, the beveled head of the bipedal mecha suffered a large number of ricochets, but there was no actual damage.

And five hundred meters in front of the trench was a field of metal wreckage.

This confrontation is like a hero unit harvesting creeps. Mechanical units are expensive, but this war proved that the people who operate the equipment and the field commander can use the advantages of the equipment many times over. The people of Hella operate machinery and equipment, and there are a large number of non-professionals.

[The battle of Migna Town is just a good beginning of the battle of the Saint Sauks, but this highlight cannot hide the disadvantage of Saint Sauk's dispatch in a large-scale war, and it is impossible for the empire to arrange an elite mecha brigade in every place on the huge northern front, so there are gaps between the defensive strongholds on the northern front. 】

On the morning of June 23, the Hellas completed the penetration of the weak parts of the northern front of Saint-Sauk, and after the penetration, the infantry group followed, cutting the first line of defense operated by the Grand Duke of Dragon's Tooth in the north in half.

The mechanized march of the representatives of the tracks is faster than that of the vast majority of troops. The commander of the Mechanized Corps of the Hela took advantage of the mechanized corps and raided the small town of Hethra, which was garrisoned only by infantry groups.

The soldiers in this town had never seen dozens of armored vehicles charging head-on. They used their rifles to strafe the front of the armored car, and the courage of the troops was lost when they saw the bullets sparkling on the hard armor, the steel monster unscathed, and the scene of rotating turrets.

Seeing that the shells set off a storm of shrapnel only rubbed off the sandbags on the surface of the armored vehicle, the soldiers of Saint Saur began to turn around and flee in the face of the approaching armored vehicle.

This act of fear has nothing to do with whether the Saint Sauk soldiers are dirt buns or not, which is the instinctive fear of human carbon-based creatures in the face of machines that exceed the biological limit.

Modern people look at the big trucks that are constantly speeding by on the highway, and they have a similar instinctive fear of 'wanting to stay away'.

Modern civilians are not uncommon to see tanks and vehicles in photos, but when they encounter the full-speed charge of armored vehicles on the battlefield, they will be frightened to turn around and flee, and the remaining ones will be paralyzed and unable to move.

'Discipline', 'faith', 'anti-armor tactical training' – the soldiers of St. Sauk, like most civilians in the twenty-first century, are sorely lacking.

[At noon on June 23, when the Grand Duke of Dragon's Tooth learned that the first front had been divided and broken through, he immediately made a decision and ordered the surrounding troops to block the breakthrough. 】

The armored knights of Dragon Horn in the north, with the fire support of twenty-seven Kirov airboats, approached the small town of Hesla. However, the Dragonhorn Armored Knights failed to achieve the same brilliant results as the Dragonscale Armored Brigade.

Commanding the Dragon's Horn Armored Brigade is the son of the Grand Duke of Dragon's Tooth - Dragon. Checkmate. Yite, whose profession is a full-fledged general, is only 37 years old. His Excellency the General had at his disposal the most elite equipment in the Northern Army, but his tactical ideas were not updated to the present day.

He believed that the scale of firepower of the Kirov airboats in the air was too small. In the fields outside the small town of Hesla, he ordered the armored forces to attack head-on with traditional tactics.

That is, after a short fire suppression by the artillery, the bipedal mechs were arranged in a line with only twenty meters apart.

When the artillery fire was suppressed, rows of bipedal steel behemoths approached the battlefield like moving walls. The reverberations of metal footsteps and the ground colliding make the soldier feel like there is a large phalanx of cyborg moving forward.

Two hundred and twenty years ago, there was a record of thirty bipedal mechs marching in line to defeat a division. And now, this tactic is now behind the times.

Seeing this tactic, the commander of the Hela immediately ordered the group of light tanks at hand to quickly maneuver to the rear of the Dragonhorn Panzer Knights Brigade.

Here are the tactics of the XXI Century Armored Composite Brigade:

The armored composite brigade is a coordinated operation of various vehicles, first a row of tanks as the vanguard, a few dozen meters behind the self-propelled anti-aircraft guns to prevent the enemy's helicopter gunships from riding on the face, and then followed by self-propelled guns as ADC long-range output, flanked by helicopter gunships to prevent the opponent from going around.

But what happens if there is only one platoon of tanks to strike head-on without the cooperation of other arms? - Uncle Black's pickup truck, which makes the Kadazo tank group kneel very really.

The heir of the Dragon's Tooth family obviously did not understand the use of the Panzer Corps, and although he had twenty-seven Kirov airboats in his hands to provide fire support to the flanks, he did not bring them up in time.

When the cavalry units flanking the bipedal mechs, when they encountered the tracked light chariots of the Hela, within four minutes, they were routed by the heavy machine guns on the mechanical vehicles.

At 1:40 p.m., the Hella light tank group succeeded in dividing the connection between the Dragonhorn Armored Knights Brigade and the follow-up infantry.

The front of the knee of the bipedal mecha is not fragile, and the bending angle of the knee allows a large amount of baffle armor to be attached to the front, and there is no problem in defending against machine guns. The real vulnerability is the joint socket at the back, which cannot be equipped with any armor, and if it is installed, the curved structure will be stuck.

The light tank group behind the circle used machine guns to strafe them. These bipeds were hit by large-caliber bullets in the fragile sockets and staggered diagonally.

At 2:10 p.m., the Dragonhorn Armored Knights Brigade under Grand Duke Dragon's Tooth was destroyed. Checkmate. Eite, successfully evacuated under the protection of his knights and under the cover of the bombardment of Kirov's airboats.

But on the strategic map, the defense line operated by the Grand Duke of Dragon's Tooth reveals a huge hole. From this salient, the Hellas began to make a detour to both sides, outflanking the rear of the line after the St. Sauc line had been cut off.

[On June 25, 1028 in the steam calendar, on the third day of the war, outside the Red Dragon Fortress. 】

As the core territory city of the Dragon's Tooth family, the Red Dragon Fortress has a defense system accumulated over hundreds of years.

Five hundred years ago, the Dragon's Tooth family had not yet taken refuge in St. Sauce, and the name of this fortress was still the Purple Smoke Line. Well, it's not poetic to come up with this name, because the purple wolf smoke is frequent.

Two hundred and seventy years ago, the Purple Smoke Fortress was besieged by 200,000 people of the Hela people, but it was finally relieved after 20 days of defense.

And what suffers here today is far worse than it was then, and the horrific spectacle of mechanized warfare strikes at the hearts of everyone on the defensive line.

The Hella Legion struck the heart with no more sledgehammer than the mechanical mortars five kilometers away from the fortified line.

These steam-powered tracked gun trucks drove behind anti-slope obstacles such as dirt slope buildings and raised their five-meter-high gun barrels.

As the light of fire sprayed in the barrel, the hundred-kilogram heavy shell flew eight kilometers and smashed heavily on the ravines of the Dragon's Tooth Fortress. The explosives set off a ring of shockwaves. The shock wave of the shell dust ring expanded by hundreds of meters. The dust kicked up flooded everything, and a large number of fragments of firearms and human limbs flew in the firelight.

Forty artillery wagons poured more than 200 rounds of heavy artillery shells on the position in just one hour. Smashed all suspicious firepower strongholds on the positions of the Saint Saucians.

During the shelling, the vicinity of the Dragon's Tooth Fort became a blur in smoke and dust. After the shelling stopped, seven or eight thousand Hella people 'Woo wow! Wow! 'Scream. When the infantry group charged, the shouts surged like the tide of the sea.

At this time, on the position full of smoke and dust in St. Sauk, the pickup truck with the eight-barrel rocket launcher rushed to the front of the position. With a screeching sound, a swarm of rockets sped through the sky.

The rocket group suddenly exploded when it reached two hundred meters above the Hela infantry group. The Hella soldiers, dressed in gray uniforms, fell in pieces. The momentum of the charge was halted at once.

And these pickup trucks, after the fight, start the engine and leave the battlefield immediately. For the Grand Duke of Dragon's Tooth, these mechanical vehicles are now extremely valuable mobile firepower in his hands, and there is no room for loss.

On June 25th, the Saint Sauc and Hela fought a bloody battle around the Red Dragon Fortress. Both the attackers and defenders poured heavily into the flesh mill, with 32,000 casualties on both sides in just one day.

In modern times, force commanders must use special methods to get their troops to accept such casualties.

Army commanders on both sides used heavy machine guns to suppress deserters, and distributed energy and courage pills to soldiers fighting on the front line, the standard banned drug on earth.

The armies on both sides have already killed red eyes. In the trenches, at the edge of the barbed wire, the red eyes of the soldiers who stabbed each other with bayonets would make the wildest beasts soften.

[In an underground dark room in a temporary headquarters on the front, a ticking telegraph is tapping.] 】

After a telegram was opened, the telegraph operator quickly took the translated message and came to the Grand Duke of Dragon's Tooth.

The Grand Duke took the telegram and read it quickly.

He slapped the telegram on the table and scolded: "It's all tight, it's tight in all aspects, (Chanhong) he told me to draw troops to focus on defense, it's just a fart." ”

The Grand Duke pointed to the telegraph operator and said, "Call me back, the enemy has at least 400,000 troops, and I will not see any reinforcements in four hours." I retreated to the south bank. My Dragon's Tooth family is already worthy of Saint Sauk. ”

At this time a soldier (occupation) ran in outside, and this captain had blood and dust on his face. He saluted the Grand Duke and said quickly: "General, the Talon Division has lost more than half of its regiment, and the brothers there hope to withdraw first and slow down." ”

The brothers, whom the captain speaks, are not cannon fodder but officers.

The cannon fodder only needs to increase the amount of military drugs and let the knights use nerve stimulation to squeeze the potential of the cannon fodder. The war has reached the present, whether the cannon fodder survived is a fool or a cripple, and it is not at all considered by the empire. But now, the meat grinder at the front line is gradually becoming unbearable for the officers.

When the Grand Duke of Dragon's Tooth heard this, he seemed to have made a decision, and raised his head and said to the herald, "Let the children of the Talon Division hold on for another two hours." ”

The Grand Duke of Dragon's Tooth, who walked out of the bunker, looked up at the golden sunset in the west, frowned, and sighed. To the knights beside him, he instructed: "Inform the Black Sea Fleet and prepare to cover the retreat of the army." ”

[The territory of the Dragon's Tooth family, mainly on the north bank of the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Canal. The territory of the Gun Flame Family is to the southeast. The two sides are separated by three hundred kilometers. 】

Although the fighting on the front line is fierce, the territory of the Gun Flame Family is still very peaceful at this time, and the military factory is running at full speed. And the city even prospered a little more because of the war.

But after the 25th, when the Gunflame family received the information that the northern defense line was forced to compress, the entire upper echelons of the Gunflame family began to become anxious.

At nine o'clock in the evening of the 25th, Binghe took the train to the northwest of the family domain. After the nuclear field is expanded, look at the war in the north.

Binghe can clearly see the foggy battlefield 300 kilometers away, and the slight flashes on the battlefield are the explosion points of heavy artillery shells.

Putting away the field, Binghe walked into the carriage. And the knights of the royal family of St. Sauc greeted him.

Binghe looked at the knight, took a deep breath, and asked, "Knight Slot, may I ask if His Majesty the Emperor has given me an order to support the northern war situation?" ”

The knight at the head saluted Binghe and said, "Your Majesty, His Majesty the Emperor and the Grand Dukes are discussing the battle on the front line of the empire in detail, and the results of the discussion will be conveyed to you. ”

Binghe held back his anger and asked further: "What is the front line like, does Your Majesty know now?" ”

The knight replied respectfully, "Your Majesty is in control of the situation in the Empire. ”

Binghe was pleased with the knight's performance: "I saw that the heavy artillery of the Hela people is about to blow up the Red Dragon Castle. Are you sure that everyone in the imperial capital knows it? ”

The knight whispered, "Your Majesty, please be calm, the Empire's invasion of the Hela has long been anticipated, and everything is well prepared. ”

After hearing this unequivocal refusal.

The anger in Bing Core has reached the extreme, although Bing He, who is in a high position, has begun to consciously control his emotions in recent years, but he has never been able to completely achieve the joy and anger without color.

After suppressing his anger, a helpless smile appeared on Binghe's face, and he muttered, "I understand, His Majesty the Emperor is worried about me." For a naughty child like me, His Majesty wants to discipline me strictly! ”

Without the organization of the army of soldiers and knights to cooperate with the nuclear operation, the strongest fortress at this time could not stand alone.

Seeing this, the knight immediately said to Binghe: "Your Majesty, you don't have to think about it. His Majesty simply trusted the Grand Duke of Dragon's Tooth to ensure peace in the north. ”

The knight bit the word 'trust' as he spoke. - Knight's meaning: "Your Majesty the Emperor, now you want to knock the Dragon Tooth Grand Duke of this local faction, it is not aimed at Binghe at all. ”

When Binghe heard the knight's explanation, he sneered and said: "Your Majesty is wise and martial, but the truth of the cold lips and teeth is cold, and the Gun Flame family still knows it." ”

Binghe did not accept the knight's explanation that "the royal family knocked on the northern military domain".

Because once the north is caught in the flames of war, the rudiments of the bourgeois alliance that Bing Nuke has created in the north will be wiped out. It is clear that the royal family wants to knock not only the dragon's teeth, but also the intention to further tie up the flames.

Finance is a bourgeois social order. The so-called financial leverage is so powerful, but it has never been able to get rid of the fact that financial leverage needs a solid support point. This point of support is military power. If military power is unable to protect the order of bulk trade, the so-called financial power is a flash in the pan.

His Majesty the Emperor has now directly pulled out the support point.

In the train carriage, Binghe's sneer made the knight of the royal family of Saint Sauc embarrassed.

Binghe looked at the knight and said, "Knight Slot, from now on I need your allegiance to me. ”

The knight paused and hesitated, trying to persuade Binghe.

Binghe: "If you choose allegiance, the Gunflame family will make an alliance with you" - the service relationship between the knight and the fortress.

In modern times, knight sighters and other military families often have a scene where they will decline after a generation or two.

But when a knight leans into a superior family, his descendants will be able to continue to squeeze into the circle of real power, and as long as they do not make big mistakes, they will not be expelled. Although the Slok Knight is a side branch of the royal family of Saint Sauce, his children and grandchildren will become more and more distant from the royal family.

And if you can follow another high-ranking professional to reach a clear service relationship, then the future generations of the family will maintain their political capital.

During the Battle of West, Binghe did not recruit acolytes, and a year after his return, he did not accept the service of any knights, which made the knights around Binghe a little disheartened.

And now Binghe relented, which made the knight's heart throb. But—

The knight hesitated.

Binghe changed his tone of admonition: "The reason I didn't accept any servants in the West's war is because I understand that there is no danger in that war, and I don't accept servants so casually. ”

The knight looked up at Binghe and smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, your current proposal makes me very embarrassed. ”

Binghe: "Your choice now is risky, I'll give you half an hour to think about it." ”

[Four hours later, Binghe hurried back to the family manor. 】

When I went upstairs, I 'coincidentally' met Liyun in the corridor, this girl was already very beautiful, and she was specially dressed up. She opened her mouth to say hello after seeing Binghe, but her face was thin, so she chose to bow her head and wait, waiting for Binghe to speak first.

But while bowing his head and waiting, Binghe had quietly avoided Liyun and walked towards the top floor of the manor.

On the top floor of the manor, Binghe unfolded a map of the north of St. Sauk, which was four meters long and three meters wide. Standing on this map, he deduces the direction of the war in the next three weeks.

Binghe stepped on the territory of the Spear Flame and looked at the battle line led by the Duke of Dragon's Tooth in the north: "If the northern front is broken through, the territory of the Spear Flame, as the largest industrial territory in the north, will not be let go by the Hella people." The huge forces currently used by the Hella people, after breaking through the defense line of the Grand Duke of Dragon's Tooth, divided their troops into two lines.

On the one hand, it will continue to push south to directly threaten the imperial capital and the port of Pollun, and on the other hand, it will definitely remove the threat from the east, that is, to sweep away the military power of St. Sauck near the Black Sea.

This place of the Gun Flame Family is destined to be swept away. If the Hela attack was a long fist, then the military power of the Saint Sauk nobles led by Gun Flame had a blade left in this long fist squeak for the Hellas, which could cut off the supply line of Hela's southward extension at any time.

As long as the military decision-makers of the Hella people are still in their minds, they will definitely divide a 'small hammer' on the main force to smash the 'blade' military hazards in the area - so there is no situation where the Gun Flame family sits on the mountain and watches the tiger fight.

Bing's core emotions became extremely heavy.

Binghe made a choice: "It must take three to four weeks to transfer the family's industrial assets and industrial population to the south of the empire." ”

After making this decision, Binghe was also very distressed. In this year, Binghe invested no less than three or four million silver dollars, and barely rolled out a stall. Now forced to evacuate, this is a huge blow to the grassroots industrial alliance.

This war is an 'irreversible factor', an irreversible factor for the big and small forces participating in the industrial alliance, and they will not criticize the Gun Flame family after the fact. But as the leader of a political alliance, you must not shirk your responsibilities in the face of a crisis, as you do with the short-sighted small capitalist groups.

As the boss of the group, there are good reasons to shirk past responsibilities in the crisis. But once you choose to shirk, you lose credibility, and once you want to come up with a new plan, it will be difficult to dispel the concerns of your followers.

Binghe doesn't want to compromise. Binghe doesn't mind fighting another war if he can.

But now the attitude of the royal family of Saint Sauc is very clear, and it is absolutely impossible for the Westwar to support more than 200 professionals with nuclear weapons.

Emperor Jialong, as the head of the imperial feudal system, although he could not yet see that Binghe was developing a bourgeois alliance under his nose.

However, the emperor has a keen sense of politics, and now he will not condone Binghe to continue to expand any political discourse. It is the instinct of these powerful sorcerers to prevent their subordinates from becoming bigger.

Before he knew it, Binghe walked to the balcony of the family manor building. Binghe looked at the sky and whispered, "It's irrational, but it's a good reason. ”

[An hour and a half later, Chenjia, who had been sleeping in a daze, was called up by the servant and came to the balcony. 】

I saw the way Dusty rubbed his eyes.

Binghe smiled and said, "Come, I'll teach you the art of sobering." ”

Dusty tilted his head, what kind of magic was 'lucidity', Dusty had never heard of it.

However, Dusty soon learned what the 'lucid technique' was.

Binghe washed his hands by the pool, then stretched his wet hand towards the back of Dust's neck. Dusty suddenly struck a spirit, and then looked at Binghe with a complaining gaze.

Binghe didn't seem to see Chenjia's resentful gaze, coughed and said, "Your master and I have a big plan. ”

Chenjia was stunned, and then said dissatisfiedly: "Master, didn't you say that if you have any thoughts at night, write them down in your notebook and save them for tomorrow." I'm sleeping soundly. ”

Binghe couldn't help but laugh, and then said: "There are some urgent things in the south recently, and I can't get out. I hope you can run it for me. In the next month or two, you have to do a good job of the Dharma lineage. Don't sleep tonight. I'm going to give you a global preview one last time. ”

Chenjia was full of confidence: "Master, I only did the prepulse three days ago, and I haven't made any mistakes for six months, and there will be no mistakes in the future, don't treat me as a child." ”

Binghe smiled angrily: "In the family, the people who asked me to do the global pre-pulse are all lined up, and I took the initiative to help you build one more pre-pulse, you are still annoyed, are you begging for a fight?" ”

Dusty immediately raised his hand to cover his head, and quietly observed Binghe's expression with one eye.

Binghe's waving hand finally patted his arm lightly, and encouraged: "Okay, okay, this is the first time you have done things independently in the south, so behave well." If you behave well, you are an independent adult. ”