14.5 Chase the North
In the middle of October 664 in the electric calendar, the grasslands in the eastern part of the Haobei Plateau had completely turned yellow.
The highest authorities of the Tuobei Group decided that the time had come, and a complete attack on the Hella began.
First, the logistics line was locked through drones, and a convoy of 27 light tanks, 48 all-terrain vehicles, and 228 pickup trucks was organized, and after four hours of drag racing, they went around to the material hoarding point 70 kilometers behind the Akira base.
And this material hoarding point is also a zone for local nomads to hoard.
On the jeep, a howitzer with a door length of two meters and a caliber of one hundred and twenty millimeters was pushed and erected by the hydraulic rod of the hull.
As the hydraulic lever ejected, the metal rod, which was polished enough to be used as a mirror, popped out of the casing, pushed the muzzle of the gun at a high angle, and aimed it at the camp full of grassland bags in the distance.
In just five minutes, the shelling parameters were adjusted, and the mechanical loading device sent the shell with a cross tail and a circle of concave lines on the body into the howitzer chamber.
As the operator in the car pressed the button, the bombardment began.
Eight rounds of rapid fire, after which the jeep immediately retracted the mechanical lever and retreated. Actually, it's okay after 20 rounds.
Because the opponent does not have an artillery radar, there is no need to pinch the time to shift the gun position. However, in this operation, Su Ying asked his soldiers to strictly follow the regulations and treat the operation as a confrontation with the world's first-class troops.
And the perspective comes to the location where the shell fell.
Explosive shrapnel swept through the makeshift yurt camps of the nomads, and the fires tossed the tents held to them by stakes, leaving the nomads powerless to resist the heavy firepower of modern times.
The Hela had set up counter-fire in the hidden area around the camp, and Akira did intend to use these hidden gun emplacements to steal the Northern Army. But it is clear that he overestimated the quality of his troops and underestimated Su Ying's various harsh requirements for his troops.
Su Hong's requirement for the artillery unit is to be stable in the skin, and to break in quickly and run away after the fight. So when, twenty minutes later, the artillery of the Hela fought back, that is, the turf was lifted on the steppe, and the god of war in the hands of the Hela was in an impotent rage.
[After blowing up the Hela people's logistics point, Su Ying Guangling immediately asked Lu Ming to give an order all the way to the south and directly attack Akira's base camp]
It's still the same waterskin play as always. The jeep artillery trucks were separated, each one or two kilometers apart from each other, and under the unified command of information, they collectively broke into the eight-kilometer range of the Akira defensive line, and then, under the unified command, fired at a rapid fire, and suddenly, the battalions of the Hella and the nomads also blossomed. The tents, like a woman's skirt in a strong wind, are unexpectedly turned over, how beautiful!
After the jeep gun truck finished fighting, it directly shouted, withdrew outside the range of the Hella people's artillery counterattack, and watched it lift the ground.
When the Hella people were shelling, Tuobei's artillery reconnaissance radar went up, using long-range rockets to name the Hella people's counterattack artillery positions one by one, and waited until the opposite side was dumb fire, and then let the jeep drive in as before, and continue to change places after the bombardment.
For several hours, jeeps went back and forth seven or eight times on the front line.
From the outer line of the Hella to the inner line, the precision artillery hammered on the target position like a hammer. Suspected observation posts, bunkers and other targets were all blown to pieces, and the camp was in shambles.
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Fourteen kilometers away, Lu Ming, dressed in camouflage-colored mechanical armor, was emitting a steady light from the lines of the magic veins on his cheeks, and he was observing the battlefield through the realm. Of course, there were three screens on the jeep in front of him, which were the situation of three unmanned reconnaissance aircraft shooting on the front line.
On the yellow earth, the artillery fire kicked up the smoke and moved slowly in the autumn wind, and the men and horses harvested by the artillery fire also fell to the ground in scattered places.
Flames rose from the ruined watchtower, and black smoke rose to the ground, turning the sky gloomy.
Lu Ming: "We won. ”
Su Ling, who was in front of him, nodded: "Yes, we won." There was some hesitation and sighing in his tone.
Lu Ming: "Father, well, is there anything wrong?" ”
Su Ying paused: "No, the fight is very good, let's go according to the plan." ”
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The reason for Su Ying's emotion is that during the whole war, the herdsmen's will to war was really poor.
There was no guerrilla warfare, no persistent resistance, no nationalist cohesion, only primitive religiosity – that is, in the midst of artillery bombardment, kneeling on the ground and praying for God's blessing.
And the absence of decent resistance means that it is impossible for the capitalist-oriented pioneer group of the Tuobei Group to formulate a decent policy to win over these grassroots people.
There will be no schools, there will be no student places, there will be no huge public welfare.
It will fully respect local customs, retain its social structure, respect the control of the tribal chiefs over the local area, will buy the chiefs with equity, and will give weapons to the chiefs to maintain their rule.
It's just that the Haobei Plateau and the eastern industrial and agricultural areas are still not connected.
Then when the productive forces develop, information becomes more and more developed.
Haobei's bottom consciousness awakened, realized that the society he lived in was different from the mainstream society of the Tuobei group, and realized that he was a victim of the ruling class.
Then local populism will come out, and they will think that the pact signed by the local chieftain and the Tuobei group is an agreement to extract local resources, which will then produce destruction and instability, and seriously affect the stability of the country.
Su Ying covered his head and muttered, "Hey, am I thinking too far." "——Su Ying's thinking, try to leave as little pit as possible for future generations, but-
The books are the same, the cars are on the same track, and they are all counties, which is an extremely costly thing for the local ruler with an advanced system.
And Lu Ming's current internal interest group may not be willing to give up such a big social cost and carry out the same education and social management for the people of Haobei.
Because: military deterrence is now too easy and too easy to achieve the goal of domination.
The blast of the bombing shone on the grassland, and the smoke spread along the west wind across the grassland. The firepower attack organized by the modern army made the steppe army, which was still stuck in the last years of the steam calendar, dare not have any appeal.
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As a noble commander from the civilized circle, Akira has a vision and fully understands that he is defeated there?
Whether it is the speed of artillery, or the organization of large-scale operations, there is a fundamental difference between the troops of the steam calendar and the army of the electric calendar.
The information system gap between the two sides is the same as that between sloths and cheetahs. No matter how large the number of rookies is, they are still bloated rookies, and they should never want to rely on their numbers to counterattack a modern army like a goshawk on a frontal battlefield. - Narrator: Of course, in the chicken coop of the ruins, rookies can still peck at the feathers of goshawks in street fights
But now, it is impossible for Akira to accompany the herdsmen in guerrilla warfare. As for the leaders who persecute the herdsmen, it will be counterproductive.
October 12, 664 in the electrical calendar.
Akira's position completely collapsed, and he fled north in an armored car, while dozens of kilometers behind, Lu Ming's Dragon Guard team chased behind.
Any nomadic forces on the steppe that tried to move closer to Akira were scattered by the Dragon Guards.
An advanced combat mech, which can hover for minutes at a height of twenty meters, and its loader cannon will be enough to tear ground cavalry to shreds.
However, the Tuobei side, which had an absolute advantage, only fought nomadic troops along the way, and left a hand for the part of Akira who returned to the north alone.
[At 7 o'clock in the morning of the 13th, the frost bloom covered the entire withered yellow grassland]
Akira's uniform was covered with dust, and the general's hat didn't know where to go, and he had been on the run for ten hours, and he had never been able to escape the pursuit of the Tuobei Dragon guards, and now there were only four cars left, and he was almost exhausted.
The commander, who was about to turn into a bare-bones commander, sat in the armored car and shuddered, pulled out a flask with a gilt pattern, took a sip, and the hot alcohol exploded in his esophagus, rejuvenating him slightly.
He was looking ahead, thinking about where to go, when suddenly his gaze froze, and in the distance he saw something familiar to him,
It was the jeep he had broken down and thrown away a few hours earlier when he had fled, and he drew his pistol and ordered his soldiers to come forward and test it.
And the soldiers approached cautiously, and when they got into the vehicles, they found that they were repaired and filled with fuel.
Akira immediately ran over in disbelief, looked at it, and found that it was indeed his own car, and the dents on the front of the car were exactly the same. And there is also a compass left in the car, and there is a message under the compass, which kindly reminds the commander of the Hella people to pay attention to the road at night and not to walk back against the wall.
Note: "Last night, Lu Ming bombarded several times, either on Akira's right or on the left, in fact, to remind Akira to walk in a straight line at night. - Have you ever seen a southerner chasing ducks? If the duck is on the left, take a stick and shake it on the left, and if it is on the right, it will be thrown to the right.
The fugitive Hela received such a 'gift' and a hint, which made Akira beside the jeep stunned for five minutes, until another rocket came whizzing behind him, exploding a few hundred meters after getting up, as if urging him to hurry up and get on his way.
With a strange face, he looked at the dragon guard mecha looming a few kilometers behind him, and calmly ordered his guard troops to continue to flee.
The new Jeep rejuvenated Akira's team, with water, dry food, and medicine in the trunk. Except for the lack of alcohol that made the driver of the Hella people complain a little, everything else is complete,
These supplies gave the originally desperate Hela people hope and fled back towards the Red Tower Fortress in the north.
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Five kilometers away, three meters above the dead grass, the twenty-one Dragon Guard mechs flying with the help of the ground effect chose a flat area, turned off the engines in turn, and at the same time retracted the straight wings to form a swept wing.
The lift dropped rapidly, and the mech's mechanical foot plowed a long rut in the dead grass and raised a large number of grass clippings.
In the cockpit of the Dragon Guard mecha led by the leader, the electronic screen displayed various complicated situations in the surrounding war zone, and after hearing the soldiers in his team report "normal" in turn, Lu Ming looked at the north through his own domain.
Spotting that the convoy under the commander of the Hela people was continuing to start, he picked up the newsletter and praised the mechanics on the helicopter behind him for doing a good job of repairing the car.
Then Lu Ming took a deep breath, looked at the slow escape speed of the Hela commander on the map in the past few hours, and reluctantly ordered his Dragon Guard team to rest in place for a while, and wait until the Hela commander walked ten kilometers before continuing to 'pursue'.
So with the help of the "escort" of Lu Minglong's guard group, the "urging" of rockets, and the help of "car repair", at 6 pm on the 15th, Akira was expelled back to the Red Tower Fortress.
- That is, to tell the commander of the Hela people: Now I can capture you militarily, but I don't want to capture you, and now I will release you to go back, and I have a point in my heart.
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