October 110, after a year of arms race.

Ranlun is prepared economically and politically. The Northern Alliance, led by the Feathered Flame Locust, came over every day to do the work of the Burning Wheel Alliance Council through Yu Qian.

In April, according to the pattern of the southwest land bridge, the Winged Locust signed a treaty on 'economic subordination, military weapons, and the unification of the system of the burning wheel', and the burning wheel completely implemented the landing operation plan.

The location of the landing battle was carefully chosen--the fleet of the Burning Wheel Alliance went directly east of the Mediterranean, bypassed the circle where the 'Tsuang' forces were most concentrated, and went all the way north, crossed the Tropic of Cancer, and landed directly in the northeast corner of the continent across 2,000 kilometers.

And the millions of Gu worm troops are still mainly deployed in the 'Woo' sea area, which is used to block the further shore strikes of the seabed railguns.

After studying the many landing battles of Burning Wheel, the generals of the Blue Gu Tide decided that the north coast was a frontal battlefield. - They don't need to study it, that's what the newspaper of Burning Wheel advertises.

However, the positive is positive, and having the positive does not mean that you will give up the backward.

On October 10, the fleet left the Mediterranean Sea and turned counterclockwise to the north.

Escorted by 37 300-ton Sea Scorpion gunboats, eight 6,000-ton Dreadnought-class missile warships were moving forward against the black smoke emitted by the operation of the steam engine. The waves wipe the rivets on the steel plates of the hull, as if trying to polish the black hull of the ship.

Fearless missile carriers, with a strong rugged design style. In the pipes placed diagonally on both sides of the ship's side are the Boulder-class heavy missiles. The total length of the missile is 11 meters, it weighs 7.1 tons, and the warhead weighs 1.2 tons.

The Boulder Missile uses a biological tissue sensor produced by the fusion species of the locust on Xiahong Island. This model of Gu worm-like biological tissue has achieved mass production comparable to the chicken farm model in the factory.

[In the Trade Winds City Electrified Industrial Zone, there are three specific Gu worm laboratory factories. In the plant, in each culture tube, the nutrients and temperature are controlled, and the slaughter can be carried out within 7 days, no, the production line, and then refrigerated. Of course, another four hours of adjustment are required at the time of start-up, and the shelf life in the missile is twenty-one days. 】

Inertial stability and guidance sensors are all solved cheaply by biological means. The main remaining costs are ramjet engines and rocket boosters. This still makes the price of missiles reach about ten times that of shells of the same weight.

Many generals inside the burning wheel felt that it was a little unreasonable, thinking that the high-precision missiles were just a little more hit, and a sufficient number of shells was enough to make up for it. This statement is true, but it is only suitable for low-intensity combat. In low-intensity combat, missiles can be dried up. However, in high-intensity operations, if artillery shells are to do missile work, they cannot be compensated by dozens of times the number of artillery shells, and it is also necessary to be prepared to sacrifice a large number of artillery trucks and auxiliary troops.

According to the combat experience summed up by the tour of the universe, it is better to destroy 50 targets in 10 minutes with long-range artillery shells in one day.

The former, like the artillery of the northern fortress now, bombarded like that, maintaining a battle line, but never being able to ensure the safety of the landing. And the latter can blow up a gap within 10 minutes, and the shock troops can be inserted, and then cut off the logistics line of thousands or tens of thousands of targets, and the command headquarters will be beheaded.

Zhou You (nodded subconsciously) said to himself: "Firepower is a crowbar, after prying it open, it will be rushed against time by the impact group." This is the experience that any industrial civilization will sum up in the course of its development. ”

In the history of the earth, mankind developed such advanced tactical experience in the later stages of World War I.

At present, industrial output is rising, far exceeding the burning wheel of the earth's black iron age, and the current military concept is still stuck in the early stage of World War I, that is, bombing with artillery.

However, fortunately, the tactical experience of the swarm is still in the Napoleonic class, that is, the F2 wave, and the superior forces are used to carry out group attacks.

Zhou You recalled the history of the development of the bell civilization, and couldn't help but conclude: "The confrontation between man and insects also wants to be promoted to a higher tactical level. More precise tactics of time and space can only emerge when people are in confrontation with each other. ”

[And now, advanced missiles appear in the military sequence of the burning wheel, because there is no powerful enemy, well, the current tactics are still bombing.] 】

After the fleet with masts flying red flags arrived on the northeast coastline, the majestic silhouettes of these warships, mechanical dolphins covered in hexagonal grid skin leaped up and struck the crest of the waves, forming an excellent group of CPs on the surface and underwater.

Under the unified coordination of the captains, flames emerged from the dreadnought. Thirty-two stubborn stones rose into the air en masse, like the long sword shot by a giant in mythology, entered the sky, and then fell into the distance.

In the public communication channel, the captains of those ships communicate intensively, fire strikes each step, and the data report is uploaded in an orderly manner.

After their less hectic work, these captains happily observed the front-line "art" through drone reconnaissance aircraft.

And on the screen, it was the Gu nest that the front-line drone had captured in the past few months, shrouded in the shell of the castle of the Northern Gu Bug Legion. This is the upcoming 'Grand Theater of the Arts'.

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Generally, a seventh-level Gu nest is about 100 tons, 20 meters high, 50 meters long, and walks on four legs. The eighth-level Gu nest had three or four hundred tons, and only the ninth-level Gu nest full of technology had a volume of more than a thousand tons.

The territory in the north is too big, and neither the Absolute Firefly nor the Northern Gu Worm Family can completely control it.

Within this thousand-kilometer radius, Jue Ying had only arranged two ninth-level Gu lords to contain the alliance of flying locusts here. The two great lords confronted the locust and other families in the north, using political tactics to force some small families to cling to each other. Of course, there is no lack of cultural contact and closeness.

The lords of the north always like to build big castles and protect their Gu nests. Sometimes the Gu nest is not big, but the shell is not small, which is a face. And the two lords sent by Jue Ying were the initial generals when they started the army, and they were actually arranged to the north as a kind of distribution. His ability is just that, but he has a set of deeds and great joy on the northern border.

On the vast northern land, as missiles fell, these ornate fortresses instantly turned into tatters, broken walls, jagged and collapsed areas, like smashed glass wine bottles. After losing their main base nest, a large number of bugs poured out of the ground like a swarm of worms that had suddenly smashed the honeycomb.

To say that these two lords didn't do anything to defend themselves is to have wronged them.

When they set up their base, they formed a huge community with the brood castle as the center, supplemented by various production nests, and sat in a dense jungle of glass crystals. These crystals have a reactive mechanism, and this system illuminates light in the direction of objects in the sky that are not your own.

A few months ago, every time the black reconnaissance planes of the Burning Wheel Alliance came to the skies above this place to observe the ground, they could only see a large area of dense and shiny light. Even some low-speed suspended reconnaissance aircraft will be focused and fall by these beams reflected from the ground. Successfully curbed the aerial reconnaissance of the burning wheel. But that's their limit.

Sometimes, most people are like rabbits in a tortoise-hare race, and when the first wave of efforts pays off, they arrogantly stop paying attention to their opponents. For example, the German three-headed iron thinks that his code is too good to be deciphered.

After learning that the first wave of aerial reconnaissance had not achieved results, the general staff of the ranlun immediately dispatched an infiltration team to conduct a forward investigation, and greatly praised the superiority of this anti-aircraft system, and then updated the infrared night reconnaissance system of the reconnaissance aircraft.

Air reconnaissance aircraft took off at night. Based on the campfire lit by scouts on the nearby terrain, the map was completed.

Right now.

Based on this mapping information, the dreadnought-fired boulder missile accurately exploded in the crystal jungle.

The shockwave swept through everything on the ground, and a large number of crystals instantly turned into a powder mist. A few hours later, when the sun rises, the north wind blows up the very refractive powder, and you can see a very dreamy crystal rainbow.

The front-line reconnaissance planes made progressive observations during the bombing, and when they sent these high-definition images back to the staff of the burning wheel, they could even make up the sound of crystal shattering.

Twenty minutes after the bombing.

In the "?" The area on the right side of the continent, the landing begins.

Dozens of kilometers of coastline, you can see a large number of white figure-eight waves gushing from underwater. As they approach the shoreline, the snorkels and antennas on the roofs of these vehicles peek out of the water, slicing through the waves, like sharks hitting the shore.

Taking into account the needs of assault missions, the Burn Wheel redesigned the landing ship.

First of all, the total force is dominated by unmanned machines, so there are no empty cabins inside to provide oxygen for life, which can be stuffed like sardines, and can be structurally designed to be stronger. Flat landing ships, long landing hulls, and even the design does not take into account the specific gravity of the water. When fully loaded, the entire hull of the landing ship is 1.4 times the density of water. 1,300 tons of mechanized units were transported to the continental shelf at one time, deployed at a depth of twenty meters on the continental shelf, and then landed towards the coastline.

As for the non-commissioned officers who command the unmanned mechanized units, they will arrive on the battlefield with subsequent helicopters.

On the beach, it was quickly run over by the tracks.

Armored ox tanks rushed to the beach against the sea. The water is untied, like a waterfall falling from the roof of a car to the skirt. Then it flows back to the sea along the ruts made by the tracks. Then the next chariot rising from the sea ran over the trickling ruts again.

When thousands of tanks rushed up to a kilometer of the beachhead, a large number of Cuckoo mechs streamed down from the Turtle Assault Ship and mixed in the gap between the tank formations to form a battle array.

The mechanized torrent landed, and the stainless steel fighters roaring through the sky also supported the sky for the burning wheel; At the same time, the whistling of low-altitude rotors was added, and the helicopter landed with non-commissioned officers to take over the field command, injecting the soul of this mechanized force.

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Fifty minutes later, the landing was successful.

The landing ships of the burning ships have already begun to dock in the open, bringing the heavier Tianqi heavy tanks to the shore. And inland, the first batch of armored tanks and cuckoo mechs that landed finally met the first batch of enemies.

The sound of the wings shaking in the sky was very harsh, like a fish bone inserted into the roar of the chariot's machinery, and it was extremely discordant.

The electric mosquito is a kind of army that makes the burning wheel very cautious.

In the northern coastline theater of the 'Boom', they relied on their huge numbers, as well as the effective wisdom of some commanders in the Blue Gold Gu Nest, to constantly cut salvos outside the air defense circle, often interfering with the cannon firing of the floating island fortress.

Its role can be equated with that of Wuzhi, and compared with gunships, their launch tubes can be aimed at the angle of the sky, that is, they also have great damage to fighters. The Scaly Ox tank was specially changed to two models of air defense radars, one with a cannon and the other with a bio-guided rocket.

However, in '?' In the northern corner of the mainland, the tactical quality of the insect swarm lord arranged here by Jue Ying is not good, and the food is distressing.

These two fools have not yet recovered from the bombing, let alone calmly made judgments. It just added fuel to all the power he could find near the invasion point.

The number of electro-shot mosquitoes did not gather enough to have a numerical advantage, which was a few dozen. The electromagnetic cannons of these Mosquitoes knocked out a few of the Wanderers on the ground, but they were soon met by the ground's sonorous air defense.

These trolls with tracks, start a 'buzz' fire-breathing mode.

There are many advantages to the electro-mosquito, but there is one big weakness, and that is the slow rate of fire. The average time it goes from accumulating energy to loading is 20 seconds. And the goalkeeper artillery truck on the ground, let alone more than ten seconds, can shoot hundreds of tungsten steel armor-piercing shells in two or three seconds.

And with the radar locking, the goalkeeper's point shot is very efficient, like swinging a sword in the sky. The electric mosquitoes were swept away by the machine cannon and were very few, smoking in the sky, shaking, and then exploding in the air.

The Thunderbird missile anti-aircraft vehicle further behind also played a great role.

At the beginning, the low-altitude and super-maneuverable electric mosquitoes were reversed by these rockets with a smaller turning radius, and one by one they were torn apart by fragments in the sky, losing their balance and falling to the ground.

However, after the confrontation, there were still some unnecessary battle damages.

The front-line non-commissioned officers were in a relatively safe rear, so their thinking was somewhat different from that of the corps of the same civilization. As for them, in the face of some fallen wreckage on the front line, instead of ordering the tanks to avoid it, they directly let the tracks run over the metal bodies of the electric mosquitoes.

Under the pressure of the crushing of these shot mosquitoes, the metal muscle structure spreads out, and then the air comes into contact with it. As the electric current flickered, the metallic fibrous muscles instantly burst into flames, causing a red-hot burning on the tank's tracks. When the tank was crushed several times, the tracks snapped off.

This unnecessary loss has occurred several times in a row. The human non-commissioned officer wore a helmet and looked helplessly at the broken tracks, so he could only abandon these tanks and let the follow-up engineering vehicles solve them.

Twenty minutes later, the command of the landing also realized that some people in front of them were cheap and deliberately let the tanks run through the mines, so they issued a warning that it was strictly forbidden to crush the wreckage of the electric mosquito, which was easy to spontaneously combust.

In order to improve the effectiveness of the warning, the command added a strong explanation: whoever deliberately stepped on that thing again, the drone could strafe according to the heat source.

The cluster of double-edged fighters in the sky began to warn with machine guns and horns, and the content of the warning was vulgar: "If you don't grind, don't you itch your feet?" Whoever dares to drive indiscriminately will be given a warning to you. ”

The non-commissioned officers on the ground, although they didn't believe that they really dared to fire, but when it came to the judgment and data collection of battlefield firepower strikes, the situation suddenly became serious, and there were much fewer things to crush the mosquitoes on the ground.

Bang Feng (student of Zeyo): "If you really want to go to the mine, you can let the helicopter carry the paint warhead and mark it on the ground, and then we will send a demining vehicle with a thicker chassis to step on it." ”

This battle seems to be too easy. So much so that these non-commissioned officers up and down the burning wheel are more curious than nervous so far.

And the air tour, before landing, bombing from afar, is also a similar mentality. But now that the humans have come ashore, their brains are tense again.

On the rear aircraft carrier flagship, the astronaut sitting in the cabin read a summary of the electric mosquito, which is prone to spontaneous combustion under the electrified situation. Slap your head sharply,

In the previous laboratory, the dissected electro-shot mosquitoes were all internal electrical energy loss, so their flammable properties have not been found. Now, in the thinking of Zhouyou, technical words such as "fragment spontaneous combustion, secondary damage" and "active element destruction element" can't help but pop up.