The war between the metropolis and the Yunmeng city-state finally broke out, and once the war really started, many of the previous diplomatic rhetoric lost its meaning, and everyone lifted the last fig leaf, what morality, what humanity, all gathered into one sentence: everything is to win the war.

For the city-state of Yunmeng, they occupy the moral high ground - they are engaged in a war against aggression; And the refugees of the metropolis are not their fault: we are trying to get a living space. So both sides are full of confidence and arrogant.

The five families, who had not made an official appearance in the Metropolitan political arena for a long time, reappeared on the construction site, carrying well-trained guards and weapons and equipment accumulated over the years, and in their own words, moved by the bravery of the citizens of the Metropolis, so they wanted to relive their promise to defend the Metropolis.

With the participation of professionals, the canal construction team began to change its nature, from an engineering team to a militia force, and became organized and planned.

Similarly, due to the encouragement of the media, the urging of rumors, and the impetus of geological disasters, groups of young people began to leave the metropolis and go to the Grand Canal construction site with their own dry food, hoping to create a new world for themselves and their families through fighting.

As a result, the regular meeting of the Grand Board of Directors was reconvened in a military system, and on the tenth day after the "Sheep" incident, the Metropolitan Militia took the initiative to launch an offensive campaign.

The attack took place at three o'clock in the morning, and they advanced in the light of the moonlight, and the motley footsteps woke the defenders, who were in full array. At this point, the distance between the two sides was four hundred yards.

The Metropolitan Militia converged into the Crescent Formation, almost half of which surrounded the Yunmeng Army, and behind the Crescent Moon was the reserve army of the four captains, with a total number of 40,000 people, and the ratio to the total number of the Yunmeng Army was 8; 1.

The morale of the Metropolitan Militia was high, and they felt that this battle could be won, on the contrary, the Yunmeng Army was intimidated by the opponent's position, and all they could rely on at this time was the weapons in their hands, and they prayed for enough ammunition, because it seemed that the Metropolitan Militia had more bullets than they had.

Although the Metropolitan Militia is inferior in weapons and equipment, it does not mean that there is no support and organization at all, and the crowd tactics are also tactics, and since they are tactics, there are corresponding tactical actions.

The basic combat formation of the militia is a squad, which ranges from ten to thirty people, with an elite core of non-commissioned officers with combat experience. Usually, the offensive squad will be temporarily strengthened with a ** launcher, and the whole squad is divided into a fire assault group and a grenadier group (composed of a reserve squad drawn from the team. and reservist squads. The reservist squads were the most numerous, and many of them brought their own weapons, ranging from shotguns and pistols to stealing sticks.

When attacking, the team equipped with automatic weapons will suppress the enemy with firepower, and then the grenadier team will attack, destroying the enemy with hands and bags, but the accurate fire strike will still come from the ** launcher, and finally the reserve squad will break in to expand the results.

If the Reserve Squads and Grenadier Squads are exhausted, the core of non-commissioned officers used to form the Fire Assault Group can retreat to the rear to replenish their forces.

One level higher, there is a fire support detachment consisting of a small number of machine guns and large-caliber ** launchers.

On that night, the militia prepared thirty six-pack 64 mm ** launchers, which were originally used by the police to launch ***, and now they use modified **, the power of a salvo is equivalent to the power of a salvo of thirty light mortar companies, but the use is much more flexible. Therefore, the Yunmeng Army was blinded under the first round of blows, because they had never been attacked by such fierce fire before.

In just a few seconds, the front of the Yunmeng Army's defense was bombarded by one hundred and eighty light **, and then I saw the black pressure militia attacking them, because it was the elite soldiers holding automatic weapons at the head, so the Yunmeng Army's melee firepower advantage was not brought into play.

Followed by a dense rain of hands, and when the bombed and dizzy Yunmeng front-line soldiers got up from the trench in a daze, the reservists with various weapons had already broken into the trench, and everyone started hand-to-hand combat with their teeth.

If the front-line troops of the Yunmeng Army retreated at this time, they would be greeted by a pursuit and massacre, but they were more well-trained than the metropolitan militia, and the elite non-commissioned officers carried pistols and whistles, trying their best to gather personnel, and organizing defenses back to back; Officers of a higher rank commanded machine-gun and mortar strikes against the second-line units of the Metropolitan militia, and at the same time organized reserves for counter-assaults.

After a night of repeated tug-of-war, although the rapid offensive of the Metropolitan militia once hit one of the brigade headquarters of the Yunmeng Army, after dawn, the militia was driven out of the trench and returned to the departure area.

The militia retreated because of a loss of morale. They attacked in the dark of night, and until they died in battle, they did not know how many of their comrades had fallen, and they could not see clearly anyway, but after dawn, when they saw the dense and fragmented corpses on the battlefield, they began to tremble, they were not professional soldiers, but young men with empty blood.

In this attack, more than 7,000 militiamen were killed, and the Yunmeng Army also suffered heavy losses, five of the eight battalion headquarters at the front were destroyed, and the officers below the squadron were almost wiped out, but it is gratifying that the main body of most of the squadrons is still there, and they can still organize their combat effectiveness.

The big board was divided over whether to organize another attack.

The side in favor of the attack believes that after a night of fierce fighting, the morale and ammunition of the Yunmeng Army have been reduced to the lowest point, and the grassroots command system has also been destroyed.

The opposition side believes that the establishment of the Yunmeng Army has not been disrupted, and the combat strength is still maintained at more than seventy percent, but the morale of the Metropolitan Militia has been weakened, especially the large number of wounded who have not been treated, which is a blow to morale. At this time, if you launch an attack that has no absolute chance of winning, it is related to the direction of the entire strategy.

This controversy continued until noon, when the main battle faction finally gained the upper hand, the fighting machine of the Metropolitan Militia turned again, the wounded were evacuated, and the newly formed tactical squad began to assemble again, and was constantly encouraged by the people who stood in front of them: under the present situation, they could only advance in the face of artillery fire, and would rather take a step forward than die half a step back.

And most importantly, those who participate in the offensive will get a free lunch and dinner, and they can eat as much as they want.

The Metropolitan militia decided to assemble in the afternoon and attack after dark.

But the Yunmeng Army was also making preparations, and the news of the outbreak of the battle was transmitted back to the Yunmeng City-State by radio a few minutes after the outbreak, and the cutting-edge reserves and supply teams set off at dawn, especially at the request of the Yunmeng Army Joint Operations Command, the Yunmeng City-State requisitioned almost all the transport airships in the city and transported a large number of large-caliber **** to the front line.

There are capable people in the Joint Operations Command, and even at the most dangerous moment last night, all the officers who could be drawn out from the headquarters were replenished to the front line, but the two artillery battalions directly under the headquarters remained silent. Now, it's time for them to make a difference.

During the day, the Yun Mengjun raised the observation airship, and the Metropolitan Militia also raised one to expel it, but the power of the Metropolitan Airship seemed to be problematic, although it kept using machine guns to design the observation airship, but because it was too far away, it did not cause substantial damage. On the contrary, it is an observation airship, which sends the observed deployment of the metropolitan militia to the Joint Operations Command every half hour.

As soon as it was dark, the Metropolitan Militia had planned to modify their offensive strategy slightly, and they transferred the main attack force to the left flank, preparing to cover the breakthrough of the left flank with a feint attack in the middle and harassment on the right flank as soon as it got dark. But before their offensive whistle was blown, more than two hundred 107*** fell to their assembly site, blowing up the team and turning over on their backs. This was followed by a barrage of 16 120-mm mortars.

This artillery fire was prepared and the attacking force on the left flank of the militia was crushed at once.

The headquarters of the Great Board of Directors immediately adjusted its strategy, changing from the relatively powerful Zhonglan Group to a feint attack as the main attack, but they encountered the most violent bullet rain head-on, and some people wailed in this way: "Didn't you say that they didn't have many bullets after fighting all night?" ”

Two hours later, all the offensive of the Metropolitan militia was neutralized, and the troops began to retreat, but at this moment, the Yunmeng Army launched a counterattack, and the militia began to retreat from the left flank, then the center, and only the right flank barely maintained an orderly retreat.

The pursuit lasted all night, and it was not until dawn that the Yunmeng Army stopped the pursuit and began to gather the troops, and the reason for stopping the pursuit was because the troops were indeed out of ammunition, and the grassroots squadron only had eleven bullets left per person.

Regarding the lack of ammunition in the Yunmeng Army, the upper echelons of the Metropolitan Militia also knew about it, but they didn't dare to say it. There was only one guy who didn't have long eyes, and he looked at the retreating militia in the wilderness and sighed: "What a pity, if you organize another counteroffensive now......"

The guy disappeared that night and was stabbed more than a dozen times when he was found.

The militia of the metropolis retreated, and the Yunmeng army also retreated, leaving a blank area more than thirty kilometers wide between the two sides.

It is said to be a blank area, but in fact there are countless corpses and wounded there.

Not to mention the people killed in the war, these wounded have led to countless lawsuits of saliva.

Both Metropolis and Yunmeng City-State accused each other of lacking humanitarianism, refusing to rescue the wounded, and even slaughtering them, while they both found reasons for not rescuing, and also found a few surviving wounded to appear in the media.

But everyone knew that under the circumstances at that time, neither the Metropolis nor the Yunmeng Army did their best to rescue the Metropolis's wounded. When the Yunmeng army retreated, they only took with them the wounded who seemed valuable.

When the troops of both sides withdrew, the Met did send some medical detachments to the battlefield to rescue them, but they were attacked by local guerrillas. The local guerrillas profited a lot from this battle, and also vented a lot of personal anger by slaughtering the wounded.

Despite this, some of the wounded were rescued, but the number of wounded in the hands of this battle exceeded the expectations of the Grand Board, so after the first aid, the resting place of the wounded became a problem, and they had to be sent back to the Metropolis, but the Metropolis itself was also hit by geological disasters, and now it was almost scattered, and it was not able to rescue so many wounded.

As a result, the reception and treatment of the wounded has become an unsolvable problem.

Just five days after the first battle, the Border Patrol of Fort Town found a group of wounded men abandoned on the border, more than a hundred people, half of whom had died. The patrol team hurriedly reported the matter to the executive meeting. Although the executive council finally accepted the wounded and buried the dead, it caused ** annoyance to the fortress town.