Chapter 32: The bridge tug-of-war

War is not a one-man affair, and it is not a one-man affair that can do it all. The anti-Japanese drama is a speculation that you don't know the battlefield, and in some American war movies, the scenes of heroic leadership highlight the cool points of personal influence on the war situation, purely to lure young people with the slogan of becoming a hero, and American GIs who have really been on the battlefield will keep in mind such a principle - never be too special on the battlefield.

The death rate of this plane that Ren Di arrived at was not much less than that of the scene in the main god space. Individual heroism is dead, and cowardice and irresponsibility are dead. The head is inflexible, limited by the emotions before the crossing, and is calculated to death.

Those who survive now are adapters. The traverser who did not have the slightest military literacy before crossing has become a qualified soldier and an excellent soldier after almost a year of war. Actual combat is the best training ground, and if you think that in the 21 st century, there will be no long-term regular main force engagement, and actual combat will last for a year. Missiles, precision-guided bombs, will allow regular warfare to end in a short time.

Although in some small battles, Ren Di and several other traversers fought and calculated on the dark line, but in the fierce war on the clear line of fire, everyone is now cooperating. For example, now, the fierce battle on the Lanconi Bridge.

The steel bridge, which spans two kilometers and is 50 meters wide, has good structural strength, and a heavy artillery shell fell on the bridge deck, and the metal plates on the bridge skeleton were overturned by the flame shock wave, revealing the hard steel skeleton of the bridge. When the two sides were fighting over the bridge, every time the Miyana side annihilated the enemy, they had to re-erect steel plates on the bridge.

The artillery could not destroy the steel bridge, and at most it could only inflict flesh damage on the surface metal plates, but could not damage its muscles and bones. A 15-ton steam truck loaded with steel containers of explosives attempted to move to the center of the bridge to cause structural damage to the bridge.

Once two of these self-detonating trucks exploded in the middle of the bridge, the entire bridge would suddenly snap like a wooden stick that could not withstand the force of the bending. Metal mechanics clanged across the battered Lanconi Bridge, driving away the infantry protecting the demolition trucks.

The powerful Mechanic pushes the steam truck to the edge of the bridge, and the Mechanic's steel arms propel the truck against the metal bridge with a rustling sound of steel scraping. It's the same sound as a train braking on the tracks. Approaching this self-detonating truck, Ren Di was very reluctant. Not to mention that this place has just been taken over by Miana's mech swarm. Bullets hit steel trucks and sparks. Within five minutes, Ren Di was shot, and his health bar was immediately reduced by one-tenth. Again, it's because it's a stray bullet.

A few mechanics stuffed a bridge-building steel plate under the side of the steel truck, and a bag of explosives was placed underneath the steel plate. After the explosive package ignited and exploded, the steel plate was lifted upward by the explosive explosion thrust, and because the lifting force was on the side of the truck, the entire 20-ton steam truck was lifted from the bottom and overturned by the steel plate pushed by the explosion as if it had been lifted over the table. The truck on the edge of the bridge was lifted off the bridge.

The blast wave blasted a large hole in the foggy deep valley, and the moment the shock wave broke away the fog, you could see the rocky terrain at the bottom of the rift valley. That's how this truck solves. It was also the only truck to get on the bridge, and three blast trucks had tried to get on the bridge before that, only to be destroyed from a long range by artillery under the command of Ren Di.

Ren Di's current task was to hold the bridge for three days and ensure that Miana's large army could assemble in the southern part of the rift. A fierce battle for the bridge broke out. Ren Di gathered superior artillery on the bridge, and Lankoni's soldiers attacked the bridge twenty-four hours a day as if they had spontaneously died.

The governor retreated from the city-state on the south bank of the Rift Valley too quickly. Otherwise, using the facilities of the southern city-states, enough blasting explosives were left on the bridge in advance, and the Lanconi Bridge was destroyed. And now when the Governor fled back to the north shore and came back with his troops, he was confronted by Miana's tight net of fire on the bridge.

Fighting head-on with the governor is undoubtedly a huge pressure, and if it is a head-on battle on the plains, Ren Di thinks that his command can simply surrender. The battlefield is now fixed on this atmospheric bridge, and the time of the battle is fixed for three days on the defensive. The governor only needs to attack, and Ren Di only needs to deal with the battlefield defense in one direction of the bridge, with cliffs on both sides of the bridge, and the logistics support for Miyana to restore the production of the city-state on the south bank in the rear, so there is no need to worry about being detoured left and right, and the back road being outflanked. In terms of tactical requirements, Ren Di took a very big advantage.

As long as enough death zones are created with artillery fire in front, it will be. It stands to reason that this defensive battle will be easy. It was nothing more than a contest of the rate of fire of the artillery of both sides. This was indeed the case in the battle a day earlier, and this was how the previous two demolition trucks were destroyed by Rendi's artillery.

Two self-detonating trucks were punctured by shells that pierced the steel plate protection and detonated directly, and the flames of the explosion reflected the gloomy expression of the governor. But Ren Di, who thought that he would be able to hold the bridge steadily, never expected that there would be a thrilling moment when a self-detonating truck rushed onto the bridge.

An hour ago, dozens of shells exploded in mid-air in the rift valley five hundred meters south of the bridge. The explosion of such shells has no accuracy, only an approximate range. But after the shell exploded, large patches of yellow-green gas came out, along with the air flow in the rift. Like a demonic mist, it slowly descended from the empty mid-air to the west of the bridge, and then shrouded towards the bridge. Ren Di, who commanded the counterattack troops on the bridge, was hit on the spot, and his throat seemed to be dry and tingling. My eyes hurt as if I had sprinkled them with soapy water.

The Governor's tactics shattered Ren Di's dream of easy defense. The combat effectiveness of the troops on the front line was halved on the spot, and chlorine # gas was the first generation of poison gas. The poison was generally normal, taking advantage of the prevailing wind direction in the valley across the bridge, and carrying out a poison gas attack on Ren Di's troops from the upwind port. Of course, if it's mustard gas or something, you can't fight.

Because of the wind in the valley, the poisonous gas came violently and went quickly. As soon as the poison gas dissipated, the Venucci soldiers, who rushed up at this opportunity, rushed up with gas masks with pig noses.

A soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier. A general who has never been a soldier is an unqualified general. As a general, if you have never been a soldier, you don't know that those conditions in the battle process can be overcome by willpower, and those conditions will affect the soldier's combat effectiveness even if they are overcome by willpower.

In the Battle of Stalin in World War II, most of the soldiers of the German army, who did not have the warmth and logistics in place, were not frozen to death in the first time on the land of Eastern Europe. Instead, he was killed in a battle with the Soviet troops, who were in place to keep warm. The excellent German army would not lose to the Soviet army in peacetime combat skills, but in the case of cold, the fingers were stiff and stinging, the nerves were sluggish, the hands and feet were numb, and even the usually extremely simple action of pulling the bolt became difficult. Mustache, Goering did not know what the physiological conditions of the soldiers of the troops at the front were like in these conditions, only that he knew that there were still a considerable number of Wehrmacht troops on the front. It is expected that the honor discipline of the soldiers will support the soldiers to continue fighting.

If people do not feel pain, their whole body will be bruised because of their ignorance, and if the general does not understand the difficulties of the soldiers' front-line combat, then the defeat of the army will often become what the general calls "sudden defeat without warning".

The poison gas did not immediately kill the soldiers guarding the bridge in Miana. But side effects such as colic in the lungs, watery eyes, and a large amount of foreign body sensation made Miana's soldiers unable to fight. Keeping the front-line troops to resist is equivalent to keeping a bunch of people sharpening the enemy's butcher's knife by the neck.

So Ren Di ordered the gassed troops to retreat. In this way, the battle line of the bridge was reversed a little, and the Venucci army, having tasted the sweetness, pushed the artillery forward, and continued to cover the ability to spread poison gas bombs. After retreating three hundred meters from the battle line, there was a scene where the Miana Mechanic Group took the initiative to charge. The only blast truck on the bridge was overturned under the bridge.

Ren Di, whose eyes were red and swollen and his face was sallow, looked at the newly supported mechs and the governor's mecha soldiers, and the mecha troops with chimneys but sci-fi colors swayed to the steel bridge like ducks, as Miyana's supporting force.

This mecha unit was supported by Inoue, and when he learned that Ren Di was in difficulty here, Inoue arranged for the mecha unit to arrive at the front line of the engagement. Inoue is a person, Ren Di can only tacitly communicate with him. With the same purpose, Inoue will not completely turn his face with Ren Di at present. But he's definitely not a good stubble. When he found out that Li Cuncheng had no possibility of cooperation, he quickly solved the problem.

Whoever despises such a person as Inoue will be unlucky. Compared with Inoue, Andrew's calculations are a little more above board.

The first mistake the governor made in Lanconi was to mistake the completed fortress defenses for unfinished. And the second mistake he made was to be distracted by Ren Di. Caring too much about the important target of blowing up the bridge.

Ren Di was now beaten badly by the governor, and the wave after wave of attacking troops made Ren Di not sleep for two consecutive days. Stay awake at all times. Despite the exhaustion of the Governor's various tactics of being charged by the Governor's poison gas shells and steam spiders, Ren Di still took on the task of attracting the Governor's attention.

A day earlier, a squad of soldiers in a large rocket bomber in the air had crossed the Grand Canyon, wearing Venucci's signature gas mask and wearing Vinucci's military uniform, and had blended into Venucci's troops. Due to the fierce fighting on the Lanconi Bridge, the Governor attacked fiercely in front, and the military maneuvers in the rear were very chaotic. Andrew and Vassilez swaggered into the rear steam fortress of the Doge after two days of probing.

Andrew is busy with this, of course Ren Di knows. If Andrew is pitted at this time, Andrew will definitely be finished. And Andrew also knew that Ren Di would not do this. Now the team of the Travelers is in the three-legged stability stage, and Ren Dibi Inoue, Andrew needs this stability even more. And all the traversers need victory in this battle. Andrew handed over the back to Ren Di very generously.

Just as the Governor gassed the Miyana soldiers who had recaptured the middle of the bridge. Twenty kilometers away, the Governor looked back in shock from a violent explosion in the direction of the Steam Fortress, and beads of sweat broke out on his bald forehead. Columns of brownish smoke rise, and under air resistance, the air currents tumble to form a mushroom cloud with umbrella covers.