On March 4 of the second year of the expedition, the Nebuchu landing operation, commanded by Overmars and actually commanded by Simba, began. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThis battle has been rendered by the salary thieves as an unprecedented chapter in the military history of mankind, but as a person who attends it, it is by no means the case.

The planet Nebuchu has four continents and four large islands, and the rest is occupied by oceans. In terms of the overall proportion of land area, it is not more than the Earth. The Arctic land is completely covered by a perennial storm circle, and when we first arrived in Nebuchu, we thought it was an occasional outbreak of severe weather, but we watched the storm spin for months and never stopped. Later, after measuring some external parameters, it was found that it is a very rare and extremely extensive climate system that is always self-consistent, but it operates almost independently of the rest of the planet Nebuchu, and the wind seems impossible to approach for the time being. Antarctica, on the other hand, is entirely sea.

Affected by the distribution of land, the core area of Feria lies in the middle of the central continent of Masco, with a radius of about 1,800 kilometers, roughly within the range of the equator line to 30 degrees north and south latitude, and there are very few areas with a latitude of more than 50 degrees, so their giant cannons can only be installed in unreasonable places. The rest of the continent of Mascu and the rest of the continents, the large islands, were either deserted or occupied by far more primitive tribes. Now all of these tribes have raised the banner of rebellion against Feria.

Purely in terms of area, although the territory occupied by Feria is not so small that it is drowned by someone spitting, it is also quite narrow, which should be very disadvantageous. However, the technological level of these tribes is too different from that of Feriya, and apart from bullying the scattered border patrol teams and expelling the Feria squads guarding thousands of square kilometers of ground, they can hardly do any decent substantive military action. However, after being strongly oppressed by our army in near space, Feria cleverly adopted a strategic contraction, and withdrew the few garrison troops from various places, so there were almost no losses.

Simba laid out a supposedly flawless landing plan, and within fourteen hours threw most of the First Army into the northeast corner of the Falle continent in the south of the Musku continent, across a narrow strait of forty kilometers from the Galkle Peninsula, a prominent part of the southern tip of the Musku continent. At the same time, an independent infantry regiment was sent to Nagano Island, east of the mainland of Fellle, to build a pseudo-target to attract Feriria's attention.

The battle plan was perfectly executed. The only unfortunate thing was that not only did the enemy never stop him, but even a week after he landed, not a single Feria soldier came to call for battle, only groups of indigenous representatives came to demand war reparations. If it weren't for the fact that the big war might be imminent, Simba would have caught all those hateful guys and hanged them. But by coincidence, he had to silently adopt the policy of tenderness. Just like the Nandu incident, he reluctantly won the name of "benevolence".

In the blink of an eye, it was March 20th. It has been half a month since the landing of the army, and although it occupies a large area (which is not openly called "occupation", but "helping the indigenous people to resist the illegal rule of Feriya"), it has not achieved any actual results. Overmars urged repeatedly, and the sneers of the generals at all levels of the Space Force gradually reached Simba's ears, making him gradually unable to bear it. During this period, the indigenous people continued to send him all kinds of information. Most of this information has strong emotional overtones, and intelligence analysts can only choose one out of ten at first, and then simply discard it in a big way. However, among the "probably true" pieces of information that were selected for entry, there was one that caught Simba's attention:

"Cruso, the commander of the southern border of Feria, is leading his army into the Gaklay Peninsula in a big way, preparing to counterattack the Falle continent!"

The Gakelay Peninsula is a long protruding part of the southern part of the Mascu continent, only 40 kilometers away from the Luhejiao in the northeast of the Falle continent, which is a continental fault point caused by ancient ocean changes. This place, as tempting as it may seem, is in fact very unfavorable for military operations: the entire peninsula of Gaklay is mountainous, and it is almost impossible to find a road that allows the armoured troops to continue to advance for more than 20 kilometers, and the north-central plateau reaches an altitude of more than 6,000 meters, and the southern part is a geological fault zone, all of which are traverse-shaped mountains. Simba chose the landing site at Cape Luhe, which not only approached the enemy's hinterland, causing great psychological pressure on him, but also avoided an immediate attack by the Ferian army from Gaclay. In that kind of place, it is very difficult for any army to assemble.

However, if Feria has already begun to assemble in Gaklai, it is not to be underestimated. If Feria had deployed long-range artillery in the mountains of Gaklai, he would have had an advantage over the unobstructed human artillery at Luhe Point. When Simba learned of this, he did not dare to slack off and immediately sent Regiment A, an amphibious armored regiment of the 1st Division, to land in Gaclay.

He Guozhang, the commander of the A Regiment of the 1st Division, was an energetic and violent middle-aged officer with a consistent and resolute style. When I was about to betray Yangquan, he was stationed there and refused to leave, and in the end, Tan Kang personally went to persuade him, and almost used a glass of wine to release the military power to pull him back to Fujian. Later, I suddenly changed my mind and decided not to sell it, and he led his troops back to Yangquan overnight, and expelled all the officials and garrisons of the country who were planning the puppet regime there. Simba uses him to find his way, and there is some hope that he can bring more good news to himself and create some good situations.

After Ho Guozhang's regiment crossed the sea into Gaklai, it did not encounter any Feria troops at first. There is not a single indigenous person to be found here in an average of 100 square kilometers, and occasionally they are welcomed back by a treasure of great treasure, only to be disappointed to find that they are different from the language of Vorle and the official language of Ferria, and there is no written language! After several attempts, Hobe's intelligence officers had to abandon the idea of obtaining information from them. After traveling more than 400 kilometers north, a prominent detachment of He Bu finally encountered a Feria's army. In this way, the first shot of the human regular army on the continent of Nebuchu was fired on the edge of the plateau north of Gaklai.

The battle took place suddenly, the process was chaotic, and the result was something that no one could have imagined beforehand. After He Guozhang received the news of the start of the battle, he immediately led the regimental headquarters to rush to the battle site. At that time, the straight-line distance between the regiment headquarters and the battle site was only 50 kilometers, but the mountain road was more than 200 kilometers, and it took them four days to arrive. By that time, the squad of Regiment A had been wiped out, and Feria had only discarded the corpses of a dozen keelmen. It is not known what size of enemy troops the detachment encountered and what the actual movements of the enemy forces were. If it were any more cautious commander, he would probably retreat for a while and make a decision after getting more detailed information. But He Guozhang is not a person with this character, and the situation of ridicule and persecution by the generals of the space department at that time also forced him to face the choice of retreat. He resolutely issued a summoning order to the rest of the troops, and then led the 1,000 troops of the regimental headquarters to continue north, enter the Gaklay Plateau and take the initiative to find the Feria army.

In fact, at this time, the Feria Army was indeed planning a battle plan to attack the Flle Continent, but it was definitely not carried out from the place where He Guozhang was located, which was difficult to walk. The annihilated human detachment was actually a border patrol force of thirty dragons. They had encountered the human armed forces so close to the hinterland of Feria, which caused the Commander of Feria to mumble. Before they could make an official response, He Guozhang had already led the main force of Group A into the Gaklay Plateau.

On 28 March, a white-haired wind blew over the Gaklay Plateau. The southernmost Gzerzer military station was almost completely buried with snow and ice. There was only a patrol of twenty men stationed there, and in order to prevent the stronghold from being crushed by the snow and ice, they had to go outside to shovel the snow and ice after tying heavy chains around their bodies. The white blizzard caused the heavy keels to sway, all of them steadying each other by the chains tied together. But they were only halfway through their work when suddenly a dense stream of bullets came from the side.

"It's human!" Captain Feria exclaimed, "Fight back, fight back!" ”

But where are the human beings? The whole world was white, and the keelmen couldn't see where their counterattack was at all. The scattered sniper bullets continued to shoot through the white wind curtain, and although many of them missed their targets, they continued to kill and wound the helpless keels. They held out for a moment, and finally had no choice but to leave behind five or six corpses, and fled back to the humble military station in panic. At this time, it was discovered that the wired communication line had been cut off, and it had become an isolated island in the ice and snow.

An hour later, fifty Pyros of Division A of the 1st Division, dressed in pressure-resistant cosmic suits, slowly but cautiously outflanked the isolated island from their positions, wiping out the station and the remnants of the Feria patrol inside with a blazing stream of fire.

He Guozhang's troops are well equipped, fully equipped with space infantry equipment, and have sufficient pressure-resistant suits, oxygen supplies, and ammunition. Therefore, at the beginning of the operation, it had an absolute advantage. In less than three days, they had taken out five of Feria's small stations in a row. The commander of the southern frontier of Feria Crusu was finally confused by He Guozhang's adventurous attack and decided to personally lead his troops to the Gaclay Plateau to organize a counterattack.

Feria had only a small patrol in Gaclay, where conditions were extremely harsh. There are perennial winds and snowfalls, the roads are difficult to navigate, and the work of increasing troops is extremely difficult. So much so that before Crusu led the main force into Gaclay, He Guozhang actually led a regiment that was always in a state of assembly to advance more than 400 kilometers, fought more than 40 times, and annihilated thousands of Feria troops. He advanced so fast that only the last Pakan plateau was left in front of him. Just flip over and you'll find the southern frontier of Feria. At this moment, Crusu led a vanguard of 3,000 keelmen into the Pakan Plateau, and a fierce battle ensued between the two armies.

After mid-April, the regular army operations on the Gaklay plateau were fought in a tragic manner. This tragedy has nothing to do with warfare, but rather the competition and struggle of organic organisms against extremely harsh natural conditions. Although the planet Nebuchu is larger than the Earth and has a higher oxygen content, and the Gaklay region is even located on the equator - but on the plateau at an altitude of 6,000 meters, none of these conditions for the survival of life exist, and all that remains is less than half the oxygen content of the cold winds above level 7, the snow-covered mountains and flat land. Under such extreme natural conditions, the combat capability of both the enemy and the enemy has been greatly reduced. Even creatures as strong as the Dragonbones have far less running speed and attack power; On the human troops' side, the human soldiers with pressure-resistant spacesuits can barely exercise, and those who don't have them can basically only sit and shoot. Time and again, the peculiar phenomenon of "floor combat" has appeared on the battlefield -- that is, fighting and sitting down, and this is true for both sides.

After more than a dozen battles, Ho Guozhang's troops gradually became unsustainable. When the supply of additional oxygen was interrupted, the heavy pressure-resistant spacesuit could only be used as a stabilizing scaffold in a blizzard, and the soldiers began to have to face their own physiological limits. The battles here are different from any of the more normal locations such as Relondo and Alpha. In this kind of ghost place, the slightest movement is a huge destruction of the body, let alone any outflanking combo. Feria, who had a slight advantage in physiological conditions, actually used all the sneaky methods such as digging tunnels, long-distance bombardment, and bad weather raids, while the human troops carried out fortress operations on the opponent's territory in a grand manner, and urgently built many temporary fortresses for defense or defensive attacks. Under such circumstances, the combat casualties on both sides were not too large, but the number of people who froze to death and suffered frostbite every day far exceeded the combat attrition, and they were all losing money.

However, this area of operations is too sensitive, a zone that Feria cannot bear to lose and humanity wants too much, and neither side will give up. Crusu repeatedly increased his troops, and He Guozhang did not stop reporting to the 1st Division for reinforcements. However, Crusu only had one difficulty, the traffic in He Guozhang's rear was not only worse, but also the remnants of Feria who had not been cleared. The number of these remnants was very small, but they were hidden in the deep mountains and heavy snow that they were familiar with, and took advantage of the familiar location to inflict great casualties on the supplies and reinforcements sent by the 1st Division.

The two sides fought from mid-April until late April, and only one-seventh of the 300 tons of military supplies and 2,000 soldiers sent by the 1st Division to the front successfully reached the front line to participate in the battle with the Crusu army. These people are not enough to match the number of people lost to frostbite every day on the Gaclay front. The 1st Division began to realize that this was a doomed loss-making transaction, so it asked He Guozhang to try to retreat. However, He Guozhang's temper came up, and he would rather die than retreat, and always insisted on the front line, hoping that Crusu could not support the withdrawal first, and he could take the key pass at the northern plateau junction of Gaclay. It's a good idea, of course, but it's just good.

Simba finally gets tired of draining his forces so far away. He personally went to the 1st Division to take a look, and found that by this time the 1st Division had fallen into this hateful Gaclay meat grinder, and could not withdraw from it to achieve his other tactical intentions. There were not enough troops in his hands, and he was dragged to an inexplicable place by the macho man He Guozhang and wasted one hand, which made Simba feel angry. He immediately left the 1st Division aside and ordered the 2nd Mechanized Division to launch a surprise attack on the Gander military port at the confluence of the western part of Gaklay and the mainland of Masco, the base camp of Cruso.

The 2nd Mechanized Division reached the port of Gander on 25 April. This sneak attack spanned thousands of kilometers across the sea and was very risky. However, Simba saw that Cruso's attention had been drawn to Gaclay, and it turned out to be very successful, and it only took a day and a half to completely destroy the military port of Gandel, destroying a large number of ships and military supplies. The victory of this sneak attack seemed so lucky that most people did not notice the decisive significance it played in the future - it was precisely because this sneak attack shattered Feria's maritime transport forces that Feria could no longer organize a decent landing operation, and the human army was able to hold the base for so long.

After the victory of the 2nd Mechanized Division, it broke into pieces and launched a harassment and sabotage operation along the flat road by the sea towards the interior of Feria. This time, however, he went too far -- on the night of 24 April, after leading his troops to defeat He Guozhang's troops, who had held out to the limit, he immediately swooped down to the plateau with lightning speed, just in time to catch the sneak attack of the 2nd Mechanized Division, which burned and killed half of the regiment before it could withdraw. After learning the news, Simba's soldiers frantically shouted "Return to the division, return to the division, kill and take revenge!" In this case, Simba actually held back. The human forces on the plains are no match for the Feria Army, and this rule has not changed so far.

The first Battle of Gaklai, which lasted a month, was still in smoke, and Cruso, who had taken advantage of it in the end, led his troops to the continent of Flle. This time, it was the human preponderance - after all, many fortifications had been built on both sides of the strait, and it would always be advantageous for the side to defend against the harsh terrain with firearms. With his base camp in place, Crusu launched one attack after another from the mountains and the sea, and occasionally drew a small number of air forces to help, but his military port and ships were destroyed, and the rudimentary sea-crossing devices he summoned could not meet the requirements of quickly deploying enough troops to the opposite shore.

Half a month passed, and all Crusu did was to completely drive the 1st Division out of the Gaclay area, and then he could not take a single inch, but left countless Feria ships and corpses of soldiers in the Gaclay Strait. It wasn't until the middle of May that his anger subsided, he stopped this senseless act of suicidal revenge and led his army back to Gandel. The two armies fought fiercely for a month and a half in Gaclay and the surrounding area, and suffered heavy losses on each other, but in terms of actual control, there was no difference from that in March. This situation is not satisfactory to both humanity and Feriia, but wars are often so pointless destruction and attrition.

After Crusu's evacuation, Simba got a respite and took the opportunity to return to the Gonggong Fortress to report to the meeting of senior generals of the expeditionary force. He occupied a large area and fought with Feria for nearly two months, and his record was basically 10,000 kills and 8,000 self-losses, which was far less magical than he imagined at first. The fleet commanders all had some gloating expressions, and Overmars was not angry, but only casually soothed him, telling him to "continue to work hard and look for opportunities to achieve more", and then the meeting was dismissed.

During the meeting, I was the usual invisible person, and as soon as I dispersed, I would put on my briefcase and turn around and leave. Unexpectedly, Simba followed, stopped me in a secluded corner, and said, "Why are you like this, and no one else helps me say a word?" ”

I smiled and said, "You still think I'm your own?" I thought you were transferred to the command of Lord Overmars. ”

"Huang Er, don't be so cautious, Nebuchu's ground strategy was given to Overmars by you, so it's no wonder to me. No matter who is in charge, I have to fight with my heart, right? ”

"You're very attentive now, I see it." I resignedly said: "What do you know, change Ming'er to write a report to me, I'm very busy and want to go first." ”

"Huang Er!" Simba yelled, "You can't go on like this forever!" Space defense is important, but your mind is not on that, why bother to make trouble in such a dangerous place for so long for a woman? ”

"It's not as simple as you think." I diverted the topic: "At present, there are many new problems and new difficulties, I am ready to solve them in general, and if you have any problems, please ask me in time, time is running out." ”

"What, are you going back to the main planet?" Simba smiled dumbly: "It's too unreasonable for a person of your status to escape from reality." ”

"It's leaving, but it's not like you say. In these two days, a decision must be made after the fact, and it is likely that a strategic retreat of tens of thousands of light years will be necessary. I looked around, approached him and whispered, "The space fleet is almost tossed, if the reinforcements brought by Guo Yingying can't arrive within a week, we have to choose whether to hide in the Gonggong Fortress and wait for death or all of them land on Nebuchu to find an opportunity." ”

"Isn't it?" Simba froze.

I replied in the affirmative: "Feriia's outer space support fleet is still increasing, and it can withstand one or two waves at most." Kintaro and Ko Song are also human beings, and they can't shoot down the enemy with their bare hands. ”

Simba's face was cloudy, and he thought for a while before he said, "If you are oppressed from space, it is hard to imagine that the army can hold out on to Nebuchu for a long time. The second division, which is the most mechanized, can survive for six months at best, which is probably the limit. ”

"That scenario is very likely to arise, and once it does, your task is to keep the fire." I patted Simba on the shoulder: "If you want to be promoted to general, first-class general, you have to survive to be possible." ”

Simba was about to stab me back when my phone rang. When I heard it, a little smile finally appeared on my face, and I whistled and said to Simba: "The situation is not the worst, Guo Yingying will be here soon." (To be continued.) )