Revised Edition, Vol. 18: The End of the World, Chapter 2: The Enemy's Civil Strife (I)
After the Battle of Selmo, the Feria government and opposition were shaken. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info30,000 elite troops were wiped out, the enemy occupied a place close to the capital, and a large powerful clan of their own side mutinied, all of which were unimaginable and devastating blows. They reacted immediately—and every time they did, they gave us a glimpse of the terrifying potential of a race that dominates a huge planet.
On May 12, 084, Feria launched a counterattack against Selmo with an army of 100,000 men, accompanied by more than 800 fighters. Although most of these fighters were in a dilapidated state, apparently improvised, they were the largest air combat in Nebuchu's atmosphere. Because of the surprise transportation of army soldiers, the three fleets of Han Zeng, Tang Long and Dai Jiangnan suffered considerable losses, and their armament was reduced to the lowest level, but it was not much of a problem to deal with these more than 800 Feria fighters that were more broken than them. After all, after several major battles, the losses of the Feria Air Force were extremely serious, and there was not one ace pilot, judging from the combat performance, it was obvious that the vast majority of them were rookies, and they were also piloting broken planes that had been repaired countless times, which was completely incomparable with the three human fleets that were more and more effective in combat.
The battle between the air forces of both sides lasted only two hours before it was basically over. None of the ten Feria air forces fled back to the mainland, and the participating forces of the three fleets did not fall in love with the war, but quickly withdrew to the space orbit when they saw the good, and sat back and watched the anti-landing operation of the army below - since the superiority has been divided, the sky has been occupied by the human space force, and the Feria mainland is ready to launch a large number of missiles, and these warships will soon return to the main star to pick up reinforcements, and if they suffer unexpected losses from one or two shots, it will disrupt all the arrangements! In a relatively orderly and unsurprising air battle, the landing and blocking battle was faced with another ridiculous scene: the huge Feria counterattack army, which had lost the protection of the air force, still crossed the sea with a life-saving buoy, which really made people laugh and cry! Corresponding to their comical military appearance is the tight camp of the mixed army of humans and Blackwater Feria, who are entrenched on the shore.
Jiang Xu raised objections to my practice of forming the Blackwater Feria Army into three separate teams and placing them in the middle of the defense line, believing that this might not only increase the success rate of the Blackwater Feria Mutiny, but also waste his own manpower, so it was better to send all the Blackwater Feria Army to the front line to fight and let the human troops supervise the battle in the rear. This sentiment probably represents the thoughts of most officers and soldiers who have hated Feria for many years, but it is not good for my commander-in-chief. I had to patiently explain to him the necessity of cooperating with Blackwater Feria and the urgency of showing tolerance and sincerity to them, and finally asked a technical question: "If all the Blackwater Feria troops are placed at the front of the defensive line, once they are routed and retreat, will you be able to stop them?" Can you tell the difference between them and Feria's attacking army? Wouldn't indiscriminately stopping the attack make them jump over the wall and rebel? ”
Of course, Jiang Xu didn't dare to guarantee it, so things went on according to my arrangement.
From the North Fort to the South Fort, the mixed armies of the Humans, the Celestial Army, and the Blackwater Feria Army placed more than twenty reinforced battalions on the beach front, each responsible for a defensive line about three hundred meters long. Because the troops are really sufficient, there are still a large number of reserves in the back and in the fortress of Selmo. Even if Feriria's army did not cross the sea but rushed all the way, it would probably not be much good under such a strong army and fortified city. We were well prepared and began to line up as soon as the Feria army emerged from the sea, but they were delayed. The first is that the speed of swimming in the sea is really not fast, and the second is that he knows that the human beings on Selmo's side are powerful, and one or two lonely people are not so bold to die. Impatient, I simply walked to the beach to boost my morale. More than 20 battalions have not yet started to receive fire after the condolences have been completed, and the last battalion is led by Chang Hatian himself, and I sat down to watch the battle after the condolences, but the guards around me were so frightened that their faces turned pale. I didn't care about their feelings, and asked myself, "Are you sure about this battle?" ”
"There is simply nothing to fight in this operation." Chang Hate Tian put down the giant telescope in his hand, smiled lowly, and said, "Is the general still ready to take in the foreign tribe of Feria?" ”
My eyes lit up, and I quickly asked, "Why do you say this?" ”
"General, the battle of Selmo ended on April 27, the time of the expedition. It's May 12, and there's only 15 days left in between. I laughed in my heart as soon as I heard that the attacking troops were coming so soon. Chang hated the sky and laughed as he spoke: "Fifteen days! Excluding the time for urgent study of countermeasures and the delivery of orders, it will be close to ten days at sea, which means that the assembly of this large army will be completed in two to three days. An army of 100,000, where can I draw it in so much time! I knew what the idiots at the General Headquarters were going to do, and it was exactly what I had envisioned. The 100,000-strong army consisted of three tribes dispatched to the borderline and a small number of Imperial Janissary troops. Those three troops came from the Valley of Distant Hope, the Tachi Gobi, and the Twilight Forest, and they were all foreigners who had been recruited by the royal family to send their entire clan to a land far from home to die, and they were just as hostile to the royal family as my Blackwater Feria tribe. If those guys in the General Headquarters had time, they would definitely not have sent these guys over. But to gather an army of 100,000 in three days, the only way to do it is to let them go. ”
This guy is a little too confident. I looked at him suspiciously, nodded, and said, "What should you do, you can do it immediately, and once it is done, I will make you the commander of Feria, who is directly under me!" ”
Chang hated Tian didn't say anything more, but he couldn't help but show an excited expression on his face.
After the battle began, a very strange situation arose. If I hadn't listened to Chang Hatetian's analysis of the situation beforehand, I would have been suspicious of that strange battle situation. The black and oppressive sea of Feria's army was overwhelming, but only the middle part launched a fierce charge towards the coast. The part of the attacking force was faced by a battalion of Blackwater Feria, both of which were Feria's keelmen, and as soon as they made contact, the sound of giant scythes colliding with each other and slicing through heavy and thick bodies came and went. Although the landing force charged fiercely, after all, it landed by sea and stepped on the sandy beach where it was not strong, and the loss was too great compared to the Blackwater Feria Army, which was waiting for work, and there was almost no effort. In less than a quarter of an hour, the first wave of attacks was fought back. More than 500 corpses of Feria's keels were left on the beach, more than seventy percent of which belonged to the attacking troops.
Seeing all this in his eyes, Jiang Xu beside me lost no time in flattering: "The general is really wise!" The thrill of driving tigers and devouring wolves is much better than killing 10,000 enemies and losing 8,000 yourself. ”
"Your mind should keep up with the times." I struck up with him: "Blackwater Feria is already our loyal ally, and their loss is also ours. ”
Jiang Xu would not retreat without touching such a nail, and immediately slapped the rod again: "It is a blessing for mankind that the general can subdue and instigate such a fierce chieftain and tribe. But the subordinates are stupid, and they really can't understand why Blackwater Feria and Chang Hate Tian himself hate their royal family so much that they can draw their swords and kill their former allies soon after being subdued by us? ”
I shrugged my shoulders and said, "I didn't say much about this, but I probably know something. I myself came out of the Intelligence Bureau, and many of Feriria's research materials have not been released because they cannot be conclusively confirmed. I have seen this kind of thing more than ordinary people, and I know more about rumors and wild history. The race of Feria doesn't have a long history at all, it seems to have appeared out of thin air! Their succession laws are also very crude, and although their history is short, they change frequently, and today's royal family is very 'orthodox' in terms of blood ties. It is not surprising that the aliens of Feria, who have ambitions for core power. What's more, the Feria Sect itself has some legends of gods and monsters, and the fact that Chang Hate Tian was subdued by me also has a lot to do with that legend. ”
Jiang Xu opened his mouth wide and made a sleepwalking-like look of admiration: "Oh? ”
I looked at the back of Chang Hate Tian in the distance, and said lightly, "It probably wants to become the new Lord of Feria." ”
The battle lasted all morning, and the Fria army launched only one full-scale attack, and after less than forty minutes of contact with our army on the beach, they threw a large number of corpses and jumped back into the sea. The fighting was not strong at all, and our soldiers did not inject even a single infantry combat agent - it was completely unnecessary.
As everyone knows, there are two major principles in landing warfare: First, the equivalent number of landing troops should be much greater than that of coastal defense forces, otherwise they will not be able to withstand the drastic attrition and attrition during landing; Second, there must be strong and suppressive fire support from the sea or from the air. Obviously, these two principles are not possessed by the Feria army, and as for the "surprise" Yunyun, it is impossible to talk about it, and the stealth reconnaissance ships of the Third Fleet have been staring at them since their army left the port.
In the morning's battle, only the unit that launched the first attack (i.e., the Frieda Guards, part of the mixed army) was fighting earnestly. However, their efforts were not rewarded, and they could only suffer five times the losses of the Blackwater Feria Battalion they faced, and the battle was clearly unfought. The central beach, where the Janissaries attacked, also became the focus of our artillery fire in the rear, with craters and burn marks littering the beach to the shallow sea, and no less than 3,000 Praetorian Guards soldiers had been buried at the bottom of the sea and had become fish food. In the painless morning battle, they were clearly isolated and toyed with.
By noon, the battalions lined up in the front row were replaced to rest and eat. I ate some hastily, and then took Jiang Xu, Jing Wei and Hong Wushuang to the Blackwater Feria camp to offer condolences (in fact, I don't want so many people, but without Jing Wei and Hong Wushuang and others, Jiang Xu didn't dare to approach within a hundred meters of the Blackwater Feria camp). After some usual greetings and condolences, I dispersed the irrelevant people around me and asked Chang Hattian, "How are things going?" ”
"The spies have taken advantage of the chaos to sneak under the sea and have connected with the chiefs of several tribes. Arowad from the Valley of the Distant Lookout didn't know me well, but he was the first to express his determination to do so. Hegenberg of the Tachgobi also promised to surrender after we had defeated the Janissaries, but he offered to keep his entire force and not accept the conditions of reorganization. The Chieftain Wasteland of the Twilight Forest is more stubborn, and has already sent three groups of emissaries yet, but it seems that the rest of Twilight Feria does not want to fight us to the death, and should have a chance. ”
"Well, that's up to you." I nodded and replied, "Tachiferia's conditions can be agreed, and I will try to do it as soon as possible." ”
In the afternoon, fighting resumed on the beach. However, the fool could also see that several tribes outside the Praetorian Guard were not able to work, and he couldn't help but make the commander of the army and the commander of the Praetorian Guard, Akis, furious. He sent messengers to the battalions of the other three tribes and cursed them, and finally they organized another all-out attack.
It was almost dark after the second full-scale attack. In despair, Akis found that half of his troops had vanished into thin air, while the forces of the other three tribes did not look the same as they had set out. The General Headquarters gave him the power to control the whole army, and the other three tribes could not bear to be so slack and cowering! It immediately sent another emissary, threatening to use military law to deal with the cowering cowards if it did not attack with all its might—but it did not know at all how much strength it had left to say such a thing to the other three tribes, which together numbered more than 70,000 people.
After being threatened, the chiefs of the three tribes reacted differently. Looking at the troops of the Feria chieftain Arowald from afar, they were already in the middle and rear of the Feria army, and the first charge could not be its turn, in fact, its troops now had less than a hundred men in total to participate in the general attack during the day, and it had just gone up and was defeated with the army, so it continued to wait and see; Hegenberg, the chief of Tuchferia, was furious when he heard this, and tried to cut down the arrogant Praetorian Guard messenger on the spot, and told his men to stop him, and finally beat the messenger and drove him back, and at the same time ordered the whole army to be on alert, and cut down whoever approached before receiving further orders, if Akis himself came to cut him down!
Of the three tribes, Twilight Feria is in the worst position, not only facing the beach front, but also flanked and rear by the wolf-like Praetorian Guard, who will be transferred to the Warlord to kill the generals. The chieftain of Twilight Feria, Wasteland, retreated and ordered the whole army to attack. The deputy general of the Twilight Feria Army, Arakushi, strongly objected: "Patriarch, look at the indestructible human camp in front, and the powerful Blackwater Feria to help them, do you think we can fight?" That's a waste of our people's lives! Don't look at the big losses of the Imperial Guards, how many people have they come? And how many resources do they occupy behind them? They can gather a large army to fight this war they provoked at any time, but they always recruit us foreigners to the front to sacrifice, reduce their losses and sacrifices, this kind of war can no longer be fought! ”
"The first clan to enter the fortress of Selmo will be given the highest honor and be incorporated into the royal family, as was promised at the time of departure. They do need our people, and they believe they will not break this promise. The wasteland looked at the Praetorian Guard behind him and made up his mind: "We have many mages in Twilight Feria, and there are also many army troops. During the day, the mages were not put to the front line, and the enemy would not have been prepared. As long as it works well, with the full support of the Praetorian Guard, it is not without a hard fight. Humans are alien invaders after all, and who knows what it will be like to cooperate with them? I've made up my mind, and I'm attacking! ”
However, Feria Twilight's attack became a bitter one-man show, but the protagonist of the opera was transferred from the Janissaries during the day to them. Archis's Praetorian Guard suffered heavy losses after a hard day, and they had the desire to preserve their strength, and did not provide any support when Feria attacked at twilight, nor did they have the strength to punish the Distant Feria and Tuckferia tribesmen who were still playing passively. The attack, instigated by its threat, became a unilateral death campaign for Twilight Feria. After the battle began, the wasteland found that the Praetorian Guards had no intention of cooperating with the battle, and immediately understood that he was being played. But the army has moved, and you can't just step on the brakes to the end, it's better to fight. He commanded loudly: "Attack, attack!" ”
The Twilight Forest has a special atmosphere, and it is a place where Mages are abundant in Feria, and the Phantom Academy, the highest cultivation school for Mages in Feria, is located there, so Twilight Feria has always been proud of its large number of mages. In addition to the royal cadets who are not used by the Space Force to learn at the Phantom Academy, the mages of the Twilight Feria are all over the territory occupied by the Feria Army, and their own army is also known for having the largest number of mages and the strongest - two-thirds of the nobles of Twilight Feria are mages, while the nobles of other races are basically strong creatures such as dragon bone soldiers. Their mages were indeed much more powerful and numerous than those royal cadets in the Ferry Asia Air Force, but the army was far behind, and it was all supported by the mass-produced low-level keel soldiers allocated by the General Headquarters. At the same time, there has never been a good army commander, and there is only one tactic to fight: the army rushes to the front, and the mages behind take the opportunity to cast spells to mass-kill the enemy. Fortunately, the natives on the planet Nebuchu are all weak, and the efficiency of this tactic is far higher than that of other tribes. Hundreds of years of warfare have been smooth sailing, and the self-confidence of the elders of the Twilight Feria clan far exceeds their own strength.
Twilight Feria's mage lethality is truly staggering. At the beginning of the battle, one guy sent out a huge power grid, killing nearly 200 soldiers of a human company at the front of the beachhead. The range and lethality of this power grid is more than that of six or eight years of Leilon" five. Twenty-nine: "In the battle to defend Caesar's Palace, the strongest one I relied on to send out by Feng Luo was much more violent, and sure enough, there are many strange people in the world, and we probably met the Holy General-level Feria Mage?" This guy is so powerful, he killed 200 of my soldiers at a time, and theoretically my 80,000-plus troops were only enough for him to put 400 strokes before they all turned into pus, blood, and flesh. And Twilight Feria apparently has hundreds of mages who can kill our entire army in the most extreme cases......
When this strange scene appeared in my head, I couldn't stop laughing. Anyway, the battle is not under my command, just watch, I don't believe that Jiang Xu can't even deal with this. After learning about the other race, Chang Hatian told the staff the inside story of their strength at noon, and Jiang Xu had already made arrangements. Although most of the soldiers of Army Group A of the Nebuchu Front were new-type cold-weapon armies, and the occasional firearms in the combat group were only shotguns with an effective range of less than 50 meters, it was not difficult for an army of tens of thousands of people to carry some heavy machine guns and sniper rifles by the way. Jiang Xu had already arranged for fifty sharpshooters to ambush in a high place, and it was clear that the Feria army could fight as soon as it advanced, but it was always unable to trigger. It wasn't until the twilight Feria mages approached the beach and were basically all in effective range that Jiang Xu ordered the sniper team to open fire.
Twilight Feriamages who cast spells in the shallow sea cannot move during casting, and the more powerful the spell, the longer it takes to channel their magic, during which time they are completely still and exposed to the field of vision of human snipers, and because of the large amount of energy they have accumulated, their bodies are reflected in bright blue, which is a very obvious static target. The target was so tempting that even I had the idea of pulling out the pistol I was wearing. Moreover, the bodies of the mages are very weak and cannot withstand a frontal blow at all. Combining all of the above factors, we can deduce the fate of these mages in front of the snipers - after receiving Jiang Xu's order, the heavy machine gun position at the head of the city first fired wildly at the nearest Feria mages, causing their light to quickly dim, and from time to time burst into brilliant blue sparks. The Snipers are obviously more efficient at shooting, and almost every bullet that passes can detonate a beautiful and brilliant flower of vanishing life. In contrast, the kappa artillery in the back was much more brutal, fully loaded with the most powerful flowering shells to bombard the bustling twilight Feria army in the shallow sea, and each shot exploded a no-man's land with a radius of more than 20 meters, and even the mage and the surrounding dragon bone soldiers were turned into ashes, leaving nothing but fire and smoke, but the most unsightly. Within five minutes of the sniper's fire, Twilight Feria's proud mage cluster had completely collapsed, with less than a quarter fleeing beyond the sniper's effective range, and no longer daring to direct the magic to avoid a bombardment.
Twilight Feria has a characteristic that is particularly different from other Feria races: the aristocracy who are mid- to high-ranking officers are mostly part-time mages, which is related to their special ethnic structure. In this way, the human snipers' precision sniping of the Twilight Feria Mage is equivalent to the targeted killing of the Twilight Feria officer. After a burst of accurate shooting, only a small number of non-division officers were still on the front line, more than half of the officers were killed, and the remaining mages fled to the rear. Jiang Xu ordered the long-range artillery fire to saturate the attack at this time, to completely hurt the Twilight Feria who had fled in the desert, and let them know that it was powerful!
The artillery fire continued to bombard for more than forty minutes before it gradually stopped, but the actual contact operation actually lasted less than fifteen minutes, so this all-out attack by Twilight Feria can really be called "child's play".
After another hour or so, the statistical report of the results was sent up. Jiang Xu smiled after looking at it and said to me: "General, the total result of the observers of the sniper team is: eliminate five hundred and sixty-three mages. The number of tank and machine-gun units destroyed may vary somewhat, but not too much. The keel soldiers of the land battle only wiped out more than two hundred people, this is not a battle at all, it is really a child's play! ”
"If everything is as the elder said, it's time for a big change." I said leisurely, "That's because we have plenty of precision firepower to completely restrain their mages, and the ethnic structure of Twilight Feria is closely related to the existence of mages, so it can go so smoothly." If you just look at the losses of the dragon keels, it can be said that our two sides did not fight at all! Well, this battle should have damaged Twilight Feria's vitality, and I think they will jump off the wall in a hurry, but they won't have the courage to jump over our side again. ”
"Hehe, will it go that well?" Jiang Xu smiled, raised the infrared telescope to look at the movement in the distance, and said, "General, it's not early, I must be very tired after watching the battle for a day, right?" Why don't you go back and rest early, and come back tomorrow morning to wait for good news? ”
"I'm not tired, how many times have the soldiers rotated?"
"General, there are a lot of us, and we have only rotated once, and there are still some battalions that have not played until now, and they are full of energy."
"The rotation work must be done well, the physical strength of our soldiers cannot be compared with Feria. Blackwater Feria is also to be rotated, and their wounded soldiers are to be treated promptly, they have proven their loyalty, and they are to be considered one of us. I slowly stood up: "Then I'll go down and lie down for a while, you watch first." After a while, if you are sleepy and tired, you can also go down and rest, don't get tired. We have a lot of people here, and we have strong soldiers and horses, so we can't have any big problems. (To be continued.) )