Chapter 2: The Frontier of Hell

"Earlier today, the League arrested League Times reporter Ronald Brown on charges of intentional injury. Stan, who used a stool to beat League weekend reporter Claude Brown at yesterday's press conference. Barlow, who was hospitalized for his injuries. The cause of the incident was because of Claude. At the press conference, Barlow asked the Allies to suspend military operations on the Southern Alpine Front...... Regarding the upcoming indictment, Stan stated 'I just did what any Confederate citizen would do'......"

-- Star Online

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(ps: I'm military blind, everyone will watch a special effect on the war scene, there must be a lot of mistakes and omissions, please don't care)

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October 6, 2180, south-east of France, Confederacy "Southern Alpine Front" H Defense Zone, 183 support point.

An Confederate sergeant lay on the ground, his huge crater still holding on to the heat, barely bracing himself in the late autumn wind.

The ACA's shelling has just ended, and it is obvious that the support point where it is located is the direction of the next attack of the ACA - there is no need to even reconnoitre, on this battlefield, which support point is hit by saturated fire, which means that the ACA chooses to break through from here, and only by using dense artillery fire saturation strikes to destroy the laser interception system, and then destroy the minefield and defense equipment on the ground, can the breakthrough be effectively carried out.

Due to the existence of various levels of interception systems, the effectiveness of missiles and precision strikes has greatly declined, and the laser interception system only costs 5 universal coins for a shot, while the missile costs at least tens of thousands of universal coins, and neither the alliance nor the ACA has the financial resources to continue to maintain the "find and destroy" combat mode, not to mention that air supremacy still often changes hands, this combat mode in which the United States killed all sides in an asymmetric war at the beginning of the 21st century soon died out, and the price of artillery shells was low. It is easy to form a saturation attack and once again dominates the battlefield.

Driven by the science of new materials, new types of tunnel fortifications for shelling are also widely used, especially in places like the Alpine front, where every inch of land is contested, and although the mode of war has not returned to World War I, it is not much more advanced than World War II.

Artillery preparation means attacking and attacking direction, although the ACA generally conducts attacks on multiple locations. Occasionally, there will be a full-line artillery preparation, but this kind of thing can't happen every day.

Only this time the shelling was obviously much more violent, so that the sergeant lying in the crater had a bad premonition, he crawled forward a few steps, put up the observation mirror on his head, and sure enough, in the smoke and dust in the distance, the ACA tank had already made the whole earth shake.

Put the heavily armored old tracked tank in the front, and then put the valuable levitating tank equipped with an electromagnetic cannon in the back as an assault gun. Typical ACA combat mode.

The sergeant raised his head, glanced at the cloudy, almost dusk sky, frowned, there was no air force of his own side, and there was no air force of the ACA, and the two sides had lost more than a dozen planes in the morning dogfight, and it was estimated that in the afternoon it was barely possible to form a balance in which neither side had air force support.

"183 support points. Confirm the ACA offense. ”

The sergeant put away his scope and turned to lean against the edge of the crater. Pressing the radio, almost at the same time, a similar message was sent back from countless soldiers across the Alpine front, these carefully selected veterans of the battlefield who did not have access to the bunker at the time of the ACA shelling, even though the advanced equipment in the helmets was synchronized with the counter-battery radar. Being able to show where shells are falling in the area in real time, and all are equipped with high-mobility exoskeletons and fragmentation armor, this is still a risky job that only battle-hardened veterans can do.

"It's almost time for artillery to fight back."

The sergeant muttered to himself that the Allies were definitely about to launch an artillery counterattack. Although it is unlikely that the opponent's self-propelled artillery will be destroyed, it is also meaningful to force the opponent to shift their firing positions and not be able to continue suppression.

However, today's artillery counterattack seems to have come a little late.

The screech of the cannonball came again, but the sergeant froze in place, because the direction of the screech was not the familiar rear of the Alliance, but the direction of the ACA!

Artillery positions were attacked!

The moment the ACA's shell fell behind him, the sergeant had only one thought!

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Support Point 183 had suffered heavy casualties under ACA fire, but it was still not lost.

Garrisoned here were soldiers from three companies of the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the 733rd French Light Infantry Division, reinforced with heavy vehicle-mounted mortars and several tanks, but there was no helicopter or rotorcraft air support to call, and the ACA's unscrupulous shelling soon destroyed the few heavy equipment of the light infantry division, and the soldiers could only engage with the ACA infantry.

There have been instances of Allied soldiers trying to use anti-artillery bunkers as fortifications to resist before, but the ACA directly and unhesitatingly used thermobaric bombs and nerve gas, so even if they braved the shelling, the soldiers must be deployed outside the bunker when the enemy rushes up, although the laser interception system and the close defense gun were destroyed in the shelling, but there is also a portable unmanned vehicle that can provide laser interception, the interception success rate is far less than that of large equipment, but it is better than nothing.

The soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the 733rd Infantry Division have now dragged the battle into a hand-to-hand fight, and the Allies have deployed a large number of light bunkers on the front line for this situation, which are like a rectangular box, which will bury their bodies in the dirt or lie directly on the ground when unfolded, unfold the metal plates on their backs that can accommodate two soldiers, in addition, destroyed armored vehicles, scattered ammunition boxes and craters, Tenacious Confederate soldiers maneuvered around with any equipment that could cover them and the ACA's heavy troops.

A lieutenant gently patted the soldier in front of him on the shoulder, and then the soldier rushed straight out, carrying an anti-tank missile, followed by two covering soldiers, from where they and the lieutenant were just now, there was no way to attack the flank of a hovering tank, so they had to risk shifting their positions to ensure that the missile was not intercepted by the laser system.

The tracked tanks used by the ACA as meat shields have long been destroyed by stationary heavy anti-tank missiles, but these hovering tanks equipped with six-barreled revolver laser interception equipment are quite tricky, and at the very least, the old method of firing two missiles in a row to break through the interception does not work.

The only way was to fire two missiles at two different directions of the tank. Use the time difference of the laser system to rotate and destroy the opponent!

The leading anti-tank soldier in front of him was running under the cover of machine guns, his front was covered with two layers of armor, while two soldiers behind him followed, one with a repeating shotgun to attack the drones floating in the sky, and the other with a rifle to check for gaps.

"The forward attack is already in place. Wait for the rear attackers to be in position! ”

The voice of a comrade-in-arms came from the earset, and a large-caliber sniper rifle directly blasted the head of the anti-tank soldier who rushed to the front into a cloud of flying powder, and the second shooter who followed behind threw away the shotgun, and while the third assistant threw out a smoke grenade, he picked up the missile launcher on the ground, and continued to move towards the predetermined launch position without bothering to look at his teammates.

Without taking two steps, the two drones suddenly jumped off the ground, and the assault rifle in the third shooter's hand had only time to take out one of them. Then the submachine gun on the second plane was directly cut in half from the position of the chest and lungs, and the second shooter carrying the bazooka rolled forward to avoid the drone's bullets, and then the allied position had noticed the large-caliber machine gun on this side and bombed the drone directly into pieces.

The exposed machine gun position was also quickly discovered by the drone, a thermalized missile directly burned the machine gunner and the machine gun together into a black residue mixed with organic and inorganic matter, and an EMP gun grenade hit the sky, buying the last time for the only remaining second shooter, who rolled over and rolled into the crater, which was already the rear of the electromagnetic tank!

However, the bottom of the pit. But there is also an ACA soldier!

Without any hesitation, sparks flashed from the assault rifle in the opponent's hand. The armor-piercing bullet flew several meters into the chest of the second shooter, the first bullet was blocked by the composite armor plate, but the next three shots went directly into the second shooter's body, shredding his organs entirely, and then opening a hole the size of a basin in the back.

"No way! Forward Attacker Launch! ”

The lieutenant's voice came, but the anti-tank missile fired from the front was intercepted by the interceptor system without any suspense. And almost at the same time, a Mach several electromagnetic cannon projectiles directly hit the position of the anti-tank position, and the nearby soldiers did not even feel the pain, they were directly smashed into flying fragments.

"No more! The defense line is crumbling!! ”

Having solved the threat of anti-tank missiles, remotely controlled weapon stations on the roofs of flattened hovering tanks also began to spit tongues of fire. Large-caliber bullets reaped the lives of Confederate soldiers, and tanks, a terrifying monster designed to break through infantry defenses from the Somme River, are still faithfully fulfilling their duties on the battlefield hundreds of years later.

"Retreat! Retreat to the 197 support point! Reorganize there! ”

There was no way, the lieutenant could not watch his soldiers being slaughtered unilaterally, and could only give the order to retreat.

"Wait a minute!"

And at this moment, suddenly a voice came from the channel, and then, a tail flame crossed the air, and a Confederate soldier with a flying backpack for gliding hunters on his back swept across the battlefield, and in order to avoid radar, he flew very low, only a tree high.

The flying soldier stretched out his hand and pulled on his left shoulder, and the gliding hunter equipment on his back was abandoned, and with a flick of his right hand, he threw out the wings and jet equipment on his back like a large boomerang, and the sharp wings directly cut off an ACA soldier who was holding a shoulder-mounted anti-aircraft missile, and then the fusion battery exploded, engulfing several soldiers around him.

At this time, everyone can see that the person is a TF, TF landed a tumbling to unload the power, and then pulled out a long arrow-like thing from the cylindrical equipment behind it, and threw it at the ACA machine gun position on the other side with his backhand, and a flame came out of the tail of the long arrow, which instantly accelerated and hit the machine gun position, and then exploded violently.

Without stopping, the young man grabbed another hand-thrown missile with his right hand behind his back, and turned quickly under the quiver, replacing the missile with an EMP warhead, and the youth threw it with all his strength, and the missile with the EMP warhead directly pierced a viewing port on the top of the electromagnetic tank, and then a violent electromagnetic pulse crossed the tank, and then, because of the short circuit of the battery, the entire tank exploded into a fireball with flashing electricity.

"I'm Rogan from Team T 13. Lieutenant Colonel Craig, who is the commander here? ”

With a flick of his right hand, the miniature submachine gun on the back of his hand overturned several ACA soldiers in succession, and then his left hand reached forward, and a miniature missile flew out of the back of his hand, blowing up another ACA armored personnel carrier.

Team T, which is the abbreviation of TF combat units directly under the Central Command of the Alliance Europe, the TF of this unit is scattered on the battlefield, under the command of the front-line commander, and can occasionally make their own judgment and conduct actions.

"Sir, I'm the lieutenant battalion commander!"

"Regroup immediately, count the wounded, the electromagnetic projector will send supplies and equipment, the ACA will continue to attack, you have to hold on a little longer!" Before Logan could finish speaking, several metal boxes were launched from a distance behind, opened a huge parachute, and landed on the position.

"The artillery positions have been recaptured, the surviving artillery is being redeployed, and soon a counterattack will be launched, I am now going to reinforce the 184 support point!"

"Thank you! Sir! The lieutenant nodded, the 184 support point is the defense area of the 3rd Regiment and the 2nd Battalion, and this battalion commander is a unit.

Logan didn't speak, nodded, picked up an all-terrain hovercraft for communication in harsh electromagnetic environments from the side, and drove directly in the other direction.

For 8 months, the Alpine front was like a giant meat grinder, and battles like this were going on every day, and countless soldiers and supplies were thrown into this meat grinder, which was then turned into fertilizer and spare parts.

Everyone in this land, whether the ACA or the Alliance, is looking forward to the arrival of a snowy winter.

On the Alpine front of this hell. (To be continued......)