Chapter 44: The Night Battle

Sunday, November 11, 2018

"It seems that the commander of the other side guessed our actions in advance, and temporarily made changes to the city defenses of several cities. Since they can prepare for the armament, then we must have guessed the main purpose of our operation. After Andrei controlled himself to calm down, after thinking for a while, the mustache at the corner of his mouth shook and a smile appeared on his face again.

"Your Excellency Andrei, do you mean?" several commanders around him seemed to understand.

"Hmph, if it weren't for the Martin family's temporary tearing up of the agreement, this farcical war would have ended a long time ago. That's what it takes...... I hope these temporary people can be relied upon!" Andrei said to the Martin family, a look of hatred and fear lingered in his eyes, "inform the commanders of the other armies, change the battle plan, and activate plan B." ”

"Yes, Lord Andrei. ”

On the other hand, as Manehattan's army continued to advance at great cost, and as the depth of the troops increased, the troops gradually integrated, and soon disintegrated the defenses that the law had arranged on the various defensive lines. Subsequently, the chariot troops, mecha troops, and various intelligent self-propelled machines of the two armies began to fight around the various satellite cities of the Law City. Relying on the city defense weapons and light curtains of satellite cities at all levels, the army to which the law belongs must adopt a defensive strategy. Because in terms of the strength of the two sides, the army to which Manehattan belonged was almost twice as numerous and well-equipped. In frontal battlefield combat, the law is at an absolute disadvantage.

When the law developed its own power, it did not invest too much money in arming its own forces at the beginning. So much so that after the war has started in full swing, it is discovered that the level of ordnance production has completely advanced the law of the times in many fields, and it is still using old weapons. Ironically, most of these old weapons were still produced by the Manehattan family. Conversely, on some battlefields, Manehattan's armies used advanced weapons produced by the law. Although before the two sides tore their faces, the law that vaguely felt that it was wrong also began to produce weapons for the army on their side, but in terms of speed, they did not have time to catch up with this sudden outbreak of war.

After all, Manehattan is a huge family left over from the last era, and it is the head of the contract of one of the four major parties in the alliance. The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, although it has been declining over the years, and many affiliated families have split off one after another. These families took away a lot of capital and technology from Manehattan, and some even started the same business as their old clubs, and became several other major military factories outside of Manehattan. However, compared to the law, a new force that has only emerged from the Ninth District in the past ten years, it is still terrifyingly powerful.

Originally, neither side of the war was reasonable, after all, on the surface, only the coalition government was qualified to have an army under the coalition parties. Moreover, all the cities within the so-called sphere of influence of the two sides are also under the control of the alliance government in the provisions of the alliance code, and it is sometimes said that it is the turn of these families to control. Such a war, from the point of view of the Union Code, is treason on both sides.

However, under all kinds of unreasonable and strange phenomena, the two sides are fighting in full swing. As for the alliance, except for the fact that the Lord of the Heavenly Palace of the Nine Districts had reprimanded and warned Chen Shengtian at the beginning, the alliance had hardly made any substantive interventions. It was only at this time that most people understood that the so-called only allied kingdom in the world had long since died in name. seems to be a big kingdom that is integrated, but in fact, from a certain point of view, it is already a Warring States era with many countries.

From the four-party rule at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the hidden danger of power struggle was laid, and then the coalition power was familialized, the economy was familialized, and the military was later familialized. The familialization of the army has evolved from semi-intelligent machinery and warrior power at the beginning to fully intelligent machinery and mecha warriors later, and has evolved into a regular family army establishment later. The level of weapons has also changed from the initial level of light bullet guns to the current chariot corps and various strategic weapons. In a real sense, the turning point of the alliance as a kingdom to an alliance of warring states was when the first city under the full management of the family appeared. Since then, a family that owns a city has in a sense completely transformed into the existence of a state. It was also during this period that the division of castles in the sky, above-ground cities, and dungeons into citizen hierarchies began. Over the years, the family's position was strengthened, and seemingly non-compliant behavior was taken for granted. Subsequently, the power of the clan became more and more concentrated and independent, and in order to obtain more 'reasonable' permissions, the alliance revised the code again and again.

And forces like the law are even more outliers in this era. After all, the predecessor of the law was just a third-rate business family that could only be regarded as a third-rate business family in the Nine Districts. There is only one second-level main city and a few third-level cities under the control of the family, and there are more than a dozen such families in the entire Nine Districts, and there are several families that are more powerful than them. However, it was such a third-rate family that had actually integrated all the families in the entire Nine Districts in just a few years. And such an integrated family, the various power struggles that should have appeared did not appear, and the emerging family also uncharacteristically cohesively and directly became a world-class top family. In the years that followed, the family transitioned away from the family and formed the laws of today in the form of an industrial alliance. The family's position has grown by leaps and bounds, and with its own team of thinkers and the family's industry and power, it has expanded so much that it threatens the economic production of Manehattan, which is the main economic production of the four parties in the alliance.

In the Hafa War Zone, including the secondary main cities such as Lucheng, Liancheng, and Jicheng, with the main city of Jiangxin as the axis, Chen Yitian, who rode the night, was equipped with a martial mecha developed by the law, and followed several warriors of this squad to gallop on the wilderness between cities. Because of the optical camouflage system, although they can't clearly see teammates who are not far away from each other from their respective field of vision, the blue dots on the tactical eyepiece that represent this teammate allow them to clearly know each other's position.

Although in this seven-person team, except for the team leader, only one person is an emperor-level martial artist one day, and the others only have the strength of a third-order and fourth-order martial artist, but everyone still intentionally or unintentionally protects the day at the core of the team. At this time, after simply listening to Yi Yunteng's battle report in the general command room, Chen Yitian calmly issued a series of follow-up orders to Yi Yunteng's side while moving at high speed with the team. After completing the follow-up arrangement, he connected with his support team and dictated some analysis tasks. Finally, on the brainwave command platform simulated by the eyepiece, the warrior troops assigned to him by other cities were mobilized.

On the Manehattan side, in addition to the first wave of the army that has been in close contact with the French army, the follow-up combat troops have also been divided into small forces and entered the war zone from all directions one after another. In addition to being continuously replenished to the Manehattan army at various battle points, these small units were also responsible for cleaning the defensive positions of the law after the large forces had been crushed. Completely destroy the fortresses of war that have not yet been completely destroyed, and at the same time destroy the underground dispatch fortifications of the weapons of these positions. That is, the underground mechanical structure of the position is completely destroyed through the super energy sub-explosive bomb, preventing the defensive machinery that may appear in the future from retaking the position again.

Naturally, there are also some units whose task is to serve as a guerrilla force, sweeping up and warning the opponent's pre-war ambush assault troops. At the same time, it also clears the way for the secret weapon that is moving in the shadows, and pulls out the eyeliner and various sensors that the law has placed in this war zone. In any era of war, the vision and information of the army are the factors that can determine success or failure.

In the city defense war, the two armies are facing each other, and the role of the warrior legion will be greatly limited, and the main force of the war is chariots and various heavy weapons. However, once the battlefield is transferred to the wilderness, urban areas and other places where both sides can move freely, warriors, mechs, and even infantry with extremely mobile weapons can often achieve higher strategic value than chariots with the assistance of various individual weapons. After Chen Yitian's deployment of warrior legions successively passed through the line of fire where the chariots of both sides were engaged, they successively encountered the guerrilla troops to which Manhattan belonged. The outcome of the encounter was naturally not surprising, and these guerrilla troops, which were far inferior to the law in terms of their well-equipped, mobility, speed of mutual assistance, and most importantly, combat capabilities, were wiped out almost in a very short time after contact.

As soon as the small forces of the two sides met, they immediately saw superiority, and the warrior troops of the law even carried out encirclement and reinforcement within the scope of their ability after annihilating some of the guerrilla troops, which greatly consumed the follow-up guerrilla troops of Manehattan. Before the opposing guerrilla forces could quickly assemble, the skirmish alone consumed a quarter of the fresh force of the follow-up troops. At the same time, before the warrior troops carried out a strategic retreat and transfer, they once again rearranged their own eyeline.

With the counterattack of the warrior troops, the main force of the French army also began to increase the intensity of counterattacks on all fronts.

The shrunken Manehattan Army was quickly reorganized with the number of men and vehicles of each ranger unit, and the distance between the troops was reduced to a high-altitude formation. Under the pressure of the warrior forces, the guerrilla forces of Manehattan began to search for the warrior forces of the ambush law in reverse.

As if anticipating Manehattan's reaction, Chen changed his combat strategy in time. Using the improvised sight system, Chen Yitian skillfully avoided the rangers in these formations, and instead further dispersed the warrior troops, extending outward with smaller squads to regain the vision of the theater. At the same time, all vision sensors left by Manehattan were eliminated, creating a vision vacuum between the troops in front and behind him. All these arrangements, such as the dismantling of the squad, were all designed before departure, so this tactical arrangement was implemented almost at the same time as Chen Yitian issued the order.

The long-distance movement speed of the warrior is not comparable to that of the chariot, but the speed and agility of the short and medium-range movement after equipping the warrior mecha are difficult for the chariot formation to match. The law regained control of the theater of vision in a very short period of time, causing a large group of warrior troops to disappear from Manehattan's vision again.

Manehattan quickly made a detour through the chariot and carried out a map-covered fire suppression, wanting to deal damage to the Warrior Legion of the Law and destroy the newly arranged sensors of the Law through various functional explosives. However, the range of firepower that can be covered by a high-density chariot formation is limited after all, and such a firepower suppression can hardly cause substantial damage to the extremely scattered warrior legions, and the range of vision that can be cleared is also limited after all.

And all of Manehattan's actions seem to have hit Chen Tiantian's hands. The traces of the newly arranged field of vision being swept away were recorded one by one by the wisdom brain of the law, and the data was established one after another real-time battlefield models with the cooperation of the intelligent group of the center of the nine districts in the distance.

Just when Manehattan's follow-up troops continued to rush to the battlefield and successively cut and sweep the entire battlefield, the appearance of a large group of ultra-high-altitude fighters from the night sky disrupted Manehattan's strategic deployment. In this era, when combat vehicles can carry out holographic operations on land, sea and air, equipment such as fighters is indeed rarely considered by the military. After all, this design requires a lightweight, extremely fast equipment body, in addition to having its own unique advantages in carrying physically functional shells. It cannot carry a large number of reloaded energy weapons, has poor flexibility, and cannot be loaded with light curtain generators, which makes the fighter far less practical than the vehicle. So in this era, of course, there are still some special fighters, but they are not the main force on the battlefield after all.

After a round of fighter sprints, a wave of super light bullets is exchanged. Half of the formation of law fighters successfully rushed into the high-altitude tank formation in Manehattan and was killed. Although most of the chariots with the light curtain avoided the suicidal attacks of this wave of laws in time, the firepower and attention of the entire chariot formation were attracted by the fighters in the sky. The attack of the super sniper battle array from the warriors in the darkness of the hidden domain on the ground was temporarily evaded, and in an instant, a large number of Manehattan chariots in the sky turned into fireworks in the sky.

After a successful blow, the warrior troops on the ground quickly broke into pieces, and took advantage of the fact that the chariot formation was not regrouped, and withdrew from the original position under the cover of mutual echelon fire. Chen Yitian marked the firepower blind spot assembly point calculated by the main brain for the warrior troops in each theater on the command platform, guiding the evacuation of the warrior troops and preparing for the next strategy. A part of the warriors slowly broke away from the main battlefield and moved towards a few special points marked by Chen Tiantian.

As the war continued, Chen Yitian used a variety of tactics and various troops in various strongholds to continuously consume Manehattan's new force. With the follow-up of Manehattan's mecha and infantry units, the samurai troops' containment of the chariot units weakened, and the vision suppression strategy was also broken.

Manehattan consumes the warrior forces of the law with an almost insane battle damage. When the dawn lit up the sky, the entire border line of the ninth and sixth districts was almost burned by the flames of war, and the scorched earth was completely devoid of life.

The battle is still going on, with chariots flying and smoke billowing from thousands of miles of scorched earth. Countless vehicle wreckage, mecha wreckage, and other wreckage littered the battlefield, and the splattered rubble buried layer after layer of debris, only to be blown up again by the newly fallen wreckage. The air is filled with vapors and dust from the combustion of metals and living organisms, obscuring the sky.

On the Lucheng front, two huge carrying chariots continued to advance towards the war zone under the cover of the large army. In the sky thousands of kilometers away to the left of the large force, when a high-temperature reaction that distorted the light was detected by the detector, a large area of blue light and shadow flew along with the super energy light projectile in the sky.