Chapter 441: Time to Fight Back!
"Boom !!!"
The capital of plenty.
Outside the river embankment.
A loud and earth-shattering bang completely shattered the silence of the afternoon.
The flying gravel and dust rained down, causing the Falcon Kingdom soldiers squatting in the trenches to subconsciously bury their heads and block the lunch box in their arms.
"-"
"My ears...... Grass! β
"What's that sound?"
"Nuclear bomb ......"
This is a rumor that has been circulating in the military recently.
The Legion intends to wipe the capital of bounty off the map with a nuclear bomb.
Don't......
Already using it?
Covering his stinging ears, a soldier struggled to his feet from the ground, found a steel helmet to put on, and stuck half of his head out of the trench, looking eagerly in the direction of the capital of plenty.
However......
The desperate embankment still stands.
A hint of despair flashed through the numb Tong Kong.
As if realizing something, he turned his stiff neck and tried to turn away.
And the moment he looked behind him, the constricted Tong Kong suddenly dissipated the light, and the despair hidden in the depths of the soul window also dispersed on his entire face at the same time.
Smoke.
Fire.
Floating heat waves.
It was as if the whole world was burning.
The wriggling black smoke connected the sky and the ground, like a torrent slanting down from the River Styx, and there was no way to see it upward, left, or right.
At the center of the explosion was a 100-meter-wide crater, and the wide battlefield had been wiped out of a corner, leaving soil, rubble, and corpses...... Trenches with twists and turns were buried.
There was not a single wail there.
There was only a deathly silence.
He remembered that it was the position of the 10,000-man team and the 7,000-man team, and he even remembered that the boys had just switched guards with the 4,000-man team of the 20,000-strong team that had been disabled yesterday.
His Adam's apple moved slightly, and the sound of swallowing saliva was the only sound left in the silent world.
At this time, it suddenly began to rain in the sky.
The raindrops are red.
He raised his trembling right hand and touched the tip of his nose with his index finger, the hot, sticky touch that almost stopped his heart from beating.
The rain suddenly became heavier.
From a misty drizzle to a plop, and to a hard and rapid pace, more and more minced flesh and bone stubble fell from the air, clanging like hail on his steel helmet.
What is all this for?
What is the significance of his presence here?
Fear finally destroyed the soldier's defenses, and he knelt in the trench and hugged the steel helmet with both hands, letting out a heart-rending cry.
In the distance, there was the deafening sound of artillery, the continuous sound of gunfire, and the shouts of killing accompanied by the sound of the tank's tracks rolling by......
The anger and hatred of tens of thousands of people completely pulled the remnants of the trenches back to reality from that silent world-
"Killββ!"
β¦β¦
"Bang ββ!"
The thunderous sound of cannon was like a blowing horn, shattering the surrounding clouds and pushing the Iron Heart cruising under the clouds to shake gently.
A thick column of smoke rose from the 400mm gun, creating a parabola of perfect curvature, and swooping down with the propeller planes to the surface.
Looking at the pillar of fire rising from the surface, the spring commander standing next to the railing of the deck of the Iron Heart couldn't help but smack his tongue with emotion.
ββ¦β¦ This yield is probably not smaller than that of a tactical nuclear bomb. β
And it is environmentally friendly and free of radioactive fallout.
It's just that this pit is a little bigger, and it is estimated that it will take a lot of effort to fill it.
Speaking of which, the last time I saw this thing firing was on the ground, but now that I have a different perspective, it gives him a completely different feeling.
In the face of the suppression of the firepower of this "aviation battleship", the battle line of the Falcon Kingdom besieging the capital of bounty is collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The air formations of the Goblin Corps cruised along the edge of the blast wave, and the cannons of forty W-2 ground attack aircraft continued to fire and lick the ground, and this was already the second round of air strikes.
I looked darkest at the spring standing aside.
"When are we going to go?"
"It's not time for us to get on yet."
"Damn, it's over!"
"Airships are the protagonists of this war, and it is up to our allies to charge into battle, and our role is to be present in key positions at critical moments, such as carrying anti-tank weapons to reinforce the enemy's armored forces when they suddenly arrive...... But it doesn't seem necessary now. The spring commander took out his binoculars and glanced at the ground.
The enemy front is breaking up faster than expected.
It seems that the legion should have abandoned this position......
A string of black dots appeared in the sky in the distance.
The Falcon Kingdom's flying squadron tried to save the day, and thirty Hawk propeller planes entered the battle from the northwest flank.
However, from the moment the flickering red dots appeared on the radar screen of the Iron Heart, they were already doomed.
"Master, the enemy plane has entered the firing range!"
In the communication channel, Xiaoqi is full of energy.
Chu Guang, who was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the bridge, looked at a clear sky in the distance, and announced their death in a voice without waves.
"Fire."
"Roger!"
As soon as the playful words fell, the sky was lit up in an instant, and the smoke and fire formed an impermeable wall, and there was an instant dark cloud in the clear sky.
In the face of that overwhelming firepower, any evasive maneuver is meaningless at this moment.
If you can't break through the entire airspace in one breath, being beaten into a sieve by countless shrapnel is the only outcome.
Finod, who was standing not far away, swallowed.
This Iron Heart is true and makes this guy understand.
He even had the illusion that when this airship reached the hands of this demon, its combat power had directly increased by an order of magnitude.
Under the coordination of the Vault server and the Vault AI system, the performance of each of Ironheart's anti-aircraft guns has been squeezed to the limit, and even the explosive shrapnel that does Brownian motion has been covered in a probabilistic sense, making the firepower net 1.5 times larger with the same efficiency!
Especially the brain hole that changed the deck into an airstrip.
It made his jaw drop on the ground in shock.
The Iron Heart can indeed carry carrier-based aircraft, but it usually carries vertical take-off and landing aircraft.
This kind of gameplay of throwing propeller planes outside like throwing paper airplanes is really a bit beyond his imagination.
Aren't they worried about accidents at all?
"All enemy air units have been annihilated!"
Xiao Qi's report came from the communication channel.
Chu Guang nodded slightly, retracted his gaze from the smoky sky in the distance, and looked back at the Fertile Capital not far away.
I saw that on the battlefield covered with thick smoke, the scarab team led by Prince Winter was fighting through the west gate of the river embankment, and with the assistance of the Honey Badger Kingdom's restoration army, they completely broke the defense line of the 10,000 people of the Falcon Kingdom.
In fact, before they could break out of the riverbank, the Falcon Kingdom's defenses were on the verge of collapse.
Thirty W-2 ground attack planes took turns to dive, strafe and bomb, almost paralyzing the fixed firing points on the position.
And a total of four 400mm heavy high-explosive bombs and heavy incendiary bombs that fell from the sky directly crushed the psychological defense line of the soldiers of the Falcon Kingdom.
Far more soldiers laid down their arms and threw up their hands in surrender than were killed on the spot by artillery.
Although the stubborn resistance is the majority, it still can't change their doomed defeat.
The nuclear bombs were not deployed at the nearest airfield from here, and the corps did not even give them the go-ahead to put in more aircraft.
Even as early as last night, the coalition's reconnaissance planes discovered that at least three 10,000-strong units and two artillery squadrons had withdrawn to the northwest.
And these people who stayed behind were all outcasts that Griffin fed to the Alliance.
In the case of the untenable supply line to the north, this is the most realistic judgment, and Griffin's choice is more decisive.
If the fortress cannot be attacked, it will be directly abandoned, and when the situation is not right, it will not hesitate to transfer strategically, and it will not take the seemingly inconspicuous alliance lightly.
The old fox was more cunning than he had imagined.
Considering caution, Chu Guang did not give the order to let the airship go deep behind enemy lines and pursue the retreating enemy troops.
The Alliance wouldn't design a weapon that the Alliance couldn't handle, and he had reason to believe that the Legion also had a hole card in their hand that could take out the Iron Heart.
At least according to Yin Fang, the alliance's chief researcher, the technology of manipulating gravitons is not invulnerable, otherwise the era of prosperity would not have come to an end in a sloppy manner.
He doesn't hesitate to put all his chips down when he has to give it a go, but he doesn't hesitate to choose the latter when he has a more secure option.
The Iron Heart will not leave the front line and go deep behind enemy lines, and Chu Guang will personally lead this flagship and move forward steadily with the battle line.
There is no suspense in the counterattack of the capital of plenty.
In contrast, he was more worried about the situation in the south.
If his initial strategic judgment was correct, then the Legion's nuclear bombs should have already been deployed to the airfield in the Lost Valley......
Staring at the battlefield outside the floor-to-ceiling window, Vanus thought for a moment before suddenly speaking.
"It's too fast."
Chu Guang looked at him.
"Quick?"
"Hmm......" Vannus nodded thoughtfully, "I don't even see the slightest hint of effective resistance. β
Chu Guang smiled.
"Isn't that good?"
"It's not bad, it just makes me feel a little weird......"
Vanus pondered for a moment, then suddenly spoke.
"What about Griffin's tank? We haven't seen a single tank since yesterday, and the Honey Badger Kingdom's Restoration Army has rushed into the river bank almost without hindrance, and if I were him, I would never have allowed those two forces to successfully join forces. β
The tank that broke away from the infantry was a spear without a handle.
At that time, the situation was completely enough to send several anti-tank teams and armored forces to intercept the Honey Badger Kingdom's Restoration Army.
It is not even necessary to annihilate them all.
The Falcon Kingdom only needs to drag them under the river embankment, and once the tank stops, no matter how hard it is, it will be an iron coffin.
"Even if this is the Luoxia Province far from the west coast, even if they have so many tanks here, this is too strange......"
After a pause for a few seconds, looking at Chu Guang, who was lost in thought, Vanus continued to speak of his opinion.
"No, all the tanks are in Camp 530, right?"
β¦β¦
To the east of Oasis No. 4, the desert is 300 kilometers away from the Twin Peaks, and dusk gradually shrouds the land.
Tanks loom in the flying sand, revealing only a thick barrel and turrets draped in desert-colored camouflage nets.
The front of the hull was reinforced with sandbags and completely buried in sand.
These tanks were mainly based on the Conquistador V Light Tank and the Heavy Tank X X respectively.
In order to stretch the battle line long enough, the distance between the tanks was very wide, and the large gap in the middle was filled by foxholes with infantry lying on their stomachs.
On the northernmost side of the battle line, a strangely shaped tank was parked.
It has no turret, the barrel is buried in the wedge-shaped body, and even more surprising are its tracks, which are not embedded in the body, but are attached to the outside of the body like tires.
The officer, dressed in navy blue uniform, was half exposed on the roof of the car, holding a telescope in his hand, and the bridge of his nose was pointed motionlessly to the east.
His name is Stan, and he is a tank commander under Griffin's command and the commander of the 1st Armored Motorcycle Squad under the Falcon Kingdom.
A few days earlier, General Griffin had personally explained the operation to him.
ββ¦β¦ Our plans are not foolproof, and if they see through our plans, sending motorized troops to raid our airfields is their only option, and that is their last hope. And what you have to do is to close their last door! β
Although all of this is based on the assumption that the alliance has seen through their plans, and this is very unlikely.
But by no means nothing.
Stan isn't worried, though.
Fifty light tanks of the Conquistador V, forty heavy tanks of the Conquistador X X and Eleven, and the "Prowler" under him.
Together with a thousand motorized infantry, and a large number of anti-tank and anti-infantry equipment, a huge net has been opened on a front more than ten kilometers wide.
It doesn't matter if it's a thousand people.
Or 10,000 people!
Don't even think about going over the walls!
At this time, the sound of scouts reporting the sighting of enemy vehicles was heard in the communication channel.
Although the wind and sand here were covered with rust and the signal was intermittent, he still heard the key words clearly.
The scout repeated this several times before hanging up.
Stan puts down his binoculars, holds the headset hanging to his side, and orders in a cold voice.
"Attention of the divisions, enemy units are advancing from due south, towards the G5 area."
"The battle begins!"
The moment the words fell, a deafening explosion suddenly came from a distance, and a column of smoke slowly rose from the horizon.
A slightly stunned look appears on Stan's face.
The direction in which the smoke floated......
It seems to be his position?
When he had already laid an ambush in advance and the scouts had completed the attack in advance, he was even beaten first by the other side......
How can it be!
A noisy and chaotic sound came from the headphones.
ββ¦β¦ This is Team 7, 'Hunter' and 'Obsidian' have been destroyed! We're under attack by a cluster of enemy tanks and need reinforcements! β
"Grassβ"
A deafening cannon shot interrupted the tank commander's voice. The gunners shouted angrily, the loaders struggled to stuff the shells into the chambers, and it was not difficult to feel the anxiety and chaos of the battle from the clanging bumps and the sudden strafing of the coaxial machine guns.
Stan's brow finally furrowed when he heard that the "Hunter" had been destroyed.
'Hunter' and 'Obsidian' are the code names for Team 7's No. 3 and No. 4 crews, respectively - a Conquistador 10 and 11 Heavy Tan!
Needless to say, the former is needless to say.
The latter has an equivalent armor that is almost 1.5 meters thick!
There are not only gap layers and anti-armor-piercing linings, but also sandbags as cover.
How can such a "mobile fortress" not be penetrated by a single shot?!
No matter what happened to Team 7, now is not the time to hesitate.
Stan didn't have time to be surprised, and without further ado, half of his body immediately retracted into the body of the "Prowler" tank.
With a piercing electric current sound, the gray-black surface of the tank seemed to be coated with a transparent film, and the shadow under the barrel was even covered with a layer of frost!
Communication is completely interrupted.
Before the state of silence, he handed over command to the captain of the 1st Armored Motorcycle Thousand Brigade, which was directly under the Falcon Kingdom.
And at the cost of this, you get almost invincible armor!
Those natives would never have thought that the legion still had this hole card in their hands!
The corners of Stan's mouth curled up with a cold curvature.
Holding the control grip for manipulating the artillery with both hands, he calmly turned on the switches of the rangefinder and optical zoom sight, while looking at the driver, who was sitting in front of him, gave the order.
"Target G5 Regionβ"
"Forward!"
Hunting β
Here we go!
β¦β¦
In the endless sea of sand, an encounter broke out between the Alliance's skeleton corps and the Falcon Kingdom's armored thousand-man team.
35 Tank II and 500 Panzergrenadiers against nearly 100 Conqueror tanks and nearly 1,000 light infantry relying on fortifications.
Although the perception of the player's premonition of crisis and the "thermal vision" of the rich dude helped the skeleton corps to detect this ambush in advance, and was able to urgently deploy personnel and equipment before the encounter broke out, avoiding being caught off guard.
But it still can't change the numerical gap between the two sides.
Both sides are the elite of each other's camps, and each has hidden hole cards that they don't understand each other.
It's going to be a tough battle!
The collision of iron and blood here has just begun, and the battle 200 kilometers away has entered the white heat.
The defenders stationed at the fortress of Petra almost poured out, and nearly 20,000 high-spirited soldiers gathered under the command of the Lord of Sain, following the guidance of faith to fight towards the Valley of Loss.
The entire fortress of Petra was improvised, and the vehicles were all called up on a makeshift basis, whether it was motorcycles, trucks, ox carts, or horse-drawn carts, which were used to transport troops and supplies and tow artillery, and the vast dust was like a rolling sandstorm.
General McLaen, who was obviously not blind, quickly sensed the movement in the west, so he immediately dispatched his men to form a formation along the wreckage of Route 7.
A fierce exchange of fire broke out between the two sides in an area 50 kilometers from the airport.
With neither side prepared for this war, the exchange of fire quickly turned into a tragic scuffle.
The front, which stretched for more than ten kilometers, was full of gunfire and artillery.
The two sides could only rely on the general direction, barely distinguishing friend from foe in the gradually falling twilight, and then opened fire in the direction of the flickering gunfire.
"Rebirth: The Great Age of Waves"
As for the advance and retreat of the troops, or to defend on the spot, they had to rely on the occasional small note sent by the herald.
The setting sun stretched the shadows of the valley, and the entire desert was coated in blood.
Just as the battle was heating up, a cuirassier corps, numbering about 1,000 men, led by the captain of the personal guard of the Lord of Thane, circled along the Chobar Mountains to the south of the Lost Valley.
Most of the Legion and Falcon Kingdom forces were pinned down on the east and north flanks.
It was the weak link of the defensive line, with only a small number of machine-gun emplacements and watchtowers standing.
They will serve as a dagger, piercing through the beast's softest belly and then out of its dorsal ridge to disrupt the planes parked at the airfield on the north side of the camp with explosives and grenades on horseback, or at least the runway......
They were accompanied by a group of White Bear Knights driving armed trucks.
"We'll separate here."
The captain of the guard pulled the reins, rode his horse to the front of the truck, looked at the three people and one bear in the truck and continued.
"We'll destroy those two planes as much as we can, and I'll leave it to you to stop the ritual of calling for evil spirits!"
Sesame Lake, who was sitting in the passenger seat, nodded seriously.
"Leave it to us...... Be careful on your way. β
"I will."
The captain of the guard grinned, raised his right fist and struck the breastplate made of steel plates, then pulled the reins to turn the black horse around, and grabbed the carbine hanging from the horse.
No rhetoric.
There are no loud slogans.
He just kicked the horse's belly and rode to the front of the team, and the more than 1,000 cavalrymen behind him saw this and followed him tacitly.
And thenβ
The charge began.
The sound of horses' hooves was like thunder rolling on the ground, kicking up endless dust on the Gobi Desert, and rushing towards the garrison of the legion without hesitation.
"I didn't expect to see cavalry charging in the 24th century......"
Surprise was written on Flesh's face, and he stared intently in the direction of the north.
"Oh......"
Holding the tail of the machine gun, he also looked north, and couldn't help but muttered in surprise.
ββ¦β¦ Hope you all come back alive. β
Those people made her feel like she was alive.
"It's time for us to act, too."
Sis glanced in the rearview mirror, and then at the co-pilot next to him.
After receiving a pair of determined eyes in response, she restarted the truck and headed for the south side of Lost Valley.
Petra's cavalry aimed at the defensive line on the south side of the Valley of the Lost and the airfield on the north side.
The odds of them being able to penetrate this line are only 50%, and that's in the most optimistic scenario.
As for them, the goal is the Valley of the Lost.
Sisi didn't expect that they would be able to receive tasks from managers through the official website outside the scope of communication.
However, the destination of the mission coincided with the goal of their trip, which was in the remains of the "river embankment".
Based on the clues gathered, the Legion was looking for something there.
Whatever it was, they must not be allowed to find it.
It's kind of weird to say.
The news on the official website about Oasis 4 and Lost Valley is basically updated by her alone, and it stands to reason that apart from the players, the NPCs of the alliance will not know what is going on here.
Could it be that NPCs can also access the Internet?
If that's the case, then the game is too "real"......
β¦β¦
On the north side of the Lost Valley, in the camp of the command post at the legion station.
General McLaan was standing in front of a strategic map and a radio station, directing the deployment and deployment of front-line troops.
The soldiers of the Hump Kingdom are not opponents of the Falcon Kingdom at all, and both sides are not on the same level in terms of military theory or organization.
The former's only advantage is probably only faith and piety, and this advantage is often difficult to play on the frontal battlefield.
With only close to 20,000 men, the fortress of Petra could not have been his opponent.
Although everything was still under his control, his feet on the ground still made him feel unsteady.
It's a pity that it will take a little time to get the airship back.
Thinking of this, McLen's heart couldn't help but start scolding his mother.
It wasn't until now that he had come back to his senses, as if he had been used as a gun by the skunk.
He's obviously here to find that Titan's shield core!
Just sneak that core away and turn it into a weapon to shoot at the Iron Heart and you'll be able to make that thing fall from the sky.
As a result, the Griffin guy suddenly threw an order to him, and he had to ask him to fix some airfield.
Although he was very happy to be able to throw a nuclear bomb on the head of the Alliance, it was another matter to become a frontline because of it.
It's good now.
The Alliance has seen through that skunk's lame plan and has somehow convinced the Hump Kingdom, which is riding the wall.
Now there are only one or two teams of 10,000 people, and it is not difficult to deal with them.
But what about after that?
Now that the plan for a nuclear strike has been seen through, the alliance must have sent troops to advance to this side, and the nuclear bombs dropped on Qingquan City will not be able to annihilate those troops together.
Not only that, but only the defenders of the fortress of Petra are currently dispatched, and the Oasis No. 4 next door is stationed with nearly 100,000 standing troops!
No matter how elite the Falcon Kingdom troops trained by the legion are, they are not supermen.
When the time comes, he may have to flee by plane again......
"It's time." The pilot in the command post glanced at his watch again.
Actually, there was still a little time left before the planned time, but staying here always made him feel a strong sense of unease.
McLaren waved his hand.
"Let's go...... Go and go back. β
The pilot nodded, picked up the helmet resting on the table, and walked towards the outside of the tent.
The escort wingman had already lifted off under his command, and after confirming that the nearby airspace was safe, the H-55 Hurricane with nuclear warheads would then take off.
And at the same time that the pilot left the command post, an officer trotted in, gave a military salute next to General McLaen, and reported loudly.
"Report! A cavalry unit has appeared to the south of us! β
Staring at the strategic map on the table, McLaan calmly ordered.
"Transfer the 5 wheeled reconnaissance vehicles in the camp, and inform Weisd that he should immediately rush to the south position with the 100 motorcycles in the camp to support! Be sure to stop them from approaching the runway of the airport! β
"Yes!"
The officer gave a military salute and immediately trotted out.
Seeing the back disappearing in the doorway, McLene's heart relaxed a little.
He kept this unit on his hand and did not send it to the front line, just to guard against the sneak attack of the natives.
The barbarians came!
Cavalry?
McLaren sneered.
He'll let those people know what a foolish decision it was to go against the Legion.
However, at this moment, the air defense alarm suddenly sounded outside the camp tent.
McLaren was slightly stunned, and for a moment suspected that he had misheard.
Where else are there other airports nearby?
At this moment, an officer lifted the curtain of the tent and walked in briskly from the outside.
McLaen read the severity of the situation in that panicked face.
Before he could open his mouth to ask, the officer reported quickly.
"Planes are approaching usβ"
"Is it an alliance or a business?" McLaen grabbed him by the collar and hurriedly asked, "What about our plane?" Took off? β
A series of questions, the officer's scalp tingled.
He shook his head nervously as he looked at the nose that was almost poking into his eyes.
"I ...... I don't know. β
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(Thanks to the leader of the alliance of "Canglan Fate" for rewarding!! The rhythm of one volume a month, this volume is almost finished, and I seem to have forgotten to divide the volume again...... οΌ
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