Volume 2 My Youth Chapter 54 The Battle for the Coastline (2)
Soon, the main battlefield was pushed from the first line of defense by the enemy to the second line of defense.
The remnants of the defenders on the first line of defense, led by some veterans, defended themselves in a group of fortresses, and the command no longer gave orders to these troops, and they could choose their own battle plan.
The enemy launched a short but fierce attack on all parts of the second line of defense, finding weak points in the line of defense, and then striking these weak points with heavy forces.
This is exactly what Kimchi expected, the armored forces of the Roshir Kingdom can barely compete with the armored forces of the Southern Loya Empire in frontal combat, so they need to find a suitable battlefield for their own armored forces.
Now, when the enemy has concentrated a large number of troops on a few preset battlefields, the armored forces can be dispatched.
With the artillery blowing, the armored forces and the landing force of the South Loya Empire faced off head-on.
Both sides lost dozens of armored combat vehicles each in the moment of contact. Because at the top of the line are the kingdom's new chariots, so it can be a tie with the landing force of the South Loya Empire.
The Combined Knights made a timely sortie and launched a surprise attack on the enemy's flank. If it was a cavalry brigade made up entirely of veterans, it would have been possible to cut off the enemy's attacking forces by now. But there is no way, most of the ones on hand are recruits.
So Kimchi can only retreat to the next best thing, to let the enemy disperse the forces, so that the pressure on the frontal troops is a little less, and can resist for a longer time, and a longer time means more reinforcements and hope of victory.
After more than an hour, the enemy began to weaken the offensive and retreated to the first line of defense, which had been completely breached, to confront our troops.
The still burning positions were littered with the wreckage of chariots and charred corpses. The repair team immediately began to repair the damaged vehicle.
After this battle, the 3rd Panzer Division suffered the most trauma and was almost scattered. However, the armored force of the landing force of the South Loya Empire was also wiped out.
Now was the perfect time for a counteroffensive, and Kimchi personally led the team, gathered all the knights of the Combined Knights of the entire defensive line, and under the cover of artillery units, launched a surprise attack on the enemy's defensive line.
Soon, under the onslaught of the Knights, the enemy's unformed defensive line was immediately torn open several gaps, and the armored troops immediately followed and began to widen the gaps, while the infantry held the captured positions at the end.
Seeing that it was about to drive the enemy out of the first line of defense, the enemy's fleet carried out artillery bombardment, completely oblivious to its own troops still on the beach.
Kimchi took this situation into account and contacted the Kingdom fleet to send a new type of fast destroyer to alert the defenders before the enemy shelling.
But now it seems that either communications have been cut off, or the new warship has been silently killed by the enemy.
With the sound of breaking the air, the shell was not a few seconds away from falling to the ground, and in this brief calm, Kimchi immediately jumped into a nearby crater according to his instinct, injecting all his energy into the shield system.
The oppressive feeling of life and death allowed Kimchi to complete all the operations in just a few seconds, and even had spare time to open the protective matrix inside the cab.
The steam engine was overloaded, as if it was about to explode in the next moment, and the blue light curtain of the shield quickly covered the sky above Kimchi's knight, and the cannonballs came at this time.
In an instant, a sea of fire flooded the first line of defense, and Kimchi felt as if he was in a storm, blown by the wind and seemed to be blown into the sky in the next moment.
He had to stab his saber hard into the surface and then simply grab it to prevent himself from being blown down.
The vibration of the ground had made the fall a mortal end.
I don't know how long it took, the shelling stopped, and thanks to the Spirit Lord's protection, Kimchi was not mortally injured, but his knight had completely lost power.
The deformed cab still seriously injured him, and a single piece was inserted straight into the chest armor, but fortunately there was an internal defense matrix so that this fragment did not hurt Kimchi.
When the smoke cleared, almost all the troops on the first line of defense were wiped out, there were no knights left in the Combined Knights, the armored forces had completely lost their strength, and if they were not reorganized, the 3rd and 5th Panzer Divisions might have to be denumbered.
The rescue team immediately entered the ruins to search and rescue. The Kimchi Peak rider was cut directly from where his back was still intact, and then the paramedics carefully dragged Kimchi out of the cab and placed him on a stretcher.
The others were not so lucky, but the ordinary knights who were judged to have repair value did not carry out the destructive rescue work, but first tried to talk about the chest armor opening.
If the controller should die for this act, he can only be considered unlucky, who makes the cost of a knight in war much higher than the cost of a controller.
Unshielded vehicles and infantry search and rescue units will only be able to find their identification and military badges.
This time the losses were devastating, with the defenders losing one of their trump cards, the Combined Knights, and for the time being, a commander who could fully subdue the people.
It turned out that the commander of this place was Fellan Vinol, and then an old marshal known for defensive warfare, Alekevsky, and then Kimchi, after Kimchi was seriously injured and fell unconscious, Alekevsky again served as the commander-in-chief of the defensive line.
It's just that he has no way to adapt to modern warfare, and even if those young generals obey his command, there is no way to make good use of the troops at hand.
There are so many people in the army, facing the threat of death, even if they know that their current commander is in trouble, it is impossible to have no resentment and dissatisfaction in their hearts, which is impossible to avoid.
The South Loya Empire once again launched an attack on the coastal defenses, and with the bitter lessons of the last time, the defenders no longer dared to take the initiative to attack, and even some recruits did not dare to come out of the underground fortifications.
The defenders were defeated and even infiltrated by the enemy, so that communications were blocked. The rear suddenly did not know the situation at the front, and could only take a conservative posture, ready to face the imperial army that had broken through the defense line at any time.
Felianvinoel, who was dealing with the cooperation between the army and the Academy of Sciences, learned of what had happened to her at the front, and although she was eager to immediately take her troops there to support the battle, reason made her give up this impulsive approach.
In this regard, Ferrynower no longer continued to deal with the matter of cooperation in a more moderate manner, she directly pulled Kirsten over, and then told the people of the Academy that if they did not bury their heads in hard work, then they did not need to do it anymore.
As for the military, they were already crushed to death by Felianvinoer Now they are lying down, and Felianvinoer is what she says.
She then asked Kirsten to help with the research. As the head of the Institute of Esoteric Studies, Kirsten still has a great prestige in the academic circles of Middle-earth, so Kirsten's dominance has not been questioned.
Of course, Kirsten also heard about the situation at the front, and she had no way to go to the front line to help in the battle, so she could only lead the rear to do her best. She used her own strength to get a part of the Holy Kingdom reinforcements and the combined forces of other countries to arrive in Rothel ahead of schedule, and then rushed to the front line without stopping.
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After a day and a night of fierce fighting, the communication was finally restored, but the defense line had become full of holes. The second line of defense was fragmented, and several fortresses on the third line of defense were destroyed.
The surviving defenders took advantage of the rare ceasefire to repair fortifications that might soon be destroyed again.
Some veterans and recruits have become acquainted with each other, and they begin to smoke a cigarette butt in half together, and the recruits are choked and coughing, and the veterans laugh on the side.
The South Loya Empire had already built a bridgehead, and unlike the landing operations of the Middle-earth forces, the empire directly used amphibious landing ships to transport the construction of modular small seaports to the beach.
Then, the Imperial Engineer Corps laid out the sand with reinforced ground modules, and then the construction of the landing port could begin.
More and more Imperial armor has come to the beach, and now the entire beach has been covered with reinforced tiles, and the heavy equipment can also be landed on land.
The next battle will be more difficult to defend against than ever, potentially leaving the defenders losing both the second and third lines of defense.
Marshal Alekkovsky's bloodshot eyes were staring, and the rest of the generals, who were also red-eyed, discussed the next battle plan. They were more or less covered with bloodstained gauze, and their uniforms were stained.
In the battle that just ended, one of the enemy's units managed to break through the defenses near the headquarters and attack it directly.
Fortunately, the guard unit composed of the last armored knights put up desperate resistance to save the brains of the defenders. However, injuries were inevitable, and several staff officers were still being rescued in the field hospital.
"All four armored divisions have been disabled, and now we only have one infantry fighting vehicle brigade in our hands that has not yet been attacked." Said one of the generals.
"How long will it take for the reinforcements in the rear to arrive?" Alekevsky asked.
"Report! Because of the sudden attack of the South Loya Empire, certain obstacles have been built on the main roads in the rear, and now it will take some time to clear them, and the first all-terrain armored fighting vehicle units totaling two hundred will arrive tonight. "The correspondent in charge of liaison with the rear reported.
"What about the Combined Knights?"
"Report! The rear says it will probably arrive tomorrow morning! ”
"Tell the people in the rear, I don't want to be, I want to be sure! If they don't want to see the Empire's troops set foot on the inland lands of the kingdom tomorrow, they will work overtime! ”
"Yes!"
"Whew..." Alekevsky sat down in his chair and drank a small glass of vodka with his still somewhat trembling hands.
Although this was a violation of military discipline, no one said anything, after all, the old marshal did everything he could, and even took the lead with a gun just now to surprise from the enemy's encirclement.
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In the jungle near the coast, an all-terrain armored transport vehicle was moving, and Reinhardt's superior driving skills allowed them to travel exactly through the secret roads in the woods.
The car was carrying a mysterious orb and a box of potions. Kimchi's serious injuries may cause him to unconsciously awaken his bloodline, which must be stopped.
As for that mysterious sphere, it is naturally an instrument that can summon the true armor of the unified knight.
Veroya's eyes were closed, and something left behind by Ashur allowed her to get a glimpse of what was going on on the front lines.
Now that the time has come to death, we must speed up.
The position of the United Knights gave Kimchi a part of the kingdom's military power, which caused a certain amount of criticism, and if the coastal defense line was lost, then someone would definitely attack Kimchi from it.
So the coastal defense line cannot be lost.