Chapter 41: Powerlessness and the Zerg
What fate likes to do most is to play tricks on people.
It's an anthropomorphic rhetorical phrase.
This is not to say that fate is a naughty child, or that he likes to play pranks, but that human greed has made life movement human.
Kimchi should be deeply aware of this, he is too greedy for everything that wants to happen, how can reality fulfill his wishes.
After all, reinforcements did not arrive when the enemy launched another attack on the storage base.
The enemy's tentative attack had ended, and the commander of the opposite headquarters had roughly confirmed that the defenders here were at the end of their crossbows, so they no longer had any scruples, and began to send heavy troops to take this difficult position.
Looking at the situation in the distance through the telescope, which had already broken half of the battle, the enemy's strength was estimated to be around nine hundred.
Miracles can only happen once, and this time, no matter what, it is impossible for the remaining two hundred or so people to create another miracle.
Stories are stories, reality is reality.
For the first time in his life, he felt so weak. If he could be as strong as Hessehia and even Kirsten, he would not be watching these two hundred men drowned in the enemy's charge now.
Damn bloodline! Why can't you use it when it's in your own body?! What you can't use what you want him to do!
Kimchi clenched his fists.
Reinforcements will soon arrive at the front, but will these troops who arrive at the front line come to the rescue at all costs?
Impossible, as early as the second day of the war, in order to ensure that the most forward positions were suddenly breached, there was still a line of defense in front of the line where the front command was located to cushion the pressure.
A large number of sappers began to build this line of defense behind Kimchi's line to relieve the pressure.
When the support units arrive, the first thing to do is to ensure the safety of the place, and then to rescue the frontline troops.
Because there is a storage base that is regarded as the primary target of the enemy, and a large number of troops are placed here, the pressure in other directions is not so great.
However, the damage was still severe, and there was basically no need for rescue. For the rear command, apart from Kimchi himself, the other soldiers on this line of defense were a number, a tool to delay time.
This is war, the thing that needs people the most and the things that need people the least.
Every commander who has risen to the top by virtue of his exploits knows what is happening on the front line and what his orders mean, but sometimes, people are people, and numbers are numbers.
The only seven remaining guards came to escort Kimchi to his position behind the base.
At the back of the storage base, a dozen soldiers barely managed to build a small position out of surrounding materials, including two machine-gun emplacements and a communication trench.
The special combat team of the Roshiel Kingdom that specially received Kimchi had arrived at the front line. Kimchi's men knew that they were here to save their chief, not to save them.
However, although they were still a little angry about this, they all hoped that the chief could return to the safety of the rear.
You know, Kimchi's current title is already a duke, and how long in the war in Middle-earth has there not been a person with the status of a duke who has personally commanded and fought on the front line?
That may only be found in the conquest of the Kingdom of Augustus and the War of the Holy Guardians.
And Kimchi has been living and dying with them for so long, and has long been regarded by them as their life and death comrades, and even the reinforcements who came to support later hope that Kimchi will withdraw first, because Kimchi is the youngest among them.
But Kimchi never had everything a duke should have except status, and many times he forgot that he was a duke.
This also led to the fact that when the special combat team of the Kingdom Army came here to prepare to evacuate the front line with Kimchi, Kimchi hesitated.
At first, the special operators, who did not know Kimchi, thought that the big man was just playing on the scene, but as time went on, they realized that it was all just their own cranks.
The surrounding soldiers did not have any dissatisfaction with the departure of the commander, and some of them even handed over the suicide note they had written during the short break to this "big man".
Only then did the special combat team know why they didn't recognize which person was the target of their mission to escort them away.
Kimchi's outfit was no different from any warrior around him, his messy hair and blood-stained and muddy face, although somewhat tied, still concealed his original appearance.
Even Felianvinoer may not be able to recognize Kimchi from that face in the first place, let alone these special combat team members holding a photo of Kimchi attending the welcome ceremony at the Supreme Lighthouse Fortress.
“。。。 Can I stay? Kimchi asked. He knew what he would get, but he wanted to ask anyway.
He still has bloodline power, although he doesn't know what the consequences will be when he is activated, but what he does know is that he will not die but will become very strong and strong.
"Sir, we've been ordered to escort you out of here." Said the captain of the special operations team.
The people of the special operations team did not feel the slightest disgust at Kimchi, who was hesitating, because they were all able to put themselves in the shoes of this duke who was not a duke.
In the end, Kimchi still did not choose to activate his bloodline.
The protagonists who take great risks and use some kind of power to survive only exist in the saga, and Kimchi knows that he is not that kind of person, and does not have the luck that even fate envies.
If you activate the bloodline, how should the people who worked hard to seal the bloodline face it?
If you choose one side, you're sorry for the other.
Only when there is no choice, there will be no entanglement.
As long as you are strong enough to put any situation in front of you, you don't need to choose one or the other, then you won't have such complex emotions as you do now.
The sound of gunfire, shouts of killing, sounds that he had long been familiar with on the battlefield sounded in his ears, and the enemy had clearly stormed the storage base.
The special operations team began to advance with Kimchi towards the rear far from the front line.
The storage base grew smaller and smaller in Kimchi's eyes, and was finally obscured by layers of makeshift buffer lines.
From that moment on, Kimchi suddenly understood what he wanted, yes he wanted everything to be in his own hands, nothing else, nothing to give up.
Three days later, Kimchi woke up in a front-line hospital ward.
As soon as he was escorted to the front-line headquarters by the special combat team, the medical unit here gave Kimchi a comprehensive treatment.
A total of more than a dozen large and small shrapnel were taken out, and the attending doctor could not help but sigh that Kimchi's self-healing ability and immune system were not what a person should have, even if he had seen some alchemists' physical strength.
After drinking the hot soup, Kimchi got the information he had thought about for a long time. The front line fell, and the soldiers who fled back did not have the number of the troops under his command.
Even if someone does escape, they may be ashamed to report the number of the unit to which they originally belonged.
With the front line full of broken up troops, no one will come to investigate this matter strictly.
Kirsten came to the front with a reinforced brigade of knights.
Kimchi then learned that some soldiers of the original Hussar Legion had parachuted into the rear with mortal auxiliaries to destroy.
Kirsten even went down to repair the bombed-out railroad and drove the train himself, but in the end he was not able to make it.
As one of the people who spent the most time with Kimchi, Kirsten knew the reason why Kimchi now looked complicated.
But she couldn't comfort Kimchi about this, because although she understood why Kimchi was like this, he didn't understand why Kimchi was like this.
In her opinion, it was interesting enough to do this for some people she didn't know, so why grieve for their deaths.
If it were her, she wouldn't have such a complicated face.
"Can you still do that experiment?" Kimchi asked suddenly.
"What experiment?" Kirsten put down the prosthetic-sliced apple in his hand, vaguely feeling that something was wrong.
"It's the experiment you designed to explore when you saw that silver humanoid."
"What do you want to do?" Kirsten frowned, "That experiment will activate your bloodline, isn't your bloodline unable to be activated?" ”
"I want to be stronger. I remember that your experiments were taken aside. ”
"Don't mess around! If you remember the experiment I designed, you should understand what the so-called insurance measures are. Remember, you are the one who is going to be a father, do you want your children to have a father who is missing an arm! ”
"But I...
"Nothing! It's hypocritical! Aren't those hundreds of people sacrificed? The number of casualties in the troops you have led is still small? Why didn't the soldiers who died on Kings Island not long ago think about you like this? ”
“。。。” Kimchi suddenly realized that he seemed to be doing this to move himself. Yes, what do those who have sacrificed say? It's just that the time spent together is a little shorter.
"Okay, regrets are always there, you can't create another regret for regrets." Aishuur patted Kimchi on the shoulder.
"You have to know, the war is really Serbia, and after it is swept in, more people you know will die, will you activate the bloodline first, and then refine and transform the whole body, and finally mutate in the direction of no one and no ghost?"
“。。。 Let's go back to Serbia. When I was healed, we went back to Serbia and worked on weapons of war together. Kimchi was silent for a few moments before saying
"No problem." Kirsten handed the apple to Kimchi.
A week later, Kimchi had almost recovered from his injuries, and Kirsten had completed his training of front-line technicians and checked the operation of one side of the steam pipe and steam tower.
The two men still had to wait for Hecehija, so they began to continue their research in Serbia in a converted officer's residence in a small town not far from the front line.
The battle on the front line gradually improved as the kingdom mobilized most of its military strength from the steel defense line on the coast originally used to defend against the Southern Loya Empire.
The Duchy of Bolier is only a few combatants of the right age, and even if all the people are soldiers, they can't fight against the Spirit Kingdom and the Rothil Kingdom at the same time, and they can severely damage one of them.
However, the commander of the Hussar Legion originally intended to let all those combatants of the right age enter the war screening and become new hussars, so as to defeat the combined forces of the Spirit Kingdom and the Rothel Kingdom on the battlefield of hidden power.
On the side of the alliance of the Rothel Kingdom and the Spirit Kingdom, as time went by, the number of battles increased, and Hecehia became more and more familiar with the power in his body, and the Spirit Lord was also familiar with how to use the strength of the power that did not destroy this space to fight.
The accumulation of a large number of hidden forces will inevitably lead to the appearance of strange things, and these strange things have become the help of the coalition forces, and under the control of Hecehia and the Spirit Lord, most of these strange things are attacking in the direction of the hussar legion.
So for both sides, it is good to delay for time, and it is still unknown who will accumulate enough advantages to defeat the other in the end.
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Rhine Union front.
The wreckage of countless super-heavy tanks has been piled up to form a "steel line", which is flanked by the Rhine Alliance with various Land Cruisers and Titan mechs, as well as various types of tanks, and the offensive positions of the Zerg.
The Spirit Kingdom has halted its assault on the Rhine Alliance due to the Great Expedition of the Hussar Legion, and because of these sudden variables, the two countries have temporarily signed an armistice.
Relieving the pressure, the Rhine Alliance began to deal with the bugs that came out of the Duchy of the Acropolis with all their might.
I have to say that the Rhine Alliance, which can resist fighting on the two fronts of the Cang Dynasty and the former Holy Kingdom, also feels that compared to themselves, these bugs are natural positional fighters.
In the Zerg position, several large incubators are incubating new Soldier Bugs, all of which are protected by heavy carapaces, a defense that requires armor-piercing shells of at least 280 mm caliber to penetrate.
The carapace wasn't the only protection, the bugs learned quickly in battle, placing their incubators underground and reinforcing the earth with an unknown fungus.
This is the equivalent of an underground fortification group, and then only a few passages are left for workers and soldiers to enter and exit. The first thing you need to do to get access to these incubators is to break through the soil layer.
The more than 50 heavy guns of 280 mm caliber and above that the alliance mobilized in a short period of time could not pose a threat to it at all.
In this regard, the alliance can only step up the construction of railroad tracks, and then push the train artillery to the front line for battle.
In addition to this, the Rhine Alliance also received the help of the personnel of the Acropolis principality on Bangalna to make a number of expensive "beacons".
This "beacon" will unleash a huge amount of stealth power in a very short period of time, and the intensity will cause strange things to wreak havoc. The Alliance used several of these beacons to successfully cause a wave of strange beasts in the Zerg position.
This kind of monster is not composed of simple biological components, and it does not leave organic matter after death, which is the best weapon to destroy the Zerg.
It is no wonder that after the existence of living meteorites in the universe, it is rare to see the Zerg civilization that ravages several galaxies. How can a bug that is highly dependent on organic matter be able to fight against a living meteorite.
Although there are strange beast tides to help reduce the pressure, and the Rhine Alliance has more time to prepare, but in the territory of the Duchy of the Acropolis, when the Zerg base camp is also constantly iterating on the Soldier Bugs.
The longer it drags on, the more it will be better to know.
On the Cangchao side, the situation is completely different.
The shamans took out the "artifact" brought out by the concubine of the Sikong clan who was in charge of the Heavenly Division, and summoned the blow of the gods, so that the Zerg gave up attacking the Cang Dynasty.
However, everyone knows what this "Celestial Strike" is, that is, the three-dimensional defense system left in outer space is operating, and the so-called artifact is a one-time positioning beacon.
With a key stored inside, one can get an out-of-the-box strike support from the support system.
This kind of support blow also comes with a mental impact, and the Zerg front-line command node worm, which has been stimulated many times, temporarily gives up the attack on the Cang Dynasty.
Finally, the Cang Dynasty, which was temporarily out of the war, hurried to seize the time to recuperate.
From the first Battle of the Rhine to today, if it weren't for the Daohuang Dynasty, which had been fighting for so long, it would probably have been a great famine due to food shortage.
Now, the Cang Dynasty hurriedly began to let the reserves that were originally preparing to go to the front start planting crops in an organized manner.
The newly formed fleet also began to import large quantities of grain from the Daohuang dynasty. This part, of course, is not gratuitous.
The dynasty is now trying its best to solve the problem of military salaries, so it has started to buy and sell grain. Anyway, the country with a lot of land and resources is short of money, but there is no shortage of food.
If food was used as military pay, how could the imperial court be in a hurry to hold a great court meeting for two weeks in a row for the cost of an expedition.
The officers of the military department and the officers on the front line can suppress their men for a while, but they can't hold it down for a lifetime, and this military salary must be collected no matter what.
No, it just so happens that the Cang Dynasty here needs to reserve grain, and is asking if it can buy a large amount of grain.
The imperial court of the Daohuang Dynasty immediately began to negotiate an agreement on the purchase and sale of grain.
The Cang Dynasty used all kinds of "heavenly treasures", as well as gold and silver, as well as various precious metals as a means of payment to buy the grain of the dynasty.
Naturally, the DPRK Navy is very active in this. Not to mention making money from all links, the benefits given by the Cang Dynasty just to curry favor with them for speed are tempting enough.
This will go back to the Cang Dynasty, but it is really bloody.
Anyone in Middle-earth now knows that the current brief ceasefire is only due to the presence of two unstable factors: the Hussars and the Zerg.
The war that swept Middle-earth was inevitable and could only cease until an empire as complete as Augustus emerged.
Then it is foreseeable that in the next five years, the Cang Dynasty may fall into the quagmire of war again at any time. Then the food reserves need to be guaranteed for at least one year.
In this way, the transportation efficiency of the Korean navy is extremely important. Therefore, the Cang Dynasty must curry favor with the navy of the country.