Chapter 441: The Chess Game Is Cold!
(Sun, the power was cut off, and after restarting the computer, I found that there were hundreds of words missing from what I wrote before, and it was this terrible hundreds of words, which stuck me for an hour and a half! That kind of vague memory, it really hurts me! It's over! Meow a mi, this is the second time this month! I didn't say it last time!)
New Lunar Calendar, 1058, June 17, 3 p.m.
The First Battle Cluster of the 'Advanced Terrans', composed of nearly 300,000 top-level warships and more than 50 million ground mechanized troops, under the orders of Marshal Bernalt, deputy commander-in-chief of the coalition forces and supreme commander of the first combat assembly group, began to forcibly cross the border of forces and officially enter the territory of the multi-ethnic coalition forces, supported by the guns of the battleships in the sky.
At the same time, the defenders of the 'Greedy Zerg' stationed at the border of this place received Ye Chun's order, reversed the decadence of continuous rout when they first came into contact, and threw themselves into the battle with an unprecedented toughness.
The whole war has been at a fever pitch since the moment the Zerg defenders launched a counterattack.
The ground forces of the 'Advanced Terrans' were supported by the violent artillery fire of the Sky Battleship Group, driving all kinds of combat vehicles and mechs, and piled forward like a bamboo.
As soon as the land war insects on the defending side rushed up, they would immediately be hit by a double blow from the sky and the ground, all-round three-dimensional alternating artillery fire.
The defense and attack that the Zerg were originally proud of were as fragile as blank paper in the face of the enemy's high-tech weapons.
In particular, the protective shield that shrouded the enemy's body made the Zerg army helpless.
As long as there is a protective shield, even an ordinary soldier who is not hiding in a steel chariot or mecha will have a hard time killing him.
And the price of successfully killing an ordinary soldier often costs the lives of several, or even a dozen war bugs.
For this reason, a large number of Zerg, died in battle.
The results that can be exchanged are pitiful.
The ground combat units of the 'advanced Terrans' are weak and individual. Individually, it is not an opponent of the Zerg, but when combined, it becomes a terrifying force that can crush the Zerg army.
In addition to having some advantages in terms of numbers for the time being, the Zerg can hardly find any advantage in front of the 'advanced human race'.
But even the only numerical advantage it has at the moment. As the battle progressed, it seemed that it would not last long.
One for a dozen!
Or the most ordinary Terran soldier.
With such a ratio, even if there are 300 million war insects in the sky and the earth of the Zerg combined, it won't take long to change them out.
And that's not counting the hundreds of thousands of terrifying steel warships in the sky.
If you add them, the seemingly huge number of 300 million insect army is not necessarily enough for the other party to stuff his teeth.
For a time, the Zerg defenders who were ordered to participate in the defense and counterattack were almost all pessimistic.
If it weren't for the death order that cannot be violated in the brand of life. I'm afraid that these insect armies that participated in the war have long since run out.
But now, they can only keep charging at these terrible enemies in front of them, using their own lives to slow down the enemy's advance.
"Reinforcements!
The message for help has been sent countless times.
In the end, the eyes of the high-ranking zerg who was in charge of the battlefield command were red.
But as a result, there was still no support to the battlefield.
There is no doubt that they have been completely abandoned.
Thereupon......
Filled with the anger and despair of being abandoned, the Bug Army, known to have no hope of survival, began to launch a frenzied suicide attack on the enemy who had cornered them.
Charge!
Caught on fire!
Fall down!
Stepping on the corpse of a companion......
Charge again!
Again to be set on fire!
Fall down again!
And so on and so forth......
Finally. After paying a heavy price for the Zerg defenders, who had no hope of survival, they rushed in front of the enemy.
And then......
Collectively, they leap up like the tide of the sea, and are allowed to be pierced by ten thousand 'lights'. Pounced on the moving front, which was made entirely of steel batteries, and exploded.
At that moment, there was a loud rumble and the earth shook.
Tens of thousands of black 'flowers' with a hint of 'devouring power' bloomed in the steel front of the 'advanced human race'.
The ground army of the 'Advanced Terrans', which had been rampant all this time, had finally suffered a terrible blow.
Millions of ordinary soldiers were blown to the ground, and tens of thousands of chariots and mechs were scattered into pieces.
The front was originally pushed forward like a bamboo, but a small half of it was destroyed in an instant.
In the face of the sudden outbreak of terrorist attacks by the Zerg defenders, the rear army of the 'Advanced Terrans' reacted quite quickly.
As soon as the advance line made of steel chariots and mechs broke, they immediately added to it.
At the same time, a group of battleships in the sky. Another artillery bombardment began, pouring over 10 million cannon rays into the frantically charging swarm on the ground.
However......
Such an attack only brought some casualties to the swarm, but did not stop the swarm from continuing to charge.
After dropping the corpses of nearly three million war bugs, the grand scene of self-violence was staged again.
And this time. The number of war insects that have successfully self-inflicted themselves is nearly ten times more than before, as high as hundreds of thousands.
In an instant, the entire front-line positions of the 'Advanced Terrans' ground forces were empty.
Without exception, the troops who had been on the front line disappeared.
Even those high-level vehicles and mechs with medium-sized shields that could block the attacks of the 'Domain Powers' were blown apart and burned.
This time, the 'Advanced Terrans' ground forces lost four million men.
If you add the hundreds of thousands that were blown up before, the Zerg defenders fought back frantically, killing a total of nearly five million enemies.
This does not include those armors and mechas, which are the main forces on the battlefield.
Although while killing these five million enemies, the Zerg defenders also paid the same price, this was already a rebellious move for the Zerg defenders who were completely crushed by the other party in battle.
If such an act against the sky can continue, then maybe the Zerg defenders really have a chance to win this ground war.
But unfortunately, the miracle created by the Zerg defenders ended here.
In the end, they still didn't make it to the end.
After being overshadowed twice by the Zerg defenders with self-detonation tactics in a row, the 'Advanced Terran' air-ground coalition did not give the Zerg defenders any more chances.
After a dense attack of long guns and short cannons, the remaining tens of millions of Zerg defenders were all annihilated.
And the ground forces of the 'advanced Terrans' paid this time. It's only the price of a million.
Six million for seventeen million.
This was a 'brilliant' victory that made the 'advanced Terrans' themselves feel slapped in the face.
Under normal circumstances, the battle loss ratio between the two sides should not be less than ten times this ratio in any case.
But now, that proportion has been reduced to less than three times.
This makes the 'advanced human race', which has always despised the Zerg, embarrassed.
This record can be said without exaggeration. It's enough for those bugs to take it out and brag about it.
Victory?
All right!
A victory indeed!
But this victory does not belong to the 'advanced human race'.
This is clearly a glorious victory for the 'Greedy Zerg'.
With such a depressed mood, the first group of the 'Advanced Terrans' air-ground coalition set out on the journey again.
As for the battlefield, they didn't clean it.
Because there is simply no time and necessity.
All the bugs left for them was mutilated corpses.
And corpses are precisely the most useless things for them.
With that time to clean up the battlefield, the coalition forces can reach the enemy's lair.
At this time, the second cluster of coalition forces arrived belatedly.
The remnants of the battlefield are miserable. It took Commander McKinley by surprise on the spot.
Just now, in the communication, Bernalt, the commander of the first group, did not tell McKinley this information, but simply asked him to hurry up and join the battle that followed.
Originally, McKinley thought that the battle would be an easy one, and that there was no meaning to say in the communication.
However, McKinley never expected it. The outcome of this battle turned out to be so tragic.
With McKinley's eye and experience, you can see from the traces left on the battlefield what a huge price the ground forces of the first group have paid.
And this. And that's just the first battle.
If that were to turn out in the war, McKinley would have to worry about the future of the coalition.
However, there was one point that McKinley was puzzled about.
He really couldn't understand Bernalt's intention to put ground troops here.
Shouldn't all the power be used in that decisive battle that will determine the fate of both sides?
Drop ground forces now......
Truth be told, McKinley found this approach problematic.
If it were him, after determining that the enemy was fighting outside of his own territory, he would choose to meet the second and third groups behind him, and then go all the way to the opponent's lair and force the opponent to start a decisive battle with him.
As is the current practice, the ground troops are deployed directly on the periphery to confront the enemy. McKinley really couldn't read it.
But he couldn't understand it, so he finally accepted Bernalt's order and led the fleet to speed up to join him.
It's just that McKinley did not expect that in the previous war, the first cluster of ground troops was launched. It was so great to suffer.
......
"Marshal, I think we should report to His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief again, Bernalt will drag us into the quagmire of fighting with the other side, and the other side is using cannon fodder to consume our strength! You know, in this plane, we can't get any replenishment at all, and every point of strength consumed will be less! The enemy can be restored. It's not good for us!"
On the second cluster command flagship, a general with the rank of general on his shoulder was standing in front of McKinley, the commander of the second group, and spoke to McKinley.
After watching the shocking battlefield, the general could no longer calm the dissatisfaction in his heart, and criticized Bernalt's previous tactics as incomplete.
If it weren't for Bernalt's status as a world-famous player for him to take care of, he would have even scolded him.
Such a tactic was simply the stupidest he had ever seen.
What's even more ridiculous is that it was this stupid tactic that was actually approved by the commander-in-chief.
It blinded almost everyone.
This made many people suspect at the time that His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief had taken the wrong medicine.
However, once the matter is finalized, the rest of the people will naturally not be able to object.
Thereupon......
The tactics were quickly executed.
Bernalt also handed in such an incredible answer.
The ground forces that Bernalt had previously launched were advancing all the way to the ground. When the people saw the result, they endured it.
But now how can people endure this situation?
The admiral was not the only one who stood up, and many other generals were also standing behind him at this time.
"Marshal, it's time to make our voices heard!"
"Indeed, there can't be any more Bernalt nonsense!"
"If we continue to fight like this. If the entire coalition army is not done well, it will fall into the quagmire of fighting with the enemy and attrition, as the admiral said, which is extremely disadvantageous to us!"
The generals were furious, and they were all expressing their dissatisfaction.
Obviously, they also strongly disagree with what Bernalt did.
Quietly looking at the angry subordinates in front of him, McKinley did not speak.
Until everyone was shut up by him. He made his voice heard.
"Just ask!"
McKinley only opened his mouth to say these four words, but he did not reveal any inner attitude.
There were things that his men could say, but he couldn't.
As soon as he said it, the meaning became completely different.
He didn't want to have any trouble with Bernart.
Even, if possible, McKinley wants to have a good relationship with Bernalt.
Why......
Everyone knows that after this war. The composition of forces in the 'Advanced Plane' will change dramatically.
With the intervention of the 'Dead King', there may be a 'Cosmic Supreme', which is not necessarily.
At that time, 'ASEAN' will most likely cease to be 'ASEAN'. It is also likely that the 'Western Covenant' will no longer be the 'Western Covenant'.
In the whole world, there will be 'virtuous' people living in it.
As for this 'virtue', although McKinley asked himself a few points, he still had self-knowledge, knowing that with his own few points of 'virtue', he could not sit in that supreme position.
This supreme position is likely to be produced between Reinhardt and Bernart.
Regardless of whether these two century-old celebrities have that ambition or not.
Just say if one of them sits in that position.
So, if he McKinley wants to keep his current power, or if he wants to go further, he needs to have a good relationship with that person.
It's about planning for your future.
During this time, McKinley has been carefully managing his relationship with Reinhardt and Bernart.
In general. The effect is not bad.
Therefore, he really didn't want to offend Bernart head-on.
But now in this situation, he has to take that risk.
If Bernart's tactics are 'black', then the entire coalition is also 'black'.
Naturally, there is no future.
However, McKinley will not be stupid enough to run to Reinhardt to reflect directly. He would use a relatively tactful twist to remind Reinhardt.
In order to avoid the tragic occurrence of offending two people at once.
"Give me an encrypted channel and connect to Reinhardt's commander-in-chief!"
He frowned and thought about the wording, then McKinley pressed the button on the command platform and instructed the staff in charge of communications.
Soon, an encrypted channel was set up.
McKinley glanced at the generals below who were watching him, and put on the helmet he used to enter the crypto channel.
Time passed quickly, and more than ten minutes had passed in the blink of an eye.
Finally, under the expectant gaze of the generals, McKinley took off the helmet on his head.
"Marshal, what did Commander-in-Chief Reinhardt say?"
McKinley had just taken off his helmet when the impatient general asked.
Without answering the general's question immediately, McKinley took a deep breath and calmed his mind for a moment.
Then, he swept his gaze over the generals in the audience and spit out four words from his mouth!
"Hold your ground!"
McKinley spat out those four words with a blank look on his face.
Obviously, he didn't know the purpose of Reinhardt's command.
You know, the second cluster he led is now very close to Bernart's first cluster.
If it weren't for the ten minutes that had just stopped, it would have caught up with the first cluster by now.
All right!
And that's not all!
The real key is......
This order given to him by His Excellency Commander-in-Chief Reinhardt is the exact opposite of the order given to him by Deputy Commander-in-Chief Bernard!
In this regard, McKinley does not think that his reminder has just played a role.
Even if the reminder I just made a difference......
But it shouldn't be like this!
There's something weird about it.
However, no matter how strange this order is, McKinley can only carry it out.
At the very least, Reinhardt's order was much more popular than Bernart's order to follow quickly.
"Still?"
Sure enough, as soon as McKinley spat out Reinhardt's order, the generals below were collectively at a loss.
They couldn't guess what Reinhardt's command meant.
"Signal Corps ......"
Not wanting to talk to the generals below who were still confused by Reinhardt's order, McKinley pressed the button on the command platform again and gave the order directly to the signal man.
"Send the news of Commander-in-Chief Reinhardt's order for our troops to remain motionless to Field Marshal Bernart!"
"Marshal, why did you do this? Commander Reinhardt should be in direct contact with him!"
Hearing McKinley's order to the signal soldiers, some generals below were puzzled.
"It's because Commander Reinhardt will contact him directly that I'm doing this......!"
McKinley glanced at the generals below and suddenly sighed.
"You won't understand!"
At this time, the feedback from the communication corps came.
However, the content of this feedback caused a trace of panic in the entire control room, including McKinley himself.
"Report Marshal, the message you asked me to send to Marshal Bernart was not successful. We...... We seem to be disturbed!"
"Interference?"
McKinley pressed the button and turned the speaker to the maximum.
"Yes, Marshal!"
The signal soldier's voice was alarmed, but it was unusually certain.
"The communications of our entire fleet are strongly disrupted, and no signal can be transmitted!"
"This ...... Is this going to be done to me?"
After all, McKinley's head was not stupid, but he understood it after thinking about it.
He never imagined that on this safe passage traversed by Bernalt's first cluster, there would be a sneak attack by the enemy.
However, even if he understood it now, it was too late.
"Why Lao Tzu!"
McKinley really wanted to be speechless for a moment and asked the sky ......)
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