Chapter 330, Mountain Cannon is also a Cannon?

The war on the Black Arrow Star has not subsided at all because of Gu Hang's departure.

The coalition established by the new King's Council, which currently has 500,000 troops, has been put into the front-line battlefield.

That's pretty much the limit of what can be supplied now.

It's not the limit of countries.

At present, there are eleven countries that have joined the new king's council, and the total population has reached 120 million, so that it will not be exhausted from the standing army and the reserve army with half a million men.

But this is the limit of the new King's Council.

This new organization was originally only established under the military threat of the army of the Angry Owl, and Stefano was destroyed in forty days, which led to the surrender of the Queen of the Iron Curtain, and the nine surrounding countries surrendered together because of this military deterrence, so that the new King's Council was established.

Its foundation is quite unstable.

An alliance based on military strength cannot be a military danger.

If the armies of the alliance were not able to remain strong, the kings would have doubted; If the Alliance's armies suffer a major defeat, then they are afraid that they will soon defect.

Even the conquered Stefano is no exception, and this martial country is now oppressed by the Iron Curtain Queen and falls to the Alliance, but there are still remnants of defeated troops secretly entrenched everywhere. They don't dare to act rashly now, they stay in the place honestly, and even when they are purged and suppressed, they may not dare to blow up their hair, and they may obey directly.

However, as soon as the alliance encounters a major military defeat, I am afraid that the warlords, kings, and lords who are now tamed like dogs will immediately rise up.

After all, if you are a dog in the alliance, you can't beat it, and if you want to live, you can't help it; But if there is an opportunity, then who doesn't want to be their own feudal lord?

In this case, we can't send too many troops out, otherwise they will question whether the military strength of the alliance is good or not, why do we need our people to fight?

Moreover, the credibility of these servant armies is also quite questionable, and the various feudal states are inextricably linked because of the marriage and interest exchange of nobles. It's not good, which knight, which earl, which general, will defect on the verge of battle.

In fact, Perbov did not dare to hand over the key positions of the defensive line and the important logistical lifeline to these servants.

If something goes wrong, it's a big egg.

However, with 500,000 servants, Perbow's forces were much more abundant anyway.

Although, in the face of three million enemy troops, it is impossible for him to make the offensive posture too big, and it is impossible to carry out a full-scale offensive on a front of several hundred kilometers. But he finally has enough troops to draw the elite troops of the alliance, clench them into fists, and carry out key assaults on individual fronts.

And he just adopted the way he announced that he wanted to change when he reported to Governor Gu Hang before.

He didn't care about any important strategic points or iconic towns of particular political significance, but instead had the powerful breakthrough ability of the armored forces, the excellent mobility of the motorized troops, and the ability to call for the help of the Space Marines when faced with certain difficult nodes when necessary......

With these means, Perbov has fought three beautiful battles of annihilation in the last four months.

Two of them were active attacks. With a pincer offensive, he formed a breakthrough on both sides of a front about 80 kilometers wide, and held the back of the Kingdom Army, which had no time to retreat in the middle.

Immediately after that, it was to cut off supply lines, cut off reinforcements, prevent breakthroughs, and bombard the enemy who was surrounded inside with heavy artillery for a long time.

The first time, the kingdom army was surrounded by 170,000 people, and they failed to learn their lesson, so the second time, they were simply surrounded by 310,000 people.

In these two battles, Perbov specially chose a non-urban area. The encircled enemy numbered in the hundreds of thousands, and it was impossible to find enough food on the spot.

Not to mention, in the case of a lack of ammunition and fuel, the combat effectiveness of the modern army will decline rapidly, which has little to do with the will to fight, after all, even if the soldier is brave and good at fighting, it is impossible to conjure bullets with the will to fight.

What's more, these feudal armies can't talk about too much literacy at all.

The final result of these two battles of annihilation was a great victory for the coalition army.

Not all of the troops that were wiped out were dead. Most of them became prisoners and, after being disarmed, were sent to prisoner-of-war camps in the rear to do heavy manual labor such as building roads and digging trenches.

The kingdom army, which suffered a big loss, was not willing to give up. They organized a massive attack, and they did do it at a bloody cost.

The Kingdom Army has more than just numbers. In terms of ultimate weapons, they also have something that can really pose a major threat to the Alliance - the twelve Knight Titans that have been gathered.

For these kingdoms on the Black Arrow Star, the most precious thing is, of course, those knight titans.

Of course, there is no doubt about its strength, after all, the cost of 700,000 tax coins is here. After a long period of development, the existence of the Knight Titan has gradually evolved into a symbol of the strength of a country and the status of a nobleman.

In fact, the so-called 'Black Arrow Star Seven Powers' are the seven countries that can afford and, more importantly, the Knight Titans.

This is a real important weapon of the state, and it cannot be used lightly. The loss of one is a huge disaster and loss for the whole country.

At present, there are a total of twelve Knight Titans in the gathered Kingdom Army.

The generals and nobles of these kingdoms also know what happened in the Stefano Kingdom, and they understand even more that the Knight Titan is powerful and powerful, but if it is unprepared, it is attacked by the interstellar soldiers, and it comes to the side through the elusive direct teleportation ability, then it will be destroyed in minutes.

Therefore, on the one hand, they have always strictly guarded the location information of the Knight Titan, and constantly moved; On the other hand, it is equipped with a large number of security guards. At the same time, they will always keep no Knight Titans alone. Also, when the driver is not at the limit, he should not go to rest. Even if the conditions are tougher, those drivers from noble backgrounds should always keep themselves in the cockpit.

Fortunately, at the level of the Knight Titan, the technology of the life support cabin has been applied. Even if there are no special functions, as long as they can help with feeding and excretion, they can keep the knights in it for a long time.

Of course, they always need to sleep. At this time, there must be a Knight Titan who can move to guard by the side.

On this basis, the generals of the Kingdom Army will be very, very cautious when using the Knight Titan.

The combination of these reasons has led to the fact that on the battlefield, even if they have twelve Knight Titans, there are very few of them when they actually appear.

Easy, simple battles, even if the Knight Titan appears, it doesn't make much sense, it's just icing on the cake; And the battle is too dangerous, but on the contrary, it has become difficult to let the Knight Titan attack, otherwise if one is damaged, there will be a very huge political crisis.

Here we must emphasize again: the kingdom army is an army formed by a group of feudal countries. It is true that kings are chiefs, but in essence they are just the biggest nobles, feudal lords. And these knight titans are in the hands of the major nobles.

This dooms them to not be like the modern army, when an order is given, they have to follow the military order, saying that they have to go to the top, even if they know that they will die, they must have the determination to die, and take on military responsibility.

In the feudal army, it was very difficult for such a thing to happen.

Even to put it mildly, for some of the great nobles who regard the Knight Titan as their family's old roots, the battle can be lost, but the Titan cannot be lost.

As long as the Titans are not lost, even if they surrender to the Alliance later, their status can also be preserved to a certain extent.

However, this time, the kingdom army still made a bloody investment.

After a full day of meetings between kings, and nobles, they decided that this could not be the case any longer. Otherwise, let those angry owls continue to use their superiority in mobility, firepower, and armor to eat away at their troops step by step, and they will really lose all three million living forces here.

After reaching an agreement with many parties, this large-scale offensive that the front-line generals had been waiting for for a long time, but could never take shape, was launched in this way.

Twelve Knight Titans, set out collectively!

Nine of them are the Pampos kingdom's own, which is also their full power. After all, this war is taking place on their territory, and they are of course the one who needs to do their best the most; The remaining three came from the other three powers, each of which supported one over.

In the entire history of Black Arrow, twelve Knight Titans were dispatched to participate in a war at the same time, and that was something that only happened a long time ago.

When the twelve Knight Titans formed a group, accompanied by thousands of Sentinel Mechas, and a formation composed of hundreds of thousands of troops, when they were fully pressed, there was no doubt that the alliance's battle line could not be maintained.

What is the strongest part of the Union army?

In addition to the armor, there is artillery.

The Angry Owl Star was transported to the Black Arrow Star through the merchant ships of the Gu Clan's trading house, and in addition to the weapons and ammunition used by the more than thirty royal armies of the Alliance, the most remaining were artillery and cannonballs.

These weapons were delivered to the servants.

By far outnumbering the enemy's artillery, they were able to confront an enemy who was roughly outnumbered by them on a long line.

But in the place where the twelve Knight Titans and thousands of Sentinel Mechs were concentrated, it couldn't be stopped anyway.

Even if it is the descendant troops of the alliance, it can't bear it.

The Knight Titans fire missiles and bombard howitzers from a distance, but conventional firepower is difficult to shake them; Under the cover of their fire, the Sentinel Mechs charged forward in the face of a hail of bullets, and the machine guns were also capable of posing a formidable threat to the positions of the Alliance soldiers.

The conventional artillery of the Kingdom Army is far inferior to that of the Alliance, but the number of mountain artillery assembled is sufficient, and it can be advanced to a relatively close place to fire under the cover of armored forces in front, and the threat cannot be underestimated.

Mountain artillery is also a cannon!

Not to mention the single point of breakthrough of the alliance's position, the entire defense line of hundreds of kilometers began to shake significantly.

Several infantry regiments of the alliance that blocked the enemy in front of them suffered extremely heavy casualties, almost to the point of rebuilding, and even some artillery positions were captured by the enemy who were quick to attack, and they were completely destroyed before they had time to evacuate......

For seven days in a row, the Kingdom Army launched a wave of offensive climax, pushing the alliance's defense line back by 80 kilometers.

This is an achievement that none of them have been able to achieve since the beginning of the war.

And in addition to the changes on the front, they did cause a lot of damage.

There were six regimental flags that were captured; More than 20 officers at or above the colonel level were confirmed to have been killed.

Although it is difficult to count the more specific results, this is undoubtedly a heavy blow to the coalition army.

All of this happened in just seven days!

The brilliant results even led the king of Pampos to personally send a letter to congratulate the knights on their victory.

Similarly, this victory also made the Black Arrows start to imagine that there is nothing great about the alliance, but we didn't use all our strength at the beginning.

However, everything changed on the eighth day.

The victory of the royal army, advancing on an 80-kilometer front, can it be regarded as a 'victory'?

In Perbof's view, not necessarily.

When the enemy's frontal front was in full swing, on the one hand, he let a part of his troops resist layer by layer on the front, reducing the enemy's numbers, consuming the enemy's supplies, and slowing down the enemy's speed. The troops who undertook these tasks did suffer very heavy casualties, and Perbov was also very uncomfortable for this.

After all, when he led a brigade to fight a blocking battle outside the city of Pinsel, and the battle was almost annihilated, there were not as many dead as there are now.

However, he was now able to harden his heart.

The sacrifice at this moment is for a greater victory.

In the process of gaining time for the troops on the front, the armored forces of the coalition, began to maneuver on the sides.

Then, on the eighth day of the large-scale offensive of the Royal Army, it moved to the sides of the salient that had been beaten out 80 kilometers deep and 40 kilometers wide.

Several armored brigades, fought at the same time, with the support of artillery and air force, forcefully broke through the enemy who was attacking the alliance position.

Then, with a speed that the enemy could not react to, they quickly interspersed the sides of the salient.

In one day, four armored brigades dispatched from both sides penetrated a 40-kilometer supply line for the salient and completed the victorious rendezvous.

This means that the salient that the enemy has hit has become a pocket in which they can put themselves!

(End of chapter)