7. The Day of the White Rose on the Battlefield (3)

Crazy Pilgrimage;

marches to the death;

This is the most vivid summary of the side of Titans in the offensive and defensive battle of Place de la Concorde.

Roaring, roaring, running, crawling, despise the ravages of the city's roads. Even if you are slashed by a sword or hit by a bullet, you will never stop, and as long as you have a breath, you will keep moving forward. From a distance, it looks like a Yongji pilgrim who is going to worship in the holy place, and it looks like a large swarm of ants attacking the bait.

Most of the fundamentalist officers who advocated that "soldiers should line up in a neat battle column and charge unhurriedly in the face of the rain of bullets and bullets" would most likely burst into tears when they saw this scene, and then immediately grabbed the collar of the commander leading the team, opened their bows and fanned their big ears left and right.

"Yaga, what kind of Baga thing is this, you can't even charge long live!?"

It's a pity that there were no questions from the "hot-blooded soldiers" at the scene, and no one at Titans could answer.

In order to boost morale and prolong the soldiers' ability to continue fighting, it is nothing new for the army to give medicine to soldiers. Every general wanted his subordinates to be brave, fearless, aggressive, and cruel, and he wanted his men to tie a strip of cloth to their heads and charge fearlessly with bayonets. Even if the ammunition and food are exhausted in the end, they can still chant "onboard", "Ula", "invincible spiritual atomic bomb" or other slogans with a unchanged face, and pull grenades and explosives bags to die with the enemy.

It has always been the truth.

But even so, they will still leave the soldiers with basic thinking skills - if they don't even know how to shoot a gun or how to pull a grenade ring, then they won't even be cannon fodder.

"Father's Cuisine No. 13" has no such consideration.

This dark cuisine, nicknamed "zombie medicine", was created by a ghost animal whose father's love is like a mountain but has no talent for cooking, in order to promote the "sacred mission" of raising children and breeding offspring. Referring to the reference book called "The Spirit of Food X", he firmly believed that the so-called food was something that "after eating, his clothes will burst and float naked, and he will have the illusion of wanting to die", and a certain ghost animal immediately set out to reproduce it by scientific means. The final "successful" work......

Will burst clothes and float naked. There will be hallucinations, there will be impulses to reproduce and eat, but the IQ is offline......

What will be the consequences of giving this kind of thing to people, you can think about it with your toes.

To make matters worse, the test subjects in the lab wore only a thin set of patient gowns. After rapid growth of muscles and bones. Indeed, there can be scenes of clothes being torn and fragments scattered like butterflies. But Titans wore a tight military uniform, his neck was strangled by the neckline and he was about to faint, the life between his legs was tied to the crotch of his pants until he was in pain, his stomach was tied by a belt until his internal organs were about to burst, and his toes were compressed by leather shoes until he was about to break complicated......

Under normal circumstances, they would have been dying for a long time, and this group of devil muscles and flesh people could still launch attacks one after another, and even made Lüders almost collapse, I really don't know whether to be moved or scared by this.

Lack of sanity. The physical strength cannot be fully utilized, and the only advantage is that it is not afraid of death, injuries and numbers. Once guidance and behind-the-scenes support are lost, a sufficiently dense barrage of salvos, induced terrain where numerical superiority cannot be exploited, side-firing fire - as many as possible solutions to them. After all, they are not real zombies, and they have to be headshots to kill them.

"Fire! Fire!"

Second Lieutenant Wren Lothrell swung his saber hard, the salvo cannon on the side spewed flames, and the Titans soldiers who rushed over the pile of corpses were knocked to the ground one after another.

The salvo gun was not a regular machine gun and used an old type of projectile. None of the weight, rate of fire, or warhead could be compared with the Wehrmacht's machine guns. But the caliber of 13mm itself represents power, as long as it hits the body. Even if it is not critical, it will produce a huge wound. Causing the person who was shot to die from rapid and massive blood loss.

However, the bulky size and structure of the salvo made it difficult to spread the fan-shaped fire coverage, and now it is up to two auxiliary soldiers to drag the tail of the gun with a lever and a crowbar to adjust the firing range. Had it not been for the barricades that had been erected in advance and the passages blocked with the corpses and wounded of the opposing side, the 1,100-strong marines who had been urgently mobilized by the Prime Minister would not have been able to hold a place as large as the Place de la Concorde and the Tuileries Gardens.

Now the Marines are a little tired, but everyone can tell that they have established themselves. In front of the barrage of breech-loading rifles and salvo guns, Titans was only committing mass suicide and could no longer break through the defenses.

The reason why this is so is mainly due to the hard work of the Canghua Knights. Had it not been for the self-sacrifice that they had bought time and built barricades that would serve as defensive positions. All the Marines can do is huddle in the Admiralty building.

In addition, the biggest reason is-

"The Holy Maiden of National Salvation has appeared!

"Long live the great Charlemagne!"

"Long live the Holy Maiden!!"

In the midst of chaotic but loud cheers, the white beast carried the maiden through the attacking mad army.

The spirit animal of possibility, the saint of national salvation, the symbol of hope -

More inspiring than a uniformed soldier, the legendary figure reminds the public that the country is still functioning, that they have not been abandoned, and that "hope is still there."

Even the soldiers and the knights of the law and order agreed with this idea of "great rebellion".

They are not easy targets to be fooled, and soldiers on the front line of the battlefield will never easily surrender to a target. But after watching the white-armored girl's battle, they could only admire and applaud the girl wielding the huge double sword.

Twin swords, alias "M?hne". Intuitively, it is to link the handles and tails of two long-riding swords together to turn them into a giant sword as long as a spear.

When warfare was still dominated by horse warfare, the question of how to deal with attacks from the flanks was a problem for knights and craftsmen. Long weapons lack dexterity, swords and crossbows do not react quickly, and they can't swing their swords to their heart's content due to the presence of the horse's head. After thinking about it for a long time, some guys began to engage in crooked ways, and the double sword was one of them.

According to the designer's concept, compared to the long riding sword that cannot be wielded to the fullest, the dual sword with no dead spots on the left and right is obviously superior. And with its weight combined with the impact of the mount, its power is not inferior to that of a spear.

Their idea seems to be okay and logically plausible. But history tells the world that there are too many things that seem good in theory, but in practice, they seem to be nothing. Wait for the craftsmen to really build the double swords, and give the knights a try. I immediately found out that this is another case of "making a knife and fork into a handful, and the result is more inconvenient".

The body and horses are covered with full-body plate armor like cans, the elaborate saddles and shoes, and the giant sword that resembles a spear - this outfit must be majestic. But in fact, as soon as the knight master stepped on the horse, the war horse might be about to kneel. You must know that the weight of the twin swords is comparable to the Qinglong Glaive Knife, and you want to wield this dead thing. The physique has to be similar to Guan Erye. A large, full-body plate armor, a heavy weapon of the rank of the Green Dragon Glaive...... It's not that the war horse doesn't want to run wildly, but it really can't be done...... Only unicorns can also say that they can try, but this product is small, the cost of raising it is expensive, and the temper is bursting, and non-beautiful virgins can't get close, and stinky men will kick or top it at that important place as soon as they get close. The knight lord who didn't want to be kicked by the horns of his children and grandchildren and the hooves of the beasts immediately gave up.

After changing to a top-level war horse, I found that there were more problems, mainly caused by the dead weight. The sheer weight makes it even more difficult to wield the twin swords at will. If you want to use the dash to increase your power, you find that the length is not as long as the spear, and when you encounter a short sword dagger in close combat on horseback, you can only use it as an ornament.

In short, it is a weapon that requires the master's equestrian, swordsmanship, and judgment to reach the level of a human, and it takes a considerable amount of time to adapt to training before it can be effective, and its value on the battlefield does not exceed that of those that already exist. With the passage of time, it gradually disappeared into the long river of history.

Now, a young girl wields a double sword that even a big man may not be able to use smoothly, galloping across the battlefield. Fight your way through the enemy's ranks. This scene really broke the hearts of those rebellious soldiers.

(Strange-)

Hold the reins with the hooked hilt to match the twisting of the mount. Plunging the blade into Titans' shoulder blade, Roland frowned slightly.

From the moment on, the sniper shells seemed to have stopped, and the sharp sight hidden in the buildings on the other side of the river seemed to have disappeared. The cold breath of pins and needles was receding.

Has the delayed battle been achieved, and the retreat has begun? or—

The roar exploded in his back, and Roland turned his head.

Right flank of the defensive line. A salvo gun position disappeared, and an "iron box" with 8 wheels galloped out of the smoke. The ugly steel monster was closing in on Roland at an eye-popping speed.

(It's a mobile defense with a special unit.) )

Looking at the appearance of the wheeled chariot, Roland couldn't help but feel relieved.

The defense forces are still organizing an offensive, which means that the Dauphin's troops have not yet reached Lüdes, and there is still room for redemption. At least not at worst.

Licked his lips. Roland tugged at the reins and stared coldly at the wheeled chariot whizzing in.

"Let's go, Links...... It's a mobile battle!!"

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Wheeled self-propelled assault gun No. III.

Just from the appearance and rough performance parameters, it is inevitable to give people a sense of misrepresentation. The total combat weight is 19 tons, fully automatic and continuously variable speed, the maximum driving speed on the road is 120 kilometers per hour, independent liquid-gas suspension, 50mm L60 tank gun, artillery two-way stabilizer, semi-automatic loader, frontal protection can resist 12.7mm machine gun bullets at a distance of 100 meters, and side protection can resist 7.92mm armor-piercing shells at a distance of 200 meters......

The above data is not to mention that compared with heavy destroyers such as Tiger Hunter and Ferdinand, and compared with the No. 3 assault gun and 38T equipped with 75mm L48, it looks shabby. The only selling points that seem to be visible are technological advancement and mobility. To be honest, this thing is more suitable for infantry fighting vehicles and armored reconnaissance vehicles, rather than assault guns.

However, whether it is judged from the perspective of project requirements, tactical use, or technical inheritance, the III wheeled self-propelled assault gun is indeed the descendant of the Tiger, Cheetah, Rhino Horn, Mink, M10, ISU-100 and other destroyer vehicles. More intuitively, it is a weakened and cheap version of the ZBL09 105mm wheeled assault gun.

The so-called destroyer combat vehicles and assault guns are essentially artillery guns with self-propelled chassis installed. The tactical application is also similar to towing artillery, that is, entering a preset position to ambush and block enemy targets. However, in terms of the degree of automation, reaction speed, and protection ability, it is far superior to traditional towed artillery. After the Cold War, as the likelihood of large-scale all-out war decreased, the response to sudden low-intensity warfare became the dominant mode of warfare. The establishment of the army and the research and development of equipment began to become a trend, and "mobile artillery that can be quickly deployed" has become the general direction of the development of assault artillery.

The Wehrmacht developed wheeled assault guns mainly to meet the needs of mobile defensive operations and post-war suppression and sweeping operations. Furthermore. It is further planned to integrate it into urban warfare and make it an indispensable part of urban armored forces.

Combat experience has shown that the combination of heavily armored large-caliber self-propelled guns and self-propelled rapid-fire anti-aircraft guns is enough to crush enemy troops hiding in buildings. However, when crossing rubble and trenches, weakly protected bottoms and tops are exposed, and during climbing, artillery and machine guns cannot be aimed at the sky, and soldiers inside cannot see the enemy due to the angle. The speed of the moment you cross a steep slope increases, and when you are violently shocked, you will also not be able to aim and shoot. At this time, the enemy can easily burn the engine and scrap the vehicle with even rudimentary incendiary bombs. Finally, the mobility of tracked heavy vehicles is also difficult to rush to the aid quickly, and once they are surrounded by enemy infantry hunting groups, they can support each other in a timely manner.

Normally, the Defence Forces will overcome these problems by integrating self-propelled anti-aircraft guns or armoured vehicles into armoured assault groups. However, this is only a quick and orderly solution, and it cannot solve the problem fundamentally. After all, the problem of combat vehicles. Self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and armored vehicles also exist, and "amateurs" do not always replace "pros".

And the "special auxiliary armored vehicle for street fighting" in the minds of the defense forces is the No. III wheeled self-propelled assault gun.

Thanks to the use of independent liquid-gas suspension technology and two-way stabilizer of the artillery, the vehicle can also fire at the enemy on climbs or in uneven terrain. The power is all superior to the traditional artillery of the same caliber; the 7.92mm remote-controlled Gatling machine gun on the roof and the anti-infantry scattergun located around and at the rear of the vehicle are enough to deal with the enemy infantry on both sides and above; the super mobility and terrain adaptability can completely quickly pass through the dangerous ruins; the protection is not as good as the combat vehicle, but it is much stronger than the flesh-and-blood infantry; there is a conning tower, and two periscopes and sensors at the rear of the vehicle give it a powerful reconnaissance capability.

Even the problem of motion sickness, which is caused by high mobility and continuous changes in the center of gravity, has been solved in a workaround.

It's a perfect street fighting weapon that is exactly what it was originally conceived for. A high-performance gun with an armored chassis that can fire anytime, anywhere. In front of it, the enemy soldiers are nothing more than meat on a board.

It was like this. No, it should be.

"What the hell is going on with that unicorn?!"

Sergeant Günther Hanks, who slammed the steering wheel back and forth, cursed loudly, and as he yelled, the roof gun erupted again, and as before, the rain of bullets cut the same number of bullet holes in the wall. The same fate is true of the well-timed steel ball shotgun.

"Are Charlemagne's cavalry monsters?!"

The three-gauge halfpipe has always been at its limit. I couldn't even vomit out the gastric juice, and even then, I still couldn't cut into the unicorn's trajectory.

It doesn't matter if it's hitting, it's crushing, it's good if it's shooting. The white knights who wield the unicorns all dodged beautifully at the last moment.

No matter how you look at it, that kind of action seems to sense the "murderous aura" on the other side of the armor, and dodge it in advance.

How can anyone who can do such a thing be human?

"Calm down, all of them are sedated!"

The spectacled commander, who was sitting in the conning tower, took what looked like a test tube from his jacket pocket and held it against his left arm, which rolled up his sleeve. The latest disposable sealed syringes inject drugs into the body under the effect of the difference in pressure between the inside and outside. The rest of the crew repeated the same action in turn, and the radio communicator helped the driver with the injection.

(It was right to come immediately, and not to let the "Symbol of Counterattack" continue to grow.) )

The turret turned, and the 50mm electrothermochemical cannon was aimed at the unicorn galloping ahead.

It must be here, crush her!

Pressing the motor pedal, Karlius Reinbach put his petite back into the aiming aperture and pulled the trigger hard. (To be continued.) )

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