Macho Wars

In the first version of the equipment, the buoyancy device used a rubber airbag, which is equivalent to a swimming ring for the tank. The advantage is that it does not occupy additional space in the cabin, as long as it is inflated before launching.

In the second version of the improved equipment, engineers used metal plates to weld a set of ship-shaped pontoons, and then bolted them to the front and rear of the tank.This has led to a sharp increase in size and nearly double the length, but the stability on the water surface has also been greatly improved, and even the speed has increased by nearly three times.

After the tank has landed, the crew can unload these pontoons in just ten minutes and turn them back into normal ordinary tanks without affecting the battle in the least.

Seeing time passed day by day and the day of the expedition was approaching, a unique tension before the battle gradually spread among the officers and soldiers.

Many people have already written a suicide note in advance and handed it over to their chief.These suicide notes will generally be kept by a special person from the military so that they can be mailed to his family after the soldier's unfortunate death in battle. Dragoon also carried Fu Mi and Yunlong on his back and wrote his own copy.

On this day, Dragon came back from the brigade meeting.The day of the opening has just been determined above, and nearly 80,000 armies of the seven divisions from the hometown have set off yesterday, marching eastward with great strength.

The war officially started from this moment!

Back to his battalion, Dragon relayed the news, and some of the officers under him were excited and some frowned.Dragon's gaze swept across everyone's faces, but he didn't see cowardice, which made him very satisfied.

In the early morning of the next day, all officers and soldiers of the combat unit assembled in the open space in front of the temporary dock to accept the inspection of the commander, Lieutenant General Henri Martini.After this swearing ceremony, they will board the transport ship, and when their feet step on the land again, they will be the enemy's land.

Sitting on his tank, Dragon absently stopped Henry's mobilization speech, unconsciously returning to last night.When he told Fumi and Yunlong about his upcoming expedition, although the two girls did not cry like ordinary little women, their eyes revealed worry and loneliness.

Then the two worked together to squeeze Dragon all night, causing his legs to float a bit now.

Henry's speech was very boring, and he talked about some clichés, nothing more than encouraging the soldiers to fight the enemy bravely for the great Emperor, and exchange the blood of the enemy for his own glory.

The young rookie may be surging with the blood of these words, but for a veteran like Dragon who has been in the army for nearly five years and has several actual combat experience, there is no trace of fluctuation in his heart.

Fortunately, Henry's speech was not long, and it was finished in time before someone started to feel sleepy.

Dragon grabbed the microphone and ordered.

"The whole camp is open!"

All the modified tanks were the first to board the transport ship. Dragoon sat on the tank, resisting the urge to look back, because he knew that there were two beautiful pairs on the hill not far from the dock. His big eyes are looking at this side with concern.

Dragon used some personal connections to keep Fumi, who was originally going to travel with the team, to stay on the island.

Previously, the transport fleet departed from Port Pandora to the Zhibodan Islands. The west coast of the New World was the home of the Imperial Navy. Once it crossed the northern end of the mainland and entered the east coast, it was the territory of the enemy country.

Therefore, even if the Hurricane Eagle is responsible for the alert, the large expeditionary fleet may still encounter the enemy patrol fleet and cause naval battles.

Dragon does not want his woman to be in danger, so it is safer to stay on the islands side.

Soon, the loaded transport ships were dragged out of the dock by tugboats, forming a formation on the ocean outside the bay.

The battleship Sovereign took the lead with three armored cruisers, thirty-five transport ships lined up in five rows in the center, and the remaining light warships were responsible for guarding the periphery. This large fleet, code-named "Avengers", was so mighty towards the east. Drive.

Chapter 159 The "Wonderfulness" of War

On December 10, 8992, the main force of the Imperial Army successfully crossed the mountains in the middle of the New World, and on a cloudy afternoon, arrived about fifteen kilometers west of the frontier fortress of Wieland.

For these uninvited visitors, although the Royal Army stationed in the fortress was waiting, they did not feel as nervous as the enemy.Because they have an indestructible fortress, as long as they stick to their lines of defense, the enemy will not be afraid of three times more.

The imperial army coming from afar on the opposite side did not seem to be in a hurry to launch an attack immediately.They first spent three days camping, using a large number of soldiers and construction machinery, and began to dig trenches on the front.

The reconnaissance airship of the Kingdom Army quickly discovered that the enemy was deploying a suspected artillery position about 18 kilometers away from the fortress. Based on the size of each gun position, it was inferred that the caliber of the heavy artillery to be deployed was definitely not small.

However, the high-level generals of the Kingdom Army are not too worried about this, because they have confidence in the "gate fortress" they are proud of.Even if those empires dragged the battleship's main guns over, they could still carry it!

The gate fortress group is located at the junction of the mountains and the Lawen Plain, where the winding mountain is cut in two as if cut by the middle, forming a gap no more than 20 kilometers wide.If outsiders don't want to risk their lives to climb the steep peaks on both sides of the mountain pass where the snow does not melt all the year round, then this is the only gateway to the Wirant colony from west to east.

For this reason, during Charles's reign, the colonial government of Wieland spent huge sums of money and spent more than 100,000 civilians. It took five years to build the gate fortress.

The entire fortress is about 17 kilometers long and is divided into north and south sections.The main part of the southern section is a mountain bag whose interior is almost hollowed out. The Kingdom Army has arranged a large number of artillery positions here. There are a large number of shooting holes on the front of the mountain, which can be used to deploy various direct firepower.

The northern section of the fortress is a group of light and dark fortresses with a total of more than 700, connected by underground traffic routes.The front also hurriedly before the arrival of the imperial army, trenches were dug, and pieces of barbed wire and mines were arranged.

If the Imperial Army really wanted to launch an offensive in this direction, a mere 80,000 people would really not be able to see it, so it also put on a position to fight.

We must know that artillery in this world is limited by the level of propellant and manufacturing technology. Except for a small number of special heavy guns with a caliber of more than 150 millimeters, the range is generally within 10 kilometers.

Like the alpine fort in Port Pandora, it relied on strong charges and the height of the fort to barely achieve a "theoretical range" of more than 30 kilometers.

In addition, artillery will generally be deployed in the second and third line positions based on the range of surprises, so the actual fire coverage of the Royal Army should be within two to three kilometers in front of the first line position.It is convenient for ground observers or reconnaissance airships on the front line to find the impact point in time and help artillery to correct shooting parameters.

So the engineers on the Imperial Army excavated from about four kilometers away, digging like groundhogs by geotechnical work, and constantly approached the fortress defense line.

During this period, the Royal Army tried to use shelling to hinder the enemy's engineering operations, but within a few shots, it was stopped by the new Governor Muratou who was on the front line.

He told the defenders not to do anything, deliberately the enemy dug the trenches into the ideal range of the artillery.Wait for the enemy's combat troops to come up, and then use poison gas bombs and white phosphorus bombs to cooperate to destroy a large number of active forces of the imperial army.

The two sides were digging on your side in a tacit understanding, while I was watching. It took the Imperial Army two weeks to successfully dig trenches to a place less than one kilometer away from the front line of the fortress. Some of the "protrusions" even dug hard. Within 500 meters.When you look up from the trenches, you can see the figure on the opposite side.For ordinary infantry, this distance can already launch a charge.

Mulatou in the empty mountain fortress was looking at the "Z"-shaped trenches here through a telescope, and turned to ask the fortress commander on the side.

"I heard that the commander on the opposite side is the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Colony Military District. What is his name?"

"Owen Flagg, is an old general."

"Yes, I can see that the tactics of this grandfather generation are old enough. When he retires, he must be good at being a contractor on a construction site."

Muratu's words drew a echo of laughter.Indeed, as he said, the tactics used by the opponent are too old.

But this is no way. Facing an impeccable line of defense, no matter how outdated trench warfare is, it is better than letting infantry and tanks charge machine guns and cannons in strong fortifications in an open field!

At the same time, on the side of the Imperial Army, Admiral Owen also secretly came to a hidden observation post located on the front line, peeping at the gate defense line hundreds of meters away.In the range of his sight, those gray-white bunkers are like clusters of mushrooms emerging from the rain, forming a group every three to five. Those vacated areas are not so much crevices, but more like deliberate cleaning. "Chopping board".

Regardless of infantry or tanks, once they rushed up, they would fall into the three-fold hit of the fortress group.

Owen looked around and couldn't help sighing.

What he sighed was not that the enemy's line of defense was tight, but that he knew the number of the enemy's route, but he had to pretend to be a forceful attack and sent hundreds of soldiers to die.

At this time, a communications officer ran in to report that all six artillery regiments on his side were already in place, ready to attack the enemy's position.Owen took out his pocket watch and took a look, then turned his head and ordered the messenger.

"Notify the artillery group that the attack will begin in six hours and give me a damn blow!"

That night, the Imperial Army officially launched an attack.

To ensure that the offense is realistic and convince the enemy.Owen used three main groups and two heavy battalions.Under the cover of fierce artillery fire and smoke, these more than 7,000 infantrymen and 80 tanks drew a skirmish line on a front line about eight kilometers wide to attack the enemy.

The Royal Army in the fortress was also well prepared. The entire front was equipped with a dense firepower network, with an average of six heavy machine guns and two anti-tank anti-tank guns per 100 meters, with a gun group no weaker than the Imperial Army. Support, so that the imperial army's massive offensive hit the shore like a flood.

In the fierce battle, countless flares rising into the air made the entire battlefield bright as day, witnessing the last-minute bravery of countless young lives before they died.

Muratou in the fortress looked at all this, feeling excited for a while.He experienced actual combat for the first time. Because he was in a safe position, he couldn't feel the bloody fear of the soldiers when they were fighting. On the contrary, he was intoxicated by the heroic roar of artillery and couldn't help himself. His eyes exuded an uncontrollable breath. fanaticism.

"The war is really wonderful!"

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