Macho Wars

Chapter 324

On the second day of the gendarmerie's fall, the imperial army replaced from the southwest front also returned to Nass.In addition to the two main divisions, 89 and 92, the two regiments of the First Marine Brigade also retreated to the rear.

The two regiments were led by the brigade commander Kane, although they were also fighting in the north and south, but because they never encountered any hardships, the casualties were far less serious than the independent regiments that had smashed the main federal division.

They have fought on the Southwest Front, and the total casualties have not exceeded 1,000, and their combat effectiveness and morale are intact.

Howard plans to launch a full-scale counterattack in the north. The frontal battlefield is dominated by three main empire divisions, supplemented by six Tarrance infantry divisions. While the enemy is still in civil strife, he will try his best to retake the occupied area of ​​Tarrance in Jiangbei.

The Marine Corps, on the other hand, went back to their old ways and went around to perform landing operations behind the enemy, cutting off the enemy's logistics supply line.

Judging from the situation sent back by the spies, the chaos on the north bank of the Rainbow River is still expanding.There are far more troops in the Principality Army that are loyal to the Grand Duke than support the Grand Duke, and the gap between the two forces is close to three to one.

But there is the federal army behind the big young man, and there are some hesitant troops watching from the sidelines, so the rebels may not have no chance of winning.

What was even more unexpected was that the Grand Duke Sapphire passed away suddenly on the second day of the mutiny.

The Principality officials initially declared that the "Great Sapphire King" died of a sudden heart attack, but the obituary was issued in the morning, and in the afternoon he beat himself in the face, changing his words to say that he died of assassin poisoning and splashing dirty water on The old man who initiated the mutiny.

So the little son, with the support of the ministers, quickly ascended the throne to become the new king, and then published a pleas for rebellion.The eldest son did not show any weakness, both mouth-cannon and steel cannon, vowing to bring his troops back to the capital.

Empire Heart said that if he wasn't too lazy to ink, he really wanted to see how this big drama would be performed next.

According to the operational deployment formulated by the General Staff Headquarters, the two main divisions of 89 and 92 took a short break in Nass for two days, and then quickly moved north to join the Seventh Armored Division.

The three regiments of the Marine Brigade went to the coastal port to board the ship.Dragun was able to return to the army and returned to his own independent regiment to continue as the current commander.

These days when the Independence Group was stationed in the fortress, relying on fortifications, its own casualties were not large.After the frontal enemy stopped attacking, a Tarrans Infantry Regiment took their place, and the Independent Regiment set out to the port.

The officers and soldiers of the whole regiment were very happy about Dragon's return.It's not that they dislike Jack, but that Dragon is more suitable from the bottom of their hearts.

This high degree of identity comes from the trust accumulated from fighting side by side again and again.

Moreover, Dragon's return this time is not empty-handed, and he has brought them a lot of "new toys".

Although the transport fleet of the previous batch was attacked halfway, seven transport ships were sunk, losing more than 80% of their food and medicine, but the other three cargo ships carrying arms survived the attack.

Among this batch of guns and ammunition, there are a thousand new rifles ordered by the Marine Corps, which are exactly the imitation version of M1 Garland that Dragoon had previously wanted to see through.

During the Battle of Ryugu Island, Dragun borrowed this famous World War II gun from the earth from the shrine.They borrowed two hundred in total, and the veterans who had used them all praised the firepower of this semi-automatic rifle.

However, these traversing rifles are old antiques that have been sealed for nearly a hundred years. Although the witches on the island are doing their best to maintain them, they are wrapped in oil paper when they are not in use, but they are still no match for the erosion of the years.

Therefore, most of these borrowed rifles are on the verge of being scrapped after being used intensively, and the maidens and sisters are so distressed to cry.

So after this battle, after obtaining the consent of the chief Falcon, Dragon selected a group of light weapons that were in better condition and sent them to the colonial arsenal, hoping to replicate them.

The technicians at the arsenal didn't care much about the weapons at first, thinking they were the tatters made by the island natives themselves.As a result, as soon as I saw the metal fixed bullet out of the box, my eyes immediately changed.

In the following tests, the actual performance of these weapons also surprised the technicians.

After the test, the chief technical officer of the arsenal grabbed Dragon's collar very gaggedly and asked if he was playing tricks on himself?The natives of Shentemo Island can produce metal fixed-load ammunition, the performance even exceeds the active weapons of the Empire.

Dragon didn't know how to explain the passing through to the other party, so he could only pretend to be silly, and blamed the "mystery of nature."

Fortunately, the technicians in the arsenal are not mysterious archaeologists, and they are not too entangled in the origin of these weapons, and quickly put their energy into their work.

Soon after the start of the Far East Campaign, the imitation of the M1 Garland was completed, and a small batch of 1,000 was put into production.

The overall structure of the new gun is almost the same as the original M1 Garand, except that the caliber is changed to 8 mm so that the rifle ammunition currently in service in the Empire can be used.

These new guns were quickly transferred to the Far East and handed over to the Marine Corps for testing in actual combat.

A total of a thousand new guns, Brigadier Commander Kane directly divided half of them to the independent regiment of Dragon.In addition to preference, because the veterans of the Independence Group have previous experience in using them, the new guns can be given to them to form combat effectiveness faster.

On the third day after receiving the new gun, the Marine Brigade officially received instructions from its superiors and boarded the ship northward, aiming directly at the coastal town of the Sapphire Principality-Redstone Port.

It used to be the only sea port of the Principality of Sapphire, so it has been vigorously constructed, has very complete port facilities, and is also the home port of the Principality’s navy.

So after the war, it also received the "key" care of the main fleet of the Imperial Navy.The old emperor called a dozen gunboats by telegram and bombarded the place for three days, and sank all the only property of the navy of the Principality into the harbor.

Perhaps it was this gorgeous artillery display that cast a lot of psychological shadow on the Principality Army. They did not repair the damaged port after the Imperial Navy left, but directly evacuated the local military and civilians, and then retreated the main force to the naval gun. Outside of its range, only a small number of security forces were on the ground.

The Expeditionary Force Headquarters plans to let the Marine Brigade land here, and then quickly assault deep into the interior, occupying the main traffic center of the Principality's Herland.

Once occupied by the imperial army, the Baowang faction, which originally had the advantage of military strength, will be severed and divided into two groups, which will undoubtedly create a favorable situation for the rebels led by the eldest son.

At least at this moment, the century-old empire and the Federation have reached a certain "consensus."No matter what form the chaos will end, the Sapphire Principality is destined to never become a unified country.

Chapter 325

Unlike the fights on land, the empire has always maintained an absolute advantage on the sea.

Although the Federal Navy who participated in the war halfway had a successful transfer of the tiger from the mountain and two or three ambushes, it never dared to confront the Royal Fleet head-on.

Therefore, when the main force is on horseback, the Navy has full confidence in escorting the Marine Brigade to the destination.

The assault fleet set out from Tarrance and traveled north along the coastline. It took only a day and a half to reach the sea outside Red Rock Harbor.

The carrier-based aircraft that took off from the Lexington flew over the city to conduct a survey and found that the whole city was empty and there was not even a single figure on the street.

Brigade Commander Kane initially thought that the enemy was hiding in the building and wanted to lure them into the city to fight on the streets, so he first let the navy conduct a bombardment of the city before sending a small group of troops ashore to reconnaissance.

As a result, after the reconnaissance troops entered the city, they still found nothing, and the defenders seemed to have ran away long ago.The officers of the Marine Corps didn't realize until then that they were particularly intrigue with the air.

In this way, the Marine Corps completed the beach landing with zero casualties in a dumbfounding way, and even the sporadic resistance that was expected did not occur.

After all the troops came ashore, the tank battalion directly under the brigade was the vanguard and took the lead to kill inland, followed by the independent regiment of Dragon, the 771 regiment protected Kane's brigade in the center, and the 772 regiment took responsibility for the queen.

Although the first tank battalion was affected by the snow, its marching speed could not be increased. It took three hours to advance forty kilometers inland, but they hardly encountered any resistance along the way, and most of the fortifications they passed through. There are no troops stationed.

The tank battalion has been advancing a full fifty kilometers inland, and finally caught a few living people in a small deserted village.

The soldiers of the tank battalion found these poor guys in a broken house with leaking wind on all sides, and then escorted them to the battalion commander Lano Stein.

Lan Nuo looked up and down these sloppy ghosts, and saw that they looked sluggish and looked like a group of refugees who had just run out of the disaster area.

If it weren't for the rags on their bodies that could be vaguely distinguished as military uniforms, no one would believe that these yellow-faced beggars were once soldiers.

And Lannuo also relied on a few cans of military rations and asked a lot of information from them without any effort.

It turned out that these guys were the defenders who were stationed at Redstone Harbor before, or the "former defenders," who belonged to the 37th garrison division of the Sapphire Principality.

After the Imperial Army entered the war, most of the Principality’s forces were annihilated in the Tarrans area, so the Sapphire Principality was also forced to go into full mobilization and many civilians were forced into the army.

These rookie corps, composed of strong men, only received military training for less than two weeks before being quickly transferred to active service.Most of them are sent to the front as cannon fodder, and only a few "lucky ones" will be replenished to those local garrisons who are severely short of personnel due to the transfer.

At first, these strong men were fairly stable. After all, the Sapphire Principality was also affected by the war. Food was given priority to the army. Wearing this uniform, you can at least have a bite to eat.