Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 492 Chapter 492
On the northern front of Gobul, countless bomb craters were scattered on the entire battlefield. There were few intact trees here, and most of the big trees were only bare trunks standing crookedly in front of the two armies.

If you look carefully, there are almost no big trees with several corpses lying there in disorder.Because there are always people who think that these big trees can be used as shelters, allowing them to survive for a few seconds in the hail of bullets.

In fact, most of these places are the focus of attention of the opponent's machine guns and sharpshooters. Those who hide here will be killed soon, even faster than those soldiers who simply lay down.

The entire battlefield is one after another, but the field of vision is not particularly good. As long as you lie down carefully and then get up and jump forward, you can avoid most of the bullets from hitting you.

But people are like this, in the face of great terror, in the face of death, how many people dare to stand up bravely and take a step forward?
The frontline has been deadlocked like this for almost a month, and everyone feels that this war is almost coming to an end.

No one can break through the enemy's line of defense. Everyone can only nest in the trenches and listen to each other's cannons and count the days. This kind of war compares who can persist. It is obviously very boring and hopeless.

Shipping has been completely chaotic, and the prosperity of the endless sea has long since disappeared. Most of the trading ships that can still be seen today belong to the Datang Kingdom.

The shipping department of Datang Group now owns as many transport ships as a cow's hair, relying solely on these merchant ships, the trade in the endless sea is still not cut off.

It's just that there are only a few prosperous routes left, and everyone agrees that merchant ships traveling on these routes cannot attack, and these routes are not considered war zones.

As a result, Dorne's goods had to be shipped from Refeng Port, and Goblin's transport ships took the route of Chu State in a large circle.

Naturally, no one dares to touch the route from Bunas to Long Island and to Dongwan Linshui. You only need to look at the terrifying 305mm cannon on the side of the five-meter-high ship. It will provoke the sea power of the Tang Kingdom.

Just kidding, the entire fleet on my side is not enough for a single warship. Who wants to make trouble for themselves at this time?

What's more, even if there is no such terrifying battleship sitting in command, everyone is unwilling to provoke the Datang Kingdom.

Everyone is buying the artillery shells and weapons of the Tang Kingdom to supplement the losses on the front line. At this time, the Tang Kingdom has been angered. Isn't it crazy?

Just a few days ago, the Lions Empire had loaned 300 million gold coins to the Datang Group to continue the war on its border.

The situation in the Dorne Kingdom is slightly better, because there is a rubber trade, and the funds in hand are relatively abundant.

However, Dorn's special envoy is still walking around in Bunas, hoping to apply for a loan of more than 1000 million from Datang Group.

This money is not what they urgently need, but what they don't want to be borrowed by the Lions Empire!In their view, as long as they borrow a little more, the Lions Empire cannot borrow that much.

With the stalemate of the war, influence has begun to spread to the economic field.People's livelihood problems, which were originally improving, began to erupt in various countries.

The premise of passing on the crisis is to win. If there is no way to gain benefits from the war, then the impact of the war itself will only make the domestic conflicts worse.

Corruption issues in the Nanla Empire have gradually surfaced. The people are very dissatisfied with the decaying empire, and turmoil has begun to appear in some areas.

It's just that the war has only just broken out for half a year, and most of this dissatisfaction can still be suppressed and controlled, so now the Nanla Empire is still struggling to maintain.

The same problem also appeared in the Lions Empire, which was expanding extremely fast and had an unstable foundation. It was generally believed that the new emperor deliberately sent them to the front line to die.

The people in the newly occupied areas are unwilling to join the army and participate in the war, thinking that they are deliberately targeting them; the people in the original Wright and other areas also have ideas. They think that people in the new territories such as Gemelin should not enjoy privileges. If the Gemelin people do not go, Neither did the Wrights.

In addition, the traditional areas such as North Ridge, Yucheng, and Bunas are not at their disposal. Although the powerful North Ridge troops are nominally part of the Lions Empire, they have long been semi-independent. Recently, Lions I was furious because of these messy incidents. Very busy.

The Kingdom of Dorne is also facing enemies from both sides. The north side has to bear the pressure from the Lions Empire, and the south side is at war with the Goblin Kingdom. The fight is called a passive one.

The original raid war has become the current positional war. Even if they have the empire twins Bolton and Strauss, the situation is not optimistic.

Strauss had no choice but to go to the northern front to deal with the [-] troops of the Lions Empire, and Bolton could only fight fiercely with the Goblin Kingdom in the south.

Both sides used airships, and both had anti-aircraft guns to intercept them. The losses were heavy. Even the officers and soldiers of the airship troops, like the Death Squadron, never returned and became disposable consumables.

In such a big environment, Bolton felt that it would be best for the Dorne Kingdom to make peace with the Lions Empire, so that they could withstand the pressure back to back, and at least both sides could save half of the ammunition and half of their troops!

It's a pity that this idea was stillborn before it even started: the Lions Empire actually formed an alliance with the Goblin Kingdom, and they wanted to attack both sides and carve up Dorne.

Today's battlefield lacks the roar of artillery, and everything seems to be peaceful.But all Dornish commanders knew that such calm often meant the beginning of a bloody battle on the battlefield.

Sure enough, the short-lived calm on the battlefield was suddenly broken by the sound of artillery, and Goble's shelling began.

It was completely different from the long, careless and sporadic gunfire of the previous few days. This time, Goblin's artillery fire was so dense that it was terrifying.

There were as many as hundreds of shells that fell in the first round, and the first-line defensive positions of the Dorne Kingdom were almost instantly submerged and smashed into a cloud of black smoke and flying stones.

The Dorne garrison, who hadn't figured out what happened, immediately received a second round of shells.

The soldiers in the trenches were almost buried alive by the soil raised by the shells. There was a loud explosion of large-caliber shells everywhere, and the ground under their feet kept shaking and trembling, as if the end of the world was coming.

"Damn it! The Goblins are not going to live, are they? Can they transport so many shells to the front line in one month? They won't fight next month?" Looking at the rising smoke column in the distance, a Donne The teacher held the binoculars and complained inexplicably.

The officer standing beside him also couldn't believe his eyes. He stared at his own position that seemed to be swallowed up, and shook his head: "It's probably because they have hoarded the ammunition reserves for at least a month and used them to fight. It’s really costing money.”

"So the opponent will launch an attack soon...and it will be an attack on an unprecedented scale, regardless of the cost..." The division commander continued to look at the distant position with a telescope, as if talking to himself.

Afterwards, he ordered without looking back: "Send the news to General Bolton and ask for the support of the reserve team... Get the three regiments behind to prepare for battle... The first-line defensive position may not be able to hold it."

"Yes! Understood!" The officer who heard the order immediately shook the phone beside him and asked the operator to help him connect to the headquarters.

The price of this complicated telephone system is naturally not cheap, and it is actually very inconvenient to use.But even so, it is the most advanced telephone system sold by Datang Group.

In this regard, it is still the "optimal" model that has been reduced in size, improved in design, and improved reliability for the sake of militarization.

But at this moment, on the Goblin Kingdom's position, at the gap in the trench that had been secretly filled earlier, a giant made of steel slowly moved towards the distance.

Behind this behemoth is another equally huge chariot, with a pointed front, which looks like a ship driving on land.

The Cyric 1 tank is a war weapon developed by the engineers of the Cyric Group. This time they can indeed pat their chests to ensure that this thing does not rely on the technology of the Datang Group.

Cyric, who was completely crossing the river by feeling the stones, designed his first tank in a style similar to A7V (German WWI water tank).

They didn't make a top track, basically they didn't even think about a similar design at all.Another reason for them to use a short track design is that the track itself is not cheap.

The final shape is actually a four-dimensional image. It seems that it is not so accurate to say that it is exactly an A7V.

This thing is equipped with two gasoline engines, and there are machine gun nozzles in all directions, but it is only equipped with one cannon, which is installed directly above the tank, and adopts the most correct single turret layout!

The idea of ​​Cyric designers is... to copy the turret design of the new warship, so that the artillery can flexibly adjust the shooting angle.In order to copy it more thoroughly, the body of this thing is in the shape of a boat.

The artillery on the top is used to attack and destroy enemy bunkers, so it is just a short-barreled 70mm caliber gun equipped with simple aiming equipment.

According to the assumption, the tank itself is driven very close to the enemy's position to aim and fire directly, so the aiming equipment is dispensable.

The weapons to deal with enemy soldiers are the six machine guns on this land cruiser: one in the front, one in the back, and two on the left and right. The distribution is very reasonable.

All in all, this thing is just like the water tank in World War I, full of imagination and more steampunk in appearance.

Seeing their own secret weapon appearing on the battlefield, all the Goblin soldiers cheered wildly.

Instinctive, insignificant human beings are full of fantasies and love for this kind of war machine with huge size and steel and iron bones.

Amidst the cheers, the rapid bombardment that had almost exhausted the reserves finally gradually stopped, and these tanks, or chariots, slowly rushed to the horizon that was still emitting thick smoke through the mud.

At first, there were two cars for one car, and then it became five cars and ten cars.Completely different from previous armored vehicles, this thing's off-road capability is still very good.

At least it won't get bogged down in the soft dirt, and won't lose its basic mobility if it gets hit by a wheel.

Of course, the track chain is not indestructible, it is just immune to light weapons such as machine guns.

But this is already a huge improvement, not to mention that the exposed area of ​​Cyric's chariot track is actually not large, so the possibility of being hit is very small.

Soldiers protected by steel plates with a thickness of one centimeter or even several centimeters can use machine guns to attack the enemy unscrupulously. The closed and cold environment gave them the courage to challenge the enemy's intensive firepower.

So, amidst the staggering, these steel monsters approached the trenches of the Dorne Kingdom, and it also opened the prelude to the first battle of the armored troops to assault the trench defenses.

At the very beginning, the Dorn soldiers who had just crawled out of the floating soil only saw these "armored cars" from a distance.

Just like in the past, they felt that this thing was just a piece of shit that made things difficult for them!Under normal circumstances, they don't need to do it themselves. These heavy things will be paralyzed on the battlefield by themselves, and then they will be named and destroyed by weapons such as mortars.

Take a look at the wreckage of armored vehicles scattered on the battlefield, and you will know that using this kind of thing to attack enemy positions is as unreliable as performance art.

But as the target gradually approached, everyone panicked: because they could clearly see that these huge guys were not as bulky as they imagined.

These armored monsters ran over bomb craters, smashed tree trunks, and even barbed wire couldn't stop their progress.

When the soldiers panicked and started firing at these armored giants with their weapons, they found that their bullets seemed useless.

No matter where they shot and attacked, they could only see a patch of sparks, and the opponent's dense machine guns shot down from above, suppressing everyone so that they couldn't lift their heads.

"Quick! Call for backup! We can't stand it anymore!" Seeing that a hidden concrete bunker was bombarded and half of it collapsed, the commander of the Dorne Kingdom stationed in the position finally understood that this battle was difficult for his soldiers. Easy win like in the past.

When a Cyric tank ran over the first trench of the Dornish Kingdom, the Dornish soldiers in the trench collapsed.

Like a dark cloud cover, the body of the tank blocked the sky above his head, and the rolling tracks kicked up the mud. The shock that all this gave them was too great.

As a result, Dorn's soldiers began to retreat, and they had to abandon a trench, which was more than two meters deep, and they had been stationed for more than a month without taking a step back!
(End of this chapter)