Ten thousand I am across the heavens

Chapter 2149: Infantry-Tank Collaboration and Air-Ground Integration

As the city gate opened, heavily armored steel chariots were driven out. Some of these chariots were powered by internal combustion engines, while others were driven by manpower or animal power.

This is a different world, so the technology tree cannot be applied to the Earth. There are no human-powered tanks on Earth because human power is limited. Even if you try your best, it is difficult to move such a heavy steel object.

But the humans in this world, after using a large number of Strength Gu, even an ordinary person who has never practiced can reach a snatch strength of about ten tons. Although this takes a long time and consumes a lot of resources, as long as social resources are reasonably allocated, strongmen like this can be cultivated in batches.

Not to mention humans, the livestock in this world are also extremely strong. While breeding war horses, the underground base is also breeding pack horses that are good at long-distance travel. They are short in stature, but extremely strong and have great endurance. Many of the chariots are loaded with such pack horses. They rely on their own powerful strength to pull the millstone. Three of them form a group, constantly pulling the millstone to rotate, thereby providing strong power to the chariot.

A packhorse like this can provide an output power of nearly 800 horsepower when driven by power. Three such packhorses are more than enough to drive a steel chariot weighing 100 tons.

Compared with internal combustion engines, they have a huge advantage, which is high reliability. The internal parts of this type of tank are much fewer than those of internal combustion locomotives. The structure is also much simpler. Simple structure and fewer parts mean higher reliability. It is almost impossible to encounter a breakdown on the battlefield.

Relying on human and animal power, the underground base can produce troops on a large scale. The output of chariots like this is terrifyingly high. Even now there are more vehicles than people. It doesn't matter if the vehicle is blown up. As long as the people can come back alive, they can be allocated a new vehicle immediately.

At this moment, thousands of chariots roared out of the city gate. Behind them were heavily armored infantrymen. On the one hand, they used the huge bodies of the chariots to block the enemy's attack path, and on the other hand, they provided cover for the chariots.

War weapons such as tanks are not invincible. If there are no accompanying infantry, they are often very vulnerable. Sometimes a Molotov cocktail can destroy a tank. One of the important roles of accompanying infantry is to follow behind the tank to deal with enemy infantry who want to get close to the tank, ensuring that no one can get close to the tank and use anti-tank weapons to cause casualties.

This tactic reappeared on the battlefield at this time. While the chariots were running at high speed, the soldiers wearing power armor were able to keep up with this speed and rushed straight towards the enemy's main camp. That was where the enemy concentrated the most elite troops.

The enemy's number is too large. If we don't take this opportunity to inflict heavy casualties on the enemy, there will be no such opportunity once the subsequent defense lines are gradually broken down by the enemy's attack.

Although the soldiers knew that there was almost no chance of annihilating or defeating the enemy, they still followed the tanks and rushed out.

In the sky, the bombing by fighter planes and sky knights stopped many enemies digging trenches. This was a war on the mortal level after all. Flying was a minority on the battlefield, and most people still had to rely on the cover of trenches to break through to the city wall.

At this time, facing the charging armored forces, the enemy originally wanted to stick their heads out of the trenches to fight back. In order to curb the enemy's attack, but unfortunately, the bombing in the sky came at the right time, and the artillery of the ground forces also bombarded wildly at this time. For a while, no one dared to stick their heads out of the trenches. They could only watch the armored forces rush to the position. Then those infantrymen wearing heavy armor jumped into the trenches and started killing. Compared with the strong men of the fourth and fifth turns, these infantrymen are indeed not strong enough. But facing the opponents in the trenches who are generally less than the third turn, they still have a considerable advantage. Especially with the heavy steel chariots around to provide cover. It is even easier to defeat the enemy in these trenches.

Everyone followed the orders of their superiors and searched for enemies who could control the soil first. No. 39 followed the charging troops and attacked. At this time, he was holding a bomb that looked like a drill. It was a special earth-penetrating bomb. It could automatically dig into the soil and dig underground at a very fast speed. The speed of advancing underground could reach about two meters per second. It was already beyond the speed of most strong men who were good at controlling the soil.

The soldiers in charge of reconnaissance put their ears to the ground and roughly determined the coordinates of the enemy's location by sensing the sounds and vibrations underground.

No. 39 decisively inserted the earth-penetrating bomb in his hand into the soil. After adjusting the angle, he pressed the trigger button. The earth-penetrating bomb immediately started to spin at high speed, quickly drilling a pipe underground and heading in the direction of the target.

After doing all this, dozens of people in their team quickly followed the tank weighing hundreds of tons and continued to move forward. Not long after they left, a muffled sound came from underground. A stream of soil sprayed out from the hole left by the earth-penetrating bomb. The underground explosion was like a muffled fart, without much noise, but the earth-piercing expert hiding underground had already turned into a corpse.

If it was an ordinary heavy artillery bombardment, it would be almost impossible to cause any effective damage to the enemy hiding underground. However, the earth-penetrating bomb had already drilled into the enemy's range of several meters. Even if there was a barrier of soil, the shock wave would be enough to kill people if it exploded within this range.

At the same time, in other corners of the battlefield, the underground people continued to hear such muffled sounds, and some of the earth-penetrating bombs hit the target. However, most of them failed to kill the masters hiding underground. After all, the blocking effect of the mud was too good.

However, if they could cause certain casualties, the goal of this battle would be achieved. They did not attack to annihilate the enemy, but only to slow down the speed of the enemy digging tunnels, and killing a certain number of earth road masters was equivalent to completing the tactical goal.

It is impossible to create a strong person who is good at a certain style out of thin air, after all, this is related to the natal Gu worm. Although the natal Gu worm will not be broken during the refining process, it cannot be replaced casually. Otherwise, it will be seriously injured at best, or even die suddenly. Therefore, once ordinary people choose a style, they cannot change it at will.

That is to say, if one of the earth road strongmen dies, one less will be left. If all of them die, the enemy can only rely on manpower to dig, forcibly crossing a distance of thousands of meters and digging to the foot of the city wall. The time and casualties in this process are extremely huge. Dongfang Yuliang in the front-line command center. He quickly got the situation on the front line from the radio, and was so angry that he almost threw the walkie-talkie to the ground.

"This bunch of damn bastards! How dare they be so shameless that they specifically target our engineers to kill? Quickly get the assembled rank 4 experts to personally take action and drive the invading enemy troops back. If they continue to kill us, when will we be able to advance to the foot of the city wall?"

Dongfang Yuliang was very annoyed. The massive cannon fodder seemed to have no impact on the main battlefield. In fact, it could disperse the enemy's firepower. Although most of the masters above the fourth level could fly, they could ignore the ground barrier of several kilometers. If they flew to the bottom of the city wall, they would face the concentrated firepower of all the enemy's firepower. Even if they were wearing armor and performing defensive killing moves at the same time, they would probably be in danger. In this case, even if they could forcefully break through the defense line, they would have to pay heavy casualties. It might even cause the entire alliance to fall apart. There must be enough infantry to threaten the enemy's defense line in order to share most of the enemy's firepower and break through the enemy's defense line in one fell swoop.

Therefore, the engineers in charge of earthwork must not die at this time. However, apart from sending out the reserve team, he could not think of any good way to rescue them. He could only grit his teeth and come to the battlefield in person. He used the Wanxing Feiying again regardless of the consumption. However, this time he only produced thousands of light spots. These starlights were controlled by him with his mind under his eyes closed. The flexibility was a level higher than the previous ones. Even if there were still a large number of locusts flying on the battlefield, these starlights could flexibly avoid the locusts and hit their targets correctly.

However, performing this killing move also made him sweat on his forehead, which was very mentally exhausting for him. It would be difficult for him to perform it a second time in a short period of time.

The attack of a top-level master like him in the fifth level did have the effect of turning the tide of the battle. It seemed that he saw that the core of the enemy's battle was the chariots, and all the starlights were heading for those chariots. Steel armor could not block these intangible starlights at all. Even if the driver was wearing a helmet with mental protection, he would be either killed or injured after being hit by the starlight, or at least fall into a coma.

Hundreds of tanks were paralyzed in a short time. Nearly 1/3 of the tanks were lying there, which had a huge impact on the attacking troops. Their tactical goals had not been achieved. Therefore, the tanks that could still move continued to move forward and carried out tunnel warfare against the strong men in the trenches. At the same time, they left conspicuous landmarks at the location of the trenches to guide the heavy artillery's attack.

Under the cover of the air force and heavy artillery, these troops, even though they were strongly blocked by the fourth-level masters, still withstood these attacks and completed the tactical mission at the cost of heavy casualties. They released earth-penetrating bombs on almost all the earth-penetrating masters hidden in the trenches. As for whether these earth-penetrating bombs could kill the enemy, that was an unknown. The mission was completed, and they began to evacuate quickly. At the same time, the pilots began to increase their coverage of the ground.

The unconscious driver was dragged out of the cockpit by the soldiers and quickly evacuated. A large amount of explosives, thermite and even a tank of liquid oxygen were released inside the remaining tanks.

As they moved away from a huge explosion, sparks and smoke shot out from the cracks of the huge steel cans. The oxygen tank exploded and released a large amount of pure oxygen. In the pure oxygen, even steel would burn like fireworks. Moreover, there was a large amount of thermite in the carriage, which immediately turned the remaining chariots into fiery wreckage like alchemy furnaces, and metal liquid continued to spray out from the cracks like fireworks.

Even if the enemy captured these things, they would only get a pile of scrap metal. The internal structure had long been melted and welded into one, and there was no value in repairing them at all.

Including the pack horses that drove the tanks, none of them were left alive, but were turned into ashes in the intense burning.

After a field battle, the positions of both sides were in chaos, and some of the trenches that the enemy had built with great difficulty were even filled up again.

One of the main tasks of the tank was to carry a large amount of quick-drying concrete. When it reached the top of the trench, it opened the space props and poured the concrete in, and filled it with fibrous objects such as bamboo strips and ropes. It was ensured that after these things solidified into blocks, they were so solid that there was no way to dig them out.

The trenches were directly filled in, and these trenches were often located in very critical positions, making it difficult to advance later unless the construction waste was cleared out.

When the underground base called off the battle and the damaged tanks returned with the infantry, the tunnels dug by the neighbors with great difficulty had been mostly destroyed. However, the underground base also paid a heavy price, with more than half of the tanks left in place and nearly one-fifth of the tank drivers not brought back. It was unknown how many of those who were rescued would be able to recover and return to the battlefield.

However, their tactical goal was indeed achieved. The enemy's offensive was delayed and continued to be dragged within the bombardment range of the artillery. The longer they were dragged within this range, the more casualties the enemy's manpower would suffer.

However, those with a little strategic vision in the underground base could see that close combat and fierce street fighting were probably what they had to face next. Because even with the most optimistic estimate, the enemy would complete the tunnel excavation and advance to the foot of the city wall in about a week.

Without the strong men of the earth path, they could still use the clumsy method and ordinary tools to dig. Even if the bombing could temporarily stop their digging, the firepower of the underground base could not continue to block the vast grassland in all directions. Sooner or later, the pit would be dug to the foot of the city wall, and before that, the damage they could cause to the enemy was far from enough to cause the coalition to collapse. The huge gap in troop strength meant that even if they gained more tactical advantages, they would eventually have to drag the battle into the most tragic street fighting.

[To be continued]

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