Doctor, I'm really strong!

Of course we'll fight! I'm going to die anyway, so I'm going to take one of them with me.

This is their reality for the people living in the community.

In the past, they had to carefully calculate even the purchase of a piece of black bread; today, they can choose any product they want from the supermarket.

When supplies were plentiful, the people were filled with confidence in the new government. At this time, Liu Jiuli told them that their past suffering was due to the cruel exploitation by the nobles and the cruel oppression by the corrupt court. The value we created was stolen by them, so we must overthrow the old world, build a new world, and live a good life!

At this point, who do you think the common people should listen to?

The bright future envisioned by the community is within reach, but outside bandits are about to storm in and destroy it all. If you were in their shoes, would you fight back? Or would you simply lie down and let others do whatever they want with you?

Why do we need abundant supplies? Because they are the guarantee of social stability; food is the foundation of public morale.

Why do we need literacy campaigns and compulsory education? Because we want people to understand that this kind of life doesn't just fall from the sky.

Why establish a people's army? Because only when the people have guns in their hands do they have a voice.

The rest is simple: gun in hand, follow me!

Liu Jiuli's order for total war mobilization received a fervent response from the entire community. The recruitment points were instantly packed with people. Many families, even fathers and children, joined the army together. Their thoughts were simple and humble: "The community has given me a happy life that I never dared to dream of. Now I will use my life to defend this country that belongs to us."

The entire community mobilized, and the enthusiasm of the people to join the army greatly surprised Khlag, who was then in charge of work in Kharkiv.

In Hrag's mind, there was a natural antagonism between ordinary people and soldiers. The Ursus Empire's conscription was always a forced recruitment of men from the local areas, and very few people joined the army voluntarily. There were many reasons for this, but the core reason was that the generals of the Ursus Empire treated soldiers as mere livestock. Unless you made great contributions, you would not receive any compensation if you died.

No one would want to be a soldier, except for the sons of nobles. But those children go there to gain prestige and don't care about the money. Once they're in the army, they become officers, and they even have many servants and their family's private soldiers with them.

Embezzling military pay was common, even among Hrag's troops, many officers did so. This was only after he had tried his best to control the situation; one can only imagine the level of corruption in troops that were completely uncontrolled.

To be honest, as long as the Ursus Empire guarantees that the army will not embezzle military funds, the difficulty of recruiting soldiers will be reduced by half.

As for the Terra Red Army, it was already an existence beyond Hrag's comprehension.

This army does not conform to the definition of an army of any country on the continent of Terra. From the moment it was born, it was like a ray of light shining into the darkness, telling everyone that an army can be given the name of the people and can become an unimaginable iron army and a benevolent army.

Helag clearly remembers the scene of the local people seeing off the Red Guards when they withdrew from the disaster area. Many affected families took out their only food and made fragrant pastries to give to these soldiers.

The difficulty of fighting in such a country is self-evident.

This is the true meaning of the close bond between the military and the people; you can no longer distinguish between them, they are one.

If recruitment in other cities is enthusiastic, then recruitment in Kazdel is fanatical.

For the Sarkaz, this was a rare opportunity for revival, one that they might never have again if they missed it. They didn't want to give up, and they couldn't give up. Liu Jiuli gave them hope, so they personally crowned this outsider. The Sarkaz Demon King now needed their power, so they offered everything unconditionally.

"Slow down! Slow down, all of you! I have enough weapons and lists, you all better line up properly first!"

Because the tribespeople were so enthusiastic, W had to resort to swearing to control the situation. However, those who were too young or too old should stay away, especially the children; they should go to school.

Anyone under the age of 18 will not be accepted, because the community has long since popularized ID cards and information recognition technology, so it is impossible to get away with it. If you are under the age, you are under the age, not even by one day!

Kazdel was practically a nation of soldiers. Factory workers were all given weapons and were managed by a unified team. The city was transformed into a massive military camp in a very short time.

As a gathering place for mercenaries, Kazdel's greatest advantage is that it has no shortage of qualified soldiers. The old men here all know how to use weapons and have the most basic military knowledge. With a little training, the Red Army's new weapons can arm them more quickly. After all, Originium Arts weapons are not as convenient and quick as automatic rifles that can be used by pulling the trigger.

Unlike in the past, this time it wasn't just adult men who were mobilized; women also actively enlisted.

This is the result of Liu Jiuli's reforms on gender equality.

Under his insistence, the community achieved equal pay for equal work and equal rights and responsibilities for men and women. In order to promote reform and eradicate bad habits, many places directly deployed the army and police to conduct physical education on those who were unwilling to keep up with the new era. The effect of persuasion was very significant. Anyway, the Cheka of the Ministry of Internal Affairs all felt that these people were genuinely repentant.

If the old era weighed down men like a mountain, then it weighed down women like an ocean.

From objective circumstances to subjective ideology, the oppression of women in the old world reached its zenith, to the point where they were utterly shameless and offered no hope whatsoever.

The liberated women absolutely do not want to return to darkness. They want to make their voices heard in the new world. What men can do, women can do too. Women are just as capable as men!

From frontline soldiers to logistical support personnel, women have become a prominent feature of the military, fighting alongside male soldiers to resist imperialist aggressors and for their country.

The battle at the front has become extremely intense. In order to deal with the enemy's attack, Liu Jiuli not only expanded his army but also increased the production of weapons, making full use of the "firepower first" mechanic.

From Yansk to Kazdel, along all the defensive lines of the Terra People's Community, more than 1.5 million Red Army soldiers are fighting a bloody battle, and more than 100,000 heavy artillery pieces have been deployed to the lines. In the arsenals behind the lines, shells and spare parts are piled up like mountains.

Liu Jiuli ordered all factories to operate at full capacity, vowing to crush those bastards with steel!

Chapter 215: Troublemakers, they're all troublemakers!

(Third update, don't forget to vote! (^?^))

Liu Jiuli felt that the greatest help Yueying had given him was the all-purpose factory.

This super productivity platform, which completely surpasses the current level of human technology, is omnipotent. Its product precision has reached the limit of microscopic matter. When the precision of matter reaches a certain limit, it will form a special fit effect, which will greatly improve the performance of the product. For example, an engine that can only run 500 horsepower can output more than 800 horsepower.

It's incredible, beyond comprehension, but it's real, a reality born from advanced technology.

The all-powerful factory has bridged the gap between the laboratory and mass production, making mass production a very simple task. If Liu Jiuli were to allow the use of these factories, anyone with microscopic design blueprints could mass-produce everything in the world, except for souls.

The all-out factory production resulted in a huge stockpile of weapons. It's important to know that maintaining a single heavy artillery piece is no easy task; the artillerymen alone require at least five to ten people. In the case of the Gustav, a single artillery piece constitutes an independent combat unit. The community produced 100,000 heavy artillery pieces, which would require at least 500,000 artillerymen just for support.

Currently, the entire collective's mobilization force is barely two million. Even with the help of externally powered factories, and Liu Jiuli turning half of the people into soldiers under extreme conditions, these 500,000 technical troops are not something that can be created overnight.

Operating artillery and operating a rifle are two different things. Even when operating a rifle, you need to understand which is the safety, which is the sight, how to operate it, how to use the life position, where the maintenance parts are located, how to use life-saving equipment during maintenance, how to put the disassembled parts back together, and so on. If it were heavy artillery, even if you had an endless supply of shells for artillerymen to train, they could not become level three soldiers in a single day.

Moreover, defense lines, fortresses, and land-based ships are all within the training range. The enemy's numerical advantage is an objective fact. Yan's 600 million population is a strategic advantage that the community cannot currently match. The Ursus Empire has more than 100 million people. Although other countries do not have such an exaggerated population, it is still easy for them to mobilize a million troops.

Therefore, in reality, even if there are enough weapons at the front, the community still lacks people to operate these weapons, especially heavy weapons. This can be seen from the fact that many infantrymen at the community's front have started to take on artillery duties as well.

There were plenty of shells and cannons, so they just had to cram at the last minute. These soldiers had all received primary school education and completed literacy courses, so reading and writing were not a problem. Under the pressure of war, people's potential is enormous.

After all, those who can't learn well are dead; things that you normally wouldn't want to look at will become second nature in this situation.

However, pressure is relative. Due to the immense pressure, the community began to ramp up production and adopted a tactic of overwhelming flesh and blood with steel, which also increased the pressure on the Eight-Nation Alliance.

At the Iron Grid front, the Commonwealth fired nearly 200,000 shells a day, turning the enemy's advance into skirmishing, much like the Anglo-French forces who were traumatized by German heavy machine guns during World War I.

According to the recollections of Allied veterans after the war: "Smoke filled the entire battlefield, every inch of land was warm, you could never see the true color of the sky, and lying in the shell craters, you felt like the whole world was being destroyed."

This level of bombardment drastically changed the mode of warfare on Terra. The massive landships became huge targets, and for the first time, everyone realized that landships were no longer up to par with the times in the face of such terrifying barrages.

While it may not be suitable when facing the Terra Red Army, this large land-based warship remains a formidable strategic weapon when facing other countries. Its dense array of weapons providing close-range fire support is still quite terrifying.

However, the coalition's land-based ships generally had short ranges. Although they appeared to have advanced structural designs, in terms of the crucial range, they were completely at the level of ironclad warships. Imagine the scene of an Iowa-class ship colliding with the main gun of a Dingyuan.

There were ways to break the deadlock. The land-based ships advanced aggressively, pushing to within range of their own heavy artillery without suffering casualties. They then unleashed maximum firepower on the Terra Red Army's positions. Meanwhile, the infantry silently crossed minefields and trenches, and finally, under the cover of the light land-based ships, broke through the Red Army's defenses, achieving a breakthrough on the battlefield.

This is the only feasible solution at present, but Liu Jiuli's defensive layout is too abnormal.

In order to preserve his own forces, Liu Jiuli carried out the defensive counterattack strategy to the end. Since he had unlimited resources, he built all the bunkers and trenches according to the standards of permanent fortifications, forming a three-dimensional defensive transportation network from above ground to underground. Heavy artillery units could be deployed on multiple routes at any time, and there were also a large number of armed helicopters to provide support, ensuring that if any area was shaken, a group of people would rush in to give the enemy a surprise.

At this point, it's a contest of courage and fearlessness between the two sides.

Each country has its own advantages in this regard. In the army of any country, there will be people who are not afraid to die. But the problem is, if you are not afraid to die, what about the people around you?

The Red Army's defenses were not without crises. On December 31, the eastern defenses of Kazdel were breached by the attacking Yan army. However, in the ensuing close combat, the main force of the Yan army, which was known as the "strongest army on the continent," was driven out of the position by the Red Army with bayonets and entrenching tools.

According to feedback from Yan Army soldiers, their opponents were all equipped with powered armor and full protective suits. Their weapons could easily slice through them with a single strike, and even stabbing attacks were rarely fatal. The Yan Army soldiers rated the enemy's close-combat skills as barely acceptable, but the enemies charged at them like madmen, fighting desperately – a truly terrifying sight.

After a heavily armored soldier from the Yan Army charged onto the position, he easily took down two Red Army soldiers who rushed up, relying on his status as a mage. Then, one of the Red Army soldiers, who had been cut in half at the waist, grabbed his leg and wouldn't let go. Just as this man was about to finish him off, the other Red Army soldier, who had been severely wounded by him, detonated an armor-piercing grenade without hesitation.

And that was the end of it; this elite Yan Army heavy armor mage died on the spot.

There are many similar scenes. Close combat is a contest of iron and blood between the two sides. Face-to-face fighting tests the courage of the soldiers on both sides. Any cowardice or fear can instantly lead to the collapse of the entire battle line.

In this bloody battle, the Red Army soldiers had the last laugh, and the Yan Army collapsed.

This news was immediately taken very seriously by the Yan Army and was reported all the way to the Yan Emperor.

When Yan Huang saw this intelligence, his heart skipped a beat.

"It's over, those unruly people are starting to wake up!"

Section 216: Storm Assault Team

(Updated early, (～￣▽￣)～)

The birth of the Yan Kingdom was not sacred, but a despicable class betrayal.

The emperors of Yan throughout history were well aware of this, so each emperor carefully studied the enemy and compiled detailed evaluation criteria to assess the level of the Red Phantom.

"With everyone united and fighting to the death, this vanguard of the proletariat has already taken shape; we cannot allow them the opportunity to continue to grow stronger!"

Emperor Yan slammed his fist on his dragon throne, rose, and issued the order: "Send the Yanlong Army out! All forces must advance! Victory must be achieved at all costs! Annihilate the Red Bandits!"

"Your Majesty, is the Flame Dragon Army..."

The Emperor Yan's icy gaze fell upon the dissenting ministers, and he said in a deep voice, "Didn't you understand? What I said is, at all costs!"

"Sir, obey the order."

Steel Grider Front

Gregory closed the list of casualties in his hand. As one of the Black Serpent's clones, having experienced a long history, he could not bear to look at the horrific list of casualties.

Our side has an overwhelming advantage in the number of land-based ships and soldiers, but the enemy's direction is like steel, with bullets raining down everywhere. Only when you come here will you understand that life is like bullets falling like rain.

The spot where Grigory was standing was formerly an artillery position for the Ukrainian army. It was in a good location, being on relatively high ground, which allowed him to provide support to the soldiers charging at the front.

So the Ukrainian army deployed a total of thirty-four heavy artillery pieces here, and then less than an hour after they started running, they were all destroyed by the Red Army artillery on the other side, and the hill was also lowered by more than two meters.

This firepower is outrageous, ridiculously outrageous, utterly outrageous.

Because the loss of land-based ships was painful for the coalition forces, the land-based ships of various countries are now conducting saturation bombardment from a relatively safe distance, which is to say, bombardment at the maximum range with a high elevation angle. However, since this is far beyond the effective range, the landing point of these shells is completely unpredictable, and can only provide psychological comfort to the infantry on the front line.

For the first time, infantry served as the main offensive force in a national war, charging into enemy positions.

Then they were subjected to a combined onslaught of heavy machine guns, general-purpose machine guns, and automatic rifles, along with a large number of anti-aircraft machine guns and quadruple anti-aircraft guns, making for a very bloody scene.

This doesn't even include automatic grenade launchers, under-barrel grenades, rocket launchers, and mortars.

Often, as soon as the Allied soldiers showed their faces, the enemy would drench the front lines like water, their brutality comparable to that of the Soviet army that captured Berlin.

To say that the Allied forces achieved nothing would be an insult to them; their attacks did break through the Red Army's lines several times.

The question is what to do after the breakthrough? The two sides will then engage in close combat, and the Red Army's close combat capabilities are not weak.

Leaving aside those 20-30mm shotguns, the Red Army soldiers, fully armed to the teeth, were already a nightmare for the Ukrainian army's gray-haired beasts who only wore leather coats. Their exoskeletons were standard equipment. At first glance, they were all heavily armed soldiers, including many heavy-armored mages. Their equipment was a unique configuration made without regard to cost, customized one-to-one, specifically designed to target the enemy's elite individual soldiers.

Don't forget, there are beings on Terra who transcend ordinary people. These extraordinary individuals, empowered by Originium Arts, are like mobile heavy artillery, capable of creating terrifying results if given the opportunity.

The breach in the Terra Red Army's defenses was largely caused by these individuals. They were much smaller targets than land-based ships, and when armor stacking was ineffective, mobility became crucial. One person was far more mobile and agile than a land-based ship, and could even maneuver around. If they were professional infiltrators, the Red Army would have a very tough time fighting them.

However, you have elite troops, and so do we. One of them might not be enough to defeat you, but ten, twenty, or even a hundred of them, working together, could easily take you down. Given the equipment level of the Terra Red Army, they would definitely win. If they couldn't...

Trapping you in place and then calling in heavy artillery to clear the area is also a method.