Doctor, I'm really strong!

When these people are popping champagne halfway through the event, the community will personally visit them and give them a big gift.

Chapter 337: The Stage of History is Ready

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"The defenses are really lax."

"It's easier to take action when everyone is relaxed. Each squad, report your situation."

"The sniper team has completed its deployment."

"Assault Team One is deployed."

"Assault Team Three is deployed."

"This is the fourth assault team. We have detected an anomaly and are en route to the new target location."

"This is Assault Team Two, and we are moving toward the target point."

"Long-range strike unit deployed."

"Loitering munition signal detected, drone has entered the field."

After waiting for about three minutes, Vasily Shulkin gave the order: "Move out!"

The railgun sniper rifle fires bullets at five times the speed of sound. When you hear the sound, you'd better pray that the target isn't you. If the target is you, then don't worry, the 5mm steel needle fired at this speed guarantees a one-shot kill, sending you away painlessly.

As the sentries were cleared out, small teams of Huangwu militants filed in and carefully placed the bombs one by one. The entire operation went exceptionally smoothly until a huge explosion and towering flames woke everyone from their sleep.

The logistics and storage warehouses of Saint-Germain were attacked.

Because they acted swiftly, leaving only a very small number of "traces" that looked like they were left in a hurry, the Royal Wu Action Team did not leave any useful information. The information they left behind, on the surface, pointed to the Community, but in reality, it all pointed to the Noble Alliance. And the Noble Alliance did indeed have the ability and skill to do so.

Which separatist force doesn't have some elite troops?

As for the most important clue, it had been completely swallowed up by the raging flames. After all, in addition to food, the logistics warehouse also contained a large amount of weapons and ammunition. During this process, various explosions and fires never stopped. The Ukrainian soldiers who came to put out the fire could not even get close, let alone save it. They could only set up a firebreak on the periphery to prevent the flames from spreading into the city.

The attack was disastrous; in any case, the noble alliance immediately launched a general offensive.

With such a large commotion, even a blind man could guess what happened.

Moreover, there are comrades within the noble alliance. Because of their outstanding abilities, they are either in the staff or serve as advisors to the great nobles. They can provide advice within their own scope of work. As long as they say, "The reasons are not important to us. What is important is that we win," it is enough to make the noble alliance take immediate action.

As for the royalists, the perfectly coordinated timing of the noble alliance's attack was undoubtedly their doing!

This is like mud falling into your crotch—even if it's not shit, it still looks like shit.

The noble alliance probably doesn't care about these things. As long as they take Saint-Germain Castle, the victor will decide the rest of the story.

The two sides immediately engaged in fierce fighting around several key cities. Land ships, which had rarely appeared before, became the main combat units this time. Ursus troops, loyal to different factions, fought fiercely here, greatly reducing the already weak national strength of the Ursus Empire.

Both sides even coincidentally redeployed troops from the border to provide reinforcements. For example, on the border between the Ursus Empire and the Commonwealth, the original twenty divisions of troops stationed there were reduced to only three.

Even the previous twenty divisions had serious problems with receiving salaries without working; each division had at most half the normal standard number of troops, and some even had less than a third.

When they were conscripted, these troops were all temporarily expanded, recruiting men from all over the place, putting them in uniforms, stuffing them with guns, and that was it.

What kind of combat effectiveness can you expect from such a force? It would be a miracle if it didn't collapse and wipe out other friendly forces when the front line collapsed.

Even with such perfunctory measures, some units still haven't made up for a third of the shortfall.

Don't forget that this is the border between the Ursus Empire and the Community. The Community welcomes all immigrants, and the local garrison is in cahoots with the Community's merchants on smuggling issues. So where do you think all those locals have gone?

Many Ukrainian soldiers even took the opportunity to run away. For a period of time, it was normal for Ukrainian soldiers to bring their families and sneak into the community overnight. Many junior and even high-ranking officers were no exception.

What kind of fighting power can you expect from such an army? If the community really attacks, the fact that they can fire into the sky would be a testament to the amount of money His Majesty the Emperor has given them.

In reality, Nikolai did not owe the army money. However, after the money was distributed layer by layer, it was hard to say how much the soldiers actually received. The situation of unpaid military pay occurred frequently. In the past, the Ukrainian army had more than one confrontation between officers and soldiers, and even bloodshed, due to the issue of unpaid military pay.

Now they have a better option: they can go directly to the community's immigrant cities, where people are accepted regardless of their background, as long as they are willing to abide by the law.

Even many high-ranking officers were unaware that their soldiers had been replaced at least twice; they were essentially just growing leeks (a metaphor for exploiting others).

As for the missing officers and soldiers, they are simply counted as missing. In any case, the higher-ups will not investigate the fate of a few ordinary soldiers. When they finally decide to investigate, they will face the situation of "the law does not punish the masses."

If the lower levels run away, the middle levels waver, and the upper levels get involved, even if you're just looking for a scapegoat, things are likely to go wrong.

This is the current situation of the Ursus Empire. The border guards are all potential spies, or have become spies, and their fighting spirit is almost zero. And their performance has lived up to expectations. After a battle, the number of defeated soldiers gathered together is less than one-tenth of what it was before.

What can one expect from the fighting power of a rabble?

Some small units, however, performed quite well, securing several classic small-scale victories for the royalists on the generally poor main battlefield, and these individuals were promoted.

However, some royalists raised objections, arguing that these people were using the community's infiltration tactics and must be community spies.

The main problem is that the infiltration of the community is everywhere, which has driven some countries to a state of cyberpsychosis. However, using tactics to convict people is still too absurd. Moreover, when we need people, why would we push our own most capable fighters out? Wouldn't that chill the hearts of our brothers?

Ironically, the Ukrainian military officers who used community tactics had no connection with the community, while many of the nobles who accused them of being community spies were actually community moles.

This is truly the biggest black joke in the history of the Ursus Empire.

As the devastation of the Ursus Empire's civil war escalated, more and more ordinary people could no longer bear it.

Life was already tough before, but now with all the war taxes, no one can survive. Factory workers are only given sour black bread, barely enough to fill their stomachs. Working hours often exceed eighteen hours, and sometimes the foreman whips them up to continue working as soon as they lie down.

On both the royalist and allied sides, large-scale worker uprisings and demonstrations occurred. The suppression was indeed successful, but everyone knew that each successful suppression added pressure to the huge pressure boiler of the Ursus Empire, while the Community was watching them with predatory eyes.

"Your Majesty, there have been a full three hundred worker strikes and armed uprisings this month. If this continues, we ourselves may be hanged by the angry workers before we can eliminate the noble alliance!"

"Your Grace, our rear arsenals have almost all ceased production. If this continues, our soldiers on the front lines will have no weapons or ammunition available."

Both the allied forces and the emperor were gritting their teeth and holding on, seeing who would blink first.

Both sides, locked in a battle of internal strength, were holding their breath, and even though they knew it was a path to certain death, they couldn't stop now.

Inside Saint-Germain Castle, a group of workers are having a meeting—a secret meeting.

"The weapons have been delivered to the designated location and are ready for action at any time."

"The personnel are all in place, and they are all skilled shooters."

"Our action plan has been approved by the organization. The only problem is how we capture a landship."

"The organization has offered advice on this matter."

A member of the workers' picket line unfolds a blueprint of the interior of a land-based warship.

"This is the Aurora land-based warship that the organization gave to those White bandits as a gift. We have the complete set of design drawings and internal compartment structure diagrams, and our comrades are on board."

"Speaking of which, when the Aurora came, the organization provided a group of instructors, right?"

"Those instructors have already returned home, but they provided a wealth of detailed intelligence, including the modifications the White Army made to the Aurora in the later stages. With the help of our comrades, we can take control of the Aurora and bombard the Imperial Palace within twenty minutes at the earliest!"

"Good! As long as the main guns of the land-based ships clear the way, we can take the palace and capture the emperor alive in a very short time!"

According to the original script of the Royal Ussuri, the noble alliance should have captured Saint Jun's Castle, killed the emperor, and then the community should have swept the severely weakened Ussuri nobles into the dustbin of history.

Unexpectedly, the result of these two weaklings fighting each other was that both sides suffered heavy losses. Although one side suffered heavy losses, it was still able to continuously regroup its troops and fight to the death like a dying archbishop. Although the other side had sufficient supplies, the strike in the rear caused the weapons and ammunition on the front line to be consumed too quickly, and it had to purchase these things extra. In some areas of the front line, it even developed into a state of cold weapon warfare.

For a time, both sides were so exhausted by the excessive consumption of land-based ships that they were unable to operate these strategic weapons, and could only resort to traditional army tactics, almost to the point of forming a Spanish square and fighting each other.

Although dishes vary in quality, to be honest, Liu Jiuli didn't want to waste any more time on dishes this bad.

If Hitler saw the Soviet Union after the Winter War, then Liu Jiuli now sees Tsarist Russia in the later stages of World War I, and the Community is the Soviet Union that won World War II unscathed, still possessing nuclear weapons, satellites, and strategic missiles.

The Ursus Empire is like a dilapidated house; you can just watch it from afar and it will collapse and crush the people inside.

That's the situation now. Both sides are at their limit, and even the crossbows themselves are rusted and broken.

Moreover, the uprising wasn't limited to Saint-Germain Fortress alone. Since action was to be taken, it had to be a full-blown, direct attack. Liu Jiuli had no interest in harassment tactics; he would either hold back or, once he took action, rip out the enemy's kidneys in one fell swoop, add a shot to the head, and finally throw C4 to their chest to detonate, ensuring absolute victory.

The entire plan was for workers in all industrial cities within the Ursus Empire to launch an armed uprising, centered on Saint-Germain.

Before that, the Commonwealth's air force will enter the Ursus Empire to provide fire support to the workers at any time. Cruise missiles and ballistic missiles will be used to decapitate military facilities within the Ursus Empire. Ten assault divisions on the border will immediately rush into the Ursus Empire, followed by more than twenty mechanized divisions to consolidate the liberated areas and cooperate with the airborne troops to complete the liberation of the entire Ursus Empire.

The ten assault divisions possessed an astonishing 7500 land-based ships. Each assault division consisted of armored units aboard these ships, with soldiers uniformly equipped with heavy power armor and multi-legged all-terrain tactical mechs. Everything was prepared for the rapid breakthrough of enemy positions. To ensure the success of this operation, the missile units in the rear were also prepared with neutron bombs.

The community has fully mastered clean nuclear technology. Even neutron bombs are much cleaner than those on Earth. The radiation effects will disappear completely within minutes of the explosion, leaving only an instantaneous radiation kill effect without any residual effects.

With the community's offensive capabilities, there's no need for radiation pollution to slow down the enemy's advance. Crushing the enemy and launching a full-scale assault is the right way to go.

The script is ready, all the actors are in place, and the stage has been cleared.

The performance is now beginning!

Section 338: Armed Uprising

(How about writing a cyberpunk story for my next book? (～￣▽￣)～)

October 26, 1107, St. Peter

"Destroy the White bandits!"

"Hurrah!"

As one of the few remaining heavy industrial cities in the Ursus Empire, St. Peter's majority of occupations are laborers.

This means that as long as one party organization takes root here, it can quickly create numerous party branches and then, almost like cell division, turn neutral parties into its own.

That's how the workers' pickets came about. However, Liu Jiuli kept in mind the blows the martyrs had suffered. These workers' armed forces existed in secret. If they were to take action, they had to strike the enemy decisively. So while workers' movements were surging in other cities, St. Petersburg remained relatively quiet.

But as the saying goes, the safest place during a typhoon is the area near the eye of the typhoon.

St. Peter is very close to St. Peter's Castle.

While the local capitalists and nobles were reveling in their control, the workers' pickets had already distributed weapons, and at least half of the local police and army had been secretly turned against them.

So for the rulers, this kind of quiet meant "the streets are so quiet, there's not a single person here."

There is a period of dormancy before a volcano actually erupts.

Then that afternoon, all the anger and resistance erupted. Everything happened so suddenly and unexpectedly. Before the local nobles' private army could be mobilized, they were locked onto by agents from the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the disciplinary team using locators and then taken down by the community's loitering munitions. The community's air force didn't even have to be deployed, and they didn't even have to use cruise missiles.

"We're under attack! We're under attack! The enemy has heavy weapons... Damn it!"

St. Peter's laxity and the infiltration of the Community rendered the intelligence system ineffective. The intricate web of interests allowed the workers' pickets to easily bribe many people and smuggle contraband in openly by cooperating with the Community.

As a result, when the workers' pickets began to make their move, the noble private army and garrison troops who were preparing to fight them found that the workers on the other side were armed with AK47s, carrying RPG-7s, and had the heavily armored Shilka River clearing the way.

It must be acknowledged that in urban warfare, self-propelled anti-aircraft guns are far more effective at clearing out enemy targets than main battle tanks.

Moreover, the Shilka River used by the community is a 30mm caliber quad-mounted structure. A single barrage of bullets can instantly leave only incomplete living people and incomplete corpses on the other side of the street.

As for large-caliber machine guns, they are basic equipment. The strong and healthy Ursus people especially like this kind of heavy equipment. As long as they can carry it and the recoil allows, they will definitely carry it to the battlefield to give the enemy a surprise.