Tomorrow's Ark, the journey of hardcore and ruthless people

This landing site is a carefully prepared slaughterhouse for the Nationalist Army to show their weakness.Following the order issued by the Group Army Headquarters directly in command here, rumbling guns rang out within tens of kilometers around this landing site.The 120mm mortars, 160mm mortars, 85mm cannons, and 122/152mm howitzers of the infantry division and regiment artillery group of the National People's Army began to be put into the battlefield. Instead of closing their hands as before, they began to sweep intensively and meticulously The Imperial Army troops huddled together in this small area; 122mm rocket launchers, 240mm rocket launchers, 130mm cannons and even 203mm howitzers directly under the group army and even the front army appeared one after another.Taking care of the target of the Imperial Army who thought he was in a safe zone without being hit by a shell on the east coast for a long time

The rolling barrage shrouded from the west bank to the east bank in an instant, from the imperial infantry charging bravely under the high ground, to the ships and troops ferrying on the east and west banks and on the river, to the imperial artillery near and far on the east bank. encountering targeted attacks.

Zubachev was silent in the observation post on the top of the mountain. He saw the rolling groups of explosions from south to north, forming a wide and huge wall on the landing site, slowly and unstoppably rolling forward from the foot of the mountain.The Imperial Army's skirmisher line that had been charging fiercely disappeared into the flying sand and gravel, and those who were not wiped out could not move forward a step.

The landing sites on both sides of the strait have been turned into a literal sea of ​​​​flames under the concentrated bombing of incendiary bombs. The flowing incendiary agent flows into the Don River, and there is also flowing napalm on the water.Among them were officers and soldiers of the Imperial Army who were struggling desperately while clinging to various floating objects.

In the distance, the artillery of the Imperial Army is getting weaker and weaker.The Nationalist Army allowed them to play freely for a long time, and also used the artillery reconnaissance school positioning radar to record every position they used.Few of the Ursus artillery survived the more accurate, larger caliber, and greater number of artillery strikes.The situation of land ships is not very good - although they have thick skin, they are not covered with AT stance energy shields.

In the western night sky came the low hum of turboprop engines and the scream of jet engines.Night flights of the Protectorate Air Force rushed to the battlefield one after another.

Although the National People's Army Air Force has a small number of elite equipment equipped with second-generation jets, the overall technical level is still at the level of the last-generation electric fans and the first-generation hair dryers.It wasn't advanced, of course, but on Terra's side, these air powers belonged to dear protectors or damned murderers.

As the pilot squadron of this aerial wave dropped flares in mid-air, everything from the west bank to the river to the east bank was illuminated under extremely intense light.Zubachev cast his eager gaze into the air, too.The pilot is usually the best squadron of the whole regiment or even the whole division in the aviation unit.And the model of the pilot squadron is "Bomber Five", and they can fly jets, which shows that they must be an excellent unit in the aviation force.

As the squadron dropped a series of flares and incendiary bombs behind the Imperial Army on the east bank, it guided the follow-up fleet to the target.A ground attack group composed of tactical bombers and fighter bombers roared or roared over the battlefield.

They didn't even drop a bomb on the ground, hit a bullet, and the few imperial infantry on the ground who were still trying to move forward after being subjected to fierce artillery fire became a little hesitant from the previous indomitable and one after another.And from the manor in the north to the highlands, and then to the woods in the south, the cheers even barely penetrated the sound of guns and aero-engines, and faintly penetrated into Zubachev's ears.

Of course, the battle must continue.The Air Force of the People's Liberation Army did not have the ability of Big Brother of the People's Federation to fire a guided electromagnetic artillery shell outside the atmosphere that night and hit the off-road vehicle.The mission of the bombers is still to plow the ground with bombs in key areas of the Imperial Army behind the front; only a few fighter-bombers and attack aircraft come to show off their comrades on the ground.

As the main force of the People's Liberation Army Air Force, the "Jin-type III" is a simple and "traditional" single-engine heavy-propeller fighter. It has a 4500-horsepower turboprop engine and a maximum take-off weight of more than 9 tons; under standard air combat conditions, it has a combat power of nearly 900 tons. Maximum speed in meters per hour.Four 23mm rotary cannons and 1800 kilograms of mounts are powerful against most ground targets of the Imperial Army. If replaced with ground-attack mounts, it becomes the J-H-[-].

The attack aircraft is numbered "Qiang Four", which is actually an enlarged version of the Il-10 equipped with a turboprop engine but without a rear tail gun.While the power of this thing is the same as that of the J-[-], its take-off weight is almost more than that of the former, and its bomb load and combat radius are far inferior to the former - so you can imagine where the weight of this thing is used.

The night-flying J-H IIIs and Qiang IVs swooped down aggressively at a low altitude of 600 to 1000 meters at a small angle. They first launched a full-scale artillery bombardment on all targets exposed in their field of vision. These guys were small fighters with two to four aircraft. The formation entered from multiple directions and heights, and first caught the Imperial Army's artillery positions and land-ships with obvious muzzle flames that were not yet fully dead. After completely giving up supporting the attack, switching to air defense, transfer and escape.The fighter-bombers and attack planes turned their targets to the east bank of the river and the Don River.Machine guns, cannons and rockets swept through all exposed targets from the Imperial Army's river crossing units on the Don River to all exposed targets on the east bank.

At the same time, on the eastern horizon, the rolling aerial bombs dyed the horizon over there into fresh molten steel.

A second round of three red flares shot into the air.

The earth began to tremble again, and the source was the flat land on the north and south sides of the highland.The "old and backward technology" from the People's Federation came from the same place as the engine of the Leman Lux tank. The efficient engine that can use almost all liquid energetics as fuel pulls the tracks of the main battle tank of the Nationalist Army, allowing Thailand The Rat version of the T-55 main battle tank and BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle climbed out of their bunkers in tremors.

Immediately afterwards, the roar of the same type of engine resounded through the sky, and Zubachev could hardly hear too many cannons in his ears——

Entire platoons, entire companies, and even entire battalions of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles climbed out of their hiding positions and rushed toward the Imperial Army landing site on the west bank of the Don River!

In front of the security position at the foot of the mountain, four infantry fighting vehicles suddenly appeared from the flanks, using 30MM machine guns and 12.7MM machine guns on the top of the turret to beat a row of shield guards to the ground.

The shield guards certainly have excellent technical and tactical qualities.The machine gunner fires precise bursts of long and short bursts, and the rifleman switches positions at a very high frequency after shooting.Even so, the firing accuracy of the imperial army made the armored infantry platoon cautious, and the dismounted infantry never exceeded the formation of the infantry fighting vehicle and spread out the skirmish line.

But the shield guards still couldn't hit the infantry fighting vehicles, they only had rifle machine guns.Because Ursus can't even build the simplest individual anti-tank grenade launcher, the "Iron Fist".

The stream of bullets from four 30mm machine guns swept repeatedly among the shield guards, and dense explosion points surrounded the shield guards. The direct hit shells turned the armored Ursus soldiers into pieces, and the armor fell to the ground. Blood gurgled from the cracks... The Ursus unit that had rushed the farthest in the entire battle was wiped out in an instant.

Then, the armored infantry platoon greeted its comrades on the ground.It re-merged into the rolling iron current.

In this battle, the Ursus Empire army has already lost.An infantry division crossing the river was about to be wiped out, and an infantry division crossing the river was also completely incapacitated.

The remaining enemies are still dying.The Ursus Infantry Division on the West Bank landing field also has division artillery.Although there were only 76.2mm light cannons, and they suffered a lot of losses in the previous battles and lacked ammunition, they still fired desperately, trying their best to block the armored clusters of the Civilian Army.

However, the counterattack of the Nationalist Army was not to drive up a pile of tin cans in a daze, but to cooperate carefully among various troops and arms.Almost when the tanks and infantry fighting vehicles fired at the gun positions that were exposed after firing; on the high ground overlooking the battlefield, the light cannons and mortars of the infantry also fired one after another.Quick-response artillery spotters had directed rear artillery fire on the Imperials.

The battle reserve directly under the Western Front, the First Division of the Guards Mechanized Infantry of the Civilian Army entered a nearby position as early as early this morning.Of the one tank regiment and two mechanized infantry regiments in the division, division commander Andrei Berkonsky left only one mechanized infantry regiment as a reserve.The remaining tank regiments and machine infantry regiments were thrown into the battlefield, and at the moment when the imperial army was at its wit's end, they dealt the most severe blow to the imperial army.

The Imperial Army's propaganda efforts compared tanks and armored vehicles to land-based battleships, emphasizing that those small iron boxes were vulnerable to a powerful fleet.This is also a fact, and the probability of it happening on the Terra battlefield is not small.But the Tribal Army has strong long-range and air firepower, and even the 113th Division has strengthened it in this regard.At the same time, they can always rely on various advantages to grasp the initiative on the battlefield, which greatly limits the performance of the Imperial Army's Land Fleet.

Just like it is now, not even a single frigate of the large land fleet of the Imperial Army can rush to the bridgehead on the west bank of the Don River to reinforce the defenders who are fighting for the last time.Under the cover of rapid and precise artillery fire, the sharp armored arrows easily split through the hasty defense of the Ursus Imperial Army.

The desperate Ursus soldiers could only use a handful of "spears", grenade launchers, anti-tank grenades, and even cluster grenades to fight against the dominant armored cluster on the unobstructed and unfortified river bank to the end. Last minute.

And on the other side of the river, there are only corpses and wreckage left everywhere after repeated plowing by artillery fire...

Chapter 12 Under the Front Lines

When the sun once again shone on both sides of the largest river in Ursus, the fate of the Ursus soldiers who remained on the west bank was already sealed.

In the absence of air support, encounter an armored swarm attack that cannot penetrate the front.Although the Ursus soldiers resisted desperately, the effect was not much better than waiting to die.

Known as the "Breaking Spear", it is mostly used to attack armored infantry and simple fortifications. It is roughly equivalent to the origin stone power weapon of the anti-tank rifle. It is currently the main anti-armor weapon of Ursus soldiers; followed by simple Gunpowder weapon anti-tank rifle, which requires the lowest technical level among various anti-tank weapons.

Unfortunately, the Ursus Imperial Anti-Tank Rifle cannot even effectively penetrate the frontal armor of a BMP-2, and the Breacher Spear can only penetrate the frontal side of an infantry fighting vehicle at extremely close range.As for the T-55 tank, don't even think about it.

Therefore, although a large number of Ursas soldiers in the bridgehead on the west bank of the Don River were still resisting, the imperial army gradually failed to support it, and soldiers began to run back... When the sky shone brightly, the riverside On the snowy ground, there are already officers and soldiers of the Imperial Army running away in a panic.

At this time, the armored infantrymen of the Tribal Army who had been closely accompanied by tanks and infantry fighting vehicles to suppress the imperial army's anti-tank team even began to rush out of the formation of the armored vehicles and violently pursued the imperial army.A certain armored infantry battalion rushed at full speed, and was the first to rush into the core of the bridgehead: the Imperial Army's ferry on the west bank of the Don River, cutting off the way of life for the Imperial Army officers and soldiers retreating towards the raft.

On the flat banks of the Don there were even brief and brutal hand-to-hand combats.Only a small group of Imperial Army officers and soldiers rushed to the raft, and they crowded the raft to the brim and rowed away from the river bank.Most were immediately smashed to pieces by tank guns and tank machine guns firing on the river, man and raft.

The remaining officers and soldiers of the imperial army who were crushed to the bank of the Don River had no way to retreat, and they struggled desperately and resisted again.But at this time they were only 300 meters away from the river bank.

The Tribunal tanks lined up in firing formation and fired fiercely towards the river bank; but the advancing armored infantry made several tentative attacks, but were repelled by the imperial army with grenades and machine guns.

At this time, another group of rafts and sampans set off from the almost ruined ferry on the east bank and rowed towards the west bank.But heavy fire from the tribune-occupied section of the river, heavy machine guns and sniper rifles, killed nearly all the imperial oarsmen.

As the sky gradually brightened, the militiamen were no longer willing to waste their lives for the ducks on the plate, and instead bombarded this extremely small area with fierce firepower.

The bombardment of this stretch of the river was but a small fraction of the Tribal artillery fire throughout the campaign.If the heavy artillery directly under the group army and even the front army were used to bombard this small bridgehead, which was only about the size of a palm, it would pose a greater threat to the commanders and fighters of the Civil Protection Army who had besieged it tightly.Therefore, the artillery bombing here is nothing more than the artillery group of the motorized infantry regiment responsible for defending the river bank, and the largest artillery is "nothing more than" a 120mm heavy mortar.

But for the Imperial Army, this can be called a doomsday-like purgatory.Dozens of large and medium caliber mortar shells came in clusters in each round of bombardment, and clusters of blast spots bloomed on the river bank.The fragments of the corpses of the imperial army mixed with the mud splashed everywhere, and the hot shrapnel shot out in all directions.People were constantly being blown up or even shattered, with limbs and arms falling from the sky. Beside the corpses of signal soldiers whose brains had been blasted by shrapnel, Imperial Army officers were hugging bloody radio stations and hissing.But as the sky brightened, the firepower of the Tribal Army had completely blocked the other side of the river, and the targets of the Imperial Army within a radius of tens of kilometers were under the threat of air and artillery firepower.

Who can save them?

As the mortar coverage came to an end, the Tribal Army tanks approached unscrupulously to a distance of 200 meters, aiming directly at the target and firing.This trick was originally very effective from material to psychological: the 55mm high-pressure smoothbore gun of the T-100 specially supplied by Terra launches anti-explosive grenades, and any field fortification, whether it is a foxhole trench or a machine gun firepower field artillery position None of them could hold a single shell.

In the previous battles, after repeatedly experiencing the threat of tanks to their own fortifications and their own helplessness against tanks, the officers and soldiers of the imperial army even went to the point where they would turn around and run as soon as the tribal army tanks appeared.But now, the remaining officers and soldiers of the Imperial Army have nowhere to retreat.

Although after the mortar coverage, groups of tanks fired round after round of shells at any place on the river bank where bullets were fired.But when the infantrymen of the militiamen came forward, gunshots rang out again from the riverbank that had turned into scorched earth!

Human vitality is indeed tenacious.But at this point, these recalcitrances are meaningless.The Tribuya soldiers leaped cautiously forward, getting closer and closer to the bank of the Don.The fate of the Ursus soldiers who remained on this shore was sealed.

Some Ursus officers and soldiers threw away their rifles and attempted to swim across the river.The vast majority were killed by the firing of the Tribunes on the banks and in the rapids of the Don.

Some Ursus officers and soldiers shouted the last sentence in their lives, "Long live the emperor!", and rushed towards the entire row of tanks and automatic rifles with bayonets pointed.When the officer who rushed to the front fell, he was only 30 meters away from the starting point.

The last remaining three hundred Ursus officers and soldiers of an entire infantry division trembled in front of the red-dyed tank tracks and automatic rifles with bayonets, and finally raised their hands high.

**

When the commander and political commissar of the [-]st Mechanized Infantry Division of the Guards rushed into the observation post on the high ground, Comand was fiddling with the captured weapons that had just been sent up.While pulling the bolt of the rifle in his hand, he said: "The environment is similar, so the results are also similar?"

This time it wasn't Tallulah who was talking next to her.She was looking at the Major of the People's Liberation Army who answered with a displeased expression.

The "special nautical infantry" with blue double braids, Major Aurora of the Marine Corps, looked at the banks of the Don River where corpses were strewn all over the place, and replied: "Yes, Colonel Sergey Mosin and Ursas Rutland craftsman Nagant designed two new rifles in one... It's not from the original place, but it still has a familiar feel.”

Well, Tallulah really can't get involved in the topic between time-travelers and time-travelers.

"How do you rate this battle?"

Aurora curled her lips: "It's better... ahem, Kursk. On the Dnieper River in the autumn of 1943, this scene was considered a daily occurrence."

Command put Mosin Nagant down, picked up the Fedorov automatic rifle on the table: "I remember your side was...Magic World War II?"

"It's magical enough. The Axis countries formed an alliance with the 'Deep Sea' that came out of the sea, and the Allied countries also had the help of the 'Fleet Girl' that came out of the sea. Then the Extraterrestrial Corps was mixed in. My side is the setting sun first , and then transferred to Europe. When the Germans were holding back tigers and leopards, Maozi was holding back 59. I tore up the SS 2nd Armored Army on the Kursk Southern Front. All kinds of warships and humans fought in the European battlefield. Germany All three have automated production lines and human clones. Are you talking about magic or not?"

"It's quite magical. Well, the processing level is bad enough." Commander put the automatic rifle back on the table where several samples were stacked. "According to your statement, our current situation is somewhat similar. Listen to the technical department and intelligence department It is judged there that a considerable part of the Ursus Empire's technological explosion was actually STC dug up from graves. A considerable part of their 'high-tech' technology was known but not known."

Aurora turned around, "That's not good news. The internal reference said that the engines of the mobile city, and those Originium reactors are also run by organizations like the 'Mechanicus' and 'Engine Family'; This guy is fiddling with a huge amount of energy that he hasn't fully absorbed at all. Tsk, what if he makes a mistake and messes up..."

Comand replied: "You have to wipe your ass with cans and super units like you."

Aurora gritted her teeth: "Tsk. It feels more difficult than forcibly airborne into a wormhole on the outskirts of Berlin guarded by a bunch of deep-sea elite units."

"Is De San on your side from The Man in the High Castle, Atomic Heart, or Wolfenstein?"

"There are really Nazi zombies, there are stormtroopers in the shape of a werewolf, and they can also buy E-series tanks. So it's easier here..."

Tallulah suddenly said: "Stop! Two leaders, the local comrades are here."

Before the words were finished, Comand greeted Belkonsky who got into the shelter: "Long time no see!"

Berkonsky still had a sullen face: "Yes, we haven't seen each other for a while."

"Ah, this is cool. It seems that you have learned more from He Fan besides how to use the tank. How do you feel?"

"Pretty well, General Political Commissar... oh, Comrade Supreme Command."

Indeed, Command's current identity is only an observer, and he is also far away from the leadership core of the integration movement.But now the chief officers of the two major front armies, various group armies and most of the elite main divisions of the Terra People's Guard Army were all picked up by Comand on the northwest tundra and asked him to take the first army in the Kursk Valley. The Sixth Army of the Fourth Army.At that time, even Ulyanov was just a county-level leader busy with internships.

Comand was later transferred from the integration movement to open up the situation for Kazdel, to a large extent in order to avoid the People's Federation's excessive influence on the integration movement's political ecology.And when the integration movement was now set up and spread out, facing the anxious front line, Ulyanov thought for a while and found Command—in the entire military system of the integration movement, he was the only one who had enough political resources to be a good observer.

"The way here is not safe. Although the armored assault vehicle is not afraid of a small group of bandits attacking. But since entering the middle reaches of the Don River and going all the way south, the enemy guerrillas have not stopped attacking. The situation in the rear is indeed more serious. It depends on the front line Can the form make people feel at ease!"

Berkonski seldom twitched his lips, and his attitude was arrogant: "Then you can rest assured. As long as the logistics are strong, we can drain the blood of the empire by the Don River!"

The leader who came to inspect the work was just a little tired from the long-distance car ride; while the Air Force Commander of the National Security Army wearing a tank cap and camouflage training uniform was dirty all over.But compared to Commander's always modest expression, Belkonsky was full of vigor and sharpness, as if he had already strangled the neck of the Ursus Empire.

And so it is.The Civilian Army directly copied mature plans from tanks and armored vehicles to communication equipment to manuals and regulations; while the Imperial Army could only start from scratch from weapons to personnel to theory.

There are still a lot of problems with the too nascent tank force. The tanks of the empire are still developing from T-26 to T-70 as a major progress.The welded and even riveted steel plates of more than ten millimeters really make people sweat for the tank soldiers sitting inside.

What is even more regrettable is that "at least it can bully the enemy's infantry" is also a false proposition for the Usa tanks - the artillery battalion of the infantry regiment of the partisan army has 85mm cannons, and the infantry battalions and companies have large-caliber machine guns, Recoilless rifles and rocket launchers, and the number of disposable simple anti-tank weapons similar to the "Iron Fist" is staggering.Starting from the infantry company and platoon level, the militia infantry were dangerous to Imperial tanks.

Therefore, the Imperial Army's attempt to use the tanks in a centralized manner by copying the establishment of the Civilian Army suffered a heavy blow-for example, two T-55s knocked out more than 20 T-70s and scared away the remaining dozen or so.Compared with the vulnerability of light tanks in front of the "Red Rebels" with a full range of anti-armor weapons, the survivability of infantry units is actually stronger...

Therefore, in the new round of army construction plans of the Imperial Army, artillery construction is placed first, followed by infantry and air defense; the main purpose of tank armored vehicles is to support infantry, and the chassis production capacity is also inclined to self-propelled artillery units.

All in all, in the face of the cruel reality, the Ursas Empire's army building plan is quite pragmatic, trying to give priority to the construction of several key arms to support new-quality combat forces. "At least have the power to fight back."

——No way, if you want to live, you can only do this.Just like the cavalry has some status in the imperial army, but it is completely desperate in the new round of construction plan: if the anti-armor system of the tribal army is a huge threat to the immature Usa tank, Then, in the face of the frenzied density of automatic weapons of the infantry of the Nationalist Army, the cavalry is even more carrot than green vegetables.

Of course, apart from being pragmatic, the imperial army, as a semi-feudal army, did not lack all kinds of moths: the scale of the tribal army is not small, and the armor units that are quite common on the battlefield impress the Ursus imperial army. Extremely profound.However, the Land Fleet, which the Imperial Army is proud of, has been under the threat of the powerful air and artillery firepower of the Civilian Army for a long time on the battlefield, and because of its embarrassingly huge size, it is almost impossible to achieve "suddenness" on the battlefield . "The rolling land battleships smashed the matchboxes of the red rebels", the scene repeatedly described in the various propaganda of the Imperial Army, never happened.The officers and soldiers of the imperial army, who accounted for the largest number, could only rely on their flesh and blood to deal with the armored vehicles of the tribunes.

Now the front-line units of the Imperial Army are training tanks with unprecedented enthusiasm, while the second-line units are concentrating on training aircraft.Their enthusiasm is touching, and their seriousness is unquestionable. As for the results...we can only say that the development of science and technology has its own laws, whether it is economic stimulus or administrative orders.

Of course, after all, there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom; when the top initiates a bureaucratic madness, the bottom must also use formalism to resist.Regardless of age, regardless of nationality, regardless of system, this has always been the case. The pressure of the deadline and the desire to produce results cannot be "blocked" by mere objective laws.

Therefore, the Ordnance Department of the Armed Forces of the Ursas Empire received a large number of anti-armor weapon design proposals.Armor-piercing projectiles for 76mm field guns, anti-tank rifles enlarged from conventional rifles, armor-piercing projectiles and source stone electromagnetic pulse projectiles for "Small Spears", anti-tank grenades, and large-capacity Molotov cocktails , There are also these relatively practical plans, but there are more weird ones-such as "spike mines" and simplified versions of wooden sticks to pick up explosives, and even the "tactical design" of using iron bars to jam the tracks...

After all, the only thing that the Civilian Army lacked was manpower; the only thing that the Imperial Army did not lack was also manpower.After seeing the opponent's clumsiness, the Civilian Army certainly has self-confidence at the military level.

Chapter 13 Predicament and Breakthrough

"The front line is not a problem."

Comrade Ship Girl, who has been through the magical World War II, said it in an unquestionable tone.

The three of them turned their heads together and looked at the long queue of prisoners at the foot of the mountain. Several captured rifles, machine guns and artillery were piled up in a long row, each with a tall bag but still growing.And the mechanized troops whose tracks rolled up the smoke and dust when they retreated to the rear.

"How to fight a battle with this technical level? I, a veteran of the Eastern Front, have some say, right? I have to say that the 5th Army of the Western Front dug a good hole. An infantry division swallowed even the flesh of its belt without even chewing it. Another infantry division can be confirmed to have suffered huge losses. In addition, there are reserves and artillery that suffered heavy losses deep inside the enemy. It almost destroyed the Ursus Empire's Sixth Army as a whole."

Comand laughed: "Sixth Army? What a good number."

Aurora also laughed.