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

Before the young officers, who had been out of touch with the battlefield for nearly two years, could react, an orderly covered in mud rushed in: "'Black Death'! My lord, the 'Black Death' of the red heads!"

After being stunned for a moment, the division commander shouted at the guests at the top of his lungs: "Air-attack-concealment!!!"

**

The roar of the turboprop engine came faintly, shaking the world.In any case, he ran out with the commander of the 17th Division, and Valery, who was observing the enemy's situation in a shelter that was not as safe as the underground fortification, found that he seemed to have an explanation—the nervous commander of the 17th Division chattered about the air raid. elements.

In the cold, clear winter sky, a mass of dark spots appeared on the western horizon.They formed a neat formation, forming a neat dot matrix.

"The first one should be the fighter plane [-] that is not mounted. These guys are testing the situation."

However, even without bombs, they were able to kill the defenders on the ground with their machine guns and machine guns.Amid the hasty shouts of the Ursus soldiers, those dark green fighter jets swooped down, and a series of bullets roared from the sky.

The division command post and a large number of service support units behind the 17th Division's defensive zone were now in an extremely dangerous situation.

The anti-aircraft firepower of the Imperial Army can only be described as weak.The few Maxim machine guns shooting from high to the air were covered by the long bursts of the cannons in an instant, and then those who fired into the air with rifles were also counterattacked.Most of the fighter jets of the Nationalist Army were strafing from low altitude along the trenches-in order to reduce the killing efficiency of the shelling, most of the shelters were deliberately dug into zigzag lines.If not, a precise strafing shot by the red pilots could even kill the soldiers in an entire trench!

As the enemy plane approached, the commander of the 17th Division dragged Valery to squat down, curled up and closed his eyes.The whistling of aviation machine gun bullets immediately rang in my ears, and the explosion of aviation machine gun shells continued one after another.

Valery felt like the remaining leaves still hanging on the trees in winter, shivering in the cold wind.

Gradually, the roar of engines and the roar of guns began to subside.Valerie opened his eyes, only to find that the teacher who stood up and looked up at the sky was full of horror.

A larger group of black spots appeared in the western sky!

Chapter No.16 People are on an embarrassing journey

Even the biplanes on the opposite side have not yet spread out, and there is basically no air combat, the main combat task of the Air Force pilots of the Conservation Army Air Force is only to lick the ground.The J-[-] alone licked the imperial army into a frenzy, and gave it the title of "Black Death" in awe.

Although the militia has a strong Maoist and rustic flavor from its weapons and equipment to its organizational structure, in terms of close air support it is not like the Soviet attack aircraft of World War II, but like the American P-47 and the Germans. Like the FW-190, medium and heavy fighters are used directly as dive bombers, that is, fighter bombers are launched.

Therefore, the main force of the follow-up air strike that the division commander saw was still a group of J-[-]s—no, it should be called J-H-[-]s now.

The J-850/J-H-[-] heavy fighter has a total combat weight of more than nine tons. It is equipped with a [-]-horsepower turboprop engine and a maximum level flight speed of more than [-] kilometers per hour. It is the main force of the Terra People's Protection Army Air Force. Fighter plane, the loyal companion of red pilots.

The four 23mm rotary-bore cannons on the wide wings can instantly shred any air target or ground target with insufficient defense.Moreover, it can carry a load of [-] kilograms on the multiple external storage points under its belly and wings—that's not just the auxiliary fuel tank.From all kinds of ordinary bombs, incendiary bombs to aviation rockets, and even planned aviation torpedoes.There is basically no ammunition that the J-[-] cannot use in the ammunition depot of the Terra People's Guard Air Force.

What is particularly interesting is that the National People's Army Air Force discovered a fact in Blue Star WW2 in the test field and actual combat: Under the current aviation technical conditions of 1940S-1950S, the close air support efficiency of professional air superiority fighters is not as good as that of There is a difference between a professional dive bomber and an attack aircraft.

Most of the fighters used to play energy air combat have plenty of power and good dive performance-so they are fast and maneuverable, and they are not easy to be caught by enemy planes even without escort.If it is really caught, the bomb can be thrown into the air battle, unlike the Il-2 attack aircraft with poor flight performance of the armored tub, which needs escort.On the contrary, the "multi-purpose fighters" (such as BF110 and "handsome fighter") who were originally expected to be able to master everything in the air were found to be sloppy in actual combat, and the BF110 even got a nickname of "a fighter that needs escort".

In addition, fighter jets have good dive performance and can perform large-angle dives. The dive angle is even close to that of professional dive bombers, and the bombing accuracy is also high.Relying on their good maneuverability and high climb rate, they often choose to enter from the middle of the sky, dive at a large angle and drop the bomb, then pull a large overload maneuver to level off, use the accumulated speed to climb quickly, and face the enemy fighters who are coming to intercept them.This way, ground fire has less chance of attacking them, and even if there are many enemy fighters in the sky, the bomb-dropping fighters can run with their maneuverability and speed.

Aircraft designers were quite embarrassed to find that the multi-purpose aircraft that they had exhausted before the war seemed to be realized by these purebred fighters that did not consider multi-purpose at the beginning of the design.

这种例子并不少见。设计之初是单纯空战机器的雅克-1在1942年5月跟拉-3一起装上了炸弹挂架，后来到了雅克-9是干脆改出了有腹部弹仓的歼击轰炸型雅克-9B。这玩意可以携带4枚FAB100，加上翼下的火箭弹，挂载能力不比伊尔-2差。

This problem is also reflected in other countries.For example, Desan cut off the successor of Stuka and switched to FW190 as the CAS machine. The FW190D developed directly into a family of fighter-bombers.With the fairly fast cruising speed of 190, the survivability of this thing in the later stages of the war is much stronger than that of Stuka.Like the P-47 of the United States, it is almost completely diverted to ground attack...

Therefore, when Valery raised his head and looked towards the sky, what he saw was a group of JH-[-]s stretching their wings and swooping down from a height of thousands of meters on the air currents, their chic postures were like those of professional divers.And the pylons on the belly and under the wings where the bombs were hanging before were empty at this time.People can even vaguely see a black spot that is rapidly enlarging further below...

boom!boom!boom!

Landslide-like explosions kept shaking the earth, and Valery fully understood why the Ursus soldiers who were later captured in the prisoner-of-war camp used "man-made natural disasters" to describe the war machines of the Nationalist Army-this shock feeling was stronger than when he was a child. The earthquake experienced was even stronger. People would almost be bounced off the ground even when they were lying down, not to mention standing up!

The continuous and violent explosion made the unlucky Valerie feel that his internal organs were about to burst.Although he tightly covered his ears with both hands, the eardrums still ached.The blue sky and white clouds did not change, but the vision was obscured by the splashing sand and dust.The small stones flew into the air one after another, and when they returned to the ground under the pull of gravity, they had already brought strong kinetic energy. They hit the helmet with a loud noise, and when they fell on the body, they could bruise through the winter clothes!

The tsunami-like explosion lasted for 5 minutes, and there were dozens of National Guard fighter planes flying over Valery.When the shaking on the ground gradually weakened, the colonel of the Imperial Army could no longer hear other sounds except for the continuous buzzing.

But in the trenches there was the sound of people shouting and talking again.Valery watched their mouths open and close, no longer tried to hear what they wanted to say, but just looked around at the hell on earth: in the bunkers and fortifications, dead bodies and wounded of varying degrees could be seen everywhere.Under the nourishment of blood, this land became more muddy...

The unlucky Valery was about to run back to the underground shelter, but at this moment, the damn air raid siren went off again!

**

Although using fighter jets to dive bomb and escape with one blow is a very effective ground attack tactic.But when it comes to ground support, things are really not that simple.

The front-line soldiers were very dissatisfied with the fast gunners who ran away after fighting, and were about to fly back in a while.They need comrades who can roll in mud puddles with them, and aerial artillery who can provide steady fire support and cover.But the problem with CAS is that if you want to fly safely, the faster the safer, after all; if you want to lick effectively, the slower the more effective.

However, the slower the speed, the longer it stays in the air above the battlefield, it is bound to face the huge threat of enemy firepower.As a turboprop, J-[-] is a heavy fighter in terms of tonnage, but its defense design is not the type that completely targets incoming firepower from the lower hemisphere.For example, its armor box mainly protects the cockpit, and the defense level of other weaknesses is not good enough; secondly, the redundancy of the important systems of the whole aircraft is too little, and if one is damaged, the plane will crash.

With the superposition of the two, J-[-] was sometimes able to go home with bullet holes all over his body, and sometimes he was shot down by a few shots from the rifle machine gun.There was once a incident where the imperial army used the Maxim to shoot a few shuttles into the sky and shot down a J-[-].In order to prevent technology leaks, the Nationalist Army went from air force and artillery retaliation bombing to special forces and spies infiltrating behind enemy lines, and it took a lot of effort to blow up the wreckage of the plane.

Therefore, attack aircraft with armored tubs must exist.The strong four emerged from this.

The essence of this thing is the enlarged version of the all-metal version of Il-2 Il-10.This aircraft, which is the same size as the J-2, is protected by armor plates for its main parts, such as the cockpit, engine, cooler, and bomb bay, making it extremely survivable on the battlefield.The notorious weakness of the Il-[-]'s belly oil condenser does not exist on the Q[-] - this thing uses a turboprop engine instead of a liquid-cooled piston engine.

Theoretically speaking, although the heavy armor of an attack aircraft can greatly improve its battlefield survivability, it is not without cost.Such as speed and rate of climb are quite impressive.For example, it is difficult for the IL-2 to get rid of German fighters without escort, and must rely on the escort of its own fighters.

Because the armor is too heavy, this type of heavy armored attack aircraft—whether it is Il-2 or Su 25 or A10—has comparable flight performance and is not suitable for large-angle dive bombing.Their typical attack process is to dive from a low altitude of 1000 to 90 meters at a small angle, use rockets, bombs or missiles to name them, then pull up, turn back, and continue to lick the ground with machine guns.Multiple planes will take turns approaching and diving, covering each other and leaving. This is the so-called death roulette tactic.The entire air formation can cover the target area for up to [-] minutes.

Theoretically speaking, such repeated licking of the ground is conducive to carefully cleaning the target and strengthening the suppression of the enemy's ground forces, but it undoubtedly increases the time for the aircraft to be exposed to enemy fire.It is indeed easy to cause losses.The problem is that even the small-caliber anti-aircraft guns of the Imperial Army are still in the trial production stage, and a handful of aviation troops are using biplanes.

Therefore, Valery and the commander of the 17th Infantry Division of the Sixth Army of the Ursas Empire could only hide in the bunker and watch the big dark green birds fly over the trenches. The red star and the wheel, even the rivets on the fuselage can be discerned vaguely, the spectacle of the scene is indescribable.

Then came the long ordeal.

The tribal army's attack fleet first launched the aviation rocket pods under the wings after flying to the battlefield.Groups of aviation rockets streaked through the air with trailing flames and white smoke, the sound was shrill, and the scene was astonishing.Their attack accuracy and speed are much better than ordinary aerial bombs, almost before the unlucky officers and soldiers of the imperial army can respond effectively, these rockets have already reached their respective targets.The power of a series of explosions of aviation rockets is comparable to the salvo of large-caliber howitzers, and even formed a rolling explosion barrage in the dense impact points.

Afterwards, the top four pulled up, changed their formation in the air, and took turns approaching the field to dive in groups of two or four.The roar of rockets, bombs and machine guns continued.With its slow cruising speed and heavy armor "bathtub", Qiangsi is indeed an ideal weapon launch platform, and can use its own weapons to repeatedly blast the target in detail.

In fact, the conflict of the CAS issue still depends on the ass.

As long as the army with its butt on the ground can cover its head with this thing for a long time, then it is good.

The air force with its butt in the sky will say that although the attack aircraft has armor, it is easy to be beaten by groups when it flies slowly. It is just a flying coffin;

The designers and equipment department who were in the office could only reluctantly weigh various conflicts and try to come up with a solution acceptable to everyone.

However, on "this land", technology is at an absolute disadvantage, and the imperial army who was blown to the top of the tree just wanted to say: no one is the best!

When the hour hand of Valery's watch turned around, those damn attack planes finally flew away.Amid the intense pain all over his body, the colonel struggled to get up, and it took him two full minutes to shake off most of the mud.The ringing in my ears has subsided a bit, but my hearing is still not very good.But when he poked his head out of the bunker and carefully looked around, he was immediately shocked by the sight in front of him: the countless pits around the position turned it into a lunar surface, and the winding shelter trenches and fortifications were due to the It collapsed in many places and was divided. It is unknown how many people were buried underneath and did not know whether they were alive or dead.

In short, when Valery finally got back to the underground shelter and proved that he was not dead to the group of companions who were discussing whether he was gone, he realized that he was exactly the same as the officers and soldiers of the 17th Division now, with a full head. The whole body is covered with muddy water, and after baking, it becomes a ready-made clay sculpture.

Someone couldn't help saying: "I think, I hope it won't be so miserable when we go back."

After a brief silence, Valery squeezed out a smile that was uglier than crying: "Friend, have you heard of the 'Aerial Strangulation'?"

——Since the Civilian Air Force entered the battlefield, and the two sides have temporarily formed an overall confrontation front in the Don River Basin, the transportation system of the Ursus Empire and the Air Force of the Civilian Army have launched a competition for repair and destruction .One side is trying to destroy the opponent's logistics system by "strangling in the air" day and night, blocking the enemy's logistics supply line, and attacking key nodes in the enemy's logistics; the other side is trying to smash the noose from the air by all means.In the first week when the Trinity Air Force officially began to implement "air strangulation", the effect was not obvious; in the second week, the Trinity Army was so numerous that "it seemed to grow from trees" that the bombs began to overwhelm the land of the Ursas. Ships, railways, trucks, and heads; in the third week, the soldiers and supplies of the Ursus Imperial Army who arrived at the front began to shrink rapidly.

Admittedly, one only has to look at the origin of the term "air strangle" to see that this thing is not invincible.Although the plains and hills in the Don River Basin could not be compared with the mountains in the north of a certain peninsula, the technical and tactical level of the Air Force of the Nationalist Army was not much better than that of the American Imperial Air Force at that time, and it was far weaker than others in terms of experience.But whether it is Earth in the 1950s or Terra today, air power still plays a vital role.

It can be said that there is no air power to continue to bleed the main artery of the Ursus Empire to the Don River Basin. Although the Ursus Empire will definitely not be able to cross the threshold, the commanders and fighters of the Civilian Army guarding the line of defense will never be as easy as they are now joy.

Moreover, air power is also the most effective anti-ship method for the Civilian Army, which lacks land ships.Although the overall effectiveness of the artillery of the Nationalist Army is second to none in "this land", it is still too difficult to use field artillery to fight against medium and large ships, and the gains outweigh the losses.

All in all, on the battlefields of Ursus's "Great Revolutionary War" in 1094, the Tribune air force managed to make the Ursus Empire suffer.And this is just a microcosm of the technical and material advantages of the National People's Army.

Chapter No.17 The folk customs are simple and trustworthy

But as we have seen before, technological and material advantages cannot solve all problems, or even most problems.

As it is now-

"Our village started fighting with people from Podubuqi Village... over the territorial boundary! They beat our people to death!"

The village streets echoed with the screams of the women and the shouts of anger from the old men.The news spread like an alarm bell throughout the village, to every yard: "The people of Bodubuqi have taken over the land, and cut down our people with sickles!"

The woman's shrill howl and the man's angry growl were mixed together, as if the village was on fire.Anyone who could walk rushed out of their homes, picked up forks, axes, or simply pulled a stake from the fence. The surging crowd rushed out from the main road of the village and ran towards the fields outside the village.

On the hillside about a kilometer and a half away from the village, Command and Tallulah turned back to look at the head of a certain township who had brought them to "inspect the rural construction model village" together.

The latter's expression was distorted, and he turned his head sideways, as if he couldn't bear to look directly at him.

As we have said, the Cossacks were highly rebellious.And this situation is even more prominent in the Liberated Areas: Most of the Cossack groups who supported the integration movement were located in the upper reaches of the Don River, where bandits were frequent, and were relatively poor. They built the house, enclosed half an acre of wasteland, and built several new storerooms and warehouses with tin roofs." The rich peasant Cossacks were very uncomfortable.

Unlike the rich peasant Cossacks who were only used to armed defense of private property, the poor peasant Cossacks generally had to work hard to make a living.It is conceivable that among the "pure folk" Cossack group, the upstream Cossacks are more "respecting the old and loving the young".Facing the rather scarce living resources, it is commonplace for people to go from eating out of households to fighting with weapons.

The embarrassment of Comrade Township Chief is second to none—Command is only here as an investigator, and he has no obligation to point out who is not doing a good job; nor does he want to hurt others or benefit himself, telling the superior of the grassroots worker that he "can't do it" .

The village committee here has only been established for a short time. What impact can it have on the deep-rooted folk customs?This is something that objective conditions do not allow.

But Comand "understands", "understands", and "doesn't make trouble", so what?Has the problem been solved?The split of the Cossack group in the Don River Basin was due to the fact that the original geographical and economic contradictions were covered with an ideological shell, and it was also severely intensified with this unprecedented civil war in the history of Ursas.

The Cossack internal strife itself was adversely affecting the course of the Revolutionary War on the Don field.It is not just a problem that the "white villages" are resisting. The "red villages" and the grassroots organizations and local troops built on them all have a narrow regional perspective. How can the red-white opposition be resolved?

Commander had many feelings in his heart, but he just shook his head, waved to the mayor and several of his guards, and then said to Tallulah: "Go and solve this matter."

The elders looked at Comand in amazement, and even more amazed at the slender gray-haired woman throwing the sword in her waist that was almost as tall as her body but was slung all the way to the ground.That thing made the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, listening to the movement...

Wait, wait, this woman brought a thing that weighs dozens of pounds all the way?This is what a woman can do—no, no, no, this is what a man can do?

Tallula dexterously broke off a thick stick from the nearby tree, and there was a whistling sound in the air when she swung it.The guards' eyes widened at this moment: This stunning beauty who made them salivate actually has a brute force beyond their own reach?

Tallulah took out the pistol from the holster at her waist, checked again to make sure there was no ammunition in the chamber, handed it to Command, and then ran down the village road carrying the stick.The guards watched worriedly as she ran at an alarming speed for more than a kilometer, rushing into the flashing and chaotic crowd.Several people were already lying on the ground, covered in blood.

Then, the chaos of chicken and dog jumping expanded.

The thick stick was like the swiftest rapier, parrying everything from scythe handles to fence posts with ease.Tallulah, who rushed into the crazy crowd alone, seemed to be in danger, but actually punched the nursing home and kicked the kindergarten.

He has practiced swordsmanship hard since he was a child, and he has a strong physique that is second to none among Terrans, and it has been further strengthened in the training and transformation of the People's Federation.She happily dodged the attacks of the bloody villagers, snapped off their weapons, and knocked them down with her bare hands.All the villagers who rushed within two meters of her all flew out backwards.

When the crowd in the scuffle was abruptly cleared of a dividing line, Comand also rushed out of the group fight venue.He shoots the sky with his pistol.

To be honest, it cannot be said that the local departments here are not responsible.Just like when the Cossacks heard gunshots now, their first reaction was to leave the grass and run away, instead of pulling out their rifles at home to shoot at each other as usual.Even group fights only use cold weapons, and even seldom use things that have been sharpened. It is the result of hard work in educating and reconciling the internal contradictions of the masses...

The mayor's security team and secretary hurried to deal with the wounded, and the reinforcements mobilized by the village were long overdue.This is mainly because the companies from these two villages need to avoid suspicion.

Soon, people from the township police station also came to Podubuqi.The police investigated for a long time and summoned witnesses, but they never found the culprit.No one was killed in this fight, and all those injured can recover.

The township head said to Comand with a sad face: "When the work here was first started, this was indeed a model area."

Of course.At that time, the imperial army had not been completely driven away, and the enemy and us were seeing each other.The folk customs are sturdy, of course it makes sense.

"At that time, I was still leading the guerrilla work here." The mayor paused, and continued, "There is still a good foundation here. At that time, the Cossack leaders here were very clever. While deterrent by force, they really promoted the poor peasants The leaders of the surrounding areas took the initiative to reduce or exempt farmers from renting tenants, yelling rumors such as "common wives", "the red head represents the peasants, we represent the Cossacks", and organized militias to collectively rob the red area and divide the red and white borders. The land in the red area was distributed to the peasants in the white area to form a confrontation between the red and white Cossack masses. When the imperial army swept and attacked, these militia armed forces assisted the army in attacking. Here, we do everything but good things.

"The Cossack leaders reached an agreement with the imperial army to lead the militia to burn, kill, and loot together when encircling the Red Zone. The captives were stripped naked, the captives were shot for a pair of boots, the families of Tribuna soldiers were robbed, and the homes of those suspected of sympathizing with the integration movement were robbed.

"The Cossacks robbed, and the officers also robbed, from the regular army to the Cossack bandit gangs. The guys robbed horses, vehicles, clothes, small stoves, even sewing machines and harnesses—everything of value. Soldiers and The relatives of the militia Cossacks drove carts to the front as a transport team, sent ammunition and rations to the imperial army and the bandits, and then loaded up the looted things and returned with a full load. The enemy cavalry was even more lawless, because the infantry had nothing but a military There is nowhere else to put it but the knapsack, and the cavalry can fill the saddlebags and tie them to the girth of the horse, and their horses are not like war horses, they are like beasts of burden!"

The township head angrily loosened the buckle and continued: "You have to know. Most people in the countryside basically have no cash savings. Their only assets are livestock, houses, grain storage, and farm tools. And what about those militia leaders? What about the gangsters? They directly promised their gangsters: 'You can carry the things inside as you like without interfering with them.' They even organized special arson teams, search teams, and robbery teams. When the frontal battlefield was fierce, they would take advantage of the situation and sneak in. , robbed, looted, and set fire to fire. When they were finally beaten, they used the captured people in groups to fight or rear, and even forced local young men to go to the front line and even served as supervisors.

"The houses here are all new houses. Guess why? Not so many people would demolish their own houses because of the new self-built houses. It's all a good thing done by the imperial artillery and gang arson! After several anti-encirclement campaigns, this The village has been flattened!"

Tallulah frowned and gritted her teeth, but Comand said calmly: "You have overcome difficulties and defeated the enemy. Do you have any experience to talk about?"

The head of the township spread his hands: "The militias and bandits are the enemy's vanguard and foundation. The counter-encirclement and suppression cannot be achieved only by relying on localities. Before the main force hits the Don River, the enemy is so arrogant. When our main force hits the Don River At that time, the enemy circulated that "Redhead killed several regiments of Cossacks in Hopior", "hundreds of young men were machine gunned down", "the piles of robbers and killed were as high as mountains", and the arrogance immediately weakened. .The militia groups are simply unable to fight against the main force of our army, and one company can defeat thousands of bandits.

"After all, the enemy cannot really establish a new land system and strengthen production. Some Cossack leaders charge 60% of the land rent after dividing their own land. In addition to geography and superstition, the main thing that can win over the farmers in Bai Village is the robbery share. But if we can Even if the robbers are beaten up, the farmers in Bai Village will rebel if they get nothing. As long as the robbery team in Bai Village is defeated a few times, the farmers in Bai Village will be honest; and supplemented by political work, it will be easy to divide and disintegrate Bai Village. In comparison, it is still It’s easy for our own vengeance to get the better of us.”

Comand nodded: "That's good. But we're going to get back sooner or later."

Tallulah looked at Comand in surprise.