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

The head of the township nodded: "It has been killed. Our attitude towards the enemy's militia is far more fierce than that of the enemy's regular army. The mobile court is better for the robbery team. All arsonists will be shot and hanged in general; They were hanged collectively, and all members were shot. As soon as this regulation was promulgated, just as we drove the enemy across the Don River, the arrogance of the robbers in Baicun suddenly weakened."

Comand shook his head: "When the common enemy is gone—"

"Alas..." the mayor sighed.

"keep it up."

**

After returning from the scene of the group fight to the temporary station of the frontline representative group, Talula sat down on the small slope to watch the sunset unhappily.

Comand, with a tired face, walked slowly to her side, and sat down on the grass as if he had collapsed.

Tallulah asked lazily, "What's the matter with you?"

"Preparing the report for Ulyanov." Comand stretched his waist, "What about you?"

"It's still a little... mixed feelings." Tallulah was silent for a moment, and returned the local work report on her knee to Command - it recorded what the village head comrade didn't say, about the mutual vendetta between the red and white Cossacks. Brilliant content.For example, among the few Cossack gangsters, the behavior of the few insane things in the red zone eventually developed to the point where they would kill all men they saw, even children under the age of [-] or [-]; As playthings and in exchange for money.

"'A revolution is not a dinner party', anyone can repeat it like a parrot. But if you really start to get into the details, and this kind of details..."

Tallulah's hands trembled slightly, but she quickly stopped it: "To be honest, I still feel immature."

Commander stretched again: "It's good. I feel that I was a bad person before, and I clearly realize that I will still be a bad person in the future. This shows that you are growing."

Comand could imagine Tallulah's speechless expression without turning his head: "...the lesbians are all around, don't you really pay attention?"

"First of all, you are a guy who just beat down dozens of farmers. You are as unfeminine as a man who has been cast in the wrong fetus. You can only be regarded as a good brother; secondly, let's return to the original topic. Immature, I'm just urging you familiar?"

Tallulah originally wanted to complain about the above sentence, but because she didn't know whether to complain about the first half or the second half of the sentence, she choked.

"When it comes to revolution, idealists have to find ways to wake up the people at first; however, revolution is achieved by the cooperation of a few idealistic sparks and a huge amount of flammable gas. Two or three idealists Those who don't use farts are useless. The anger of the people and their desire for survival are the foundation of change.

"If this emotion is not guided, it will be bandits and criminal cases; if it is guided by the enemy, it will be the Cossack gangs you heard; only if it is guided by us, it can be released relatively restrictedly.

"And what kind of environment can this kind of foundation appear? People can't survive. But the reality is so cruel. There will be massacres in wars, and it will cost people and money to support the army. Revolution, as a long-term accumulation of social conflicts, always breaks out. A great turmoil swept across the land, so the massacre will only become more bloody, and raising the army will only hurt the people more. Stories such as the surplus grain collection system happened from this.

"Why does the current integration movement seem to be easy to handle, and the current revolution is not so fierce and cruel? This is not because it was sewed from the extreme left to the extreme right, plagiarized by a group of laymen who are not sociology majors, and then let the natives of Terra revise it themselves How advanced the "integrationism" is; it's not that this Ulyanov is better than that Ulyanov; it's not that the integration movement is more "mature and strong" than the Bolsheviks.

"This is, and only because of the intervention of the Extraterrestrial Corps of the People's Federation. Therefore, our revolution appears to be so easy and unhurried. The integration movement does not need to gather food as eagerly as the Bolsheviks to supply the original supply after the collapse of Tsarist Russia. A city with a disintegrated food system; the residents of Hongqi City eat fast-growing food produced in the agricultural factories of the People's Federation of Foreign Corps.

"Revolutionaries who were supposed to be self-made and were surrounded and suppressed by the old forces turned out to be a party that bullied others with technological and material advantages. The integration movement does not need to seize resources from a society that is already resource-strapped to ensure its own existence. It can even During the war, tax reductions and relief were used to alleviate social conflicts for a long time, and social transformation could be relatively gradual. But this dignity was only because there was a surplus. This is a kind of luck. But revolution is revolution.

"Revolution is not a popular novel that provides emotional value for those whose living standards are above the food and clothing line. The revolutionary base is not a paradise. Revolutionary work is complicated and difficult, and it requires trivial work; revolutionary wars are even more brutal. Rivers of blood must be shed; in the end, the revolution is not just about letting the masses vent their revenge. You used to go ahead and lead, and sometimes you had to hold back. You must accept these, otherwise, you will not be able to continue. You need to strengthen your mental preparation."

After speaking eloquently, Tallulah showed a relaxed and calm look as she was used to criticism: "Okay... I understand the truth. But I still can't calm down for a while. You talked for a long time, but I got into it all of a sudden. On a familiar track.”

Commander breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good."

"It's time to talk about another issue." Tallulah said with a smile.

Comand felt the danger for no reason: "What's wrong?"

"What do you mean by 'a man with the wrong birth'?"

Tallulah smiled and began to gear up.

Chapter 18 The Front and the Rear

The integration movement certainly faces many problems.But if their worries were known to the Ursus Empire, then the emperor, nobles, and generals of the empire would probably only tremble with anger at the evil deeds of the rebels.

When the unlucky Valery and his party finally broke away from the bloody front line, left the jurisdiction of the front divisions, and set foot on the way home, the nightmare had no intention of ending.

At the end of that air raid, the closing partisan aircraft dropped a flurry of leaflets.It told the Imperial Army officers and soldiers that the Protectorate Air Force would launch a long-term and large-scale air campaign, violently attack the Imperial Army's logistics supply lines, cut off the connection between the Imperial Army's front and rear, and strangle alive the Imperial Army's frontline troops, slowly suffocating them. die.

The leaflet reads murderously: "... From now on, you don't want to get a piece of bread or a bullet from the rear; don't even think about being able to evacuate to the rear hospital after being wounded!"

It should be said that this kind of writing seems to have been mixed with the front line, and directly grasped the most feared and worried things of the front-line soldiers.

Therefore, the extremely eye-catching title on the leaflet - "Strangling in the Air" was also deeply embedded in Valery's mind.

**

In general, although various literary and artistic works such as film and television and games have successfully created the stereotype of the US military that "air support is on call, and a platoon leader can call in planes to bomb indiscriminately", this is not the case.

"Close air support", a project that spans multiple arms and arms, is itself extremely complex, and it has to be put into the extremely complex activity of war.Moreover, CAS is but one of many Air Force missions.

Both American imperialists and Maozi attach great importance to the concentrated use of aviation in space and time, carefully plan large-scale air battles, and strike swiftly and fatally at key nodes of the enemy.The Yankees have top-notch tactical and strategic air forces in both quality and quantity. Most of the enemies they faced in several wars were unable to compete with them for air supremacy, so they always licked the ground.

However, the behavior of CAS, which disperses forces in space and time, and treats aircraft as flying cannons, is a huge waste of the biggest advantages of aviation, which are strong mobility and long effective attack distance.No matter how many planes there are, no matter how many sorties and bomb loads are scattered on the entire front, it is better to concentrate.

For the Tribal Army, which was fighting blood and blood with the Imperial Army, it is better for the army not to call for air support unless it encounters a land carrier.The Air Force is an independent military service, not a land-licking professional tied to the Army.The strength of the Tribal Army Army created the conditions for the Air Force to concentrate on bombing the deep targets of the Imperial Army.In this way, it is no wonder that the rear department of the dignified infantry division was blown up.

The extremely powerful aerial threat has greatly hindered the activities of the Imperial Army, such as logistics.The Imperial Army's material transportation process usually involves factories in rear mobile cities or fixed cities - logistics hubs - frontline logistics nodes - frontline troops. At the end of this process, for example, materials are sent from frontline warehouses to the frontier, land. It is not suitable to move ships, and can only rely on vehicles and lower-level existences.

The militiamen cherish their feathers and will not attack the small number of animal-drawn vehicles and pedestrians in the empire-controlled areas to avoid unnecessary civilian casualties.But for obvious military targets—such as motor vehicles that are too expensive to own privately, as well as large crowds and convoys—it is not polite.

As far as the Imperial Army is concerned, it is absolutely impossible to operate during the daytime in the control area. The sky is full of enemy planes bombing people and bombing things.The imperial army has no air defense force. God is sorry. What threat can Mosin Nagant and Maxim pose to a mature air force?Only hide.

After finally staying up until night, the logistics should be able to work now, right?

Think beautiful!

Valery and the former prisoners tried to leave the front line as soon as possible, and relying on their military rank and title, they boarded a military truck back to the hinterland of the empire overnight.While the road was bumping, there was a roar in the night sky, and multiple signal flares rose around the road in an instant. They were the special forces and scouts of the National People's Army all over the place indicating the bombing target!

As the signal flares rose and the flares fell, the imperial officers could only scramble out of the truck as they did during the day, and lay down in the grass by the side of the road, not daring to move.

The loud rumbling noise from the sky filled everyone's eardrums, and people couldn't help but cover their ears so as not to be deafened—eight attack planes rushed over from the dark sky!

With the help of the flares dropped by the attack aircraft, Valery, who was lying in the grass, tried to raise his head, barely seeing the attack aircraft in the night sky.Whether in appearance or movement, they are completely different from the enemy planes in the daytime.For example, their noise is a step up from the previous enemy planes; another example is that they have no propellers at all.

It was code-named Qiang Wu, but in fact it was the Il-40 attack planes that killed it.Simply put, this thing is an attack aircraft developed during the first generation of jet fighters, and it is still the idea of ​​​​heavy armor bath tub licking the ground.

For the Soviet Air Force, although the legend of the IL-2 is extremely glorious, the loss rate that once reached double digits is still a toothache.So they have been actively trying to stop licking the ground. For example, the Su-7/17 fighter-bomber replaced the IL-40 attack aircraft.As for the fact that the Vietnam War later proved that ground licking was indispensable, and it led to the birth of two famous attack aircraft, the Su-25 and the A10, that is another matter.

Of course the Ursus team on the ground didn't know these twists and turns.Everyone is just gnashing their teeth at these damn night planes.Those attack planes are hilariously ugly. The two air intakes at the nose and the slender front end make the plane look a bit like a double-barreled shotgun at first glance.But these plague gods can accurately fly to the road at night and attack!

With avionics that are more advanced than the J-17 and Qiang-40, but still within the control of Terra, the J-[-], which looks similar to the MiG-[-]BIS, and the Q-[-], which looks like the Il-[-]P, are sufficient for night flight and combat.These eight jet attack planes came too suddenly, and caught the imperial army convoy squirming at night on the road by surprise.Qiang Wu had the lower hemisphere armored tub body protection, ignored the rifles, machine guns and staffs that were rushing into the air, and acted first, firing a salvo of aviation rockets towards the road.

This group of lunatics pressed too low, and the rockets almost plunged into the roadbed with a burst of fire.Flames flickered, explosions continued, and clusters of orange-red flames wrapped in white smoke formed a rolling carpet, rolling and sweeping across the road.This one of the few hard-surfaced roads in the entire Don River Basin has been hit by terror.The poured pavement either turned into powder, or swirled in large chunks and flew into the distance.The shock wave is wrapped in countless fragments and spreads layer by layer. The nearby trucks, off-road vehicles, and animal-drawn vehicles overturned and even shattered in the blink of an eye; pedestrians disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye. Beat into a sieve.

After the first round of low-altitude passes through the field with rockets, the climbing attack aircraft turned around in a small radius that could circle around the telephone poles, and once again resorted to death roulette, with two aircraft taking turns to press down and attack.High-resistance aerial bombs and aviation rockets hit the heads of the convoys on the highway like hail. In the sound and light of the explosion, the extremely precious motor vehicles caught fire one after another and were overturned by the shock wave.The car that miraculously did not catch fire or explode was splattered with blood, minced meat, and even colorful human organs.

These advanced attack aircraft, which specialize in night-time long-range attack missions and are directly called and guided by the special soldiers of the National People's Army, are not in a hurry. When the aviation rockets are finished, they will be hit with bombs and incendiary bombs. Sweeping, until the four forward cannons and the rear cannon shells were all fired, these plague gods finally left.

The torrential rain and the successive aerial bombs turned this section of the road into the surface of the moon. The snow on the snow was blown up, and only the wreckage of the vehicle was still burning, and the choking black smoke spread in the air. It is the only effective means of air defense of the Imperial Army.

The surviving personnel gathered together, looking frightened and pale.The few surviving vehicles pulled these people, and they continued to squirm slowly like a long black snake... At dawn, the disheartened Valery and his companions finally arrived at the town of Veshchensk. A somewhat sizable town in the controlled area, it is one of the transportation hubs within the Sixth Army area.

Of course, the convoy pulling a bunch of wounded people went straight to the hospital.When the vehicle stopped, everyone looked up and saw that the small square in front of the hospital was covered with white flowers...

bandage.

The wounded were wrapped in dense bandages, and there were densely packed wounded lying on the square, as many as snow covering the square.

**

In all fairness, the Ursus Empire is a formidable opponent.

The agricultural distribution pattern and development level on the Terra continent can only be described as "uneven levels".Moving large numbers of people in cities certainly requires massive material inputs.

The technology tree of the Terran people, who mainly rely on digging graves, is quite subtle. For example, although there are more or less hydroponic soilless agricultural factories in mobile cities everywhere, these technologies can hardly be called mature, let alone mastered. .Furthermore, mobile urban space is limited, and using it as agricultural land can only be described as the gain outweighs the loss——

Therefore, large-scale mobile cities that are mainly responsible for industry, commerce, and even mixed scientific research cannot exist independently.It is highly dependent on outside input. Just as Trantor needs twenty agricultural worlds as its barns, conquering Asimov's capital of the first galactic empire requires only a blockade.

Therefore, small mobile cities such as mining platforms and mobile commercial distribution centers, as well as fixed settlements such as agricultural villages, knight manors, and commercial tourism resorts, widely exist on Terra.It would be better to say that their history of existence is far longer than giant mobile cities.Cities need support from the countryside, and this has not changed on Terra.Naturally, this explains the following problem: there are still a large number of people alive on the vast wilderness outside the mobile city.

Ursus peasants and even serfs have been the main part of the Ursus Empire army for a long time.It is these soldiers who have lived in the harsh environment for a long time, are good at earthworks, have experience in field survival, and can overcome natural obstacles, and have become the cornerstone of the powerful army that the Ursus Empire is proud of.

One of the more accepted views of the Ursus Empire's military is that it is rough but tough, often with subtlety.Coupled with the numerical advantages brought about by the size of the country, and weapons and equipment that are at least not too far behind the world's advanced level, the Imperial Army's title of "Origin Stone Steamroller" came from this.

However, in the face of the integration movement, for the first time, the Imperial Army fell into a "helpless" situation.Even when the empire first smashed the "god people" and established a country ruled by mortals, the imperial army did not feel such frustration and despair of defeatism.

Before reporting to the headquarters of the Sixth Army and transferring trains to return to the interior of Usas, the young officers got a lot of things from the headquarters through their contacts.The leaked information made everyone's hair stand on end:

In the middle reaches of the Don River, the militiamen crossed the Don River and established a defensive position on a small highland with an altitude of 203M on the east bank.There is only one battalion of defenders in this circular position, and the Imperial Army has invested at least one infantry division.Five days later, the infantry division was completely collapsed, but the red head on the mountain did not move at all!

The only change was that half of the mountain was covered in blood from the Imperial soldiers.The imperial officers and soldiers gritted their teeth and trembled with fear as they called this hilltop "Blood Stained Ridge".

inability!madness!idiot!idiot!

The noble youths all gritted their teeth and cursed the generals who had a vegetarian diet:

After seeing the modern defense system consisting of machine guns, rapid-fire guns, mortars, howitzers, minefields, barbed wire and other technical equipment, the generals of the Imperial Army have still repeatedly grounded entire regiments and divisions of Imperial Army officers and soldiers. Throw in the Jedi.

In all fairness, the generals of Ursus are not all Sabi whose brains have been caught in the door.The generals just hate this stand-off trench warfare.This is a negative mode that violates all creeds and principles of war, and the Ursus army, which is full of offense, will certainly not like it.

And there is another very important key: the militia is very active in launching small-scale attacks.These are small, just a battalion and a company, and at most an infantry regiment advances a battle of one or two kilometers, which is not surprising.However, the People's Protection Army has repeatedly succeeded by virtue of its comprehensive advantages from personnel quality to weapons and equipment.After accumulating a lot, the Imperial Army suddenly realized that its defense line was beginning to waver.

At the same time, in the face of barbed wire, landmines and a series of complex trenches composed of deep positions, artillery and mortar fire strikes, infantry squads for reconnaissance, patrol and raids... The frontline officers and soldiers of the Imperial Army were depressed. , the rear generals were anxious.This kind of small-scale battle is based on the quality of personnel and weapons and equipment. The problem is that the imperial army has no advantage other than numbers. In those small-scale offensive and defensive battles and cold guns, they are undergoing slow and continuous bloodletting. Silent in this kind of inaction confrontation.The morale of the troops is deteriorating, and has dropped to a dangerous level in the boring positional confrontation.

As a kind of stress response, and in order to boost morale and maintain the offensive awareness of the troops, the various armies in the Don River Basin ordered that the front-line troops should organize powerful offensive battles, even if the rebels only carried out the minimum combat operations, they must Doubly reward your opponent.

However this is not a simple matter. Highland 203 is already as powerful an environment as possible for the Imperial Army - the enemy's protruding part embedded in one's own front line can be besieged from multiple sides.In most cases, the Imperial Army faced an environment with poor artillery support and no air cover. All operations were exposed to the observation posts and observation aircraft at the commanding heights of the militia, and they faced intensive artillery fire across the river to attack an entire solid fortress. Set up a defense system...

Under the perfect and powerful position system and firepower system of the National People's Army, this kind of behavior only provides the opponent with an opportunity to fully display its firepower and weaken its own number.But the generals of the Ursus Imperial Army didn't seem to be really aware of this.

In their view, difficulties are only temporary.As the Red Rebels moved further and further from their rear, their supply and transportation difficulties were increasing.And relying on the Don River, one of the largest large water systems in Ursus, the imperial soldiers can completely stop their opponents here.

During this period, the Imperial Army will continue to accumulate strength until it is strong enough to reverse the situation on the front line, and then break through the defense line of the Tribal Army in one fell swoop, and then use the numerical advantages of the Ursus Empire, especially the advantages in population and resources to push all the way to win this battle. victory in a war.

But the actual effect... The war weariness has further spread at the grassroots level. If the military organization and military discipline are still effective, I am afraid that there will already be a large-scale desertion wave.The Tribal Army is using various methods to wake up the Imperial Army as a whole.

The most effective way is artillery fire. The continuous artillery fire of the tribunes is enough to turn the most violent infantry attack into a ground full of corpses.Even the main fleet of the Imperial Army's land fleet did not dare to fall into the firepower net of the Civilian Army's artillery - even if the field artillery could not shake them, the ensuing air strike would make the Imperial Army's land fleet feel heartbroken.

The second is a cold shot.When the Imperial Army sent everything from Mosin Nagants to smoothbore flintlocks to the front lines in order to ensure basic light weapons and individual equipment, just to ensure that every combat soldier had something that could fire. The National Guard is equipping frontline troops with high-precision sniper rifles.

As a result, the militia snipers on the front line made the imperial officers and soldiers fearful, and any head that dared to escape cover was their target.The Ursus army also tried to use snipers to counter snipers.However, the snipers of the Protectorate Army receive a full set of professional training, are equipped with professional ammunition and high-precision sniper rifles, operate in small groups, and work closely with frontline infantry units; only the Mosin Nagant snipers of the Imperial Army can fight alone. Orion recruits... It didn't take long for a row of corpses wrapped in military blankets to stifle the Imperial forces' retaliation.

The unprecedented killing efficiency of the new war machine completely exceeded the imagination of the generals of the imperial army.Compared with the frontline soldiers facing death, the thinking of the generals is obviously half a beat slower.There was once a major general of the Imperial Army, wearing a clean uniform with medals on his chest, standing on the top of the bunker, observing the opposite trench with binoculars.This guy yelled at his subordinates who were huddled in the trenches, scared by the red snipers:

"What are you afraid of, you idiots! They can't even hit an elephant at such a long distance!!!"

The staff officers who desperately begged him to enter the shelter failed to see the scene where the general was headshot.Because the commanders and fighters of the National Security Army on the opposite side agreed with the general's point of view, they directly found a T-55 tank to attack the target two kilometers away.

The place where the major general used to stand is now a big pit. The soldiers who came to collect the corpse searched carefully here, and only found a twisted and broken medal...

In this cruel environment, the Ursus soldiers squatting in the trenches began to no longer trust their generals.Those brave generals and talented wise generals who were previously considered to be brave and talented were unable to break the deadlock on the battlefield, while ignoring the pain and sacrifice of the frontline soldiers.This cruel reality made the soldiers deeply disappointed. Under the suppression of military discipline and the gendarmerie, perhaps there would be no big waves for a while, but it was gradually depressing the Ursas army on the entire Don River front.

At the same time, the environment behind the empire was also sinking into depression.At the headquarters of the Sixth Army, Valery heard another bad rumor about Chernobog.

Chapter 19 Front and Rear

Most of Valery's life had been spent in Chernobog and the surrounding countryside, so he had very deep feelings for it.