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

Chapter 37 Flying Long Strike

More than a dozen "Thunderhawks" and "Valkyries" that took off from the runway took off in one order, turned their directions in one order, formed formations with dazzling trajectories, and at the same time faced the rising sun toward the sky. Fly east.

In order to prevent the command system of the commando from being completely wiped out by the enemy's firepower, the forward command post of the entire operation was split into several parts. Comand, who is now in the second place in the command sequence, and most of the personnel and equipment of the command post were scattered. Only the guard Tallulah and a few messengers were around.Except for Tallulah, the rest of the people are veterans who have experienced many battles.

Even the gunboat pilots who participated in this operation, whether mortals or Astartes, were first-rate pilots.Most pilots can fly both space and atmospheric aircraft.Each commander has both the instrument flight qualification of fixed-wing aircraft and the instrument flight qualification of vertical take-off and landing aircraft, and has undergone professional and rigorous air assault training.

There is a light "Storm Falcon" light armed gunboat in front, which is the lead aircraft of the entire assault fleet.The Valkyrie that Commander was on followed the lead aircraft and began to pass over the five-pointed star navigation mark composed of multiple fires below.

In order to support assault operations, relevant departments in the Eastern Front established a large number of supplementary navigation equipment on the ground.From the advanced invisible light indication to the original fire pointing, there should be only one.As the Valkyrie passed over the five-pointed star emitted by the fire, Comand turned his head and found that he had distanced himself from the rear fleet, but the strobe lights on the outside of each aircraft were constantly flashing, like a A brilliant river of stars spread across the earth.

The swarm of gunboats whizzing through remained a tree high, flying in the dim light of sunrise.With excellent skills and advanced equipment, as well as ground navigation extending from the airport to the actual control line, the commando effectively maintained speed and concealment.

While Tallulah was waiting for Ulyanov's speech on the founding of the country and the declaration of war, and the expansion of the war in an all-round way, Comand's power armor communication equipment was first tuned to the channel of the friendly army, listening to the voice of a certain Air Force Battalion of the Tribal Army. communication:

"Attention all, at an altitude of 2000 meters, there are two 'bookcases' (the code name for the Imperial Army's biplane fighter)!"

Some pilots were obviously in a hurry: "The lead plane 'Skeleton', this is the Viper, requesting to start the attack immediately. The enemy fighter jets may have reported our whereabouts."

"Call the Viper, this is the 'Skeleton' lead plane, deny the request, repeat, deny the request. Hold your formation until the group of art soldiers speak. Don't worry about the Imperial Devil's land cruiser running away, activate the origin stone boiler It takes much longer than starting a turbo engine."

Talula turned her head and asked, "What do you mean waiting for those art soldiers to speak?"

"Ah, the combat troops are sometimes annoyed by the group of guys who can get paid for singing and dancing, not to mention the group of pilots whose eyes grow to the top of their heads..."

"I know that, I don't want to express my opinion." Tallulah wanted to wave her hand, but found that there was not enough space in the crew compartment of the gunboat filled with power armor brothers and sisters, so she rubbed Comand with her back, "I mean , What does it mean to 'wait for the art soldiers to speak' before launching an attack?"

"Well, the signal to start all-out action is singing. Man singing, the empire is dead."

"What the hell?"

"Ah, it's very simple." Command took the radio from Tallulah and turned it up slightly.This was the moment when Ulyanov began to speak, but the sound on the radio changed from Ulyanov's high-level speech to the loud sound of timpani.

Next, there was a roar that was a head higher in pitch and speed than the version of the Alexander Red Flag Song and Dance Troupe: "Arise, great country! Fight to the death!"

Tallulah repeatedly lowered the sensitivity of the sound pickup and noise reduction module on the helmet.It was not that the volume of the radio was too loud at this moment, but that at this moment, thousands of artillery, rocket launchers and mortars of different types and models began to roar across the entire northern front.

The muzzle flame formed a gorgeous and colorful light belt west of the actual control line, and the explosion formed a tumbling storm east of the actual control line.The whole world seemed to be flooded by the flickering light at this moment, and the entire machine group was coated with a layer of shining brilliance.

At the same time, at a higher altitude, neat patches of black dots densely appeared in the western sky.That was the Air Force of the Tribal Army who crossed the dividing line between the enemy and the enemy on time at h on D-day.

Comand's first echelon has successfully crossed the line of control.The darkness before dawn has not faded yet.On the dark mountain ahead, there are navigation lights flashing non-stop.It was obviously the special forces of the Nationalist Army who occupied the commanding heights in advance a few hours ago.

This also means that the commando will enter the ultra-low altitude flight in the mountainous area.

Everyone else was holding their breath, while Comand spread out a larger-scale map on the lap of the power armor.Then compare the satellite navigation data and mark the route on the map.

It has now broken into 15 kilometers east of the demarcation line of actual control, but this is only the beginning.Now the commando gunboats were shuttling between the canyons of the Upper Yansk Mountains, and the landscape outside the cockpit began to become terrifying.

"Attention everyone, we are going to fly through the mountains next!" The co-pilot of this gunboat explained to dozens of people behind him, because the scenery outside the cockpit was changing, and everything was pressing towards him.

The entire ground seemed to be level with the horizon mark on the flat-screen monitor, almost covering the entire field of view; not even an inch of black and blue sky could be seen on both sides, only black and gray rock shadows flying by.

Comand also felt Tallulah's body tense behind him through the power armor, and he looked back calmly.Although both sides had put on their helmets now, Tallulah was visibly more relaxed.

Comand switched to the one-on-one communication channel and lowered his voice: "Don't worry, I'm here, always."

"The last time you said that...I was really touched." Tallulah's voice was broken, "but now I have to say——you can pull it off! I don't want the whole family to be there Heaven."

"Well, you watch movies pretty fast."

While chirping, Tallulah found that she was no longer nervous.

Unlike the passengers with complicated moods, the pilots just stared at the speed vector mark in their display interface.At this time, don't care if the plane is slanted, crooked or sideways, just stare at the small, bright vector mark in the center of the head-up display.Because this vector mark represents the future direction and position of the plane, if it is pressed against the rock wall on the left, the plane will hit that rock precisely; if it is placed in the rushing river below, the plane will crash into the rushing water.

Vector markers are equivalent to the crosshairs of a sniper rifle.It's just that the sniper rifle shoots bullets, and it's a big deal to miss the target; the pilot uses himself, the plane, and the crew as bullets, and hitting the wrong position means being smashed to pieces.

The altimeter has long been switched to radio or laser working mode, but the display is still extremely unstable, with the numbers constantly jumping at the 0 position.All in front of the windshield is dark blue river water.The huge gunboat seemed to be on stilts on a roaring high-speed train, carefully maintaining its balance.But the fuselages of the gunboats were lowered, and the spoilers on the wings and fuselage were like metal feathers, opening and then retracting in sequence.The airflow flowing through the wing is separated in an orderly and controllable manner with subtle adjustments, still maintaining stable lift.

The first-class air knights of the People's Federation Army are doing their best to inject the most deadly poison into the heart of the Ursus Empire.

**

At the same time, Team Six of the Snow Monsters outside Tachinskaya Airport was staring at the three large transport planes on the airport runway like beasts caught in a trap.

At first, when Frost Star arrived here with his squadron, he was very satisfied with this deserted airport: there were only 60 guards, and not everyone had a gun.The militiamen did not visit the airport even in the air strikes in the past month, so the soldiers here gradually slept soundly.Moreover, the Ursas heavy bomber/long-range bomber unit originally stationed at this remote airport has been transferred away.There have been no planes taking off and landing here for a long time, and it seems that they have been separated from this war.

Of course, this is not the case: the runway is being expanded here, both extending the existing one and building a new one.The engineering equipment was parked outside the shed on the west side of the tower, and the workers had to wait until 9:[-] a.m. to come to work from the nearby village, while the materials for the expansion were piled up everywhere.

In any case, the defense here is still quite lax.After nightfall, there were only sentries under the control tower at this airport, and a few hours ago, Shuangxing saw the sentries dozing off in the night vision goggles.

Not to mention a whole squadron of air assault troops.Even Frost Star himself, a special force, was enough to take down the airport.So the Sixth Snow Monster team sent a "everything is normal" signal to the above.But just after the report was sent, there was a faint roar from the sky.

The Yetis thought the commandos had arrived early, but soon realized it was not easy: it was too early.

Soon, three extremely fat six-engine biplane transport planes that looked like floating whales appeared in the sky, and the double-headed eagles of the Ursus Empire on them were extremely disgusting.The fuselage of the transport plane is as square as a train carriage.The spacious and flat bottom has a pair of fixed wheels as big as a grinding disc.Everyone can't help but guess what the goods are loaded inside.I also doubt whether the action has been exposed.

And as the transport planes hummed down, the Yetis had good news and bad news.

The good news is that the few people who came out of the airport building and the people who got off the plane were all lazy, and they didn't look like they were ready to deal with a hard battle.

The bad news is—

These three transport planes are equipped with a whole company of Imperial Army Shield Guards!

After the three imperial transport planes stopped, they drove into the parking area on one side.After the tailgate opened, a large number of heavily armed infantry stepped out.From the night vision goggles, you can see the tightly wrapped heavy armor, as well as an automatic rifle or light machine gun in each person's hand.

This is the most elite shield guard among the regular infantry units of the Imperial Army!

Just as the messenger hurriedly called the commando, Frost Star suddenly turned his head and put his palm on the hilt of his waist.

The snow monster team members responsible for guarding that direction were dumbfounded as they watched seven large figures wearing lots of armor suddenly appear there.

Although it can be recognized at a glance that this is definitely a space warrior, everyone realizes that these space warriors are different from the common space warriors in the past: unlike the gray armor featured by "Red Scythe", these guys' armors are all black painted .Unlike the gray shoulder armor of the Red Scythe Space Marines, which only have low-visibility job insignia, their shoulder armor is silver shoulder armor with text embossed on one side, and the pattern on the other shoulder armor is even more varied: there is a blue background. At first glance, it looks like a toilet seat, some have a fist printed on a yellow background, some have a drop of blood between two wings, some have a wolf's head on a light cyan background, and some even have a black cross on a white background.There is only one space warrior with the familiar crossed sickle and hammer pattern on the shoulder armor.

Even though they knew that if they were enemies, the small water pipe in their hands would be of no use, but the snow monsters still kept their guns on guard.After checking the password and identification code, Froststar cautiously approached this group of weird Astartes.

"Yeti, Froststar."

"Your level is not high enough to know our code name." The guy in the lead had a blue-bottomed toilet seat on his shoulder armor, and his attitude was very peaceful, but Yelena always felt a kind of arrogance hidden in the lowest level, "But the situation is urgent. So tell the commandos: DW-1 report, gamma status!"

Although he had mixed feelings subjectively, the training he had received allowed Shuangxing to answer "I understand" without hesitation and relay the content to the signal corps.As the signal corps completed its report, everyone heard the roar of the gunboat engine buzzing in the northeast.

The toilet seat fighter seemed quite satisfied: "Very well, I have never seen a demi-human soldier with such qualities. Listen, those guys on the runway were called by Ursas inner guards. Now there are also inner guards watching around ! Now continue with your tasks and leave the rest to us."

Frost Star looked surprised, but not flustered.

As a result, this killing team belonging to the "Death Watch", the anti-alien special force of the Human Federation and directly dispatched to the 113th Division of the Human Federation's Extraterrestrial Corps, disappeared again, and continued to confront one of the most difficult creatures of the Terrayan people in secret.

At this moment, the shield guards of the Imperial Army have just assembled at the parking area to complete the whole team.They looked blankly in the direction of the sound, and saw a neat array of dots in midair.

It was the Thunderhawk and the Valkyrie who had switched to an attack formation at the end of the route and rushed towards the airport.

Then, the rain of bullets fired by the snow monsters covered the queue of shield guards.

The improvised fortifications around the airport fence were empty.The snow monsters watched every move of the Imperial Army shield guards from this excellent auditorium and ambush point.The full set of new protective equipment of the shield guards is enough to withstand the 7.62X41MM intermediate power rifle bullets of the Tribal Army at zero distance, but is easily penetrated by the "Agrippina" 8.25MM rifle bullets of the snow monsters.

In the first round of shooting, more than ten Ursus shield guards were directly knocked down, and twice as many were injured.Although the shield guards who were suddenly ambushed were confused, this group of experienced veterans immediately judged the direction of the bullet.The vengeful return fire began as soon as the first round of the Yeti shot was over.

The Jeggarev light machine gun and the Fedorov automatic rifle firing 7.62X54R rifle rounds rattled.The shield guards then continued to fight back using the aircraft as cover, and gradually began to retreat.

——Because they saw that, except for a few flying to the tower, most of the gunboats flew to this parking area at the end of the runway.

As the first Valkyrie passed over the heads of the snow monsters, the sound of heavy objects falling was extremely loud.At the same time, most of the snow monsters who are accustomed to the cold because of their "ancestral" ice origin stone skills felt their surroundings scorching hot.

Frost Star, who was always indifferent, yelled loudly, almost kindly cursing: "Where are you putting the central heating?!"

"Can't you stand a fire that's not even enough to light a candle?"

A familiar voice came from under the "Thor's Hammer" powered combat armor covering the wearer's whole body.Talula lightly jumped to Frost Star's side, and asked her old comrade-in-arms whom she hadn't seen for a long time with a cheerful voice: "How is the situation?"

The white rabbit gritted its teeth resentfully, turned its head and shouted: "Put him down quickly! The enemy is a whole company of shield guards!"

"You don't have to worry about that." Another calm male voice sounded.

"why?!"

Following Comand's voice, Frost Star glanced over the old chief in medium-sized power armor, and when he looked up, he saw the Thunderhawk gunboat that was zooming in extremely fast.

At the same time, a loud and arrogant voice sounded on the public communication channel of the Tribune: "Attention, attention! The space fighters are about to land!"

Chapter 38 Drag Racing and Solving

The clock is turned back 10 minutes.

On the starting position of the attack of the 1st Division of the Red Banner Guards Mechanized Infantry of the National Guard, Supreme Commander Ulyanov was finishing his speech:

"...all fighters, commanders and political workers of the People's Guard of Terra; comrades and men and women of the Red Guerrilla Army! The war you are waging is a war of liberation, a war of justice, the whole land They are all counting on you to crush the bandits of the Ursus Empire, and all the people of Ursas under the yoke of the Ursas Empire regard you as liberators. The great mission has fallen on your shoulders, and you must not live up to this mission!

"The gangsters of the Ursus Empire are doomed to total defeat and total downfall! Long live our tough and heroic people of Ursus! Long live their happiness and future!

"Now I order to implement the 'Berlin' plan, launch an offensive bravely, resolutely, and tenaciously, carry the revolution to the end, and crush all internal and external enemies!"

The officers and fighters of the National People's Army with tense expressions were extremely excited, but they quickly regained their composure.Those consciousnesses that have been continuously honed from military schools and training camps quickly returned to rationality, asking themselves "what can I do?", "what are I doing?", "what can I achieve?".Everyone calmed down, waiting for further specific instructions-instructions on when to start military operations.

Immediately afterwards, the excited voice of General Rokossovsky, commander of the Eastern Front of the National People's Army, as if a blood vessel was about to burst, spread throughout the army.

"Comrades! A great decisive moment is about to happen before you. Hereby order, the whole army declassifies and implements Part 7 of Order No. 11!"

The secrecy work of the Civil Protection Army covered every detail of the operation, and the highly confidential information such as the time when the operation was launched was strictly protected by layers of secrecy measures.According to regulations, only after the commander of the front army issued a digital code in the pre-war circular, the commanders at all levels and the combat staff took out the corresponding sealed documents from the safe.

With the declassification of confidential documents, the new orders in the plan also rapidly spread to the entire army.

For example, with the changes and development of the war situation and the major changes in the combat area, the two main front armies, the East and the West, which were determined because of the different main combat directions, were officially renamed.At the moment when the battle plan was declassified, the Eastern Army responsible for long-distance detours and direct attacks on Chernobog was renamed "Chernobog Army"; Fort Front Army".This basically determined the important goals of the two front armies, but the names were just details, and the commanders and fighters of the Civilian Army immediately threw themselves into intense combat operations.

In the command post of the 1st Guards Mechanized Infantry Division, Major General Andrei Berkonski and the political commissar of the division took out the key, inserted it into the lock hole of the red safe, and turned the two keys at the same time.As the cabinet door opened, they took out the file bag and unsealed it, and finally learned the whole picture of the "Berlin Project".

"Breakthrough 150 kilometers in four days, and then we have to clean up two army groups, although they are already disabled... Tsk tsk." Andre pouted.

The division commissar said, "'A little bit challenging.' I guess you'd say that."

"Almost." Andre handed the plan to the chief of staff next to him, "Act according to the original plan. I will take the forward command post with me."

"Very good, I think you will rush as fast as the advance detachment of the division." The political commissar complained, "Why don't you just follow the regiment that is the advance detachment?"

Berkonsky took off his military overcoat with the insignia of the rank of major general, revealing the one-piece tank overalls of the armored corps underneath. He turned around and walked towards the armored command vehicle outside the command post, and at the same time replied: "Because I will be better than the advance detachment." Run faster!"

**

For the tank mechanized units of the Nationalist Army responsible for ground assaults, running is more troublesome than fighting.

The upper Yansk and Chersky Mountains that the assault route passes through are comparable in difficulty to the famous Ardennes region in the history of earth wars: there are a large number of mountain ranges in the north and northeast of Usas distributed here, and gradually transition to the north into the plateau.There are steep mountains, narrow and long mountain roads, surrounded by rivers and forests, the road conditions are very bad, and the maneuvering space is extremely narrow.

In comparison, the enemies are not too difficult to deal with.The Ursus 150st and [-]nd armies were as determined as ideological stencils to the fact that the "Northern front is impenetrable".Under the guidance of this point of view and the constraints of the topographical conditions of the northern front, the maximum size of the Imperial Army troops along the [-]-kilometer mountain road was no more than battalion level.