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

"Tsk...then I would be crazy too."

At this moment, the few more advanced aircraft of the Tribune were flocking to Tachinskaya to join in the fun.The MiG-27 with missiles and guided missiles roared and passed by; An-12 and Il-76 roared and flew overhead. They did not land at the airport, but dropped supplies and paratroopers in the airdrop area outside the airport. .

The airfield troops have marked an open area of ​​2 square kilometers with lights as an airdrop area.This saves the time of material loading and unloading and the trouble of taking off and landing scheduling.After the airdrop is complete, the plane can fly directly back to the departure airport.

Air movement was temporarily carried out by the Air Force Command of the Chernobog Front, and a forward control group was established at the airport.The follow-up 113th Division of the Extraterrestrial Corps and the Air Force Transport Fleet of the Civilian Army are coming over continuously.A brigade of troops and equipment is expected to be unloaded before sunset.

But at sunset, when the enemy's organized units arrive, the real test will come.

PS: The term end is over.

It's time for recovery day.

Chapter 40 The Song of the Cavalry Part [-]

Staring at the slowly sinking sunset in the distance, Comand suddenly asked Bodroskaty next to him, "Do you remember the Sixth Army?"

The patriot replied: "Of course I will remember the decisive battle in the Kursk Valley during the first anti-encirclement campaign. What happened?"

"It took me a long time after that to realize that such troops are a very small part of the armed forces of the Ursus Empire. Not every army in every group army can use only dense formations When Xinghe was using a single gun, he could still break through the defensive firepower composed of automatic firepower; even in the case of heavy casualties and loss of all support, he could still be so tenacious in the face of fierce counterattacks coordinated by tanks, infantry and artillery. At that time We paid a high price to defeat it completely. It is unbelievably strong."

As a former war hero of the imperial army, the patriot, a senior officer, replied: "In the era of the Four Emperors' War, people said that they could defeat the Gaul Empire, mainly relying on four things: Victoria's money and steam gunboats, Leitania's Warlocks, Casimir's cavalry, Ursus' infantry.

"Usually the Ursus infantry in the impression is hard-working, tenacious, and obedient to orders. The Sixth Army of the Fourth Army is also worthy, and it completely exceeds this level. It is a standing army in peacetime, a strategic mobile force. Such a force Soldiers usually get double pay, and officers pay [-] times. What we eliminated was not a group of ordinary soldiers, but precious seeds that would become non-commissioned officers and even officers in the rapid expansion of the army during wartime mobilization. Or in a full-scale war A corps that serves as the backbone of an entire army group.

"Honestly speaking, the Sixth Army is already the first echelon of the armed forces of the Ursus Empire. It is unexpectedly tenacious, extremely confident, and arrogant. Needless to say, it is skilled in infantry coordination and suffered heavy losses and fierce counterattacks. Although the command system was in disarray at the time, they were able to fight on their own, and even launched a battalion-level counterattack with collective bayonets. In my entire military career, I have never seen a few such corps in the Imperial Army.

"In contrast, the main corps of the Imperial Army has now degenerated to a brave attack, a firm will to fight but poor tactics."

Comand nodded: "According to the intelligence, the enemy who can reach us tonight may have a cavalry division, a light land ship and an armored assault boat detachment. Now the airport is at the critical moment of transporting troops, and there must be no mistakes... .. Even if those big guys are handed over to the tanks, it will depend on us to deal with the enemy cavalry. Now it depends on whether our Andrei Berkonsky can charge fast enough."

Patriot nodded solemnly: "After night, the task is arduous again."

**

Looking at the entire Second Army, the 44th Cavalry Division is likely to be the unit with the highest level of training and the highest level of combat readiness in the entire army.

Similarly, unlike his colleagues who try their best to find women, hold banquets and do business, Colonel Sergey Volkonsky, commander of the 44th Cavalry Division, is indeed a relatively simple hussar, focusing on military affairs: for example Train, fight, and not get caught up in political infighting and money-making contests like your colleagues.So even though he was kicked to the northern front and "exiled", he still devoted himself to the transformation training of the army with full enthusiasm, that is, the transformation of letting the cavalry carry various anti-tank weapons as a mobile anti-armor force.

To be honest, this Colonel Volkonski is indeed a rare anomaly in the Ursus Empire Army-he is polite and polite as a nobleman on weekdays, and he looks down on his colleagues who are brave and ruthless all day long like a local bully; But when it came to the battlefield, he was able to take the lead, and when he wore a gorgeous uniform and swung a saber, he could kill ten of them, enough to convince the most rebellious hussars under his command.

What is even more amazing is that this cavalry officer once publicly lamented that "the cavalry and the era it represents are over" and "an army that is behind the times will only perish on the battlefield."This kind of behavior of turning an elbow to Beowulf of the Sixth Army, the General Staff naturally "looked differently" at Volkonsky.Otherwise, based on his performance, he should have been promoted to brigadier general or at least general.Letting a division commander who should be a general no matter how you look at it hold the rank of colonel and refuse to be promoted, it can only be a matter of sophistication.

Colonel Volkonsky has long been used to this kind of nonsense. He used to complain a few times, but now he doesn't bother to complain.Since the higher authorities ordered you to be stationed for training, then train honestly.

The cavalry who were eager to fight put a lot of effort into training, and met the war they had longed for at an unexpected moment.Then it turned out that the situation was extremely bad.

The 44th Cavalry Division suddenly lost most of its means of communication with its superiors and friendly forces.But the enemy's air strikes came quietly.Fortunately in misfortune, the planes of the redheads mainly go to lick the lazy neighbors.The 44th Cavalry Division scolded so many mothers when they were preparing for air defense and planing the air-raid shelter, but now they are so lucky when they listen to the sound of guns, explosions and engines outside in the air-raid shelter.

The loss of personnel and horses is not large.But it was followed by the order of the Second Army Headquarters like a reminder:

Immediate attack on Tachinskaya airfield!

The messengers paid a great price to get the order to the garrison of the 44th Cavalry Division.The cavalry looked at the red-headed planes circling above the heads of the Ursus Imperial Army units, but did not attack immediately after thinking about it.It wasn't until the sun set, the sun set, and the sky became dark that the imperial cavalry began to gather.

"Boys, according to all indications, the redheads have done a good job. Their infantry attacked our airport in a flying machine. And their tanks are like ferrets that have seen their prey, and they can't wait to pass through. Running up the Yansk Mountains!"

The imperial eagle flag was hunting and fluttering in the night sky. Colonel Volkonski's magnetic and beautiful voice was amplified by the Warlock's Originium skill and spread throughout the playground. Their horses listened to the teacher's speech together.

The cavalrymen of the Imperial Army put on a full set of cavalry uniforms, hung all their medals, and wore button-breasted hard coats with red background and gold trim, covered with gorgeous golden floral decorations, and their cloaks fluttered in the wind behind them.The Ursus cavalry knew that they were going to die.In order to give themselves, and even the entire cavalry, a wonderful curtain call, everyone chose their most gorgeous clothes as the funeral clothes.

"The enemy is a large number of infantry who have already established positions. Everyone knows that there are so many red-headed machine guns. Even if we take down the airport, there will be an armored group of more than 10 people. To be honest, Rich people are really enviable."

The Ursus cavalry burst into laughter, and the fearless laughter was mixed with helplessness and bitterness.

Volkonski continued: "It's useless to be envious, we don't have those things after all! There is still a way to make up for it-that is courage and blood!"

The cavalry stood in awe.Of course they know who needs courage and blood.

A tinge of guilt welled up in the colonel's heart, and he looked at the group of riders in front of him with a serious expression: "Listen, this is not combat, this is death. We will encounter the enemy's night plane on the way to the airport, or Machine gun fire all around an empty airfield. Little hope of victory. If anyone wants to back out, it's too late."

The four thousand hussars did not move a muscle, their faces turned towards the division commander were only proud and resolute.

After a moment of silence, Volkonski nodded, but smiled wryly: "It seems that everyone is determined to go to hell to start a war and conclude...then—"

The colonel drew out his cavalry sword, and the Ursus cavalry also drew out their sabers in unison and stood in front of them.The cold moonlight reflected through the blade, reflecting those immature or mature faces.

Volkonsky shouted at the top of his voice: "Long live the cavalry! The Empire will win!! Hurrah!!!"

"Ula!!!"

All the officers and soldiers of the 44th Cavalry Division let out a deafening roar, and each company, led by their respective commanders, began to gallop towards Tachinskaya Airport in the night.

At the same time, the few land destroyer detachments and armored assault boats on the northern front of the Ursas Imperial Army finally took off their camouflage and drove out of the woods, or left their own air defense shelters, and began to rush towards Tatchinskaya Airport moving forward.

**

The main force of the airlift operation was still the transport aircraft of the National Defense Forces.They range from the simple, reliable and versatile Li-2 to the most advanced An-12 and IL-76 in the militia.

However, Lieutenant Colonel Lin Huaisheng's peculiar idea made him choose to use the earliest precious transportation capacity to transport engineers, battle tanks, and self-propelled howitzers into the theater. For this reason, he would rather give up a large number of light armored vehicles and infantry.

A tank company, a "Petrified Lizard" self-propelled howitzer company, and an engineer company have been deployed in the defensive circle of Tachinskaya Airport at this moment.But the price of this is that the number of infantry units can only barely establish a circular defense line.The radius of this circular defense line is not enough to ensure that the runway is completely free from the threat of artillery fire.

As time went by, on February 2th, the reconnaissance drone discovered that an unknown number of Imperial Army land ships entered the hilly area south of the airport and disappeared 11 kilometers away from the airport.With the range of the Ursas land destroyer gun, this distance has indeed threatened the airport.However, it was already night at this moment, so that the only air forces on the battlefield were the few night planes of the National People's Army and the gunboats of the People's Federation with all-weather combat capabilities.There are too few of them, and they are all sent out to perform various tasks at the moment.For the time being, there is only He Fan, a mobile unit that can fight.

No way, with the development and growth of the integration movement, even if the scale of the war is also expanding, the resources that the 113th Division allows special advisers to invest in direct combat have not increased much.After all, this is a war with an integration movement as the main body.

Therefore, He Fan received his first mission since entering Tachinskaya Airport: to go forward with his own tank company, and destroy the newly discovered enemy land destroyers and armored assault boats at a relatively long distance .After all, with only a small amount of artillery, it is difficult to completely prevent them from shelling the airport, let alone completely eliminate them.The number, distribution, and performance of sensors in this theater are also difficult to continuously capture the enemy and guide artillery fire.

As the skilled drivers began to operate, the tanks on standby at the airport turned deftly, turned smoothly without losing much speed, formed a mobile formation while driving, and drove out of the airport.

"Very good tanks and very good troops." Comand turned around with a melancholy expression, "It's a pity that they won't support us."

He glanced at the infantry commanders in front of him—patriots in strong and sharp clothes, Froststar and W in light powered exoskeletons, and ACE with two bulletproof plates on their chests, and then said: "Even so, We have to get ready too. Get ready for a big fight!"

**

The small hill a few kilometers northwest of the airport has become the support point on the north side of the circular defense line.

Comand said while staring at the map: "In terms of mobility, there are actually some enemy troops who can rush here tonight, except for light land ships."

"What is it? Tank troops? The enemies on the northern front don't have tanks. They don't have main land battleships either. Then they can only have cavalry."

"Yes, in terms of reconnaissance and surveillance forces, the configuration around the airport can be described as open from all sides. The enemy can easily approach the perimeter of the defense line, for example, a small group of enemy cavalry who disperses and enters... Oh, it’s about to come.”

In the diffraction display of Comand's power armor helmet, there are additional enemy alerts.

A sharp whistling sound suddenly pierced the sky, and some personnel in the small command post of Command fell down one after another.But Commander and the other group of people were indifferent, and most of them didn't even bother to look back - just by listening to the sound, they knew that these shells were not aimed at them.

Instead, Comand turned around and saw a shell land on the side of the airport runway a few kilometers away in a blink of an eye.A take-off An-12 transport plane made a sharp turn to avoid the crater, skidded off the runway and broke its wing.

Immediately afterwards, swarms of shells whizzed over and landed densely around the airport, with huge explosions one after another.Obviously this is artillery fire at the level of a land destroyer.Only land ships can have this level of shooting organization, which is higher than that of most army artillery.Apparently, the Ursus land cruiser has begun to approach the circular defense line.

The shelling was fleeting, but the shells left dense, smoking craters on the airport runway and the surrounding area.This round of fire will seriously hinder the landing.The engineer company composed of mechanical priests and power armor engineers was busy, marking the crater with lights.Lin Huaisheng personally reminded the airlift command units in the air and on the ground, pointing out that the runway was damaged.

Lin Huaisheng was inevitably a little surprised. If the enemy had this level of artillery around, then a 15-kilometer radius warning circle would not be enough.Expansion of the defense and warning area to capture land-ships requires more troops. This ghost-like Imperial Army land-ship is now blocking the airborne operation, making it impossible for him to obtain more troops.

Although the engineering unit can quickly resume runway operation, if the artillery fire really comes from the land ship, the enemy is likely to continue to project firepower in a short time.So the whole 'Operation Jabwa' would be in big trouble.

The only good news is that although the limited gunboats and drones cannot completely stare at every inch of land within a radius of tens of kilometers, their reconnaissance alone cannot immediately give the coordinates of the enemy artillery positions.But the artillery reconnaissance and positioning radar of the self-propelled artillery company gave the answer.

As more than a dozen Petrified Lizard 132MM self-propelled howitzers fired back, the surveillance and attack drones and He Fan's tank company were rushing there.

Lin Huaisheng felt relieved a little, and heard the explosive news again:

"North, enemy cavalry!"

Chapter 41 The Cavalry Song II

The relative height of the small hill where Comand is located is no more than 100 meters.In addition to the observation posts of the National Guard, there are also multiple machine gun fire points.Three kilometers in front of it is an open field, and further north is the edge of a forest.

Lin Huaisheng held tightly in his hands whether it was space fighters or assault infantry as a reserve team.Comand, who was in charge of the airfield's northern defense, was okay with that, but it left him with a bunch of Terran natives to organize his defenses.

These units can allow future generations of military fans to examine the party and study many things: for example, these units are all dispatched to allies by their own forces for various reasons.It's not easy to smooth out the relationship between them.

The "Snow Monster" special forces of the Tribal Army and the "Shield Guard" heavy infantry both have the cover status of Atlas, and Rhodes of the "Atlas Military Aid Rhode Island Command Research and Observation Brigade" Island cover identity; Kazdel Defense Force commandos also have the name of Rhode Island operator or Atlas mercenary.Finally, there are Rhode Island operators who really belong to Rhode Island.

And this miscellaneous army is also very subtle. "Snow Monster" seems to have come out of the set of "Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare", and the style of "Shield Guard" tends to be "Radiation 4".The Sarkaz officers and soldiers of the Kazdel Army can consider guest appearances in various German punk works without changing their costumes, such as "Human Wolf", "The Man in the High Castle", and "German Army Headquarters"; only Rhodes The island operators still maintain relatively normal attire.That is, the "original" tactical equipment on their bodies now is finally equipped with automatic rifles instead of swords, bows and crossbows.

But for the People's Federation Army, they are "unusable" without exception.They don't want to say that compared with the space fighters, compared with the standard-footed male "shock infantry" of the People's Federation Army, their equipment and quality are not good.This can't help but worry the commanders of the People's Federation in charge.

However, when Comand saw the enemy rushing out of the woods, he breathed a sigh of relief:

Under the dim moonlight and the pale flare light, the trees gushed out...

All cavalry.

The fifty or so cavalry at the front were skilled in riding, advancing at a not slow speed while raising their guns to shoot.In a short while, the number of cavalry has increased from fifty to one or two hundred, and then continued to increase from one or two hundred.

One cavalry was connected to a cavalry company, and eventually became thousands of cavalry in the entire cavalry regiment.The hooves of the pack animals stirred up the snow and mud, and the cavalrymen lay on the back of the pack animals' necks, with sabers resting on their shoulders.They were operating in accordance with the standard cavalry assault regulations, and gradually increased their speed in order to save the physical strength of the pack animals.

"Regimental scale cavalry attack, distance 2500 meters!"

The Tribune observer sounded choked up as he reported on the radio.It's not his fault either.Comand saw that more than one person had sweat on the butt of his gun in the winter.

"2000 meters!"

The artillery spotter was sprawled in a foxhole on a hill with a tent cloth over his head.His scissors-shaped gun sights were painted white, and the white snow covered the fields and hills here, making it almost impossible to detect the artillery observer's gun sights in this white blanket.

The entire regiment of Ursus cavalry spread out two skirmish lines on the march, and the gorgeous uniforms of the hussars merged into a dancing colorful wave.Their sabers stretched into the air, gleaming coldly in the moonlight.

The defenders on the north side of the entire airport were listening to the observer's ranging report: around the artillery observation post, in the trenches and foxholes between hills and flat ground, regular infantrymen wearing powered exoskeletons were busy working swiftly, Put the PKM general-purpose machine gun and 171 large-caliber machine gun on the firepower point and prepare to shoot; the shield guards hold up their 12.7MM heavy armored rifles and wait for them.And on the curved fire position behind the hill, shield guards with heavy mortar and missile launcher kits are binding and shooting the elements.

"1500 meters!"

The commander of the Shield Fire Detachment heard the report.This number represents the enemy cavalry rushing into their preset barrage zone.The commander then gave firing orders to his heavy-armsmen.

The snowy field on Tachinskaya turned into a hell on earth.As 100MM heavy mortar shells exploded in batches, the explosion flickered, the smoke billowed, and the soil and flames surged like a fountain.A round of shells exploded in the cavalry formation, and the pack animals and cavalry were either thrown into the air and fell back to the ground, or they were directly torn apart.

The screams and horse neighing even passed through the dense gunfire, faintly reaching the ears of the defenders.In a blink of an eye, there were pack animals and cavalry corpses and wounded everywhere in front of the position, some were torn to pieces, and some were trampled and killed by other cavalry.The pack animals who lost their riders and the riders who lost their pack animals fled in all directions.The wounded cavalrymen and vehicles screamed and struggled on the snow field.

But even so, the Ursus cavalry continued to charge forward.This force can be described as well-disciplined and well-trained.They even adjusted their formation and direction under such fierce firepower, trying to change from a frontal impact to a flanking high ground.

But they also charged close enough that machine gun fire joined the fray at this point.

Amidst the crisp and rapid roar of the general machine gun, the riders were beaten into pieces on their saddles, and the beasts of burden also fell to the ground with bullet holes all over their bodies.The large-caliber machine gun tore apart the cavalry and their vehicles together.

The cavalry in front of the machine gun turned their backs, and the mortar made the cavalry behind them turn their backs.An entire cavalry regiment suffered heavy losses in less than a few minutes.

But at this moment, a flash of muzzle flames lit up in the woods.

The only cavalry artillery company of the 44th Division of the Ursas Imperial Cavalry, eight 76MM light field guns were pushed over by the imperial cavalry from the other side of the woods.They wrapped the gun wheel with cloth, pushed it to this side almost silently, and entered the firing position to hide.When a whole cavalry regiment was dead and wounded, the field guns opened fire.

The explosion echoed among the trenches of the defenders, and the shrapnel and shock waves flying wantonly knocked down the commanders and fighters of the defenders one after another.Many personnel were forced back into the trenches by the shock wave without casualties, and the shooting firepower was naturally weakened by a large amount.Only the shield guards wearing heavy power armor and load-bearing frames remained motionless, continuing to shoot with armored rifles or machine guns.