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

This is true, because some of the precision-guided munitions of the People's Federation "fight with the brain". Those precision-guided munitions with wetware as computer components have unique advantages in image recognition and other aspects, and are especially good at locking point targets on the ground. .In addition to cluster bombs, these two aircraft also carried ten "pencil-tip" small-diameter precision bombs, plus a camera reconnaissance pod at the tail.Enough to blow that little Ursus sampan into scrap metal.

Although He Fan is crazy, he doesn't think his tank can run faster than an airplane.But he still called his boss: "Wolverine calls Forward Finger, Wolverine calls Forward Finger. Request to attack the enemy land fleet detachment."

"Front finger received! Wolverine, immediately go to the coordinates of the enemy land ship detachment, and annihilate the remaining enemy ships after the bombing!"

"Wolverine understands!"

He Fan cut off the communication with a wry smile and shook his head.The Ferus tanks then changed direction and galloped away along the flight direction of the two Flankers.

PS: Try to write the taste of "National Will" ()

Chapter 43 When Humanoid Stars Shine

When the sun began to shine on Tachinskaya Airport on February 2, the Ursas Imperial Army troops trying to attack the airport began to tremble under the wings of the Tribal Air Force, and the attack could not be carried out.So, when the safe and sound day was coming to an end, the armored column from the west finally drove to the runway.

"It's been a long time, dear Valery Berkonsky!" Comand waved his hands enthusiastically, "Your tank is finally here!"

A piece of "Rhino" and BMP spread out in the distance, parked in the open.And a command BMP slowly drove over, and Belkonski, who had been racing all day and night, jumped out of the back door wearily.Although pale and tired after a day and night of high-speed marches and encounters with combat, his face was radiant with victory.The guy limped up to Comand and asked cheerfully, "How's this mechanized raid going, Comrade General Commissar?"

"Congratulations, it seems that the basic skills are very solid now, so the next step is to use two Ursus armies as graduation exams!"

Berkonski was a little arrogant: "Humph, it's only a matter of time before they are resolved!"

**

The evaluation of the commander of the Mechanized Infantry of the National People's Army may be a little arrogant, but it is also true.

The "Jabuwa" raid on Tachinskaya Airport was actually not a thrilling operation. The combat troops of the People's Federation and the Integration Movement had an overwhelming advantage over the Ursas Imperial Army in terms of weapons and equipment and combat literacy. Supported by the insufficient but powerful United Air Force, the airport has never been seriously threatened.

You must know that Lin Huaisheng's deployment of airport defense is to expand the defense circle as much as possible. In addition to keeping a small amount of reserve troops at the airport, a large number of units are deployed in the defense circle and warning zone outside the airport.This can protect the airport from being attacked by enemy firepower, but it leaves a lot of loopholes in the defense line, so mobile units such as tanks, artillery and air force and long-range firepower are crucial-this is the strength of the People's Federation Army.

Therefore, the Ursus army on the entire northern front failed to pull out Tachinskaya, the nail in the hinterland of its own side.On the precious first night, the 44th Cavalry Division was wiped out in front of the security position outside the airport, and the land ship units of the Second Army lost their combat effectiveness overnight under the attack of the People's Union tanks and aviation.As the ground-assault Tribune tanks finally joined forces with the airfield defenders, the northern front of the Ursus Empire completely lost the chance to keep the enemy on the narrow road between the mountains.

The war started on February 2, and on February 10, the vanguard of the National People's Army entered Tachinskaya Airport. The nail embedded between the First Army and the Second Army could no longer be pulled out.By February 2th, the bloody Valentine's Day, the first attack echelon armies of the Trinity Chernobog Front had passed through the mountains and engaged the hastily fought northern front of the Ursus Empire.

保民军第3、5、7集团军的攻击重点是乌萨斯第二集团军。第二集团军司令官萨姆索诺夫上将为了攻击塔钦斯卡娅机场，在2月10日当天就命令各部队以最快速度前往塔钦斯卡娅。

However, he did not have a deep understanding of the threat of air strikes and battlefield interdiction by the Tribal Army, and he did not expect that the Imperial Army's battlefield communications were almost paralyzed.Therefore, the actions of the various armies and divisions under the Second Army's jurisdiction were seriously lacking in coordination, the marching speed was very slow, and the deployment became extremely chaotic, like overturning the canvas of a paint tray.And the attack echelon of the Civilian Army suddenly came to... On the morning of February 2, most of the Second Empire Army was encircled. On the 17th, the two armies and four divisions under the Second Empire Army were basically surrounded. Annihilation, Army Commander Samsonov, after learning the battle report, went into the grove and swallowed a gun to commit suicide.

Of course, with the assault speed of the People's Liberation Army, I'm afraid the group army commander really can't do much.

If you look at the details, it is even more shocking, to the extent of a horror movie: the 1st Army of the Civilian Army was responsible for containing the 19st Army of the Empire for five days, and achieved many tactical victories by virtue of its firepower and equipment advantages, but its strength was not large enough. Unable to gain an overwhelming advantage to annihilate the enemy.But after the other three Civilian Army armies swallowed the second army, they even maintained their full combat effectiveness. On the 3th, they changed their offensive posture from west to east to south to north, and the third and fifth armies assaulted The 5th and 10th armies of the Ursas Imperial Army completely broke through the first defensive zone on the 12th, and broke through the second defensive zone in some areas.By the 19th, when the militiamen entered the tank division and the mechanized infantry division, the imperial army's defense line was completely torn apart.In other words, the 20st Army only lasted for 1 day, 1 day when facing the main attack of the Nationalist Army!

On the morning of February 1095, 2, the First and Second Armies of the Ursus Empire declared that they ceased to exist.

50 years later, Colonel of the Colombian Army and Ursas military research expert David Glanz commented on this:

"From an organizational point of view, the armed forces of the Ursas Empire were clearly in decline by the beginning of 1095. In addition to the annihilation or annihilation of multiple armies, the land fleet has also been suffering heavy blows. Although the empire has gradually begun to mobilize industries, And continue to enslave labor, and have been guided by the leadership with great organizational talent and iron skills, but they can only patch up some equipment for the existing troops. The new generation of weapons, especially armored vehicles and fighter jets, cannot provide Technological advantage. Not to mention that the empire does not have enough production capacity, operators and fuel.

"Each new retreat forced the Imperial Army to bring freshly mobilized troops into battle faster and faster, with correspondingly less training; those poorly trained troops suffered disproportionately high casualties before they learned to fight, and these Casualties have forced the Imperial Army to let the next wave of supplementary personnel finish training earlier. At the same time, the cadre of military nobles who have forged brilliant victories in previous wars is gradually aging and withering. They may not be able to adapt to the new form of warfare. , or lose their lives in war.

"Imperial army commanders always blame in their memoirs either the wrong leadership of the Imperial Emperor or the overwhelming numerical superiority of the Red Armed Forces - but both reasons are exaggerated. In fact, Fyodor was not even capable of intervening in various The specific actions of the army group, the generals are by no means perfect people who never make mistakes; because the tribunes are proficient in camouflage, the assessment of the imperial army is also exaggerated.

"Perhaps the main reason for the one-sided war situation is the revolutionary change in the command, staff and tactical skills of the Red Army. In 1090, the Tribal Army and its predecessors were nothing more than a few regiments of guerrillas and light infantry ; by 1092, for the first time, they severely damaged the Imperial Army in mobile operations in the field; and at the historical juncture in early 1095, the commanders and staff members of the Terra People's Guard already possessed the world's top professionalism. The theoretical mastery and experience accumulation of mechanized combat is unparalleled.

"The Joint Staff has an entire department dedicated to the study and dissemination of 'war experience', which is derived from their comprehensive analysis of every battle, campaign, and situation using an integrative methodology; the relevant lessons are taught in conjunction with the People's Federation After the theory was combined, new doctrines and combat procedures were formed. In 1093, the commanders of the Tribal Army learned how to conduct a real contract campaign of all arms.

"Around the Don valley and on the Northern Front, the Trinity commanders and staff officers proved to be highly skilled in intelligence and camouflage, coordinating the movements of artillery, engineers, reconnaissance, infantry, armor and aviation to concentrate and overwhelm the enemy by surprise. They also tested their own tank divisions and mechanized infantry divisions, which became the symbolic force of the National People's Army for large-scale assaults.

"All in all, the Tribunes are ready to finish off their opponents this year as they enter 1095 with unprecedented advantages."

**

Of course, the military historian's complex and obscure summary will only arouse the interest of a few soldiers and military enthusiasts.Therefore, it is also necessary to look at materials with lower viewing angles.

——In the face of the violent attack of the advanced technology and equipment of the Tribal Army, the morale of the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Army suffered a serious impact:

The roar of the engine was muffled, but loud; it sounded like a gigantic millstone turning in the sky.We stare in horror at nine black dots arranged in the shape of three quaints on the background of the sky.Panic shouts rang out: "Air strike! Air strike!".

The last thing I saw before I closed my eyes was the white, salt stain of the northern moors.Although my left and right hands stuffed two fingers into my ears hard, the animal ears on the top of my head couldn't help it.The screaming sound when the bomb fell was really like the sky was being cut by a sharp knife.

The loud noise of the explosion began to appear, getting denser and denser.The loud noise pierced through my flesh and bones and penetrated into my brain. My body was trembling against the ground, but my terrified soul seemed to be shattered into powder...

The loud noise is weakening, I raised my head on the ground, and saw that time seems to slow down, I can see the slow motion of everyone running, I can see the shock wave of the bomb pushing people into the sky, and I can see the shrapnel tearing the cheeks of my comrades: Half of the company commander's head was cut off, the upper jaw was gone, the entire mouth was exposed, and there was only a big tongue flicking in the air, but it couldn't lick the upper jaw...

(Selected from the series "Experienced Records of Operation Berlin", "Diaries and Memoirs of Grassroots Officers and Soldiers of the Imperial Army", compiled by the Great Revolutionary War Historical Materials Committee, Bao Minjun Publishing House, 1100 edition)

——The lack of anti-tank weapons and equipment made it difficult for the Imperial Army to stop the armored assault of the Tribal Army.The vast majority of divisional artillery units are still equipped with 76mm anti-tank guns, which are basically ineffective against the front armor of T-55 and heavier tanks; the few infantry who insist on resisting use anti-tank mines, explosive kits, and blasting tubes And similar short-range anti-tank weapons charge some tolls more or less to the attacking enemy.But in the face of fierce and precise air-to-ground firepower strikes and powerful impacts, all resistance was quickly shattered:

A row of shells fell on the open ground in front of the position, raising a high dust column like a sudden earth wall.The earthen wall rose behind the group of tanks, and then appeared in front of them again, and the shells seemed to avoid the tribunes.I was so anxious that I wanted to wring the heads of the artillerymen behind me!Every time the gunpowder smoke and dust cleared, the tanks and armored vehicles painted with snow camouflage appeared again, like a row of white iron walls.They were steadily approaching, and now I could make out their details.

Another volley of shells whizzed past my head, and as they fell, I heard two different explosions, very crisp and loud, and I saw black smoke coming from two Tribune tanks.But after the results were obtained, no shells fell for a while, and the shelling stopped!

I shouted into the phone microphone: "617 calls for fire support! 617 calls for artillery support! The enemy is approaching the position, keep shooting!"

I heard the artilleryman's answer from the microphone: the tribune counterbattery fired swarms of shells, and the pickups picked up deafening explosions and tiny screams.

I looked around, and there were blasted sandbags and fortification logs scattered all around. Everything was covered with dust, and the dust was mixed with a striking red, which was the blood of corpses mixed with the collapsed fortifications.The whole position seemed to be plowed by a giant plow.This was used to cope with the inspection by the superiors. It took a month to dig out the best defensive position in the entire Second Army, but it was destroyed by artillery and aerial bombs overnight.

The Tribune tanks and armored vehicles were already approaching the position, and their infantry began to dismount.The soldiers who were still alive fled from the position in terror and ran back.I looked at the enemy armored infantrymen who jumped into the trenches with automatic rifles, crying alone on the ruined position...

(Excerpted from "A Helmet as a Pillow - A Collection of Diaries of Imperial Army Officers and Soldiers in the Ursus Civil War", edited by Guryoshov, Dostoevsky Publishing House, 1098 edition)

——In the face of the closely coordinated large-depth assault of various arms contracts, the speed of the imperial army's collapse is astonishing:

We dropped our guns, our belts, our helmets, our wounded and our bodies, our shoes, and ran for our lives.There was a screech of bullets as they whizzed overhead, and the back of a soldier running ahead of me spurted blood before he fell to the ground and was left behind.Suddenly, the soldiers in front stopped and ran back quickly, colliding with our group of soldiers who were still running forward.I grabbed a corporal and asked him what was going on. I saw that one of his ears had been sliced ​​off, and the blood that flowed down wet a large area of ​​his military coat. He broke free from me panting, and continued to run backwards. .

I looked over there and saw a row of T-55 tanks heading towards us.I also turned around and ran along with the flow of people.Tank guns rang out from behind, and after several explosions in front, broken limbs and broken arms fell crackling all around.My legs slumped to the ground and I lay down, leaving myself to fate.

I gasped, my lungs felt like they were going to explode.Tanks rumbled by on both sides of me, and the dirt rolled up by the tracks fell on my face. I just looked at the sky with black smoke floating indifferently, and let it be...

(Selected from the series "Experienced Records of Operation Berlin", "Diaries and Memoirs of Grassroots Officers and Soldiers of the Imperial Army", compiled by the Great Revolutionary War Historical Materials Committee, Bao Minjun Publishing House, 1100 edition)

However, unlike the grass-roots officers and soldiers above who are bitter and enmityed, who are physically and mentally tortured, the mid-to-high-ranking Ursus officers who survived the war, in order to make their image in the history books look better, have self-taught skills. He has used wonderful literary skills and unleashed his extraordinary imagination...

(All the following are selected from the series "Personal Experience of the 'Berlin' Action", "Memoirs of the Diaries of Senior Military Officers in the Imperial Army", compiled by the Historical Materials Committee of the Great Revolutionary War, Civilian Army Publishing House, 1100 edition)

The Chief of Staff of the First Army, who successfully escaped from the encirclement of the Nationalist Army and moved to Colombia after the war, said: Leiningkamp and Samsonov are both Sabi, one is brainwashed and the other is in a hurry. , it is better to retreat immediately.Why did you ask me why I didn't make such a decision at the time?I didn't know then.

"...Imagine that if Leiningkamp retreated immediately, how could the entire army be wiped out? Before February 2th, the red elements did not rush to the position at all, and then they attacked the second army first. If they acted together, it would be possible The forces that stand out from the encirclement, at worst, can break through half of them, and they can fight again with a little supplement. Why let the red bandits take advantage of it and easily wipe out an entire army group, and easily clear the road to Chernobog?"

Leiningkamp, ​​who was reformed after being captured, said: Breaking through the siege is the worst policy. Abandoning the position and racing against the tanks of the Nationalist Army in the wilderness?I am a good man and do things like a good man, and I can't leave my brother behind.

"I always think that we can only stick to it. The motorized and mechanized Civilian Army is far more mobile than the mule and horse-based Imperial Army. It is better to continue to defend, maybe the situation will change-the Empire requests a truce, the stubbornness in the army Molecular thinking was shaken. At that time, I could not only be worthy of His Majesty, but also have room to propose negotiations to save the lives of soldiers."

However, the Intelligence Director of the First Group Army, who was also captured and reformed, said:

"At twelve o'clock that night, Leiningkamp made the last call, saying that he still decided to break out and asked all the staff of the Army Group Command to follow him at the 10th Army headquarters. When I arrived at the headquarters of the 10th Army, I found out that Leiningkamp had hung up the phone and fled for his life. The battalion commander searched inside and outside the headquarters but found nothing. People in the headquarters knew that the commander had fled with the 10th Army. Big disappointment...”

The journey of the chief of staff of the 12th Army of the First Group was a strange one: I broke out with the corps commander and asked the guard platoon leader to explore the way.As a result, this bastard waved and said there were "friendly troops" in front of him, and then he was taken prisoner.

"After the last supper, we walked about a few hundred meters to the east, and suddenly found a small group of armed men on the east side, with a Maxim machine gun pointing at us. They asked us to send someone to contact us. This is our side. We thought it was a "friendly army" on guard, so we stopped and sent a guard platoon leader to contact us. After a while, the second lieutenant waved to us. We thought it was all right, so we surrounded the army commander and walked away unsuspecting. Go. When we got to the 'Friendly Army', we were all stunned: it wasn't a 'Friendly Army' at all, it was the People's Liberation Army! As soon as the second lieutenant platoon leader saw us coming, he said, 'This is our army commander and chief of staff!' We That's how he became a prisoner."

The immediate superior was lamenting "Why am I so fucking unlucky", but the commander of the 12th Division of the 17th Army of the First Army was indignant at the choice of his superior: I suggested to the commander at the headquarters to learn from Corsica I and rush out to implement anti-encirclement.As a result, he couldn't do it, he had no vision.

"I said: 'When we used to learn tactics, didn't we have an inside line and an outside line? Now we are surrounded, and we are on the inside line. The Gallic Emperor Corsica did this when he was fighting our army: concentrate Land-ships, artillery and cavalry, combined with a powerful point, attacking the enemy’s point, rushing out to give the enemy an anti-encirclement? However, this domineering guy turned his head and walked away before he heard it..."

As for Samsonov, who committed suicide, we do not know his opinion.However, if he could dream, he would probably say: This group of evil pens rely on the dead and can't speak, and write me like a fool in their memoirs. I don't admit it, the above!

All in all, in this catastrophe, the two armies of the empire no longer exist.And between the Chernobog Front Army and the city of Chernoborg, there is only one third army left.

Chapter 44 Inside Chernobyl

In the early winter of 1095, on a bleak night, in an ordinary alley in the city of Chernobog in the Ursas Empire, a young man dressed in plain clothes was waiting calmly.He looked at his watch from time to time, relying on his simple but thick clothes to calmly persist in the cold wind.

He's waiting for a deal.The other party did not disclose too much information, but repeatedly emphasized that he had a collection that would not be considered expensive no matter how much he asked for.

The young man didn't care about those "collections", he knew that those were the military medals of the Ursus Empire.They themselves are well-made, using precious raw materials including various precious metals, and coupled with the bonus of being a national honor, they are very valuable.

But he still doesn't care about those valuable things, their owners are the real key.

The young man with short white hair didn't wait too long, and soon, a tall figure with a pair of golden blue ear feathers appeared in front of him.

"Five hundred refined source stone ingots." The tall, handsome old man has white hair similar to that of a young man, but he can scare most people when he opens his mouth - this price is enough to keep a large hospital in operation for more than two years!

"The lion opened his mouth...so, where are the things?" The young man smiled politely.

The old man picked up the suitcase in his hand and opened it to the young man.The collection inside can't be said to be relatively rich, or at least it is all-encompassing.Commemorative medals from the War of the Four Emperors to the Battle of Blood Peak, and various medals from lieutenant officers to generals. Simply put, this is the epitome of the rapid expansion of the Ursas Empire in the past hundred years.

"Oh, it's really complete... It's worthy of being an old soldier who rose from a warrant officer all the way to a general of the Guards. Right, Mr. Herag? If you want to sell these, it seems that the underground store you run is infected Orient clinics are really cornered."

Herag, the former general of the Imperial Guards of Ursus and now the manager of the underground clinic "Azazel" for the infected, was silent for a moment, and said calmly: "Our time is precious."

"Yes, but the things we're talking about don't pay for things. As a soldier, I never like to buy medals with money. Because these things, at least for you, are for something that money can't measure. Proof that he was born and died for his things." The young man waved his hand, motioning for Herag to close the box. "I don't have as many as five hundred ingots, but one hundred ingots is just a deposit, in exchange for the opportunity to meet next time."

Looking at the box of origin stone ingots placed between the two of them, Herag was silent for a moment, and then said: "You said you were also a soldier, but I think, you are - over there, right?"

The young man smiled and pouted towards the northwest: "Of course."

"Integration movement..." Herag breathed softly, and then sighed, "You are really powerful. Yes, we urgently need your anti-Originium serum. What's your name?"

"Mephisto."

The young Civilian Special Forces turned around and waved: "See you next time, sir."

**

The thin white-haired boy was sitting upright, looking at the tall white-haired handsome old man with golden blue ear feathers in front of him: "Hello, just call me 'Mephisto'. I am the People's Guard of Terra One of our scouts. Also, old Mr. 'Patriot' asked me to bring you his greetings."

"Ah..." The expression on the other party's face flashed with emotion, and then he replied, "Hrag, an infected warrior, let me declare in advance that I don't know medical skills."

The manager of Azazel Clinic, an underground clinic for infected people in Chernobog, introduced himself.Mephisto knew that the former general of the Ursus Empire had basically never participated in internal suppression, so he didn't have much resistance to him.Moreover, this man's military style is very pleasing to Mephisto: not only is the handsome old man Li Boli neat and tidy, his office is also very tidy, the desk is spotless, and the books and newspapers in the cabinet are neat and tidy .

"I admit that, as the largest group of infected people in Chernobog, this clinic desperately needs your anti-Originite serum. However, given the financial situation of this clinic, I am afraid that it is unable to purchase from you."

"I used to be an infected person too, Mr. Herag. We also know a thing or two about public medical problems." Mephistopheles took out a thermos from his coat and took a sip of tea - tea is also Ursus People's customs, but the habit of using a vacuum flask is learned from Comand, "Cheap, fast, medical level and service quality can only choose three out of four..."

Herag was really anxious: "I understand that there is no free lunch in the world. So how many Longmen coins do you want? Or do you want pure gold? Or something else?"

"Your loyalty."

"..."

Mephisto stared at the fluttering tea stem in the cup: "If we are just a commercial organization responsible for its own profits and losses, such as Rhode Island Pharmaceuticals, then we can only try our best to share the high R&D and manufacturing costs. It can't help the most people, or it can only make money at a loss.

"But with that broadcast, the integration movement has established a new country from name to fact. The ideology and organizational methods of the 'Ursus Integrationist People's Republic' make it necessary for us to treat medical care as a highly public welfare cause .The anti-Origin Stone serum will be free, at least close to free and cheap.”

"So, Mr. Mephistopheles, what's the price?"

"To take the initiative to integrate into the new era. For example, if you want to get support, you must provide us with support in terms of intelligence and safe houses. Moreover, it is difficult for the Azazel Clinic to continue to exist, and all staff will inevitably be merged into us But in this way, as a citizen of the Republic, the advantage is that the state provides employees and their families with medical insurance programs, and there must be free supply of that kind of medicine.

"Sir, I have to remind you. 'Cure ore disease completely' is a false proposition. Every breath of air we breathe now has a very small amount of origin stone particles. It is impossible to eradicate ore disease, that kind of medicine can only do it Reduce the content of origin stones in the body to the minimum, and even if the front-line workers related to origin stones are injected with drugs, they will still relapse after a period of time, so it is a 'free supply'."

"This..." Herag was obviously very entangled.