I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

As the rear of the cabin slowly opened, Sergei loudly urged the soldiers to charge out one by one.

From the ground, one could clearly see a series of white parachutes appearing at the tail of the plane, and soon the entire sky was filled with snow-white parachutes.

"Ah! Queen bless you..."

Seeing that the distance to the ground was getting closer and closer, even Rand, who had been trained many times, became nervous and carefully controlled the parachute to enter the final landing orbit at the correct angle.

The moment his legs touched the ground, he heard a clear sound of hydraulic springs. Rand flew up with the help of potential energy, got into position in the air, fell to the ground and rolled twice before the impact was relieved. He then breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and looked around.

Because of the exoskeleton, the impact force of the ground during landing will not act on the legs, but will be transmitted to the branches and trunks of the whole body through the exoskeleton on the soles of the feet to relieve pressure. This pressure will be converted into kinetic energy and released by the exoskeleton.

If you take the wrong posture when bouncing up, and use your head instead of the exoskeleton on your arms to cover yourself, you can imagine what a terrible ending that would be.

In fact, this design is not a disadvantage in other aspects. It is just not very friendly to airborne troops. The improvement plan is still in the experimental stage.

He removed the flat backpack that was fastened tightly to his back, and took out the AKMk assault rifle with a further simplified structural design and a folding buttstock, and four magazines.

The rest of the bag contains enough food and water for three days of survival, as well as a simple water purification device.

After counting the supplies, Rand opened the miniature storage box on the inside of his left arm, took out a headset made of soft material, put it on his head, pressed the internal button, and the radio transceiver attached to his arm began to work. Sergei's voice came from the headset:

"According to the principle of proximity, quickly move towards the container closest to you to complete your arming. Remember, follow the guidance of your heart, and the Queen will guide you in the spiritual world."

Rand touched the red cross on his chest and prayed devoutly. When he looked up again, he could clearly see the dense beams of light rising into the sky, some far and some near. He smiled and rushed towards the beam of light closest to him.

As time went on, Medea also came up with all kinds of new tricks through divine magic. This encryption of faith between believers and the Lord was quite useful. Those who were not Medea's believers could not see anything unusual at all.

It is also a more subtle means of screening the loyalty of soldiers.

Especially for elite troops like the airborne troops, who enjoy the highest treatment in the alliance, it is very taboo to have other things mixed in.

This large-scale airborne operation was a semi-open secret for both sides. After all, the scale was there and even a fool could see it. However, the location chosen by the Alliance was very good, being midway between the beach defense line and the surrounding cities.

This place is not far from either side and the terrain is flat. There is no need to set up defense positions under normal circumstances. Now the front line is under crazy attack, reinforcements from the rear have not arrived, and the cities in the middle do not dare to send troops out of the city to attack easily. This has made it an excellent place for airborne operations.

Rand hurried and finally arrived at the area where the light beam was before its color changed from white to white and red. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the situation near the container.

At this time, 7-8 comrades have gathered here, and one container provides equipment for a team of 10 people.

Rand nodded to the people he passed by and quickly walked into the container. At this time, there were still two half-kneeling standard mechas inside.

He took off the badge on his chest that carried his own aura and inserted it into the slot on the chest plate of the mecha. A slight tingling sensation rose from his head.

Rand endured the strange pain and continued to maintain the posture of touching the badge with his hand. After about ten seconds, the authentication was passed through the chest armor and opened outward. He turned over and climbed in, activated the mecha arm and completed the final arming himself.

Finally, he stood up amid the sound of mechanical hydraulic transmission, rummaged through the armory cabinet welded to the container, took out the imitation MG34 general-purpose machine gun, and simply disassembled it to check if there was any damage.

He put six bulging iron boxes with soft links containing 6 rounds of bullets into the backpack of the mecha one by one and carried them on his back. The weight of the ammunition alone was 12000 kg. Rand nodded with satisfaction and walked out with heavy steps.

The MG34 Midia is given to mecha soldiers to use as a submachine gun, otherwise it would be a waste to use a mecha-specific weapon to attack ordinary soldiers.

After all, the height is 5m, and the weapons used cannot be called guns at all. They are basically small-caliber cannons. Even Medea felt a little distressed when they hit ordinary soldiers.

The MG34's terrifying rate of fire is enough to defeat most enemies even with 7.62 ordinary bullets. It is still very useful for mecha soldiers. As long as the load-bearing capacity is high, everything is easy.

The two airborne divisions are not composed entirely of mecha soldiers, and Medea cannot afford to burn mecha equipment for 40,000 people, but the main attacking soldiers have all been transformed into heavy mechas.

The remaining soldiers are armored troops, responsible for operating the airdropped medium tanks and 152-caliber self-propelled howitzers, as well as transporting ammunition and repairing machinery. They are logistics soldiers who are not responsible for frontal combat.

Thanks to the improvement of chemical etching technology, anti-gravity technology has begun to be applied to all aspects of the military field, and heavy armored vehicles and mechas will not suffer serious impact damage when airdropped.

The Holy See might have anticipated that the Media airdropped troops would cause them some trouble, but they would never have imagined that what she sent were not just small shrimps, but a decisive force that could influence the direction of a battle even on the front battlefield.

Rather than calling these two troops airborne divisions, the full name should be Airborne Heavy Mechanized Division and Armored Division. When they were gathered together as a complete unit, not even a single human body could be seen in the open, all of them were cold steel.

As for the traditional Magic Continent mechas, after thoroughly mastering the technology, Media has continued to transfer them to the civilian field for use in labor-intensive industries such as infrastructure projects and mining. By the way, it has also cultivated a public-private partnership company for mechas to further explore the application of mechas in other fields.

Chapter 240: Defense of Como City

Shinwapha

Before intervening in the battlefield, the Alliance helped Ernesto carry out a large-scale bombing on the Drod Coalition's main logistics warehouse base, which was considered the last help given to Ernesto in the short term.

Although the bombing cost the coalition forces a heavy price, it did not dampen their determination to attack.

Because winter is coming and the river will be frozen, the two military fortresses built on the river bank in Hinwapa State will be flat and undefended. It is neither logical nor moral for them to miss such an opportunity.

Of course, such an action must be quick. Once the river is completely frozen, the speed at which they transport supplies from the rear will be greatly slowed down.

The coalition forces were very confident about this. With 500,000 troops fighting against 300,000, their numbers were almost twice as many as the enemy's. With better equipment and sufficient supplies, how could the coalition forces lose?

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"Yes, they will take over our cities, our homes, and we will starve."

"Yes, they are strong, with more than twice our numbers, but we can still resist anywhere!"

"I will be with you, we will never surrender!!!"

Broadcasts were heard from all over the city of Como in the state of Shinwapa. The voice of General Cassius, the commander of the battle, was heard by the Red Army who were building fortifications in the city.

Everyone was working enthusiastically, carrying cement sandbags and stones, building various bunkers and street positions. From time to time, someone would stop what they were doing and shout loudly:

"Ula!!!"

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians laid anti-tank mines, large and small criss-crossing trenches and other obstacles in the city, and also set up a large number of obstacles and fortifications near the factories.

There are 15 soldiers in each of the two important cities. These people are the elite of the Red Army. Yadov gave Cassius the greatest support. Weapons and equipment, food supplies, and even the composition of the army were carefully selected.

This group of people all have one thing in common, that is, they are the sons of liberated serfs.

With Ernesto's help, their family escaped from slavery and successfully owned a piece of permanent land of their own.

Ernesto had assured them that agricultural taxation would be based on the progressive system of Serbia, and that they would not be taxed too heavily.

In other words, Yadov wanted to achieve the goal of equal distribution of production.

However, this is unrealistic. The alliance was able to be formed because foreign trade filled the gap and successfully implemented the progressive system, and this was when the population base was very low.

But Ernesto can't do that. They have a large population and a vast territory, and they also need goods that can be used for foreign trade to exchange with friendly countries such as the Alliance for what they need. Ernesto is so poor that only agricultural products are worth a little money~

Medea found a reason to subsidize the money he was going to give to him as free aid to help him achieve part of his goal.

But no matter what, such a clear promise of benefits made Yadov gain the support of the serfs, and their children naturally became the best soldiers.

Because no child would want their parents and themselves to go back to the dark times of the past, for this goal they took up arms to defend their country and home.

Cassius stood in the tower and looked at the city below with complicated eyes. Because of the convenience of the river and its distance from the capital, this state took over about 40% of the industries aided by the alliance.

In other words, this place is equivalent to half of Ernesto's lifeline. Once this place is taken, Ernesto's industrial production capacity will be halved, and the capital will face the coalition forces.

This is also the reason why the coalition forces must attack here. It is worth the coalition forces' attack at all costs.

Once they successfully capture Ernesto, the battlefield will basically be settled. They can then withdraw troops to support the Demetria Church and concentrate their forces to deal with the alliance's counterattack.

It can be said that the attack and defense of Xinhuapa State will determine the fate of Ernesto's country and the direction of the subsequent war between the coalition forces and the alliance.

Ernesto cannot lose this battle, and cannot afford to lose.

Cassius sent a final telegram to Yadov in the capital: "Marshal, please do everything in your power to support us. We will defend every position and every inch of territory until the last drop of blood is shed."

More than 100 heavy tanks of the coalition forces broke through the last line of defense on the front line and galloped across the flat grassland in front of the city of Como. Hundreds of fighter planes in the sky roared towards the city of Como, dropping large and small magic bombs and madly firing at the ground.

The Ernesto soldiers and civilians who were building fortifications and had no time to escape suffered heavy casualties, and many oil depots storing fuel were affected and exploded.

When the vanguard of the coalition forces arrived at the other side of the river in Como at night, the city was ablaze with flames and smoke. The city, set against the backdrop of flames and smoke, was exactly the target they wanted to conquer.

The Allied forces penetrated into the city of Como as easily as a needle through window paper. It was not that there were no defense lines, but that these defense lines were completely unable to stop them.

Under the massive tank artillery attack, the anti-tank artillery and rocket launchers on the outer positions of Como city were razed to the ground before they could fire many rounds.

But the closer the Allied soldiers got to the city of Como, the more they realized that they seemed to be fighting everyone.

Just like the artillery position that was turned into a puddle, during the subsequent inspection they discovered that the artillerymen who fired at them were women.

In this war, Ernesto mobilized all his people, and the state requisitioned most of the farmers' grain.

But this time they did not feel despair. In fact, most of them volunteered to go because their children and even grandchildren were in the army.

About 8 civilians from the sister cities behind Como joined the self-defense counterattack and received militarized training, including about 9 youth league children aged 16-7000.

After entering the city of Como, the coalition forces found that they could not rush in. They encountered extremely tenacious resistance from the Red Army.

The infantry-tank coordinated tactics adopted by the coalition forces could not be implemented at all in the city of Como, which was bombed into half ruins. Tanks weighing dozens of tons could not pass through many narrow areas, and the trenches on the streets made them even more daunting.

The soldiers in the mecha were also worried, as they had no idea whether there was an anti-tank mine buried in the rubble beneath their heavy footsteps.

This thing is used to blow up tanks. If it hits the body of a soldier, the lower half of the body can be easily shattered, and the soldiers inside will naturally have no chance of survival.

The map in front of Cassius in the bunker was accurate to the m, and every street and every house was their target to defend.

He had never thought of confronting the coalition forces head-on at the beginning. The number of 500,000 was too despairing. He could only use the flesh and blood of all the people in the city to delay the coalition forces.

Chapter 241: Defense of Como City

'Buzz, squeak, squeak...'

Tanks emitting thick smoke led the way in front. The Allied soldiers in the side machine gun towers on the left and right sides nervously looked left and right through the observation holes to check the movements around them, fearing that a Red Army squad was ambushed somewhere.

The tank tracks made an unbearable noise as they pressed against the road filled with gravel and corpses, and behind it were two squads of 20 people who were clearing out suspicious areas around it.

However, even though they were cautious enough, they still miscalculated. In the half-building next to them that was crumbling and could collapse at any time, after confirming that their teammates carrying rocket launchers were ready, two Ernesto Red Army soldiers carefully lit a small earthenware jar stuffed with cloth and threw it downstairs.

With a crisp cracking sound, the gasoline in the jar was ignited and exploded in the squad. Immediately, the Allied soldiers behind the tank screamed and fled in all directions. Taking advantage of the chaos in the enemy team, the soldiers stood up with rocket launchers and fired at the tank.

"Shh...Bang!"

The armor-piercing projectile hit the top shield of the tank. A metal jet penetrated the shield and also pierced the top armor of the tank. Copper pieces splashed in the tank cabin at an extremely high speed, killing all life around.

Soon the tanks stopped moving forward. Many soldiers who were covered in gasoline and on fire screamed and hugged their companions, and both died in the fire.

The other fleeing Allied soldiers were soon taken away by cold gunfire from different positions. At the same time, Ernesto's Red Army, whose firepower points were exposed, was also attacked by other Allied forces.

In an instant, the relatively quiet street was filled with gunfire and explosions.

The Allied forces had a very difficult time advancing in the city of Como. The heavy tanks that had been invincible in the past were not suitable for use in small urban areas. However, because Como was an industrial city, such places were not uncommon.

The winding alleys were filled with contracted workshops, which were once crowded with sweaty workers who used crude machines to hammer out simple parts, and finally handed them over to the assembly plant for final assembly.

Convert iron lumps and black powder into mines, anti-tank rockets and sting mines.

The large factories are located in the core area of ​​the rear. They are responsible for the manufacture of medium and large mortars and artillery. The sister city in the rear is the firearms manufacturing center and the largest manufacturing center in the country.

Bolt-action rifles, submachine guns and grenades were produced and supplied to the army throughout the country.