I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

However, armor-piercing shells and shaped-charge armor-piercing shells do not require too high an initial velocity. Coupled with their rapid maneuverability and off-road capabilities that are faster than tanks, their battlefield practicality is not low.

The heavy assault gun actually follows the same route as the tank, except that it does not use a tracked chassis and is equipped with a proper Type 88 main gun.

Compared to tanks, the heavy assault gun is simply a vehicle-mounted platform specially built to carry the 88 tank gun. It has lower costs and labor hours than the Tiger, provides the same firepower intensity, and can be regarded as a simplified version of the Tiger.

In terms of firepower intensity and battlefield adaptability, it is more flexible than the Tiger tank which is also equipped with an 88-inch gun. Its disadvantage is that its protection capability is poor, and it is a specialized species with high attack and low defense.

Erich didn't care about that, he just liked the big gun barrel, and he could accept certain safety conditions for it.

Even many tank commanders have this problem. If they have a Tiger tank, they want to ride in it. If they don't have a Tiger tank, they want to ride in a heavy assault gun. In any case, they want to stick to the 88 gun no matter what.

For them, attack is the best defense. They like wheeled assault guns because they can both run and fight, and they are easier to maintain than the Tiger.

"boom!!!"

In the dense rain of magic bullets, artillery shells were mixed in and smashed down towards the Alliance paratroopers, causing bursts of violent explosions.

The sky above the magic tower, which is more than ten meters high, is densely covered with elements. From time to time, a series of magic is generated from it and smashed around. Around it are tower strongholds composed of densely packed artillery, and finally there is a railway transfer hub with dense rails.

"Pfft, pfft, pfft..."

Sergei, who was hiding on the reverse slope, spat out the dirt that splashed into his mouth, wiped his face, and yelled at the radio operator who was fiddling with the radio nearby: "When will the damn fire support arrive? We are almost buried by the shells!"

Prince Surya did not give it away for nothing. He arranged complete guard forces for every city, and important locations such as railway transit hubs were heavily guarded.

This is also the reason why Blatter was able to hold on for so long. Prince Surya came with the idea of ​​sharing the throne with Blatter even if he could not oust him.

The radio operator wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Right away! The tanks will arrive in five minutes, and the two dive bombers will also arrive in about five minutes. We need to guide the bombers to their targets."

Sergei: "Nonsense! The goal is of course to destroy that magic tower! Quick, quick, quick! Shine it!"

The high-frequency attacks of the magic tower caused heavy casualties to the airborne soldiers, most of whom were in open areas.

Several combat airships around the magic tower were madly firing at it, but the dense large-caliber bullets hitting it could only cause a series of ripples.

In desperation, the airboat soldiers turned their guns around and carried out targeted cleaning of the artillery on the surrounding towers.

To put it simply, this thing is built with a large magic crystal as the foundation. It's hard to say anything else, but the magic power is so abundant that it can explode. It can resist and fight. The machine guns of the gunboats cannot penetrate it in a short period of time, let alone cause any damage.

However, the Alliance's tank company quickly bypassed the city and rushed to the rear battlefield. Under the illumination of the paratrooper unit's infrared spotlights, two highlighted targets appeared on the main gun's sight.

The light tank quickly maneuvered to the battle site between the two sides with its flexible speed and reached the attack distance first.

"Magic Tower! Load armor-piercing shells, distance 700 yards, 10 o'clock."

"Loaded."

"Trajectory confirmed."

"Fire!"

A flash of intense fire and smoke flashed from the muzzle of the 75mm main gun, and a shaped-charge armor-piercing shell flew towards the magic tower and hit the outer shield heavily.

The metal jet punched a small hole in the shield wall, but the shield burst into a strong light and the hole was quickly sealed.

"No! The shield is too thick to break!"

[Change to tungsten core armor-piercing bullets, and prepare for full-scale salvo fire in 10 seconds. ]

Erich's calm voice reached everyone's ears, and everyone immediately found their backbone and followed his instructions to replace the armor-piercing bullets with tungsten cores.

The assault gun with a 10x10 chassis crashed through a haystack and came to a stop. The slightly low wedge-shaped turret slowly turned and aimed the long 88mm main gun at the magic tower in the distance that was still launching attacks.

"3-2-1, fire!"

“Bang bang…”

Dozens of pure kinetic tungsten drills slammed into the magic tower's shield at high speed. Five or six of them blew up the shield's instantaneous defense peak, and the remaining dozen or so tungsten core warheads drilled fiercely into the magic tower.

The powerful kinetic energy crushed the hard tower body that blocked the way after hitting the unknown metal of the tower body, and at the same time converted the broken parts into high-pressure metal debris flow fragments, which shot randomly inside the tower body.

Dozens of magicians hiding in the magic tower were pierced many times by the high-speed metal fragments and turned into rag dolls on the ground.

Chapter 276 Mobile Warfare

While Erich was cutting off the garrison at the railway hub, the tank division's main force was also carrying out a massive artillery bombardment of the entire city.

The Allied troops who wanted to come out to support the railway were hit by a hail of shells. They fled back in panic, leaving behind a trail of corpses. All kinds of large-caliber artillery and magic attacks indiscriminately covered the area where the tank troops were located.

Several tanks were damaged due to overloading. After rescuing the surviving wounded, the division commander decisively instructed: "The defense of this city is a bit strong. Hal, call for a round of bombing in advance, don't let the brother troops behind suffer."

"My subordinate understands!"

The division commander stopped paying attention to the city, and the main force quickly rushed towards the rail hub: "The entire army continues to accelerate and pay close attention to the combat situation of each company."

“空指中心443，这里是QZ11师-02战区-21分线，请求对目标进行2级火力覆盖，坐标8-3-6-2-0、完毕。”

【443收到，重复坐标8-3-6-2-0。火力投送要求、2级。】

In a large mobile trailer, a dozen air traffic controllers were constantly sending and receiving telegrams. On the magic mapping light curtain directly in front of them, 25 light spots were constantly flashing in various colors.

One of the staff members recorded the data and marked the two white dots in red on the big screen, and switched the radio channel:

【12-07，01-24，这里是443分指中心，我们收到了空中火力覆盖请求，请立即前往指定坐标，8-3-6-2-0。弹药基数-全部。】

"1207 received."

"124 received!"

Thousands of fighter planes of various types were flying in formation at high altitudes above the kingdom. One fighter squadron and a medium-range bomber squadron began to turn and maneuver, separating from the main force and regrouping.

40 fighter jets escorted 40 bombers, a total of 80 fighter jets flew towards the coordinate area. Four fighter squadrons each controlled an area, protecting the bomber team firmly in the inner circle.

"We are about to enter the preset anti-aircraft fire circle, all units should pay attention to maneuver."

It was not until they approached the target and the bomber crew began to descend in altitude and found no aerial threats that the fighter fleet dispersed and entered free-fire mode.

“Woo~~~”

The shrill air defense alarm woke up the Allied defenders who were still bombarding the area where the Alliance tanks had appeared before on their artillery positions. They subconsciously looked up at the sky.

Dozens of fighter planes have flown in front of them. The nimble Zero fighter planes were the first to lower their noses and dive. The barrage of bullets formed by rows of dense parallel machine guns plowed every inch of the land below.

A large number of Allied soldiers who had just reacted and wanted to run were immediately shot into sieves, and the entire artillery position was dyed red with blood and minced meat, turning into a purgatory.

The slower Greengor pilot used an instrument that received magic fluctuations to lock onto the areas where the various magic weapons and high-density shields were located.

The bomber flew over the sky and opened its belly. The densely arranged warheads were unlocked one by one and fell vertically downwards. Countless flames exploded on the ground one after another, leaving a path of flames.

It was not until then that the city's air defense forces began to fight back sparsely as if awakened from a dream. The Zero fighters in the sky kept adjusting their positions and firing at various air defense positions as if showing off their skills.

They all seemed to be newly recruited soldiers with no defense experience at all. Every attack by the Zero would cause a bloody storm in the area, and they would not fly away until the ammunition reserves were consumed and only enough for self-defense.

After hiding for more than ten minutes without hearing the death-like whistling sound in the air, the surviving soldiers came out from all directions to rescue their comrades who were lying in a pool of blood.

However, the mechanized forces of the Alliance had already arrived outside the city. A division left the army to build fortifications outside the city. The towed artillery was lowered and began to be prepared and debugged, and large-scale shelling began at the interior of the city.

The rest of the large force continued to advance along the passage reserved by the armored forces.

Under the positioning and preemptive bombing of dive bombers in the air, the airborne division parachuted at low altitude to launch a surprise attack on the Allied garrison positions, rail systems, material transfer centers and war preparation warehouses.

At the same time, the fast-mobile armored army uses each armored division as a node to disperse and provide frontal firepower to each paratrooper unit, and remove the nails that the tank division can remove at a specific point.

Hard bones that cannot be removed in a short period of time will not be lingered for too long. After reporting to the divisional command center, they will leave directly and leave the subsequent attacks to air bombardment and artillery units in the hands of the subsequent mechanized infantry.

At the same time, countless Surya citizens were armed as the fourth echelon to recover their land.

They don't need to engage in street fighting and attack, they just need to help the Alliance hold the line and prevent them from breaking through the siege. It is only a matter of time before a dead city that has lost all support surrenders.

Throughout the entire process, the paratroopers and armored groups did not stop except for necessary supplies, rest and rotation, and frantically broke through the Allied defense nodes in various areas.

The paratroopers and armored divisions broke through at a single point and occupied key transportation routes and various high-value target areas. The subsequent mechanized infantry used the areas occupied by the vanguard troops as strongholds to spread horizontally and carry out artillery and bombardment on the Allied forces that were surrounded in the rear.

Subsequent second-line troops took over the occupied areas obtained by the mechanized infantry and continued to maintain high pressure.

Single points became multiple points, and points were connected into surfaces to form a large-scale offensive arrowhead, which quickly engulfed the areas occupied by the allied forces in Surya and turned each city into isolated cities that were not connected to each other.

In less than a week, the three-line army had quickly penetrated the area occupied by Prince Surya, and the fastest army group had reached Trerenta, the outermost circle of the allied forces.

Because of the large-scale defeat in a short period of time, most of the troops were confused even at the moment of surrender. It was not until then that Prince Surya finally received the battle reports from various directions.

The battle information in the battle reports gave him a splitting headache, as almost all of them were reports of their own side being attacked and requests for support.

All of them! How can he save them? Who should he save first?

Ashadelon also encountered the same problem. The army of Trelenta kept sending various battle reports. This place said it was attacked, and that place also said that their side was attacked. At the peak, there could be dozens of such news reports in a day.

However, most of them were successfully defeated by the defenders, and only a few places did not send back intelligence and were confirmed to be defense failures.

This gave Ashadron a feeling that since the Alliance's offensive had failed in most areas, it would most likely strengthen its offensive capabilities in these areas.

As for the areas that were breached, they were not noticeable on the large sand table at the back, and even if someone noticed them, no one would take it seriously.

The reason is actually very simple. The Allied Forces have an absolute advantage in large areas. It doesn't matter if individual areas are broken through, because even if you break through, you dare not go deeper, otherwise your retreat will be easily cut off.

Therefore, most of the Allied officers, including the commanding marshal, believed that these breaches were simply the result of the Alliance’s reluctance to withdraw these protruding troops.

But the reality was completely opposite to what they expected.

The areas where the Trelenta Front was breached were all where the main vanguard forces of the Alliance were located, while the failure was just a feint attack by a small legion of airborne troops.

Chapter 277: The Surya People Get Revenge

In Ashadron's understanding, the situation of the war should be that the enemy launched a massive attack across the entire wide front battlefield, compressing the defenders' defense line as a whole.

So what he needed to do was to let the troops retreat to a certain area, reorganize and build the defense line, and then use the new troops he would mobilize to support him later to strengthen the defense capabilities of the front-line defenders.

However, the battle situation currently taking place in Trelenta is not developing as the Allied rear command imagined.

'Buzz....'

At the two breakthrough points created by the Alliance, 20,000 surrendering Allied soldiers lined up dejectedly to hand in their weapons.

The soldiers who had been disarmed squatted in various corners and ate the bread that was distributed. They did not get much food during this period, and one meal would last them for several days.

Only water resources were in sufficient supply, and by the time the follow-up troops arrived, they were all too hungry to walk, making it easier to manage them.

The captives were guarded obediently, and the other allied troops continued to advance along the road at a rapid pace, with the two sides not interfering with each other.

However, the captured Allied soldiers soon noticed something was wrong, because the number of vehicles passing by them quickly increased, with no sign of decreasing.

No matter what state the Allied prisoners were in, they all stared blankly at the armored vehicles passing by them.

In addition to the soldiers hanging outside various tanks and armored vehicles, various troop transport trucks and all-terrain vehicles were also full. However, the looks these soldiers gave them were generally not very friendly, and the styles of their uniforms were also slightly different, closer to the uniforms of the Surya Kingdom's military forces.