I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

Katerina was one of them. She had used SVD to accurately kill four coalition soldiers and escaped safely from the enemy's counterattack.

There was no way. The quota for sniper bullets was very small because most of the transportation capacity was concentrated on transporting the firearms themselves. She still used more standard rifle bullets. If the range exceeded 800m, the accuracy would drop significantly. For this reason, she could only shoot in more dangerous positions.

In the early stage, a large number of defenseless soldiers and officers were killed by the sniper team that Ernesto showed up. Therefore, whenever the coalition forces found their companions killed by a single shot from a long distance, they would launch a fierce artillery counterattack on the suspicious areas, and the fighter planes in the air would also descend to clean up.

For Ernesto's snipers, the living environment on the battlefield is deteriorating every day, which is also a microcosm of the entire Como city defenders.

The grain warehouse in the city of Como was lit up by flames, lighting up the night sky. It had held out for more than a dozen days and nights, and every charge by the coalition forces was repelled by defensive firepower.

In the chaos, Katerina aimed and shot at every soldier in the light of the fire, doing her best to relieve the pressure of her comrades in the granary.

It was not until the coalition forces mobilized heavy artillery that the dilapidated building of the granary finally succumbed to the roar of artillery and began to collapse on a large scale. The flames began to spread into the interior of the granary, and the never-ending buzzing sound of machine guns came to an abrupt end.

Katerina's shooting also attracted the attention of the coalition forces. Katerina, who was lying in the ruins, saw through the sight that the tank's raised gun barrel was aimed at her. Her fingers trembled and she released the trigger.

She left the scope and looked up at the dark night sky, the corners of her mouth slightly raised as if she saw the tomorrow she had been expecting.

"My passion..."

After the roar of artillery fire, the already shaky and dilapidated buildings collapsed, and more than a dozen Ernesto warriors at the granary broke through the blockade of the sea of ​​fire, wrapped in flames and shouting slogans, launching a death charge towards the coalition forces at the door:

"Ula!!!"

"Shoot! Shoot!"

Under the intensive shooting, Ernesto's soldiers, covered in flames, fell one after another in front of their positions.

Paul put down his gun and looked at the still burning corpse in front of him, gasping for breath. Although it did not cause him any harm, this scene had a great impact on Paul's heart.

After the war, the Allied soldiers cleaned up the battlefield with numb faces and rescued their comrades who were still alive.

When the adjutant reported the number of enemy troops to the battalion commander, Paul heard the commander's angry roar: "What did you say?! 40 people?"

"40 people held off 800 of us for nearly 20 days! Are they monsters?"

"Sir, it's 41..." the adjutant emphasized, as if even one more would make him feel better.

Chapter 338 The Power of Billions of Subsidies

In the underground command post in the rear, the clerk stamped Katerina's file with a black seal and placed it in a pile of documents aside.

"92% of Como has been occupied, and our fighters are at their limit..."

Looking at the report on hand that all the first 1000 snipers were confirmed dead, Cassius took a deep puff of cigarette:

"Yes, our warriors are almost at their limit."

"So do our enemies."

As he said this, he looked at the marching route of the alliance reinforcements on the map and drew a circle around the city behind Como City: "Now it's our turn to attack."

'ah? ’

More than 90% of the area has been occupied. As long as the entire area is occupied, the main force of the coalition forces will be able to break free from the constraints of this city.

The urging of the rear command and the temptation of the last area made the coalition commander lose his mind. He once again mobilized the flank troops to concentrate his forces in an attempt to crush Ernesto's last resistance in one go.

But the commander of the Allied forces on the Ernesto battlefield enjoyed the despair of the Demetria Church. More than 10,000 Alliance paratroopers had arrived at the Allied right-wing defense line at some point in time, broke through the defense line at a devastating speed, and launched a flank attack on the Central Army deep inside the city of Como.

In the past, even tens of thousands of heavily armored soldiers could not cause too much damage to the organized coalition forces. But now the situation is not as good as before. Most of the coalition forces have been trapped in the meat grinder of Como City.

The defense forces on both wings were just for show. Most of the soldiers were transferred into the city of Como for the final advance. The Alliance airborne troops did not encounter much hindrance when they went around to cut off the supply line.

At the same time, Cassius allowed the flesh grinder to continue to devour Ernesto, and the last mixed regular army of 5 people, which Ernesto refused to use at all, quickly broke through the coalition's defense from the left wing and completed the encirclement together with the alliance airborne troops.

There were still a considerable number of Allied soldiers outside the encirclement, but they were second- and third-line baggage troops, and were different from the regular troops that had penetrated deep into the city of Como.

6 people besieged 20. The difference in numbers made it seem as if such an action was in vain. However, in reality, when the coalition forces realized that they were surrounded, they fell into chaos.

Before they could break through the city of Como and rest, the entire coalition force was exhausted and the supply of ammunition and supplies had been cut off.

When a tired army fights against two fresh and energetic troops that have just finished their rest, the advantage in numbers does not mean much.

What's more, Ernesto continued to supply fuel to the city of Como through the river, and the enemies they faced were far more than 60,000.

In addition, the alliance's large reinforcement force is on the way. If they are pinned down for a period of time, they will be surrounded and annihilated.

The news of the Allied defeats in other areas also reached the corps commander. He decisively refused to accept the command from the headquarters to continue the attack, gave up the temptation to capture the city of Como, and led his troops to break through the encirclement and retreat.

The coalition commander reacted too quickly. The coalition airborne troops, who had not yet completed the consolidation of their positions, did not put up a desperate resistance based on the unfinished positions at the request of the General Staff. After a struggle, the coalition forces broke through the encirclement and left.

The Alliance General Staff did not choose to completely trap the opponent, which was a consensus reached after communication with Marshal Ernesto Cassius.

There are too many Allied soldiers in the city of Como. If they are pushed into a corner, all the losses and embarrassing situations that the Allied forces had suffered at the hands of Ernesto's Red Army would be reversed on Ernesto and the Allied Forces.

It would be better to give them a chance to survive and break their desperate momentum.

The movement and retreat of hundreds of thousands of troops, depending on the marching speed, would be like a long train with a front and a rear.

Relying on their stronger mobile supply capabilities, more than 10,000 airborne soldiers followed closely behind the coalition forces and occasionally took on a small number of slower-moving coalition forces.

It is like jackals driving a group of prey, forcing them to keep running and depleting their energy. The weak prey will fall behind the group and be eaten by the jackals.

In this way, the coalition forces were driven all the way back to the border of the empire to be picked up by the border defense forces. Only a little over 100,000 of the nearly 300,000 troops returned to the safe area, and two-thirds were lost on the way of retreat.

The Allied Joint Command was so furious at the legion commander's disobedience and breakout at a critical moment that they dismissed him overnight and replaced him with another veteran aristocrat to take over the defeated legion.

But it was too late. The main force of the Allied forces was surrounded and the Moseladale Line of Defense was defeated. The speed at which the war deteriorated far exceeded the upper limit of the Allied blood-making recovery that could withstand.

From the initial full-scale attack, to the defensive counterattacks in various regions, and finally to the defense of the homeland, the total time span was only a few years, and the remaining legion was soon submerged in the Ernesto torrent.

The State of Sadrichs is the last fortress line of defense outside the imperial capital of Grax that can resist foreign enemies.

As long as you cross Sadrichs, you will enter the Great Plains area, which is the core area of ​​the Brittian Empire. It is this vast plain with unique advantages that gave Brittian the capital to rise in the main continent.

But now their existence has also brought the most severe challenge to Brittian. It has no strategic location to defend, and the great plains also mean an excellent battlefield.

After talking to the transport truck driver for a few words, Ponomareva unloaded her light tank from the transport truck, picked up the bucket of snow water beside her and began to wipe the dirty turret of the tank.

The red frozen hands did not affect Ponomareva's movements at all. She wiped her child's body as gently as if she were doing it herself.

She is the driver and the mechanic, and this tank can truly be called her child, at least she feels so.

Ponomareva often wondered if her child, if still alive, would cheer in surprise at the huge size of this 'brother'.

It should be

Because of its existence, Ponomareva was able to avenge her husband and children. It is an indispensable part of the family.

The Battle of Sadrichs started soon. The Britians defended very resolutely. They built a solid group of defensive fortresses here. As the war progressed, its defense line was constantly updated and optimized. Now the main fortifications can defend against artillery bombardments below 200 mm.

Ernesto's artillery units and Mosquito bombers had a hard time dealing with such a tough nut to crack, but other than that Brittian had no other advantages.

The difficulties Ernesto had faced before were due to the fact that the alliance’s transportation capacity had reached its limit, and even if there were supplies, it was impossible to deliver them to Ernesto, who was thousands of miles away, through limited means.

For example, in the Alliance General Staff's early plans for this war, it would deploy about 400 million troops to the main continent.

What a concept. At that time, the largest super cruise ship in the alliance had a passenger capacity of 2000 people. To transport these four million people to the front line of the main continent, at least hundreds of cruise ships of this specification would have to run day and night for a year.

This is obviously impossible because of the super-standard armed system of the Alliance soldiers, and the transportation capacity demand of 400 million people only accounts for a small part of the total transportation capacity demand.

The biggest burden is the continuous investment in materials and equipment from various countries, as well as the supply of ammunition and fuel for large-scale artillery bombings, large-scale bombings, large-scale armored cluster assaults, and the transportation of various armored tanks and combat vehicles. These are the biggest burdens on the alliance's transportation capacity.

After the Seris Alliance completed its wartime transformation, the alliance's central government allocated 30 billion alliance coins to the shipping industry, and the entire shipbuilding industry went straight into a frenzy.

A huge leap was made within one year. In the second half of the first year of the war alone, the Alliance shipyards produced the world's output. The output began to increase exponentially in the second year. On the Alliance's founding day at the end of the year, 100 ships were launched.

The alliance's 10 billion yuan subsidy is also a super pie for other fields.

Equipment output has also doubled exponentially, with annual production of one million military trucks, 15 complete aircraft, 2000 aircraft engines delivered per day, and about 500 tanks of various types rolling off the production line per day.

When these massive amounts of equipment are delivered to the allies with the liberated transportation capacity, even Ernesto, who is farthest away, will have enough resources to operate the armored torrent.

The tank division where Ponomareva was located did not have any Tiger tanks, but it had more than 500 light and medium tanks, making it a clearly overstrength tank reinforcement division.

So even when facing Ernesto, who could have been easily crushed to death in the past, the Britian Empire can now only hold on, and can do nothing else.

Chapter 339: Battle of Sadrichs

The battle soon began

When Ernesto completely lifted the restrictions on material supply, the strength of the industrialized integrated forces began to show.

Ernesto's artillery unit took the lead in launching a large-scale bombardment. Various types of artillery shells and rockets bombarded the Sadrichs Line for a whole day and night, and nearly 70 artillery shells were fired.

Mosquito bombers also formed dense formations and continuously dropped bombs over the fortress, carrying out horizontal bombing attacks on the entire defense line.

The entire trench and fortress complex was shrouded in thick smoke from morning to night. The positions were cut off by 20 centimeters by artillery shells, and the temporary trenches collapsed across the board. Only the original permanent underground fortifications could still function normally.

The Sadrichs Line of Defense is composed of three fortification areas. The front is a forward position formed by trenches, barbed wire and chevaux de frise. In the middle is a machine gun and heavy artillery fortress reinforced with solidified cement, special material skeletons and magic engraved array patterns.

The last one is a military fortress transformed from the capital of Sadrichis State. There are even several large magic towers inside that are used as tower fortresses. With the addition of nearly 500,000 allied reserve soldiers, it can be said that Sadrichis is armed to the teeth.

At the sound of the whistle of the front-line sergeants, a large number of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles protected the soldiers in the rear and rushed towards the defense line. The first line of defense was basically destroyed, but the wide anti-tank trenches forced the heavy armored troops to stay where they were and wait for the engineering troops to build a bridge.

At this time, the artillery and magic corps on Sadrichs' second line of defense madly poured fire on the stagnant Ernesto Red Army.

Dense artillery shells and magic poured down, most of which were blocked by the frontal tank armor, and the rest exploded in the crowd, causing a bloody storm.

Tanks have been around for so long that countries have gradually tried to find ways to counter them. From time to time, high-density magic rays would hit the tanks. The intensive high-frequency attacks would blast Sherman's magic shield. Without a layer of protection, the rest would be easy to deal with.

There were bursts of roars from the fortress group, and several huge shells fell into the tank group, turning the tanks that were hit into scrap metal, and those affected also suffered varying degrees of damage.

305mm mortar, similar to an oversized mortar.

The technical requirements are not high, the range is not far, the loading is slow, but the power is enormous. The weight of the 305mm shell itself is so great that it can only be pushed in with an ammunition cart.

This is used to attack tanks. If a 305 high-explosive bomb falls into a group of soldiers, it can easily wipe out more than a hundred soldiers in two platoons.

[Everyone prepares smoke bombs, fire 2 shells quickly and then fire freely.]

Light tanks are not heavy enough to cross the anti-tank trenches. Under the command of the commander, the light tank battalion in the rear continued to move to cover the soldiers' assault, while the medium tanks began to bombard the defense line on the spot.

Rounds of rockets were also fired intensively at the fortresses from the rear, and the violent explosions and thick fog blocked the enemy's vision.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Move, move! Speed ​​up!"

Ponomareva stepped on the accelerator hard amid the driver's shouts. The powerful force made the small steamed bun emit a puff of black smoke and climb over the steep slope. The violent bumps and swings made Ponomareva groan, but her good physical fitness allowed her to endure the discomfort.

The girl from the fighting nation is no vase. As a part-time mechanic, her arms are stronger than some men and she can even swing a wrench with great vigor.

"12 o'clock, machine gun fort 1100 yards away, prepare for bombardment!"

"Hurry up..."