I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

"Shaped-charge armor-piercing shells loaded!"

"Alright! Fire!"

As the gunner stepped on the electric switch, a shaped-charge armor-piercing shell flew out of the 75mm gun barrel and headed straight for the machine gun bunker that was firing in their direction.

The armor-piercing shaped charge shells used to attack tanks are also good at attacking bunkers. After shattering the bunker's outer defenses, the high-temperature shaped charge jets sprayed into the bunker, instantly turning the chief and deputy machine gunners inside into a pile of cooked minced meat.

The 75mm Cannon Alliance has not reduced its production. Although its absolute power is somewhat low, its ultra-high frequency of firing rate can bring good benefits in most battlefield environments.

"10 o'clock! Damn it! It's the Allied Super Crossbow Tank!"

Under the guidance of the tank commander, they also discovered the familiar huge shape in the smoke, which was an Allied tank similar to Saint-Chamond.

The commander immediately identified the specific model by the iconic three gun barrels on the left, middle and right.

The Super Crossbow-class multi-turret tank is equipped with three 75mm field guns and four machine guns, can carry 4 passengers, weighs 12 tons, and has a maximum speed of 65km per hour.

“There’s one at 9 o’clock, too!”

"13 o'clock! Two cars!"

"Damn it, they use tanks as fixed fortresses? Can our shells penetrate them?"

"It's a bit difficult. This iron turtle doesn't have anything, except for its extremely high defense and firepower..."

It is impossible for a tank to be without weak points, but if it is used as a fixed fortress, basically all of its weak points will be reinforced. It will not be possible to go around the back or attack the tracks, and it can only attack the opponent's strongest front armor head-on, which is not difficult.

"When will the air force comrades arrive? Have them open these cans."

"Captain, we need to wait at least 8 minutes. The previous round of bombing has just finished, and the new attack formation is still being organized."

"Damn it, we can hold out for eight minutes?! Even if we can hold out, all the comrades outside will die!"

As he was speaking, several 75mm shells landed around him, blowing up the magic shield installed on the light tank and stirring up a cloud of mud mixed with blood.

Although the tank was lucky enough to be intact, the infantry squad following behind was hit by a bullet and was instantly wiped out.

However, freed from the constraints of the cover mission, Ponomareva instantly shifted gears and accelerated, and began to use the high mobility of the light tank to move flexibly to avoid the opponent's attacks.

The Allied forces did not target the light tank crews driven by Ponomareva and others. Their main focus was on the Sherman medium tank regiment that blocked their way, which also gave Ponomareva and others room to survive.

However, the 75mm cannon of the Super Crossbow class also made it very difficult for them to evade. Although the three gun barrels had various disadvantages, the three firing ranges were enough to give their opponents a headache. When counterattacking the Super Crossbow class, they also had to evade attacks from other fortifications.

The goddess of luck will not always be with the same group of people. Ponomareva was concentrating on controlling the steering rudder. Suddenly, the tank body shook violently. The instantaneous impact force caused chaos in the crew.

'Shit! We're getting shot!'

'Damn it, Comrade Ponomareva, get our 'boys' moving immediately, we can't just stand there!'

Ponomareva quickly pressed various buttons and joysticks, her gray and dark face covered with sweat: "No, the track is damaged, I have to get off the car to repair it."

'Get off? Now!'

She picked up her tool kit and lifted the cockpit cover. "Either I go out and fix it, or we all die together."

The danger of repairing a tank in the middle of a battlefield did not need to be emphasized to her, but what else could be done if the tank was not repaired? Would everyone abandon the tank?

Are you sure you want to abandon your vehicle in the middle of a battle? Not to mention whether you can outrun the shells, how long and how far can you run with just your two legs?

So Ponomareva did not complain about anything. Her life was in her own hands. Even if she died, she would die on the way to saving herself. She had tried her best.

Chapter 340 'Miss of the Alliance'~

He jumped off the tank under fire and took a quick look at the area where the bullet hit.

Fortunately, although they were hit, the outer guard of the side armor saved their lives. At the same time, they were hit by high-explosive shells instead of armor-piercing shells.

But... the track below is broken...

Looking at the broken tracks, Ponomareva, who had come out in the hail of bullets, sighed. Their lives had entered the final countdown.

The other crew members in the tank turned the turret and fired shells continuously. They were not aware of the specific situation outside, but they all knew that stopping meant death. Now they just had to fire one more shell before they died.

Just when she gave up repairing the shell that was waiting to take her life at any time, the ground began to shake violently, and a huge shadow drove out the sunlight and engulfed her.

Ponomareva, who was squatting behind the tank, looked back subconsciously. A Tiger tank stopped in front of her. The slender gun barrel slowly turned, and with a loud bang, it shot the super-crossbow-class tank that was causing them trouble to death.

It was a real death, with the turret pointing straight into the sky.

Ponomareva was overjoyed: "It's the eldest lady!!!"

No one can resist heavy tanks, especially tank soldiers.

60 tons is not an uncommon weight, and there are tanks weighing more than 100 tons, but the Allied definition of a tank should be a self-propelled artillery piece that provides fire support for infantry.

So in terms of design, it is more like a cannon that can move on its own and has strong defensive capabilities than a tank, so the design can be said to be very strange.

There are all kinds of styles that humans can think of and cannot think of. For example, Ponomareva saw a two-wheeled tank inside the military academy when she was training in driving skills.

The huge front and rear wheels can easily compact the road surface. Compared to driving it to the battlefield, Ponomareva thinks it might be more appropriate to use it to pave the road.

Therefore, compared with other Imperial tanks of the same level, the Tiger's appearance design is more in line with the tank soldiers' definition of "beautiful" and "powerful".

The square body, low flat turret, slender gun barrel, powerful power, and good driving performance were all things that Ponomareva coveted.

Just hearing the unique roar of the engine is enough to inspire most tank soldiers to be brave.

However, due to many factors such as long production hours, high technical indicators, and high costs, Ernesto did not receive any technical decentralization from the alliance.

According to the Alliance's expatriate technical experts, "Her strength depends on the country that manufactures her. Her design is not perfect, but it is perfect because the Alliance can make her perfect."

"I'm sorry, but Ernesto can't do that at the moment."

Although it sounds infuriating, Ernesto's experts can only accept it.

As Seris' only two allies and the only brother country with the same ideology, Seris was basically unreserved in its technical assistance to Ernesto.

The Alliance not only provided Ernesto with technology and finished materials, but also taught him step by step how to design and produce tanks from scratch, laying a solid foundation for his independent research and development.

They knew that the defense coefficient of sloped armor was higher than that of vertical armor, and that a thinner thickness could exceed the defense level of vertical armor. The boxy body was not an excellent design, and the staggered road wheels were a logistical disaster. Ernesto's logistics staff couldn't even figure out how to repair her.

That's why experts say she's not perfect

But the Alliance can fill these imperfections with technology. The epoch-making metal smelting process gives her the best and lightest steel to enhance defense, and the chemically etched multi-layer stacked inscription array can even provide defense capabilities that exceed the steel plate protection itself.

With the addition of position shield technology, advanced engine design, fully automatic ammunition loader, high-precision aiming equipment and other advantages, it has the advantages of strong maneuverability, high and accurate firepower projection rate, and good human-machine efficiency.

This kind of industrial product that is completely inconsistent with industrial standardization, generalization, and simplification will naturally not be included in the scope of the alliance's foreign technical assistance.

Rather than saying that the Tiger tank is a tool of war, it is better to say that the Alliance is playing with it as an artistic product of industrial showmanship, so within Ernesto, this delicate Tiger tank was given the elegant nickname of the Alliance's eldest lady.

Delicate refers to the complexity of its design and the envy of the crew's spacious interior space. Compared with the Tiger crew, those who drove other tanks were like sitting in an incinerator. It was usually very hot and if they were hit, they would probably be incinerated on the spot.

Expensive means literally that the Tiger is not cheap from head to toe. The price of the outermost layer of armor that can partially offset the highest level 9 magic and physical attacks is enough to buy two light tanks.

But you get what you pay for. While other tanks would either be blown away or exploded by a slap from Golden Behemoth, Tiger can fight face to face, and the big fight has no effect on her.

Although Ernesto could not get the Tiger's technology, he could still buy some quotas for the finished vehicle. It's just that this thing was usually hidden very carefully by the commander, and he didn't expect him to send it out today.

After dealing with the super crossbow tank, Tiger continued to turn the turret and fired at another super crossbow to blow it up. Her mission was to hunt down these motionless living coffins.

The 88 gun's extremely high initial velocity, coupled with the specially made tungsten core armor-piercing projectile, can simultaneously shovel the enemy tank's armor-piercing shield with a shaped-energy explosion and simultaneously insert a later-made tungsten steel nail into the enemy tank's mouth, thus penetrating the entire enemy tank with one shot.

Before leaving, a small smoke bomb popped out from the front of the Tiger turret and landed next to the tank where Ponomareva was. A thick smoke hid them, and then she drove away leisurely.

He looked just like a young lady. A beggar passing by on the street took pity on him and gave him a Red Bull.

The smoke could be continuously emitted for five minutes without any magic to dispel it. Although it could not completely save Ponomareva and others from danger, it did increase their chances of survival.

The tank engineering vehicles in the rear built the bridge, and the large troops began to swarm out. In an instant, the originally dangerous central battle area became the rear area, and Ponomareva's crew was lucky to save their lives.

As she and her team members were busy repairing the tracks, the commander, who was sitting in the turret and observing the surroundings, suddenly asked in confusion: "What... is that?"

Upon hearing what he said, several people looked up in the direction his arm was pointing, and in the distance a conspicuous mushroom cloud lay between the sky and the earth.

"Where is that?"

"Not sure, it should be the Britian capital of Grax..."

The attack on the Sadrichs Line went more smoothly than Ernesto's army had expected. After eight days of fierce attack, Ernesto was unable to make any progress in front of the second fortress line.

Almost every three days they would launch a round of bombing with more than 50 artillery shells, but even so they only captured less than 20% of the second line of defense.

But for some reason, the defenders inside the Sadrichs Line, which they originally thought would hold them off for at least three months, and even half a year if they were unlucky, opened the city walls and surrendered.

It is said that the order was given personally by the supreme commander of Sadrichis. In this way, Ernesto inexplicably completed the task of capturing Sadrichis, and Grax was within sight.

They had suffered so many losses at the hands of the Britian Empire, and all of them were holding a grudge. Now their only goal was to plant the red flag on the Imperial Palace and wipe out the shame of the old era in one fell swoop.

This is an extremely important political action. As long as Ernesto can do this, the remaining power of the previous Roshek Dynasty will completely collapse. From now on, Ernesto will be Ernesto, and the restoration forces will no longer have much influence.

Chapter 341 War Crimes

"A unified market is the essence of a strong country. Each unified market represents a complete production chain from production to sales, from food, clothing, housing and transportation to guns and cannons, from raw materials to finished products. The strong country is the core of this chain and occupies a dominant position in this market."

"In essence, the history of world wars in the post-imperial era is a history of the struggle between closed markets. Every country that controls a dominant market wants to occupy a larger market dumping ground, which is the fuse of war."

"These are the foundations of peace. Only when this problem is fundamentally resolved will war basically disappear."

In the private meeting room of the palace, Blatt and Yadov looked at the summary report submitted by the alliance experts with strange colors in their eyes.

This thing is written in a very fancy way, but it doesn't provide clear answers to many specific questions.

No, that's not right. In fact, the answer to the problem lies in these seemingly peaceful and harmless basic demands.

Although they may not have studied it systematically, they still understand the most basic principle that the market will not disappear just because you ban it.

The relationship between supply and demand is the underlying operating logic of society. This report actually talks about the abolition of the ability of various countries to control and intervene in their own markets.

With open doors, free economy and global integration strategy, the idea of ​​the alliance becomes obvious: what they want to do is to integrate the global market into one.

Once the market is unified, the league can become the uncrowned king in this new system without saying a word.

Because the war has been going on till now, most of the countries on the main continent have participated in it and have all suffered great damage, but the Alliance is almost the only one that has a sound full industrial chain system.

Then in this so-called globalized "free market" economy, as the absolute exporting country, it indirectly controls the dominant position in this market.

But can anyone refuse this 'peace' treaty?

Don't Have

Blatter thought for a moment: "It will be difficult for them to agree to such conditions, but they will agree in the end."

Yadov nodded: "Our war on the Britian front is progressing very smoothly. As long as it ends smoothly, the biggest obstacle to peace will be gone, and the rest will be easy~"