The Fourth Disaster, Starting from the Movie Eight Hundred

Throughout history, frontline commanders risked their lives. Napoleon slept less than three hours a night, relying on coffee to fuel his decision-making. Montgomery required medication for chronic insomnia during the Battle of El Alamein in World War II. Rommel developed severe liver disease from prolonged sun exposure during the North African desert campaign. Zhukov developed permanent arthritis while commanding troops in temperatures as low as -40°C at Stalingrad.

If you think this is just fatigue before World War II, you are wrong. Schwarzkopf made more than 200 key decisions within 72 hours during the Gulf War and relied on adrenaline to stay awake.

Do you still think commanding a war is a cool thing?

It is no wonder that some generals died young while fighting. Only those who have been in the battle know how terrible the hardship is, and death can even be regarded as a relief.

"I hope everything will be fine."

Zhukov picked up a cup of sweet sugar water. At this time, Zhukov had not yet had any intersection with Coca-Cola, but commanding a battle was too exhausting for the body, and the human brain was very picky about nutrition. But it was obviously inappropriate to force alcohol at this time, so Zhukov chose white sugar water, which was simple and quick.

But Chinese people absolutely cannot drink this kind of drink. It is so sweet that it can even make the Chinese tongue taste bitter. Then they will suspect that the Russians in the north are the reincarnation of the black bear spirit, and their hobby is to dig out beehives.

At this moment, the air defense alarm sounded in Chita City, and the volunteer army's bombers arrived on time.

Zhukov glanced at his watch. The bombing was as punctual as punching in for work. Moreover, the number of planes coming each time was the same, and the intensity of the bombing only increased and never decreased. It made people wonder if the enemy planes also had an airport in the sky. Otherwise, how could they be so unstoppable? Don’t their planes have any losses?

During this period, the Soviet army shot down more than two hundred fighter planes and bombers of various types, but the number of volunteers remained the same. The Soviet army had been bombed to the point of being a little mentally confused and doubting life.

But today's bombing was a little different. In addition to the sound of bombs exploding, there was some additional noise.

At first Zhukov thought he had misheard. It was normal to have hallucinations as he had been busy these days.

It wasn't until a shell landed less than 500 meters from his headquarters that he realized with shock that it was actually an artillery attack!

"What's going on? How could it be a cannonball?!"

Zhukov's face changed drastically and he immediately asked about the situation. Almost at the same time, the phone in the command center was flooded with calls.

That’s right, it’s shelling. Chita is being shelled, and the direction is the eastern part of Chita.

The Soviet army immediately sent out scouts, so there was no need for reconnaissance planes. There were still volunteer army fighter planes in the sky. If the reconnaissance plane dared to appear at the airport, it would be dead. If it took off, it would also be dead. It would be better to keep it for now and use it at a critical moment.

After the brave Soviet scouts set out with an entire company and returned with only one seriously injured soldier, they brought back a piece of shocking news.

"Chita... East of Chita... Ten kilometers... Volunteer Army... Fortress..."

After saying this, the seriously injured man stopped breathing.

At this time, the players who had built a tower defense fortress ten kilometers east of Chita had completed the first round of NPC recruitment. The number of garrisons had increased to more than five thousand, and the resurrection beacon had been deployed. Other players who wanted to join in the fun and had sufficient levels were coming in an endless stream. When the number of players here exceeded one thousand, the players would dare to attack Chita directly.

Although not every player can be upgraded to the level of company commander or above, even the lowest-level squad leader can at least lead two NPCs. Five hundred players each have two NPC summoning quotas, which is 1500 people. At the platoon level, that is a squad of NPC commanders and fighters, which is thirteen people. One thousand players means fourteen thousand people.

These are 14,000 manpower that can be continuously replenished. As long as the Soviet army cannot take away the volunteers in one wave, Chita will become two meat grinders grinding against each other, completely crushing the Soviet army in the Chita area.

The above information is known only to the players. Zhukov has no idea about it. He only knows that the enemy suddenly built a fortress, a permanent fortification complex, east of Chita.

How did you do it! ?

I don’t know, but at a distance of ten kilometers, the enemy’s heavy artillery was singing happily, and the whole Chita was trembling under the heavy artillery of the Volunteer Army. If it was not pulled out, then when the armored forces of the Volunteer Army arrived, Chita would definitely fall.

At this time, Zhukov still believed that the Volunteer Army armored forces heading north were the main force, so he naturally thought that the Volunteer Army in that group of fortifications was a minority responsible for containment and harassment.

But he didn't know how many this "minority" was. Even if it was only a few thousand people, it would physically cut off Chita's connection with the Far East, making it impossible for them to retreat eastward. If the main force of the Volunteer Army blocked the west, the Soviet army in Chita would be trapped.

Breaking out in other directions was impossible. To the north was Siberia and to the south was Mongolia. It was freezing cold, and the Soviet army, if they left the effective supply lines, would be choosing how to die.

"Concentrate all artillery fire and troops to eliminate the volunteers in the fortress!"

Zhukov made the most correct judgment in the shortest time. After all, an unstable rear is fatal to most armies. The Soviet Union cannot lose the Far East Railway, otherwise the Tsarist Russia's double-headed eagle will have to compete with the United States for the registered trademark.

Yes, yes, the Soviet Union’s belief was not the double-headed eagle, but that did not prevent them from imitating Tsarist Russia at the implementation level.

The mistakes made by Tsarist Russia are historical legacies, and the land left behind by Tsarist Russia is territory that cannot be lost.

After all, it is a country born from the corpse of the Tsarist Russian Empire, and it is impossible not to be influenced by local nationalist ideas.

So, the Soviet army in Chita braved the severe cold and launched an attack on the Volunteer Army's tower defense fortress ten kilometers away. This battle was later called the "Tower Defense Battle" by historians. Some people even created a classic tower defense game based on this battle - Defend the Fortress, which directly created a new type of electronic game - tower defense game.

The attacking Soviet army did not know at this time that they were about to make history, but history would record the victors, and they were just the background of this classic battle.

For the Volunteer Army, the Soviet army had been mobilized according to their own plan. What they had to do next was to consume the Soviet army's manpower. When they were forced to retreat to Chita, the countdown to the return of the Chita area would begin.

Now, let’s get the French fries first!

Chapter 79: Bloody Tower Defense

(Second update! Also, I have something to discuss. I really don’t have time tomorrow. Can everyone’s update reminder tickets be saved until Monday? o(╥﹏╥)o)

As the sky in the east began to turn pale, the sound of diesel engines starting up shattered the silence of the frozen earth. A torrent of steel, consisting of three hundred BT-2, BT-5, BT-7, and T-26 tanks, was ready to go, with Soviet artillery behind them diligently providing fire support.

At this time, the Soviet armored forces had not yet experienced the baptism (poisoning) of World War II, so the main function of the tank was still to serve as a mobile fortress for infantry to break through the enemy's defense line. Therefore, the offensive formation was still the traditional infantry assault line, rather than the classic wedge formation of World War II.

Soviet soldiers were making final preparations before the attack, and behind them began to hear more violent explosions.

That was a tragic explosion after the Soviet artillery was precisely countered by the Volunteer Army's artillery. Zhukov clearly felt the horror of the Volunteer Army's artillery. The Soviet artillery had only fired once or twice, or even just during calibration, when the Volunteer Army's artillery shells fell on them, burning the entire Soviet artillery position to pieces.

As time went on, the Soviet artillery counterattack became weaker and weaker. There was no other way. Even though they knew that the artillery preparation was not sufficient, the Soviet army could only launch an attack and try its best to tear open the Volunteer Army's defense line.

Hopefully, that can be achieved.

"go ahead!"

The whistle blew, and the tank tracks rolled over the frozen swamp, compacting and pushing away the snow and ice crystals, forming unique track propulsion lines. The tank commanders leaned halfway out of the turrets, some of them observing the volunteer army positions in the distance through binoculars.

Then they were disappointed. What was opposite them was not a field defensive fortification at all, but a complete group of fortifications made of poured concrete. At this time, a cloud of mist happened to pass by, and under the shadow, the volunteer army's position looked like the open mouth of a giant beast, and those bunkers were the teeth of the monster.

Suddenly, three red flares exploded in the air, signaling the start of the Soviet offensive. The Soviets concentrated all their artillery fire on the Volunteer Army's fortifications, their shells tracing a parabola of death as they exploded on the Volunteer Army's positions. However, the fortifications remained largely unchanged, their exterior only darkening.

The volunteer army's positions were silent, with no gunfire or artillery fire, as they silently endured the Soviet bombing.

Their artillerymen wouldn't last much longer anyway.

Sure enough, the Soviet artillery was at its last gasp and was soon completely silenced by the precise counterattack of the Volunteer Army. The Soviet army could only rely on the field artillery, tanks and infantry on the front line to attack.

This is destined to be a bloody battle.

A group of Stuka bombers swooped down from the clouds, and the shrieking sound was like the Grim Reaper sharpening his knife. The heavy bombs raised a ten-meter-high wave of earth on the ground. The flying shrapnel and invisible shock waves caused the attacking Soviet soldiers to fall down in large numbers. But the political commissars in the troops remained unshaken. They rushed to the front, constantly boosting morale, and preventing the Soviet army from collapsing in such a terrifying environment.

I have to say that the political commissar is indeed a great invention of the Soviet Army, much better than the French guerrilla group.

No wonder the director of "Soldiers at the Gates of the Soviet City" was almost "cordially" greeted by veterans of World War II when he went to Russia.

There were indeed similar supervision teams in the Soviet army, but they were there to execute Order 227, and they would also charge forward at critical moments. They were able to lead by example, and there were more warriors who led by example.

But the French supervision team is indeed a real supervision team. It is true that humans cannot imagine things they have not come into contact with. European and American countries never use things they have not done to criticize others (dog.jpg).

The artillery fire of the Volunteer Army continued to bombard the attacking Soviet army, causing heavy losses, but they had no choice but to rely on a surprise attack to cover this distance, otherwise the Volunteer Army's fortress would become a pair of pliers that strangled the Soviet army, suffocating the Soviet army in Chita.

Based on the intelligence currently collected by the Soviet side, Zhukov made an accurate judgment: If the volunteers could not be taken away in one wave this time, Chita would definitely not be able to be defended.

So, move forward, only by moving forward can there be a way out.

Five kilometers away, three kilometers away, one kilometer away...

The Volunteer Army's defense line suddenly woke up, and the originally silent bunker began to spew flames like a volcanic eruption. The 50mm anti-tank guns deployed by the Volunteer Army in the fortress had a very good destructive effect on the three main tanks currently used by the Soviet Army. As long as the armor-piercing shells hit the Soviet tanks, they could paralyze them. The Soviet infantry used various light weapons in their hands to fight back in vain. The Soviet tank shells could only leave some traces in front of the heavy reinforced concrete fortifications, and then be bounced off. The actual killing effect was even worse than that of grenades.

When the distance approached 300 meters, an even more terrifying fire network began to spray. The volunteers inside the defense line only had automatic weapons, such as MG42 machine guns, Lao Gan Ma heavy machine guns, 14.5-caliber anti-aircraft machine guns, and other anti-aircraft machine guns that were deliberately deployed on the front line to attack people.

This thing is more powerful than anti-tank guns when attacking light tanks equipped by the Soviet army. Not only can it destroy them, but it can also turn all the infantry around the Soviet tanks into a ball of blood mist, and suppress an entire company of the enemy so that they can't raise their heads.

When the distance was close enough, the Soviet army had to face the stranglehold of minefields and barbed wire.

The traditional tactics from World War I still had a huge killing effect at this time. The Soviet army had to resort to artificial blasting to clear a path at the cost of huge casualties, or even more crazily, use flesh and blood to clear mines under the leadership of the political commissar to open an offensive channel for subsequent troops.

Team after team of Soviet troops disappeared in front of the Volunteer Army's defense line. When success was about to happen, the Volunteer Army directly dispatched flamethrowers, and the flames directly burned the Soviet soldiers holding explosives in the middle of the battle into charred carbonized matter in front of the position.

Despite this, the Soviet army successfully blasted a path, but after rushing in, they found that this was not a success at all. They had just opened the door to hell.

To the best of their ability, the players built the entire fortification into an infinite cross-fire structure that could effectively defend against attacks from both inside and outside. The players inside the defense line would never evacuate until the last NPC commander and all their lives were killed, so the Soviet army had to bite through those bunkers one by one. The final success in capturing them was actually through blasting and destruction, which meant that those fortifications could not be used by the Soviet army, and they could only continue to advance despite huge casualties.

Blood, death, and killing, just as the players planned, the tower defense plan turned into a meat grinder. Whether it was the Soviet troops entering the defense line or the Soviet troops outside the defense line, they were constantly losing blood because of this fortress until they lost their offensive capability.

"Listen, I don't want casualty figures, I just want that fortress!"

"You are dismissed. Let your political commissar take over your job. In ten minutes, you must seize the objective position!"

"No retreat allowed, the order is only forward, forward, forward!"

Zhukov kept issuing cruel orders. He certainly knew that the front line was already a river of blood, but he had no choice, and the Volunteer Army did not give the Soviet army any other choice.

From the moment the fortress appeared here, the Soviet army had to take it down. The volunteers also knew that the Soviet army had to do so. This was an open conspiracy, an unsolvable open conspiracy, and only the volunteers could come up with it.

So even if it meant paying with human lives, the Soviet army had to take that fortress.

But there are always discrepancies between plans and execution. As night fell, the Soviet army had to withdraw because according to intelligence, the volunteers were more terrifying at night. They seemed to have some technology or ability to fight at night, but the Soviet army could not do it. The casualties would only be more severe. Once the troops could not hold on, the darkness would infinitely magnify the enemy's terror, and the collapsed troops would definitely not be able to defend Chita.

Then another fatal problem was placed before the Soviet army.

Should we retreat to the city or set up camp?

Retreating back to the city was not far, only ten kilometers, but that was still a distance, which meant that they had to set out from this distance the next day to attack the fortress where the Volunteer Army was on high alert.

It's a good idea to set up camp on the spot, but the temperature outside is now minus 37 degrees Celsius, and it will only be colder at night. The non-combat casualties on the second day will be very terrible, and if you set up camp nearby, you have to be careful of the volunteers' sneak attacks.

Now Zhukov has fully realized how disgusting the Volunteer Army's tactics are.

As long as we allow them to gain a foothold, the rest of the story will develop in the direction that the enemy least wants to see.

Zhukov's military intuition told him that they had missed the best opportunity and retreat was the most sensible choice. They still had a chance to escape, but continuing the attack would be a gamble of life and death.

Maybe you don't even have a chance in your lifetime. You will make an effort at first, but it will decline at second and end at third.

The problem is that if he retreats now, he will not be able to report to his superiors. Moscow will not accept it, and Su Cizong will not accept it either. They only know that Zhukov chose to retreat when the Soviet army was still able to attack, and left the most important transportation hub in the entire Far East to the Volunteer Army. This means that the Soviet Union will lose the entire Far East, unless after the spring comes, the Soviet army mobilizes a million troops to the Far East to fight the Volunteer Army, and at the same time wins over Japan to sandwich it from both sides.

Just look at the map and you will know that this is impossible. The latitude of the Soviet Far East means that the war window can only last for a few months, but the volunteer army can launch fierce attacks all day long with lunch breaks throughout the year. This intensity of war is not something that carbon-based organisms can handle.

Moreover, the Far East was not the core area of ​​the Soviet Union, and all kinds of war materials had to be transported from Europe. This geographical pattern meant that as long as a major power rose in the Far East, the Soviet Union would be held against its belly by a knife, regardless of whether this knife had the intention to stab forward.

Geopolitics is cruel.

In addition, think about the Great Purge. If loyalty is not absolute, it is absolutely disloyalty. Zhukov did not want to face the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

So the only thing he could do was to report the actual situation here in as much detail as possible, so that Su Cizong could realize the seriousness of the problem and make the right decision.

Otherwise, he would have died gloriously in battle with the Soviet troops in Chita.

Chapter 80: I can fight back!

(Let me briefly tell you about what I encountered today. There was no vehicle for the equipment transfer, and all the lifting operations were done by novices. Safety measures were treated as a joke, and all my hard work went to waste. I really have nothing to sayε=(?ο｀*))) Oh, forget it, this is the third update, and I have updated 10,000 words today. I am exhausted, so let me have a good rest)

When the Japanese high-ranking officials heard that the Volunteer Army was attacking Chita, they were ecstatic.

You, the Volunteer Army, are courting death by challenging two great powers at the same time. This time you are finished! Hehehe.

The Japanese army seemed to have taken stimulants and began to frantically exploit the manpower potential of the Northeast Army, sending soldiers to the Changchun battlefield in the shortest possible time. Pressure was also increased in other directions, vowing to break the myth of the Volunteer Army's invincibility.

The idea of ​​the Japanese high-level officials was simple and plain, and sounded very practical. Since the Volunteer Army had deployed heavy troops in the Chita direction, the number of troops on the Changchun battlefield would inevitably be reduced.

Now is a good opportunity to fight back!

There is nothing wrong with them thinking this way. In the direction of Changchun, the proportion of players in the volunteer army has indeed decreased, but the problem is that the volunteer army in the Northeast no longer relies solely on players to conquer the world.

The local conscripts have been baptized by actual combat and are now an elite force capable of standing on their own.

With sufficient supplies, high morale and advanced weapons and equipment, these local volunteers still beat the Japanese devils to the point of tears.

This... this script is wrong, right?

In fact, the Japanese side had figured out a problem from the beginning. They only regarded the Volunteer Army as a powerful armed force, but in fact the Volunteer Army was a battlefield armed force with a complete industrial system and production capabilities.

The driving force behind this is Liu Qi. The various technologies used by players are all black technologies disguised as game auxiliary functions, but as long as it can work, you don’t care what technology it is or what it is called, it is definitely powerful in beating the Japanese devils.

The strategic misjudgment put the already disadvantaged Japanese army into an even more passive situation.

Now their enemies have developed local armed forces, and even if this armed force has lost the external assistance of the Volunteer Army, its firepower intensity will only be reduced and its supply level will be lowered, but it is not unable to fight modern warfare.

In other words, the volunteer army helped the locals complete the industrial leap from 0 to 1, which is the real purpose of Liu Qi letting the players come to this world.

It is better to teach people to fish than to teach people.

Of course, this is only the hardware aspect. There is still a lot of room for improvement in software, such as workers' safety production protection. However, some things can only be taught by experience.

Without having seen a bloody accident scene, people will always have a sense of luck in their hearts.

Safety operating procedures written in bloodε=(?ο｀*)))Alas.

Besides, not all the players have left. There are still many scattered behind various fronts, serving as supply nodes to provide various supplies to the local volunteers to ensure that the firepower intensity against the Japanese army does not decrease.

Even if it decreases, it doesn't matter. The Japanese can't produce any heavy equipment now. Changchun has lost its heavy weapons production capacity anyway. If heavy equipment is needed, it must be sent from Shenyang in the rear or even from Japan.

It is definitely too late to transport from mainland Japan. Fortunately, the Korean Peninsula also has a certain amount of industrial production capacity. It’s just that the Japanese’s planning in Korea is lame, and many industrial systems are deformed. After leaving the industrial system in the Northeast region and mainland Japan, it is impossible to operate normally, and even maintenance is difficult.

Historically, North Korea solved this problem very well, because the Korean War completely destroyed the pitiful local industrial system built by the Japanese. After that, North Korea connected with the Soviet Union, and South Korea connected with Europe and the United States.