Counterfeit Hero

"Butt, find Kitazawa's lair for me!" The fat man raised his eyebrows with murderous intent. "Come on, fat man!" "You're superficial, Mr. Pi has no time." In the communicator, Margaret and Pei Pei scolded one after another, like a basin of ice water, extinguished in one go. Kitazawa was filled with the blazing flames of Lao Quan. The fat man stopped and sat down in front of the command computer with a frown. Pereira and the other officers didn't know what was going on and looked at the fat man in a daze. Bonnie, Rasheed, Stewart and others on the side were laughing secretly. Fat people are born to suffer. He was very happy when he was plotting against others, and when he saw others plotting against him, he immediately became furious. Looking for Kitazawa's home base, it's not that he was naive enough to think that if Kitazawa was killed, there would be no one to take over the command of the 25th Army. But this guy was born with a temper that only allowed the state officials to set fires and not allow the people to light lamps. He was reckless and unreasonable. He would bite and beat anyone who offended him to death without letting go. The inevitable retribution of righteousness is simply the highest level. "Fat man, what do you think?" Bonnie quietly pinched the fat man and changed the subject. "Don't you just want to hold me back?" The fat man sneered, rolled up his sleeves, and the flesh on his face trembled, "I'm going to accompany this old bastard and have a round of reincarnation and anal sex!"

On a hilltop 20 kilometers north of Yingshan, the newly arrived regiment of the 2523rd Armored Division of Jiepen was digging trenches and building temporary blocking positions. Owens, the regimental leader who was tall and had a long tawny beard, stood on the top of the mountain, holding a portable far-sighted device to examine the surrounding terrain with a solemn expression. This is a long and narrow hilltop more than 400 meters high. To the south of the ridge, there is a steep mountain wall that looks like it has been cut with an axe. The north slope on the other side of the ridge a few dozen meters away is more gentle. It is a slope with a drop of only fifty meters, stretching for nearly six hundred meters, and is full of virgin forests and wild grasses. At the end of the slope, the mountain turned upward and climbed to the ridge of another large mountain. Although he couldn't see it, Owens knew that on a hilltop on the back of the mountain, the Second Regiment of the 2523rd Armored Division was also nervously building a position. Owens was quite satisfied with the hilltop position designated in the battle plan. To the west is the front of the position. It is commanding and has a wide field of vision. You can see several kilometers away at a glance. You can almost see all the places where the bandits must pass. Seizing this place first was like driving a nail into the east bank of the Turon River. Even if you don't do anything, just sitting here drinking tea and chatting, you can still make the bandit army feel like a thorn in their backs, and they will be frightened.

Turning the telescope, you can see the dense woods and the distant hillsides and valleys. In addition to his regiment, there are about a dozen similar positions along the line from Yingshan to Feisha Valley. All of them are strategic locations overlooking the east bank channel of the Tulon River. Regiment-level troops are stationed on large hills, and battalion-level or company-level troops are stationed on small hills. Each position communicates with and provides cover, allowing you to attack when you advance, and defend when you retreat. It would be a dream for the bandits to pass through here without any hindrance. Putting down the telescope, Owens could not help but admire Admiral Kitazawa's cunning. He is forty years old this year and has rich combat experience. As early as when he received the news that the 2521st Division was under attack and that the enemy was moving north along the Tulon River, he knew that the battle situation in the south had changed. So far, the 25th Army has not yet figured out the size of this sudden force. But what is certain is that this is a huge force. Once they penetrate the defense zone and return to Sunset Mountain, the entire battle situation will undergo earth-shaking changes. Fortunately, the commander of the 25th Army was General Kitazawa.

While the officers at all levels below were still arguing about the enemy's intentions, still shocked by the rapid defeat of the 2521st Division, and still holding their own opinions on possible changes in the southern battlefield, Kitazawa's series of orders not only clearly explained It solved everyone's confusion and pointed out the direction of the battle. I had long heard that Admiral Kitazawa had deep command skills and was even more proficient in deduction skills. This time, Owens had seen something. It only took Admiral Kitazawa less than twenty minutes from receiving the news to coming up with the battle plan. Not only did he accurately judge the enemy's intentions, routes, and numbers, he also decisively chose the correct strategic approach, defining the first phase of the campaign in the words "entanglement and delay." If the correct strategic policy is the basis for determining the outcome of a battle, then the formulation of specific combat plans and the application of tactics are the building blocks of the battle. Admiral Kitazawa dissected the entire battle into clear context with a combat plan written every minute. When and where to establish positions. What troops are there to protect each other? How should we gather when attacking, who should direct it, and which part of the enemy should be attacked. When defending, what standard positions should be established, how should friendly forces be covered, which route should be taken for retreat, how to counterattack with the cooperation of friendly forces, who will hold on, who will retreat, who will make a detour, who will attack and who will outflank, etc., etc., etc. detailed.

These combat plans are like invisible ropes, connecting the hilltop positions and the troops hiding in the jungle or approaching here into a huge and strong network. If the bandits don't come, that's all. If they dare to come, they will be trapped! Even though the bandits had strong combat effectiveness, even though they swept through the three theaters north of the town of Frenço and defeated the 2521st Division within half an hour. However, Owens believed that Admiral Kitazawa would make the bandit commanders understand that individual combat effectiveness was not enough to determine the outcome of the war. An excellent commander can defend against enemies several times larger than his own. A genius-level commander can achieve victory with one-tenth or even one-hundredth of his opponent's strength. Wisdom is the heaviest weight on the scale of war! "Captain!" A quick shout interrupted Owens' thoughts. Looking back, he saw three scarred Civet mechas, running towards him quickly through the busy engineering mechas in the trench. Seeing the mud at the bottom of the pit splashing at his feet, Owens frowned and said in a deep voice: " What's going on?" "We were attacked by a bandit reconnaissance team." The mecha warrior who jumped out of the cabin was sweating profusely, with a look of fear and shame on his face. He lowered his head and said, "Only three of us escaped."

"Oh?" Owens' expression was condensed. He did not ask about the specific battle process. Instead, he strode to the electronic sand table and asked, "Where did you encounter the enemy? Where is the enemy's large force now? Are there any Any sign of dividing the troops to attack us?" "Here," a leading scout will pull out the recorder from the mecha and hand it to the staff officer beside him, pointing to an area ten kilometers away on the electronic sand table and saying, "The enemy's big The troops are heading north along the Tulon River, and the attack speed is very fast. The forward has expanded to the right wing, and at least two armored battalions are approaching my position." "Two battalions?" Owens was a little confused. If the bandit army wants to quickly eliminate threats along the way, then they should extend enough troops to the right wing for attack. Even if they don't fight, they still need enough troops to establish a cordon to guard against attacks by the surrounding Jie Peng army. The commander of the other side seemed to have thoughtlessly ignored the surrounding Jie Peng Army, who was eagerly looking at him. With two battalions, he wanted to take over the position where the entire regiment was stationed. First, it was too large, and second, it was not in line with the efficiency of the use of troops! Did he really think that Admiral Kitazawa only deployed these troops here and did not have a larger back-up force on their way forward? "Boom" an energy cannon suddenly landed at the front of the position. A violent shock wave carried sand and dust and spread in all directions. The splashing soil lifted up Lao Gao. "Enemy attack!".

Came so fast! Owens was shocked, quickly put aside the confusion in his mind, climbed onto the mecha, raised his arms and shouted. "Everyone is in position and ready to fight!"****************************************** ****************************************** "Your Excellency, the bandit army's vanguard has been expanded. Come and launch an attack on our major positions." In the headquarters of Jiepen's 25th Army, hundreds of screens flickered, and the sounds of staff officers busy working merged into a continuous noise in the hall. On the central command podium, a group of senior officers were nervously watching the dozen staff officers in front of the electronic sand table and Ken Kitazawa who was directing the troops in front of the deduction computer. By this time, they seemed to be outside the command level. As bystanders, they watched the "brain" in front of them with Kitazawa Ken as the center, quickly sending orders to the frontline troops. Skynet's main screen was all red. The war zone is constantly expanding. The major hilltop positions located in the passage north of Yingshan Mountain have already come into contact with the oncoming bandits. In the rear, the forces of several other divisions under the 25th Group Army are also mobilizing along the Tulon River. "Your Excellency Beizawa is planning to use the positions along the line to delay the bandit army, and then use Feisha Valley as a blocking line to block the bandit army's way!"

In front of the big screen, several generals discussed in low voices. "Look, as soon as our army seized positions along the line, the speed of the bandits slowed down." A lieutenant general pointed to the real-time situation map and said to his companions: "They have entered the rhythm controlled by Mr. Kitazawa. , were forced to divide their forces and expand to protect the passage. Hum, controlling the battle situation on multiple fronts at the same time, who is Kitazawa's opponent?" The lieutenant general looked around, quite proud of himself: "Speed ​​is their life. Once the battle situation becomes stalemate, the main force will The advance is slow. Not to mention His Majesty Beizawa's arrangements at Langshan and Gyrogou Valley, Feisha Valley is a chasm they cannot cross!" "It is our good fortune to follow His Excellency Kitazawa." A major general said with reverence. Looking at Kitazawa Ken on the command platform, he praised: "The tactical points of each unit are detailed and accurate, and the coordination between each other is seamless. If I hadn't stood here to see it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it. , these combat plans are all from the hands of Mr. Kitazawa." "Yes!" The lieutenant general who spoke earlier pointed to the electronic sand table next to him with some excitement, "Everyone, look at the location of the 1st Regiment of the 2523rd Division. Seeing the eyes of his companions gathered, he quickly explained: "At first, I didn't understand why Mr. Kitazawa asked the regiment to abandon another more strategically important hilltop two kilometers away and seize this place to establish a blocking position. , now that I have seen Your Excellency’s overall deployment, I understand that the entire battle situation is all in Your Excellency Kitazawa’s brain, and it is tightly integrated and interlocking.”

As he said that, the lieutenant general quickly picked up the electronic putter and demonstrated it while saying: "Look, everyone, currently, the two armored battalions of the bandit army have launched an attack on the position of the first regiment. Hehe, not to mention attacking with inferior forces. A position defended by an armored force cannot be trusted, but the current location of these two battalions has actually fallen into the encirclement of our army." The lieutenant general represented the positions of the two battalions of the bandits, the cursor and the first regiment. Pushed together, the program quickly and automatically performs combat calculations. As a result, within half an hour, the two armored battalions of the bandits were unable to capture the position. To the east of them, the two Jiepen armored battalions had completed their detour, forming a pincer attack from the front and rear. When the pincer attack formed, the group's position was already impregnable. Immediately, the lieutenant general used the electronic push rod to push half of the first regiment's troops to the position of the second regiment on another hill to the north. Because the two positions were actually on the same mountain range, the first regiment could climb over the ridge along the mountainside at a much faster speed than the bandit army, and detour from the side of the second regiment's position. In this way, this reinforced battalion, together with the Second Regiment, acted as a hand-in-hand, directly threatening the bandits' attack on the Second Regiment's troops. Similarly, similar tactics are also used in other positions. In a war zone with a radius of hundreds of square kilometers, there seems to be an invisible rope between the troops quickly approaching the positions. Once touched, the surrounding mechanisms will be triggered immediately.

"The bandits have taken the bait," the lieutenant general dropped the electronic putter and smiled at each other, "Next, let's see how General Kitazawa performs this wonderful drama!" The officers all looked at each other in unison. Towards the podium. Suddenly, everyone's eyes froze. They saw that Kitazawa Ken, who had always had a stone face on the podium and showed no emotion at all, had beads of sweat as big as soybeans oozing out from his forehead. And his eyes were even more bloodshot. On the left side of the console screen in front of the old man, a huge Jie Peng army was running toward Feisha Valley at extremely fast speeds. On the screen to his right, the troop cursor of a position went out like a light. Then, another one. *************************************************** ********************************* "Order the Second Battalion to enter the position immediately!" The mountain position was filled with smoke and artillery fire. On board, Owens grabbed the communicator and yelled. In the position more than two hundred meters in front of him, Jie Pen's mecha warriors were desperately blocking the bandits' attack. Mechas of different colors were fighting desperately on the battlefield. With the input of hundreds of troops from the second battalion, the bandit mechas that were about to rush into the position finally retreated like a tide. Only the dilapidated positions full of craters and debris were left, telling the story of the brutality of the battle.

After wiping a cold sweat, Owens inspected the position without delaying for a moment. The temporary position had been cut down by nearly two meters in the previous waves of attacks. Large swaths of metal bulletproof walls emerged from the soil. Several sections of the tunnels completely collapsed, and the collapsed soil and rocks piled up in the middle, with the remains of several Civet mechas lying scattered on them. The engineering platoon began to organize their positions as soon as the enemy retreated. The heavy mechas and medium mechas used as fire support also evacuated to the rear of the position. "Within five minutes, complete the emergency repair of the position, seize the time to replenish energy ammunition, the first battalion will withdraw, and the second battalion will take over the defense." Owens shouted loudly as he walked. On both sides of the tunnel he passed, individual mechas with scars and scars were leaning against the earth walls in a mess. In the open mecha cockpits, the mecha warriors participating in the battle were exhausted and their faces turned pale. Without enough time to care about his subordinates, Owens walked to an observation position, took the portable far-sighted device from his staff, and looked at the bandit attack positions down the mountain with a gloomy expression. The bandits' attack position was very crude. Apart from a few well-protected transport mechas, there was no other logistical support. Seven to eight hundred cyan mechas, sitting or standing casually, seemed to be taking a rest. Twenty or thirty mechanics, driving maintenance vehicles, were wandering around among the mechas. If he hadn't known that once the shelling hit, these exposed mechas would immediately hide behind the hillside in front of the attack position, Owens would have wanted to smash all the shells over. .

It was these two battalions that launched three attacks in succession in just twenty minutes. It caused the loss of two hundred mechas to one group. The casualties exceeded four hundred. However, their losses did not exceed fifty vehicles. Owens felt his lips go dry when he thought about the powerful combat power of these mechas when they entered the position. The fighting style of these cyan mechas completely subverted his understanding of mechas. The standardized technical movements of Jie Pen's mecha warriors were like the tricks of a child in front of these cyan mechas. In close combat, one-on-one, no Jiepen mecha warrior is a match for these cyan mechas. Fortunately, their formation is still scattered, their offensive organization is still slow and dull, and their commander is not experienced enough. If he had been in charge of these cyan mechas, the position would have been captured long ago! In my ears, the sound of gunfire and explosions continued. That's where the second regiment to the north is. Obviously, the Second Regiment was also facing an onslaught from the bandits. Owens looked at the time, looking increasingly anxious. Logically speaking, the two armored battalions of the 2531st Division sent by the headquarters should have arrived at the designated location. However, it has been more than ten minutes and there is still no trace of these two battalions. What happened? ! Seeing that the bandit mechas at the foot of the mountain were once again in a hurry, they formed a skirmish formation and seemed to be preparing to launch another attack. Owens quickly left the observation position and walked back while hurriedly giving an order: "Prepare to fight, engineering machines." A evacuates,

The heavy mechas entered the fire position, and the third battalion entered the reserve position. "While busy for a while, suddenly, a voice came from the communication channel: "Commander, reinforcements from our 2531st Division have arrived! It is currently only ten kilometers away from here. ""What? ! "Owens was overjoyed. For modern armored forces, even in rugged and difficult mountainous terrain, ten kilometers is just a blink of an eye. Even if they can't arrive immediately, they can still arrive before the bandits' next attack. He didn't care The bandit army had already begun to prepare for an attack, and climbed up to the observation position. However, when he looked out from the observation hole, what he saw in front of him suddenly startled him. On the bandit's attack position, there were already There was no one left. Only an abandoned transport mecha and a few maintenance vehicles were left, staying in place. At the foot of the mountain in the distance, several mechas at the end of the bandit mecha queue could be vaguely seen, and they disappeared in a flash. " The bandits just withdrew? "Owens did not dare to order the pursuit and could only stand there in a daze. It was not until ten minutes later that two belatedly arriving Jiepen armored battalions appeared in front of him that he came back to his senses. "Captain, the second regiment cannot withstand it. . They sent people over to ask for support! "Recalling General Kitazawa's battle plan, Owens did not dare to neglect, and quickly ordered the third battalion to lead a company of the second battalion to the second regiment to support. After all, with the two battalions that Yamashita had just arrived, he was not afraid of the enemy at all. Fight back with your carbine.

However, the sudden disappearance of the bandits still made him feel a little abnormal. While he was hesitating, suddenly, the emergency communication signal light of the headquarters flashed suddenly. A document was transmitted with difficulty under strong electronic interference. A moment later, when Owens opened the document sent by Ken Kitazawa personally, his face suddenly turned pale. *************************************************** ************************************ "Don't old immortals like to weave webs?" The fat man's hands , flying like crazy on the deduction computer, "Fat Master wants you to knit as much as you can!" Following Fatty's instructions, on the Skynet screen, groups of bandit troops were moving around. The seemingly impregnable Jie Peng positions were captured one after another, and the blue Jie Peng arrows disappeared like ink melting in the water under the encirclement of countless red arrows. "General," a stunned staff officer of Colonel Feiyan couldn't help but ask Pereira, "how could this happen?" Other staff officers on the side also turned around after hearing the sound and looked at each other. Everyone really couldn't understand why, when the bandit army only sent out less than one armored division to expand the attack, Jie Peng's army, which had superior strength and terrain, suddenly collapsed completely.

Pereira stared at the Skynet screen, remained silent for a while, and finally let out a long sigh. This sigh was mixed with unabashed approval, shock, envy, and even jealousy. "Have you heard of the escaped one?" Pereira said slowly. "The one who escaped?" a staff officer exclaimed, "General, you mean thirty years ago..." "Yes," Pereira said, "The so-called one who escaped, For a simple example, it is like a jar filled with glass beads. If there are no gaps, then all the glass beads will stay quietly in their positions and cannot move. However, once one of them is taken out Glass beads, then, in theory, as long as there are enough steps, all glass beads can be moved and transposed." He looked at the Skynet screen quietly and took a deep breath: "Tear Kitazawa's piece apart. The net broke the balance of these positions, and General Tian just pulled a thread out of it." The staff members were silent. Listen to Pereira continue: "Beizawa occupied the strategic location of the passage first and threatened our main advance route, just to hold us back. Because of the hasty deployment, it is impossible for Beizawa to concentrate too many troops here. To hold us back, he needs to use the cover between these positions and limited troops to make a fuss."

As he spoke, he walked to an electronic sand table, pointed at several of Jipeng's positions with an electronic putter and said: "The defensive forces of these positions total six armored regiments, and they are interlocked and can cover each other. If you want to To take it down, we have to invest three to four times the force. But we need to pass through the Feisha Valley quickly, so naturally we cannot keep most of the force here. However, if we want to pull out these nails with the force of an armored division, even if the bandits The army's combat effectiveness is extremely strong, but it also takes a lot of time. Therefore, General Tian adopted a tactic that the enemy had never dreamed of." "This tactic is straightforward. It is actually very simple. It is nothing more than three words, just a time difference." Perret La explained: "First, General Tian launched an all-out attack, giving the enemy the illusion that we were ready to pull out the nails before leaving. Then, with small groups of troops, we blocked the possible passages for enemy reinforcements around the position, and then concentrated our forces to attack One of the positions." "In this way, when this position asked for help from the surroundings because it suffered too much losses and could not wait for other reinforcements, the one who escaped was born." Pereira looked around and continued. "The troops who divided their forces to rescue the surrounding positions did not know that they themselves were the most dangerous. Although the number of bandit troops under the position was small, their combat effectiveness was very strong. They could clearly see the number, but they could not hide their strength from the bandit army. Under the circumstances, we can clearly see the combat effectiveness of the bandit army." "More importantly, the bandit army is in a mobile state that can fight and move away, while the enemy does not dare to leave the position easily before receiving the order. When issued

Suddenly enlightened, a staff officer said: "General, does this mean that when position B is attacked by bandits, their interlocking tactics will bring the same misfortune to position C?!" "Of course it is. Yes!" Before Pereira could answer, another staff officer spoke first. As he said that, he glanced at the first staff officer and said, "Didn't His Excellency Hastings use the same tactic thirty years ago!" "Anyone can use this tactic." Perret La said solemnly, "However, apart from His Excellency Hastings, the only person who has been able to use such superb skills over the years is General Tian." He looked at the figure on the podium who was as busy as a crazy pianist. , a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth: "Kitazawa Kenchi should never underestimate the fighting power of the bandits. Although the number of bandits appearing in front of the position is not even as large as the defenders, their combat effectiveness is enough to support General Tian's Time difference tactics." "More importantly," he looked around at the bright-eyed staff officers and smiled slightly: "Kitazawa Ken, General Wada really shouldn't engage in this kind of multi-line confrontation with small forces. Although according to legend, his The deduction speed is second to none in the entire Jiepeng, but compared to General Wada, he is too slow. "Too slow. The staff chewed on these three words, and felt their hearts surging as they looked at the Jie Peng troops on the screen who were in a dilemma, not knowing where to go, and even running towards the positions that had been captured by the bandits.

It’s not that Ken Kitazawa is too slow. But General Fatty and his bandit army are too fast! Twenty kilometers ahead is Feisha Valley!

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