Out of the cage

May 2612. On the raging main battlefield in the East, the Battle of the Grand Canal is about to begin.

The Xinhuo Group raised various military resources at the frontier, and even used them in various small factories. Many buses have been temporarily converted into transport vehicles.

In the past, warlords liked this modification the most, installing turrets on such easily obtained vehicles. Xinhuojun also commented highly on these innovations after it was once standardized. , but now battlefield resources are in short supply. Some frontline commanders have established a tacit understanding with the local military workers and are no longer allowed to learn this kind of innovation. It can even be said that these mechanical talents of the local military workers are also the mechanics in the original warlords' cottages, so we can also see the three-ply boards. A bi-winged unmanned aircraft is a "homeless" creation loaded with a remote control computer.

However, compared to warlords, these ridiculous assembled goods are a headache for the Star Sea Federation on the battlefield, because warlords do not know how to maneuver tactically, let alone suddenly deploy landmines on relevant roads, and delay federal military operations on a large scale to rob them. Start the battle.

When mechanical vehicles appeared in war, mobility became the most important tactic.

There is a saying in the 21st century, "A moving 59 poses a higher threat than an Abrams squatting to defend the city."

Under the mission arrangements of Tianxinzhe, the "artificial intelligence" of the Xinhuo Alliance used these low-end weapons obtained from local materials to achieve effects that were no less than those of the regular federal army.

The thin-skinned and brittle-armored Prism tanks were ambushed as soon as they left the base. The federal commanders did not dare to disperse the tanks into battalion-level or lower teams.

In the battle of the North-South Canal, Guantianshe made full use of the local railway transportation network, as well as materials from civilian factories and warehouses in various places, and maximized the use of resources.

On June 10th, in the Grand Canal battle from south to north, the Xinhuo Legion carried out a large number of "intersperses". Many of the intersperses were composed of light armored assault vehicles such as Cheetahs forming a cluster, or buses and other copycat armed forces. However, because the Star Sea Federation does not have enough troops to defend in all directions, the completion of these "interspersed" tactics is almost the same as that of regular black death-type omnics. They all cut off important communication lines and complete the occupation of reservoirs, power stations and other facilities.

Although the scale of materials mobilized by the Federation from all over the world is more than twenty times that of the Eastern Front Fire Corps, it amounts to one million tons every month.

But in fact, the combat readiness materials they sent to the front line were either not delivered on time, or were seized when they were intended to be delivered on time. It is more likely that due to the failure of a certain traffic dispatch (you can blame the traffic), the material delivery plan It was unsuccessful. As a result, just after it was loaded and shipped out, it was put back in the warehouse again.

So the officials below took the opportunity to put this "unimportant" item in the last column of the report sheet to help the adults who were rushing to do important things during the war forget about this matter. These "capable officials" at the grassroots level of the Star Sea Federation were preparing to When sorting out the bills for surplus supplies after the war, losses and losses were written off in the public accounts.

Narrator: This can refer to the change that children saw left by adults when they were young, hoping that their parents would forget it.

In the development of civilization in the East for thousands of years, it was the first to establish a national bureaucracy, and such "operational technology" that harmed the public and enriched private interests was also a masterpiece. Oh, only those who had just risen to the upper class during the founding of the People's Republic of China were not familiar with this game, so they might have accidentally cheated on themselves. ——And this technology can also travel around the world, so as long as civilization develops and countries develop, this disease will inevitably occur.

Now the Star Sea Federation's disease has taken root. In the war zone, the large number of Cheetah vehicles captured by the Xinhuo Legion can also form dozens of combat groups.

These weapons were quickly distributed to nearby military workers in the area and organized into "independent regiments".

Engineers in the independent group used indigenous methods to weld all kinds of strange things.

For example, a Cheetah vehicle connected eight groups of infantry Gauss rifles in parallel to form a "Phalanx" (you can refer to the Soviet Union's three Maxim anti-aircraft machine guns in parallel during World War II.)

The independent regiment took advantage of the data link provided by the weapons it captured and the "radar" and other facilities provided by the regular army to fully blossom. The federal air force in the canal zone no longer dared to fly low because it was repeatedly shot down by anti-aircraft missiles.

…The Independence Regiment and the main Xinhuo Brigade are “unity” and “lively”, but war logistics are “tense” and “serious”…

Of course every small factory has an industrial organization. This is the important role played by the cadres of Guantian Society in this war.

Each independent regiment's small factory ammunition production follows uniform accuracy standards. Make sure it works with friendly forces.

In order to ensure production, these small factories are guarded every day during production, and there are smoke and camouflage nets. When the enemy air force discovers and starts to attack, the factories can still be quickly moved underground. This is definitely not what the warlords that the Federation had previously eliminated could do.

In July 2612, during the Battle of Yicheng, the Xinhuo Group fired tens of thousands of artillery shells within fifteen minutes.

The firepower of cloud explosive bombs suddenly blew away the battlefield fortress group deployed by veteran retired mecha soldiers of the Federation.

The troops of the three brigades of the Star Sea Federation were deployed here, but they were wiped out by firepower. In this inconspicuous battle, the Xinhuo Alliance only dispatched one regular brigade, responsible for the information chain and air control.

But this amount of ammunition?

The noncommissioned officer on the front line of the Battle of Yicheng transmitted the scene of himself being bombed to the federal commander in the Eastern Front Theater. The commander looked at the explosions on the communication interface jammed by snowflakes and knocked down the desktop inkstone. : "Xinhuo's jump fluctuation in this war zone in the past month has been level C (less than 20,000 tons of jump fluctuation). Where did they get so much ammunition?!"

The general could not have imagined that within a few hundred kilometers upstream, more than a thousand steel pipe rolling factories that originally produced gas tanks were transformed into producing rocket casings. Before the war, the hulls were hidden with reeds through the river and transported downstream. Scenes.

Xinhuo brought the intensity of this "security war" to a level that was infinitely close to that of a "regular war."

…A protracted war occupies the strategic initiative, forcing opponents to pursue quick victory…

On August 21, 2612, on the Asian Eastern Front battlefield, the Federation launched its last large-scale active attack.

In this attack, the federal troops and seven generals coordinated the attack. The blue federal base formed a long snake formation and spread out along the Xuzhou transportation line.

When Wei Keng saw this scene, he was like a candidate who had bet on the question in advance.

When Wei Keng was about to publish the classic argument of "break the waist and hit the head", Fang Rui, the general command of the Xinhuo Army's Eastern Front Campaign, gave his own opinion: "Tsk, tsk, this force no longer has the advantage, so we started to move along the main traffic lines. Come to arrange it, I would like to call it "the phase of exhaustion"."

Fang Rui was born in Jinghu Water Town. In his hometown, the lake is a basin of water when it is full during the rainy season. However, as the water source dries up, the water begins to retreat from the shore and gradually becomes a line in the center of the lake. (This is what happens in Poyang Lake during the dry season).

Therefore, he was able to make such a metaphor to describe the Star Sea Federation's military strength and tactical maneuverability changing from strong to weak.

Fang Rui: When the enemy's maneuverability is strong, the theater of operations is a large circle encompassing several large cities, just like a lake full of water. But now that the enemy's maneuverability is insufficient, it can only be concentrated on a few main railway lines.

Wei Keng greatly appreciated Fang Rui's description. Wei Keng: "Originally, I wanted to use a long snake array as a metaphor."

On the trunk of the Grand Canal, tree-climbing snakes cannot escape...

When the war started on August 22, the Xinhuo Alliance began to mobilize troops on a large scale to conduct a large number of feints in the north. Commander Qian Dongzan of the Asia-East Federation, who was eager for success, immediately sent rows of floating Glory battleships directly to the north.

When these enemies of the Glory Battleship discovered the Xinhuo Group's huge ground armor cluster.

The Glory battleship quickly launched a series of missiles and conducted a tactical bombing towards the ground armored group.

The missiles detached from the lower part of the Glory battleship, flew out of the sky in a row, and then began to spread out and bombard after approaching the armored cluster on land.

The blue explosion shock wave crushed the weapons on the ground in batches.

The missiles attached to these floating battleships seem to be a little too powerful. Across a range of 120 meters, the shock wave still destroyed the "heavy armor" of the Xinhuo Group.

But in fact, these heavy armors are fake civilian cars covered with iron sheets and then loaded with automatic driving systems.

These cars come from large parking lots. These vehicles are not second-hand cars, but are over-produced by car companies over the years and squeezed out a large amount of stored goods. (In the 21st century, a large number of cars around the world are overstocked, and car manufacturers would rather overstock than cut prices.)

On the Federation Glory battleship, feeling that he had achieved "very fruitful results", the pilot cursed out loud: "Young man, go be a beggar."

But these novices seem to have forgotten the tactical manual of the Honor Battleship: heavy missiles are prepared to deal with air enemies.

If it is used in advance, it will not be able to deal with special situations. ——And the enemy of the Federation is the Xinhuo Alliance. If nothing unexpected happens, something unexpected will happen!

...The perspective returns to the present, when a group of cars disguised as tanks were blown up and stacked boxes on the road...

After the Glory Battleship has lost all its missiles, it will take an hour to jump through time and space to complete the missile supply. At this stage, the Glory Battleship is just an airship equipped with three or four laser cannons.

When these fleet commanders were holding tea and preparing to close the team, they were ready to leave with relief.

The Xinhuo Legion's air-control artificial intelligence fighter appeared, and the black sword-like Deathmatch appeared. The red high-energy beam made burning holes in the shell of the blue Glory battleship.

As a single air superiority fighter, the Deathmatch fired two laser salvos, and one of the escorting Osprey fighters turned into a burning and rolling sharp triangle and hit the ground.

As for the Glory Battleship, after seven or eight consecutive laser cannon hits, its tail lost power, lost its balance in the air, and began to tilt and fall.

Such a long-planned aerial ambush forced the captains of the Star Sea Federation to abandon the main structure of the battleship and escape in an escape boat.

However, as the red light of the anti-aircraft missiles on the ground was aimed, their escape ship was also locked by the missiles. When they woke up again, it was like waking up from a nightmare, appearing in the jump cabin.

In this air battle, the Xinhuo Army left a psychological shadow on these federal "air elites".

Moreover, it is impossible for the Federation to produce these destroyed warships in the short term.

After confirming that the Federation air battleships were so smoothly dealt with, Fang Rui, the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front of the Xinhuo Army, immediately revised the combat target plan to completely annihilate the main force of the Star Sea Federation...

At 10:23 am on August 22, Xinhuo Group destroyed all the Star Sea Federation’s air power in this area in an air battle.

Star Sea Alliance Commander Han Zhengyi (Brigadier General), who is located at the "snake tail" of the long snake formation, is sitting in the cockpit. The artificial intelligence adjutant on the side gives an analysis. The main force of the Xinhuo Group here suddenly rushes to the north of the Grand Canal.

Although Han Zhengyi knew the location of that place, he still shouted out habitually: "Map" when the artificial intelligence unfolded the map.

Han Zheng thought about it for a while and decided to seek stability. He changed the original march route and detoured to the east of Gaoyou Lake for defense.

Han Zhengyi is on the fringe in the federal army's merit system. He comes from a poor family.

In the federation, officers with good family backgrounds can always get a share of the credit, while officers with poor family backgrounds must bear full responsibility if they make the slightest mistake.

A few hours ago, in the cockpit of the Glory battleship, these back door wine bags and rice bags, with their nostrils turned to the sky, went deep alone. In order to make a profit (grab people), they did not communicate with the ground troops and directly bombed.

Within an hour, the Glory battleship was hit one after another, and they were still shouting "Abandon the ship", "This is a trap" and "Requesting support."

Now, when the Federation is discussing responsibility, it blames the nearby legions for failing to build a safe front!

Therefore, he, the snake's tail, huddled near the Gaoyou Lake base and played a good role as Zhang Shicheng, ensuring that the outcome of other battlefields was already decided.