Out of the cage

In the 37th year of Tianxinli, the battle for promotion of Ge Xu Civilization began. The cause of this war was not the "unrequited feeling" and "unwillingness to be subordinate" of Gesu's generation after the crash of the battleship, as Russell civilization believed.

Wei Keng: Objective analysis shows that this is a battle of civilizational spirits. As the Gesu civilization embarks on "promotion", it is destined to conflict with the old civilization under the nine-level Zhongzheng system of the universe.

When the Bakr Star promoted its spaceship plan and carried the banner of progress, the holding back forces in and outside the universe (both within and outside the Gesu Civilization) began to have nowhere to hide.

Just like after the sun rises, the dark places appear on the bright side, and the most profound "main contradiction" within the Gesu civilization begins to erupt.

The Tianxin Alliance's multiple hidden organizations buried on multiple planets of the Gesu Civilization began to seize power. With a clear goal, this will no longer be a "riot" but a revolution. The two-faced people of Ge Xu Civilization who originally thought they could gain family benefits by betraying civilization suddenly realized that the fire was burning on them.

And they originally thought that this was just a matter of "Baker being stupid", and they could stay out of it.

…The perspective cuts to ten light years away…

On Su Ling, rows of steam factories began to operate, and fuel machinery began to spray black smoke for test runs.

After losing control of many planets, the elders were furious and demanded that the military immediately suppress the rebel army.

Hundreds of years of industrial history have allowed Su Lengxing to accumulate accumulations dozens of times higher than those of civilizations of the same level on Earth. For example, its underground warehouses have tens of thousands of armored vehicles in stock. This is still effectively stored. In the scrapyards around the city, the mountains of machines that have been scrapped for hundreds of years are just like the scale of scrapped shared bicycles around some cities in the mid-21st century.

In the same era of science and technology on the earth, wars are similar to the state of "just finishing college and high science." At this time, resources and reserves are relatively poor. Only the first main battlefields of a few major countries have sufficiently advanced high-tech weapons. The rest The second battlefield still uses weapons that are one version behind as the main force. As for the scattered secondary battlefields, they even use matchlocks, swords and spears that are two versions behind.

In the underground cement warehouse controlled by the conservative military of Sureng Planet, these weapons are arranged like cars parked in a car cemetery in the 21st century. However, these cars are not cars with glossy white or black paint, but armored vehicles covered with rivets all over. This is a weakling in the tank, but currently Gesu, as a lower-level civilization, only has this kind of armed technology.

The style of this type of tank is similar to the European "armored cars" of World War I, and the 4.5-ton land combat vehicle of the Japanese Navy's "multi-riveted steamed frog turret" in World War II.

As the most militarized planet, Su Leng Planet is currently commanded by General Jin Hui Min Ge.

He has an army of 150,000 men, all of which are mechanized, and has nearly 20,000 combat vehicles. According to the reserves on the planet, this kind of vehicle can be said to be replenished at any time.

...Wei Keng faced the unique historical development judgment on the planet: the uprising of the Gesu civilization should focus on the big cities that captured "a large amount of industrial resources". …

In the second month of the uprising, Jin Hui General Min Ge raised his head and looked at the huge black shadow.

This is a floating fortress in space.

The "bamboo raft" that is a planetary shuttle does not have a space jump function and is not on the same level as the Hope and Wrath.

These are warships built by Seiko Suzui after using the data from the planet Bakr. As for why it was built so quickly? That's because an "alien force" was found to do OEM work.

The "Tianxin League" space engineering ship that traveled here has always remained invisible. Taking advantage of the total solar eclipse on the ground, it started in the shadow of the moon and absorbed several sections of the semi-finished ship body built by the Holy Class family into space, in low-Earth orbit. It was put together and passed on to the Holy Class family.

Russell, a sixth-level civilization, did not expect that they would take the initiative to intervene in the development of lower-level civilizations and let the "Tianxin Alliance", the real force behind the scenes, dig one for them.

Regarding the diplomatic strategy of the "Tianxin Alliance", among the lower civilizations to which they belong, a Gesu civilization that is determined to pursue development is more important than a Gesu civilization that is full of dross and is duplicitous in dealing with the outside world. (Wei Keng complained: For a startup boss, the company would rather have an ambitious but driven young man than keep a loser who doesn’t have a salary.)

As Jin Hui personally appointed by the Gesu Elders, General Minge is a die-hard die-hard. Before the war, he claimed: "All the rebels will be shot to death." Of course, these elder families also passed the "altar" (cosmic communicator) ) summoned the support of the advanced civilization behind him.

Six days later, General Min Ge, who was under the support of his rule, saw rows of airdrop pods passing through the atmosphere with red flames, even projected from a 6,000-ton base. This base, which can load mechanical prosthetics for personnel, is the standard "support module" for advanced civilizations to level four civilizations. In fact, it far exceeds the current level of the Gesu civilization.

This is similar to the situation in the 21st century. The artificial intelligence, exoskeletons, linear neural information operating systems, and various weapons of the front-line countries seem to be enough to fight the Skynet robot war. However, most global conflicts occur in underdeveloped areas. The most practical support for future wars will only be cars (Toyota, Penta and the like) that can carry cargo and are durable, rather than advanced fighter aircraft and missiles.

The advanced civilizations behind the old guard don't know how much they aid in various "projects" because of their arrogance and lack of grassroots investigation. …

At this time, the rebel army supported by the Holy Class family used the armor of the early model of the federal colonial army (future storm plane). The spherical core armor was only three centimeters thick and relied on bottom tracks to move, while the soldiers still held grenades. launcher and chemical energy rifle, and wears unpowered exoskeleton armor.

The level of armored weapons stopped at the forty-mm armor-piercing artillery. They are exactly the same as the troops of General Jin Hui of Ge Xu Civilization.

For the insurgents, although that rate belongs to the "reactionaries", the super space station passes through the atmosphere every thirteen hours. And every time it crosses the atmosphere, there is a burst of lightning and thunder in the sky

This "lightning storm" is not a reactionary space station bombing the ground. On the contrary, these space stations are interference from the surface rebel forces.

All power stations and power grid resources of the revolutionary army have been planned for war confrontation. In important front lines and bases, industrial-grade energy transmitters similar in shape to altars are "injecting energy" into the Holy Class family fleet to ensure that the enemy's space station cannot provide "informatization" support and support to the reactionary forces on the surface. "Precisely targeted strikes."

…The quality of the personnel on both sides of the war has not yet widened the generational gap, and it is useless to develop weapons for the generational gap...

The encounter started sixty hours after Min Ge finished his boast, with brigade and regiment-level units from both sides colliding with each other.

On the most important main road, there are 300 spherical armored tanks of the rebel army, 270 armored vehicles of the 077 Steel Barrel Division under General Jin Hui Min Ge, and low armored assault guns. Start blocking each other. (Aside: Later, history jokingly called the 077th Division the "Rice Bucket Division".)

On the road area lined with rows of poplar trees, the two armies formed a partition along the road protection hedges and faced each other. "The armor bounced off each other, and the sound was like hail ringing a bell."

The commanders of both sides were hiding in bunkers behind the main force of tanks, and the staff officers of both sides were looking at the timetable.

The table shows the time when your own fire support can arrive. The officers of both parties are from the local military academies on the planet and belong to the "one master", but the difference is that the list of the rebels is more detailed. Since the personnel system gives the lower-level non-commissioned officers the opportunity to speak, the table in the rebel army A plan was set up to intercept reinforcements from the conservatives.

Sixty minutes later, the support airship of the reactionary legion on Su Leng slowly appeared on the horizon.

The three-hundred-meter-long airship shuttled through the sea of ​​clouds. The rocket system hanging below the airship seemed to be locking. However, at this moment, a large number of rockets were fired from the rebel position and hit the support airship.

While the reactionary legions were scrambling to protect high-value units like airships, rows of delta-winged propeller planes on the left side of the battle line flew over the position and passed through the conservative anti-aircraft guns on the ground. Air defense net blocking.

The commander of the rebel army had already marked the location of the anti-aircraft guns, but in the last wave of attacks, they found positions that could not be obtained with simple "artillery suppression". Then I can only pretend to have "forgot", knowing that I will wait until the opportunity comes before making another violent attack.

In the rebel army, the commander responsible for planning this attack stared at the airships left and right in the sky. With the electromagnetic monitoring system in his ears, he heard the cursing words of the "old school major officer" on the airship, and a sarcastic smile appeared on his lips. .

The rebel commander and the old-school airship major graduated from a military school, well, one was in the 944th class and the other was in the 947th class.

Graduating from a school not only "knows the military level of the opponent" but also knows the mistakes that the opponent is most likely to make in this war. And the general's small mistakes, if found with the right medicine, can magnify the military into a huge military disaster.

For example, the current commander of the rebel army knows those "gilded" aristocratic military generals in his military academy.

And these "gilded" military generals have committed many taboos. First of all, they want "credit", so if the front is stable now, it seems that they can have a chance to break the deadlock and appear at the front. Furthermore, they cannot fail, so once Being targeted, the frontline generals had to spend several times or ten times the resources to keep the "Forest Guards" and had to give up other strategic goals.

After half an hour of fighting, the airship of Su Lingxing's local army retreated. In the short battle, its spherical tank group had broken through the defense line and captured the crucial high ground.

Cut off by the high ground, the conservative European armored vehicles and assault guns were unable to retreat because the roads were blocked. The anti-aircraft guns laid flat on the hilltop were harvested like scythes.

The fighting in the next two months was more or less the same. Among the generals of the Revolutionary Army, the conservative army took advantage of the advantages of "knowing classmates" and equipment advantages to fight back and forth.

...The strategies on the front lines of the war are intertwined, and the blood transfusion in the rear logistics is also in an involution competition...

Four months later, the fighting entered its second phase. Both sides have also identified the advantages and disadvantages of their respective military power consumption. The conservative side of Su Lengxing has a large number of cities as logistical supplies. If the armored vehicles are smashed, they can immediately pull new ones from the warehouse.

The advantage of the Revolutionary Army is that it can mobilize urban workers to launch a general war. The broken armored vehicles captured on the battlefield can be re-driving to the battlefield after workers repair them.

In order to facilitate battlefield transportation, the Revolutionary Army renovated the port train station and used large robotic arms to grab special military supply containers, making the port space highly efficient. The armor of the entire division can be stacked like steamed buns. ——Low-level civilizations always feel that high-level civilizations' technology is so convenient, but they have no idea that such "convenience" is the result of countless people's painstaking efforts.

In the eyes of the conservatives, the Revolutionary Army relied on external assistance for its armaments and seemed weak in its success. General Min Ge also believed that he would win.

There were many things that Minge didn't see. During the four months after the war, the Revolutionary Army had been doing million-person-level tasks on the two lines of "urban mobilization" and "rural road construction." administrative work.

…There are more people than there are, but it’s not just about military strength…

In the fourth month, the Revolutionary Army launched a thunderous offensive.

Rows of 10,000-ton square flatbed trucks are moving on the cement road. They are transporting "modular" armored divisions one by one to the assembly point only 40 kilometers away from the front line, or quickly transporting the regiments at the assembly point to other places. .

The torrent of steel is advancing step by step.

Wei Keng Military Science: When defining the steel flood of the 20th century, we do not look at how many thousands of tanks a party produces per year, but at its military transport capacity, because transport capacity determines the logistics support capabilities. The battle between armored corps does not depend on how many tanks are on standby a hundred kilometers away, but on how many corps are fighting on the front line.

Moreover, armored vehicles are just a big lump of iron. Unlike cavalry, if the stomachs of humans and horses are smashed, their livers will be burped, and if their limbs are smashed, they will be permanently disabled. However, even if an armored vehicle encounters a 150-caliber cannon If the armored vehicle is overturned by a close-range explosion, as long as the armored vehicle is properly designed and does not die in the explosion, it can be towed back to the factory to replace the main parts. Just be able to fight again.

Armored warfare is not what the native faction of Su Leng Star thinks. After the battle, they are scrapped and discarded, and new ones are obtained from the factory.

In a tank battle, if you lose, you will lose everything, but if you win, 50% of the losses can be made up.

…

On March 40, 37th year of the Tianxin calendar, on the battlefield of Su Lingxing, in the second phase of the battle, a temporary road network was rolled out. The Revolutionary Legion formed a large armored unit clustered with six armored brigades, and began to break through the thousand-mile defense line of Su Ling's local defenders with absolutely superior strength. In the large armored clusters of the Revolutionary Army, they faced off against the mainland faction. Each division-level unit formed a defensive position, just like using a shovel to shovel snow, eradicating the enemy divisions one by one.

In just eight months, through continuous battles, the Minge Group's 70,000-strong force was wiped out. Although there are still a large number of armored vehicles in the big cities of Sureng Planet, and there are still a large number of reserve regiments waiting for training, they cannot be filled on the battlefield.

Narrator: The mechanized force is a great test of the quality of the personnel, because the new regiment does not have the ability to march when it first receives the equipment. Instead, it must be familiar with hundreds of command commands and be able to obey orders at all levels after several months of exercises.

For reference, some people take a while to get their driver's license. If you are not trained enough and are directly stuffed into a car, then the car will not be able to drive onto the highway at all, and will cause a traffic jam in the middle of the road, and you must rely on the "traffic police" to clear it.

At this time, in the Revolutionary Army, a man named "Ren Di" who was born into a driver's family compiled the index parameters for the march of armored vehicles in the battle. Although there were some flaws at the beginning, they were quickly improved during the battle. (End of chapter)