Out of the cage

Fireweave calendar 3232, on November 18th, when the second wave of Anglo intervention troops arrived in the northern part of Iron Star, the Anglo parliamentary lords were still hammering their fists on the parliamentary table, discussing what lessons to teach the mudlegs.

Iron Star has successfully moved 200,000 attack groups, 3,450 (10 to 40 tons) fuel reloading vehicles, and 24 large land cruiser-level equipment to the western teleportation point.

Enma looked at all the steel vehicles on the cement square in the industrial city. After packing the materials and putting them in place, he almost boarded the central electromagnetic tower. The top of this tower is very Eiffel Tower style, but the top is a metal ball cage, um The horse feels on the top floor of the tower whether the charge accumulated in the atmosphere reaches the transmission standard.

Five hours later, in the Kingdom of Osima, Xiluoer Grand Canyon, as Anjiexin's soldiers crossed this dangerous road and entered the Plain of Wind Whispers, there was lightning and thunder in the sky, and Enma's big teleportation was completed. The group of defensive towers was instantly lost.

The sudden appearance of such a main force was beyond the expectations of observers from various countries in the Wanlun Continent

Narrator: After the Lance Group was wiped out, Willie led Sky China to put pressure on the Anglo-occupied northern ports, which gave the Anglo analysts an "illusion that the main force of the Iron Star is heading north"

However, Enma led the main force of the Iron Star, and led the war out of the "Sky Federation".

Iron Star's uprising in the sky country developed from a rural area, and it was very rustic, but observers born from nobles have always viewed it with colored glasses and ignored changes, so it's no wonder they couldn't grasp the situation of the battle.

…Enma: You fight yours, I fight mine, are you fighting? Don’t expect your rhythm to be smooth. I’m not a computer...

In Sky Empire, the peasant army who used to pull carts with donkeys and paddle on the lake, after the revolution, the city was industrialized, crawler tractor trucks appeared in the countryside, and duralumin biplanes hovering in the sky ( elementary school level)

Fifteen tons of large rubber-wheeled trucks, now Millsu City, as the earliest industrial automobile city in Iron Star, is the first to adopt assembly line production, with an annual output of 230,000 vehicles.

These civilian industrial productivity were all used in the development of the war capacity.

The mechanical transport capacity of Iron Star used to move ants, which is currently looked down upon by the major empires on the continent.

In short, the current internal situation of the Sky Empire, Iron Star is a wave of "peasants" who have stepped up (compared to the "mining farmers" of the regular arms in Interstellar and Warcraft)

Of course, Iron Star's "farmers" are also the best in the continent.

When the Iron Star "Agricultural Army" opened up a base in the Sky Empire towards the south, the telegrams from all parties in the Sky Empire exaggerated that the Iron Star Agricultural Army is now well-equipped!

In the governor's mansions of some imperial cities, Wei Keng (undercover) who was in charge of writing the report burst out laughing after reading the information about the empire.

Enma: "In the whole of the south, we only arranged 200 light planes for local surveying and mapping. Among them, the three key production areas of West Road only invested more than 6,000 tractors to supplement the insufficient livestock transportation capacity. Why did the report say that The report is the same as the posture of "Banshee Ascension" and "Apocalypse Riding Face", the rhetoric of the literati is really amazing."

Of course, it was also because of the nonsense reports of those governors in Sky Empire. The Anglos were unaware of the strategic move of the Iron Star Army's main force moving eastward this time.

…Enma: “Our goal is to liberate the whole world”…

Even now, the galloping Iron Star land cruiser regiments are rampant within the Kingdom of Osima, which forced the Kingdom of Osima, which was planning to intervene across the border, to turn its attention back to the country and was unable to cooperate with Anglo A major intervention in Sky Empire.

For the newborn Iron Star, this is a super bold strategy. When the Anglo intervention forces and the reactionary forces of the Sky Empire still have spare power, the main force jumps directly to the west. Completed a perfect detour, directly bypassing the bloody battle between Sky Empire and Thunder Flash Alliance for decades.

When a total of 32 large units separated the industrial city area of ​​the Kingdom of Osima from the semi-permanent standing armed area at the front, things really got worse.

War is about economics.

On the front line of Osima, the soldiers panicked. Although there are still six "Land Cruisers" of the Thunderbolt Alliance in the line of defense, the generals of the Kingdom inside the line of defense have huge hidden dangers in their hearts.

This hidden danger was created by themselves, and now they are working hard to send military police to suppress the rumors. The rumor is that "military rations have been resold".

...Economic corruption during wars is a common problem of all military governments in the mainland. …

On November 25th, in Osima's royal capital, the Spa Palace, the nobles sat down in accordance with the democratic system,

On the top seat, with the crystal projection communication appearing in various luxurious rooms, guys in Chinese costumes, who claim to be able to determine the fate of thousands of people with every move, are facing the Iron Star Rebels who suddenly crossed over on the map frown.

The generals participated in the meeting through magic crystals, and the young king sat on the throne, but in fact, the three power ministers in the authority were in charge of all political matters.

At the meeting, the highest power center of the Osima Kingdom sent a question: "General Simon, how is the frontline defense?"

At this time, General Simon, who was in charge of the original Thunderbolt Alliance's front line of defense: "The defense is very good, but I need supplies."

The problem on the map now is that the train is separated from the front-line fortress. This General Simon seems to have a well-thought-out plan, but in fact he is worried about this problem.

…The Iron Star Corps is a lone force, but supplies are fairly plentiful. …

And in the eastern part of the Osima Kingdom, Enma, who had already arrived with his troops, was watching his super teleportation.

In the center of the transmitted light, the Iron Star infrastructure troops deployed defense tower facilities.

A simple steel furnace is forging steel bars, and the surrounding transport vehicles are using the cement bricks buried below the ground to camouflage. Here, hemispherical armed bunkers with a height of 20 meters have been built.

In addition to the main structure of these bunkers reinforced concrete, there is additional protection, five meters thick sand. The internal corridors are intentionally bent to prevent the unimpeded passage of blast debris

The two-meter-thick reinforced concrete cylinder head on the top is covered with a five- to six-meter-thick camouflage layer. This can only be effectively taken down by the siege cannon empowerment attack.

Regarding the erection of the tower in front of Osima's house this time, Enma has always aimed at the transfer of the Anglo side.

Osima is an important ally of Anglo. When Anglo announced that it would intervene in the revolution, the Osima Kingdom jumped the most, allowing the Anglo to open the port to provide supplies. It can be said that the most important purpose of Enma this time is to "break the line of troops."

Wei Keng made a note in the system: "Besiege Wei and save Zhao", by entering the Osima Kingdom, he interrupted the Anglos' interference in Iron Star.

...Because it is fighting behind enemy lines, everything needs to be done quickly. Enma and the officers are in a hurry to prepare in the territory of Osima...

Enma: "The static defensive heavy army group at the former junction of the Sky Empire and Osima, the Anglo Navy group stationed in the north of the Osima Kingdom (this is also the mainstream of the Intervention Army), and the central heavy army group in the capital of Osima, for For Iron Star, it is a huge hidden danger. It is impossible for the Iron Star Corps to win by fighting against three. After a long time, after the three parties reach an agreement, Iron Star will face a joint strangulation, but now, through this interspersed, geopolitics will emerge. Subtle changes have taken place. For the Osima, whether the Anglo allies are reliable, and whether the Imperial Army at the forefront of the Sky Empire will take a bite, these are "difficult to determine" risks, such risks exist, let The possibility that the three parties will reach an agreement to suppress Iron Star in the future has disappeared."

In this operation, Enma also made insurance.

When necessary, open large-scale teleportation for strategic support.

"Of course, before retreating, we must cause enough damage to our opponents, which is greater than the damage they interfered with us."

Just when Enma was expounding his strategic point of view, the intelligence department submitted an intelligence report.

Iron Star happened to capture a supply team on the outskirts of the legion that was transporting supplies towards the reinforced concrete line of defense on the border.

When the Iron Star Ideological Education Group chatted with these transportation squad leaders and listened to these unlucky guys complaining about their treatment, they identified a certain sign.

...During the continuous war, the sky empire was thunderstorm, and the kingdom of Osima was also thunderstorm...

In the captive camp, Enma took a look at these soldiers of the Osima Kingdom in person, and they were yelling at each other. The sound of sucking and sucking is endless.

Enma took a closer look at the calluses on their hands and the wear and tear on various parts of their clothes, and read what they explained. Today's defense line is doing the physical work of "draining trenches".

A veteran who has served for more than ten years cannot be faked, and it is true that every soldier is hungry and looks disheveled.

And if it is really speculated by the intelligence department, there are some favorable elements in this battle at this time.

…For all the people at the bottom of Wanlun Continent, this is an era of oppression. …

On the Wanlun Continent, when the "Iron Star" was being minted, the "Ominous Gold Coin" was growing stronger day by day. The large amount of gold flowing out of the sky empire has made a lot of money for merchants who play cross-border trade.

In the Anglo organization Thunderbolt Alliance, in order to strengthen the integration of resources in various countries, it has damaged the normal operation of internal materials in various countries.

The Rise of the Iron Star passed, forcibly controlling prices, so that key food, minerals, fuel and other strategic materials could not be purchased by the victors. The gold coins only allowed the giants of the Thunderbolt Alliance to strengthen their monopoly on domestic supplies.

Especially the Kingdom of Osima, although he and the Anglo are military allies, how can there be so many economic allies (in ancient times, it did not prevent the bald eagle and the European brothers from signing a joint military agreement while economically Slaughter Europe).

The Kingdom of Osima has just finished the war, and it seems to be relieved militaryly, but the interior is rapidly decaying. Along with food, cotton cloth, fuel prices soared.

In this "price frenzy", the Osima officers who mastered the military warehouse used their "business acumen"

Wei Keng of China Times: The biggest villain of commercialism is that "in order to scrape off the money of other people in the society, it will be obvious that the supply of materials will be suddenly reduced to 90%.

What about the lack of food and clothing for the remaining 10%? The mouthpieces of the upper class controlled by business and private affairs will make most people think in their propaganda that the 10% of the lower class are beggars, sick men, old people, and worthless people, and it is better to disappear. "

…For the Shovel Dancer, such a kingdom is worth setting fire to himself. …

En Ma stared at the strategic map, and the original strategic plan stopped suddenly, and his eyes were fixed on Kaidi City in the north.

This is the most important storage city on the entire static defense front. In past wars, this city was located in the rear, but now, our side has made a big detour. Here is an important node, and now it is "cold and fever"

After returning from the captive camp, En Ma said to An Jiexin and Bei Si: "I want to take this place, even if I lose more than half of it.

So, on the 26th, the Enma Group, which had completed its military build-up, attacked Kaidi City extremely quickly.

As the warehouse troop on the eastern front of the empire, the most elite "Devourer Corps" of the Kingdom of Osima is stationed here. The most distinctive vehicle of this type of troop is the battlefield scavenger. This vehicle has eight mechanical legs and has a furnace inside.

The huge magnetic suction port of the battlefield scavenger (nicknamed the ghoul) chassis helps it to scavenge on the battlefield, and the war metal is cut into the furnace to be welded on the damaged shell, which can be added to the destroyed armor.

The total weight of "Battlefield Scavengers" is 200 tons to 260 tons, and there is a large amount of liquid metal inside. This liquid metal allows them to digest steel shards.

Iron Star technicians analyzed this land crawling chariot: Plasma weapons can do a lot of damage to its (battlefield scavengers) liquid metal activity, just like the "holy light undead creature".

The general in charge of guarding this place in the Kingdom of Osima is a third-level hero. They are all worried.

…The aristocratic culture of the Osima Kingdom made them also have unreasonable contempt for the Iron Star Corps, which was born with clay legs. …

On the night of the 26th, Enma set up an offensive posture, but did not attack immediately.

Facing this city with many defensive buildings, if we use the traditional large-scale bombardment and remove them one by one, it will take seven or eight days. Even fifteen days and a half months. But time is definitely not enough, Wei Keng's battle plan for tackling the fortifications is to win it within three days. It must be covered by large-scale artillery, and then the soldiers rushed to the front to implement close-range blasting tactics. This war was particularly detrimental to the elite troops.

And Enma's attitude towards this strategic point is: "You can pay a lot of money to win it."

At dawn on the 27th, while the Thunderbolt Alliance's other heavy troops were still mobilizing, the bombardment began, and Wei Keng, who had activated the halo of assault, was always watching the situation in Kaidi City.

The large-scale artillery successfully suppressed the counterattacks from various strongholds,

Looking down at the battlefield from the perspective of the sky at this time, the protruding outline of the fortress of Kaidi Castle in the Kingdom of Osima looms in the smoke of gunfire.

With Iron Star's Stormtroopers riding a battlefield unicycle (with four auxiliary mechanical feet) in a straggler position, they quickly posted up.

During the engineer assault, they were only blocked by four bunkers.

The sudden flames from these dark fortresses brought destruction to the commandos. Of course, for the Iron Star commander, it is not critical to injure dozens of people in the process. Time is the most important thing at this time. Let the enemy's heavy artillery react, that is, hundreds of thousands of people will be killed.

Iron Star's storm commando team climbed down immediately after being blocked by the dark fort, and notified the trench clearing team.

As the flamethrowers on the battlefield swept towards these dark forts, these dark forts fell silent.

...Iron Star's military summary system that goes deep into the team makes the coordination of battlefield assault tactics like a bite machine...

Five minutes later, the Stormtroopers arrived under the walls of the fortress.

They carried ten kilograms of explosive packs, several of which were stacked together and placed at the corner of the bunker. As the flames burst out, gaps were blown in the forts that needed to be pulled out by heavy artillery.

Of course, the entire fortress did not collapse, which shows the strength of its concrete and steel bars. (And there is also the blessing of faith)

But as the commandos rushed in through the gap, they set fire to the enemy's random piles of debris on the first floor of the military stronghold. Under the influence of thick smoke, the fortress could not be defended no matter how strong it was, and the recalcitrant Osima soldiers on the upper floors had to jump off the building to seek help.

Narrator: Afterwards analysis, the discipline of the Osima soldiers stationed in this rear stronghold was very problematic, and they basically did not organize their internal affairs, so that some corners on the first floor were regarded as garbage dumps. There are broken telegraphs and wine bottles, and there are many kindling materials among them.

The internal affairs of soldiers seem to have nothing to do with actual combat, but during the process of stationing on the battlefield, habitual laxity is fatal.

...A soldier raging, a raging litter, a kennel...

Five hours later, the outer strongholds were removed one by one. Iron Star banners were hoisted one by one, from the outside to the inside, on the high point buildings in Kaidi City.

Churches, warehouses, railway working buildings, coal sheds...

According to these flags, the Iron Star Artillery extended towards the urban area step by step.

Under the cover of land cruisers, light infantry and light armored vehicles, the Iron Star Legion marched into the core area of ​​the fortress. Later, in the process of sorting out the order of the city, the commander of the Osima Fortress who was about to escape was captured.

Cooperative operations under the Iron Star system are fighting under the culture of post-industrial countries in the earth's modern times. Only after the "money worship" and "self-interest" are suppressed to a very small number can such a large-scale and courageous cooperation be possible.

In this assault war, a total of 78 of Wei Keng's second wave of descendants participated in the battle. Since almost all of them joined the commando team, 64 of them suffered casualties.

...Wei Keng's descendants not only came from the Sky Empire, but also began to come from the land of Osima. …

On the battlefield, every fortress of the concrete fortress group that is 20 meters high, like a small black hole exposed on the cliff, is as terrifying as the big mouth of the black hole. Strafing all infantry, while the top heavy artillery can hit all "land cruisers", theoretically it is a perfect defense.

But Iron Star's land cruisers carried the heavy firepower on the top of these fortresses and suppressed the light firepower at the bottom of the fortresses, while the infantry rushed in to light the firepower after the rapid-fire firepower at the bottom of the fortresses was suppressed. This perfect fortification was broken.

What is broken together is the concept of concrete static fortifications that have been reinforced and concreted throughout the continent for almost hundreds of years. As long as the tactics are appropriate and the legion is determined to fight, no matter how strong the fortification is, it can be taken down.

... Engineer tactics, began to become famous on this continent. …

In this battle, Iron Star died a total of 3443 people. Lost 6 land cruiser-level large units, 15 light land-based armored vehicles of various types, 6 battlefield scavengers (this is actually a half-mining vehicle), two combat mechanical spiders (400-ton level) of the Devourer Legion here ) The three mechanical puppet chariots (which can summon 70-ton wrecked mechanical warriors and can be dispelled by the thermal tunneling of cloud bombs) were all wiped out.

Osima's establishment here was 6,000 people, and 4,733 people were eventually captured.

The northern quarter of this magnificent line of defense of the Thunderbolt Alliance was cut off, and the entire static line of defense was like a big snake chopped off by seven inches.

Since then, Iron Star has strategically expanded beyond the Sky Empire, catching the entire Wanlun Continent off guard.

…when the walls are breached, every brick seeps with blood…

Enma wanders the battlefield without any smiles. Only after breaking through the iron wall did Wei Keng realize how much blood had soaked into the land.

This battle line was formed four hundred years ago. Together with the other three battle lines on the mainland, it is called the four bloody battle lines. For hundreds of years, the two sides have relied on layers of rear fortresses and railway lines to strangle each other here like a meat grinder. , the number of casualties per century is as high as tens of millions.

Therefore, a "concept" has also been formed here. All soldiers who can survive on this battlefield will have a physique affected by the concept slightly better than ordinary people.

And if the general completes the defeat on the front line, the "reward" will be greater. Many junior hero units have gained experience on this battlefield. Similarly, many veteran heroes also lost on the battlefield here and are dying.

In the multiverse, everything has the nature of quantum storage of information. When a person is instilled with the concept of a hero, when a family has the meaning of heroic blood, it will always last for thousands of years.

[Earth has conducted research on this aspect and found that after a warrior gets the concept of a hero, the genetic information of his descendants will be like a key to open the information bank of the ether world. Work hard to be strong. ]

As the hero who directly pierced through this stronghold of defense, Enma is now level eight, and An Jiexin, who joined the battle, has been promoted to level four, and Beth has also been upgraded to level three. They are already orthodox heroes.

But the "upgraded" Enma stared at the "bloody battleground" at his feet with unprecedented seriousness

Enma thought of "the future history of fighting": this is something that only demons can do.