Two Hundred and Fifty-Five Open to Traffic

On the westward railway, a worker knocked the last nail into the sleeper, then raised his head to wipe the sweat from his forehead.

As far as he could see, the railway was about to enter the territory of the Eternal Empire. There was a huge towering city wall, and the train passed between two sections of the city wall.

The Holy Demon Empire has not yet been so arrogant and maddened. They have not attacked the Eternal Empire, but they have demolished this railway and transported it away in front of each other.

Of course, the Eternal Empire has been losing ground because of the fight against the puppet empire, and it is not in the mood to compete with the Holy Devil Empire. In the end, the two sides tacitly maintained a state of truce here, and no one wanted to fire first.

However, as the battle progressed, the soldiers of the Holy Demon Empire here began to retreat, and finally replaced with the soldiers of Alan Hill. Then countless sappers began to repair these damaged railways, racing against time to be lively.

Soon the famous westward railway was repaired, and the road between Ireland Hill and the Eternal Empire was completely opened up.

"The entire railway line has been completed!" Holding the walkie-talkie in his hand, the engineer captain who was supervising the construction on site shouted excitedly into the microphone.

The sound of a huge engine appeared in the sky, a UH-1 utility helicopter appeared on the horizon, a second UH-1 helicopter followed behind that helicopter, and the two helicopters galloped forward one after the other.

The planes had machine guns hanging from the sides and were filled with soldiers on guard. After the two helicopters flew over this railway section, a train full of supplies, accompanied by more helicopters, slowly moved forward along the railway.

"This is the first train! Pay attention to the situation around you!" Inside a helicopter, the commander in charge of the transport operation pressed the intercom and reminded his men loudly in the noise.

They are the first air cavalry division of Ailan Hill. These helicopters can accompany the ground troops very well, and can be equipped with weapons such as rockets, which have a good defensive effect on the dragon knight troops of the Holy Demon Empire.

After all, not far to the south of the westward railway is the frontier position controlled by the Holy Devil Empire. From there, the Dragon Knights will arrive along the westward railway in a short time.

In order to prevent these lingering dragon knights from threatening the westward railway, the latest UH-1 general-purpose helicopter appeared along the westward railway.

The 1st Air Cavalry Division at Ireland Hill was armed with a large number of helicopters, many of which were armed with machine guns and rockets. They rely on these helicopters to fight and react many times faster than normal troops.

Once a battle breaks out nearby,

These helicopters can transport a large number of infantry to the edge of the theater to lay down. Massive infantry and bazooka and other weapons can provide good fire support, and helicopters can also provide cover in the sky.

This kind of tactic is very effective against those dragon knights. In fact, the appearance of helicopters has indeed given Alan Hill a way to truly restrain the dragon knight infiltrating guerrilla tactics.

"No. 2 understands! The surrounding airspace is normal! Don't worry, those cowards from the Holy Demon Empire will not come to die!" A pilot said in the headset with slight interference.

Beneath their helicopter, a train loaded with supplies was galloping down the tracks. The materials urgently needed by the 9th Army can be replenished in large quantities immediately.

Before, in order to provide these supplies, Ailan Hill had to mobilize all the transport planes they could mobilize to take the risk of carrying out this transport mission.

Although the interception ability of the Holy Demon Empire is very low, the transport capacity of the transport aircraft is not high, so the 9th Army has been in a state of defense, they have to save their weapons and ammunition, and dare not take the initiative to provoke the devil.

Now that the westward railway was once again under the control of Ireland Hill, the safety of the 9th Army was guaranteed.

Amid the cheers of countless sappers, the train quickly passed the railroad tracks, and the train behind it was full of weapons and ammunition to be transported to Grecon.

"This type of helicopter is really useful! With them, the speed is improved many times, whether it is hoisting or transporting!" A sapper raised his head, looked at the helicopters flying over his head, and said in admiration.

As a second-line weapon and equipment, this new type of aircraft has not yet appeared on the front line. In order to avoid large-scale losses, the Airland Hill military has no plans to put this helicopter into the frontal battlefield for the time being.

They're working on new gunships, that's what they want to use in frontal assaults.

The cheers grew louder as the second train appeared on the tracks not long after. The transportation capacity of Ireland Hill is actually very strong. As long as this section of the railway is restored, the 9th Army will resume operation within a few days.

Just as everyone happily watched the train speeding on the rails, a whistling cannonball landed nearby.

At first glance, this is not a very accurate cannonball. After all, the actual control line of the Holy Demon Empire is more than 20 kilometers away from the railway. At this distance, few artillery can directly attack the westward railway.

"Lie down!" Most of the nearby are sappers, so everyone started to hide with their steel helmets to avoid each other's artillery fire.

The landing point of the second shell is also very outrageous, and it does not mean to threaten the railway at all, and the power of this shell does not seem to be huge, and it looks similar to a 130mm howitzer shell.

"What? How could their 130mm howitzer hit such a long distance?" Holding a steel helmet, the engineer captain frowned and complained as he looked at the shell that fell not far away.

Whether it is the Holy Demon Empire or the Puppet Empire, most of them are equipped with 130mm caliber artillery with technical parameters provided by Alan Hill. The actual performance is actually not that great. : :

The range of this kind of howitzer exported to the Holy Devil Empire was only a little more than 9 kilometers. The level is a real early World War II model, basically the alien version of the Soviet 122 howitzer.

At that time, the export of this type of artillery bought the development time of Ailan Hill, and Ailan Hill was responsible for exporting all the production lines, including machine tools and other supporting machinery.

It has been used until now, and the performance of this howitzer is actually very outdated. Not only the power of the shells, but the basic design structure is already outdated.

Except for the second-line troops that are still equipped with old-fashioned 75 infantry guns and 105mm old-fashioned artillery because of the rapid development, most of the Ailan Hill artillery have been replaced with new 105mm caliber howitzers and 155mm caliber howitzers.

In terms of caliber and design level, the new artillery of the Alan Hill Army is much stronger than the old-fashioned howitzers equipped by the Holy Demon Empire and the Puppet Empire.

The Holy Demon Empire and the Puppet Empire, which have been suffering all the time, have of course also considered developing new artillery, but because they do not have the technical reserves of the system, they encountered countless troubles in the process of refitting the artillery.

In the end, the puppet empire still came up with some so-called new weapons and equipment, such as the "new cannon" that was shelling the Ireland Hill Railway. A modified 175mm caliber heavy artillery!

This caliber was designed by the puppet empire itself. The overall design of the artillery follows the structure of the 130mm caliber artillery, adding the medicine room and increasing the barrel, which improves the range of the artillery.

However, because it has to surpass the 155mm caliber howitzer that Alan Hill generally equips with a range of 15 kilometers, the new artillery design of this puppet empire requires a range of 25 kilometers.

Unfortunately, because the processing level is not enough, the overall design is also the foundation of the 130 artillery, so in the end this new artillery can only reach a range of 22 kilometers, and there are various shortcomings.

The first is that when the maximum range is about 20 kilometers, the hit accuracy of this artillery is very touching, basically relying on the state of belief.

Secondly, the power of the projectile warhead of this kind of artillery is very small, and the weight of the charge is about the same as that of the 130 artillery.

Finally, this kind of artillery is huge, which is very inconvenient in the transportation and deployment process. The puppet empire relied on its own cheap labor to forcibly use this new type of artillery, but unfortunately the actual combat effect can only be said to be mediocre.

"It's only these two days that they can still harass them! After these two days, they've been beaten farther away, and there won't be so much trouble!" Several shells landed nearby, and soon There was a stop.

There was a burst of muffled thunder in the sky, and it was thought that the Alan Hill artillery unit on the front line had begun to counterattack. The sound of the artillery shaking the earth and the mountains continued for a while, until there was no sound behind the Holy Demon Empire's position, and then it gradually stopped.

There are not many Magic Empire troops who dare to fight back in front of the Ailan Hill artillery group. Although the puppet empire is exhausting, it is not willing to waste its resources in this kind of self-inflicted trouble.

The sappers who got up from the ground were slapping the dust on their bodies, and the third train whistled and whistled past the area that had just been shelled.

The craters were scattered around, most of them still steaming. The engineer captain looked at his subordinates and ordered loudly: "See if anyone is injured! For the rest, fill up the crater! Work!"

"Ha!" A group of sappers got busy again, checking the situation around the tracks after the train passed. Many people began to use shovels to shovel the floating soil around the crater back into the crater.

On this day, the westward railway was repaired, the crisis of the 9th Army was relieved, and the relationship between Ailan Hill, the Eternal Empire and Greken was finally connected again. It was also on this day that the capital of the Jasnor Empire changed hands, and Alan Hill achieved a major victory on the southern front.