Chapter 2500 Transformation
On the third day, facing the enemy's roaring and tsunami, facing the crackling artillery bombardment, Thomas gritted his teeth and fought back, hoping that time would pass faster.
However, every second was so difficult, and the fall of every comrade made the defense of the high ground more difficult. The ammunition was limited and the number of people was limited. The position was almost consuming life at the rate of one company per day.
On the fourth day, the F Company and G Company of the reserve also entered the high ground overnight, delivered supplies, and participated in the defense battle. No matter what, the high ground could not be handed over.
The main force of the coalition forces, which had suffered setbacks in succession, now also wanted to seize the high ground and destroy the imperial artillery team behind the position. The fourth day was a day that Thomas would never forget. That day, the sky was covered by fighters and bombers, countless shells were vented from the sky, and the continuous explosions surrounded them. The sky was full of smoke and dust.
At the same time, the air force rushed through the cement position again and went to the rear to attack the imperial artillery position. Fortunately, the imperial artillery was fired and changed places, leaving only a few wooden fake cannons for the air force to bomb.
Anyway, at high altitude, only one side can be bombed roughly by visual observation. The enemy's air force was out in full force on this day, which is known as the darkest day in the Lehi sky. No one can calculate the explosives used in detail in one day, but it is definitely enough to destroy a city five or six times.
However, even so, on the fourth day, the three-nation coalition still did not break the front line and was still stubbornly blocked by Lehi outside the border.
In order to vent their anger, the three-nation coalition decided to attack the high ground with all their strength, and they had to show some results. So on the fifth day, the high ground was cut by 30 meters.
The war to seize the high ground started at five in the morning and lasted for twelve hours. The three-nation coalition repeatedly bombarded the infantry, but the soldiers on the top of the mountain bravely resisted the attacks again and again until they ran out of ammunition and food.
I don't know when Thomas was left with only two people, three guns, and dozens of bullets. It was really because the enemy surrounded too tightly that nothing could be transported in. They had no reinforcements, nor did they expect reinforcements. They just held on to the end of their lives.
After a fierce artillery fire, a new wave of attacks came up. This time, Thomas and the other two could not stop them because they had no bullets.
Fortunately, they had lasted for five days, which was enough for the main force of the Strike Girls. They had already defeated the army of the Northern Alliance and driven away the three fleets in the west. Now they had to deal with the enemies in the south.
Because of the interruption of communication, the army in the south was still thinking about not letting the army in the other two directions take the lead. They were thinking about regrouping and defeating the enemy in one breath in tomorrow's offensive and heading north to enter the empire.
But they didn't expect their nightmare to come.
"Stand by!" With a cold command, the Strike Girls in the air deployed their formation to harvest the enemy's living forces.
The flying skeletons lit up with orange-red light, and they didn't need to hide at all.
In the past five days, Tanya led this army on a long-distance raid without landing, as if they were living in the sky, flying around, eating, drinking, defecating and urinating in the sky. The food was compressed biscuits in the storage warehouse. When they needed water, they lined up in a column and dived to the designated lake to get water. After getting water, they immediately raised their altitude. In this way, they ate, slept, and fought in the sky, almost becoming sky people. Finally, they defeated the armies of the two sides. Now only the Southern Army is left.
All ready, with the muzzles facing down.
"Fire."
On this day, a meteor shower appeared in the sky.
In five days, the battles in the three major battlefields ended, but the war did not end. Three days after the complete destruction of the Southern Army, the Assault Girls appeared in the Gem Port and dropped the faith bomb, directly seizing the faith of all the soldiers of the remaining seven fleets of Hezhou. Then the Assault Girls phalanx wearing flying skeletons flew over the airspace of the capital of Hezhou. Although they said nothing and did nothing, it was enough to make the people of Hezhou feel deeply afraid.
In addition, the faith nuclear bomb in the Gem Port was soon reported by the media, and everyone knew that the Empire had a very terrible weapon against faith. As long as they were exposed to the light above, even the most sincere believers would become atheists.
In an instant, everyone was scared. They no longer dared to attack the Empire. They would rather die than become atheists.
Since they don't want to, then let's negotiate.
In this war, both the Allied Union and the United Kingdom suffered heavy losses. They were geographically close to the Empire, so they had to cede land and pay compensation. Although the United States lost soldiers and weapons, their industrial strength was not damaged, so they only needed to pay compensation, and the loss was minimal.
From today on, the Allied Union and the United Kingdom will not be able to maintain their status as great powers, because their armies and fleets are finished and there is no money to rebuild. Without an army to protect their trade, they will be robbed in this world where every country is a knife-wielding robber.
Why do maritime powers develop giant ships and cannons? It is to maintain trade security and, by the way, open the door to weak countries. This kind of thing has not changed from ancient times to the present, because merchants must travel around to do business, but there are different forces entrenched in different places. Some forces are friendly, but more forces are actually robbers. Of course, merchants are usually businessmen and can also play the role of robbers when necessary. Therefore, merchants have their own armed forces to fight against local forces, and local forces also have to guard against merchants roaming around.
The forces in various places basically refer to nobles, gentry and the like. The armed forces of merchants are mainly the ancestors of the bourgeoisie. Because they will fight against the nobles, they have a closer relationship with the royal family.
Because the biggest enemy of the royal family is the nobles, the nobles can threaten the status of the royal family, but the wealthy merchants will not. So inevitably there are three major armed forces of the royal family, the nobles, and the merchants, and then they will fight each other, until one day they find that it is meaningless to continue fighting, so they sit down to negotiate and invent the separation of powers, diplomacy to the royal family, judicial power to the merchants, and administration to the nobles.
The system is the product of realistic compromise. Now that the United Kingdom has no fleet, it will have to face the internal contradictions of the system. There will definitely be no time to make trouble for a while.
Because of its superior geographical environment, although the United States can still make a comeback, its international influence will definitely decrease sharply after this time. For a time, the two poles of the world have quietly changed, and they have become Lexi and the Federation.
The Federation has even become the leader of the traditional great powers in the world, replacing the status of the United States and shouldering the heavy responsibility of defending the faith against the empire.
Moreover, the Federation and the Empire are still bordering each other, which is very embarrassing. In the past, the two poles of the world were separated by the sea, but now the two poles of the world are neighbors, but they are very different. For a while, no one can predict whether there will be a second war, and no one knows what will happen next.
Only the memory that Tanya brought back from another timeline told her that the Federation is strong outside but weak inside, which is not terrible, because although the Federation is vast, it is very inferior in all aspects. As long as the Empire operates well, the Federation is nothing but a chicken and a dog.