1864 Half a Day of Mourning

The beach area has been cleaned up, and a new batch of landing ships have delivered machinery and equipment.

Armored vehicles, motorcycles, mortars and a small number of tanks.

For this landing battle, Ankok Industries also developed a sand crawler specifically for the beach.

The wider bandwidth and deeper metal teeth give the tank enough power even on the beach!

"Quick, faster!"

A sergeant and a private carried a box of mortar shells and ran forward with their heads lowered. Now the enemy's firepower outside the beach was too strong. They had to find a way to clear part of the area as soon as possible, otherwise the landing troops would be pinned on the beach. Get beaten.

The private had long been pale. He looked like he was only twenty years old. He had received basic military training for three months and then was thrown on the battlefield of Nagalir.

He once thought that the battle on the battlefield in Nagaril was already the most intense, until this moment!

Countless bullets and cannonballs are flying around your head. What's even more frightening is that sometimes the damage may come not only from the enemy, but also from behind!

Just now, a shell fell behind him, and a young soldier behind him was killed.

But the moment he was killed, he suddenly pulled the trigger, probably based on his body's instinct.

Twenty rounds of bullets instantly killed the three companions in front of him...

The private was also almost hit. The bullet grazed his shoulder and left a burning scar.

He wanted to say he needed treatment, but the sergeant approached him and asked him to join him in sending mortar shells forward.

If he didn't obey at this time, he might not survive the next second, so he could only do it.

War is not romantic at all, nor is it as expressive as in movies. There is only fear that makes the soul tremble!

The two men ran for dozens of steps carrying the ammunition box, and a pillar of sand rose up about forty or fifty steps away. The next second, the sergeant on his right suddenly fell to the ground, and half of his body was cut off by shrapnel. A head.

The only remaining eyeball was still staring at him, which made the private almost collapse!

However, the next second, another soldier rushed over, lifted the handle of the ammunition box on the sergeant's side, and looked at him.

Two seconds later, the private carried the box and continued forward with the unknown soldier...

Thanks to the addition of tanks and armored vehicles, two bunkers were successfully knocked out in the eastern area of ​​​​the beach.

In an instant, the pressure on the beach began to tilt, and a large number of soldiers began to gather and charge towards the defense gap in accordance with the order's requirements.

Now is not the time to launch a full-scale battle. The leading studio should try its best to keep its footing!

Planes kept falling from the sky, and machine gun bullets kept strafing the ground.

No one knows what will fly from where in the next second and take away their lives.

The fear has reached its end, leaving only numbness and anger.

The soldiers gradually began to adapt to such a game of random death. They turned their fear into resistance and anger towards death, and launched a frantic charge against the enemy's positions.

The battlefield in Nagaril is like a meat grinder, so this is a wall breaker!

The color of the beach has been completely replaced by red. The soldiers who landed later had no choice at all and had to step on the bodies of their fallen colleagues and continue moving forward.

This is especially true for those combat weapons that began to land one after another. Tracks, wheels, or other things were constantly being crushed over and over again.

At this time, there was no time or leisure for people to clean up the corpses that could be seen everywhere on the beach. They were trampled, crushed, and eventually merged with the entire beach little by little!

Everyone is waiting for the results of the landing battle, and investment continues to increase.

At first, federal commanders thought that the Pengeos might abandon the tidal flats and fight offensive and defensive battles with them inland.

Because at the seaside, the power of the federal navy has a great influence on the outcome of the battle, and the Penteo people would suffer too much if the battlefield is placed near the tidal flats.

The same was true for the subsequent high-altitude reconnaissance. They found no layout outside the beach. Only a little further away, the Pengeo people had established complete defenses.

This also gave the federal military leaders an illusion. They misjudged the situation on the battlefield, which made this landing battle particularly difficult!

In just over two hours, at least about 1,500 to 2,000 people died.

If we can't push forward as quickly as possible, more people will die faster!

But it's not that there's no good news at all. The good news is that the Air Force is winning.

The new fighter jets newly added to the battlefield have once again achieved considerable advantages in performance, and the ground troops have fewer opportunities to be attacked by enemy air forces.

From shock and fear at the beginning, to anger and numbness in the morning, to calmness in the afternoon, everything happened so fast!

It only took a dozen or so hours for many people to experience a state of mind that some people cannot achieve in a lifetime.

At 3:47 p.m., the last bunkers outside the beachhead were pulled out and Union soldiers began taking over the trenches.

Although the emergence of armored vehicles, tanks and the air force has reduced the actual value of trenches, they are still useful to a certain extent.

The soldiers who were in good health began to clear the battlefield and build fortifications. Both sides seemed to be tired from the fighting, and they took a tacit understanding to take a break.

But whether they are the federal people or the Pengeo people, they all know that this is only a temporary calm.

After the rest is over, a more brutal war is still waiting for everyone.

On the beach behind the battlefield, a large number of soldiers were receiving treatment in a temporary field hospital.

These were not seriously injured, and those with broken arms and legs had already returned to Nagaril with the landing ship.

They can't play any role here, and there is no suitable place for them to receive medical services. They can only be allowed to go back first.

The beach stained red by blood is filled with a sense of absurd beauty under the setting sun, and the air you breathe is filled with the smell of blood that chokes your nose.

In the offshore, a large number of fish are constantly churning, these are attracted by the blood and corpses.

Some young people have poor psychological quality and have collapsed at this time.

Faced with such a result, everyone could only respond with silence.

Not long ago, they drove the Pengeo people back to this land as victors, but now, they just stood firm and paid a heavy price for it.

All news from the front line was sent back to the Federation as quickly as possible.

Mr. Trueman breathed a visibly heavy sigh of relief when he received the solid answer, "What are our casualties?"

Officials from the Ministry of National Defense took out a document and read it out, "Currently, according to our incomplete statistics, there are a total of 2,996 people dead, 3,721 injured to varying degrees, and three missing. One hundred and twenty-two people.”

"More than six thousand casualties..." Mr. Trueman shut his mouth tightly after saying this. He felt that the casualties were a little bit high.

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The officers of the Department of Defense could feel the president's dissatisfaction, but he had to say, "Mr. President, we expect that high-intensity fighting will continue to break out from tonight to the next week."

"So...it's possible that the number will continue to increase."

The officer was silent for a while, "Many!"

Mr. Trueman's attention was drawn, and he frowned and asked, "Why?"

At this time, military officers took over the topic, and all the people in the Ministry of Defense saw were written things.

It says "the enemy is very tenacious", so they will only tell Mr. President that "the enemy is very tenacious", but they have no idea why the enemy is tenacious, how they are tenacious, or what impact it has on us.

This is the biggest difference between the Ministry of National Defense and the military. They do not go to the front line, and all their knowledge of the front line is limited to written reports.

"Mr. President, according to what we have detected so far, the Pengeo people have assembled at least more than 1.5 million troops to surround us."

"And more troops are being equipped and ready to go. We believe that in the next three months to six months, approximately 200,000 to 300,000 federal soldiers will die as a result."

There were not many people in the room. They were all people from the Ministry of National Defense and the military. There were no people from the cabinet or other departments, otherwise he would not dare to say this.

"So many?" Mr. Trueman still had a hard time imagining it. "We didn't even sacrifice so many people on the Nagaril battlefield!"

The military representative was silent for a while, "This is the situation in the Pengeo Empire. They are men, women and children, all very enthusiastic about war. Most adults, including women, have received military training."

"Their potential total number of soldiers is about 20 million..."

"But the good news is that they have no money now, and the production can't keep up, which limits their large-scale installation. This buys us time."

"Beyond that, we think they just want to fight a war of attrition with us."

The officer did not continue, but Mr. Trueman himself had already thought about it.

The Pengeo Empire is a country that strongly encourages childbirth, and its total population is much larger than that of the current Federation!

A country where all the people are fanatical about war, with a larger population and a higher will to fight, is terrible!

And for this reason, Mr. Trueman sincerely thanked Lynch, because Lynch proposed a series of targeted international strategies that caused Pengeo to now have no money.

Their money cannot be unlocked and domestic production of raw materials is insufficient, otherwise they will face a country that can arm nearly ten million or more soldiers at any time!

Thinking of this, a cold sweat broke out on his back!

At the same time, this also gave him some hesitation about how far he should fight.

Before, his idea was to completely knock Pengeo down, but now the military intelligence gave him a basin of cold water, making him realize that even if this idea could really be realized, the Federation would pay an equally heavy price!

What you want to eliminate is not hundreds of thousands or millions of people, but tens of millions of people!

However, he hid his thoughts well. He decided to talk to Peleus at night. He needed to know the thoughts of the top military officials.