Chapter 266 Chapter 748 The Great Encirclement.
Chapter 266 Chapter 7.48 Great Encirclement.
At 8 pm on September 22, a group of lights in the sky were moving southward. In the ancient times of the main world, this was the scene of night flights seen from the ground, and now it was an airship heading south.
The First Army, composed of four corps of the Industrial Army heading south, surrounded and annihilated the Kingdom Army of 80,000 on the western front, and handed the prisoners to the security army who came to arrange. Then, they hurriedly continued to pursue eastward.
The First Army of the United Industry completed a large detour after a forced march of 48 hours. The troops crossed 600 kilometers and cut off all the traffic lines behind the Kingdom Army.
At a total of more than 170 road nodes, the accompanying airships first dropped heavy weapons and equipment, and then the delta-wing air transport troops dropped the soldiers to complete the armaments and equipment.
Each of these transportation hubs is guarded by at most one or two platoons, thirty or forty people, or even a dozen people. ——It may seem like a small number, but those who have played "PUBG" know that it doesn't take a lot of people to block the bridge. Without armored vehicles and heavy firepower assaults, thousands of people are useless.
The movements of the Kingdom Army carrying heavy equipment are the focus of the United Industry.
The First Army, composed of four regiments of the United Industry, did not disperse, but gathered into a large sharp knife to continue to cut the connection between the various noble warlords of the Kingdom Army in the encirclement.
While the Kingdom Army was exhausted, the various troops were dispersed in the mixed orders, and once they were dispersed, other regiments of the Industrial Faction would immediately intervene to expand the break.
For example, at dusk on the afternoon of the 22nd, on the Sugao Plain,
this area, in addition to farmland, is a large number of small hills covered with pine trees.
The 20,000 troops led by Count Polit of the Kingdom Army lost contact with their elite troops and a large number of grassroots troops during the main assault of the First Army (01, 05, 11, 12). 20,000 people, scattered within a range of 30 kilometers.
Before Count Polit could organize his troops, the Industrial Party's 02nd and 04th regiments arrived right after him and destroyed the noble army of less than 2,000 people.
Under the first round of artillery fire from the 02nd and 04th regiments, most of the sword and shield soldiers and musketeers in the 2,000-man team of the count were defeated and fled to the hills to hide.
In a flash, only the retainers of the great nobles were left. This team had only about 200 people, and the scale was more like a large adventurer team. And they were facing the industrial tanks marching in rows.
Oh, that scene was amazing enough. The three mid-level arcane mages hired by the count ran away directly.
The three chimeras tamed by the Polit family roared with thunder and lightning on the battlefield, and finally fell to the helicopter cluster rocket volley.
In the five-minute air battle, more than 60 rockets were fired, hammering down the three behemoths. After falling, these giant beasts still wanted to struggle, flapping their huge wings vigorously, and sand and rocks flew everywhere, making it impossible for the industrial infantry to get close.
At that time, the three two-headed dragons were so violent and violent that they would not be spoiled.
So the tracks of the "heavy knight" rolled over the wings, and the gun barrel hit the forehead.
This time, the chimera immediately showed an understanding ability that was no less than that of humans. After the two heads alternately hit the ground (kowtow), it became a prisoner of the industrial faction.
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In this great battle, the nobles of the kingdom army were all profound, and there were many like Count Polit who showed off their special combat power.
[After the war, the three chimeras honestly confessed: In fact, there was a contract with this earl's family hundreds of years ago, and they were just fulfilling the agreement. Request the industrial leader to "give a generous chance"]
Although these ancient families have some strange powers, they cannot change the result. In large-scale troop operations, command ability is the key. As long as the Nine Rings boundary is not broken, no behemoth unit can make a big wave.
Several regiments and hundreds of tracked steel forts moved forward. In the face of this torrent, everything was in vain.
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On the afternoon of the 23rd, as the 300,000 Kingdom troops fought one encounter after another, some sober-minded Kingdom nobles realized that they were trapped in an encirclement.
This encirclement was shrinking rapidly. The distance between all the mechanical regiments involved in the encirclement gradually moved from dozens of kilometers to more than ten kilometers.
The Kingdom Army will find that the frequency of encounters with the Industrial Army is getting more and more frequent.
After the 23rd, after confirming that they were surrounded, the warlord nature of the Kingdom Army was fully reflected, and they began to break out without authorization.
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When the encirclement was not completely tightened, there was still a relatively large gap between each unit responsible for the encirclement, and it was still possible to break out part of it by relying on its large size. But collective action is required.
But some warlords' troops are worried that they will be arranged in the front and rear during the collective breakout, becoming the first to wade through the water, or the abandoned ones who are left behind.
Once the general breakout begins, the party that forms the encirclement will immediately start to reinforce the anti-breakout.
At that time, the encircling party (United Industries) will throw all the heavy firepower at them and mobilize the most elite troops to kill people. The second- and third-rate troops of the kingdom simply do not have the courage to clash with these elite troops. ——To be honest, they just followed Prince Danny to the north to make a fortune.
On the breakout side, the lords who think they are not direct descendants do not want to lose all their wealth, so they will take a gamble and break out without authorization before the king orders them to cover the rear.
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However, the Kingdom Army's operation of selling out teammates was completely within Carrete's expectations.
The breakouts of several Kingdom Army noble troops were all caught and the small ones were released: their organization was defeated, and they were forced to abandon all their baggage and flee in small groups that could not communicate with each other.
Then, those blocking the bridge on the outside were waiting for the "express delivery".
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On the nights of the 23rd and 24th, the more than 100,000 troops of the four nobles of the Kingdom Army were divided into dozens of forces and hit the encirclement, paying a painful price.
For the Industrial Corps, although it was to catch the big and release the small of the Kingdom Army. But in actual operation, the staff of the United Industry took a lot of effort to analyze the order.
The big ones in the Kingdom Army are all mobs and there is no need to release them. If they are defeated, they will be easier to catch than pigs. Even if the Kingdom's elite are small, they cannot be released. They are always broken into pieces under the cover of the arcane and need to be watched all the time.
After the war, it is inaccurate to use the word "unauthorized breakout" to describe the current situation of the Kingdom Army.
Because... there was no central command at all. Perhaps, Prince Danny could only restrain his own troops. After the noble armies found themselves surrounded, they exercised their own judgment on the battle and were no longer under the command of the kingdom. Therefore, there was no such thing as "unauthorized".
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By the 25th, the largest part of the kingdom army that was divided and surrounded had been trapped in a small circle of less than 20 kilometers in radius, with only two small towns in this circle. It was obviously not enough for more than 100,000 troops to garrison.
The mayor's courtyard in the center of the town could only be given to the high-ranking officials of the kingdom army, His Royal Highness the Prince, as a command post.
A large number of knights could only sleep on straw beds laid in the dug pits, while ordinary soldiers did not even have pits and straw.
It was still a winter night, and at least a pile of firewood had to be lit to get by. But as the encirclement shrank, all the carriages and supplies were lost by the steam crossbow bombardment of the industrial army. Where did the fuel come from?
When Egg's generals opened the door, they could see a large number of kingdom troops shivering and hugging each other in the wilderness, shaking each other for warmth. The lack of fuel in the wilderness caused some soldiers to dismantle the wooden parts of their weapons, and the rat holes were carefully taken care of by these hundreds of thousands of people.
There are more people than rats in this encirclement of dozens of square kilometers! The rats suffered an unexpected disaster this winter.
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In the Kingdom's Earth Dragon Corps, Danny was much more tired than he was dozens of hours ago.
After a clash with the 30th regiment of the Xuanguang Industrial Zone, both sides were ready to shake people. But the industrial party shook all the teammates with six god suits, while they shook a group of pigs.
Low morale: Most of the lower-level soldiers can no longer find their officers (knights). It's not that they "may collapse at any time", but they have already collapsed. It's just that they are in the encirclement and have no place to collapse.
Lack of equipment: Most of the armor and weapons were lost as they were chased like ducks, and seven or eight people may have to get a set of equipment. This is just a layer of paper away from disarmament.
Food and medicine shortage: rat meat was eaten, but people were not eaten because they were in the Order camp, and they would be severely punished if they were found. The outer encirclement was also in the Order camp. Every morning, a white helicopter would fly overhead and drop some hot canned food.
Of course, the Kingdom Army did not take advantage of such airdrops in vain. This was the Industrial Camp declaring their nature of order, and it was squeezing the Kingdom Army: they would not use the arcane to contain regional grain production like the Kingdom Army did when it encircled the southern insurgents. They hoped that the wounded and hungry would drop their weapons and come to the designated location to collect food.
At the end of this war, the Industrial faction, which was designated as the enemy of justice by the Temple of Justice in the capital, did more justice than the believers of justice.
The temple priests who followed the army found that except for the healing magic, all other magics were curbed. This made the root of this war - faith - also shaken in the end.
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"Why did it become like this?" The young man Danny was now extremely confused and bewildered.
Before the war, he was able to suppress Xingche Carret step by step, forcing this family traitor to resist, but in the blink of an eye, it became a bubble.
He suddenly realized that he had put too much pressure on this war.
The legitimacy of his heir, the full power of the kingdom, and-the halo he had carried from the gods since he was born.
And Danny was very annoyed when he thought of the favor of the gods.
The northern Carret was also favored by the gods. ~ But this god-favored person never stated it, but always claimed that he was a wizard pursuing the truth.
It was not until the war officially began that the whole continent knew the three gods of "industry, technology, and machinery".
Buzz, in the sharp sound, in the town square in the distance, the originally soft magic circle light suddenly flickered like a "broken fluorescent lamp", and after flickering a few times, it completely collapsed.
This interrupted Prince Danny's thinking. Because he needed to ask about the current situation of his wizard group.
In the center of the town, the teleportation magic circle led by the kingdom wizards failed again!
Sixth-ring group teleportation spell, when reporting and asking for instructions, this is the plan of the current commander of the Kingdom Army to try to dispatch reinforcements from the outside world. This is actually an escape route, because if you want to transmit information, you only need to perform a lower-ring material teleportation spell.
Prince Danny does not accept the escape, so everyone can't say it clearly.
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However, now, everyone may not be able to consider the prince. Under heavy pressure, everyone has a haze in their hearts.
However, the teleportation array in this town has failed one after another, which makes the kingdom's arcane mages realize how strict their enemy - the Industrial Party - is blocking them!
The arcane mages of the kingdom's army discovered through advanced detection that the town in this area has been detected by the arcane of the Industrial Party, and once an arcane mages tries to establish a "teleportation" spell above the fourth ring, they will be interrupted.
The interruption method is similar to the "silence" magic.
In the rune magic system established by the Industrial Party, all the mainstream arcane magic at this stage can be simulated by standard spiritual rune structures, similar to mechanical assembly.
The rune mages of the Industrial Party may not be able to release "silence" and "alien summons" independently.
But they can let several professional rune mages combine the runes they are good at to form the same effect of arcane magic.
This is the true meaning of the "God Emblem" of industrial collaboration. A large number of people have their own specialties, so that enough people can reach their own expertise and then cooperate with each other.
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In this war, the various forces dispatched by the industry, such as chariots, fuel, food, and manpower, are more than those of the kingdom. Now even the power of the arcane seems to be the same.
The kingdom's arcane has been accumulated for hundreds of years. And how many years has it been since the rise of the northern industry? Now the kingdom is suppressed in the place where it feels it has the most advantage over the north.
These proud kingdom mages suddenly feel that their school will encounter a crisis after this war.
The self-employed arcane mages are all very capable, but there is no organization.
"Industry, technology, and machinery" have just risen, and social rules are not favorable to the old mages.
And when the new god is born, the etheric world of the entire planet is changed. On a larger level, what will the change in the rules of spellcasting lead to?
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The perspective comes to the south,
In the capital of Eger, the old king no longer hunts. He is anxiously flipping through the intelligence from the north, trying to find some good news.
However, new intelligence came in continuously. The situation of the war in which the main force of the kingdom went north and demanded that the northern territories obey the order of the empire took a sharp turn for the worse.
The old king felt that the ministers around him were playing tricks on him.
At the beginning, it was said that Carret was under increasing pressure and was about to obey the empire. But now? Well~ Under the information instilled in "our own advantage", even if the king felt that the "advantage" was false in his mind, his expectation in his heart was still "balance".
But now it is absolutely unacceptable to lose everything.
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The old king found his eldest daughter, Roshan.
The princess, whose husband was also in the northern encirclement, told him sadly: "All this is true. The kingdom's army has been hovering between 'being eliminated' and 'waiting to be eliminated'."
Roshan looked sad: "The reason why it has not been completely over yet is because Carret wants to prolong this humiliating process." Due to her different position, the princess's judgment on Carret now is also limited by her perspective.
On "humiliation" - before this war, the various "comments" of the nobles of all sizes on Carret could definitely fill the entire city wall.
And Carret used "explanations" to avoid war and "protect" the interests of the northern industrial system, which was even commented by the nobles of all sizes as "not having the responsibility of a member of the Xingche family."
Well
The people who shouted the most at that time are now all in the encirclement!
And now, the encirclement and annihilation has been finalized, and Carret is still expounding the theory that "war is not good" and "industrial development benefits mankind."
But behind this set of rhetoric, the dagger has finally been revealed.
Now the Northern United Industry has begun to put forward specific requirements for the kingdom's reform: the land in the Kingdom of Egg should be evenly divided and the taxes should be unified. The spearhead is directed at all the nobles in the empire.
In response to the inquiry, the spokesperson of the Northern Industrial Alliance gave the answer: find relevant personnel to hold a meeting and take on the responsibility for the future together. ——The relevant personnel are now one or two kilometers away from the muzzle. So there is no need to worry about when to gather people for the meeting, and the list can be compiled now.
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Now, Luo Shan is "speechless" to her cousin Carret. She claims to have seen countless people with different political views, but today she has to admit that she has made a mistake.
In history, there are many cases where forbearers finally waited for their opponents to relax and then took them down in one fell swoop. However, the process of taking them down was so grand and he used his own power to directly destroy the elite of the entire kingdom as a deterrent. That was unprecedented.
"The struggle in the royal court led to the loss of the country's elite and the great damage to its vitality" and other sequelae are the most important for those court strugglers to avoid.
But now Carret obviously has no such concerns. The elite and vitality are already in the industrial territory, and now they are also well protected.
The troops of the Industrial Party still seem to be kind and have a bottom line to the Kingdom Army in the encirclement. But if the Kingdom Army in the encirclement continues to be obsessed, or if the Kingdom continues to be obsessed, then there is no recovery.
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Half an hour later, Luo Shan withdrew from her father.
And Xi Zeya waited for her sister.
Xi Zeya, who was wearing armor, saw his sister's expression and understood that the king was still unwilling to accept the reality of being completely defeated by his nephew (Carret). Back then, he was stronger than Carret's father!
After learning that the king was now unaware of the imminent danger of the kingdom.
Xi Zeya took a deep breath and said to her sister: "Sister Wang, the throne can be abandoned, but the vitality of the empire must be preserved."
Roshan looked at Xi Zeya with a complicated expression.
Xi Zeya walked into the king's palace with a sword in hand.
The second half, the encirclement, I was humming: The Lone Hero