Chapter 692 Chapter 1616 (Part 2) The Destruction of the Empire

Chapter 692 16.16 (Part 2) The Destruction of the Empire

In October of the 3229th year of the Fire Emblem Calendar, fifteen days after the Sky Empire launched a new round of "offensive" campaigns, as the fronts had "breakthroughs", the rear court was celebrating the news, but the war situation took a sharp turn for the worse.

In Rota City, the soldiers of the Sky Empire, carrying rifles and dragging supplies, struggled to the front positions. Everyone knew that this was crawling from a trench to a trench further ahead, so morale was not very high, but people's listlessness was soon dragged into the "melting pot of panic" by the new situation.

In front, a large amount of black smoke appeared, and in these black smoke, the iconic diamond-shaped Land Cruiser of the Anglo Empire emerged.

The design structure of these diamond-shaped tanks is similar to the Great Nomad Tank in World War I. It's just that the body is 30 meters long and 8 meters high. There is a twin-mounted main turret on the top, as well as four machine gun secondary turrets, weighing 400 tons, a land cruiser level.

Its tracks are on both sides of the body, and its design does not have the torsion bar suspension of modern tanks. On Earth, the tank will vibrate when it encounters uneven roads. This vibration produces bumps and collisions, which will make the mechanical properties extremely unstable, but this is the world of arcane.

When Wei Keng was in the arcane plane last time, the technology had developed the part of "forming an air cushion at the bottom to allow heavy armor to move quickly". At this time, white steam accumulated at the bottom of these diamond-shaped tanks. These steam condensed at the bottom of the body and did not disperse, just like balloons. When these diamond-shaped behemoths drove through the trenches, the air pressure restraint system in these chassis formed "air bags of force field membranes" to provide landing cushioning for the land cruiser.

At this time, the perspective came to the battlefield, in the trenches that the Sky Empire had just occupied, the white helmets of the soldiers in the trenches were like duckweed in the ditch, shaking in the vibration.

The new recruits who came to the Sky Empire for the first time stretched their heads and looked at the huge monster that caused the ground to tremble and pressed towards them, just like crawling in the middle of the train tracks and feeling the roar of the steam train.

The veterans scolded the new recruits to cover their ears quickly.

Sure enough, when they were 500 meters away from the trench, the rows of tanks that were attacking the trenches made super loud horn roars, and the sound waves of 180 decibels swept across the front, which could be called sonic weapons.

Some Sky Empire soldiers in the trenches who did not have time to put on helmets fainted directly.

These land cruisers with white gas, at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour, covered the soldiers and rushed to the front of the Sky Empire position. The exchange of fire began.

The Sky Empire's artillery groups hurriedly deployed 150mm anti-tank guns in places where there was no protection from earth pit barriers.

The twenty-man artillery group hurriedly used mechanical crowbars and other tools to work together to turn the heavy gun body around. After a lot of effort, they fired a shot, which ricocheted two kilometers away.

The Land Cruisers turned around at this time, and three Land Cruisers turned their huge 200mm gun barrels and fired a volley of fire in the direction of resistance. As the heavy artillery fired, the artillery on the Sky Empire side became parts.

At this time, everyone has seen that the Anglo attack group has a total of 28 units, including 14 diamond tanks, followed by a large mechanical spider and two four-track 350mm long-barreled mechanical heavy artillery.

This is a heavy mechanized unit led by a hero.

In the case of a million troops facing each other on the front line and fighting trench warfare, only this mechanized unit group led by a hero can complete the assault mission.

These clusters are not composed of hundreds of combat vehicles like on Earth, but more than a dozen super-heavy units in front.

Because the development direction of land warfare in the Arcane Era is similar to the naval warfare system. The situation in naval warfare is that small gunboats can never sink battleships (excluding torpedoes), and the situation in land warfare at this time is the same. The caliber is not large enough and can't break the defense at all.

...Under the bombardment of the giant cannon, the ground soil gushed into the sky like seawater explosion...

On the mechanical spider, on the Anglo side, Oro (hero unit) looked at the base of the Sky Empire in front and the biplane fighters coming from afar, and he whispered: "Then let's start."

He raised his hand, and a high-pressure energy bubble appeared in front of the mechanical spider. This energy bubble began to grow, and then after reaching three meters, it turned into a light wave and spread to its own position.

His skill is called "War Cry", which can increase attack power as the name suggests. That is, the energy of the nuclear power reactor is tunneled into all ammunition, enhancing the chemical bond energy in the ammunition, and the lethality of all high-explosive ammunition is increased by 7% to 18%.

Boom boom boom, a bunch of fiery red explosion clouds burst out on the imperial position, and when the propeller plane flew into the sky, it was greeted by hundreds of rockets.

On the back of the thousand-ton mechanical spider, rows of launch tubes like fan blades were loaded with rockets in turn, and together with the anti-aircraft guns of the tanks on the ground, a dense barrage of bullets was formed.

This scene of heavy steel impact like a small mountain is far beyond the understanding of the "regional peasant rebellion".

Due to high-temperature particle tunneling, normal aviation engine materials cannot be found on the Wanlun continent, so it is difficult to enlarge aircraft carriers...

Although, the dozen or so propeller attack planes that Sky Empire scrambled into the air kept firing at the tops of these ground steel monsters with their 30mm cannons. Their attacks penetrated many turrets, but failed to stop the advance of the armored column led by the heroic unit of Angles.

In fact, in the contemporary air force, the only ones that can effectively kill heavy armored units on the ground are heavily armed airships. On these heavily equipped airships, whether it is a one-ton rocket glide missile or a 100mm machine gun for self-defense, they can mop up ground units.

However, Sky Empire's heavily equipped airships currently lack the resources to build air response shields and are afraid of aircraft carrying small rockets. Currently, commanders do not dare to put them on the front line.

Two hours after the battle

Aoluo successfully defeated the defenders of Rota City and ignored the scattered troops. Instead, he notified the rear infantry and cavalry troops to come and receive them. And he himself continued to intersperse.

Judging from the strategic map of the Lightning Alliance at this time, combat troops led by fifteen heroes including Aoluo formed a series of iron pincers and came to divide and surround the empire. The empire's previous offensive advance suddenly fell into disarray, and hundreds of thousands of troops also walked out of the trenches during the advancement process, and are now falling into danger.

A counterattack like this from the Lightning Alliance is the last remaining fighting potential of the Sky Empire on the Eastern Front that will completely defeat it.

This kind of card game seems to be a crushing of the skills of the generals, but just like the battle of Changping, it is due to the gap in national power.

When the army accounts for 3% of the population, it is a low-consumption state. When it accounts for 7% of the total population, it is a high-consumption state.

This kind of consumption is all-round.

In the "total war", an empire with incomplete reforms will suffer huge amounts of corruption and wastage due to insufficient organizational strength, and in the process of the upper management urging the increase of industrial and agricultural output, as well as in various transportation links.

...Big countries can fight against small countries in spring and autumn, using their own strength to hurt others, while emerging countries can fight against old countries in a war of attrition...

The Sky Empire could no longer hold on. Continuous wars had wiped out a large number of men from the countryside, leading to an imbalance in the countryside. Some estate owners began large-scale annexations, driving the population into urban factories.

Therefore, in the past two years, the Agricultural Youth League has begun to spread from the center to large areas of the empire.

Since the imperial city allowed "large-scale armed fighting" in the north, there has been no response.

In the year from October 28 to October 29, the Peasant Youth Army expanded from five towns in the north to the south, reaching eighty-four towns. From the beginning, there were only more than 2,000 people, and it grew to ten Tens of thousands of troops, oh, at this level, here in the imperial city, it is still defined as "countryside fighting".

The first reason is that the Peasant Youth Army still delivers food. Reason two: Big cities don’t have time to suppress bandits.

A small number of city officers worked with their relatives in the countryside to suppress bandits. As a result, they brought heavy tanks and advanced weapons and were mortared by agricultural vehicles of the Peasant Youth Army. After several months of mushrooming in the countryside, the delivery of these equipment to the front line was delayed. The bandit suppression had to be ended and declared a success.

Once the heavy equipment of the Land Cruiser was put on the train and sent to the front line, the Peasant Youth Army counterattacked the farm owners who participated in the suppression of the bandits, telling them with facts that going to the city to move reinforcements was "inserting straws into the cesspit and begging for death." ".

In fact, from the perspective of material collection, Enma alleviated the empire's material shortage.

The expansion of the Peasant Youth Army completed agricultural production to a certain extent, and stabilized food prices while maintaining transactions with the imperial army.

Of course, the empire is too weak. Just like the traditional Chinese medicine "find supplements from other sources to maintain balance", it is like a heavy smoker who is too weak and no matter how much supplements he takes, it will be useless.

Enma has supplemented the "material supply chain" of the empire's rural areas, but if this "medicine" continues to be used, it will be highly toxic to other "organs" of the empire.

The Peasants' Youth Association competed for manpower and maintained the supply of materials to the empire, which undermined the empire's conscription system in rural and rural areas. The empire had to increase its conscription of troops into the city.

However, the bureaucrats in the imperial court have no idea why the recruiting officers of the various generals in the empire "less recruited troops here in the city" in the past.

Different from the lower Liba people in the countryside, the honest Badajiao people come from scattered villages and have good obedience. People in the city are gathered together. When they encounter injustice during the recruitment, they are more likely to join forces.

After the "good news" of the defeat at the front came, the unscrupulous people in the city knew about the empire's trick of "converting defeat into victory". As the empire's new round of conscription was implemented, the flames were burning in various places in the city.

Strikes and assassinations by revolutionaries occurred one after another.

The Sky Empire needed a victory, so it had to be strategically passive and aggressive, and was calculated.