Chapter 712 Chapter 1630 (Part 1) Withdraw and Return to the Original Route
Chapter 712 Chapter 16.30 (Part 1) Withdraw and return to the original route
"Beep, beep, beep, beep."
The loud charge horn sounded in many areas of the dusty trenches of Swan City.
The Hughes Group was trapped in the area of "Reed Park" and "Railway Street No. 32".
The rebels in Swan City have divided and surrounded the advancing Imperial Army through the trench extension tactics, leaving several small openings for the Imperial infantry to evacuate, while the Imperial armored forces were trapped in the encirclement and could not move.
Now the Imperial heavy armored forces' ability to charge has disappeared. The anti-tank mines randomly laid on the streets have caused the air pressure lifting device at the bottom of the huge Imperial tracked vehicles to be broken. The tanks that were lying on the ground could not support the Imperial infantry in combat due to the battlefield smoke and became decorations.
Under the cover of the firepower of gas tank projectiles, soldiers holding bolt-action rifles jumped off pickup-sized diesel trucks and occupied the territories that were casually crushed by the heavy tanks of the empire dozens of days ago.
On the battlefield, trapped in the ruins, only the secondary guns on the armored belts on both sides of the super-heavy vehicles of the empire were still firing continuously. The 70mm quadruple machine guns swept across the battlefield in front like a jet of fire, and the intensive suppressive firepower made the front positions burst into flames, unable to retreat. They aimed, but the main guns did not dare to move.
Because the imperial soldiers themselves could not withstand this artillery storm.
…Flame tunneling has always been a serious problem faced in the industrial war of the multidimensional plane…
As ordinary soldiers, the firearms at hand are still limited in rate of fire. On the eve of the uprising, most of the rebels could only use six-round bolt-action rifles. This was not a problem of industrial productivity, but a problem of whether the spirit could withstand the recoil of "gunpowder tunneling". (Just like the modern Desert Eagle, there are actually few people who can hold it and shoot steadily.)
If you look at everyone from the etheric world, regular soldiers and temporary militiamen are different, and the content of iron and fire in their souls is different.
The war gradually turned to night.
Enma confirmed that his trenches had advanced to 300 meters from the Hughes Armored Group, and immediately issued a general attack order.
At this time, the rebels at the front had deployed the sliding rail gas tank artillery, and after it was deployed, this street fighting ace heavy firepower was ready to fire in unison.
As the countdown was issued, the city was like a grand fireworks festival, and the gas tank bombs ejected from the cylinders, like heavy rain, hit the six land cruisers of "Reed Park" and "Railway Street No. 32".
These land cruisers wanted to start and escape during the explosion, but when they were in a panic and walked to Qingteng Street, there was a loud bang, and the "Omo" in the center of the cruiser fleet directly encountered a "small volcanic eruption" on the chassis.
That's right. The rebels buried three tons of explosives in the pits on the retreating road of the heavy armored forces of the Empire, and stacked the hard manhole covers on top, forming a "concave blasting metal jet".
Enma looked at the completely broken Empire armored vehicles and clapped his hands: "Tsk tsk, no matter how thick the armor is, no matter how strong the concept is, there is enough explosives."
Xius, who was at the center of the explosion, climbed out of the damaged cruiser hatch, looked at the burning fire points around him, and said weakly: "This, this is the rebels, hiding their strength!"
In the eyes of this Xius, the city defenders led by the postman have been defined as the first-class strong army in the empire.
From the uprising to the present, Enma has clearly defined the combat power of the rebels: in terms of combat capability, it is of medium and low grade. In terms of firepower, it is even more inferior. The only advantage is that the morale is several times higher than that of the old army.
However, Enma will not use the "heavy casualties" tactics just because his troops have faith and can withstand casualties.
As a boy from the countryside, Enma has always lived a frugal life and is very concerned about any form of loss. Not to mention human lives. In the army, it is emphasized that if you can "use your brain", don't be reckless, and if you have successful experience, you must promote it.
Now a unique military spirit has been formed.
And the birth of such a unit is no less important to Tiexing than the current transportation of "means of production" and "workers' organizations."
Enma looked at the imperial army fleeing in the night: no matter how the conservatives in the empire and the speculators in the revolution are calculating now, Tiexing has its own way.
In the dark night, Enma's face was like iron, and his gaze on the remnants of the empire was like an eagle staring at a mouse.
Enma's planned "strategic retreat" will not change because of the current situation.
But before retreating, all the inventory, those remaining military surpluses, must be deducted from the imperial army that is now besieging him.
…Honest people also have tempers. Enma is not a loyal and brave soldier. Enma: I am not a good soldier…
On the Imperial Army side, all five Knight-level heavy tanks collapsed, and the 300-ton missile vehicles and 500-ton mechanical spiders in the back row were also bombarded, destroying the concept, starting to burn, melt and soften, and finally turned into scrap metal.
Sugmat’s corps was unable to respond in time and was blocked at a distance of 30 kilometers. They watched helplessly as Hughes’ corps was blown up in the encirclement.
The combat vehicle Hughes was riding was also blown into scrap metal by rows of heavy rockets. Hughes could only activate his personal teleporter at the end and returned to the industrial position in the rear.
As a hero unit, his personal vehicle was destroyed in seconds, which meant that the entire imperial army was defeated. All mecha units were entangled with steel cables and other strange obstacles in the subsequent pursuit operations and flipped into the river.
In the battle, it is impossible for the imperial heavy mechanical units to surrender, because in the central unit, in order to ensure the stability of the concept, the soldiers' mental power is in the rotation of the mechanical concept. Once the war machine is started, the soldiers' mental power cannot be separated.
So most of them crawled out and were captured after being destroyed.
In this battle, the revolutionary army achieved an unprecedented victory and captured 20,000 imperial soldiers including artillery positions and front-line baggage corps. The imperial flag was thrown down on the south bank position, and the iron star was welded to the top of the flagpole.
When the news came out, the whole country was shocked. However, just when all parties in the empire were working on this and telegraphed public opinion began to play games with each other.
From Swan City, news came that the front-line troops of the imperial army and the uprising troops were negotiating.
Of course, the imperial capital rebuked the frontline generals for their reckless orders, but as the news of the peace talks came, the rebels withdrew from the encirclement and gave up Swan City, and the various revolutionary factions began to protest.
…Enma's condition was that the imperial generals let their side transfer industrial materials and population to the north, and they would transfer the city...
During the Swan City Raid War, in the imperial battlefield sanatorium, the injured Xius watched the radicals in the revolutionaries clamoring and crushed the newspaper.
Although he did not deny that this was a complete defeat. This was the first time that the imperial army was annihilated in an organized manner in a battle with the rebels, and captured a division-level combat force. But the main force of this battle was definitely not the speculative radicals who clamored in the newspapers.
First, he underestimated the enemy and raised the Swan City rebels for a month, but was turned over.
Secondly, he admitted that the defenders in Swan City were worthy opponents, especially the commander who he had previously considered a countryman. He was a tactical genius.
Finally, the two sides decided to reconcile after the war. After the two sides began to break away from the hostile relationship, they had a conversation and bargaining game across the screen. Xius felt a sense of sympathy for Enma.
But Xius understood that once he agreed to the postman and sent this army back to the north, there would be endless troubles in the future.
... But at this time, the imperial army in the direction of Swan City could not afford to waste time. The situation changed, and the army became the asset for the generals to make a living...
In Swan City, Enma looked at the "steel", "chemical", "mechanical processing and manufacturing" and other industrial furnaces packed and loaded onto the car, and he exhaled a long breath.
If the defenders maintained the blockade, these equipment weighing thousands of tons would not be transported away.
Now they can be transported to the ship calmly, and then transported to the northern base by heavy-duty railway. Of course, all the technicians and their families have rebuilt a community in the northern base according to their needs.
As for why they should evacuate instead of continuing to hold on. No matter how the outside world discusses, the whole city has reached a consensus.
...When fighting, if someone pinches your trachea, you are not fighting for yourself, but being used as a gun by others...
In the military headquarters, Enma stated: Under the current military situation, although our army has severely hit the strength of one division of the imperial army, the empire still has three divisions on the periphery and eight divisions in the direction of the imperial capital. Most importantly, in the early battles, the imperial army did not do its best to block our supply lines.
And now the so-called support in other "recovery zone" cities is only verbal. Even verbal support for us has begun to be reluctant, for fear that we have made great contributions and suppressed their limelight.
As for stabbing us in the back, there are even more countless. In this battle, a large amount of supplies have been consumed, and I can't find a suitable reason to continue to hold on.
Enma held a bag of military bread in his hand and pointed to the price tag on it. There are three price tags on it. The innermost factory price tag is 1.5 pence, but when it was transported to the front line, the outermost price tag was 7.5 pence.
The bureaucrats who opportunistically joined the reformist camp in the rear, and their dirty deeds that they would not even bother to pretend, have now become a flame that is difficult for the rebels in Swan City to extinguish.
In the civil system, Enma mobilized like this: "Everyone, I know that some people want to stay and don't want to leave this big city and go to the cold northern region. You can stay, but listen to me and tell me a few consequences before you judge.
As a big city that has already rebelled, the empire, as a ruling group, will never let go of any grass that is "tainted with rebellion."
Narrator: Enma predicted that once the empire regained the big city, its upper-level bureaucrats would carry out a brutal purge in the city. Even if the top of the empire didn't want to be so crazy, they would have to use cruel officials due to lack of manpower.
The current situation in the empire does not allow the upper echelons of the empire to be soft. They will use the most brutal means to retaliate against the city they have regained to deter other big cities that are still opposing them. So we have to leave now, and we must take all the women and children with us.
I can guarantee that if all that had not happened in Swan City, we could still come back.
…Just like that, the "Swan" spread its wings with all its might and left the dangerous lake that was about to freeze. …
On April 24, 31, the rebels of Swan City of the Empire completed their evacuation after occupying the city for three months, and handed over the defense zone to the 15th Army of the Empire, namely Sugmat. When handing over the defense zone, the rebels dismantled all the large equipment.
The 300-meter-long airship, which was like a football, could finally hover directly above the city without being attacked by missiles. Sugmat looked at the city whose main roads had been cleaned up, frowned and said, "Perhaps, the team we let go will have greater trouble in the future."