Chapter 610: Siege (Part 2)

The method of using troops is to surround them if there are ten of them, attack them if there are five of them, and divide them if there are twice as many.

The action plan of the Holy See is very simple.

The first step is to rely on a large number of low-altitude interception forces composed of holy troops to protect the safety of the transport team. As long as the first batch of infantry arrives and deploys, the safety of a large area can be guaranteed.

The second step is to invest a large number of troops to dig out trench defense lines, cut off the enemy's mobility direction with the open trench lines, and concentrate more than 600,000 troops on the front line.

The third step is to organize troops at a distance of 15 kilometers and destroy the standing fortress through wave-like offensives.

It's just that plans can never keep up with changes. The ultra-long-range artillery of 30 kilometers is beyond their imagination.

This means that the coalition forces can touch the area behind their defense line without any effort, and they can't use the ground to build their own material and logistics bases.

With the fortress as the center, no front-line material distribution center can be established within 30 kilometers.

This is also the meaning of the existence of heavy long-range artillery. As long as it is within the projection range of the artillery, under the pressure of deterrence, the enemy can only choose to reduce transportation efficiency to enhance concealment.

Either disperse and transport and store inefficiently, or wait to be washed by heavy artillery... Every front-line material distribution center is a target for heavy artillery.

In modern warfare, material distribution centers even have to retreat to a position more than 60 kilometers away from the front line. It takes a month to build a material distribution center, and the artillery group only needs a three-minute salvo to send the entire center's personnel and materials to the sky.

Artillery suppression and artillery counterattack through heavy fortress artillery.

All surface operations are no longer safe.

This is not in the plan of the Holy See. They never thought that the coalition forces could take out heavy artillery with a range of 30 kilometers. Fifteen kilometers is the maximum range of artillery strikes they calculated.

As long as they hold this line, the enemy's artillery will not fall on the logistics transport team.

"What did Bishop Levins say..."

The priest wearing the division-level command armband looked at the messenger beside him.

The cross inserted into the ground, and seven low-level priests were surrounding the messenger. The chanting of scriptures and the incense in the air made people feel uncomfortable.

With the help of divine arts, the priests can set up an altar to withstand huge mental pressure to spread a small amount of information to a distant place, and hear the answer from afar.

The division-level priest stared at the messenger, and the anxiety and boredom surged in his heart. For a moment, he thought that the other party might die here.

"He asked us to continue to implement the plan according to the original plan... 20,000 casualties are acceptable, and there will be more soldiers to supplement later..."

The messenger read out the reply from afar word by word.

"It is necessary to build the first trench defense line within three days. Those who do not implement the plan will be punished by the law on the spot."

Kill.

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"Isn't it just 20,000 casualties? The remaining 130,000 people can also complete the plan. The work that was originally planned to be completed by 100,000 people, there are more than 130,000 people."

The young priest who was airdropped into the Vatican troops didn't care at all and stared at the military priests who came to communicate.

This group of priests belonging to the Levins faction were arranged in the army just to make the army loyally execute orders... If they win, they will be credited, and if they lose, they will not be blamed.

Credit and no blame are more important than winning.

No one in their faction needs to take responsibility.

"You should know that this is the order of Bishop Levins. Let go and do it. No matter what, complete the first step of the plan... By the way, remember to repair my underground command post better."

The young priest waved his hand and asked the division commander to return to the team to continue their work.

"Sir, your car of decorations... was blown up in the previous artillery attack..."

The nun in charge of assisting said tremblingly.

"What a waste, can't you take it apart?"

The young priest cursed twice, turned his head and looked at the military priests who came to report and stood there without leaving.

"You must find a way to deal with the heavy artillery of the undead. Bishop Levins' plan must be implemented. The Privy Council did not give you so many resources to make you useless."

"If possible... I hope the defense line will retreat... five kilometers..." The priest in charge of military affairs said: "As long as we retreat five kilometers, our logistics pressure will be much less."

"No, we can't retreat." The priest of the Levins faction paced: "If we retreat, then the plan will not be able to be implemented as scheduled? Didn't you use the Holy Army to conduct air assaults before? It was very effective, just like destroying small camps before."

The army commander touched the sweat on his cheeks and thought that the previous action was effective because they faced small and medium-sized camps, and the troops that were lowered could destroy the defensive positions in an instant.

However, they have never encountered a fortified fortification group.

There is no comparison between camps and fortresses. Attacking camps does not require facing concrete walls over eight meters, nor does it require facing a large number of ambush barbed wire and spell traps, let alone considering the enemy's bunkers and towers.

There is no need to face the densely packed riflemen in the fortress group, nor the monster infantry hiding in the bunker.

The military priest took a deep breath, thinking about the possibility of a successful air assault... This is the only way they can destroy the enemy's heavy artillery now

How many holy soldiers will die if the air assault wants to destroy the heavy artillery of the fortress... But compared with maintaining the logistics line, this part of the loss of holy soldiers is worth it.

"We have counted the artillery pits, and the enemy only has twelve super-long-range heavy artillery..." The priest continued with a stiff face: "We can try, there is still a batch of seized explosives... maybe we can destroy these fortress artillery..."

Use the Holy Army to replace the enemy's fortress heavy artillery group in exchange for logistics security.

"Very good, very good, let's do it!" The young priest sat back in his seat: "This is the will of the Privy Council, whether it means 20,000 deaths, 100,000 deaths, or 200,000 deaths, it must be implemented... otherwise we will not be able to sit still."

But neither he nor the young officer sent by Levins to monitor need to go to the most dangerous front-line battlefield.