Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 454 Ceres Frontline

XNUM X Year X NUM X Month.

The Ceres front line, the new Tianshan military base.

Zhong Yi, Zhou Long, and Liu Jiang were drinking and chatting at the bar in the base.

The bar hall, which can accommodate thousands of people, is full of soldiers, including soldiers and officers. The bar has become the favorite leisure place for officers and soldiers in their spare time.

It has been two and a half years since the Sixth Mecha Army where Zhong Yi and the others belonged quelled the riots in the city that never sleeps, and came to the front line of Ceres.

Zhong Yi has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel by virtue of his first-class meritorious service in quelling the chaos in the city that never sleeps, and his contributions in dozens of battles, large and small, after he arrived on Ceres, and has become a member of the Sixth Mecha Army. The head of the 226 Mech Regiment.

Zhou Long and Liu Jiang were also promoted to majors, and they were both the battalion commanders of the Mecha Battalion under Zhong Yi.

The organization of the Federal Army's mecha units was adjusted after the war began. Due to the sharp increase in the size of the mecha units, in order to reduce the number of first-level armies, the original three-three system was changed to five-five systems.

A mecha army has five mecha divisions, one mecha division includes five mecha regiments, and so on to battalions, companies, detachments and squads.

A mecha squad is the smallest combat unit, with a total of 8 people including the captain. Therefore, a mecha regiment includes more than 6000 guards and logistics personnel, and a mecha army has more than 15 people.

The federal army currently has 38 mech armies, and the number of mech fighters has reached more than 500 million. Currently, there are [-] mech armies stationed on Ceres.

In addition, six of the ten space fleets of the Federal Army are also on Ceres, and the small Ceres has become a huge military camp.

However, the Imperial Army has twice as many troops in the asteroid belt, compressing the Federal Army to a range of 2 million kilometers centered on Ceres.

Fortunately, since the year before last, the Federal Army began to keep the asteroids with a diameter of about [-] kilometers that passed near Ceres, and drove them into the orbit around Ceres, becoming Ceres' defensive satellites.

Today, as many as 64 asteroids are distributed in orbits between 5 kilometers and 5 kilometers away from Ceres, forming a solid three-dimensional defense line together with nearly a thousand space battleships.

Ceres has become the last and strongest stronghold of the Asteroid Belt Federation, and has become a nightmare for the Imperial Army. It has never been able to complete complete control of the asteroid belt.

But since 2045, the imperial army's fierce attack on Ceres suddenly subsided, and Zhong Yi's mecha regiment had the opportunity to return to the ground of Ceres from the space battleship to rest, replenish troops, and repair and maintain the mechas.

Zhou Long couldn't help sighing, "Brother One, the first battalion is full of soldiers, but there are more than half of the recruits, how will we fight the battle in the future!"

Liu Jiang said dissatisfiedly: "Everyone is about the same. In the past six months, our regiment has lost more than half of its personnel, and the fourth battalion has been wiped out. If you don't count out the veterans, do you want the fourth battalion?"

Zhong Yi said: "They all came from recruits. This time, hurry up and practice. After two battles, we will be veterans. Who made us mech soldiers!"

Zhou Long opened his mouth, but he had nothing to say.

Fighting in space, mecha fighters are fighting for their lives. The moment they jump out of the battleship, their lives are not their own.

Not only do you have to face the great sword of the Imperial Army's mecha fighters, but you also have to brave the cannons of the Imperial Army's warships.

Even if they were lucky enough to rush into the warship of the Imperial Army, they might die together with the other party.

The worst thing is that his side lost, and the mecha troops who went out to battle are basically doomed, and it is very difficult to have the opportunity to return to the battleship from space.

So now the two major branches of the federal army, the battle damage ratio of the battleship soldiers and the mecha soldiers has reached more than 1:50.

However, it will be much faster to be promoted in the mech army.

Liu Jiang said: "Oh, my mother sent me another letter asking me to retire from the army. She doesn't think about how it is possible to retire now?"

Zhou Long envied: "Your mother still cares about you. My mother never cares about me. She cares about bugs a little more than I do."

The words of the two aroused Zhong Yi's thoughts, but Ye Wenxin did not say anything about letting him retire from the army, but he did not care about him at all.

He also really wanted to go back to Earth to be with his mother. He was already tired of this precarious and bloody life.

After experiencing the excitement and agitation at the beginning of the war, he has been killing endlessly for many years, and seeing his comrades around him leave in batches, his enthusiasm for war since childhood has disappeared.

All he experienced was the cruelty of war and the fragility of life.

Countless young human beings gathered from all parts of the solar system to the asteroid belt, but what awaits most of them is only a cold starry grave.

In today's war, it is a luxury to return home with a handful of ashes.

But the mission of the soldier and the idea of ​​letting his father let his relatives and friends look up to him kept him at the forefront of the war.

Zhou Long took a gulp of beer, wiped the corners of his mouth, and asked in a low voice, "Brother Yi, do you think the rebels can't fight anymore and want to stop the war?"

Liu Jiang also said: "I think so too. In recent years, the rebels have killed as many people as us. I'm afraid they can't hold on?"

Zhong glanced at the group of people on the surrounding wine tables with their ears pricked up, and sighed in his heart. It seemed that everyone didn't want to fight anymore, but is it possible?

The positions of the Federation and the Empire are irreconcilable. The Federation will never allow the human colonies of Jupiter and Saturn to be divided, while the Empire dreams of ruling all mankind.

Whether it is the head of the empire or the top leaders of the Federation, it is impossible to accept the result of a tie.

This damn war will continue, and it will definitely intensify until one side is completely defeated.

But these words can't be said, they will only spoil everyone's mood.

He said: "We are soldiers, and it is our duty to fight for the country. Regardless of whether the war will end soon, we just do our duty!"

He stood up, raised his glass, and said loudly: "Come on, let's have a drink together, and I hope everyone can go home alive!"

The soldiers in the bar responded loudly when they heard the words, stood up one after another, and drank the beer in their glasses.

At this time, they were also on Ceres, the General Command of the Asteroid Belt Defense Line of the Federal Army in Penglai City, hundreds of kilometers away from the new Tianshan military base.

Zheng Qingwu, Chief of Staff of the Federal Army, looked at the holographic projection map with a frown, and muttered to himself, "Where is their main force?"

But none of the senior federal generals in the command center could answer, and Zheng Qingwu didn't expect them to answer.

More than two months ago, the Imperial Army reduced its attacks on the airspace of Ceres, and the Federal Army was happy to see this, just in time to rest and reorganize the troops.

The federal army is more willing to delay time. Every day, the strength comparison between the two sides will shrink by one point.

The scale of the recruit training camps on Earth, Mars, and the moon has expanded again, and in at most half a year, the number of warships that can be put into battle by the Federation Army will exceed that of the Imperial Army, and the gap will quickly widen.

The federal army will make up for its disadvantages in mecha units with its superiority in battleships, and the current situation of being passively beaten will be reversed.

The military production strength of the Federation is still unmatched by the Empire, and the longer the time, the more obvious the advantage.

Three days earlier, the Imperial Space Fleet hovering around Ceres had gradually disappeared. At first, the Federation Army thought it was a normal rotation, and these fleets simply returned to their base.

But as of this afternoon, the main force of the Imperial Army's space fleet had disappeared into the vast starry sky, which aroused the attention of the top leaders of the Federal Army, and even made them anxious!
(End of this chapter)