Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 465 Strategic Counterattack

At the battle meeting in Azure Dragon City, Shi Hanxing first reported the battle situation.

The 120 million main force of the Western Theater of the Imperial Army has gathered in Qinglong City, and the three legions of the Central Route Army have all entered the urban area.

After five days of brutal urban street fighting, the casualties on both sides exceeded [-], and the eastern part of Qinglong City was reduced to rubble.

The Third Corps of the Imperial Guards is the most fierce, and the vanguard has already approached the central square of the city, and may appear in front of the Qinglong Building at any time.

Deng Jinhai suggested whether the headquarters should be moved back, away from the central city where the battle is about to take place.

Cheng Guo's Mars Seventeenth Army was in charge of blocking the Third Guards Army from the front. Cheng Guo said that if Zhong Cheng gave the order, his army would not take another step back and resolutely blocked the Imperial Army at a distance of 2 kilometers.

Li Shaojie, who fought against the 25th Viking Corps of the Imperial Army, also stated that his Mars First Corps could send out a mecha division to reinforce the [-]th Corps.

The imperial army that Li Shaojie was facing was far inferior to the combat power of the Third Guards Corps, and they were still able to handle it with ease. If it wasn't for the purpose of holding back the imperial army, they would even be able to drive their opponents out of Azure Dragon City right now.

Zhong Cheng stopped everyone from arguing, and said: "The soldiers have shed enough blood, there is no need to delay any longer. Even if more than half of the imperial army's northern and southern armies are outside the city, it is already impossible to escape." , now is the time to close the net!"

Everyone was excited when they heard the words, they had been waiting for this day for too long.

The more than 200 million mecha troops of the Federal Army gathered covertly from various regions of Mars before mid-January. After gathering in the Amazon Plains, they secretly drove to the mountains 1 kilometers behind Qinglong City to lurk.

It was to prepare to wipe out all the main forces of the imperial army lured to Qinglong City, and completely change the balance of military strength between the two sides.

In order to achieve the concealment of this strategic plan, since October last year, the Federal Army has expanded the electromagnetic interference originally used only in local areas to the entire federal control area and the warring areas of the two sides.

For the defense of Mars, the Kunlun Research Institute organized a team of experts in optoelectronics, electromagnetism, meteorology, and planetary physics. Yang Xi, Liu Yuzhu, and Li Mei took the lead to complete a new atmospheric electromagnetic interference technology.

The core of this technology is wireless power supply technology, which covers most of the ionosphere of Mars in an electric energy field, and electric energy is as ubiquitous as air.

By changing the current flow in the ionosphere at an altitude of 100 kilometers on Mars, a powerful electromagnetic field interlaced with the Martian magnetic field can be formed, completely blocking the reconnaissance of the Imperial Army space fleet from Mars.

In addition, the federal army has been engaged in guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare in the Mars theater, and the army has been dispersed in the mountains and jungles. The imperial army has never accurately judged the true strength of the federal army, let alone mastering the movements of the main force of the federal army. up.

Now the main force of the Western Theater of the Imperial Army has completed the encirclement of Qinglong City, but they did not expect that they have fallen into the encirclement of more than twice the Federal Army.

The 300 million troops of the Federal Army besieged the 120 million elite troops of the Imperial Army. The fish in this net were indeed big enough, but they were likely to break free from the net, or even die.

If the federal army can't wipe out the enemy with a small number of sacrifices, and can't really change the balance of strength between the two sides, then the follow-up battle may fall into a stalemate, and the end of the war on Mars will be far away.

Zhong Cheng expressed his understanding of the concerns of Shi Hanxing, Deng Jinhai and others, but he left behind early on, and now it's time to make his debut.

Only he, Sun Lin and the specific personnel in charge knew about this backhand. After Sun Lin introduced it to everyone, everyone had no doubts about the victory of the Battle of Qinglong City.

Zhong Cheng then ordered that the federal army lurking in the mountainous area start to move after dark and enter the designated attack position, and the federal army in Azure Dragon City immediately prepared for a counterattack.

At six o'clock in the morning on February 2, the battle of annihilation against the Azure Dragon City Imperial Army began.

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The fierce battle in Azure Dragon City gradually calmed down after nightfall, and the two warring parties unanimously chose to stop fighting.

Because everyone needs time to eat and rest, the Imperial Army needs time to wait for reinforcements to encircle, and the Federal Army is happy to do so.

After having dinner, Count Lazaros toured around the positions of the Frankish Eighth Army and personally encouraged the morale of the officers and soldiers.

His legion suffered more than 2 casualties, and the difficulty of the siege was beyond his expectations.

The Federation Army Mars 33rd Legion that his legion was facing was the first time he had heard of the Federation Army Legion, but he recognized that it was a Federation Army that had always caused headaches for the Imperial Army. The organization participates in frontal combat.

This federal army is very insignificant in combat, and is very good at making various traps on the battlefield, making it hard to guard against.

What impressed him the most was that the other party actually produced a large number of heavy-duty animal traps for dealing with wild animals. These animal traps weighing several hundred kilograms could also be projected by ejection devices.

If the soldiers of the imperial army were not careful, their hands and feet would be caught. Although they couldn't cause damage to the mecha, they were seriously slowed down.

Not to mention disgusting things like alloy fishing nets and hot melt glue.

The Frankish Eighth Army fought with the opponent for five days, but only wiped out less than 5000 of them, and their own casualties were six times that of the opponent, which made Earl Lazaros ashamed and angry.

Can't you come to fight a battle in an upright manner?

Early in the morning of June 2.

Count Lazarus had another sleepless night, tormented by unreasonable anxieties in his heart.

Today is the appointed day for the imperial army to fully attack the city. The 120 million troops will launch a powerful offensive from four directions, forcing the federal army to give up resistance.

Although he didn't think the federal army would surrender, it was a good thing that their will to resist would be greatly weakened.

He forced himself to eat a lot of food because he knew it was going to be a long day.

Many of his subordinates will never see the sunrise again.

These young fellows of his should have lived a romantic life in the bustling metropolis, but now they are desperately fighting in this bloody killing jungle.

For the first time, he felt disgusted with this war. All the military achievements and glory should go to hell. He just wanted to end the war as soon as possible and stay away from the battlefield.

At six o'clock in the morning, the soldiers of the Frankish Eighth Army climbed up in the reveille and started breakfast.

An hour later, today's battle will start again.

"Woooooo!"

But at this moment, the sirens of the Imperial Army sounded on the battlefield, and the Federal Army launched an offensive on its own initiative.

Lazaros was surprised to find that the 33rd Army Corps of the Federal Army on the opposite side of his army hadn't moved.

And in the westernmost sky of Qinglong City, a dark cloud flew over, which was composed of tens of thousands of flying chariots.

Lazaros cursed secretly. It must be the reinforcements from the federal army from the rear. Today, the imperial army's general offensive has failed again. These reinforcements of aerial artillery must be dealt with first.

Sure enough, 5 minutes later, a larger number of flying chariots flew from the imperial army's position, and rushed forward without showing any weakness.

When the two sides were 30 kilometers apart and immediately entered the effective attack range, Lazaros was surprised to find that five behemoths appeared in the air behind the federal army's flying chariot, standing out from a group of chickens!
(End of this chapter)