Chapter 961: 962 Qin Shu Border
Chapter 961 Chapter 962 Qin Shu Border
The sudden outbreak of the War between Qin and Shu suddenly reduced the attention of the Battle of Fengjiang. The outbreak of another war pushed the world to the brink of danger. Everyone was ready to take action. It seemed that every country was brewing a shocking event. conspiracy.
This is actually inevitable. Before, some countries planned to carve up neighboring countries to repay the debts of the Tang Empire. Now that these countries have more powerful weapons and more armies, how could they not have any other ideas?
The previous civil war in Great China has actually touched the heartstrings of the monarchs of various countries. Everyone has begun to consider whether to fight with their neighbors. The international atmosphere has become very tense.
Now the situation has become even more bizarre. It is no longer limited to the civil war in the Great China Empire. The Qin State has declared war with the Shu State, and the two sides directly staged a modern war drama on the border.
This suddenly amazed everyone. The war that originally seemed far away due to lack of communication capabilities now seemed close at hand due to various broadcasts and videos. Everyone felt the crisis that the war was about to break out.
The written descriptions of Qin bombers bombing three large cities in northern Shu are already known to everyone, and radio programs in various countries are broadcasting programs that use language to describe the tragic conditions in those cities.
Black smoke covering the sky and the sun, hundreds of buildings collapsing, thousands of casualties... These words all stimulate the nerves of leaders of various countries.
They also have similar bombers! Even they have more bombers and fighter planes! They have newer tanks, they have hundreds of battleships!
As long as, as long as there is a war! These everyday gold-swallowing behemoths can create profits! They can occupy the enemy's land, destroy the enemy's industry, and achieve imperial hegemony that was unimaginable in ancient times!
The destructive power of war now makes them extremely confident. They now believe they can do what the Tang Empire once did.
if only! Just start a war!
Many countries are mobilizing and arming as many troops as possible. Even if they can't gather so many heavy weapons at a time, they will use light weapons to form many second-line troops.
These troops have a more cannon-fodder name: line-filling troops. Yes, these troops are used to fill the holes in the defense line.
Immediately afterwards, all countries began to build as many fortresses as possible along their long borders. Some were dug directly into the fields, and some even built fortress areas on the edges of cities.
At the same time, after seeing the horrific destruction caused by advanced air forces, these countries have gradually paid attention to the construction of urban air defense and civil defense.
They began to build enough underground bunkers, expand sewers that had not been taken seriously before, and more orders for anti-aircraft guns began to be sent to arms factories.
Of course, the focus of this round of arms race is a powerful air force: more fighter jets, more bombers... As the war between Qin and Shu broke out, all countries began to expand their aircraft production.
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In the northern region of Shu, on the outskirts of a small village that was originally inconspicuous, a Qin State No. 4 tank was slowly turning.
This tank was followed by the second and third tanks. They communicated by radio and their cooperation was quite tacit.
Compared to Shu's troops, Qin's ground troops have quite a lot of combat experience. Not only did they gain a large number of veterans in the perennial war with the Orc Empire, but they also learned a lot of modern warfare experience from the confrontation with the Tang Empire.
The Qin soldiers following on both sides of the tank spread out very skillfully to avoid being crowded together and becoming the target of heavy machine guns.
Then they looked for some undulating terrain and began to advance cautiously with their tanks. The Qin army soldiers who carried a large number of submachine guns also had greater firepower density than the Shu army, which was only equipped with Mauser 98K rifles.
Interestingly, these two countries are both Tang fans. They are both equipped with M35 steel helmets that were once equipped by the Tang Empire. Both armies mainly use Mauser rifles and are even equipped with the Tang Empire’s Thompson submachine guns, as well as 4 Tank…
This is simply like the Tang troops fighting against themselves five years ago... If it weren't for the different emblems of the troops and the slightly different styles of military uniforms, they might not even be able to do basic identification of friend and foe.
"The Qin army is coming!" A Shu soldier in the trench nervously reminded the silent commander beside him.
"I saw it! Hold on! They have tanks, wait for our anti-tank guns to fire first!" The officers of the Shu Kingdom are quite capable. They rely on their country's economic level to be better. Many officers of the Shu Kingdom have been there. Tang Guo, who has seen the world.
As the exchanges between countries become closer and closer, many things that were impossible before are happening quietly. For example, the theoretical level of the officers of the Shu Kingdom is quite high, because not only some of them have been to the Tang Kingdom for training, but many of them have also studied in the Orc Empire.
Doesn’t it sound interesting? These Shu officers helped train Orc officers and pilots in the southern corner of the Orc city—they were working with the Tang officer corps, and naturally they learned a lot of skills.
So, although the troops of Shu State lack actual combat experience, the quality of their mid-level and senior officers is actually very good.
It's just... "Thud, tug, tug, tug!" A machine gun position not far away suddenly opened fire. The sudden sound of gunfire even startled the Shu officers.
"Who fired the gun? The machine gun opened fire when it was still so far away. Are you crazy?" the Shu officer asked angrily.
The soldiers standing around him were very nervous and shook their heads subconsciously, indicating that they did not know what happened.
Soon, the mortars of the experienced Qin soldiers fell, and several smoke pillars immediately rose into the sky from the Shu position.
At the Shu regiment headquarters in the village, the commander of the Shu army was holding the phone and requesting artillery support from his own side: "Hello? Hello! Yes! Between 500 and 1,000 meters directly in front of the position! A large number of Qin troops! Request immediate fire coverage!"
“Boom!” A cannonball landed on the edge of the village, and the huge vibration caused the buildings in the village to shake.
The wooden beams made a creaking and twisting sound, and dust fell from time to time, hitting the map spread on the table, making a crackling sound.
The horse lanterns hanging under the beams for supplementary lighting swayed from side to side with the vibrations. The Shu officers in the room raised their heads nervously and stopped moving their hands while looking at the crumbling house.
After all, there is still a lack of actual combat experience. If it were the Tang army, or even the commanders of the Qin army and the Dahua army, they would not place their headquarters in a building in the village.
These civilian buildings are extremely dangerous and are vulnerable to enemy artillery fire. Even artillery fire may not hit them. Houses lacking earthquake-resistant design will occasionally collapse.
For the army's command system, such a risk is actually unbearable. Therefore, the Tang Army's headquarters is strictly prohibited from being located in similar buildings.
"Otherwise...we'd better drive them out..." the Shu officer said with lingering fear, fearing that he would be buried alive.
Many people began to silently pack up the documents and maps in front of them. They cared more about their own lives than their comfort.
On the position, the battle between the two sides has begun. The Qin army used their experience to advance quickly. They knew that if they stopped in the middle of the position, they would soon be buried alive by artillery fire.
This is their experience when fighting the Tang army. If the opposite side is the Tang army, then they will have to face the sky full of artillery fire.
But the response speed of the Shu troops was obviously too slow. The Qin troops had already reached the front of the position, and the artillery fire had not yet fallen.
"Long live the King of Qin!" A Qin officer waved his pistol and shouted loudly. The Qin soldiers, who had already fixed their bayonets, accompanied the tanks on both sides and rushed towards the Shu army's defense line with loud shouts. .
"For Shu!" On the battlefield, the officers of Shu also shouted. The soldiers of Shu who had been firing back just now also took out their bayonets from their backs and inserted them under the muzzles of their guns.
“Thud, tut, tut!” A hidden Shu machine gun position suddenly opened fire from the flank, mowing down a dozen Qin soldiers at once. The remaining Qin soldiers rushed forward without fear of death, and finally crashed into the Shu army's trenches like a flood.
The bayonets of both sides clashed together, and shouts of killing came one after another. The Qin Army's No. 4 tank ran over the Shu Army machine gun position that had just opened fire, and ran over the two dead machine gun shooters and their damaged Maxim machine guns.
The Qin Army assaulters armed with submachine guns entered the trenches as if they were in a deserted place. They shot and killed seven or eight Shu soldiers holding bayonets.
Then he didn't dare to fire easily, because the soldiers on both sides were mixed together, and they seemed to be about the same number.
In order to adapt to the northwest environment, the standard military uniforms of the Qin State are earthy yellow; the military uniforms of the Shu State imitate the camouflage of the Tang Empire, but they are two-color, with green and yellow interlaced.
Although the difference seems to be clear at ordinary times, it was only after I started fighting that I realized that they were really almost the same. In an era when electronic equipment was not popular, identifying friend or foe has always been a huge problem.
“Boom!” An anti-tank gun hidden in the darkness behind the position spurted out flames, and a shell directly hit the turning Qin No. 4 tank.
The tank immediately emitted thick smoke, and the crew inside the tank immediately opened the hatch cover and got out of the tank. It was as if there was some monster chasing behind them.
Their reaction had to be faster, because once hit, the ammunition inside the tank might explode quickly. If they didn't run faster, they would be engulfed in flames.
(End of this chapter)