"General!""
General!"
Petrov's face was blue, and he stooped into the low front-line headquarters.Ignoring his subordinates who jumped up and saluted, he walked directly to the location of the observation hole, picked up the portable telescope handed over by the adjutant, and looked into the distance.The roar of cannon reverberated through the valley, deafening.In the dark night sky in the distance, the light clusters of energy cannons were like meteor showers at the end of the day.These horrible destroyers slammed diagonally into the ground, and then turned into larger white light that burrowed out of the dirt and spread out quickly, sweeping across the earth.On the hillside shrouded in darkness, and under the hillside, countless of the same lights, dotted with stars, rose and fell.When the light dissipated into the night, the thunderous sound came.Even when I was nearly five kilometers away from the front line, I could still feel the shaking of the ground beneath my feet."
Your Excellency, Commander."
Yegor, the commander of the 2122nd Division, who hurried back to the headquarters, saluted Petrov.The commander of the 21 st Group Army's most combat-ready armored division, his hair was as bloated as a chicken's nest, and sweat flowed down his face full of gunpowder smoke and dust, rushing out of one ravine after another.The collar of his uniform was apparently hastily fastened when he stormed the command, and it looked ridiculously embarrassed because of the wrong buttonhole.No one will laugh at him, though.Everyone knows what exactly happened, and they also know that Yegor has been at the forefront of directing the battle.However, it didn't seem to be working.Although the front of the Maple Leaf Slope is just an armored regiment!
Petrov ignored Yegor.His iron-blue face made the temperature of the entire underground headquarters drop below freezing.If you listen carefully, you can even hear the sound of the staff officers next to you, who dare not come out of the atmosphere.2122 Division, made a huge mistake.The four reconnaissance teams and one electronic mecha platoon that came out of the front were completely devoid of the enemy reconnaissance unit that had already appeared beside them.These blind scouts walked to Maple Leaf Slope so stupidly.Stupidly return erroneous information to the main forces in the rear.The scouts' dereliction of duty cost them and the next two armoured battalions - ten minutes after the main force received information that there was no trace of the Filigent forces ahead, four scout squads and an electronic mech platoon disappeared at the same time.Immediately afterwards, the two battalions of the 1st Regiment of the 2122nd Division, which were unsuspecting, encountered a sudden attack when they were still one kilometer away from the main hill of Maple Leaf Slope.It was a long-planned ambush.The Seuss armored forces, which rushed headlong into the encirclement of the Filipino League, lost thirty percent of their mechs after the enemy's first fire attack, and were cut into six sections by the interspersed enemy armored forces.The grassroots officers were even killed by name at the first time.There was no suspense in the battle.In less than five minutes, the troops collapsed.The fleeing Seuss forward troops were driven back along the foot of the hill by the enemy.When the troops following heard the sound of gunfire and prepared to occupy the surrounding high ground and organize an interception line on the spot, the more than 200 Seuss mechs that had fled had already retreated in front of them in a hurry.The whole team suddenly fell into crowding and chaos.The grassroots commander shouted desperately, driving the soldiers to hold their ground.A part of the officers personally led the troops to the flanks and tried to establish a bridgehead on the high ground and stabilize the situation.However, all these efforts were like a glass ball, which was lifted high and smashed to pieces by the enemy, who had already been lying in ambush on the surrounding heights.The Souss armored clusters, crowded in the valley, turned into slaughtered lambs.By the time the rear troops seized the ridge and bypassed the steep and difficult mountainside to reinforce them, the cunning enemy had already retreated like a tide.What was left behind was the neat rows of Seuss mecha wreckage in the two-kilometer-long passage northeast of the Maple Leaf Slope.The carelessness of the 2122nd Division, the negligence of the scouts, led to the fact that for a full twenty minutes, the main forces of Seuss were in confusion and could not move forward.By the time Yegor hurried to the front, regrouped his troops with kicks and blows, and gave the order to attack, half an hour had passed.Half an hour, which may not be worth mentioning at all.However, at this moment of racing against time, it was a slap in the face of the 21st Group Army!
Without waiting for Petrov's orders, the 2122nd Division, which had rushed to Maple Leaf Slope, immediately went on the offensive under the command of Yegor.The front, the flanks, wherever the formation could be deployed, were surging with the figures of the Seuss armored forces.The grassroots officers rushed forward in the lead, and the soldiers behind also showed all their strength.Every staff officer was working at full capacity, and the fire coverage and targeted clearance of the self-propelled artillery battalion did not stop for a second.However, the reality is cruel.Until now, the 2122nd Division has not been able to move forward, and the battle damage statistics of fifty to one on the Skynet screen have made all the Seuss officers dare not believe their eyes.The other party, with only one armored regiment, is like an insurmountable moat!
This is unacceptable to everyone in any way!
Standing in front of Petrov, who was pale, Yegor's face was pale, and cold sweat was pouring down.Two minutes before he arrived at the headquarters, he had just received the news that the offensive of the 3rd and 4th regiments had been thwarted again.The third regiment was a little better, and the fourth regiment on the left flank was even almost crushed by the enemy's counterattack.If it weren't for the desperate protection of the guard company directly under the regiment, the regiment commander would have almost been killed on the spot!"
How long will it take to take the Maple Leaf Slope?"
Before the temperature dropped below freezing, Petrov finally spoke.He looked at Yegor, and his eyes were like knives, which could cut countless bloody wounds into a person's skin!
The officers and staff officers on the side looked at Yegor with pity.This question was Petrov's last chance to give Yegor.The mistake of the 2122nd Division almost buried the entire battle situation on the Western Front in Phoenix.If it weren't for the fact that everyone knew that there was still a regiment of the 2111th Division defending the danger in the first-line Sky Canyon, and it would be absolutely impossible for the enemy to pass through the narrow road in a short time, I was afraid that Petrov's first order to the front line was to execute Yegor!
Yegor smiled miserably.He knew that Petrov had given himself a chance.However, this also means that Petrov has not yet been able to clearly realize what kind of troops the 21st Army has encountered this time!
Yegor's silence made Petrov's face even more ugly.Just when everyone was pinching a cold sweat for Yegor, they suddenly appeared, and Yegor actually took off his epaulettes himself."
I'm sorry, Your Excellency," Yegor hung his head, "the morale of our division has been seriously frustrated, and I am afraid that we will not be able to continue the offensive, and I suggest that we build a position as soon as possible to prevent our army from suffering more heavy losses." ”There was a dead silence in the headquarters.The officers and staff officers of the 2122nd Division looked like dirt, and the other three division commanders who followed Petrov looked incredulous.Yegor is crazy?!
He let four elite armored divisions build fortifications to defend against an armored regiment of the enemy?!
Petrov was so angry that he looked at his henchman viciously, and he wanted to tear him to shreds!
Soon, however, he restrained his anger.Yegor's pale face made him realize that things might not be as he imagined.No one knew Yegor better than he did.This high-achieving student of the military academy who picked it up by himself is definitely not an idiot who can't distinguish the important and embarrass himself at a critical time."
What the hell is going on?"
Petrov asked in a deep voice.Yegor's lips trembled, and his voice was hoarse: "General, I think, you should go and see for yourself." ”From Yegor's words, Petrov instinctively sensed a danger, he looked at Yegor deeply, and simply turned around: "Go!"
”In addition to the bunkers, the officers were divided into three command mechs, escorted by Petrov's immediate guard regiment, and marched to the front.Night, shrouded the entire mountainous area.Under the starlight, the small stream on the side of the road is babbling.The woods, in the wind, make a torrential sound.In the valley, on the hillside, there are crowds of Seuss mechs.Some units waited on the sidelines, while others ran towards the war zone.The chaotic lights flickered in all directions, all kinds of accents were intertwined, and the whole mountainous area was a scene of panic.The appearance of the guard regiment directly under the group army made the troops congested on the main road retreat to both sides.Exhausted Seuss mechs stood in the mud, watching the procession of senior officers march towards the hilltops that were glowing red with the light of artillery fire in the distance.The closer you get to the front line, the louder the artillery fire.When they walked into the area four kilometers away from Maple Leaf Slope, the officers in the command mecha could already see rows of field hospital tents, as well as wounded soldiers sent down from the front line like flowing water.One after another, medical mechs flashed past their eyes, and from time to time, they saw a group of soldiers rushing towards them carrying stretchers.The reinforcements advanced in silence, and the shouts of the officers were hoarse in the distant sound of artillery fire.In the sky, the huge energy cannon light ball flowed like a comet, the dazzling light, the huge roar like the train entering the tunnel, like a grand festival of hell.Mecha wreckage was scattered all around.The center of the road was cleaned up and concentrated by the engineering mecha, and the hills on both sides could only burn on their own.In some places, the trees were also set ablaze, and it looked like huge torches.The officers watched in silence at everything in front of them, and the sight in front of them made their hearts sink more and more.The troops were blocked in this mountainous area, which is no more than 5 kilometers wide and more than 30 kilometers long.And ahead, there is really only one regiment of the enemy ?!
If it's true, then, what kind of force is it exactly?!
As the troops reached a col, the command mech stopped.The officers gathered Petrov out of the mech and looked around.The entire col has been turned into a huge and noisy base for advancement.The whistle, the shouting, the roar of the engine, intertwined and messed up.On a few improvised maintenance pads not far to the left, mechanics are urgently repairing scarred mechs.Dozens of meters away on the right, several sweaty logistics non-commissioned officers were nervously directing mechs and soldiers to load and unload weapons and ammunition.Some of the soldiers were running around on the muddy ground that had been trampled out of the water, their gray combat uniforms covered with flowing muddy water, and their faces were so dirty that only a pair of frightened and panicked eyes and a mouthful of white teeth could be seen.At the foot of the hill, a little higher, there is a long line of field hospitals.From time to time, the wounded were carried in and out.Outside, the open space was filled with stretchers with wounded soldiers.The wails and moans were incessant.Except for a few paramedics and nurses who shuttled through it and did simple care for them, no one could take care of them.The officers, looking at everything in front of them in shock, followed Yegor and walked towards the heights.The mud on the hillside made them have to walk carefully to avoid slipping.Through the foliage, one could see that down the hillside, a detachment of troops had withdrawn from the front line as they walked through the valley like a wounded ghost, moving towards the rear.Several communications off-road vehicles sped by, mud splashes from undulating tires crackling against the scarred shells of the moving mechs, but they didn't elicit the usual scolding of the hot-tempered mechs.It's not so much an army as a bunch of walking dead with arms and legs."
This is," Petrov looked back at the defeated troops."
It's the Fourth Regiment," Yegor's eyes gloomy, "they have just withdrawn from the left flank, and I have already asked them to call their regimental commander." ”Petrov looked at Yegor, quickened his pace and strode up the hill.The entire Maple Leaf Slope battlefield suddenly appeared in front of you!
Compared with the temporary headquarters a few kilometers away, the battlefield seen here is even bigger and more magnificent.I saw that in front of the maple slope like a pangolin, the flames and smoke raised by the explosion were fifty or sixty meters high, lying across the hill, covering the sky.Mushroom clouds, large and small, appeared in the light of the explosion, like solidified black stone pillars.Countless mechs on both sides rushed back and forth on this land of artillery fire.Torrents of cyan and gray steel wedged each other into each other's formations.Charge, break through, encircle, and divide all the tactics and killing methods summarized by the 6th Army of the human race are vividly displayed on this hillside full of yellow leaves.In the middle, the Seuss troops attacking the main peak of Maple Slope had apparently just retreated from the hillside.As the gray Seuss mech line retreated, the enemy on the hill pressed down fiercely.A squad of cyan mechs that Petrov had never seen before plunged into the already chaotic skirmish line of the Suss mecha like sharp daggers.They were in groups of three or five, like knights galloping on horseback, shouting, rushing down to the top of the mountain, approaching their opponents faster than lightning, and striking a fatal blow.The blood on Petrov's face suddenly faded cleanly.His gaze was fixed on the mountainside.There, several Seuss mechs at the front of the skirmish line were firing frantically as they retreated.The firepower of a Seuss [Iron Dragon] medium mecha in front of it was obviously at full speed.Several energy cannons on his body sprayed fire with a degree and rhythm familiar to Petrov.Energy cannonballs, blocking all angles of the front.Everywhere the barrage passed, the sand flew away, and the sky collapsed.However, a ghostly cyan mecha came up to him.He rushed down from the top of the mountain, his fat body in the air like a predatory lightning falcon.After changing direction one after another, jumping over a large rock and several wrecks on the hillside, it only flickered through the dense barrage without damage, and slammed into the chest of the ironclad dragon.When the iron dragon with a distant opponent turned into a ball of fire, more than a dozen cyan mechs on the same horizontal line on both sides also sent fists, ion daggers or flying kicks into their respective target bodies at the same time.The regressing skirmish line broke a big hole in an instant.The sudden light of the fire reflected the ghostly figure, and even in the rumbling of cannons and blazing flames, Petrov felt an eerie chill against his back.His head exploded with a thud.And it's not just here that scares him even more.Just on the hill on the left flank, hundreds of cyan mechs had completely mixed into the formation of the three regiments of the 2122nd Division.The entire three regiments were divided into a dozen small groups that fought separately.The panicked Seuss mecha warriors could only fire desperately aimlessly.In this chaotic artillery fire, the enemy is showing their artistic cooperation.The cyan triangular attack formations rolled with the fire of the Suss mecha.It's like a wave, wave after wave.Every five steps, the cyan mechs that were attacked on the periphery retreated into the formation, while their companions, who had full energy shields, took their place to meet the fire of the Seuss armored forces.The thin light curtain of the blue, red, blue, and red energy shield is like an aurora in the void, constantly changing.No matter how ferocious the fire of the Seuss armored cluster was, it could not be destroyed.Five steps, one wave.The delicate steps of the cyan mecha are like the drumbeats of an ancient wizard drumstick, mysterious, natural, smooth, and the transition is seamless!
Every five steps, their formation will be filled with a layer of rippling ripples, and their mechs will silently change positions.Their progress has not stopped in the slightest, and the periphery of the formation will always be the blue light curtain that makes people desperate!
This footwork, this coordination, has been out of Petrov's imagination, and likewise, out of the imagination of the young officers around him, who are much younger than him, more imaginative than him.The officers of the 21st Army of Seuss stood blankly on this wooded hill, looking at the enemy below the hill and showing them a way of fighting that they had never seen before.Smooth footwork and coordination bring the same smooth killing.The most ordinary triangular attack formation, they have been given a new life.Every time the triangle formation turns, several cyan mechs will advance in unison, steadily stepping forward, flying with fists and feet, turning the Suss mecha into burning scrap metal!
The left wing is hell, and the right wing is also not heaven.Petrov rolled his eyes with difficulty.On the right flank of the battlefield, more than 200 cyan mechs formed five triangular attack formations, deeply penetrating into the Suss armored cluster, constantly breaking through in depth.These cyan killing gods don't have the slightest mercy.They swept past the Seuss mecha in groups, and every time they passed by, the formation of the Seuss hedgehog would be cut as if it had been cut by a knife, and a bloody hole would be cut.With the retreat of the Fourth Regiment, the entire right flank was actually already under the enemy's domain.The few Seuss mechs that remained on the right flank to block and buy time for the retreat of the troops in the center and left flank were not so much resisting as consuming a little of the enemy's time for slaughter!"
General."
Behind him came the sound of the guards reporting it.Petrov looked back and saw the commander of the 4th Regiment of the 2122nd Division, who was being supported by two guards up the hill, with his lips blue and falling to the ground.His gaze passed over the regimental commander, who was already unconscious from his injuries, and fell on several staff officers of the base camp of the group army who hurried up the hillside.An ominous premonition, growing stronger with the footsteps of the staff officers."
Your Excellency, the flank of our army was suddenly attacked by the enemy, and the troops suffered heavy losses.The 2121st Division in the center had already retreated.The rear troops lost contact. ”"General, the 1st Regiment of the 2111th Division, 20 minutes ago, encountered a strong attack by the enemy's main force, and under the fierce battle, the position was lost due to the enemy's sneak attack, and the whole regiment died heroically.The enemy's main force is about to pass through the first-line sky canyon and approach the Sijiu Peak. ”Petrov's body shook suddenly, and it was pitch black in front of him.
(To be continued)