Earth Invasion

Chapter 158 The Civil War
Zhang Mai walked in the field in the middle of Kilcoin with one deep foot and one shallow foot. Beside him, the army of the third son of Kilcoin was also trudging hard on the muddy road in the field.

The temperature has risen suddenly in the past two days, and all the snow in the field has melted away.Kilcoyne is not the Blackfield area, and there are earthlings' materials and technology to help with road hardening.With the exception of a few cobblestone and cement roads, much of central Kilcoyne is dirt.This kind of road will turn into soft mud in the days when the snow falls in winter and the temperature rises.Leave your boots behind after you've kicked your feet down.

This is the front line of the confrontation between the two heirs in line, Shire and William, in Kilcoyne's territory.According to the name of the Assyrians, the name of this place is Kupa, and a series of hilly areas westward along a river flowing through the local area are called the Alchigorin Road. Concentrated area of ​​livestock farming in Alcoin.

However, it is far away from the main food producing areas, so the number of troops confronting the two sides here is not very large. William has concentrated about 4 troops, while Shire has more than [-] full-time professional troops. Soldier.

Kircoyne is an agricultural and animal husbandry area that requires concentrated human resources. The concentration of nearly 8 off-duty soldiers on both sides is already a large number.This is not counting the expropriation of civilian husbands and large livestock.Moreover, it is winter now, and the shield dragon, the most efficient transporter of the Assyrians, is nestling in the barn and refuses to come out.

The Assyrian army is now in a strange confusion.They may wear metal armor, but they carry automatic rifles in their hands.Riding on a heavy war horse, but holding a grenade in his arms.It seems that they have a lot of explosives, but the bronze artillery prepared for firepower before the battle has a range not as far as the earthen rifles in the hands of some soldiers.

The civil war between the two sides started without warning.Except for a few elite guards who were absolutely loyal to William and Shire, many soldiers even drank and gambled together before the battle.But almost overnight, the two sides became enemies.

What such armies can do is just confrontation.The armies of both sides set up barracks, built artillery positions, and hoarded supplies on the long front between Cooper and Alzigorindau.But that's all.As a war for which neither side was prepared, both sides were somewhat weak in attack. At least, before the arrival of spring, the two sides only had the ability to stare at each other on both sides of the front line.

It's not that no one tried to attack. The people of Charles Willoren Kilcoyne at least occupied the rightful place to fight against the people of the earth. Many soldiers planned to seek justice from the sinners on the opposite side, or give them A profound lesson for those who groveled to the people of Earth.

However, the battle line composed of bronze artillery, automatic rifles, grenades, barbed wire and bunkers is very similar to the trench warfare during World War I on earth.Charfan's cavalry charged twice, but suffered heavy losses each time.Although they broke through the edge position the second time, they were quickly pitted back by the winter terrain.Moreover, the opponent also has mobile cavalry units and bronze artillery deployed in the second line.Although these artillery that fire a large amount of lead bullets are ineffective against the PA armor plates of the earthlings, they are still no problem against the iron breastplates on the cavalry.

In this case, the combination of a team of multi-legged chariots and PA is more deadly than the tanks of the British army in World War I.Armed with directed-energy weapons and unresponsive to projectiles from bronze cannons, these things outmaneuver WWI-era tanks.

Therefore, on this long front, the role played by the PA and the multi-legged chariot invested by Vejas Kerema and Joffrey far exceeded the initial expectations.When those steel monsters suddenly appeared on a certain section of the defense line, it would even cause large sections of the defense line to collapse as a whole.If they break through, all the Assyrian troops defending in depth can do is kill their lives.

The more than 30 exoskeletons and electromagnetic guns brought by Zhang Mai and Aida almost became Shire's life-saving straw.

But on how to use these exoskeletons, Zhang Mai and Shire had a big difference.

Armored forces should be used in concentration and to open breaches in the enemy's strongly fortified lines.So that the follow-up forces can attack in depth.As a person on earth, even if he doesn't understand military affairs, he still knows some principles of using mobile power after so many years of training.

But Shire and the others believed that these exoskeletons should be broken up and evenly arranged on the defense line as a support and deterrent force.At the same time, it plays the role of defensive support for the entire defense line.

In meetings on how to use these exoskeletons, Zhang Mai's opinion received little support.

It is true that there is a conceptual problem, but fundamentally, Zhang Mai himself is a human being from the earth, and this is the most important point.How can people on earth be trusted 100%?
At this point, Zhang Mai has a deep sense of frustration.

Fortunately, Ada supported his statement.At her insistence, Zhang Mai and Aida, together with eight other members of the original Ada's guerrillas, took a total of [-] exoskeletons and a PA to form a mobile squad, which was responsible for dealing with William. Attack the defense line, and provide quick support when a certain section of the defense line is tight.

Walking out of this muddy field, Zhang Mai leaned against a tree and used a branch to clean up the mud on the boots.The dark brown soil looks fertile, black soil that grows good things.But when these things stick to the boots, it is not pleasant at all.

These days of trekking in the field made Zhang Mai's face thinner.Since he didn't have much time to organize his personal grooming, his hair grew a lot.The only haircut was when Ada cut it off bit by bit with a dagger.There was often no place to charge the electric razor. During this time, a fine beard grew on his face, lips, and chin.

At least it doesn't look so tender.

In order to save power and the stamina of the horse.Everyone's PA and exoskeleton were taken off and put on the carriage.Everyone either walks or rides a horse.

This kind of long-distance march is a great test for the physical strength of the people on earth.

Aida came over from behind, took out the water bag from her backpack, and handed it to Zhang Mai.

"Maizi, is it okay? Why don't you go to the carriage."

Taking the water bag, controlling his desire to take a few sips, he took a small sip, then bent down and hammered his legs hard.

The toolbox with various maintenance tools had been taken away by other team members long ago, and Ada's personal salute and sleeping bag, including his special drinking water and food, were all on Ada's body.It can be said that in the entire team, only he acted empty-handed.But that's it, everyone has to stop from time to time to wait for him to recover his strength.

When he was on Earth, he only practiced Sanda and boxing with Wang Keyi and the others, and he had not been trained in forced marching.On Assyria, a planet with slightly greater gravity than Earth, keeping up with the Assyrians' marching speed is simply a dream.

But there is no way. More than 30 exoskeletons were left in various locations as fixed forts. Fortunately, he alone can repair the ten exoskeletons used intensively.He had to keep up with Ada and the others.

Two days ago, they encountered the earthlings PMC members who came to attack at a place called Swallow Base in the central hilly area of ​​Alchigor Lindao.Or it could be said that they had just arrived at the Swallow Hill Stables and met Wejas Kerema and their raid.

The opponent's troops are not many, [-] PAs, plus more than [-] Assyrian cavalry.

If there are only [-] cavalry, it is meaningless for Yanzilei, a support point composed of a granite stone watchtower and criss-cross ditches.The cavalry was helpless against the combination of horse refusal and trenches plus bronze artillery.

However, PA is different.Under the PA's weapon, the huge sentry post with a height of three floors and a width of more than 20 meters is a joke.

The rumbling bronze cannon spewed out smoke and fire, firing spherical lead pellets at the approaching PA at high speed.These shot balls, whose flight speeds can't even exceed the speed of sound, are useless against PA's silicon carbide armor.But the thick-looking stone walls of the Swallow Watchtower are like paper to a Gauss rifle.Moreover, the high-speed grenades carried by these PAs can be shot through the windows, and the warheads filled with thermite and RDX will shoot out fragments and steel balls, and almost all the people in the room will be smashed into a sieve.

This is not a war, but a unilateral insult!
And feel that the local Zhangmai and the others have become the only life-saving straw.

In theory, the comparison of firepower between the two sides is the same.Except for the accident that Zhang Mai has an armored PA, the others are just running around naked with an electromagnetic rifle on their shoulders.Moreover, their electromagnetic rifle is just a junk product composed of two guide rails and a coil. If the opponent fights more firmly, Zhang Mai and the others will suffer heavy losses.

Fortunately, although the PMC people are desperadoes, their long-term comfortable life on the Assyrian planet and the random killing of ordinary Assyrians have made them cherish their own lives very much, and even have a ruthless spirit. It's almost worn out.

Came to this place to make money and be an uncle, to risk your life under the rain of electromagnetic cannon bullets?Sorry, I didn't want to die for no apparent reason.

However, in this way, Zhang Mai and the others still suffered casualties.

When the opponent's first aggressive PA was directly smashed into a sieve by a rain of bullets penetrating the rod at high speed, the opponent's commander chose to retreat.These PMC members are now greedy for life and afraid of death, but their tactical literacy is still a few blocks ahead of them, especially these young people who have just put on the exoskeleton and killed the machine monster of the earth for the first time. people!

On Zhangmai's HUD, the opponent was releasing smoke, and then covered the shooting with the Gatling cannon. The two PAs used the terrain as a cover, rushed up quickly, and touched the destroyed PA.

There is an unwritten rule in PMC, if you die while working, you deserve it, and if you can't get the body back, take some souvenirs.In this line of work, no one knows whether they will be alive tomorrow, so this point is one of the few insistences of these scumbags.

In other words, at this time, they are the most dangerous group of people.

But the Assyrians didn't know this rule, and one of the team members only saw that the opponent's PA was broken and people were killed.The electromagnetic gun and grenade launcher in the PA's hand were thrown aside.

He wondered, if he snatched those two weapons, wouldn't it be broken if the other party took them back?He rushed out from behind the bunker on his own initiative, and rushed towards the opposite side in a hurry.And the smoke released by the other party, he thought it was to prepare for retreat.

But the people on earth are not planning to take weapons, but to grab corpses.

Zhang Mai has heard Li Chiqi talk about some taboos of PMC, and this is one of them.Some PMC members even set up traps by grabbing corpses, and fought each other.

The high-concentration aerosol and scattered smoke made it impossible for Zhangmai's thermal imaging camera to correctly distinguish the opponent's position, but the opponent's formation was not in chaos, and they would concentrate their firepower when they snatched the corpse!

"Come back! It's too dangerous!" Zhang Mai yelled, and smashed the high-speed grenade in his hand towards the rear part of the destroyed place!

Almost at the same time, the moment the grenade landed, the opponent's high-speed piercing pole swept over like a storm!There are also plasma bombs thrown by the projectile!

It's easy to pass through the pole, but the plasma bomb is too dangerous.Zhang Mai had no choice but to roll into the T-shaped bunker pit next to him to avoid the bombs flying at high speed.

But the one who went out without authorization to pick up the ocean drops was not so lucky.

The sound of heavy footsteps is as dazzling as a moth to a flame in the audio frequency analysis system of PA.

The chain of fire from the strafing bites him easily.

The first few ordinary bullets just opened a few holes in his body.The nerves of the Assyrians are very strong. If they were people on Earth, they would die in just a few strokes.In this way, with the support of the exoskeleton, he ran two steps towards that place.When he seemed to be reaching out to grab something, a high-speed piercing rod of an electromagnetic gun directly knocked his chest into the air.

The unabated penetrating rod continued to penetrate the metal hydrogen fuel cell and conversion part of the back part of the exoskeleton.Metal hydrogen compressed into a solid state sublimates into a gas in a very short time, after being fully mixed with air.

With a bang, a blood-red firework appeared in the air...

　On the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, my younger brother got married and is very busy. I will update it for two days today. In addition, I will update it at night in the future.

　　
　
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