Girls und War

"Then could you please break the periscope as well? It would be best if you could destroy the automatic machine gun as well." Xia Shu continued to request shamelessly.

"what?"

"Please, Miss Smiley." Xia Shu begged Smiley in a coquettish manner that even he himself felt was unfamiliar.

Upon hearing this, Smiley Face got excited and pulled the bolt of the gun.

Xiaotang, who was standing next to him, had an expression as if she had seen a ghost.

A hint of apology also appeared on Xia Shu's face at the right time.

Listening to the loud gunshots on the street, Xiaotang couldn't help but say, "I didn't expect you to cheat people."

Xia Shu didn't say anything.

Because the next second, the expected situation happened.

The enemy tank slowly raised its gun barrel and aimed at the building where the smiling face was.

"Oh my god!" Smiley Face cursed and quickly started to move.

Another loud bang of the cannon blasted, debris flew everywhere, and the building shattered into pieces in the blink of an eye.

"Now! Armored Little Treasure No. 1! Get on!" Xia Shu quickly gave orders to the tank.

So the friendly tanks in front of the street immediately drove out from the inside of the road and fired at the enemy.

While firing, it also adjusted its position while the enemy was reloading so as to face the enemy head-on.

The two sides soon began to exchange main gun fire.

When the tank commander saw that the first tank had given up its position, he quickly arranged for the second tank to follow.

The narrow intersection was soon filled with smoke, and a fierce battle broke out between steel and steel.

Unfortunately, the enemy's position was slightly better. The firepower of the two tanks finally knocked Iron Armor Xiaobao No. 1 to the ground.

The armored Xiaobao No. 2 behind it also had its tracks broken and its turret pierced, making it lose its combat effectiveness.

The flying smoke and dust covered the streets and alleys. Amid the smoke and gunfire, the enemy's armored vehicles slowly retreated, leaving only one tank behind.

Xia Shu couldn't see clearly how much damage the enemy had suffered, but at least they had retreated half a street.

However, there are two scrapped tanks blocking the road, and it will take some time to clear a path.

At this time, the voice of Smiley Face also came from the headphones.

"Natsuki! You did this on purpose!"

355. The big bomber has to be arranged too. Don’t save money. Anyone who saves money is a coward.

"I don't quite understand what you are saying. Is this how tank combat is conducted?" Xia Shu asked pretending to be stupid.

"Damn it! I'll remember that!" Smiley Face said bitterly, "You have to be more careful in your next battle against Little Jack!"

"Of course, of course!" Xia Shu promised.

The battle for this street had temporarily come to a halt. The wreckage of two tanks in the Flower District blocked the intersection, making further advance difficult. The Sea District also seemed to have sustained some damage, with the main force withdrawing to the rear.

As a result, the local battlefield at the harbor came to a standstill.

As the sky gradually darkened, Huaqu still showed no intention of suspending the battle.

The artillery fire continued to roar. In the eastern part of Kote, the two sides were trapped in the abyss of street fighting in the city (ruins), constantly widening the lines and pulling.

The city alleys were bombarded and smashed, and then the tank troops that entered them were blown up and destroyed, forming new alleys.

Both sides continued to fill it with steel fuel, turning the entire city into a deep red sea of ​​fire.

The tools worked overtime, and the girls on the front line were replaced by the follow-up troops to rest.

The battle was getting intense, and it seemed that no one wanted to give up.

The flower district seemed to feel that it was only one step away from taking over the city.

The sea area also stood at the front and refused to give up an inch of land no matter what.

Xia Shu and her group were soon replaced by the following friendly forces. A sniper team went up to their small building and occupied the sniper position.

The girls of the Dragon and Phoenix Team finally got some time to rest after more than ten hours of high-intensity combat.

Amid the rumbling sound of artillery fire, the girls came to the newly built barracks in the port area and collapsed on the beds.

Unfortunately, the shelling was too loud and I couldn't sleep.

It wasn't just the eastern part of Kote. Outside the western part of the city, after the Macho landing ship brought the armored forces ashore, the two sides also engaged in several rounds of small-scale exchanges of fire in the suburbs.

But the results were not great.

The rear of the sea area is too thick, and the flower area can only rely on the fleet in the bay to open up a simple combat area on the shore.

The focus of the battle should still be on the struggle within the city.

The artillery fire continued all night.

The logistics systems of both sides continued to transport fresh blood to the front line, and they madly sent cannon fodder to Kurt like burning money.

But specifically speaking, the flower area actually has more advantages.

This not only refers to the superiority of the air force and navy. More importantly, the sea area is now in a predicament of severe shortage of manpower.

Three battlefields, fighting on three fronts.

The Grand Canal of the Inner Mediterranean, the southern desert, and the port of Kote.

They were already short of manpower, and at this time they had to squeeze the energy of the front-line soldiers to force themselves to defend.

Many officers and soldiers on the Kote front have been fighting for more than 20 hours.

Compared with the front-line soldiers in the Flower District who can be rotated out, they really have no tears to cry.

So, in the early hours of the morning, after a deafening roar, they finally gave up the eastern part of Kote and retreated to the west across the river.

By the way, the two bridges over the river were also blown up.

Xia Shu woke up to this deafening noise.

After she opened her eyes, she subconsciously grabbed the gun and jumped off the bed.

The other girls also sat up in confusion.

"Bombing?" asked Smiley Face, rubbing his eyes.

Xia Shu nodded hesitantly.

She was very familiar with this sound. It was the explosion of a cluster of high-yield heavy bombs landing. Artillery fire and even cruise missiles were not as loud as this.

However, there was no sound of air raid sirens in the camp, which made Xia Shu confused for a moment.

So she said, "I'll go ask," and walked out of the barracks with her gun.

Outside the barracks, several officers gathered in the square of the logistics camp, looking towards the city.

The commander of the armored unit who had carried out the mission with them during the day was also there. When Xia Shu walked up to him, he recognized him immediately.

"Hey, Xia Shu. Why don't you sleep a little longer?" The other person called out her name.

"Major." Xia Shu didn't remember her name, so he just called her by her rank and then asked, "What's wrong? Is it a bombing?"

"Yeah." The major nodded, pointed in the direction of the city, and said, "The strategic bombers flying over from our war zone, wow, dropped 20 tons of bombs, crushing the entire East City."

Strategic bombers are no simple aircraft. Any military equipment that has anything to do with strategy is inherently expensive and rare.

As the most expensive equipment in the Air Force, this thing costs more money than top-tier fighter jets.

Especially those with the prefix "stealth", the cost is comparable to that of an aircraft carrier.

Due to price reasons, no theater in the entire imaginary battlefield has ever built a stealth strategic bomber.

Although this thing is indeed the top black technology equipment in the non-nuclear era.

But with this spare money, it would be better to build another aircraft carrier battle group.

It can be said that the non-nuclear technology tree ends here.

The ultimate dream of the air forces in major war zones can probably only be seen on the design drawings.

Xia Shu showed an expression of understanding, finally figuring out the situation.

The major then talked about the retreat from the sea area and the bombing of the bridge.

So ten minutes later, Xia Shu returned to the barracks and dispelled the girls' inner alarm with just one sentence.

"It's okay, it's our strategic bomber."

The girls breathed a sigh of relief and immediately lay back on the bed and took a nap.

Xia Shu, on the other hand, lay on the bed and began to think about the problem of burning money on the battlefield.

Logically speaking, deploying a strategic bomber consumes more resources than deploying an armored regiment.

It would probably be more economical to simply use armored forces to force their way into the city.

So do they really make money by sending out bombers?

Analogous to the previous twenty cruise missiles used to bomb sparrows, these are all loss-making deals.

Is there a more frugal way to win?

But on second thought,

War is inherently a loss-making enterprise.

The so-called way of heaven is to reduce the excess and make up for the deficiency. The way of man is to reduce the deficiency and make up for the loss.

The destruction that war causes to human civilization has nothing to do with any residual benefits.

Therefore, on the battlefield, thinking about how to gain benefits and how to save money is of no use at all.

We must think about issues from the perspective of effectiveness and strategic thinking.

Since the Hua District Staff chose cruise missiles and strategic bombing, there must be a reason why they had to do so.

Xia Shu thought about it for a long time and felt that deterrence was very important.

As long as you show an attitude of not giving up until you achieve your goal, the enemy will be afraid and retreat.

Of course, there is another side to this, and Xia Shu also thought about it.

It is very likely that the logistical supplies can no longer keep up.

In order to avoid the battle from dragging on too long, they wanted to end it quickly.

After all, time is also a valuable strategic resource.

356. Urban warfare is super interesting, it feels like home

The Dragon and Phoenix Special Team was dispatched for the second time on the morning of the next day.

After replenishing their supplies and loading up on ammunition, the girls ran towards the battlefield full of energy.

Looking forward to new military achievements, new battle records, and new world rankings.

The original port street does not require them to take turns on duty this time.

As a special operations team, the elite of the elite, there was no way they could be used for stupid shift work.

It would take a while to break into the port streets, and even if we did, we couldn't retreat deep. Even if we pushed deep, we couldn't respond to the friendly forces in the east city.

Just stupid defense.

The attack on the eastern city was also blocked on the opposite side of the river by the enemy armored forces in the western city.

The bridge was blown up, leaving two ways to enter the West City.

First, use the logistics bridge-laying vehicles to build a sturdy military pontoon bridge on the river that is large enough for tank troops to pass through.

The second method is to take a landing ship, land on one side of the harbor, and then enter the city.

If you don't want either, then the only option is to go upstream.