Girls und War

The battlefield commanders felt as if they had arrived at the end of hell.

The number of units participating in the battle on both sides was similar. The Huaxue coalition might have had slightly more, as they had already considered the total number of troops that the Eagle District might deploy in this battle.

Moreover, in this battle, the Huaxue coalition actually had the advantage of geographical location.

Because Xia Shu's special forces had already gained them nearly half an hour of combat advantage through preemptive clearing.

It is also because of this that they were able to advance the front line to the Eagle Zone's landing line before the Eagle Zone.

As a result, the Eagle District, which was supposed to be fighting at home, ended up having to make a beach landing on the edge of the ice sheet.

Seeing that along the entire landing line, the Eagle Zone troops that advanced to the periphery of the ice sheet were unable to exert any force at all.

Many of the landing craft they used in polar operations had their hulls penetrated by long-range artillery fire before they even reached the shore.

As a result, the ship sank into the cold deep sea with the tanks and cannons on board.

And those snow tanks that successfully landed on the ice may not be able to perform effectively.

You have to know that snow tanks are not like main battle tanks.

As an armored vehicle that needs to travel on ice and snow, it not only has to consider the issue of armor protection, but also the tank's antifreeze ability and snow mobility.

Therefore, the armor used on ordinary snow tanks is not thick. In addition, the body is flat and the tracks are very wide. The overall weight is probably less than 20 tons.

Compared with ordinary land main battle tanks, which weigh forty or fifty tons, snow tanks are as light as little princesses.

Therefore, snow tanks used in polar regions usually have high attack and paper defense, like an egg holding a hammer.

This kind of tank fighting is like a battlecruiser fighting a battlecruiser, each tank will explode.

If they were in an advantageous position, it would be fine. But when they were at a disadvantage, it was like setting off fireworks, exploding all over the place.

So just imagine how difficult the situation the Eagle District faced in this polar battle was.

909. If you want to delay, just delay it.

Although the situation in this landing operation in Eagle District was very unfavorable for them.

But it’s actually not that difficult to fight.

Because the Eagle District is also a place with relative advantages.

That is, they are playing at home and have an advantage in air control.

At this time, the location of the battle is within the control area of ​​the Eagle Zone, which is only a dozen kilometers away from the nearest sea airport in the Eagle Zone.

The air force base in the snowy area is more than 200 kilometers away.

Although this distance is nothing for high-speed fighter jets, after a long time of going back and forth, the fighter jets on both sides showed a huge difference in the efficiency of air supply.

And the most important thing is that after the Eagle District gains the advantage in air combat, it can send out the ace force for land battles - armed helicopters.

When this powerful weapon was sent out, the Eagle District's landing situation on the ice field was instantly reversed.

The thin-skinned and large-capacity snow tank was almost powerless to fight back under the suppression of anti-tank missiles.

As for the artillery positions deployed at the rear of the battlefield, they couldn't even put up their turrets after being strafed by 30mm machine guns.

As twenty armed helicopters joined the landing operation, effective landing areas were quickly opened up one after another on the edge of the ice sheet.

Fortunately, the Huaxue coalition has achieved sufficient results in this battle.

Seeing that they could not keep the Eagle Zone outside the coastline by continuing the fight, they gave up the suppression operation, began to gather their forces, and slowly retreated.

The Eagle Zone's armed helicopter cluster was also afraid of being attacked by ground-based air defense fire if it separated from the main force. Therefore, it focused its operations on protecting the landing troops and did not go deep into the ice field to pursue them.

So the two warring parties tacitly chose to temporarily cease fire, each to rest and retreat fifty miles and hang up the banner of no fighting.

Looking at this ice field now, the galaxy has collapsed and the road has been erased.

But the two warring parties clearly won't give up. They're waiting for the borderlands to rise again, vowing to fight until the sky collapses and the earth collapses. Only when one side reigns supreme will they dare to stop!

cough……

Let’s split the conversation into two parts. After talking about the fierce firefight on the main battlefield, let’s turn our attention back to Xia Shu’s special forces.

In fact, when the tools were fighting for their lives on the main battlefield, Xia Shu and the others were not idle either.

After completing the elimination of the Eagle Zone's outer defense line, Xia Shu quickly gathered the team members and launched a diversionary attack against the Eagle Zone Polar Mobile Force.

Speaking of which, it seems like a suicidal act no matter how you look at it for an infantry unit to take the initiative to provoke an armored cluster.

As for why Xia Shu did this, we need to talk about the situation at that time.

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Time goes back to half an hour ago. The Huaxue Alliance had just crossed the Eagle District's defense line and had not yet reached the landing coast.

The polar force in Eagle District also experienced a brief pause because of Xia Shu's act of blowing up three signal towers.

Perhaps the order given to them by the Eagle Zone's commander-in-chief was as simple as protecting the signal tower.

But now the target has been destroyed and the operation has failed before it even began. This group of polar guard troops has suddenly found themselves in a very embarrassing situation.

But their commander seemed to be very clear-headed.

The troops quickly regrouped and quickly arrived at the edge of the coast, preparing to cover the landing of the large force.

Xia Shu could feel that the opponent's commander was a smart guy.

At that time, the battle on the landing line had not officially begun, and the Eagle District’s top leaders certainly did not realize the true strategic intention of the "Penguin Project" so quickly.

If it were an ordinary officer, he would not have realized so quickly that the main attack direction of the Huaxue Coalition would definitely be at the landing point on the coastline.

But no matter how much Xia Shu admires him, he will continue to do what he should do.

Since the other party has deployed the troops of this regiment on the coastline, what Xia Shu has to do is naturally to lure the other party away, or simply kill them.

Otherwise, with such a large landing fulcrum placed on the shore, the difficulty of the Huaxue Coalition's coastal interception work would increase by more than an order of magnitude.

The main combat force of this polar mobile force is three battalions of snow tanks.

As a weak force composed entirely of infantry, the special forces will naturally not go head-on with a group of tanks.

So how can Xia Shu divert this mobile force away from the coastline?

it's actually really easy.

The method Xia Shu used is called "attack where the enemy must go and attack where the enemy must rescue" in military strategy.

That is to say, besiege Wei to save Zhao.

As for the person who "must be rescued", after much selection, there is only one in the entire polar region.

That is the air force military base established by the Eagle District behind the polar regions.

The overall establishment concept of their military base is almost the same as that of the military base in the snow area.

Its specific location is in the deepest part of the Eagle Zone controlled area. Theoretically, it is very difficult to capture or destroy it, and the cost-effectiveness of doing so is not high.

Logically speaking, Natsuki would not consider targeting this military base for an attack.

Of course, at this time, she had no intention of really crossing mountains and rivers to cause damage.

She just had to pretend to do so and then lure away the mobile forces on the coastline.

The development of the matter was exactly as Xia Shu had expected.

After the special forces advanced deep into the snowfield and eliminated several outposts along the way, the Eagle District was indeed frightened.

Then the opponent's mobile force received the order to intercept Xia Shu's side.

Although the commander of the mobile force was very unhappy, military orders were as strong as mountains, so she had to order the troops to move out and rush towards the air force base.

Xia Shu had already arranged for someone to keep an eye on the enemy troops. So, not long after they set out, the communications team member who had been keeping a close eye on them sent a message to Xia Shu.

The other party's action naturally played into Xia Shu's hands.

So the Eagle Zone Mobile Force, which was heading to the air force base, was attacked by the special forces halfway.

The attack power was not very strong, just a few rockets.

But this attack undoubtedly succeeded in restraining the enemy - under the pressure of military orders from above, the enemy commander had to order his troops to pursue the special forces.

Xia Shu then arranged for his teams to disperse and played hide-and-seek on the ice field for half an hour with the mobile forces of the Eagle District regiment.

By the time the Eagle District's top commanders realized they had been fooled, it was already too late.

At this time, the Huaxue coalition forces had completed the encirclement of the Eagle District coastal landing point.

The Eagle Zone's mobile forces also had no time to provide landing support to the large forces on the coastline.

——So, everyone saw the tragic coastal landing battle.

At the same time, this also indirectly shows how important Xia Shu's temporary decision-making power on this battlefield is!

910. The Results of Project Penguin and Its True Value

Some people may be curious about why the Eagle Zone placed its main forces in the first island chain.

However, there are no dedicated military bases in the polar regions to store main combat equipment.

This is actually easy to understand.

First of all, the polar region is not the strategic offensive and defensive focus of the entire North Ocean island chain.

When it comes to the North Ocean region, which places are more important?

If they are ranked in order, it should be the second island chain, the first island chain, the third island chain, the polar ice cap, and the fourth and fifth island chains.

The Second Island Chain is undoubtedly the most important of these, as its Eagle Zone control area extends all the way to the shallow coastline of the New World. There are nearly 400 to 500 kilometers of coastal landing points there, which can carry out large-scale military landings.

It can be said that whoever controls the second island chain controls the right to launch a forcible attack on the New World.

By the same token, the first island chain, located on the extension line of the Far North Peninsula of the New World, has a similar strategic position as the second island chain.

The third island chain and the polar ice cap themselves do not have high strategic value.

However, as strategic extensions of the first and second island chains, they have the control priority of radiating attacks on other island chains.

Therefore, the Eagle Zone and the Snow Zone, which have been stationed here for a long time, will not give up these controlled areas easily.

As for the fourth and fifth island chains, although they are also part of the North Ocean pan-island chain war zone, their importance cannot reach the level of the previous two war zones.

It is also because of this that the Snow District can easily give up the Fifth Island Chain to the Flower District.

The ultimate purpose is to transfer the offensive and defensive pressure in the North Ocean area.

Then let’s get back to the issue of polar defense.

Another reason for not deploying a large number of combat equipment in the polar regions is that the maintenance of polar equipment is too expensive.

The price of snow equipment itself is not expensive. What is expensive is the people who drive the equipment, as well as the antifreeze gasoline and antifreeze fluid needed for the equipment.

If a batch of equipment is stored in the polar regions for a long time, the cost of maintaining them will be a considerable expense.

It's like a snow tank. If it is left in the snow for a week, all its parts will be frozen and it will basically be unusable.

If you want a piece of polar equipment to be used for a long time, maintenance and storage environment are both essential.

Only in a regional constant temperature zone like the Snow Zone Air Force Base can effective armored forces be stationed.

There is also an upper limit on the number of troops stationed, with two or three armored battalions being the limit.

This is also why, in the entire control area of ​​Eagle District, there is only one regimental-level mobile force.

So to sum up, instead of keeping a large number of combat troops in the polar regions and causing unnecessary losses, it would be better for Eagle Zone to store the troops in military bases in the first island chain.

Although this would involve some risk, it is definitely more reliable than constantly spending large amounts of maintenance costs on the polar regions.

This time, the Flower District and the Snow District took advantage of the information gap created by Xia Shu's special forces in efficient combat, which enabled them to obtain the right to attack first in this battle in advance.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Huaxue Alliance to achieve such a great anti-landing victory relying solely on its two armies.

After this battle, the Huaxue coalition, which had gained a local battlefield advantage, felt at ease to distance itself from the Eagle District, causing the battlefield to briefly enter a stalemate.

Because the Eagle District lost a large amount of polar combat equipment and battlefield manpower in the landing operation, they did not dare to act rashly in the polar region.

At the same time, before the support forces from the third island chain in the Eagle Zone arrive, the Huaxue Coalition will be able to free up its energy to carry out the next stage of combat planning.