220 – Tank Defense (4) – Battle of Aros
The plains of Aros, where the decisive battle between Reinhalt and the Uk ranian-Pollania allied forces will take place, were quiet. Wide open hills and plains.
After spring, the season of new life, the plains were covered with green in early summer.
The plants that have risen up in the spring energy have stretched out their green leaves before I knew it.
The groves and hills were filled with the cries of birds and animals.
But even that was a fleeting moment.
On June 20th, about 4 months have passed since the Soviet Empire started its offensive operation toward Uk ran through Lunetsk.
“Operation Summer Storm will begin at this time.”
“Start the Great Aros Offensive!! For Reich!”
The commanders of each camp shouted with angry voices. It didn’t take long for the area of Aros, which was full of life, to be filled with the shouts and gunfire of the red-eyed soldiers.
The first place where the battle took place was, of course, in the sky over Aros. Dozens of fighter jets crossing the scorching sun of early summer.
The Uk ranian 1st Fighter Wing led by Colonel Roxanna Elim.
The Reinhardt 12th Destroyer Wing led by Brigadier General Erich von Richthofen faced off.
“Why do you look like that, Captain?”
“No…… Seeing as I was somewhat acquainted with Brigadier General Erich…….”
What a joke of fate. A situation where the gun was aimed at those who had greatly helped to increase the Uk ranian air power.
Roxanna Elim bit her lip bitterly.
“What can I do? I have to fight to not die.”
“I don’t want to go to war again. When everything is over, I want to go back to the training unit.”
“Me too. I love flying, but I’m sick of flying while dodging bullets.”
Roxanna The flight commander, who had been flying parallel with her aircraft, shook her head and added, as if he was tired of it.
It was then.
From far away, black dots began to appear.
The urgent voices of the lead group followed.
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“Forward 4200! Red flag spotted!!”
Roxanne I swallowed her dry saliva and blew her mana into her sorcery complex engine. At the same time as the feeling that the heart that had been blocked from the inside was released, green mana filled the plane.
“Pooh.”
She was still suffering from her demonic disease, so she had stored up her mana to the point where it took a toll on her body since her last sortie in her Gdankoop.
“How are you feeling, Captain?”
“It’s just perfect.”
“The color of mana is also quite good. Good luck today.”
The commander of the squadron laughed, throwing out a trivial joke. Roxanna raised her thumb at him, then she called into the walkie-talkie.
“Squadron, Formation A.”
“Loser. Formation A.”
“Let’s see everyone on the ground.”
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Drreuk!!
Tattatatata!!
The skies of Aros were filled with the sound of fighter propellers and gunfire. It was just a prelude to securing air supremacy across Aros before the full-scale battle.
Tatadadang! Purrr!
“Right! Wings hit! Fall!”
“Fall!! f*ck you, baaal!!”
“It was an honor to serve you, Captain Roxanna.”
“Major Henderson!!”
The amount of blood spilled before that skirmish was by no means small.
***
The Uk ranian Air Corps, which entered into battle with the start of Operation Summer Storm, failed to secure air supremacy.
To be precise, half succeeded and half failed.
The 1st Fighter Wing, led by Roxanna Elim, vomited its spirit by paying a 1:3 exchange rate against the bloody Destroyer Wing, the pride of the Reinhardt Air Force.
In the end, they had no choice but to back down to the imperial air force, which far surpassed the Uk ranian air force in terms of quantity and quality.
In the first place, even though they are operating the same Manfred aircraft, they are still using the Type 2 developed two years ago with Uk ranian air power.
From the engine to the design of the aircraft, it is absurd to compare the Imperial air power with the newly improved Manfred Type 4 deployed.
However, the 1st battle eroded the strength of the Reinhardt Air Force metallurgically, based on excellent tactical maneuvers and well-organized cooperative strategies.
Although they withdrew from the sky of Aros, they did not let the empire occupy the sky either.
Reinhardt’s air force had no choice but to retreat due to more serious damage than expected.
One to one.
It was a draw.
“The airspace of Aros is empty.”
“In the end, I had no choice but to decide on the ground.”
The forces of both sides had already deployed in a no-man’s-land only about 2km away. Troops entrenched in trench lines.
Captain Geor Wasilovsky, commander of the Uk ranian Expeditionary Force, groaned.
I wanted to be able to secure the right to provide. That way, the blood of the soldiers on the ground will be reduced a little.
It was said that he had secured the command of the Polania army deployed in the southern direction, but he was still inferior. Reinhardt is Reinhardt. From the beginning, the weight class was different.
“Fire Force Staff, issue a short order to the subordinate artillery unit.”
“Yes, let’s do it hotly.”
The only thing I could count on now was the artillery.
In addition to the smallest caliber 37mm Grizzly Howitzer, 105mm Field Cannon and 125mm Howitzer.
Infantry mortars, five armored trains.
In fact, except for the troops deployed in Lunetsk just in case, all the firepower that the Uk ranians could mobilize was gathered in the Aros direction.
And within a few days.
As if to try, Reinhalt’s enormous army trampled the plains of Aros.
“Enemy 1st wave approaching!!”
“200 Left, 450 right, more than Dongjewon!”
“One two three, shoot!!”
Soon after, a shower of steel rained down on the Empire.
Quang! Bang!! All of Aros was engulfed in flames along with the gunfire that shook the heavens and the earth.
“Aagh! My legs!!”
“Mom! Mom!!!!”
The infantrymen, exposed to the artillery fire, were helpless. The body of the young soldier, who was hit directly by the flames and shockwaves exploding right in front of his eyes, soared into the sky.
By the time he came to his senses, one leg had already disappeared. As I screamed in agony as my hands ripped at the nerves in my body, a comrade grabbed me by the scruff of my neck and dragged me into the trench.
“Medicine!! Here is the leg amputation!!”
“Where are you going, Sergeant!”
“There are a lot of other guys out there, what the f*ck!!”
He was the one who pulled himself out of the trench again with curse words.
Boom! It took an instant for the man who had been swearing just a moment ago to disappear without a form at the shell that fell in front of his eyes once again.
It’s not just the infantry who have to face this dire situation.
Quang!
Kang!!
Flames shoot from the turret of the advancing tank and soar into the air.
Large steel weighing several hundred kg bounced into the sky like a soccer ball.
“f*ck!! f*ck!”
However, Reinhalt’s tank did not stop.
Even in a storm, a blizzard, a scorching midday, or a chilly night.
Imperial charioteers had to charge in a storm.
Kwaaang!!
My bones thumped every time the shelling fell. The driver, who stuck his head out, had no choice but to close his eyes tightly without taking his foot off the accelerator.
“Save me—, save me!!”
It was a nightmare. Every time I passed the hills of Aros, which had been turned into mud with human blood, I could hear the voices of my comrades from everywhere.
However, that voice was quickly overshadowed by the commander’s cry, as if scratching a blackboard with his nails.
“Left! Enemy trenches are visible at 9 o’clock!”
“Advance! Don’t stop!!”
That day.
The Reinhalt Imperial Army broke through the first line of defense in Aros with the 233rd Battalion of the 9th Armored Division as the lead.
And the next day.
Aros’ first line of defense was once again in the hands of the allies.
The tank commander, who had given orders even while kicking his shoulder with his boots, stopped moving.
The driver looked down. Beyond the numb leg, the footrest of the seat was covered in blood.
I couldn’t tell if it belonged to me or the tank commander who came from behind.
One thing was certain.
“f*ck.”
The fact that this is nothing more than a meaningless dog death.
***
“We only focus on defense. The one in a hurry is always the Empire.”
Commander of the Expeditionary Force—no, Captain Geor Wasilovsky, now a full-fledged Allied Commander, thought that way.
From ancient times to modern times.
In siege warfare, the defense always had the advantage. As long as the trench is the modern succession of the fortress where the siege is unfolding.
Polania and Uk ran decided they would just have to hold out in the trenches.
Didn’t you block the offensive of the Soviet Empire in all of Lunetsk right away?
However, Geor Wasilovsky could not bear to think of several differences that had a decisive effect on the war situation.
First.
Reinhalt was a country with well-armored armies, unlike the Soviet Empire.
Second.
Reinhalt has been provided with some actual combat data in Uk ran, and has set up a grand strategy to overcome trench warfare in its own way.
Third.
The troops that Reinhalt sent out to occupy Aros were not as large as one corps deployed in the Lunetsk region.
Even if you kill him, he will keep attacking you.
Even with fierce artillery fire, the speed at which shells were exhausted was faster than the speed at which enemy tanks were incapacitated.
The hardened ground under the hot sun was rather advantageous for tank maneuvering.
Ultimately, due to a general misjudgment, the Uk ranian-Pollania allied forces, which broke through the first line of defense simultaneously with the opening of the battle across Aros, were put on fire.
The strategy itself, which had been passive and defensive, was drastically changed, and the very next day, they counterattacked and recaptured the trench line.
On that day, the officially recorded number of Uk ranian ‘deaths’ reached 2,000.
However, Reinhalt did not give up.
Two weeks later, an army twice as large as the one that broke through the first line of defense once again covered Aros.
Among them, there were also Enoch Levandel’s 87th Rapid Response Division and a western tribute unit that had broken through the siege in the Gdanskuf area and crawled all the way to Aros.
“Cannonballs, more cannonballs have to be fired!”
“However, supply has not yet been fully achieved on the mainland!”
“Are the people we are dealing with really human? If that’s not the case, how can you change people like that…… ?”
“The communication was cut off after the communication that the 25th division would wage a do-it-yourself battle on the 2nd line of defense.”
“Isn’t the 25th division a place where 10,000 narcotic stimulants were distributed the other day?”
“Maybe…… It seems that the division commander is also planning to die there.”
“Crazy. Everyone has gone crazy.”
The Allied Command is in chaos. Reports from all over the place were nothing but horrifying.
It’s been about a month since the war broke out across Aros.
The damage of the Uk ranian-Pollania Allied Forces and the Reinhardt Imperial Army increased as time passed.
12,000 Uk ranian casualties recorded so far. Polania has 21,000.
There were more Reinhalts than the two countries put together.
As the damage increased, the reason not to give up this land also increased.
Because the cost of the lives of those who died was increasing day by day.
The land of life, which was so rich and beautiful, has now become a land of death full of human corpses and blood.
“This is Hell.”
The chief of staff of the headquarters said in a muffled tone. However, no one answered or agreed.
The staff members simply bowed their heads or trembled.
Because it was a fact that everyone already knew.
