Chapter 485: Desperate
While the fighting in the rear broke out, the fighting on the front line was not over yet. After Ailan Hill's troops crossed the Marron River, the Three Rivers Plain of Mapingchuan was unfolded before their eyes.
The five armored divisions of the 1st Army Group lay open, galloping across this plain. It only took 3 days to occupy the entire Northeast region.
In the eyes of Ailan Hill's soldiers, this place was already a messy "surface of the moon." Or for the senior management of Ailan Hill, in a few years, the surface of the moon will be more prosperous than here.
The burning wildfire has just fended out on its own, and countless destroyed forests only left a scorched ashes. The corpses of beasts were piled up beside the river, human remains and abandoned villages could not be identified everywhere.
The fire destroyed many beautiful scenery, and some material gathering places were also abandoned. On both sides of the road are scattered armors and swords that have been scorched and deformed by the fire, and countless puppet parts are flooded in between.
If this world really has the end times, it should be the scene in front of you. Everything here is lifeless, everything here seems to be lifeless.
The Ailan Hill armored reconnaissance battalion in charge of the investigation was dispersed, advancing more than 150 kilometers a day without even a living person.
They crossed the abandoned villages one by one, looked at the collapsed walls, and looked at the foundations left over from the burning. They just couldn't find anyone who could ask about the situation, or just chat and say a few words.
At the beginning, they crossed the Malun River and captured a large number of puppet Empire soldiers. As in the previous situation, these soldiers were congested on the road, huddled together as if they had lost their souls, and were driven by several Ailan Hill grenadiers like animals.
But now, living people have become a rare thing. The reconnaissance troops tried their best to find a few local people to ask for directions from the edge of the forest that was still braving Mars and that had been roasted into charcoal.
At the beginning, the air force was ordered to cover the ground forces' offensive, and it could be said that there was no grass in the places where countless fighter jets passed.
Later, the ground forces found that there was no decent resistance at all, so they also applied to weaken some air support.
As a result, the Air Force of Allan Hill reduced the 2,000 sorties of ground support a day to 1,200 sorties a day.
Another day later, the message from the ground forces was "continue to reduce, and resistance is almost zero." In desperation, the Air Force only took off half of the sorties, and only 600 sorties of ground attack support operations were carried out every day.
As a result, the ground forces still couldn't find the enemy, even the civilians. In the end, all air support was changed to air alert. Unless the ground forces apply for it, all ground attacks are prohibited...
What is depressing is that the ground forces still cannot find anyone, whether it is resisting puppet imperial soldiers or non-resisting civilians, they rarely encounter them.
On the third day, Ailan Hill’s forward troops finally began to find some villages. These villages were built by the people who survived the bombing. They did not intend to escape. They stayed in place and lived forever, barely filling their stomachs and waiting for the war to pass. .
The arrival of Allan Hill's army did not shock these civilians, or that the other party was numb to the war.
They leaned against the collapsed wall, sitting and watching the soldiers of Ailan Hill pass in front of them.
When they met the Ailan Hill grenadier who asked for directions, they knew nothing but an answer, and the cooperative attitude was not so much a welcome to the king, but a numbness to the extreme.
However, this kind of numbness that has begun to spread to their bones has brought them unexpected benefits.
Because they were so miserable, the soldiers of Ailan Hill often left them something to eat.
One reason is that Ailan Hill's logistics replenishment is now very powerful. The front-line troops often have helicopters for airdrop supplies. The ammunition and food abundance of the front-line troops has been dozens of times better than two years ago.
Another reason is that these survivors of the local civilians are too miserable and too few. The people who stayed are basically shabby. They are provided with food and tents and other materials, and the children in the city of Serris have given them to the zoo. The mood of Long Tou Shi is the same...
The 3rd Army Group followed the 1st Army Group and went south, and the scenery we saw along the way was even more bitter. After all, the 1st Army Group still has some adventurous emotions to open up the territory, and they can only rely on helping the locals repair their houses to find some sense of existence.
Throughout July, after Ailan Hill broke through the Mullen River defense line, there was not much fighting. At the beginning of August, Ailan Hill’s frontline troops had reached the southernmost tip of the Three Rivers Plain and reached the southern bank of the Somme.
This Somme is certainly not the Somme in Europe on earth. It is just called the Somme River, a big river with a total length not much shorter than the Yellow River.
Arriving here, it means that the Three Rivers Plain has been completely controlled by Ailan Hill, and the grain production area of the Puppet Empire has been completely occupied by Ailan Hill.
At the same time, the new puppet empire also has contact with the forward forces of the 1st army group of Ailan Hill. Now, there is no need to detour to Griken. From the actual control area of the new puppet empire, you can directly enter the control area of Ailan Hill. .
Some armies of the new puppet empire have also truly seen the huge gap in the military strength of the two sides.
Separated from a position, they saw Alan Hill’s armored troops raided a puppet imperial force that refused to surrender. In just half an hour, a force of thousands of people was easily defeated, even Not even a few prisoners were left behind.
Most people were overwhelmed by the intensive artillery fire. Those armed helicopters hovering in the sky with magical defense barriers were like vultures hovering over the corpse, which was disgusting to look at.
The traces of Burkland, the capital of the legendary puppet empire, were finally discovered by Ailan Hill's air force reconnaissance force.
It is moving rapidly to the southwest and is about to approach Lake Lengosk, the largest lake in the southern part of the Puppet Empire.
Because of the large river obstructing the road, Burkland, the mobile centipede city, has no way to cross Lake Lengosk, so this is the southernmost point it can avoid.
It’s not impossible to make a detour, but the path is very narrow. It is impossible to avoid the missile attack of Ailan Hill by taking this road. So whether to take this road or not, the result is actually the same——
Long Ling’s fever subsided, and his throat swelled a bit. Although his nose was still running, his body was no longer sore. When Long Ling got better, he would start to renew. Don’t worry.
