Strictly speaking, this was a war for which both sides had made long preparations, but neither side was fully prepared.
The timing of the war was beyond everyone's expectations.
At least for Lin Hai, there would be no problem in holding a decisive battle in the fifth year of Jianchu. After all, the fourth year was about to come. However, Lin Hai's original plan was to launch a general offensive after the autumn harvest of the fifth year of Jianchu. This would not only allow him to harvest a season's food, but most importantly, avoid the hot summer. Large-scale combat in autumn would be more friendly to humans.
But the situation changed beyond expectations.
Even though the Alliance had mandated that all armed forces on the continent be on combat readiness after the fifth year of the founding of the People's Republic, ready to respond to any potential outbreak of war, everyone knew that humans couldn't remain tense for long, and officers simply didn't dare to keep their soldiers confined to the barracks for long periods of time...
The number of troops surrounding the Abyss has reached a peak in human history. If a camp roar occurs... hehehe, I'm afraid that the Alliance Army will collapse on its own without anyone else having to fight.
Of course, the most important point was the time point Lin Hai had extracted from LKN93, which was the first day of the sixth year of Jianchu. Strictly speaking, when time entered the first second of the sixth year of Jianchu, it meant that the applause visualization of this sector had been in place for a full ten millennia. This also meant that if a major fault was confirmed and the system could not connect to the management center to receive commands for the tenth millennium, LKN93 would automatically obtain maximum authority and freely control the entire sector...
If that day comes, the entire sector will become a supply base for LKN93's organic code...
Therefore, the intention of the alliance's top leaders is very clear. They must send Lin Hai to the control room safely before the sixth year of Jianchu. Only in this way can Lin Hai manually modify the permissions or even directly shut down LKN93.
However, for those in the Cold Weapon Age, wars were not sustainable. The wars between two Cold Weapon Dynasties we read about in Zi'an history books often lasted for years or even centuries. In reality, these wars were not constant. Instead, they maintained a state of warfare, gathering strength and periodically striking at each other. This was a characteristic of Cold Weapon Age warfare, determined by productivity...
Lin Hai was a cold weapon warrior, but the enemy's 155mm cannons couldn't be considered cold weapons. So he had to adapt his army to the war of the hot weapons era as much as possible—the intensity was higher and the fierceness was greater...
To translate, there will be no halftime, no classical rules of engagement or etiquette, and there will be massive casualties in a short period of time.
After repeated calculations by the alliance's top brass, they concluded that the alliance could only withstand three to four months of ultra-high-intensity combat at most - without rest in between.
Once this time is exceeded, not only will the follow-up troops and supplies not be able to arrive, but it is more likely that the morale of the people on the entire continent will collapse.
In the era of cold weapons, an army could be considered an elite force if it did not collapse even after losing about 20% of its strength.
But Lin Hai knew very well that in the First World War, when the armaments of the Abyss were almost equal, entire battalions and regiments were often wiped out on the Western Front, and on the Somme battlefield, the total casualties on both sides reached 1.3 million, with the German army alone losing 650,000. On the most tragic day, the British army lost 60,000 people.
One million and three hundred thousand people were lost by both sides, but this was caused when the armaments of both sides were not much different, at least there was no generation gap. If one of the sides was replaced by a cold weapon army, Lin Hai couldn't imagine how much loss there would be.
The only good news is that the number of troops in the Abyss is far less than that of the two sides fighting on the Somme River... This gives Lin Hai a little chance to take advantage of.
As to how many troops there are in the Abyss, the top leaders of the alliance, especially the joint meeting of military commanders, held many rounds of discussions. In the end, they unanimously concluded that the Abyss’ army definitely does not have 100,000 troops and cannot have 100,000 troops.
As Guo Rong privately told Lin Hai: Since we want to resist, the enemy's total strength must not reach 100,000, otherwise our resistance will be absolutely futile. Therefore, for us, we must believe that their number is far less than 100,000. The 100,000 figure is just LKN93's bluff!
Yes, even if I had to deceive myself, I couldn't believe this damned hundred thousand...
However, Lin Hai has another explanation for this:
At that time, he only saw a small part of the Abyss Defense Force's position. The number of 100,000 came from the information of LKN93 on the one hand, and from his own speculation based on the situation in this small position on the other.
So it is possible that LKN93 is not telling the truth.
The situation in this small position cannot represent other positions. LKN93 can simply concentrate more people in this position to deceive itself.
So more and more spies were sent out. They didn't have to do any other work but lie on the ridge of the Abyss Crater and monitor the position in front of them with telescopes day after day.
For Lin Hai, anything that can be accomplished by sending people is not a problem. The crater of the Abyss may be huge, but as long as you send enough people, you can still achieve real-time monitoring just like cameras or other sensors...
Anyway, the robot soldiers don't take turns to rest or anything. When they don't have any tasks, they just stand there straight and straight, which is very difficult to count...
"LKN93 must have noticed we were counting his soldiers, so he kept rotating them. You know, these robots are all the same height, build, appearance, and clothing. Once they start running around, we won't be able to count them."
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