What is war?
War is death!
War is destruction!
On the road to San Francisco, in addition to the towering mountains, there is also the "Fort Grant" which took the United States more than 20 years to build. This is not a fortress, but a defense line of dozens of fortresses built from north to south between the Coast Mountains and the Rocky Mountains.
These fortified areas were the forefront of the U.S. military's resistance to the imperial invasion. After the outbreak of the war, the U.S. military continued to strengthen the fortresses and built a series of deep fortress defense lines. In order to defend against attacks from the air, each fortress was equipped with a large number of 20mm, 30mm, and even 37mm Gatling guns.
Fort Grant is the last large fortress group entering the Grand Valley and the largest single fortress in the "Fort Grant Group". In the fortress built on the mountain, there are even more than 100 14-inch-3-inch cannons placed in the gun ramparts, which is very scary. In addition, there is a huge tunnel system, and it has even been considered an unconquerable fortress.
Although a considerable number of the cannons in the fortress were modified from muzzle-loading Dahlgren cannons with rifled liners, their powerful force should not be underestimated.
In order to overcome this obstacle, Peng Guoliang not only deployed troops but also rushed to the front line in person. After successively taking down several small fortresses on the periphery, Fort George was finally exposed to the Imperial Legion.
In the early morning, the world was shrouded in silence. Below the mountains, in several endless trenches, steel helmets reflected the moonlight like the bayonets on the rifles, and under the helmets were excited and nervous faces.
When the battle is about to begin, some people are excited, some are nervous, and everyone has a completely different performance.
Li Guoquan licked his lips, and his left hand could not help but touch the blasting tube on his back. Then his eyes were fixed on the company commander who was standing in the attack position and looking at the top of the mountain, with a whistle in his mouth.
In front of the soldiers, there was a simple ladder every two feet, which was the ladder for attacking.
"Check the ammunition, check the equipment!"
Squad leaders and sergeants kept repeating orders that had been repeated several times before, checking whether the ammunition was complete, 120 rounds of bullets and 4 grenades per person, and whether the bandages and gauze in the first aid kit were complete. Of course, they also had to check the compressed biscuits and water bottles in the bag. No one knew how long the battle on the battlefield would last, but it could be a few hours, a day, or even two days. The compressed biscuits and water would keep them fighting.
While anxiously waiting, the soldiers of the kitchen squad carried steaming bamboo baskets filled with buns as big as two fists. Buns are the most convenient food on the battlefield. As soon as the baskets were carried over, the trenches were filled with the aroma of meat buns.
"Hurry up, hurry up, these are freshly made big meat-filled buns. Take two first, brothers, and eat as much as you want! Enough!"
The soldiers who were originally waiting to attack started to grab the buns. No matter how nervous they were, they all grabbed the buns and started to gobble them up.
The big pork-filled buns tasted delicious, but someone couldn't help but say something while eating the buns.
"If only I could have some more hot soup!"
"It would be nice if there was some chili oil..."
No one knows whether this battle will result in life or death.
But when everyone was eating, they still did not forget to imagine that there would be no food on the battlefield. Even though their farewell banquet last night had beef, braised chicken, and braised pork, which was everything, but now, the meal seemed a bit monotonous.
"It would be nice to have a bowl of ramen!"
Before the war, there is no longer the expectation or anxiety of the past, but only various reactions, perhaps normal or abnormal.
Facing death, even a brave warrior would be a little nervous. Some people could not eat more after taking a few bites of the buns, some just barely finished two, and some took one bite and then wrapped the remaining one in paper and put it in their bag.
Most of them are veterans, and sometimes a bun can save their lives on the battlefield.
Half an hour later, at 4:10 in the morning, when it was dark, a telephone call was heard in the trench!
"Ready, ready, everyone..."
While the soldiers were lying on the edge of the trenches and standing in front of the wooden ladders for the attack, waiting for the final order, the artillery positions in the rear were also a scene of bustling activity.
"Bang!"
Along with the sound of the bolts closing, the barrels of the 240mm siege guns and 150mm long-range cannons of the 6th and 9th Artillery Divisions were closed, and the slender barrels of the cannons pointed straight to the sky. The Type 24 heavy cannon designed based on naval guns weighed 14.8 tons and had a range of 24.5 kilometers, making it the longest-range ground artillery in the world.
Since the outbreak of the war, this long-range heavy artillery with great power has played a role beyond people's imagination in battle after battle - it took advantage of the ultra-long range of the Type 24 150mm heavy cannon to destroy the US artillery in the fortress through artillery fire from 20 kilometers away, forcing the US army to surrender after losing all its artillery.
Now, in order to attack this last obstacle, Peng Guoliang mobilized more than 96 Type 24 heavy cannons, which was almost all the heavy artillery in his hands.
The gunner who was pulling the gun rope on the position tied the rope around his hand. Everyone's eyes were fixed on the commander's small flag, waiting for the order to fire. The officers behind the gun position occasionally turned their wrists to look at their watches.
The air was so heavy at the last moment that it was almost suffocating!
At the same time, twenty kilometers away from the front line, on a temporary railway branch line, a giant cannon was on the railway line, and the cannon on the carriage was adjusting the firing angle.
This is the secret weapon of the Imperial Army - 305mm railway gun. This type of artillery was successfully developed six years ago. It can not only be used for coastal mobile defense, but also for attacking fortresses. Although the Imperial Army has invested in 240mm and 305mm siege guns, in order to ensure the smooth attack, Peng Guoliang transferred the most powerful railway gun of the Imperial Army to destroy this obstacle.
"Bang!"
The heavy shells weighing 1,000 pounds were slowly piled into the chamber under the push of the electric pusher, followed by several silk-wrapped propellant bags. While the gunners were loading ammunition, the artillery officer standing on the firing control platform kept giving orders to adjust the firing angle. After loading, the slender barrel of the railway gun slowly pointed at the dim sky at a 45-degree firing angle, and the moonlight reflected on the muzzle with a cold luster...
Suddenly, accompanied by the ringing of the telephone, a roar suddenly came from the artillery position.
"put……"
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