Chapter 341 05.0340: "War Game Constructed by Flesh and Blood"

The riflemen immediately knelt and hid. A rifleman on the side of the road lay down and looked around. Then he patted his captain on the shoulder and pointed to the other end of the road.

It was he who saw the front of the train, giving Horatio undelayed information about the approaching enemy convoy.

Soon, Leidos led his Hell's Vanguard Squadron and arrived at the riflemen following Horatio's markings.

Three trucks loaded with rebel artillery were towing a massive cannon at the rear. Judging from the direction they were moving, they seemed to be preparing to ambush the weak armored points of the Astra Militarum on the side of the battlefield.

There were three trucks following behind, which should be ammunition transporters, and 120mm heavy mortars were towed at the rear.

This firepower would pose an obvious and significant threat to the Astra Militarum's front-line infantry and armor.

Taking advantage of the blind spot of the hedges, Horatio commanded the Leidos detachment to use pulleys to rush across the road in advance and rush to the other side, forming a pincer attack angle with the riflemen.

Wow!

Just as Horatio predicted, the Hell Sniper rushed across the road before the truck passed, relying on his blind spot and not being discovered by the rebel convoy.

"Hold steady and wait for me to give the order to attack. Then a red outline will flash around the target."

Everyone held their guns tightly and turned on the safety. Some people also took out grenades, and the special weapon shooters prepared the melta rifles and lumberjacks.

This was all decided by the group units themselves, and Horatio did not need to intervene personally. They knew very well how to deal with these light transport and supply trucks.

Everyone held their breath.

The sound of the truck's engine was getting closer.

As the first truck passed the ambush angle, everyone saw the red markings on the truck's outline.

Horatio only marked the outlines of three cars, the front, middle, and rear.

As agreed beforehand, everyone aimed at the three trucks with outlines marked out, ready to unleash heavy firepower.

"Fire!" Captain Sharp shouted to his men beside him.

The lumberjack gunman opened fire first, with dense bullets shooting in from the driver's window. Blood splattered on the cracked perforated glass, casting ominous shadows.

There were sudden screams and chaotic noises coming from the hood of the rear of the truck. Countless high-energy lasers swept the car whose upper part was covered only with a layer of rainproof tarpaulin. Those near the rear of the car hurriedly jumped out of the car. Most of them fell on their faces to the ground because the truck was still moving and performed a dog-eating-shit show.

Before these lucky ones could get up, the riflemen hiding in the bushes shot them in the head one by one.

The front, rear and middle parts of the convoy were paralyzed by the attack, and the truck in the middle was suddenly stuck, unable to move forward or backward.

Without Horatio's personal orders, these well-trained soldiers took charge of the trucks that had nowhere to escape.

The promethium leaked from the destroyed truck was ignited and burned with a crackling sound, but the riflemen still seized a relatively intact truck and the accompanying ammunition and heavy weapons.

Perhaps these trophies will be helpful to them in subsequent battles. After all, these light infantrymen deep behind enemy lines do lack heavy firepower cover except for special weapons and rifles.

Now with these heavy firepower and convenient trucks, the chances of finding and attacking enemy artillery positions have increased.

After such a test, Horatio roughly understood how to use the war sandbox skills and how they differed from the Hand of Command.

Its operation is no different from the basic functions of the command hand. He can directly issue arrow signals to the team over which he has command and staff authority, instructing them to move in the direction of the coordinates and mark the enemy.

Similarly, this kind of command control is not an absolute agreement control like the priests of the Mechanicus over the servitors and soldiers. After receiving the order, the front-line officers and soldiers can still decide the process by themselves and exercise subjective initiative to make tactical plans. There is no need to worry about the trouble of taking care of the retarded AI like the nanny in Horley's game.

But unlike the detailed command of the commander's hand, on the war sand table, he could not assign a specific combat position to each soldier, and there was no virtual projection of human figures.

It is up to the soldiers and their superiors to decide how to go to the location marked by him, and to decide the battle formation and engagement strategy on their own, giving full play to the subjective initiative of professional soldiers.

In short, Hand of Command is a skill suitable for small-scale precision combat, just like the Company of Heroes series and Men of War series of games he played in his previous life.

The war sandbox does not have overly detailed command and micro-control. It is more like the strategy sandbox presented in "The Art of War" and "War Game: Red Dragon".

The bigger difference is that the commanding hand's vision can only be seen by him, while the war sand table can import a holographic sand table to present the sand table scene he sees to the commanders next to him.

This means that so many people can coordinate and command the front-line combat units at the same time, relying on the time difference in information transmission to gain the initiative over the enemy.
-
At the front line of the pass where bullets were flying.

"Damn it! The Corpse Emperor's lackeys are charging at us! They are as sticky as stinky dog ​​shit!" "Glory to the Blood God! Kill them all! Chop these bastards to death! Give us your skulls! Followers of the False Emperor!"

"The artillery is turning! Cover us! It's the flamethrowers! Flamers! Aaaaaaaaaaah!!!"

"Don't retreat even a single step! Defend the bunker! Don't bring shame to the true God! Come back!"

"Dragooners! Take cover! Right! Right!"

"Spread out! Suppress the firing point on the upper right!"

"I threw a grenade! Watch out for the explosion!"

"Take no prisoners! Attack! Attack! Take that bunker!"

"Look at that! The red highlighted outline! It's a gun! The muzzle of a bunker! Tell the armored forces to watch the flank!"

"Turn that bunker into ruins!"

"Royal Engineers Demolition Team! Go! Blow it up!"

"Medic! Medic! My leg! Ugh! Damn it!"

"Don't stop! Keep attacking! Kill! For the Emperor, the Queen, and the Empire!"

"For the God-Emperor, the Queen and the Empire!!!"

After entering the pass, all armored vehicles slowed down. Facing the crossfire points on the two hills, the Astra Militarum's offensive encountered the strongest wave of resistance, and the intensity of the fighting in the entire battle also reached its peak.

Everyone is trying their best, fighting for their beliefs and survival, with only one thought in their mind: to kill the enemy before the enemy kills them.

The bloody smell broke out the moment the Astra Militarum rushed into the pass, and the red tide of the charge spread wider and wider throughout the Montachia Mountain Pass.

As the soldiers shouted to charge, bagpipe music from the military band in the rear began to sound from the Chimera vehicle-mounted radio.

Horatio listened for a while and felt that the tune was like "Blue Velvet Caps on the Border", a famous bagpipe song in history played to the entire British army.

The red soldiers launched a desperate charge towards the rebel positions to the sound of melodious bagpipe music. They firmly believed that the sound of the flute floating in the wind would carry the souls of the fallen soldiers back to their hometown, and return to the Golden Throne and the arms of the God-Emperor.

Blocking the Astra Militarum soldiers on both sides were two towering mountains and hills.

These bunkers, built on the hillside facing the road, had a smaller frontal projection from the perspective of the Astra Militarum artillery, and therefore had a lower shelling efficiency.

Many artillery batteries in the center were not hit. Fortunately, Horatio carried out a carpet bombing on the ground from high altitude before the Astra Militarum attack, which caused some bunkers to collapse and be damaged, thus weakening the light and heavy firepower fired at the Astra Militarum.

But the soldiers still had a hard time moving forward. There was nowhere to hide on the road of advancement. The locations of some bunkers and firing points even exceeded the maximum elevation angle of the Leman Russ tanks.

However, Sir Wellesley discovered this from the reports sent by the reconnaissance troops before the attack.

Therefore, he drew two self-propelled Hydra anti-aircraft guns from the artillery company to accompany the attack.

These fast-firing quad-mounted machine gun tanks have excellent frontal armor, and their four autocannons often allow Astra Militarum commanders to use them for tasks other than air defense - as fire support vehicles.

Puff puff!
Under the wash of the adamantine shells, gravel from the mountain fell like rain. Many enemy light weapons firing points were either instantly torn apart by the adamantine rain of fire or smashed by the collapsed gravel.

However, the continuous firing from the bunker firing points also caused a sharp increase in casualties among the Astra Militarum's frontal attacking forces.

Many people were caught off guard and hit by bullets fired from above. When the assault troops climbed up the hill and tried to blow up the bunker, they were hit by the hidden bunker on the hill behind them and fell down the hillside screaming.

On the highway in front, the enemy chose to drive heavy agricultural machinery vehicles from the agricultural world and armored units modified from heavy trucks, and were heading towards the Astra Militarum.

It is not optimistic to achieve the goal of breaking through the situation with light casualties, unless there is some unexpected special help to break the chaotic situation on the battlefield and clarify the command.

　The good news is that I wrote 10,000 words yesterday. The bad news is that I wrote 10,000 words for the Louise RV Bunny Girl extra chapter ()
　　It has been packaged and sent to the full subscription group. Readers who want to read it can go to the full subscription group folder to pick it up.

　　Double bonus at the beginning of the month! Loyal subjects of the Emperor! Please vote for me! Please recommend me!
　　Premium VIP users who enjoy a 6% discount may have fully subscribed but not have enough points to join the fully subscribed group.

　　In this case, you can join the book club, then send me a private message with a screenshot of all orders, and I will add them in.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)