Munitions Empire-Chapter 1023 - : 945 weapons are becoming more advanced

Chapter 1023: 945 weapons are becoming more advanced

As days passed by, the face of the battle at Fengjiang began to undergo various changes.

Firstly, the defending troops of Fengjiang brought out the Great Tang Empire’s anti-aircraft marvel, an 88mm caliber anti-everything gun, followed closely by the Dahua Empire deploying a type of super weapon similar to a mortar.

Initially, a Type 5 tank from the Dahua Empire, while covering the infantry’s advance, was targeted by a 88mm cannon from behind the roadblock at the crossroads, piercing through its thickest frontal armor and turning it into a blaze of flames.

Then, the Dahua Empire deployed a short-range mortar with a caliber over 400mm, firing a shell that flattened a building packed with Dwarf soldiers!

This was certainly no joke, in such alleyway battles, this massive caliber artillery, although not having a long range, could exert unimaginable psychological pressure on the defending troops.

However, it didn’t take long for Fengjiang’s defense forces to bring a compact 107mm caliber rocket artillery to the front line, and delivered a face-to-face firepower coverage to the newly occupied ruins by the Dahua forces.

A few days earlier, the Dahua army had wiped out over fifty Dwarf soldiers with a mortar shot, only to immediately suffer from 12 rocket shells smashing directly onto their faces, resulting in a small group wipeout—the soldiers at the ruins were upended, instantly incapacitated.

What was once seen as the genteel warfare of alleys, transformed drastically as both sides introduced various advanced weapons, escalating the intensity to almost uncontrollable levels.

The Dahua Empire deployed the Matricaria rocket launchers purchased from the Great Tang Empire and targeted the center of Fengjiang City. Just over an hour later, the Fengjiang troops retaliated using the same Matricaria rocket launchers against the Dahua Empire’s defensive positions.

Casualties skyrocketed on both sides, as they grappled with adapting to the new weaponry and tactics, forcing the frontline troops to endure vastly multiplied firepower, resulting in devastatingly high casualty rates.

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Within half a month, both sides had utilized the latest weapons they acquired from the Linshui Expo on each other, bloodiness peaking as Fengjiang City seemed to transform into a colossal meat grinder.

Not to mention the individual soldier’s weaponry, which underwent tremendous changes: during the first two months of the civil unrest, the primary weapons were Shireck Type 1 bolt-action rifles and Maxim heavy machine guns; now, they all wielded Thompson Submachine Guns and various models of light machine guns.

Dahua Empire’s soldiers amassed loads of second-hand and even third-hand Thompson Submachine Guns from Great Tang, and their factories were massively replicating these. These submachine guns, once produced, were delivered to the front lines, significantly enhancing the individual firepower of the combat units.

In comparison, the Fengjiang defense forces heavily utilized the Boposha Submachine Guns from the Ice Cold Empire; initially brought over with the Dwarf mercenaries, they later directly produced them under license in Great Tang for frontline use.

Previously lacking in light machine gun power, Dahua only had an abundance of Maxim machine guns, and had to strip down their mounting accessories to keep up with the infantry’s pace.

Now, the exposition selling various machine guns, as well as their blueprints and manufacturing licenses, saw the Dahua Empire unhesitantly purchasing a type of machine gun called 1918 from Great Tang and beginning its mass production domestically.

The latest batch of weapons had also arrived at the front lines in recent days—issued for combat use.

Interestingly, Fengjiang also purchased the ZB-26 light machine guns designed and produced by Great Tang, deploying them to the battlefield during the same period to start devastating the Dahua troops.

Both sides almost simultaneously reaped the benefits of light machine guns, swiftly abandoning the older, cumbersome support-fire tactics. The hit-and-run light machine gun tactics began to spread massively amidst the ruins of Fengjiang.

As the war persisted, Dahua Empire’s slow mobilization gradually picked up speed, overcoming its previous sluggishness bit by bit.

This time, in order to expedite the delivery of new weapons to the front lines, the Dahua Empire also mobilized hundreds of type 47 transport aircraft, demonstrating unprecedented efficiency.

To await the arrival of Dahua Empire’s light machine guns at the front, the Great Tang Empire also deliberately delayed providing light machine guns to Fengjiang troops, allowing both sides’ new weapons to appear on the battlefield at almost the same time.

More than a month has passed since the end of the exhibition, and during this time, the Battle of Fengjiang has been progressing at a snail’s pace.

Despite Zhao Chen pushing forward another two kilometers toward the city center at all costs, he increasingly felt that his offensive power was lacking.

The Dahua Empire also felt embarrassed to complain about weapons to the Great Tang Empire: Both sides were now using weapons from the Great Tang, rendering any protests weak and ineffective.

You say Fengjiang’s machine guns are from the Great Tang Empire? Brother, your Dahua Empire’s machine guns are also designed by the Great Tang Empire, why don’t you mention that?

Seeing that this civil war within the Dahua Empire had been raging for over six months, the chaos on the battlefield was now almost indescribable. Under such circumstances, the appearance of some weapons and equipment from the Great Tang Empire hardly mattered anymore.

Because just a few days ago, under the guise of aid from Chu Country, a No. 4 Tank from the Great Tang Empire also appeared on the battlefield in Fengjiang, which after destroying two type 3 tanks, was destroyed by a type 5 tank from the arriving Dahua army.

The square, which already housed the wrecks of seven or eight tanks, was now being called the Tank Graveyard, since visibility was poor due to the many wrecks, both sides were reluctant to deploy their heavy equipment in that area.

As the weather began to cool down, the ambassador of the Dahua Empire stationed in Tang once again handed Nangong Hong a statement.

This statement had been transferred to the Tang Empire by the Dahua Empire five times already, with almost identical content each time, simply “reminding” the Tang Empire’s train to avoid entering Fengjiang train station.

The reason was simple: the front lines were getting increasingly closer to Fengjiang train station, and it had truly become unsafe. The Dahua Empire had long wanted to destroy both Fengjiang train station and the airport, but had been pressured by the Tang Empire not to act.

Now it was too close to these areas. The Tang Empire had been playing a neutral role all along, right? Now that it is unsafe, you surely can’t preserve Fengjiang while losing face, can you?

Not only was the statement submitted, but the Dahua Empire also used forceful measures to pressure the Tang Empire to stop using Fengjiang train station: they shelled the area near the train station with large-caliber artillery to prove that Fengjiang train station was no longer safe.

The Tang Empire on this side remained indifferently cool; indeed, they stopped using Fengjiang’s train station. Loads of materials were unloaded directly at East Fengjiang City in the Tang Empire, then transported across the bridge directly into Fengjiang.

It was only a few extra kilometers distance, more or less the same speed. So generously, the Tang Empire expressed their neutral stance by issuing a danger warning for the Fengjiang train station to all their “commercial operation trains.”

When Zhao Chen, Zhao Ji, or even Zhao Kai heard this warning from the Tang Empire, they all breathed a sigh of relief. They certainly didn’t want to offend the Tang Empire, whose outward maintenance of neutrality indeed gave the Dahua Empire “tremendous face.”

Thus, after confirming that the Tang Empire had indeed issued this notice warning all its citizens that entering Fengjiang was very dangerous, the higher-ups in the Dahua Empire turned a blind eye to the Tang Empire’s tanks entering Fengjiang.

It was just some tanks after all; they could be destroyed. There were already Butcher Fighter Jets before, and a few more No. 4 Tanks were not a big deal—the Tang Empire had sold Panther Tanks, but didn’t deploy them directly to fight in guerrilla warfare inside Fengjiang City, so we might as well sneak in some joy.

Just like that, rain made Fengjiang City muddy, and a place that had already become a ruin now looked even more dilapidated.

The Fengjiang troops, backed by the river, were still okay, but the Dahua Empire troops backed by the suburbs were suffering; they had to spend their days in tents, fortunate if they found a building not completely collapsed to seek shelter in.

But in the end, this was no solution, since these buildings, already structurally unsound, were not safe and could collapse at any moment in the rainy weather.

In just two days, due to building collapses, the Dahua Empire side alone had already suffered up to 100 casualties, which was enough to make anyone despair.