Chapter 72 Birch Forest! Iron Will!

(parallel world!)

“We started in the birch forest.”

“We were born in the birch forest.”

"And in the end you left the birch forest."

“I never saw the birch forest again until the end!”

In the dilapidated building.

A young soldier holds a pen and paper and writes.

There was constant gunfire outside the building.

But this could not interrupt his fantasy.

"boom!"

The wall paint exploded and the tiles flew everywhere.

Dust continued to bury the soldiers' felt hats. Now it was the end of September and the temperature in Kegel had reached 13 or 14 degrees Celsius, accompanied by rain and cold wind. Without logistics, the soldiers could only survive in the cold!
"Galforth, you fool! Stop writing your lousy poetry!"

"The Allied forces evacuated the outer city and held the inner city. We are in the enemy's defense zone."

"You can't take your poems with you!"

"That's not necessarily true. We will win. Besides, this is the first folk song I created!"

Under the low wall of the dilapidated building.

The young man has bright eyes and a confident look on his face.

Looking at the song he wrote in the book, the young man hummed softly.

"The quiet village is covered with white snow

Pigeons fly under the gloomy sky..."

"The birch tree is engraved with those two names

They swore to love each other for the rest of their lives..."

……

Explosions sound in the background.

The song brought comfort to the remaining soldiers in the White Tower.

Their team held out in the White Building for more than forty days.

At first, the team was only carrying out the mission, occupying the White Building after conducting reconnaissance, and repelling the enemy many times.

Later, they encountered civilians, about thirty or forty people, and revealed their identities. These people spontaneously dug trenches, broke through the basement, and sometimes even participated in combat.

Through repeated blocking, they attracted the enemy's attention, and the Allies also sent reinforcements several times.

Machine gun platoon, anti-tank team, mortar team...

Even a company commander came here to take command. As for his own company, it had long been gone, and he was the only one who relied on to maintain the number.

No one was surprised when the company was destroyed. In a full-scale battlefield, on average both sides would lose an army every day!

They used mines buried outside the building and machine gun positions for defense.

They fended off enemy after enemy.

Now half a month has passed, all these people are dead, the Allied forces have retreated, and they are the only ones left to defend the White Building.

"The lyrics are good, you should slow down the pitch a little bit..."

On the other side of the low wall, the strong man with a broken arm listened to Galforth humming and made comments.

Before he could think, the soldier next to him joked, "Don't doubt the professionalism of a famous tenor. He is a soprano singer who has been topping the domestic charts for many years!"

"he?"

Galforth looked at the sturdy man with the broken arm, his pupils trembling.

In his mind, a famous tenor, a chart-topping singer.

He shouldn't be here, he should be on stage!
He will wear a tailor-made vocal gown and show off his high notes on the international stage in front of thousands of people!

One who has no lack of reputation or money!

A master with great artistic achievements should not be here!

The broken-armed man's expression remained unchanged as he said calmly:

"It's just a job. Here, I'm a soldier and I'm protecting my country!"

outside world.

The audience was silent.

They have a clear understanding of this war, a clash between great powers.

Both sides have invested a lot of manpower and material resources, and are bound to fight to the death!

The city in the picture is the heart and lifeline of the Allied forces. Everyone is sending more troops. Whoever can’t hold on first will lose the situation.
But as time goes by, the city is not only the heart and lifeline of the iron-blooded enemy! Its spiritual value is greater than its strategic value. Whether to push forward/counterattack depends on this moment.

Looking back at the plot, a famous singer actually joined the army.

Put yourself in their shoes. If it were you, would you give up all your reputation and join the army? (Fantasy moment!)
Will or won’t…

Is there no way out?

……

"Dear brothers!"

"The enemy has invaded our homeland!"

"This is ours! Not theirs!"

"I don't believe in their myths! They will stop here! Because we are fighting here! Their lightning will fail, they are delusional!"

“Now, the whole world is watching us!”

"Our homeland is huge, but we have no escape route!"

"For victory! Hurrah!!!"

Screen changes.

On the front battlefield, under the watchful eyes of everyone, the battle to defend the city began.

The soldiers were in high spirits and rushed forward following the horn sound.

"boom!"

"boom!"

The explosion of the shells left a large crater on the ground. Looking around, there was not a single piece of ground that was intact!
Hundreds of tanks drove into the battlefield, and the highly mechanized iron-blooded troops charged forward with unstoppable force!
Bombing squadrons, artillery regiments, motorcycle teams, logistics troops... more and more troops come into the audience's field of vision.

Just when the public thought that was all the enemy had.

The other side of the river.

Foreign vassal troops appear on the scene.

Hundreds of thousands of allied soldiers mixed together, crossed the cross-country and the mountains, and finally arrived!

The strength of each unit varies, with the Iron Blood Group being the most powerful.

To give an analogy, the vassal army and the Iron-Blooded Mechanics were marching on the same route, but the Iron-Blooded troops could still surpass the vassal army in speed after capturing eighteen cities in a row!

Most of the logistical supplies for the one million people are for the Iron Blood Troops.

The enemy appears.

The allied forces defending the city are on display.

The city of Gler was divided into two halves.

The defenders defended 20 kilometers away from the city center.

Compared with the elite Iron Blood Army, the Allied forces are far inferior.

Dozens of tanks were damaged to varying degrees, with more than a dozen of the most serious ones having their tracks damaged and unable to move. This was undoubtedly a major blow to the Allied forces, and they could only be used as fixed artillery positions.

In addition, the frontal defense is divided into two parts, one is position defense, and the other is infiltrating residential areas and low buildings and engaging in street fighting, which can greatly slow down the enemy's pace.

But compared to the Iron-Blooded Elite, the gap is too big!
The camera reverses, and behind the Allied defense line, the arsenal is operating at overload, and judging from their clothes, many of them are civilian workers!

Logistical resources are indeed indispensable, the audience commented.

But when they saw the next scene, they were stunned!

The Arsenal sign - Grizzly Tractor Factory!
what?
Tractor factory in production?
The audience continued to watch. Although there was a tractor sign, there was a weapons workshop, but the guns produced had no crosshairs and sights, the tanks had no coating, and the shells were not tested... But in the eyes of the audience, these were not bad.

But when a worker finished production, he drove a tank to the battlefield and became a volunteer soldier!
The audience was shocked. It was too hasty!

Is that all?
On the battlefield.

Allied repairmen were repairing on the battlefield under fire, completely ignoring the enemy!

Hard! Hard enough!

The two sides confronted each other head-on on the battlefield, and the logistics were not left behind!

The Iron Blood used the Air Force to transport supplies, with each shipment ranging from 500 to 700 tons.

The Allies were even more exaggerated.

The Railway Department on the Eastern Front was mobilized. According to post-war statistics, there were more than 9,000 wagons of ammunition and more than 8,000 wagons of artillery shells, not to mention 5,000 tons of food, 100 tons of mustard oil, and 70 tons of soap!
And a train car is a carriage!
When the front battlefield is advancing.

The defense zone troops received abuse from the colonel!
"You're a bunch of idiots. Can't you even get rid of the rats in the broken building?"

The camera returns to the original dilapidated building.

The remaining Allied forces held out for 54 days! In other words, they held out longer than the tower!
But now, they have no material assistance.

Bullets, resources and anything you need need to be picked up outside!
……

　Thanks to Xuan Xiaoyi for the squid!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)