White clouds, like silky threads, float lightly on the surface of the huge blue planet. The endless sea is closely connected with black and faintly green land, colliding into a rough and twisted line. The sunlight shining from the depths of space divides the huge planet into two parts shrouded by light and darkness. However, the edges are very blurred, and there is only a very regular isolation zone that exists in a gradient manner.

The road leading to the S12 mining area is full of bullet craters, and the black asphalt slags flipped from the ground have softened, like the semi-soluble solidified form of butter after it is heated and cooled. A thick layer of floating soil is piled up on the surface. Occasionally, a gust of wind blows, pushing the empty shells scattered on the ground and rolling forward, making a "ding-kneel" metal collision sound.

On the top of the tower on the east side of the mining area, black smoke mixed with fiery flames emerged. A huge light blue square iron plate was about two square meters hung on the top of the tower. The center of the striking earth pattern was covered with thick bullet holes left by the Guess Gauss rifle.

The annex to the left of the central building has collapsed. A middle-aged colonel officer wearing a blue-black camouflage combat uniform has collapsed. He is standing on the roof, holding up his tactical telescope with both hands, staring at the direction of gunfire and explosions in the distance. In the square downstairs, the 150mm main guns of several medium-sized tanks kept spitting out flames and roars. Every time the direction of the shell landing point flashed brightly, a faint vibration would be heard from the ground under his feet.

The wind in deep winter is extremely biting cold. However, the sky above the S12 mining area is covered with a crazy heat wave that is enough to burn people alive.

There are many factors that determine the outcome of a war. Logistics, economy, manpower, weapons... The most important part is resources.

According to the analysis of the General Administration of Strategic Intelligence of the Pan-United Army, the ore produced in the S12 mining area each year accounts for 6.43% of the total comprehensive resources of the Earth Federation. Since the mining area is located close to the junction of the two major forces, the Federation has stationed a whole special armored division here. At the same time, based on the hollowed-out abandoned mine pits, a huge and sturdy permanent fortification group was built underground in the mine.

S12 is no longer an ore harvesting area in the simple sense, but it has become a fortress with extremely strong defense. What's more terrifying is that the automatic excavation machinery hidden deep underground is being mined crazily every day. As a weapon factory, assembly workshop, and ammunition production assembly line for supporting equipment, it is based on this to continuously create brand new heavy attack locomotives, heavy tanks with powerful firepower, light armed helicopters... These armed vehicles greatly shorten the supply line between the front line and the rear city. With S12 as support, the actual control line of the Earth Federation has been rapidly extending to the outside world.

The Pan-United Army could not tolerate this situation at all. Under the careful planning of the General Staff Headquarters, at the cost of giving up the frontal defense line of nearly 130 kilometers wide, five elite divisions were mobilized to carry out assaults from the flanks, breaking through the defense line and directly inserting it into the S12 inside. Faced with the sudden drastic change, although the Earth Federation mobilized the reserve team to join the battle as quickly as possible, the S12 Fortress still suffered heavy losses in the face of an absolute disadvantage of more than 16 times the enemy's combat power.

It's just a matter of time to fall.

He slowly lowered the telescope in his hand, and the colonel's frown frowns were still tightly twisted together. He reached out to dust the dust on the silver knight sword that represented the Pan United Army logo on his chest, and sighed lightly and shook his head invisibly.

Most of the tr guards in S12 have been killed in battle, and the actual functional part of the entire mining area has been captured by more than 74%. However, more than 500 remnants of the Earth Federation have not surrendered. They rely on the most solid core area of ​​the mine control area as a support and fight back to death. Although the assault troops of the Pan-United Army have been constantly surrendering them, demanding peace talks, and even using all kinds of means to lure them all out, the response they received... It was just a vulgar response from the other party's highest commander---"Battlemen of the United Army, I/Fuck you/Mom/Bad/Fuck!

According to the combat plan formulated by the General Staff Headquarters, if S12 cannot be captured, the combat time can last up to twenty-six hours. This is a sensitive area of ​​the Earth's federal sphere of influence, and each reinforcement unit is moving at high speed from the eastward direction. The stalemate can only waste time. Once the reinforcements arrive, the Pan-United Army assault troops will no longer have any retreat.

Looking at the arched building with a titanium steel protective seal in the distance, the concrete protective layer was 55 meters thick, and even if it was hit directly by a 300-mm super heavy train shell, the colonel burst into an uncontrollable rage from the bottom of his heart. He gritted his teeth, held it tightly with his hands, and quickly opened it. The edge of his lips, which was tightly pursed into cold and hard lines, slowly revealing a hint of cruel hideousness.

"Implement the backup plan, and all combatants evacuate s12 within fifteen minutes"

......

The gunshots gradually became sparse. Through the electronic surveillance camera, the Earth Federation soldiers guarding the fortress clearly saw that dozens of pan-United Army tanks surrounding various intersections on the screen were turning their direction, and six twin-rotor transport aircraft were gathering infantry in the open space. As for the direct-sighting artillery arranged at the main passage passes, all operators had evacuated.

"What do they want to do?"

"The United Army retreated?"

"Reinforcements! It must be our reinforcements that have arrived-----"

Cheers, doubts, anxiety... All kinds of undetermined speculations spread rapidly among the survivors. As the joint remote communication barrier effect still exists, the remnants of the army are unable to contact the Earth Federation Headquarters. Whether the opponent attacks or retreats, their only way to deal with it is to stay here and hold on.

Those who survived were not just soldiers who fought to the death. In addition to an expert inspection team sent by the Federal Academy of Sciences, who entered the mining area fortress two weeks ago, conducting resource surveys and equipment production evaluations, there were also several military families who had withdrawn from the living area to the fortress. One of them was the wife of the division commander who had already died in battle.

She is nine months pregnant and can give birth at any time.

......

On the top of the central building of the mining area, a light helicopter full of crews had flew out of the ground. The middle-aged colonel sat next to the open hatch door and looked at the majestic building connected to the mountains in the distance with a complex expression.

In order to take down S12, the raid troops sent by the Pan Union Army ignored the flanks. With the fierce attitude of completely abandoning logistics supply and rushing all the way, they attacked the mines with absolute advantage. As the core of this joint battle, all the troops around the area were gathered, and at the same time launched an attack on the Earth Federation defenders, carrying out restraints from all aspects. After 76 hours of high-intensity assault, the number of casualties exceeded 30,000. Finally, all the armed strongholds on the periphery of the S12 Fortress were cleared, and the attack spearhead was directly inserted into it. Unfortunately, the Pan Union Army, which broke through layers of obstacles, stopped in front of the solid core area of ​​the fortress.

As a fortress integrating combat and production, S12 does have the strength and hardness that surprises any opponent. Even the precision drilling bombs mounted by heavy bombers cannot blow up the underground protective layer stacked by titanium steel and reinforced concrete. After nearly 30% of the heavy casualties, the 63rd Panzer Division of the Pan-United Army, which was the main offensive mission, finally broke into the mine. However, at this time, the vanguard support force of the Earth Federation had arrived at the periphery of S12 and exchanged fire with the 197th Infantry Division responsible for defense. In desperation, Colonel Krumor, who led the special brigade to attack desperately, was forced to evacuate on his own.

Even if you leave, you must leave enough "gifts" for the Earth Federation.

Thinking of this, Colonel Crummer pursed his lips, staring coldly at the bomb holes and bullet holes that had been blown up, gradually narrowing his sight, as the "Pin"-shaped building, the landmark building of the S12 Fortress. Then, he slowly looked down at the watch on his wrist. When the second hand that kept rotating along the bezel finally overlapped with the "12" at the top, he put on the goggles that were inserted diagonally in his chest pocket, put them in his right hand, held his two fingers high to his forehead, and let them go as if they were signaled.

"You will never possess what we cannot get. Hum..."

With the last strong nasal sound that was obviously hatred, a hot light ball that was even more dazzling than the sun suddenly burst into the direction of the s12 fortress. In an instant, the explosion shock wave covered a range of dozens of kilometers. Everything was completely enveloped by an energy field that spread in a circular shape. Nearly half a minute later, the strong oscillation spread hard. Under the ink goggles, the flames mixed with red and black formed a cluster of strange-colored smoke, crowded with each other, and tangled up to the sky. Finally, it evolved into an extremely brilliant and terrifying small mushroom cloud.

The backup plan is to detonate tactical nuclear bombs installed in the S12 fortress in advance, ventilation ducts, excavation ladders and production workshops.

In order to achieve the expected results, the blasters of the Pan-United Army did not even let go of the abandoned mines. Regardless of whether the big explosion could destroy the fortress, the radius of more than 100 kilometers would be contaminated by radiation. No one could enter and exit, let alone become a reserve base needed to support the war.

The explosion core in the distance came a "rumbling" sound like muffled thunder. The main mountain range that constituted S12 began to collapse in the south under the huge destructive energy. A few minutes later, the scene remaining in the colonel's sight was only the dense dust flying over the sky, and the columnar cloud that still enveloped the top of the mine, like a huge exclamation mark, could not be dissipated for a long time.

At the same time, the pregnant woman who was lying in the corridor outside the core control room was unable to see through the naked eye, and with the help of several soldiers, straightened her neck and kept screaming without a human voice.

The huge vibration caused by the explosion caused a captain officer half-kneeling next to him to suddenly lose balance, his body tilted, and he couldn't help but plunge the pregnant woman's protruding abdomen. The sudden collision and squeezing tear her nerves, and the pale woman suddenly opened her eyes wide and made a terrible scream that almost pierced her eardrum. This violent movement seemed to exhaust all the energy she had accumulated in her body, and the shrill shout stopped abruptly with the violent vibration of the ground. When the captain supported the ground with both hands and stood up again, the woman had no breathing between her mouth and nose, and she slid out of her body from the middle of her legs, a ball of red flesh wrapped in blood, amniotic fluid, and mucus. The first cry of a newborn came to this strange world.

......

The battle ended in a sad way without deciding the exact outcome. No one was the pan-unilateral army of the offensive side or the Earth Federation as the defensive side, and no one got the expected results.

The former killed more than 70,000 soldiers and lost more than 100,000 square kilometers of land on the east side of the front line as bait. Although the latter was not very casualties, it was unable to use the S12 Fortress again. The strong nuclear explosion destroyed all ground buildings, and all the vacant tunnels in the deep underground were polluted, and even automatic excavators could not enter. The strong radiation environment directly interfered with the radio waves emitted from the base, and all facilities in the middle and outer layers were destroyed. The distress signal sent before the big explosion also became the last record of the fortress guards in the archives of the Earth Federal Military Department.

After the war, the Joint Conference of the Earth Federation Army severely punished a series of generals who were ineffective in combat and related personnel. Especially the commanders of the troops who failed to rescue in time, even directly tortured them to gallows. The delay caused immeasurable huge losses. The researchers who conducted inspection tasks in the S12 Fortress were all top authorities of the National Academy of Sciences in astrophysics, quantum mechanics, warp speed dynamics, etc. Their collective death directly caused the scientific and technological advantages of the Earth Federation to be delayed by at least ten years, or even more.

No one thinks there are survivors inside s12.

The nuclear bombs installed in the Pan-Joint military uniform directly destroyed the entire mountain. Even if the underground part with superior protection performance can withstand explosions, no one could walk out of it alive. Moreover, the outside world is full of terrible radiation that cannot be seen by the naked eye.
Chapter completed!