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Chapter 322 Calamity on the Continent

north.

In the northern part of Amelanxi, the largest source of resources and an important scientific research site, a soldier walks through the wind and snow, smoking a cigarette, his FNC automatic rifle shaking off a few snowflakes.

The North has always been a landscape of snow and birch forests. Since the civil war in the Northern countries was brought under the control of another faction, the Amerlane Army has been strengthening the defenses of the northern border.

Over the past decade, the environment has changed a lot. Amelansi has become a completely mixed ethnic country. What unites Amelansi is the ideology of the former president, not the original racial identity.

The soldier shook his coat, revealing a head of maroon hair and two bear ears, the symbol of the bear-men of the North. He glanced at Lucy Snow's border post not far away, where several bear-men were also standing, but their uniforms and equipment were completely different.

The white, black, and yellow tricolor flag of Lucy Snow's Empire and the red, blue, and white tricolor flag of Amy Lancy's Empire fluttered on these two lines, an artificial one.

As has been the case for the past few years, the soldiers flicked their cigarette butts onto the ground, stomped them out with their boots, and let them disappear into the snow.

"Damn weather."

"Yeah. This weather is awful."

His comrade-in-arms stood in the outpost and handed him a cup of hot soup. At least the outpost was alright; there was electricity and a magic crystal heater.

This is just an ordinary border post.

"304, 304, report message. Repeat, 304, 304, report message."

"Here we go again, are you going?"

His comrade glanced at the radio beside him, which started calling every half hour. The bear-man soldier finished his soup and nodded.

"Hello, this is 304, NWZ is calling. Currently, everything is normal."

"receive."

The soldier hung up the phone, stretched, and looked at his comrades outside. These border posts were manned by three men, with a post every 500 meters. This had been the case ever since the Lucy Snow Empire was established.

"After this month's rotation is over, shall we go back?"

"Yes, there's a holiday after this month's shift, about three to four days. The higher-ups said the situation is very bad recently. Things have gotten chaotic again in Las Vegas, and it's started in the Balkans as well."

More than a decade ago, during the era of President Alice, a series of wars finally laid the foundation for this brief peace, but this peace is probably becoming increasingly fragile.

“My child is in middle school now, so I have to go back and visit him.”

The veteran nodded and said, "Yes, your class is much better than ours. You didn't experience what we went through. The late president just passed away like that. We were all scared, scared of going back to the past, or worse."

"It's much better now, isn't it? It's only relatively peaceful here."

"Hopefully."

Relations between the two countries have reached a freezing point, but with technological advancements, Amelansi now has to take its adversary seriously.

Boom~Boom~

There was a sound coming from the other side of the snow, like the earth rumbling. The sentry on duty knocked on the glass to signal the two men.

"what's the situation?"

The veteran walked to the radio, the door opened, and the wind blew in.

"There's a sound, listen—"

The bear-man soldier took off his hood, and he vaguely heard something. He picked up his binoculars, and his comrade next to him operated the searchlight, looking ahead.

Something is moving in the snow.

The sound grew louder and louder until they could see it clearly, until their hearts felt like they were being squeezed, and they couldn't remember what they had shouted.

They saw dozens, no, hundreds of tanks roaring across the border in front of the outpost.

"This is 304! This is 304! We have spotted 300 enemy tanks in front of our outpost, crossing the border..."

It should be said that launching a war without a declaration violates international law, but without international law, what exactly is international law to all countries? An influential international organization has not yet been established, so the Lucy Empire exhausted all means and methods to launch a surprise attack on Amelansi.

War, war broke out on the continent. Since the establishment of the Great Western Ocean Treaty and the Imperial Treaty, the shadow of war has loomed over the entire continent. The continent is divided into the south and the north. The vast Lucy Empire is undoubtedly a behemoth. The army built by Empress Catherine I with all her might is now surging outward from every inch of the empire's territory.

"This is the Northern Theater of the Amelan West Federal Republic. On April 2, 673, the First Army of the Lucy Snow Empire launched a surprise attack on our Northern Region. It is hereby declared that all regions of the Republic are now in a state of war. Again, the Republic is now facing the threat of war. This is a premeditated war under the Imperial Covenant. All signatory states of the Western Covenant should immediately fulfill their obligations as signatory states and join the war to defend our free world!"

In the North, the flag of the Lucy Snow Empire was planted on the western border post of Amelan, which was now a collapsed ruin and was still burning. Nearby, T-54A and T-62 tanks were running over the snow.

The 2nd Armored Division of the Republic's Guards, an emergency-mobilized combat force of the Northern Theater Command, was put into combat. This division was an army that had existed since the founding of the Republic, and its officers included those promoted by Alice.

Sixty-four Chieftain MK.3 tanks became the only armored shield on the vast plains of the North. These slow but well-protected main battle tanks were equipped with the latest military technology from Amerlane, including the L7 main gun that fired the latest fin-stabilized discarding sabot armor-piercing rounds.

"Enemy tank spotted! T-62, 1000 meters away!"

"Armor-piercing rounds being loaded!"

"Fire!"

The two sides clashed in the snow. Behind the tanks, several AMX-10Ps used 20mm cannons to fight against Milan anti-tank missiles. The heavily armored and powerful Chieftain tanks blocked the Lucy Yeti's advance for the first time in Minsk, a small town 60 kilometers from the border in the north. The Air Force's Mirage IIIC fighters suffered heavy losses, but temporarily gained air superiority in the north.

Based on this, the ground-based combat air defense brigades did not suffer many losses under the first wave of attacks from Lucy the Yeti. These well-trained elite combat air defense brigades were equipped with a large number of "Roland" air defense missiles. These air defense missiles, which were mounted on various mobile vehicles, were able to retreat and redeploy under the cover of the Air Force and Army Aviation.

"Northern combat readiness radar has detected 114 aircraft from the Lucy Snow Empire Air Force approaching!"

In the darkness, a large number of MiG-17 and MiG-21 fighter jets escorted a group of Tu-16 aircraft, heading towards the military city of Minsk.