November 25th, 2023, 00:20 (Iraq time 18:20)

  The temporary garrison of the 111th Marine Tank Battalion in Kirkuk, Kirkuk Province, Iraq

  “Sergeant Gil! Haven’t it come out yet?”


  Corporal Lee Hae-sung, who had returned from eating at a company restaurant, patted his inflated stomach and said, “Damn, only the naval battle with the Far East Fleet came out on the news day and night, and our news came out briefly earlier.”


  “How the hell was that reported news? It was only a brief comment from a female anchor.”


  Sergeant Gil Min-joon, who had been watching only KBS news in front of a satellite-connected TV without moving in the temporary dormitory all afternoon, laid down on the bed and started kicking the blanket.

  “Ah! So, didn’t I tell you to watch it after eating? It was juicy chicken soup, ah! I’m full……”


  At this time, other squads also entered the dormitory one by one.

  “Hey! Gil Min-joon…… That is satisfying. Super satisfying.”


  Gunner No. 131, Sergeant Gil Min-joon, and his comrade, Sergeant Oh Deok-gyun, made fun of him with flowers blooming on his face as if he had heard the conversation.

  “Ah! That duckling bastard.”


  “You! You said you called home? Asking them to watch the news when the news comes out? Wakakaka.”


  “Sergeant Duck! Please shut up.”


  “I can’t do that. Hahaha”


  “Then you would be a corpse behind the folding screen.”


  “That would be you.”


  It started again.

  The other comrades say they are close friends, but whenever they met, they exchanged nonsense words like that and quarreled. It was a daily routine for over a year. Now, even in the platoon, no one could stop the high class most experienced, soldier.

  “Ah, those two sergeants are starting it again!”


  Corporal Lee Hae-sung was lying on the bed with his head shaking and watching TV. At this time, the 12 o’clock night news started, and the first words of the anchor came out that they had successfully occupied Kirkuk City, the last occupied territory in the war for independence of the Kurdistan Republic, and there was a ceremony to raise the national flag and the flag of the Republic of Kurdistan.

  “Ah! Chief Gil! It is starting. come out!”


  At the moment when Corporal Lee Hae-sung said, the eyes of the two sergeants who were growling as they looked at each other’s faces were focused on the TV all at once.

  In the news on the TV screen, the video of the Taegeukgi raising ceremony during the day began to appear as a close-up.

  “Yes! That is it! That is it!!”


  Sgt. Gil Min-joon pulled the cheeks of his comrade, Sgt. Oh Deok-gyun, and flew straight to his bed and nailed his gaze to the TV screen.

  “Ah! comes out comes out Look! Sergeant Duck! The handsome figure of this brother…… Hahaha”


  When the face of the crew member of Tank 312 was slowly enlarged and was about to be seen during the hoisting ceremony, a caption of the breaking news suddenly appeared, and the video changed.

  “It’s breaking news. It is said that a large-scale invasion of the Russian army has begun in the area around the current northeastern border, and the fighting has begun.”


  As the anchor’s urgent voice came out and the video screen changed, Sgt. Gil Min-joon’s face was distorted in an instant.

  “Ha, why there is breaking news at this time, damn it!”


  When the golden opportunity to show his wonderful appearance through the airwaves to all the world just turned into breaking news, Sgt. Gil Min-joon hugged the bed and screamed.

  “Aww! no!”


  “Kyakyakya, what’s wrong? It’s not all over.”


  Sergeant Oh Deok-gyun approached with a smile on his belly button and whispered into Sgt. Gil Min-joon’s ear. At this, Sgt. Gil Min-jun swung his fist in the air and shouted.

  “F*ck off, you duckling!”


  “Ha! Kk Quack Quack! Quack Quack!”


  While Sgt. Oh Deok-gyun made a duck noise along with pretending a sound of the duck, the rest of the platoon members listened to the breaking news.

  “What, what? Is there a war with Russia?”


  “Ah! F*ck! Is there another war on the Korean Peninsula?”


  “It is fucked up. My uncle is in Russia……”


  While the two immature sergeants muttered, the platoon members recognized the seriousness of the current situation and threw out a word each.

  November 25th, 2023 00:30,

  Northern Manchuria Bukgang Province 38th Mechanized Guard Division (Geumgang) Northeast Border GOP 5-13 Sector.

  As the numerous flares fired by the Russian army shone brightly, the sky, which had been dark with dark clouds and snow, became as bright as broad daylight.

  Then, the endless gunfire echoed across the sky, and faint lights flickered through the snow in various places across the border.

  Boom! Kapaaw!

  Numerous cannonballs fell on the spot where the 513 Haitai robots were located. Numerous fragments soared in all directions with a deafening explosion sound. Occasionally, it flew and collided with the outer armor plate of the #513 Haitai Robot, but the strong armor was only scratched.

  Currently, the Russian Army pushing in the direction of the 5th-13th sector of the GOP was the 57th Motorized Infantry Division belonging to the 5th Army.

  Two years ago, during the First Northeast Asian War, some troops of the 57th Automated Rifle Division crossed the border, engaged in a brief battle, and retreated after suffering catastrophic damage. It is now newly organized as the 57th Motorized Infantry Division. Speaking of the Republic of Korea Army, it was the same concept as the Mechanized Infantry Division.

  The 57th Motorized Infantry Division, equipped with the latest armored vehicles as well as various next-generation weapons, has been completely transformed into a modern mechanized unit and has risen significantly in terms of combat power to the extent that it cannot be compared with before.

  While the 233 Motorized Infantry Regiment and the 234 Motorized Infantry Regiment, subordinate units of the 57th Motorized Infantry Division, attempted to break through the border with the vanguard, 6 C-1000 Haitai robots from the 3rd Platoon of the 5th Company were performing guard missions along the way. Using available weapons, they were blocking the border crossing.

  However, there were only six C-1000 Haitai robots along the 4.8km border. Although the guard mission in peacetime could be performed well, it was limited to only six guard robots to block the concentration of division-level troops in one place. However, it was impossible to see the Russian army breaking through the border, so the operators of the 3rd Platoon of the 5th Company did their best in the C-1100 console armored vehicle and actively responded by controlling the C-1000 Haitai robot.

  Joong Joong Joong Joong~ Joong Joong Joong Joong~

  The 12mm laser Vulcan beam was constantly scattering red rays in the sky as it intercepted various shells fired by Russian artillery.

  Each time a streak of red light was scattered across the dark sky, the lights flashed with loud and small explosions.

  The air defense interception system of the C-1000 Haitai robot capable of simultaneously tracking and intercepting 20 incoming targets was showing 100% of its performance.

  If it had not been for intercepting numerous bombs fired from various artillery units of the Russian Artillery Division across the border, the area around the Korean border would have become a swampy field.

  At that time, inside the 3rd Platoon C-1100 console armored car, the screams of the operators continued.

  “Ah! There are too many numbers.”


  The operator controlling the No. 513 Haitai robot clicked his tongue when he saw various luminous objects reflected in various vision modes on his monitor.

  Various armored vehicles and dolls were rushing to the bottom of the water, and shells were falling non-stop in the surrounding area.

  “Ah! #516 attacked! hit! Vision mode sensor failure!”


  When the No. 516 Haitai Robot in charge was hit by bomb fragments, he sighed and reported as he looked at the glitching monitor.

  “Just look in the eye and shoot!”


  The platoon commander was also nervous about the current situation, so he gave an order with a trembling voice that was different from usual. Accordingly, the operator of No. 516 checked the normal vision mode with the vision mode broken and aimed at the approaching Russian army and fired various weapons.

  “Captain! This is a call from the company headquarters.”


  The signal operator of the C-1100 console armored car disseminated an order from the company headquarters.

  “What, what did they say?”


  “As of the present time, the 5th Company retreats to the coordinates they sent!”


  The coordinates transmitted from the company headquarters were located 40 km rearward from the borderline.

  “Are we retreating?”


  The platoon leader registered the coordinate points on the digital map and instructed the robot-controlled operators.

  “Enter coordinates for all Haitai! Switch to autonomous mode.”


  At the command of the platoon commander, the piloting operators entered the coordinates to move and switched to autonomous mode.

  Then, the C-1000 Haitai robot, which had been projecting various weapons forward until just before, folded its quadruped legs inward and lowered its posture immediately. And when the wheeled wheel attached to the middle of the quadrupedal leg turned, it started to maneuver like an armored car.

  In battle, they engage by moving their four-legged legs, but in such an emergency, they could move using wheeled wheels.

  The six Haitai robots belonging to the 3rd platoon started to move to the entered coordinates after switching to the autonomous operation mode in this way. The C-1100 console armored vehicle also hurriedly escaped to the rear along with the armored vehicles belonging to the platoon.

  Currently, all subordinate units belonging to the 5th Army of the Eastern Military District were simultaneously participating in the invasion operation on the border area around the eastern border.

  Centering on the 57th Motorized Infantry Division, the 59th Motorized Infantry Division and the 60th Motorized Infantry Division are breaking through the border at a distance of 30km from each other on the left and right. It was followed by the 121st Panzer Division, which was part of the 10th Mechanized Army, which consisted of the T-14B Armata tank, Russia’s best railgun tank.

  Hundreds of T-14B Armata tanks of the 70th Motorized Infantry Division and the 81st SS Panzer Division, which can be said to be the strongest units in the 5th Army, were breaking through the border around the Dalnerechensk border.

  In addition, various artillery units of the 127th Machine Gun Artillery Brigade, the 129th Machine Gun Artillery Brigade, and the 130th Machine Gun Artillery Brigade in Rigo, in charge of supporting the rear artillery, provided non-stop support for artillery fire. In addition, the 719th Multiple Rocket Regiment in charge of long-range strike support and the 20th Guards Rocket Brigade operating the OTR-21 Tochka SSM Iskander-M were also waiting for a request for support canon balls.

  Currently, in addition to the 5th Army, the 35th Army on the northern border and the 29th Army on the western border were evacuating the border with similar strength to the 5th Army. Also, behind the 29th Army was the 36th Army.

  The total number of troops amounted to 300,000, and the number of tanks, armored vehicles, and various self-propelled artillery and multiple launchers amounted to as little as 10,000. The important thing was that even within the Russian army, it was deployed with the latest weapons.

  Rumble!

  Shh~ Boom!

  Suddenly, a loud sound of bombs sounded just above the C-1100 console armored car with a battlefield of more than 10m, which was urgently maneuvered to the coordinate point transmitted from the company headquarters. A friendly battery on the move was firing after rapid heat dissipation for artillery fire.

  It was the Alpha Battery belonging to the 88th Artillery Battalion, division artillery under the direct control of the 38th Mechanized Guard Division.

  Alpha Battery’s six K-9A1 Lightning self-propelled howitzers poured out bombs at a staggering rate of fire of 16 rounds per minute for 3 minutes and then started preparing for departure. In addition to the Alpha battery, the Burabo battery and the Charlie battery also moved across the wide plain, and when the coordinates for the bombardment fell, they immediately radiated heat and bombarded the Russian artillery units by bombarding them for 3 minutes and then leaving again.

  As a result, the Russian artillery units, which initially bombarded the entire border with a considerable amount of artillery bombs, were not able to fire as quickly as in the beginning as the damage increased by the artillery bombardment of the Korean artillery units within a minute of starting the bombardment.

  After dissipating the heat for a few minutes, they fired two or three cannonballs at most and left the camp. As a result, the firing efficiency was reduced and the physical fatigue of the artillery was only accumulated. Some battery commanders were afraid of artillery fire and hesitated even when artillery support came.

  This was one example of the importance of immediate artillery fire and the rate of fire per minute for an artillery unit.