As I said last chapter, There are two chapter 33's until one is chosen to be continued with, don't worry though both lines will be continued, just one will come after the other is finished. Lastly these lines will be instead of the average two chapters per battle, they will be four chapters each as they are major events in the history of this time line.
Chapter 33: The Great War Part 5, Interstate Warfare
A wise man once said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." (1) The house in this case is the North American Contient, Three of its powers are against one dividing itself from possible union, but it is assured that the victor of this war in the Americas shall unite these people together.
On one side stood the three, The United States of America, Mexico, and The Dominion of Canada. On the other stood the lone power the Grand Republic of Sincere. Both sides know the stakes here and know that the victor will lead this half of the world undisputedly.
The USA and Canada were leading the assult on the north and the south, while Mexico backed up both sides navies. The Grand Republic of Sincere however had innovative measures in defensive tactics known as airplanes, and Bunkers. The airplanes were used both as a defensive measure and an offensive measure. The Bunkers made of stone reinforced with steel along with Byzantine shipped machine guns placed inside of them made them practically impossible to bust through. The line of bunkers followed the border line of both of its enemies as it had anticipated this war for a long time.
The Grand Republic walked to his airplane, "Truly these are the greatest innovation ever made by man, and ever will be made by man." The Republic hopped in after spinning up his rotator and the plane took off in flight towards the Americans while another contingent flew in the direction of Canada. After a few hours flight the Republic's airships had reached American air space, "Alright men prepare the long drop grenades!" He yelled over the short range com link he had. The other pilots gave him the thumbs up as they turned to a downwards fashion and lit a grenade with an absurdly long fuse, and dropped them on the American position, several Americans surprised by the sudden attack from the sky started firing outwards towards the border where the bunkers were stationed, but others who had been attacks like this started to fire upwards.
Alfred F. Jones looked up and yelled, "Damn those birds! I swear if we ever get one down it tact we are taking it apart! Freaking Birdheads! (2)" He took out his rifle and started to fire into the air missing the much faster and agile airplanes. The Republic airships then turned around once more and took out several pistols and made a move downwards to do a firing run on them. The swooped in very fast, but unfortunately some of the less experienced pilots crashed into the ground, but the others pulled up just over the ground firing rapidly into the crowd of American soldiers.
They pulled up dropping some short fused explosions as they did and returned back to their base to refuel. Alfred threw down his blue cap and stomped on it, "Get a team out there and salvage what you can from the crashed birds!" Several men dressed in white coats rushed out into the field towards the smoldering wrecks. The attack on the Canadian border was equally as successful. Alfred however was not that worried about the plane wrecks as he had been devolping something that would make sure his men would get acrossed the field with out being instantly gunned down by the huge row of bunkers, A truck specially designed to have several guns poking out of small little firing holes and heavy steel armor that would make it impervious to most if not all bullets. Alfred smiled as he saw the first one roll onto the field, it was covered in plated steel leaving only a few visor wholes so that the driver could just see where he was going and guns a plenty sticking out of the sides, front and back of it. Alfred opened up the back hatch and got into the drivers seat, several men followed suit and manned the guns.
Alfred drove his, "Tank" as he called it across the field lead from all directions firing upon it leaving dents some going through the armor hitting men, but most of it was still intact, and as the men inside got into range they started to fire upon the bunkers with their repeating rifles. They had finally made it to the first bunker and several of the men dove out of the tank and ran into the bunker and began shooting the troops stationed in there one of them taking the machine gun they had and replaced his repeating rifle with it in the hole. However as they began making their way towards the next bunker the airplanes had made their way back and started to drop long fuse bombs on to the tank. One of these bombs had fallen into the hatch which the soldier who brought the machine gun had forgotten to close. Alfred turned to look behind him as he heard a clunk and a sizzling sound. When he saw what he did it was to late, with wide eyes the long fuse grenade had exploded blowing up everyone on the inside except Alfred who was very damaged, unable to get out of the tank as he prepared to blow up. The tank's engine and fuel had finally caught fire and blew up Alfred still inside, with a sickening boom that rippled through the air. Alfred's body flew out of the wreckage and landed in the middle of the field bloody, battered, and by human definition dead, by nation unconscious for a very long time.
(1) Abe Lincoln, the quote seemed in my opinion to fit the situation.
(2) A nickname I decided the Repbulic's troops would have since they are the only country to use airplanes.