Alien Arms Empire

Chapter 1096: 1097 to clear the record

This day may be a good day for the Qin State. King Yingduo of Qin won the support of the Tang Empire and announced that he was promoted to an empire and called himself the Great Qin Empire.

The Three Emperors Alliance was officially established. The new name of this alliance made King Qin very excited. Of course, this was before he learned that the Tang army had won a great victory at sea.

When King Yingduo of Qin learned that the Tang Navy had completely annihilated the main fleet of the Mirage Kingdom and sunk 12 Mirage Battleships in one fell swoop, he felt that his throne was no longer so fragrant.

From his point of view, he actually hoped that Tang would suffer a defeat when it attacked Mirage. By then, the Tang State would no longer focus on the Western Continent, and the Qin State would have better development opportunities.

It is a pity that the Tang State is still the same Tang State, the undefeated Tang State! Tang Mo's navy achieved an unprecedented and brilliant victory, and saw that the landing force also gained a firm foothold.

The long-distance projection capabilities displayed by the Tang Empire, as well as the combat effectiveness of its troops, made Emperor Qin Yingduo even more afraid.

But despite being afraid, Ying Duo still wanted to congratulate Tang on his victory, just like Tang Mo also congratulated him on his victory on the Shushan defense line.

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  After the Tang Empire sold the Panther tank, sloped armor technology was no secret. After people discovered the advantages of sloped armor, those tanks using vertical armor seemed to be unable to keep up with the trend of the times.

 Most of the tanks in the Mirage Kingdom are of a type that cannot keep up with the trend of the times: most of them use vertical armor, and the thickness is not very good.

 In order to make up for the shortcomings, Mirage's heavy tanks were equipped with an additional layer of armor outside the main armor. Due to workmanship issues, there was still a finger-wide gap between this layer of armor and the main armor.

This unintentional move instead resolved the design of the armor-piercing warhead of the RPG rocket launcher, making it occasionally impossible for the RPG rocket launcher to directly penetrate the front armor of Mirage heavy tanks.

 After the concept of sloped armor spread, everyone understood that the thickness of this sloped armor was terrifying when converted to thickness. Therefore, when seeing the Type 59 main battle tank, the tank crews of Mirage were in despair.

"Fire!" Inside the small tank body, the Mirage tank commander shouted desperately. Unfortunately, no matter how hard the tank's main gun tried, it still couldn't penetrate the front armor of the Tang Army tank that was so close. .

 The shells bounced away immediately after hitting them. In the eyes of the Mirage tank crew, the Tang Dynasty's 59 tanks were simply invulnerable.

Another shell blasted out, and another shell hit the front of the turret of the 59 tank. As expected, the shell bounced off again: it hit the smooth front armor of the tank, and then refracted out. , disappeared.

Soon, the Tang State's tank gun pointed over, and the slender barrel spurted out a ball of flame. In an instant, the Mirage State tank exploded and caught fire, leaving only a charred wreckage.

"The tanks that just attacked us have been killed. Are there any targets left?" Seeing that the Mirage infantry in front had abandoned their positions and began to retreat, the gunner asked disdainfully.

The commander looked for the target through the gaps around him. With limited vision, he did not see any enemy tanks near them: "I didn't see it!"

 After speaking, he opened his hatch cover and stuck his head out to look around: despite the risk, he was still used to using this method to find targets.

 Otherwise, if they only rely on the observation window around the tank commander's hatch to find the target, they may be penetrated five times by enemies on the side, and they may not be able to find the enemy's position.

"It seems that there are no enemy tanks nearby." Looking at the burning black wreckage around his tank, the commander retracted into the vehicle with some hesitation.

"It doesn't matter, Liu Guozhu is not here anyway, we still have a high hope of catching up with his record." The gunner comforted his vehicle commander.

 “It’s hard to win with force.” The commander felt that he was a bit weak to win against these shabby tanks of the Mirage to improve his record.

“The rags Liu Guozhu fought are not as good as the mirage tanks we fought!” The gunner curled his lips and dismissed Liu Guozhu, the tank ace’s record.

 In his opinion, Liu Guozhu’s opponents back then didn’t even have a radio in the tank. That was just a matter of improving their performance without any technical content, okay?

 But he also admitted that the battle in front of him was also a massacre. The tanks attacked by Tang State only had about one company of 15 tanks. There are about 40 Mirage tanks blocking here, almost a battalion.

As a result, not a single tank of the Tang State was destroyed, and the entire tank force of the Mirage State, which had a numerical advantage, was annihilated.

Under the attack of the powerful Tang Army tanks, these mirage tanks did not even have time to escape, so they were divided up as a result. After a night's rest, the 9th Army of the Tang Dynasty resumed the glorious tradition of the Imperial Army of the Tang Dynasty: they began to advance crazily, and with the cooperation of aircraft, they desperately attacked forward. The rushing armored troops were like bulldozers, smashing everything in front of them.

It is no exaggeration at all. After dawn, Tang Guo’s offensive troops completely captured Mirage Kingdom’s airport No. 2 on the South Island. Combined with the previously captured Airport No. 1, Tang Guo already controlled two scrapped Mirage Kingdom field operations. Airport.

In addition, the 9th Armored Division, which has been attacking north, began to cause trouble for the 3rd Armored Division of Mirage. The opponent had no intention of fighting and retreated to the central area of ​​the island before stopping.

The 19th Infantry Division spread out along the Da Nan River, and other troops that came ashore began to prepare to cross the river and surround Da Nan Bay.

 Various engineering equipment equipped by the Tang Army's engineering troops have been successfully ashore. In order to allow the engineers to quickly repair the two airfields lost by the Mirage Army, many troops and equipment of the 9th Army are still floating on the sea.

 With road rollers, cement mixers, and various transport vehicles, the engineering troops are now busy in full swing. The Tang Army can repair the airport several times or even dozens of times faster than the Mirage!

 With the support of construction machinery, the repair speed is quite fast. The Tang State has special quick-drying cement for airport maintenance, but the Mirage State does not have this kind of cement.

In addition, the bridge-building troops also occupied a large amount of landing resources: Feng Kezhi was waiting for these engineering bridge-building troops to come ashore so that he could forcefully cross the Danan River.

The Mirage Kingdom did not know much about these troops, so Mirage Wuzhong always thought that if the Tang army wanted to cross the river, it would take at least ten days to prepare.

As everyone knows, Feng Kezhi planned to start building a bridge to cross the river that afternoon, or tomorrow morning at the latest, after the troops landed on the pontoon bridge.

 The gap in technical level between the two sides caused the generals of both sides to have different judgments on the battlefield situation, which also made the decision-making of the two sides completely different. It was obvious that the Mirage Wuzhong of the Mirage Kingdom could no longer keep up with Feng Kezhi's rhythm.

At about ten o'clock that day, Tang's jet bombers once again visited the area controlled by Mirage and dropped a large number of bombs, causing a little trouble for the mobilization of Mirage's troops.

 In the afternoon of the same day, these bombers were dispatched again and attacked the traffic lines and nodes of the Mirage Kingdom. However, because it was a strategic carpet bombing, the effect was still only average.

But as Bernard's navy destroyed the main fleet of the Mirage, naval aviation's ground support operations became more frequent.

Hundreds of planes were hovering above the heads of the Tang army, which gave Feng Kezhi a great sense of security. The 9th Armored Division, which had been attacking north, suddenly turned around and rushed towards the Danan River. With the help of the Marine Corps' 63 amphibious tanks, it established a bridgehead and erected a bridge.

The news that the Tang army had crossed the river was only confirmed by the defenders of the Mirage Kingdom more than an hour later. They didn't know that the Tang Army had an engineer unit dedicated to building bridges, so when the Mirage Army reacted, they found that they couldn't defeat the Tang Army that had already crossed the Danan River.

Mirage Wuzhong fainted immediately after receiving the news: He had been working continuously for at least 36 hours. He said he passed out, but in fact he might have fallen asleep...

That night, Mirage Wuzhong woke up, but the situation reported by his men almost made the commander of Mirage's 2nd Corps faint for the second time.

The armored troops of the Tang Army crossing the river cut off the railway on the South Island, which was equivalent to cutting off the 3rd Corps in the north from the 2nd Corps stationed in Da Nanwan.

The 2nd Corps, which suffered heavy losses, will definitely need the assistance of the 3rd Corps if it wants to defend the Great South Bay. But the current situation is that if the 3rd Corps wants to go south to join the 2nd Corps, it must penetrate the 9th Armored Division of the Tang Army...

If the troops of Mirage had this ability, then they would have penetrated the defense line of Tang paratroopers in Leping and Dongshan before, right?

“How is the situation with the Navy?” A somewhat weak Mirage Wu Zhong, after asking about the 3rd Corps, asked about the Navy warships.

Everyone knew that he was not asking about the main fleet that had disappeared, but about the mirage destroyers and cruisers that had fled into the Great South Bay in a panic.

"This..." The subordinates looked at me and I looked at you, all stammering.

 “Say!” Mirage Wuzhong scolded impatiently.

"They fled in a hurry, hit the mines we secretly laid, and lost two destroyers... The remaining three destroyers and one cruiser are all pretty good. They are parked on the dock and can be used as a fort..." His subordinates The man replied tremblingly.

Hearing that the mines he secretly laid in violation of the treaty sank his own warship, Mirage Wuzhong almost fainted again.

He weakly asked someone to prepare some food for him, and then returned to his command room with the support of his men.

 Although he can't do much at this time, he must show his courage and perseverance. Because if he doesn't do this, his men are likely to be directly defeated by constant defeats.

 (End of this chapter)