Alien Arms Empire

Chapter 1151 Chapter 1152 Three-win battle

This time there was no smoke rising from the beach. This arrangement was to allow for more accurate support from artillery and attack aircraft. This was completely different from when the Tang Empire troops landed on their own.

Anyway, almost all intelligence showed that the main force of the Mirage had abandoned its defense line near the beach, so smoke bombs were not used to obscure the enemy's vision.

One landing craft after another opened the front springboard, and the orc soldiers rushed out of the landing craft with roars, and stretched out their formation on the beach as quickly as possible.

As the intelligence said at a glance, the resistance from the mirage army was minimal. Except for some soldiers in the observation posts who conducted limited counterattacks, most of the orc landing troops encountered no resistance.

Soon, densely packed orc soldiers covered the beach. Even they themselves did not expect that this landing would be so simple.

Orc officers who had previously observed the landing battle on the South Island all described the landing battle as very scary. They said that the Tang army suffered heavy casualties, and they said that the enemy was difficult to deal with...

But now, they didn't even see the shadow of the enemy. The only enemy seemed to be the sand that leaked into their boots, which made the soldiers who came ashore miserable.

“It seems they really gave up the beach.” Shan Lu stood on the deck of a distant battleship, watching his troops land smoothly, and said to the human general Lu Qianshan standing next to him.

Lu Qianshan put down the telescope and said to Shan Lu with a smile: "It's a good thing that it goes smoothly, but I don't think things are that simple! Your troops are just within the attack range of the enemy's artillery... If not, you will suffer heavy losses."

"Any price... is worth it." Shan Lu's face turned ugly after hearing Lu Qianshan's analysis: Those enemy artillery positions hidden in the inland mountains and forests are exactly what Lu Qianshan said, and they are difficult to deal with.

Most of them are outside the strike range of naval guns, and the concealment effect of being surrounded by mountains and rivers is excellent, so they are not easily destroyed by attack aircraft.

These concealed artillery will soon attack the orcs on the beach, and how to deal with the subsequent battles... can only be judged by the orc commanders on the shore.

 On the beach, at least thousands of orcs have come ashore. They expanded their landing site step by step until a soldier unfortunately stepped on a mine buried on the beach.

"Boom!" The landmine exploded, sending the orc soldier flying into the air. The two orc soldiers around him were also affected. All the orcs nearby fell down. They didn't act cautiously until they figured out what was going on. climb up.

"It's not an enemy attack! It's not an enemy attack! It's a mine!" An orc officer knelt on one knee and waved his arms, shouting to the vigilant friendly forces in the distance.

The minefields arranged by the Mirage Kingdom on the beach are not dense, and the laying method is similar to booby traps. These mines themselves delay the enemy's advance, so they are few in number.

Just when the orc soldiers were off guard and cautiously continued to advance, whistling shells suddenly fell among the crowd.

The artillery of the Mirage State opened fire as expected. The hidden observation post reported the news of the orcs' landing to the rear, and the rear also began to suppress the beach with artillery as expected.

This time the firepower of the mirage army was quite well preserved. The artillerymen hidden in the mountains and woods opened fire fiercely, creating an unprecedented momentum.

All artillery pieces, large and small, came to greet the beach. For a while, there were even shells from ancient 75mm caliber mountain cannons.

 Because of the precise shooting table after measurement, the mirage army's artillery fire was quite accurate. Although the number of artillery pieces was not large, it caused huge trouble for the orc troops.

Had it not been for the insufficient number and scattered deployment of the Mirage's artillery, the orc troops might have been directly driven into the sea by the Mirage's artillery.

On the beach, screams of the air being torn apart came one after another. Cannonballs fell one after another, raising gravel and stirring up huge water jets of seawater mixed with sand.

The orc troops who were caught off guard were stunned by the artillery bombardment. Some of the liaison officers even called the Tang Empire's fleet and asked them not to open fire on their own people. They were knocked unconscious and thought they had been accidentally hit by supporting artillery fire from the friendly fleet.

Before the battle began, the instructors from Tang State were on board the ship to remind all the orc troops who came ashore to disperse as soon as possible, expand the landing site, and avoid being bombarded by the enemy.

However, the orc troops, who did not encounter any resistance after landing, seemed to have forgotten these instructions and were still stunned like novices.

The first to respond were the Tang Empire attack aircraft units hovering over the landing site. Stuka and Il, who took off from the new island, expanded the scope of their search and found some enemy artillery positions that had been exposed by desperate fire.

 These aircraft began to suppress the ground, destroying some exposed artillery and reducing the pressure in the direction of the beach.

The enemy's artillery fire suddenly weakened a lot, and these orc troops finally remembered what they should do. They began to launch assaults in depth, no longer crowded on the beach and became targets for the enemy. The Orc troops who came ashore later finally realized the cruelty of the landing battle: as soon as they got off the boat, they saw the water dyed red, as well as large and small craters on the beach, and the corpses of Orc soldiers piled up in mountains.

Shanlu, who stayed on the deck of the battleship behind, looked at the tragic scene on the beach with pain, put down his telescope and sighed. Originally, he thought he wouldn't lose much on the beach.

But the dwarfs of the Mirage Kingdom only fired a few rounds of artillery, and they almost destroyed the 1st Orc Division, which had been training on the South Island for more than two months.

More than two thousand well-trained soldiers were lost on the beach in a confused manner. Most of them returned to the embrace of the beast **** without even seeing what their enemy looked like.

Those orcs who attacked forward were also somewhat confused about the situation: they saw some half-built trenches and bunkers that were abandoned.

Near these abandoned defense lines that look like the last days are the craters left by the bombardment of the Tang Imperial Navy in the past few days. You can even see flying shrapnel on the tree trunks, and exploding shell casings can also be found in the soil.

 What’s strange is that there aren’t any Mirage soldiers to be seen here, but occasionally an unlucky orc will be killed by a booby trap.

 The advancement speed was not very fast, but these orc soldiers who were still a little seasick did not find large-scale mirage soldiers near the beach.

They only found some hidden observation posts, which seemed to have been in use and contained new signs of life.

 But because the opponent was only an observation post and they were operating in small groups, they retreated very quickly. Most of them had already been evacuated, even the equipment was taken away.

As time passed, the Tang Army's air support gradually began to exert force. Countless aircraft were searching for targets near the landing site to attack wantonly. The Mirage Army, which had lost its air superiority, really had no power to fight back.

Even the pilots of the Tang Army began to attack the exposed Mirage anti-aircraft gun positions. They used machine guns to strafe the anti-aircraft guns, and then covered each other and dropped bombs to attack, clearing out these dangerous anti-aircraft gun positions.

The mirage army gradually stopped counterattacking. They hid the cannons hidden in the tunnels inside the mountain. No matter how provocative the Tang aircraft were, they would no longer be exposed.

 The artillery positions deployed in the forest stopped undetected and stopped shelling. Everything fell silent. The orc troops on the beach finally no longer had to endure the enemy's shelling and harassment.

  The orcs have gained a firm foothold, and some orc elders and the commander Shanlu who is watching the battle are very satisfied. At least they were not driven into the sea. I heard that the front-line troops were advancing in an orderly manner, and it seemed that victory was waving to them.

As for the Mirage Kingdom, General Mirage Wuk also waited for the news of the landing of the orc troops: he could not judge whether the main force of the Tang Army would come ashore in the future, so there was no way to make tactical adjustments.

However, he still heard exciting good news: except for a few artillery positions that were destroyed by the Tang Air Force, the losses of the Mirage troops were minimal.

It seems that they finally won a victory: they used a small number of troops to cause a lot of damage to the Tang Dynasty's attacking troops - even though they were fighting orc troops, they were also Tang Dynasty troops, weren't they?

The Tang Air Force also reported many results: they suffered almost no losses, successfully destroyed several enemy artillery positions, and covered the landing operations of the orc friendly forces.

Three Tang Empire planes were shot down that day, and three planes crashed due to equipment failures. However, all six pilots were rescued, which sounds miraculous.

The pilots of the three downed planes all parachuted near the beach controlled by the orcs and were successfully rescued by the orcs. The pilots of the three planes that malfunctioned and crashed were rescued at sea, fished out and received medical treatment.

 A three-win battle was born: everyone felt that they had won, and the victory was exciting and beautiful.

  Mirage Wuk reported the results of his day to the Mirage Emperor: the enemy was effectively contained between the beach and the main defense line, the losses were very slight, and the morale of the troops was high.

 After listening to Mirage Wuk’s report, Mirage Emperor looked at Mirage Haiping. As a naval admiral, Mirage Haiping also assured Mirage Emperor that his navy would come out in full force that night and strive to severely damage Tang's landing fleet.

Everyone knows that the battle that night will affect the trend of the war. Therefore, Shanru, as the commander of the orcs, went ashore in the evening, and the Mirage also began to mobilize its troops to prepare for a counterattack against the orc troops on the beach that night.

The Mirage Kingdom really did not dare to go head-to-head with the Tang Army, but they were somewhat confident in facing the orcs. So they formulated a counterattack plan and prepared to test the strength of the orc troops on the beach.

 (End of this chapter)