Alien Arms Empire

Chapter 1154 Chapter 1155 Mirage Army’s Counterattack

Shanru did not intend to let the 2nd Infantry Division defend the west position alone. From the perspective of troop deployment, he tried his best to place two divisions in each direction, indicating that he also planned to place two divisions on the west side from the beginning. defensive.

However, the 5th Infantry Division he planned to place on the west side came ashore relatively late. This is because a large amount of transportation capacity was left to Shanru's treasure, the 1st Armored Division, the main force of the Orc Army.

 At midnight of the same day, the 5th Infantry Division was sent to the coast. The orc soldiers who had been floating on the sea for two days were exhausted, so they could only stay where they were to rest.

Therefore, the 5th Infantry Division became a reserve force and was temporarily placed on the left side of the 1st Armored Division, close to where the 2nd Infantry Division was stationed.

However, they were still about 8 kilometers away from the 2nd Infantry Division. Including the division commander, the 5th Infantry Division who came ashore fell asleep around 3 o'clock in the morning.

Why didn't Shanlu rush to let the 5th Infantry Division join the 2nd Infantry Division? Because judging from the map, the direction where the 2nd Infantry Division is stationed is not a main direction.

Judging from the landing position, attacking eastward is equivalent to attacking the direction of the mirage. Logically speaking, this direction should be the main defense direction of the mirage.

If the Mirage launches a counterattack, there is a high probability that the counterattack will come from this direction: so Shanlu placed the 3rd Infantry Division and the 8th Infantry Division, which were fully equipped after landing, in this direction.

The 1st Infantry Division in the north had the strongest combat effectiveness, but also suffered the greatest losses during the landing, so Shanru ordered them to defend on the spot and strengthened the 6th Infantry Division. The formation was relatively stable.

The pressure in the west is the least, because the area controlled by the mirage is the smallest here. Based on the mirage capital, Shanlu judged that the mirage army would not have any main force deployed in this direction.

 But he was wrong! The 4th Armored Division, the main force of the Mirage Army, is in this direction! Because from the perspective of the mirage, what they want to defend is all the areas where the Tang army may land, so that the armored troops can hide as much as possible and wait.

It happened that the landing area chosen by the Tang Army was between the 1st Armored Division and the 4th Armored Division. It was impossible for Shanlu to know this information. He could only roughly judge the location of the mirage army. He actually couldn't guess the number and number of the mirage army. from.

On the morning of the third day of landing, on the forward position of the Orc 2nd Armored Division, an Orc soldier yawned, rubbed his eyes, and then saw a mirage tank appearing on the hill in the distance.

The opponent is very fast. After all, in terms of performance, it is actually at the same level as the No. 4 tank that the Tang Empire provided to the Orcs, and is even slightly more advanced technically.

There is no other way, who asked the Tang Army to eliminate all the Leopard tanks by themselves? You must know that the most elite troops of the Tang Army are now equipped with Type 64 tanks that have been improved in many details.

To be honest, the all-white Cyric Type 5 tanks looked very impressive. After the orc soldier saw those tanks, he immediately shouted: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

 As he shouted, the orc soldiers poked their heads out of the simple trenches they had dug. They have no solid defenses at all. After all, they were still in an offensive state before nightfall yesterday.

"Goblin tanks! Goblin tanks!" An orc soldier saw the approaching steel beasts and shouted loudly in fear.

He found nothing in his armament that could destroy these enemy tanks: apart from two grenades, he only had less than a hundred rounds of ammunition and a Mauser rifle.

Most of these early weapons of the Tang Army were not new when they entered the hands of the orcs, and were not even in the inventory of the Tang Army.

 They were all eliminated from the Chu Kingdom. Although the rifling has not been smoothed out, the quality does look older.

There is no way. Datang Group has indeed not produced Mauser rifles for a long time. Now this kind of weapon is only produced by Cyric. The new rifles in the hands of the orcs actually come from the Cyric Consortium.

 “Damn it!” Seeing the Mirage tanks approaching, the orc commanders on the front line cursed anxiously. They lack heavy weapons. How can we equip them with luxury items like anti-tank guns?

It’s not that the Tang Empire couldn’t afford a few anti-tank guns, the main reason was that it was not easy to transport them to the main island. In order to provide certain anti-tank capabilities to the orc infantry, the Tang Army equipped these orcs with some RPG rocket launchers.

It's a pity that the orc commander who has never seen or eaten them left all these high-end gadgets at the division and regiment headquarters... He was unwilling to give them to the front-line combat troops to use casually like the Tang Army did.

"Hurry! Contact the regiment headquarters quickly! Let the anti-tank team support! Hurry! Hurry!" The battalion commander saw the Mirage tank rushing towards him and ordered the signal corpsman loudly.

After hearing the order, the communication soldiers turned around and ran away: The orcs were not equipped with a large amount of communication equipment like the Tang army, so their communication... was as primitive as the mirage country opposite.

However, the Mirage Army attacks tank troops, and they have radios, so the Mirage Army's coordination ability far exceeds that of the Orc 2nd Infantry Division. From the moment the battle broke out, the orcs were at a disadvantage. The battlefield was full of scenes of Mirage tanks slaughtering the defeated orc troops. The orcs shouted one after another, and many orcs even raised their hands to surrender.

This allowed the soldiers and commanders of the Mirage Kingdom to regain a long-lost feeling. They gritted their teeth and killed the surrendered orc soldiers, and continued to attack the orc positions with their tanks.

Having been at war with the Tang army, the commanders of the Mirage Kingdom were almost psychologically affected: they forgot the taste of victory and once thought they were weak.

 But when they faced an orc army that was almost as small as them, they found that they were actually quite capable of fighting.

The short goblin tank crews actually have an advantage: they can maneuver inside the narrow tanks with ease and are very flexible. This is something that tank crews from other countries cannot do. The only ones who can compete with them are the dwarves of the Ice Empire.

Following the 4th Armored Division of the Mirage Army in the attack were two regiments of infantry temporarily mobilized by the Mirage Army. They also moved very quickly. Taking advantage of their familiarity with the terrain, they rushed in front of the Orc troops and then launched their attack. A massacre.

Caught off guard, the defense line of the Orc 2nd Infantry Division was breached. Some of the remaining orc troops were surrounded, and the other part retreated backwards, losing all the villages they captured yesterday afternoon.

The armored troops of the Mirage State excitedly continued to move forward, and then they were violently bombed by Tang State carrier-based aircraft as they continued to attack.

More than 30 Stuka dive bombers dropped more than 30 500-kilogram bombs in one go. Together with machine gun strafing, a total of more than 50 Mirage Cyric 5 tanks were destroyed.

 Including the several tanks lost previously, by the time the battle reached around 8 o'clock, the Mirage Army had lost more than 60 tanks.

 This is almost one-third of the total strength of the 4th Armored Division of the Mirage to launch the attack! Under such huge losses, the commander of Mirage's 4th Armored Division had to send a message asking Mirage whether the attack should continue.

Mirwuk thought about it carefully. If he ordered a retreat at this time, the 4th Armored Division might not be able to have many tanks left if it returned to its starting position.

Mirwuk, who had been brainwashed by suicide tactics, gritted his teeth and issued a frantic order for the 4th Armored Division to continue the attack regardless of everything.

This order was tantamount to a death sentence for the Mirage 4th Armored Division, and it was also tantamount to a heavy blow to the defeated Orc 2nd Infantry Division.

After receiving the order, the commander of the Mirage Kingdom also showed the crazy side of the Mirage Goblin. He resolutely carried out the order. The remaining officers and soldiers of the 4th Armored Division also continued to attack the beach regardless of losses.

 Soon more Tang Army carrier-based aircraft came over, and they caused huge trouble for the attack of the Mirage Armored Forces.

At the same time, the remnants of the surrounded Orc 2nd Infantry Division stabilized their position after destroying more than a dozen goblin tanks with RPG rocket launchers, which was able to regain a little face for the defeated 2nd Infantry Division.

The whole battle was simply a huge fight: Mirage's tanks chased the Orc infantry with a bit of a rampage momentum like the Tang Army's armored forces, while Tang Army's planes slaughtered Mirage's targets on the ground as if they were in a no-man's land. …

In the end, Shanlu mobilized two regiments of the 5th Infantry Division to take over the defense line of the defeated 2nd Infantry Division, and used RPG to destroy several Mirage tanks that had almost penetrated half of the landing site, finally stabilizing the situation. .

The Mirage's 4th Armored Division, which really had no offensive capabilities, did not need to retreat at all: after the Orks destroyed the last few tanks, they lost almost all their tanks on the offensive road.

The Orc troops began a counterattack in the afternoon. Under the cover of Tang Army aircraft, they regained the position that had been penetrated by the Mirage troops.

By dinner time, the Ork 5th Infantry Division rescued the besieged 2nd Infantry Division headquarters and remaining troops.

 The two sides fought fiercely for a day, and both sides suffered heavy losses. At nightfall, I saw the results of the battle: the fronts of both sides were the same as they were in the early morning, without an inch of change...

  Mirage lost approximately 190 Cyric 5 tanks, and the main force of the 4th Armored Division was almost completely destroyed. The Mirage garrison on the west side has almost lost the ability to attack.

As for the Orcs, half of the more than 10,000 people in the 2nd Infantry Division were missing or killed, and there were so many wounded that they covered a beach. The seemingly strong 2nd Infantry Division was almost annihilated by the mirage army, and the remaining troops also lost their combat capabilities.

  Continuously high-intensity support for ground operations, the ammunition reserves on the Tang Army's aircraft carrier were almost exhausted. Lu Qianshan brought Shanlu bad news: the air support experience card... is about to expire.

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