Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 546 546 Silent artillery fire

 In fact, Liu Guozhu is also a little confused. He doesn't know what to do now. There was a huge crowd of soldiers in front of him, which put him in a dilemma.

  He didn't know whether he should stop and wait for reinforcements or continue to attack. For him, both options carried huge risks.

If he chooses to stop, he and the other two tanks will not be able to control at least 1,000 Qi Army prisoners in front of them. Maybe the surrounding Qi Army troops will recover and find that there are only 3 Tang Army tanks attacking them. , will immediately launch a counterattack.

 If such a thing really happened, then they would be in complete danger. The lone army penetrates deep into the Qi army's hinterland, isolated and helpless, and retreating may not be able to escape the pursuit of the Qi army - this is no different from dying.

But if Liu Guozhu chooses to continue the attack, it is equivalent to continuing to charge into the hinterland of the Qi army, which is equivalent to actively throwing himself into the encirclement. If they really wait for the Qi army to react and start counterattacks from all directions, it will be more difficult for them to withdraw from the battle. .

But there was not much time left for Liu Guozhu to think, because he could not stop now. Once he stopped, at least hundreds of Qi troops around him would definitely slow him down.

"Keep going! We can't let these prisoners hold us back! Otherwise we will be doomed!" Liu Guozhu became fierce and ordered his pilot: "If you don't give way, run over! The heading machine gun can fire at any time!"

The driver also realized that if they stopped in such a place and were attacked by thousands of soldiers, they would definitely suffer no good consequences.

So he accelerated forward, the tracks of the tank rolled rapidly, and the engine roared, scaring the surrounding troops to avoid him.

“That’s the field hospital! Do you see the tent over there?” As if he had discovered a new continent, Liu Guozhu saw another camp at the end of the camp.

That was a field hospital just established by the Qi State Army. It was said to be a hospital, but it was actually a place to place the wounded.

 Because it is a temporary building, there is a serious shortage of manpower, and there are not even many doctors and nurses. Obviously, in these details, the Qi army cannot be compared with the Tang army.

The infantry companies of the Tang Army had field medical soldiers, and there were quite a few of them. Each platoon had more than one, or even two!

Looking at the Qi Army, it is considered good to have two doctors in an infantry battalion. Most troops even have only one, or only one in the regiment.

 This is obviously unable to meet combat needs, and the proportion of injured Qi soldiers receiving treatment is also pitiful.

 In the past, we relied on trenches to fight positional warfare. Because there were field hospitals built in advance and equipped with some medical equipment, the pressure on medical treatment could be relieved.

 But now that they had withdrawn from the bunker and had to fight the Tang army in the wild, this shortcoming was immediately exposed. Qi's field logistics supply system is really too fragile.

Countless wounded soldiers were crowded into such a makeshift camp. There were very few tents, and many wounded soldiers could only lie in the field waiting for rescue.

However, they did not wait for the doctors and doctors from the Qi army. Instead, what they waited for was a crowd of friendly troops from the nearby camp.

 Some of the seriously injured were trampled to death by the defeated soldiers, and some of the lightly wounded who got up were knocked down and then trampled to death.

The wounded soldiers from Qi State, who finally figured out the situation, no longer bothered to complain about the **** behavior of the friendly troops at this moment, because they also learned the shocking news from the shouts that the Tang Army was coming.

"The Tang Army is coming!" A Qi soldier with blood on his arm had already been frightened by the Tang Army and immediately started running after him.

They started to attack the Tang Army's position in the morning, but so many people died that they didn't even touch the edge of the Tang Army's position, and they had already lost their fighting spirit.

 So, as soon as he saw that the defeat had occurred, he immediately turned around and ran away, without even bothering to try to struggle.

As expected, other wounded soldiers immediately started shouting, as if such shouts could vent the fear in their hearts: "The Tang Army is coming to kill us!"

"The front line is defeated! Lost!" At the same time, more Qi troops started shouting. They desperately tried to climb up the roadbed on the other side, trying to escape from the sight of the Tang Army's tanks.

 A doctor Qi Guo, whose hands were full of blood and was amputating a wounded man's leg, heard the shouts and got out of the tent. He saw Liu Guozhu's No. 4 tank at a glance.

He was startled. He stumbled and fell to the ground. He pointed at the tank that was running over and shouted loudly: "Tank! Tang Army's tank!"

This Tang Army tank, which was very close at hand, just ran over him. The track rolled up and threw the dirt on his face, and then it walked away without stopping.

In this way, Liu Guozhu's No. 4 tank chased at least 1,000 Qi soldiers and crossed the first-class highway they had been looking for before. They did not expect that the Qi army was so large that it had covered the road they were looking for, and there were even many Qi troops coming along this road.

Now, Liu Guozhu found this road, and with one shot blasted away a carriage loaded with ammunition parked on the road, and at the same time crossed the road without stopping.

 What is depressing is that Liu Guozhu found that he could not contact the No. 5 tank under his command. There was only the response from the No. 2 tank on the radio, and he could not see the position of the No. 5 tank on the chaotic battlefield.

Liu Guozhu is not the God of War. He just almost lost his life because of his recklessness in the Battle of Luozhen. So he learned from experience this time and was not prepared to open the hatch to look for the No. 5 tank in a sea of ​​soldiers.

 In his opinion, the current situation is that the Ni Bodhisattva cannot protect himself when crossing the river. Whether the No. 5 tank will be destroyed can only depend on God's will.

It was impossible for him to go back and look for the No. 5 car that he could not contact, because the moment after crossing the highway, Liu Guozhu saw a terrifying scene.

There are Qi soldiers all over the mountains and plains here, surrounding at least 20 large-caliber howitzers with their barrels raised. Ammunition storage trucks were parked everywhere, and ammunition boxes littered the ground.

 Obviously this is the artillery position of the Qi Army that their 1st Armored Battalion has been looking for. It is the most important target that must be destroyed in their counterattack.

 In order to get here, sacrificing a No. 5 car is nothing at all. As long as this place can be destroyed, the outcome in Luo Town can basically be determined.

"Forward! Forward!" Liu Guozhu shouted excitedly on the radio. Then he switched the channel and shouted to the company headquarters: "I have found the Qi Army's artillery position! I have found them!"

"Thud, tug, tug, tug!" Without waiting for Liu Guozhu's order, the electromechanical operator controlled the heading machine gun and began to fire. The tracer bullets rushed into the crowd of the Qi army, causing the Qi army who was still in a sluggish state to instantly flip over.

Just now they heard someone shouting that the tanks of the Tang Army were coming. Before they could figure out what happened, they saw the tanks of the Tang Army rushing down the roadbed and starting to fire.

These Qi artillerymen who were shelling the Tang Army's positions never thought that the Tang Army would appear in this place. Some Qi Army loaders still stood there stupidly holding the shells.

 Throughout the morning, the Qi Army's artillery positions could be said to have been tortured. They had been constantly harassed by Tang Army aircraft in the early morning.

From time to time, bombs fell, destroying their cannons and killing their comrades - this is the main reason why the Qi army has not completely overwhelmed the Tang army's artillery fire until now.

Liu Guozhu's tank bypassed a huge crater left by a Stuka. The bullets fired hit the Qi army's artillery gun, causing a cloud of sparks.

At this time, the Qi army was really in complete chaos. They fled in all directions, and only a few security troops fired back with rifles in vain.

It is a pity that their attacks could not stop the No. 4 tank commanded by Liu Guozhu from raging on the Qi army's position, and they could not even slow down the tank.

"Boom!" After aiming at a target that was close at hand, the gunner in front of Liu Guozhu stepped on the firing pedal. A shell blasted out and directly hit a Qi Army's 250 mm caliber mortar.

This thing is about the same length as a water tank. In the smoke of the explosion, the short and fat barrel lost the support of the gun mount and rolled to the ground like a big bell.

More Qi troops raised their hands. They didn't know how many Tang troops were fighting, so they could only choose the safest surrender to save their own lives.

Everything was in chaos, Qi's artillery fire stopped suddenly, and the soldiers of Qi's 3rd Army who were still attacking suddenly panicked.

There was constant artillery fire suppression before, and they had a chance to barely get close to the Tang Army's defensive position. Now that the supporting artillery fire has stopped, they are under the firepower of the Tang army. What should they do?

  Retreat? After finally attacking to this point, we are about to break through the Tang Army's defense line and push the Tang Army back into Luo Town. We are not willing to give in.

 Continue the attack? Without artillery support, they would only rely on human lives to fill the Tang army's fire trap. How many people would be needed to fill it?

I'm afraid that if all of them are killed here, they may not be able to force the Tang army to retreat even half a step, right?

Thinking of this, a Qi frontline commander became angry and looked back behind him: "What are those **** artillerymen doing? Keep firing!"

No one answered his words, because there was still no sound coming from the Qi army's artillery position, as if all the artillery shells had been fired.

"These cowards! Don't they know that victory is right in front of them?" After waiting for another ten seconds, he found that his own artillery fire was still silent. The Qi officer pulled out the pistol from his waist: "No matter what! Brothers ! Fight with these Tang people today!"

 (End of this chapter)