Alien Arms Empire

Chapter 600 Battle of Beiyuan City

Mirage Takesaburo's guess was correct. In fact, while the artillery fire was being prepared, the tanks of the Tang Army began to attack. Tang Jun's speed was even faster than Mirage Saburo thought.

Covering the infantry's steady advance, the tank's tracks rolled over the battlefield that was already full of craters. The positions that had been damaged by bombing and artillery had not yet been completely repaired. The Mirage soldiers hiding in the trenches were suddenly attacked by the Tang army. Terrified.

The machine gun position soon began to roar. They tried to stop the attacking Tang Army, but the tanks of the Tang Army covered each other and cooperated seamlessly. Soon a tank stopped, and the turret slowly turned towards the firing machine gun position.

The Tang Army infantry hiding behind the tanks all fell down, and they were in quite a tacit understanding. After discovering the machine gun position, they used submachine guns to suppress the enemy's firepower.

The coaxial machine gun on the tank turret finally started to attack. The tracer bullets rushed towards the burning bunker perforation, and then the gunner who found the target stepped on the firing pedal.

There was a loud bang, and the 75mm caliber artillery sprayed out a cloud of white smoke. A shell rushed straight into the bunker, and then exploded near the perforation of the bunker.

 The huge destructive power caused the bunker to become silent instantly. After confirming that the other side was completely silent, the No. 4 tank began to move forward again.

The Tang Army soldiers behind it got up and began to move forward. Directly in front of them, another cloud of black smoke rose into the sky. It was a shell fired by another tank and hit another target.

The soldiers of the Mirage Kingdom had never seen such a terrifying war machine. They were stationed in the trenches and were now completely panicked.

The commander of the Mirage Army had no choice but to draw his long sword and loudly ordered all the soldiers to fix their bayonets and prepare for hand-to-hand combat: "Fix bayonets! Wait until they get close to the trench and fight with them!"

This was about the most realistic solution he could think of, because there were no anti-tank guns on his position, so there was nothing he could do against the Tang Army's tanks.

 Whether it is a machine gun or a rifle, the power of the No. 4 tank is too small. They were completely unable to stop the Tang army's attack, so they could only watch as Tang's tanks sent the infantry to the front of their position.

Soon, the Tang Army’s No. 4 tank approached the huge anti-tank trench. This huge pit really caused huge trouble for the Tang Army's tanks.

There was no other way. The tanks participating in the battle had to start to make a detour. They had already deliberately searched for the collapsed trench areas, and then began to cross the anti-tank trench in these areas.

 Due to lack of cooperation, the artillery of the Mirage did not take advantage of the Tang Army's tanks to slow down and concentrate, thus wasting such an excellent opportunity to launch a counterattack.

Soon, the tanks of the Tang Army rushed out of the areas where some anti-tank trenches were destroyed, and formed their formation again.

This time, the Mirage army could not stop the attack of these Tang Army tanks no matter what. Soon, the tanks of the Tang Army ran over the trenches of the Mirage defenders while firing.

The next second, the Mirage soldiers who had already inserted bayonets on their rifles raised their hands and threw them, and were beaten by the submachine guns in the hands of the Tang Army soldiers who jumped into the trench.

 They managed to avoid the tracks of the tank and were not crushed to death by the tank. But soon the dense bullets gave up the idea of ​​fighting with bayonets.

The Tang Army's automatic weapons equipment rate is really too high. Most of the German grenadiers in World War II could only be equipped with Mauser rifles, but most of the Tang Army's grenadiers were already equipped with Thompson submachine guns.

The two sides are not of the same magnitude at all. The firepower of the Tang army was too fierce, and the Mirage defenders were completely unable to withstand it.

A group of Mirage soldiers hiding in the trenches were holding rifles with bayonets inserted, waiting for the opportunity to fight the approaching Tang Army soldiers.

 But what they were waiting for was a grenade flying into their trench. Before they could react, the explosion blew away most of them.

The remaining people staggered around, and when they were about to get up, they were shot down by Tang soldiers who jumped into the trench.

More than a dozen soldiers did not even shout out a slogan of "Long Live the Mirage", and were destroyed in this huge crater.

This crater was left by a 500-kilogram aerial bomb dropped by a Stuka dive bomber. It turned out that the top of the crater was a concrete bunker.

After being blown up by an aerial bomb, a huge circular crater across the trench was left here: the Mirage soldiers did not have time to repair the crater, so they directly used it as a hiding foxhole.

Now this place was occupied by the Tang Army. The infantry who followed the tanks to attack here eliminated all the Mirage soldiers in the pit, and then started cleaning up on both sides along the trenches.

 The soldiers of the Tang Army were very skilled in handling this kind of battle situation. The weapons in their hands are all made for this. Grenades and submachine guns are the best solutions to trench warfare in this era.

These Tang Army soldiers leaned against the wall of the trench, shooting at the overcoming Mirage soldiers, covering each other and advancing alternately. If there were too many people on the opposite side, they would use grenades to solve the problem. Tang Jun used a simple and unsolvable rhythm of strafing and grenades to quickly clear a trench. When they can no longer find the Mirage soldiers, the battle in this position will often come to an end.

The other part of the Tang Army followed the tanks and launched an attack on the second trench, cutting vertically through the Mirage's defense line. This made the Mirage troops on the flanks worry that their defense lines would be penetrated, and began to collapse on both sides.

Once the breakthrough is opened, things will be much simpler - the soldiers of the Mirage who have lost the cover of the trenches are even less likely to be the opponents of the Tang army.

In the sky, the fighter jets of the Tang Army roared past. They were looking for the artillery positions of the Mirage. If they dared to fire, they would be attacked.

These aircraft even flew over the position at low altitudes unscrupulously, wildly strafing mirage targets on the ground. With the existence of these threats, the artillery fire of the mirage is actually as depressing as the gasp of a patient on his deathbed.

In fact, the tactics of the Tang Army have made new progress compared to before. The engineers following the assault force swarmed up and used their method to "return farmland to forest".

They used detonators and explosives to clear out the fortifications left by the Mirage troops, blowing up the craters beyond recognition.

With the destruction of these engineers, even if the mirage troops counterattacked and recaptured these positions, they could only dig trenches and build bunkers again.

As expected, the Mirage's counterattack began an hour after the Tang army launched its attack. More than 5,000 Mirage soldiers came from all directions, desperate to recapture the defensive positions occupied by the Tang army.

They attacked at all costs and once forced the Tang Army's tanks to retreat. However, these mirage troops who counterattacked soon became weak and were eventually driven back to the place where they launched the attack.

That night, fearing that the Mirage army would launch a night attack, Redman ordered the 4th Armored Division to retreat back, returning about half of the area recaptured during the day to the Mirage defenders who had been beaten for a day.

 During this day, Mirage lost at least 4,000 soldiers, and a large part of the defense line on the west side was still lost.

 Just looking at the losses, the troops deployed by the Mirage Kingdom near Beiyuan City can actually be described as suffering heavy losses. Although there are hundreds of thousands of Mirage troops, if they lose 4,000 people every day, their troops will be almost scrapped in less than 10 days.

It was on this night that Mirage Musaburo, who had been actively fighting back, came to his senses: He seemed to have been tricked!

The Tang Army tried to attract mirage troops to field defense positions to fight, and especially liked to attack mirage troops performing counterattack missions. This caused heavy losses to the Mirage troops, but at the same time it did not cause damage to Beiyuan City behind them!

 So he had to give up his original counterattack plan and seriously consider the feasibility of shrinking the defense line.

On the other side, Redman was also counting his losses: the 4th Armored Division lost two tanks during the offensive, both of which malfunctioned and were scrapped on the battlefield.

 The crew blew up the two tanks as they retreated, leaving them untouched by the mirages. By the time the Mirage troops approached, the two tanks were basically burned down to their frames.

 No way, the gasoline engine is so willful.

 In addition, the following grenadiers lost 155 people. Although the Tang army had the advantage, it was still difficult to avoid casualties on the chaotic battlefield.

 Another reason why the exchange ratio between the two sides was so terrifying was that the battlefield medical care levels of the two sides were very different: the Tang army had a complete rescue mechanism, with military doctors accompanying the team and helmets for protection.

But looking at the mirage country on the other hand, they have nothing: the soldiers do not have helmets and wear soft hats, and the medical soldiers, as talents, are in the rear and away from the battlefield, and there is no tradition or mechanism for transporting the wounded.

 In such contrast, the casualty figures appear to be very honest.

On the first day of the battle, the Mirage army suffered a huge loss. They gave up the stupid idea of ​​recapturing their lost positions, and instead began to use the night to crazily reinforce their defensive positions.

They didn't repair it before because they judged that the Tang Army would not attack easily. Now that the Tang Army really attacked, they could only renovate their damaged trenches honestly and use this as a basis to strengthen their defense.

However, this night was destined to not be peaceful: news came from the defensive position on the south side of Beiyuan City. The Mirage army stationed there discovered the Tang army heading north and took over the defense of the Qi army on the opposite position.

That's right, the eldest prince's troops have all been annihilated. Now the Tang army has completely surrounded Beiyuan City from two directions in the southwest.

This also means that the 1st Armored Division, another main force of the Tang Army, has also reached the front line of the Mirage's defense line. Suddenly, Mirage Saburo, who was responsible for the defense of Beiyuan City, felt double the pressure.

 (End of this chapter)