Alien Arms Empire

Chapter 707 Chapter 707 Battle for Xicong

 In fact, on the day Fengjiang was bombed, some parts of the Dahua Empire were also visited by Tang aircraft. Those aircraft were not long-range strategic bombers, but tactical bombers.

Butcher and Stuka took off frequently to conduct reconnaissance and bombing on the central and northern borders of Dahua and Tang, destroying all targets they could find.

The buzzing reputation of the Stuka dive bombers echoed in the sky, frightening the soldiers of the Chinese Empire who saw this type of aircraft for the first time.

They also knew for the first time that dive bombing from the sky was so deadly. They huddled in the trenches like rats hiding in burrows.

But for them, the disaster soon passed, the clouds thickened again, the Tang Army's plane disappeared again, and everything seemed to be back to a day ago.

The Dahua soldiers rejoiced as they repaired the destroyed trenches and fixed fortifications, and collected the bodies of their comrades.

 The commanders of the Dahua Empire forces in the southern region also began to realize the seriousness of the problem. Because the rain in these two days was obviously much less than the previous few days.

The weather today is always gloomy, but it doesn’t rain much anymore, so they all know that the locust-like Tang Air Force is about to start dispatching.

 So they began to speed up the attack on Xicong and pushed the troops to the city of Xicong at all costs. Two days after capturing Lijiacun, the forward troops of the Dahua Empire reached the outskirts of Xicong.

Dozens of Dahua Type 1 tanks were destroyed by the Tang Army's No. 4 assault gun during the attack and were paralyzed on the offensive road. The Dahua Army retreated about one kilometer, and then launched another attack.

The Tang army quickly retreated to the outskirts of Xicong and deployed its own defense line based on the houses there. The Dahua army rested for the night and began the attack at dawn the next day.

A battalion of Dahua troops tentatively approached the edge of the city under the cover of seven or eight tanks. It was still a cluster of tile-roofed houses, but further away, four- or even eight-story high-rise buildings in Xicong could be seen.

The Tang army's snipers and infantry repelled the attack. The Dahua army had to retreat to the place where they launched the attack after leaving more than a hundred corpses.

But at noon, they started the attack again, this time investing about 2 regiments of troops. Thousands of people, under the cover of hundreds of tanks, once again approached the edge of the city of Xicong.

 Different from the last trial attack, this time the Dahua army hoped to establish an offensive bridgehead on the edge of the city. They hoped to occupy an urban area and prepare for the subsequent street fighting.

 But they were repulsed. Although they invested more than 2,000 offensive troops at one time and used a regiment of tanks, they still failed.

During the attack, the Dahua army saw a brand-new equipment of the Tang army, a fantasy weapon that was so terrifying that it was unreasonable.

That's right, when their tanks were about to rush into the edge of the city, they encountered a hidden Tang Army anti-tank position.

In other words, in fact, it was not an anti-tank position, but an air defense position... When the enemy tanks rushed up, the anti-aircraft artillery soldiers regarded the Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun as a flat-firing cannon and aimed the muzzle at the large guns. Hua 1 tank.

At a very close range, the anti-aircraft gun suddenly opened fire and began strafing at an anti-aircraft rate of fire. The opponent's twenty-some tanks didn't even notice where the enemy was, and they were all destroyed by shells from the side.

Within about five minutes, the two dozen or so aggressive tanks were wiped out. The attacking Dahua army instantly lost the will to continue fighting and had to withdraw from the battle.

The fierce battle continued in the afternoon. This time the Dahua army invested some artillery and once again sent two regiments with more than 2,000 people to attack.

The two sides collided again, and the Tang army once again defended its position. If you think that Tiger's carefully laid out Xicong defense line will lose its outer defensive positions on the first day, you would be underestimating the Tang general.

After a day of fierce attacks without any results, Qian Jinhang, the frontline commander of the Dahua Empire who rushed to the front line, also realized that it was impossible to capture Xicong through brute force.

 So he did not continue the attack rashly the next day, but waited for subsequent reinforcements to arrive one after another. The number of Dahua troops is increasing, and there are more and more heavy weapons and equipment.

Just when Qian Jinhang felt that he had assembled enough troops to try to attack, the Tang Army's artillery fire accurately flooded his troops' station.

The coordinates have been measured long ago, and in conjunction with the observation post's accurate parameter report, Tang Jun used textbook-style artillery coverage to educate his colleagues in the Dahua Empire.

After Qian Jinhang witnessed the artillery fire coverage of the Tang army with his own eyes, he also intuitively realized how huge the artillery gap between the two sides was. Although the Tang army's momentum was not large, the number of shells fired was not too many, and there was no sense of oppression that would destroy the world. But the impact point of the cannonball is extremely accurate, and the area covered is extremely valuable. It can be said to be a precise point.

After this round of shelling, Qian Jinhang had to postpone the attack again and waited for another two days before barely having the capital to attack.

The Dahua army learned wisely this time, because they were destroyed by dozens of tanks and cars in the last bombardment, killed more than 500 people, and directly scrapped two regiments... So this time they dispersed their stations and advanced covertly When they arrived near the Tang Army's position, the attack began.

The infantry of the three regiments rushed towards their target under the cover of more than a hundred artillery pieces. The Tang defenders also quickly began to counterattack. Both sides showed their magic on the defense line on the edge of the city. In the end, the Dahua army captured a The small piece of ruins can be regarded as a forward position on the outermost edge of Xicong City.

However, Qian Jinhang, who had been supervising the battle on the front line, realized that this might be an insidious trap left by the Tang army for the Dahua army.

Although the Dahua troops captured an advanced position, the reinforcements to this position and the efforts to transport logistical supplies were all hit hard by the firepower from both wings of the Tang army.

If the Dahua Army wants to send a box of bullets to this bridgehead, it will lose seven or eight people on the way, and it may also lose two boxes of bullets!

Therefore, as a last resort, Qian Jinhang had no choice but to bite the bullet and launch an offensive operation to expand this bridgehead the next day.

 After losing a regiment and thousands of men, he captured the flank defensive position of the bridgehead and finally gained a firm foothold.

 But the ensuing artillery fire coverage caused the attacking troops of the Dahua Empire to pay a heavy price!

Every step forward, the Dahua Empire has to pay a heavy price. They are still fighting hard outside Xicong. They have just captured dozens of buildings and surrounding ruins, and they have already paid a price of more than 4,000 people.

This is not good news. Although the Dahua Empire's army has an absolute numerical advantage, this rate of loss is simply unbearable.

In two weeks, the attacking Dahua army has lost more than 40,000 troops. This number accounts for almost one-tenth of the total strength of the entire offensive force!

  What is this concept? This is equivalent to saying that in fact, Qian Jinhang's troops have already suffered losses of at least half, which can be described as heavy! These troops have little combat effectiveness left and are in urgent need of additional troops and weapons and equipment.

 And this was just the loss of soldiers. Counting the losses of cars, tanks and artillery, Qian Jinhang had an even bigger headache.

From the beginning of the battle until now, the Dahua Empire has lost nearly 200 artillery pieces of various calibers, some of which were destroyed by themselves and some were destroyed by the Tang army.

 The situation is similar for cars. More than 500 cars of various models were damaged on the road, and another 200 were barely used with malfunctions, and there was a risk of damage at any time.

 The muddy roads forced the army of the Dahua Empire to face a situation where their cars were damaged and paralyzed. Their cars were inherently unreliable, and now they are even more paralyzed on the roads.

Not to mention tanks. In the battle for Lijiacun, the Dahua Empire lost more than 110 tanks, not counting the more than 100 tanks that were paralyzed on the offensive road due to malfunctions. In the Dahua Empire’s several days of offensive near Xicong, Just 200 tanks were lost!

 Yes, this number is the total amount of tank equipment for two entire armored divisions! In other words, two tank divisions of the Dahua Army had "evaporated" before they knew it.

At this pace, Qian Jinhang felt that he might become a polished commander before he even saw Sishui.

 But he had no choice. The Great China Empire's strategic decision was to capture Xicong. At this moment, Xicong was in front of him, and he had no reason not to capture the city.

As a result, the Dahua army launched an attack again. They moved forward desperately along the streets, repelling the Tang army on both wings and capturing more suburban buildings.

Every house has to be fought for, and every house that seems to be relatively intact has been beaten into ruins.

　　The grenade was thrown from this house into the next house by the soldiers. After the earth-shaking explosion, the two sides fired wildly across the wall between the kitchen and the living room.

On the road in the large city, the tanks of the Tang Army and the tanks of the Dahua Empire met in a narrow road. At an intersection, both sides fired at each other to destroy their opponents, leaving only the remains of two tanks burning in the middle of their respective roads.

 The fighting lasted from morning to midnight, and then stopped for less than two hours before starting again.

The soldiers of the Dahua Empire who captured a block had not yet established a foothold when the Tang army's counterattack arrived. Soon the soldiers of the Dahua Empire were driven out of the streets, and the Tang army occupied it again.

The flag of the Dahua Empire, full of bullet holes, was thrown at the feet of the Tang army soldiers, and a red dragon flag full of bullet holes was raised again. All this has just begun! .

 (End of this chapter)