Chapter 545: 545 Ask for directions

Chapter 545: 545 Ask for directions

 Chapter 545545 Asking for directions

Liu Guozhu felt that the map in his hand must be fake. He compared all the landmarks in front of him, but could not find his exact location.

Not only Liu Guozhu, but the entire 1st Armored Battalion was confused. They didn't know where they were and how far they were from the enemy they were looking for.

Because they wanted to avoid being discovered by the Qi Army's peripheral security forces, they had to make a large circle, but after such a circle, they could no longer find the road on the map.

 At the beginning, you could still hear the rumble of artillery on the battlefield, but now it is not very clear. There are no villages around, and the roads are not as expected.

"Shouldn't this road be a first-class highway?" Liu Guozhu asked the company commander standing next to him depressedly after looking at the map in his hand and then raising his head to look at the roadbed in front of him.

The company commander lowered his head depressedly and checked the map in his hand, and then became confused: "Yes, it shouldn't be. Isn't this a first-class highway?"

Liu Guozhu's platoon participated in the battle in Luozhen before. There was a problem with the platoon leader's command vehicle. The antenna of the communication system was interrupted. It seemed that the equipment also malfunctioned.

Therefore, the platoon leader, who had completely lost his command ability, had to stay in Luo Town to wait for the maintenance team to catch up with him to troubleshoot the fault and repair his radio equipment.

Henceforth, the command of Liu Guozhu's platoon was handed over to Liu Guozhu - after all, he was a combat hero and the only one in the entire company who had won the third-class Hussars Medal.

At this moment, Liu Guozhu was commanding three tanks, namely No. 2 and No. 5. In the previous battle, the transmission system of No. 4 was paralyzed due to a transmission system failure and it has not returned to the team yet.

“Is it possible that the map is wrong and we are actually here?” Liu Guozhu asked with some uncertainty.

"I think it's possible, but starting from here, shouldn't we have contact with the Qi Army? How did we do this, without even seeing the shadow of the Qi Army?" The company commander raised his head and expressed his confusion.

They probably only relied on two aspects of intelligence to judge their location: first, comparing the topography around them with the map; second, based on the strength of the Qi army they encountered, and the confessions of prisoners captured.

 But now, they seem to be really lost. The depressed Liu Guozhu had to climb onto the tank again and adjust again according to the direction agreed upon by himself and the platoon leader.

"Cross this dirt road and take a look, then attack 3 kilometers perpendicular to this dirt road! If we can't hit the Qi army guard troops again, we will think of another way." The result of the discussion between the company commander and the battalion commander is probably like this Yes.

After Liu Guozhu climbed onto his tank, he immediately issued a combat order. He asked the No. 2 vehicle to take charge of his left wing, the No. 5 vehicle to cover his right wing, and the three vehicles to cross the "road" in front of him.

Soon, the three tanks crossed the road and began to advance along the direction perpendicular to the road. They quickly crossed the fields on the other side of the road, then broke through the bushes and crossed a forest.

Before they could completely cross the woods, they found Qi troops moving around the edge of the woods. These people have no intention of building a position, but are instead cooking here.

“Car No. 2! Have you seen the enemy troops directly ahead? That white tent!” Liu Guozhu asked loudly as he advanced.

"I...I...saw..." Because it was not the captain commanding the vehicle, there was more or less current interference in the radio. But because the distance was close enough, Liu Guozhu heard it very clearly.

"Company Headquarters! Company Headquarters! We have discovered the Qi army! They are at the edge of the woods! We should have been discovered! Request an attack! Request an attack!" Switching the channel, Liu Guozhu reported his discovery of the enemy troops.

“…allow…attack…” Because he was far away from the company commander’s command vehicle, Liu Guozhu couldn’t hear clearly what the other party’s order was this time.

However, he knew that the opportunity would never come again before it was missed. If he stopped at this time, he would most likely let the enemy in front of him escape and prepare the enemy behind him for battle.

So, after confirming that he had not heard the company commander's order clearly twice, he immediately gave the order to start the attack.

"Car No. 2! Pay attention to your flanks! Cover me! Car No. 5! Machine gun cover! Shoot! Shoot!" After giving the order to the two friendly tanks, he immediately loudly ordered his crew: "Go forward! Speed ​​up!" ! Homing machine guns ready to fire! Grenade loading!”

 “Grenade loading!” Before the tank started to accelerate, the loading hand quickly loaded a shell into his tank, and then the tank where Liu Guozhu was located began to bump greatly.

 The tank's road wheels jumped up and down with the undulations of the terrain, and the tank's tracks rolled through the soft soil, picking up rotten fallen leaves.

The tree as thick as the wrist was directly broken by the hard body of the No. 4 tank, making a crisp crunching sound. The Qi troops on the edge of the forest have also discovered the approaching danger.

It is a pity that they are not a combat force after all, and they did not expect to encounter the Tang Army's tanks here, so they fell into chaos all of a sudden, screaming and starting to run towards the open space in the distance.

"Tang Jun! Tang Jun is coming!" A Qi Jun soldier threw away the big iron pot in his hand and ran away, shouting as he ran, alerting his unaware companions. Qi Jun, who was cutting vegetables, was still holding a kitchen knife in his hand. It seemed dangerous to throw it away, and he stood there at a loss.

An officer emerged from the white tent. He watched with shock as Liu Guozhu's tank ran over the bushes. The black muzzle was facing his direction.

"Why are there Tang tanks here?" the Qi officer subconsciously asked, but then he found that no one answered his question.

 Because everyone around him was running towards the fields behind him. Just kidding, that's Tang Jun! If you run too slowly, won't you be beaten to death?

They are all cooks in the cooking class, and they are also cooks in the military department. It is no problem to ask them to cook and cook, but it is really too much to ask them to fight.

These Qi soldiers are not even issued with guns. Their weapons are iron pots, kitchen knives, shovels and stoves... What is the difference between fighting with these and dying?

"Run! The Tang Army is coming!" Some Qi soldiers didn't even wear their shirts and just ran away like this, looking extremely embarrassed.

Before the Qi officer could react, Liu Guozhu's tank was already close at hand. It bypassed the white tent and stopped next to the Qi officer.

Lifting the hatch of the tank, Liu Guozhu stuck his head out, looked down at the Qi officers below, pointed to the front and asked, "Is that an artillery position over there?"

The Qi officer shook his head subconsciously.

 “What about the headquarters?” Liu Guozhu asked again.

 The Qi officer raised his hand and pointed tremblingly in a direction in the distance. He reacted instinctively, and then instinctively retracted his fingers.

“Thank you!” Liu Guozhu waved his hand and almost gave the Qi officer a military salute. He did salute, though, just not in a standard way.

What makes people laugh or cry is that, also subconsciously, the Qi officer returned a military salute to Liu Guozhu - the military salute of Qi.

 Sometimes things are really so wonderful. Things that are almost impossible to happen happen on the battlefield in such an incredible way.

A Qi officer pointed the way to a Tang tank soldier, then suddenly came to his senses and started running wildly into the distance. Even the Tang army was too embarrassed to open fire and kill this very cooperative young man.

The three Tang Army tanks that rushed out of the woods rushed one after another towards the Qi Army camp not far away. It was full of tents and countless soldiers could be seen.

The sentries of the Qi army also noticed what was happening on the periphery, but before they could issue a warning, Liu Guozhu's tanks had already arrived in front of them.

The scene immediately became chaotic. The Qi army, which was completely unaware of the possibility of a counterattack by the Tang army and had counterattacked here, was not prepared for a battle at all.

The first thing to suffer was the camp that had just been set up. After the Qi army attacked fiercely all morning without achieving results, the commander of the 3rd Army finally began to think about spending the night in the wilderness.

So he ordered the rearguard troops to set up camp, but as soon as these tents were set up, tanks from the Tang Army came in front of them.

Therefore, these Qi troops who could not even find their weapons in a hurry would just shout "The Tang Army is coming" like the friendly troops in front, and then flee further away in a panic.

The soldiers of the Qi army who had the courage to fight back couldn't actually do much. Do they expect them to pick up the Cyric 1 rifles in their hands and fire at the Tang army's No. 4 tank?

When Liu Guozhu's tank ran over a white tent and drove past a group of Qi soldiers who were squatting and surrendering like a tiger descending a mountain, he didn't even know which Qi army he was attacking. .

The same fog is the defeat of the 3rd Army of Qi State who was attacked. They did not know. They killed a Tang army forces from the side wings and pierced their defense zone.

There is the Qi State field hospital that has just been deployed here, as well as a large number of military vehicles, carriages and other transportation vehicles parked here, as well as Qi State's headquarters and artillery positions.

 In short, this is almost the rear area of ​​the Qi army. It is full of valuables but has few guards. And even this small number of defense troops were actually completely unprepared for battle.

Because a large number of Qi troops were competing with the Tang army on the frontal battlefield for the outer positions of Luo Town, they did not expect that the Tang army, whose defenses were already stretched thin, would have the leisure to send an armored force to harass their rear.

 (End of this chapter)