Chapter 588: 588 Thousands of miles away
Chapter 588 588 Thousands of Miles Away
“Boom!” There was a loud noise that shook the earth, and Mirage Wuliang could not hear it at all. The bomb directly hit the high ground where he was, razing the place to the ground.
Or, it is more appropriate to say that the small mound turned into a large pit: the body of Ming Wuliang could not be found at all, and even the bodies of the guards around him could not be found at all.
A little further, the guards of Qi who had already left some distance were staggering around, and many of them were shocked to death.
His Royal Highness the Second Prince of Qi State, who was advancing along the trench, had blood oozing from his ears. He stumbled up from the ground, as if there was no sound in the world.
"Ah! Ah!" He was so frightened that he shouted loudly, spinning around and trying to stand up by touching the wall of the trench.
His ears were buzzing all the time, the air was filled with the smell of choking earth, and his eyes were filled with soot and dust, making it difficult to see the road under his feet.
But no one cares about His Highness the Prince anymore, because all the guards are swaying around and have nothing to do with themselves.
The Mirage soldiers guarding the trenches were also lying on the ground. Some of the soft walls of the trench pits had collapsed. Before the second prince could stand up, he was tripped by a guard huddled under his feet and knelt on the ground again.
"Help! Help me!" He shouted loudly, but he couldn't confirm whether he really shouted. Thinking that he couldn't hear his shouts and couldn't hear anything.
The explosion just now caused his eardrums to temporarily stop working, and also caused his head to lose its sense of balance. And everyone around him was almost in the same state as him.
"Buzz..." He still couldn't hear anything. He rubbed it with his hand, supported it on the wall of the trench pit, staggered and stood up on his own legs. The second prince touched his body with his other hand, and luckily found There are no holes in it.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!" A guard finally came over and tried to help the shaking second prince. However, the second prince could not hear his cry at all, and even he himself could not hear these two calls.
In a sense, they are also lucky that they can no longer hear the heart-rending howls of the terrifying Stuka dive bombers in the sky.
Because the bombing has not stopped, the Stuka is still swooping down. The Mirage soldiers huddled in the trenches were still suffering.
Even they themselves did not expect that the retribution for driving Qi civilians to build positions, regardless of their life or death, and massacring and abusing these Qi civilians would come so quickly.
The Tang Army's planes were like messengers from hell, completing their revenge in the most direct and ruthless way.
The voice sounded again, and the soldiers of the Mirage Kingdom finally broke free from fear and ended their sluggish state. They performed no better than the Qi soldiers, and they began to naturally collapse in an instant.
In the trench, some soldiers screamed along with Stuka's howl. They were so frightened that they held their heads and kept shouting. In an instant, fear spread to all corners of the trench.
“Let me go!” Some Mirage soldiers knelt on the ground and worshiped toward the sky. They didn’t know if the Tang pilots could see his piety.
Some soldiers dropped their weapons and started running away, leaving their posts regardless of the calls of the officers behind them.
The Mirage's heavy artillery positions became the hardest hit areas visited by Stuka dive bombers. There were almost no anti-aircraft weapons there, and the Mirage's artillery could only accept their fate in despair.
These heavy artillery, which consumed precious transportation capacity and was transported from the Mirage Kingdom, were blown into scrap metal before they could fire a single shot. It must be said that the artillery commanders of the Mirage Kingdom were extremely sad.
Each artillery piece is a valuable asset for the Mirage Army, which originally had insufficient funds. Now these precious assets are all gone!
The ammunition piled next to the artillery exploded, and the scene was spectacular. The artillerymen around who had finally been trained with great difficulty also flew into the air.
Because Mirage soldiers are generally short, the caliber of Mirage's artillery is actually not large. Even the so-called heavy artillery is actually nothing more than the 150mm caliber howitzer developed by Cyric.
This also meets the needs of the island country of Mirage: transporting weapons and equipment across the sea requires mobility, and bulky super-large-caliber artillery is not easy to ship and transport.
It is a pity that these 150 mm caliber cannons have now been blown into parts, and they can no longer provide fire support for the Mirage infantry.
In an instant, the Mirage Kingdom’s carefully constructed circular defense line exploded everywhere, with thick smoke billowing everywhere and the screams of soldiers everywhere.
The Mirage troops, who still don't know that they have lost their commander-in-chief, are still struggling on their own lines of defense.
Just when everyone thought this was all the Tang Air Force could do, fighter jets carrying small bombs also joined the feast.
The Stuka, which had lost all its bombs, and the Butcher fighter jets loaded with bombs began to dive and strafe, attacking all visible ground targets.
They are like vultures, circling, swooping, and hunting hares hiding on the ground. On the ground, the Mirage Army was even more desperate: We have been bombed so badly by you, how dare you come up to do it?
Are you still human?
You are real dogs!
Of course, they don’t know yet that the flying fortress bomber group that has gone away will actually come back. They just went back to reload their bombs.
If these mirage soldiers knew, dispatching 500 planes at one go means that more than 1,500 sorties can take off throughout the day! This means that what they just experienced will have to be experienced three times today, and they may collapse even more.
Soon, the Stuka, which had run out of ammunition and fuel, also began to return, along with the Butcher fighter jets.
The sky above the battlefield suddenly became quiet, leaving only corpses on the ground and a mirage position that had been damaged by bombs and could not be seen in its original appearance.
The previously impregnable bunker positions were now beyond recognition. The Mirage soldiers stationed in these positions suffered heavy casualties without even seeing the shadow of the enemy.
There are not even a few precious heavy artillery left, and the light artillery has not suffered much losses. But whether these small-caliber artillery can threaten the Tang army attacking the defense line, only God knows.
Just when the people of Mirage thought they had survived the most difficult moment, the rumble of cannons rang out in the distance.
The Tang Army troops in the north deployed all the artillery captured from Qi and those they followed, and began bombarding the Mirage position in the distance.
Anyway, most of Qi's artillery is 130 mm caliber, and there are also some 200 mm caliber fortress artillery and siege artillery. They are all products of Cyric and are completely incompatible with Tang Army's weapons and equipment.
Destroying them would be a waste, so the Tang army sent all the Qi artillery shells they could find to the front line and dumped them on the Mirage army's positions.
Those Qi cannons that did not exert their power in the Qi-Tang war because they were too late to deploy, finally found their power in this bombardment against the Mirage.
The captured Qi artillerymen finally had the opportunity to play with the weapons in their hands: the shells were pushed into the barrel one after another, and then flew out of the muzzle and rushed towards the still smoking Mirage position.
For a time, the entire battlefield boiled up again, and the smoke pillars raised by the explosion were so dense that even from a distance, the entire Mirage position was shrouded in black smoke.
For the Tang army, such artillery fire was completely free, so they did not mind fighting for a while longer to express their dissatisfaction with the mirage.
But the defenders of the Mirage Kingdom who had just been bombed were really desperate: they came all the way, thinking they were here to avenge themselves.
But they never imagined that they had crossed the ocean and traveled thousands of miles to come here, specifically to deliver their own heads!
The Mirage people, who had never seen this kind of fighting style, were completely shattered. They finally realized that war involves this level of firepower density!
The fairy tale they imagined before, where you shoot as many guns as you want and I shoot as many as you want, did not happen. They experienced the cruelty of war firsthand as soon as they arrived.
The sad thing is that their artillery was not even able to fire back because most of the artillery positions were disabled.
With great difficulty, several cannons fired back. The roar that should have strengthened our own momentum was drowned in the explosions of enemy artillery shells that covered the city.
“This battle is impossible to fight at all!” A Mirage officer complained fearfully while hiding in the bunker where dust was constantly falling.
His brother was captured while fighting on Dongwan Island. He was said to have died in the mines on Dongwan Island. His younger brother was priced as compensation and sent to Linshui as a slave. His life and death are still uncertain.
That's why he wanted revenge, so he came here. But he desperately discovered that everything that happened before him seemed to have nothing to do with revenge.
“We should really let those officers come over and take a look!” Another officer stared gloomily at the swaying kerosene lamp hanging above his head, and nodded in agreement with the words of his companions.
Before he could finish his words, a shell directly hit the bunker where they were. The beams broke instantly, and the wood used as the roof fell down, and the thick soil covering the wood buried everything in the room.
A mirage signal soldier kept running along the trench, passing over the corpses that were left uncollected, stepping on the red-soaked soil, and rushed into a bunker built on a reverse slope.
He gasped and handed a note to the commander of the Mirage Kingdom in front of him: "Sir... Mirage, General Mirage Wuliang, Lord General... He, he unfortunately died. You, you are the tallest, the tallest here now. Commander."
(End of this chapter)