Chapter 1152: 1153The first night
Chapter 1152 1153 The first night
You must be very smart. If you want to talk to him about the war against Japan, he will say that his guns are inferior to people.
The commanders of the Mirage Kingdom also have the same virtue: you say you want them to launch a counterattack against the Tang Army, but they may not have the courage, but if you ask them to launch a counterattack against the orcs, they really dare to try.
That night, before 11 o'clock, the troops of the Mirage Kingdom who had been hiding in the tunnels came out in the dark and launched an attack on the orc troops who had set up camp before dark.
Flares lit up the sky, and the mirage artillery that had fallen silent during the day began roaring again. The orc troops were caught off guard and were stunned again.
For a time, there were mirage troops everywhere on the battlefield, there were gunshots everywhere, shouts of killing, explosions and fire everywhere.
Shanlu was making arrangements to continue the attack tomorrow at a temporary headquarters, when he heard the news of the Mirage Army's counterattack.
When he heard the news, he was completely stunned: he watched the Tang Army capture the South Island with his own eyes, and then watched the Tang Army push the New Island with his own eyes... In these two battles, he had never heard of the Mirage Army. A successful counterattack example!
This is really treating their orc troops as soft persimmons! Shanru was furious after thinking of this, and immediately issued an order to all the orc troops to fight to the end.
The orc troops, who had lost their temper, finally broke out. Under the pale light of the flares, they were entangled with the mirage goblin troops, almost reaching the full level of bloodshed.
“Attach the bayonet!” Seeing the goblins rushing towards him crazily, the orc officer roared and pulled out the dagger from his waist.
After a tiring day, the orc soldiers who had been wandering on the sea for a long time were inspired to become ferocious. They took out their bayonets from their back waists and inserted them into the muzzles of their rifles.
The bright bayonets reflected frightening light under the unnatural light of the flares, and the crowds of tall orcs and short goblins collided together.
“Kill!” An orc soldier was covered in blood, like a **** of death. He pierced a goblin's body and lifted him into the air.
Before he could withdraw his bayonet, he was stabbed into a hornet's nest by the bayonets of several Mirage soldiers.
In the distance, the heavy machine gun on the Orc position opened fire, and the flames from the muzzle were particularly obvious in the dark night. The tracer bullets drew straight lines and rushed into the crowd of mirage soldiers.
The losses on both sides were huge, and it was completely different from the daytime landing. Everyone was no longer careful and polite. Night seems to fuel the desire to kill, making cruelty and violence the main theme.
Gradually, the Mirage's counterattack forces began to be unable to support themselves. On the one hand, they do have a small number of people, and on the other hand, it is because the main force of the orcs has begun to enter the battle.
The outer Orc security forces are all non-main forces filling the line. They are equipped with Mauser 98K rifles and very few automatic weapons.
Ke Shanlu’s most elite direct troops are equipped with Type 56 assault rifles! This is the same automatic weapon as the Tang Empire troops. It has fierce firepower and is suitable for close-range melee combat.
As soon as these troops began to enter the battle, the losses of the mirage army began to increase. In order to preserve their strength, the commanders of the Mirage Kingdom chose to retreat.
In fact, the Mirage Army's counterattack that night was quite successful, and the battle loss ratio between the two sides was almost one to one. Although the goblins were obviously disadvantaged in size, they were able to recharge their batteries and become familiar with the terrain, which really caused trouble for the orcs.
After a night of fierce fighting, the orc commanders also correctly understood the combat effectiveness of the Mirage Army: Even though the goblins were weaker than the Tang Empire troops, the combat effectiveness of the Mirage Army was actually quite strong.
If the mirage army was not strong in combat effectiveness, it would not have been possible for the Qi State to be afraid and suppress the Zheng State and fight casually. Combat power is really relative. There is nothing to be embarrassed about if you cannot defeat the powerful Tang Army.
After leaving behind about 2,000 corpses, the mirage army retreated back to its starting position. Although they did not drive their opponents into the sea, they did achieve certain results.
Mirwuk listened to the report and compiled the results of the battle: he was confident that he had eliminated approximately 6,000 orc soldiers who landed and severely damaged the orc troops that landed that day.
This result is not accurate. In fact, the Orc troops lost approximately 4,000 soldiers. These troops were not all from the 1st Orc Infantry Division, and some of them belonged to the 2nd and 3rd Divisions.
That's right, the goblins misjudged the unloading capacity of the Tang landing fleet: the orc landing force with only light weapons did not rely much on the dock, so the orcs who came ashore were not one division, but three divisions! Not 20,000 people, but a full 40,000!
Mirwuk, who thought that the orc troops were almost losing their combat capabilities, never imagined that the orc troops in front of him were actually not injured at all.
That night, fierce fighting took place not only on land, but also on both sides of the navy.
The only two destroyers of the Mirage Navy were sunk by Tang Army's anti-ship missiles at night, about 100 kilometers outside Mirage Port. Completely different from what Mirage Haiping expected, the battlefield has been dominated by radar and advanced automatic artillery and missiles.
The Tang Army's destroyer fleet equipped with new naval guns deployed on both wings of the fleet did not leave any chance for the Mirage Navy's suicide speedboat force.
The fierce battle between the two sides lasted from midnight until dawn the next day. The Mirage Kingdom dispatched a total of 300 suicide speedboats of various types, as well as two destroyers.
The Tang Army dispatched 40 destroyers and 3 cruisers to intercept these desperate lunatics: the final battle situation was that two Tang Army destroyers were seriously injured, two were slightly injured, and 20 soldiers were killed; all the ships of the Mirage that entered the battle were sunk. Or self-destruct, with losses approaching 4,000!
In fact, even if the Tang Army did not have destroyers equipped with Otto automatic cannons, the suicide speedboats of the Mirage Navy would not be able to break through the defense line composed of Tang Army destroyers equipped with radars.
Even in terms of numbers, the two sides are not at the same level: the Tang Army's landing fleet participated in the battle with nearly 60 destroyers and cruisers. This number is actually not too small compared to the suicide speedboats of the Mirage.
Although the Bofors anti-aircraft gun is not as professional as the Otto naval gun, it is actually pretty good at dealing with these speedboats. Therefore, in this large-scale suicide speedboat attack, the Mirage Army is destined not to take much advantage.
An artillery battle lasted all night. The main guns of the Tang Army's destroyers roared all night long. After dawn, the remaining speedboats of the Mirage Army dispersed, leaving only four injured destroyers of the Tang Army that were smoking and witnessing the brutal naval battle last night.
By this time of the war, the Mirage Navy had basically been completely destroyed: its backbone sailors and combat ships had all been lost.
The suicide speedboats accumulated in the past six months have been basically exhausted, and subsequent production capacity will definitely not be replenished. Those fanatics transferred from the army were also eliminated in this battle. It may not be easy to find another group of such people.
This morning, the Mirage Emperor heard the good news that Mirwuk had defeated the Orc landing force and achieved brilliant results. He also heard the bad news that the navy had been defeated again and was almost destroyed.
Of course, Mirage Haiping also heard about the army's success: while the navy suffered a fiasco in a fierce battle all night, the army severely damaged the enemy's landing force and wiped out more than 9,000 enemies!
That's right, Mirage Wuk has processed the results of the battle more or less. After all, it was a hard-won victory, so he thought it was necessary to publicize it well.
What makes Mirage Haiping's face disgraceful is that the greatest contribution made by the navy was that the Tang Army's warships did not support the orc troops on land all night long...
The Mirage Emperor knew very well that he had lost the ability to severely damage the enemy fleet and could no longer prevent Tang from landing on the island.
In fact, when the Battle of South Island failed, he knew the result when the main fleet he had built frugally was completely destroyed.
It's just that he still harbors illusions and a little bit of luck... But now, the continuous disastrous defeats have made him understand that those opportunistic methods cannot solve the real problem after all.
After a night of hard work, the number of the Orc troops ashore was close to 60,000. The brightly lit landing site ignored the lively sea and land battlefields all night. The hard-working transport fleet spent one night to deliver the 4th Orc Division. Sent ashore.
This morning, the total number of orcs who came ashore was close to 100,000. They also pushed the defense line to areas close to mountains and rivers, and placed their positions in front of the main position of the Mirage Army.
Shanlu mobilized his troops and generals to try to capture some strategic nodes. But he failed in the end: the orc troops lacked heavy weapons and had limited attack capabilities, and they were indeed unable to shake the carefully laid out main line of defense of the goblins.
However, the orc troops were not without gains: they extended along the coastline to both flanks, occupied two small fishing villages, and expanded the landing site.
During this day, the Tang Army continued to bomb the main airport of the Mirage Army, so that the Mirage Army's aircraft did not appear on the battlefield all day long.
The Mirage Navy, which suffered heavy losses last night, also disappeared during this day. In the next few days, they will not continue to harass the Tang State's landing fleet.
On the afternoon of the second day after the Orc troops came ashore, the old No. 4 tanks from the Tang State to assist them were finally sent ashore. These armored units will become the trump card in the hands of the orc troops, used to cover the troops' breakthrough of the mirage's defense line.
But what the orc commander Shanru didn't know was that the counterattack launched by the goblins last night allowed his opponent Mirage to "find out" the weakness of the orcs.
This goblin commander has already drawn up a counterattack plan for the next night. He is...preparing to drive the orc landing force into the sea...in one go!
Yes, Mirage is ready to take advantage of the dark moon and high winds to let Mirage's armored troops go into battle! —
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