Chapter 1156: 1157 Battle of the City

Chapter 1156: 1157 Battle of the City

Chapter 1156 Chapter 1157 The Battle of the City

 “Define the city!” In the war room, Mirage looked at the map and determined the main direction of this counterattack. He, the army general, the top army general in the base camp, is now almost the commander of the front army.

The Mirage Army itself has average strength, and its status is just below that of the navy in the past. Mirage Wuk can only live in the shadow of Mirage.

Now that the navy is finished, Mirage did not wait for a chance to rise: his army also declined with the destruction of the navy.

 The absolute main force of the Mirage Kingdom has always been the Imperial Guards that defend the Royal City of Mirage. The 1st Armored Division is deployed in this direction.

 Compared with other armies, this army has always been stronger and stronger, with well-equipped personnel and amazing combat effectiveness.

In order to avoid the Tang Army's bombing, the 1st Armored Division was transferred away from the Royal City and deployed near Dingcheng after Xindao was captured.

Most of the tanks were hidden in some camouflage to avoid the Tang Army's reconnaissance satellites and reconnaissance aircraft. They did not suffer much damage during several bombings.

It can be said that this unit has always maintained a high combat effectiveness. Mirwuk was willing to use this unit this time because he saw hope in the previous counterattack.

The 4th Armored Division's counterattack in the west achieved remarkable results. If it were not for the violent bombardment by Tang Army's carrier-based aircraft, the results might have been even greater.

In this case, Mirage made up his mind and prepared to invest enough troops to drive the landing orc troops into the sea!

For this battle, he not only used the precious 1st Armored Division, but also transferred the 2nd and 3rd Armored Divisions!

 That's right, he spent a lot of money this time. He dispatched all the armored forces in one go and mobilized more than 500 tanks!

This is already the entire main force that the Mirage Kingdom has at its disposal. Success or failure depends on this one move. Mirage Wuk Stud defeated all of the Mirage Kingdom!

Although the plan is a bit crazy, Mirage is actually rational: he divided the attack into two stages. It can be seen that as an army general of Mirage, Mirage himself is still very good.

He did not rush to invest the main force of the 1st Armored Division, but planned to use the 2nd Armored Division and the 3rd Armored Division to consume the experience of the Tang Army and the Orcs.

On the first day of the battle, Phantom Vuk planned to launch a counterattack with two newly formed armored divisions, assuming a decisive battle posture.

After two days of fierce fighting, he expected that the Tang army's air support would weaken. At this time, he suddenly committed the 1st Armored Division to attack the Orc troops, breaking through the Orc defense line in one fell swoop.

This tactic is what he calls the "Eagle Fighting Tactics". In fact, it is also a "high EQ" term for a refueling tactic that had to be adopted due to logistical supply problems.

 The fragile supply capacity of Mirage cannot support the simultaneous operation of three armored divisions, so the 2nd and 3rd Armored Divisions with less equipment can only take the lead.

 After the fuel trucks of the logistics force worked hard to collect the remaining gasoline and diesel scattered in the abandoned airport, gathered them together, and handed them over to the 1st Armored Division, the main armored division could follow up.

 After all, in the previous combat plan, precious high-grade fuel was given priority to the air force, while the army's fuel itself was pitiful.

It is a pity that subsequent suicide planes cannot fly at all, and the airport has been damaged and cannot be used. The fuel previously supplied to the Air Force is useless, and it is logical to transfer it back to the armored forces.

 When he is poor, a penny can't help a heroic man, and a mirage can't defeat a clever woman without rice. In the absence of fuel, he can only mobilize limited troops to participate in the war.

That night, the 2nd Armored Division of the Mirage Army, which had been replenished with fuel, finally moved. But what made Phantom Army furious was that the 3rd Armored Division only moved about 20 kilometers southwest due to lack of fuel.

The reason is that the fuel transport train planned to be allocated to the 3rd Armored Division was paralyzed halfway, and the rails were blown up by the Tang Army's night bombing, so the 3rd Armored Division, which was short of fuel, could only stand and wait.

In desperation, Mirevuk ordered the 3rd Armored Division to camouflage on the spot and switch to a defensive state, and handed over all counterattack tasks for the day to the 2nd Armored Division.

As mentioned before, the 2nd Armored Division only has 100 tanks, and more than 40 of them are old "tractors". The 2nd Armored Division, which could be reorganized, still enthusiastically carried out Mirwuk's order to launch an attack.

 In the early morning of the fourth day after the Orc troops landed, the 2nd Regiment of the Orc 1st Armored Division acted as the vanguard and took the lead in launching an attack on the Mirage troops in the direction of Dingcheng.

At dawn, the Orc commander leaned half of his body out of the turret, and was surprised to see an old Cyric 2 tank turning at the end of the field directly in front of him.

"Front! Mirage tank! Fire!" The crew of the Orc tank, who had been recharging their energy last night, were in good spirits. The commander immediately reacted and gave the order to fire.

The main gun of the No. 4 tank below immediately adjusted its angle slightly, aiming its dark muzzle at the Mirage tank in the distance.

"Boom!" A shell blasted out. The Cyric 2 tank that was twisting on the field ridge was penetrated by the shell, shook, and paralyzed on the spot without any movement.

The armor of this tank was too thin, so the gun of the No. 4 tank was too powerful and penetrated, making the scene a little embarrassing.

Using the long-barreled main gun No. 4 tank that was improved and eliminated by the Tang Empire, which is probably the No. 4 H type, to bully an early World War II tank with an armor only a dozen millimeters thick is obviously too cruel.

“Enemy tank found! Enemy tank found!” The radio was filled with shouts of mirage tanks being spotted. At the same time, the tanks of the Mirage Army had also discovered the...orc tank troops standing in front of them. After a few minutes of bombardment by the Orcs' No. 4 tanks, the Mirage tanks finally began to fight back.

 A cannonball landed next to the Ork tank. The explosion stirred up mud and startled the Orc tank commander who was directing the battle.

He did not retract into the car because the No. 4 tank was too crowded and the field of vision was not good. He preferred to lean out and direct the battle.

At this moment, he was holding a telescope, pointing at the enemy's position in the distance with his hand, and shouting the enemy's position through the intercom. Not far away, a shell hit a No. 4 tank, and the tank immediately burst into flames.

The tragic explosion can be heard clearly even through headphones. The shells flying from nowhere did penetrate the armor of a No. 4 tank!

 In fact, Mirage does have artillery that can penetrate the front armor of the No. 4 tank: whether it is a Cyric 5 tank or a Mirage 2 tank, their main guns can do it.

Because it was about to launch an attack, the 2nd Armored Division was not willing to leave the slow old tanks and Mirage 2 tanks on the road like the 4th Armored Division.

 They only have 100 tanks, so they can't afford to lose them. They waited patiently and brought as many tanks as possible to the front line.

This caused the Ork 1st Armored Division, which was also attacking, to suffer: the opponent's tanks included heavy tanks and newer tanks, which could cause trouble for the Ork tank troops. This made the Orks who ran into the Mirage's 2nd Armored Division head-on. The 2nd Regiment of the 1st Armored Division suffered considerable losses.

"They have artillery that can penetrate our tanks! Find high-threat targets! Destroy targets that are more threatening first!" Clutching the communicator, the commander of a tank battalion loudly reminded his men.

There was a shaking high-power communication antenna on his tank, which made his vehicle easily identifiable: No way, in order to install larger communication equipment, the battalion commander's command tank even had a long-barreled 75 mm No tank guns were installed.

The battalion commander's command vehicle, which still uses the short-barreled 75mm gun, actually does not have much combat capability. The power of its small gun is indeed not enough now.

The 2nd Regiment of the Orc 1st Armored Division, which had seven or eight tanks destroyed, was indeed a little confused due to nervousness in the first ten minutes when the battle broke out. Fortunately, this force was trained by the Tang State, and these troops were all carefully selected orcs. They quickly withstood the pressure and then began to counterattack.

The 2nd Regiment of the Orc 1st Armored Division has 3 tank battalions, each with 47 No. 4 tanks, so the entire 2nd Regiment has about 150 tanks.

This number is obviously more than the number of tanks equipped by the 2nd Armored Division of the Mirage on the opposite side, so after the Orcs stabilized their position, the 2nd Armored Division of the Mirage began to be unable to withstand it.

Even if the number of tanks lost by both sides is similar, it will be the Mirage 2nd Armored Division that collapses first in the end. In fact, this was also the case. The Mirage troops collapsed first, and faster than expected.

The reason is also very simple: on the one hand, it is because of the disparity in numbers. There are only about 100 tanks in Mirage, and about 40 of them are old Cyric 2 tanks that cannot cause damage to the No. 4 tank of the Orc army. .

 So the real numerical ratio between the two sides is 150 to 60. The orcs have about two and a half times the numerical advantage, which makes the loss speed of both sides completely different.

  The absolute numerical gap gradually turned the battle into a one-sided killing: the Tang army destroyed one Cyric 5 tank after another...the remaining Mirage tanks increasingly lost the courage to fight.

Soon, forced into a two-on-one situation, the Mirage tanks gradually became unable to hold on any longer. They began to retreat, discarding the burning and exploding remains of their companions, and slowly retreated behind them.

At this moment, Tang's attack plane roared past from a low altitude, attracting a burst of cheers from the commanders of the Orc armored forces.

The land-clearing with rockets and cannons started like this. What arrived on the battlefield were Il attack aircraft piloted by Orks that took off from the new island. These aircraft instantly made the position of Mirage's 2nd Armored Division jump like crazy.

The infantry troops of the Mirage 2nd Armored Division, which had just arrived and were preparing to respond to the defeated tank troops, were knocked upside down by the enemies in the sky before they had time to organize a counterattack.

Immediately afterwards, the speed advantage of the No. 4 tank in the pursuit battle made the defeated Mirage 2nd Armored Division uncomfortable.

 They had already suffered heavy losses, but they were completely ruined in the rout of just one hour: more than 100 tanks that they managed to scrape together were all lost in the end, and not a single one survived.

The subsequent development gradually began to become magical. After winning the battle, the triumphant Orc Armored 2nd Regiment continued to attack forward under the cover of the aircraft, preparing to beat the drowned dogs and completely annihilate the Mirage 2nd Armored Division, which had no ability to resist. .

As a result, they accidentally ran into the 3rd Armored Division of the Mirage that was defending on the spot. They were caught off guard and were attacked by the concealed Mirage tanks. The 2nd Orc Armored Regiment hit its head in front of the Mirage's defense line and suffered a **** blow. flow.

Unexpectedly, he would encounter so many tanks from the Mirage during the attack. Shanlu could only withdraw the 2nd regiment that suffered heavy losses and replaced it with the 1st regiment to prepare to continue the attack.

At this time, he was still very lucky, glad that he did not transfer the 1st Armored Division to the west. He felt that the mirage tanks he encountered on the road...were all preparing to attack him.

 He guessed correctly, but unfortunately there was no reward.

 (End of this chapter)