The thin mist in the early morning shrouded the desolate highlands, and the damp cold wind blew through like a blade, making a shrill whistle, as if to accompany the coming killing. On the highlands, the soldiers of the Lions Empire shivered and huddled.
In the trenches, their uniforms were in tatters and stained with mud and blood.
The Tang Army's artillery shells were accurate and deadly, and they were able to persist until now without collapsing. These soldiers of the Lions Empire have shown great bravery. However, as time goes by, the positions they hold on have long lost their original appearance.
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"Damn, this damn weather..." A young soldier cursed in a low voice. His teeth were chattering in his lips that were purple from the cold. It rained lightly yesterday. Now the temperature in the field is very low, and the soil is
It is also very humid. For the soldiers of the Lions Empire, this kind of weather is really torturous: "When will this battle be over? I've really had enough!"
They really hated this kind of weather. The thin clouds and intermittent light rain could not prevent the Tang Army from sending out the air force to launch an attack, but the pattering rain made the battlefield wet and muddy. For Lyons' soldiers,
, such an environment really makes them suffer.
What's even more unfortunate is that last night one of their sentries discovered the surprise attack by the Tang Army's special forces, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides. They fought with someone who didn't know what to do all night, and after dawn, they even lost one of the enemy's corpses.
Didn't see any.
However, they themselves lost more than fifty soldiers, and the entire infantry company was almost scrapped. Later at dawn, a new infantry company came to support from the regiment headquarters, and this was able to stabilize the situation.
"Shut up, what's the use of complaining? If you have that time, why don't you quickly reload your magazine with a few more bullets." The veteran beside him scolded in a low voice, his cloudy eyes full of bloodshot eyes and exhaustion: "How can you still do it when you get here?
Want to go back? We will all die here, our fate has been determined... This is to atone for our sins of ingratitude. "
He was an eyewitness to the expulsion of the Datang Group. At that time, as a soldier carrying a submachine gun, he watched the followers of the Datang Group board the ship and leave at the dock in Bunas. At that time, he knew that sooner or later, these people would
It's coming back.
The young soldier shrank his neck in fear and did not dare to say anything. The veteran was right, those soldiers of the Tang Empire were like evil ghosts crawling out of hell. They were fierce, cruel, fearless of death, and seemed to be tireless.
It's an ordinary machine, and it's unknown how many lives of Lions soldiers have been harvested.
Yesterday, he even saw with his own eyes a Tang Army soldier who staggered up from the ground after being hit by a submachine gun, and limped away from the battlefield!
Those guys are all immortal... This kind of rumor is circulating among the grassroots soldiers of the Lions Empire. Many people believe this nonsense. They believe that the emperor of the Tang Empire has cast a kind of magic on his soldiers, which can
Let them forget the pain.
Similar magic actually exists in the Lions Empire, which is a thing called a black crow. Many soldiers will take the initiative to ask for similar medicine to comfort their souls on the battlefield where there is no hope.
It's just that he heard that the thing had serious side effects and the effect was not very good. People who ate too much of the thing would become delirious and easily die in confusion on the battlefield, so he didn't dare to look for it at all.
The chief wants that pill called Black Crow.
Because of the experience of the Ice Empire, the Lions Empire military did not have a good impression of the Black Crow. They did not actively distribute this kind of medicine to soldiers. If someone asked for it, they would give it to them from Dorne.
Take it out.
In the distance, the rumble of the engine gradually turned from gentle to deafening, like the roar of an ancient beast, indicating that a bloody feast was about to begin.
The torrent of steel from the Tang Empire appeared, and tanks emerged from the horizon like black ghosts, rumbling towards them with unstoppable momentum.
Those tanks all have a long barrel, and the muzzle flashes with an icy cold light, which looks particularly formidable in the faint morning light - this feature is very obvious, because almost no tanks equipped by the coalition have such long tank guns!
Under the cover of the tank cluster, the Tang Army infantry wearing camouflage uniforms calmly spread out their formation and moved forward resolutely. Each of their faces was expressionless, with only cold murderous intent in their eyes.
The soldiers of the Lions Empire were frightened to death by this sudden torrent of steel. They had never seen so many Tang Army tanks, let alone so many Tang Army infantry. Just as they nervously looked at the thing that appeared in the distance.
When the enemy was attacked, the artillery fire coverage of the Tang Army came.
A series of rockets exploded on the Lions Empire's position, and the ground kept shaking during the explosion. The Tang Army's bombardment was intensive and rapid. After just a few breaths, the entire bombardment seemed to have stopped.
However, the casualties caused by such rapid covering fire were indeed not small. The Lions soldiers who stood on the position were instantly engulfed by artillery fire. By the time the surviving soldiers crawled out from under the floating soil, the Tang army was already in sight.
The tank group of the Tang Army stopped when it was still a few hundred meters away from the Lines Empire's position. Then hundreds of 125mm smoothbore cannons roared, and a series of shells poured down on the Lines Empire's position like raindrops.
The fortifications, which had finally calmed down, exploded into a sea of flames.
Accompanied by the deafening bombardment, the Tang Army infantry launched a charge under the cover of tanks. They rushed towards the enemy's position with overwhelming force, the automatic rifles in their hands sprayed deadly flames, harvesting the lives of the soldiers of the Lions Empire.
"They're coming! They're coming!" In the trenches, the soldiers of the Lines Empire shouted in horror, and despair spread among the crowd.
"Help! Gashi was hit! Medic!" Someone in the distance was also shouting, but no one seemed to care about an injured soldier now.
There was a panic on the Lines Empire's position. Only one anti-tank team fired a rocket in despair. Unfortunately, due to the distance, the rocket hit the front armor of the Tang Army tank and only raised a cloud of white smoke.
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There is no difference between such a thing and a tickle. Even the rockets were not able to leave a shallow crater in the main armor of the Tang army tank.
The exposed anti-tank position was immediately suppressed by the firepower of the Tang Army. The remote-controlled machine gun on the roof of the Type 96 main battle tank immediately fired at it. Amidst the white smoke splashed by the tracer bullets, the infantry of the Tang Army following the tank attack fired grenades one after another.
It fell and blew the place upside down.
The commander of the Tang Army stood in the turret of a command tank, with half of his body leaning out of the turret, staring coldly at the battlefield in the distance. He put down his binoculars, and the brim of the military cap on his head cast a shadow on his face, making him
People can't clearly see his expression at this moment.
"Report! Our tanks have cut into the enemy's position. According to the report from the 3rd company's tanks, the troops of the Lines Empire are retreating." A communications soldier reported loudly.
"Today our mission is to advance 5 kilometers and stabilize the front line on the outskirts of Yucheng!" The voice of the Tang Army commander who looked at the entire battlefield was cold and calm, as if he was recounting an insignificant matter.
The next second, the deafening sound of artillery resounded through the sky, and the heavy artillery units far away from the front line began to shoot. The artillery shells, with a sharp whistling sound, passed over the head of the Tang Army commander, and also passed over the attacking Tang Army, and landed accurately on Lines.
On the battlefield of the empire.
The artillery and infantry of the Tang Army had already cooperated well with each other, and the smooth communication could even ensure that the artillery shells of the Tang Army accurately landed less than 100 meters in front of the Tang soldiers! The fire and smoke generated by the explosion of the artillery shells instantly engulfed the trenches, leaving the remains intact.
Severed limbs and broken weapons and equipment were thrown into the air, and then fell back to the ground helplessly.
As the Tang army's offensive extended in depth, the shelling even engulfed the collapsing Lions army. The soldiers of the already collapsed Lions empire panicked. They fled in all directions under the fierce artillery fire, like hares driven by hunters.
, without any structure, without any resistance.
"Counterattack! Counterattack!" Even though they knew the situation was over, the officers of the Lions Empire were still shouting at the top of their lungs.
They tried to reorganize their troops to resist, but in the face of the steel torrent of the Tang army, these efforts seemed so feeble.
The tanks of the Tang Army surged onto the high ground like a black tide. The carefully constructed defenses of the Lines Empire were like paper in the face of the torrent of steel and quickly collapsed.
The trenches were crushed by tank tracks and collapsed, and the machine gun positions were destroyed by artillery fire. The remaining soldiers of the Lines Empire abandoned their helmets and armor and fled in all directions, but what greeted them were only the ruthless bullets and bayonets of the Tang army.
The Lions soldier who was still talking just now climbed up from the bottom of the collapsed trench, shook off the soil from his body, and squinted his eyes to find anyone still alive around him. His ears were filled with the buzzing sound caused by the explosion, and he couldn't hear anything at all.
No other sounds were heard.
So even he himself didn't know whether he was shouting or not. He was just shouting with all his strength, calling the names of his comrades around him.
Gradually, he saw a familiar face. Not far away from him, beside the trench that had just been a machine gun position, lay a body...or half a corpse.
On the other side, he also saw the veteran who had just spoken to him... His body was now half buried in the soil, with only one shoulder and face full of blood exposed. It was the same as when he was alive.
Likewise, people who come here will indeed die here.
The Lions soldier who emerged from the soil thought he was the lucky one. He thought he had escaped the fatal shell. But after feeling dizzy for a while, he realized that his body was soaked in blood.
The adrenaline effect secreted in the body finally passed, and the Lions Empire soldier with several pieces of shrapnel stuck in his body also sat back at the bottom of the collapsed trench. He closed his eyes quietly and stopped breathing before the Tang Army soldiers passed by.
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In the sky, the Tang Army's thunder and lightning attack aircraft have begun to sweep the nearby battlefields. The roar of the engines alternates between far and near, as if to accompany the attacking Tang Army. The attacking Tang Army did not suffer artillery counterattacks from the Lions Empire defenders because
These aircraft have completely suppressed the artillery of the Lions Imperial Force.
Today, something even more demoralizing for the soldiers of the Lions Empire happened: the armed helicopters of the Tang Empire began to go into battle. The range of these things was not far. Their appearance above the battlefield meant that the field battle near Bunas
At the airport, Tang Jun has almost upgraded it.
Armed helicopters with limited range began to participate in the battle, and the Tang Army's support firepower became more intense. This made the already passive Yucheng defenders even more passive, and the number of casualties also increased linearly.
Although the troops of the Lions Empire tried their best to stop the Tang Army's advance, they still lost all the peripheral highlands they could at noon that day. The Tang Army's armored forces had approached the outskirts of Yucheng, and Paul had established the second line of defense in Yucheng.
It has actually been breached.
The third line of defense is actually the suburban defense line of Yucheng. There are many suburban estates of celebrities and nobles here, as well as some factory facilities, so there are many buildings that can serve as support for the defense line.
Paul had already carried out several rounds of extortion against the squires and nobles of the Lions Empire before. Under such premise, it is not surprising that his troops seized these facilities and manors.
Relying on these buildings, the Lyons defenders built a suburban defense line surrounding Yucheng. This defense line was also a relatively strong defense line. After all, without this defense line, the Yucheng defenders could only prepare for street fighting.
The manor where these nobles used to relax and vacation was actually empty. When the nobles retreated, they took away all valuable things, leaving only furniture and other things behind. The Lions soldiers who occupied the place
It's a mess.
The courtyard wall that was originally used to resist wild beasts has been blown to pieces by artillery fire, and the broken walls have become natural bunkers. Lyons soldiers set up a machine gun at the gap, with the black muzzle pointing into the distance, ready at any time.
Breathing out deadly tongues of fire.
A three-story building in the distance is the residence of the owner of the manor. At this time, a Lions sniper is lying behind the window on the top floor, patiently waiting for Tang Jun to appear.
This house made of bricks and stones is at least twice as strong as an ordinary house. It has now become a temporary bunker and a field hospital.
In the room, the wounded soldiers who had lost their combat effectiveness groaned in pain, and there was a strong smell of blood and disinfectant. The exhausted soldiers were crowded together, some were dressing their wounds, and some were looking blankly.
They stared out the window, wondering what fate awaited them.
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