Chapter 296: The Horn of Retreat
"Boom-boom-"
Dense large-caliber shells, like raindrops, smashed into the charging bear heavy infantry, even the bear heavy infantry, which is known for its strong defense, could not withstand such fierce artillery fire.
In the dust from the explosion of the shells, there were many stumps and broken arms of the bear heavy infantry, and some bear heavy infantry who were close to the explosion point were even shocked to death by the exploding shells.
However, more bear heavy infantry, with the heavy steel shields in their hands and the thick armor on their bodies, continued to charge towards the enemy positions on the mountain beams, with shrapnel flying everywhere.
When the charging bear heavy infantry approached about 150 meters in front of the position of the garrison corps of the Golden Dragon City of the Han and Tang Empires, a large number of anti-tank rifles, machine guns, sniper rifles and general-purpose machine guns on the position began to shoot a barrage of death.
The steel shields and armor of the bear heavy infantry are very heavy, but they can't stop the armor-piercing bullets fired by anti-tank rifles, let alone the shells fired by machine guns.
The snipers of the Golden Dragon City Garrison Corps are equipped with sniper rifles, although they cannot penetrate the steel shields and armor of the bear heavy infantry, but the snipers can aim at the face of the bear heavy infantry and shoot at them.
The iron helmets worn by the bear hoplites did not hide their faces.
Although the MG-34 general-purpose machine gun or MG-42 general-purpose machine gun equipped by the Royal Army of the Han and Tang Empires could not penetrate the steel shields and armor of the bear heavy infantry, the bullets fired by the machine gun could still be headshot if they could hit the face of the bear heavy infantry.
Of course, the biggest threat to the charging Ursa heavy infantry is the anti-tank rifle and machine gun.
Today is September 23, 3312 in the Ragnarok calendar, and it is the first time that the Totem Alliance Expeditionary Force has launched an attack on the position of the Golden Dragon City garrison after building its camp.
In the past few days when the Totem Alliance Expeditionary Force was building a camp, the eight air divisions of the Golden Dragon City Garrison Corps have been bombing the Totem Alliance Expeditionary Force without stopping.
Even if the Totem Alliance Expeditionary Force has Golden Eagle warriors who can counterattack the enemy's fighters, the continuous bombing still brings a lot of losses to the Totem Alliance Expeditionary Force.
As of the time before the Totem Alliance Expeditionary Force launched the attack, more than 80,000 orc warriors died in the bombing alone, and even some powerful troops were killed by aerial bombs, which cast a shadow on the entire Totem Alliance Expeditionary Force.
In order to boost morale, the real commander of the expeditionary force, Pao Rovarig, did not make any further attempts, and as soon as he came up, he sent 20,000 Xiong heavy infantry to launch a fierce attack on the human position on the mountain beam.
The seventeenth prince, Nicholas, looked at the hillside in the distance, which was soon covered with the corpses of the bear clan heavy infantry, and hesitated for a moment and said to Pao: "General Pao, do you want to send a wizard of a thousand people to go up and provide cover for the attacking bear clan heavy infantry?" ”
Pao shook his head and said, "The wizard's attack witchcraft is not as long range as those strange weapons of the enemy.
The wizard who sent a team of 1,000 people now may soon be killed by those strange weapons of the enemy. ”
"But with such a hard charge, the losses are inevitably too great, those are all facing human soldiers, and they can defeat the bear clan heavy infantry with one enemy and ten!"
"Your Highness, war is cruel, and for the sake of victory, there are some sacrifices that cannot be avoided."
Although Pao had already prepared to sacrifice 20,000 Xiong heavy infantry to open the gap in the enemy's position, when Pao saw the charging Xiong heavy infantry, no one could get close to within 50 meters of the enemy's forward position, so he had to give the order to blow the horn of retreat.
At this time, the troops blocking the front of the Totem Alliance Expeditionary Force were the 2nd Infantry Division of the Golden Dragon City Garrison Corps, and there were also 4 independent brigades that had withdrawn to the defense area of the 2nd Infantry Division, temporarily serving as a reserve for the 2nd Infantry Division.
Xia Yonggang, the commander of the 2nd Infantry Division of the Golden Dragon City Garrison Corps, saw through the telescope that the charging bear clan heavy infantry began to retreat, so he put down the binoculars and turned his head to Shi Zhihong, the deputy commander of the 2nd Infantry Division, and said in a deep voice: "Old Shi, the beast cubs are really not afraid of death.
If it weren't for the order to retreat from the generals, maybe all these bear warriors who charged would have died in front of our position. ”
Shi Zhihong, the deputy division commander, said with some concern: "What I am most worried about is that the army of the Totem Alliance will rush to our position.
In a white-knuckle battle, we will definitely be the ones who will suffer.
Although there are many warriors in our division, whether it is the number or level, compared to the army of the Totem Alliance, the gap is too great. ”
The army of the Han and Tang Empires has long become a pure thermal weapon force.
Even if there were some warriors in the armies of the Han and Tang Empires, most of them were low-level warriors and middle-level warriors, and even high-level warriors were rare.
In the army of the Totem Alliance, a fifth-level warrior equivalent to a high-level martial artist is the minimum requirement for the main battle class.
If the army of the Han and Tang Empires was without guns, facing the army of the Totem Alliance, it might only be left to be ravaged.
Division Commander Xia Yonggang said: "Now our division not only receives fire support from three artillery divisions, but can also call for air support from eight air divisions at any time.
I want to see how those beast cubs rushed to our position! ”
There are about 20,000 bear heavy infantry in 20,000 people, and only about 10,000 are left in the end.
This made the faces of the seventeenth prince Nicolai and Pao look a little ugly.
"General Pao, what's next?"
Pao pondered for a moment and said, "I am going to send several clans' auxiliary troops to attack the human position in turn. ”
The seventeenth prince, Nicolai, frowned slightly, "Using the crowd tactic may cause even greater losses." ”
Pao suddenly lowered his voice and said: "Your Highness, the auxiliary troops of those clans are originally consumables, even if the 800,000 auxiliary troops of the expeditionary force are lost, His Majesty the Emperor will not blame His Highness and me." ”
"Military matters, let General Pao decide!
I only hope that this crusade against Golden Dragon City will not be in vain for our expeditionary force. ”
"Your Highness, don't worry, we will definitely be able to capture Golden Dragon City, this time we have brought 3 centenarians of desert giants, 2 centenarians of frost giants, 4 centenarians of rock giants and 4 centenarians of forest giants, and 2 centenarians of the earth dragoons.
Of course, we have to be careful with these super powerful troops.
If the loss is too great, His Highness and I will not be able to explain it to His Majesty the Emperor. ”
Next, Pao sent 50,000 pig warriors at one time to launch a full-scale attack on the position of the 2nd Infantry Division of the Golden Dragon City Garrison Corps, which was more than ten kilometers long.
Ordinary pig warriors, in the army of the Totem Alliance, belong to the bottom of the existence, the average pig warriors, the level is only one level, and there are relatively few pig warriors who can be promoted to the second level, and the first-level warriors and second-level warriors are equivalent to low-level warriors.
Of course, among the pig warriors, there are also some special troops, with very strong combat effectiveness, comparable to the main arms of the totem alliance army, but in the sequence of this expeditionary force, there are no special classes of the pig clan.
The 50,000 pig warriors who launched the attack were actually used as cannon fodder by Pao.
However, the 50,000 pig warriors did not have the consciousness to act as cannon fodder, and in the face of the planes and artillery of the Han and Tang armies, as well as the anti-tank rifles, machine guns, sniper rifles and general-purpose machine guns on the positions, they still rushed forward without fear of death.
Seeing that nearly half of the 50,000 pig warriors were killed and wounded, and still did not break through the position of the Han and Tang armies, Pao sent another 50,000 pig warriors to continue to strengthen the attack with a wave of his hand.
Thanks to the fact that these pig warriors were only equipped with leather armor, and the shields in their hands were only round shields made of wood, which allowed the machine guns and rifles in the hands of the Han and Tang armies to exert great lethality.
Otherwise, even if it is 100,000 pigs, such a lifeless rush may also rush to the position of the 2nd Infantry Division of the Golden Dragon City Garrison Corps.
Seeing that the pig warriors were still unable to rush to the position of the human army even if they did not care about casualties, Pao couldn't help but shake his head and said to a lion officer beside him: "Blow the horn of retreat, I didn't expect the human army in Golden Dragon City to be so difficult." ”
When the horn of retreat sounded again, the pig warriors, who were originally not afraid of death, immediately retreated like a tide.
The seventeenth prince, Nicholas frowned, asked Pao, "General Pao, what now?"
With the strength displayed by the human army on the opposite side, I am afraid that even if we use up all 800,000 auxiliary troops, we will be helpless to take the opponent's position. ”
Pao looked at the sky, and then said in a deep voice, "Your Highness, I'm going to try a night attack.
From the observation of the previous few days, the human aircraft has never been dispatched at night, and perhaps the night attack can bring some surprises to our expeditionary force. ”
Just when the Totem Alliance Expeditionary Force attacked the position of the 2nd Infantry Division of the Golden Dragon City Garrison Corps, Zhou Rui and Princess Dai Bona had already come to Golden Dragon City.
With Zhou Rui, there was also the Third Group Army of the Shuodong Military Region stationed on the other side of the two-way different time and space node, the commander's name was Wang Zhong, and Wang Zhong was the youngest son of Wang Biao, the commander of the Wanzhou Military Region.
When Wang Biao took over the Ganyang garrison brigade of the Zhou family, Wang Biao was already the head of the regiment, and he could be regarded as a veteran of the Zhou family.
After Zhou Rui became the head of the Zhou family, Wang Biao has always been loyal to Zhou Rui.
Originally, Wang Biao had two sons, both of whom died in battle with Zhou Rui's eldest brother Zhou Kang, and Wang Zhong became Wang Biao's only son.
Wang Zhong is 2 years younger than Zhou Rui, 35 years old this year, almost after Zhou Rui took over the Zhou family, Wang Zhong joined the Zhou family.
Over the years, although Zhou Rui's care has promoted Wang Zhong from an ordinary soldier to a lieutenant general in the Royal Army of the Han and Tang Empires, Wang Zhong's resume is full of several pages.
"Now do you know how many troops the Totem Alliance's expeditionary force has?" Zhou Rui asked in a deep voice.
Liu Erga, the commander of the Golden Dragon City Garrison Corps, shook his head, "Your Majesty, we still haven't figured out the specific strength of the other party.
But what is certain is that there are definitely more than 300,000, maybe more than 600,000, otherwise the scale of the camp built by the other party will not be so large. ”
Princess Dai Bona said helplessly at this time: "The intelligence system of the Star and Moon Alliance in the Totem Alliance is not strong, and it is normal that some things are not clear.
It seems that the Totem Alliance is very determined to seize this two-way space magic gate, and perhaps the Totem Alliance's expeditionary force will bring a lot of powerful troops. ”
Liu Erga sighed and said, "The Golden Eagle Warriors in the opponent's powerful class have already brought very big losses to the 8 air divisions of our Golden Dragon City Garrison Corps.
Over the course of several days of bombing, the 8 air divisions combined had lost more than 400 long-range bombers and more than 300 fighters.
But we've also killed about four or five thousand Golden Eagle warriors. ”
Zhou Rui then said: "I have brought you another 1,000 new fighters and 1,000 new bombers to the Golden Dragon City Garrison Corps this time, as well as 1,000 pilots of fighters and 1,000 crew members of bombers.
If necessary, we will transfer dozens of more air divisions from various military regions, and air supremacy must be in our hands. ”
Nowadays, in the lottery system, there are a large number of weapons and equipment of the navy, land and air force.
Since the war between the Han and Tang Empires and the Nine Nations Military Alliance has ended, and the Han and Tang Empires have launched a major disarmament, Zhou Rui has not withdrawn these weapons and equipment stored in the lottery system for the time being.
The 1,000 new fighters were German Bf109 fighters, which were the main fighters of the Luftwaffe in World War II.
The maximum flight speed is 610 kilometers per hour, the maximum ceiling is 10,000 meters, the range is 700 kilometers, it is armed with 1 30-mm cannon and 2 13-mm machine guns, and the crew is 1 person.
The 1,000 new bombers are the American B-25 medium-range bombers, which are a heavy medium-range bombers used by the United States Air Force in World War II.
It has a maximum flight speed of 438 kilometers per hour, a range of 2,173 kilometers, 18 12.7 mm heavy machine guns, a bomb load of 1,360 kilograms, and a crew of 5.
In fact, there are 2,000 German Bf109 fighters and American B-25 medium-range bombers in the lottery system, and after Zhou Rui learned that the Totem Alliance had formed an expeditionary force, he extracted all the 4,000 fighters in the lottery system.
However, due to the problems of pilots and crews, only 1,000 German Bf109 fighters and 1,000 American B-25 medium-range bombers have formed combat effectiveness for the time being.
Pilots of another 1,000 German Bf109 fighters, as well as crews of 1,000 American B-25 medium-range bombers, are still being trained.
Wang Zhong then said: "Your Majesty, the fighters of the Air Force cannot be dispatched at night, and we have to be careful of the night attack of the Totem Alliance Expeditionary Force. ”
Zhou Rui nodded, and then looked at Liu Erga.
Liu Erga immediately said: "Commander Wang, rest assured, all the departments of our Golden Dragon City Garrison Corps are ready to guard against the other party's night attack.
Even without the fighters of the Air Force, with the artillery of our Golden Dragon City Garrison Corps, it is enough to break down the opponent's night attack! ”