139 offense against offense
"What's that?" On the defense line of the Holy Demon Empire, on the edge of a barracks of about 100 people, a soldier in charge of vigilance pressed the long sword at his waist, stared at the shaky forest in the distance, and squinted his eyes to remind his companions.
"Alert! Alert! Enemy attack! His companion drew his sword and prepared for battle on the outskirts of the camp: "It's the great army of Iran Hill!" Get ready for battle! ”
Hearing his shout, these soldiers of the Holy Demon Empire began to send troops to set up, they relied on the camp to prepare for defense, and a pair of eyes looked at the trees in front of them that seemed to have been resurrected.
"Tubu!" A row of tracer bullets swept over and hit the large defensive magic array at the edge of the camp, causing the huge magic array to bloom with a pale blue light. All areas where the Magic Empire is stationed are equipped with such magic arrays to prevent the opponent from attacking, and can also be used as a temporary position to support defense.
It's a pity that before the magic array could devour the flying bullets, a cannonball smashed into the magic defense wall. The pale blue magical defense barrier, which was not very clear in the first place, instantly disappeared into the air with the impact of this cannonball.
Click! An M4 tank, with an indomitable momentum, smashed through a small tree on the edge of the forest, ran over the bushes in front of it, rolled its tracks, and appeared in front of the soldiers of the Holy Demon Empire.
Immediately afterward, a second M4 tank appeared, also running over the bushes, revealing its own tall frontal armor - the center of which outlined the outer outline of the Holy Demon Empire's eagle with white paint, forming a white hollow eagle pattern.
One tank after another appeared at the edge of the jungle, followed by hordes of Irlanhill soldiers, the soldiers at the front of the charge, holding STG-44 assault rifles, pouring ammunition on the chambers of their guns against the soldiers of the Holy Demon Empire.
The soldier holding the MG-42 machine gun quickly found an excellent cover position, where he set up the machine gun bipod and lifted the cover on the gun. The co-shooter was already in position, pulled out the chain from the ammunition box and pressed it under the cover of the machine gun.
In the next second, the Iran Hill machine gunner, who had pulled the bolt, began to strafe, and the tracer bullets flew into the soldier phalanx of the Holy Demon Empire.
"What the hell is that?" A soldier of the Holy Demon Empire watched as the tank ran over the wood outside their camp as if it had broken a small tree. The steel monster didn't seem to care about anything in its way, and it went on a rampage.
He saw with his own eyes that the soldiers of Iran Hill standing on the tank were controlling the machine guns on the steel monster, shooting the soldiers of the Holy Demon Empire from top to bottom.
And on the head and body of that steel monster, there are machine guns that can shoot tongues of fire, firing dense tracer bullets, harvesting the lives of the soldiers of the Holy Demon Empire.
What's even more terrifying is that the tank also has a long barrel, and from time to time it fires a powerful shot at the crowd of the Holy Demon Empire. This thing is aimed directly, so the quasi-head is quite scary. It can always shoot cannonballs into the densest crowds, killing at a rate even more terrifying than the shelling of Iran Hill.
What made him most devastated was that this thing didn't intend to fight the soldiers of the Holy Demon Empire in close quarters at all, it just fired from a distance, covering its own soldiers to keep advancing, making people angry and anxious, but they couldn't find a chance to attack it.
Because of the choice of the M4 Sherman tank, Chris and his generals also used the tactics of the American army as a tactical reference: they felt that it was not a good way to use the tanks on a large scale.
After all, the opposing side does not have a large number of anti-tank weapons, nor does it have many tanks as a support for the defensive line. It is not necessary to concentrate tank forces, and it will not achieve very good combat results.
On the other hand, as in the U.S. military, the use of dispersed tanks to support infantry operations is very much in line with the design purpose of the M4 tank. In terms of supporting infantry operations, the tall and powerful M4 tank is indeed an ideal weapon.
It can use its firepower in the rear without worrying that the enemy will have the terrible long-range destruction weapons of the German tank against it - this is simply the perfect pillbox that can be advanced, and the opponent has no good way to use this tactic.
Therefore, after some trade-offs, Iran Hill's tank tactics were initially used to cover infantry operations. This is the best example of how the battlefield environment determines the tactical arrangement.
No tactic is absolutely perfect, and how to use it depends on the specific environment and specific analysis. Just as the Iran Hill Grenadier was still using the old three-stage shooting tactics when they were first born, sometimes the backward tactics may not have room to play.
"Retreat! Fall back! The officers of the Holy Demon Empire led by him knew that with these soldiers led by themselves, they would not be able to stop these Elan Hill troops in front of them. He decisively gave the order to retreat, hoping to get out of the battlefield before his troops were really bitten.
It is a pity that Iran Hill's troops did not give him a chance to retreat at all. At the same time that he gave the order to retreat, the Il-2 attack aircraft in the sky swooped down and began their killing.
The 20 mm caliber cannon left two bloody paths in the crowd, and the small defensive magic on the body could not stop the ordinary soldiers of the Holy Demon Empire with the large-caliber cannon from quickly becoming chaotic under the slaughter of the attack aircraft.
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Unable to resist as an organized organization, they were breached in a matter of minutes. With the exception of about 20 people who fled, the rest were wiped out nearby, and Iran Hill's counterattack entered a benign mode of quick victory at the beginning.
In one morning, the 11th Division of the 1st Army recovered 2 small towns south of Higgs, routed about 1,000 defenders of the Holy Demon Empire, and advanced 15 kilometers, which was 5 times faster than the previous advance of the Holy Demon Empire.
Similarly, the 1st Division of Elanhill, which served as the main attacker, quickly took the southern town of Rozroll, seriously threatening the flank defense of the Holy Demon Empire.
On this day, Elanhill's air force crossed the border like locusts, attacking all the targets they could see, and the guard line and the main line of defense arranged by the Holy Demon Empire on the southern front were attacked, and the entire defense system fell into chaos.
More than 400 fighters and attack planes took off thousands of sorties, pouring bombs that could be mounted and artillery shells that could be carried on the positions of the Holy Demon Empire.
In just one day, the Holy Demon Empire lost more than 500 soldiers and turned its salient into a dangerous pocket. By the evening of the same day, the troops under the command of Wagron had attacked 20 kilometers to the north, mastered the predetermined target of Rozrol, and basically completed the task of advancing.
Early the next morning, the situation on the battlefield changed dramatically. Receiving reinforcements, the Holy Demon Empire began a large-scale counterattack, and Alan Hill also hoped to complete their advance plan for the next day by attacking.
The two sides continued to invest troops in the short 3-kilometer theater, using dragon knights, giant horse cavalry, magic legions, tanks, attack aircraft, howitzers and other weapons and troops, and turned that plain into the surface of the moon.
Because of the lack of cover from the position, the losses of troops on both sides were very large. Often, as soon as 1,000 people came up to support, most of them were exhausted and had to retreat. The Holy Demon Empire lost another 1,000 mages in a single day, and incidentally lost air supremacy over the entire Higgs region.
The Elanhill side did not take advantage of anything, the attack force of the 1st Army suffered heavy losses, and for the first time since the formation of the 1st Division, there was no way to overcome the opponent's defensive line. More than 10,000 people spilled blood on the battlefield, but the entire 1st Army did not move forward.
The battle was at a fever pitch from the start, and the red-eyed Wagron was soon in reserve, and two fully armored regiments entered the battlefield, bringing the battle to a climax on the morning of the third day.
In order to cover the flanks of its own large army, the Holy Demon Empire did not have the slightest intention of retreating. They threw all their strength into a counterattack in an effort to annihilate the mortal forces that threatened the southern defenses.
Because neither side completed their respective tasks on the second day, Iran Hill stopped moving forward and did not complete the attack plan, and the Holy Demon Empire did not drive the opponent out of their control area, so on the third day, everyone was full of thoughts about finding a way to complete the two-day mission in one day.
At the beginning, everyone smashed into the whole house, and the mortal armored forces were attacked by dragons and magicians, and there were a lot of losses. A tank battalion was completely annihilated during a frontal attack, and the wreckage of the tank was paralyzed from one end of the battlefield to the other, and the burning black smoke obscured the sky.
On the other side, the magic legion that poured out of the nest also lost their pants, they ran out of mana replenishment, and then they were caught by the arriving Il-2 attack plane. Deprived of the protection of their magic, the Magic Legion of the Holy Demon Empire was slaughtered like lambs by the Iran Hill Air Force, and its corpses were scattered all over the hillside.
On the fourth day, Vagron had to suspend his attack and put his troops in place: he had to admit that the army of terrifying magicians could indeed stand up to his mechanized army head-on.
The opposing Holy Demon Empire troops did not attack on this day, and they abandoned their defensive line and began a large-scale retreat while Iran Hill was resting his troops.
When they left their camp, all the officers of the Holy Demon Empire knew that they had lost the war...... They had to abandon a large number of friendly forces still in the east, and they had to abandon the Higgsnar, who was once close at hand, but now far away.
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