May 1st, desert wolf smoke
"Shelling, concealment!"
No sooner had the officer's shout been heard than the enemy's shells came in with a shrill and piercing whistling sound.
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble......
Explosions began to hammer the ground violently, and the earth shook violently, as if the whole world had been distorted. Ling Kaiyue clasped his head with his hands and his knees on his chest, huddled at the bottom of the hot trench, enduring the impact of the shelling.
Everyone in the bunker had their lips closed, and despite the dim light, one could see their companions pale and looking at those around them in fear. The bunker was hidden deep underground, and the explosion heard in the anti-artillery bunker was much quieter, but when the shells fell, the walls of the bunker were shaken, making the soldiers hiding inside worry about whether the unsturdy bunker would suddenly collapse.
The sound of the explosion gradually extended to the back, and the shaking of the bunker became smaller and smaller, and only the extremely muffled explosion could be heard in the distance. With a bang, the bunker door was kicked open, and a strong smell of gunsmoke mixed with a large amount of sand and dust poured in from the outside. The soldiers inside clenched their rifles tightly and looked at the door alertly.
"Quick...... The enemy is coming! Fast forward to the position! A head poked through the smoke and dust, and the figure of Sergeant Major Lao Keqin appeared at the entrance of the cave, and he pointed out with one hand, shouting loudly at the people inside.
In this winding trench, there were many soldiers like Ling Kaiyue wearing yellow-green steel helmets, khaki desert combat uniforms, and big leather boots, carrying their weapons in their hands and running to their combat positions with blank eyes amid the whistles of the officers and the loud scolding of the sergeants.
The shells continued to explode, each shell making a terrifying screech overhead, and then fell far behind, brown clods of dirt and rubble flying everywhere. Wisps of yellow-green smoke still floated everywhere on the battlefield, and the sky was no longer tiled blue, and the billowing black smoke turned a dark red overhead.
Dada......
From a distance, the characteristic sound of firing from the Byzantine Antonov machine gun was heard, and from time to time there was the creak of bullets burrowing into the dirt. Ling Kaiyue felt that those bullets were coming in his direction, if it weren't for the sergeant's shouting, I'm afraid it would be difficult for him to hold back his desire to drill into the underground anti-artillery hole again.
After straightening his steel helmet slightly, Ling Kaiyue lay on the ground tightly, raised his head slightly, and looked out from the trench. Although it was afternoon, the position was full of cyan smoke, as if it was the dense fog of the winter morning on the edge of the bay of the East China Sea, and it was impossible to see the figure clearly from fifty meters away.
In the distance, the flat desert was deserted, and a jumble of camel thorns and rope trees stretched to the south, adding a few shades of greenery to the brown desolate land. The roar of engines was heard in the hot wind blowing from the southwest: Byzantine tanks, armored vehicles, and half-tracks appeared in front of them, initially with a few small black dots like beetles, and then more and more.
The artillery of the 11th Artillery Regiment returned fire, exploding around the Byzantine tanks, sending out clouds of black smoke. The Byzantine tanks squirmed, slowly but unstoppably advancing towards the positions of the Don army, but there were no infantry to follow them.
The Byzantines were strange in that their tanks and armored vehicles were not followed and protected by infantry, which made their armored vehicles easily destroyed by infantry and anti-tank artillery. But the Byzantines were stubborn and stubbornly insisted on their wrong tactics of armoured use.
The Tang people's defense line did not panic, and the artillery units of the 11th Mountain Artillery Regiment behind kept firing shells, and countless shells flew into the smoke, exploding red fireballs one after another, dispersing the smoke in a corner, but it was soon engulfed by the surrounding smoke. The smoke faded from the explosion of the shells that kept flying.
Ling Kaiyue seemed to hear someone shouting something in the trenches, but his attention was on the black-red fire that rose from the explosion, and he was shocked by this kind of fire that was enough to wipe out the lives of countless people. Dealing with tanks and armored vehicles is not the job of light infantry like them, and although each infantry platoon has three Bugle 60mm rocket launchers in the firearms squad, it has an effective range of only 150 meters, and it is difficult to penetrate the heavily defended frontal armor of enemy tanks.
The reassuring infantrymen were also equipped with an armored regiment behind them, which were ready to break through the Byzantine defenses in a counterattack after depleting some of the Byzantine army's tanks and armored vehicles.
The 4th Mountain Army was transferred from the Two Rivers to the Hejaz, and was later deployed to the Sinai Front. Their line of attack was to cut off the Great Eclipse from the Red Sea to North Africa and to Alexandria, the easternmost and most difficult of the three routes.
The Tang army was intercepting the attack of the big cannibal tank with heavy artillery fire, and the shells blew up gaps in the big cannibal tank formation, and the big cannibal's offensive formation became scattered. Their weakly defended Van Taylen reconnaissance tanks dodged the attacks of anti-tank guns, while the slow Simonov infantry tanks did not respond to the 37-mm anti-tank guns of the Don Army, and more than a dozen large cannibal tanks were destroyed by artillery fire. Whenever a big cannibal tank was hit, there was a burst of cheers on the position of the Tang people.
The tanks of the Great Cannibals finally passed the heavy interception of the Tang Army's heavy artillery, and at a distance of less than 1 kilometer, those tanks of the Great Cannibals were firing and firing shells at the positions of the Tang Army. They rushed into the minefield laid by the Tang Chinese, and the tracks of a Simonov tank pressed against the anti-tank mines, and a large orange ball of fire rose from under the body of the tank, engulfing the tank in an instant. Many of the Big Cannibal tanks were blown up as they passed through the minefield, and there were still many more Big Cannibal tanks that continued to approach the anti-tank trenches in front of the positions of the Don Army.
The big cannibal tanks were not followed by infantry, and their weaknesses were exposed, and those big cannibal tanks and armored vehicles could not cross the anti-tank trenches and could only make a detour to both sides. The counterattack of the Don army began, and those concealed millimeter anti-tank guns, as well as the bazookas equipped by the infantry, opened fire together, and suddenly more than a dozen large cannibal tanks were destroyed.
Ling Kaiyue couldn't help but cheer loudly, and at this time, his ass was kicked hard.
"Quick! Shoot ahead! …… Fast! Everyone! Take out those big cannibal tank crews! ”
Sergeant Major Lau Keqin was shouting at them in an anxious and stern voice, and the roar of his own machine guns and the crackling of rifles were already ringing in the surrounding positions.
Heavy smoke enveloped the entire battlefield......
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