"Tanks, at a distance of 400, accompanied by at least one platoon of infantry!" In the wind and rain, the hoarse Red Police soldiers waded through knee-deep muddy water and lay on the collapsed trench walls that had long been washed away by the rain, fiercely resisting the combined attack of the Ethiopian troops and the French. "Damn, this is the French, otherwise there would be no 'Leclerc' tank!"

It should be said that the 2nd Panzer Brigade is indeed the pride of the French, when it was the 2nd Panzer Division, it was General Leclerc who led this unit to take the lead in driving into Paris and liberating the French capital, which had been ruled by the Germans for 4 years.

In this operation, the 3rd Tank Company of the 6th Heavy Cavalry Combat Group sent a platoon of armored forces to conduct a mobile operation on the flank of the mixed armored battalion of the 8th Ethiopian Infantry Division. In addition to using long-range firepower to provide some indirect support to the attacking Ethiopian forces, the 3rd Tank Company did not want to participate in direct offensive operations. But after discovering that the situation here did not seem to be too right, the French military advisers who went out to the front line to command didn't care so much, and directly pressed this tank platoon.

The Ethiopian soldiers who accompanied the battle were killed in the frenzied strafing of machine-gun bullets, but the Leclerc main battle tank covering the attack was not damaged in the slightest, except for the steel-core warheads that stirred up countless flying sparks on its heavy armored body. The monstrous beast draped in the reactive armor module was still crushing.

A little farther away, in a collapsed bunker, two Red Guard soldiers of the Navy Red Guard Regiment are busy around a 120mm anti-tank anti-tank rocket system. Although the triangular support frame was tilted a little in the mud, the Red Police soldiers could no longer care about it.

The simple fire control system of the 120 mm anti-tank rocket system is composed of a series of complex elements such as an optical sighting system, a laser ranging system, a ballistic calculation system, a light-emitting diode light spot system, and a plug-in connection mechanism. In addition to laser ranging, automatic calculation of shooting elements, and automatic loading of shooting elements, aiming points can also be automatically displayed. The aimer simply points the light point inside the scope at the target. Within 10 seconds. The shooting elements can be determined.

The Leclerc main battle tank was unaware of the danger, and the steel body of the monstrous beast was still breaking through the wind and rain. The tracks creaked through the mud and rolled up the dirty mud.

"Boom" a dazzling firelight greeted him. It's so fast, it's so hot, it's so frightening.

As the warhead of the 120-mm anti-tank system armor-piercing rocket hit Leclerc, which was attached to the reactive armor, the inner and outer cover of the pre-stage warhead probe part at the front end of the warhead was immediately closed, and the fuse power was turned on.

The pre-amp fuse detonated the pre-amp charge in an instant, and the reactive armor block was detonated in an instant. At the same time, after the fuse delay, the main charge was detonated after it was determined that the reactive armor had been detonated and that interference with the formation of the jet of the main charge had been basically eliminated. The resulting armor-piercing jet penetrated the armor of the Leclerc main battle tank in an instant.

The muzzle velocity is 246 m/s, and the maximum armor-piercing thickness is 800 mm, and the armor-piercing thickness at a 68-degree landing angle is 230 mm. Such data is directly equivalent to the death sentence of this Leclerc main battle tank.

Annoyed by the frustration of the attack, the artillery regiments of the Ethiopian 8th Infantry Division and the Djibouti artillery regiment began to comb through the unsightly positions that had already been bombarded with heavy artillery fire.

The artillery units of the Red Guard Corps deployed behind the defensive line also showed no weakness in the fierce artillery attacks on the French and Ethiopian armed forces.

The sudden rainstorm blurred the horizons of the two sides, and it seems that it was also because of the arrival of the rainstorm that the two sides no longer cared about the impact of the air force, and the artillery bombardment on both sides became more and more intense.

The shells of the two sides cut countless brilliant track marks in the sky, and the bright ballistics covered the entire rain curtain.

155 mm towed artillery, 120 mm rifled recoil mortar system, British 105 mm light howitzer, French 155 mm self-propelled howitzer, unimaginable. The Ethiopian Eighth Infantry Division and the Djibouti Artillery Regiment smashed how many shells in just one afternoon.

On the artillery position of the Red Guard soldiers, dozens of 155 howitzers and 105 mm light howitzers smashed 3.5 base ammunition on the open ground in front of the position in just two hours. If not for the strong support of artillery. Perhaps the defending forces will have to pay a great price in casualties. After all, the Ethiopian and French offensive was too crazy.

As soon as the dense artillery fire extended, the attacking Ethiopian forces pressed on again, under the cover of armored fighting vehicles. Clusters of turbid waves emerged from the rain curtain, like gray shadows densely packed between heaven and earth.

"Huh." With the first scream. A 105mm grenade fell from the sky, causing a cloud of shrapnel to fly into flames. The mud is flying all over the sky. The column of smoke was torn to pieces by the wind in an instant, and more shells fell one after another.

Everywhere there was the scorching firelight, the earth trembled madly in this drum-like tremor, and the scene between heaven and earth was boiling.

Rows of cannonballs fell one after another, and the dirt was wrapped in fire and steel, creating a carpet of death between heaven and earth. The airburst bombs that whistled through the air rained down the raindrops of fragments, and countless shrapnel shot down in all directions, completely covering the entire open field. In the explosion where it was impossible to distinguish the explosion point, a piece of flesh and blood splattered.

The charging Ethiopian soldiers did not seem to shy away from the death that fell from the sky, and they struggled through the mud, and people were torn to pieces by shells. There was a blood-red color between heaven and earth. The flesh and blood on the ground were soon washed away by the rain. Some of the wounded with broken arms and legs were unable to support the arrival of the ambulances, and they could only lie helplessly in the mud, letting the filthy sewage wash over their already white wounds.

Everywhere there was the wailing of crying fathers and mothers. It was a killing that bordered on brutality. But war is like that, the shells that come down in rows do not take anything into account. This is how many soldiers slowly die in agony.

But that's just one of the nightmares. 155mm grenades and 105mm grenades fell from the rain one after another. The ground was littered with excavated craters that were quickly filled by rainwater. And the wounded Ethiopian soldiers were overturned in the muddy water by artillery fire. There was no way to struggle, only helplessly drowning his mouth and nose in muddy water. Eventually, he drowned in these puddles.

The entire battlefield was like a huge meat grinder at this time, devouring countless lives in it and grinding it into dripping flesh and blood. The vast majority of them will not even die with a complete corpse. The shrapnel would tear their bodies to pieces without hesitation, and would penetrate into the flesh with the utmost brutality, releasing the blood from the ruptured wounds. There is nothing more cruel than such suffering, but this is war.

In the midst of the sharp whistling, the coalition forces also covered the attack of the troops with the heaviest artillery fire. Dozens of shells almost instantly covered the positions of the Red Guard reinforced battalion. The huge cloud of smoke from the explosion billowed and tumbled, and was soon blown away by the wind and rain. The heavy shelling almost exploded into a point.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of artillery fire, the attacking Ethiopian troops left corpses everywhere at the same time. also viciously rammed into the defensive position of the Red Guard soldiers. A steel-iron collision unfolds again. Deafening explosions rang out almost simultaneously, and the 120, 81, and 60-mm mortars of the Red Guard Corps began to build a new wall of fire in front of their positions.

Before the Ethiopian soldiers could break through the fire, the sharp roar of machine guns rang out again. Everywhere there was the scorching whip that was flying. Rows of bullets fluttered in the wind and rain, and the ground was full of splashes and sludge. The Ethiopian soldiers, who rushed in with cats, kept screaming and fell. The 35-mm anti-explosive grenades fired from the blocking positions were mixed in, constantly spraying death.

There was chaos of slaughter everywhere, and soldiers on both sides fought mercilessly in the wind and rain. Despite the fact that those Panhad wheeled armored reconnaissance vehicles constantly covered the onslaught of the troops with heavy machine-gun, direct-aim fire, it seemed that it did not work very well. The firing points of some Red Police soldiers exploded into a ball of fire from the point of the 90-mm gun's sub-caliber anti-explosive shells, and the sky was littered with flying corpse fragments and weapons.

However, the soldiers of the Ethiopian 8th Infantry Division and the French 4th Hussar Brigade were sadly surprised to find that the Red Alert soldiers' defense system was far from the same. Troops of engineers proficient in earthwork followed the line of defense. The entire perimeter of Zela City has been completely constructed into a huge defensive network. Anti-tank trenches, trenches, and communication trenches are densely covered with cobwebs. Although they had cut into the front line of the Red Guard Army, this was only the beginning of the fierce battle.

Taking advantage of the terrain and trench movements, the Red Guard anti-tank soldiers coldly flew out a 120mm anti-tank system or a V-1FT anti-tank tank from the flank, and those Leclerc main battle tanks with excellent protection could not stop the fatal kiss. Could it be that a wheeled armored combat vehicle with not very good protection can still block it? The battle was suddenly in the heat of the day.

Knowing that there was nothing to be done, the Ethiopian armed forces decided to take a gamble and pieced together the remnants of the entire Third Regiment of the Eighth Infantry Division. The remnants of the three regiments were able to make up the strength of a battalion. After the 8th Infantry Division had cut into the first-line defensive positions of the Red Guard Corps and the Red Policemen, the Ethiopian forces were under the behest of the French military advisers. The reserve strength of this regiment was put into the defense of the first company of the Red Guard Reinforced Battalion, trying to break the stalemate by relying on this reserve force.

Since the combat units of the four companies were laid out from the south to the north. The entire reinforced battalion simply had no reserve strength. After advancing the outer defensive ring of Zela City by a full 5 kilometers, the battalion headquarters also realized that the reserve force was insufficient. Therefore, when the support forces, including the artillery company, were deployed at the commanding heights in the western part of the town, the reinforced battalion special reconnaissance platoon, the armored company, the light armored reconnaissance squadron and other units were deployed behind the junction of the south and west directions.

Obviously, this force is the battle reserve for the entire Zela defense, and it is also the only reserve.

As a result, the only amount of mobility that the reinforced battalion can actually put into it is the two armored units: the special reconnaissance platoon, the armored company, and the light armored reconnaissance squadron.

In the face of the frenzied attacks of the Ethiopian armed forces again and again, the combat units that reinforced the armored strength of multi-functional infantry fighting vehicles and Apocalypse main battle tanks were in a hurry. The front-line combat troops are fighting the French and Ethiopian monkeys to the death, but they can only watch from the sidelines. How could the warriors not be in a hurry. (To be continued......)