"Damn, don't we have a way to deal with their anti-aircraft missiles?"

Abrams said hatefully with his binoculars in hand.

In the direction he was looking, two fighters in the sky were dragging black smoke down, and he no longer knew that this was the first one to be shot down, and the Ming army's missiles that completely covered the multi-layered airspace made their sky a forbidden place for US planes.

"There is no hope for the Air Force!"

The chief of staff beside him lamented.

According to the standard tactics of the US military, at least the bombers must wash the ground first and then attack, but it is obvious that the air force is not capable of completing this task, and under the air defense capability of the Ming army, it is estimated that the number of bombs dropped on their heads by US combat planes will not be greater than the number of downed planes.

"Ignore them, order the troops to attack!"

Abrams said with a wave of his hand.

Immediately after that, on the width of more than ten kilometers on both sides of him, one after another M60 tanks and M113 armored vehicles quickly started, in the endless desert, with four armored battalions as the core, rolled up the yellow sand in the direction of Taif and quickly marched, at the same time, a door of M44 self-propelled guns on the rear artillery position kept spewing flames into the sky, and shells weighing more than 40 kilograms roared and smashed into the opposite side.

On the Ming artillery position opposite them, a gun position detection radar quickly captured the flying shells, and then began to reverse calculate the position of the US artillery positions according to the flight trajectory of the shells. A Weiyuan self-propelled gun with its muzzle pointed obliquely into the sky quickly adjusted its coordinates. Immediately after that, the commander next to him gave an order. Eighteen Weiyuan cannons roared in an instant. Eighteen shells, also weighing more than 40 kilograms, flew out whizzing out and smashed into the US artillery positions like eyes.

The next moment, Major General Abrams and all the officers beside him looked in amazement in the direction of their artillery position, where there were bursts of flames rising into the sky, and the loud sound of ammunition detonation shook the ground beneath their feet.

"The 155th artillery battalion is over."

It didn't take long for his chief of staff to put down the phone with a sad look on his face and said.

Abrams took off his hat with a blank face.

"Discover the Leopard tank!"

At this moment, less than ten kilometers away from him, an American officer was lying on the turret of the M60 tank. With a hint of excitement they shouted, three kilometers away, a tank that was almost integrated with the ground was slowly moving in, followed by three more.

"Damn, don't these guys have to add an extra bunch of bits and bits to their tanks every year."

The officer said hatefully.

True, the Leopard tanks that appeared in front of them changed again.

Of course, the U.S. military is very familiar with this kind of tank, and the vast majority of European countries are this kind of tank, but they have enlarged it in order to adapt to the Europeans, and the result of the amplification is that the armor is thinner, but because of learning from the Ming military. They are all equipped with gap armor, so the protection is okay. The U.S. military has fought against this tank countless times, and the maneuverability that can be called a taper has made them suffer. But this is the leopard style of the Ming army, and it is not the same as the leopard style of Europe.

In fact, the leopard-like appearance of the Ming army has been constantly changing, before the Australian war they were the same as the European leopards with interstitial armor, during the Australian war, people found that there was a large piece of their turret front, but now these American soldiers found that it has changed again, and the front of the hull seems to have a lot more.

The four Leopards spotted them as well, but instead of retreating, they accelerated forward, followed by the Lynx chariot, apparently an armored reconnaissance detachment.

At present, neither side dares to reconnoiter each other through the air, needless to say, the missiles of the Ming army, there is also a Huo gram missile battalion behind the US army to provide battlefield coverage, the reconnaissance helicopters of the Ming army undoubtedly have only a dead end in front of this thing, and even their armed helicopters do not dare to attack the US army, this is a desert, the most advantageous ultra-low-altitude tree raid is useless, there is not a single tree here, and the range of more than 60 kilometers wide is full of empty sand.

So both sides are like ancient cavalry, sending scouts to each other to search.

"Fire!"

The commander of this American armored cavalry company, who was also a reconnaissance unit, ordered without hesitation.

The turrets of the four M60 tanks assigned to him immediately began to rotate, but the Ming army's Leopard fire control system far surpassed them, and before the American troops could complete aiming, the first round of shells on the opposite side arrived, although the two sides were close to 2,500 meters apart at this time, there were still two shells that hit the front of the two M60s, and in an instant, they made fiery holes in the 110 mm thick armor.

Fortunately, almost at the same time, the remaining two M60s also opened fire.

However, at this time, the Leopard tank fired for the second time, and at the same time that a short-rod sub-caliber armor-piercing projectile hit a Leopard, the remaining two M60s were also hit, but the results of their respective harvests were completely different, the two M60s were immediately pierced frontally, and the front of the Leopard tank that was hit actually had a small explosion, and then the tank continued to move forward without even slowing down.

Well, that's actually explosive reactive armor, and there is a more important layer of modular composite armor under the explosive reactive armor, Yang Yuan's Leopard tank is indeed not thick in basic armor, but now he has pasted a bunch of various armor layer after layer. Although the weight of the Leopard tank was increased to 46 tons, the protection performance was doubled, and even if his own 105 gun used short-rod armor-piercing shells, it would be difficult to penetrate these outer layers at a distance of one kilometer.

Even the metal jets of eight-and-five-millimeter rockets are impenetrable.

"Retreat!"

This scene made the company commander who was reporting to his superiors so frightened that he hurriedly shouted, and the armored vehicles under his command immediately turned around and fled, as for those M41 tanks, they desperately fired at the Leopard, but it was too late at this time, after solving the American M60 tank, the four Leopards quickly aimed their guns at the M41, and they were as easy as shooting a target. Then the next targets were the M113 armored vehicles and the Willis military vehicles, as tank shells fell, in the frightened cries for help of the company commander, the American armored cavalry company was killed without resistance.

At the same time, an armored battalion of the US army in the rear was desperately holding back the black smoke to rush to reinforcements.

But they didn't know that the twelve lynx infantry fighting vehicles belonging to the reconnaissance unit of the Ming army were winding around their flanks from the right side under the cover of sand and dust.

Just when one of the U.S. armoured companies flanking them spotted the Leopards that were wantonly killing their reconnaissance company, twelve missile launchers were already aiming at twelve M60 tanks on twelve Lynx infantry fighting vehicles three kilometers away.

The company commander who commanded an M60 tank with its head directly out of the turret saw a sudden flash of fire just after the first anti-tank missile was launched, and with his exclamation, the turrets of the fourteen M60 tanks on the march quickly turned and pointed at the attacking lynx infantry fighting vehicle before the anti-tank missile arrived.

Immediately after that, all tanks made a short stop to complete their aim and opened fire quickly.

But just then, the first anti-tank missile arrived, and the powerful Red Arrow II missile was crashing into the turret of an M60, and the metal jet easily penetrated the armor in the flash of the explosion, and high-speed hot metal droplets swept through the tank, followed by thick smoke bursting out.

At the same time, more missiles hit their respective targets, and in a matter of seconds, six M60 tanks were wrecked by anti-tank missiles.

However, because of the distance, only one of the shells fired by them hit the Lynx infantry fighting vehicle, and the fire and explosion suppression system in the vehicle worked very well, and the great power of the armor-piercing shells only destroyed the vehicle, but only one crew member was killed, and the other two quickly got out of the vehicle and fled.

The destruction of this infantry fighting vehicle did not deter the remaining lynx infantry fighting vehicles, and then the remaining combat vehicles fired a second round of missiles, and the American tanks that knew the power of this thing did not care about picking them up, and hurriedly started to prepare to dodge, and at the same time aimed at those lynx fighting vehicles while on the march and fired, but only the M60 that was vertical and did not have a horizontal stabilization system In this case, it was even more impossible to hit the target three kilometers away.

Fortunately, the moving tanks dodged the anti-tank missiles after all, and only three missiles hit in the second round, but these two also destroyed three tanks, and what made the commanders who were lying on the turret and commanding collapsed was that these lynx fighting vehicles actually fired a third round of missiles, only a little longer than the interval between the first and second rounds, what they didn't know was that in addition to the two in the launcher next to the turret, these infantry fighting vehicles had five in the standard configuration of the car.

Fortunately, taking advantage of the fact that the infantry fighting vehicles were equipped with missiles, the American tanks once again destroyed two infantry fighting vehicles, but at this time they only had three tanks left.

At the time of the battle between this US tank company and the Lynx tank, the other three tank companies that tried to encircle and annihilate the Ming reconnaissance unit were tragic, because at the same time, a nearby Ming armored battalion was also rushing to the battlefield, at this time the difference in the speed of the tanks on both sides was immediately reflected, the Leopard tank battalion arrived earlier than the US army and then joined the reconnaissance unit, when the US army arrived, it was not four Leopard tanks that needed to be faced, but a battalion and a platoon of sixty vehicles.

And they only had three companies, and they lacked a platoon that had been assigned to the reconnaissance unit, a total of forty tanks.

They were not able to encircle their opponents, but they were going to be surrounded by them.

The U.S. troops, who also found that they had hit the iron plate, immediately called for support, and another battalion nearby rushed to the battlefield, and the Ming army also called for their own support, and then the scale of the battle quickly escalated, and a big melee between the two most advanced main battle tanks in the world today, and the two most powerful armored forces in the world today, kicked off in a sudden desert storm. (To be continued.) )