"Resist!! Resist me!! "An infantry major of the Kapani Army howled in a rather hoarse voice in the midst of the artillery fire.

However, there are very few of his subordinates who can continue to fight.

In the infantry trenches that were blown open by shells, there were lying officers and soldiers of King Kapani stationed here, and the blood continued to form red puddles in small pits.

"Major! Let's step back! The brethren are dying!! "A second lieutenant of King Kapani, who had been cut in the arm by shrapnel or bullets, pleaded with the major with tears in his eyes.

"Shut up! Those armored brothers are watching us from heaven, and we can't die without seeing them again! You immediately look for a working anti-tank gun and delay as long as possible until the reinforcements arrive!! The Major roared again.

The second lieutenant had to salute the major, and then took a few of his subordinates, who had more or less wounds, and continued the battle according to the major's instructions.

When the lieutenant left, the major suddenly fell to the ground. Several soldiers near him saw this, and in a panic, they leaned over and picked up the major. As a result, one of the soldiers gently pulled out the hand that should have been holding the major's waist, and he saw that the entire palm was almost blood-red.

Obviously, this major, whose eyes were gradually dimming, had already been seriously injured......

Several soldiers placed the Major's body on the wall of the trench and asked him to sit as if he were leaning against the trench, and one of the soldiers gently closed the Major's dull eyes, and ran to some of his comrades who had died in battle, collecting as many anti-tank grenades and anti-tank grenades as he could.

Others are doing the same thing.

Half a minute later, several soldiers gathered again, and then looked at the trench full of lying comrades, and the smell of gunpowder was still very strong, and after silently saluting a military salute, they quickly rushed out of the trench, relying on the wreckage of the enemy's destroyed tanks and combat vehicles as cover, moving in the direction of the enemy's follow-up troops.

A Papal State assault gun found a way to penetrate it, but the unknown assault gun crew did not expect that behind the wreckage of a tank near them, a soldier of King Capani** had clasped his finger on the cable ring of an anti-tank grenade.

As the assault gun slowly passed by the wreckage of the tank, the soldier pulled the cable off, then stood up, trotted for a while, and stuck the anti-tank grenade in his hand to the energy tank of the assault gun.

It's just that when this King Capani soldier tried to hide behind the wreckage of the tank, a medium tank in the Papal States more than 100 meters away fired bullets from the machine gun hole on the head of the hull.

The head of this Capani King ** soldier was pierced after a few tenths of a second, and his body, with his usual surname, ran a few steps before slamming to the ground.

The blood from the bullet hole slowly flowed on the ground, and at this time, a violent explosion sounded, and the energy tank of the assault gun was detonated by the magnetic anti-tank grenade, and a huge blue fireball immediately rose up.

When the smoke of the flames gradually subsided, in the eyes of the officers and soldiers of the two armies who were paying attention to this scene, the hull of this assault gun was broken in two, and blue flames continued to flutter in other parts of the assault gun. If you are closer, you may even smell a little barbecue.

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The above battle situation is only a small situation in this battle area.

In the small hilly areas where almost all the fronts were fighting, such fighting situations abounded.

But there is one thing, and that is that the battle has basically been one-sided.

As the commander of the coalition forces in this area, Kemorn could not have imagined that his troops would suffer such heavy casualties in such a short period of time.

"General!! The left flank needs reinforcements!! Colonel Ortorius has been killed!! A herald, covered in blood, supported by two guard soldiers, walked to the headquarters located more than 600 meters west of the hilly area, and asked for reinforcements in a rather weak voice.

"You go down, I'll arrange it as soon as possible." Kemon looked at the herald who was not lightly injured, and could only say this sentence that was actually a comforting word.

After the herald left, Kemon's staff officer, Lieutenant Colonel Erehar of King Capani, looked at Kemon, who was silent, and said, "General! We've done our best, back off. ”

Kemon shook his head and said in a slightly trembling voice, "No! We can keep going. Let the support staff ...... Let's all go up. ”

"General! Please leave us some tinder, those lunatics are not worth our fight with them, almost all of us who can go to the front line now are in this hilly area, fighting those damn madmen! Checkmate! We really can't hold on anymore! At this, Erehar couldn't help but shed tears.

As Erehar said, the battle lasted less than half an hour, and more than 20,000 troops relied on the hilly terrain for defensive operations, and now they have suffered at least two-thirds, if not more, casualties. It can be said that except for the artillery units in the rear, which are still relatively complete, the strength of other units is seriously lacking, and some of them are even completely wiped out, and they can be abolished.

They never imagined that the armored forces of the Papal States would have a terrifying number of at least 2,000 vehicles.

Although their defense system is quite rudimentary, and long-range infantry anti-tank weapons are quite lacking, but in such a short period of time, with such heavy casualties, it can only be said that the opponent's attack has really spared no expense.

Although the hilly area is helpful for the infantry units to resist the enemy's tanks and fighting vehicles, and the opponent does not have a large number of infantry with them, it can be said that such a combat situation is quite favorable for them. But that's not the case.

The opposing troops, at the expense of casualties, insisted on using the method of cluster charge, and in just 10 minutes, reimbursed the vast majority of the anti-tank guns, including those dozens of tank destroyers, from the anti-tank guns.

Moreover, in the ensuing battle, after losing a large number of direct-fire anti-tank guns, the opponent changed formations and used assault guns to attack in formation.

Although the enemy's assault gun defense is not very good, the energy tank is an obvious weakness. However, in the trench defense areas in the field, they were not afraid of direct fire from tanks, but even more afraid of saturated shelling by assault guns.

Because of the distance, assault guns are more effective at close range than long-range guns at close range. High-explosive bombs with a caliber of at least 120mm or more can effectively kill or even shock and injure infantry within a certain range.

It can be said that the enemy army, in the absence of effective countermeasures, made very correct tactics.

The situation of the battle took such a rapid turn for the worse, so to speak, more to the credit of the assault guns of these cluster charges.

A 120mm high-explosive bomb can create an absolutely effective kill area with a radius of about three meters or more, which is likely to be even larger when you count the killing range of fragments. Those trenches were blown to pieces, and it was from these assault guns that they were the brainchild of these assault guns.

Coalition artillery units are now forced to provide fire support on hilly areas at the risk of hitting their own men. However, because of the difference in altitude, the shells were blocked by the top of the hilly area from time to time, and some unlucky coalition soldiers, even supported by their own artillery fire, tore into a bloody fro......

It's not that the artillerymen don't know about this situation, but they have no other more effective way.

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"General! The enemy seems to have appeared in the artillery positions in the rear! A messenger hurried into the tent and said this to the silent Kaimon, which made him laugh miserably.

"Still can't hold on? Damn the Papal States, where did these madmen get so many armored units!? Kemon uttered this in a low voice, and then said to everyone in the tent, "Everyone! We are powerless to stop the enemy, but we can still do what we need to do. Right now...... Let all the officers and soldiers who are still alive at the age of 20 take the only remaining armored vehicles and trucks and break through to the south. ”

Kai Moen's words made the officers and soldiers in the camp all stunned, because his words undoubtedly let the troops leave a little fire, and then the others died on the battlefield as a soldier.

But no one refused to carry out this order, and many people, after glancing at each other, silently put on their steel helmets and military hats, and left the camp after giving a military salute to Kemorn.

After everyone had left, Kaimon slowly stood up and gave a military salute to the northwest of the capital of the Kingdom of Kapani, where the city of Kapani was located. Then, he put all the papers in order, took out a lighter, threw it on it, and walked out of the tent.

Outside the tent, he saw more and more logistics personnel gathered and office tents burning everywhere......

Red flames and black smoke continued to rise in the eyes of the crowd, and the sound of battle from hundreds of meters away still entered their minds. And they looked at Kaimon who walked in front of them with different expressions.

At this time, another herald came running and said an exciting news: "Reinforcements...... We've got reinforcements!! ”

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Dimitri's troops are naturally the reinforcements in the mouth of this herald. However, he had fallen into a state of disbelief about what was happening in front of him.

One unit actually hit the artillery units supporting the rear and all the people succeeded in the surprise attack, so one can imagine what kind of scene the situation at the front was.

Although it is possible that the troops in the hilly areas will not be able to return for a while, the fact that the towed howitzers have already targeted the assault units that are entanglement with the self-propelled artillery units is a situation that can be said to have gone beyond the expectations of any unit commander.

"All artillery in place to support friendly artillery units in front! And Qingtan is responsible for the coordinate report, so try not to hit your allies! Dimitri gave a decent order.

However, Dimitri never imagined how **ug his artillery unit was.

After Dimitri's order was given, www.xstxt.org18 "Hellcats" were to build defensive lines around the preset positions of the artillery units.

Although Dimitri's tank fighting vehicle units are not too weak in hand-to-hand combat, it is their duty to protect a large number of artillery pieces compared to hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

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The number of self-propelled guns of the coalition forces is not too large, and in hand-to-hand combat with the Pope**, an assault force dominated by medium tanks, it is clearly at a disadvantage.

Many of the self-propelled guns that pinned down the enemy were destroyed, and the results achieved by this artillery unit were not enough to make the enemy retreat.

It may only be a matter of time before it is completely extinguished......

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"Bang ......"

"Boom ......"

The muzzle of the cannon burst with the muzzle flame released by the propellant, and with a loud roar, it was all kinds of mobile self-propelled guns that stopped for a while, waited for the shells to be reloaded, and reported the news to the enemy from the front.

And next to them, there is the busy phenomenon of the crew members of the supporting armored transport vehicles, quickly unloading boxes of shells.

As for the larger number of truck guns, preparations for shelling are still underway.

In contrast to the self-propelled guns, the truck artillery unit commanded by Dimitri this time was capable of firing head-on, but the best way to shoot was to turn the hull upside down, then lower a few recoil shovels on both sides of the hull, and shell the barrel towards the rear of the hull.

This type of shelling maximizes the rate of fire of the truck gun, because the chamber of the gun is facing the middle compartment of the truck gun, and the loader can quickly take out the shell from the compartment and stuff it directly into the chamber.

It can be said that such an artillery bombardment requires a little longer preparation time, but because of various factors taken into account, within ten minutes, a 128mm truck gun can fire shells, even as Zhang Shixin's active VI-**-WT is not comparable. (This thing is on the road with a heavy self-propelled gun, following Zhang Shixin and Vatutin's troops.) ）

As a weapon carrier system, the truck gun can also be improved for a variety of purposes as a weapon carrier similar to a tank chassis.

A 120mm anti-tank gun can be used as a tank destroyer, and an 88mm anti-aircraft gun (with magazine)/105mm anti-aircraft gun can also be used as a heavy self-propelled anti-aircraft gun.

However, because Zhang Shixin has never had any expectations for the protection capability of the weapon carrier, the tank destroyer mode has always been not among Zhang Shixin's options.

The weapon carrier system of the tank chassis is like this, not to mention the modified truck chassis with armor protection that is no different from paper paste?

Therefore, according to Zhang Shixin's understanding, the weapon carrier vehicle in the game, as the existence of TD, is more to let subordinates go to death, can that thing be installed???

The protection capability of the warhead of the weapon carrier vehicle may not be able to defend against fragments with higher penetration, and it is more practical to expect that the cannon shield of the pit father can block the shells, rather than expect a pig to fly.

This is Zhang Shixin's view on the TD-type weapon carrier, regardless of the chassis model.

In fact, the armor-piercing shell is not very effective for the weapon carrier, after all, the artillery shield is just a little bit, and the shell that pierces a little deeper and higher, hitting the artillery shield, will often pass directly over, and if you are lucky, you can also kill some crew members. However, in the event of an enemy attack with high-explosive shells or a siege by the enemy army with a large number of infantry, the weapon carrier vehicle plays a role in this situation......

In addition to the casualties and even the complete destruction of the car crew and the vehicles, pulling a few unlucky guys to cushion their backs, it is difficult for Zhang Shixin to think of any other good end.

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“**ingo！” A gunner of Project 263 waved his fist excitedly, because he saw his shell in the eagle eye, and accurately hit the turret of a Pope** medium tank scurrying around, after the violent explosion of the 180mm shell, the medium tank slid for a period of time, and then was paralyzed in a coalition self-propelled gun more than ten meters away, it is obvious that although the enemy medium tank does not seem to have suffered heavy damage, however, the other party stopped and did not move, it is obvious that the crew members are either dead or wounded, or just take a break from the dishes.

In contrast to the lucky ones who were relatively few who could accurately hit the enemy, more gunners subconsciously shook their heads: "Hit the ......"

In contrast to the most numerous, and the lucky ones, who were not the least numerous, the gunner of a Lorraine 155-51 self-propelled gun was speechless.

Because he fired a cannonball that turned the friendly self-propelled gun ...... Directly exploded......

The gunner swallowed sharply, then glanced at the commander, who was listening to the communication instructions.

And at this time, the loader shouted, "Reloaded!! ”

This gunner again focused his attention on the enemy.

What he didn't know was that a few seconds later, the commander looked at him suspiciously, because he clearly heard several exclamations in unison in the communication channel: "Which bastard smashed his own people?" ”

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After many mobile self-propelled guns fired the second shell, the truck gun formation finally completed the preparation for the shelling, and after a large number of 128mm high-explosive shells were stuffed into the chamber, the gunner quickly pressed the shelling button after locking on to the opponent and making predictions.

"Reload !!" The gunner shouted loudly, and the two loaders, one opened the gun door and faded out of the shell, and the other quickly stuffed the shell into the gun chamber, and the loader in charge of the gun door quickly closed the gun door, and after turning the pressurized valve, he also said loudly to the gunner: "Reloaded!! ”

A few seconds later, another shell came out of its chamber......

……………………………………………… Dividing Line................................................

At this time, the battle in the hilly area was about to come to an end, and the loss of the hilly area seemed to have become a foregone conclusion.

However, at this very time, an army of about a thousand men ascended the hilly area, and they were all prepared for the worst. On the other side of the hilly area, several armored vehicles, escorting a dozen trucks, were heading south......

If someone looks closely, they will find that the machine gun shooters of these vehicles are more childish faces...... (To be continued.) )