The scene that Smith saw was naturally the Guards Armored Battalion personally led by Li Yongji.

The Guards Armored Battalion is a guard unit built by Li Yongji, with a total number of 500 people, of which the main force is an independent heavy company, equipped with 12 armored vehicles, all of which are modified vehicles based on VN1 8×8 wheeled infantry fighting vehicles.

In addition to this independent heavy company, which is the main force in attacking the fortification, this battalion also has two motorized infantry companies, including 80 LYT2021 ultra-light wheeled paratrooper assault vehicles, and 6 modified Thunder off-road trucks, which have achieved full motorization.

Of particular note is the fact that the 500-strong motorized guards armored battalion, with the exception of the vehicle driver and gunner, all the accompanying infantry are members of the Hidden Dragon Special Operations Team, and their small arms are completely different from other motorized infantry.

The general motorized infantry of the Dream Division uses the 81-1 assault rifle, which is commonly known as the folding eight-one bar, which is cheap and powerful, and the bullet can be used with the 56 punch, but it is better than the 56 punch.

But the weapons used by the infantry of the Guards Armored Battalion are completely different, because they are all special forces, so they use the G36 assault rifle and the Type 97 assault rifle, which are more expensive and have better performance, and the bullet caliber is 5.56×45mm NATO standard ammunition.

G36 not to mention, Li Yongji has equipped the special forces with this weapon before, but because this gun is too expensive, and the weight is not light, it is inconvenient for ordinary people to use, so even in the Qianlong special combat team, the number of G36 is very small, so far, the troops equipped with this rifle are only one company in total.

Since NATO ammunition has been used, it is impossible to continue to use the Bayi assault rifle or the 56 rush, so Zhang Xinda simply got another batch of cheap Type 97 assault rifles.

The Type 97 assault rifle is actually the foreign trade version of the Type 95 assault rifle of Red China. And the batch of rifles imported by Li Yongji and Zhang Xinda are the latest export model T97NSR.

The T97NSR assault rifle is mainly the latest version exported to Canada, so the quality is much better than the military 95 rifle commonly used in China, and the bullet fired is also a 5.56 mm NATO bullet.

Originally, when Zhang Xinda provided various styles of this weapon, Li Yongji took a fancy to the magic modification version with the handle removed, but when he asked the price, the rifle with the handle removed and the tactical guide rail added was much more expensive, so he finally chose the ordinary Type 97 assault rifle.

The price of this gun is there after all. It is quite cost-effective, and other shortcomings, such as a high aiming baseline and poor magazine replacement, were actually not prominent in the sixties of the nineteenth century.

In fact, in terms of practicality and reliability, Li Yongji felt that the French FAMAS automatic rifle was more suitable, and the first thing he mentioned at that time was this gun, after all, this gun has been tested in war, and this rifle is being eliminated by the French army. There is a large amount of stock, and the price of selling it to the outside world can also be discounted, and it is not much more expensive than the Type 97 assault rifle of Red China.

But what's the matter. Zhang Xinda had already caught up with China's military enterprises at that time, and everyone was a related household, and he bought the 97 type, so he could get continuous logistics services from the Chinese side. The price of these logistics services is much more favorable than that of France, so on the whole, it is still the most realistic Chinese weapons.

That's it. In the end, Li Yongji just adopted the Type 97 stockless assault rifle as a gun for his special forces, and specially equipped a company to test the water.

Li Yongji's plan is that once this Type 97 rifle is used well, he doesn't mind getting an extra batch of guns, after all, he also has a Flying Dragon special forces, and this kind of gun is naturally the most suitable for special forces.

However, due to the problem of universal ammunition, Li Yongji has already planned that in addition to this Guards armored battalion, all other Type 97 assault rifles will be revised, that is, the 7.62 mm bullets used in the 56 Chong and Bayi assault rifles will be fired.

This is not a problem, the Chinese military has long said that the revision is no problem, but in order not to affect the overall performance, the bomb load will decrease, and a magazine can only hold 25 bullets, which is of course no problem for Li Yongji, anyway, 25 bullets in the sixties of the nineteenth century, the power is also quite good.

In terms of sniper rifles, the ordinary motorized infantry in the Dream Division use the Type 85 sniper rifle that imitates SVD, but the snipers of the Guards Armored Battalion use AWP sniper rifles and Type 97 sniper rifles that are several times more expensive and have better performance.

Among them, the AWP sniper rifle is equipped with the first company of the G36 assault rifle, and the use of the Type 97 sniper rifle is the second company of the 97 assault rifle, the reason for this is naturally the price factor, after all, the price of AWP is too expensive, and the price of an AWP is up to several Type 97 sniper rifles.

As for the pistol, in addition to the first company, which still uses a large number of USP pistols, the second company uses a Chinese-made Type 92 semi-automatic pistol that fires 9mm pistol cartridges.

And those ordinary motorized infantry, it is not so good, the pistols they use are all imitation Colt revolvers produced in Zhang Xinda's own arsenal, but the ammunition fired becomes a universal 9mm pistol cartridge, and a safety device is added.

In addition, ordinary motorized infantry companies do not have grenade launchers, but companies of Guards armored battalions are generally equipped with grenade launchers, and it is a luxury that each squad is equipped with one.

Since they can use so many extravagant and advanced weapons, this batch of special forces is naturally the best of the best, with an average height of more than 1.75 meters, and the average height of the officers and men of the 1st Company of Qianlong is more than 1.8 meters.

After wasting such a big effort, Li Yongji naturally couldn't let these soldiers only have weapons, but neglected defense, so they were equipped with a full set of body armor, as for the type of body armor, it was the Chinese-made "Protector" series of body armor.

Similarly, Li Yongji originally wanted to equip soldiers with US military interceptor body armor, but this kind of body armor is not to mention the price, the key is that it is difficult to buy on the market, and in addition to this kind of body armor, the body armor that is easy to buy on the market is not much stronger than China's god-level body armor in terms of defensive capabilities, but the price is much more expensive than domestic body armor.

A set of body armor from the "Protector" series. In fact, it is divided into two sets, the main body is a soft body armor made of aramid fiber and ultra-high molecular fiber materials, which can reach II.A level defense, can defend against general pistol bullets, and is light in weight and high in comfort, and once a high-performance bulletproof ceramic plate is added, it can immediately reach Level III.A, which is basically the same as the defense level of the US interceptor body armor, but the weight is slightly heavier.

Tested in the real world. This body armor, excluding the ceramic inserts, is enough to withstand the original Sharps rifle (cartridges) commonly used in the United States at a range of 15 meters. Medicated use black. Fire. Medicine), but unfortunately, although it can be defended, but because the kinetic energy of the Sharps rifle is not small, if you hit a person wearing this kind of body armor in the range of 15 meters, even if the bullet cannot penetrate, the kinetic energy is not small, which is equivalent to a sledgehammer on the body. can make people lose their combat effectiveness in an instant, and Yan zhòng can break a rib.

On the contrary, if a ceramic insert is added, then a lot of kinetic energy can be removed due to the ceramic insert. Although the person who hit him is still uncomfortable, he will not lose his combat effectiveness.

Because it has good defense capabilities, and the price is not expensive, if you buy it in large quantities. This enhanced version of the full set of body armor system (plus helmet, arm guards, and leg guards) is only $520 in market price, which is simply a great deal.

Therefore. Li Yongji's entire guards armored battalion was equipped with body armor, except for the driver and gunner, who only wore light soft body armor, all the accompanying infantry to perform the task wore a full set of body armor equipment with ceramic inserts, and the helmets were all aramid helmets, and they were all equipped with tactical sunglasses.

A full set of body armor, coupled with advanced weapons, is no different from modern special forces only from the outside. Even because their body armor is a strengthened version, which is a little more bloated than the ordinary body armor, and their clothes are covered with a digital camouflage style of copycat ACU, and their faces are smeared with camouflage mud, so they look more majestic than the modern Chinese army.

Now, Li Yongji is taking this quasi-modern guards armored battalion into battle, and this time the battle is not so much to increase the reaction time of his troops, but rather to say that Li Yongji can't bear the loneliness and wants to play a sense of presence.

Since he went out in person, the safety should naturally be the best, so Li Yongji put on his set of things called Thor armor in advance, and the whole person is also science fiction.

In fact, the 126-kilogram set of heavy full-body armor originally looked like the Thor armor in the imitation halo, of course, there was no power system at home, so it only had weight and protection, but ordinary people couldn't wear it at all, and even if they put it on, they couldn't move freely, at most they could put it on for a short time.

But for Li Yongji, this is not a problem, he himself has great strength, wearing this set of armor, although it can't be said to be the same as not wearing it, but in terms of feeling, it is the same feeling as ordinary people wearing a fur coat, which is really not a burden.

However, because this suit uses a large number of advanced composite materials, the bulletproof ability is much stronger than that of any dragon scale armor, and it is all-round protection, and even the helmet is equipped with bulletproof glass, so that the helmet is also heavy.

With this set of clothes, I don't mention my own guns, if it's just those front-loading guns from the United States, even if I hit Li Yongji, it's no problem.

It was precisely because he felt that his safety was guaranteed, and he hoped to have a stronger sense of presence, so when Li Yongji led his troops into battle, although the combat armored vehicle he was riding in was not the head, but only in the middle, he still leaned out and kept watching with a telescope in the position of the M134 Gatling gun.

Of course, Li Yongji is so big because he is still far away from the enemy's cavalry, and at this distance, the opponent's weapons can't hit him, so he doesn't worry about accidents at all.

Soon, Li Yongji found out where Smith was, he was too proud of Smith, there was a group of people around him, and the clothes on his body were also different, so it was not surprising that Li Yongji found out. In fact, not only Li Yongji, but many people in the entire team discovered Smith, but only Li Yongji was the commander, and only he had the final say.

"Looks like a big fish." After discovering the target, Li Yongji put down the binoculars and said to himself, "Order, the whole army turns." March diagonally to that small hill diagonally! ”

Li Yongji's helmet has a portable wireless walkie-talkie, so as long as he speaks, it can be automatically connected to the communication system on the armored vehicle, and then the signal is amplified and transmitted to all vehicles.

Of course, even if the signal amplification of the armored vehicle is not passed, the signal can be transmitted smoothly within a radius of five kilometers, so it is okay not to use the signal amplification function on the armored vehicle, but with the amplification function, the communication will be clearer.

Give it a command. The VN1 8×8 wheeled infantry fighting vehicle at the head immediately took the initiative to turn and head towards the small hill where Smith was located after following the barbed wire passage opened by the soldiers.

And after this armored car, other armored vehicles also moved forward along this passage one after another, until the entire convoy had passed, and the last truck would stop, waiting for the infantry behind to re-close the barbed wire fence and get into the car. Only then did he restart his journey and accelerate towards the convoy in front.

Seeing that strange convoy coming quickly in his direction, although he had not personally touched this unit, he did not know the strength of this force. But Smith instinctively felt that it was very dangerous, after all, those vehicles were huge, and there seemed to be cannons on them, which was not easy to mess with.

So. Smith was not proud this time, and as soon as he greeted him, he took the initiative to turn the horse's head. Began to flee to the back.

Because of the fast running, Smith didn't carefully observe the armored convoy, didn't know how fast the team was, and thought that as long as he ran in advance, the other party would definitely not be able to catch up with him.

However, after a short time of galloping on his horse, Smith noticed that the rumbling sound behind him was getting closer and closer, and when he turned his head, he was immediately startled.

It turned out that it was only a minute or two, and the convoy was getting closer and closer to itself, and had already climbed the small hill where Smith had been stationed and observed, and began to quickly chase in its own direction, as if it had identified its own one.

"How can it be so fast!" Frightened and half-dead, Smith hurriedly shouted, "Retreat at full speed!" ”

After shouting, Smith didn't care about anything else, and whipped a few times on the butt of the horse on his mount, and began to retreat at full speed, regardless of the horsepower.

Don't look at Smith is usually very arrogant, but his battlefield sensitivity is still very strong, especially in the face of the unknown, he will not take risks lightly and order the troops to fight hard, and besides, they are originally a reconnaissance mission this time, and reconnaissance intelligence is the first, not with the other party, so there is no need to show their bravery at this time.

"It's pretty fast!" Seeing that the other party ran away so quickly, Li Yongji also frowned a little, "I thought they would try to fight with us first, but I didn't expect to be so clever." ”

"Commander, are we still chasing?" At this time, the voice of Wu Shouyun, the commander of the Guards Armored Battalion and the captain of the Qianlong Special Operations Team, came from his ears, "There are still a lot of cavalry around us, and it seems that they have begun to gather towards us, and if we continue to chase, we are likely to fall into their encirclement." ”

"Chase, of course you have to keep chasing!" Li Yongji sneered, "The one on the other side looks like a big fish, and nine times out of ten it is a senior commander, otherwise, the cavalry from those other places would not have come over desperately." As for being under siege? Hmph, we are riding in an armored car, what are we afraid of? ”

"Your Majesty...... Commander. Wu Shouyun began to persuade, "We have armored vehicles, so naturally we are not afraid, but there are still many people who just ride in assault vehicles and trucks without armor protection, if they continue to chase like this, they have no protection, in case the other party shoots from behind, it will not be good, after all, there are many of them." And if they stopped, with the range and firepower of the weapons they were holding, the other party would not be able to get close at all. ”

"That's right." Li Yongji looked at the surrounding situation and agreed, "You are right, this situation is indeed not a very pleasant thing to be surrounded, after all, not all of us have armor protection. Forget it, since that's the case, let's let that guy go first and solve these guys. ”

After speaking, Li Yongji immediately connected to the channel of the whole army, and ordered everyone: "Attention, I am the commander Li Yuanzheng, and now I order, the whole army turns around and rushes towards the cavalry unit closest to us to the east."

The speed is slowed down a little bit, it is enough to keep it at 25 kilometers per hour, in addition, the convoy behind also try to keep up with the armored vehicles, try to maintain the formation, the automatic weapons on the car are turned on for me, as soon as someone approaches the range of the machine gun, immediately fire, do not spare ammunition, be sure not to let anyone approach within two hundred meters! ”

"Understood!" Wu Shouyun immediately replied, and followed his reply. The company commanders also replied one after another, saying that they had heard the order. As for the platoon commander, there was no reply, because although the platoon commander also heard the order, the difference between their identities and Li Yongji was too great, and they were not qualified to reply, unless Li Yongji specially told them.

As Li Yongji's order was issued, the entire convoy immediately turned, starting with six side-by-side armored assault vehicles, and self-propelled guns and assault vehicles behind. Trucks formed a line of six VN1 armored assault vehicles with six VN1 armored assault vehicles as arrows and other vehicles as their backs, and rushed towards the nearest group of cavalry.

There were probably more than 200 cavalry in that group, which was quite a lot, and they were still scattered around in the form of stragglers, but when they found that their colonel was in danger, they obviously felt numb to this steel convoy, but they still rushed over without hesitation.

Originally, they did not have two hundred men. However, when they rushed over, they automatically converged, and a small group of two hundred people was formed, and in addition to them, the same was true of the cavalry that rushed from other directions. They are constantly gathered in sportswear, showing their high military literacy and are well-deserved elite soldiers.

Since they were hedging against each other, the two sides soon approached a distance of 500 meters. At this time, the six VN1 tanks that took the lead opened fire first!

All six VN1 vehicles are assault vehicles, and their main armament is a 30 mm cannon on the turret. The secondary armament is a 7.62 mm side-by-side machine gun.

Among them, the rate of fire of the 30 mm machine gun is 300 rounds per minute, and the effective range is 4000 meters, as for the 7.62 mm parallel machine gun, because it is a vehicle-mounted machine gun, although the caliber is not large, but because it is an aggravated and lengthened barrel, the effective range has reached 1400 meters, and the rate of fire can reach up to 900 rounds per minute, so at a distance of 500 meters, all weapons are within the effective fire range.

However, it was precisely because the distance of 500 meters was too close that the machine gun did not fire, for fear of accidental injury, and it was not necessary, so the so-called fire this time was only the fire of the 7.62 mm machine gun.

With a rate of fire of 900 rounds per minute, fired within a range of 500 meters, it would be like a fire whip, hitting an unobstructed cavalry target, it would be a massacre, and what was even more terrifying was that such a fire whip was not one, but six!

It was just the frantic fire of six machine guns, and the two hundred cavalry in front fell one after another, and there was no power to fight back at all.

After realizing this situation, Li Yongji nodded, feeling that he seemed to be a little too careful.

But isn't it, just six machine gun shots, two hundred cavalry casualties, only a dozen survivors escaped, so that they gathered in a group and rushed over, it seems that there is indeed a suspicion of wasting firepower.

In fact, in the absence of artillery, these American cavalrymen, who at most had short-barreled carbines and revolvers in front of them, were to deal with combat vehicles with machine guns and assault rifles, and even if they did not have armor protection, they would not be able to get close.

On the contrary, if you organize all your troops into a large formation, you will lose your own firepower advantage, and in the face of these loose cavalry, the best way should be to let your troops also disperse, and also single vehicles, separated from each other by a distance, and then scatter to scatter, use your own automatic firepower, to hunt these cavalry.

After thinking about it, Li Yongji immediately reconnected the channel of the whole battalion, and then issued an order to fight separately.

This separate battle refers to the use of two vehicles as the basic combat unit, and then all disperse, each two vehicles form a two-car formation of an offensive unit, divided into the main vehicle and the auxiliary vehicle, assist each other, and constantly hunt each other's cavalry.

If the number of enemies is small, two vehicles of the attacking unit will be enough, and once you encounter a large force of the enemy, you must call the nearby attacking unit in time to attack together.

However, this is only for assault vehicles and trucks, as for armored vehicles, there is no need to do this at all, only one person can do it, because the other side has no anti-armor capabilities, and there are no explosive weapons such as grenades, only with primitive rifle pistols, oh, and cavalry knives, which pose no threat to armored vehicles at all, plus the terrain here is flat, so this armored car alone can go on a rampage.

Not only can ordinary armored assault vehicles go on a rampage, but even self-propelled guns equipped with 122 mm howitzers can be used as armored vehicles, because they all have thick armor, and they all have a 7.62 mm vehicle-mounted machine gun, and this machine gun alone is enough.

After giving the order, Li Yongji directly let the driver of the armored car he was riding in turn and rushed towards the group of cavalry he saw, and while rushing over, he also put down the bulletproof mask on his helmet, held the M134 six-barreled Gatling gun in both hands, and prepared to sweep through the thousands of troops.

Sure enough, under this order, the original sharp arrow formation immediately changed into a large loose formation, and the light paratrooper assault vehicles rushed out in a two-vehicle formation first, each looking for a target and rushing over.

As soon as they approached the effective range of their own machine gun fire, the soldiers on the car shouted and opened fire frantically, and the cavalry fell to the ground one by one, even if they occasionally fired back, they did not pose the slightest threat to the assault convoy.

In this way, when Li Yongji gave the order to use skirmishers against stragglers, Smith's cavalry regiment immediately fell into a nightmare.

Fighting, they couldn't beat it, the opponent's firepower was too fierce, not only the rate of fire was frighteningly fast, a gun was more powerful than the firepower of two or three ordinary companies, and they still fired outside the effective range of the musket they held, in this case, there was no resistance at all.

Run, they can't run, the kind of car that the other party drives that doesn't need a horse, and doesn't have a steam engine or chimney is very fast, and it didn't take long for them to escape, and they quickly caught up, and even if they wanted to, they could quickly overtake themselves, and then copy the bread before!

Even though these American cavalrymen were very strong and attached great importance to honor, they still couldn't stand it, so the survivors dismounted and surrendered before the other party came.

Originally, their way of surrender was very standard, that is, to raise their hands and stand in place, but when these Chinese assault vehicles arrived, they immediately shouted that they should gather all their guns together, and then all lie on the ground, otherwise they would shoot and kill without mercy.

Although they felt aggrieved, after a few unlucky ghosts were mercilessly shot by the other party and burst into a bloody sieve, everyone began to obediently obey, gathered their weapons together, and then lay on the ground under the threat of the opponent's machine gun.

After doing so, usually the Chinese leave only two cars to guard, while the others continue to chase forward.

In this way, in less than an hour, the entire cavalry regiment was completely wiped out, except for those killed and wounded, all obediently taken prisoner, and less than a hundred cavalrymen who were really lucky to escape, including the commander Colonel Smith, who was the first to escape. (To be continued......)