Chapter 165 199 Smoke Rises 3
The surrender of these settlements was also conditional, and only those with the same or similar administrative philosophy as the Restoration Army were eligible to be included in the command, and these settlements were supported by 2,000 regular army soldiers and 20 armored vehicles the day after the alliance agreement was signed, and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition and dozens of heavy machine guns were dropped by aircraft to strengthen their defenses.
Luke was asked by Liu Qi to participate in the defense and command of a gathering place of 40,000 people, and by the way, he did something unseemly.
After two hours of arduous marching, the force of about 1,000 people reached the vicinity of S City, and there were many burning car wrecks parked on the vast field, which showed that a very fierce battle broke out here not long ago.
When approaching the city wall, there were even many people who carefully aimed at the armored vehicles, for fear that they would be bandits, and Luke ordered at a distance of about 500 meters from the city wall of S City: "The tank at the head raises the flag!" Show us that we are allies!"
Then three signal flares flew into the air, and the people in the city who had been trapped by the bandits for a month let out excited shouts, the city gate slowly opened, and the civilians inside were happy to welcome them, and these people who couldn't eat enough to eat looked at the armored vehicles of the Restoration Army and even cried excitedly.
A young man pointed to Luke's modified 69 tank and shouted excitedly: "Look, everyone! 96a! The Restoration Army is really very powerful!" We're saved!"
Luke listened to the shouts outside and laughed inside the armored car, because the pouring technology is not mature, the current military industry department simply made a turret similar to the shape of the 96 on the 69, and a circle of side protective plates were installed around it, many electrical equipment are civilian, and the artillery is also a 100mm rifled gun and only has a vertical stabilizer, which is simply rudimentary, but it looks very bluffing.
After the troops entered the city, Luke jumped out of the car, and a 50-year-old middle-aged man with a slab immediately stepped forward, the man was wearing body armor made of steel plates, a metal helmet on top of his head, and a five-and-a-half-half on his back, which looked like a soldier on the front line.
The middle-aged man showed a mouthful of white teeth, stepped forward quickly, shook Luke's hand excitedly, and said happily: "The contemptible person is the leader of S City, Wei Xiaodong, we are looking forward to you!" ”
Luke nodded, held Wei Xiaodong's hand, and said firmly: "Comrade Wei Xiaodong! Great work! My name is Luke, and now the commander of the support force! We will help you resist the next round of enemy attacks! Wei Xiaodong looked at Lu Ke's baggage vehicles for a long time, and there were only a dozen or so vehicles transporting food, Wei Xiaodong said with some worry: "Chief Road! We're running out of ammo! Didn't you bring any ammunition? ”
Hearing this, Luke laughed and said, "Don't worry, Comrade Wei Xiaodong!" Our supplies are in heaven! Xiao Man! You and Lao Zhao go and set up a large-caliber sniper gun position on top of a relatively tall building! Signal! We are ready to accept airdrops! ”
Then Li Mansha and Zhao Zhuoyuan led dozens of people with 14.5mm snipers into the depths of the city, in order to provide a shooting platform for these armored vehicles, the people in the gathering place of S City had already widened a part of the firing positions on the city wall, and the tanks and armored vehicles drove to the city wall and camouflaged themselves to wait for the bandits' attack.
It was getting late, and at four o'clock in the afternoon, there was the sound of an airplane's engine in the air, Zhao Zhuoyuan hurriedly launched a signal flare, and a Yun-8 and five Il-4 bombers began to drop ammunition and supplies over the city, and nearly 40 tons of ammunition and weapons were airdropped into S City in the cheers of the crowd on the ground.
The people of S City, who had eaten dinner, began to strengthen the city wall early, and after eating the sufficient food provided by the Restoration Army, these civilians began to use their meager strength to carry building materials, the elderly, women, and even children were working the city wall, behind them was their home, they had no choice, and a fireworks bomb appeared in the dark night sky at 12 o'clock at midnight.
The beautiful fireworks look very beautiful, but for the people of S City, it is a battle horn, all or young or old faces are lying on the bunkers they have worked so hard to build, many people don't even have standard weapons, but the men of the whole city are all in unison, even 14-year-old children have been issued grenades, many people have just some very simple singles and a rifle in their hands, even the crosshair is made of steel wire, and the equipment is very simple.
For a trading city like S City, the foundation of industry and agriculture is too poor, and at such an urgent moment, their arsenal can only produce 5,000 rounds of 7.62 rifle ammunition per hour, and Luke also feels that the bullets in his hand are a little too small, because now the reinforcements of the Restoration Army do not have much spare ammunition.
With the loud sound of car horns around them, many people were even scared and trembled, I have to say that these bandits are still very level, quite a feeling of embattlement, no wonder many large gathering places have been easily captured, as the horns are getting closer and closer, the observation posts in the high places found that the personnel in these vehicles are wearing running corpses cornea night vision devices, showing a little green light in the night.
Luke waited for the observation post to measure the distance of 500 meters when he gave the counterattack order, the three 100mm mortars in the city fired three flares into the air, the bright light made the bandits with zombie corneas unable to see clearly for a while, many cars even lost control and rolled on the ground, what shocked Luke was that the dense variety of modified cars in the visual range could not see the edge at a glance.
In particular, several Type 59 tanks dressed very badly were found inside, and some of the bandits were running wildly with 60mm mortars on their vehicles, and the shells continued to fall in the city, bursting into bursts of fire, and the sound of firefighting between the two sides resounded in the sky, tracer bullets shuttled back and forth at a distance of about 800 meters, and there were several slow-moving modified tractor trucks on it that were constantly firing.
These trucks are equipped with three water-cooled imitation Makqin machine guns, the machine guns on these trucks are shooting frantically at the people on the city wall, many people are killed by direct bullets on the city wall without even hitting a person, Luke feels that it is not a matter to go on like this, so he ordered the large-caliber machine guns and machine guns on the armored vehicles to return fire, first dispose of those distant armored vehicles, 69 tanks give priority to hitting the opponent's tanks, to prevent the other side from concentrating fire to destroy the city wall.
For a while, the fire of the muzzle of the cannon was lit, and the bandits' tanks were hit by sub-caliber armor-piercing shells and retreated, but Luke quietly left the walls of the city wall at the height of the battle and entered the darkness.
Wei Xiaodong leaned against the tank and killed more than a dozen bandits with the Type 53 rifle in his hand, I have to say that his marksmanship is very good, and the heavy armor on his body has resisted several attacks for him.
What no one noticed was that there was an extra person in the heavy sniper position in the high-rise buildings in the city that had been firing since the beginning of the defense, and a Type 85 sniper rifle with a muffler slowly stretched out of the window.
Luke took the 85 sniper rifle and loaded an armor-piercing bullet, and then aimed at Wei Xiaodong, who was shooting bandits on the city wall, and Zhao Zhuoyuan on the side took the 88-type sniper rifle and said to Luke slowly: "Clean up the surrounding eyeliner first, and then shoot the target together!"
Luke nodded and began to adjust the sniper scope, and then began to use the gun with Zhao Zhuoyuan to clean up those people around Wei Xiaodong.
Wei Xiaodong was shooting desperately with a rifle, and his subordinates and henchmen around him had already been sacrificed, Wei Xiaodong's heart was beating wildly in fear, but he looked at the tanks around him that were still firing and shooting, and his heart was a little relieved.
A subordinate with a gun ran over, and the man shouted excitedly as he ran, "Mr. Wei! We knocked them back! The bandit began to run...... "Before he finished speaking, a bullet made a big hole in this person's chest from behind, and fragments of internal organs splashed Wei Xiaodong's face.
Wei Xiaodong looked at the tragically dead subordinate in front of him in shock, and couldn't understand why he was shot in the back, just when Wei Xiaodong was stunned, he saw two fires appear at the same time on the sniper position in the distance.
Before he could react, Wei Xiaodong only felt a hot current coming from the side of his head, and then he didn't know anything.
The next day, during the day, the people who greeted the second group of reinforcements found their beloved leader, Wei Xiaodong, dead by a bullet through the side of his helmet, and the grieving citizens spontaneously mourned the leader who had protected them since the end of the world.
Luke, as the front-line representative of the Restoration Army, came to mourn this respectable leader in the center of S City with his fellow commanders, and Luke stood on the platform in the center of the city and said loudly: "We are very saddened by the death of Mr. Wei Xiaodong, Mr. Wei signed a merger agreement with us a few days ago, but he left us before he had time to enjoy his life!"
Bandits are very powerful, but as long as we don't give in, we don't give up! We can overcome all the problems! Mr. Wei Xiaodong and I fought side by side, and his spirit of rushing to the front line made all the officers and men of the Restoration Army extremely admired! He's a hero! We must always remember him!"
Later, Zhao Zhuoyuan and Tang Ming also put a medal on the coffin that came with the plane, and the soldiers of the Restoration Army stood solemnly next to Wei Xiaodong's coffin and then shot at the sky to commemorate Wei Xiaodong's death.
Then two armored trains drove to S City one after another, a large number of civilians took their things, and then boarded the train, and were transported back to the CZ jurisdiction, two days later the last train left, S City was completely abandoned, the whole city was blazing with fire, and the 3,000 troops of the Restoration Army began to set off towards the next city under the leadership of Luke and Tang Ming and Zhao Zhuoyuan.
There have been cases of direct assassination of leaders in cities around the Restoration, many cities without industry and agriculture have directly displaced populations, and there have been some accidents when Lodge's 5,000-strong troops have been reinforced to help a large industrial city that contradicts the Restoration's ruling philosophy.
The population of this city that has not been hit by nuclear bombs has been retained by 80% and up to 170,000 people, but the way of ruling is the emperor system, very feudal and backward, guarding excellent industrial equipment but not using it, and when Rocky went to discuss tactical defense with them, this person actually asked Rocky to kneel down to meet him.
How could Rocky's temper be, he immediately took out a gun and killed the so-called emperor, and then went to raid the palace with his troops, but he never thought that he was now trapped in the palace, and a person who claimed to be the crown prince surrounded the palace with an unknown number of people, so Luke and they would go to support with a rapid reaction force.
The current Restoration Army is a rare luxury, many front-line troops can be strongly supported by air force, at the beginning, they did not dare to think at all, Luke and their troops have now reached the periphery of the city, sure enough, the level of the industrial city is different, the walls are almost all made of steel and concrete, there are various permanent fortifications on it, and there are even some small armored machine gun fire points.
Luke looked at the people coming and going on the city wall from a distance, and couldn't help but feel that his manpower seemed to be a little insufficient, just when Luke was pondering, the sound of the engine came from the air, and when he looked up, six Il-4 in the air were slowly flying towards the city, and 100 meters above his head, four Mosquito 1 fighters flew in a row.
Luke and the others watched as the wall about 2,000 meters away from them exploded, kicking up a huge column of smoke, and then the plane began to climb and dive and strafe.
The 160 mortars in the team have already begun the operation of firing the city wall at a small angle, as for the zombies? Just kidding, didn't you just get beaten into? Unless 300,000 people came to surround Luke and them, it was useless.
Large-caliber shells bombarded the wall, and columns of smoke mixed with shards of steel flew into the air, and then the three armies began to separate, attacking the defenders of the walls from three directions.
The military flag hanging on the 69 tank scared the defenders to the core, and the defenders couldn't see these tank models from a distance, and someone shouted: "Run!" The Restoration Army has 99a! If you don't run, it's over!"
As soon as the people around heard this, they all fled in smoke, and for a time there was no order on the city wall, and as long as the shells fired by large-caliber self-propelled mortars hit the city, a building collapsed, and the psychological shock was incomparable.
A large number of armored vehicles rushed to the position of 300 meters above the city wall and began to release the infantry, Luke and the team can be said to rush towards the gap in the city wall, Li Mansha followed closely behind Luke, no slower than Luke, who said that women are not as good as men in war?
The high-explosive shells left a dozen holes in the steel bunker several meters in size, and Luke rushed through a mess of walls, and was greeted by a group of defenders rushing towards the city!
Luke picked up the gun in his hand and continued to strafe, and quickly bent down and ran towards the city gate by relying on the cover as he fought, and at the location of the city gate, the people who rushed in finally met a few tricky big guys.