Chapter 69: The Moonlit Night War (Part II)
Soon after the battle outside the south gate of the southern city began, the twenty charioteers under the command of Jiesheng took the lead in killing the rear of the enemy's convoy in two directions, and they suddenly attacked and fired a burst of heavy artillery fire, destroying all ten chariots before the enemy had a chance to turn around.
As soon as the battle in Nancheng began, they immediately opened fire to cut off the enemy's chariots and personnel carriers, and the convoy of personnel carriers had to stop advancing, and some of the enemy chariots turned around and fired back at the artillery positions of the cavalry regiment.
Taking advantage of the fact that the enemy's personnel carriers were still and the enemy vehicles had no time to come to reinforcements, the vehicles that attacked the rear of the enemy immediately attacked the enemy's personnel carriers.
The well-trained infantry of the Gene Men jumped out of the personnel carriers and quickly dispersed when they were besieged by the opponent's vehicles, and then found various cover to hide and shoot back at the snipers.
The destroyed chariots and personnel carriers were on fire, and then the flames followed, and the defenders of Nancheng who were lying in ambush on the hill could clearly see the appearance of the genetic soldiers. They were not much different in size from the adult men of Xizhou, and they all wore a kind of dark tights, and their whole bodies were wrapped in this shiny metallic uniform from the neck down. They wore a kind of dark metal helmet on their heads, and only the skin of their faces and hands holding spears was exposed, and the scales on their skin glistened in the firelight.
Jiesheng rushed to the forefront of the battle line, the laser gun in his hand fired at the nearby enemy, dense bullets from the base of various hills and valleys to the enemy, the gene man without cover lay in the grass and raised his gun to return fire, and a fierce gun battle broke out between the two sides.
The chariots of the steppes were invincible, and the troop carriers that were already empty along the way were destroyed by them one after another.
It wasn't until about 30 personnel carriers were destroyed one after another, that the sneak attackers' chariots again encountered 10 enemy chariots, and after a round of artillery battles between the two sides, because the prairie chariots seized the opportunity to open fire, all 10 enemy chariots were destroyed, and only three of the chariots of the prairie were hit by enemy shells and exploded and disintegrated.
The remaining seven tanks continued all the way forward to attack the personnel carriers that still had no end in sight.
The number of genetic infantry on this road is comparable to that of the Jiesheng legion, but the Jiesheng legion is ambushed in advance to occupy a better terrain, so after ten minutes of fierce fighting, the genetic infantry suffered heavy casualties, and they did not know the details of the ambush's strength, the genetic people did not dare to fight, and they retreated to the open area in the southwest while fighting.
Seeing that the enemy soldiers had escaped from the range of their rifles, and that the sky was beautiful, the clouds in the sky were blown away by a strong south wind, and the light of the moon was sprinkled on the earth without hindrance, and the activities of the genetic people could be seen clearly.
The cavalry was the first to charge, spear in hand and firing at the retreating enemy while slapping their horses in pursuit, and the vanguard rushed into the enemy group and used spears instead. Then the infantry swarmed out, and the defenders were clearly better at running through the uneven hills and valley floors than the gene-man infantry, and they quickly caught up behind the gene-men.
Seeing the defenders launch a counterattack, the Gene Man infantry immediately turned into a forward to snipe at the pursuers, and the two sides immediately began a second round of gunfighting.
Standing on a hill and observing the battlefield with binoculars, when he saw a large number of enemy chariots rushing towards the circuit from the direction of Nancheng to reinforce the infantry, he was worried that his counterattacking regiment would be flanked by the enemy infantry and chariots, so he immediately issued an order to retreat to the signal soldiers around him, and the signal corps immediately issued a signal flare for the retreat order.
On the battlefield outside the south gate of the southern city, the genetics paid the price of losing nearly fifty chariots and still failed to cross the trenches outside the city, and the southern city was still firmly in the hands of the defenders.
After more than twenty minutes of stalemate on the battlefield, Agu observed that the enemy chariot group seemed to have received an order to retreat at the same time, and they turned around and left the battlefield almost at the same time. Estimating that the enemy's infantry was overwhelmed by the Setsusa's corps, he had to ask the chariots to retreat for help, and the enemy's chariots had to retreat when they could not break through the defenders' positions for a while.
Xia, who was watching the battle at the head of the city, immediately understood that the time had come for a counterattack, and immediately ordered the two thick drawbridges in front of the south gate and the west gate to be lowered and erected on the trenches.
Agu's chariots drove first across the drawbridge across the river, and then pursued after the enemy chariots, followed by a long procession of chariots, sixty chariots drove out of the trap area and formed three columns behind Agu's chariots, all of which pursued the fleeing enemy chariots at maximum speed.
When the rear of the enemy vehicle came into range of the Agu chariot, a red beam of light with the sound of air blasting from the Agu chariot shot out of the chariot to pierce the night and hit the target, and with a loud bang, the enemy chariot exploded and caught fire.
The battle in the Westdungeon was terrifying from the start.
The eldest prince and the third prince of the ancient land country led twenty corps to guard the western city, the eldest prince's corps was responsible for guarding the city, and the third prince's corps sniped the enemy in the trenches outside the city.
Originally, there was already a trench surrounding the city, because the enemy was too strong this time, and the west of the west of the city was a plain, and there was no natural barrier to resist the attack of the mechanized army of the genetic people. So the two princes ordered to urgently dig another trench around the city outside the trenches, and they set up 500 cannons inside and outside the city.
Realizing that holding his position would be surrounded and wiped out by the Genemen, the Third Prince set up five corps to garrison the outskirts of the trenches, and the soldiers used the crops growing in the woods and fields as cover to ambush and attack the Gene's personnel carriers and infantry.
More than 200 chariots and personnel carriers of the Gene Man drove straight into the battlefield of the West Earth City from the western coastline, although the defenders had a large number of artillery, but the firing range was only half of the Gene Man Chariot Cannon. Before the GeneGene's chariot came within range of the defenders' cannons, the Genetics had opened fire and destroyed almost all of the defenders' cannons and batteries.
Only the corps ambushed on the outskirts posed a certain threat to the infantry of the genetic people, and dozens of artillery pieces in ambush by the defenders destroyed more than a dozen personnel carriers, and the infantry on both sides exchanged fire on all fronts.
However, because of the flat terrain, the local tanks and personnel carriers could rampage without obstacles, and the ambushed defenders' artillery was quickly destroyed by the enemy's tanks, while the defenders' limited infantry and lack of cover protection were quickly repulsed by enemy tanks and infantry counterattacks.
The enemy's personnel carrier then followed the chariot and quickly drove outside the city of Westland.
The forward of the Genetic's chariot drove almost unscrupulously to the outer edge of the defenders' first trench, because the bullets of the gunpowder gun could not penetrate the armor of the Genet's chariot, and the defenders in the trench were fired at close range, so the defenders had to retreat to the second trench. The Genemen's chariot then opened fire intensively at the artillery and fortifications in the second line of trenches.
The defenders at the head of the city were relieved to see the Gene's chariot stopped by the first line of trenches, but what they saw next made them even more desperate.
Hundreds of troop carriers from the genetic people arrived one after another, and by the light of the fire burning in the trenches, they found that the soldiers who jumped from the troop carriers looked to be from Xizhou, and they were under the banner of the country of Xidi. These soldiers, who numbered at least five legions, took only half an hour to fill in the hundred-meter-long trench with the corpses of the defenders, wagon supplies and earth, under the cover of chariot fire.
Later, the soldiers of the former Westland returned to the personnel carriers, and when the hundreds of tanks drove to the outer edge of the second trench of the defenders, they again filled the 100-meter trench in the same way.
In the end, the chariots of the Gene People quickly surrounded the Westdungeon, and they destroyed the four gates with artillery fire, and then the chariot rumbled into the Westdungeon from all four directions.
The enemy army in Xizhou that the defenders of Xidi City saw was the remnants of the Xidi Kingdom that had fled to Xitian Island.
After being driven out of the city by the King of the Ancient Land, the King of the West Land fled to the West Sky Island with the remaining five legions, where he thought he could survive for a long time, but he did not expect the gene people to capture him alive from his sleep on a dark and windy night.
However, the king of the West was a blessing in disguise, not only did the gene people not kill him, but also reached an agreement with him that was satisfactory to both parties: the king of the West assisted the gene people to occupy the Xizhou continent, and the gene people not only let the king of the West Land restore the country, but also made him the king of the West continent.
Not only did the Geneman use the King of the West Continent because he had five legions to assist in the capture of the West Continent, but also because after the Gene People occupied the West Continent, they must also have an agent to help them manage the West Continent, so that the Gene People could create as much wealth as possible for the Gene People.
And the King of the West has no choice at this time, fighting against the people under the sea is self-defeating, not to mention that the gene man promised to make him the king of the West Continent after the war, which is the goal that the King of the Ancient Land has always dreamed of.
At the same time as the destruction of the West Underground City, the Ming West City, which echoes the north and south of the West Underground City, was also occupied by the genetic people.
Mingxi Castle is the western city of Minghai Kingdom, and the Minghai King also sent twenty regiments to guard Mingxi Castle. Although the terrain on the outskirts of Mingxi City is hilly, and the Minghai King also sent five corps to ambush in these hills to snipe the Gene People, but the cannon performance of the Minghai National Legion is worse than that of the Ancient Land National Legion, so it cannot effectively hit the Gene People's chariots.
However, the ambush outside the city was equally effective in striking the troop carriers and infantry of the Gene People, and the hundreds of traps laid around the city also caused the gene people to lose dozens of chariots, greatly slowing down the pace of the Gene people's occupation of the city. And let the defenders evacuate half of the men and horses from Mingxi City before being surrounded by the Gene People, and flee to Mingcheng, the capital of Minghai Kingdom.
The fourth front of the Gene People was to attack Shennan City, the southern city of Shenhai Kingdom in the southeast of the Xizhou Continent.
Shenhai Kingdom was the weakest kingdom in the three southern kingdoms, and Shennan City was garrisoned by only fifteen legions. However, because of the mountainous terrain outside the city, although the Gene People attacked Xizhou from four fronts at the same time, Shennan City was the last city to be captured by the Gene People that night.
Most of the defenders stationed in Shennan City were evacuated to Shencheng, the capital of the central part of Shenhai Kingdom, in an orderly manner before being besieged by the Gene People.