The Soviet Guards and the American Rangers, a showdown of steel torrents is just around the corner.

With the tanks and infantry fighting vehicles of the two sides of the battle fearless and fearless of the head-on charge, there was no room for each other to move and dodge, and the fierce attacks of large-caliber smoothbore guns and anti-tank missiles did not stop for a moment, and the smoke and fire filled the battlefield, and the flames burst out everywhere stained large areas of white smoke with a light layer of orange red.

The artillery thundered, missiles flew everywhere, and one deadly attack after another splashed back and forth, turning the battlefield of the duel between the two armies into a burning purgatory raging with steel and fire!

The tragedy of the life-and-death duel was completely incomprehensible to the soldiers in the battle array.

Sitting in an M1A2 "Abrams" tank rumbling forward, enduring the irregular maneuvering of the tank from side to side, the attentive commander tightly grasped the sighting instrument and used the thermal imaging camera to capture the traces of the Russian tank on the open ground opposite.

At this moment, the roar of the helicopter in the sky is still faintly audible, and the impact of explosions on the ground is transmitted into the car through the suspension from time to time; However, through the large area of milky white fog, the command ritual fire control system still smoothly tracked the outline of the tank in the field of view. After determining that this target had been intercepted by the gun commander, the commander turned to other directions to observe the battlefield, and as the firing button was decisively pressed by the gun commander, the L44 120 mm smoothbore gun broke out with a dull roar, and the target in the gun commander's observation instrument was obscured by a small cloud of explosion smoke and dust, and the first hit was again!

Seeing that the target was directly hit by the M829A1 APFSDS (Armor-Piercing-Fin-stabilized-Discarding-Sabot, tail stabilized dìng shell-piercing shell), the gun commander immediately adjusted the observation device and aimed at other tanks according to the commander's instructions; Before entering the position to engage the battle. They have already received battlefield information from the company command vehicle. The Russian tanks on the opposite side had a certain numerical superiority. So they should now continue to target enemy tanks as the primary target.

However, just as the gun commander was peeking through the dirt and dust sight and preparing to lassoe another Russian tank not far away, the commander's voice appeared on the intercom:

"Hey Jimmy, that target just now," with anxious words, the gunner's sight was followed by the commander in the direction he was observing, "it seems—"

"What? ――”

Before Gunner Jimmy finished speaking, with a rough and muffled "clang", the heavy body of the "Abrams" shook suddenly, like a toy that had been kicked by a giant.

Caught off guard. Jimmy only heard the alarm in the car "Didi" chaotic, and the corporal in the back row was screaming loudly, the sturdy black loader was loading the L44 gun with armor-piercing shells, but was disengaged by the sudden impact, and the twenty-two-kilogram shell smashed the corporal's foot, causing him to scream and gasp a few times in pain:

"Son of a bitch, ah...... My foot is broken! ”

"Addison, hold on, hurry up and shove the cannonballs in! - I'm keeping an eye on that Russian, and his tank is still moving! ”

While nervously urging the corporal to reload his ammunition. The commander of the vehicle firmly intercepted the T-72BM that had just fired back in the command instrument, and he turned the magnification to the maximum. It looked like the front of the tank, including the reactive armor, had been blown up in disarray, but it was still capable of returning the favor to them. Although at a distance of more than 1,000 meters, the Russian shells luckily did not penetrate the front armor of the "Abrams", but they had already scared all the crew members into a cold sweat.

Sitting in the M1A2, which needed to be manually reloaded, Ensign Jimmy knew very well that the Russians' tanks were self-loading, in other words, the guy would soon have a second hit, at this time-

No, no!

By the time the Addison had reloaded their shells, they were all going to God!

Thinking of this, ignoring the wail of the black corporal in his ears, the commander immediately got busy on the multi-function panel in front of him, and it didn't take two seconds to send a set of target bearing and ranging information to the other M1A2 tanks in the company through the guò company-level information sharing system, so that if the friendly tanks could shoot just right, they could relieve the siege.

After doing this in a hurry, and at the same time calling the driver to accelerate laterally to dodge, the commander continued to track and observe the T-72BM tank with the command instrument with fear, and it turned out that he was lucky this time, the Russian tank that was still insisting on firing was soon hit for the second time, and the ammunition-induced detonation suddenly blew the turret away.

But the good fortune of the whole crew, that's the end of it.

After observing the blazing Russian torches in the command instrument for a moment, the commander continued to look around the battlefield for the next target, but suddenly saw a faint flash of light at the edge of the field of view.

Oh my God, anti-tank missiles!

Remembering the experience of simulated training, and suddenly realizing what this vision meant, Second Lieutenant Jimmy hurriedly raised his hand and pressed the smoke grenade launcher, but it was too late.

Unlike in film and television productions, the projectile of smoke bombs and the dispersal of smoke take time, and generally only have an effect when used before the opponent launches the missile; As a result, the M1A2 "Abrams", which hastily fired smoke bombs, did not escape the attack, and was hit by a 9M113 anti-tank missile fired by the BMP-2E infantry fighting vehicle more than a thousand meters away on the side wall of the turret, and then a violent ammunition explosion occurred!

Because at the moment of the detonation, the armored partition of the tail magazine was just open, and with a loud explosion that shook the earth, the bomb bay pressure relief plate flew into the air, and the "Abrams," which was still injured and staggered just now, was detonated by more than 10 remaining ammunition in the tail compartment, and suddenly turned into a burning iron coffin, and all the members of the crew except the driver were killed on the spot.

The death duel between tanks is so violent and cruel!

But at this moment, among the piles of burning wreckage scattered around, more tanks are still firing at each other with all their might; The Mi-28N and Apache helicopter gunships hovering in the sky are still maneuvering and dodging each other, fighting each other with rockets and chain guns.

The pilots who piloted the helicopter were all red-eyed at this time, and they all knew that only by clearing the threat from the sky could they support the friendly forces on the ground in a good time!

Mixed with the violent maneuvers of circling and dodging each other, the "Apaches" in charge of air supremacy charged forward all the way, and one after another "Stinger" missiles flew out from time to time, and infrared jamming missiles were scattered everywhere; In the fierce battle, there was a stout milky white missile figure in the sky like fireworks, and the Mi-28N carrying the R-73, a heavyweight anti-helicopter missile, attacked accurately and sharply, and a laterally drifting AH-64 was about to avoid the threat of missiles, but it was still directly split off the tail boom by the continuous rod warhead that suddenly detonated by the R-73, dragging the smoke and fire downward.

The battle in the sky was in full swing, and on the ground filled with gunsmoke, the head-on collision between the steel torrents was already about to separate.

After a short frenzied exchange of fire, the outnumbered 7th Ranger Regiment soon suffered unbearable losses, and at this time, the second echelon, which should have followed up, was disconnected from the striker, and the remaining "Abrams" tanks could only cover the "Bradleys" and fight and retreat, they reversed and fired back, trying to pull a certain distance from the Russian tanks that carried out the counterattack.

Compared with the T-72BM rushing from the opposite side, the M1A2 "Abrams" has a better fire control system and slightly better ammunition power, but it does not play a big role in this encounter where the distance between the enemy and the enemy is less than two thousand meters.

The situation in the line of fire is worrying, and the atmosphere in the headquarters has become very grim.

The commander of the 7th Ranger Regiment, Major Mitchell Anderson, called the OH-60 reconnaissance helicopter belonging to the regimental headquarters to go to the line of fire to find out the movements of the Russians, and at the same time asked the communications non-commissioned officer to try to contact the follow-up units of the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the 7th Regiment, which were supposed to follow up, but could not be contacted for a while.

Sitting in the commanding M2A3 "Bradley" infantry fighting vehicle, the air support submitted earlier was still nowhere to be seen, and the major, who was a little helpless, could only strictly order the forward troops to hold their positions, and he asked the non-commissioned officer to call over and over again on the radio to the troops who were stuck on the west side of the battle line and did not know where:

"Call 'Iron Plate', call 'Iron Plate'! Report your current location immediately, why haven't you reached the intended area of operation yet? - Repeat, report your current location immediately! ”

“…… We are approaching the rendezvous point, Russian artillery fire...... We were hit by an airstrike! Request ......"

"-What!"

Major Anderson couldn't believe the staccato reply to the crackling noise, and he pushed open the hatch at the back of the chariot and looked around into the sky, but found nothing.

Although as far as the major knows, unlike any previous ground operation of the US military, this large-scale offensive in the Caucasus has not been completely guaranteed air supremacy, but to say that the Russian planes will really cross the interception line of the air force and drop bombs above their heads.

The bullshit Air Force, this kind of thing can't be true, right?

At the time of departure, two parallel routes were chosen, and at this time the major could not see the movement of the other battalions of the 7th Regiment, but he fixed his eyes on the blue sky overhead, but he did see something flying in the sky, could it be a Russian fighter-bomber? (To be continued......)

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