Lieutenant Pete was in a very nervous state of mind in the slowly moving "Stryker" armored car, and the AH-64 "Apache" helicopters that appeared in the sky could not completely erase this situation, because he could see clearly on the information terminal, and according to the updated information instructions above, the Russian defense line might be in a large area within a few kilometers ahead; In other words, they will soon have to leave the relative safety of their armoured vehicles and get out of them and go into battle on foot - if the tanks and helicopters in front of them can't handle the Russians for a while, or if their flanks are threatened by other things.

As the troops continued to advance, a brief lull was followed by a sudden and fierce confrontation.

In the face of the imminent approach of the US troops, the 1st Regiment of the 164th Motorized Rifle Division of the Seventh Guards Army, which had built a defensive position about 15 kilometers south of Yerevan City, and the fire reconnaissance groups hidden in the sparse woodlands transmitted back the direction of the enemy forces in the front.

With the transmission of target information, deployed on the position about 10 kilometers behind the line of fire, a 2S1 122-mm self-propelled howitzer appeared from the camouflaged position, and a rapid round of grenades was immediately launched, and a large cloud of dirt and smoke and dust flew everywhere on the hillside in an instant.

At the same time as a round of barrage covered firing, seeing the Americans' armored vehicles braving the barrage of fire quickly across the road, hiding in a long depression at the other end of the slope, the T-72BM of the tank battalion of the 22nd Motor Infantry Regiment shook off the anti-infrared shield net on its body, and the steel combat vehicles with flat-barreled guns launched a charge from the side of the road in an evacuation formation, and the roar of the 2A46 125-mm smoothbore guns came and went. An Abrams tank at the head of the road was shot one after another while it was still turning its muzzle. The "Stryker" that followed behind was directly hit by a large-caliber shell and exploded into a terrible wreckage of black smoke rising!

Due to the attack has been aggressive. Nor was there any reliable information on the area, and the 2nd Battalion of the Mountain Division suffered a great loss on this gentle slope, and the road soon became full of explosions and disagreements.

Seeing that on the position less than 2,000 meters away, there were a large number of Russian tanks that had taken off their camouflage and rushed out, followed by many armored vehicles, and Lieutenant Pete, who had left the "Stryker" as soon as the battle began, had already rushed down the shoulder of the road with the soldiers, and the well-trained American GIs did not panic at this time, and they used the intercom to contact the battalion headquarters on the command type "Stryker", so that the M1A2 tanks that followed behind could move past the rest of the vehicles and temporarily withstand the ferocious onslaught of the Russians. While using the battlefield information sharing system to urgently call for air support.

Just as the sound of artillery on the ground shook the sky and bullets and shells screamed and tore through the air, four AH-64 "Apache" helicopters hurriedly approached a large area of slope where fierce fighting was raging, and helicopter gunships carrying "Hellfire" anti-tank missiles quickly discovered the targets on the ground.

The helicopter gunships that appear over the battlefield seem to be able to quickly inflict one-sided damage on the enemy on the ground; However, after sufficient tactical training, these "Apaches" who had just finished escorting the "Black Hawk" helicopters were obviously afraid, and they only circled far away on the eastern side of the theater and absentmindedly launched a few "Hellfire" missiles. Immediately after the speeding missiles hit the target and destroyed the two T-72BM tanks on the move, the attackers threw a large number of smoke bombs, and the armored vehicles that opened up the front of the attack were soon hidden in a large cloud of dense smoke.

In the face of the attack of the AH-64 "Apache", before the advent of millimeter-wave radars capable of guiding anti-tank missiles. Casting a smoke screen is a fairly effective means of defense.

Not only that, but several thin white smoke rose from the back of the battle line. The "Apaches" immediately sensed the threat and maneuvered laterally, dropping large areas of infrared jamming bombs to evade it.

But just between the lightning and flint, I saw an AH-64 that was too far forward and was searching in vain for the traces of the target in the white fog, and it was still too late to dodge, and only a sudden burst of fire was seen in the sky, and the helicopter hit by the portable anti-aircraft missile immediately lost control and fell, and after landing, there was a violent explosion!

Seeing that a companion was downed, but the battlefield was still in a thick fog, and in the midst of the large smoke that rose, the muzzle fire flashed from the Soviet tank "Ping Pong" shelling, and the pilot and weapon controller on the helicopter could clearly see it, but they could not use it to guide the AGM-114 "Hellfire" anti-tank missile, so they could only use the M230 30 30mm chain gun hanging on the front of the helicopter to strafe into the fog without a brain, and from time to time they fired a few rockets.

In such a dense fog, it was difficult for both the sky and ground weapons to hit the opponent, and the 2nd Battalion of the Mountain Division, which had organized the defense in a hurry, had already given up the plan of defending along the road - only temporarily equipped with a few M1A2 tanks to press the light troops, which was completely unsuitable for such a hard battle. The 7th Regiment of the Israeli Cavalry Division, equipped with tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, ceded the offensive front.

As soon as they came into contact with the enemy, they hurriedly retreated, which was certainly not a decent behavior.

But in any case, this can be regarded as a detection of the Russian defensive support node, and now the 2nd Battalion only needs to wait for the arrival of the air support called before, and use the guided bombs that split the head and cover the face to cooperate with the attack of the 7th Ranger Regiment to blow all the Russian tanks to pieces!

The battle on the ground, slightly sluggish by the smoke and the retreat of the Americans; In the sky, the AH-64s circling the battlefield and trying to find the gap in the smoke screen to launch an attack were attacked one after another by ground anti-aircraft fire, and several BMP-2E infantry fighting vehicles deployed in a "U" shaped preset position swept wildly with 2A42 30-mm automatic guns, and shot down an "Apache" that was too close on the spot.

Seeing that there were also many ambushes on the other side of the slope, the rest of the "Apaches" retreated far away for fear of the dense fire of small-caliber automatic guns, and soon flexibly turned to occupy a position, regained their advantageous position on the southern flank of the battle line, and prepared to launch a new round of missile attacks on the Russian tanks that had broken through the dense fog.

Sitting in the "Stryker" that turned around and retreated, he heard the roar of paddles overhead, Lieutenant Pete looked out of the observation hole with some fear, he could clearly see the side of the road not far behind him, and several "Abrams" on his side were lined up in a somewhat messy defensive line, firing non-stop at the slope where the fog had not yet dissipated, and from such a distance, the dull sound of L44 smoothbore gun firing was still a little deafening.

"Bang-boom-!"

In sight, the lieutenant only saw an Abrams in the tank queue, which suddenly froze on the spot, and the huge body shook out of thin air like fluttering cotton wool; As the tank exploded violently in the next moment, bursting into the sky with fire and smoke, he was stunned to think that what he had just seen was the moment when the tank was hit by a shell...... (To be continued......)