Chapter VIII The 505th Light Armored Battalion
Not long after the sun rose, Lieutenant Colonel White went back with the trench information given to him by Ouyang Yu and was satisfied, he was already a senior officer, it was impossible for him to stay on the front line for a long time, as for observing the combat effects of heavy machine guns and submachine guns, he had already left him behind, even if the heavy machine guns and submachine guns were not as good as the performance of the current weapons of the coalition forces, he would use his connections to make the coalition forces purchase a large number of them for the one percent kickback.
There was nothing to do in the morning, and at noon, there was a huge cheer from the Norvi Kingdom Army position opposite, and the reinforcements they were looking forward to had arrived, and Ouyang Yu and the two mercenary regiments were all in combat readiness.
At more than three o'clock in the afternoon, hundreds of soldiers of the Phoenix Imperial Army wearing black military uniforms slowly walked out of the position of the Norvi Kingdom Army, and Ouyang Yu also saw six cannon-like things in the telescope, and also saw ten tanks.
"Tank?!"
Ouyang Yu was shocked, and hurriedly used a six-fold Zeiss telescope to take a closer look.
The "tank" that appeared in Ouyang Yu's eyes was about three meters long, almost two meters high, and two meters wide, with a crawler mechanism walking, four pairs of spring-suspended load wheels, a riveted turret and a hull, the turret was in the middle of the hull, and a short-barreled small-caliber magic crystal cannon was installed, and the turret and hull armor did not look very thick, and the walking speed was relatively slow.
"Tank, it's a tank!"
The appearance of the "tank" caused a commotion among the polar bears and bald eagle mercenary groups on both sides, but they were quickly suppressed by the two leaders.
"It's really called a tank, but why is the pronunciation so similar to Mandarin?"
Ouyang Yu quickly put aside the doubts in his mind as the attacking Imperial Army began to bombard.
"Boom, boom, boom......!"
One after another, red light bullets fell on Ouyang Yu, On the positions of the polar bear and bald eagle mercenary groups, the Imperial Army used the M199 70mm light field cannon that fired fire-based bursting magic crystal shells, and after a lot of testing, Phoenix Imperial researchers found that fire-based bursting magic crystal shells have the best lethal effect on personnel, so most of the cannons equipped by the front-line troops of the Imperial Army are fire-based bursting magic crystal shells, and siege or sabotage fortifications are siege guns that fire earth-based hard magic crystal shells, which are generally large and heavy in caliber and volume, and the 505th Light Armored Battalion is not equipped。
The shelling continued, Ouyang Yu and most of her soldiers were hiding in the solid anti-artillery holes, leaving only a small number of observers to stay in the positions, the cannons were direct-fire guns, and there was not much threat to the soldiers in the strong trenches, let alone the specially dug anti-artillery holes.
Ouyang Yu, who was hiding in the anti-artillery hole, listened to the roaring explosion, looked at the dust that was shaken and fell, and was still quite scared in her heart, after all, it was the first time she was bombarded on the battlefield, and it was a lie to say that she was not afraid at all, and she only hoped that the hellish shelling could pass quickly.
The mercenaries of the mercenary group on the hills on both sides are much more dangerous than the soldiers under Ouyang Yu, but the two regiment commanders with rich combat experience also let most of the mercenaries hide in the anticline, so that the cannons of direct fire can't bombard them, but the magic crystal bombardment of the ground and the scattered gravel behind the breastwork may still hurt the mercenaries, from time to time there are mercenaries who are hit by flying gravel or large pieces of dirt and break their heads and bleed, screaming and being sent down, the mercenaries' morale has dropped rapidly, and some mercenaries who can't stand the shelling drop their weapons and want to escape, and they are all killed by Lieutenant Pete's guards on the way, if you run away on the battlefield and die, it will be considered a vain death, and the mercenary group will not pay a penny of pensions.
The shelling lasted a full ten minutes before it stopped, and after receiving the loud report from the observer, Ouyang Yu and her soldiers bent down and returned to their positions, the bullets were loaded, the safety was opened, the grenades were neatly stacked beside them, and all the combat preparations were made in just two minutes.
The mercenaries on both sides of the hill also returned to the tattered position in the punching, kicking and shouting of the two leaders, and the newly purchased MG-08 heavy machine gun was also set up, and it took a total of ten minutes from the beginning of the preparation to the completion, Ouyang Yuzhi, who saw it, shook his head and wanted to rely on these two mercenary groups to hold her flank, she had no confidence at all, she had to send troops to help when necessary, otherwise no matter how good she fought in the front, once the flank was broken through, her troops could only retreat even if they could fight.
After the artillery bombardment stopped, the Imperial Army led the way with five tanks as the lead, and more than 200 infantry followed closely behind the attack, but the Imperial Army did not seem to have such a concept of infantry coordination, and the infantry did not hide behind the tanks in columns, but walked in three horizontal columns behind the slow tanks.
This time, Ouyang Yu didn't plan to fight closer, the enemy would be in danger if he got a tank and then he got closer, she planned to separate the tanks and infantry of the Imperial Army, first hit the infantry to let the tanks get closer, and then use the German Mauser M191813.2mm anti-tank rifle she just purchased to deal with it.
The German Mauser M191813.2 mm anti-tank rifle was a product of the end of World War I and the first professional anti-tank rifle on the planet, the M1918 is a single-shot bolt-action rifle with an overall length of 66.6 inches, a barrel length of 38.75 inches, a caliber of 13.2 mm, and a total weight of 41 pounds with a tripod. The V-shaped ruler, with a scale from 100 to 500 meters, can deal with protected targets up to 300 meters.
M1918 uses 13.2mmX92mm (caliber .525 inches) Semi-flange bottle-shaped bullet, the center fires, with this bullet can penetrate a 20 mm thick steel plate at a distance of 100 meters, and can penetrate a 15 mm thick steel armor at a distance of 300 meters, but the shooting angle should not be too large, otherwise it will not be able to penetrate or even cause ricochet, according to Ouyang Yu's observation, the thickness of the tank armor of the Imperial Army will not exceed 20 mm, and the turret and hull are still square shapes, M1918 can definitely penetrate about 100 meters.
"Mortars and machine guns were ordered to start firing, and after the machine guns had finished firing a cartridge belt, they had to move their positions. ”
When the Imperial Army was still four hundred meters away from the position, Ouyang Yu gave the order to attack, four heavy machine guns began to fire frantically, and the seventy-six-millimeter light mortar also fired at the fastest rate of fire, the soldiers of the Imperial Army were immediately shot down dozens of people, and the mortar shells were also killed and wounded dozens of people, and the rest hurriedly lay down.
The four heavy machine guns of Ouyang Yu's side attacking the mercenary groups on the hills on both sides also joined the attack, and the addition of these four machine guns increased the firepower of the coalition forces a lot, and more of the young lives of the Imperial Army soldiers were left in a foreign land.
As soon as the machine gun on this side fired, it didn't take long for the cannon on the side of the imperial army to shoot out the magic crystal bullet of retaliation, Ouyang Yu's soldiers faithfully followed her order, and immediately transferred the position after firing a two-hundred-and-fifty cartridge belt, Ouyang Yu's trench had a lot of spare machine gun positions, the three soldiers' main shooters carried the machine guns, the first deputy shooter carried the triangular bracket on his back, the second deputy shooter carried the bullet box with both hands, and there were also several bullet belts around his neck, and the three soldiers cooperated tacitly It only took a few seconds to dismantle the machine gun in hundreds of kilograms, quickly transferred to the new position, and then took more than ten seconds to assemble it again, the bullet was loaded and a new round of firing began, so the Imperial Army retaliated with artillery fire, and the machine gun team under Ouyang Yu did not suffer any casualties.
But the machine gun team of the Bald Eagle and the Polar Bear Mercenary Regiment is different, although the mercenaries responsible for operating the machine guns have also read the machine gun use brochure given by Ouyang Yu, but once they fight, they forget everything written in the booklet, especially the main shooter pressed the launch button as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, and most of the bullets fired out did not hit the targetWith three machine guns missing, some of the soldiers of the Imperial Army immediately got up from the ground and continued to advance.
"A bunch of waste. ”
Ouyang Yu used a telescope to observe the situation of the mercenary groups on the hills on both sides, the destruction of the machine guns made the morale of the mercenary group that had just been raised drop again, the two leaders were already a little unable to control their subordinates, more and more mercenaries abandoned their weapons and fled, and the coalition soldiers who supervised the battle in the rear would not be polite, and they would kill one if they escaped, which made the faces of many mercenaries angry.
"No, if this continues, the mercenaries are likely to mutiny, and the second and third platoons will immediately go to reinforce the friendly forces on both sides!"
Under Ouyang Yu's order, the newly recruited second and third platoons were arranged to the left and right respectively, and a fourth platoon stayed in the rear as a reserve.
The addition of reinforcements has boosted the morale of the mercenaries, and the soldiers recruited by the system are as heroic as a rainbow, and they are not in the line of fire with minor injuries, which is in strong contrast with the mercenaries who are demoralized and shouting to go down after a little injury.
"Let the lads come back. ”
Major Spear Adams, commander of the 505th Light Armored Battalion, gave the order to retreat to the heralds around him, and a few seconds later, three signal flares were raised, and the attacking Imperial Army soldiers lay on the ground, slowly and orderly retreating under the cover of cannons and tanks.
The tentative attack just now made Spear Adams have an intuitive understanding of Ouyang Yu's army and heavy machine guns, if he didn't have ten tanks and six cannons in his hands, he wouldn't dare to attack from the front no matter how many times the number of troops under his command was ten times, but with tanks and cannons, the armor of the tank can withstand the bullets of the machine gun to cover the infantry, Major Adams just saw clearly, although the fire of the machine gun is fierce, but the bullets fired can only make some sparks on the armor of the tank but are helpless against the tank, and the cannon also has a good destruction effect on the fixed-firing machine gunWith these two sharp weapons, he is confident that the next time he launches an attack, he can tear through the enemy's defenses, thus destroying the current enemy in one fell swoop.