Chapter 17: The Attack and Defense of Kodak Town (Part I)
After a night of fierce fighting, Ouyang Yu's army was successfully annihilated, and the first battalion of the 147th Regiment of the 5th Division of the Duchy of Matanzas, the morning sun rose, and the residents of the town, who had been afraid all night, opened the door and were surprised to find that the soldiers of the Imperial Servant Army, who were still showing off their might yesterday, were now walking towards the east with their heads down and under the escort of the soldiers of the other army.
The mayor of Kodak Town stood in front of Ouyang Yu with his hands rubbed together flatteringly, Ouyang Yu was still dressed as a man, with a fake beard on his mouth, and his chest was tightly tied with a cloth belt, and she was a guest at the mayor's house at this time.
The young daughter of the mayor of Kodak Town commanded the maid at home to send a rich breakfast, and then personally took Ouyang Yu's amorous copy and put it in front of her, and threw her a wink when she left, which made Ouyang Yu very excited, but when she thought of her current situation, she didn't have any thoughts.
Under the constant compliments of the mayor, Ouyang Yu finished eating this sumptuous breakfast, and before leaving, the mayor also gave five hundred silver coins, Ouyang Yu did not refuse and accepted it with a smile.
After recovering Kodak Town, Ouyang Yu immediately used the magic crystal radio station to report the news of victory to the coalition headquarters, and the message replied by the coalition headquarters was to order Ouyang Yu's army to temporarily garrison Kodak Town and wait for the arrival of the 135th Regiment of the coalition army, because it would take two days for the 135th Regiment to arrive in Kodak Town, so Ouyang Yu's army must be stationed in Kodak Town for two days.
Ouyang Yu originally thought that nothing would happen in the past two days, but on the morning of the first day, he received a report from the scouts, and found a large number of Imperial troops fifty kilometers west of Kodak Town, among which there were also a large number of tanks and magic crystal cannons, and it only took five hours to reach Kodak Town according to the marching speed.
"Quick, quick, bring as much food and valuables as you can, you have two hours to evacuate!"
As soon as she received the news of the attack of a large number of imperial troops, Ouyang Yu immediately ordered the evacuation of the residents in the town to avoid unnecessary casualties in the battle, and at the same time ordered the troops to build positions on the periphery of the town, and at the same time set up barricades in the town to prepare for street fighting, this is because after she sent the news of the imperial army's attack to the coalition headquarters, the headquarters ordered her to defend in Kodak Town, and wait for the arrival of the 135th Regiment before retreating, otherwise Ouyang Yu would not be interested in fighting the imperial army in this easy-to-attack and difficult-to-defend town.
The residents of Kodak Town evacuated smoothly with the help of Ouyang Yu's soldiers, some of them were reluctant to leave their homes, and Ouyang Yu didn't care about them, and they cried when the Imperial Army entered the town.
The artillery company in the small square in the center of the town has been deployed, and the high gun ports are ready to shoot at any time, because there is no time to dig the trenches, the soldiers of Ouyang Yu's army used the houses to arrange, and arranged a large number of houses into battle fortresses, and dug a lot of foxholes around the town, and all the preparations were completed in four hours.
Ouyang Yu climbed the bell tower of the church of the Ancestral God Cult, the tallest building in the town, and raised her binoculars to see that the invading imperial army had already entered her line of sight.
In the smoke and dust, Ouyang Yu saw two models of tanks with a number of as many as thirty, one of which she had seen before, it was the FT-1 wolf tank prepared by the Imperial Army, and the other one she had seen for the first time, unlike the light wolf tank, the new tank had a small angle of inclined armor on the front but no turret, the armor looked much thicker than the wolf tank, about three meters long, about 1.7 meters wide, and almost 1.7 meters high, a thick and short magic crystal cannon was installed on the right side of the front of the tank, six pairs of small load-bearing wheels, spring suspension, the action was very clumsy, and the speed was not fast, Ouyang Yu estimated that the off-road speed was only about six kilometers per hour, the overall image is a bit like the Stalker of WWII Germany, but much larger than the Stalker.
"It seems that this battle is not very easy to fight. β
Looking at the Imperial Army Ouyang Yu's brain spinning rapidly as she got closer and closer, hoping to come up with some good ways to reduce her losses, through the last battle of the No. 5 position, the biggest threat to her army was the Imperial Army's magic crystal cannons and tanks.
The magic crystal cannon can be handed over to the artillery company to deal with, but the tanks of the imperial army, especially the newly appeared heavy tank Ouyang Yu, have no way to deal with it now, she can't help but focus on the system, maybe her armored troops should appear in this other world.
Because it has been determined that the equipment of the Soviet Union will be used in the future, Ouyang Yu directly opened the army's Soviet tank research and development route, and the MS-1 directly spent hundreds of merit points to skip, she is not ready to use this primitive base tank, but it is still good to sell it to others.
BT-2 and T-26 and AT-1 These three tanks and assault guns made it difficult for Ouyang Yu to decide, thinking about it, the AT-1 assault gun was crossed out first, there is no turret and no human rights, and the AT-1 assault gun is not needed for the time being, and when a professional armored force is formed in the future, the rest is BT-2 and T-26.
BT-2's firepower is worse than T-26, but the speed is much faster than T-26, but the disadvantage is also that the armor is too thin, the thickness of the upgraded T-26S frontal armor has reached fifty mm, and the gun has also been upgraded from thirty-seven mm to forty-five mm, and the comprehensive performance is better than BT-2, after thinking about it for a while, Ouyang Yu decided to use T-26 for the first batch of tanks under his command, but she did not give up on BT-2 tanks, because the BT-2 tank is very fast, and it is very good to use as a reconnaissance tankγ
The system price of the BT-2 tank is 1,000 silver coins, and the T-26 tank is 1,500 silver coins, which is much more expensive than the guns and artillery used by the infantry, but Ouyang Yu is not short of money in the short term, so she bought four BT-2 tanks and 20 T-26 tanks, which is just enough for the establishment of two tank companies.
With these twenty-four tanks, Ouyang Yu's confidence has increased greatly, but now is not the time when the tank should appear, she plans to wait until the most critical time to give the imperial army a killing blow, so she hides the tank first.
Just as Ouyang Yu was observing the Imperial Army with a telescope, the commander of the 48th Regiment of the Ninth Armored Division of the Ninth Front of the Imperial Army, Colonel Elliott, Lord of the Empire, was also observing Kodak Town with a telescope, and next to him stood Major Bertlem of the Principality of Matanzas, who had escaped.
In the telescope, Colonel Elliott put down the telescope and turned to Major Bertlem and asked, "You said that you were attacked by the main force of the coalition last night before you were defeated, so please explain why the uniforms and flags of the opposing army are not the uniforms and flags of the coalition forces, but the uniforms and flags of a mercenary regiment that I have never seen before." β
In the chaos last night, Major Bertlem didn't figure out who was attacking him, and when he wanted to know who was attacking, the battalion under his command had already been defeated, so after meeting Colonel Elliott, Major Bertlem had to tell the other party that he had encountered a large number of coalition regular troops, and now in the face of Colonel Elliott's questioning, Major Bertlem couldn't answer, so he had to lower his head and dare not reply.
"Incompetent waste. β
After a fierce contempt for Major Bertlem in his heart, Colonel Elliott gave the order to rest and recuperate, the soldiers of the 48th Regiment must rest after a long journey, and the tanks and other equipment also need to be overhauled, and two hours later, at two o'clock in the afternoon, the soldiers of the 48th Regiment of the Imperial Army were well fed and drunk, took up arms and attacked under the cover of thirty tanks.
The first to attack was still the magic crystal cannon, and the eighteen medium-caliber magic crystal cannons in the artillery battalion under the 48th Regiment continued to send one fire system burst magic crystal shell after another into the position of Ouyang Yujun's army, and the smoke from the explosion kept flying up the human body stumps, and the hastily dug foxhole could not stop the bombardment of the magic crystal cannon at all.
Ouyang Yu, who had already entered the command system, immediately ordered the artillery company to counterattack, and in order to improve the hit rate, Colonel Elliott ordered the artillery battalion to shoot at close range, because in his opinion, the mercenary group could be eliminated with one attack, and then spend the night in Kodak Town, but Colonel Elliott did not expect his order, so that the eighteen magic crystal cannons under his command entered an extremely dangerous situation.
"Boom, boom...... Boom, boom, boom......!"
One by one, the shells accurately fell into the magic crystal cannon group, and the soldiers of the Imperial Army who were operating the magic crystal cannon turned on their backs, and the eighteen magic crystal cannons were also broken down into parts in the fierce bombardment, and the nine magic crystal cannons were destroyed in just two rounds of shooting, and the remaining nine magic crystal cannons were desperately pushed off the battlefield by the surviving artillery, and the artillery bombardment of the imperial army was not long after it began.
Because the artillery on the earth is very different from the magic crystal cannon in this world, Colonel Elliot didn't see the cannonballs fired at all, only heard a strange scream, and his artillery position exploded continuously, and he felt doubts when he felt distressed.
Colonel Elliott once again raised his binoculars and looked at his enemy, hoping to know who he was fighting again, the yellow-brown uniform, the style of uniform and weapons that he had never seen before, and so on, the flag always felt familiar.
In Colonel Elliott's line of sight, a yellow crab banner with a red background and a scythe reminded him of the battle report issued by the front headquarters that he had seen some time ago.
There was a passage in the report that he remembered very clearly, the 505th Light Armored Battalion was disabled by a mercenary group in a battle not long ago, and became the laughing stock of the entire Ninth Front Army, and the banner of that mercenary group was a yellow crab with a scythe on a red background, and Colonel Elliott judged that the enemy he was facing now should be the river crab mercenary group that was disabled by the 505th Light Armored Battalion.
"It seems that the 505th Light Armored Battalion is not complaining about losing, and orders the troops to attack with tanks as a guide!"