Chapter 10: Offensive and Defensive Battles (II)
Corporal Hal is a glorious tank driver, the tank is the latest cutting-edge mobile weapon developed by the Phoenix Empire, integrating mobility, firepower and protection, in the past battles, Corporal Hal likes to see the most, the enemy soldiers are either frightened and trembling after seeing the tank or turn around and run wildly, even if the occasional light bullet hits the tank, it only leaves a little mark on the steel plate, and it will not cause any damage to him and his comrades.
The tank is not invincible, and the medium and large-caliber magic crystal cannons that the enemy has can effectively damage or even destroy the tank, but the enemy in front of Corporal Hal does not, so he is very relieved to control the tank and drive to the enemy's position.
Corporal Hal's No. 05 tank came to a halt after approaching Ouyang Yu's position a hundred meters, and Sergeant Hill, the commander, gunner, loader, and signal soldier, was laboriously turning the turret, and there were only two members of this small tank.
In the Phoenix Imperial Army, the main role of the cruiser tank is reconnaissance and raiding, the official equipment model is FT-1, collectively known as the wolf fill, weighing six tons, equipped with a 35 mm short-barreled magic crystal gun, front and side armor thickness of 20 mm, rear armor thickness of 10 mm, maximum road speed of 16 km, maximum off-road speed of 12 km, maximum range of 210 km.
In addition to the Wolf Fill, the Phoenix Imperial Army also has another type of tank, which is an infantry tank, and the caliber of the armor and magic crystal cannon is much larger and heavier than the Wolf Charge. (The Cruiser Tank, also known as the Cruiser Tank, was a type of early tank.) At one time, the British divided tanks into two categories: infantry tanks and cruiser tanks. Infantry tanks have thicker armor and less maneuverability, and are used to accompany infantry in combat. Cruiser tanks have thinner armor and greater maneuverability, which is used in mobile combat. The concept of the cruiser tank is similar to that of the cruiser, with high speed of movement and good mobility, and it is equipped with machine guns and small-caliber guns to support infantry operations. During World War II, the British army's "Crusader" tanks and "Cromwell" tanks were representatives of cruiser tanks and played a certain role in World War II. )
"Boom......!"
Sergeant Hill fired the magic crystal cannon, turning several Ouyang Yu's soldiers into corpses, then bent down and lowered his head to take out a magic crystal cannonball from the ammunition rack and load it into the magic crystal cannon, and then opened his eyes wide to look for targets with shooting value through the circular armored viewing window at the top of the tank turret.
"Boom......!"
Sergeant Hill fired the Crystal Cannon again, killing a submachine gunner and two riflemen beside him.
"Well played, Patch!"
Corporal Hal called Sergeant Hill's name and admired his superb gunnery skills, although Corporal Hal was a subordinate of Sergeant Hill, but the two had served on tank 05 for a year, and they had a good relationship with each other, and they called each other by their names.
"Give the eastern country bus ...... again. ”
"Dang!"
A crisp sound interrupted Corporal Hal's words, and Corporal Hal felt something break through the tank's armor, and then drilled through his chest and out of his back, and when he looked down, he saw a fist-sized hole in his chest, and a bloody hole the size of a bowl in his back, which he couldn't see.
"What happened?"
No sooner had this question appeared in Corporal Howl's brain than he fell into eternal darkness.
At the same time, all 10 tanks of the attacking Imperial Army were fired at by Mauser M191813.2mm anti-tank rifles, and the anti-tank men in groups of two, a total of 10 groups of 20 people, opened fire as soon as the Imperial tanks entered 100 meters.
The recoil of the Mauser M191813.2 mm anti-tank rifle was too huge, and the soldiers had to change their shots after shooting on the left and on the right, otherwise they would break their collarbones by recoil or dislocate their shoulders due to recoil, so the ten groups of anti-tank fighters had no choice but to stop shooting because of the huge recoil damage to their bodies after four rounds of rapid fire.
However, these four rounds of fire gave effective damage to the ten Imperial tanks, the weak 20 mm armor of the FT-1 tank could not withstand the fire of the anti-tank rifle within 100 meters, and the 13.2 mm bullet penetrated the tank armor and turned into many fragments, causing great damage to the members inside, and two of the tanks were also hit by the ammunition rack, causing the ammunition to detonate, and the boom blew the turret into the sky and affected the surrounding infantry.
"What's going on?!"
This question also appeared in Major Adams's brain, he couldn't understand what was happening now, Ouyang Yujun didn't have a magic crystal cannon that could pose a threat to the tank, and that kind of high-trajectory curved gun wanted to hit a moving target It's a joke, but why did the good tank explode, and the other tanks all stopped shooting and moving, as if the members inside were dead, Major Adams couldn't figure it out, if it was a certain tank that exploded because of a malfunction, it was understandable, but it was absolutely impossible for all tanks to have problems at the same time, the enemy on the opposite side definitely had small and lightweight anti-tank weapons.
Having lost the cover of tanks, the soldiers of the Imperial Army and the Norvi Kingdom Army did not give up because of this, they had advanced to the position only more than seventy meters away, and they launched a desperate charge, and the distance of seventy meters could be reached in less than ten seconds, as long as they entered hand-to-hand combat, the soldiers of the Imperial Army were absolutely confident that they would solve all the enemies with bayonets.
However, Ouyang Yu didn't want her soldiers to enter a brutal hand-to-hand combat with heavy casualties, and the grenadiers under her command threw out all four grenades they were carrying, and a dense explosion appeared twenty to fifty meters away from the position, and the soldiers of the Imperial Army and the Norvi Kingdom Army who launched the charge were turned on their backs.
Without the suppression of the tank, the three heavy machine guns that had been hiding reopened fire, and the submachine gunners also poked their heads out of the trenches and pulled the trigger to the bottom, and the bullets like a torrential rain knocked out the only morale of the soldiers of the Imperial Army and the Norvi Kingdom Army, the soldiers of the Norvi Kingdom Army first turned around and fled, and the remaining soldiers of the Imperial Army hesitated but did not hold out for long, the idea of survival overcame everything, and the soldiers of the Imperial Army also learned from the friendly army to retreat backwards.
Major Adams, who was in the rear, closed his eyes painfully, he lost the battle with the superiority in numbers and equipment, and what awaited him would be the investigation of the Imperial Gendarmerie, ordering the artillery to fire at the tanks that remained in the position to prevent them from falling into the hands of the coalition forces, Major Adams left the command post with the help of the adjutant.
The battle, which lasted several hours, finally ended, and the battle still ended in the defeat of the invading army, all the tanks of the 505th Light Armored Battalion were destroyed, nearly 200 soldiers were killed, more than 200 were lightly and seriously wounded, and less than 100 were intact, and the artillery company ran out all the shells, which means that the 505th Light Armored Battalion has lost its combat effectiveness.
Ouyang Yu's losses were not small, three heavy machine guns were destroyed, fifty-seven soldiers were killed, forty-one were lightly and seriously wounded, some ammunition, and the dead and wounded soldiers were mainly fired by the tanks of the imperial army, unless she recruited a new batch of soldiers again, otherwise her reinforced company could be regarded as losing its combat effectiveness.
The two mercenary groups, Polar Bear and Bald Eagle, also suffered more than half of the casualties, and the combined number of people on both sides did not exceed a hundred, and the morale was low and had lost their combat effectiveness.
The three mercenary regiments are like this, even Lieutenant Pete has nothing to say, he wrote a battle report as quickly as possible, and immediately ordered his soldiers to send the report to Lieutenant Colonel White on horseback, Lieutenant Colonel White was overjoyed when he saw the report, and immediately wrote a report of great victory in his own name and sent it to the headquarters of the theater of war, and then issued an order for the three mercenary regiments to retreat and recuperate.
Three mercenary regiments similar to the homecoming regiment can defeat and severely damage the same number of imperial troops, and also destroy ten tanks and eliminate the same number of servant troops, which is a remarkable achievement, even the regular army of the Eastern Coalition Army can't do it, but these three mercenary regiments have done it, but this is not the key, the key is that he Lieutenant Colonel White has the wisdom of the hero to choose these three mercenary regiments, so that there will be such a huge result today, and the main credit is his Lieutenant Colonel White.
Lieutenant General Benjamin, commander of the Principality of Lucerne Theater of the Eastern Coalition Army, saw Lieutenant Colonel White's report the next day, and he was very interested in the River Crab mercenary group highlighted in Lieutenant Colonel White's report.
The female archduke of the Duchy of Lucerne, who was only seventeen years old and had just taken over the throne from her father who had died in battle, Avril Springs Lucson also had a great interest in Ouyang Yu, they were all young girls, why could Ouyang Yu get great feats on the battlefield, but she could only sit in the office every day boringly reviewing official documents, facing the old-fashioned and boring old men.
"She must be a muscular, national face that is not much different from a man, right?"
When the young archduchess was lying in bed and couldn't sleep and was bored counting the stars, an image of a woman like Schwarzenegger appeared in her little head.