Seeing the appearance of the 'Challenger' tank and another war machine that he didn't even know made Li Koxi shocked at first.

He hadn't expected to see anything like this here.

The Challenger tank, he once thought about buying one, especially after engaging in the Beast Slaughter Regiment, he wanted to buy it even more. If there is such a tank, as the core of the battle, with a large number of foot troops next to it, and a cannon that can be supported at any time, the battle can be much easier.

It's a pity that whether you can afford it or not is one thing, the key is that there is no channel to buy it.

Not to mention, the chariot next to it. Although there is no cannon on it, the double-barreled machine gun is not something that can be underestimated.

And the combination of these two fires, and the effect is amazing.

A tank cannon blew up among the green-skinned orcs, causing at least three casualties; And even more terrifying was the machine gun on the infantry tank, and the blow of the parallel machine gun, which did not look like a machine gun at all.

A 40 mm cannon can also cause fatal damage when hit on the green skin; The strange side-by-side machine gun, which explodes when fired, is still capable of exploding from an enemy's body after a single shot, ensuring that a greenskin can be killed.

Under the frantic strafing, six or seven greenskins were killed directly on the road in one round.

This round of fire projection, plus the infantry squad in front of them, killed a total of fifteen green-skinned orcs.

It turns out that the orcs are not really brainless, and they know how to rush up when they encounter a battle. On the contrary, their intelligence – or instinct – in battle is remarkable.

They knew that if they continued to rush up against this level of firepower, even if they all died on the road, they would not want to rush through the last twenty or thirty meters.

They scattered around the perimeter and urgently found cover. One guy came out and shot the infantry squad, which really hit and shattered one soldier's left arm.

Someone helped to do a simple bandaging with medical gauze - the main thing was to press and plug the wound to minimize blood loss, and then the other two people worked hard to retreat with the wounded.

And the remaining seven people are not in a hurry to attack - just wait for the tanks and armored vehicles behind to come up.

After clearing this wave of enemies, they will continue to move forward, meet the enemy again, stop again, fight, try to destroy the enemy, and if they can't destroy it, they will save their living forces, and immediately tanks and armored vehicles will come up again.

Infantry coordination is by no means a simple armored team in front, and the infantry follows behind with tanks or armored vehicles as cover, which is a very low-level practice.

In fact, when a surprise attack is carried out in an area with wide terrain and few obstacles, it is still possible to follow up the attack with armored troops in front and infantry in the rear within a range of several tens of meters.

But at this moment, here, in the midst of a battle in the ruins of a city, it is usually necessary for the infantry to fight in the front, and the armored units to cover their advance with fire behind the infantry, and to use the infantry's melee advantage to clear out the enemy one by one.

If the armored forces are in front, the terrain and the enemy situation are complicated, who knows what kind of enemy will emerge from nowhere, and what weapons will be used to pose a threat to armored vehicles?

For example, there are ambushed and hidden enemy infantry, using weapons such as explosive packs and anti-tank rocket launchers to give tanks and infantry combat vehicles a ruthless blow.

Of course, Li Kexi couldn't understand these so-called Butan coordinated tactics, he only knew that the cluster of green-skinned orcs that seemed to have a lot of numbers had no chance of turning the tables, and the end would inevitably be wiped out.

Compared with this tactical system of coordinated combat of tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and infantry, Li Koshi is actually more envious of the tanks and armored vehicles themselves.

With a whole beast slaughtering regiment and six or seven thousand people, he couldn't make up a tank; The offensive tactics of an infantry squad include the coordination of tanks and armored vehicles......

It's all people, why is the gap so outrageous?!

Tactics or something, you can practice; Equip this thing, say no, then there is really none, no way.

……

Perbov was not in a good mood.

He's already got several reports of battle damage.

According to the previous plan, there were almost twenty assault groups in total, attacking in waves, and only controlling an area about three or four kilometers wide.

He asked the front-line combat troops to advance the battle two kilometers head-on, which was considered to be a head-on blow to the green-skinned orcs who were still rushing inside.

Perbov's troops did succeed in achieving their goals. And, during the two-kilometer assault, at least 300 green-skinned orcs were wiped out under the fire of infantry and armored units.

However, in the process, his troops were not without damage.

Two tanks were blown up, three armored vehicles were reimbursed, and more than 50 soldiers were killed or wounded...... It was enough to make his heart ache.

Moreover, this level of casualties will indeed affect the combat effectiveness of the entire battalion.

One of the biggest losses was when an assault group was almost wiped out.

Pobov saw the wounded soldier's verbal briefings as they retreated, allegedly being ambushed by the Greenskins Orcs while they were on the march.

The greenskins were cunning and cunning in hiding among the ruins of the building, and they avoided the range of the infantry to hunt the enemy. Immediately after that, they launched an attack at the same time, and by the time they were discovered, they were already sixty or seventy meters away.

The orcs tactically split into four formations and attacked the infantry in front and the armored forces in the rear simultaneously from both sides.

Suddenly entering a close range, the infantry squad still suffered a big loss in the fire. They shot four or five people at close range. But it was also shot at close range by the greenskins. The kind of brutal firearms in their hands can make soldiers incapacitated with a single shot, even if they are hit on bulletproof vests, they may not necessarily die, but it is not a problem to break ribs and cause internal organ damage to reduce their combat effectiveness.

What's even more terrifying is that the greenskins are fond of using shotguns, and the flying marbles can sometimes break their limbs.

In close combat, the soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

Later, it was approached by the greenskins into the category of cold weapon combat, although the G9 rifle with a bayonet can be regarded as a good long-handled weapon, but it is still not the opponent of those greenskins.

What's more, they didn't get fire support from the armored forces for a while.

Armored forces, which are difficult to protect themselves.

More than two dozen green-skinned orcs, with the help of the shelter of the obstacles, approached the vehicle from the side, and kept moving when the firing angle of the gun muzzle and machine gun was turning, forcing the vehicle to not fully exert its firepower advantage.

Although a significant number of Greenskins died in the charge, and were killed by the protective infantry accompanying the armored troops, seven or eight still approached.

They used shotguns to wipe out the accompanying infantry, and they also loaded explosives packs on the tracks and side rear armor of the tank, and the same treatment was given to armored vehicles.

These explosive packets just destroyed a tank and an armored car.

If it weren't for the squad leader who was either ambushed and sent a distress signal at the first time, and there happened to be a team a few hundred meters away from the nearest position, and immediately came to support, they might have really been wiped out.

But despite this, they still have a lot of losses.

Only six of the more than twenty infantry survived, the tanks were destroyed, and only one of the two infantry vehicles remained.

A wake-up call rang in Perbof's head.

The enemy this time is not something easy to deal with with as a raider.

Although these green-skinned orcs only have small arms and even cold weapons in their hands, the only way to destroy armored troops is to install explosives packs with human flesh, which is quite backward and primitive, and it seems that these greenskins are also seriously lacking in long-range fire.

But with their brute-like physique, as well as their surprisingly strong fighting ability at close range, and their fearless character......

Even if his troops have a firepower advantage far superior to the opponent's, they still inevitably lose in battle.

By this time, the first battalion of Perbov had lost a total of two tanks (one on the road had not been repaired), two armored vehicles, and nearly 100 casualties.

This means that his troops have already lost more than 10%.

The battle against the Greenskins was bound to be hard, but there were already so many casualties at the beginning...... And what about the future?

I don't dare to think about it!

But soon, he pushed back the little nervousness.

The battle must go on.

The troops that had set out in front had pushed the front two kilometers out of the line as planned, and eliminated a large number of green skins. At the same time, due to their decisive forward press, a large number of green skins, who were already in an offensive position, had to retreat.

Again, these greenskins are wild, belligerent, bloodthirsty, and easy to get up, but not without intelligence. On the contrary, they are quite cunning and pragmatic when it comes to fighting.

Realizing that in the face of armor impact, the flat battle was a loss and a great loss, and those green skins did not continue to fight with flesh and blood recklessly.

This is also a pity for Perbof, otherwise the green-skinned head he has captured may not be more than just in his early 300s.

Retract the green skins and start to build simple fortifications, or simply rely on the ruined terrain and defend on the ground.

The difficulty of continuing to advance with the Synthetic Armor will become very difficult later. It is foreseeable that if you break back further, not only will the results of the battle plummet, but your own losses will also be very large, and it is possible to make people fight 1 to 2 or 1 to 1 battle losses.

Perbov doesn't have that many people to play with the greenskins.

Once you've completed your goals, you don't have to keep pushing forward.

Front-line combat units began to defend on the spot, also relying on the terrain of the ruins, and building firing points and fortifications at key locations. The advantage over the greenskins was that his troops had established defensive positions with armored vehicles and tanks to provide mobile support from the rear a little farther away. If those green skins dare to come out and attack the position, tank guns, machine guns, and explosive machine guns will teach them how to behave.

The two sides thus entered the stage of confrontation.

If this is the case, Perbov is acceptable.

He had already discussed the objectives of this operation with the political commissar of the battalion headquarters and several staff officers and adjutants.

It was impossible for them to turn the entire rotten battle into victory with the strength of a battalion. What they want to do is to stabilize the front, become the mainstay, plug the gap, and stop the full-scale collapse.

As long as the battle can be sustained until the Governor arrives, it will be considered a success.

But the greenskins didn't seem to be resting on their laurels, and they still had the idea of continuing to break through humanity's defenses.

But this time, Perbov was not polite to them.

Twelve kilometers away from the front-line battlefield, 155 howitzer positions have been constructed. It was not the breakthrough stage, and a large number of adventurers also retreated from the front line to regroup, so there was no need to worry about accidental injury, and their own troops had already passed back the shooting elements from the front line.

Without saying a word, five rounds of artillery fire were fired first.

Sixty heavy cannons fell on the attack line of those green-skinned orcs in less than ten minutes, and the nearest shell was even less than a hundred meters away from the front-line soldiers.

It is difficult to find out how many casualties were caused by these five rounds of shelling. But if you roughly estimate it, I'm afraid that the casualties suffered by those green-skinned orcs are more than the casualties caused by tanks, armored vehicles, and infantry together.

After losing another three or four hundred greenskinned orcs, the greenskins who attacked the fifth sector basically lost 20% of their living strength.

After five rounds of artillery bombardment, the onslaught that the green-skinned orcs had gathered strength to launch was ended, and they finally died down.

The loss of 20% certainly did not exceed the upper limit that the green-skinned orcs could bear. But the casualties should be meaningful, and it is not a question of being brave or not to be brave, it is a question of stupidity.

Greenskins are by no means stupid in combat.

Moreover, the greenskin does not have to be gnawed on by this execution. The first battalion spread out the battle surface that it withstood and died, which was only five or six kilometers wide. However, the width of the battle line against Junk Town in the entire tower ruins is probably more than 60 kilometers, covering the entire tower area and the surrounding suburbs. There is a large number of front widths for interspersed and outflanked.

If you can't bite it, you won't gnaw it, just change places to fight.

This is also understood by Perbof.

The scale of this war was originally a team of nearly 100,000 adventurers and armed scavengers, against about 10,000 to 20,000 green-skinned orcs. The 800-strong synthetic battalion, no matter how well equipped, is like a heavy weight, which can affect the balance of the scales.

But this is the case at the highest level, and one battalion cannot be expected to withstand a sixty-kilometer front.

It's okay to be able to play the results you have now.

Killed and wounded a large number of the greenskinned living forces, and stabilized the defensive line, resisting the spike of the greenskinned orc's assault force, buying time to reorganize the follow-up troops.

Perbov has done what he can. The rest depends on what Denison Henry and Jason Swann can do.

Oh yes, he also received information that there was a leader of the Beast Slayer who was rescued by them.

You can count on it, too.

Perbov had an estimate of how long he would be able to withstand it: the artillery support company could defend before it ran out of ammunition; If the pressure is too great and the 155 howitzer shells are empty, then there is nothing to say, quickly withdraw.

If we do not withdraw, we will be trapping our troops here in vain.

A 155 howitzer weighed 60 kilograms, 12 guns, and after just five rounds, three and a half tons of shells were fired alone. The logistics support company had three trucks specifically designed to transport artillery shells. Excluding the ones used in Miike Town, the remaining cannonballs can be used for thirty rounds when they are fully fired.

That's the limit of what you can do.

(End of chapter)