"They can see us!" Inside a tank, the goblins of Mirage shouted to their own people: "They can see us!"
Just as they were advancing in darkness, a shell suddenly struck and destroyed a tank. After that, they were hit by incoming shells one after another, causing heavy losses.
One tank after another was destroyed. After losing seven or eight tanks, they didn't even see where the enemy was or what they looked like.
Now, before his eyes, a heavy tank had its armor penetrated and was on fire, reflecting the outline of the surrounding tanks.
Before the mirage tank could start to reverse, an armor-piercing shelling projectile rushed over from a distance and penetrated its first layer of welded front armor, and then penetrated the second layer of main armor.
All the protection on its front was removed, turning it into a burning tank wreckage.
The Mirage troops that originally attacked in the dark became extremely chaotic after being attacked head-on. They were not prepared for a battle at all. The so-called counterattack by the tank troops was just a temporary drama.
In order to cooperate with the navy's actions...or General Somiruke wanted to use all his own strength, he temporarily ordered to increase the number of tank troops during the night attack.
The infantrymen who set out first had been fighting fiercely with the Tang army for several hours. They suffered heavy losses overnight and could not even touch the outer positions of the Tang army.
As a result, after the tank troops came over, the situation became even more chaotic: the tanks of the Tang Army suddenly opened fire from nowhere, destroying the Mirage tanks that had barely reached the front line one after another.
Of course, the tank crews of the Mirage Kingdom would not know that their opponents would use infrared searchlights to find their opponents at night.
That kind of special light is invisible to the naked eye, so it is equivalent to saying that the Tang army used flashlights to look for mirage troops in the dark night, and then used various weird ways to eliminate these poor enemies.
The night was transparent to the Tang Army, or to some of the Tang Army troops! They had never experienced such a feeling before, as if they were a group of vampires hunting.
Mirage Wuzhong was destined to have no way to rest that night. He sat sleepily in his seat, waiting for bad news to come from all kinds of places.
A night's counterattack did not exhaust the Tang army, but allowed Feng Kezhi to keenly capture the decline of the Mirage troops.
No one knows this kind of old-style army better than Feng Kezhi: he easily analyzed that the mirage army was launching a forcible counterattack to coordinate with the sea operations.
Feng Kezhi, who had almost unilaterally transparent intelligence, made a prompt decision and ordered several prepared troops of the 9th Army to launch a counterattack immediately.
In Leping, Feng Kezhi's 9th Armored Division troops, assisted by infrared night vision devices, attacked eastward, preparing to reach Danan River.
At the same time, the paratroopers of the Tang Army deployed near Dongshan cooperated with the troops of the 9th Army to launch a counterattack near the No. 1 Bridge they had lost before.
What is even more frightening is that, after establishing a firm foothold, the 1st Marine Division is attacking a field airfield of the Mirage Army.
In the latter half of the night, the situation on the battlefield became such that the 9th Army proactively approached the Mirage troops for a night battle. This made the Mirage troops who initiated the night battle somewhat regret that they had nothing to do to cause trouble.
In Xu Wuzhong's office, Xu Wuzhong, who had not slept for two days and two nights, had red eyes. He sat there and listened to his officer reporting to him the situation on the battlefield: "Sir! The Tang army near Leping has advanced towards Dananhe.
, they seem to want to drive us to the east of the Danan River."
The mirage troops in Leping Village are nowhere to be seen. They retreated more than 10 kilometers before, and now they are still retreating. The more they counterattack, the farther they are from Leping...
The officer on the other side reported even more exciting news: "General, the Tang paratroopers from the Dongshan direction have recaptured Bridge No. 1. Our engineers have not yet deployed the explosives, so the bridge bombing failed."
Originally, the Mirage troops wanted to blow up Bridge No. 1 in order to delay the Tang Army's attack. However, in order to counterattack, the plan to blow up the bridge was postponed.
The result was that when the Tang army defeated the counterattack of the Mirage troops and turned back towards Bridge No. 1, the Mirage's defeated troops actually forgot about blowing up the bridge.
So now Bridge No. 1 has fallen into the hands of the Tang Army. Through this bridge, the Tang Army can continue to attack northward at any time, threatening the Mirage Army's railways and airports in the central part of the South Island.
Soon, the staff officer hurried over and reported even worse news to Xiang Wuzhong: "General! The 1st field airport has been lost, and Tang Army tanks have also appeared around the 2nd field airport... Yes
Didn’t you order the troops there to retreat?”
For Mirage Wuzhong, this was also a bolt from the blue: if the Tang Army really took control of Mirage's airport, then those damn Butcher fighter jets, Yin'er attack planes... would all appear on the South Island battlefield.
Even with the support of the airport in the South Island, those Flying Fortress bombers can frequently bomb new islands, the main island, including the northernmost North Island.
So at the first moment, Mirage Wu Zhong wanted to order that the No. 1 Field Airport must be recaptured... But then he calmed down, because there were no decent garrison troops in the Mirage Kingdom near the No. 1 Field Airport.
Mirage Wuzhong didn't say a word, and he didn't know whether he fell asleep with his eyes open as he sat there. He didn't speak because he really didn't know what to say.
Everything was beyond his understanding. He had never been in such a powerless state. The Tang Army's combat capabilities, fighting will, weapons and equipment... were all beyond his imagination.
What's even more frightening is that he still doesn't know where those damn planes came from, why those damn paratroopers were able to persist for so long, and why his main armored force couldn't even break through the enemy's light infantry defense line in the end.
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At this time, an officer from the aviation force hurried over and once again brought disturbing news: "The Dragon-Slaying reconnaissance plane we took off at the risk brought back some photos... I heard from the pilot that the enemy's landing site was
There are bright lights nearby, I think the Tang army is transporting their supplies to the shore overnight."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At this moment, the only remaining airport in Mirage is in the northern part of the South Island, so it will take some time for the photos to be sent to Great South Bay. But the phone is open, so
The pilot immediately reported what he saw with his own eyes.
The Tang army was not idle at night. A large number of troops came ashore, and along with these troops came a lot of supplies and equipment.
Even more than a dozen Xiu Yin helicopters that took off from a modified transport ship have already moved ashore at this moment, preparing to carry out some casualty transport, low-altitude reconnaissance and other tasks after dawn tomorrow.
Not only that, a large number of engineers from the Tang Army have also come ashore. They are not only busy building floating docks, but also building some headquarters, field hospitals, communication stations, arms and ammunition depots and other facilities based on the mirage defense fortifications.
With the support of these facilities, the Tang Army's combat effectiveness is naturally stronger. The heavy equipment of engineers that could not wait before has now been sent to the beach.
Rocket minesweepers, engineering cranes, armored minesweepers, and large-scale air defense warning radars that can penetrate deep into the interior... These equipments are all coming ashore one after another, which shows how huge the Tang Army's landing force is.
Of course, this is only a small part of the supplies and personnel carried by the landing fleet this time, so the Tang army needs to build a floating dock and seize the Great South Bay as soon as possible.
Speaking of the Great South Bay, half of Mirage Wuzhong's hope now is to hold on to the strategic location of the Great South Bay in the short term. He believes that as long as he can hold on to this strategic location, the Tang Army's transportation environment will not get better.
The country will have a chance to turn defeat into victory.
But regarding the strategic deployment of defending the Great South Bay, he did not complete it: or in other words, he did not have time to complete it at all.
The seaside side of Great South Bay is actually very defensive, with two east and west forts and sufficient troops deployed. The problem is that Great South Bay is almost undefended in the three directions facing inland.
The previous strategic deployment did not consider that the enemy would successfully land from other directions, so no fortifications were built.
Now that it's better, the enemy has indeed attacked from the inland. Only then did Mirage Wu Zhong think of recruiting civilians to rush to repair trenches and other defensive fortifications.
But the time was really too short. In one day and one night, a circular trench was barely better than a ditch... and then a prototype was barely formed.
Therefore, when Mirage Wuzhong heard the report about city defense, he was not surprised at all. The general in charge of the matter even asked a question that made Mirage Wuzhong slightly embarrassed after the report: "Report!
General! The construction of trenches by the forced civilians is slower than expected. Should we recruit more women?"
In fact, Mirage Wuzhong has recruited most of the goblin males between the ages of 14 and 60 on the South Island, training them into a "new army" and preparing to burn them all in the Great South Bay.
The rest of the work could only be done by women, such as building the fortifications outside Great South Bay.
"The situation is not optimistic. If the Great South Bay is lost, the situation will be unpredictable! General! No matter what, we must defend the Great South Bay." The staff officer glanced at Mirage Wuzhong, who was a little confused, and reminded him.
Of course, it was not all bad news. Two transport ships supporting Mirage took advantage of the chaos and sailed along the coast to Great South Bay, transporting valuable arms to Mirage.
Mirage Wu Zhong, who knew the key, nodded subconsciously: "You are right... we must defend Da Nanwan! Send a telegram to Mirage Wu Erlang... and ask him to send troops to move closer to me! Deploy troops along the Danan River to prevent
The Tang army crossed the river!"
He no longer believes in the so-called night counterattack. What he wants now is to hold his position and not let the Tang army expand its results in the melee!
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There is another update today, which will be posted later. Let’s take a look at it tomorrow morning.
