Shanru did not intend to let the 2nd Infantry Division defend the west position alone. From the perspective of troop deployment, he tried his best to place two divisions in each direction, indicating that he also planned to place two divisions on the west side from the beginning.
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However, the 5th Infantry Division he planned to place on the west side came ashore relatively late. This was because a large amount of transportation capacity was reserved for Shanru's treasure, the 1st Armored Division, the main force of the Ork Army.
In the middle of the night, the 5th Infantry Division was sent to the coast. The orc soldiers were exhausted after drifting at sea for two days, so they could only stay where they were to rest.
Therefore, the 5th Infantry Division became a reserve force and was temporarily placed on the left side of the 1st Armored Division, close to where the 2nd Infantry Division was stationed.
However, they were still about 8 kilometers away from the 2nd Infantry Division. Including the division commander, the 5th Infantry Division who came ashore fell asleep around 3 a.m.
Why didn't Shanru rush for the 5th Infantry Division to join the 2nd Infantry Division? Because judging from the map, the direction in which the 2nd Infantry Division was stationed was not a main direction.
Judging from the landing position, attacking eastward is equivalent to attacking the direction of the mirage. Logically speaking, this direction should be the main defense direction of the mirage.
If the Mirage launches a counterattack, the counterattack will most likely come from this direction: so Shanru placed the 3rd Infantry Division and the 8th Infantry Division, which were fully equipped and landed later, in this direction.
The 1st Infantry Division in the north had the strongest combat effectiveness, but also suffered the greatest losses during the landing, so Shanru ordered them to defend on the spot and strengthened the 6th Infantry Division. The formation was relatively stable.
The pressure is the least in the west, because the area controlled by the mirage is the smallest here. In principle, Shanlu judges that the mirage army will not have any main force deployed in this direction.
But his judgment was wrong! The 4th Armored Division, the main force of the Mirage Army, is in this direction! Because from the perspective of the Mirage Army, what they want to defend is all the areas where the Tang Army may land, so that the armored forces can hide as much as possible and wait.
It happened that the landing area chosen by the Tang Army was between the 1st Armored Division and the 4th Armored Division. It was impossible for Shanlu to know this information. He could only roughly judge the location of the mirage army. He actually couldn't guess the number and number of the mirage army.
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On the morning of the third day after landing, on the forward position of the 2nd Orc Armored Division, an Orc soldier yawned, rubbed his eyes, and then saw a mirage tank appearing on the hill in the distance.
The opponent's speed is very fast. After all, in terms of performance, it is actually on the same level as the No. 4 tank that the Tang Empire provided to the Orcs, and is even slightly more advanced technically.
There is no way, who let the Tang Army eliminate all the Leopard tanks? You must know that the most elite troops of the Tang Army have already installed the Type 64 tanks with many improved details.
To be honest, the all-cylinder Type 5 tanks looked very impressive. When the orc soldier saw those tanks, he immediately shouted: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
As he shouted, the orc soldiers poked their heads out of the simple trenches they had dug. They had no solid defenses at all. After all, they were still in an offensive state before nightfall yesterday.
"Goblin's tank! Goblin's tank!" An orc soldier saw the approaching steel beasts and shouted loudly in fear.
He found nothing in his armament that could destroy these enemy tanks: apart from two grenades, he only had less than a hundred rounds of ammunition and a Mauser rifle.
Most of these early weapons of the Tang Army were not new when they entered the hands of the orcs, and were not even in the inventory of the Tang Army.
They were all eliminated from the Chu Kingdom. Although the rifling has not been smoothed out, the quality does look older.
There is no way, Datang Group has indeed not produced Mauser rifles for a long time. Now this kind of weapon is only produced by Cyric. The new rifles in the hands of the orcs actually come from the Cyric Consortium.
"Damn it!" Seeing the Mirage tanks approaching, the orc commanders on the front line cursed anxiously. They lacked heavy weapons, and luxury things like anti-tank guns, how could they be equipped with them?
It’s not that the Tang Empire couldn’t afford a few anti-tank guns, the main reason was that it was not easy to transport them to the island. In order to provide the orc infantry with a certain anti-tank capability, the Tang Army equipped these orcs with some RPG rocket launchers.
It's a pity that the orc commander who has never seen or eaten them left all these high-end gadgets at the division and regiment headquarters... He was unwilling to give them to the frontline combat troops to use casually like the Tang Army did.
"Quick! Get in touch with the regiment headquarters! Let the anti-tank team support you! Quick! Quick!" The battalion commander saw the Mirage tank rushing towards him and ordered the signal corpsman loudly.
After hearing the order, the communication soldiers turned around and ran away: The orcs were not equipped with a large amount of communication equipment like the Tang army, so their communication... was as primitive as the mirage opposite.
However, the Mirage attacked tank troops, and they had radios, so the coordination ability of the Mirage far exceeded that of the Orc 2nd Infantry Division.
From the moment the battle broke out, the orcs were at a disadvantage. The battlefield was full of scenes of Mirage tanks slaughtering the defeated orc troops. The orcs screamed one after another, and many orcs even raised their hands to surrender.
This allowed the soldiers and commanders of the Mirage Kingdom to regain a long-lost feeling. They gritted their teeth and killed the surrendered orc soldiers, and continued to attack the orc positions with their tanks.
Having been constantly at war with the Tang army, the commanders of the Mirage Kingdom were almost psychologically affected: they had forgotten the taste of victory, and for a time thought that they were extremely weak.
But when they faced an orc army that was about as small as them, they discovered that they were actually quite capable of fighting.
The short goblin tank crews actually have an advantage: they can maneuver inside the narrow tanks with ease and are very flexible. This is something that tank crews from other countries cannot do. The only ones who can compete with them are the dwarves of the Ice Empire.
Following the 4th Armored Division of the Mirage Army in the attack were two regiments of infantry temporarily deployed by the Mirage Army. They also moved very quickly. Taking advantage of their familiarity with the terrain, they rushed in front of the Orc troops and then launched their attack.
A massacre.
Caught off guard, the defense line of the 2nd Orc Infantry Division was breached. Part of the remaining Orc troops were surrounded, and the other part retreated backwards, losing all the villages they captured yesterday afternoon.
The armored troops of the Mirage State excitedly continued to move forward. As they continued their attack, they were violently bombed by Tang State carrier-based aircraft.
More than 30 Stuka dive bombers dropped more than 30 500-kilogram bombs in one go, and together with machine gun strafing, they destroyed more than 50 Mirage Cyric 5 tanks.
Including the several tanks lost previously, by the time the battle reached around 8 o'clock, the Mirage Army had lost more than 60 tanks.
This is almost one-third of the total strength of the 4th Armored Division of the Mirage that launched the attack! Under such huge losses, the commander of the 4th Armored Division of the Mirage had to send a message asking Mirage whether the attack was necessary.
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Mirvuk thought carefully. If he ordered a retreat at this time, the 4th Armored Division might not be able to have many tanks left when it returned to its starting position.
Mirage, who had been brainwashed by suicide tactics, gritted his teeth and issued a crazy order for the 4th Armored Division to continue the attack regardless of all odds.
This order was equivalent to a death sentence for the Mirage 4th Armored Division, and it was also equivalent to a heavy blow to the defeated Orc 2nd Infantry Division.
After receiving the order, the commander of the Mirage Kingdom also showed the crazy side of the Mirage Goblin. He resolutely carried out the order. The remaining officers and soldiers of the 4th Armored Division also continued to attack the beach regardless of losses.
Soon more Tang Army carrier-based aircraft came over and caused huge trouble for the attack of the Mirage Armored Forces.
At the same time, the remnants of the surrounded Orc 2nd Infantry Division stabilized their position after destroying more than a dozen goblin tanks with RPG rocket launchers, which was able to regain a little face for the defeated 2nd Infantry Division.
The whole battle was simply a huge fight: Mirage's tanks chased the Orc infantry with a bit of a rampage momentum like the Tang Army's armored forces, while Tang Army's planes slaughtered Mirage's targets on the ground as if they were in no one's land.
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In the end, Shanlu mobilized two regiments of the 5th Infantry Division to take over the defense line of the defeated 2nd Infantry Division, and used RPGs to destroy several Mirage tanks that had almost penetrated half of the landing site, finally stabilizing the situation.
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The Mirage 4th Armored Division, which really had no offensive capabilities, did not need to retreat at all: after the Orks destroyed the last few tanks, they lost almost all their tanks on the offensive road.
The Orc troops began a counterattack in the afternoon. Under the cover of Tang Army aircraft, they regained the position that had been penetrated by the Mirage troops.
By dinner time, the Ork 5th Infantry Division rescued the besieged 2nd Infantry Division headquarters and remaining troops.
The two sides fought fiercely for a day, and both sides suffered heavy losses. When night fell, they saw the results: the front lines of both sides were the same as they were in the early morning, without an inch of change...
The Mirage lost about 190 Cyric 5 tanks, and the main force of the 4th Armored Division was almost completely destroyed. The Mirage garrison on the west side almost lost the ability to attack.
As for the Orcs, half of the more than 10,000 people in the 2nd Infantry Division were missing and killed, and there were so many wounded that they covered a beach. The seemingly strong 2nd Infantry Division was almost annihilated by the mirage army, and the remaining troops also lost their combat capabilities.
After continuous high-intensity support for ground operations, the ammunition reserves on the Tang Army's aircraft carrier were almost exhausted. Lu Qianshan brought Shanlu bad news: the air support experience card... is about to expire.