Macho Wars

Dragon smiled and rubbed Misha's head, then opened a note and handed it to him.

"Take this and report directly to the regiment department. Someone will tell you what to do, and by the way, let someone get you a fitted military uniform. You can't do this now!"

Xiao Misha had not participated in the medical examination because he had concealed his age and entered the army through the back door. The military uniform was also obtained with the help of Hanketuo. The size was completely different and looked loose when worn.

Under the repeated comfort of Uncle Hank, Misha, who was still confused about the situation, took the slip given by Dragon and left Sanlian very reluctantly.

Dragon continued to patrol the troops, and then went directly to the forward command post.

The battle plan was carried out at night. The independent regiment’s night combat ability was tuned by Dragoon, and he always had cod liver oil in his army’s diet to avoid night blindness among the soldiers.

In view of the fact that the terrain in the col will produce echoes, and the tank will also produce a lot of vibration, so Dragon gave up the unreliable surprise attack.

After nightfall, the battle officially began.

The first battalion set out first, and the infantry quietly touched it, as close as possible to the front of the enemy's position, while the tank stood by at a slightly rearward position.

During the daytime reconnaissance by the air force, no EFF heavy synthetic beasts were found near the bridgehead, but the scouts on the ground found that there were many bunkers in the front of the position, and some small soil packs in the shape of "tomb heads" were suspected to be hidden forts.

If you rely solely on infantry assaults, the casualties will inevitably be very heavy, and it is best to have tanks participating in the attack.

So under the order of Dragun, the artillery battalion directly under the regiment opened fire first, and the artillery directly crossed a straight line of eight kilometers and attacked the bridge over the river.

Because the col is not straight, it is difficult for artillery to effectively attack from the fortress side to the enemy’s position near the bridge head, and there is a certain risk of moving forward. Therefore, the artillery battalion’s attack is mainly to block possible enemy reinforcements. .

It is the six kobold self-propelled artillery that are really responsible for covering the infantry's offensive. They can follow the tank troops for a certain distance and find a suitable position.

After the battle began, the troops followed Dragoon's instructions before the battle and attacked a bit of the enemy's front.Although the light and dark bunkers staggered along the way caused some trouble, they did not stop their offensive.

Dragoon was in the forward command post, less than a kilometer away from the fighting position. Through the telescope, he could clearly see the fire of the shells ahead, and the shouts of thousands of people were clearly audible.

"Our offensive went well, sir."

"Let the first battalion work harder, don't relax."

Perhaps it was because the first battalion's offensive was swift, or the opponent did not intend to hold on. The enemy defenders of the salient only persisted for less than an hour before they began to retreat one after another, from under the bridge to the opposite bank.

Dragoon hurriedly closed it as soon as it was good, stopped the pursuit of the first battalion, and then ordered the engineering unit to place explosives on the Rainbow Bridge.It is not necessary to blow up the bridge completely, but to destroy a section of the bridge deck so that it cannot be passed quickly.

As for the bridgehead position, Dragon has no plans to send anyone to guard here.The location of this broken place is very poor. It is easy to move from west to east. The artillery on the other side can be said to have no cover.But from east to west, because of the mountain cols, there is not much support.

This is why the Tarrans Kingdom built the Kingdom Gate Fortress to prevent the Sapphire Principality from the east, but the fortress was built on the west side of the col.

The reason why Dragon had to fight here before the start of the battle was purely to chop off the "tentacles" that the enemy had stretched over, so that they would retract to the other side of the bridge.

The engineers of the Independence Regiment spent several hours. Although limited by time, they failed to blow up the steel bridge in the end, but they did their best to damage the asphalt bridge deck and make it impossible. Fast passage.

After all this was done, the troops hurried back to the fortress before dawn, and landmines were dropped along the way.

On the second day after Dragoon ordered the closure of the west gate of the fortress, the aviation team discovered that the enemy army had assembled on the opposite bank and began to move.

There were three groups in total, and they rushed forward and killed them in a mighty manner.And the one with the largest scale came straight to the fortress where the independence regiment was located!

Chapter 313

On the last day of December, the two divisions of the West Bank Union Army, with eight infantry divisions of the Principality Army, a total of 150,000 troops, were divided into three attacks and launched a full-scale attack on the East Bank.

The kingdom gate stationed by the Independence Regiment bears the brunt of it. It has to face the biggest enemy among them. The gap between the forces of the enemy and the enemy is more than 22 times that of madness.

However, Dragoon’s pressure is actually not great, because the terrain on the west side of the kingdom gate is destined to be unable to deploy all the troops. The limited valley width allows them to invest less than two regiments at most.

The independent regiment relies on strong fortifications. As long as the logistics can keep up, it is not impossible to defend here.

What's interesting is that shortly after the enemy army began its operation, the reconnaissance plane found some huge figures in the airspace in the southwest-the federal airship unit.

According to the reconnaissance aircraft ahead, the enemy has twelve airships, including four heavy artillery airships, six medium combat airships, and two light patrol airships.

Heavy airships are equipped with multiple large-caliber howitzers and heavy aerial bombs, which pose a great threat to the fortress.

If it was changed in the past, the appearance of these giant aerial beasts would definitely make the defender very nervous.But just as the unbeatable heavy cavalry was scorched by heavy machine guns on the plains, the airship is also destined to become the sacrifice of the new era air supremacy in its home field.

"Notify the aviation team and give it to them."

After giving the instructions calmly, Dragon no longer paid attention to these threats from the southwest, and he was relieved to let his wife handle it.

After receiving the order, the aviation team quickly pushed all the aircraft out of the hangar. Except for the two patrolling outside and the one that failed, there were a total of 21 fighter jets on the airport that could be launched into combat.

The ground crew swiftly replaced the incendiary bombs for these fighters, and then added three 57mm-caliber rockets under the wings.

This kind of small-caliber rocket was originally prepared for ground attack, but the pilot discovered during the test that using it to hit the airship has a miraculous effect!

Although the accuracy of the rockets is average, at a distance of 300 meters, they are almost guaranteed to attack a target as large as an airship.In theory, as long as more than five rockets hit, it is enough to destroy an airship.

Soon, the ground crew completed the preparations, and Yunlong boarded her landline. She will act as the team leader and the first plane to take off.

Before entering the cockpit, Yunlong glanced at the fleet on the runway behind him. Twenty-one fighter jets lined up in three rows, one by one, ready to take off.This formation has a special term on the other side of the earth, called Elephant Step Parade.

Looking at the air fleet that has begun to take shape, Yunlong can't help feeling a little at this moment.Only three years ago, the maidens on Ryukiya Island were still saddened by the shrine’s declining shrine. As a result, the arrival of the imperial army broke their original peaceful life, but also allowed them to walk away from the isolated island. Came out.

Thinking of his husband and lovely daughter, Yunlong feels very satisfied with his current life.

"The team, you can go."

Under the instructions of the ground crew, twenty-one fighter jets of the air force took off one after the other, flying in a wedge-shaped attack formation toward the southwest.

At the same time, on the other side, the EFF airship unit was slowly advancing towards the gate of the kingdom.

About forty minutes ago, they first observed an aircraft approaching.The airship commander had seen the relevant information provided by the Sapphire Principality before, and knew that this was a new type of flying vehicle newly installed by the Imperial Army. Although it was fast and very flexible, it was limited by its size and had only medium-caliber weapons. Machine guns and light bombs.

They made their debut in the Far East. They had launched air strikes on two shallow-water heavy gunships of the Principality Army, and they bombed for a long time. The two old-fashioned heavy gunships were stunned to run away, showing that their attack power was very weak. .

Based on this intelligence analysis, the Federal Army believes that the Imperial Army’s aircraft should be a reconnaissance vehicle with a certain ground attack capability, and the threat to the airship is limited.

You must know that although the airship is essentially a big balloon floating in the air, it is not in the slightest comparable to the toys that children buy in the playground.

A large and medium-sized airship usually consists of hundreds of split airbags. In theory, even if one third of them is lost, it will not affect its continued flight.

And the airship is not streaking, the larger the size, the thicker the armor.Although its defense power is not as good as that of a tank, it is not something that a small-caliber machine gun can easily penetrate.

Therefore, seeing the aircraft appearing nearby, the commander of the Federal Airship Force did not panic at all, and ordered the fleet to ignore the "little bugs" and continue to move towards the target.

The airship troops quickly arrived over the Rainbow River. Based on the terrain below, the navigator judged that they were still 30 kilometers away from the gate of the target kingdom. They are expected to fly over the target in 25 minutes, and the ground troops will also be at the same time. Launch an attack.

However, just as they were about to go down the river to attack their target, the reconnaissance airship at the front of the formation suddenly reported that a large group of imperial aircraft appeared right in front of them, with a number of more than 20 aircraft, which seemed to be ready to attack them.

When the commander heard this, he was taken aback, then couldn't help but laugh.He suddenly remembered that there is a proverb in the Eastern Qin Kingdom called "Man's arm as a car", specifically used to describe this kind of idiot.

"Huh! Since you are looking for a dead end, don't blame the old man for being rude. Inform the ships and prepare for air combat."