Macho Wars

Obviously, it was not his own person who came.

In terms of scale, the fleet is approaching the empty village with as many as 70 or 80 vehicles, and the variety is even more diverse.Most of them are armed pickup trucks and troop transport trucks, with a few light tanks mixed in between, and the troop strength is estimated to be thousands of people.

Fortunately, these guys didn't seem to know that there were people in the empty village ahead, and they were still a group of empires, so they still kept marching and did not make an attack.

However, at most another five minutes, their first vehicle will enter the village, and will not be able to escape.

"Notify the tanks and let them move immediately, we have guests coming."

Soon, the leading armed pickup trucks drove into the village along the dirt road covered by snow.The reconnaissance troops had only time to hide their vehicles, and there were still some clear track marks on the ground.

Several pickup trucks seemed to notice these suspicious marks quickly, so they stopped one after another.A few soldiers got in and out of one of the vehicles and stepped forward to check.

Seeing that his side was about to be unable to hide, Roebuck, who had been on the roof and had aimed at the driver, pulled the trigger without saying a word.

"Call me!"

With the first shot, the scouts ambushing everywhere in the village also opened fire. Although the three armed pickup trucks had reinforced armor, they were not completely protected without dead spots. Therefore, the windows of the vehicles were taken care of.

In the face of the sudden attack, the Principality Army reacted fairly quickly. They didn't just scurry around like the guys that the reconnaissance team destroyed before, but immediately searched for shelter and tried to counterattack.

It's a pity that they are right now in the middle of the dirt road in the village, and the Marine Corps scouts have formed double-teams on their left and right sides, and they have nowhere to hide.

A dozen people in the three vehicles were quickly wiped out by the reconnaissance team, but in this way, they were also exposed.When the convoy waiting outside heard the intensive gunfire coming from the village, it would naturally know that there were enemies inside.

So Roebuck wiped out the vanguard convoy and immediately led people to the village entrance to organize defense.The enemy forces are all light vehicles, so the reconnaissance team has no advantage in speed, and it is easy to be encircled and wiped out if they rush out of the village.

In this case, it is better to stick to the spot.

Although the reconnaissance team lost contact with the main force due to a communication failure, the reinforcements were expected to arrive in three hours for the last communication.

At this time, more than two hours have passed since the last communication, which means that reinforcements are about to arrive.

At this time, the soldiers of the reconnaissance team suddenly heard the sound of mortars coming from outside the village, and the well-trained people immediately disappeared.The enemy didn't know their exact location, so this round of shelling was aimless, only destroying some houses, but not anyone.

When the shelling stopped, Roebuck immediately jumped out of the drainage ditch where he was hiding and ran to the dirt wall at the entrance of the village.As he expected, this round of enemy shelling was to cover the infantry charge.

Not to mention that more than two hundred infantrymen are rushing towards the village and town in an attack formation. The infantry unit is followed by six armed pickup trucks and three light tanks, providing them with very fierce support for their offensive.

And from the opponent's quick response and tacit cooperation, it is not difficult to see that the Principality Army in front of you is not a rabble of the former, but an army that has received formal training.

Fortunately, the tank of the reconnaissance team drove over, and a long-toothed dog drove directly to the wooden bridge at the entrance of the village.The enemy's light tanks were only equipped with 20mm cannons, and they couldn't even penetrate the side armors of the tusks.

The gunner calmly aimed and fired, one shot one child, and quickly turned those weak chickens into parts that were difficult to recover.

The appearance of the Tusk tank also made the enemy infantry who were charging start to panic, and Roebuck immediately led the infantry to shoot at them.

Under the suppression of the firepower they consumed without considering the bullets, the soldiers who had not crossed the open ground were completely alive. The casualties quickly exceeded one-third, leaving large patches of bright red in the pale snow.

The commander of the Principality Army saw the enemy's firepower hiding in the village so fierce and there were many medium tanks to help out, thinking that the enemy should be at least a battalion unit.With the strength of a thousand or eight hundred people on their side, it is indeed difficult to chew.

Moreover, their task is not to eliminate the enemy forces, but to investigate the surrounding areas of the royal capital and find the exact location of the enemy. The task is considered complete.

So the commander thought twice and ordered the offensive troops to withdraw quickly, bypass the village first, and report the situation back to the king.

Soon, the Marines guarding the village found that the enemy had stopped attacking, and then dragged the wounded back and retreated.

The guys returned to the convoy, didn't say to wait a little longer, just turned around and detoured from the side of the village, and then ran away.

Roebuck and his comrades watched the embarrassing gang go away, all showing weird smiles.

"Why are these guys here?"

Chapter 329

Less than twenty minutes after the mobile unit of the Principality Army retreated, a large number of convoys appeared again in the south of the empty village.

Fortunately, it was not the enemy who came this time. When the Marines of the reconnaissance team saw the Tusk tank at the beginning, they all breathed a sigh of relief.

"These bastards finally came."

The first friendly force to arrive was a tank battalion directly under the brigade.Battalion Commander Lanno Stein and Roebuck are old acquaintances. They were both under Dragoon at the beginning. These two middle-aged men with similar smells often get together to drink.

Seeing that it was an old friend, Roebuck jumped into Lanno's car and said with a big smile.

"Man, you're late, you know? If you arrive 20 minutes earlier, we might be able to fight back and forth and make a big deal!"

"Man, how do I feel that you have forgotten that you are out for armed investigation, right?"

"EMMM... Listening to what you guys say, my special mother seems to have really forgotten."

After Roebuck finished speaking, the two big men looked at each other silently, and laughed like a barbell.

As more and more reinforcements arrived, Roebuck and his brothers were surprised to find that not only Lanno’s direct tank battalion, but all three regiments of the entire brigade had arrived, which meant that the main force had abandoned the newly captured Hull. Rand.

Soon the group saw their own regiment commander. Dragon told them that in view of the outstanding performance of the reconnaissance team and the enemy's unimaginable weakness, the brigade commander Kane specifically asked the headquarters for instructions.

After learning about the situation, General Howard agreed to change the original plan and let the Marines attack the enemy's capital, but the premise was that the entire Helland could not be returned to the enemy.

So at Dragon's suggestion, the Marines made a series of "sao operations" in Helland.

They first opened the warehouse to release grain, and then distributed the grain that the principality army had finally collected from the civilian population to the local hungry people.This group of ordinary people don't care about the integrity, even if it is the food that comes, they can gobble it up and say "really fragrant" with a smile.

Thousands of hungry people flooded into the warehouse doors opened by the Imperial Army. It took only half a day to completely evacuate the four large warehouses, and there was not even a husk left on the ground.

Then the Marines burned Helland's reserves of ordnance and ammunition, and then, amidst the gratitude of the locals, they continued northward.

Using three regiments of the Marine Brigade with a total of 8,000 troops to attack a large city with a defender of around 50,000, this is definitely an unprecedented bold move in the history of war in this world!

The morning after the First Marine Brigade merged with the reconnaissance squad, the main force split into two groups and approached the capital in a pincer attack.

They encountered only slight resistance in the periphery of the city, and the defenders could be described as surrendering in the wind.Even some defensive positions hadn't waited for their tanks to come over before the soldiers ran out.

In order to speed up the march, the Marines were too lazy to accept these prisoners, so they directly collected weapons and ammunition, put them on the road and crushed them with tank tracks, and then let these guys go out on their own.

The left and right troops of the Marine Brigade smoothly advanced under the main wall of the royal capital before dark.Before the sun had completely set, Dragon climbed a high slope and set up a telescope to observe the deployment of the defenders on the opposite side.

The king capital of the Sapphire Principality is located on a large plain with only a few hills around it.The flat terrain and many rivers make it very suitable for the development of agriculture and laid the foundation for the local prosperity, but the overly flat terrain also makes it insecure.

The small mountain bag where Dragon is located can overlook the whole city, and the artillery is setting up an observatory on the side to prepare for the next artillery strike.

At this time, the brigade commander Kane also came to the mountain bag, and Dragoon, who was taking the time to mark the enemy's deployment on the map, said to Kane without raising his head.

"It looks like they want to fight us in the street?"

"I hope they will stick to this idea when the large-caliber grenade falls on the head."

The heavy artillery battalion directly under the brigade is currently in place. The heavy howitzer with a 150 mm caliber and 35 times the barrel has a range of 13 kilometers, which is enough to cover most of the main city.