One Hundred and Thirty Nine Offense to Offense
"What is that?" On the defense line of the Holy Demon Empire, on the edge of a barracks with about 100 people, a soldier in charge of vigilance pressed the long sword around his waist, stared at the trembling forest in the distance, and narrowed his Eyes remind their companions.
"Alert! Alert! Enemy attack!" His companion drew out his long sword and prepared for battle outside the camp: "It's Ailan Hill's large force! Prepare to fight!"
Hearing his shouts, the soldiers of the Holy Demon Empire began to send troops to form a formation. They relied on the camp to prepare for defense. Behind the visor, they looked at the trees in front of them that seemed to be resurrected.
"Tu Tu Tu!" A row of tracer bullets shot over and hit the large defensive magic array on the edge of the camp, causing the huge magic array to burst into a light blue light. Every area where the magic empire is stationed is equipped with such a magic circle to prevent the opponent from attacking, and it can also serve as a temporary position to support defense.
It's a pity that before the magic circle swallowed up the flying bullets, a cannonball hit the magic defense wall. The light blue magic defense barrier, which was not very clear at first, disappeared in the air in an instant with the impact of the cannonball.
Click! With an indomitable momentum, an M4 tank smashed a small tree on the edge of the forest, ran over the bushes in front, rolled its tracks, and appeared in front of the soldiers of the Holy Demon Empire.
Immediately afterwards, the second M4 tank appeared, also running over the bushes, revealing its tall frontal armor - the center here outlines the outline of the Holy Demon Empire's eagle with white paint, forming a white Hollow eagle pattern.
Tanks one after another appeared on the edge of the jungle, and behind these tanks were hordes of Ailan Hill soldiers. The soldiers in the front were holding STG-44 assault rifles and pointed at the Holy Demon. The soldiers of the Empire poured the ammunition from their guns.
The soldier holding the MG-42 machine gun quickly found a perfect cover position, where he set up the machine gun's bipod, and then lifted the cover on the gun body. The sub-shooter was already in position, pulling the chain out of the ammo box and pressing it under the cover of the machine gun.
The next second, the Alan Hill machine gunner, who pulled the bolt, started strafing, and the tracer bullets joined together and flew into the phalanx of the soldiers of the Holy Demon Empire.
"What exactly is that!" A soldier of the Holy Demon Empire watched as the tank ran over the wood outside their camp to resist the horse, as if it had broken a small tree. The steel monster didn't seem to care about the things blocking the road at all, and the rampage was superb.
He saw with his own eyes that the Alan Hill soldiers standing on the tank controlled the machine gun on the steel monster, shooting the soldiers of the Holy Demon Empire from top to bottom.
And on the head and body of the steel monster,
All of them have machine guns that can eject flames and shoot dense tracer bullets, harvesting the lives of the soldiers of the Holy Demon Empire.
What is even more frightening is that the tank also has a long barrel, and from time to time it shoots a heavy cannon at the crowd of the Holy Demon Empire. This thing is aimed directly, so it is quite terrifying to aim the head. It can always blast cannonballs into the densest crowds, killing more horribly than Ellan Hill's shelling.
What made him collapse the most was that this thing did not intend to fight the soldiers of the Holy Devil Empire at close range. No chance to attack it.
Because of the choice of the M4 Sherman tank, Chris and his generals also referenced the U.S. military's attack tactics in tactics: they felt that it was not a good way to use the tanks together on a large scale.
After all, the opponent does not have a large number of anti-tank weapons, and there are not many tanks as the support of the defense line. Concentrating tank troops is not necessary and will not achieve very good combat results.
Conversely, like the U.S. military, dispersed tanks are used to support infantry operations, but they are very much in line with the design purpose of the M4 tank. In supporting infantry operations, the tall and powerful M4 tank is indeed an ideal weapon.
It can develop its own firepower in the rear without worrying that the opponent will have a terrifying long-range damage weapon like a German tank to target itself - this is simply a perfect bunker that can advance, and the opponent has no good way to use such tactics.
Therefore, after some choices, Ailan Hill's tank tactics were initially used to cover infantry operations. This is the best example of how the battlefield environment dictates tactical arrangements.
No tactic is absolutely perfect, and how to use it depends on the specific analysis of the specific environment. Just like when the Alan Hill Grenadiers were just born, they still used the old three-stage shooting tactic. Sometimes the backward tactics may not have room to play.
"Retreat! Retreat!" The leader of the Holy Devil Empire officer knew that with the soldiers he led, he could not stop the Alan Hill troops in front of him. He decisively gave the order to retreat, hoping to get out of the battlefield before his troops were really bitten.
It's a pity that Alan Hill's troops did not give him a chance to retreat at all. At the same time he gave the order to retreat, the Il-2 attack aircraft in the sky swooped down and began their killing.
The 20mm caliber cannons left two bloody paths in the crowd. The small defensive magic on their bodies could not stop the ordinary soldiers of the Holy Demon Empire with large caliber cannons. Under the slaughter of the attacking planes, they quickly became confused.
They could no longer resist as an organized organization, and their camp was breached a few minutes later. With the exception of about 20 people who escaped, the rest were wiped out nearby, and Alan Hill's counterattack entered a benign mode of quick-fixing from the very beginning.
One morning, the 11th Division of the 1st Army recovered 2 towns south of Higgs, defeated about 1,000 defenders of the Holy Demon Empire, and advanced 15 kilometers. Advance, 5 times faster.
Similarly, the 1st Division of Alan Hill, which was the main attack, quickly captured the southern important town of Rosroll, which seriously threatened the flank defense of the Holy Demon Empire.
On this day, Ailan Hill's air force crossed the border like locusts and attacked all the targets they could see. The security line and the main line of defense arranged by the Holy Demon Empire on the southern line were attacked, and the entire defense system fell into chaos. .
More than 400 fighter jets and attack planes took off thousands of sorties, pouring the bombs that could be mounted and the cannonballs they carried on the positions of the Holy Demon Empire.
In just one day, the Holy Demon Empire lost more than 500 soldiers and turned its salient into a dangerous pocket. As of the evening of the same day, the troops under the command of Wagron attacked 20 kilometers north, grasped the predetermined target of Rozroll, and basically completed the advance task.
Early the next morning, the battlefield situation changed dramatically. The Holy Demon Empire, which received reinforcements, started a large-scale counterattack, and Ailan Hill also hoped to complete their advance plan for the next day by attacking.
The two sides continued to invest their troops in the short 3 kilometers of the theater, using various weapons and arms such as dragon knights, giant horse cavalry, magic corps, tanks, attack aircraft, howitzers, etc., to turn the plain into the surface of the moon.
Because of the lack of positional cover, the losses of the troops on both sides were very huge. Often 1,000 people have just gone to support, and most of them have to retreat. The Holy Demon Empire lost another 1,000 magicians in one day, and by the way, lost the air dominance of the entire Higgs area.
The Ailan Hill side did not take advantage of it either. The 1st Army's attacking troops suffered heavy losses. For the first time since the 1st Division was founded, there was no way to overcome the opponent's defense line. More than 10,000 people shed blood on the battlefield, but the entire 1st Army did not go further.
From the very beginning of the battle, the battle was intensified, and the red-eyed Vagron quickly threw himself into the reserve. Two full armored regiments entered the battlefield, pushing the battle to a climax on the morning of the third day.
In order to cover the flanks of its own large army, the Holy Demon Empire has no intention of giving in at all. They fought back with all their might, seeking to annihilate the mortal force that threatened the southern defenses.
Because the two sides did not complete their respective tasks on the second day, Ailan Hill stopped moving forward and did not complete the attack plan, and the Holy Demon Empire did not drive the opponent out of its control area, so on the third day, everyone was full of thoughts. They are trying to find a way to complete two days of tasks in one day.
At the beginning, everyone broke into all the family assets. The armored troops of mortals were attacked by dragons and magicians, and there were a lot of losses. A tank battalion was wiped out during a frontal attack, and the wreckage of the tank was paralyzed from one side of the battlefield to the other, burning black smoke that covered the sun.
On the other side, the all-out Magic Legion also lost their pants. They ran out of magic supplements, and were caught by the Il-2 attack aircraft that arrived just right. The Magical Legion of the Holy Demon Empire, which had lost its magical protection, was slaughtered by the Airland Hill Air Force like lambs, and the corpses covered the entire hillside.
On the fourth day, Vagron had to suspend the attack and let his troops stationed in place: he had to admit the fact that the army of those terrifying magicians could indeed compete with his mechanized army head-on.
The Holy Devil Empire troops on the opposite side did not launch an attack on this day either. They abandoned their line of defense and started a large-scale retreat while Alan Hill was resting the troops.
When they left their camp, all the officers of the Holy Demon Empire knew that they had lost this war... They had to give up a large number of friendly troops still in the east, and they had to give up the one that was once close at hand but now is far away. Higgsnar in the End of the World.
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