When Tang Zheng saw that the alliance's armored troops finally came out of the position, he finally felt relieved.
It's really not easy.
In order to induce the alliance to take the initiative to fight, he did not even transfer his own Apache.
The Apache is also known as the Tank Killer. Its powerful maneuverability and Hellfire air-to-ground missiles are a nightmare for all tanks.
If the alliance sees the Apache, I'm afraid it will really retreat to the end.
So in order to attract the alliance, Tang Zheng asked Apache to stand still in Chasing Light City. Now this move was the right one.
Tang Zheng was confident that he could kill the armored troops on the opposite side without using the Apache.
Mangye Town is three or four kilometers away from the alliance position, and there was originally a large farmland area between the two.
Of course, the current farmland is all grassland, and the dense weeds have grown as tall as a person, and are now completely withered and yellow.
When the alliance's tank troops had just dispatched, Tang Zheng had his first armored battalion dispatched.
Ten 99-A main battle tanks and twenty Type 15 light tanks were dispatched directly into the grassy area.
On the alliance side, Xie Jinshan saw the tanks of the Light Chaser Army dispatched from a hidden high ground.
"Thirty tanks, Tang Zheng is so arrogant!"
"Let's take action on your tank troops today to get rid of the aura of being bombarded in the past few days!"
In the view of Xie Jinshan and others, the main outcome of a tank battle depends on the number of tanks on both sides.
In order to build the armored force this time, the alliance paid a price of 50,000 people, half of whom paid for the armored force.
Xie Jinshan waved his hand, and from the alliance's side, all sixty tanks were dispatched.
The name of this tank is Octopus SD. It started at the end of the last century and is still the main light tank of the Daliao Army.
The performance is pretty good, and it is relatively durable.
This tank weighs only 18 tons, which is considered a typical light tank in terms of weight.
But in terms of firepower, its firepower is not weak at all. The 125mm smoothbore cannon makes its firepower comparable to that of ordinary main battle tanks.
The heavy firepower brings advantages and disadvantages. Its light weight means that its protection is destined not to be too high.
The weak armor is its biggest weakness, and it is basically the kind that will fall down when it is hit by a shot.
However, these problems are not a problem in the eyes of Xie Jinshan and others. The two sides collide within a few kilometers, and each other is a shot at you and a shot at you. It is basically a war of attrition.
The result of a war of attrition is that the side with more numbers wins.
The commanders on both sides were full of confidence, and the tank group rumbled into the wasteland, launching the first official collision between the Alliance and the Light Chaser Army.
As for the alliance, the person who commanded the armored group in combat was a man named Sha Changhe.
This man was from the Imperial Royal Army and was a military training instructor for the Alliance.
He had been in the alliance a long time ago, and was discovered by Xie Jinshan and entrusted with an important task to help the alliance train troops.
He was the one who trained the original alliance troops, although those troops never achieved any brilliant results, and were even completely wiped out by zombies under Chasing the Light City.
But it is obvious that without his training, the league would not even have a capable team, and Xie Jinshan still trusts him.
This time the Alliance armored forces went on an expedition, he was the battlefield commander and also a tank commander.
Before setting off, he formulated a simple tactic.
That is to rush in the middle, attract firepower, and then surround and annihilate them on both sides.
He divided the sixty tanks into three groups, thirty in the middle and fifteen on each side.
With this arrangement, he planned to never let any of the Guang Army's tanks escape.
The tank rumbled into the grass, the metal tracks crushed the ground, and the tank duel between the two sides began.
Sha Changhe's tanks were walking in the first echelon, with the grass somewhat blocking their view.
However, he is still skilled in controlling the vehicle radar and keeps in touch with his subordinates at all times.
"Check ammo!"
"Check the fire control system!"
"Pay attention to the enemy's position."
Sha Changhe kept issuing instructions one after another, making the observers and gunners busy nervously.
Accompanied by the sound of clattering tracks, the two sides quickly approached.
"Commander Sha, the target has entered our range."
"Adjust the angle so that the target is at 11 o'clock."
Weeds were swaying outside the observation mirror, and the accuracy of determining the direction was not very good. Now it relied heavily on radar vision.
"Contact car No. 7 on the left and let them fire first!"
Sha Changhe did not fire the first shot. This kind of head-on bombardment was not very technical, and firing first did not necessarily have much advantage. On the contrary, it was easier to be exposed.
"Car No. 7, prepare to fire!"
A tank located on the left front of Sha Changhe was the first to encounter the Light Chasing Army.
After receiving Sha Changhe's order, the alliance fired the first shot of the battle.
"Boom~~!"
The 125mm smoothbore gun fired violently, and a shell flew out and exploded in the distance.
"Commander Sha, the weeds affected the shooting accuracy, so there was no hit!"
"Waste! Be careful of the enemy's counterattack."
The observation was greatly affected by the grass, and they could only rely on radar to fight, which made the fledgling Alliance armored forces somewhat uncomfortable.
Sha Changhe's order had just been issued, and the opponent's tanks also opened fire.
A fire exploded in the front left, and fire and black smoke came directly from the No. 7 car.
The turret was knocked down by a shot from the opponent, and some parts were separated from the body.
This tank is useless!
Sha Changhe's face was stern, and he was not affected at all. He calmly directed the No. 3 vehicle behind him and his own vehicle to focus fire on the vehicles of the Light Chasing Army that had exposed their positions.
The two tanks fired at the same time, and one of the shots, unknown to one of them, hit the enemy tank.
"Well done!"
Sha Changhe waved his fist fiercely, and this time he finally let out a breath of bad breath.
He must ruthlessly annihilate, completely defeat the Light Chasing Army, and break Tang Zheng's undefeated myth, otherwise this guy will become a nightmare for the alliance.
He turned his gun around and looked for other enemies.
Car No. 3 continued to move forward, obviously the hit just now gave them confidence.
But before the No. 3 car could run out a few dozen meters, the opponent's shelling suddenly arrived again!
Boom~~!
With the explosion, the No. 3 car collapsed, and the entire turret was pulled down.
"Damn it! The opponent's tank is actually fine!"
"We may have encountered a main battle tank, which is not good."
Sha Changhe drove the vehicle, preparing to retreat a certain distance and go in a circle with the opponent's tank.
However, the opponent's tanks rushed forward very quickly and soon encountered the alliance troops.
The tentative fight just now is over, now is the time to die.
The Alliance troops have penetrated deep into the battlefield and cannot retreat even if they want to. They are both within range of each other.
At this critical moment, an accident happened.
The radar screen suddenly interrupted, and the sound of electric current came from the intercom.
"Hey hey hey! What's going on?"
"Car No. 6! Car No. 9! You guys are running too fast!"
"No. 5, No. 13, No. 16, have your specific locations changed?"
"Where's No. 21? Why aren't you following me?"
"Damn, what's going on with that signal?"
Sha Changhe called in vain, and even slapped the intercom and radar screen with his hands, but there was no response at all.
Without radar, fighting in this wilderness will be difficult.
But the Light Chasing Army didn't seem to be affected, and they still fired continuously!
Boom boom boom~~~!
Continuous explosions continued, and many Alliance tanks were destroyed.
The Alliance tanks wanted to fight back, but they could not find the specific location of the enemy. The failure of the radar made them blind and deaf.
They could only use naked eyes to roughly find the location of the Light Chaser Army, and then fire back.
However, one can imagine the low hit rate in this situation. Every time he fired blindly, he would be violently attacked by the Light Chasing Army, turning each tank into scrap metal.
Tanks were being destroyed all around, and Sha Changhe was indifferent despite shouting at the top of his lungs on the walkie-talkie.
At this moment, Sha Changhe realized that he was going to die.
The radio radar was not malfunctioning, but jammed.
If this continues, it won't take long for the alliance to be completely wiped out.
If Sha Changhe was alone, he might choose to turn around and run away, but that was not possible now. All the tanks could not be contacted. If he ran away, the other tanks would have no hope of survival.
He struggled hard, tried many times to no avail, and missed a short period of time to escape.
boom!
A shot came from nowhere and hit the body of his tank.
A violent explosion rang in my ears, and the car body shook violently.
My brain felt like it had been hit by a heavy hammer. It was buzzing and I couldn't see anything clearly.
With multiple injuries to his body, he felt like he was going to die.
But Sha Changhe was still unwilling to give in. The team he led to face the enemy head-on was finished, but the alliance still had outflanking tanks that were about to be in place.
He looked around and saw the two companions and death in the car. The car was filled with smoke and the temperature was already scalding.
"I have a second plan. I must send a signal."
Sha Changhe insisted and climbed out of the car and took out a flare gun.
The flares had been installed a long time ago. They were prepared for the second plan.
I thought I wouldn't use it, but I didn't expect it to actually work.
That is to use white phosphorus bombs!
This is a grassy area. If white phosphorus bombs burn it, it will immediately become a sea of fire.
In the sea of fire, radar and thermal imaging will fail. When the time comes, our side and the Light Chaser Army will be back on the same starting line.
Holding back his life, Sha Changhe pulled the trigger and fired the signal flare.
This was his last strength, and then he lay half-body outside the car, feeling the increasingly hotter temperature around him.
The autumn grass withered and turned yellow, and soon, the duel positions between the two sides were burning with raging fire.
Alliance outflanking tanks were in place, they saw the flares and also fired white phosphorus rounds.
The grass burned quickly. This burning did not last long and did not even pose any threat to the moving tanks.
But this gave the alliance valuable time. Sha Changhe believed that their troops were still capable of fighting. This was the last thing he could do for the armored force he had built.
(End of chapter)
