"Ahem, cough, cough, we lost contact with the 20th Infantry Regiment? When did it happen? Ahem, cough..."
Balawi, who had spent the night in the command room, was woken up from the hard iron chair by his subordinates because his physical fitness was deteriorating due to years of fighting. From more than ten years ago, when he was still able to walk quickly with a load of tens of kilograms on his back, to now he couldn't stop coughing when he woke up. For the first time, Balawi noticed that the power of time began to manifest in his body.
Taking a cup of steaming hot instant milk tea from his henchman, Balawi, who had always been craving for this sweet drink, only took a sip to moisten his throat and then put down the cup. While putting on a heavier cotton coat, he quickly scanned the last coordinates of the 20th Infantry Regiment before it lost contact with his sharp eyes.
"About five minutes ago, the 20th Infantry Regiment did not respond to our routine inquiries. After many inquiries to no avail, we guessed that the large-scale electromagnetic interference of the Star Group blocked communications."
"Ahem, guess? Since it's a guess, you might as well be a little bolder."
Coughing, Balawi circled the last coordinates sent by the 20th Infantry Regiment with a pencil, tapped the center of the circle with his pen, and said in a heavy tone: "Our routine inquiries are sent out every half hour, here. On the terrain of the Great Plains, I think the Star Group is capable of completely defeating the 20th Infantry Regiment within thirty minutes."
"If all the command and communications personnel, including Commander Bakker, are wiped out, then of course they will not be able to reply to messages from us."
Such a "bold" guess made everyone in the command room look at each other in disbelief.
"You mean, is it possible that the 20th Infantry Regiment has been annihilated?"
"Don't panic! Before the situation is confirmed, these are just speculations. I also hope that Captain Bakr and his troops are safe and sound."
Balawi touched a small piece of map circled by his pencil with his finger, observed the position of the 3rd and 4th Heavy Armored Regiments, and ordered calmly: "Order the 3rd and 4th Infantry Regiments to start building air defense positions. , and launch a rocket attack at the last coordinates sent back by the 20th Infantry Regiment to see what the Stars Group has deployed there!"
"Yes, sir!"
Seeing that the colonel had entered the state, everyone in the command room seemed to have found a backbone and started working according to the plan.
...
Balawi's bold guess about the battle situation was not correct in every way, but he was mostly right - the 20th Infantry Regiment, with a strength of 2,500 men, was not completely wiped out, but it lost most of its manpower and all its counterattacks. With tank weapons, they have completely lost the ability to fight again.
Fortunately, the railway track had not been completely repaired, otherwise the defeated army of a few hundred people would have no chance of escaping the pursuit of the Night Goddess.
Bucker, the commander of the 20th Infantry Regiment, was also shot through the abdomen by shrapnel from a high-explosive artillery shell. He was in critical condition. He was lying on a stretcher and was carried by two medical soldiers one after the other. He was walking on the deserted plains, surrounded by people. They were all wounded soldiers limping around in the same condition. Because they could not get professional medical assistance, some people fainted and fell to the ground while walking and could never get up again.
Just when Bakker was about to die without being able to open his eyes, countless rockets trailed flames across the sky, like a meteor shower, which was as exciting as a meteor shower.
"It's them, the third and fourth regiments opened fire!"
With a surge of strength coming from nowhere, Bucker sat up from the stretcher without the help of others and asked the medical soldiers to put him down.
He wanted to see his comrades from the third and fourth regiments blow that demon train into pieces!
However, soon, the red laser, which was more dazzling than the rocket tail flame, shattered his unrealistic fantasy.
Among the eight arsenal carriages of the Night Goddess, two are specially equipped with defensive laser point anti-cannons. While using them to straf enemy troops on the ground is also an option, dealing with high-speed incoming artillery shells and missiles is their true job.
"It was discovered that enemy rockets were coming, and the point defense system 'Goddess' Shield' was activated."
There was no need to direct the operator of the carriage to take any more actions. The laser point defense cannon that had been raised on the point defense carriage quickly raised its head and aimed at dozens of black spots trailing flames in the sky. The muzzle fired several quiet but dangerous beams. Incomparable laser beam.
"Zizzi...boom..."
When the cheap rockets in the sky were manufactured, they did not consider that they would one day be intercepted by high-tech weapons such as laser point anti-cannons. The hot red laser as thick as a thumb melted through the rockets in just a moment, and then came down. One, and another, and the next...
The four blood-red lasers were like the devil's flame whip. After they spun freely in the air for a few times, Captain Backer, who was still on the ground, enjoyed the fireworks show that he had not seen for a long time for free - Forty. The scene of all the rockets detonating within three seconds is very gorgeous.
However, this was just the beginning. There were more rockets in the air attacking the Night Goddess one after another.
"As more targets are detected, the power of the point defense gun is increased by 5%."
The combat computer carried on the train comes from the Star Hub. In addition to the personality simulation matrix, this computer's war capabilities are not weaker than the Star Hub.
The shocking fireworks show lasted for a full two minutes. Within these two minutes, thousands of rockets were detonated in the air, and none fell. Only the steel fragments like raindrops sparsely fell on the plain, injuring and killing several unfortunate soldiers of the 20th Infantry Regiment.
Now, no matter how wild Colonel Balawi's imagination was, he probably would never have imagined that only a few of his own people could complete a complete rocket attack.
He was killed by shrapnel falling from a high altitude.
As the initiators of rocket attacks, the 3rd and 4th Heavy Regiments obviously realized that their rocket attacks might not be effective. On this plain with an excellent view, officers could clearly see through binoculars that the red laser point anti-cannon intercepted all the rockets like a torrent. This result naturally horrified the officers of the heavy armored regiment.
For a moment, he ignored the radio silence order issued by Colonel Balawi and reported directly to the Baidra base camp that the enemy had deployed a large number of "unknown defense systems" in the engineering camp, which could be completely disintegrated in just a few seconds. They rained down rocket attacks.
"It seems that some unknown forces from the Star Group have joined the battlefield."
Balawi, who had always been cautious, estimated that no matter how many more rounds of rocket bombing there were, they would all be stopped. He had no choice but to have the two heavy-armed regiments be alert to the position of the Night Goddess and return to Baidra to rest for a while.
Unsurprisingly, it won't be long before they face the same situation as Mehran, where the soldiers use their flesh and blood to stop the steel legions of the arms giants.
The sad-looking Balawi felt as if he had been punched on cotton, or kicked on an iron plate, throwing away a cannon fodder ball and thousands of rockets in vain.
It is not that he has never had the idea of letting the third and fourth regiments continue to advance and destroy them no matter what the Stars Group deployed. But in order to retain enough vitality for the upcoming urban street battle, he still suppressed this dangerous idea.
"Gentlemen, the door to Baidra has been kicked open by our Night Goddess with her slender thighs!"
The war report from the train conductor brought this hasty but swift small battle to an end. The track-laying train will drive from the auxiliary track on the engineering camp to the main track again to complete its unfinished business.
Although he had expected it, the good news from the Stars Group still made Ames feel as if he had eaten a fly. He was no longer as calm as before. He immediately stopped outside Mehran City to rest his troops and delayed launching an attack. Norn Goodman issued a stern directive.
The previously made so-called "capture Mehran in two days, and end the war against the Al-Nath al-Afghanistan, an organization that threatens world peace and human rights and freedoms, within ten days." Such big words are naturally invalid and no longer count, but Goodman An attack must be launched immediately to prevent Armadanai Company from being slapped down by the Stars Group and said that they are not working hard.
We are all fighters fighting for human rights and freedom, but the Stars Group has taken the lead with the Night Goddess armored train, which is obviously a bottom-line existence. Amadana Company must follow up immediately, otherwise it will be a small defeat and a big loss of customer trust!
Neither Ames nor Goodman can afford to lose everything. Even if the board of directors knows that the matter is not to blame, they will be pushed out as scapegoats and become the center of the game between the two major arms groups. victim.
