In the rubble-filled ruins, a Tang paratrooper was crawling slowly. His arms were wrapped in gauze, and his face was darkened by gunpowder smoke.
He climbed over four-fifths of the building that had collapsed, and under the cover of the remaining walls, he struggled to carry the RPG rocket launcher.
Unlike in the past, there was no assistant shooter by his side to cover him, nor a follower to help him carry ammunition. He was alone with only one rocket.
He even brought only a pistol and only one magazine in the pistol. When he went on this mission, he didn't even think about going back.
The target in the distance was crushing a section of earth wall, and the Mirage's heavy tank was showing off its power on the Tang Army's position, as if it were in an uninhabited land.
If it had dared to be so arrogant a few hours ago, it would have been killed by an RPG rocket launcher immediately. But now Tang Jun only has the last RPG rocket launcher, so the opponent can be so unscrupulous.
This tank was surrounded by a group of Mirage soldiers. They had broken through the Tang Army's defense line on the edge of the village and now occupied less than half of the village.
The Tang army stationed in the village of Leping was almost split into two, and relied on tenacious fighting to barely stabilize its position.
"Go to hell!" Without the cover of machine guns and shooters, this anti-tank fighter of the Tang Army could only risk a sneak attack on his own. He only has one chance. If he is discovered, he will be shot: because the Mirage soldier closest to him is less than ten meters in front of him!
This was also the reason why he insisted on coming by himself. If he brought a deputy shooter, neither of them would be able to go back.
The moment he stuck his head out, he pulled the trigger. The rocket rushed towards the tank with a long tail of smoke, and this white smoke also completely exposed his position.
The Mirage soldiers who were already familiar with the Tang Army's anti-tank rocket launchers reacted immediately. They opened fire at the place where the Tang Army soldier was hiding. The bullets hit him and splashed a cloud of white smoke around him.
His shoulder was cut by the stones splashed by the bullet, and he could only curl up to avoid the ricocheting bullets flying everywhere.
The tank was hit by him and began to smoke. The arrogant look just now was gone, and the members in the tank jumped out of the car one after another and ran towards the outside of the village.
The remaining Mirage Army soldiers did not have the cover of the tanks and could only suspend the attack. They vented their anger on the Tang Army soldiers who had been exposed on their flanks. A group of soldiers rushed over with shouts.
A Tang Army sniper shot a Mirage soldier in the distance, but he could only watch helplessly as the remaining Mirage soldiers rushed towards his comrades desperately.
Soon, a series of pistol shots rang out, and the Tang Army's anti-tank hand emptied his magazine at the Mirage Army soldiers. Three Mirage soldiers fell, and the anti-tank man was shot in the chest and fell to the ground.
He was breathing heavily, holding a grenade in his hand and waiting for the Mirage soldiers to rush up. He grinned, blood filling the gaps between his teeth.
"Grandpa, I was in Beiyuan! Grandpa, I am from Beiyuan!" He shouted loudly, and he and the first Mirage soldier who rushed up were swallowed up by the flames of the grenade.
His shouts echoed in the sky. A soldier from Beiyuan in the distance wiped the tears on his face and said to the squad leader next to him: "If the tank comes again, I will go."
"What the hell! There is no RPG anymore." The squad leader lay on the ruins and cursed angrily.
"Explosive packs will do, too." The soldier from Beiyuan argued with sobs.
"There's no more explosives, no more anti-tank grenades..." The squad leader didn't look at him.
"If they come up again, we will have to bayonet." Xiang Ziyu, who was not far away, took out his bayonet, inserted it into the muzzle of the gun, and said to the injured deputy company commander.
"It doesn't matter. I can kill a few goblin dwarfs with my bayonet." The wound started to hurt as soon as he moved it. The grinning deputy squad leader still said harshly.
It seems that they realized that the Tang Army's paratroopers did not have much ammunition. The Mirage Kingdom immediately organized the next attack. This time they pressed on a battalion of troops at one go. More than 500 people lined up in a mighty, dark atmosphere. Come up.
"For His Majesty the Emperor! Put on the bayonet!" Xiang Ziyu shouted loudly, and all the Tang Army paratroopers drew their bayonets from their shoulders and hung them under the muzzle of the assault rifle.
They didn't have much ammunition left. Facing several enemy tanks, they could only use their own flesh and blood to make a last-ditch effort.
"Buzz..." Just when they were about to jump out of the trench and compete with these goblin dwarfs, a low engine sound appeared in the sky.
The first Stuka dive bomber fell from the sky sideways, and the air was filled with a heart-stopping noise: in order to increase the range and speed, the Navy's Stuka was not equipped with a buzzer, so the Navy's The Stuka makes no sound when it dives, just the noise of an ordinary airplane.
Even so, the sound was already very oppressive. In Xiang Ziyu's excited eyes, the first Stuka swooping down fired a series of shots at the mirage army.
The machine gun shells plowed two rows of deep holes in the ground, and also cut two rows of twisted bloody lines in the crowd of mirage soldiers.
A light tank in the crowd caught fire directly, its hood was hit by a shell, the gasoline engine and fuel were ignited, and it quickly burst into flames.
Before the soldiers of the Mirage Kingdom could react, a 500-kilogram aerial bomb exploded at the entrance of the village. The huge vibration even shocked the Tang Army paratroopers on the other side.
At this time, the new recruits in the paratroopers realized that the fireworks display that simulated the explosion of aerial bombs during the exercise really took care of their emotions and reduced most of the power...
After the shock wave kicked up dust and hit their faces, the loud sound of the explosion was heard. The Mirage soldiers screamed and fled, but the Stuka dive bombers in the sky had no intention of letting them go.
The third Stuka swooped down and fired at the defeated Mirage soldiers. The panicked goblins fell into the white smoke emitted by the machine cannon shells, and some of their bodies were shattered.
"Damn it, if you don't come here, I will die here." Xiang Ziyu sat down on a stone in the ruins, wiped his nose with his hand, and cursed while looking at the plane in the sky.
In fact, the scene in the movie where the enemy tank is blown up and the plane is only seen around is a bit too dramatic. The sound of the engine when the plane approaches at low altitude makes its appearance no surprise at all.
Three Stukas circled over Leping Village, repelling another carefully organized attack by the Mirage Army. The other three Stukas were hovering farther away, and their targets were the Mirage artillery units that had been working hard to bombard the Tang Army's positions.
The machine guns and three aerial bombs completely shut down the Mirage artillery that had previously attacked without pressure. They had to think about how they would respond if more Tang Army planes flew in soon.
"Long live! Hahahaha!" A Tang Army soldier waved his arms and shouted to the Stuka in the sky, as if he was not the one who had just cursed the naval aviation and killed his whole family.
People are like this sometimes. Before, they were venting their negative emotions, and then they would be as happy as a fool.
"Good fight!" Another Tang Army soldier also shouted. Listening to his hoarse voice, it was estimated that he had not had a sip of water in an hour.
What Bernard meant by "a big one" was to take the risk of having all the carrier-based attack aircraft that could take off carry bombs and carry out ground strike missions.
He planned to paralyze all the airports built by the Mirage Army on the South Island at once to ensure that he would gain absolute air supremacy.
Of course, he also felt that he should support the paratroopers in combat as much as possible: as a general of the Tang Empire, he was not in the habit of ignoring death. What's more, the Air Force's paratroopers were fighting the line for his Marines, so he couldn't justify not helping.
So when Xiang Ziyu saw six Stuka dive bombers, 40 Corsairs covering 80 Stukas had already divided into four directions and rushed towards the four airports that the Mirage Army might still be using.
These planes have only one mission: to destroy visible airport facilities and blow up the runway, so that the mirage planes can only squat on the ground and wait to die!
A few minutes later, Mirage Takeda saw the Stuka dive bomber hovering in the sky. He certainly knew what this meant as he had visited Fengjiang.
Once the Tang Air Force gains air superiority, countless Stuka dive bombers and IL attack aircraft will appear on the battlefield.
They circle like vultures and attack any target they see. These planes will swoop down, circle around and attack the target until they tear it apart.
Unfortunately, his airport runway is now his target: Sure enough, one of his only two remaining airports was completely paralyzed at 1:45 that day, and it was no longer possible to take off aircraft for combat.
The only remaining airport was not selected by Bernard because it was located in the northern part of the South Island: this airport was the last to be built and luckily escaped the Tang Army's satellite reconnaissance. In other words, in Tang Jun's intelligence, this airport did not "exist".
Soon reinforcements arrived from the 1st Battalion of Tang Army Paratroopers stationed in Leping, and more than 100 remaining members of the 2nd Battalion arrived, greatly strengthening the 1st Battalion.
But unfortunately, they have no RPGs anymore, only some anti-tank grenades and explosives left.
But for the 1st Battalion, which had been fighting continuously for 6 hours, these reinforcements were a timely help: the 2nd Battalion also brought good news. The remaining troops of the 1st Regiment will gradually arrive in Leping to participate in the battle.
The Mirage Army has not yet realized the seriousness of the problem: within the next three hours, the Stukas and pirates of the Tang Army have been hovering over the battlefield, like ghosts that cannot be dispersed.
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I have something to do at home today, so I will give you two updates. Long Ling will continue to make up for it if conditions permit.
(End of chapter)
