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Chapter 1153 Armor Power of Mirage Kingdom 1154

Mirage has a total of 5 armored divisions. These units are the treasures of the army's bottom of the box, and they are usually not used.

The five armored divisions are the 12345th Armored Division, equipped with 4 types of tanks, which looks like a mess.

There is no way, after Mirage put a lot of resources on the navy, the army has become a small doormat, and can only make do with some outdated equipment.

It's not quite accurate to say that. It was because the mirage troops were reluctant to eliminate any equipment, so they managed to scrape together five so-called armored divisions.

According to the standards of the Tang Army, these armored divisions are not even fully equipped: an armored division of the Tang Army is equipped with nearly 500 tanks, while an armored division of the Mirage Army has less than 400 tanks.

Sadly, the 400 tanks had to be divided into four different models, which was a logistical nightmare.

The good news is that the mirage's armored forces do not have the need to go abroad for combat due to geographical relations, so it doesn't matter if the logistics are a little bit stretched.

The bad news is that the logistics are too tight, and fighting on the mainland can only barely keep these armored divisions able to fight.

The four different types of tanks equipped by the mirage army include: the oldest Cyric 2 tank, which uses a gasoline engine, has thin armor and weak firepower, and is almost indistinguishable from a target.

The Mirage Armored Corps also nicknamed this tank a "taxi". Under normal circumstances, its task is to "make up the numbers".

The second type of tank is the improved Cyric 2 tank made by Mirage itself. Type 1 tanks are a little stronger.

But this kind of enhancement has almost no effect on today's battlefield, so this type of tank can actually only play soy sauce with the main tank.

The above two tanks are already in the state of "waste utilization" equipment in the Mirage armored force. They are not eliminated only because they are reluctant to bear them, not because they are easy to use.

Under normal circumstances, the mirage army will leave these tanks behind to carry infantry to follow up, and use them as a kind of armored vehicles.

The third type of tank is the production line Mirage bought from Cyric, which is the blueprint of the M10 tank destroyer sold by Datang Group.

The overall performance of this thing is pretty good, at least much more reliable than the first two tanks.When Cyric sold the production line and drawings of this tank, he installed a top cover on the turret of the American tank destroyer and made it into a tank.

Its weapon is a 76 mm caliber gun with high chamber pressure and straight trajectory, which can be regarded as a real tank gun.In addition, the thickness of the armor has been improved a lot, and the front armor also uses a slanted design, so the protection performance is also good.

As a "medium tank", the paper data of this new type of tank called the Cyric 5 tank is at least at the level of World War II, and its overall performance is quite good.

The Mirage Army also likes this tank very much, and it is indeed the most equipped main tank of the Mirage Army.Mirage plans to produce a total of 1000 such tanks, and the plan is to equip each armored division with 200.

However, in the actual deployment, the Cyric 5 tanks were first equipped with the most elite 1st Armored Division in Mirage, and this armored division was equipped with 260 tanks in one go.

The 4th Armored Division, which was also deployed on the island, also left 240 vehicles, and the rest were distributed to the remaining armored divisions.As a result, at the end of the division, the remaining three divisions were only equipped with more than 100 vehicles.

Until the Tang army invaded the South Island, a total of about 5 Cyric 890 tanks were produced, and the plan to produce 1000 tanks was not completed.Later, the Tang army bombed the island on a large scale, and the production line of this tank was destroyed again, and more than 100 vehicles were produced intermittently, which was barely enough to make up for the production.

But everyone knows that at this time, the 2nd and 3rd Armored Divisions were almost wiped out in the South Island, and the tanks produced could not make up for the losses.

The birth of the last tank in Mirage was also forced out by Tang Jun.After all, the reality is always cruel. New tanks of the Tang Empire emerge in endlessly. The Cyric 5 tank obviously cannot meet the needs of future combat in terms of protection and firepower.

Therefore, Mirage had to develop a brand new heavy tank by itself. On the basis of the Cyric 5 tank, it was equipped with thicker armor and a long-barreled 90mm caliber gun, and barely made up a tank. A new type of tank that can fight the Panther tank head-on.

The new tank is called the Mirage 2 tank. Its speed is very slow and its off-road performance is average. The advantage is that the armor is thicker and the artillery is more powerful.

Brand-new tanks consume more steel and waste more man-hours, so the output is less. Up to now, only a dozen or so tanks have been produced in total, and there is no time to replenish them.

截止到本岛战役开始之前，蜃国在南岛损失了300辆左右的希瑞克5型坦克，70辆蜃国2型坦克，110辆蜃国1型坦克，210辆希瑞克2型坦克……

The 2nd Armored Division and the 3rd Armored Division were wiped out, and when they fled back to Niijima, there was not a single tank available.Many valuable tank soldiers also died in the battle on the new island, and less than one out of ten fled back to the island.

Therefore, on the surface, Mirage now only has the 1st, 4th and 5th armored divisions.However, Mirage, the general of the army, gritted his teeth and reorganized the 2nd and 3rd armored divisions.

It's just that...the equipment level and combat effectiveness of these two armored divisions have plummeted: the soldiers are all new recruits, and their combat effectiveness is very limited; the number of tanks is insufficient, the model is also chaotic, and the condition is also poor.

In fact, from the beginning of the war to the present, Mirage has only produced more than 100 Cyric 5 tanks and more than 2 Mirage [-] tanks. These tanks were evenly distributed to the two annihilated armored division.

Mirage then cobbled together a bunch of Cyric II tanks and dropped them on the two rebuilt armor divisions, barely bringing their numbers up to around 2 tanks.

In order to make these two armored divisions have a certain combat capability, mirage equipped the two divisions with more than a dozen anti-tank guns, trucks and motorcycles, and also stuffed some suicide anti-tank fighters with "thorn mines" Going in, finally let these two divisions have a little fighting power.

Speaking of stabbing mines... I have to explain that the mirage country does not have a usable energy-gathering armor-piercing charge technology. Their stabbing mines...the principle is an explosive package...

Its anti-armor effect is achieved entirely by stacking explosives, because there are enough charges, it can indeed destroy the enemy's tanks, and anti-tank fighters who can use stabbing mines...that is really no bones left.

Therefore, Mirage currently has a total of about 1400 combat tanks, about 400 of which are old models, 200 of which are heavy tanks, and about 800 of which are Cyric 5 tanks.

Of these tanks, about 400 are deployed on the North Island, which is the entire strength of the 5th Armored Division, and the remaining 1000 are on the main island.

Mirage intends to use these three divisions, about 1000 tanks, to give the orc landing force a small "shock".

Of course, under the premise that the Tang Empire controls the air supremacy, launching a large-scale tank battle is basically no different from seeking death, and Miwuke has no way to rely on poor logistics to get all 1000 tanks into a battle.

He was going to dispatch the 4th Armored Division first to launch a large-scale counterattack on the east side of the orc landing field.If he succeeded, he would send the 1st Armored Division deployed on the west side of the orc landing field to attack and drive the orcs into the sea in one fell swoop.

In fact, the 4th Armored Division could not dispatch the whole army. After receiving the order, the mirage commander who commanded the division kept the old models with little combat effectiveness and the slow heavy tanks in his defense zone. Inside.

He assembled about 200 Cyric 5 tanks that could be dispatched immediately, and planned to advance to the area controlled by the orcs in the dark, and launch an attack suddenly at dawn.

There is only one chance, if he can make his tank rush, then he can entangle with the orc army and reduce the suppressing force of Tang Guo's air force.

If he fails, they will be greeted by Tang Jun's planes on this day, and it is estimated that more than half of the tanks will be lost.

On the side of the orcs, Shan Lu waited for his 1st Orc Armored Division. This division was established with the assistance of Tang Guo. The entire armored division has 4 No. 500 tanks, and it is fully staffed and large in scale.

In order to support these tanks, the entire armored division is also equipped with more than 1500 trucks of various types, 155 towed 20mm caliber howitzers, and 4 wild bee self-propelled artillery modified from the No. 20 chassis.There are more than 20000 troops in the division, which can independently complete various combat tasks.

After this armored division went ashore, Shan Lu felt that he had finally gained a firm foothold. He put this division at the core and prepared to use it as a general reserve.

It can't be blamed on Shanlu's reluctance to use this armored division. In fact, the orc army doesn't have many heavy weapons. This division is his treasure, and it is normal not to use it easily.

The current situation is that the west side of the landing field is the Orc 2nd Infantry Division, the north is the Orc 1st Infantry Division and the 6th Infantry Division, the east is the Orc 3rd Infantry Division and the 8th Infantry Division, the Orc 1st Armored Division and the 5th Infantry Division. Infantry divisions were centered as reserves.

At this moment, the orcs' 4th and 7th infantry divisions are still floating in the sea, but despite this, the orcs' troops are still close to [-] ashore!

Being able to quickly send so many orc troops ashore was thanks to Tang's terrifying shipping capabilities.Of course, the mirage army gave up the defense of the coastline, and there are no submarines and aircraft to launch harassment attacks on the fleet, which is also part of the reason.

It can be seen from the map that in the direction where the 4th Armored Division of Mirage is attacking, only the 2nd Infantry Division of the Orcs is defending, and the strength is indeed slightly insufficient.

(End of this chapter)