Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 1851 1852 Jade City Suburbs

The thin mist in the early morning covered the desolate highlands, and the damp cold wind blew like a blade, making a shrill whistle, as if accompanying the upcoming killing. On the highlands, the soldiers of the Lions Empire huddled in the trenches, shivering, their uniforms tattered, stained with mud and blood.

The Tang army's artillery shells were accurate and deadly. The soldiers of the Lions Empire had been very brave to hold out until now. However, as time went by, the positions they held could no longer be seen in their original form.

"Damn, this horrible weather..." A young soldier cursed in a low voice, his teeth chattering uncontrollably under his lips that were frozen purple. It had rained again yesterday, and now the temperature in the field was very low, and the soil was very wet. For the soldiers of the Lions Empire, this kind of weather was really torturous: "When will this war end? I've had enough!"

They really hated this kind of weather. The light clouds and intermittent drizzle could not stop the Tang army from sending out the air force to launch an attack, but the drizzling rain made the battlefield wet and muddy. For Ryans' soldiers, this environment really tortured them.

Even worse, one of their sentries discovered the Tang army special forces last night, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides. They fought with unknown things all night, and after dawn, they didn't even see a single enemy corpse.

On their side, they lost more than fifty soldiers, and the entire infantry company was almost scrapped. Later, at dawn, a new infantry company came to support the regiment headquarters, which stabilized the situation.

"Shut up, what's the point of complaining? You might as well reload your magazines with a few more bullets instead of wasting time." The old soldier beside him whispered, his cloudy eyes full of bloodshot and fatigue: "You still want to go back after coming here? We will all die here, our fate is already determined... This is to atone for our sins, for our sins of ungratefulness back then."

He was an eyewitness to the expulsion of the Datang Group. At that time, as a soldier, he carried a submachine gun and watched the followers of the Datang Group board the ship and leave at the dock of Bunas. At that time, he knew that these people would come back sooner or later.

The young soldier shrank his neck in fear and dared not say anything. The old soldier was right. Those Tang Empire soldiers were like evil spirits crawling out of hell. They were fierce, brutal, fearless, and like tireless machines. I don't know how many lives of Lions soldiers they have harvested.

  He even saw with his own eyes yesterday a Tang army soldier who, after being hit by a submachine gun, staggered to his feet and limped away from the battlefield!

Those guys are immortal... This rumor spread among the grassroots soldiers of the Lions Empire, and many people believed such nonsense. They believed that the emperor of the Tang Empire cast a kind of magic on his soldiers that could make them forget the pain.

The Lions Empire actually has similar magic, which is called Black Crow. Many soldiers will take the initiative to ask for similar medicine to comfort their souls on the battlefield where they can't see hope.

However, he had heard that the drug had serious side effects and was not very effective. People who took too much of it would become unconscious and could easily die on the battlefield without knowing what was happening, so he did not dare to ask his superior for the pill called Black Crow.

Because of the previous experience of the Ice Empire, the military of the Lions Empire did not have a good impression of the Black Crow. They did not actively distribute this medicine to the soldiers. If someone took the initiative to ask for it, they would take out this thing from Dorne.

In the distance, the rumbling sound of the engine gradually became deafening, like the roar from an ancient beast, foreshadowing that a bloody feast was about to begin.

The iron torrent of the Tang Empire appeared. Tanks emerged from the horizon like black ghosts, rumbling towards them with unstoppable momentum.

  Those tanks all had a long gun barrel, and the muzzle flashed a cold light, which looked particularly eerie in the dim morning light - this feature was very obvious, because the tanks equipped by the coalition forces almost did not have such long tank guns!

Under the cover of the tank cluster, the Tang army infantrymen in camouflage uniforms calmly deployed their formations and advanced forward with firm steps. Each of them had a blank expression on their faces, with only cold murderous intent in their eyes.

The soldiers of the Lions Empire were frightened by this sudden torrent of steel. They had never seen so many Tang tanks, let alone so many Tang infantry. Just as they were nervously watching the enemy appearing in the distance, the Tang army's artillery coverage arrived.

A series of rockets exploded on the positions of the Lions Empire, and the ground trembled constantly in the explosions. The Tang army's bombardment was dense and rapid, and after only a few breaths, the entire bombardment seemed to stop.

However, the casualties caused by such rapid covering fire were indeed not small. The Ryans soldiers who held their positions were instantly engulfed by artillery fire. When the surviving soldiers crawled out from under the floating soil, the Tang army was already in sight.

The Tang Army's tank cluster stopped when it was still a few hundred meters away from the Lions Empire's position, and then hundreds of 125mm smoothbore guns roared, and a series of shells poured down on the Lions Empire's position like raindrops, turning the defensive fortifications that had finally calmed down into a sea of ​​fire.

Accompanied by deafening artillery bombardment, the Tang army infantry launched a charge under the cover of tanks. They rushed towards the enemy's positions with overwhelming force, and the automatic rifles in their hands spewed out deadly flames, reaping the lives of the Lions Empire soldiers.

"Here they come! They are coming!" In the trenches, the soldiers of the Lions Empire shouted in horror, and a feeling of despair spread among the crowd.

"Help! Gasi was hit! Medic!" Someone in the distance was also shouting, but no one seemed to care about a wounded soldier now.

The position of the Lions Empire was in a state of panic, and only one anti-tank team fired a rocket in desperation. Unfortunately, due to the distance, the rocket hit the front armor of the Tang Army tank, raising only a cloud of white smoke.

Such things are no different from tickling, and even the rockets were unable to leave a shallow pit on the main armor of the Tang army tank.

The exposed anti-tank position was immediately suppressed by the Tang army's firepower, and the remote-controlled machine gun on the roof of the Type 96 main battle tank immediately fired at it. In the white smoke splashed by tracer bullets, the rifle grenades fired by the Tang army's infantry following the tank attack fell one after another, turning the place upside down.

The commander of the Tang army stood in the turret of a command tank, half of his body leaning out of the turret, staring at the battlefield in the distance with a cold gaze. He put down the telescope, and the brim of the military cap on his head cast a shadow on his face, making it difficult to see his expression at the moment.

"Report! Our tanks have penetrated the enemy's position. According to the report from the 3rd Company tanks, the troops of the Lions Empire are retreating." A signalman reported loudly. "Today our mission is to advance 5 kilometers and stabilize the front line on the outskirts of Yucheng!" The voice of the Tang army commander, who was looking at the entire battlefield, was cold and calm, as if he was describing something insignificant.

The next second, deafening artillery roars resounded through the sky, and the heavy artillery units far from the front began to extend their firing. With a sharp whistling sound, the shells passed over the head of the Tang army commander, and also passed over the attacking Tang army, and landed accurately on the position of the Lions Empire.

The artillery and infantry of the Tang army had already cooperated skillfully, and the smooth communication could even ensure that the Tang army's artillery shells landed accurately less than a hundred meters in front of the Tang soldiers! The fire and smoke produced by the explosion of the shells instantly engulfed the trenches, and the broken limbs and arms and broken weapons and equipment were thrown into the air, and then fell back to the ground powerlessly.

The artillery bombardment that extended deep into the Tang army's offensive even engulfed the defeated Lions army. The soldiers of the Lions Empire, which had already collapsed, panicked. They fled everywhere under the fierce artillery fire, like hares chased by hunters, without any order and without any resistance.

"Counterattack! Counterattack!" Although they knew the game was over, the officers of the Lions Empire still shouted at the top of their lungs.

They tried to reorganize their troops to resist, but these efforts seemed so pale and powerless in the face of the iron torrent of the Tang army.

The tank cluster of the Tang Army surged onto the high ground like a black tide. The carefully constructed fortifications of the Lions Empire were like paper in the face of the steel torrent and quickly collapsed.

The trenches were crushed and collapsed by tank tracks, the machine gun positions were destroyed by artillery fire, and the remaining Lions Empire soldiers threw away their armor and weapons and fled in all directions, but they were greeted only by the ruthless bullets and bayonets of the Tang army.

The soldier who was just talking climbed up from the bottom of the collapsed trench, shook off the dirt on his body, squinted his eyes and tried to find someone alive around him. His ears were filled with the buzzing sound of the explosion, and he could not hear any other sound.

So even he himself didn't know whether he was shouting or not. He was just shouting desperately, calling the names of his comrades around him.

Gradually, he saw a familiar face. Not far from him, beside the trench that was a machine gun position, there was a body... or half a body lying.

On the other side, he also saw the old soldier who had just spoken to him... His body was now half buried in the mud, with only one shoulder and a bloody face exposed. Just as he said when he was alive, people who come here will indeed die here.

The Ryans soldier who emerged from the mud thought he was the lucky one, he thought he had escaped the fatal shell, but after a dizzy spell, he found that his body was soaked in blood.

The effect of the adrenaline secreted by the body eventually wore off, and the soldier of the Lions Empire with several shrapnel stuck in his body also sat back at the bottom of the collapsed trench. He closed his eyes quietly and stopped breathing before the Tang army soldiers passed by.

In the sky, the Tang army's lightning attack aircraft had begun to sweep the nearby battlefield, and the roar of the engine was sometimes far away and sometimes near, as if it was accompanying the attacking Tang army. The attacking Tang army did not suffer the artillery counterattack of the Lions Empire defenders because these aircraft had completely suppressed the artillery of the Lions Empire troops.

Today, something happened that made the soldiers of the Lions Empire even more demoralized: the armed helicopters of the Tang Empire began to be used in combat. The range of these things is not far, and their appearance over the battlefield means that the Tang army has almost upgraded the field airport near Bunas.

Armed helicopters with limited range began to join the battle, and the Tang army's supporting firepower became more intense. This made the already passive Yucheng defenders even more passive, and the number of casualties also rose sharply.

Although the troops of the Lions Empire tried their best to stop the advance of the Tang army, they still lost all the outer highlands they could lose at noon that day. The armored forces of the Tang army had approached the suburbs of Yucheng, and the second Yucheng defense line established by Paul had actually been broken.

The third line of defense is actually the suburban defense line of Yucheng. There are many suburban estates of celebrities and nobles here, as well as some factory facilities, so there are many buildings that can serve as support for the defense line.

Paul had previously carried out several rounds of extortion against the gentry and nobles of the Lions Empire. Under such circumstances, it was not surprising that his troops seized these facilities and manors.

Relying on these buildings, the Lions defenders built a suburban defense line around Yucheng, which was also a relatively solid defense line. After all, if this defense line was lost, the Yucheng defenders would have to prepare for street fighting.

The manors that these nobles used for entertainment and vacation were actually empty. When the nobles retreated, they took away all the valuables, leaving only furniture and other things, which were messed up by the Ryans soldiers who occupied the place.

The courtyard wall that was originally used to resist wild beasts had been blown to pieces by artillery fire, and the broken walls became a natural shelter. Ryans' soldiers set up a machine gun at the gap, with the black muzzle pointing into the distance, ready to spit out deadly flames at any time.

A three-story building in the distance is the residence of the manor owner. At this time, a sniper from Lions is lying behind the window on the top floor, patiently waiting for Tang Jun to appear.

This brick and stone house is at least twice as strong as an ordinary house. It has now become a temporary bunker and a field hospital.

  In the room, the wounded soldiers who had lost their fighting power groaned in pain, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood and disinfectant. The exhausted and defeated soldiers huddled together, some were bandaging their wounds, while others stared blankly out the window, not knowing what fate would await them.
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