The Fourth Calamity never believed in the steel torrent!

Chapter 41 Alarm! Armored Battalion Attacks!

"Warriors, your previous battles have fully demonstrated your abilities. Now, I have some good news to tell you!"

"Just now, I received a batch of special equipment from Lieutenant Colonel Unere's infantry regiment. I will now award this equipment to my most trusted soldiers. I hope you will fight bravely and achieve even greater victories!"

At the gates of the town, Andrei addressed the regrouped players with great enthusiasm, then pointed to the boxes on the truck, patted them, and said:
"Come on, soldiers whose names I've called, accept this gift. In the battle to come, you will be the core of the counterattack against the enemy's armored forces!"

In the chat area, the five players who received the Andre cheat package were all discussing it, or rather, showing off the equipment they had just acquired.

Brother Hao Nan: [Hahaha! See that? The Tank Hunter set! Aren't you envious?]

The female knight captures a goblin seven times: [Boss! Let me play this, I'll do anything!]

King Su: [I'm a student, give it to me!]

Blue-haired, white-bellied wild boar: [Damn! So there really are benefits to increasing favorability? How come I haven't been able to raise my favorability level?]

Andrei gave each of the five players whose favorability rating exceeded 20 a Tank Hunter set, which allowed the players to fully experience the benefits brought by the favorability rating.

After all, favorability ratings need to be useful so that you can manipulate players later. Otherwise, if they don't show any use and are just a number, many players won't care.

Just now, he spent another 10,000 influence points to unlock the Tank Hunter set, and also spent 5000 influence points to exchange for 5 sets of this item.

Andrei wasn't entirely sure if he would encounter enemy armored forces in the upcoming battles, but based on his analysis of the infantry regiment in Coldwater Town, he felt he urgently needed to increase his anti-armor capabilities.

If the enemy deploys heavy artillery for an attack, then it won't matter what type of troops he uses, unless he can also bring over heavy artillery to bombard the enemy.

If the enemy were to launch an assault with a small number of infantry artillery pieces and a large number of ordinary infantry, as they had done before, then the machine guns in this infantry regiment would be enough to hold them off.

In comparison, this infantry regiment has very little anti-armor capability, which is why Andrei simply unlocked the Tank Hunter and then found a pretext to distribute it to the players.

According to Lieutenant Colonel Unere, these anti-tank rifles were captured by Andrei from the enemy, while to the players, these items are game perks, or, according to the storyline, Andrei took them from the armory here.

Anyway, players won't go to the game NPCs to check the accounts. Even if the accounts don't match, players will most likely just assume that there is a bug in the game.

Therefore, Andrei was not worried at all about any slip-up, nor was he concerned about anyone wondering where these anti-armor weapons came from.
In addition to the Tank Hunter set, Andrei spent a total of 6000 influence points to unlock a basic sniping skill and a basic anti-armor skill for himself.

Each skill requires 3000 influence points, which is much more expensive than the basic leadership skill. However, each skill can increase damage against infantry and armored units by 10%, which can be considered as further improving the attack power of your troops.

Andrei discovered that all of these command skills only worked when they were directly under his command.

After some research, he discovered that the so-called directly subordinate units were probably those that he could command with his rank. For example, although Andrei actually held command of the entire army during the previous breakout operation, Major Yuri had actually relinquished his command to him.

However, the soldiers under Major Yuri's command do not seem to receive his blessing, because in terms of command authority, he only has command authority over his own company and not other units.

Thinking of this, Andrei couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

If you have a higher military rank, these command skills can really come in very handy.

An infantry company's damage to infantry and armor is increased by an additional 10%, which doesn't have a significant effect.

However, if an army group's lethality is increased by an additional 10%, its performance on the battlefield will be formidable.

But just as Andrei was dreaming and imagining what it would be like to become the army group commander, several Cambrian soldiers on horseback suddenly appeared in the distance, panting as they ran towards them.

"Alarm! The enemy is attacking!"

"An infantry battalion is approaching from both the north and south sides of the town. We've also noticed cyborg soldiers among the enemy. In addition, behind the infantry battalion to the south, it seems there's an armored battalion from the Black Hawk Empire coming!"

Upon hearing this news, the players became excited and rushed into the defensive positions they had just dug.

In particular, several tank hunter players immediately found houses to hide in, transforming themselves into sneaky and cunning individuals, ready to deliver a heavy blow to enemy armored units at any time, or even act as snipers.

Andrei also noticed that one player seemed to be trying to climb to the roof of the tower, perhaps because he thought the view was more open from there.

Unfortunately, the top of that spire wasn't a place you could just climb up anywhere. He wandered around the tower for ages but couldn't find an angle to climb up.

There was no time to deal with these players who were a complete mess when gathered together and scattered like stars across the sky when apart. Andrei quickly grabbed a scout who was riding back and asked:
"What's going on? How many armored vehicles does that armored battalion have in total?"

The scout who had been captured by Andrei paused for a moment, seemingly not understanding what Andrei was asking.

After all, the military reforms of the Black Hawk Empire are not a big secret. For example, the organization of a battalion is almost public knowledge, and military academies will definitely teach it.

But then he thought that Andrei was asking how many units were left in the armored battalion.

So he thought for a moment and quickly said:
"Captain, because we were far away, there were some places we couldn't see clearly, but we saw at least ten Peacekeepers, more than twenty Fearless Mechs, and at least twenty Hunter Mechs!"

Gan!
Andrei said that the last shred of hope in his mind had been shattered!
He was wondering if the organization of this armored battalion was similar to that of a mixed tank battalion when the Germans first invaded the Soviet Union during World War II.
At that time, a mixed tank battalion of the Germans had about 65 tanks, and there was another version of the tank battalion with 72 tanks!
Based on the scout's report, Andrei felt that the enemy forces he was facing were probably comparable to a full-fledged German tank battalion!
Considering the losses they suffered along the way, it's outrageous that they still have more than 50 armored vehicles!
(End of this chapter)