Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 132

132. Chapter 132, Battle of Sanchi

After receiving the news sent by telegram that Morgan and others had escaped, Perbov realized that the road to Sanchi Town would definitely not be too peaceful.

To be honest, he was a little annoyed.

His troops had stayed in Sanchi Town for more than two days, but they didn’t realize that it was a den of thieves!

Looking back, he could see some clues at that time. But at that time, all his thoughts were on planning the next actions, thinking that there were still a few camps that could be taken down through deterrence, and some military means might be needed there…

To put it bluntly, it was because he didn’t pay enough attention to Sanchi Town, which had already been dealt with, that such a big mess happened.

The seven clerks of the Ministry of Civil Affairs escaped, which was good news. And the intelligence they sent back also made him very concerned.

In the wasteland, looters have always been a big problem.

In his operation this time, why did he have to move away all the people except the agricultural population that had to be retained? In addition to the large manpower gap in Weixing City, there is another big problem, which Gu Hang had told him a long time ago: there is no energy to operate those small camps with low value.

It’s not that there is really no value there, but the input-output ratio is seriously unequal. If you want to operate it, you need to import a lot of materials and support industries. To put it bluntly, it is to do “poverty alleviation” work.

But in addition to poverty alleviation, military forces must be invested to protect it. Otherwise, the slightly richer camps will become fat sheep that are targeted.

Looters and monsters in the wild are all big threats in the wasteland.

At present, in addition to collecting many camps, Perbov’s troops covered this part of the area, and he also shouldered another task: suppressing bandits.

The three agricultural camps left behind need a stable environment to expand production; this area is also an important trade route from Weixing City to Garbage Town. Garbage Town is a very important source of raw materials for Weixing City’s industrial base. Garbage Town itself also needs to ensure this transportation route and import food.

According to the governor, he wanted every force in this area to fly the flag of the new alliance, and the looters were among them.

Originally, Perbov didn’t know that the banditry here was so serious. He planned to first deal with the settlements of survivors in various places before talking about bandit suppression.

Now, it seems that he has to do it in advance.

Similarly, Perbov could also judge that those looters definitely didn’t have the courage to confront him head-on, otherwise they would have fought when he entered Sanchi Town without any preparation.

But since they finally chose to rebel, they must have something to rely on.

The urban ruins environment… guerrilla warfare… Perbov then thought of these and made a judgment based on them: he couldn’t let these looters really run away. Thousands of people, split into small groups, ran into the pre-war ruins, and then attacked and harassed the business road at any time, then he really didn’t have many ways to deal with them. The

entire bandit suppression operation became a protracted counter-guerrilla warfare.

He made a decision almost immediately.

“All troops, attack immediately! Go to Sanchi Town!”

In addition to the headquarters’ mad rush, he also gave orders to several other companies that were sent out.

According to his requirements, the two fastest mechanized infantry companies will go directly behind Sanchi Town. The ‘Wanderer V’ infantry fighting vehicle has excellent off-road performance and can maintain a relatively good forward speed without relying on roads.

He ordered the two company commanders to block the retreat of Sanchi Town. If they have already started to evacuate, they will directly launch an attack to delay their evacuation and wait for the main force to come and encircle them.

The two motorized infantry companies quickly advanced along the roads in two directions, and trucks carrying soldiers rushed towards Sanchi Town from the direction where the road was connected.

Perbov himself took the battalion headquarters and went to Sanchi Town along the main road. The tank battalion and artillery battalion might run slower, but they were also the strongest troops.

One day later, when the main force led by Perbov was still two days away from Sanchi Town, they received two messages.

The battle had already started in the front.

The mechanized infantry company he sent to infiltrate the rear arrived just in time. They each caught the tail of a retreating tribe of looters and launched an attack directly.

The enemy obviously lacked knowledge of the marching speed of mechanized troops, and these guys who relied on walking and pulling goods with ox carts were caught off guard.

The “Wanderer V” played a huge role in the wilderness. The 40mm machine gun fired crazily without any scruples, and even if the looters used ox carts and various goods as temporary shelters, it was difficult to stop them; the modified explosive machine gun replaced the coaxial machine gun on the weapon station of the infantry fighting vehicle, like a small howitzer that fired continuously, bombarded the enemy crazily. The

infantrymen who got off the vehicle, accompanied the infantry fighting vehicle to advance and sweep, mainly did the job of supplementing the guns.

There were cannons among the enemy. The caliber of the small mountain cannon was not large, but if it was really set up and fired a few times from the front, it could really blow up a few infantry fighting vehicles if it was unlucky.

Unfortunately, before those mountain guns could even set up their firing formations, they were hit by machine guns and explosive machine guns and were directly destroyed.

After these mountain guns were no longer effective, the only means left to threaten the infantry fighting vehicles was the direct-fire rocket launcher.

But it was difficult to guarantee the accuracy of this thing over 200 meters, and even if it hit, the power was not enough. If you really want to guarantee the hit rate and the power to threaten the side armor of the “Wanderer”, you have to get within a few dozen meters, and it would be best if there were two or three groups to attack together.

How harsh is this condition?

There were many warriors who tried to carry the rocket launcher and approach, but in this field with little cover, there was no chance to get close at all. The Wanderer’s crew had an excellent battlefield reconnaissance system integrated into it. Most threats could be discovered in advance through the observation port, and then a round of machine guns and explosive bombs would be fired, and those warriors who really dared to go up would be immediately blown to pieces, including the rockets in their hands.

Even if there are places where the infantry fighting vehicles cannot observe properly and one or two rocket launcher teams rush out, it doesn’t matter.

Soldiers who get off the vehicle and fight on foot do this job.

T5 soldiers are strong enough in all military skills.

You have a rocket launcher, and I have one too, and more than you; the gun in my hand is more accurate, farther, and more powerful than yours.

With a few bursts of fire, or taking the lead to fire a rocket launcher, those looters’ fire teams that have finally approached will be wiped out.

When the warriors who dared to launch a counterattack were almost dead, the remaining ones who were not brave enough finally couldn’t hold on and completely collapsed. Then, like lambs to be slaughtered in the wilderness, they were killed by the soldiers with all kinds of weapons on the way of escape.

In fact, even if they were all fearless and resisted desperately, what could they do?

Sudden attack by mechanized troops, without positions, shelters, heavy weapons, and in the open wilderness, they were easy targets.

Of course, there were more of them, and many of them escaped in the completely disorderly rout.

However, without baggage and supplies, it was hard to say how many of the fleeing looters would survive and how many would be able to regroup and return.

…

If the two mechanized infantry companies responsible for the encirclement had fought a very beautiful surprise attack and won a great victory, then the two motorized infantry companies that rushed towards Sanchi Town along the road from two directions suffered a small loss and ended up in a draw.

These two companies lacked heavy weapons and heavy vehicles.

The motorized infantry company only had the Iron Bull troop transport truck and the Ranger motorcycle.

However, the enemy they faced was well prepared.

According to the battle report, the looters had obviously expected Perbov to lead his troops. They laid mines and bombs on the road; they built roadblocks and positions on the road; they arranged ambushes on both sides of the road, ready to attack from both sides when the team passed by.

All of their arrangements worked.

However, the only thing they did not expect was that the soldiers coming to fight would be so elite.

As a company was advancing, the patrol motorcycle took the lead and found the enemy soldiers blocking the road early and sent the news back; the reconnaissance squad in the company also found the ambushes on both sides, and immediately there were troop transport trucks to put down the soldiers and meet them on both sides.

The bombs and mines along the road destroyed two trucks, but failed to cause further casualties. The engineers of the company began to clear mines and build positions with the help of vehicles.

These responses and reactions made the looters who were ambushing feel a little confused.

Something is wrong! It ‘s not like

they haven’t used similar methods in the past. Even if the caravans that were ambushed had relatively strong mercenaries and guards, they would be dizzy and likely to collapse directly after suffering such a blow.

Even if they were not defeated, it would be good enough to barely rely on the baggage to organize the defense line to resist. How could they have the spare energy to counterattack the ambush?

The key is that the counterattack is particularly fierce!

An infantry squad dared to fight against hundreds of people. Their tactical movements were standard and effective. They crouched low and relied on the terrain, which was not very undulating, to hide their bodies. When shooting at each other, their shooting skills were accurate and surprisingly powerful. On the contrary, on our side, a volley of bullets was fired at them. It was unknown whether they hit them or not, but no one on the opposite side fell down anyway; on the contrary, they pulled the trigger and fired a few three-shot bursts, and someone on their side would die.

An infantry squad could block the ambush in one direction from rushing up, which was a bit exaggerated.

But what can we do? It’s impossible for the hundreds of people on our side to be beaten away by ten of them, right?

After a short break, they began to launch a powerful attack. They strengthened their firepower in the front and sent others to penetrate from the side.

Who doesn’t know how to penetrate?

As a result, the team responsible for the penetration ran into an infantry squad head-on.

Then, a small number of heavy firepower from the platoon and company came up.

At the convoy, the mortar position was urgently built and began to show its power; the squad’s rocket launcher was also taken out and replaced with high-explosive ammunition. When the looters launched the attack, several were killed with one shot. It

was really impossible to attack.

Then, more soldiers rushed out from the position built with the help of cars and launched a counterattack in the direction of the two ambushes.

The ambushes on both sides of the road, each with about 200 people, were actually defeated by such a charge.

However, these soldiers did not chase too hard.

After all, there would be some casualties in a gunfight between infantry in the wilderness.

There was no need at all.

They retreated back to their positions, allowing the looters who had retreated a little to come back.

This was exactly what they wanted.

The efficiency of using guns to kill people on the battlefield was still too low.

In fact, as soon as the battle started, they had already notified the rear of the news.

After receiving the news, the driver of the artillery support company in the main force of the battalion far behind stepped on the accelerator. In half an hour, they ran nearly 20 kilometers.

This was a somewhat risky decision. It would be risky for the artillery battalion to move forward without protection. The only soldiers who accompanied them for protection were the guard platoon, the engineers and the logistics, who were riding on the patrol motorcycles.

But the looters, who had obviously never seen heavy artillery, did not take this factor into consideration.

The artillery support company, which had advanced 20 kilometers, stopped the iron ox that served as a towing truck, and then set up the towing artillery behind it.

With the direction sent back by the infantry in front, they set up the shooting parameters. Then, the ten war gods in front of them began to roar.

The 155 howitzers they deployed had a range of nearly 25 kilometers.

And that was where the two motorized infantry companies in front were fighting.

After fighting face to face and with the ambushes on both sides for almost an hour, they finally waited for friendly artillery support.

12 heavy artillery shells fell two or three hundred meters away from their positions, covering a half circle.

The looters were stunned.

The half-man-high, fifty-kilogram shells hit the ground, enough to blow a two-meter deep pit, and the killing range was nearly the size of a football field.

Those who were close to the center of the explosion were killed; those who were a little further away had their internal organs shattered by the shock wave and were killed by shell fragments…

Without fortifications and bunkers, this round of artillery fire caused extremely heavy losses to the looters who were ambushing and blocking.

In addition to the loss of personnel, the heavier blow was to morale.

In the previous one hour of fighting, they tried their best but still couldn’t defeat this group of soldiers whose number was less than half of theirs. Instead, they let them counterattack several times and some people died.

They had all kinds of advantages, such as being well prepared, waiting for the enemy to tire, ambushing with the advantage of terrain, and using their numbers to defeat the few… but in the end, it turned into a stalemate.

This already made them very discouraged.

And this round of heavy artillery directly turned this discouragement into a frightening trend.

After just an hour of hard fighting, the number of deaths might not be as many as those killed in this round of artillery fire!

Immediately, the looters, whose morale had completely collapsed, began to run back; and the few who followed the orders of the leader and captain and stayed behind were immediately met with the second round of artillery bombardment.

After the deafening heavy artillery bombardment, no one who was still alive dared to continue fighting. They couldn’t

win the battle, and staying on the periphery was just a waste of bombing. Who

would want to escape at this time? However, it was not so easy to escape at this time.

There were really motorcycles in the motorized infantry company.

Those “Hunters” that had been put into the position before drove out. Two people in a car, one riding a bike, and the other operating the machine gun mounted on the side of the car, began to chase out. A large number of infantry followed closely behind, and rushed out with the accompaniment of the charge.

How could the fleeing looters outrun the “Hunters” with excellent off-road performance? A large number of people were swept down by the light machine guns on the motorcycles, and once someone tried to stop and fight back, the hunters would not bother them much. The infantrymen who followed up would immediately take out their rocket launchers and greet them, followed by intensive gunfire.

The looters who participated in this blocking and ambush battle suffered heavy casualties, and only one in ten could escape the battlefield.

…

Two battles, two reports, when they reached Perbov, still made him somewhat alert.

This was undoubtedly a great victory. On the two battlefields, at least two thousand enemies were defeated, and the number of casualties was so numerous that there was no time to count them, but it must have exceeded one thousand.

On our side, the casualties of the two mechanized infantry companies combined were less than double digits; the two motorized infantry companies were a little worse, but the total casualties were only about thirty people.

This battle loss ratio has reached 1:50, what else is there to be dissatisfied with?

There is still some.

Perbov is summing up the experience and lessons.

For example, the motorized infantry company should not be allowed to advance too far, resulting in the artillery support from the rear not arriving until an hour after the battle began. If this time can be moved forward half an hour, the casualties of the motorized infantry company may be reduced.

For example, he has divided his troops into more groups now, and he also has to consider what the subsequent actions of the Sanchi Town looters who still have the main force will be. After all, he still doesn’t know clearly how many people the enemy has, how many weapons and equipment, especially heavy weapons, they have, and what they are.

What if the enemy also has a relatively strong heavy firepower and takes advantage of his current division of troops to launch a fierce attack on one of the troops?

But on the other hand, this problem is unsolvable.

If he gathers his troops in one place, he may still be on the way. If the enemy takes advantage of this time to fight a blocking battle on the road, even if it doesn’t have much effect, and blocks them layer by layer for several hours, what if the large looters who get the news in the rear really take advantage of this opportunity to scatter and run away?

On the contrary, the current situation is still good.

With the help of artillery, the motorized infantry company broke through the ambush enemy and drove to the front of Sanchi Town, where they were already building positions and besieging.

The mechanized infantry company cruised behind and blocked the retreat.

The four companies were separated and locked the four directions of Sanchi Town, and they also blocked the group of looters who gathered and prepared to evacuate in Sanchi Town.

As long as he could win another big victory and an annihilation war, at least 5,000 looters would be eliminated with the previous results.

From Weixing City to Laji Town, all the looters and bandits along the way were wiped out.

Of course, there will definitely be a small number of fish that slip through the net, but that is no longer a big deal.

How did the looters come from? It is not ruled out that some people are born bad, but they are a very small minority. Most of the looters are ordinary people who can’t survive. In order to seek a glimmer of hope in this wasteland, they began to rob others of their lives.

Killing and robbing is abominable, but when you think about it carefully, it is also helpless.

If the policy of 45-level welfare that Ms. Ossena is promoting in Fuxing City can be successfully extended to all places in this area, and most of the poor and propertyless people are relocated away, then the soil for the looters in this area will be quickly eliminated.

Without the poor people who are the source of more potential looters, these bandits will be eliminated one by one, and there will be no situation where they cannot be completely eliminated or more and more bandits will appear.

Sitting in the command vehicle, Perbov thought about the whole thing carefully, and finally decided to continue the current method of fighting by dividing the troops and encircling them.

Risks aside, from a purely military perspective, it is not appropriate to fight like this.

This is a bit like fighting a political war, but… Perbov remembered what the governor said when he was chatting with these officers, that the military is an extension of politics, and war is a special violent political means that is the most cruel and fierce.

He now understands this a little bit.

…

“Damn it! This is too contemptuous of us!”

“We must teach them a hard lesson!”

“Is it great to have armored vehicles and artillery?”

In Sanchi Town, the leaders were holding a meeting.

From Terrell down, the crowd was excited and clamoring.

They said harsh words, but in fact, they were all panicked.

How could they not panic?

The original plan was to evacuate as soon as the army left, and try to bring as many bottles and jars as possible from home. As a result, a traitor appeared and the arrested clerks escaped.

Then, they made a plan to continue the retreat, and even decided to take the lead, letting some people take some baggage and leave first

. By the way, they set up blocking positions on the enemy’s way, using mines and roadside bombs. As a result, the blocking positions were penetrated by the enemy in an hour, and most of the people sent to participate in the blocking battle were killed or injured; the army that evacuated with some baggage was ambushed from behind and attacked by mechanized troops on the plains. The baggage and belongings they were escorting were lost, and less than 400 of the 2,000 people ran back. The

successive bad news really stunned people.

What made people even more dizzy was the combat effectiveness shown by the army of this new alliance.

More than 40 armored vehicles and less than 200 infantrymen crushed ten times their own number with ease, with almost no casualties; the 200 infantrymen relied on trucks to form a defensive position, and fought with nearly a thousand people for an hour, and then attracted artillery fire to cover and wipe them out in one battle…

How to fight this?

Indeed, this group of looters still had the main force not yet deployed, and there were more than 3,000 people in Sanchi Town. But according to the combat strength shown by the New Alliance Army before, if all these 3,000 people rushed forward, it would probably only take a few rounds of artillery coverage and a round of attack by the armored forces.

They were unwilling to admit defeat, and they were just shouting fiercely. Terrell had tried to point out the generals to attack, but if any of them really led their own troops to fight, no one would be willing.

In the midst of the noise, Terrell finally couldn’t help it.

He slammed the table several times, and only spoke when everyone was quiet:

“Are you done arguing?”

Looking at the dark face of Terrell, the great leader, no one dared to speak again.

But in fact, there are still many people who have disdain in their hearts, and some of them are even more carefree and will show this emotion directly on their faces.

Among the looters, how can a leader maintain his dignity?

There is no other reason, it is military achievements.

If you can lead your brothers to win battles, drink and eat meat with your brothers, then you are the most awesome, no matter whether you are loyal or brutal, it is nothing more than a matter of style.

But if you lose the battle… then those who are loyal will stab you in the back; those who are cruel will be overthrown.

He has not reached this point yet, but there are signs.

Two disastrous defeats, plus being blocked in Sanchi Town and falling into a desperate situation, have greatly shaken his prestige.

He can even imagine that there must be many people who are already wavering and thinking about what Bol said before.

Is surrender a better choice? Follow the previous opportunity to enter the new alliance, don’t you have to face the front directly? Even if you lose your privileges, being an ordinary civilian is better than losing your life.

There are probably quite a few people who have such thoughts. And all these things will turn into resentment and fall on him, the great leader.

But there is still a way out.

He has to find a way out for his brothers, then his prestige may still have a chance to be maintained.

Seeing that the people below stopped talking because of his action of slamming the table, he felt a little relieved. Fortunately, the prestige accumulated over the years has not been completely exhausted.

He let out a long breath and began to describe his plan:

“To put it bluntly, those lackeys of the governor are only about 800 people. Their weapons and equipment are fierce, but in order to surround us, they have divided their forces too much. We concentrate our forces, gather all the remaining artillery and explosives in one place, and charge with all our strength. We will definitely rush out.”

Someone jumped out and sang a different tune: “The chief said it lightly! Those who go to die are our people!”

Then someone else said: “If you say rush out, I don’t know how many people will die on the way! Little Boll is right, it’s better to be honest before.”

At first, there were sporadic words, and then the rest of the people looked eager to try, as if the whole meeting was about to turn into a vegetable market.

But a series of gunshots interrupted the process of the argument.

The three who had just spoken had a bullet hole on their foreheads.

They fell on their backs with disbelief on their faces.

The one who fired the gun was Trail.

The rest of the people were all shocked, with disbelief on their faces, as if they had never thought that Terrell would dare to pull out a gun and kill people in such a scene.

They were all bandits, and in an instant, some people subconsciously wanted to pull out their guns.

“Don’t move!” Terrell shouted!

But at this time, how could just shouting be useful?

Some people continued to pull out their guns.

But at this time, many robbers guarding the surroundings raised their guns and aimed at those who moved.

These people were undoubtedly Terrell’s confidants.

Since Terrell had expected the current scene, he would certainly be prepared.

These guards who had been prepared for a long time were aiming at those leaders who moved and fired, but the bullets were not long-sighted. It was common for the bullets to go off the mark and hit innocent people.

Many people fell down and died; some of those who had not made any movement but were injured by mistake shouted, and some tried to resist, but in the end, they were all swept to the ground like the previous ones.

Soon, all the leaders of the raiders on one side of the conference hall were shot dead.

On the other side, there was no movement.

The people on that side were all die-hard supporters of Terrell, and they had even anticipated the scene at this moment.

After the situation calmed down, Terrell stood up and cursed: “A bunch of shameless people.”

After cursing, he assigned his supporters to receive and integrate the tribes of the people who were killed.

At the end of the arrangement, he had two wooden boxes dragged in from outside.

After opening them, they were wrapped in hay and contained small green potion bottles.

“Distribute these, and when the breakout begins, arrange for the commandos to drink them.”

…

The war came more suddenly than expected.

Terrell cleared out the internal opponents and almost spent all the prestige he had accumulated over the years. He barely suppressed the tribes of the slaughtered leaders and took over those people.

Then, he tried hard to mobilize the troops, hoping to mobilize the remaining more than 3,000, nearly 4,000 people in Sanchi Town at once, and head in the same direction to carry out a full-scale breakout.

The heavy artillery possessed by the New Alliance Army was the weapon he feared the most.

If the troops were standing a little densely, the casualties would be dozens or even hundreds. However, the width of the battlefield for the breakout would not be too wide. If the troops were to break out resolutely and ensure sufficient strength, they could not be spread out too much.

However, this would greatly increase the lethality of the enemy’s artillery.

It was indeed a dilemma.

But no matter how difficult it was, it had to be chosen.

The way that Terrell planned to adopt was to order the troops to launch a fierce assault at all costs, to rush to the range of several dozen meters from the enemy, or even to fight hand-to-hand.

In this way, the distance between the enemy and us was pulled to a very close range, and the heavy artillery in the hands of the New Alliance Army could not be so well used.

We always have to worry about accidental injuries, and the other side could not afford to lose more people than our side.

However, he underestimated the difficulty of integrating the troops after killing people. Although mutiny and direct internal fighting were barely avoided, the speed of the entire army’s regrouping and gathering strength was far less than expected.

Before he prepared his troops to break out, the New Alliance Army attacked them first.

At the beginning of the attack, the looters in Sanchi Town were a little confused.

Even Terrell was a little confused when he ventured to a high platform to watch the battle.

There is no doubt that the heavy artillery bombarded first, and the looters who were on the edge of Sanchi Town, then the town’s buildings and dug trenches did not dare to show their heads when they were bombarded. If it were not for the pressure from the leaders of various tribes, no one would dare to run, and I am afraid that this round of artillery bombardment would directly smash the outer defense line.

The looters hiding in fortifications, bunkers, and trenches actually suffered casualties. They were not bombarded head-on, and they were not too close to the shock wave to be killed or injured. The fierce and terrible fragments could not penetrate the cover to cause casualties. At least

they would not be like those unlucky guys who were fighting outside before, who were bombed in the wilderness and died miserably.

However, the deafening sound of the artillery and the terrifying force that made the earth tremble made people tremble with fear. The key point is that the enemy’s artillery array is probably more than 20 kilometers away. Even if they want to fight back, they can’t even see a shadow.

They can calculate the approximate location of the enemy’s artillery array through the trajectory of the shells, but it’s useless. They do have artillery at home, but the small-caliber miscellaneous mountain artillery can’t maintain accuracy after firing ten miles. There is no way to deal with the heavy artillery position 20 kilometers away, and they can only shrink their heads and take the bombing.

But if it was just like this, it would still be within Terrell’s expectations.

However, in addition to this round of artillery bombardment, he could see that the army of the New Alliance had launched a formal attack.

Just after the bombardment, the infantry of the New Alliance had already appeared at a distance of about 200 meters from the explosion point. The mortar group also showed its power and fired a round of artillery forward.

The soldiers were charging forward quickly. Before the heat from the mortars and heavy artillery had dissipated, they had already rushed into the position that had just been bombed.

The looters who were stunned by the bombing were shot again. Those who were lucky enough to be fine had no time to build any effective defenses and were scattered and wiped out.

But the position was of course not just one layer. In addition to the position that was bombed, there were of course other looters behind. If they showed up and shot at this moment, they would certainly be a threat to the attacking soldiers.

But they didn’t, because the new round of artillery fire had already covered their positions.

The most terrifying thing was that the infantry of the New Alliance was only about 200 meters away from the explosion point. The killing range of that terrible heavy artillery was almost close to 100. Are

n’t they really afraid that a shot would hit their own people if it was a little off?

The gunners were not afraid, the commanders were not afraid, but were the infantry on the front line not afraid?

Terrell had never seen such a posture.

Several words that he had only heard of but never seen appeared in his mind: infantry-artillery coordination, slow-moving barrage.

He knew that the edge position that had taken a lot of time to build was finished.

But Terrell immediately reacted and realized that he couldn’t really let the edge position go.

Otherwise, the New Alliance army rushed in, and without the fortifications and trenches on the edge of the town, the battle would become more difficult.

That was originally the starting position when he broke out from behind.

Terrell gritted his teeth and issued an order to the troops in the rear, asking them to let their artillery fire as well.

The mountain artillery with a much smaller caliber, even if it couldn’t hit the artillery position behind the New Alliance Army, at least posed a threat to the enemy in front of them, and let them have a taste of artillery fire.

In addition, more looters, under his order, counterattacked back in the direction of the Alliance Army’s attack.

He didn’t want to do this, but the situation changed quickly, and he didn’t have time to slowly organize the team and find a direction to break out. If they really wanted to fight a breakout, they would have to defeat the enemy in front of them, and then they could take advantage of the situation to fight their way out.

However, just when he had just ordered a large number of his own troops to fill in the first line and engage in close fire with the soldiers of the New Alliance, two new situations occurred.

First, the artillery array they had just fired two rounds of fire was finished.

He had already ordered his own artillery to try their best to fire one shot and then move to another place. However, the space in Sanchi Town was narrow, and it was not easy for the artillery to deploy, let alone transfer. What’s more, although their artillery was light, it lacked a towing vehicle. If it relied on people to push, the speed of transfer could not be guaranteed at all.

As a result, they were caught by the enemy.

Their artillery could not hit the artillery array of the New Alliance Army, but the heavy artillery of the enemy undoubtedly brought their artillery within the range of fire.

After two rounds of shelling, the artillery positions of the looters were gone.

Not only did the artillerymen suffer heavy casualties, but a large number of artillery pieces were also destroyed.

Of course, after the Alliance’s artillery turned its firepower against the artillery array in the town, it could no longer provide cover for the soldiers fighting in front.

Although the attacking infantry companies still had some mortars to use, the power of these mortars was a bit far from that of the 155 howitzers.

This slowed down the speed of the soldiers breaking through the outer defense line, and also allowed the looters who followed up to successfully pull the combat range to within 100 meters.

At this distance, the role of firearms was greatly enhanced, and it would be difficult for the Alliance’s heavy artillery to take care of this side.

No matter how accurate the Alliance’s artillery was and how fearless the Alliance’s soldiers were, the accidental injuries of the artillery were not fake. Under the fear of the rat, naturally, it was impossible to recklessly smash the heavy artillery on the heads of the two sides in the melee.

However, when this thought that could only be forced to comfort himself just came up, Trail saw a scene that made his hands and feet cold again.

The tank company of the New Alliance is coming!

A total of twelve tanks raised clouds of dust on the dirt road. The 76mm smoothbore gun began to show its power.

Knowing that there was no need to deal with any armored targets, the tanks were equipped with high-explosive fragmentation shells. Twelve guns fired together, and at a distance of only a few hundred meters, less than a kilometer, they began to attack the counterattack that the raiders had just formed.

For these steel creations, the raiders seemed to have no way.

And the infantry also took advantage of the tanks’ firepower cover and began to emerge. They focused on attacking the raiders’ firepower teams that tried to threaten the tanks. As for the places where the enemy was holding on, such as foxholes and temporary positions built with building ruins, there was nothing to say. They just called the tank soldiers to fire two shots, or even use coaxial machine guns to sweep them, and that was it.

The tracks rolled over the trenches, and the tanks drove into a closer distance to cooperate with the infantry.

The looters’ counterattack momentum was directly destroyed, and those who dared to get close to engage in close combat all experienced the power of tank guns and coaxial machine guns, and suffered heavy casualties.

Seeing this scene, Trail finally lost his composure.

He pulled out the battlefield intercom in a rage and yelled: “Drink all those potions! Drink! Fight them! If you can’t win, there is no way to survive!”

After that, he took a few deep breaths, then shook all over, as if he understood something, and hurried down the command platform.

Then, his closest and most trusted team protected him and went out of Sanchi Town from another direction.

He was going to run away.

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This chapter is ten thousand words!

(End of this chapter)