At 14: 31 on July 21, Moro's 1st Armored Brigade and 6th Infantry Brigade entered the Surigao area, and the New Moon Island Command Center took over the command and began to embark. At 16: 00, Celestial Trade's spokesman announced to the media that it would intervene in Moro's self-defense counterattack against Country F in the form of mercenaries. At 17: 30, the landing fleet carrying two brigades set off from the port of Surigao, bypassing the self-defense artillery deployed by Country F on the other side of the strait, and headed for the Gulf of Leyte.
While the land forces were moving, Celestial Trade launched a full-scale network attack on Country F with the powerful computing power of quantum computers. A large number of data packets marked with the word "Nazi" suddenly rushed to the Country F government website. Not only did it replace all the characters in the database, but it also completely paralyzed the network server in ten minutes.
The photo of President Aquino IV was replaced with Hitler, and the flag of Country F was replaced with a swastika. Including the media, communications, and transportation systems, 80% of the websites in Country F were paralyzed by Celestial Trade's network force, which had a significant impact on Country F's military operations and directly affected Country F's war mobilization and support capabilities.
At 17: 32, ten Aurora-20s first arrived over the target area and competed with the 20 F22 fighters from Country F for air supremacy.
Because Country F's Army, with the assistance of the Rothschild family, updated its ground air defense facilities, including the Patriot 3, the air battle was extremely fierce. After paying the price of four Aurora-20s, the Celestial Trade Air Force downed 15 F22 fighters at an astonishing exchange rate and successfully seized air supremacy over Leyte Island.
At 20: 19, a row of Sea Lions Special Forces parachuted in the central mountains of Leyte Island and launched a night battle with Country F's 4th Air Defense Battalion deployed there. They destroyed eight Patriot 3 air defense missiles deployed in the foothills and killed a total of 211 Country F soldiers with the cooperation of drones.
After discovering the Sea Lions Special Forces parachuted, Country F urgently transferred a mountain division from the southern line of defense and rushed to the delivery location to support.
At 20: 32, the Moro landing force that completed its formation in the Gulf of Leyte began to attack. Under the suppression of the Aurora-20s and the electromagnetic pulse cannons of the Guardian-class frigates, the 6th Infantry Brigade began to attack the beach south of Tacloban …
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Thunder exploded in the night sky, and the Aurora-20 dropped an EMP bomb over the city of Tacloban.
After a brief air raid siren, the entire city fell into a dead silence. The entire city was shrouded in electromagnetic pulses. The scattered lights were also extinguished, and the east coast of Leyte Island was completely plunged into darkness.
Country F's 2nd Mechanized Division was responsible for defending the area. After receiving the alert of the naval invasion, they immediately rushed to the front line. The EMP attack came as expected, but after the communication equipment and armor units were dealt with to resist the EMP, they weren't simply disorganized this time.
What awaited Celestial Trade and Moro was destined to be a fierce battle.
Accompanied by the roar of the motors and the roar of the raging waves, the first echelon of landing craft began to rush toward Country F. Country F built a concrete fortress here, and the beach was filled with anti-personnel mines and conical concrete pillars to obstruct armored forces.
Although the air force and navy repeatedly bombarded the area, the Country F Army was obviously not stupid enough to send all their forces into the trenches at once. Soldiers continued to die under the Aurora-20s' cannons and bombs, but soon soldiers rushed to the defense line as reinforcements.
Due to the loose formation, the landing operation was not as easy as during the joint military exercise between Singapore and Malaysia.
But it wasn't that difficult …
The sea was terrifyingly quiet. Other than the roar of the engines, Zhang Feng couldn't hear any other sound.
As the 11th Battalion of Celestial Trade Marines, he and his team were included in the first echelon to attack Country F's defense line with the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Battalions of the 6th Infantry Brigade of Moro.
This time it was not an exercise, and he was no longer an ordinary team member. He participated in this war as a captain.
In the air, a dazzling flame exploded, and the orange-red illumination lit up Country F's defense line.
Immediately afterward, Celestial Trade's transport planes dropped more than a dozen coffin-like black boxes to Country F's defense line. When these black boxes slammed into Country F's defense line, before the Country F people could react, the black boxes bounced open from the side of the window.
Accompanied by the buzzing of death, hundreds of Hummingbirds flew out of the drone hive and attacked the position of Country F's 2nd Mechanized Division in the form of a drone swarm.
"SH * T! I can't hit these sh * t things! " The machine gunner squeezed the trigger tightly and fired at the drones on the beach one hundred meters away. However, no one knew if they hit the target or not.
Not far away, the drones were shuttling through the first line of defense. Like the Grim Reaper wielding a scythe, they harvested the Country F soldiers hiding behind cover. At such a close distance, against these drones that couldn't be hit at all, the stock of the gun was more effective than bullets.
"The enemy's drones landed on the beach, we can't hold on any longer!"
The soldier behind the sandbag pressed his helmet on his head and shouted into the walkie-talkie.
"What are the idiots on the first line of defense doing! Turn on the KS-32 anti-drone system! Quick! "
"It's already turned on! Dammit! This thing doesn't work at all! "
"What?!"
In the distance, the flames flickered on the beach.
The firepower was reduced sharply, and the sudden drop of drones caught the Country F soldiers off guard. In particular, the KS-32 anti-drone system ordered by the Country F Army from the UA was completely useless against the Hummingbird drones!
The soldiers on the landing craft had already opened the safety, tightened the nylon buckle on their helmets, and were ready for war!
"50 meters left, release the drones!"
As Zhang Feng roared, he slammed his arm into his chest.
The drones popped out from the groove in the chest of the kinetic skeleton and scattered on all sides of the landing craft.
"Jump! Prepare to fight! "
"Yes —"
A howitzer exploded five meters in front of the landing craft and almost overturned the boat. They were close to the beach. The soldiers quickly unfastened the seat belts and flipped into the sea from the side of the landing craft. They adjusted the power of the kinetic skeleton to the maximum and rushed to the beach.
The Moro Army had already rushed to the beach. With the support of the drone cluster, they began to compete with the Country F soldiers for the line of defense.
At this moment, the two frigates of Celestial Trade also began a new round of cannon fire.
The projectile with an orange-yellow trajectory raised a cloud of dust on the position of Country F's 2nd Mechanized Division.
Just as Zhang Feng rushed to the beach with his team, the battle on the beach was basically over.
After the Sea Lions Special Forces activated optical invisibility and took care of the Patriot 3 anti-aircraft missiles, they successfully got rid of the encirclement of Country F's Mountain Division. After seizing the vehicles, they crossed a distance of 12 kilometers and raided the position of Country F's 2nd Mechanized Division from the rear. They guided airstrikes to destroy 12 hidden infantry vehicles and four M1A1 main battle tanks.
The armored units suffered heavy damage, and more than half of the soldiers were killed or injured. Country F soldiers began to retreat to Tacloban.
"Don't, don't kill me! I surrender! "
"Ah! Mom — "
The real battlefield was far more cruel than the maneuver. When Zhang Feng rushed into the trench behind the beach with his team, it was already a mess of blood and flesh. The broken limbs and the wreckage of the drones were mixed together, and the lifeless bodies lay on the ground like rags.
The Country F soldiers who had lost their fighting spirit laid on the ground and raised their hands to surrender. There were also tenacious people who hid in the pile of corpses, waiting for the enemy to approach and pull the grenade.
After killing a Country F soldier who rushed to him, Zhang Feng separated one person from the team to stay here to guard the captive, and then continued to pursue the retreating enemy with the rest of the team.
After they took control of the beach, the engineers removed the tank traps and anti-tank mines deployed on the beach, and the Moro 1st Armored Brigade began to land. The Moro 5th Mechanized Division also boarded the transport ship and was advancing to the line of defense on Leyte Island.
At the same time, the Celestial Trade command center issued a new combat order.
Before dawn the next day, the city of Tacloban must be taken, as well as the highway connecting the north to Samar Island, and completely cut off the supply of the Country F Army deployed in the north of Leyte Island.
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