1130 Armoured assault.
Between the protrusion of Steel City and the manufacturing center, there was a large forest. Amidst the forest, countless steel beasts with camouflage nets were silently lying in ambush. Tanks, IFVs, reconnaissance vehicles, everything needed was present. It was shockingly an armored unit of the Grey Clothed Army!
It was currently around 3: 30 am on the 23rd of December. It had been around 4 hours since the various Skynet divisions launched their attack. At the position of this armoured unit, 5,000 Terminators were symbolically launching an attack. However, most of these Terminators were T-600s. Their purpose was to confuse the enemy and prevent the Guardian Group from detecting their direction of attack.
Lieutenant Colonel Clichy was in a command vehicle modified from a truck. He looked nervously at the screen before him. This was the image sent back by the camera mounted on the shoulder of the T-600 Terminator. However, the image was very blurry. Even with the night vision goggles, he could only barely make out the situation in front.
As the T-600 advanced, the image became increasingly blurry. In the end, it began to distort. All that could be heard was the sound of gunshots and explosions. In the end, the communication was cut off.
"Bang!" Lieutenant Colonel Clichy punched the screen in frustration. He looked at his watch and said to the officers beside him, "Ignore these useless robots! Order everyone to prepare for battle. We will move out in half an hour! "
After saying that, he jumped down from the vehicle and climbed onto an M1A3 main battle tank. He raised his hand and looked at the watch on his wrist. Time ticked by. 10 minutes, 20 minutes … at 3: 55 am, a large number of tanks started their engines and began to warm up!
The moment the hands on the watch pointed at 4 am, Lieutenant Colonel Clichy shouted into the communication device, "All forces, attack! Execute Operation Divine Punishment! "
"Rumble!" Following the roar of engines, a large number of tanks charged out from their camouflaged bunkers and charged forward at full speed!
"23rd at 4 am, the 2nd Armoured Regiment will begin their attack! Target, break through the enemy's defenses! "Clichy reported loudly into the communication device.
"Time, 23rd at 4 am, the 7th Armoured Regiment will launch their attack! Target, cut off the passage between the manufacturing center and Steel City! "
"3rd Armoured Regiment will launch their attack at 4 am! Target, surround Steel City. "
"1st Armoured Regiment …"
"6th Armoured Regiment …"
Large amounts of signals began to converge under the protection of the Skynet's microwave layer. The Gray Cloak Army's intention for battle was very clear! This time, General Beria had gathered the majority of the armored forces belonging to the five corps. A total of eight armored regiments, close to 900 main battle tanks, and over 1,300 armored vehicles of various types, were launching a roundabout attack on the Guardian Group's Steel City bulge!
This armored force would pierce through the area between the City of Steel and the manufacturing center, cutting off the connection between the two, surrounding the City of Steel and directly threatening the manufacturing center.
Coupled with the Terminator army that attacked the junction between New Lhasa and New Lanzhou, once the strategic goal was achieved, the area controlled by Tang Yu would be divided into three parts, and then they would be easily defeated one by one!
Lieutenant Colonel Clichy was on the M1A3 tank with a fierce look in his eyes. This time, he led 110 main battle tanks and more than 150 armored vehicles of the Second Armored Regiment as the vanguard. He would face the most concentrated counterattack of the Guardian Group! But there was no fear on his face. Less than five minutes after they rushed out of the bunker, a large number of explosions suddenly rose around them! Boom! Boom! Boom!! Powerful artillery shells rained down from the sky!
"Lieutenant Colonel! We are under bombardment! The other party knows of our movements! "The communications soldier shouted.
"Order the self-propelled artillery to intermittently fire back! Maintain the advance, increase the speed! "Clichy's face remained unchanged. This level of bombardment did not pose much of a threat to the armored forces.
Within the formation, 20 M109 self-propelled artillery moved forward while adjusting the angle of their cannons. Then, they stopped and aimed at the direction of the incoming artillery and opened fire! Boom! Boom!! A large number of explosions could be seen rising from afar.
Under the cover of the self-propelled artillery, Clichy led the armored forces forward.
Tat tat tat tat! Tat tat tat tat!! Countless bullets and artillery shells rained down from the front! Sou ~ ~ ~ Boom!!! A missile with a trail of blue flames flashed past, directly exploding on a Type-90 tank in front of them!
"We are under attack! Open fire! Open fire! "Clichy bellowed loudly.
Boom! Boom! The 100 or so tanks immediately stopped and fired back! Then, they continued to advance. However, after they advanced for a while, they were shocked to find that there was an endless anti-tank fortification in front of them!
Countless trapezoidal anti-tank cones were erected on the ground. There was no end in sight! These cone-shaped cones were insurmountable obstacles for tracked vehicles! Some of the anti-tank cones on the periphery had been destroyed. Upon closer inspection, they could see the wreckage of countless T-600 scattered among the anti-tank cones. Clearly, when they were preparing to destroy the anti-tank cones, they were attacked by the Guardian Group's concentrated firepower.
Boom! Boom!! The surrounding explosions did not stop for even a moment. The anti-tank missiles trailing blue flames were like the grim reaper, reaping the lives of the armored forces!
A Challenger II main battle tank charged too fiercely and crashed into the anti-tank cones. After the heavy body of the tank crushed several anti-tank cones, its chassis was immediately lifted up, and the entire tank's head was tilted up, unable to move. The members of the tank quickly opened the hatch and ran out. However, before they could run more than a few steps … Boom!! An anti-tank guided missile accurately struck the exposed chassis of the tank!
Boom!! A huge explosion swept out!
"Bastards! Order First Company and Second Company to circle around to the sides! The rest of the units, lock onto the enemy's firing points and eliminate them one by one! Send the coordinates of this place to the artillery unit and blow them up! "Commander Clichy issued a series of orders.
Two teams of tanks separated from the formation and moved to the sides. At the same time, the tanks immediately began to turn their turrets and fired at all the firing points they could find in front. A few seconds later, the sound of artillery shells whistling could be heard. Boom! Boom! Boom! Countless huge explosions erupted in the middle of these anti-tank cones, and these temporary concrete barriers were instantly blown to smithereens!
"Advance!" Clichy shouted into the communicator. All the tanks once again raised their speed to the maximum and advanced through the gaps between the destroyed anti-tank cones.
However, this forced the tanks to shrink their formation and their spacing began to converge. However, most of the Guardian Group's firing points had been cleared under the bombardment of the tanks and the firepower in front began to thin out.
Clichy frowned as he looked at the formation of tanks that were less than 10 metres apart. An ominous feeling suddenly welled up in his heart. He waved his hand and shouted, "Speed up! Do not get entangled with these remaining firing points! Quickly break through this anti-tank bunker! "
However, before he could finish his words, the sound of engines suddenly rang out from the front! Tens of lightning bolts descended from the sky! Clichy quickly raised his infrared night vision binoculars and saw five aircraft descending from the sky!
These aircraft were shaped like Hunter's aircraft. However, their bodies were shorter and wider. Their power source was not the rotating jet turbine engine used by Hunter's aircraft. Instead, they were powered by four disks flashing with lightning bolts! What made him even more uneasy was that these aircraft were not equipped with air-to-ground missiles. Instead, they were equipped with a total of six square barrels on both sides of the aircraft!
"There's an airstrike! Shoot them down! "Clichy shouted loudly.
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