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"It's Apache!" The sharp-eyed Marines also found out where the air support came from at night, and they couldn't help but be overjoyed and shouted loudly, and then on their radio, an officer's voice also sounded, telling everyone to retreat immediately, and the Apache helicopter would provide cover for them.

How could these soldiers who escaped continue to stay where they were, and if they had a chance to escape, even if they had no strength, they suddenly came to their strength at this time, desperately running in the direction of the reinforcements, and handed over all the things about the shockwave robots chasing them to the Apache troops in the air.

Of course, it is not possible for the responding troops to send only helicopter gunships for air cover, they just fly faster. After encountering the retreating armored vehicles first, and knowing the situation of the broken rear troops, other transport vehicles were also sent to meet the broken infantry. So shortly after leaving the improvised line of attack made by Apache helicopter gunships, the infantry encountered the oncoming personnel carriers.

"Captain, the rest of the patrol has been brought back." Two kilometers away, the first batch of support troops sent by the base had already defended on the spot, and the hard fighting of the patrol team had bought them some time to deploy and they could safely open the front.

But that time was not too much, not enough for them to dig trenches and set up pillboxes, so they could only use tanks as the main firepower base, infantry fighting vehicles to cover, and infantry assistance to deal with the Sijing people.

So far, the only good news is that before the unmanned reconnaissance plane was shot down, it finally detected the approximate strength of the Sijing troops in this operation, all ground troops. Without any air combat power, if all the air forces of Army M were dispatched, it would be relatively safe to carry out wanton and indiscriminate bombing. The bad news is. Even if there were only ground troops, in that number, it would already be more than ten times the total number of troops deployed by Army M at this base.

These are not local militia organizations, illegal armed forces, or national armies that fought World War II level wars with modern weapons and equipment, but this is an unmanned war weapon of a foreign race with a higher level of weapons technology than the M Army. It is not so easy to deal with the weapons of the Sijing people like those second- and third-rate national armies.

"Boom!" Just as the commander of this unit, Captain Pete, was still in the command vehicle and his subordinates studying the battle plan, the sound of the main gun of the M1A2 tank was heard outside. The ground forces of the Sijing people came within range of the tanks. Although Army M has begun mass production of the new Guardian main battle tank, because the mass production time is still short, and the weight of the Guardian even exceeds that of the M1A2. Only the army units stationed in the homeland have been reequipped in large quantities, and units like the Marine Corps have not been reequipped for the time being, so for the time being, they can only be equipped with the M1A2 replaced by the army, the guardian that was urgently transported by the future technology company. It is also not affiliated with the Marine Corps. Rather, it will be transported to the army units of this operation.

"So fast?" Captain Pete was a little surprised, he had sent all eight Apache in his possession in order to meet the patrol, but it was only a little time before the Sijing people approached his line.

The Apache pilot replied that they had all the missiles and rockets and were going back to base for resupply. At this time, the correspondent also reported to him. "We don't have the air fire support from helicopter gunships for the time being!"

"Apache just ran out of ammunition and withdrew, and the Sijing people followed. Did they really rush up against the Apache fire? Captain Pete was a little stunned, and then the constant sound of shelling from outside the command car woke him up again, now is not the time to be stunned, "Contact artillery, we need fire support!" Let them cover all areas in front of our positions with full firepower! ”

"Captain, this will hurt us by mistake!" The correspondent exclaimed in surprise.

"If they can still injure their own people by mistake at this distance, those artillerymen should go to court-martial!" Captain Pete roared, grabbed his tank helmet and jumped out of the car, he was about to get on his tank and go to the front to direct the battle.

"Boom"! As soon as he jumped out of the armored command vehicle, an M1A2 not far from the command vehicle exploded, and the fireball that rushed into the sky even rushed the turret into the sky, and all the shells of this tank exploded!

"Hell, is that close?" Captain Pete glanced into the distance, and although there were flames everywhere under the night sky, he still couldn't see the shadow of the Sijing weapon, which also proved that the range of the Sijing weapon that destroyed the tank was not short, at least it was still out of the human night vision.

"All move, move! Don't think about who has thicker armor than the Sijing people! Captain Pete put on his tank helmet, turned on the radio, gave a direct order to all tank drivers not to stop where they were to be targets, and then shouted to the people in the armored command vehicle, "Order to fire flares!" Guarantee our vision as much as possible! Then he turned around and continued to run towards his tank.

As Pete climbed into his tank, six flares were fired into the sky, and the area around the position was immediately much brighter, and he could see something clearly without night vision devices, but that wasn't enough, he said to himself, and got into the turret.

"Sir!" The gunner looked up to greet him, then continued to look back at the monitor in front of him, where he was searching for a target to shoot.

"Kuhn, let's go!" Pete alerted the driver on the in-car radio and sat down in his seat. While he was using the thermal imaging camera to observe the battle ahead, the tank started, and another M1A2 and one M2A3 also started to follow them.

Most of the weapons of the Sijing people who finally attacked were infantry-like weapons such as shock wave robots, and the number of vehicle weapons such as searchers and walking guns was not very large, and the plasma weapons of shock wave robots were not powerful enough to easily penetrate the armor of the main battle tank, even if the firepower of searchers and foot guns hit the frontal armor of M1A2, at most it burned pits of different depths, and it was not possible to penetrate the depleted uranium armor of M1A2 with one shot, and M1A2's return fire could often kill with one hit. Together with their protective force field, they destroyed the searchers and foot cannons with one shot, which also proved that the conventional weapons of the human race, against the weapons of the Sijing people, were not without the power of a battle.

Soon after Pitt's tank set off, it achieved two successes, a Seeker hovering vehicle and a walking gun, which were too prominent and were knocked out by his gunners, and the accompanying Shockwave robot was also torn to shreds by the 25mm cannon on the M2A2, and the other M1A2 on the escort also achieved a result.

Subsequently, in front of the frontal front of the Pitt Company, in the roaring artillery bombardment, it turned into a sea of fire, and the M109A6 artillery company deployed in the base finally opened fire, and the six 155mm heavy guns used high-explosive grenades to directly blast the shock wave robots that were surging in front of the formation!

And it's not just the six self-propelled guns that are firing, all kinds of mortars are also firing, although because the armor of the shockwave robot is thick enough, the shrapnel killing effect of the mortar shell is reduced a lot, but as long as the mortar hits the body directly, even the shockwave robot can only be re-transformed into a part state!

"It's still too close!" Captain Pete watched the effects of the shelling through the various observation devices in the commander's position, but still shook his head, "If the planes had been dispatched, maybe they would have been solved long ago." It's a pity that they are too close to the base, from this position, the straight-line distance is only 3 or 4 kilometers, and weapons with a slightly longer range can land the base! The plane will fly over the head when it flies together! ”

While Captain Pete was troubled by the lack of fire support, Major General Edward was also troubled at this time.

"We've been fooled!" He looked at the officers under him with a serious expression, and kept his hands on the electronic map, "Just when we thought that the Sijing people were crazy and were about to storm Captain Pete's defense line and deploy all the supporting firepower to him, another unit of the Sijing people appeared on the other side of the base, and it was less than five kilometers away from the base!" ”

"But we can't give up Captain Pete, he won't last long without support fire." "Although we have sent a request for reinforcements to the fleet, they have not arrived so quickly. Now we are only fighting with the forces we have in the base. ”

"That's all it can be." Major General Edward sighed, "Fortunately, at noon, the Future Technology Company sent us a batch of heavy equipment, and if it is used well, it should be able to delay until the reinforcements arrive." By the way, and order the planes at the base to take off too! Even if it doesn't come in much use in such a close engagement, we can't let our plane be destroyed on the ground in vain! They are inconvenient for close fire support, and they can also be sent to bomb the rear of the Sijing troops and cut off their reinforcements! This will also reduce the pressure on our ground forces! ”

"I really don't understand, how did the Sijing people get so close to the base." The colonel said puzzledly, "Not to mention that our reconnaissance system has not found anything at all, and the ground monitoring system that we bought at a large price from the people of country Z has not been able to come in handy!" Sijing people seemed to come out of the air, and they suddenly appeared under our noses, catching us off guard! ”

"This is the desert, it's the Gobi, if the Sijing people drill from the ground, there will be movement, even if we don't use the ground monitoring system of the Z people, theoretically we should also be aware of it with our own reconnaissance equipment, but this is the case, the Sijing people suddenly appeared in front of us like this." Major General Edward also had a puzzled expression on his face, "After this matter is finished here, naturally someone will study and talk to the people of country Z, I hope it is not the product quality problem that often occurs in country Z!" (To be continued.) )