After annihilating the empire's heavy cavalry, Epla's heavy armored group stopped when they continued to advance about eighty meters. It turns out that the next opponent they have to face is the dragoon troops of the Imperial Regiment.
As mentioned before, dragoons can be divided into two types: grenadiers and light cavalry. The grenadier cavalry has armor second only to the heavy cavalry, and can throw huge special grenades in combat - the grenades used by the Emperor are more accurately equivalent to landmines on the earth. They are relatively large in size, but very powerful. Not going anywhere.
The speed of dragoons is much faster than that of heavy cavalry. In addition, their armor does not reach the level of main battle tanks and is only equivalent to ordinary armored vehicles. Therefore, the tank gunners of EPLA control the automatic loaders one after another. The artillery shells were replaced with high-explosive anti-personnel shells. After a round of volley fire, these dragoons were knocked upside down and suffered heavy casualties. However, there were still many dragoons who continued to charge forward despite the firepower of the tanks. Finally, they successfully rushed within 100 meters.
At this time, because the distance is too close, using tank guns is not a good choice. So the commanders controlled the remote-controlled weapon station installed on the turret and used the vehicle-mounted 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun to deal with them. At the same time, the infantry fighting vehicle following the tank also followed.
Compared with the 12.7mm heavy machine gun mounted on the tank, the 30mm automatic cannon mounted on the infantry fighting vehicle is undoubtedly more suitable for dealing with these dragoons - the armor of the heavy grenadier cavalry is roughly equivalent to the level of the infantry fighting vehicle, the general 12.7mm The damage effect of machine guns is limited and direct penetration cannot be guaranteed. Therefore, at this time, it was the turn of the zbd-04 infantry fighting vehicle equipped with a 30mm automatic rapid-fire cannon for fighting enemy infantry fighting vehicles.
The tank that stopped advancing was in front and was used as a steel fortress. The 30mm cannon and machine gun began to fire suppressively at the rushing Imperial Army. The fire sickles moving up and down struck the Emperor's Army fiercely like a whip. The body of the emperor was hit with flying sand and rocks, and bullets and cannonballs beat the emperor who was charging crazily like a desperate man into flying blood and minced meat.
One after another, blue light flashed above the infantry fighting vehicle. One after another, the light balls roared towards the charging Imperial Dragoons, beating them all to pieces and causing them to fall off their horses. Although some dragoons successfully threw the grenades in their hands, although the grenades were more powerful than grenades on Earth, they were still not enough to deal with the main battle tanks blocking the front.
However, although the lethality of conventional grenades is not enough compared to tank armor, in addition, grenadiers are also equipped with a small number of magic grenades - these magic grenades have more or less special effects. It also caused some minor troubles for the epla armored forces.
For example, grenades with thunder properties can release high-voltage electricity, causing damage to the advanced on-board electronic equipment equipped on the Type 99 tank. Although tanks generally have mechanical backup structures, damage to electronic equipment will inevitably seriously affect the combat effectiveness of the vehicle - moreover, electronic equipment accounts for a large part of the cost of a tank, and repair or replacement is very expensive. This made epla's logistics department very angry. For another example, if an ice grenade explodes just under a vehicle, the ice blocks generated will freeze the tracks of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, making them unable to move forward for a while.
At this time, a stream of low-temperature flames will be emitted from the top of EPLA's infantry fighting vehicle, melting away the ice and snow generated by magic, allowing the tank to continue moving forward.
Some grenades were thrown relatively accurately and landed in front of the infantry fighting vehicles that were concentrating fire. After the explosion, the armor was relatively weak, and the infantry fighting vehicle that might have been destroyed was unscathed - only some blue fluctuations appeared on the periphery of the vehicle. This is the result of combining the array-type magic shield system for infantry combat vehicles that has been installed in large numbers with epla's new infantry organization and tactics.
It turns out that in the current EPLA, every mechanized infantry squad has a warlock - this warlock is not only issued with an assault rifle, but also equipped with a specially developed "magic pistol". To put it simply, this "magic pistol" is actually a combination of a staff and an ordinary pistol, which can be used for shooting and casting spells. The built-in staff of the pistol has been specially optimized for some spells frequently used by warlocks, which can make spell casting faster.
In addition to the array-type magic shield, the infantry fighting vehicle is also equipped with an amplification magic crystal. This magic crystal can be used by the warlock who casts spells in the car, and plays a role in saving the warlock's own magic power and increasing the magic effect. The magic crystal itself is connected to the infantry tank's generator, and can be filled with magic energy through the electrical energy conversion technology discovered by the Jin Jiala trio, ensuring reuse and reducing costs.
Just now, the warlocks on the infantry chariot were using the most basic arcane magic - arcane missiles and arcane shields. Although the warlock himself castsThe spells cast are very weak, but after being strengthened by magic crystals, these spells become quite powerful.
EPLA has conducted internal extreme tests. If a warlock outputs all his mana and casts an arcane shield, then under the amplification effect of the magic crystal, the infantry fighting vehicle's protective capability can even reach the level of a Type 96 tank - of course. Limited by the Warlock's own mana, this level of defense is unsustainable. Even so, after obtaining the enhanced arcane shield, the Chinese infantry tanks, which originally had relatively weak protective capabilities, finally have the powerful protective capabilities of Western infantry tanks - and this is without increasing weight or sacrificing firepower. Obtained under prerequisites. Now, the emperor's body has become a sacrifice for sharpening the sharp knife of the EPLA armored soldiers.
Under continuous fire suppression, the dragoon regiment of the Empire's Seventh Legion, like the heavy cavalry regiment, was wiped out in the blink of an eye, and the entire army was wiped out. At this time, they have not even caused effective damage to EPLA - currently only five Type 99 tanks have been damaged, but they can still continue to fight. The ones that were really seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness were just a few low-end Type 96 tanks and Type 72 tanks. Not only were the personnel not killed or seriously injured, but even the vehicles had minor damage that could be easily repaired by towing them back. This is the difference between the modern army and the feudal army.
The magic and fighting spirit of this world and the advanced technology on the earth are not incompatible and antagonistic relationships, nor are they a substitution relationship in which one eliminates the other, but a cooperative relationship that integrates and promotes each other - now epla's The armored corps is not only invincible in front of the emperor, but also has considerable advantages over the mechanized armies on the earth.
Due to the widespread promotion of fighting spirit, the same tank has greater lethality in the hands of epla. Through the magic equipment that is lightweight and does not occupy the space inside the vehicle, the protective capabilities of the infantry fighting vehicle have also been greatly enhanced, and it is no longer the same as before. It would be extremely vulnerable to tanks in that way - but at the same time, its original carrying capacity and mobility would not suffer any loss.
In fact, Jiang Yucheng's estimate is actually a bit conservative - although there is still a slight gap between EPLA soldiers and Chinese soldiers in terms of combat quality, the advantages in equipment can completely make up for this disadvantage. In other words, the current epla's newly formed 38th Group Army is actually comparable in combat effectiveness to the 38th Group Army of the Chinese Army of the same size (the army is still not satisfied with its establishment).
In the bombing just now, due to the extremely large number of infantry units of the Imperial Regiment and the low threat level, EPLA's artillery and air force did not pay special attention to these battle infantry units at first - although there were a few battle line infantry units. The infantry phalanxes happened to be hit by 155mm grenades and were directly blown into flying ash. However, compared to the entire imperial infantry force, these phalanxes can only be called a drop in the bucket.
Since these infantrymen, whose combat effectiveness is not even 5, are relatively "harmless", these cannon fodder in the traditional sense have become the imperial army's most surviving troops on the battlefield - and the original survival rate is very high, and they can often make a lot of money. The "elite troops" with great military exploits were almost completely wiped out because they directly withstood EPLA's overwhelming superior firepower. I have to say, this is really ironic.
However, after all, Jiang Yucheng¡¯s goal is to completely annihilate the Imperial Army Regiment. After the cavalry, artillery and magic troops are all wiped out, it will be the turn of these infantry.
Although the fierce battle ahead scared these Yeoman-born privates to the point where they almost completely lost their will to fight, even so, they still instinctively chose to form a tight formation.
The reason is simple - after seeing the powerful maneuverability of EPLA, most of these Yeomans from middle-class backgrounds have formed the following understanding: if they break up and escape, the only outcome will be to be destroyed by EPLA's tanks and aircraft. Catch up and destroy them - no matter how fast they run on two legs, can they still be faster than those monsters? And if they form a square formation, at least they can still be protected by the array shield, and they are not completely defenseless against monsters.
As a result, the officers leading the team discovered that these unscrupulous people who usually do their best to be lazy and passive in their work and disobey orders were unexpectedly cooperative today - any command given by the officers (also played by the military band) Military music), they will receive corresponding responses at the first time, and their obedience to orders even reaches the level of colonial corps. Facing death, these small citizens who were recruited by their lords to fight for the honor of the empire (actually fighting for military pay) instinctively gave up their laziness and laziness. For the first time in their service lives, they were so obeyed and even loved. military orders from their officers