Chapter 1402: Air-Ground Integrated Combat (3rd update, please subscribe)
The next morning, the troops continued to move forward. Li Chengdong's First Armored Company followed the First Battalion and marched northwest along the highway. Ahead was San Juan Martinez, a small Cuban town on the way to Havana. The city had a population of only more than 10,000 people, and tropical plantations such as sugar cane and coffee were everywhere around the city.
As the rapidly advancing troops approached the city, the battalion commander did not order them to enter the city out of caution, but instead issued an order to disperse: the infantry deployed according to the requirements of the tactical textbook, with the scouts leading the way, and the troops spread out and advanced quickly. A row of infantry passed through the plantation and walked towards the houses on the edge of the city.
The troops attacked very cautiously. Lu Kui, a platoon leader walking in the front of the team, raised his left hand from time to time to signal the troops to stop and carefully observe the front before continuing to move forward. Unlike ordinary soldiers, he had a cowhide map bag slung across his waist and a pair of binoculars hanging around his neck. He was obviously an officer.
On the battlefield, this became an extremely conspicuous target. Although he was cautious enough, as he was observing the battlefield, a gunshot came from a distance.
The sniper opened fire from a house. Lu Kui fell to the ground, the bullet hitting him in the throat. Blood gushed out from between his fingers.
"Lie down, lie down..."
At the shouts of the squad leaders, the soldiers lay down among the plantations one after another. At the same time, there was a burst of gunfire in the plantations.
“The Cubans are in the house!”
When the infantry was pinned down in the plantation and unable to attack, a tank rushed forward. In just a moment, the tank rushed in front of the infantry and headed for the Cuban defenders' position.
As the tanks moved forward, Cuban soldiers guarding the houses kept firing at them. The bullets made clanging sounds when they hit the tanks, but they could not stop the tanks from moving forward.
Just when the Cuban soldiers couldn't figure out what kind of monster was rushing towards them, there was a loud "boom" and the tanks fired at the house they were guarding. The shells hit the windows accurately, and in the violent explosion, the defenders in the house were injured. Afterwards, the tanks, like mobile turrets, kept firing at the house where the defenders were stationed.
Faced with this invulnerable monster, the terrified Cuban soldiers wanted to escape, but the tanks chased them directly and strafed the fleeing enemy with machine guns. On the battlefield, this tank was like an ancient heavy knight. It not only rushed around on the battlefield, but also directly crushed the corpses or wounded on the ground with its tracks when chasing. The crisp sound of bones crushed by the steel tracks and the screams of the wounded echoed on the battlefield. Many Cuban soldiers who did not flee in a hurry were frightened by the blood and flesh hanging on the tracks of the monster. Some of them dropped their weapons and surrendered in fear, while others were so scared that they didn't know what to do and just watched the tanks rushing towards them...
The Cubans' resistance collapsed in an instant!
"Oh my god, this is so... so neat..."
Not to mention the Cubans, even the Marines were stunned by the combat effectiveness displayed by this tank - a tank easily defeated an entire company of defenders without even waiting for them to take action.
"This is too fast... Really, really worthy of being called Tan Er Ke Zhi..."
The tank's first battle seemed a little anticlimactic, but it showed that it was a nearly perfect land warfare weapon.
When the tanks were first deployed in San Juan Martinez, dozens of kilometers to the northwest, a Cuban infantry regiment was sending reinforcements in the direction of San Juan Martinez.
"Hurry up, hurry up, brothers, we must stop the invasion of those Ming people..."
Lieutenant Colonel Sandys on horseback looked at the distance helplessly. Block the Ming people? That is just talk. Even the United States' "Great White Fleet" was destroyed by the Ming Empire, let alone Cuba?
But he was a soldier, and all he needed to do was obey orders. Moreover, his military honor would not allow him to face the invasion without any resistance.
However, Sandys could not understand why the Ming Dynasty invaded Cuba? Was it for the overseas Chinese? Thinking of the overseas Chinese who were hostile to them along the way, Sandys could not help but sigh. They were also Cubans...
However, they will never resist the Ming army. Soon, they will become a part of the Ming army. In many places, Chinese have even raised the Ming flag in the city center.
How long can Cuba's resistance last?
Just as this thought came to Sandys' mind, he heard the roar of an engine in the air.
Is it an airship?
Looking up, Sandys did not see the huge figure of the airship. Just as he looked in the direction where the sound came from, he saw six black spots flying in the sky.
When watching those black spots flying towards him, Sandys was a little confused. What the hell was this?
More Cubans are confused there...
What is this?
It's not an airship!
It's a plane!
When the plane roared down from the sky, the Cuban soldiers on the ground had no idea what it was.
Six Holly C seaplanes, loaded with bombs, flew over from a distance. When they flew over the Cuban army, they dropped 50-kilogram aerial bombs. The moment the bombs whizzed to the ground, they turned into the god of death. In the violent explosion, the violent shock wave mixed with steel fragments flew around. Those fragments of various shapes whizzed in the air, piercing through the bodies of the Cubans and tearing their bodies apart.
The explosive coefficient of the aerial bomb was as high as 60%. The bomb weighing tens of kilograms had a power that was not inferior to that of a heavy artillery of more than 200 mm. As the bombs continued to fall, the Cuban troops on the road immediately fell into a wave of death. The shock wave of the explosion was like countless sharp wind blades, tearing people's bodies apart. The strong soldiers were thrown into the air like broken dolls and then fell to the ground. In the billowing smoke, hundreds of Cuban soldiers died in the air raid without even figuring out what was going on.
After the death gods in the sky had finished dropping their bombs, the roads were in a mess, with corpses everywhere and the screams of the wounded. But even so, the death gods in the sky still did not let them go. They circled in the air and strafed the people on the ground with machine guns...
As the surviving soldiers fled towards and through the woods, Sandys cursed loudly as he looked at the flying machines hovering in the sky.
"Damn, what kind of machine is this..."
(End of this chapter)
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