"Almost 100% accuracy. I can't even see any dodging movements. Last time, at least they would have moved when they saw the missile coming.”
"It's very strange. Why didn't any landing ships fly out? Could it be that the warship this time was crudely made and had low nuclear protection capabilities?”
"There's definitely a problem!"
"Not good! That was a bait ship! It was empty inside! They're looking for our missile launch site! Immediately order the sea-based platform to move, and the army to move to the land-based base and wait for orders!”
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Taotie's second invasion took place on July 8, 2014, at 8:10 pm Moscow time. Unlike the first invasion, this time, they used a smaller number of medium-sized warships, but their numbers were ten times larger. There were about 200 of them.
Under the planning and coordination of NATO, the world's nuclear arsenal was under the command of the alien war experts codenamed Black Great Wall. Therefore, even though the number of enemies had increased, the Earth's response had become easier. They attacked all the battleships and destroyed them on the spot. Based on their previous battle experience, they did not stop firing after confirming that they had hit the target. Instead, they fired more missiles at the location of the explosion, intending to destroy the small warships that were about to escape in the belly of the large warships.
Strangely, not a single aircraft escaped from the flames of the explosion. This didn't make sense. The combat department estimated that if everything went smoothly, they could destroy 90% of the small warships. Because the nuclear defense of the Taotie Battleship was not weak, the damage would be minimal if it was not directly hit by a nuclear warhead. After a round of discussion, Marshal Ivan Tymoshenko, the commander of the Moscow Theater of Operations who had participated in the war in Iraq, saw the problem. He believed that these warships were definitely baits used to expose Earth's firing points, which were land-based missile bases. Ten minutes later, his thoughts were verified. Thousands of small troop-carrying ships were released in space beyond the missile's range. They scattered toward all the bases where the missiles had been launched--not the previous target, the railway transportation hub city.
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"Just how many soldiers and steel do they have…They are so huge, two square kilometers of alloy flying devices, and they casually took out two hundred of them to use as bait…The first time, they only used three thousand Taoties, and they caused more than 70% of the Earth's technological equipment to be lost. It had only been a week, and more than 2,000 had been dispatched. Would Earth be able to withstand the attack of Taotie this time?」
In the headquarters of the Moscow Front Army, Yuqin, who was waiting for orders, looked at the constantly changing cursors on the battle screen and was worried about the future of Earth. Earth was currently lacking armored vehicles to the point where the Russian army was forced to learn from the Middle East guerilla forces and drive armed pickup trucks (pickup trucks with heavy machine guns) to fight against the Taotie. However, the Taotie was still very rich and powerful. It threw space warships and soldiers at Earth as if they were free. Even though it was not impossible for Earth to produce tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of tanks to fight the Taotie head-on, it would take a lot of time. The strength of Taotie's attack seemed to be enough to defeat Earth before its war potential was fully developed.
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"Chief! Let me fight! Our brothers need our soldiers…"
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"Shut up, Major Ge Xiaolun. You're part of the strategic reserve team, understand? The strategic reserve team!"
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Ge Xiaolun was supposed to be responsible for the defense of East Asia. However, after Marshal Tymoshenko determined that the other party was going to attack Earth's land-based missile launch base, he stayed in Moscow. There were more targets in the Moscow Theater of Operations.
He was new here and did not understand the temper of the commander. He saw that the situation was unfavorable. The big screen showed the image of the Taotie soldiers slaughtering the allies driving the armed pickup truck, so he took the initiative to fight. Naturally, he was scolded back by Marshal Tymoshenko. He did not give up and wanted to discuss with the Marshal again. The Marshal, of course, scolded him and ordered the guards to kick him out of the combat conference room to reflect on himself.
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"Lonnie is so impulsive…"
Rose, who was waiting quietly on the other side, whispered to Yuqin, who was also quiet. She was afraid that if she raised her voice, the marshal would hear her and scold her.
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The Xiongbing Company was Earth's trump card and trump card. Lian Feng had told everyone about this. In a fight between gods, heroic units usually wouldn't interfere in a battle between minions, and high-level heroes wouldn't interfere in a battle between low-level heroes. This wasn't the reservedness of an expert, but a lesson learned from the experience of the God Wars. The first party to be exposed on the battlefield would definitely be ambushed by the enemy, which would put them in a disadvantageous position in a battle with their peers. It was not worth it to exchange the safety of a hero for the lives of a few soldiers. Soldiers were cheap consumables. Even if they died, they could be quickly rebuilt in a few hundred years. Heroes were different. For civilizations that could not create gods, it was normal for them to only produce one in a thousand years. Even the Angel Civilization, the strongest civilization in the universe that could create gods, only had a little over 30,000 heroes.
As a minor overlord of the Styx River System, the Taotie only had a few hundred heroes. After suffering a great loss last time, they naturally did not dare to let the hero appear on the battlefield rashly like last time. They would first let the soldiers fight against Earth until the Earth could not take it anymore and sent out their heroes. The basic principle of war was not to do what the enemy wanted you to do. So even if the situation seemed to be very tight, the headquarters still held the card of the Xiongbing Company tightly. They would rather let them do nothing than let them appear before the enemy's heroes.
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"Young men tend to get angry…"
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"What's wrong with you?"
Rose asked concernedly when she heard Yuqin's emotions.
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"Each of those disappearing, dim spots of light is…the loss of a battalion's life.」
Yuqin's gaze moved away from the battle screen and stared at the ground. Different from the previous battles, because Earth understood the uselessness of infantry against Taotie and the serious lack of usable armored vehicles, the troops could only collect a large number of civilian vehicles and arm the original infantry into " armed pickup truck troops " with the tactical purpose of hindering the mobility of Taotie soldiers and " off-road vehicle troops " with the tactical purpose of attracting the attention and firepower of Taotie soldiers. They were almost unable to cause any damage to the Taotie, and their defensive ability was equivalent to zero. To put it bluntly, it was bait. Therefore, compared to the first battle, the losses of the soldiers were huge. In just an hour, the Russian casualties had already reached 6,000. The degree of devastation could be ranked in the top three in history.
Ge Xiaolun was heartbroken because of this, which was why he was so emotional when he asked the marshal to fight. Yuqin was the opposite of him. She was not excited at all. Instead, she was extremely afraid and even a little afraid of fighting. As for Rosette…Yuqin guessed that Rosette had played sandbox games with her father since she was young. She was used to seeing the dots of light disappear on the battle command screen, so she was so calm.
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"I'm fine…I'm just worried when I saw so many of our missile sites destroyed.”
Yuqin didn't say it directly. Because she knew that it was a good thing to be calm and cold like Rose in the war. It was fine if she was afraid of the battle, but she could not bring Rose's emotions along with her.
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"This is indeed a very serious problem…"
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Tao Tie's airborne landing was very fast. Even though the headquarters quickly reacted to Tao Tie's target, they immediately ordered the troops to set off to protect the missile launch site. However, by the time the troops arrived at the designated location, Tao Tie, who had successfully found the missile launch base, had basically destroyed most of the hardware facilities. On the battle command screen, 30 missile launchers in the Russian Federation had been destroyed.
Until now, Taotie had only used their " infantry " and " light weapons ". The heavy firepower armor units were destroyed in the sky by the Earth's missiles due to the size of the target. Even so, they still made it difficult for Earth to resist. If their large warships could successfully enter the battle zone…the consequences would be unimaginable.
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"Don't worry, children."
Yuqin didn't use private voice transmission, so a major general who was standing close to them heard their discussion. He approached the two of them and explained to them,
"We don't only have missile launchers that can launch missiles. Not to mention that these exposed missile launchers only accounted for half of the country's total number of launchers, and the ones that had been destroyed only accounted for one-third of the exposed launchers. Our land-based missiles can also be operated by missile launch vehicles and missile launch trains, and the sea-based missile launch base is not damaged at all. Because the base's personnel have already evacuated in advance, our losses are only the 12 missiles in the base's inventory.”
It was not surprising that only 12 missiles were lost after 30 missile launchers were destroyed. In order not to be caught in one fell swoop, there were usually not too many missiles stored in each launch base, and each missile was equipped with a special transport vehicle so that it could be transferred in time if it was discovered. The discovered siloes had only just been fired, and only a portion of them were loaded with the next round of missiles. There were only 12 of them, and they had not been moved in time.
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"I think they're basically death warriors. The only purpose of being dropped here is to destroy our launch base.”
After Yuqin and the others waited for another half an hour, an advisor expressed his opinion.
"They probably didn't even send a commander-level Taotie down. They want to rely on their mobility to destroy the weak defensive siloes before our troops arrive. Therefore, he decided to send out a large number of soldiers. Using outdated tanks and civilian vehicles in battle would cause too much damage to the soldiers.”
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"I object. We know that their Commander-level Taotie can fly independently and doesn't need any eye-catching aircraft to transport them. They also had snipers. If they were to act rashly, they would die like the few commanders who were killed by Qilin.”
Another staff officer immediately retorted.
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"The performance of the infantry was outstanding. They created a lot of trouble for Tao Tie this time. Even if we include the old T54/55 and even the heavy tank Stallion, our technical equipment loss rate against Taotie is only 4:1。There were only 2000 Taoties invading Earth this time, and there were no commanders involved. If the enemy doesn't move and we don't move, we estimate that we only need to pay the price of 50,000 to 70,000 people to wipe out all the Taotie in our country.”
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"But after this battle, I'm afraid we won't have any tanks left. Taotie didn't seem to have exhausted all their soldiers.”
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"Where's the sealed T54/55? Aren't there 60,000?"
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"How many years has it been sealed? How can it still be used? The production line has long been dismantled. Where can we find the spare parts? The technicians who can repair it are either old or dead. Komarov (Production Minister) went through the inventory and said that the parts could be used to repair 10,000 T54/55s. He even boasted that he could make these 10,000 T54/55 cars move in a month, but in reality? A week had passed, and only 500 T55s could be put into battle. I don't think the maintenance speed of the T54/55 can catch up with the speed of the new T72 coming off the production line.”
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" If the next battle takes place within a month, then we will really only have civilian vehicles and brave soldiers left to fight..."
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"Have Ducao contact the angel. We need to know Tao Tie's background. How many soldiers do they have? How many aircrafts?"
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The battle was still in a stalemate. The light spots on the screen were still dimming and disappearing. However, the front army's thoughts were no longer on this battle. Because of the changes in the situation, such as the Commander-level Taotie joining the battle, the front army did not have any missions to assign to the troops below. What they needed to worry about now were the platoon leaders of the frontline troops. They were responsible for thinking about how to destroy more enemies and better protect themselves.
Unlike the last time when the advisors were elated after the victory, when the advisors believed that Earth would win this battle, no one was happy. They were all sad and gloomy. The reason was simple. After this battle, Earth would not have any defensive capabilities for a short period of time. No one knew for sure if the Taotie still had the ability to continue attacking. However, when they thought about the Taotie's first invasion, which was just a test, it was difficult for them to be optimistic that the Taotie would not launch another round of attacks in a short period of time.
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"All participating armored units, report the immediate losses.”
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"Guards 117th Armored Division, lost 122 tanks out of 201.”
" 6th Armored Division, losses…"
“……”
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The losses of each unit were reported one by one, and the smell of smoke in the headquarters became even stronger. The armored forces had not recovered from the losses in the first battle. Now, the losses of the participating forces had exceeded 20% on average. The losses of Taotie were slightly greater, but it was only one-third. Since they didn't leave after they landed on the ground, they had the mentality of killing four to make up for the loss, killing five to make up for the loss. They fought with the Earth Corps on the spot, so the Earth side could easily count their remaining numbers. Out of the 1,100 Taotie that landed in the territory of the Russian Federation, 402 were eliminated.
The situation was much better than what the staff officer had expected. Before this battle, the Russian army had 4,800 tanks. Based on the calculation of two tanks, one armored vehicle, and one cannon for one Taotie, after this battle, the Russian army would have 2,600 tanks left. They could still deal with an invasion of the same scale within a month.
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"Marshal, let the soldiers attack.”
After listening to the statistics of the losses of the armored forces, a staff officer who had previously opposed the attack of the company changed his tone and suggested to Marshal Tymoshenko,
"I thought the armored forces were doomed. Now, it seemed that with the cooperation of the infantry, the combat effectiveness of the armored forces had been significantly improved. It was worth taking the risk to preserve the strength of the armored forces.”
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