Ultimate Firepower
Chapter 358 - 342 Iron Attack

Chapter 358: Chapter 342 Iron Attack

This mechanized infantry unit is too weak, so comparatively, these few tanks are performing too strongly.

The moment the rocket launcher gunners opened fire, the tank cannons were able to respond immediately, it’s not a matter of aiming accuracy but the tank cannon’s swiveling isn’t that fast, hence, the first two tanks were firing preemptively, targeting the threatening positions they anticipated before opening fire.

For the tank cannons to have such accurate firing while the infantry carried on the armored vehicles is so unskilled, there definitely must be an issue.

Cannon fodder also has its value, no one purposely sends many men to certain death just for the sake of it.

In this confrontation that could be considered as genuine and direct, the role of cannon fodder, of course, is only to attract attention for the real elites and relieve the pressure.

Let the cannon fodder endure a few more cannonballs so that the main force on the other side could endure fewer, even taking on one additional rocket for them is beneficial.

With this awareness, Feng Biao decisively chose to shift his attention towards the rear, meaning the back of a building with no entrance.

Feng Biao ran very fast, with Gao Yi closely behind him, although a bit too close. Even though distance is vitally important in indoor combat, maintaining just a few meters apart wouldn’t make any difference, if struck by a round they all would die, so it might as well be closer.

But Feng Biao suddenly stopped before entering a room, had Gao Yi not had extremely efficient control over his own body, he would have crashed directly into Feng Biao’s back.

Feng Biao didn’t offer any explanations, he just lowered his head, turned to the side, crossed four rooms, then suddenly burst into a room and immediately stood by the window.

Exposing oneself in front of the tank’s thermal imager is highly risky, but Feng Biao now couldn’t afford to care about that.

Indeed, two tanks had already reached less than fifty meters from the office building.

"Damn it!"

Feng Biao couldn’t help but curse, as other than cursing, he really didn’t know what else to say.

Since when would tanks charge toward a building?

Is there such an item as charging into buildings for indoor combat in the tank manual?

Just when Feng Biao couldn’t help but swear aloud, one of the two side-by-side advancing tanks suddenly opened fire.

The canons of both tanks were basically aimed straight forward, firing at less than fifty meters.

Then it was this shot, that made Gao Yi understand the value of Wind Vane.

With a thunderous boom, a big hole was blown through the wall on the back side of the building. Importantly, the location that took the cannon strike was only about ten meters away from where Gao Yi and his team were.

Had Feng Biao not changed rooms, had he not magically and decisively switched rooms suddenly, that one shot would have surely killed all four of them.

Feng Biao seemed to have a magical sixth sense for danger, he always managed to lead everyone away from it.

"Impressive!"

Gao Yi was dumbfounded, Feng Biao’s marvel even made him momentarily ignore the imminent danger, solely focusing on applauding Feng Biao’s marvel.

Feng Biao shouted loudly, "What the hell is going on!"

The enemy responded aptly to Feng Biao’s query.

Anyone with even a slight understanding of tactics and how to use tanks would find the enemy’s current idea perplexing, as tanks shouldn’t be smashing straight into walls no matter what.

But now, the two tanks suddenly altered their directions slightly while moving, they had been moving side by side, but now, both tanks simultaneously moved to either side, leaving the road in the middle clear and sandwiching three armored vehicles in the center.

Feng Biao didn’t need to explain, even the rookie combatant Gao Yi could discern the enemy’s tactical intentions.

The two tanks initially served as shields for the armored vehicles, clearing the way as, with considerable distance remaining, the threats from the office building could only be direct. Having two tanks in front could at least block any rocket strikes from the front for the armored vehicles behind.

As they reached the building, the threat the convoy of two tanks and three armored vehicles faced shifted from the direct front to both sides.

Thus, the tanks moved aside, allowing the armored vehicles to move to the center, the tanks then bore the attack potential coming from either side.

Of course, it’s not possible to avoid risks entirely, but this maneuver blocked at least more than half of potential threats.

It was like executing a stunt, only it was a convoy of tanks and armored vehicles performing, not to underestimate this seemingly simple positional change and tactical coordination; out of all the armies in the world, there are definitely no more than three countries that could pull off such a maneuver.

Certainly, it’s not something Iraqis could master, absolutely not.

Gao Yi understood, but he didn’t grasp the value behind this move, while Feng Biao and Lin Xianghua simultaneously exclaimed, "Russians?"

Gao Yi didn’t understand.

Why would tanks manufactured by Americans, belonging to an Iraqi Defense Army unit, now suddenly be related to Russians?

No one fired a shot, as shooting at tanks with rifles is a foolish act.

Both tanks fired simultaneously, directly at the wall in front of them.

Two more huge holes were blasted into the wall of the office building, and the remote-controlled machine gun on top of the tanks turned in the direction where Gao Yi and his team were.

The tank squad directly faced the rear wall of the office building at a not very fast pace.

At this point, Feng Biao had already moved away from the window, he quickly said, "Americans don’t have this many tricks up their sleeves, they don’t have this tactic, only Russia and Northeastern University play this tank-armored vehicle charge!"

Lin Xianghua excitedly stated, "Russians, it has to be the Russians!"

Armored vehicles carrying infantry charged through the artillery cover area and dismounted to fight in enemy territory, a tactic common among several major military powers around the world, which was not unusual.

But, note this "but," Americans typically used air superiority to flatten ground threats before sending in infantry to sweep the area.

Northeastern University demonstrated precise coordination between tanks and armored vehicles during exercises, but its soldiers couldn’t possibly appear here in large numbers.

That left only one possibility, the Russians, who adhered to the Iron Attack tactic, viewing the armored forces’ charge as their trump card—an indeed it was their trump card—and had elite mechanized troops who had undergone long-term training to pull off this seemingly simple yet extremely challenging tactic that required outstanding coordination.

This was the kind of tactic insiders could appreciate while outsiders could only watch, understood by those who knew, incomprehensible to those who didn’t.

As if to footnote Feng Biao and Lin Xianghua’s judgments, a donkey covered in blood came running in.

Limping and dragging an arm, the donkey, its face half-covered in blood and dust, stormed in.

"Iron Attack!"

Desperation filled the donkey’s tone as he loudly declared, "It’s the Burning Legion’s engineering troops!"

Technical terms, incomprehensible!

However, Gao Yi understood one term.

The Burning Legion?

The infantry was already starting to disembark from the armored vehicles amid the tanks; Gao Yi and his group couldn’t see this, and even if they could, they wouldn’t dare show themselves, for showing themselves would certainly mean getting shot by the tanks’ remote-controlled machine guns.

This was genuinely a desperate situation.

Just then, life-saving hand grenades were thrown from the rooftop.

People from the War Axe Mercenary Group were also present on the second and third floors; they couldn’t just watch impassively as the enemy wreaked havoc below. At this moment, throwing hand grenades from an elevated position was the best choice, almost the only choice.

But they could only wait for the infantry to leave the armored vehicles before throwing the hand grenades; otherwise, it would be impossible to harm the soldiers inside. Waiting until the soldiers disembarked meant they would be shot at.

"I have only five men left—five!"

The donkey sounded desperate as he addressed Gao Yi, "If we can’t hold them back, we’re all done for."

The War Axe Mercenary Group was incapable of stopping the enemy’s advance.

Now, they could only rely on the Warhammer Mercenary Group.

Gao Yi wasn’t panicking, but he genuinely didn’t know what to do.

How do you fight a battle when tanks and armored vehicles have reached the base of a wall?

Do you go at them with a pistol or go smash with a hammer?

Moreover, if the enemy has driven tanks right up to the wall, are they planning to use explosives to completely level the building next, or cover their infantry to storm in through the windows and fight inside?

Nobody knew the answer until the enemy made their move.

At that moment, a voice filled with despair came through the headphones.

"Mines!"

Only anti-tank mines could harm the tanks and armored vehicles.

It wasn’t that rocket launchers weren’t powerful enough, but at this angle, trying to hit the tanks below with a rocket launcher meant having to expose oneself, which clearly, the enemy infantry wouldn’t allow.

So, anti-tank mines were the only choice. Furthermore, the enemy had specifically focused on the front during their charge, blasting from the first to the fourth floor, with firepower prepared long before the charge.

Now, the enemy’s intentions were clear.

Even if people from the War Axe Mercenary Group wanted to throw anti-tank mines, they’d have to move to a middle position and drop them from a window; but at this moment, the enemy once again displayed their exceptional skill.

The tanks didn’t move, but the armored vehicle that had just released several people quickly retreated, then used the machine guns on the roofs to sweep upwards at potentially threatening windows.

Not aiming to kill, but merely to suppress with gunfire.

Capable of turning tanks and armored vehicles into infantry-like entities, Gao Yi couldn’t fathom the value of this action; he only felt despair.

The timing was tight, the angles locked down.

People from the War Axe Mercenary Group still managed to drop an anti-tank mine from a side window directly.

Anti-tank mines won’t detonate just from hitting the ground, but using tape to attach a hand grenade and using it to trigger the mine worked.

The anti-tank mine exploded mid-air, not waiting to hit the ground. If there were a group of infantry below, the massive mine could instantly kill everyone.

However, what remained below were two tanks, while three armored vehicles had retreated to a safe distance, thus the position of the mine’s explosion, though perfect, couldn’t fatally damage the tanks.

Still, the anti-tank mine had some effect.

Since the mine was thrown from Gao Yi’s side, its mid-air explosion wrecked the tank’s rooftop machine gun, and for a moment, the windows that had trapped Gao Yi and his group were no longer a threat.

And that was it, there were no other significant results.