Chapter 22: The Armored Regiment Advances

  In the Southern Hemisphere, the sun is in the northern part of the sky but still rises slowly in the east.

  Facing the fiery and resplendent sunrise, Zhong Yi stood upright in a green open-top jeep, silently seeing off one tank after another leaving the base gate, his right hand's military salute never dropping.

  The cavalry regiment left the base at dawn and set out first, their combat goal was to blockade all roads leading to Kalgoorlie except for Perth, cutting off the possible escape route of the Australian 17th Brigade.

  Such a long-distance expedition is inevitable in the vast Australia. The overwhelming majority of Australia's population is concentrated in coastal cities such as Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, the capital of Western Australia. In the inland areas, apart from some agricultural and pastoral populations in the Murray-Darling Basin, almost all are uninhabited.

  Until the last of the olive-green-painted reserve troops left the base gate, Zhong Yi finally moved his somewhat stiff body. It seems that this can't be done in the future, the commander's way of sending off with military salute is indeed very helpful for morale, but fortunately, the scale of the troops is still small now, if it's played like this when building a large armored army group, I'm afraid I'll be the first to die. There are many different opinions among the Red Alert officers about the cavalry regiment's expedition, of course, most of them are worried. Zhong Yi chose to believe in the deterrent power of tanks, the control of the guards, and more importantly, the huge benefits that cooperation with the base can bring to the Smorgon family. The accumulation of capital is a process of plunder, filled with betrayal and transaction, especially the wealth of 20th-century colonialists was accumulated by the blood and sweat of colonized peoples. For a financial group like Smorgon, don't mention nationality or skin color, those are tradable chips, the only thing that can move them is two words: interest.

  Supporting several white families, letting them break the balance among whites themselves, plus the intimidation of the strong military power of the Red Alert base, this is the road to occupying Australia that Zhong Yi has planned. To put it more bluntly, it's tanks and conglomerates, two legs supporting the rule over Australia.

  The route chosen by the reconnaissance car to bypass the Marega Mountains was actually heading south in the Ayles Rock area, advancing along the outer edge of the mountain range to an area thirty kilometers from Golden Mile, establishing a logistics base, gathering tanks and infantry vehicles, passing through the mining area directly attacking the suburbs of Kalgoorlie where the 17th Australian Brigade was stationed.

  The reason why the logistics base was chosen to be located here is that Zhong Yi finally understood what Tianyu said about the Red Alert base control range and detectable range not being the same thing. Each Red Alert base vehicle's control range is a large circle with a radius of 100 kilometers, within which the images displayed on the holographic screen can be accurate to the meter, which is the true controllable range. The detection range with a radius of 1,000 kilometers is relatively vague, and it can only draw a more accurate holographic map and detect the distribution of mines that can be mined in the range. The setting of the logistics base originated from this reason. On the other side of the Maregesefu mountain range, Zhong Yi sat in front of the command control console and could completely monitor it. At the same time, the base's communication system could also directly connect to any combat vehicle. However, the gold mine area just exceeded the 100-kilometer control range, and Zhong Yi couldn't see the battle scene on the holographic screen, which made Commander Comrade very regretful.

  The last communication with the frontline logistics base was at dawn on the second day, when Zhong Yi received a report from Lin Shaobo in front of the command platform on the second floor. "Commander, all units of the cavalry regiment responsible for blocking have arrived as scheduled, and we will launch an attack in half an hour."

  "Still no news from Heba?"

  "Yes, Commander, after Hebal entered the 17th Brigade's camp last night, there has been no news coming back."

  "Damn it, these aristocrats are really unreliable, I wonder if they've been held back by someone?"

  ... Lin didn't make a sound nationwide, he instead didn't think he was being held back, maybe he even stayed there on purpose. As for these white aristocrats, he had no good feelings towards them.

  "Alright, Guo Lin, proceed with the plan and be sure to search for Hebal at the enemy's base. Try to keep him alive."

  "Yes, commander." Inside the tank, Lieutenant Colonel Lin quickly switched the communicator to the command channel, "All units attention, this is 01 command vehicle, all units attention, armored battalion, prepare to attack."

  Thirty-two Type 59 tanks formed two columns and advanced at high speed, with machine guns on the flanks pointing outward, ready to shoot anything that approached the tanks. An hour later, the armored regiment entered the gold mine area, unlike the desert where they could change formation freely, due to road restrictions, the tanks became a single column passing through one by one. Many miners gathered at the entrance of the mines, curiously watching these moving strange iron monsters. Perhaps it was because the Red Alert soldiers' 07 Desert Camouflage uniforms had been exposed during the last raid on the Super Pit Mine, when they saw the tank commanders wearing those colorful and strange clothes, the surrounding miners were shocked, some of whom were holding weapons, quickly hid behind the crowd, secretly hiding their weapons, afraid of being discovered by the "bandits" on the iron monsters.

  Jiang Yunzhi on the command tank of the 02 formation noticed that more and more miners were gathering to watch, not only whites but also many indigenous people. He furrowed his brow, picked up the communication device, "This is 02, all infantry fighting vehicles be vigilant, all tanks pass through the mining area at maximum speed."

  There must be a telephone connected to the city in the mining area, and it's too late to change, so 17th Brigade can't have too much preparation time. But what's surprising is that the armored regiment has been advancing all the way to 10 kilometers away from the military camp, but the 17th Brigade still hasn't reacted at all, which is very abnormal. The maximum elevation angle of the 100mm rifled gun on the Type 59 tank can reach a range of more than 10 kilometers. A unit's camp has already entered the range of enemy fire, and there is no reaction at all. Jiang Yunzhi's eyebrows frowned even tighter, picked up the communicator, "Battalion commander, what do you think?"

  "Yun Zhi, there must be something fishy about this matter."

  "......, shouldn't Hebal... battalion commander, let me try a probing attack first?"

  "No, Yun Zhi, the commander said that the Australian army is still an old-fashioned force stuck in World War I era. Do you think even if they received intelligence beforehand, what kind of weapons can they come up with to counter the Type 59? With those outdated grandfather-level artillery? Order each vehicle unit to be cautious on the move and pay attention to whether there are anti-tank trenches in the enemy camp. Infantry fighting vehicles are responsible for covering the flanks and clearing out enemy infantry. Armored regiment, advance!"

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