On the outskirts of Cagayan City, 3 kilometers from the front line. ..
It was obviously in the present world, but the cold north wind was tainted with a bit of apocalyptic desolation. Scattered on the street corners
It has never snowed in Cagayan City, and it has never been this cold.
In the dark corners, you can occasionally see homeless people living with stray dogs. The supermarkets on the streets have long been closed, and hungry people are searching inside for edible food. If you come back with a full load, a guilty person may leave money on the empty cashier counter, but most people will choose to turn off the flashlight and leave as if nothing happened.
It doesn’t matter anymore, anyway, the Philippine peso has become useless paper, and both the rich and the poor are starving. Foreign currencies such as the US dollar and RB still have some purchasing power, but no one is willing to sell food and precious medicines.
Yesterday, the Moro guerrillas advanced here again, and this time they came more aggressively than before. But whether they come or not, there will no longer be trucks carrying food and merchandise heading here. After all, a terrifying biological crisis is erupting just a few kilometers away.
The civilians have long since given up their original political stance. No matter who it is, it would be best to end this stupid war as soon as possible.
Whether it is the 14th Philippine Division that blocked Cagayan City or the Moro guerrillas, they are not good things in the eyes of the locals. As for the Star Ring Trade, they rarely appear in the eyes of ordinary people, so the locals do not have any intuitive feeling about these mercenaries whose equipment is comparable to the regular army.
aggressor? Maybe so.
But who cares
In order to prevent the Moro guerrillas from advancing, the 14th Division sent a large number of snipers to the urban area and laid anti-personnel mines in some key locations.
This indeed caused a lot of trouble for the advancement of the 5th Division of the Moro Kingdom. After all, the Moro Kingdom lacked tanks and armored vehicles, and its force composition was almost all riflemen and machine gunners. They had only recently seized a batch of precious things like sniper rifles from the 21st Division.
But it is not only guerrilla soldiers who die from landmines and sniper rifles, but also civilians who have no combat experience. ..
This is the blind spot of humanism.
In order to deal with these troublesome snipers, Star Ring Trade's choice is air strikes.
The stealthy ghost agent pointed the laser locator at the target, and then the Aurora-20 shot over with a cannon, smashing the sniper and the building where he was squatting into a sieve. To avoid civilian casualties. Jiang Chen ordered Jinli to avoid using aerial bombs in the city.
It's not out of kindness, but to prevent the international community from speaking out against the Star Ring trade.
But even so, these snipers were still delayed for two days.
But this situation will soon end.
On the evening of December 31st.
The Star Ring Trading Operations Command issued a general offensive order and launched an attack on Cagayan City on New Year's Day. Annihilate the Philippine Army's 14th Modern Division and the tank brigade that came for reinforcements, and strive to seize control of Cagayan City before 0:00 on January 2!
The attack started first with the rocket launchers of Star Ring Trading.
The EP rocket exploded over Xicheng District, Cagayan City, completely destroying the electronic equipment of the 14th Division.
However, the 14th Division is the elite of the Philippine Army after all. As soon as the rocket launcher took off, a counterattack was launched against the artillery position of Star Ring Trading. Eight 155mm artillery pieces almost destroyed a hill, but before even two shots were fired, they were reduced to scrap by Aurora-20 missiles.
In order to avoid the air strikes from Star Ring Trade, the Philippine Army racked their brains and came up with some ideas. For example, infantry cannons were wrapped in gray cloth strips and turned into seeds, tanks were broken into pieces and hidden in buildings, and they waited until Moro guerrilla soldiers approached before launching an attack...
However, when the EP rockets arrived on the battlefield, all these tricks lost their effect.
Without the observer's reporting point, the artillery can only rely on ranging smoke and intuition to fire.
The condition of the tank brigade is not bad. Thanks to those backward weapons and equipment, the "Scorpion" reconnaissance tank as the main force was originally a thing of the last era. Although it is not designed with anti-radiation and anti-EP functions like modern tanks, it still seems like nothing happened after being exposed to EP. After all, apart from a communication device, there are no advanced electronic products that can be destroyed on this tank.
The 14th Division faced the same situation as the defeated 21st Division. All electronic equipment collapsed and the command system was completely paralyzed.
At the same time, flares rose into the sky, lighting up the dark night sky southwest of the city. With the cooperation of vehicle-mounted machine guns, the infantry of the Moro 5th Division, whose morale was high, began to attack, like a straight punch to the face of the elite 14th Division.
the other side. The southeast side of the city, supported by the southwest side, was as dark as death.
500 Star Ring Marines, airlifted by dozens of heavy transport aircraft, airborne at the edge of the zombie-occupied area.
Because he has been injected with E-level genetic medicine. These soldiers are completely immune to the zombie virus, so they don't need to worry about infection even if they don't wear protective clothing.
With the help of night vision devices, these 500 soldiers and thousands of Hummingbird drones were like sharp blades in the dark, piercing the hinterland of the 14th Division's defense area. Under the guidance of Sky Eye
This night. The soldiers of the 14th Division deeply understood the fear of asymmetric warfare.
The F-5A and Mustang attack aircraft on standby at the Manila Air Force Base refused to take off, and the FA-50 fighter jets were unable to defeat them. Everyone knew that this would be a death flight with no return.
Santos still has some regrets about this, but he has seen the terrifying harvesting ability of Aurora-20. In addition to the fact that the F35 and other fifth-generation aircraft on the USS Stennis aircraft carrier can pose a limited threat to it, no matter how many paper planes there are from the Philippines, they will still be destroyed.
At six o'clock in the morning, before dawn, the fighting in Cagayan City was basically over.
The defeat of the 14th Division was a foregone conclusion. Both the tank brigade and the mechanized brigade surrendered to the Moro Kingdom. There were only a dozen snipers left in the city who were fighting on their own and still resisting.
Abandoning the 11th Infantry Brigade that was resisting near the safety zone, Airi Bailey boarded the transport freighter docked at the port.
Due to the blockade in Cagayan City, these cargo ships were detained in the port and were prohibited from going to sea until the blockade order ended.
This order was signed by Aquino himself, but at this moment, the war was burning, and Ali Bailey could no longer care so much.
Led more than 30 Guards soldiers and several trusted officers, he woke up the crew members detained at the port and urged them to board the freighter and sail.
The flames of war soon found their way to the safety zone. Driving on the Bohol Sea, looking at the city of Cagayan that had turned into a black dot on the horizon, Ali Bailey slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
Although the accountability from the presidential palace and the media may make him have a difficult time in the next six months, at least he does not have to become a prisoner of the guerrillas, which still gives him some relief.
"How long until we get to Cebu?"
"There's about an hour left... Damn it, I finally understand why the 21st Division lost contact." Standing next to him, Sergeant Kaweiler, who was still in shock, swallowed and spit.
"That weird rocket."
Ali Bailey's face was full of gloom.
Philippine soldiers did not lose in tactics and will, but in weapons technology. However, the latter gap is the most powerless. The former can be solved through training and ideological work, but the latter cannot be solved in a short time.
Unless the United States risks angering China by deploying Patriot 3 air defense missiles in the Philippines and selling F35 fighter jets to the Philippines, they have no chance of winning.
But then again, even if the United States is willing to sell, they may not be able to afford the money to buy it. An F35 costs more than 100 million. If the Philippines spends all its annual military expenditures, it can buy two F35s. This is an economy supported by exporting bananas.
Just when Ali Bailey was thinking about how to deal with Aquino's rebuke, he did not realize at all how conspicuous the ship he was riding on was overlooked by the Sky Eye X1 observation satellite. (.)