Chapter 412: Siege (Part 6)

Answering is one thing, but the aviation regiment responsible for pinning down the Decepticons soon discovered that this was a very difficult Task.

The two Decepticons on the ground never once shifted back into combat mode to stop and fight back.

This was both good news and bad news!

Chen Zhongyuan was closely monitoring the frontline battle situation from Lop Nur and soon realized this point.

"... Frenzy once promised to provide us with some intelligence regarding the Decepticon Legion and the Autobots. He mentioned that the vast majority of Decepticons and Autobots either lack anti-air combat capabilities or are quite poor at it... So, looking at the performance of these two guys, they must fall into this category..."

"But if they don't stop to fight back and just keep running like this, it's a real headache for us..."

The staff officer also realized the problem; the aviation regiment dispatched by the Air Force was equipped entirely with J-11 fighter jets.

Forty heavy fighter jets, with the coordination of an early warning aircraft, were truly formidable; even if the United States F-22 fighter jets—which had been hyped to the heavens by various countries immediately upon entering service in the last two years—came, they would dare to take them on.

But the two Decepticons below were simply too difficult to deal with. The Missiles they fired could never lock onto the targets, and the test-fired Rockets were quickly proven useless against Decepticons. Even when bullets occasionally hit during low-altitude strafing runs, they only splashed a few sparks, and it seemed they couldn't hurt the targets at all.

The Army Aviation's aircraft soon arrived. The armed helicopter model equipped by the Army Aviation was the Z-9 improved variant. The prototype for this armed helicopter was the France SA-365N "Dauphin" helicopter. Although it was an excellent twin-engine light multi-purpose helicopter, its own airframe was not suitable for conversion into an armed helicopter. Although it received a "magic modification" in the East, the drawbacks were also very obvious.

Not long after, the early warning aircraft transmitted the frontline battle situation truthfully, and everyone in the command center turned black in the face.

"... This armed helicopter is a bit too useless..."

Someone couldn't help but mutter, and everyone fell silent.

The performance of the Armed Helicopter-9 was inherently mediocre; it had few advantages and many disadvantages, belonging to the type that could barely be made to work when there was absolutely nothing else available.

The batch of Armed Helicopter-9s urgently transferred by the Army Aviation were all Z-9G models, which was an earlier and relatively mature improved variant of the Armed Helicopter-9 series.

Its advantage was that it corrected the shortcomings of the previous models, while its disadvantages were poor speed, insufficient range, and a small payload.

As a result, when facing the two Decepticons, all of these shortcomings were exposed.

The newly arrived support armed helicopters could only barely keep up with the two Decepticons, who were dodging incoming ammunition while still moving forward.

And after firing all four carried HJ-8 anti-tank Missiles and eighteen Rockets, the Army Aviation suddenly and awkwardly discovered that they had no means left to hurt the Decepticons.

They had been told before coming that the aircraft cannons were useless, but now they had no choice but to use them.

This wasn't even the most awkward part; having arrived after traveling nearly four hundred kilometers, they soon realized that with their range of only six hundred-plus kilometers, they would soon be stranded if they kept chasing.

The Army Aviation immediately went blind. Chen Zhongyuan, with a dark face, ordered them to withdraw and regroup. Fortunately, along with this Army Aviation helicopter team came an Army artillery spotting helicopter. After a long trek, and then being chased and driven by the J-11s and armed helicopters, the two Decepticons' route inevitably deviated. Although they failed to enter the optimal ambush zone, they did enter several alternative ambush areas.

Seemingly to regain some face for the Air Force and Army Aviation, several Army high-mobility wheeled heavy off-road truck units deployed within Xinjiang, which had already traveled over a hundred kilometers, finally bared their ferocious fangs.

As more and more detailed coordinates were transmitted, one PHL-03 self-propelled rocket launcher after another—wheeled heavy off-road trucks loaded with the S-2 multi-tube guided rocket system—slowly raised their launch tubes and began to conduct ranging shots.

After the ranging was completed, following the report from the command vehicle, an order was soon relayed.

And so, terrifying Rockets roared out like Missiles, raining down toward the target area over a hundred kilometers away.

"Boom..."

"Boom..."

"Boom..."

The explosions soon kicked up pillars of sand that shot into the sky within the sea of sand. The flying yellow sand completely obscured the sky, causing the fighter jets speeding through the air to briefly lose their vision.

However, the explosions continued.

Since the founding of the new China, because of a series of foreign wars such as the Korean War, the counterattack against India, and the counterattack against Vietnam, as well as the standoff with the Soviet Union, they had suffered quite a few losses, and thus developed a severe case of "insufficient firepower" syndrome.

This resulted in a series of weapons independently developed by China in recent years—especially artillery, rocket launchers, etc. —having larger and larger calibers, becoming more and more powerful, and starting to become increasingly insane.

The range of the Rockets gradually surpassed that of short-to-medium-range Missiles, and their power was such that their former teacher—the Russians—had been losing quite a few orders in the international military trade market in recent years; this is a glimpse of the situation.

Seeing that the Army had finally regained some face for the PLA, Chen Zhongyuan, who was also from the Army, felt his expression improve. Staying in the rear command center, he watched the frontline battle situation in real-time through military satellites that had just moved over the target area, and he nodded with satisfaction.

Truth and justice really do have to rely on big guns!

Don't say rocket launchers don't count as big guns; at least they have "gun" in their name!

Just as he was watching with pleasure, suddenly, the command center's communications soldier's expression changed, and he hurriedly notified him: "Chief, Lord Frenzy has entered our communication channel..."

Chen Zhongyuan frowned slightly, but didn't say anything else. He nodded, took the communicator from his adjutant, and held it to his mouth: "Hello, Lord Frenzy, I am Chen Zhongyuan!"

In the communication channel, a stiff, mechanical voice soon sounded, saying: "General, I am Frenzy. After receiving the news of the Decepticon invasion here, I have traveled through the night and have already arrived at the target area. Can you provide me with more specific coordinates? I need to dispose of those two invading Decepticons in the shortest possible time, so as not to let more enemies hear the news and arrive!"

He was using Chinese; although serious, it did not make people feel unpleasant.

Sure enough, as soon as Chen Zhongyuan heard his serious tone, he immediately...

PS

To be honest, writing these two chapters feels like it might offend quite a few military fans. But if you really calculate based on the combat power of the Decepticons, even for mass-produced cannon fodder, with the 2008 Army Aviation and an Air Force aviation regiment, unless the Missiles can hit the target, it is really difficult to severely damage a Decepticon.