Chapter 278: Long-Eyed Cannon
It was already dawn, and the Skeletons' attack was progressing extremely smoothly, with almost all of the companies arriving in the AA area at a marching rather than combat-ready pace.
The so-called AA area is the key target that Gao Yang has planned from the beginning that they must take, and after confirming that the AA area and the core control area of the Mocadi faction almost overlapped, now all the troops have already moved towards the AA area, and before it is dark, they have already exchanged fire with the core force of Mocadi.
After the Skeletons advanced to the area near the port in Bosusa, the offensive was finally stopped, but now the Skeletons had the advantage in numbers, and there were about a thousand people willing to join the Skeleton Gang to participate in the attack on the area that Mocardi finally controlled.
By ten o'clock in the morning, the battle was still raging, and the soldiers of the Skeleton Gang had been fighting for more than eighteen hours without resting, but the morale of the Skeleton Gang did not need to rest, they could take the whole of Bososa in one fell swoop.
The Vulture Mercenary Regiment has caused a lot of casualties to the Teaching Company, with eighteen dead, twenty-two seriously wounded, and twelve lightly wounded but unable to continue fighting, the Teaching Company has now been reduced by more than half, and the entire standing army has now only lost thirteen people, and the number of casualties in the Teaching Company is much higher than that of the other companies combined.
Fortunately, the Mocadi faction also has a vulture mercenary group that can fight, although the teaching company paid a heavy price, but also basically wiped out the vulture mercenary group, after the battle, they found sixty corpses belonging to the vulture mercenary group, and four seriously wounded, although a few people ran away. But there is no need to think about what threat the vulture mercenary group will have.
The teaching company suffered heavy casualties. But they still have to play a key role. So Gao Yang simply added the entire Seventh Company to the Teaching Company.
Now the reinforced teaching company is attacking a street entrance, as long as it can take the street entrance, it can directly face the area where Mocadi is hiding, but Gao Yang has not given the order to attack, because he is still waiting for news of the landing force.
Gao Yang thought that when the landing force launched an attack on the dock, he would order all the companies to attack at the same time, but let the fleet arrive at the designated position, and then draw three platoons from several other companies. This delayed a lot of time, so it was not too early to wait for the reinforced Eighth Company and some of the heavy firepower assigned to the Eighth Company to board the ship.
Gao Yang held up the binoculars, looking a little anxious, the teaching company was completely able to take the entire street entrance with one body, but had to wait for the news of the landing force and could not launch a general attack, when Gao Yang was patiently waiting for the news, his headphones finally heard the voice of the commander of the eighth company, Muhe.
"Sir, we have entered the harbor area and have not been attacked. I'm going to attack right away, so please instruct. β
Gao Yang immediately said loudly: "Attack immediately." Attack as fast as you can, and don't let any ship go! β
Muhe was the commander of the Eighth Company, who had been a pirate for a long time, and now he was in charge of launching the landing operation, although he did not know if he could complete the task given to him, but Gao Yang had no other choice.
After ending the call with Muhe, Gao Yang soon heard an explosion from a distance, he knew that this was the mortar and rocket artillery that Muhe was carrying had already fired, and Gao Yang was waiting for this time, he said loudly on the walkie-talkie: "All troops are attacking in an all-round way, and take the AA area as quickly as possible!" Be careful, if you encounter strong resistance, call for support immediately! β
After Gao Yang's order, the general attack began, and the mortars began to smash shells at the street intersection in front of Gao Yang, and after Li Jinfang shouted, the soldiers of the teaching company immediately rushed towards the street intersection only 200 meters away in a straggler line in groups of three.
When the two squads of the teaching company approached the street crossing, the mortars immediately extended their fire backwards, and the two squads reached the position at the street entrance with just one charge, and several groups of three supported each other, and it took almost less than three minutes to completely take the position at the street entrance.
As soon as the position at the intersection of the street was taken, the soldiers of the teaching company began to shoot at the enemy troops in the streets on both sides, and the heavy machine guns left behind by the enemy came in handy at this time, and were used by the assault groups of two squads to consolidate the positions that had become theirs.
Seeing that the street corner had been taken, Li Jinfang immediately asked the rest of the people to pounce over, and they wanted to spread out from the street corner to both sides, so that they could quickly break through the enemy's last line of defense.
Li Jinfang sent two platoons, because the streets could not accommodate more people, and if all of them were sent up, the formation would be too dense.
After watching the two platoons scatter and attack on the two flanks, Gao Yang hurriedly said, "Let's go up." β
And Li Jinfang waved his hand at this time, and the rest of the teaching company immediately rushed towards the corner of the street, and at this time Gao Yang also rushed out with a gun, and Li Jinfang, Grolev, Fry, and Bruce were all by Gao Yang's side, and they wanted to take the remaining troops of the teaching company and plunge them into the enemy's heart like a sharp knife.
As he was about to reach the corner of the street, Gao Yang heard a familiar but distinct voice, and then Grolev shouted hoarsely: "Lie down! Mortar! β
Hearing Grolev's voice, Gao Yang fell to the ground with a dive, and almost at the same time, the people around him also fell to the ground, followed by an explosion, Gao Yang saw that a heavy machine gun position on the street corner was directly hit by a shell, and four or five soldiers hiding in the bunker of the machine gun position were thrown into the sky like rag dolls.
"82-mm mortar, 2B14, enemy artillery!"
Grolev actually didn't need to shout, and he knew that this must be the enemy's artillery, because the mortars of the Skull Gang were all Type 63 60mm mortars made in China, and the power and sound were very different from the enemy's artillery, not to mention that the shells had already fallen.
Gao Yang couldn't help but be taken aback when he saw a heavy machine gun position hit by a bull's-eye directly hit by a shell, because the enemy's artillery was too accurate.
Before Gao Yang could get up and get up, there was another chirp in the sky with a long sound, and then another shell fell straight into the ring fortification of another machine-gun position, and with an explosion, the second machine-gun position was blown up into the sky with guns.
It's too accurate, the first machine gun position is definitely not blind, and the cold sweat wets Gao Yang's back in an instant, the mortar, this is the nightmare of the infantry.
Grolev then shouted: "Long-eyed cannon! The enemy has a long-eyed cannon! Rush over, hurry, rush over, stay here and wait for death! β
Gao Yang suddenly got up from the ground and continued to run towards the corner of the street, now they did not know where the enemy artillery came from, they could only hope that they could finish the enemy gunners or mortars, and if they stayed in place, one more shell would fall and they would all have to finish the game.
When Gao Yang and the others rushed to the corner, Gao Yang looked to the sides, but found no mortars, and at this moment, another scream sounded in the sky, and then the shells exploded in the crowd attacking the street on the left, and in the most dense places.
As soon as he saw where the shells fell, Grolev's face turned white, and he immediately roared: "Run back, run back!" β
Grolev is the most experienced veteran, he has experienced many battles in which his comrades beat the enemy with mortars, and he has also experienced many moments when he was beaten by enemy mortars, so Gao Yang never doubted Grolev's judgment.
Turning his head and running back, he didn't forget to greet the soldiers who still couldn't figure out the situation, but he ran back more than ten meters, and Grolev, who was behind Gao Yang, suddenly shouted: "Lie down!" β
Gao Yang had just fallen down when the cannonball fell, only to feel a sudden shock on the ground below him, and a cannonball exploded less than ten meters in front of him, which was also the densest area of the crowd.
Gao Yang's brain was confused, the enemy's mortar rate of fire was not too fast, but it was accurate and scary, each cannon exploded in the deadliest place, Gao Yang had never seen a mortar so deadly.
"Run, keep running!"
After hearing Grolev's words, Gao Yang gritted his teeth and continued to run forward, but this time no shells fell again, and after running for more than fifty meters, no shells fell, and listening to the sound of shells, the enemy had already turned the target of the shelling to the people who were still fighting in the streets.
Almost at the same time, Li Jinfang shouted to disperse the crowd that was still gathered, while Gao Yang shouted on the walkie-talkie: "The enemy has mortars, pay attention to the artillery attack, disperse, not too concentrated!" β
After waiting for Gao Yang to finish speaking, Grolev immediately said urgently: "The enemy has a long-eyed cannon, it is absolutely impossible to fight like this, judging from the time difference between the sound of the cannonballs and the falling of the cannonballs, the enemy's artillery is hidden in the built-up area, which is relatively far away from us, so they must have an observer, and the observer's line of sight cannot see us here, otherwise, now the shells have fallen, God, they have planned the firing range in advance, and then they can shoot the long-eyed cannon just by relying on the observer to provide a few jΓΉ, What kind of gunner is this! β
Li Jinfang also came to Gao Yang's side, with a look of urgency, and said: "Either kill the enemy's man-finding artillery, or kill the enemy's observers, otherwise you can't fight." β
Grolev's long-eyed cannon, or Li Jinfang's statement is to find people, refers to extremely accurate mortars, and the shells shot by the sharpshooter are like looking for people with eyes, so they are called long-eyed guns or man-finding guns, anyway, they all mean the same thing, and it doesn't matter what it's called, but if you have a sharpshooter who can shoot a man-finding cannon, it is the gospel of the infantry, but if the gunner who shoots the long-eyed cannon is on the enemy's side, it will become an absolute nightmare.
Gao Yang immediately said in a deep voice: "It must be another mercenary group, their number will not be too many, and it must be white, find out their observers, kill their observers!" (To be continued......)