Chapter 5: Erase from the face of the earth
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"Quick! Fast! Someone rushed over and killed that cannon! Can't let him shoot! We can't let these demons continue to wreak havoc on our city! ”
The Ishbals inside the building saw the hideous cannon on the opposite street and immediately ran out of the building. Ignoring the still whizzing machine guns and semi-automatic rifle bullets outside.
Flee from the door and take your life.
"Tutu Bump Tu Bu
12.7 mm machine gun bullets came from a machine gun position 100 meters away, knocking out all the Ishubars who rushed out of the building, and the powerful fire of a row of ten machine guns completely blocked the building's escape route. Any rebel who wants to break out of the siege can only be sacrificed to bullets.
Machine guns fired wildly at the same time.
A large-caliber direct-fire cannon was pushed from the road by Estes's soldiers and aimed at the fortifications and complexes of the Ishbal rebels, three hundred meters away.
"Bang! Bang! ”
A high-velocity armor-piercing projectile was fired from the slender barrel and accurately hit the building three hundred meters away.
The load-bearing walls of the stone building were hit, and one wall was blown out of it with several rebels hiding inside. Fall to the ground and turn into pulp.
The structure of the entire house had been broken, and it would be almost impossible to hide from the enemy, but the artillery did not seem to be satisfied, and reloaded again, aiming at the remaining half of the load-bearing wall, and another shot came.
With the roar of a high-explosive bomb hitting the load-bearing wall, the entire three-story building completely collapsed.
Lying on the ground, he buried a dozen or so Ishbals under the rubble who had not had time to escape.
"Next goal! Two-storey residential building at one o'clock. Reload high-explosive shells! Get ready...... Fire! ”
"Bang!"
Another large-caliber high-explosive shell accurately entered the residential building, and the roof of the two-story residential building was directly knocked off by a shell. The walls collapsed to both sides without any suspense.
"The target below, the abandoned barricade at eleven o'clock, reload the armor-piercing shell!"
"Bang!"
But this time, before they could open fire, another direct-fire gun next to them opened fire first.
The stone barricade was hit by the armor-piercing bullet, which made a huge hole. The Ishubars hiding inside were killed by the impact of the explosion, two of them were cut in half and lay in a pool of blood.
"Artillery brothers in front! Hurry up and retreat! Long-range artillery is going to wash the floor! ”
The infantry walkie-talkie communicator who followed behind the cannon shouted to several artillerymen pushing the cannon and preparing to move on, telling them to be careful of shrapnel killing.
"Repair-boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
Sure enough, less than three minutes later, two hundred meters away, the area controlled by the Ishbal people was again bombarded by artillery fire from the southern mountains.
Even from two hundred meters away, I watched the stone chips and rubble flying in the city's residential areas, and listened to the dense cannon sound that almost deafened my ears and felt the screams of the Ishbars coming from the city.
The soldiers had no doubts about the power of the bombardment.
The annihilation operation of the First Region has been going on for a week, and in the past week, the three or four regiments of the First Region have been reorganized in Estes, and under the Esdes complete annihilation operation plan, they have been steadily and steadily encroaching all the way from the south of the city to the north of the city.
That's right, cannibalization, neither assault nor defensive infiltration, but encroachment.
With countless ammunition and heavy firepower, it steadily advanced in all directions.
With long-range artillery fire, with direct-fire cannons, with mortars, with recoilless guns, everything you see in front of you is razed to the ground.
Rifles, machine guns and snipers, who are responsible for killing people and suppressing the enemy, and artillerymen, are used to annihilate cities.
The orders given by Estes to his men were:
"Use up all the shells and explosives in your hands! Wipe the city of Ishbal off the face of the earth! ”
Although the troops of the hunting regiment have undergone two years of training, they are bound to suffer heavy casualties in street fighting, and if they want to destroy the enemy at the minimum cost, they must give full play to their superiority -- absolute superiority in firepower.
Since entering the city, Estes has changed some of the rules of the front.
Each soldier was to carry ten kilograms of explosives and five grenades, ready to destroy enemy buildings.
Each platoon is equipped with a recoilless gun, and a mortar.
Each company had two large-caliber cannon groups advancing in tandem.
Each company could provide artillery support directly by radio contact with the rear artillery units.
The soldiers of the three regiments were broken up by Estes and directly assigned to the hunting regiment under Estes, so that the previous officers were directly promoted to one level. The hunting regiment was also directly transformed into a brigade from its establishment.
After attaching a large number of artillery units abandoned by friendly forces, in just one week, without the support of national alchemists, it basically caught up with the advance speed of friendly neighbors in three weeks. The results were amazing.
The friendly forces were initially too fast as they advanced, and there were a large number of Ishbaal strongholds left behind them in the city. As a result, the final dog-tooth intertwined formation, so that the regular army was completely unable to exert its organizational and artillery strength, and it became a melee.
In the melee, the terrain was dominant, and the side familiar with the terrain had an advantage, and the Ishbals had a better area than the Amester Storis army in the city since they were young, so the rapid assault troops with brilliant results at the beginning completely became the target of the enemy troops hiding in the buildings in the city, and suffered heavy casualties from the enemy.
At this time, as a normal commander, he should order a retreat, but then there is a method that most officers do not approve of, spit out the previous results.
At this time, when they looked at the first region again, the area that Estes was in charge of, they understood why Estes had been bombarded for two whole weeks before entering the city, and even then he had brought an astonishing number of direct-fire guns to the front line to directly participate in the attack.
Step by step, it is gradually encroaching.
It seems tepid and slow, but when one sees Esdes' soldiers fighting, it is in the whole of Ishbaal, and there is no unit fighting more than Esdes's soldiers.
For the area ready for annihilation, the first is a long period of long-range artillery intensive shelling, and then the scout sniper comes forward to observe the radio report and correction, and guide the artillery to continue the second shot to eliminate the fish that have slipped through the net.
Then under the cover of intensive fire from machine-gun snipers, the direct-fire guns constantly fired at the buildings erected in front of them. Until the building is completely destroyed.
In the troops of Estes, the destruction of the enemy is not the main task of the front-line troops, the destruction of the city is theirs.
All the targets were at a distance of three hundred meters from them, and at such a distance the Ishbals could not launch a surprise attack on Esdes's troops, at which time the cannons with protective plates fired at the enemy's fortifications and buildings, the snipers and machine guns suppressed all the enemy's firepower, the mortars and recoilless guns combined with the attack on the enemy's fire points to eliminate the fire points, and the task of completely destroying the buildings was basically given to large-caliber direct-aim cannons and long-range artillery, and occasionally to infantry and sappers to detonate with explosives.
The buildings and cities on which the defenders depended in urban warfare and street fighting were radically wiped out by Estes' forces.
Do not leave a little respite and a place for the enemy to hide.
"Hit!! Destroy the Amestorians! Kill! ”
What if you run into a large number of enemies while searching forward?
"Infantry retreat! Call in remote artillery fire to completely cover the area! ”
"Repair-boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
Needless to say? Call the artillery to bomb again! How many enemies will be left alive by the time all the houses and buildings have been plowed over?
Then let the experienced reconnaissance team and sniper team come forward to reconnoiter and confirm the results of the shelling, and if you can't blow it up again! Until the enemy is completely wiped out, and the target complex is completely blown up and razed to the ground.
In the rear, Estes brought in a large number of engineering bulldozers to clear the stubborn ruins that could easily be used as strongholds.
At the same time, it also cleared the way for the advance of the cannon artillery units.
"Demons! Kill these demons! The demons who destroyed our city! Boom! Yes!!! ”
Under the baptism of overwhelming superior artillery fire, the area under the responsibility of Estes has completed a tenth of the suppression.
Second, the area where the repression was completed was completely completed, because all the buildings here were razed to the ground.
The rate of annihilation of the Estes forces has caught up with the average speed of the other units, and the number of casualties is much lower than that of the other units.
The whole front and the battle had been formed and had been put in order, while commanders in many other areas were still vacillating whether to retreat and rest.
It's not a decision for everyone to give up what they're getting and start from scratch.
And Estes's massive campaign to level the city will continue.
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