Chapter 157: Commando
At about 10 p.m. on January 27, the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet gathered several formations of capital ships and secondary capital ships and began shelling the beach north of Pusha Island.
Immediately, thousands of wooden rowing boats began to slowly paddle towards the beach.
On top of these thousands of wooden rowboats are three infantry regiments and one guard battalion of the 72nd Brigade of the Seventh Division of the Zhenwei Army.
Originally, last night, the 72nd Brigade was the second wave of landing troops, but because the firepower of the Silver Wolf Emperor's ** team on the beach north of Pusha Island was too strong, the landing force of the 72nd Brigade had to return halfway.
Tonight, the 72 Brigade, as the first wave of landing troops, is not the real protagonist tonight.
The assault team led by Xie Dong, commander of the 71st Brigade, was swimming towards the cliffs in the southwest of Pusha Island at this time.
The entire assault team was selected from the five infantry divisions of the Zhenwei Army, with a total of more than 700 people, all of whom were martial artists, basically officers above the rank of second lieutenant, and they also had to be able to swim.
Xie Dong has now been promoted to an intermediate martial artist, and when he selected the commando team in the afternoon, Xie Dong took the initiative to ask to lead the team.
Whatever the reason, the 71st Brigade lost a battle last night anyway.
Where you fall, you will get up.
Xie Dong hopes to lead the assault team to successfully capture the three batteries on the highest peak of Pusha Island, and it can be regarded as comforting the souls of more than 4,800 fallen soldiers of the 71st Brigade.
The cliffs in the southwestern part of Pusha Island are very steep, like a mirror that has been erected, and the shortest point is nearly 300 meters.
To tell the truth, the defense system built by the Silver Wolf Emperor's ** team on Pusha Island was mainly to guard against other beast countries, and they did not expect that there would be a human army that would one day be able to launch an attack on Pusha Island.
And the warriors of the beast clan are short in terms of flexibility, so the army of the Silver Wolf Empire did not think about it at all, someone would climb up from the cliffs in the southwest of Pusha Island.
However, the army of the Silver Wolf Empire has placed several high-power searchlights on the highest peak battery, and two of them are specially designed to illuminate the sea on the side of the cliff at night.
Therefore, the effect of concealment can be achieved, and the commando team led by Xie Dong can only swim a distance of almost 10,000 meters.
In order to avoid the rays of the searchlights, the commandos were not allowed to wear life jackets or carry lifebuoys, and when the searchlights came, the commandos had to dive the whole person into the sea.
In addition, the members of the commando team also had to carry weapons and ammunition wrapped in plastic sheeting and some ropes, even if the members of the commando team were all warriors, and when they swam to the bottom of the cliff in the southwest of Pusha Island, they were tired enough, and there were even more than a dozen members of the commando team, who had an accident on the way.
Xie Dong stood on top of a sea rock and waved his hand to the 18 commandos who were carrying bundles of ropes on their backs, and then began to climb up the steep rock wall.
The 18 commandos had collected medicine in the deep mountains and forests before, and had some experience in climbing cliffs, and each of them wore tools to assist in climbing on their hands and feet.
However, because the cliff here is too steep, during the climb, 6 commandos still fell down and fell on the sea rocks below the cliff, and none of them survived, and in the end, only 12 commandos successfully climbed to the top.
The 12 commandos then connected the ropes they were carrying, and from the top of the cliff, they hung down three long ropes that reached the bottom of the cliff.
As more and more commandos climbed the cliff along the long rope, more long ropes were hung down, and soon the entire commando team climbed the cliff.
After the entire assault team successfully climbed the cliff, Xie Dong immediately asked people to signal the transport ship on the sea.
According to the previous arrangement, once the assault team successfully climbed the cliff, the eight transport ships carrying the entire 91st Brigade of the Ninth Division of the Zhenwei Army would venture to this side of the cliff to support the assault team.
Xie Dong looked at the three batteries that were constantly firing shells a few hundred meters away, and said to the two lieutenant colonels of the assault team: "Lao Gu, you lead the first team to seize the No. 1 battery.
Lao Xie, you lead the second team to capture the No. 2 battery, and I will bring the third team to capture the No. 3 battery.
Remember, at the very least, the batteries must be blown up, and these three batteries must not be allowed to fire on the 91 transports carrying the 8 brigades! ”
The lieutenant colonel regiment commander known as Lao Gu immediately said: "Brigade Commander Xie, you can rest assured!"
The brothers joined the commando, and they all had the determination to die, and if they didn't succeed tonight, they would become benevolent! ”
In the three forts on the highest peak of Pusha Island, each has 1 battalion of the coastal defense brigade of Pusha Island of the Silver Wolf Empire, but almost all the officers and soldiers of the wolf clan in these 3 battalions are artillerymen, and many of them are not even equipped with guns.
Almost everyone in the commando team had a Czech ZB-26 light machine gun, and it was a surprise attack, which made the next battle almost a massacre.
Soon the three batteries on the highest peak of Pusha Island fell into the hands of the assault team, and the 24 220-mm shore defense guns with a fifty-fold caliber inside were also intact.
Among the members of the commando, a lot of artillery was specially arranged, so soon the shore defense guns of the three batteries began to shell the beach north of Pusha Island.
Rofer, the commander of the Third Marine Division of the Silver Wolf Empire, couldn't believe his ears when he learned that the three batteries on the highest peak had been seized by human troops.
Could it be that the human armies flew up?
Roffel then immediately began to organize troops, trying to recapture the three batteries at the highest peak.
However, the location of the three batteries can be described as easy to defend and difficult to attack, and with the persistence of the commando, the first counterattack of the Silver Wolf Emperor's ** team was quickly defeated.
At this time, eight transport ships carrying more than 10,000 officers and men of the 91st Brigade had already come to the sea at the bottom of the cliff, and some officers and men of the 91st Brigade were climbing to the top of the cliff along the long rope left by the commando.
In the temporary headquarters of the Third Marine Division of the Silver Wolf Empire, Deputy Division Commander Inar said in a bit of a panic: "Division Commander, what now?"
If those three forts fall into the hands of the other party, Pusha Island will not be able to hold it at all! ”
The division commander Rofer said with a hideous face: "Immediately order the 33rd Marine Brigade to immediately organize a second wave of attack, and take back those three batteries at all costs!" ”
It's a pity that as more and more officers and soldiers of the 91st Brigade climbed the cliff, the army of the Silver Wolf Empire counterattacked three batteries.
The troops of the 91 Brigade even went from top to bottom and began to seize some of the fortifications halfway up the mountain.
When the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet learned that the three batteries on the highest peak of Pusha Island had been taken down, it immediately sent a number of full-main gun battleships and battle cruisers close to the beach north of Pusha Island to carry out targeted killings of some semi-embedded bunkers to cover the landing force of the 72nd Brigade of the 7th Division of the Zhenwei Army.
After all, the cliff side is not suitable for a large army to land, so the Zhenwei army still has to take the beach north of Pusha Island.
The semi-recessed bunkers built on the northern beach, although they are made of reinforced concrete, cannot withstand the close-range roll call of large-caliber naval guns.
By the early morning of January 28, the Zhenwei army had already seized a foothold on the beach north of Pusha Island.
Without the threat of the three batteries on the highest peak of Pusha Island, the transport ships carrying the Zhenwei Army troops approached the beach north of Pusha Island, and at least four infantry brigades had completed the landing.