Chapter 7: Arinata's Attack and Defense
Alinata is a military city, and tens of thousands of troops are stationed in the ordinary.
In order to resist the tide of Warcraft, the core of the Arinata defense line is the Arinata, and the corpses of Warcraft are overwhelming after every Warcraft tide, in the eyes of merchants, they are all yellow gold coins, so this military city has also become the second largest Warcraft material trading center on the Continental Bridge.
The merchants brought countless prosperous buildings to Arinata, and after the outbreak of the war, the merchants left the city in a hurry, but they could not take the buildings that had taken root in the earth.
It's just that after the huge air raids of the Imperial Air Force, the buildings rooted in the earth have become piles of ruins.
There was only one regiment of garrison in the city, although there was no relatively perfect air defense system, but after many waves of air raids, the regiment still stubbornly survived nearly 1,000 people, and these people became the biggest obstacle to the imperial army from occupying Alinata!
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Lieutenant Colonel Jerome looked desperately at the city of Alinata, which was almost equivalent to the ruins, and his heart was like ashes.
With the two heavenly hearts of ice and fire, such as Lieutenant Colonel Jerome's mood is very suitable!
Two days ago, a Chinese special forces escaped all the way from Bayesk and wanted to escape into the Tianyun Mountains through Arianata, when the Supreme Commander of Arianata was energetic and led his troops to intercept it - as a result, he died in the explosion, and Lieutenant Colonel Jerome took over the command and became the Supreme Commander of Arianata.
If nothing else, he would have been promoted to the rank of colonel in a few days, and rightfully appointed as the supreme commander of the garrison in the city of Alinataβafter all, he had enough seniority to stay in the position of lieutenant colonel and deputy commander for four years.
Finally, when the commander hiccuped, Jerome thanked the Chinese soldiers who killed the regiment commander from the bottom of his heart, and even had plans to quietly erect a monument for the Chinese soldiers.
Energetic.
For the first time, he was able to speak in the whole regiment, and Lieutenant Colonel Jerome was very energetic.
However, the excitement lasted less than 48 hours before the nightmare came.
At the beginning of the early morning, the entire defense line of Alinata was like the New Year, and the brilliant fireworks continued to explode, only the fireworks that exploded during the New Year, but last night it was cannonballs and missiles that exploded.
At the beginning of the explosion, Jerome knew that there must be Chinese special forces lurking around, because only the guidance of special forces can achieve such a precise attack.
Jerome's idea at that time was to send an army to pull out the hateful bugs in the dark, and he couldn't let them lead the attack like this.
Finally, when the bombardment of the missiles was over, Jerome planned to send out the regiment's guard company, and the group of planes came.
The missiles spared the Arinata, but the swarm didn't, and the damned guns hovered over the Arinata, tilting the damn cannon shells, and the whole city wailed under the explosion of the cannon shells.
A fleet of 6 waves is simply an endless bombardment - Jerome has been thinking that the value of the cannon shells spewed out by the group is definitely ten times more expensive than his own regiment, right?
Finally, when the fleet was gone, Jerome also got the casualty figure of the troops: the garrison of 1,800 people, and only 1,000 people were still alive!
Jerome wanted to cry without tears, and planned to attack in response to the call of the division headquarters, by the way, to observe the situation, if the Chinese army wants to do a big job here, he has to find a way to escape, there is no doubt that the Alinata defense line is not saved!
But at this moment, the seventh wave of aircraft came, and the overwhelming group made Jerome hide in the bomb shelter, at this time Jerome was already desperate, he could imagine how empty the defense line that had been ravaged and cultivated, once the enemy parachuted down, the Alinata defense line would be occupied like paper paste, and Alinata City would inevitably become a key attack target - unable to escape!
As soon as the wreaking havoc of the fleet stopped, an overwhelming swarm of spaceships appeared......
Jerome had only one thought: Why did I get so bad enough to become the acting head of the regiment?
"Sir, the Chinese army is attacking!" The report of his subordinates pulled Jerome out of his remorse, and Jerome checked the situation outside through the observation port, and when he saw the overwhelming armored vehicles, he hugged his head in pain.
The failure of the breakthrough battle made the synthetic troops famous all over the world, and the horror of the synthetic troops equipped with a large number of armored infantry chariots naturally spread the crusaders, although Jerome's regiment was an army that defended Arinata and specialized in dealing with the tide of Warcraft, but how could Jerome not know the horror of the synthetic troops?
"At least one and a half regiments ......," Jerome muttered, he didn't know that it was the strength of three composite battalions, but his more than twenty years of experience in the army told him that the army attacking Alinata was at least three thousand men!
His regiment is a garrison army against the tide of Warcraft, and the heavy weapons are machine guns and heavy artillery, but the heavy artillery and machine gun positions have long been reimbursed after seven waves of bombardment, and the small-caliber guns of the regimental artillery have not escaped the bombardment, and now there are less than 1,000 people in the whole regiment, although because of the long-term confrontation with the Warcraft, all of them can be called veterans of a hundred battles, but how can Jerome not understand the outcome of the infantry without heavy weapons cover facing the armored infantry?
To be honest, Jerome wanted to surrender - but once he surrendered, his relatives in the country would be sent to the cross by the Holy See and reduced to ashes in the raging fire, he didn't dare!
At this time, he was even more angry, why would the head of the regiment go to death so hard!
If the head of the regiment hadn't hung up stupidly, the head of the regiment would have been on top of the sky when it fell!
"We just have to hold on and wait for help!" Jerome struggled to describe a pie for his men: "As long as we can hold out for three hours, reinforcements will definitely arrive, and the enemy without heavy chariots will be easily torn apart by our heavy troops!" The Crusaders will win! β
"Victory!"
The soldiers in the ruins responded, but nowhere near as high as Jerome had imagined.
It is clear that the morale of the defenders was very low.
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Attacking Alinatta were three composite battalions of the 5th Brigade of the First Army of the Black Flag Army.
Xiao Lang carefully observed the ruins of Alinata from the command car, and the flickering figure in the telescope clearly told him that the enemy was not completely killed in the explosion.
"Human life is an anxious ......" Xiao Lang sighed, and then gave an order: "All units pay attention, the enemy has organized a defensive line, don't rush forward!" β
"Understood."
Listening to the continuous replies of his subordinates, Xiao Lang focused his attention on the area where his company was about to break through.
The enemy is a defensive line organized by the ruins, and in Xiao Lang's eyes, there are loopholes everywhere, and the pillboxes and the like can't be seen at all, but the houses that were destroyed by the bombs are the objects of headaches for him.
The more familiar you are with urban warfare, the more you hate street fighting.
Although Xiao Lang learned how to fight street battles under Ye Xiao's men when he joined the army, Xiao Lang was still a little apprehensive when he attacked the city in ruins for the first time - Made, the enemy who was enough to hide in the ruins, the ghost only knew where the fire support point was a headache, and where was the place where the sniper cat landed.
There is no choice but to pull it out after testing them one by one.
The armored vehicle slowly moved forward and stopped when it was still four hundred meters from the ruins on the far edge.
There were no expected exposed firing points, and no enemy fire.
"! It's not a loss that he is a veteran who has been trained by the Warcraft tide, and he is not angry for four hundred meters. Xiao Lang scolded secretly and ordered: "1 platoon, move forward slowly, 2 platoons, 3 platoons cover!" The rest of the people pay attention to the battlefield and immediately remove the fire point when they find it! β
A platoon of 7 armored vehicles began to move slowly, and when there were still two hundred and fifty meters from the ruins, the enemy finally could not hold back and began to shoot sporadically, and some rockets flew out of the ruins with their tails and rushed straight at the armored vehicles.
The armored vehicle retreated to evade, and the armored vehicle with the front armor was able to resist bullet fire, and there was no penetration, and the armored vehicle retreated to more than 400 meters away in less than 20 seconds, and at this time, the missiles and rockets of the imperial army began to panic.
The exposed firing points were easily removed by the accurate and messy return fire, and the enemy positions that had just fired rockets were not spared, and although it was not known whether the enemy who was hiding was killed, each position received the greeting it deserved.
"3 rows of cover! The 1st platoon and the 2nd platoon attacked with infantry! After the first shot, Xiao Lang gave the order to attack, and the whole company began to press slowly.
An armored car suddenly exploded when it was still more than 100 meters away from the enemy's position, and its upper body was directly knocked down in the air by the explosion like paper paste, and Xiao Lang's fat hand in the command vehicle grabbed his thigh.
A group marked the enemy, and a rocket nest of the fire branch company directly covered the fire, and fifteen rockets turned the position of the friendly armored vehicle that had just been killed into a fire after 30 seconds.
The offensive continues.
The enemy without heavy weapons can only rely on individual weapons to counterattack, but the accurate firepower of the imperial army makes the enemy very little powerful, Xiao Langlian's attack is very smooth, although because of the enemy's quality, in the half-hour attack lost 4 armored vehicles, but the offensive area quickly fell into the hands of Xiao Langlian.
More than thirty enemies surrendered with their weapons, and more than a dozen imperial soldiers escorted the prisoners of war slowly out of the occupied ruins, just in time to meet Xiao Lang's command vehicle.
"Sweep them away!"
Xiao Lang gritted his teeth and gave the order to the machine gunner, without any hesitation, the machine gunner pulled the trigger, and a tongue of fire erupted from the muzzle of the machine gun, and the prisoner of war was minced in the shocked look of the escort subordinates.
Kill the prisoners!
A soldier couldn't believe that the usually smiling company commander had slaughtered prisoners of war, and just as he wanted to speak, he saw Xiao Lang's chubby head poking out of the armored car: "Hurry up and get to the front for Lao Tzu!" Alinata must be taken down at one o'clock in the afternoon, and Lao Tzu has no spare strength to guard the captives! β
"Yes!"
Seeing Lianza's gritted teeth, the sergeant who led the team immediately returned to the ruins with his subordinates.
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After more than half an hour of attack, Xiao Lang's company, with more than 170 people, lost 4 armored vehicles and killed 21 soldiers.
This is also the biggest reason why Xiao Lang angrily gave the order to kill the prisoner.
The command vehicle slowly drove into the position that his subordinates had captured in blood, and Xiao Lang walked out of the armored car and carefully inspected the position that the enemy had arranged.
There are no trenches, all the bunkers are built from local materials using all kinds of materials on the ruins, although the performance of the anti-artillery is very poor, but the enemy, who is experienced in combat, used the proposed position to make Xiao Langlian 21 soldiers killed!
Although Xiao Langlian has been in the army for more than two years, more than ninety percent of the soldiers are young people who have just entered the battlefield, but what about the enemy? These enemies stationed on the front line against the Warcraft tide, even if they have not killed anyone, but they have all experienced the Warcraft tide more than once, and they have rich combat experience, if they change to an attacking force, the battle loss figure may be higher!
It's just that for Xiao Lang, the commander, such a death rate is too distressing.
Focusing on the front line of the attack again, watching his subordinates attack steadily through the telescope, but the constantly attacking soldiers were shot by the enemy, Xiao Lang has experienced many actual battles in the spiritual world, and he can be regarded as experienced, he can clearly judge that most of the subordinates killed were killed by the enemy's accurate shooting - not by Meng like stray bullets.
"Camp, I need an accurate shooter! Give me a few precision shooters! These good individual soldiers are very strong, and the marksmanship is very accurate, and I need to suppress the enemy with accurate marksmen! Xiao Lang didn't want to see his subordinates being shot accurately by the enemy, so he could only ask the battalion commander for reinforcements.
In Xiao Lang's battalion, there is a precision shooter squad at the battalion headquarters.
After all, the time for the Black Flag Army to rebuild is too short, and elite soldiers like precision shooters are not available in the company-level establishment - occasionally encountering a few soldiers with outstanding marksmanship talents, the battalion headquarters must snatch them away to train snipers, which leads to a great lack of precision shooters in the company-level troops.
Precision shooters are not snipers - snipers can be seen as an advanced level of precision marksmen, but even so, precision shooters are not easy to train, after all, soldiers with a talent for marksmanship have always been hard to find.
The battalion commander replied to Xiao Lang helplessly in the communication: "The 1st Company has transferred the shooter squad away, Xiao Fatzi, find a way to overcome the difficulties." β
Xiao Lang cursed after finishing the communication: "Fuck your uncle's Zhao Runhai!" β
Cursing couldn't solve the problem, Xiao Lang had no choice but to give an order to the attacking platoon commanders: "Gather the brothers with good marksmanship and suppress the accurate shooters on the opposite side!" β
In fact, without Xiao Lang's order, the various platoon commanders who attacked had already done so.
But the effect was minimal.
These fighters who were gathered to suppress the enemy, although their marksmanship was good, but it was only in training, on the battlefield where bullets were flying, and the fighters who had not received special psychological training could not show their marksmanship at all, and finally waited for the moment when the enemy leaned out, but missed the opportunity in vain because they wasted an extra second of aiming.
In fact, it is normal that on the battlefield, ordinary soldiers want to kill an enemy, and two hundred bullets can kill one can be called an elite trump card - many times, a magazine runs out of bullets, but even the person who fired the shot does not know where the bullets flew.
Xiao Lang saw this scene in his eyes, and his heart was even more angry.
"Why isn't it an assault !!battalion?" Xiao Lang roared angrily in his heart, if this was in the assault battalion, how could there be a situation where he was suppressed by a precision shooter?
If his subordinates didn't have the accurate firepower of the synthetic battalion, what kind of battle should this battle become!
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"Accurate shooter! Need Precision Shooter Support! β
The dilemma of the offensive force was seen by the 3rd Brigade, and immediately began to mobilize precision shooters and snipers in the whole brigade, don't look at the establishment of the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Group Army, which is huge, but precision shooters are also scarce - a special squadron was finally prepared, but it was transferred away by the group army headquarters.
At this time, the staff officer remembered: "Sir, the Ghost Blade Detachment is repairing in the No. 4 position!" β
"Turn up the Ghost Blade!" 3 Brigade Commander Hong Tao at this time where can he still take care of the fact that he has no jurisdiction over the ghost blade, the commanders on the front line are all calling for precision shooters, and they can rob one by one!
Special forces, members can be considered accurate marksmen, right?