Chapter 5: The First Battle (Part I)
Last night's night attack was not a failure, but because of Xu Jin's rash advance, the casualties of the special platoon were very worthless - what Ye Xiao needed was for them to guide the attack of missiles and rockets outside the enemy camp, not to touch the heroes who entered the camp and did their own thing.
Xu Jin was dismissed, so he was not wronged at all!
If it weren't for the fact that the casualties were within a controllable range, Ye Xiao would only endure the pain and let the Military Justice Department of the brigade headquarters come forward. As the chief officer, Xu Jin was like taking idiot medicine in last night's operation.
When Ye Xiao thought that Xu Jin was an idiot, the commander of the crusaders was roaring angrily!
Last night's raid killed more than 400 people (the number of casualties learned by the Imperial Army is not accurate.) And what about the results? But the opponent's losses were only a few dozen (obviously there was a problem with the data he obtained, and the defeated soldiers would naturally exaggerate their results,)!
So the next morning, the ferocious attack began.
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"Camp, the enemy is attacking! More than 3,000 enemies poured towards the salient. Equipped with more than a dozen 'divine punishment' heavy combat vehicles, more than seventy infantry combat vehicles and armored vehicles, and the rest of the situation is unknown! ”
The reconnaissance platoon had been watching the enemy's movements, and when the crusaders rushed towards the salient, the first-hand information quickly arrived in Ye Xiao's hands.
"Three thousand? It looks like the enemy has increased his forces again! Gao Shen Shi Kai immediately replied: "Battalion, this is at least two regiments of crusaders, according to the configuration of the crusaders, at least two artillery companies, is it to ask the brigade headquarters for army aviation support?" ”
"Not yet!" Ye Xiao rejected Shi Kai's proposal, the battle had just begun, and there was no need to use it now, after all, in the next 100 hours or so, the entire group army would not be supported, and the killing weapon of the army aviation would still be left to the end, and besides, the crusaders who had lost their air superiority did not dare to use the tanks in a centralized manner, otherwise an air force formation could reimburse a large number of combat vehicles for ground attacks.
Therefore, for the defenders of the 2 battalion of the entire salient, the pressure now will definitely not be too great.
"Order all units to be ready for battle!" Ye Xiao gave the order.
The No. 32 salient is definitely the enemy's main target, and the connection point between the three salients 32 and 33 is a position where the enemy cannot focus on attacking, because this is only a kilometer long sunken connection point, and it is very vulnerable to fire attacks from the left and right sides when attacking, and probably only idiots will attack the connection point when the salient is not occupied.
It is impossible for 3,000 men to spread out on a kilometer-long front, so the defenders of the salient need to face only a few hundred enemies per wave, which is not a problem at all for the 2nd battalion and 1st company - the 1st company is a reinforced company, and the whole company is nearly 260 men.
The battle broke out soon, and Ye Xiao, who was in the battalion headquarters, had been watching the response of the front-line troops, and the result made him very satisfied, and his subordinates submitted him an excellent answer sheet.
Although the enemy's offensive line was covered by artillery fire, there were only mortars and small-caliber field artillery equipped at the regimental level, and such a firepower intensity was no different from tickling for a perfect defense system.
Rockets will be fired in groups of five or six, attacking the infantry in a wide range, while small missiles will be aimed at combat vehicles and armored vehicles, and finally against infantry vehicles with only a dozen millimeters of armor, there is no doubt that the large number of 2 battalions and extremely accurate missiles will allow the enemy to lose almost all the offensive vehicles and a large number of infantry in three minutes.
You must know that the armored vehicles equipped with the 1st Company have launchers for small missiles, and although these armored vehicles are deployed one kilometer away from the front line, for missiles with a range of four kilometers, this distance is only more than 20 seconds of flight time.
After seeing in the telescope that the enemy's first round of attack was finished before it was close to the front line for 500 meters, Ye Xiao showed an extremely satisfied smile, and at this time he was even thinking about how good it would be if the flying puppet was equipped to enter the army in advance!
Although everyone in the entire battalion headquarters knew that their own side had the same bonus to the lethality of ordinary troops, they still couldn't help but marvel when they saw such results in battle for the first time.
"Well done!"
"It's so enjoyable! In this way, let's not talk about holding on for seven or eight days, as long as the supply is fine, we can carry it casually even a month! ”
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The Crusader infantry, who had not yet entered the effective range of their rifles, looked dumbfounded at the covering vehicles that had turned into expensive fires around them, and the courage to attack had all dissipated, and at this time, the enemy commander could only order a retreat as long as the attack was useless.
Retaliation soon came, more than a dozen heavy artillery pieces of the enemy carried out retaliatory shelling, those mortars and small-caliber regimental field artillery were also mixed in and kept firing, all kinds of explosions continued to sound on the front-line positions, although the soldiers were hiding in the anti-artillery bunkers (anti-artillery holes), but the blind bombing made Ye Xiao very unhappy.
"Our unit is being bombarded by the enemy's heavy artillery, can you mark the location of the enemy's heavy artillery and ask the air force to take out the enemy's heavy artillery group?" Ye Xiao directly asked the artillery of the brigade headquarters in the communication system, and the communication system has perfectly integrated a radius of 100 kilometers, although more staff officers and communication maintenance personnel are needed because of this, but the combat effectiveness of the entire army can undoubtedly be perfectly integrated.
The brigade artillery unit has an artillery sighting radar, which can calculate the position of the artillery group based on the trajectory of the enemy's artillery fire.
"Their artillery group is more than 20 kilometers away from us, and it is scattered in more than 20 square kilometers and more than a dozen positions, and we are trying to find a way to uproot them one by one!"
The artillery unit replied.
More than a dozen heavy artillery pieces do not have a position, which undoubtedly increases the calculation time of cluster bombing, but the safety is guaranteed, at least it will not be easily eliminated, and in the case of losing the superiority of the air force, this method is very effective in protecting the artillery group, even if it is touched by the special forces, it is impossible to destroy all the heavy artillery in a short time.
When the artillery unit encountered such a cautious enemy, it could only concentrate the heavy artillery of the brigade and bombard the enemy artillery in groups according to the calculated position, but they were not sure what the effect would be.
Sure enough, half an hour later, the artillery of the brigade headquarters reluctantly reported to the battalions:
"After confirmation by the ground aviation reconnaissance spacecraft, our unit has only destroyed three enemy guns, and the rest of the enemy guns have changed positions, so please pay attention to the anti-artillery."
When Ye Xiao heard this report, the enemy was already preparing for the second wave of attack, and he had already prepared for the defeat of the artillery, because the damn heavy artillery was still bombarding the position of the No. 32 salient.
"It's a pity that there are no short-range missiles!" Ye Xiao complained depressedly that the small missile is two meters long, although the range is only four kilometers, but the length of two meters is just enough to meet the carrying of the front-line troops. However, the short-range missile with a range of 50 kilometers cannot be applied to the actual combat of the front-line troops, after all, the length of the body determines whether this kind of missile can be equipped with the front-line troops, and the short-range missile that can be five or six meters away at every turn is not much different from chicken ribs for the front-line troops.
(It is said that I don't get up early at the beginning of the first month and don't lazy bed for a year, so is my first day of the first month a code word all year round?) )