Chapter 18: The Meat Grinder
The opponent of a sniper can only be a sniper.
But how could the Glorious Ranger Division put together a group of snipers in such a short period of time?
There are more than a dozen sniper teams, which is less than thirty people, but the entire regiment of the Aloka Division may not be able to make up this number.
The imperial army has the most evening training system, and the guarantee of this system is a terrible military investment, not all countries have such military expenditures as the imperial army - the high pension of the imperial army makes the military have to implement elite policies, but other countries, such as Western countries, their labor costs are too low, although there is an elite system, but there is no such a professional training system, and the elite soldier system that relies on the screening of death cannot last long.
Ten years without fighting, the elite system of the Glorious Ranger Division has long existed in name only.
So they can only swallow such a bad result, and let the sniper group use wolf pack tactics to constantly harass them.
And Ye Xiao with the armored troops is like a herd of demonic beasts around him, once the armored vehicles of the Aloka Department chase out of the formation, Ye Xiao will lead the team to pounce, after a precise strike, the armored troops that were blown up by the missiles can only withdraw in frustration.
Four hours!
Ye Xiao took the spy company and the armored car company to drag the Aloka division for four hours, and after the sky was completely dark and the air force was lost, Ye Xiao led his troops to withdraw to the defense line.
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The defense line of the 101st Brigade and the 303rd Airborne Regiment is next to each other, the defense line of the 1st Brigade and the 1st Regiment, in the most prominent part of the entire defense line, the 103rd Brigade and the two infantry brigades airlifted from behind form the No. 2 defense line and the No. 3 defense line, the No. 2 defense line is obliquely recessed, there is the cover of the No. 1 defense line, the enemy must first take the No. 1 defense line, and the entire No. 3 defense line is in the innermost, and it is absolutely safe before the No. 1 and No. 2 defense lines have not fallen.
The enemy, who had been delayed by Ye Xiao for four hours, broke through the siege of the sniper group with a rumbling flow of chariots at night, and appeared 9 kilometers away from the city of Alinata.
Scouts scurrying around in the night kept gathering reconnaissance information, and soon in the front fingers, the enemy's offensive line was marked.
"As we expected, Alinata is a key offensive area, where neither the armored vehicle group nor the combat vehicle group can be used, and it can only be occupied inch by inch by infantry, and the enemy is not afraid of attrition." Brigadier General Xiao Zuoliang, chief of staff of the former finger, said.
"Unexpectedly, it was the 2nd Composite Battalion and the 3rd Infantry Battalion of the 101st Brigade that defended the Arinata. Two battalions of nearly 1,600 people, there will be no problems. Major General Chen Yuwei, the commander of the former commander, frowned and said: "But the intelligence shows that tomorrow the enemy can concentrate at least two divisions, and the forces on our side are always at a disadvantage, four days, and the last two days are fatal." ”
The dilemma of the strength is the most headache for the front finger, the resistance battle must last at least four days, but the front command has only two composite brigades, an airborne regiment and two infantry brigades (in the establishment of the imperial army, the brigade and the division are at the same level, but the number of regiments under the jurisdiction of the brigade is less than the division, the infantry brigade is three regiments, and the infantry division is five regiments. The total number of people is less than 20,000, although there is an advantage in the air force, according to intelligence, the enemy can mobilize a stubborn stone army!
"It's a millimeter of difference!" Brigadier General Xiao Zuoliang complained, the plan always can't keep up with the changes, when formulating the Thunder Plan, the intelligence system was very sure that the Stubborn Stone Legion could not complete the assembly within four days, but after the plan began, it was suddenly discovered that the expected possibility of facing at most three divisions of the Stubborn Stone Legion turned out to be facing a Stubborn Stone Legion!
Three divisions have lost 50,000 men - at least 150,000 in one Stoned Army!
In the face of a full army of stubborn stones, how to hold on for four days?
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The Ranger Division's offensive officially began at ten o'clock in the evening.
After the bombardment of an artillery regiment and a heavy artillery battalion, an armored regiment covering an infantry regiment slowly stepped into the Arinata, and in the half-ruined city, a fierce exchange of fire suddenly unfolded.
Street fighting!
The battle of Alinata City was purely street fighting, the two sides fought slowly for a block and a street, and the armored vehicles could not be used in clusters, and the armored vehicles became mobile machine gun fortresses, and the chariots could only attack alone with a group of infantry.
The battle was heated from the very beginning, and neither side gave up a single street or even a piece of ruins.
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Changman and his men were stationed on the ruins of No. 132.
The ruins were a former hotel, and the five-story building had been bombed again and again, leaving only one and a half floors, and twelve soldiers were stationed on this one-and-a-half-story ruins, but to Changman's satisfaction, the two Valiant infantry fighting vehicles had been deliberately buried with broken bricks.
There is a squad hidden in the infantry fighting vehicle.
"Squad leader, Street 3 is lost, and the 3rd platoon is going to retreat behind us."
The subordinates who had gone to reconnoiter hurriedly came back to report.
In front of Chang Man's squad was the 2 companies and 3 platoons, and the 3rd platoon had been in front for two hours, and in the face of at least two platoons of enemy attacks, the 3rd platoon had fulfilled its responsibilities and now retreated, and Chang Man did not complain.
"Get ready for battle!"
After Changman loaded the Ghost Fire Type 47 rifle, he gave the order, and his subordinates immediately moved into their respective combat positions.
The flares kept falling slowly as if they were not paying for money, and the whole of Alinata seemed to be daylight, and under such false daylight, the enemy finally appeared.
The enemy scattered on the offensive line of several hundred meters looks sparse, but there are definitely quite a few of them, not two platoons, at least one company!
One tank, two armoured vehicles and six infantry vehicles were scattered along the offensive line, slowly advancing accompanied by infantry.
The ruins of No. 132 were accurately stuck in the middle of the enemy's attack, and in such a favorable position, the enemy sent a squad over without thinking about it after seeing it.
"Hit!"
When the enemy reached 150 meters, Tsuneman immediately gave the order to open fire.
Machine guns, rockets, and rifles opened fire in unison, and the tongues of fire engulfed seven or eight enemies in an instant.
The remaining enemy lay on the ground and hid on the spot, and seeing that the ruins of No. 132 were manned, the enemy divided three infantry chariots and an armored vehicle, and the damned tongue of fire began to sweep.
Rumble!
A rocket pierced half of the wall, and while the bricks and stones were splashing everywhere, Luo Yu's roar came from the position on the left: "Du Feiyu's leg was cut off by fragments!" ”
"Pull it over! Pull it over! The meditator shouted from behind, and he was blocked in the corner by tongues of fire, unable to move, trying to get the others to help pull the wounded over, but two squads of the enemy joined the attack, and no one took the time to spare.
Seeing this, the health soldier gritted his teeth, ran a few steps and rolled out of the blockade of the rain of bullets, quickly climbed to the back of the position, and dragged Du Feiyu back.
Rumble!
A rocket exploded next to the health soldier, and when the explosion dissipated, the health soldier and Du Feiyu, who had broken his leg, were gone, and half a corpse appeared seven or eight meters away......
Chang Man didn't expect the firefight to be so tragic, and at this time, he couldn't care about the sacrifice of the health soldiers and Du Feiyu, because the enemy had already attacked less than 50 meters away from the ruins of No. 132.
Machine gunner Xi Guang was in a hurry, pulled the trigger and didn't let go, the rain of bullets harvested five or six lives one after another like a harvester, but retaliation followed, a mortar shell exploded in front of him, and the brave Xi Guang was thrown into the air in an instant, and blood was splashed everywhere on the corpse when he landed.
Two faces, Chang Manban actually lost five people, including the sanitary soldiers, especially after the machine gunner was killed, lost the support of firepower, the enemy has attacked under the cover of the infantry chariot, Chang Man gritted his teeth and hit the infantry chariot, but only one infantry was knocked down, and the only effect of the rest of the bullets was to splash a lot of sparks on the infantry chariot.
"If Zheng Jie doesn't come out again, Lao Tzu's class will be over!"