Chapter 300 Chapter 10 The Great Battle of the Golden Triangle II
The M18A1 broadcut mine, also known as the Claymore personnel anti-personnel mine, is a kind of directional mine, which is the most seriously injured within 50 meters, lethal within 100 meters, and has a chance to encounter the steel balls of the mine more than 200 meters. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The defense forces have no such experience, but the mercenaries have rich combat experience, and there is no position with long-distance warning measures, so it is impossible to protect their own safety, so in the middle of the night, the special forces quietly placed a large number of mines on the ground in the front of the position, in the barren grass, bushes and stone crevices.
The U.S. government has a strategic partnership with the Golden Triangle International Security Company, and has provided a large number of weapons and ammunition, and landmines are also one of them.
The role of the anti-infantry mines was not to kill or injure the enemy, but to create a large number of wounded and weaken the enemy's combat effectiveness, and the Burmese army naturally suffered greatly, and within a few minutes hundreds of people were killed and wounded, and the attack could not help but stop.
"Report to the commander-in-chief, our attack on the town of Doshi has been blocked, the mercenaries have actually planted a large number of mines at the front of the defensive positions, and the losses of our troops are very heavy!" The commander of the forward command shouted with a walkie-talkie.
The mercenaries are indeed rich and rich, and they are all equipped with American standards, and in the area of the frontal defense line of about 400 meters long and 5 or 6 kilometers wide, the mines are densely planted, and a large explosion will occur if they do not take a few steps, and they will be injured even if they are not killed, and it is very difficult for the sappers to clear the mines.
"No matter what the price is, you must break through the defense line in the shortest possible time, this is related to the victory or defeat of the war, that is, fill it with human lives, you have to open up an attack channel for me!" The commander-in-chief of the Burmese army roared.
He is not cold-blooded, but knows the seriousness of this matter, when the other party launches a counterattack at dawn, the Burmese army will lose a hundred times more than now, the war is ruthless, in order to recapture the Golden Triangle region, in order to curb the development of mercenaries, he must make a painful choice!
An E-3 watchtower AWACS aircraft flew to the border, followed by a squadron of twenty-four F-16 fighters, tasked with launching anti-radiation missiles, destroying the opponent's radar and turning the air defense missile system into a deaf and blind man!
In just a few minutes, dozens of anti-aircraft missiles and many radars were all destroyed, and the air defense system was paralyzed.
Before dawn, there was a huge roar in the sky, there was no threat of anti-aircraft missiles, and some impatient strategic bomber formations began to launch large-scale bombing, and the order of the chief of the General Staff was not allowed to bring a single aerial bomb back to the airfield, and there were not many such opportunities to throw as many as they wanted!
The power of Zhenguo's sharp weapons is not a joke, and when it comes to the target, aerial bombs fall like rain, and in an instant, the entire Burmese army's artillery positions, tank assembly areas, infantry barracks, material storage sites, ammunition depots, oil depots, transport convoys, and forward headquarters are plunged into a sea of fire, and the scene is very spectacular.
In particular, the forward command center, because the dense traffic was locked by the early warning aircraft, and the two fighters launched four Maverick air-to-ground missiles after aiming, and they went directly to the sky, and dozens of staff officers, communications personnel and commanders of the command headquarters were left with no bones!
"Report to the Chief of the General Staff, the other side is simply using human lives to clear mines, in more than three hours, at least three standard battalions have been killed and wounded, the passage is about to be opened, and there are still less than 100 meters from the fortifications of the first line of defense!" On an overgrown hillside, a group of special forces were lying on their stomachs, holding infrared night vision devices in their hands, monitoring the Burmese army in the distance.
The sappers are a group of people who have lost their lives, these are all mines with infrared triggers, if in peacetime, little by little can be removed, but the paralyzing this is a war, listening to the deafening explosions in the rear, I feel the ground under my feet trembling, and the commanders at all levels are red-eyed.
If a platoon dies, a company will be replaced, and if a company fails, a battalion will be replaced, and the corpses of the wounded and comrades-in-arms screaming everywhere will be everywhere. The defense forces and mercenaries were not idle, and when the other side was clearing mines, they began shelling this side, and the American-made 100-millimeter mortars and 60-millimeter mortars added up to hundreds of them.
Apache helicopter gunships and Mi-24 Hind helicopter gunships also arrived, and the barrage fire and rocket fire caused the Tatmadaw to lose half a battalion for every metre advanced.
Some of them were knocked off their arms and legs by fragments, some were cut open to their chests by fragments, and some were blinded by steel balls and hit the vital point.
"Brothers, the front is the first line of defense, there were no mines here in the past, victory is at hand, hope is at hand, everyone follow me and rush forward!" The commanders, wielding pistols, led the way to the first line of defense.
"What is the density of the opponent's personnel, and does it meet the requirements of the shelling?" Hunter asked. "On a frontage of 500 meters long and 6,000 meters wide, two light infantry divisions of more than 20,000 troops were gathered, followed by two light infantry divisions, which fully met our artillery standards." said the captain of the special squad.
Gathering so many troops in such a small space is a violation of the taboo of soldiers, and once it is attacked by air raids or shelling, the consequences are unimaginable! But Thompson and Hunter understood that the other party had no choice, seeing that the sky was about to dawn, and when the strategic bombers arrived here, the scene was much more miserable than purgatory on earth!
Rushing to the third line of defense in Dosey Town, Hunter, who was sitting in the command car, picked up the walkie-talkie and said: "Order, the 152nd howitzer battalion and the BM-30 rocket artillery battalion will immediately fire according to the predetermined coordinates and shoot all the shells for me!" ”
The 152 howitzer is not to mention, a bomb of dozens of square meters, a hundred times more terrifying is the Russian BM-30 Tornado rocket launcher launch system, each battalion has four launchers and one loading vehicle, each launcher is equipped with 12 launch tubes, 36 seconds can be launched, covering an area of 0.68 square kilometers.
The four launchers attached to the second brigade-level combat team can cover nearly three square kilometers of land with rocket shells at a time, and it only takes 36 minutes to backfill once, which is a nightmare for the army of any country!
"Alert, the radar detected a group of enemy fighters, flying from the northwest towards the air base, the air defense missile system is ready, the Su-27 squadron takes off immediately, the third F-16 attack squadron is waiting for orders, these planes must not be allowed to approach the Golden Triangle City!" The command tower gave an order to the fighters.