Chapter 123: Air Mobility?

"Company commander, you can only pass one car at the same time, and there are dense hills on both sides, so you won't be unaware of the risks involved."

Li Lu looked at Zhang Pingshan and said in a deep voice, his tone was already a little uncontrollable anxious. With hundreds of casualties at stake, he could no longer maintain absolute calm. The kind of impact that he knew was a dead end and had to go to a dead end made him struggle even more, but he couldn't tell the real situation.

At this time, the enemy obtained the RPG-18 rocket launcher is still highly classified information, and our army did not find out about this situation until the time of the battle, and at the same time, based on the captured RPG-18, developed its own disposable individual anti-tank rocket launcher (name sensitive, omitted).

Zhang Pingshan's gaze at Li Lu was very complicated, on the one hand, he was surprised and relieved by Li Lu's insight, and on the other hand, he was embarrassed because of Li Lu's ignorance. After all, it was his old subordinate, and it was Li Lu who carried him back from the battlefield, without Li Lu, he would have lived in the martyr's cemetery.

No matter what, you can't refute Li Lu's face on the spot.

After thinking about it, Zhang Pingshan said earnestly, "Xiao Li, I understand your concern. However, when the foregoing refers to the formulation of the battle plan, it was fully considered. The enemy thinks that we will not break through the X Pass into depth, and the more we will have to do the opposite. Operational deployment, the use of troops, the front command is very experienced. ”

Everyone can hear that Zhang Pingshan is vaguely telling Li Lu, boy, don't make people laugh, no matter how powerful you are, you can be better than the staff officers you pointed to?

Looking at the time, Zhang Pingshan smiled and said, "Xiao Li, that's it, you follow Zhao Rongjun's Tiger Company last." This operation is not large-scale, you can rest assured, it's okay. ”

Li Lu gritted his teeth, made up his mind, looked at Zhao Rongjun, and asked, "Company Commander Zhao, the front armor of the 59 Tan can't be penetrated by the four zero fires, so may I ask, can the eighty-millimeter rocket penetrate it?" ”

"This ......" Zhao Rongjun was stunned for a moment.

The others were stunned.

Zhang Pingshan frowned and asked, "Eighty mm caliber?" Anti-tank guns. Reconnaissance intelligence is clear that there are no anti-tank guns deployed in the X-Hill Pass, and there is no way to spread there. ”

Everyone nodded.

In their cognition, if it is 80 millimeters, it must be artillery. Who would have thought that there was such a kind of rocket, and that a soldier could run around on his back, and take off the 80mm rocket that was carried on his shoulder and fired in the same way as a four-zero fire!

Li Lu went out, his tone was very serious, and said, "Company commander, if the enemy is equipped with rockets similar to the four zero fires, but with a caliber of 80 millimeters, it is completely capable of penetrating the front armor of 59 Tan!" Even if we can successfully break through the pass, in the face of those large-caliber individual rockets that can be launched at any position, our 59 Tan will not be able to move an inch at all! The enemy is a reinforced infantry company reinforced with a heavy machine gun platoon, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the tank regiment is only equipped with an infantry company, and the use of infantry to clean up those flies will be greatly suppressed! The consequence of this is that Tank Tan will not only not be able to break through the X Pass smoothly, but will even suffer heavy losses there! Not to mention arriving at 338 Heights to complete the attack, occupation and defense missions! In this way, the entire battle plan will be affected! ”

Everyone was completely stunned, and Zhang Pingshan looked at Li Lu in surprise.

This is a situation that no one has ever imagined.

The current situation of friend and foe presents a state in which we are strong and the enemy is weak, in other words, we have an absolute superiority over the enemy's forces. Troops, firepower, positions occupied, etc., the enemy forces are in a state of total suppression by us. This kind of smooth wind and water situation can easily give people an illusion - as long as you do it, there is nothing that you can't win.

True, the operation was won in the end, but at the cost of hundreds of casualties and more than twenty tanks in the tank regiment. The worst were the reinforced infantry companies, which did not have any armor protection, and when the tank detachments were suppressed and attacked, they were in a state of complete exposure, under the heavy fire of the enemy.

Li Lu remembered that in that battle in another time and space, more than 180 people from a reinforced infantry company only came back, and more than 30 people came back, with about 150 casualties, which can be called the biggest loss after a large-scale battle.

In any case, such a situation must not arise.

At this moment, Li Lu looked at Zhang Pingshan, and from his eyes, Li Lu suddenly realized that even if he told the facts, Zhang Pingshan would not believe it.

Yes, how is it possible for the enemy army to have a bazooka of eighty mm caliber?

If so, the intelligence services would have known about the situation long ago, but none of the intelligence services mentioned anything about it.

Sighing deeply, Zhang Pingshan said in a deep voice, "Xiao Li, what you said is based on your guesses. In formulating this operational plan, the forerunner is based on sufficient reconnaissance and intelligence. Prior to this, the reconnaissance unit had already carried out detailed reconnaissance in close proximity, and the enemy's troop deployment and firepower distribution were clear. There is no solid basis for your speculation. ”

Li Lu's heart sank, and the worst still happened-even if he took a huge risk to point out the facts, Zhang Pingshan still didn't believe it.

"Company commander." Li Lu couldn't give up any hope, he walked to the battle map hanging on the wall, pointed to the X Mountain Pass, and said, "Okay, let's not consider the factor of weapons and equipment for the time being. I am familiar with the X Pass, and it was from here that I infiltrated and entered the enemy artillery positions the third time I went deep behind enemy lines to reconnoiter the enemy's artillery positions. Look here. ”

As he spoke, the baton moved from the X Pass to the southeast, forming an oblique line all the way to the sea.

"Here, stationed the enemy's 315th Division, this division is a marine division, which is the most experienced unit in the enemy's army combat sequence, and has fought several tough battles with the Americans. Do you remember, we almost folded in the hands of this army back then. ”

Zhang Pingshan's memory was hooked, he nodded slowly, and said, "Yes, how could I forget." Or did you carry me back from the battlefield and walked for three days and three nights, three in and three out, otherwise I would have entered the martyrs' cemetery earlier. ”

"This unit can organize a battalion of troops to rush to the aid of the X Mountain Pass in three hours." Li Lu was once again shocked.

"It can't be!" Zhao Rongjun subconsciously shook his head and said categorically.

No one thought it was possible, because the 315th Division was a full 100 kilometers away from the X Mountain Pass. It is a tropical primeval rainforest terrainforest, and the area is so hilly that you can't look at the driving distance with the eyes of the plains.

In the past two years, some staff officers of our army have made this mistake by calculating the marching distance and time according to the custom of the plains, and failing to fully take into account the topographical characteristics of the tropical primeval rainforest, resulting in the inability of the interspersed troops to be interspersed in place within the specified time, which directly leads to the failure of the plan to encircle and annihilate the enemy's main force.

With this lesson in mind, today's commanders are very attentive to the influence and limitations of terrain on the speed of marching.

How is it possible for the enemy to maneuver hundreds of kilometers in three hours, and still a battalion.

Zhang Pingshan smiled helplessly, and said to Li Lu, "Xiao Li, you have been on the battlefield for two years, and when you were surrounded and intercepted by tens of thousands of enemy troops, you carried me on your back and fought three in and three out, marching more than 120 kilometers on foot for three days and three nights. You know the effect of rainforest topography on marching speed. ”

"Yes, I know that."

Li Lu looked at Zhang Pingshan with blazing eyes, and then glanced at the commanders of the company, and spit out a sentence, "What if the 315th Division did not march on foot, but took air mobility to rush to the aid of the X Mountain Pass?" ”

Air mobility?