Chapter 13: Swallow Your Own Iniquity (Chapter 4!) )
The loss of air supremacy was an experience that the imperial army had never experienced.
But on the far island, the soldiers of the Black Flag Army of the 200th Brigade finally experienced the bad experience of being constantly bombed by the Air Force all day long.
Every time the plane roars overhead, you never know where the bombs will fall, where they will be hit, you never know whether the cannons and machine guns will come to your head, even if you have monstrous hatred, but you can only endure it aggrieved.
Sometimes some soldiers can't help it, and they sweep into the sky with their guns, trying to shoot down the plane, but the big soldiers can't do it with guns except for the technical work of fighting planes.
The air defense battalion was able to do it - after the 200 brigade was bombed many times and more than 120 soldiers died, the air defense battalion finally received an order from the brigade headquarters to launch an air defense strike against the planes in the sky......
The 200 Brigade originally didn't want the establishment of an air defense battalion, but this was an iron formation in the army, and it couldn't be eliminated at all, just like a guard battalion, so Ye Xiao, who was on the hospital bed at the beginning, endured the distress and gave up the establishment of an armored infantry battalion, in exchange for an air defense battalion that he thought was useless.
What is very funny is that the 200 brigade's air defense battalion is equipped with weapons with very imperial characteristics, there is not one anti-aircraft machine gun, but the anti-aircraft gun is equipped, but the purpose is to lay down the barrel flat and use it as a field artillery, and the air defense missile is equipped with a few, but more are small missiles for ground support.
Ye Xiao used the entire air defense battalion as a fire support battalion!
This is actually the practice of most commanders, and there is nothing wrong with the empire - if you talk about air defense formation, each group army has an air defense regiment, this is a real air defense regiment, there is no simple, and there is no sheep's head to sell dog meat, at the same time, the powerful air force of the imperial army also makes the army very dependent and believed, they will never believe that they will lose air supremacy......
There is nothing wrong with this, otherwise how could the whole army default to the air defense battalion as an artillery battalion?
But this time, Ye Xiao pitted himself, and when the air force could only be forced to be a turtle with a shrunken head, the air defense battalion could only watch the enemy planes wreak havoc in the sky.
You must know that the air defense battalion also came bare-assed, and finally deliberately selected some large-caliber heavy artillery to work part-time, and when the air force failed, the air defense battalion was dumbfounded.
When the enemy's planes were flying overhead, the air defense battalion actually had no anti-aircraft fire in their hands - there were no combined anti-aircraft guns that were basically required to be equipped!
Fortunately, there is no shortage of combined anti-aircraft guns in the equipment of the empire to support the Holy Dynasty, and the air defense battalion has turned out the guys who are eating from the mountain of equipment, and the soldiers of the air defense battalion have received basic vocational training, so there is naturally no problem in controlling the combined anti-aircraft guns, but Ye Xiao is unwilling to let the air defense battalion be bombed by enemy aircraft, so he ordered the air defense battalion not to fire.
But in just two days, the enemy planes of the dog day were endlessly wreaking havoc in the sky, even if the 200 brigade built a lot of air defense bunkers, but the death of more than 120 soldiers finally angered Ye Xiao.
Open the door!
Put the anti-aircraft battalion!
Although the anti-aircraft weapons of the empire to support the Holy Dynasty are still full of historical atmosphere, there is absolutely no discount in the degree of sharpness - the quality of the imperial army's equipment has always been strictly controlled, even after being retired according to the requirements, there is still no problem in using it, after all, the retired weapons must be sealed according to the requirements, and the reserve forces will rely on these guys in the future.
When the enemy planes once again came to the position of the 200th Brigade and wreaked havoc, the air defense battalion, which had long been unable to hold back, finally let out its own roar.
Seriously, the fighters of the air defense battalion at this time finally had a feeling of raising their eyebrows:
Grandma's, Lao Tzu learned a skill, and finally don't have to be buried in his career as an artilleryman.
Anti-aircraft shells continued to explode beautiful fireworks in the sky, and although the color was full of gray, in the eyes of the imperial army, this fireworks were too beautiful.
An aircraft with an altitude of 3,000 was directly volleyed into the air, which made the imperial soldiers even more excited.
Grandson, let you be in heaven!
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The wanton bombing of enemy planes finally stopped because of the roar of the air defense battalion, but the air defense battalion was shot in the head by enemy machine guns, and in just one hour, it lost more than forty percent of the battle, and the death of nearly one hundred and fifty people made Ye Xiao have to doubt his orders, but the record was relatively brilliant, ten enemy planes were destroyed, and the imperial army also captured three pilots.
After ordering an artillery battalion to be merged into the air defense battalion, Ye Xiao slowly frowned in the face of the information sent by the reconnaissance force.
More than 300,000 Holy Dynasty troops were wiped out by the Eastern Expeditionary Army!
A bad news can't be worse.
To be honest, the responsibility for this matter really lies entirely on the imperial army.
When the Eastern Expeditionary Army landed, the Noodle Army of the Holy Dynasty basically fled without any resistance, and the one that ran was called fast.
The landing of the Holy Dynasty was carried out everywhere, and there were no large-scale landing operations in one or two places, and they succeeded in creating a myth in the history of warfare thanks to the noodle attributes of the Holy Dynasty's army.
If there is no accident for the fleeing Holy Dynasty army, in fact, most of them will return to the eastern defense area of the far island unharmed, but the imperial army is very angry because the noodle army fled without a fight, and all the high-level leaders, including Ye Xiao, coldly abandoned these Holy Dynasty troops.
The reason why the saying of abandonment is used is because after the imperial army landed, it was completely possible to take the initiative to attack and respond to the defeated army, and it was easy to withdraw more than 300,000 troops plus more than 100,000 servant black troops.
But just like the original idea of the wolf warrior, exchanging hundreds of thousands of noodle troops for a few days of dressing time, no matter how you look at it, this account is cost-effective!
But now look at the original decision-
Ye Xiao could only swallow the bitter fruit with a wry smile, pit, right? Got yourself into the pit, right?
The noodle attribute of the Holy Dynasty army is very strong, but this does not mean that the Holy Dynasty army is a group of maintainers, and the command level is all mentally retarded, and they have seen the practices of the imperial army so clearly, and they have long had a gap with the imperial army in their hearts, it should not be said to be a gap, it should be a chasm!
It is estimated that in the eyes of the Holy Dynasty army, the imperial army and the Eastern Expeditionary Army are bastards of the same nature, and maybe the imperial army is even worse in their eyes!
In such a situation, count on the Holy Dynasty army and the imperial army to be of the same mind? Don't think about it, wash and sleep, the Holy Dynasty army is not at ease, and the imperial army is not at ease, both sides are afraid of being pitted.
If......
If there was no such pit for the Holy Dynasty army at the beginning, on the isolated distant island, the two sides could still snuggle together for warmth, and they could also cooperate with each other to fight, and there were more than 300,000 Holy Dynasty troops, plus the LRA, a total of more than 700,000 troops, even if they were isolated and helpless on the distant island for a year or two, Ye Xiao was not without confidence.
But now it's a good thing, not to mention that there are less than 70,000 left in the Holy Dynasty army, and there are only 100,000 black servant troops left, and there is still such a deep dirt between the two sides and the imperial army......
It's a pit!
Ye Xiao smiled bitterly, what kind of sin he created, why is this bitter fruit so uncomfortable to swallow!