Chapter 765: Night Attack II
"The forward tank brigade, open an attack channel for me, even if you lose all the tanks, you must enter the opponent's position within ten minutes, I can't shoot you!" Lieutenant General Diff was immediately anxious when he saw the situation in front of him, and with this round of rocket artillery concentrated fire, the coalition forces could lose one-tenth of their strength.
The armament of the coalition forces is incomparable with that of the Afrika Korps, but they are all American-style equipment, even if it is the first armored division of the United States, a total of nine M270 rocket launchers, who knows that an armored division of the Afrika Korps actually has the equipment of a battalion, which is the standard number of an American army group.
In addition, the Afrika Korps also has an air force that can be ready to support them, and those fighters and bombers are not decorations, especially the A-10 attack aircraft, which is known as the natural enemy of the armored forces! The longer the time drags on, the more disadvantageous it will be for their side, and they would rather sacrifice a tank brigade than force their way out.
With a roar in the sky, a group of dozens of Apache helicopter gunships rushed over the battlefield, and helicopters equipped with night vision equipment fired Hellfire anti-tank missiles at the main battle tanks. This world's most advanced helicopter gunship, with four hardpoints, can carry 16 AGM-114 Hellfire anti-tank missiles, which can theoretically destroy 16 main battle tanks.
"This will not work, order all the infantry to get out of the car, run and march to the airfield to attack, pay attention to dispersion and concealment, the task must be completed before five o'clock, all transport vehicles quickly retreat, find a hidden place to hide, all rocket artillery units and self-propelled artillery units, immediately fire at me!" Lieutenant General Diff ordered.
The 1st Armored Division and the 1st Mechanized Infantry Division of the Afrika Korps were suddenly shelled, the ground shook and the earth was splashed, and the coalition forces also had dozens of self-propelled howitzers and self-propelled rocket launchers, and the rocket artillery was also M270 multiple rocket launchers, which was the NATO standard equipment contributed by the United Kingdom.
"Paralyzed, the opponent's reaction speed is very fast, as soon as we finished firing, they opened fire, and ordered the fighter group and bomber group to immediately rush to the combat area and carry out saturation bombardment on the enemy's artillery units!" Hunter stood on a dirt slope not far from the airport, followed by a communication command vehicle and a mobile ground station for drones.
The 1st Armored Battalion of the 1st Armored Brigade of the 1st Armored Division of the Afrika Korps, equipped with the M1A1 Abrams main battle tank, first opened fire on the enemy, which is the first army to receive modern armored training, and it is also the trump card of the Afrika Korps Armored Force.
The 1st Armored Battalion, which rushed to the forefront, used tail stabilized armor-piercing shells from the United States, 120 mm M-256 smoothbore guns, which could fire directly at a distance of 1,700 meters, plus the most advanced fire control system, especially the assistance of ballistic computers, and in just one salvo, more than 50 Centennial Captain main battle tanks lost their combat capability.
The mercenary regiment has always believed that the best defense is to attack, and the two armored brigades did not hesitate to rush into the enemy's tank cluster, using their rough skin and advanced technology to carry out close strangulation battles against the enemy's main battle tanks.
One of the most tragic army offensive and defensive battles at the beginning of the 21st century began, more than 50,000 veterans of the coalition army, launched an attack on more than 30,000 recruits at the airport, the sound of gunfire and artillery was deafening, and just when it entered the white heat, the senior management of the mercenary regiment finally received a call from the boss.
"The 1st Air Assault Division and the 1st Mechanized Division of the Afrika Korps are defending in situ, the Cossack 1st and 2nd Mechanized Infantry Divisions of the Eastern European Corps, the 1st Panzer Division of the Federal Gendarmerie, three units are less than an hour away from Bunia!"
"The Lightning Air Assault Division will take off from Mambasa and will arrive at Bunia Airport in forty minutes at the latest, what you have to do now is to defend with all your might, cooperate with the 3rd Armored Division and the 3rd Mechanized Infantry Division, and encircle and annihilate the main force of Israel's mercenary army!" Wu Chen said.
"Boss, have you transferred the Lightning Air Assault Division to the DRC? When did this happen, we didn't know beforehand? Great, so that we have enough troops to fight a beautiful counterattack! Thompson was ecstatic at the moment.
This is a battle to test the will, this is a battle with no room for short-handed tricks, this is a battle to the death, in just an hour, the Afrika Korps has lost more than 100 Abrams main battle tanks, lost more than 4,000 troops, and the wounded are uncountable, listening to the continuous loss reports on the battlefield, the top brass of the mercenary corps almost gritted their teeth in distress.
That is, the weapons and equipment of their own side are superior, the firepower is too fierce, and the opponent is pressed so hard that he can't let go, and there are simple fortifications around the airport, otherwise the losses will increase a lot. Thompson deduced that after this battle, the Afrika Korps would lose at least more than 20,000 men, and of course, the number of coalition forces would only be more!
Who knew that the boss suddenly sent a big surprise, and actually transferred the mercenary corps with all the enhanced main divisions of the US army's active equipment, the lightning air assault division, and also transferred two Cossack mechanized infantry divisions and an armored division of the gendarmerie unit, so that the Afrika Korps can completely annihilate the two enemies in the north and south!
"This is the strategic reserve team I arranged for you, I didn't expect it to be used at the beginning of the confrontation, Thompson, my brother, you group is really too careless, the Israeli mercenaries have such obvious tactics, and no one can see it, I can't believe it!"
"The other side in the first battle of Goma can be said to have lost troops, and then, the special forces took the base of the Yindu mercenaries to the end, and a few artillery bombs damaged the command system, suffering such a big loss, why did people delay moving? Why should South African mercenaries be allowed to resort to feints? It must be a sneak attack to avoid our drone surveillance, so a small means to divert attention have been adopted, but you have been tricked! Wu Chen said.
Despite being criticized, the high-level leaders of the mercenary corps were still very excited, the boss was really invincible, and he had long found out that something was wrong, and arranged a coping strategy in advance, with the addition of the lightning air assault division, and the addition of three new divisions, the other party had already failed.
This is definitely not an exaggeration, the lightning air assault division is one of the first six main divisions formed after the establishment of the mercenary corps, the officers and soldiers are all experienced retired veterans in the ** team, mainly from the airborne division of the former Soviet Union, all of them have experienced actual combat, and in the past few years, they have accompanied the mission of the mercenary corps to fight in the north and south, and the individual combat ability is super strong, and the familiarity and application ability of American equipment are not inferior to the US army itself!