Chapter 958: Urban Offensive and Defensive Battles II

Before the sun rose, groups of American GIs cautiously made their way through the farmsteads into the northern part of the city of Kabul, weaving through the less dense streets and alleys, and the urban war officially began.

Due to the problem of line of sight, of course, the attack cannot be carried out at night, not because the coalition forces cannot fight at night, but because the situation does not allow it. The Taliban army had built a large number of fortifications and firing points in the city, and had placed mine arrays, which would have caused staggering casualties among coalition forces if they had attacked at night.

Kabul does not have high-rise buildings in a modern city, and there are not even many modern style buildings, it is a famous city with a history of more than 3,000 years, with ancient culture and art, but it is a pity that it was not preserved intact during the war, which cannot but be said to be a great regret.

"Multiple observation posts reported that U.S. and NATO forces were attacking us from the east, west, and north at the same time, and that the intelligence at headquarters was exactly right. The U.S. forces were mainly responsible for the attack in the north of the city, the armored units were covering the slow advance of the infantry, and the helicopter gunships had not yet taken off. "The general command of urban warfare, the communications staff officer reported to the division commander.

"All units are ordered to use sniper rifles and mortars first, and according to the guidance of the observers, to shoot and shell at long distances, and the mortar teams must be transferred immediately after a maximum of three minutes, and the concealed fortifications and firing points are to remain silent, and the enemy is not allowed to open fire without entering the firing range." said the commander of the infantry division of the guerrilla forces.

The sniper unit is one of the main branches of the Afghan guerrilla armed forces under the mercenary corps, which has undergone extremely strict training by the special forces, and the number is as many as several thousand, equipped with the former Soviet Union SVD sniper rifles, and this type of mercenary corps has obtained more than one million units from Russia.

The mortar group uses the 82 mm mortars of the former Soviet Union, each group of four people, ammunition is stored in many hidden places, due to the weight of the mortar, it can be installed and fired at any time and disassembled and evacuated at any time, and the curved fire is also an important equipment for urban warfare.

Boom, boom, mortar shells suddenly fell from the sky, and the attacking coalition troops were blown up to pieces, leaving behind dozens of corpses, some of which were killed by sniper rifles.

On the side of the windows of many houses, there are still observers of guerrilla forces, and some people are even near the US troops, reporting the shooting metadata to the mortar group by radio; without these people, the mortar team is like a deaf and blind man, who does not know where to shoot, and cannot hit accurately.

"This situation is expected by us, order the reconnaissance plane to take off immediately, immediately report when it finds the opponent's mortar, the armed helicopter launches anti-tank missiles to destroy it, the main battle tank and infantry fighting vehicles begin to enter the city, find a place where the sniper is hiding, and directly open fire, there is no need to worry too much during the war." This was stated by the commander of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Division.

The US government does not dare to raze Kabul to the ground due to international influence, and even NATO countries will not agree to this approach, but some excessively acts in the war phase will not be condemned by public opinion.

The coalition forces are all modern armies equipped with high-end weapons, and they have a lot of combat experience, don't think that just a few snipers can turn the tide of the war, that's just a joke, such things only appear in the scenes of TV dramas, and these armies have corresponding countermeasures.

Snipers are fighters in motion, no sniper dares to shoot in the same place continuously, it is pure death, as soon as the shot is fired, you have to run immediately, because you have been exposed.

Enemies will determine where you're hiding based on your trajectory, whether it's tank guns, side-by-side machine guns, mortars, helicopter gunships, or Predator drones.

With a bang, a Hellfire anti-tank missile hit the wall of a residential building, tearing the sniper inside apart along with the sniper rifle, and of course, the sniper took out his target, an unlucky Northern Alliance commander.

"Paralyzed, it's really a thing that thinks you're long-lived, this is a city war, you actually stand swaggering and commanding, for fear that others won't know that you are an official, who will the sniper fight if he doesn't beat you?" The U.S. military used the troops of the Northern Alliance as cannon fodder in front, which was a strategy that had been set a long time ago, but despite this, a battalion commander was hung up at the beginning of the war, and the platoon commander of the U.S. army couldn't help but complain and said, I've seen stupid, I've never seen such stupid.

"What are you still doing in a daze, a bunch of idiots, quickly hide to the side, don't you know that the other party's mortar is going to fire?" The veterans kicked the cannon fodder of the Northern Alliance to the side like a vicious look, and within ten seconds, mortar shells fell from the sky, killing a group of stupid Northern Alliance soldiers.

It's no wonder that these soldiers are inexperienced, and some of them have never fought at all, all of them are ordinary people who are paid to lead the army and participate in the army, and they are trained to shoot and fight accurately, let alone fight urban warfare. Moreover, only the veterans can judge the response in this case, and there are many soldiers in the US military who are not clear, how can they know what the problem is?

Two mortar teams were discovered, and helicopter gunships rushed to the location, and the 30-millimeter single-barreled electric chain cannon smashed the yard into ruins in an instant. Whoosh, several portable anti-aircraft missiles were launched, and the Apache helicopter gunship released electronic interference, although it was hit by a missile, but relying on a strong defense, it did not fall off in a smoke, and just about to fly back to the base, who knew that another one was launched from another yard and crashed directly.

"It's cool, let you hover in the air to hit my mortar team, it's really hard to lock down if it's not like this!" The soldiers who hurriedly evacuated with the launcher on their shoulders cursed as they ran.

The helicopter in flight is not easy to lock, otherwise the helicopter would not be an army killer, but this unlucky Apache helicopter gunship actually hovered and fired at the target, isn't this death?

"A multi-million-dollar longbow Apache, it's just ruined, bastard, don't you know that the other side has portable anti-aircraft missiles?" The commander of the 101st Air Assault Division scolded at the sky, this was purely the carelessness of the US pilots, otherwise they would not have lost a helicopter gunship so easily.

The cannon of the Abrams main battle tank blew up the distant fortifications into the sky, a very conspicuous sandbag fortification, and fired a shot without testing, but there was not even a person behind it, it turned out to be a disguise! But he was ambushed by a nearby combat team, using anti-tank missiles to blow up the turret, and the main battle tank that followed closely behind used machine guns to break the sneak attackers to pieces.