Chapter 1252 Fiction and Reality III
"Report to the forward command that our division has been saturated by mercenary strategic bombers, and the casualties are very large, and it is no longer possible to implement the predetermined plan, and I request the commander-in-chief to allow the attacking troops to withdraw to the camp, so that the medical team can quickly treat the wounded and reduce the combat attrition as much as possible...... Paralyzed, the other side has started firing rocket artillery again! "The commanders of several infantry divisions called the forward command in a hoarse voice, and note that this was a wired telephone, a very old-fashioned antique military telephone.
The six F-14 carrier-based electronic warfare aircraft of the mercenary regiment carried out a large-scale electronic jamming of the entire combat area, and the mercenary regiment's own electronic equipment was not affected, but the radar and communication equipment of the Vietnamese army were all out of order.
"Fart! You're going to withdraw in just an hour, this is the battlefield, and we're facing war! I tell you, you can organize a stretcher team to carry the wounded back, and the rest of the people will not be able to get out of the line of fire if they are slightly injured, in order to cover your attack, the artillery units will be almost completely wiped out, gather the troops and continue the attack, who dares to withdraw privately, our military law is ruthless! The commander-in-chief said angrily.
The Vietnamese Army committed twelve infantry divisions at a time to launch a strong assault on three target areas, while the defensive forces directly opposite them had only three divisions, the 3rd Mechanized Infantry Division and the 2nd Mountain Light Infantry Division of the 2nd Mercenary Army, the 3rd Divisional Combat Team of the Marine Corps, and the 6th Panzer Division as a mobile unit and a general reserve.
The Vietnamese army's 12 infantry divisions, with a total number of about 80,000 troops, dispatched nearly 50,000 troops, and logistics units did not need to participate in the battle. The three divisions of the mercenary corps were about 54,000 men, and because of the high degree of mechanization, the number of logistics troops was small, and 45,000 people participated in the battle.
However, the comparison between the two sides in terms of weapons and equipment is too far apart, and the comparison between the Vietnamese Army and the Mercenary Corps Army is not a grade, and they are basically some towed artillery of the former Soviet Union, rocket artillery and mortars of China.
The mercenary corps belongs to a fully mechanized army, with a very high degree of automation, the world's most advanced main battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored transport vehicles, self-propelled howitzers, self-propelled rocket artillery, etc., counting the attack power of the three divisions of the mercenary corps, which can withstand at least three group armies of the Vietnamese army, which is not an exaggeration at all.
"The tactics of this human sea formulated by the Ministry of Defense do not seem to have the predicted effect, the intensity and density of the firepower of the mercenary corps are much more terrifying than we imagined, their air force and long-range firepower are too threatening to us, and the attacking troops have suffered heavy casualties, but we have no place to threaten others."
"Our air defense missiles are all portable air defense missiles and old surface-to-air missiles that are inconvenient to move during the former Soviet Union, and they have no effect on those high-altitude supersonic strategic bombers, and the hundreds of fighters of the Air Force are all waste, so let's send the second batch of troops!" The deputy commander-in-chief said.
"You are very right, modern warfare is about air supremacy and sea supremacy, and the role that a single branch of the army can play has been reduced a lot, and multi-level and all-round three-dimensional warfare accompanied by precision strikes has become the mainstream model, but we do not have such capabilities."
"The mercenary corps is famous all over the world for its high-tech level of weaponry and equipment, and it is already much stronger than us, and it has spent a lot of money to build three defensive tunnels made of reinforced concrete around Cam Ranh Bay, and has also set up a number of chain fortress groups, and the defense occupies a congenital advantage."
"The thickness of these defensive tunnels is as high as eight meters, and they can resist the direct bombardment of 203 mm grenades, and our artillery bombardment is not very strong, and it is impossible to break through other people's fortifications.
"Look at other people's means, there are military spy satellites in space, there are Global Hawk unmanned reconnaissance planes and reconnaissance planes in the sky, the artillery unit has been locked in its position as soon as it is launched, and the incompetent air force has not had a single fighter to support us so far, and no one in the Vietnamese Army is afraid of jungle warfare and mountain warfare, but we are not good at this kind of hard-hitting method." The commander-in-chief said.
"According to the report, the Minister of Defense has issued a new directive, requiring us to immediately increase the intensity of our attacks, send all the troops that can be sent, and take three high ground as originally planned. According to the report, the naval fleet of the mercenary regiment not only shelled the cities of Gogon, Vung Tau and Saigon in the southwest, Da Nang and Hue in the south, but also launched up to a hundred Tomahawk cruise missiles at our capital! ”
"Five coastal cities were bombed into ruins, the fleets of two ports were blocked in the ports and could not get out, and many important facilities in the capital, such as television stations, television stations, offices of the government and the Ministry of National Defense, airports, radio stations, etc., were almost turned into white ground, with heavy casualties, and fires and black smoke everywhere!" The intelligence staff officer ran in and said, his face pale and frightened.
Although they had been mentally prepared for a long time, when the incident came, the generals of the forward command still felt unbelievable, the mercenary army's navy was too powerful, so powerful that it was desperate, and this was only the beginning, and as time passed, this kind of bad news would continue to come.
"It's over, what we are most afraid of has happened, the strength of the navy is not much stronger than that of other mercenary corps, and it is not much stronger than calling Hanako! Hurry up and inform all the troops to attack with all their might, our capital has been attacked, the country is in the most dangerous time, whether we can take Cam Ranh Bay or not is the key to whether the war can be reversed! The commander-in-chief almost jumped.
Things went back to an hour ago, the battle group of the aircraft carrier Tianxiang stopped in the southernmost sea area of Saigon City, the other warships did not move for the time being, and the nine 406-mm naval guns of the three Megalodon-class battleships were aimed at the city of Egong on the shore.
In order to protect the safety of the battleship, nine naval guns could not be fired together, and the three naval guns of each turret were a firing unit, which took turns to fire at the target.
"Report to the commander, the twenty-seven guns of the three battleships are all loaded and ready, whether they can be fired now, please instruct!" said the chief of staff.
"The first round of firing targets are the city of Gogon, and each naval gun fires ten shells, and after the fight, it turns to shoot at Vung Tau City, which also fires ten shells, followed by Saigon Port, all according to this standard, let's start to carry out it!" said the fleet commander.