In modern warfare, a rare continuous long-term high-density shelling, staged in Bossaso.

At this time, it may be an exaggeration to describe Bossaso as a ruined wall, but with the exception of the embassies of a few countries, the rest of the country was basically covered by firepower.

Bossaso government television, communications department, radio and other office space that belongs to government departments are all taken care of, and now, it is no longer visible to the original.

And at the same time as the shelling, tanks entered the city.

The tank in front was already fully armed, but at this time it was even more heavily armed, and the entire turret and body were full of additional armor. Ceramic armor and explosive reactive armor wrap the tank, and the tracks on both sides are also armored, and two thick pieces of armor hang down from the top of the tracks to close to the ground by 20 centimeters, covering the tracks on both sides.

These two pieces of tracked armor, although they could not defend against too strong firepower, were not the slightest problem against 40 mm shells and grenades. In front of the tank's body, a huge thunder plough keeps piercing dense holes in the ground as the tank advances, which is specially used to detonate mines.

A tank in such a state requires Li Lan to pay a lot of money to build, and so far, only one tank battalion has such additional armor. These tanks will serve as the vanguard, and together with the infantry, they will become the main force of the first wave of attack.

The second wave of tank units will be used as a fire support supplement for the first slope attack. The front and rear are more than 500 meters apart, which can form a complementary angle of firepower.

And just when the four tank battalions of the armored brigade and the mechanized infantry brigade entered Bossaso in batches, there was no resistance, except for the 1st tank battalion that went to the port on the most road. The other three attacks were met with strong resistance from government forces.

Tank units have always been a powerful weapon for fighting in complex urban environments. If the enemy that the Red Guard Force is facing now is the kind of opponent who is evenly matched. Without excellent troops, there is not much chance of victory. But now, the enemy is numerous, but the quality is not very good. Compared with when the U.S. military fought Iraq, even if the Red Alert force did not have air force support at this time, it was not difficult to defeat the Bossaso government army in an urban environment like Bossaso.

Because the Bossaso government army does not have the weapons to destroy the third generation of main battle tanks, because even Ethiopia does not have many powerful anti-tank missiles. And there are not many third-generation tanks themselves, let alone relying on ground weapons to destroy third-generation main battle tanks.

At present, there are only a few countries that can independently produce third-generation main battle tanks. And there are fewer countries that can develop and produce weapons to destroy modern main battle tanks than those that can produce main battle tanks. That ceramic reactive armor alone is enough to discourage anti-tank weapons from all Shijie non-mainstream countries.

With the rocket artillery and rudimentary recoilless guns that the government army has, there is no way to take the Rhino tank, and the mines planted are in front of the rolling mine plough in front of the tank. It also became useless. At the very least, the Bossaso government forces do not have the kind of special electromagnetic induction mines that do not explode when touched, because few countries have such advanced mines. So, under a simple mechanical action. The mines of the government forces were detonated before they even touched the tanks.

And under the blow of the Red Police, the resistance of the government army appeared. It will immediately become the target of powerful firepower. With the extremely tacit coordination of the infantry tank, for the government army. It's a nightmare. Because they simply don't have a chance to get close to the tanks, and there are no blue waves in the government army.

Several wars in recent years. In particular, after the Iraq War, the armed forces of various countries have gained a new understanding and experience of urban street warfare, especially the anti-terrorist operations carried out by the US military in Afghanistan and Iraq in recent years, and urban warfare has become an important form of warfare.

Commander of the U.S. Third Army, Thomas. Lieutenant General Metz once said: "In modern warfare, urban warfare has become inevitable."

Judging from the experience of warfare over the past 50 years, no war can avoid cities, 40 percent of the battles in the European theater of World War II took place in cities and large residential areas, and 90 percent of the more than 250 military operations conducted by the US military after World War II took place in urban areas.

In modern urban warfare, the effective strike of firepower will play a leading role, and it is inevitable that tanks with powerful firepower will become an important weapon in urban street warfare.

Street fighting, also commonly known as "urban warfare", is a street-by-street, house-by-house battle between streets, usually in a city or a large village. Street fighting has the following two distinctive characteristics: First, the enemy and us are hand-to-hand combat, and the cruelty is great. The second is that the enemy and the enemy are mixed with each other, and the dog's teeth are intertwined, which is highly dangerous.

In the past, in the popular science magazines and discussions among netizens that Li Lan came into contact with in China, there was a general view that urban street fighting was a nightmare for tank troops, and that tank troops would inevitably suffer heavy losses in urban street fighting.

This view is shared by many militaries, such as the 1942 U.S. Army Field Doctrine. "Armored units should avoid fighting in heavily fortified towns". The U.S. Army's Basic Principles of Armored Warfare, developed in the 1980s, state that cities are the worst places to fight with tanks.

The general perception in the US Army at that time was that once a tank entered an urban area, it would immediately be hit by numerous rockets and get bogged down in the quagmire of being attacked, so the tank was not an armored platform suitable for urban operations.

However, whether it is the urban offensive and defensive battles of the Second Shijie War, or the long-distance drive of US tank units into Baghdad in the Iraq War a few years ago, or the urban combat exercises of the armored forces of Shijie countries in recent years, they all confirm a conclusion contrary to the public: tanks have always been a sharp weapon for urban street warfare.

The US military also came to the conclusion in the actual combat of the Iraq war that the principle of excluding tanks from urban operations was wrong.

Nine years ago, the U.S. military launched a large-scale offensive against Fallujah, where anti-American forces led by al-Zarqawi were entrenched, killing and capturing more than 3,000 Iraqi fighters with tanks and armored vehicles as the core, and at a small cost of more than 50 casualties among more than 50 Marines. This proves that tanks are the best equipment for urban warfare.

Due to the good haode protection that the tank has, precise and powerful and efficient firepower. Flexibility and mobility are indispensable conditions and advantages in urban street warfare offensive operations. When the tank unit is covered by infantry, it will inevitably achieve the purpose of destroying the entrenched enemy and reducing the casualties of the enemy in the street battle. The main purpose of the tank in urban combat is to provide heavy firepower that the infantry cannot carry, to cover the infantry for high-speed assault, and to serve as a strong support point for the infantry to rely on for combat.

In general, tanks have several distinct advantages in street fighting. The tank was clearly a strong fortress and a good cover for the infantry. Tanks can take advantage of the weak point of view of entrenched enemies. Carry infantry or cooperate with infantry fighting vehicles to carry out high-speed maneuvers, and carry out a wide range of detours and intersperses. Tank units have direct control over large streets and communication arteries, while infantry units need to prepare bunker fortifications. Tanks can deliver direct hits on buildings with accurate artillery fire, which is more effective than infantry. Practice has proved that the armor-piercing shells and grenades of our army's main battle equipment in active service have a good lethal effect on the enemy's fortifications and buildings. If it is a pure infantry unit, it is often necessary to call for artillery support from above.

Tanks can quickly open up paths, either by hitting them with their hulls or by shelling. Especially in the interspersed urban areas where soldiers are expensive and fast, this advantage of tanks is even more obvious. Don't always think about the weakness of the tank's flanks and rear, tanks + infantry generally won't give you the opportunity to make a detour to the rear. In fact, in the face of the mobility and firepower of the tank. The anti-tank means of purely entrenched infantry are pale.

Even in urban combat, tanks remain the main assault liliang of the army, and the principles of their use are multifaceted.

First of all, it is possible to concentrate the main forces on the main attacking side of Xiangshang. Create an advantage in a certain time and area, form a fist. Destroy the enemy in a quick and complete way. Divisions usually use tank crews as formations for important offensive missions. It can also be assigned to infantry to support its battles. When used as a subordinate, it can give a larger number of subordinates to the main attack direction and the troops responsible for the main attack mission, and is mainly used to break through the enemy's defenses. It is necessary to develop the effect of surprise attacks on forward attack groups, seize important points, and stop the enemy's reinforcements and routs.

Second, in the case of urban offensive battles, in order to give full play to their surprise role, commanders should strive to use tank troops on the terrain on the periphery of the city that is convenient for their movements. When operating within urban areas, it is also advisable to use the wider streets to carry out attacks with infantry as far as possible.

In urban offensive battles, it is necessary to carefully organize coordinated actions with infantry and other arms of the armed forces, and in urban offensive battles, it is necessary to carefully organize coordinated actions between tank troops and infantry, artillery, air defense units, and aviation units, especially the coordination between infantry and tanks is more important. The complex streets and many buildings in the urban area make it inconvenient for tanks to maneuver, observe, and develop firepower, but it is conducive to the enemy attacking tanks from different angles and using different weapons. Therefore, when accompanying infantry operations, infantry and tank should closely cooperate and cover each other. When attacking along the streets and engaging in street fighting, the infantry and the tanks should advance alternately, and the infantry should strengthen surveillance on both sides of the street and destroy the enemy's anti-tank firearms in a timely manner, while the tanks should destroy the fire points that threaten the infantry's advance in a timely manner.

However, strengthening air defense, logistics, engineering support, and electronic countermeasures is a prerequisite for improving the tank crew's continuous combat capability and survivability. Therefore, it is necessary to attach great importance to air security and do a good job in air defense, especially against enemy attack helicopters. Carefully organize logistics, jishu and engineering support, so that materials are replenished with consumption, vehicles are repaired with breakage, and obstacles hindering maneuvering are eliminated in a timely manner. Various electronic countermeasures are used to ensure that communication and communication are not interrupted during the battle.

The Russian Army suffered heavy losses in the First Chechen War, and of the 2,200 tank armored vehicles that took part in the battle, 225 were completely destroyed, including 62 tanks. The 131st Brigade of the Russian Army (part of the 58th Army of the Caucasus Military District), which first stormed the center of Grozny in 1994, lost 20 tanks and 100 armored vehicles in three days. The main reason for this is the low quality of the Russian army, its arrogance, and its disjointed command.

It doesn't matter whether the tank is suitable for street fighting, about the loss of Chechen tanks, it is a matter of tactics, not the tanks themselves. The first Chechen war was a failure, the Russian army did not take the Chechen bandits seriously, and the purely armored troops swaggered into the center of Grozny without being beaten. God will be displeased.

At that time the Russian Army was already quite degenerate, at the time of the first Chechen war. Lao Maozi couldn't even pick out a complete division, and the most elite tank divisions were short of more than 4 or 5,000 people. When the Russian army entered the center of Grozny. It was a marching formation, the tanks were not even equipped with mine-sweeping plows, the infantry were also on the car, not even the search team, and after the first car was hit by a mine, the passage was blocked, and the inexperienced Russian army was in a mess, and as a result, it was divided and surrounded. At that time, the Russian artillery was subordinate to five different commands, and I don't know which one to listen to. The response to the call artillery fire from the front is too slow.

In March 1996, when the town of Goiskoye was liberated, more than 400 well-armed Chechen militants put up stubborn resistance, and a tank company of a motorized infantry regiment of the Ural Military District was sent to solve the problem.

By the time of the Second Chechen War, the Russian army had made even more meticulous preparations, and the cooperation of all branches of the armed forces was also in place, mainly using tank garrisons to blockade. The infantry was responsible for clearing the remnants of the enemy. Relatively speaking, the Chechen bandits have become the targets of the beating this time. The tanks of the Russian army were used correctly and very successfully in combat. In the event of an attack by motorized infantry units, tanks provide fire support. It played a decisive role, and after the tank fire eliminated the enemy's exposed fire points, the infantry moved forward.

In fact, in the late World War II urban assault. For example, in the battles of Budapest and Berlin, both tanks and self-propelled guns of the Soviet Red Army played a decisive role. In the Battle of Berlin. The large tank units of the Soviet army were broken into pieces and dispersed into several small units. Together with the infantry, artillery, and engineers, they formed assault groups and assault detachments to conquer the German fortresses one by one.

Without the direct support of tanks and self-propelled guns, the losses of the infantry of the Red Army would have been unbearable.

In urban offensive battles, tank crews can carry out the following tasks: seize the enemy's outskirts and key points in urban areas with fierce assaults. Develop an offensive in depth with the enemy and expand the results of the battle. Fight and crush enemy counter-onslaught. Annihilate the breakout and besieged enemies. Annihilation of aircraft landing and pursuit of retreating enemies, etc.

Tanks have always been a sharp weapon in urban warfare, and it is a tactical problem to fight badly, and it has nothing to do with the tank itself.

Of course, it is not possible to use pure tank units to carry out assaults on city streets, that is definitely looking for death. But with the cooperation of infantry, tanks carry out street fighting assaults, which are much more effective than pure infantry units. Modern street fighting is that whoever has strong air and ground firepower, who has more maneuverability, and who has battlefield information, will win. It is impossible to resist a tank attack by relying on individual weapons under the cover of buildings alone, which is why the Palestinian, Lebanese and Iraqi resistance groups have been bullied by armored forces.

In Li Lan's view, tanks can play the following roles in urban combat:

1. In urban operations, armored troops are most suitable for the task of blocking control points, a tank platoon can block a street 6-8 meters wide, a reinforced tank company can easily block 1-2 streets 10-20 meters wide, and a reinforced tank battalion can block 3-4 large main roads.

2. The tank can break the barrier, and a gap greater than 5 meters wide can be formed on the wall with a single impact, and a hole greater than 3 meters can be formed on the building wall. Many countries have come to the conclusion in their urban offensive and defensive exercises that if the armored units use the method of high-speed continuous impact to open up a passage for simulating a certain island house in the mission of interspersing urban areas, the effect is far better than that of the infantry using explosives to penetrate the wall and make holes.

3. Judging from the situation of the urban fortification exercise, it is concluded that it is contrary to the common sense of many netizens: the large elevation buildings in the urban area provide good shelter for the movement and fire support of the tanks. The criss-crossing streets provided a hidden passage for the high-speed maneuvering of tanks, as the defenders were cowered in the fortifications of the buildings and had extremely limited vision. In general buildings, not all places can be fired, and it is easy to judge several fire points and firing positions with limited viewing angles. Through peacetime training and wartime cooperation with tank + infantry to attack buildings, each only needs to perform its own responsibilities and allocate fire directions, and the enemy will often expose his position because of the preparation of firearms to fire, and the result is often eliminated by the attacking side that is pointed in advance.

4. On the issue of limiting the elevation angle of tank weapons. In urban warfare, the distance between the position of the enemy's various firearms and our attacking tank detachment is relatively close, and the visual distance is generally more than 1,000 meters; tank artillery cannot shoot at a target located in a high-rise building within a certain distance due to the limitation of the attachment elevation angle, and only when the firing distance is three times higher than the target's position. to be able to shoot. For example, when shooting at a 10-storey building, the floor height is generally 3 meters. The height of the building is about 30 meters. The minimum distance at which the tank fired at it was about 100 meters. From this, it can be seen that in urban offensive operations. The limitation of the elevation angle of fire from the main gun of the tank was not a big problem, and it was possible to shell high-rise buildings at a distance of several hundred meters.

The large-caliber anti-aircraft machine gun equipped with the tank is a powerful firepower to support infantry operations. It may be argued that urban warfare leaves ground forces without helicopter cover, because those who hold this view believe that helicopters are also vulnerable in cities and vulnerable to a large number of individual missiles. In fact, the combat effectiveness of portable surface-to-air missiles in urban combat conditions is not very high. MANPADS generally adopt infrared guidance, visual search, and can only be launched after the guidance head establishes stable tracking. Under the complex terrain of the city, due to the many obstacles and the flickering of targets, it is very difficult to have a chance to fire at an armed helicopter, let alone a fixed-wing aircraft.

China's Red Tassel and Avant-garde individual air defense missiles generally have a vertical viewing angle of 20 degrees or more, while the horizontal aiming angle is only less than 3 degrees, and it is very common to lose the target. Even the more advanced Stinger missiles. It is not much stronger than the avant-garde, and the effectiveness of individual anti-aircraft missiles in urban combat is doubtful, unless small radars are used for early warning.

To sum up, the tank has strong firepower, protection and maneuverability because of its own ability. Its power is not only reflected in field warfare, but also plays a decisive role in urban warfare. This conclusion is not only recognized by the military of various countries, but also by these countries are vying to improve and perfect the multi-service cooperative combat tactics of the city. And tanks are an indispensable part of the multi-service group.

Every weapon is not as advanced as possible. But what suits you is the most haode. The weapons developed by various countries are developed in accordance with their own national defense needs. Take tanks, for example. The American M1A2 Abrams main battle tank belongs to the leader of the shijie tank, and from the tank data published by various countries, it can be compared with it in all aspects, and only the German Leopard family can be compared.

However, Abrams is not invincible, and it has a number of flaws, one of which is mobility. Of course, the United States does not pursue mobility too much, and it has strong firepower, high protection and advanced electronic equipment, which is the main aspect of the United States.

One of the main reasons why the U.S. military pursued this is to make it more adaptable to urban warfare. During the Iraq War, an Abrams of the U.S. Army was attacked in Baghdad by 173 rocket launchers and anti-tank weapons, and the tank was unscathed. Even its ability to move has not been affected.

Abrams' defense is very difficult to break through even if it is attacked by other Abrams. Such practical cases also appeared in the Iraq war. In order to destroy an Abrams that was stuck in the quagmire, the U.S. military used several Abrams to attack, but the battle lasted for a long time, but the turret was damaged, and it did not cause substantial damage. After the tank was pulled out, it was briefly repaired and continued to go to the battlefield.

Therefore, whether it is in a symmetrical or asymmetrical war, as long as it feels that human life is more valuable than equipment, then in urban street battles, tanks are indispensable. But if you think that equipment is more important than human life, then it is better to hide all the equipment and use human life to pile it up!

Under the pattern of modern warfare, neither China nor other countries dare to use tanks in urban warfare because they are afraid of being destroyed. Because all countries that have ideas are already actively practicing urban warfare.

The same is true for Li Lan, not to mention that the enemy in Bossaso is the Bosaso government army, which is not even a third-rate army, let alone occupies a favorable geographical position and people. Even if Bossaso's enemy was the U.S. Army, Li Lan would have sent tanks and armored units into it.

The soldiers of the Red Guard are born excellent soldiers, and they are very skilled in both the coordination of arms and the use of equipment. This kind of control of equipment and combat skills is the most rare place for every middle-level soldier. It is precisely because of these soldiers that Li Lan can have such ambitions.

PS: Gorgeous is not writing these to compete with everyone, but just to express a gorgeous point of view and position. There are two sides to everything, and there is no absolute right or wrong, this is a novel, and it only makes you happy. (To be continued......)