Chapter 132: The Battle of Bossaso (Part I)

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The Red Guard troops rushed forward with heavy rolling thunder plows, and the mines planted by the Bossaso government troops exploded one after another, and the artillery fire of the Bossaso government troops poured heavily towards the mine-sweeping rhino tanks, and the powerful firepower of the Red Police armored troops immediately returned to color.

In this way, after several repeated losses of several mine-sweeping Rhino tanks, the Red Guard finally managed to find a wide road.

Heavy Rhino tanks lined up in an evacuated formation in the streets, with a deafening roar, rampaging through the streets, and the machine guns and rifle bullets of the Bossaso army rained down on the armor of the combat vehicles, but to no avail, and occasionally a few arrows flew by, but they could not stop the powerful torrent of steel.

The obstacles that began to appear along the road did not give the minister much of an obstacle. The tank troops, who rushed to the front, had already come to the obstacles. I saw that the head of the rhinoceros tank at the head of the row sank, and it had already broken through the first obstacle, and the motive suddenly increased its horsepower, bursts of green smoke floated out, and the body shook in the rumbling sound, and the huge steel giant beast had already rushed over the obstacle. The coaxial machine guns on the Rhino Tank roared angrily, weaving an impermeable web of fire that swept across the entire position, and in the blink of an eye, the Bossaso government soldiers on the first line of defense had been killed and wounded.

The commander of the government army in the distant building was heartbroken, but he did not dare to order the mortars around him to open fire to cover the retreat of the infantry. Because the powerful artillery group of the Red Guard is searching for the position of its own artillery. As soon as the fire is fired, countless heavy artillery shells will immediately fall, and these remnants of precious artillery will be wiped out in an instant.

The Rhino Tank, which had rushed to the first line of defense, turned its turret and aimed at the second line of defense, and with the loud sound of a landslide cracking the ground, thick black smoke filled the yellow dust, countless fireballs exploded on the positions of the Bossaso government soldiers, the figures shaking in the houses disappeared, and the black smoke of flesh and stumps was blown into the sky as the flesh and stumps rose.

Seeing this scene, the government officer clenched his fists angrily, and he yelled: "Someone-"

A second lieutenant immediately bent on his waist when he heard this. Ran nimbly down the small door in the house to him.

"You immediately take the guards down and go down!" The government officer pointed to the rhino tanks that were running rampant through the streets. "Bring the rest over, no matter what- call these guys back!"

"Yes!" The second lieutenant saluted and turned to leave, but was stopped by a government officer. Bahel took a closer look at Azani's young face. Straighten his collar. Say aloud, "Come back alive!" The lieutenant nodded vigorously. Running into the street with a group of soldiers carrying bazookas, the figure disappeared into the smoke and dust raised by the shelling.

The government officer saw through his binoculars that the Bossaso soldiers on the second line of defense were fighting with the Red Police's Rhino tanks and the infantry that were about to rush into position, and he finally gave the order: "Immediately move the artillery." In the rear streets, open fire to support the infantry in battle! ”

Although the government officer knew that a dozen mortars and three or four MLRS might not be of any use, he had already decided to take a gamble, because if he didn't open fire, the place would soon be taken by the enemy, and his history might be over.

"Whew! Whew......"

Dense artillery fire exploded in the streets, and the dust and smoke that rolled up the streets covered the streets, the first artillery shelling by government forces against the attacking Red Police.

In the dust and smoke, the figure of the tank loomed, the roar of the engine was masked by the artillery fire, and the barrel of the tank gun did not spew flames again. The government soldiers in the houses on both sides smiled and became happy.

However, within seconds, their smiles froze on their faces, and the roar of tank engines resounded in the streets again. The majestic body of the Rhino Tank, as if returning from hell, broke through the dust and smoke of the street, the tank gun sounded again, and a heavy machine gun position in the distance of the street was instantly submerged under the explosion.

The multiple rocket launchers and mortars of the government army did not cause damage to the Rhino tank, but only made the soldiers of the tank feel an earthquake-like shock, and then everything went on as usual. In the tank's infrared imaging system, none of the government soldiers hidden in the houses on both sides could hide from the tank's eyes.

Under the combined fire of 12.7 mm heavy machine guns and tank guns, the houses on both sides were soon riddled with holes. This also gave the soldiers and armored vehicles behind them the direction of the attack, under the heavy firearms of stray bullet launchers and multipurpose infantry fighting vehicles. Every advance of the troops was accompanied by the rapid demise of the enemy.

The government artillery has just been threatened, and it is very simple that under the counterattack of the self-propelled howitzer battalion, it quickly dies out, although these anti-government artillery are installed on cars, but it is impossible to avoid the fact that they will be destroyed under the rapid counterattack.

Street fighting was always brutal, and when the main Bossaso road had been cleared for three kilometres, the vanguard began to slow down. On this three-kilometer road, all the houses on both sides have been blown up, and the street storefronts have been looted under the turmoil for more than half a year. And now, these street houses have become rubble.

The vanguard slowed down the attack, and the multi-purpose infantry fighting vehicles behind quickly followed, drove into the paths on both sides, and cooperated with the infantry to start the clean-up work.

The battle on the trail is more brutal than the battle on the main road, and every house here may contain enemies, so you need to be careful with every step forward.

The advancing armored vehicle in front of it will drop a terrifying robot every one or two meters forward. Cooperate with the infantry and sweep the surrounding houses.

Terror robots, the full-time of which are used not against enemy infantry, but against enemy tanks and armored units. However, in street fights, terror robots still perform well.

Over the years, many countries have been successively researching robots for urban warfare, and the United States has been on multiple battlefields in the Middle East. I've also invested in this. Although international news has not been reported in detail under the deliberate secrecy of the US military, many robots that play an important role in urban street battles have been taken seriously by mainstream countries and the military.

In recent years, urban warfare has become a disease of the heart of military powers. In order to make up for the gap in strength with the military powers, the weak military organizations often engage in street battles and confrontations in cities with complex terrain. During the Cold War, the military equipment developed by various countries often focused on plain field warfare, so large-scale military equipment, such as tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and long-range artillery, were developed in this environment. Although the protection is good. The firepower is strong, but the field of vision is limited, the protection is not comprehensive, and the firepower is limited in complex terrain conditions. Not suitable for urban street fighting.

Even as a military power that is far ahead in strength and jishu. Face the terrorist groups, the rebels in the city. The infantry, which had to be thrown into urban street fighting, and the infantry was put on the same level as the terrorist groups and the rebels, and the consequences were huge and unbearable. This has brought about a series of negative factors, such as low morale, war weariness, prolongation of war, regional instability, and domestic protests. Therefore, the development of professional street fighting weapons should be one of the hot spots in the development of weapons at present.

In order to reduce casualties. To adapt to low-intensity warfare, the United States, Israel, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Germany, Japan, and Russia are actively developing various military unmanned autonomous vehicles, and many models of equipment have been used. At present, the U.S. Army's ground combat robots have grown dramatically, with more than 5,000 unmanned ground systems deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Unmanned autonomous ground vehicles have become an effective equipment that cannot be ignored in urban street warfare.

Terror robots are not only good at reconnaissance, but also have extremely strong attack capabilities, and their only weakness is defense.

The cost of a terrorist robot is 5,000 base funds, and Li Lan, who feels that it is very cheap, in order to reduce the casualties as much as possible under the battle of Bossaso, he specially produced hundreds of terrorist robots to replace the soldiers' work of cleaning the building.

These terrifying robots, which are put down from the car, will automatically climb over the wall and enter the house, and when they encounter the enemy, they will not only pass on the information, but also attack according to the situation. In the Red Police Force, there is no need to worry about the identification of friend or foe, and these terrorist robots have no possibility of accidental injury.

Hundreds of terrifying robots, crunching four robotic arms, rumipped over one house after another, checking the situation inside, and outside, as the armored vehicles advanced along every lane, the government army was surviving, and the air force was constantly being compressed.

Fierce firefights unfold in every alley.

Accompanied by screams, many government soldiers were pierced through the heads by the robotic arm of the terrifying robot, followed by the Red Alert soldiers who broke through the door. The moment a government soldier sees a terrifying robot, he is terrified, and even more so after his companion dies under him. They only wanted to fight back when the Red Police soldiers who broke down the door opened fire on them, but it was too late.

The sky was already red, and the advance of the Red Police Force had already occupied most of the city of Bossaso, and it was only a step away from the city center.

For Bossaso, deep in the heart of the eye of the storm, there is no one more than the city to feel the rolling iron of war. The wailing city, along with the government soldiers trapped in the ruined city, had to bury their heads in the ravages and torture of the steel liliang, and the long wait was extremely painful.

By the time night fell, nearly half of the city had fallen into the hands of the Red Police. And the Red Guard soldiers did not stop their military operations because night fell. On the contrary, such a dark night is a perfect time for the Red Police Force to attack. And the government soldiers trapped in the rubble can only resign themselves to fate.

War is what war is, it is destruction, it is torture, it is a long process of punishment of the defeated by the victors. Under the fire of the machine guns and artillery of the Red Police, Bossaso was unfortunately part of this punishment.

Large-caliber howitzer shells continued to fall, as if the Red Guard soldiers were always firing like this, as if their shells could not be used up at all, for the government soldiers trapped in the city. In the midst of this successive explosions, it was painful to endure the loud roar of fire and thunder that soared into the sky.

And the despair that awaits death makes people feel uncontrollable pain. This almost physical and mental torture was undoubtedly extremely heart-wrenching for the poor government soldiers.

Maybe that's what war is, it always ends everything in its own way, whether it's thinking beings or cold buildings created and built up by humans. When war came, all of this was so fragile that it wasn't even enough to mention. On the maps of military commanders, any glorious human construction project is just a symbolic symbol. And the soldier is just a number under the number of the number.

Naturally, the soldiers of the government army will not understand this. If they understood. They won't be like they are now, at a loss and not knowing what they should be fighting for. They really don't know what they're fighting for, because they don't understand the meaning of what they're fighting. For these Bossaso soldiers who are like rats in the city, hiding in the sewers and in the ruins of the city, the meaning of their lives and efforts does not exist in their minds at all.

Know what to fight for. But not every government soldier has it. Even more noteworthy. When war came, this basic norm that should have been the norm of the military was deliberately ignored by the Bossaso government. The soldiers at the grassroots level suddenly found that they did not have the slightest faith at all and joined the army. It's just for ten dollars a month, and being a soldier is just to be able to eat.

Without faith, they have lost their way, and the soldiers of the government army have never known what they are fighting for.

Wheeled armored vehicles drove through the streets and ran over the corpses everywhere, and the iron flow of the Red Police Force swept in this way. The multi-purpose infantry fighting vehicles loaded with machine guns became portable mobile fortresses for Red Police soldiers, who hung kevlars and sandbags on both sides of their vehicles, while their onboard fire strafed the ruins in all directions with ferocity.

However, it can be seen that the Red Guard soldiers also seem to have some scruples, after all, street fighting is different from field offensive combat, and the poor protection of wheeled armored fighting vehicles can be best experienced in street fighting. RPGs, rocket-driven grenades, and IEDs (roadside bombs) have the potential to blast these poorly protected wheeled vehicles into the sky.

It was precisely because of their scruples that the Red Guard soldiers did what the US military in Iraq did with the 'Stryker' tank, and also welded protective fences on their wheeled infantry fighting vehicles to block RPG attacks. In fact, the multi-functional infantry fighting vehicle family, including the multi-functional armored transporter, wheeled 120 mm self-propelled assault gun, wheeled armored reconnaissance vehicle and other deformed vehicles within the entire vehicle family, is defined as a modular new wheeled combat vehicle.

Without the installation of additional armor, the forward resistance of the multifunctional series vehicle is not less than 12.7 mm of high-hardness alloy core tracer shells, and the sides and rear of the hull should be able to cope with the close attack of conventional 7.62 mm ammunition. In terms of design requirements, the protection of multi-functional series vehicles is the most important key point.

In addition to the fact that the body armor is welded with high-strength armor alloy materials, the biggest advantage of the Multi-Purpose Series is the additional armor of a ceramic composite material laid on the outside of the body. The protection capability of the vehicle greatly exceeds that of the US army's 'Stryker' tank, but is comparable to the protection of the French Army's VBCI wheeled infantry fighting vehicle.

Whether it is the consideration of model derivation, weapon loading, or shape definition, it can be seen that the multi-functional series of combat vehicles have many similarities with the advanced wheeled infantry fighting vehicles such as Western 'sawtooth carp' and 'boxer'. You can see it in the details alone.

As far as the Chinese tank is concerned, the original Chinese tank body embedded in the on-board air conditioning and engine muffler protection, has always been the use of mesh protective cover, which is obviously the weak link of the vehicle protection. The multi-functional series of combat vehicles does not have these drawbacks, and adopts a shutter-type inclined edge strip combination armor similar to that widely used in European and American ground combat vehicles. In this way, it not only has a more protective ability, but also does not affect the internal and external communication of the heat dissipation air, which greatly improves the protection performance of the whole vehicle.

However, when the multi-purpose 8×8 wheeled infantry fighting vehicle entered the rubble city of Bossaso, the Chinese soldiers still prepared this medium-sized wheeled motor vehicle for protection. The Israelis were also brought over in the Gaza Strip, and this method of attaching Kevlar guards to the hull of the vehicle and opposing sandbags, although it made the whole vehicle look ugly, made it possible to strafe 12.7mm machine gun rounds on the sides and back of the vehicle.

The concept of welding protective fences, also known as 'fence armor add-on modules' invented by the US forces in Iraq in Iraq, has indeed made the combat vehicle have great protection against anti-tank rockets such as RPGs. Even for a while, Russian troops stationed in Chechnya attached this kind of cage-like thing to their BMP tanks. So the method seems to be a bit dirty, and the concept is very simple, just the word 'isolation', but the effect is really good.

For government soldiers hiding in rubble bunkers, the 30mm guns on these wheeled infantry fighting vehicles are their biggest nightmare. The ferocious 30mm cannons licked the bricks and tiles between the ruins again and again with their serpent-like chains of fire. Sub-caliber armor-piercing anti-explosive shells are too cruel to deal with bunkers.

Many hapless government soldiers were in what they thought were safe bunkers, and they were blown up by sub-caliber armor-piercing bombs. If there is no decent resistance at all, it is a tragic death.

And the fall of night made the Red Police soldiers like fish in water. Chinese soldiers, who have individual night vision devices and high-power thermal imagers, seem to be very interested in this one-way transparent combat mode. The 'Thermal Imaging Weapon Sighting Device' and the 'Night Vision Sensor Display Device' on their automatic rifles can directly visualize the situation on the battlefield on the display system on their protective helmets through the 'Optical Projection Device'. And what about the soldiers of the government army, they have nothing.

The intensity of the battle was almost unimaginable, and the artillery fire from afar ploughed bright ballistics in the night again and again, illuminating the sky in a fiery red. Hundreds of Chinese soldiers marched between the cities toward the pre-planned roadmap of their companies and platoons. Bombs, shells, directional blasting devices, blowing up entire cities to the sky.

The armoured bulldozers of the Engineering Support Company seemed unoblivious to the hoarse roar of their engines. The rubble and bricks raised by shovels buried the government soldiers hiding deep in the rubble alive in their bunkers. A city in Nuoda was stirred up by the sound of explosions and the roar of motors.

The significance of the Battle of Bossaso was extremely important to the Red Guard soldiers, who not only wanted to prove their loyalty to Li Lan, but also wanted to make this first battle in the actual sense of the word a special style.

The fall of Bossaso had become an inevitable tragedy, and with the offensive of two powerful ground forces, the lonely city had reached the time of Zuihou.

Although the nearly 10,000 government defenders trapped in the city are still resisting, everyone knows that this resistance no longer has any meaning and value.

Hundreds of artillery pieces blasted the ruined city to the ground, and there was not a single building to be found in the city.

"Tell the troops, press through from both flanks, and cooperate with the 2nd Tank Battalion in the north direction of the city to squeeze the enemy in the direction of the coast!" Hofmande, who braved the hail of bullets and went out to the front line to command, seemed to ignore the stray bullets that flew by his ears, pointed to the place where the fireworks were rising in the distance, and gave the latest order and instructions to the troops: "Don't let the troops stop, continue to attack forward, and leave the task of clearing the remnants of the enemy to the 3rd Mechanized Infantry Battalion!" ”

With the simultaneous breakthrough of the two sides in the west and north of the city, the panicked government forces had to partially shrink their defensive lines, but it was too late to do so. With the capture of a key point near the city hall of Bossaso by a company of infantry, the entire city of Bossaso has been completely cut off. (To be continued......)