Chapter 149: The Battle to the Death
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Knowing that the enemy had penetrated deep into the borders of Somaliland and was wreaking havoc everywhere, the coalition command was enraged and gave a death order: the enemy who had entered the territory must be annihilated within twenty-four hours!
At the same time, the main forces of the coalition forces were divided into two routes, with the Somaliland armored brigade facing east and detouring west along the national border to surround the enemy force entering Somaliland.
After receiving the report that the two armies of the coalition army were launched at the same time, Ahmad said two words lightly: "Naive! β
"No, they haven't figured out the situation until now, they deserve to be unlucky!" Said a staff officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel in the command.
Ahmed said: "Tell the main forces on the front line that this armored brigade specializing in Somaliland does not have the luxury of being wiped out quickly, just hit the pain!" Beware of the enemy's air force, though. β
The lieutenant colonel then turned on the radio and said in code: "The sale is on the door, are you ready?" β
There was a fiery voice on the other end: "I've been waiting impatiently!" Damn, I have sunburned two layers of skin in this hellish place, and this bitterness has not been eaten in vain, so I finally caught up! If I don't blow out the shit of those bastards this time, I won't take a gun from now on! β
The lieutenant colonel continued: "The long-range artillery unit will give you maximum support, and the effectiveness of this battle depends on whether you can beat Somaliland to the ground!" β
The other end said, "What an armored brigade that." Lao Tzu wants to stay all, it is all meritorious. Can't be wasted! β
Ruthless enough!
With the order given, two of the Red Guard's most powerful swords came to the fore on the African continent. The hapless Somaliland armored brigade was destined to be the first sacrifice.
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"Damn bastard!" Lieutenant Okasi, commander of the Knife Company of the Somaliland Armoured Brigade, muttered a curse. No wonder he was so hot, what he thought was a light and pleasant journey to report turned into a bloody battle, and only how long had it been, seven soldiers in his company had fallen to the sporadic fire from the side of the road.
For the brave Dir warriors, this kind of shooting is not a threat, but more like torture, which cannot be prevented. Under the training of Chinese officers, those uncivilized guys have really become a climate in addition to everyone being fluent in Chinese. Ignore him, the bullets are whizzing, and wherever they bite is a hole. was beaten, put away jiashi and want to fight them fiercely, they are gone, anyway, they won't let you live in peace!
At the cost of a dozen spearheads, they finally advanced to the territory that originally belonged to Puntland. There was silence on the plain in the distance, and nothing was seen in the infrared night vision binoculars in my hand.
There was no sign of movement of the enemy's armored forces, as well as of the army. This is a good sign. Although he is not afraid to fight these two opponents, more is better than less, just keep an eye on them. Standing on the tank and looking through a telescope at the silent plains in the distance, Lieutenant Ocassi said to the messenger beside him:
"Send a telegram to General Aliel. We have advanced into Puntland, and we have found no large enemy forces, and we have not been ......"
The word zuihou suddenly choked. Because he found out that his conclusion was made a little earlier: a flash of fire in the bushes five hundred meters away, an anti-tank rocket launcher rushed at them with such enthusiasm!
It's as if I heard the starting pistol. Around the hillside, in the woods. Behind the mound, deadly anti-tank rockets burst out everywhere and shot at them! The rocket artillery rain tactics have been used many times by the Egyptian army in the Middle East war, and they have beaten the army's nose and face, but they didn't expect this set of tactics to fall on their heads!
The tanks and infantry fighting vehicles of the whole company reined and maneuvered, releasing smoke bombs and decoys in an attempt to avoid these kisses of death, but it was too late, and before the company commander could shout "be careful", the first anti-tank rocket launcher plunged headlong into a standard infantry fighting vehicle, which could penetrate the front armor of the tank and use it to hit the infantry fighting vehicle, a squad of soldiers, not a single one came out alive.
But the crew was not alone, as fireballs rushed up, chariots were mercilessly overturned, debris flew everywhere, and death wails everywhere.
In the light of the explosion, a hideous and abnormal figure appeared in the field of vision of the stunned Somaliland soldiers, and then another, and another, it was a swarm of rhinoceros tanks,
Behind the Somaliland reconnaissance company, a helicopter gunship pounced towards the rhinoceros tank group, spit out a long chain of fire under the short wings, two anti-tank rocket launchers devoured the overwhelming steel beast like a poisonous snake, boom, a fire rolled up, the tank that rushed to the front caught fire and burned, and stopped advancing, but a few anti-artillery infantry quickly flashed out behind, raising the slender barrel on the shoulder, the crosshair spit out the sturdy figure of the helicopter firmly, and the muzzle of the black hole spewed out orange fireballs at the same time, The whole person was shaken, and several shells with unbearable screaming sounds, like the famous arrows of ancient times, were fired towards the helicopter!
Individual anti-aircraft missiles! Lieutenant Ocasi let out a lament in his heart, he knew that this helicopter was finished, and the only thing he could do now was to flee while the enemy army had not rushed over!
Several remaining tanks of the whole company turned as fast as possible while the tank guns and anti-tank rocket launchers turned into sparks, turned around and ran, and the monsters that tore apart the helicopters did not know how to accept it when they saw it, and chased with full horsepower, and the main guns continued to spit out thunderous fireballs, which directly beat the unlucky eggs who ran slowly into burning iron toads.
Lieutenant Okasi reported to the brigade headquarters while directing the tanks to shoot indiscriminately: "We were ambushed by enemy hoplites in the XX area, and the pioneer company no longer exists!" It's a trap! We have fallen into the trap of the enemy! β
However, there were also explosions on the brigade headquarters. Damn it, could it be that they want to eat thousands of soldiers of the Somaliland armored brigade in one bite?
I guess it's also messed up over there. It took a full thirty seconds to hear the voice of the commander of the armored brigade, Major General Aweli: "Lieutenant, how did you get ambushed?" Did the enemy's Tanan army enter the war? And also. Are you sure this is Somalis...... Hey, hey, Lieutenant, are you listening? β
After a loud bang, the lieutenant gasped in response, "I'm listening." β
"Then hurry up and answer my question!"
The lieutenant was so angry that he shouted: "If you ask any more questions, no one will answer your questions!" A bunch of bastards' main battle tanks, we've wiped them out in one company! Our T-72 tank guns could not penetrate the opponent's armor. β
The lieutenant's anger was justified, as the incredibly fast Rhino Tank was chasing after them and firing a killing spree, cutting the distance between the two so fast that it was just a few words away. Of the four tanks that struggled out of the rain of anti-tank rocket artillery, he was the only one left! After shouting this, there was a scream behind him, and another deadly shell flew over, and the lieutenant only felt that the whole tank shook heavily, and his 160-pound body flew out of the tank hatch like a cloud, and fell heavily to the ground.
Before he passed out, he saw that his vehicle had been torn apart, and the damned Rhino Tank triumphantly passed by the burning wreckage and slaughtered the main force of the Legion......
When the first shells of the fire meteors generally fall from the sky. As he slammed into the middle of the marching queue with a devastating force, Aweli suddenly realized that he, or rather the entire coalition, had made a fatal mistake: underestimating the determination of his compatriots in front of him to defend their interests!
As soon as the 2nd Armored Brigade made a move, it put out an anvil against the hammerββββ and the two infantry battalions spread out on both wings. Like a powerful iron pincer, it headed towards the two wings of the Somaliland Armoured Brigade, and in the middle were their main armoured battalions, the 1st and 2nd armoured battalions. More than 80 tanks lined up in several horizontal columns, rumbling like a tsunami, accompanied by overwhelming artillery fire, they rolled towards the main force of the Somaliland armored brigade!
On the side of the tank. It was the accompanying anti-tank infantry, hunting the tanks of the Somaliland armored brigade like hounds. The battalion of self-propelled howitzers in the rear opened fire as they marched. Rows of shells burst out, rolling up a torrent of death in the middle of the Somaliland armoured brigade, a torrent of steel and flames. The artillery fire was so fierce that even though the formation of the Somaliland armored brigade was already quite loose, it still suffered heavy casualties, and almost every ball of fire rose up, more or less with a touch of blush!
The tall and lanky soldiers of the Somaliland Armoured Brigade disappeared into the flames of the explosion in a howl full of horror and unwillingness, turning into a misty mist of blood. When the 237 rocket launcher roared, these hapless Somaliland soldiers had a sense of doom.
The lethality of the 237-mm rocket artillery warhead and the 110-meter killing radius are really terrifying, a shell falls, it is necessary to dig a small pool on the ground, and the people and vegetation near the bullet point fly into the air together, turning into powder, and those who are a little farther away are either wrapped in the wind and fly away or have weak feet, fall to the ground and spray blood, a considerable number of people struggle to get up and escape from the shelling area when they suddenly find that their legs have disappeared!
"Boom !!"
A rocket artillery hit a main battle tank. The main battle tank is notoriously durable, and the anti-personnel grenades against the infantry are basically not removed, but ...... And what if that grenade had a caliber of 237 mm? Just look at the turret that instantly turned into dozens of scorching shards and splattered out.
Aweli was furious, although the armored brigade was full, it was all T-64, and he only had an artillery battalion in his hand, but the opponent was the firepower of a whole artillery regiment, both in quantity and quality, and the Somaliland armored brigade was really blinded! He hissed and roared: "What about the Air Force? Where are they? Aren't they omnipotent, weishenme does not come to solve the enemy's artillery? β
The staff officers smiled bitterly: no matter how fast the planes fly, they are not as fast as the shells, and their signal for air support is sent back to the coalition headquarters, and the commander makes corresponding tactical arrangements until the fighters take off and arrive, this process is not possible without one or twenty minutes, and one or twenty minutes is enough for the enemy's self-propelled guns to pour more than 2,000 shells with great lethality on them. Besides, Major General, you have breathable eyes, you don't see that the enemy forces are still attacking with anti-aircraft rocket artillery. Hold up an air defense umbrella for the whole army?
The artillery of the Somaliland armored brigade is also firing desperately, 130 mm wheeled assault guns. 105 mm plus howitzers and even towed heavy mortars. They all hit the highest rate of fire, but despite this, they still had no way to block the enemy's attack, on the contrary, their cannons were also overturned by the whistling shells one by one, and the inferiority of the artillery was destined to make the bull suffer a big loss!
It has to be said that the actions of the Ethiopian Air Force are still quite fast, after receiving a rescue signal from the Somaliland armored brigade. Eight MiG-21 fighters took off one after another and pounced on the self-propelled howitzer battalion of the 2nd Armored Brigade of the Red Guard Corps. A voyage of two or three hundred kilometers can be reached in twenty minutes. They are moving fast enough, the question is how useful can eight attack aircraft play in such a brigade-based battle? It's still an old antique like the MiG-21, and it's a pathetic light machine, and now only African countries still use such fighters as treasures.
At the same time that the soldiers of the Somaliland armored brigade heard the roar of the engine, they also saw the hideous figure of the rhinoceros tank that gradually became clear in the smoke of gunpowder. Now that the distance between the two armies has been reduced to 2,500 meters, the 125 mm high-pressure smoothbore gun of the Rhino Tank, which can only be described as a metamorphosis, emits a formidable roar. The long-pole tail stabilized shelling armor-piercing projectile pierced this distance, which is not long or short, and appeared in front of the tanks of the Somaliland armored brigade so arrogantly!
The radio station of the armored corps was filled with howls of ghosts and wolves, screams, and roars. The sound of cursing, as well as the commander's almost instinctive response, sounded into a pot of porridge. Others are simply the nervous screams of some of the members, which are hilarious anyway.
The seemingly powerful T-64 main battle tank is so vulnerable in front of the sharp spears of the Red Police. The self-detonation of reactive armor had little effect, and the armor-piercing shell unreasonably passed through the middle of the explosion fragments and the reverse impact force. As soon as it pierced to the end, the fire flashed, and with a boom, a large ball of flames erupted from the hole flowing with molten steel, sweeping across the entire hull, and the turret seemed to be beheaded by an invisible horse chopping knife, and the whole flew up more than ten meters high! This sharp blow was just the beginning, and more armor-piercing bullets were like flying edges, roaring......
The Somaliland armored brigade is equipped with more than 50 T-64 main battle tanks, and its combat effectiveness is not weak among African countries, even if the performance of the tanks is not considered, but the second armored brigade of the Red Alert is advancing on both wings, and it is an ambush, taking the lead, firmly wrapping them in a narrow area, and they can't be used! The artillery fire and short-range rocket artillery from both flanks did not stop for a second, and on the front, nearly 80 tanks rolled over like an impregnable wall, and the Somaliland armored brigade had never fought such a poor battle since the establishment of the army, and could only passively withstand the rounds of damage from the enemy's tank artillery.
The Second Armoured Brigade is different, their forces are stretched out enough, they have strong flexibility, they can advance and retreat freely, and they also have accurate artillery support, which makes the Somaliland Arboreal Armoured Brigade extremely passive. The air support that the Somaliland armored brigade was hoping for seemed to be coming, and the MiG-21 attack aircraft group fled in the desert amid the huge whistling sound of the 2nd armored brigade's multifunctional infantry fighting vehicle projectiles firing in unison, and the Ethiopian side was already afraid, and the fourteen MiG-23s were not long in coming, and the pilots were all afraid of the sky.
Now the Somaliland armored brigade can only die on the front, and at the same time concentrate its forces desperately expanding towards the two flanks, trying to drive the enemy's oppressive infantry battalion farther away to catch a breath, and even tear a hole to break through, and then try to meet the main Ethiopian force in Zak Town, at that time, it will be the turn of these enemies to cry!
The Somaliland armored brigade, which was fighting bloodily, did not know that the Ethiopian armored brigade, which they regarded as their savior, was in trouble at this time, which was not much bigger than theirs, because in the town of Zak on the seashore, three Ethiopian armored brigades collided with the long-awaited heavy artillery brigade and the two Rhino tank battalions that had torn off their camouflage, and in order to deal with the enemy in front of him, Li Lan sent out all the tanks in the territory, and although it was still two battalions, the number of Rhino main battle tanks had exceeded 150. The 2nd Armored Brigade, despite the fact that it was still a brigade, had already reached two hundred and thirty tanks alone. It was the result of the convergence of all tanks in the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade and the Heavy Division.
One of the characteristics of the terrain around Zack Town is that it is flat, so it can be said that it is a flat river, and there is no danger to rely on, and the few hills and bushes are the only barriers that the defenders can use. This road is well developed. The highway is crisscrossed, and the mechanized corps can go on a rampage. Fierce and fierce. In addition, the town of Zak has gathered a large number of logistics materials to supply the logistics base of more than 400 tanks. It must have become a place where Li Lan will definitely attack.
Of course, what you are going to attack is what I am defending, and guided by this great idea, the Somaliland Jihua has invested a huge force of more than three divisions in this direction.
In just a few hours, the town of Zack has been turned upside down, and the whole town has now become a huge fireball burning on the edge of the Gulf of Aden, and the heavy artillery brigade has poured tens of thousands of tons of shells on it in ten minutes.
The street fighting was undoubtedly heating up, with the well-armed 2nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade committing more than 2,000 Red Guard soldiers to the town. Every street is covered in whizzing tracer bullets, every house has a rifle poking out of the window to shoot deadly bullets at the people below, a small squad of heavily armed soldiers popping up in every alley, and behind every pile of rubble there may be a ruthless sniper, green eyed waiting for some daredevils to come to the door automatically.
The strength of the enemy's attack was beyond the expectations of the coalition forces, and it subverted their traditional concept of fighting for decades! As the wreckage of burning vehicles on the roadside grew, the number of bodies lying on the streets, and the effectiveness of the defense became less and less, the coalition forces had to continue to invest heavily in their forces. Engage in a painful tug-of-war with the Red Guard Regiment with your life.
Compared to the Somaliland armoured brigade that was thrown into the meat grinder, the Ethiopian armoured brigade was considered lucky. These three armored brigades are the old armored forces of Ethiopia and an important component of the Ethiopian army, with a total strength of 20,000 troops. Equipped with the T-72 main battle tank and the T-80 main battle tank, the combat power is strong.
Throwing such a heavily armed army into street fighting, I'm afraid only brain-dead people can do it. Therefore, Lieutenant General Guevara, as the commander of the three armored brigades, gave the three armored brigades a detour to penetrate the enemy's rear, and the flat formation along the coast was also beneficial to their performance. Therefore, there is nothing to say about such an arrangement.
The sky in the direction of the harbor had been turned purple red by artillery fire, and from time to time there was a loud thunderous sound. There were also rockets and shells that constantly swept overhead, which made the soldiers of the Ethiopian armored brigade eager to rush and kill immediately. Of course, they had to find the enemy before they could do it.
The damned enemy soldiers all seemed to have fled, the coastline was empty, there was not a single ghost, and the Ethiopian armored soldiers, who were sweating all over the car even if the air conditioning was turned on, were scolding, and they were all laughing at the enemy soldiers for being cowards and not daring to fight against the powerful Ethiopian heavy cavalry.
The huge steel beasts rolled over unbridledly, the earth trembled, the bushes turned green under the tracks, and the small animals along the way trembled with fright, all of which made the armored soldiers experience the joy of conquerors, and many people said: "We should have taken such an action a long time ago!"
They were a little early in their joy. At least that's what Commander Guevara thought.
In the command car, Guevara frowned, repeatedly checked several pieces of information, and looked serious. He was really relieved, although the scout had not found any trace of the enemy so far, let alone been attacked in any way, and the wind was calm, but he always had a feeling in his heart that he was walking towards the trap of the enemy army, and this feeling made him uncomfortable. Western soldiers have a mantra: "When our offensive is overwhelming, it means that we have fallen into the trap of the enemy!" "Now the armored brigade is not only overwhelming, it is simply in a no-man's land, and it forms a huge contrast with the direction of the harbor where the artillery is blazing, and this strange calm makes the major general like a thorn in the back.
He has repeatedly studied the photos sent back by US military satellites, and the reconnaissance helicopter has also conducted two reconnaissance surveys, and has not found anything wrong. A heavy artillery cluster of the enemy is still honestly guarding the front, waiting for them to go and kill, but ...... What's wrong? What's wrong?
At this time, the scout sent back an important piece of information: the Somaliland armored brigade was ambushed by enemy tank units in the southern direction, and suffered heavy casualties!
The enemy army has already been dispatched, so what about here?
The intermediate level was startled, and shouted decisively: "The main force slows down and lets the forward troops strengthen reconnaissance!" β
The forward troops suddenly scolded, how many times have they reconnoitred along the way? It's just abandoned villages and towns that people ran out of the early years, and beyond that, there are large clusters of bushes, and nothing more than that is everywhere in Somalia. What is there to scout?
If you can see through the camouflage net, you can see everything under the bushes. I don't know if these soldiers can still scold. In the endless thickets and patches of grass, there is an army that can make them tremble!
They kept the radio silent. Lying motionless like a pile of leaves, the reconnaissance plane flew overhead, but did not find any clues! What's even more terrifying is that half of this lush bush and weedy jungle was actually created by camouflaged troops, which seems to have the cunning of the Chinese communist army back then!
A major and a lieutenant colonel lay outside the headquarters, watching with amazement with infrared binoculars as the enemy stepped into their carefully arranged traps. Watching the armored brigade reconnaissance battalion drive by without noticing, the two looked at each other.
The major gestured in sign language: "Ethiopian male division is at this level?" The monkeys are better than them! β
Lieutenant Colonel: "That's different, the monkeys are much smarter than them." β
Major: "Yes, I've always hoped that Jishu can help them solve all their problems. Now we're going to show them that Jishu is not omnipotent! No matter how haodejishu is, you also need excellent personnel to use it. β
Not long after, the main forces of the Ethiopian armored brigade all entered the ambush circle. The digitization team had been prepared, and the heavy artillery brigade had begun to correct and calculate the coordinates, and the major laughed and shouted: "Fire!" β
Almost as a reflex, two seconds after his shouting, the shooter of the self-propelled howitzer battalion hiding twenty kilometers away pressed the launch button. With a bang, a 155 mm caliber grenade flew towards the Ethiopian army on the road! For counter-reconnaissance purposes, all artillery radars were not turned on, so the shell was almost a direct shot. However, the invisible beam of light from the riflescope in the hands of the digitized infantry provided guidance for the shells. The beam of light is pinned to the body of a munitions truck, which is refracted into the sky, and the shells are pounced on the munitions truck along the refracted beam. The entire ammunition truck turned into a huge fireball several meters in diameter with a loud bang, and the bombardment wave threw an off-road jeep behind it into the air. The severed limbs of the soldiers fell like dead branches, and this was just the beginning!
Without waiting for the Ethiopian army to react. More shells pounced in droves, with a clear division of labor, with armor-piercing shells smashing at T-72 main battle tanks at several times the speed of sound, and slower anti-personnel grenades at jeeps and amphibious armored vehicles. Shells with a caliber of more than 130 mm, even if the tank armor is thick enough to withstand this blow, the people inside will have to be shocked to death! What's more, the major wanted the Ethiopian to look good, and as soon as he got his hands on it, he used the most inhumane copper armor-piercing bullet! The thirty-centimeter-long copper pipe slammed into the frontal armor of the Challenger main battle tank, and the huge heat generated by the impact instantly melted it into a liquid with a high temperature of more than 4,000 degrees, but the speed did not decrease slightly, and the seemingly indestructible frontal armor of the main battle tank did not withstand even 0.5 seconds, and was instantly burned through by the terrible copper liquid, sweeping towards the cab like a volcanic fountain, and the fragments of the tank armor that were collapsed also fell to the well, swept at subsonic speed, and the terrifying high temperature and
The metal jet made a mess of the entire inside of the tank, and with such a shell, the armored men had almost no chance of survival! Iraqis tasted this heart-wrenching taste during the Gulf War, and now it's Ethiopia's turn. The result? Just look at the turrets that are burning and rolling into the air.
The plight of the armored corps, of course, was sympathetic, and the infantry was no better. The grenades flying towards them burst automatically above their heads, releasing more than forty high-explosive warheads like transport planes, in groups of ten, connected by a streamer, pulled into a straight row like chains of fire, and pulled down mercilessly towards them, and the off-road jeep was finished when it hit one of these warheads, and now it was a group of ten dropping, as if a magician threw a series of lightning spells, and a chain of flames exploded on the ground, and it seemed that ball lightning was making a big move.
When it comes to explosive power, a single warhead is naturally far inferior to ordinary 155-mm shells, but when it comes to the killing area, ordinary shells are afraid that they are not even a third of them. For those infantry who have no armor protection, there is no difference between a grenade thrown at their feet and a heavy artillery shell that falls two meters away, as long as it explodes, they will only have flesh and blood. The swarm of such perverted shells slammed down, creating a huge square with a sharp expansion in the position of the infantry of the armored brigade, and the vehicles in the square were blown to pieces, and the soldiers who were swept by the ball lightning chain did not even have time to scream before they turned into splatters of blood and minced flesh. The juxtaposition with the burning wreckage of the tank creates a picture that can only be seen in the post-apocalyptic hell. It's so spectacular, and it's so cruel.
The Ethiopian armoured brigade was blinded by this empty artillery bombardment. No matter how well-trained troops are suddenly attacked, chaos will inevitably occur, not to mention that this sudden attack is so fierce and terrifying, even if the armored brigade is beaten by iron, it will be knocked down by this storm-like blow! The self-propelled artillery spewed out shells with incredible lethality and screamed and scrambled to bring them endless death and fear, and the rocket artillery planted blazing red forests of incomparably hot debris in the area where the Ethiopian army was located, while the short-range rocket artillery worked hard to develop the mushroom cultivation business. In the night, a huge mushroom cloud with a small shape that does not meet the specifications is planted, the wreckage of Ethiopian army vehicles and the broken corpses of soldiers are flying in the midst of heavy thunder and heat waves, killing chickens with knives, Li Lan has never been stingy with shells for the enemy!
The U.S. military drone that took a complete picture of this scene shocked the pilots who controlled the drone.
Hordes of shells flew towards the armored brigade with eyes under the guidance of the digital infantry, and there were constantly screams of soldiers and dirt and crops being swept into the air, where there were large numbers of soldiers, there was a sea of fire! Not to mention those thin-skinned infantry fighting vehicles. Even the T-80 main battle tank, which has a total combat weight of up to 45 tons, will be finished with one shot! The artillery bombardment of the Red Guard Corps came accurately and fiercely, and the armored brigade was thrown into disarray by this half-hour round of shelling, if this high-density shelling continued for another ten minutes. Maybe they're going to have to break down! Just as Guevara was about to give the order to disperse and break out, the thunderous shelling suddenly stopped, and the sound of explosions and fires that could drive people crazy disappeared at once. The armored soldier who was blown off half his life was still a little uncomfortable for a while.
That doesn't mean their nightmare is over, though. The shelling continued, but from an unrelated covering shelling to a precise point kill. The sporadic cannon fire did not stop for a minute, and after almost every cannon shot, a tank or tank was inevitably overturned.
Before the enemy was seen, the armored brigade had been killed and wounded countless times after 30 minutes of shelling, corpses were everywhere, fire was lit by vehicle wreckage, and the wounded soldiers groaned in pain everywhere in the smoke of gunpowder.
Medics staggered through the choking smoke of gunpowder, pulling a wounded soldier out of the charred soil for first aid. The officers of the artillery unit roared and kicked the buttocks of their subordinates who were not dead or wounded, kicking them into the self-propelled guns, and the armored men regrouped angrily, ready to launch a counterattack on the enemy hiding in the shadows, and returned the colors!
However, they were not able to contact the command at this time, because two minutes earlier, an artillery rocket hit their command vehicle, and in the layers of flames, the entire command vehicle was reduced to burning wreckage, fortunately Guevara was dragged out by the guards before the shell hit the target, otherwise he would have been the first general to be killed in this war. They didn't run far before the shell hit the command car, and the critical wave swept in a heat wave, and the lieutenant general felt as if his vest had been hit hard by a big millstone, and the whole person flew forward four or five meters, threw himself on the ground and gnawed on a mouthful of green clay, his eyes were dark, and he passed out. The three armored brigades were suddenly leaderless and chaotic.
And at this critical juncture, the Red Guard Corps launched a powerful offensive, and a full 150 Rhino main battle tanks and a large number of armored vehicles and infantry combat vehicles converged into a huge torrent of steel and swept in! The low-bodied long-barreled rhinoceros tank looked particularly ferocious in the dark night, and rushed towards the T-80 main battle tank that was six or seven tons smaller than their tonnage, and the 125 mm caliber high-pressure smoothbore gun slowly rotated, and the fireball covering the entire body almost erupted from the muzzle of the black hole, piercing the night sky with a grim smile, penetrating into the heavy armor, and splashing ten thousand sparks.
Those multi-functional infantry fighting vehicles were not to be outdone, and in the midst of this roaring sound one after another, one after another anti-tank rocket launchers rose into the sky, drawing a graceful arc after arc, and pounced on those weak Ethiopian armored vehicles, king to king. will be against the general. The hapless Ethiopian army had not yet recovered from the shock of the shelling, and was again bitten by the vicious dogs of this group of vicious dogs. Immediately lost a lot.
The Ethiopian army, which had been hit by the blows, was furious, and several tank battalions rushed up almost in a swarm. Hundreds of main battle tanks slaughtered in this endless wilderness! Tanks let out a deep roar, like a group of wounded beasts, showing their sharpest fangs and rushing towards each other, the lethal armor-piercing bullets flew in the air, looking for targets that could be attacked, and the tanks continued to be shot and fired, and the surviving armored soldiers dragged out the dead and wounded companions with colorless faces and ran away desperately, many people failed to complete this series of actions, and did not even have time to climb out of the tank. The magazine exploded, and they rose into the air with the turret and disappeared without a trace.
In terms of protection capability and maneuverability, both the T-72 and the T-80 are far inferior to the Rhino tank, unless the Russian T-90 comes out, otherwise the status of the Rhino tank cannot be helped. The difference in tonnage is still a small problem, and the real thing is that the quality of the Ethiopian armored forces is far inferior to that of the Chinese soldiers of the Red Alert unit, which is under the control of the Ethiopian armored forces. It was not accurate to fire at high speed, and it had to pause every time it fired, and then continue to fire after firing, and these weaknesses were not a big problem. It doesn't matter if they play against opponents like the T-62 and T-55, because they simply don't have the ability to penetrate their thick armor head-on, but when they are forced to go against a third-generation main battle tank like the Rhino Tank. These weaknesses are exposed, and the consequences are catastrophic! The Rhino tank utilizes good maneuverability and an advanced fire control system. The relatively slow-moving T-72 was dizzy, and a little carelessness was a shot. Whether it is a tungsten alloy bullet warhead's tail stable shell-piercing shell-piercing projectile or a copper armor-piercing projectile, it will be finished with one shot!
In the melee, both sides suffered a lot of losses.
"Grandma drops, worthy of being Soviet goods, these T-80s are really durable!"
The major muttered in a low voice, because he saw a T-80 hit the Rhino tank hard, but there was no fire and no explosion, he could really carry it. The major decisively ordered the main forces to get rid of the frontal entanglement of the three armored brigades of Ethiopia, with a roundabout flank, and the anti-tank battalion and a main battle tank battalion continued to pin down the enemy forces on the front. The red-eyed Ethiopian armored soldiers didn't care what tactics they didn't have, and when they saw the Red Guard Corps retreating, they chased them closely, even if they were constantly hit by anti-tank rocket artillery, they refused to turn back! If people go crazy, it's really hard to deal with!
"Boom, boom, boom......"
A series of muffled noises finally exploded on the positions of the Red Guard Corps, and the flames rose to three anti-tank rocket launchers, which was the first round of organized shelling in Ethiopia since the enemy was engaged. A second round of shells followed, and more anti-tank rocket launchers were smashed along with people and vehicles.
The self-propelled artillery regiment of the armored division, which had suffered enough from the artillery of the Red Police Corps, held back its strength and slammed its pretend, turning the starting point of the Red Police Corps' attack into an erupting volcano, and if they did not blow up all the enemy into minced meat, their evil anger would not be extinguished! With the support of artillery fire, the tank battalions of the three armoured brigades were even more aggressive, and the troops were divided into two lines, one frontal assault on the defensive line formed by anti-tank rocket artillery and artillery, and the other side slammed into both flanks, convinced that they would be able to crush these damned Somalis completely!
The Somalis just took advantage of the ambush and caught them off guard, and now they have to fight hard to the death, where is the opponent of these former subordinates? Not to mention the huge loopholes in the deployment of the Red Guard Corps, where only anti-tank rocket artillery units were placed on the front! Your anti-tank rocket launcher is doing a great job, but it's naΓ―ve to want to put us in your pocket on its own, right?
Now it must be the notorious V-shaped offensive, the powerful main force is pincering like an iron tong on the periphery, and a small but brave and good fighting force is blocking the jaws, and the deployment is good, better than your predecessors, but can those armored vehicles really withstand the onslaught of our tanks and heavy artillery? As long as we are willing to pay a certain price, we can completely crush all these anti-tank rocket artillery units!
Rush...... Let's take out the anti-tank rocket artillery units first! Under the stimulus of turning defeat into victory, the armored brigade almost covered up the whole world, and looking at the momentum, it only took one round of impact to roll these hard-working lightly armed troops into powder!
It's just that the bullish Ethiopian army ignores the lethality of digitized artillery units. An entire brigade of heavy artillery was hidden in the bushes twenty kilometers away, constantly firing anti-tank rocket launchers, and with every shell that came out, a tank or self-propelled gun would be tragically turned into burning scrap metal!
The equipment of these artillery is too loose, and only two guns can be placed at most at a distance of one kilometer, in other words, even if the artillery radar of the Ethiopian army finds them and launches a counterattack, they can only destroy one or two guns at most, while a digital artillery cannon can send them back to their hometown!
Another major feature of digital artillery is that it can react quickly enough, hit and run, and can make all preparations in less than a minute after receiving the command to open fire during the maneuver, and fire three shells at the target. Traditional artillery vs. digital artillery, who is stronger? Just look at the smashed chariots.
Weishenme Li Lan has only so many troops so far, that is, he has always pursued the advanced degree of the army, and the digitization of the army is the most basic requirement of Li Lan. If he didn't have this hardware to back him up, would he be so tough?
However, the Ethiopian Air Force was not slow to respond, and six MiG-23s hurriedly got up to support, not that their response was so slow, but now that the entire battlefield is in a pot of porridge, it is good to be able to rush to support. It's a pity that before they could drop the bomb, the air defense units on the periphery of the Red Guard Corps had already found trouble with them. In the end, the six MiG-23s had no choice but to drop bombs at high altitude, and then turned and left.
Without the threat from the air, those digital artillery will be even more presumptuous, fighting more with less, and soon the artillery of the armored brigade will not be able to open their mouths, and can only watch the armored troops and the enemy melee into a mess, killing flesh and blood!
When Guevara woke up, the first thing he said was what happened to the troops. He smiled wryly when he learned that the armored brigade had been completely mixed up with the Red Guard Corps, and that the air force could no longer provide effective support. In this roundabout, in addition to military needs, there is also a layer of testing to explore whether the Malians are resolutely on Li Lan's side, and the test has already yielded results, and now he is most concerned about how many people in his three armored brigades can return home alive?
Just when the artillery fire on the left and right flanks was in full swing, the street fighting in Zack Town also reached a climax. The first company of the allied infantry that was beaten out by the infantry battalion of the 2nd Armored Brigade of the Red Guard Corps launched three waves of offensives, breaking into the city for hundreds of meters, and the heavy artillery and air force bombarded back and forth several times, but there were still countless bullets from every corner of the city, shooting through their bodies and smashing their heads! The coalition forces are superior in numbers, while the Red Policemen are superior in their well-equipped and well-trained forces. For a while, it was quite a fight, and it was not easy for anyone who wanted to eat each other in one bite. (To be continued......)