In the command center of the base, busy staff and staff officers, and the hurried flow of people staggered through the huge center, and the sound of radio calls, keyboard tapping, and communication through telephones and headsets was constantly staged throughout the center.

On the table, there are large bites of bread or camel meat, and they have not been looked at for a long time now, at this time, no one will think to take a bite, perhaps the occasional stomach protest chirp, will make them pay attention again, but it is also a moment, a piece of the body is missing, and there is only a row of tooth marks.

"Where has the 1st Infantry Brigade arrived now?" Three or four hours have passed, and the war has been ignited on three fronts, and Li Lan can only cast his occasional attention on the two small towns in the west, is this something he doesn't care about? No, it's a sign of concern. Because the specific command of the battle is Tanya, and then there are Hofmande, Ahmed and other generals, and he doesn't need to worry about how to fight at all.

But the two western towns were very important, and the naval supply had not yet been completed, and the rear of Berbera and Hargeisa were closely related to these two towns. In the case that the follow-up troops are not ready, these two towns must not be lost.

Otherwise, the armored forces of the coalition forces can drive straight into the defense circle and directly penetrate into the defensive circle, which will bring many harmful variables whether it is to Berbera, or Hargeisa, or simply directly threaten Bagua City.

Now, what Li Lan does not want to see the most is that the coalition forces in Djibouti and the coalition forces opposite Hargeisa have formed a flanking attack on Hargeisa, and once this situation is formed. Then the line of defense in the southwest direction can be declared broken.

Therefore, hold on to these two towns. It became the key to the subsequent war.

"Because of the rainstorm, the first mechanized infantry brigade is still at least an hour away from the two small towns." Tanya quickly answered Li Lan's question. She was very aware of Li Lan's considerations, and then assured: "Please rest assured, the commander that the coalition forces will definitely not capture these two towns easily." ”

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It seems that the battle never stops, and the Grim Reaper is always happy to fight like this, because it can always get more fresh dead life in such a splash of flesh and blood. As long as more souls can be taken away, the Grim Reaper has never had any concept of good and evil. The cannonballs crashed down, setting off a sky full of scarlet, and even the mud was filled with a shocking red.

Under the armored cover of the 6th Tank Company of the 3rd Heavy Cavalry Combat Group of the French, the remnants of the 8th Ethiopian Infantry Division followed the artillery-paved passage with steel. Crashed into the Red Police's reinforced battalion's defenses.

The 120-mm rifled recoil mortar system continued to drop direct support fire on the reinforced battalion's front, and 12 Leclerc main battle tanks lined up, rolling up the mud all over the ground. Hordes of Ethiopian soldiers roared and rushed forward, and the wheeled chariots that rushed through the wings began to suppress the fire and cover it.

Almost at the same time, the Ethiopian aim was to contain the Red Guard troops in these directions, so as to cope with the attack of the Eighth Infantry Division here. In one fell swoop, break through the defensive line of the Red Guard Reinforced Battalion.

The wreckage of the destroyed Leclerc main battle tank was still paralyzed there, as were the wreckage of other vehicles. This time, however, the torrent of new armor blasts was once again raging. And it's even tougher.

Originally, the 3rd Tank Company was supposed to have 13 Leclerc main battle tanks. Because each company has 3 platoons of tanks equipped with 4 tanks, to which the company headquarters must be added. The 6th Heavy Cavalry Battle Group has always been arrogant and conceited, but the destruction of the previous 'Leclerc' did make the entire 6th Panzer Division almost feel humiliated.

The 12 tanks were lined up, and the mud that flew up was scattered behind the cars. The diffuse diesel exhaust obscures the sky and the sun, and it is even more difficult to disperse in the rain. In quick succession, 105mm grenades and 155mm grenades began to fall. Immediately afterward, the on-board firepower also began to ferocious. The 12 Leclerc main battle tanks suddenly accelerated and began to attack.

The reinforced battalion artillery deployed in depth began to return fire. 155 and 105 mm howitzers smashed shells out of the cannon one after another, covering the front line of the defensive position. Shells from both sides exploded one after another. Kick up mud all over the ground.

The artillery fire seemed to be more intense, and shells of various calibers fell one after another, and it was obvious that the attack power was about to cut in.

"Leclerc!" The Red Guard soldiers had seen these behemoths emerging from the rain.

"French Leclerc main battle tanks, 12 units, contact front 1013, all departments are ready to engage the enemy!" The Red Guard soldiers were already scolding as they engaged the enemy.

"Anti-tank platoon, anti-tank platoon, ready to engage the enemy!" In the hoarse shouts of the officers. Several armed Humvees belonging to the battalion's mobile anti-tank platoon slowly drove out of the vehicle's hideout. These high-altitude vehicles are equipped with V-1FT heavy anti-tank missiles with strong armor-piercing capabilities and anti-jamming capabilities.

The company-level anti-tank operations of the reinforced battalion consisted of four units: the battalion belonged to a mobile anti-tank platoon, which consisted mainly of motor vehicles loaded with heavy anti-tank missiles. The company belongs to the heavy anti-tank group, which is mainly equipped with portable anti-tank missiles, the anti-tank group owned by each infantry platoon is equipped with a 120-mm heavy anti-tank rocket system, and each infantry squad is equipped with individual rocket armor-piercing shells.

These four combat units are fully integrated into a single combat system, thus forming a company, platoon, squad and even individual soldiers, and the integrated composition of the complete anti-tank firepower is enough to delay any armor force.

The 12 Leclerc main battle tanks lined up in a row slammed viciously in the direction of the reinforced battalion with the roar of the motors, and the Ethiopian armed armored vehicles and soldiers who followed behind also rushed up at the same time.

Time had stopped at this moment, and even the Grim Reaper, who was greedily harvesting life, seemed to be quiet, waiting for the moment of the showdown. The collision of the rapids is about to begin at this moment.

Several V-1FT heavy anti-tanks roared out. Like a meteor, he pounced on the 12 Leclerc main battle tanks lined up. In the face of the murderous V-1FT, the front line of the 3rd Tank Company of the 6th Heavy Cavalry Battle Group of the French Army suddenly became chaotic. Leclerc, who was still menacing just now, immediately began to do serpentine maneuvers.

The two 'Leclerc' on the left did not escape the catastrophe and were in the smoke that rose suddenly. The whole car collapsed with a bang. The remaining ones, with the roar of their engines, increased their horsepower and rushed over.

"Fire, fire!" The 82-mm mortars of the battalion's heavy mortar platoon and the 60-mm mortars of the machine gun platoons of each company still provided close coverage of the Ethiopian soldiers who rushed up. The shells rained down and exploded with a bang.

"Boom!" The 120-mm guns on the Leclerc main battle tank began to cover the positions of the Red Guard reinforced battalion, and after several volleys, shrapnel from the shrapnel from the grenades engulfed the positions of the reinforced battalion company along with the fire. The mortar fire of the reinforced battalion suddenly fell silent. Taking advantage of this time, piles of Ethiopian soldiers rushed up with guns.

"Hit!" With the officer's order, light and heavy machine guns and 35mm automatic grenade launchers on the defensive line simultaneously weaved a terrifying web of fire. Countless bullets exploded out like locusts, and "fluttering" up round after round of metal storms.

"Boom, boom!" Another round of intense artillery fire, the British-made L-118 105mm light howitzers of the Ethiopian Artillery Regiment toppled steel on the position of the Red Guard reinforced battalion for the last time, and the smoke cloud of the explosion had just cleared, and the soldiers of the Ethiopian Eighth Infantry Division under the cover of the French Leclerc main battle tank rushed up.

Piles of Ethiopian infantry were like hornets, staring at the wind and rain in the sky, surging up like turbid waves. Machine gun fire flew through the crowd like a chain of fire, and almost every fiery snake would plow a terrible blood mark through the crowd, and those 35mm grenades fell one after another. The mud was full of broken flesh.

"Boom" a "Leclerc" main battle tank stopped with an unwilling "squeak" and ignited into a fire announcing the death sentence of this invincible armored combat vehicle. This is the masterpiece of those V-1FTs belonging to the heavy anti-tank group.

The French charioteers who jumped out of the cabin did not get far, but they were swallowed up in a rain of bullets by the sweeping machine-gun fire, and the surging fire snakes hit the French soldiers as if they were convulsive. The 5.56mm bullet mercilessly cut through one bullet after another in the flesh and blood. When the whirling warhead comes out through it. All that was taken away was fist-sized flesh and blood.

The sound of intense gunfire and grenade explosions was almost as dense as the beat of drums, and there was no short gap to be heard, and thousands of soldiers on both sides were fighting in the wind and mud. The earth-shattering shouts and shouts of killing were mixed with the sound of explosions one after another, almost overpowering the sound of the wind and rain that was rushing down. Humanity simply doesn't exist at this moment. Everyone is gritting their teeth and fighting, or you die. Either I live, killing every enemy is a common thought of all.

More than a dozen AMX-10P tracked infantry fighting vehicles followed. This is a battalion of the Ethiopian 8th Infantry Division, considering that the 8th Infantry Division has suffered heavy casualties and is all old-fashioned Russian mechanization, so this armored infantry battalion is temporarily reinforced to the 8th Infantry Division as a reserve for the attack. As long as the situation is opened, it must be filled even with corpses.

"The outside position has broken through!" As the Leclerc main battle tank at the head ran over the barbed wire fence erected on the outer line, the defensive trench on the outer line finally collapsed.

The Red Guard soldiers covered each other and retreated from their positions.

"Covered by artillery fire, covered by artillery fire!" The artillery coordinator with the walkie-talkie on his back yelled almost hoarsely.

With the sound of screaming, the 105-mm grenades of the artillery company were soon smashed down, and the "boom boom boom ......" exploded one after another with a ball of fire, and prefabricated fragments and steel balls flew everywhere, directly covering the outer line positions. Several AMX-10P tracked infantry fighting vehicles were directly concentrated by 105 mm shells and exploded to pieces. The tumbling flames engulfed the soldiers on the side.

Then 155mm howitzers joined the bombardment. The 82-mm mortars and 60-mm mortars, which had been briefly halted by French artillery fire, also resumed their firepower. Swarms of shells fell on the outer positions.

Everywhere there were churning fires and dirt, and groups of Ethiopian soldiers were blown to pieces in the fireworks. Nine Leclerc main battle tanks crashed over. Armored combat vehicles and infantry covering the rear rushed up. Everywhere there was chaos and fierce fighting.

Life was not much better for the Red Alert soldiers on the positions, with rows of falling shells engulfing Ethiopian soldiers at the same time. It also made these heroes who were defending on the position so shocked that their ears were blank and they were buzzing.

"Hit. Beat! The company commander with the gun shouted at the soldiers beside him, "Kill those white devils." ”

The company commander who rushed to the position with a group of company personnel obviously gave the soldiers a great encouragement. In the face of the Ethiopian soldiers rushing up, the Red Guard soldiers fearlessly held their positions. Even those Leclercs are getting closer.

Rows of rockets howled from the sky, and raindrops densely baptized the outer positions. The barbed wire, which had already been crushed to pieces, was blown to pieces again, and the wreckage flew in all directions. Many Ethiopians didn't have time to hide, or were engulfed in flames.

This is the masterpiece of the Chinese Type 63 107-mm rocket launcher, the big killer weapon of the reinforced battalion. In addition to appearing on various battlefields in the world along with AK and RPG rocket-driven grenades, this evil 'favorite of the local powerhouse' is also the favorite of the reinforced battalion.

Flying barrage fragments blasted scattered Ethiopian soldiers to the ground, many of them like a sieve in the blink of an eye. In an instant, some of the Vietnamese who were directly within the killing radius became flesh and blood flying in the sky, and the roaring air wave even flipped a P9 jeep out of the air. Several machine gunners in the back seat of the car were also thrown out of shape.

Several rockets whizzed out. Hitting the roaring AMX-10P tracked infantry fighting vehicles, these lightly armored infantry fighting vehicles were even more harmful than Leclerc, because their extremely high rate of fire was a nightmare for the Red Guard soldiers on the position.

Many of them were splattered by the sub-caliber anti-explosive shells fired from the cannons of these infantry fighting vehicles.

"Boom... Rumble... Boom...", these thin-skinned cans were bombed into a fireball without exception.

The AMX-10P tracked infantry fighting vehicle, which was burned to the ground in an instant, apparently did not make the Ethiopian soldiers retreat, and several wheeled infantry fighting vehicles were baptized by rockets, and in an instant they became a pile of burning wreckage. A Panhard VBL wheeled armored reconnaissance vehicle was hit by two 80-mm man-soldier rocket armor-piercing shells at the same time, and it collapsed with a bang. The violent explosion instantly turned the vehicles into a pile of wreckage surrounded by thick smoke.

The rising light of the fire illuminated the night, as well as the Ethiopian soldiers who poured into the defensive positions along the communication trenches. These Ethiopian soldiers, who jumped from the outer positions into the communication trenches, followed the wide communication trenches, under the cover of a frontal attack. Towards the main position of the Red Guard reinforced battalion. The flames were blazing, the smoke was billowing out, and the wind and rain had covered the footsteps of these ghosts, but they could not hide their figures.

"Come on. Come on, white devils! "Behind the wall of the trench not far away, several Red Guard soldiers were leaning against the collapsed trench. Quietly poked out his little head and peeked at the knee-deep muddy water. Ethiopian soldiers struggling to make their way forward.

"Alright, company commander. The dog jumped down quite a bit. A young soldier licked his lips. Can't wait to say it.

"Don't be busy, wait, make these bastards remember a little longer!" The lieutenant officer wiped his rain-soaked face and said with a smile.

"Boom, boom, boom" As the captain pressed the detonation button with his thumb, the entire traffic trench suddenly exploded violently. Directional explosive devices set on both sides of the trench wall turned the entire trench into a vast purgatory field in the blink of an eye.

The mud and dirt were swept away by the air waves, and the flesh and blood of the limbs were all over the sky, like the blood of the rain spreading in the air, and the shocking color was scattered. Screaming soldiers fled in all directions, and the fire spread in the pouring rain.

Dozens of Ethiopian soldiers were bloody, and countless severed limbs and severed arms were swept high in the flames. A scorching and suffocating smell of blood filled the air.

Screams and wails suddenly rang out, and many Ethiopian soldiers fled in flames, trying to let the heavy rain douse the fire burning on their bodies. However, the incendiary materials planted by the Red Police soldiers on this battlefield were extremely attached napalm and white phosphorus bombs that could burn almost to the bone. These two horrific incendiary bombs gave the Ethiopian soldiers terrible nightmares. Many of the fleeing Ethiopian soldiers were directly hit by the strafing machine-gun bullets.

The trenches were littered with charred corpses and mutilated remains, which had been overturned to the point where the mud had fallen on top of them, and the rain had poured down and covered them with blood-red and blood-red mud. On the scorched battlefield, there were such scenes of killing in the Shura field everywhere. (To be continued......)