Chapter 70: The Decisive Battle in the Border Zone (8)
In fact, Zhang Shixin has another idea about the area in front of him, which is not much different from the tank cemetery.
Although such an area full of obstacles is more conducive to infantry combat. Because of this situation, the wreckage of a tank that has been destroyed or directly paralyzed can be regarded as a fairly natural infantry shelter for infantry.
However, such a thing is not absolute.
Because in the high terrain, a large number of snipers placed on the hills can be more effective against the infantry that shoots the enemy. Moreover, while the enemy is counterattacking, he must poke his body out of the tank bunkers. As a result, the probability of the enemy being hit is greatly increased.
As for the armored units where several units were gathered together, Zhang Shixin chose to divide them into mobile units and fixed aid units to carry out operations.
The commanders of the mobile units, Dimitri, Vatutin, and King Kapani[***] Major General of the Panzer Corps Wilder? Loppel.
Their combat duty was to act as firefighters.
That is to say, as long as the sentry detachment discovers that the enemy has the intention of detouring, or the frontal front in the hilly area cannot resist, it is their time to play a role.
As for the fixed aid force, the commanders are Zhang Shixin and King Kapani [***] Major General Hadi of the armored corps? Ondelon served as commander.
Zhang Shixin was the commander of the artillery unit, and a large number of transferred summoner gunners replaced the gunners of other artillery units who were concentrated.
As for Hardy? Major General Ondrun became the commander of the frontal defense and armored forces in the hilly area.
Zhang Shixin's arrangement, in the temporary headquarters two kilometers northwest of the hilly area, was concentrated in the area before and after the hilly area to stand by or stationed in situ.
To tell the truth, although Zhang Shixin saw through the opponent's choice of the shortest attack distance to change the battle plan, Zhang Shixin didn't know where the opponent came from such a huge armored force. He didn't get angry with Binion and Anfield this time, because he also knew in his heart that it would be very difficult for even the Gultoka Empire to send this amount of armored troops at once. Not to mention the Papal States, which are inferior in national strength to the current Capani Kingdom.
Zhang Shixin knew that although his tactical plan was actually half a point of victory and loss with the opponent, at the strategic level, he could be said to have lost half of the goal.
Although the enemy's armored forces suffered very serious losses, the main infantry force of the opposing side did not suffer a blow in the overall force of forces. On his side, after several days of fighting, especially the two fierce battles that broke out one after another today, except for the Knights of the Cathar who now do not know the exact location, almost all the troops that can be mobilized, including his troops, have withdrawn from the battlefield because of excessive losses, and the remaining five troops, including his direct troops, have suffered casualties of varying degrees in total.
In this case, Zhang Shixin had no choice but to bet that the commander-in-chief of the other party was a fool and would still not be flexible.
This is a gamble, although Zhang Shixin doesn't need to do it at all, but he has to think about things for a long time. Because, as Anfield had told him, and as Binion had estimated for him, he had to plan for decades to come.
Finding more allies outside of the alliance between the two countries is, in every way, a safer situation for Elven Dragon Security.
However, Zhang Shixin, who was distressed, didn't know that Fei Lei had already made such a plan with others. And he did this, more than the icing on the cake.
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More than two hours later, at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, a WZ-132, which was arranged five kilometers east of the hilly area, was hidden in the bushes, and sent a telegram to Zhang Shixin that made Zhang Shixin gasp.
"The main force of the enemy army has appeared! The number of armored troops is about equal to the number of enemy troops retreating, but the number of infantry and vehicles of all kinds is huge! Repeat! Lots of enemy infantry and vehicles! The enemy army is advancing in the direction of the hilly area! The enemy is advancing in the direction of the hilly area!! ”
......After reading the telegram, Zhang Shixin handed the telegram to Watujing and the others who were waiting on the side, and silently turned to look at the map spread on a marching table, thinking about the next step.
Although Zhang Shixin was right this time, the next battle situation was very unfavorable to Zhang Shixin.
Obviously, the gap between the numbers of people cannot be bridged in a short period of time.
"Boss, what are we going to do?" Vatujing walked to Zhang Shixin's side and whispered.
Zhang Shixin was silent for a moment, then grabbed the pencil next to the map and scratched something on the map.
After a while, Zhang Shixin put down his pencil and said to the more and more senior commanders of the coalition forces gathered around him: "Because of the huge gap in numbers, there is only one thing we can do, that is, to give priority to luring the enemy's armored forces to engage in field battles with us, and we will concentrate all the tanks and artillery to give priority to defeating this part of the enemy." ”
Zhang Shixin's battle order made all the coalition officers silent, they didn't know how risky Zhang Shixin's plan was, once they were entangled by the enemy's armored forces, and when the main infantry of the opposing side rushed up, the problem would be a big problem.
But if you don't do anything, the problem doesn't necessarily get any better.
After they glanced at each other, they saluted Zhang Shixin: "Please give the commander an order!" ”
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Coalition forces moved quickly in the ensuing minutes.
As a mobile force, the Vatujing Division first acted as the first echelon, quickly detoured from the small roads and both sides of the hilly area to the east of the hilly area, and quickly assembled again, forming an arrow formation, moving in a cluster towards the east.
And Wilder, as the second echelon? Lopel commanded the faster troops, making the same movement pattern as Vatutin, and set off after about 600 meters away from Vatutin's forward troops. As for Dimitri, he led all the self-propelled guns that were integrated by Zhang Shixin, and arranged a self-propelled artillery position in situ in an area one kilometer east of the hilly area.
Other units are on standby.
Zhang Shixin doesn't like this kind of decent formation confrontation very much, because it brings huge casualties. However, in the plain area, the use of a rather chaotic formation is not only inconvenient for command, but also more likely to lead to chaos due to the inability to effectively command. In this case, you will die faster.
Fighting in a large corps is completely different from fighting in a small unit, and you can't expect a unit of a certain size to complete the kind of guerrilla warfare that is like a small unit combat mode.
Just the question of the transfer of troops made the commander jump to his feet and roar.
It can be said that no one tactic is universal, just like the tactics used by large corps, if they are used on small troops, then the fate of small troops will be quite miserable.
Because you can't expect a small army, digging trenches on the plains, to directly resist the swarm charge of mechanized troops. If people charge in a group, there is a high probability that this army will drink tea with God.
Small units can use more dispersed tactics to fight, but with large-scale dispersed tactics, no commander is willing to give such an order, because you may find that your subordinates are replaced by other troops. This is the end of command confusion.
D-Day and the "Market Garden" campaign illustrate this point. Therefore, the Allied victory in these two battles was more due to the poor strength of the German army and the fact that it was quite lucky.
Therefore, Zhang Shixin had no choice but to choose this combat method that he had never been willing to choose to carry out this battle.
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"Archbishop! The front-line troops discovered the enemy's armored clusters, and the commanders of the front-line troops asked about the next steps! ”
"Concentrate your forces and defeat the opponent first! We're going to spend the night in a fairly safe environment! The man, known as the archbishop, slapped the table hard.
According to his ideas, these enemies were more of a provocation against him, a noble archbishop.
If Zhang Shixin knew what the other party was thinking, he would say to the other party very unceremoniously: "Strictly speaking, I am an atheist, so don't say that you are just an archbishop, even if it is the pope, I will not take it too seriously." What kind of green onion do you count? ”
Why do you say strictly speaking?
The reason is also very simple, after all, in a sense, Xinia can be regarded as a divine beast-level existence, plus a certain golden holy dragon mm who is now acting as a secretary in the headquarters, the existence of the two people has greatly subverted Zhang Shixin's existing concepts. Therefore, under such circumstances, Zhang Shixin said such words, which is more of a lack of confidence.
However, no matter what, Zhang Shixin did not expect this time that the troops in front did not do anything, and encountered the enemy's armored troops rushing towards the Vatutin Department as the vanguard.
When Zhang Shixin received this information, he was stunned for a few seconds before reacting: "This is also ...... It's incredible. ”
Zhang Shixin didn't know that people's unpredictability not only refers to a person having bad thoughts that are difficult for others to guess, but also includes the possibility that a person may have a surname that others are completely unexpected.
This is not a derogatory term, but a rather middle-aged comment.
Hawkers, such a situation is not a bad thing for Zhang Shixin, after all, basically you don't have to do anything to get such an effect, it can be said that this makes Zhang Shixin have a rather strange feeling.
However, in any case, this matter is not a bad thing for Zhang Shixin and the soldiers of the coalition forces.
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As dusk approached, a third fierce battle broke out in the area that day.
No one thought that this battle would turn into a night battle.
PS: Maybe there will be less words and more words today. But maybe there is an integration chapter.