Chapter 19: The Decisive Battle of Opérez (Part II)
Zhang Shixin didn't know the news that his troops had the least overall casualties, and it had already been learned by the other party, Beria had a desire to woo Zhang Shixin, according to his idea, the alliance between the two countries could give Zhang Shixin, and the GLP alliance could also provide more.
Except, of course, the title as well as the territory.
After all, there is no longer one person in the GLP Alliance who can possess these two things.
For Beria, the problem of being able to settle with money is not a big problem.
He didn't want to make trouble with Zhang Shixin's Elven Dragon Security Company, because the other party's combat power was too amazing.
He knows very well the truth that soldiers are not expensive, so he has to express a pity for his refusal with Zhang Shixin.
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Zhang Shixin naturally couldn't care about Beria's thoughts, because the situation he was encountering now made Zhang Shixin quite anxious.
It's not that Zhang Shixin's troops are not strong enough in combat, but the other side actually placed a large number of heavy artillery on some main streets, and it is difficult for them to take another step forward.
The assault of the assault formation was suppressed by the enemy's artillery with flat fire, and the casualties were very large. Even the E-50M and the Assault Tiger King cannot withstand the bombardment of high-explosive grenades with a caliber of more than 203mm.
On a street, an E-50M turret was blown off due to detonated ammunition, and the front armor of the hull was lifted.
A little closer to the east, the barrel of an assault Tiger King was blown off, the armor in front of the warhead was cracked with visible cracks, the suspension system was almost completely destroyed, and the corpse of a loader was leaning on the burning engine part, roasting a burst of uncomfortable smell to the other soldiers hiding on both sides of the street.
The commander of the assault formation was shouting into the radio headset at this time: "Artillery, what the hell are you doing!?" ”
"We can't deal with the enemy in this position! Where the other party is, there are too many obstacles!! ”
"I don't care, you have to find a way to !!" In the face of this reply, the commander of the assault formation was obviously quite dissatisfied.
"This ...... I'll send two squads of towed artillery to support you! ”
"What are you kidding, you're letting those artillerymen who don't have any protection at all send them to death!"
"I can't help it, that position is not capable of shelling in the east, we don't have a firing range at all, there are too many strong buildings on the other side!"
"I'll go!" The commander of the assault formation took off his headset, and then reluctantly returned to the commander's position, and shook his head from the open turret top cover to the other commanders who were also waiting for a vote behind him.
He could even hear the sounds of infantry units fighting from the blasted facades to the interiors of these large buildings.
He knew that the casualties inside were quite heavy, because this was already the second group of infantry commandos to enter.
But he had no better way, because even if he wanted to support the infantry, he would have to deal with the six powerful super-caliber guns first.
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The commander of the artillery units supporting this direction was also depressed, because, as he said, that position simply could not hit.
It is true that the trajectory of the howitzer shelling is an arc, but if a certain height difference is exceeded, it is like a five-story building covering a target located no more than 30 meters behind the building, and it is impossible to hit the opponent in such a situation.
Although he was also quite dissatisfied with the commander of the assault force for his foul language, he was even more depressed because he had no way to support the friendly forces.
It's just that he doesn't have the opportunity to be resentful at all.
After a while, the signal soldier received another signal for reinforcements, and after communicating with them, he quickly reported the situation to the artillery commander.
After a while, the various guns lined up in several columns quickly raised their muzzles again under the adjustment of the gunners.
After a while, the shells flew towards the target area with a thin white line......
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Zhang Shixin sat on top of the E-75** and commanded the driver to carry out telescopic tactics from time to time.
He was in the streets of a large park in the north-northwest direction of the central area, and he was engaged in a fierce battle with the enemy troops placed in the park.
Zhang Shixin is not unclear that the armored forces in such a park do not have very good combat effectiveness at all. Because the soil in the park is so soft, many tanks cannot drive effectively on such terrain.
If a heavy tank like the E-75** weighs about 90 tons and is driving on the ground of this park, it will be fine if it does not sink into the mud.
So he had to have tank units in the outer area to support the mechanized infantry attacking here.
However, due to topographical factors, the bunkers arranged in some wooded areas of the park, Zhang Shixin's tank troops, could not effectively strike at the opponent with direct fire.
So he had to order artillery units for fire support.
Zhang Shixin knew very well that things like bunkers were not very effective when attacking with direct fire from tanks.
It's not that it can't be punched through, but the bunker will have a better effect if it hits the shooting positions one by one more accurately.
In fact, it is rare for a tank to face a reinforced concrete bunker directly, because it is too difficult to destroy the opposing side.
Especially the defensive fortress on the coast, this thing is enough to choke even the 240mm main gun of a heavy cruiser, let alone a small toothpick?
A lot of that stuff was a defensive effect against battleship shelling.
Zhang Shixin's direct formation stayed here, more to attract the opponent's heavy firepower and make it easier for the infantry to attack this park.
However, the good news of the other side seemed to have come to an end, as more than 100 shells and rockets were poured into the grove of less than 1,000 square meters, and the fallen trees and weeds burned in the billowing smoke and dust.
The fire did not even completely dissipate before the smoke and dust completely dissipated, and continued to spread throughout the woods.
Zhang Shixin asked the infantry troops to give up attacking this grove, because he knew very well that under this kind of fire, the enemy in the pillbox group would not be able to support it for too long.
It's not that this kind of fire can completely burn the enemy, but it's about the same, because in such a situation, these enemies are very likely to suffocate due to poisoning and lack of oxygen.
Zhang Shixin glanced at the tactical map, and then took a ticket of tanks and combat vehicles to another area where the commando team was blocked.
It's not that Zhang Shixin is not afraid of those super-large caliber guns, but this thing is placed in the bunker, and the firing angle will definitely be quite limited.
He didn't know if it would be able to hit the flank, but instead of going deep into the enemy area again and then attacking the opponent from the back in a roundabout way, it was better to attack them directly from the flank.
Zhang Shixin said to do it, and took a little brother to the area from a gravel road.
In fact, Zhang Shixin's idea is quite correct, such a bunker is actually a kind of fortification that does not have much defense against the side, because to maintain a certain horizontal angle to the street, it is impossible to make works in other areas that may collapse the fortifications.
Their flanks were completely covered by other units, the Osvell Army stationed in the park area, and the other in the Central Market.
Unbeknownst to them, the forces in the park area had been almost completely wiped out, and that the Oswelt army, which had relied mainly on the bunkers inside the woods for defense, had almost all died in what they considered impregnable bunkers.
It did not occur to these people that the construction of fortifications in a wooded area was actually not much different from digging a self-digging grave.
Even if he can hide his weak points, once he burns violently, such a situation is even better for Zhang Shixin.
If you can't be blown up, it's a good choice to choke you to death or just suffocate you.
Zhang Shixin didn't understand that some of the so-called fire first aid knowledge was simply not feasible in reality.
For example, in the dense grassland, if the fire is too violent, even if you wet a circle of grass with water or use fire to stop the fire, you can't avoid a problem, that is, the oxygen supplement is simply better than a lot of oxygen that is converted into most oxides.
In such an area, it is easy for people to die of lack of oxygen or carbon dioxide poisoning.
Therefore, Zhang Shixin thinks about some things from the perspective of chemistry, and thinks more about many unreasonable places.
The fires on the grassland swept through quickly, but they could not be burned to the ground in two or three minutes, and once people were deprived of oxygen for more than three or four minutes, they would be hopeless.
That is to say, some so-called self-help is quite likely not to be like that.
The situation in the woods may be better, but if you are surrounded by fire, you will actually have to wait for death.
It's not that a person will be burned to death, but choking to death or death from lack of oxygen, both of which are quite likely.
In fact, in anatomy, there is a point of view that whether a person dies in a fire mainly depends on whether there is an excess of oxide in the trachea, and of course, the degree of burns on the surface of the other person's body is also an important evidence.
It is difficult for those who are burned to death to have the previous situation, but if they die of poisoning or death due to lack of oxygen, there will be considerable residual oxide in the trachea.
Surrounded by fire, nine out of ten lives, Zhang Shixin saw the small red dots on the tactical map that kept disappearing from the location of the grove, confirming this situation.
It's just that he didn't have much free time to study such ideas, because he found that those bunkers were simply unable to effectively fight back against attacks from the flanks.
Because the sides of these bunkers are sealed.
There were quite a few enemies in the buildings next to the bunkers, but Zhang Shixin directly asked the armored vehicles to protect several ISU-152s and directly attack the sides of those bunkers.
Naturally, the machine gunners of the armored vehicles did not strike bunkers, but their target was to shoot at some enemy troops on the lower floors with machine guns.
On some of the higher floors, the infantry was constantly rushing out of the back compartment of the armored car.
From time to time, screams were heard, and Zhang Shixin asked other tanks and combat vehicles to join in the attack on some of the lower floors.
It's not that he doesn't want to attack the enemy above the top, but many tank tanks and combat vehicles simply don't have such elevation angles.
The machine gunners were no exception, so Zhang Shixin had to put the infantry against the infantry.
Six ISU-152s, under the cover of several armored vehicles, as well as several dozen infantry who were constantly firing upwards behind the armored vehicles, formed three columns and then moved separately.
The ISU-152 in the first row fired at the side of a bunker leaning against the very edge.
Instead of firing together, one ISU-152 fired a concrete-destroying shell, and the other ISU-152 fired a high-explosive round two seconds later.
After the two ISU-152s were fired, regardless of the outcome of the battle, they quickly retreated to the sides of the street, and then the second row of ISU-152s filled in the other side's position.
It is clear that the shooting just now did not yield certain results.
Zhang Shixin shook his head speechlessly: "This TMD's shore fortifications?" That's not how money is wasted. ”
However, after the second group of ISU-152s finished firing their shells, the bunker that was the target of the attack suddenly spewed out blue deadly flames from three directions.
At the exit position behind the bunker, the protective door was even more violently impacted by the air flow and flew dozens of meters away, smashing on the ground of the street, raising a cloud of smoke and dust.
Zhang Shixin let the ISU-152 team move on, and he thought helplessly: "It's really a big loss now." ”
The price of four shells is quite high, Zhang Shi calculated that if nothing happens to the six bunkers, it will cost him a full 24 shells.
However, after the second bunker was cleared in accordance with the previous method of warfare, the protective doors of the remaining four bunkers were opened. Then a few Osville soldiers struggled to drag something out. In fact, the battle area of the bunker is much lower than that of the ground, Zhang Shixin is naturally very aware of this, looking at the struggling appearance of those soldiers, it is estimated that the other party wants to drag out those super-large caliber guns and then use them as field guns. But the super-large caliber artillery was only towed out by manpower, and it was also a passage with a steep slope, Zhang Shixin couldn't help but smile.
Many of the other units have completed their missions and are constantly joining the area or nearby friendly teams to assist in their operations.
Zhang Shixin watched several assault teams come to support, so he looked at the large buildings on both sides and ordered these teams to prepare to attack these buildings.
After the assault troops took refuge in relatively safe positions, several tanks loaded with high-explosive shells and fired shells at the wall.
The smoke from the explosion was accompanied by a splash of brick and stone fragments, and after a dozen seconds, the smoke and dust cleared, and the outer walls of large buildings were blown out of holes of various sizes.
These assault teams, led by the captain, quickly rushed from their hiding places into the passages that were knocked out.
After a while, the sound of fierce fighting came from the large building.
Zhang Shixin knew that the other party was about to finish towing out those things that seemed to be super-large caliber infantry mortars. Zhang Shixin smiled coldly, because what he was waiting for was this moment.
Three Lorraine 155-50/51 with 18 Wild Bee self-propelled guns to the south, from here, the south-east one was cleared, and the street two kilometers away was set up for shelling.
After Zhang Shixin gave them the order to shoot at those infantry mortars in his mind, the gunner, who had already completed the aiming lock, quickly pressed the launch button.
Of the 21 shells, most of which covered most of the landing circles, only a few landed on the terraces of some high-rise buildings, blowing them up.
Not to mention the missed gunner, he shook his head and sighed helplessly, and then quickly let the loader continue to reload the shell.
The shells that hit quickly engulfed the infantry mortars and some of the surrounding soldiers directly in puffs of smoke and dust.
Although it is said that the four infantry mortars were not completely destroyed, the soldiers around these infantry mortars were almost completely killed and wounded.
Zhang Shixin's cold eyes showed a hint of pleasure: "Let your girl fuck my baby 50 sister with one shot." ”
Zhang Shixin clearly remembered how surprised he was when he saw the news that this E-50M was destroyed by a cannon shot by the other party.
Because at a certain distance, it is possible that his own ISU-152 with an armor-piercing projectile of **L-10 will not be able to deal with the E-50M with lined armor.
As for the assault Tiger King, it was hit by three shells, otherwise Zhang Shixin would not have cleaned up these bunkers first before making the next decision.
Because he knew that such firepower of the Oswel army was a very big threat.
He now thought of why the other party had set up a few bunkers here, because the range of such a mortar cannon was quite short, otherwise, the range of the Assault Tiger was less than a thousand meters, and it was impossible to even exceed eight hundred meters.
The bore pressure of the mortar is very poor, and the little barrel firing correction is dispensable, so this thing becomes a super heavy fire strike from the bunker, which is completely reasonable.
The charge coefficient of the mortar is not as high as that of the high-explosive shell, because the proportion of the propellant is quite large.
However, the caliber of mortar shells is generally not less than 350mm, so, on the whole, even the rat type can't handle the other party's mortar shells that look like the caliber should be between 350mm and 420mm, if the head of the mortar shell is hit, the suspension will definitely not be able to withstand it, and the front armor plate should not look too damaged, but the engine, driver, artillery and other things and the crew don't want to have any good end.
Even the Rat tank, which is called the king of heavy tanks, has become like this, and it is conceivable what will happen to such a "small body" as the E-50M.
Because there is already an unlucky E-50M made a model.
Zhang Shixin was very resentful of the enemy's deployment: "This is not the palace, so you need to set up these things here?" ”
Zhang Shixin, who was making the armored forces temporarily retreat and replenish, of course didn't know that although the back of this area was not the most core palace of the Osville Empire, the streets blocked by these bunkers were the highest-level locations of the various political axe departments of the Osville Empire.
This street is called "Political Axe Street".
At the end of the political axe street is the heart of the Osvel Empire, the Royal Palace. (To be continued.) )