Chapter Seventy-Four: The Decisive Battle in the Border Area (12) - Meat Grinder (Part II)

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The weather is too cold, and the sequelae of broken bones when I was a child are now revealed, so the update is unstable, and it is more due to physical reasons. After all, there is something wrong with the elbow, and the work and code words have a certain impact. Now we have to hope for a faster warmer weather.

I took another look at the forums before the update and found a post about the contrast between Type 59 and Pershing.

To be honest, the theme of this post should be vaguely that Type 59 can be regarded as a complete victory over Pershing.

In fact, Pershing is indeed inferior to Type 59 in many ways.

Mobile surname, defense capability Type 59 is better than Pershing, firepower is half a catty, no one laughs at anyone.

This situation of course refers to Pershing's complete body situation as a contrast.

But many people don't know that if in a pose, Pershing's ability to survive is stronger than that of 59.

In the case of 59 and Pershing against each other, and everyone is posing, the front of Pershing is easier to be pierced by the main gun of Type 59 than the side, but conversely, the side of Type 59 is posing, which is easy to be pierced by Pershing.

Although the side defense capability of the Type 59 is slightly better than that of the Pershing, this situation does not simply refer to the thickness of the armor on the sides and the damage absorption capacity of the tracks, which are also quite important factors.

The American's track damage absorption is much better than that of many tanks of the same tier (after the update to 0.8.11, the remodeled American may lose this advantage.) This is already a well-established fact.

On the side of Type 59, once the amplitude of the pose is not well controlled, it will be pierced by a shell that is about 160 deep, and it will be penetrated with a certain probability. (Based on the experience of M18).

Well, it's not a big deal, in fact, the Pershing and the Type 59 can be said to be completely different from the same gameplay model.

It can be said that if the concealment skills of the members meet the standard, the concealment coefficient of the Pershing is not inferior to that of the LT without concealment skills, and at the same time, for the maximum reconnaissance field of 454 meters, the Pershing with highlights, and the car group with the Brotherhood can do this. It can be said that Pershing's reconnaissance ability at level 8 or 9 is already able to meet the needs of many maps.

To light up the hidden Pershing while moving without being reflected by yourself is something that even a level 10 car can't do.

A Pershing in motion, not a good reconnaissance vehicle, barely passing the turn level, maneuvering is okay, and the armor protection is quite weak, these shortcomings show that Pershing is not a good choice for a meat reconnaissance car.

59 is different, Type 59 Meat Detective, although the survival rate is also not high, but in general, in an area where only a few enemies are protected, the probability of Type 59 breaking through and surviving is much better than Pershing.

It is difficult for Pershing to do this, because Pershing is breaking through in the area of the enemy's realm, and it is quite likely that he will die halfway through.

Also, one thing that many players may not know is that Pershing's maximum visual range (maximum visual range is not the same as maximum scout vision), which is much better than 59. If everyone were in the plains, then Pershing would be able to see the enemy at a distance of 30 to 50 meters better than the Type 59.

Although this may not seem important, there is a point, sometimes, such a small distance, which can make Pershing's effective output a little more.

Well...... Of course, people who have installed a whole bunch of plugins can ignore my claims.

If anything, the Type 59 can be regarded as a tank that is more inclined to front-line combat, while the Pershing exists as a guide or a line and a half (referring to the gap between the front line and the second line).

The key to playing Pershing well is not to know how to scout, nor to know how to output, but to know how to fill the gap in the team's connection.

For example, if the troops on the front line are annihilated after fighting the enemy, then Pershing at this time is the key to guiding the remaining troops to continue fighting.

Also, after watching a few videos, I found that there is a problem that needs to be explained. That is to force 50 meters to light up, although this situation is more one-way surname (for example, when a concealed car is silent, it will be able to detect the enemy in advance at a certain distance.) However, in the case of a height difference or a strong cover, the forced lighting is reciprocal.

This means that whether you have a light bulb or not (and whether you have a plug-in installed), in fact, you are lighting up the other person at the same time. This situation, for artillery, is more about allowing you to quickly judge what you should do.

Sometimes, three seconds is enough time for you to do something that will save your life.

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Zhang Shixin had long expected that this battle would turn into a tug-of-war. But there is one point, Zhang Shixin still miscalculated.

That is, Zhang Shixin did not expect that the other party would actually start the battle in the hilly area again in less than two hours, and continuously sent more than 100,000 troops to fight.

This situation, originally in the beginning, was not a big problem.

But now, many of the artillery and various tanks and combat vehicles made by the Capani Kingdom and his Elven Dragon Security Company that he used together have successively suffered various failures due to super-intense battles.

This made the advantage of almost annihilating the enemy's armored forces, which had almost been wiped out, seem to be pulled back by the enemy over time.

"......" Zhang Shixin does not have a very good solution to this situation, although the weapons and equipment he summoned in the system will not be destroyed unless it is damaged by an external force or the system judges that it must self-detonate, otherwise the advantage of not being destroyed still plays a powerful role.

However, with a dwindling number of heavy equipment, it is not easy to turn the tide.

It's just that the battle has reached this point, Zhang Shixin will not easily order to retreat no matter what he says, first, retreating now means more that he has lost his achievements in this battle, and it also makes Anfield's troops likely to fall into danger. Second, the loss of a considerable amount of heavy equipment has also led to a considerable impact on the mobility of the troops. In this case, it is also quite difficult to get the troops to move quickly. Not to mention that now, most of the troops are being pinned down by the other party, and at this time, he rashly ordered to retreat, Zhang Shixin can't, and he doesn't dare to take this risk.

Zhang Shixin now has very few reserve troops left that can be mobilized, fortunately, the opponent's armored forces have been almost exhausted by several battles of attrition, otherwise, Zhang Shixin has not been able to effectively avoid the serious losses caused by the opponent's breakthrough flank, and the shaking of the battle situation.

Two hundred jeep assault vehicles were also deployed in the flat area behind the central sides of the hilly area, and the man who led this force was Dimitri.

It can be said that if the front line needs more powerful support, then Zhang Shixin can only take a mobile artillery formation and use it as an assault gun.

Oh, and of course, the last IS-7......

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The battle in the hilly area and the surrounding area can no longer be described as tragic, because this place can now be regarded as a sea of corpses and blood.

The Pope, who was constantly coming from the east[***], had to step on the corpses of his colleagues, the blood-stained ground, and from time to time someone tripped over the corpses or slippery soil of the hilly area, and continued to attack the hilly area.

As for the coalition forces in the hilly areas, they also paid a considerable price. Moreover, many machine guns and light guns were also damaged for various reasons, resulting in a certain reduction in firepower output.

Some coalition soldiers, even after their own weapons failed to repair on their own, had to rummage through the weapons of the dead and continue the fight.

As the commander of the Jeep assault vehicle formation, which was dispersed to the rear of various areas for artillery support, Dimitri was eager to fight in the hilly area himself, but he knew that by managing this force well, he would provide the best support to the friendly forces in the front.

The mortars of jeep assault vehicles constantly fire shells at enemy soldiers hiding behind abandoned tanks and other bunkers.

The snipers who were supposed to be in charge of this matter are now forced to prioritize the search for valuable personnel of the enemy army to strike.

The so-called valuable personnel, which were supposed to refer to enemy troops at the rank of officer. However, now they are more targeted at enemy machine gunners, mortar gunners, and so on.

The threat posed by these men is very great, and it is quite difficult to clearly distinguish the Pope's officers from a distance, even with high-powered scopes, and can only rely on the flames of the constantly fired flares into the sky and the flames of newly opportunized enemy tanks, armored vehicles, etc.

Therefore, these snipers can only choose more effective targets to weaken the enemy's offensive to a certain extent.

However, despite the efforts of these snipers to provide combat support, at a certain distance, even the Barrett M78 anti-materiel rifle, which has a very good accuracy, was unable to hit the enemy due to shooting accuracy problems.

In fact, firearms also have accuracy errors, and they are also affected by other factors, and after a certain distance, the accuracy error will become larger and larger.

Gravity, wind direction, temperature, humidity, these four factors affect accuracy in many cases.

It's just that, as it stands, the impact is more on gravity.

After a certain distance after the bullet is discharged, because of the weakening of the spin force, the influence of gravity will become greater and greater, and the Barrett M78's 12.7mm sniper rifle bullet is also difficult to get rid of this situation.

In fact, if you snipe at a distance of more than a kilometer in the game, the bullet can still appear in the center of the crosshair, which is less likely than buying a lottery ticket and winning more than 10,000 yuan.

Therefore, experienced snipers often deviate the crosshair to the left or right above the target when sniping at a long distance, increasing the probability of hitting.

"People who are proficient in sniping tend to be very calculating." That's what it is.

Alex? Wilm was a second lieutenant sniper in King Capani's [***] 3rd Mechanized Infantry Division, and his weapon was originally a sniper rifle modeled after the G43 semi-automatic rifle of the Kingdom of Capani.

However, more than an hour after he was mobilized to the area for coordinated defense, his favorite gun was scrapped after nearly 1,000 shots.

His current weapon is an M14 with ACOG attached.

Although he didn't know the name of the thing, he picked up the sniper rifle, which was also a semi-automatic rifle, next to a sniper from the Elven Dragon Security Company who had been cut by a fragment from a shell, and found that the accuracy had not improved much except that it was much heavier (the accuracy of the G43 semi-automatic rifle was no worse than some famous guns after the war. ), more bullet capacity, better killing effect (mainly the rotational destructive power of the warhead is better, the caliber is not much different between the two, M14 is a 7.62mm warhead, G43 is a 7.92mm warhead. ), a better stable surname, made Alex fall in love with this sniper rifle.

However, there was also a problem, that is, after he used up the ammunition he had collected for the first time, he found that his spare ammunition was not usable at all, which forced him to spend several minutes looking for more ammunition.

During this time, a shell exploded more than five meters behind him, blowing him into the trench with a violent wave of air and dirt and rubble that hit him.

In fact, this shell was missed by his friendly gunners. Although these guns can still be used, the rifling is seriously worn, and the rotational force of the shells is insufficient, which leads to an increase in errors, so this situation will occur.

In fact, Alex was fatal, because a piece of metal that was large enough to cut off the spine in his neck flew over his head more than ten centimeters.

Alex's luck was more than that, though, as he shook his somewhat dazed head and looked up to see a box marked with 7.62mm bullets. Next to this box of bullets, there is also a sniper shooting at the enemy with the same weapon.

He bent down, walked up to the man, and said, "Can you give me some bullets?" ”

"No problem! Save on it! This thing is specially made! The sniper was in need of a reload, and he leaned against the side of the trench and glanced at the M14 in Alex's hand before saying this.

Alex nodded, then took a few already filled magazines in the ammo box, quickly left the position, and returned to the combat area he had just started.

And now, he doesn't know how many people he has shot so far.

100 pcs? More than.

200 pcs? There should be more......

300 pcs? Maybe it's about the same......

The infrared rays of ACOG have long since run out of power because of the continuous use for too long. However, as a composite sight, the red dot is more of a support at close range, and at long range, it is too far away to be ineffective.

So, for Alex, he is more familiar with the sight of the reticle.

And now, Alex has run out of bullets again after killing a Papal State mortar man who was hiding in a crater and emerging out of his head at a distance of about 300 meters, and he is trying to find ammunition again. However, he suddenly heard a whistling of cannonballs that were getting louder and louder......

Alex smiled as he saw his fate......

After a violent explosion, where Alex was, there was a crater more than eight meters wide, and on one side of the crater, about ten meters, a broken wrist, holding an M14, was lying quietly on this hill mixed with gunsmoke and flesh......

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"Our heavy artillery units have been deployed to the predetermined area!" A herald of the Papal States reported the situation to an anxious archbishop.

"Excellent! After using these things to support, the other party should not be able to resist! In this case, those people didn't manage to settle the fight before dawn, so no wonder I am! One of the archbishops smiled smugly.

However, his smile seemed so ignorant in the eyes of a middle-aged man who had been silent.

Because he knew that although there were a large number of heavy artillery, the use of these heavy guns would have no effect at all without the means to effectively protect them.

After all, the other party is the "hungry wolf of Capani", and as an expert in defensive warfare, he will not let these things go on and bombard them unscrupulously.

……

In fact, it was just as the middle-aged man expected.

After Zhang Shixin received that the enemy had used heavy artillery with a caliber of more than 203mm, Zhang Shixin ignored his image in front of the beautiful woman and shouted loudly: "**! TMD, where did the other party get these things??? ”

Zhang Shixin ignored Binion, who was stunned by his words, and quickly issued an order in his mind to the lurking troops who were now behind the opponent's position:

"While ensuring the lowest reconnaissance effect, all LTs broke through the enemy's heavy artillery positions as soon as possible!!"

Zhang Shixin didn't want to let the artillery unit counterattack the other party as much as possible, but the current situation did not allow him to do this at all.

The hilly area needed a lot of artillery support, and the number of long-range artillery that he could use right now was left, and in this situation, Zhang Shixin knew that it was difficult for him to let the fire support stop for a few minutes or even more, which was not a fun thing.

After all, the pressure on the front line is also very great, and Vatutin, and even Dimitri, have asked several times to concentrate artillery fire and cover the enemy.

Under such circumstances, Zhang Shixin could not easily mobilize troops and do what he was supposed to do.

There are priorities, but Zhang Shixin can't help but throw a mouse.

The use of LT troops is already the best way Zhang Shixin can think of.

……

The LT unit sent out by Zhang Shixin to lurk in this area was commanded by a summoner major. His name is relative to the first batch of people Zhang Shixin can remember, and it is more of a code name woven out of a system.

However, this could not affect him and his subordinates' infinite loyalty to Zhang Shixin.

Moreover, as one of the few old men who have survived many battles, he has quite a wealth of actual combat experience, allowing him to quickly formulate a tactical plan for flanking back and forth.

Unlike the usual front and rear flanking attacks, he did not attack at the same time, but first let the troops behind the enemy launch an offensive, and wait for the opponent's formation to be chaotic, and then the troops in front of the enemy's formation launched a coordinated attack.

Such a tactic, according to his idea, can effectively avoid casualties in the team.

Nearly twenty LTs moved quickly, and the LT with the highlight system turned on did not need to turn on the headlights, which greatly reduced the probability of being detected by the enemy.

A few minutes later, almost all of the operational LTs appeared in positions near the enemy's heavy artillery positions.

In the eyes of these LT commanders, the brightly lit enemy heavy artillery positions were almost an incomparably obvious target.

These tanks were constantly gathered, and some of them were even running in the opposite direction with an area less than three hundred meters away from a group of enemy reinforcements.

The other side did not realize that in their vicinity, there were tanks constantly converging towards the heavy artillery positions that were now about a kilometer behind them.

"All the troops are ready, load high-explosive shells, and aim at the opponent's ammunition truck or ammunition rack as much as possible to shoot!"

"Sir, we're just going to ...... a few high-explosive bombs."

"Your machine guns are not ornaments!!

“……”

After a short round of exchanges, the LTs sprang into action.

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The loader of a heavy artillery formation in the Papal States, holding a 203mm shell, gasped softly. Although the 203mm shells can barely be loaded with human hands, after all, they are too heavy, and more of them can only be loaded in turns.

However, when he was about to go up and stuff the cannonball into the barrel, he seemed to hear someone shouting something, and he ignored it, because many members of the heavy artillery needed to wear earplugs, otherwise, after a battle, maybe many people would be deaf or even directly deaf by the sound of the cannonballs.

However, the next moment, he felt a loud bang behind him, and the ensuing violence shook his whole body directly away.

And at this time, the shell he was holding in both hands drew an arc, and the warhead gradually changed direction and was mounted on the back seat tube of the gun......

Falling to the ground, he had an unknown fragment or a piece of steel in his chest, spitting out blood with shards of internal organs.

And before his vision fell into complete darkness, he saw the dark field behind him, constantly flashing with cannon flames......

He finally understood that the sentence he didn't hear clearly just now should be:

"There is an enemy attacking !!"

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The LT troops, led by the WZ-132, attacked first from the rear of the heavy artillery position, and the effect of firing while advancing can be said to be quite obvious.

A considerable number of artillery pieces or ammunition trucks were destroyed or seriously damaged, and the crew members also suffered heavy casualties.

The remaining artillery pieces, under the orders of their respective gun leaders, quickly turned their muzzles, hoping to block these LT attacks.

However, while they were struggling to turn the muzzle of the heavy artillery halfway, the LT formation in the other direction also launched an attack.

"What? There are also enemies in the west??? ”

The survivors of the heavy artillery formation, who had suffered a certain blow again, now did not know which direction to prioritize against the enemy.

Some people panicked and adjusted the muzzle back to the original position facing the west, while others continued to turn the muzzle.

And more people have been able to see clearly the enemy's attacking troops by the light of the fire.

Because, in their eyes, someone even saw that on the turrets of these tanks, someone was already working on machine guns and shooting at them......

Snowflakes constantly appeared on the heavy artillery positions with all kinds of screams, all kinds of shells detonating, energy tanks exploding, and fireballs swept up in place, forming an inconspicuous foil.

"Everyone! Don't die in this place easily!! ”

After the major roared this sentence in the headset, he pulled the trigger of the vehicle-mounted anti-aircraft machine gun from a crew member who was constantly moving the gun body more than a hundred meters away.

He knew how dangerous it was, but he was not afraid......

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Ten minutes later, when a Papal State reinforcement arrived in the area, they saw piles of wreckage slowly extinguishing the flames.

Among them, there are artillery, armored vehicles, and supporting ammunition transporters......

Similarly, there were several tanks that were blown to pieces......

In the blue flames that were gradually extinguishing, all that was left to this Papal State force was the list of the dead......

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Zhang Shixin pondered silently, he knew that those lts had completed the task he had assigned.

However, the casualties of the members left him speechless for a long time......

Because, even if it is LT who escapes, some of the crew members are even the only driver left.

Zhang Shixin naturally knew what was going on.

Dead people, more often in the position of machine gun shooters.

If the commander dies, the loader will be on top, and if the loader is dead, the gunner will make up for it......

In Binion's eyes, she saw that Zhang Shixin's eyes seemed to have a thin layer of mist......

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In contrast to Zhang Shixin, a certain archbishop was stunned when he heard that the heavy artillery positions were completely destroyed, because he found that he now had no means to turn the tide of the battle except to constantly push his troops to the front line.

"Let everybody press it on me!! I'm going to let that duke, who doesn't know what to do, try to fail!! ”

This...... Probably his most furious words.

However, this sentence was in the ears of that middle-aged man.

It can only be a joke.

He was well aware that the end of this battle ......

It's just a matter of time......