Chapter 33: The Battle of Kacheng (2)
It took the Australian troops more than a dozen hours to reach the blocking position 10 kilometers away from Kalgoorlie, and perhaps because they were worried about the powerful firepower of the Type 59 tanks, they got off the train and chose to advance on foot 60 kilometers from Kacheng. This gave Jiang Yunzhi enough time to organize the 102nd Regiment of the Guards to dig trenches and build positions. Because within the controllable range of 10 kilometers of the sub-base, Zhong Yi also ordered the Bird of Paradise to build a machine gun bunker every 20 meters on the position, which greatly strengthened the firepower of the indigenous regiment.
The 102nd Regiment is equipped with portable 60 mm mortar runs, as well as 100 mm towed mortars, and it does not suffer too much in heavy firepower, not to mention, Zhong Yi also used these ten hours of time to urgently leave the factory four Type 59, although four tank factories have been built in the sub-base, but the CD time of the Type 59 tank is still more than three hours, Jiang Yunzhi is ready to use these treasures as a counterattack force.
Everything that can be done has been done, and the rest of the time is to do your best and obey the destiny of God! But Zhong Yi had no intention of staying in the control room of the sub-base to face the holographic screen in a disturbing manner, he chose to drink! It sounds ridiculous, the fighters at the front are about to shed blood and die, but the Supreme Commander went to drink?
Yes, Zhong Yi was indeed drinking, clutching a thick red wine bottle and pouring red wine like beer, and the drinking buddy sitting opposite him was...... Hebar.
Both of them looked a little decadent, Hebar had taken off the jacket of his military jacket and was wearing only a light green shirt, which had been unbuttoned twice, revealing a black chest hair on his chest. Holding the same bottle of red wine in his hand, the bottle that was already empty, "Commander, from a captive to a brother, this is the craziest thing I've ever experienced in my life!" I know, you won't trust me anymore, but ......"
", who told you I don't trust you anymore? All white people in Australia, if there is one that can make me believe, it must be you! When he spoke, Zhong Yi, who didn't even open his eyes, seemed to be a little drunk.
Hebal, who had already stood up, heard Zhong Yi's words, and his tall body shook slightly, "Commander, I'm leaving!" ”
Hearing this, Zhong Yi finally opened his eyes with great effort and stared at Hebal, "Button your shirt!" ”
Suddenly, a sentence that seemed to be a little out of bounds came out, but Hebar very solemnly fastened the two buttons, and then gave a military salute! Grab the jacket from the chair, turn around and leave! Zhong Yi didn't move, holding the big wine bottle and leaning on the table.
Hebar, who had already walked far away, suddenly stopped and shouted: "Zhong, are we still brothers?" ”
"What so much nonsense, remember, I want Lao Tzu to come back alive!" Muttering in a low voice, I don't know if Hebar heard it, Zhong Yi raised the wine bottle and took a big sip!
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The battle outside the city had already begun, and an officer of the Australian army was almost stunned when he suddenly found that under the dark green steel helmet on the position in the monoculars, there were actually indigenous faces. When did the aborigines of Australia become emboldened to stand in the way of the Federal Army? However, his expression of surprise did not last long, and he remained motionless when he was half-upright, and in the eyes of the snipers of dozens of people in the guard company, it was a live target. There was no order, the others were just in the 10x scope, putting the head of that daring Australian officer in the center of the cross. Only Qian Zhihao, as the company commander, and this position was originally in charge of him, so the company commander Qian pulled the trigger without giving in, the gun rang out, and a delicate blood-colored flower opened in the scope of all the blockers.
Qian Zhihao "poof", spit out the grass roots in his mouth, and arrogantly said in the admiring gaze of the indigenous soldiers around him, "Look for death!" Listen, everyone, whoever dares to come out and pretend to be X can't get used to it. Pretend to be old and sell old, all of them are put away, this is the duty of our blockers. ”
This gunshot seemed to be the order for the Australian army to attack, at least one regiment of infantry, cat waist with Lee-Enfield rifle in sight, many indigenous soldiers were ready to start shooting, but the Red Alert soldiers around them shouted: "Hide! ”
As soon as the words fell, there was a sound of "chirp-chirp-" in the sky, and some of the indigenous soldiers did not know why, but immediately the huge explosion made the soldiers in the entire trench feel the earth tremble. In the later stage of World War I, the British army often suddenly shelled twice when the troops were preparing to charge, which required high artillery skills, but the effect was quite good, the Germans thought that the shelling was over, and quickly ran back to the position to prepare to return fire, they would suffer heavy casualties under the blow of the secondary artillery bombardment, and at the same time cover the infantry charge in disguise. The Australian troops who attacked Kalgoorlie City this time were indeed elite, but they were not proficient in learning, and changed the British army's secondary artillery tactics to simultaneous shelling with a charge, although the time of the shelling became more sudden, but because there were no elements of the first shelling, they could only use direct aiming, which greatly reduced the hit rate.
Jiang Yunzhi organized the soldiers to dig a curved trench so that the soldiers in this kind of shelling, a good protection, unless it is unlucky that the shells fall directly into the ditch, there will be casualties, otherwise no amount of shells will only cover the soldiers' bodies with a thick layer of sand. However, the inexperience of the indigenous soldiers caused some casualties in this shelling, and all the wounded were those who were still in a daze after the Red Guard soldiers shouted to hide.
"Ready to shoot!" There was another shout in the trench! This sudden artillery attack could only hit one or two rounds, and when the charging soldiers of their own side approached the position, it was easy to cause accidental damage. Therefore, the moment the artillery fire stopped, it was the moment when the infantry of the two sides really clashed. The Red Guard soldiers of more than a hundred guard companies were scattered, and each of them was responsible for directing the indigenous soldiers to follow them to make corresponding tactical movements, and the gear of the automatic rifle was all adjusted to the "1" gear, and in such a positional defensive battle, the burst was just a waste of bullets.
The Aussie soon reached a distance of 200 metres, and the wide-brimmed Brody helmet showed that it was a traditional British Army. Native soldiers, who had never fired a gun in actual combat, were even more nervous, and the Union soldiers with round steel helmets were the ones who killed thousands of their own countrymen and drove their tribes out of their homes. How many warriors of the tribe have risen up to fight and have fallen under their rifles and now can they beat them? Some of them found that their calves were trembling and they couldn't even run.
The Red Guard soldiers kept shouting, "Don't rush, shoot again when you hear the order, pay attention to aiming!" "But the fear of more than a hundred years is not something that can be forgotten after a few days of training with a gun in hand. The snipers had already started shooting on their own, and with ten optical sights, a point kill within 200 meters was not difficult for these sharpshooters at all, headshots were their favorite aiming point, and the bullets of the Type 56 automatic rifle could penetrate 6 mm of steel plates, and the Brody helmet could not stop the bewitching flowers of death from blooming.