Chapter 323: Advance
However, the attacking Chinese troops were able to concentrate their forces to attack here, and even without the support of air power, the attacking force still put great pressure on the defenders. As time went by, this pressure was also dispersed on the Air Force.
If they do nothing, the defenders will be broken sooner or later, and this first line of defense will not be able to stop the ferocious attack of the Chinese troops.
Night Meteor and Milan had already consumed a lot of ammunition, but Yang Hao had only fired four shots, but of these four shots, at least three of them had achieved the goal he wanted to achieve.
Two shots killed two snipers and one shot killed an officer, especially this one, which caused a brief confusion of command in that area, allowing the troops not far away to take the opportunity to attack and advance a large area.
There was also a shot that hit an enemy soldier, but it was clear that it was a pretender, not an officer, and there was no confusion in the surrounding chain of command because of this man.
Although the snipers of the opposing side are good at hiding, they also have to open fire frequently under the tremendous pressure of the Chinese troops. But in this way, it increased the possibility of his exposure, and Yang Hao seized these two opportunities and killed two snipers.
On the battlefield, the sniper is the most likely class to induce fear in the enemy. Although their firepower is not very strong, and they are a target of public criticism, they are accurate and unattainable by all classes. A good sniper, not to mention 100 shots, but a 90 percent hit rate can still be achieved. This kind of accuracy is basically equivalent to pointing where to hit. Not a single enemy would not be afraid of such firepower.
Yang Hao's goal is to suppress this firepower to the lowest point and clean up these people as much as possible for his ground forces. After all, the natural enemy of a sniper is a sniper, and this kind of work can only be done by a sniper.
There are two sides to this kind of thing. Yang Hao didn't shoot much, and he ran away with one shot, but the night meteor and Milan were not so safe.
They fired a lot of shots, and such obvious sniper support fire would not be visible to the enemy again. That would be a complete fool.
Huge swaths of firepower began to take care of the place. There was also a lot of sniper fire intermittently. It's also fortunate that Milan and the Night Meteor are quick to hide, otherwise they would have been a corpse by now.
Yang Hao was not far from them, and such a bullet took care of him, so he didn't dare to continue to fire. You can only hide behind walls to avoid bullets.
Torrential barrage of bullets made the building, which had been devastated by the war, even worse. Pieces of wall skin began to peel off. The concrete and brickwork inside have also been shattered, and the walls have been pierced by bullets in many places. If anyone shoots at this place again, it is estimated that a large part of the wall will be blown down.
Yang Hao hid here and didn't dare to move around. I could only keep my body as low as possible and lie on the ground to avoid bullets.
However, it is impossible for the defenders to suppress this place all the time, there are still many attacking troops in the front, and the firepower cannot be too scattered. Soon, this large piece of firepower that suppressed Yang Hao and the others disappeared.
It's just that these fires also let them know that they can't stay in this place any longer. They have completely attracted the hatred of the other party, and if they dare to take the lead, it is likely that the next thing will be the fire of snipers from all directions. And the building doesn't look good, if any helicopter is out of the air and fires a missile beyond here, it is very likely that the whole building will be blown up.
It had become a dangerous place, and they naturally didn't stay here any longer, so they gathered together and ran out of the building.
However, when they ran out of the building, they did not directly join the attacking troops at the front line, but joined the tank troops behind, using the street walls and tank blocks as cover to continue to provide sniper fire.
It's just that the field of vision here is relatively smaller, and there are a lot fewer places that can be supported, Yang Hao doesn't have enough vision, and he can't continue to look for officers and snipers, so he can only join the sniper support.
Zhang Tianhai and the others were not idle, and they acted separately from the three of them, heading towards the side of the battlefield to carry out reconnaissance missions.
In fact, aerial reconnaissance still has certain limitations. The terrain inside the city is complex, and many places cannot be reconnoitred, once the other party walks in the shadows, or there is a place with cover overhead, then the aerial reconnaissance is likely to be fooled, so it is believed that ground reconnaissance is still necessary.
In order to prevent the opponent from sending surprise troops to attack their own troops from the flank, even if this force is not very strong, it will hinder the momentum of the attacking troops, causing their morale to suffer a blow and slow progress, so the reconnaissance of the two flanks must be done well.
Although the defenders' defense was very tenacious, it could not withstand the strong advance of the Chinese troops. About an hour later, the line was pushed two-thirds of the way by the Chinese troops. By this point, the defensive line had basically been broken, and the remaining defenders could no longer withstand the attack of the attackers, and were forced to withdraw their troops and retreat into the second line of defense.
The remaining air units also withdrew from the battle and returned to the rear. Chinese troops began to clear the battlefield, removing the mess in the middle of the road that was blocking the tanks' advance.
Taking advantage of this time, all the troops began to reorganize and count the casualties.
More than 100 ground troops suffered casualties, more than 100 were seriously wounded and incapacitated, and more than 400 were lightly wounded. That's not a small number anymore. All the troops in the Chinese area are only a little more than 2,000 men, and in addition to the small number of troops left behind in the base, the number of air force and artillery units, the tank troops and infantry units are also more than 1,000 people left. This time it lost more than 200 combat strength, which is already a heavy casualty.
Fortunately, there are not many defenders on the other side, otherwise this casualty would have at least doubled.
The tank units suffered few casualties because they were in the rear, losing only four tanks. A third of the helicopter unit was destroyed, and more than half of the fighters were lost.
The air force of the Chinese army is still slightly worse in comparison, but the other side is not doing well, compared with the Chinese air force, the casualties are only slightly smaller, and they do not take much advantage.
Inside the base, a fighter unit quickly took off and rushed to the battlefield inside the city to provide support. In any case, the other side cannot be allowed to gain air supremacy. His ground troops are running out, and they can't withstand the indiscriminate bombardment of the other side.
Having sorted out their ammunition and cleared the road, the troops continued to advance towards the second line of defense.
Intelligence from other directions is also converging in this direction.
The British army was at about the same speed as their own, and the offensive in the Russian zone was the fiercest, and at this time it was already close to breaking through the second line of defense. It is often said on the Internet that the Russian nation is a group of fighting races, and there is nothing wrong with this title in a certain way. As for not wanting to die, the Russian people are the first to bear the brunt, and it is impossible for their combat effectiveness to be low just by relying on this momentum. The Australian zone is a little slower and is still in the first line of defense.
The second line of defense is not very far from here. The Chinese troops did not make too many stops, spread out their positions, and directly attacked the defensive positions of the defenders.
It's just that this line of defense is stronger than the first line of defense. Not only were there more people, but there were also tanks, armored vehicles and other heavy weapons behind the position, and even a small mortar position, and there were also quite a few helicopters hovering at low altitude, alerting the helicopter units of the Chinese troops.
It's just that a lot of debris is placed behind the defensive position to intercept the advance of the tank, so that their tanks can't break out of the position, and can only carry out long-distance artillery bombardment, but there are so many guard forces, in fact, it is enough.
Seeing these heavy weapons, the commander did not dare to expose the large army to the streets, and a wave of mortar attacks by the enemy was likely to cause heavy losses to his own side.
All infantry units spread out in all directions, entering buildings or alleys to hide from possible artillery bombardment. And the first to attack, it was the tank units.
A big guy like a tank can't get into an alley at all. Fortunately, the street is wide enough for three or four tanks to move in parallel, which is considered to have a little room to move, but these spaces are simply not enough to avoid mortar attacks, and the soldiers of the tank unit also know that they have become targets, so they have no scruples to dodge, and run away from this thing to the clouds, aiming at the opponent's defensive position is a burst of random bombardment.
After this battle, the tank troops may be crippled, so it is better to play enough output before they are destroyed to open an opening for the advance of the infantry units.
The tanks in front were aimed lower, as well as bunkers in the middle of the road and tank positions slightly behind. The tanks in the back row were blocked by friendly forces in front of them, so they were not visible in some places, so they were targeted at buildings with more than two or three floors. There are not a few defenders here, and if they pass by, they will definitely not die one or two people.
For a time, the artillery of the tank troops rang out in unison, and then there were a large number of explosions in the defenders' positions, some buildings were blown up by the explosion and shattered the load-bearing walls, and they collapsed directly, and a large number of pits also appeared on the streets, and the paved sandbags, vehicle bunkers and other things were also blown away by the explosion, and the soldiers hiding behind naturally could not be spared.
As soon as this side fires, the enemy will naturally not be a stationary target. Tank units, mortar positions launched a counterattack one after another.
Most of their firepower fell on the streets, and for a while, a large number of engine room tanks were scrapped in an explosion. Some of them exploded directly into black scrap metal, some of them were blown off tracks, engines and other things and could not move, and some explosions were on the edge of the tank or directly on the body, it looked like the tank was fine, but the people inside had been shocked to death by powerful shocks and shock waves. (To be continued......)