[236] Smoke and fire
Judging from the map, the location where the cannon fodder mutants gathered was almost right under Zhang Yang's nose, and some long-range artillery pieces could be directly hit.
In fact, that plain wetland, Zhang Yang had passed by a few times when he swept away scattered mutants before, and it didn't seem to be suspicious.
At this moment, in order to sharpen the soldiers, and because he was too bored to be idle, Zhang Yang, who was anxious to obtain military merits, still decided to take the initiative to attack and annihilate this group of mutants.
He will personally lead the team down the mountain, and the 360 alloy warriors will bypass Fubo Lake and carefully line up to the battlefield, and no one will feel that it is a tough battle.
The garrison on the top of the mountain is still the garrison division that was relieved by the Flying Locust Army before, and the division commander Ning Weimin is a descendant of Nanliu, and he didn't dare to go out without receiving an order, not only did he not dare to go out, but he also stopped Zhang Yang from moving.
After all, not long ago, he had just experienced the incident of Nantes's injury, and that was the "prince", if he died here, it would affect his career.
After Zhang Yang's new dreadnought regiment arrived, he became more cautious, and all the movements of this unit had to be recorded in a book and reported to the authorities once a day.
Zhang Yang often felt that he was being watched, and in order to ease the relationship, he flattered him with a few small gifts, and Ning Weimin smiled and accepted them one by one, but the reports became more frequent.
Later, Zhang Yang protested directly, protesting to Ning Weimin and staying in the south.
It turned out to be useless, for example, before this expedition, his troops were stopped by Ning Weimin as soon as they assembled and lined up.
He refused to let him go, on the grounds that he was solely responsible for the position in Xishan, and the new dreadnought regiment was a guest army, and he had to obey his command, and he could not afford any mistakes.
Zhang Yang hates this statement the most, he is a well-trained and combat-effective army, and he is not a flower in a greenhouse, why should he keep hiding in the snow and not touching it?
He simply tore his face: "Although Lao Tzu's dreadnought regiment only has 360 people, it is not as powerful as one of your divisions, but Lao Tzu's military rank is the deputy commander of the expeditionary force on Easter Island, restrain me?" You're not qualified! ”
The alloy warriors lined up and lined up as a human wall to squeeze out of the camp, where could ordinary human warriors stop them?
Ning Weimin saw that he really couldn't stop it this time, so he could only hurry up and report for instructions.
At this time, Nanliu was annoyed by the cabinet's reprimand, and he really didn't bother to pay attention to this nonsense: "It's just a handful of mutants, just fight it." Provide them with the necessary fire assistance, be ready to support at any time, and don't let him suffer a loss and come back to complain, saying that you will not save you when you die! ”
So, when Zhang Yang's troops drove to the wetland plain, the artillery position on the west mountain was busy first, several howitzers fired a salvo, and the shells poured directly down from the top of the mountain, accurately landing on the wetland Artemisia grass, kicking off large clouds of smoke, weeds and mud.
Zhang Yang did not admit his feelings, and directly contacted Ning Weimin to stop the shelling, on the grounds that he was startling the snake
, scared away the mutants, and they still have a fart!
This can make Ning Weimin's nose crooked, and he kindly provided fire support, and only a few shells were fired, so you disliked it?
He immediately ordered the artillery to cease fire, and let the dreadnoughts go to the tin men.
Zhang Yang has his own ideas, the cannon fodder mutants are assembled for no reason, there must be some arrangement, and if he recklessly enters it, it is very likely that he will fall into the artemisia grass and reeds and will not be able to extricate himself, so he will have a fire attack first.
He wasn't a great assaulter, but he was a good learner and often used his previous experience in battle.
No, when it comes to setting fires, he used the method of the "manager" and "mandrill" to set fire to the Intercontinental hotel building.
There are at least 60 small UAVs in the whole regiment, all of which are equipped with incendiary bombs, relying on small planes to throw ignitions and start burning from the upwind direction.
And they are waiting on the flanks, and when the mutants are driven out, they can wipe out all the debris with their eyes closed.
Achieving maximum victory at the lowest cost has always been the tradition of the "Pest Squad", and now he has completely copied it into the New Dreadnought.
"Fire attack on a rainy day? Is this regimental leader in the brain? ”
"The drizzling rain shouldn't have any effect, right?"
"Anyway, I'm not optimistic, the rain-soaked artemisia grass is difficult to cause continuous wildfires."
When Zhang Yang gave the order, several squad leaders raised doubts.
Zhang Yang is a bit difficult to ride a tiger, after all, he is a professional in the medical field, and he has some assumptions about war. Now it is difficult to ride a tiger, and he doesn't want to go to Ning Weimin to bow his head and ask for artillery support, so he has to order everyone to let it go first.
After the incendiary bombs were dropped, some open flames did begin to spread, but the fire was not too serious and the spread speed was not fast.
The main reason is that the grass is a little wet, and it has to be dried before it can be burned after encountering an open flame, and a lot of smoke is produced in the process of drying.
The smoke was not bad, driving away a large number of mutants in the grass and allowing the Alloy Warriors from the flanks to achieve some success.
It's just that it didn't seem to meet Zhang Yang's expectations, and he threw a few rounds of incendiary bombs, and the effect of combustion was not very obvious.
In fact, Zhang San had been planning here for a long time, and the reason why he delayed for several days to launch this battle was to wait for this rain.
He was cunning after all, and he had long expected that the only flaw in this place was that the vegetation was dense and easy to catch fire.
At this time, the new mutants almost all hide their bodies in the muddy fields, only showing their heads outside to keep their breathing.
When the fire burns, they just have to retreat into the water to avoid it. With the lung capacity of mutants, holding their breath for three minutes is not a problem.
Zhang San is not in this artemisia grass, after all, human beings are used to using artillery to clean up the battlefield first, such as
If you hide in the reeds and are unlucky enough to be killed by a shell, isn't it all in vain?
On the battlefield, he controlled this group of new mutants through his henchman Zero, and he was originally prepared to sacrifice one or two hundred.
He doesn't feel sorry for how many mutants die, they are all damned people anyway. But he couldn't die. He's fought all these new mutants and achieved enough military feats to meet the Red-Eyed Lord.
Unexpectedly, the human artillery fire only fired four symbolic shots, killing three unlucky eggs and stopping.
But he didn't expect it to stop after only a few shells, he was a little speechless, is this human being so arrogant?
To lure the New Dreadnoughts into the ambush circle, he orders the cannon fodder mutants to run in the other direction.
There is a terracotta platform that is slightly one meter high, there are few weeds on it, and there is no shelter around it, which is almost a natural shooting range.
The Metal Warriors seem to have started shooting training, raising their guns without hurry, and with the help of computer chips, each shot can take the life of a mutant.
It's just that there are too many mutants, and a large part of them still cross the dirt platform and disappear from view.
Zhang Yang is still quite proud of the current results, it was originally an ordinary encirclement and suppression operation, and the soldiers under Nanliu were frightened one by one, hiding in the mountains and not daring to come out, and gave themselves a military merit for nothing.
He has arranged for people to record all the battles just now into a video and send them to the rear of Easter Island to publicize.
This was the first decent battle since the New Dreadnoughts left for the front line, and it was conservatively estimated that there were twenty or thirty thousand mutants in this continuous wetland and grass, and if they could wipe out more than half of them, it would already be a victory.
Now, most of the mutants have crossed the platform, and the Metal Warriors have no shooting angle and no enough warp firepower, so they can only drive forward.
He didn't plan to let the troops venture into the grass, after all, it was all wetlands, and the muddy fields were not suitable for mechfighters.
In case a few fighters get stuck in the quagmire and can't get out, rescue can be very troublesome.
The Alloy Warrior has its own breathing system, and it is no problem to hold on to the quagmire for an hour, and it can be dragged out of the quagmire, so I am afraid that it will have to rely on high-horsepower construction machinery to help.
However, the earthen platform in front of it is very hard ground, bringing the fighters up and pulling the shooting formation apart, it is easier to hit the mutants from a high position.
So he took the troops with him by magic.
This is exactly what Zhang San was looking forward to, in fact, the battle plan he designed at the beginning was to stop the army in that somewhat high place according to the new dreadnought regiment.
How do you know that Zhang Yang's military literacy is not enough, and he has a little conflict with Ning Weimin, and he didn't even choose a good shooting position.
At this time, he was gearing up: "Finally, it's our turn to make a move and teach this group of arrogant guys a lesson!" ”