Chapter 816: Both sides lose

In the billowing smoke and dust, a mechanized unit is galloping away from Enzega in the direction of Sinkida, this is the temporary mechanized infantry brigade of the first mechanized infantry brigade of Tanzania that has just ended the war on the western front of Tanzania and the rest of the second mechanized infantry brigade, which is now under the command of Zheng Quan, chief of staff of the 86th mechanized infantry brigade of the PLA, to rush to the aid of the 86th mechanized infantry brigade of the PLA that resists the main force of the 3rd mechanized infantry division of the US army on the northern front.

"Hurry up! Hurry up! At this moment, sitting on the No. 1 command vehicle of the Tanzanian Provisional Mechanized Infantry Brigade, he anxiously urged that the battle on the Western Front took more than two hours to be resolved, which means that the 86th Mechanized Infantry Brigade on the battlefield on the northern front of Tanzania has been attacked by the main force of the Third Mechanized Infantry Division of the US Army for two hours, and Chief of Staff Zheng Quan, who knows the entire battle situation well, has just learned that in these two hours, all the helicopter attack force and half of the armored force of the 86th Mechanized Infantry Brigade have been consumed by the fierce attack of the US army, and now the battlefield defense line on the northern front has been crumbling, I can't help but be in a hurry.

Although the Tanzanian army on the Western Front achieved a resounding victory over the U.S. military with the assistance of the PLA Destroyer drone, it was not without cost.

In the face of the dying counterattack of the US army on the Western Front, the Devastator UAV that launched the attack lost most of it, and the armored force of the two new infantry brigades in Tanzania was also close to 5 percent of the damage and loss of combat capability.

However, for the PLA, this operation was terrible, because the training time was not long, the Tanzanian soldiers completely relied on the command of the theater joint combat system in the course of the operation, and lacked the experience of using the PLA's all-digital real-time intelligence system to actively adjust the troops, especially the Lazaro 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade, which undertook the task of attacking the left flank on the battlefield, due to the ineffective command, the tanks, combat vehicles, and anti-aircraft firepower were often disjointed, resulting in the face of US armored forces and air strikes. Often in local theaters, it is not possible to assemble a sufficient amount of armor to form a firepower superiority.

The tank battalion and tank battalion of Lazaro's 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade were either gathered in a heap on the battlefield or were too scattered, and they were never able to maintain a reasonable formation, so that the firepower of tanks and tanks could form a large range of cross-coverage, so that the theater joint combat tactical system could not reasonably distribute these firepower under the maximum probability of killing, and the commander of the mechanized infantry brigade of the US Western Front soon discovered the defects of the left wing troops in Tanzania. They made a reasonable redeployment of the long-range anti-tank missiles and M1A2SEP artillery of the M2 Bradley fighting vehicle, and soon formed a crossfire covering medium and long distances to attack the dense formation of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade in Tanzania.

Despite the best efforts of Chief of Staff Zheng Quan, these two units were not the People's Liberation Army after all, and they had great limitations in language and tactical literacy, so the formation of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade in Tanzania was in danger for a while, and valuable tanks and tanks were destroyed by US artillery fire one by one.

Although the Tanzanian First Mechanized Infantry Brigade also fought back desperately, the formation was chaotic, so that the theater joint combat tactical system could not play its due power, and in the face of the fierce attack of the US army, it could only retreat step by step, this unexpected situation disrupted the established strategy of the Sino-Tanzanian joint command, which was originally only prepared to put into one destroyer drone attack battalion to assist the attack in the war on the Western Front, but now the Sino-Tanzanian command has to put all two destroyer drone attack battalions into the Western Front battlefield. One of the Destroyer drone attack battalions braved the heavy ground anti-aircraft fire of the US army and threw itself directly into the left flank position of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade in Tanzania to launch an attack on the US armored forces and help them save the situation.

It is with the coordination of these two destroyer drone attack battalions that the two mechanized infantry brigades of Tanzania on the Western Front were able to solve the main force of the U.S. Army on the Western Front in a thrilling way, but in the end, the losses of the two destroyer UAVs of the People's Liberation Army and the two new mechanized infantry brigades of Tanzania exceeded expectations, the losses of the destroyer unmanned fighters exceeded seventy percent, the battle losses of Colonel Lazaro's first mechanized infantry brigade exceeded 6 percent, and the second mechanized infantry brigade also lost almost 4 percent, so that Zheng Quan had to merge and reorganize the two mechanized infantry brigades. Consolidated into a temporary reinforced infantry brigade with 2 and a half 99A2 tank battalions and 4 Type 05 infantry fighting vehicle infantry battalions, 2 relatively complete Red Arrow-8M anti-tank missile battalions and 1 midge-90M anti-aircraft missile battalion.

Since there were still several disabled infantry brigades of the Lu-Ukrainian coalition army on the Western Front that had not yet been finally defeated, Colonel Lazaro automatically asked Ying to stay behind to clean up the mess on the Western Front, and the newly reorganized temporary reinforced infantry brigade was temporarily served by Zheng Quan as the brigade commander and Lieutenant Colonel Zhang Dacheng as the deputy brigade commander to urgently aid the battlefield on the Northern Front.

At this moment, the war on the battlefield on the northern front has entered a white-hot stage, and the red-eyed US military has launched fierce attacks again and again in the Condoa area, especially the 86th Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the People's Liberation Army that failed to defeat the troops in front of it in time, saving the troops in a desperate situation on the Western Front, and allowing Lieutenant General Reilly, commander of the US Africa Command, and Major General Frick, commander of the 3rd Mechanized Infantry Division, to completely enter a state of rage, commanding the US armored brigade and the mechanized infantry brigade to launch a frantic attack.

For them, only by completely eliminating the 86th Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the People's Liberation Army before the arrival of Tanzanian reinforcements will they have the opportunity to annihilate the remaining Mechanized Infantry Brigade in Tanzania and then capture Duoduoma, so as to reverse the entire situation of the war, cover up the huge losses of the annihilation of a Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the US Army on the Western Front, and let the US African Command give an account to the top management.

Otherwise, if the Tanzania West Front Mechanized Infantry Brigade is allowed to reinforce and resist the offensive of the American Army on the Northern Front, so that the American Army loses troops but gains nothing, the best result for Lieutenant General Reilly and Major General Frick is to be disarmed and returned to the field, and if they don't get it, they will be sent to a military court to settle the responsibility for the fiasco, therefore, Lieutenant General Reilly and Major General Frick have no way to retreat at this time, they can only attack desperately! Attack again!

After more than two hours of fighting, the Wuzhi-10 helicopter attack battalion of the 86th Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has already suffered all casualties in the battle of the US longbow Apache, Black Hawk, Super Cobra, and other helicopter gunships, and they are both weaker than their opponents in terms of combat effectiveness and number of single planes.

In the face of the tanks and combat vehicles that the US army has pounced on, the PLA Flying Midge-90M anti-aircraft missile battalion does not dare to get too close to the front line, after all, the Warrior off-road vehicle equipped with the midge-90M anti-aircraft missile is as fragile as paper under the US tank extended-range artillery shells or Dow anti-tank missiles.

The forward commanders of the US military keenly saw this opportunity, and commanded the tanks on the front line to give priority to the PLA's anti-aircraft missile vehicles for attack, clearing a safe space for the longbow Apache in the sky, and the attack on the PLA armored units was mainly completed by these birds of prey.

The wide terrain and good sight made the Longbow Apache helicopter pilots feel at ease, but for the PLA, it was almost a disaster.

Dai Qiliang, who was in the front line command at this moment, looked at the tanks and armored vehicles that were hit by the Longbow Apache helicopter from time to time on the front line, and regretted retreating to Condoa, this terrain is indeed very conducive to the formation of a large depth attack surface of more than 10 kilometers and a three-dimensional attack, but now the PLA is the most important force in the air The destroyer drone attack battalion has been killed and wounded, and the remaining more than 10 fighters still need at least nearly an hour of maintenance and refueling before they can come to reinforce.

Ground reinforcements are now 200 kilometers away and will take at least three hours to arrive.

But now in the hands of Dai Qiliang, the 2 tank battalions have been reimbursed ninety percent, completely lost the supervision, and now the anti-tank firepower has to rely on the 05 infantry fighting vehicle vehicle-mounted Red Arrow-9C anti-tank missile and Red Arrow-8M anti-tank missile battalion, due to the serious limitations of these two anti-tank missiles, the Red Arrow-9C anti-tank missile does not have the ability to "fire and forget", which makes the survivability of the 05 infantry fighting vehicle poor; In the face of US M1A2SEP tanks, the Red Arrow-8M anti-tank missile can only be launched within 2,000 meters to pose a threat to it, so Dai Qiliang has very few tactics to choose from.

When the ZTZ-99S tanks became more and more scarce, the casualties rate of the PLA on the front line began to increase sharply, and the infantry anti-tank force that Dai Qiliang had to put into it, although it began to have the effect of delaying the fierce attack of the US army, but the terrain of Condoa, which is not conducive to defense and blocking, made the infantry anti-tank group that undertook the interception task often only had time to send out a Red Arrow-8M anti-tank missile. Immediately targeted by the machine gun fire on the U.S. M2 Bradley tank or M1A2SEP tank.

Watching the small dots representing the combat units of the People's Liberation Army disappear from the big screen of the combat center of the command headquarters, Dai Qiliang's heart is like a knife but he is powerless, although the US army has attacked regardless of casualties, so far under the desperate resistance of the 86th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, the casualties of the US army are also very heavy, plus the US army on the Western Front, now the third mechanized infantry division has lost more than 150 M1A2SEP tanks, the M2 Bradley combat vehicle has also lost more than 120 units, and the attack helicopters of the combat aviation brigade have suffered heavy losses, Now there are only 2 percent of combat power left.

It can be said that up to the war, the US Army's Third Mechanized Infantry Division has lost more than 60 percent of its combat strength. Although Lieutenant General Reilly and Major General Frick had fully estimated the difficulty of the battle before the war, they did not think that the PLA defense line had not been breached in such a miserable situation as it was now.