Chapter 1230: Request for Hoplites to Fight Together
In the air command post of the Marin Division, using a large transport aircraft to modify the future air command platform, Major General Xie Ruinan, commander of the Marin Division of the Red Police Corps (a cameo appearance by book friend), is preparing for an attack on the city heights numbered 341.
Lieutenant General Ren Rui, commander of the First Group Army of the Red Police Corps, gave him this task because he attached great importance to the most elite armored unit of the Marin Division.
The Marin Division has always been a key development and construction force, and it was the first divisional heavy unit formed during the fight against ISIS.
It has four tank brigades and two infantry brigades, as well as an air assault brigade, as well as a large number of other special arms.
The combat effectiveness is incomparably strong, and it is a veritable strengthened division, and in the Red Police Corps, most of the division commanders of other division-level units are brigadier generals, and Xie Ruinan, the identity of the major general and division commander, is even more golden.
However, for the highlands in the city in front of him, Xie Ruinan did not have any relaxed feelings.
I didn't feel invincible in the world because of the powerful combat power in my hands.
Since the official launch of the attack on Jerusalem, the Israeli army's explosive combat effectiveness and tenacious fighting style have made the Red Guard Corps deeply troubled.
The attacking forces in the three places also paid a certain amount of casualties as they advanced to the goal of the first step.
It was also the deadliest battle in the history of the Red Police, which had previously maintained zero fatalities against those forces in Syria and Iraq.
Of course, the fighting in Iraq is aided by the map function, but the fighting in Syria, the soldiers of the Red Guard Corps, still maintain zero casualties, which is enough to explain everything.
During the assault on Jerusalem for more than an hour, fierce fighting broke out between the two sides in three directions of the city, and the area of the battle was littered with a large number of armored vehicles and tank wreckage.
The Israeli army suffered two or three thousand casualties, while the Red Guard Corps also paid hundreds of casualties, of which more than 200 were directly killed.
Most of these deaths were killed by snipers hidden inside the building by Israeli forces.
From the establishment of the Red Guard Corps to the present, it is the first time that such huge casualties have occurred in every battle in the world.
Even if the ratio of casualties to the enemy reached 1:10, it was still very sad news.
Moreover, these casualty figures are all in the case of air superiority, otherwise this number will be more, and it will not reach the record of 1 to 10.
Among them, the Ma Lin division suffered nearly 100 casualties, which made Xie Ruinan inevitably feel a little annoyed in his heart, and at the same time, he did not dare to underestimate the opponent in front of him now.
Now, the target in front of the Marin division is the defense line that the Israeli military has prepared for more than ten days, and there is no doubt that if the attack is carried out like before, the casualty number will be even greater.
After all, the previous battles were all on the periphery of the opponent's main defensive line, and those Israeli soldiers only relied on houses to resist, and there were no obstacles on the roads and no anti-tank mines.
"Division commander, the Tiger Battalion has successfully established a defensive line at the T junction, and the follow-up troops are assembling at the junction." The chief of staff of the Marin Division came to Xie Ruinan's side and said.
"Order the Tiger Battalion to continue to strengthen the defensive line and watch out for the opponent's artillery attacks." Xie Ruinan ordered, and asked directly:
"Can you be sure that there are no civilians in that area?"
"Report to the division commander, according to intelligence information, all the civilians inside have been evacuated, and all of them are IDF soldiers."
Xie Ruinan took a deep breath and ordered: "Contact the army commander, I ask all the artillery units in the vicinity to carry out high-density fire coverage on the 341 heights. At the same time, they called for help from the Air Force and carpet-bombed the entire highlands. ”
The orders and requirements were immediately conveyed, and Xie Ruinan sat firmly in his command chair, looking at the 341 highland projection projected by augmented reality in the middle of the command cabin.
At this time, the old town is around the 341 Heights, and every street is covered with strong barricades.
The barricades are all reinforced concrete structures, two meters high, like a shipping container, blocking the entire road, with only a small gap on either side for one person to pass through.
Such a huge obstacle is naturally the masterpiece of the Israeli military, and even tanks cannot push these huge obstacles away.
And all the roads leading to this old town are blocked by such obstacles, the tanks cannot advance at all, and inside the old town, there are many such obstacles.
This kind of obstacle cannot be removed at all, and it is extremely difficult to even blow it up, after all, it is a super huge cement pier.
The only way to do this is to carry out a perforation blast, but this is a lot of work, and it takes at least an hour or two to destroy a huge cement pier like this, and the Israeli army can't let you destroy them one by one.
If you want to get rid of these cement piers, you will inevitably have to pay a certain amount of casualties, and if you don't get rid of these cement piers, the casualties will be even greater.
Israel's purpose in creating these obstacles is not really to block the attacking forces, but to use the attacking forces to inflict more casualties on the attacking forces when they break these obstacles.
At this time, the Marin Division was building a defensive line at the front of the attack, and Xie Ruinan also had to find a way to deal with these annoying obstacles.
In his mind, he filtered through all the methods, but all of them were a little dissatisfied.
The blasting of the engineer unit can deal with these cement pier obstacles, but the casualties that may be paid are not what he wants to see.
After thinking for a long time, Xie Ruinan took out his satellite phone and dialed a number with some hesitation.
Soon the phone was connected, and Cai Ruichen's voice came from the other side: "Xie Ruinan?" ”
"Report to the commander, Xie Ruinan wants to be assisted by the hoplites." Although Cai Ruichen was not in front of him, Xie Ruinan still habitually got up from the chair and replied.
"Is it the problem with that 341 Heights in Jerusalem?" On the other end of the phone, Cai Ruichen continued to ask.
Xie Ruinan said very respectfully: "Report to the commander, there are a large number of obstacles arranged there, and the tank troops cannot advance to fight inside, so if our troops want to advance, they need to carry out blasting, in order to reduce casualties, I hope the commander can agree to my request." ”
"I promise you, but I also want you to understand that I promised you to minimize casualties as much as possible, so ......"
(To be continued.) )