Chapter 521: The Bait of Magnetic Tactics
The monkey version of the "Vickers" on the hard mud runway of the airport was still burning, and from time to time there was the sound of ammunition detonating after being roasted by high temperatures. The infantrymen in red uniforms had retreated to the improvised fortifications farther along the runway.
What made Hu Kaili feel incredible was that he did not see the expected hasty and chaotic retreat scene in the telescope. Tan Xiaohui's ecstasy blow really took the life of the dead officer, he dared to gamble all his rations for the next three days, and the officer who looked a little handsome definitely didn't even have the possibility of leaving a last word.
After losing the cover of armored units and the death of his front-line commander, Hu Kaili had expected the infantry to retreat in panic, after all, the bolt-action rifles in their hands had revealed their motley cannon fodder.
However, Hu Kaili's eyes were full of red-clothed infantry who alternately covered and retreated in an orderly manner, and the quality they showed now was really different from the image of the scum who lacked even the awareness of protecting tanks before.
"Contact the brothers on the other side of the runway, ask them to come over and join us, and let our men build fortifications on the spot." Jiang Yuan gave orders to his deputy.
Unlike Yang Hao and Hu Kaili, who need to carry the RPG-7 to the front to play for their lives, Jiang Yuan is the kind of character who eats brain power in this team.
It was he and several other traversers who first carried out the action of overhead militia organization and a large number of network gatherings of traversers in the dome light curtain.
However, the war-torn Syrian scene was indeed not very friendly to the traversers, and even the few traversers who were the commanders died so that Jiang Yuan was the only one left. Snipers, artillery strikes, air strikes, commanders who do not need to fight on the front line are not much safer than those who are assaulters.
The British troops, having lost a tank on one side of the airfield, had to choose the rear side, and the men and horses of Jiang Yuan's small militia group who were blocked at the other end of the airfield could finally join their commander.
"Hurry up and get cover for that 23mm anti-aircraft gun, I guess the order to hold our positions will come soon." Jiang Yuan said to a group of guys dragging a Type 83 23mm double-barreled anti-aircraft gun from the Great Celestial Empire.
This anti-aircraft gun designed to shoot mainly at short-range low-altitude targets, lightly armored targets on the ground and fire points can be regarded as the only heavy weapon in Jiang Yuan's hands that can continuously provide fire support, as long as the terrain allows, they almost all build positions around this double-barreled anti-aircraft gun.
Not long ago, the 23-mm high-level dual-purpose gun, captured from an opponent, was mounted on a "Yellow Sea" pickup. However, because the pickup truck was hit by an opponent's anti-materiel rifle and the engine was reimbursed, they had to reinstall two more wheels on the guy and restore it to its original appearance of maneuvering.
"How many mines do we have?" Jiang Yuan asked Yang Hao, who had already withdrawn from the front.
"There aren't many standard mines left, well, well, we think we don't even have those IEDs that we've made with large-caliber grenades now. Are you sure you want to stay here? Yang Hao asked Jiang Yuan.
"I'd love to get out of the way, but the problem is that we don't have the means of transportation right now, and we won't be able to go far before we get caught up by the freaks in red. Now I can only accompany those Russian army and Syrian army clones to play 'magnetic tactics'. Jiang Yuan said helplessly.
"Magnetic tactics" first appeared in the Korean War, after Li Qiwei succeeded Walker, who was killed in a car accident, as the commander of Eagle Sauce's Eighth Army, he found that rabbits were accustomed to interspersing movements at night and causing confusion behind their own battle lines, and they could only penetrate a distance of about 35 kilometers every night. The general, who liked to hang sweet potato grenades on his chest, gave full play to the mechanization advantages of the American army, ordered the troops to retreat about 35 kilometers at night, so as to avoid the battle line being interspersed with rabbits, and after dawn, with the help of his strong air and artillery superiority, and then waited for an opportunity to counterattack to the original position.
This tactic of seizing the rabbit's insufficient logistics supply and beating it hard did cause huge losses to the ancestors back then. The bald eagle adopts a gradual retreat strategy in response to the night penetration of the rabbits, and its main force retreats during the day, while the motorized troops and tanks serving as cover retreat at dusk, retreating at most 20 kilometers a day, which is exactly the distance that the rabbits advance overnight.
As a result, the rabbit attacking forces were unable to catch them at night, and when they arrived at their predetermined position after dawn, they were attacked by their air artillery fire. When the rabbit retreated, the bald eagle concentrated on the counterattack on all fronts. Tank groups and motorized infantry "task forces" quickly interspersed along the road to the depth of the rabbit under the cover of a large number of aircraft, seizing bridges and ferries, while follow-up troops followed up to encircle. Lacking the cover of strong firepower, the rabbit really couldn't withdraw if he wanted to, and he was always chased and beaten by the bald eagle!
This is probably the origin of the rabbit's enigmatic obsession with the intensity of firepower, all because it hurt too much back then! To tell the truth, it was really not easy to force Eagle Sauce to Panmunjom to sign back then!
In the blink of an eye, on the battlefield of the Syrian civil war in the 21st century, the Syrian army also used the same principle to defeat the opponent who also lacked heavy weapons.
After the Syrian army attracts a large number of opponents with a small number of troops, it often automatically abandons its battlefield. After the opponents have gathered together from all over the place, the Russian army will dispatch planes to carry out air strikes, so as to achieve the goal of killing and injuring the opponent's vital forces.
And in the light curtain of the dome, Jiang Yuan's militia often plays the role of the small force that attracts the opponent's forces. Generally speaking, the casualties of this kind of work will not be very scary when facing an opponent who lacks heavy firepower. But now that they are facing a shortage of landmines and IEDs, the situation is really not very optimistic.
What's worse is that they lack the means of transportation that can quickly evacuate the battlefield, and they are indeed not suitable for the role of luring the enemy to take the bait, which is also the reason why Yang Hao is skeptical of Jiang Yuan's order to stick to it.
"Boss Jiang, it seems that something is wrong with the guy on the other side this time?" Hu Kaili said to Jiang Yuan.
"When did our opponent go normal?" The former manager of the logistics company, who is only 1.65 meters tall, said.
Indeed, they had seen too many fanatics in the dome light curtain with explosives or C4 pickups, and it was not uncommon for them to fight with someone for a few days only to find out that their opponent was also in the same camp as them.
So much so that Jiang Yuan also showed a surprised expression after Hu Kaili mentioned that the red-clothed soldiers whose equipment was worse than his own did not understand Butan coordination but retreated in an orderly manner.
Most of them want to trick us into chasing after us, you are the first day to come out to mix? I want to let us go out of cover and chase before Maozi's Su-25 comes to lick the ground, hmph, even if the emperor Lao Tzu comes to speak, it won't work! You just give your orders, Lao Tzu goes out and counts Lao Tzu as losing! It's a big deal to arrange a few clone militias to go out and go through the motions.
In short, Jiang Yuan, who felt that he could not get out of the country, could only wait for the clone Syrian army to give an order to let them stick to the battlefield according to his previous experience, so as to take the opportunity to ask for the means of transportation that they had lost before this.
The traversers here are in full swing to loot the equipment and supplies abandoned by the British army to build positions, and John Bull's airport garrison over there is also a pot of porridge over how to deal with the persistent "Boer militia".
"We should retreat to the stronghold close to the railway, we may not have enough manpower to deal with the 'Boer militia' who have already received military funding from the Great Song people." An officer said.
"Yes, I can't believe that the people of the Great Song Dynasty actually provided this group of ragged farmers with heavy weapons that could deal with tanks! We need to gather more troops to deal with these pro-Song armed mobs. Another officer chimed in.
"Gentlemen, I'm glad that you've all noticed the disgraceful actions of the Great Song people behind their backs. It is true that the armed 'Boer militia' will cause us a lot of trouble, but it is precisely because there is evidence that the Great Song people have intervened in African affairs that we cannot easily abandon this airport. "said the commander of the airfield garrison, Lieutenant Colonel Madison.
"You all know very well who provided our aircraft technology, and have you not thought about what it would mean to cede this airport, which covers the Durban-Johannesburg railway line, to the Boers who are close to the Great Song people? Lieutenant Colonel Madison continued.
"Sir, the rest of our regiment is still a certain distance away, and we have lost a lot of men after the battle just now, and now we are afraid that it will be difficult for us to make up two battalions of troops. Would it be too hasty to launch a counteroffensive against the 'Boers' stationed on the east side of the airfield? A British officer said.
If Jiang Yuan heard this guy complaining about the lack of troops, he would definitely go up and give her a big mouth without saying anything. There are only ninety people in total, and the strength of your extraordinarily large battalion is still crying there!