Chapter 377: Capture Laayoune
The Western Sahara Front had too few vehicles and moved a little slower than expected, and it was not until 2 a.m. that the vanguard arrived, and it was just after 4 a.m. that the large force had moved.
The entry and exit of personnel here made the headquarters of the Moroccan army 100 kilometers away very nervous.
They are not afraid of the Western Sahara Front, but they are afraid that the Western Sahara Front will make up for the last shortcoming of Sean's high-tech troops, the number of soldiers.
Looking at the side of the Western Sahara Formation, the team was chaotic and the equipment was messy, but there were many people!
Sean touched his chin and fell into deep thought, in fact, he could hire a lot of locals into the umbrella alone in Southeast Asia or Africa.
The second-line troops, which are dedicated to logistics and auxiliary work, can not only save a lot of expenses, but also make up for the shortage of manpower.
It's so cheap to hire someone here!
The salary of the special soldier is one-fifth of that of the American soldier, and the pension is even more low.
The only question is whether the differential treatment of benefits and so on will cause some internal problems.
As soon as he thought of it, Sean called Bill to tell him what he thought, and Bill agreed directly with almost no hesitation.
"You big boss doesn't care about things, we are currently in Sri Lanka, in mud, Qatar and other places A lot of business is outsourced to their domestic troops, but a lot of work can't be outsourced, it's very troublesome!" Bill complained on the phone: "You have special bases all over the world, have you taken care of the logistics problems!" ”
"Oh my God, shit, do you know how many places you've left traces!"
"Lift your pants and leave after you finish ejaculating, you scumbag!"
Sean was sweating profusely, "Fake, your analogy is just terrible, okay, what do you think about solving this problem." ”
"Re-establish a security company, and put all the contracts of the second-line personnel over there, not a company, it's a fart!"
"Okay, I'll leave it to you!"
"Fack!"
Sean laughed and hung up.
The temporary base here is a mess, the umbrella side is not really idle, the preparations before departure have been done, at half past four in the morning, suddenly began to move sideways towards the western Atlantic, and by the time the Moroccan army found out the problem and reported it, it was already an hour.
This side has already entered the 30-kilometer range of the sea, and the warships have begun to escort the convoy, and the ground forces can advance with confidence.
After receiving the news, the General Headquarters of the Moroccan Army was stunned!
Run, run?!
It's not that the umbrella has to be just frontal, but the umbrella has appeared in front of the world for the first time, that is, it clashed with Ah San at sea, crisply, neatly, and boldly, and fired first in the face of Ah San's fleet!
Since then, no matter who the umbrella is facing, it has always faced the enemy head-on and has never flinched!
Why is a private security company so famous, it is really a positive and majestic!
Even when they arrived at Western Sahara, they advanced head-on, openly pushing their fifth base, forcing the fourth base, and the third base all retreated to the defense line of the main base.
Now the umbrella suddenly turned in, it was too unexpected!
It's happening, and it doesn't feel real.
When more specific news came, and the Umbrella Fleet escorted the army along the coastal road all the way to Laayoune, everyone was suddenly surprised!
Fuck, the umbrella is going to reactivate the fleet!
"Smack!" A delicate coffee cup was smashed to the ground, and Moulay Sidi Ben Yousufu's beard trembled, "Stupid pigs, you stupid pigs, look what you have done!" ”
"Laayoune is going to be lost!!"
On the phone, Moulay Sidi bin Youssef was roaring loudly.
The person in charge of the headquarters of Western Sahara opened his mouth and didn't know what to say for a while.
They were really frightened by the momentum of the umbrella before, where did they think that everything before was just smoke bombs, all of which were plays.
According to the analysis of the General Staff of the Moroccan Army, the reason why the umbrella forcibly broke through from the center on a large scale was to deter the Moroccan army and force the Moroccan army to concentrate its forces in the central area.
And at this moment, there is no way for the Moroccan army to follow up!
With more than 30,000 people, Morocco is not capable of completing pure mechanization, and on the desert, how can two legs run more than four legs?
Tank troops, helicopter units, etc. can quickly follow up, but in the coastal area, the missile destroyer fleet is not vegetarian, and the helicopters on their own side are not enough for the fleet to fight three rounds!
If you go, you will fight the dogs with meat buns, but when the large army moves in together, Layoune will definitely not be protected!
Besides, now that the people of the Western Sahara Front are here, it is not so easy to run.
As for not gathering troops in the central region before, it is not good, then the umbrella will directly break through along the middle line, which is also death!
It can only be said that the umbrella not only comprehensively crushes Morocco in terms of equipment, but also tactically, the staff committee is also at the crushing level!
The defense line that the Moroccan army spent 5 years building in Western Sahara completely collapsed before it could hold out even two rounds!
Once Laayoune is occupied by the umbrella, then the logistics of the Moroccan army will be completely cut off, and there is no point in continuing to stick to the middle line here.
It's not that other routes can't deliver supplies, it's like major arteries and ordinary blood vessels.
If you stab at the main artery, the blood will spray like a water gun, and the person will die very rhythmically.
The person in charge of Western Sahara couldn't say a word when he was sprayed, and for a long time, Moulay Sidi was tired of scolding, so he said the research decision of the War Department.
The Moroccan army would mobilize troops from the mainland and go straight to Laayoune along the road to buy time for the Western Saharan forces.
The Western Sahara troops were asked to leave a part of them to block the Western Sahara Front, and the main force turned along another diagonal road towards Laayoune to complete the encirclement on both sides, and it was necessary to keep Laayoune.
At the moment, the umbrella is 214 kilometers from Laayoune, the troops from Morocco are 100 kilometers from Laayoune, and the Western Salamours are more than 240 kilometers from Laayoune.
Receiving the order, the Western Salamour Army left only 15 tanks, 5 helicopters and all heavy artillery, and the other mechanized troops with 3,000 men set off and rushed towards the northwest.
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Laayoune was in chaos at the moment.
Sean, who had been here more than half a month ago, was here again, this time with more than just a Keeling-class battleship.
Rather, it's the entire missile destroyer formation and the army of 2000 people!
The Moroccan army arrived in Laayoune one hour ahead of schedule, and while evacuating the residents, they began to set up for the street fighting in the city.
And at the moment the umbrella is still about 70 kilometers away from Laayoune.
Halfway through, Sean and the others had already received the latest action of the Moroccan army.
However, it doesn't matter, with the battleship on the side, Sean has nothing to fear.
After 40 minutes, the Moroccan army was armed, and the umbrella was less than 20 kilometers away from Laayoune.
The army stopped pushing, but the fleet didn't need to worry so much, and ran straight towards the port of Laayoune.
Now there are no merchant ships in the port, and as soon as the war breaks out on the side of Western Sahara, all those who can run will run, and those who can't run, Sean will not show mercy.
Approaching the port 20 km, an order was given, fire!
The tail flame was sprayed, and more than 20 super sea sparrows were launched at their targets.
All ships near the port, whether you are a civilian ship or a warship, clean them all!
Super Sea Sparrow anti-ship missile, with a range of 30 kilometers, all-weather short-range, low-altitude shipborne anti-aircraft missile weapon system, is mainly used to deal with low-altitude aircraft, helicopters and anti-ship missiles.
What is the technical all-round crushing!!
That's a dead hand when you come up!
There is no need for the flagship to shoot at all, three Keeling-class missile destroyers, after a round of strikes, all the Moroccan ships on the sea are either burning with raging fires, or simply enter the water and roll over.
In Sean's eyes, the so-called navy of the Moroccan army is a fishing boat!
The maximum displacement is only a few hundred tons, and in particular, it is a waste to use harpoons.
A few of the larger 'fishing boats' were still running away with fire abruptly......
Run a fart!
"Boom", "Boom", "Boom", "Boom" A round of shelling, combined with the hellfire launched by the helicopter in the air, quickly completed the liquidation of the surface forces of the Moroccan army!
The only thing that caused trouble for the umbrella was the mines that had been laid in the harbor by the minelayers before.
Minesweepers are needed for clearing.
Fortunately, after the previous round of replenishment, Sean's missile destroyer ship can be regarded as making up for some shortcomings, in addition to landing ships, transport ships, and supply ships, minesweepers are also fully equipped.
Of course, it is only a medium-sized minesweeper with a displacement of about 500 tons, but with the cooperation of the SQR-23 sonar on the flagship, it is enough to complete conventional minesweeping work.
The last stumbling block is being swept away here, and the commander-in-chief of the Moroccan army on the shore, Moulay Sidi's heart is cold.
Holding your head in your hands, pulling out the cold.
Although I didn't expect the mobilized navy to play a big role, I couldn't have swept it away like garbage!!
The relationship between the curvature of the earth, the theoretical monitoring range of the radar of surface ships is 25 kilometers, and the radar of the maritime fleet on their side has just found the target, and it has not even had time to complete the locking.
Fuck you, your radar will turn a corner, won't it!
High-tech is amazing, high-tech can do whatever you want!
Unreasonable?
Yes, unreasonable!
Normal radar certainly doesn't work, but it's not without a solution.
Over-the-horizon radar technology: the so-called over-the-horizon radar is a ground radar that works in the short-wave band and can monitor targets below the horizon, which is divided into two categories: sky-wave over-the-horizon radar and ground-wave over-the-horizon radar, the former uses ionospheric refraction, and the latter uses diffraction on the earth's surface, its main advantage is that it can overcome the limitation of the earth's curvature, detect targets below the horizon, and also have anti-stealth capabilities.
(I started the research work of over-the-horizon radar in the 70s, completed the experimental sky-wave over-the-horizon radar in 82, and completed the finalization of the ground-wave over-the-horizon radar in 2010.) )
(There are only 6 countries in the world that have skywave radar, the United States, Russia, China, France, Australia, and YL)
As the mines under the sea surface were cleared, the battleship officially entered the port, and on the other side, the ground forces that had stopped for a while immediately cooperated and began to advance towards the city.
In the sky, 10 AH-1s were scattered and occupied in the air under the leadership of one Apache, and the navy, land and air forces fought in coordination.
Seeing that the tanks had entered the city wrong, and the distance of the Western Samo army was still dozens of kilometers, the Moroccan army, which had completed the deployment, couldn't help but start a trial.
5 helicopters were lifted into the air at a distance of 20 km, and in air battles, if the altitude was lower than that of the opponent, it was a loss!
(PS: It is difficult to win in modern air combat by numbers to bully more and less, because the speed of the aircraft in the air is very fast, so, in a high-speed and large-scale maneuver in combat situations, each aircraft needs a large area of airspace activities, the recent interception incident is reflected, it is inconvenient to repeat here)
It's just that the helicopter on the side of the Moroccan army has just finished taking off, and before it can get close, on the sea, a burst of fire sprays, and 5 super sea sparrows shoot out.
The instantly frightened Moroccan helicopter turned around and ran!
The Sea Sparrow is as long as a special helicopter, 3 times larger than the AIM-9, and has twice the range.
That's it, there is still one of the 5 AH-1s that did not dodge, this is not something that was blown up, but it can also be forced to land, and it was blown to pieces directly in the air!
Just when 4 AH-1s were in shock, 1 missile rose again on the surface of the sea, Standard 3!!
To be honest, hitting a helicopter with a standard 3 is simply hitting mosquitoes with a cannon, it's too wasteful!
The price of this thing is as high as 2.8 million US dollars, this is still Sean buying, if it is for export, 11 million as a base, and when it is expensive, it has been sold for 45 million.
So, Sean only fired one to scare people!
It's really scary, it doesn't give a chance to dodge at all, and as soon as it goes down, another helicopter is blown up by a volley!
The other three helicopter gunships, which didn't say a word and didn't care about the umbrella that came after them, fled close to the ground!
Mullay Sidi didn't know that the one he had just flown over was a standard 3, but, looking at the momentum that hit the soul, looking at the huge sparks that exploded in the air, and seeing that Sean was only willing to hit one...... This is no longer a cold heart, but a dead heart!
How do you fuck this?
Ah, how the fuck are you fighting!
Without ballistic ballistics, now he has nothing to do in the face of the umbrella fleet!
Now the helicopter in his hand doesn't even dare to take off, and the sky is completely a target.
Like an ant on a hot pot, Moulay Sidi kept circling around the underground headquarters in the rear, his eyes glancing at the circle of staff officers sitting next to him from time to time, his eyes were full of anger, rubbish, all fucking rubbish!
Of course, a few staff officers knew at this moment that their generals looked at them from time to time, but there was nothing they could do.
"Dispatch fighter jets, only fighter jets can make the other side jealous and destroy their air power!"
"Do you expect F5 to deal with Standard 3?" Another staff officer retorted that Moulay Sidi couldn't see what type of anti-aircraft missile it was, and that they could.
The other staff officer also made eye contact with the other people, and immediately said in an anxious tone: "It's useless, that's sending our driver to death!" ”
"The F5 is just a light tactical fighter, and it will be blown up before it completes the lock-on of the enemy helicopter!"
These words were addressed to Moulay Sidi!
Straight to say no, they were afraid that Moulay Sidi would collapse them with excitement.
After all, the F5 is only an export fighter, and its advantages are simplified equipment, appropriate sacrifice of automation, light weight, easy use, simple maintenance, field take-off and landing, and low cost.
There is no expensive radar equipment installed in the nose, and it mainly completes the mission of ground attack, and its air combat capability is limited, and it is not equipped with fire control radar.
This fighter is mainly designed to deal with the rebels, and the F-16 is more useful than the more advanced F-14.
When the Apache was exported at a higher price than fighter jets, the price was hundreds of millions of dollars, because it was very useful against the rebels, which were mainly engaged in ground warfare and had a complex combat environment.
"You can't look like that, you have to fight back!" A staff officer stole a glance at Moulay Shidi.
"Still want ground troops, starting from the southeast, converging with the Western Sahara side, forming a larger ground force, and bypassing the radar troops that are dragging behind them from the flank and rear!" A staff officer's finger circled the map.
Several people glanced at each other, and felt Mullay Sidi coming over, and one of them immediately said: "It's dangerous, we don't know if the umbrella side has a more powerful weapon, if ...... It is likely to suffer a heavy blow! ”
"Do you have a better way?" Moulay Sidi finally couldn't help but shout, and the staff officer immediately bowed his head and stopped talking.
"That's it!!" Moulay Sidi groaned a little and then gritted his teeth.
If there's nothing to be done this time...... Moulay Shidi shook his head, negotiating was definitely not a good option in this situation.
The order was given, dozens of tanks circled in the southeast direction, and the helicopters did not rush out until the two sides completed the convergence, and the tank troops of more than 80 vehicles spared a bend and killed the troops dragged behind by the umbrella.
When the Moroccan army circled behind, the umbrella advanced head-on little by little.
20 two M60 along the road, under the support of helicopters to approach the interior of the city, there are roadblocks is a bombardment, there is no straight road to the front of the building in front of the explosion and crush over.
Rampage, the helicopter unit could not come up, and the Moroccan army could only use infantry to block, relying on the M72 anti-tank rocket launcher to strike at the M60.
Sean has also used this thing, and before on Hong Kong Island, the richest man He was scared of his brain, and now he is being used on his head.
The Moroccan infantry suddenly came out of nowhere with an irregular movement, and the effect was good, the frontal hit was not a big problem, and most of them were fine, but the weak part of the side armor was hit, and the tank was immediately paralyzed.
Of course, the soldiers of the Moroccan army who jumped out did not end well, and most of the helicopter gunships in the sky were fired by a rocket, and then the machine guns strafed.
This is simply exchanging lives, even if ten are exchanged for one, Sean can't afford to change it!
Damn, breaking the tank, it's the same as special paper!
Sean's angry lips trembled after receiving the news of the successive destruction of tanks, especially money...... Oh, no, it's all bereavement......
Every now and then, Sean can't help but curse the U.S. government in his heart, stupid, how can this weapon that can kill tanks be sold!
Why don't you count your own tank?
The signing of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Missile Technology is necessary!!
The frontal advance effect is not smooth, which makes Sean a little irritable, but there are many civilians in the city, otherwise the entire city will be bulldozed with artillery.
Historically, the defending side has liked to use civilians as meat shields, and Sean never minds speculating on them with the greatest malice.
An hour later, someone came to report that the Moroccan army had chosen to circle the rear and that a large number of tanks had appeared 40 kilometers away diagonally behind.
"Out of town?" Sean furrowed.
Dennis Abt shook his head and smiled, "It's really outside the city!" ”
"Huh." Sean laughed directly, "It seems that their Allah did not bless them." ”
Dennis Abt nodded in agreement.
"Try out new gear." Sean said with interest.
Dennis Abt immediately commanded.
M270 multiple launch rocket system, this time Sean got a good thing from the bureau, there is only one group, the price is more than 18 million.
The M270 was jointly developed by the five countries and is often referred to as the M270 mobile rocket launcher.
The M270 system consists of an M933 carrier, which looks like an elongated Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, as its combat carrier, with an aluminum armored cockpit and a collective three-defense system, rocket launcher tubes with a caliber of 227 mm, a number of tubes 12, and a combat rate of fire of 12 rounds / 50 seconds. Its maximum range is 32 kilometers for submunitions, 40 kilometers for mine-laying bombs, 45 kilometers for terminally guided anti-tank submunitions, and its marching combat conversion time is 5 minutes, combat marching conversion time is 2 minutes, reloading time is 5 minutes, the speed is 64 kilometers per hour, and the maximum travel is 480 kilometers.
This thing was installed in the United States and NATO troops in 83, and it was precisely because NATO also had it that Sean got one, of course, the normal MLRS battalion consists of 1 battalion headquarters, 1 battalion headquarters service company and 3 launch companies, each company is equipped with 9 launch vehicles.
There is such a saying in the weapons world: artillery is the god of war, and the M270 multiple launch rocket system is the god of thunder in the god of war, which performed extremely well in the later Gulf War, causing a lot of damage to the huge T-72 tank force in Lao Sa's hands.
Today, however, the record of the first shining on this battlefield will be rewritten ahead of schedule!
This is also the reason why Sean was able to get the M270, and the US side wants to test it in actual combat.
Initial calibration, target locking, and a series of calculations with the help of the radar system, "whoosh", "whoosh", "whoosh", "whoosh"
More than 20 kilometers away, when the mother bomb was launched over the tank group, under the action of the timing fuse, the mother bomb body exploded, and the bullet group was thrown out by the projectile, which is an effective weapon against the cluster tank in view of the weak armor on the top of the tank.
"Boom, boom, boom......"
More than 1,400 bullets formed a super-dense frenzied bombardment above the tank cluster, scrapping more than 30 T-72 tanks of the Moroccan army on the spot.
Just one round of shooting made the Moroccan army completely dumbfounded.
When he received the news, Moulay Sidi's face was pale, sweat was raining, his hand holding the phone was shaking, and he couldn't speak.
The staff officers on the side glanced at each other, and through the feedback received from the scene, they immediately came to the conclusion that the anti-tank submunitions, and they were launched with missiles, were basically M270!
"General, withdraw!" The adjutant walked over and whispered.
Moulay Sidi turned his head to look at it in confusion, as if he had lost his spirit, threw the phone on the table, turned and walked out.
The adjutant sighed, picked up the phone and gave the order to retreat, retreat, armistice, this is no different from surrender.
Can't fight!
Either they take a skirmish line, so that the characteristics of the submunition cannot be brought into play, but in this way, the air superiority of the umbrella is something they cannot deal with......
The tank troops retreated, and Sean did not order a pursuit, and the round of shooting just now was really expensive and painful.
Moulay Sidi stood outside, and the adjutant came over without speaking, and for a long time, Moulay Sidi whispered: "Contact the country, let Mohammed VI deal with it." ”
As soon as these words came out, Moulay Sidi's whole person seemed to be rickety.
In fact, most of the military supports him, the crown prince is too young, and these people in the military are all uncles, and they are not at all young people who can be suppressed, which is the same in all countries.
It's just that Europeans such as France, Spain, and England supported Mehmed VI, and a young, unprestigious king was in the interests of Europeans.
This is the reason why Moulay Sidi advocated this battle, if he wins, even if he withstands the umbrella, then he can force his position to the throne if he returns home with this majesty.
Of course, it's useless to say anything now.
Now everything can only be handed over to Mohammed VI, let the Europeans and Americans take action, and force back the lion of the umbrella.
……
France, Spain, United Kingdom, United States......
On the one hand, the news that came made the Europeans happy and felt that it was expected, and on the other hand, it was also surprising, vigilant, the umbrella is too strong!
First of all, the French president stood up and held a press conference, "African problems should be solved by Africans themselves, and what any other organization should do is to promote bilateral peace talks, not to meddle in them, and I regret what happened in Morocco recently." ”
Spain, in the past, Spain's superficial attitude towards the issue of Western Sahara was neutral, after all, Morocco was the dominant party, but now, they also jumped out, "Peace in Western Sahara is not easy to come by, and peace among the Berbers needs to be promoted by all parties, not destroyed, and the construction of Western Sahara for more than ten years should not be destroyed!" ”
On the French side, two Mirage 2000 fighter jets took off in formation at the Dakar Air Base, the capital of Senegal, Africa, and flew directly across Western Sahara to Morocco.
Spain: The Spanish Navy's Labyrinth light aircraft carrier battle group headed south into the Strait of Gibraltar.
And before the actions in France and Spain, the White House made a phone call to Sean, "Congress needs Sean to give an explanation of the Umbrella's previous actions in Western Sahar!" ”
The pressure from all sides is coming!