Chapter 186: Soft Persimmons
It is not only the Cuban artillery who have calculated the shooting coordinates, but also the artillerymen of the Shadow Company, who have already come into contact with the 9A1 mm mortar at hand when they were in the army, and naturally know the parameters of this artillery.
The mortar team, which had been waiting in the hangar for a long time, immediately came out of the bunker after receiving the order, and the three-person team carried a gun, a gun carriage, and an ammunition box and rushed into the firing bunker that had been dug long ago.
The puppet with the gun carriage on his back plunged the gun mount into the ground, and then stepped on it violently, so that there was no gap between the base and the ground, and then the gunner set up the mortar, and quickly began to adjust the sight with reference to the coordinates observed by the observer at the high point.
When it was ready, the gunner took a mortar shell and filled the muzzle.
Immediately, the mortar shell was excited, and then, instead of continuing to fire, the gunner waited for the observer to observe the landing point, and when he saw the signal that the coordinates were correct, the gunner began to fire the shell carried to the side as fast as possible.
In the eyes of the infantry on the front line, it was just a flash of fire and clusters of smoke and dust that slowly dispersed a few hundred meters away, and they didn't know whether the shells had blown up or not, so they could only silently pray that the best artillery would hit, so that the pressure they faced would be much less.
But in many cases, the more you wish something didn't happen, the more likely it will happen, and the mortar squad's interception barrage is very limited to the Cuban soldiers who are very scattered in the attacking formation, and these veterans know how to save themselves as much as possible during the shelling, so the response from the defenders with nearly 100 shells only caused single-digit damage to the Cuban paratroopers.
Moreover, the shelling from the defending side ended there, because the Cuban artillery began to extend their artillery fire, they jumped over the fortified hangars and began to fire shells at the approximate position of the defending artillery that had opened fire before.
Although the mortar team of the Shadow Company had withdrawn in time, without their artillery coverage, the Cuban paratroopers passed through the artillery blockade area more easily, and then began to exchange fire with the defenders.
The warring parties are not novices, and naturally there will be no situation where they hold on to the trigger, everyone is basically using semi-automatic and point fire, even the machine gun team is the same, only the 0 armored vehicles and A60 armored vehicles that can move at will in the way of long point fire to the distance without stopping.
The snipers of the Cuban paratroopers are equipped with SVD, that is, the Dragonov sniper rifle, as a weapon specially made for the purpose of precision shooting, the SVD sniper rifle still has the ability to kill at a distance of one thousand meters, but that is only in an ideal state, but the ordinary distance of six hundred meters can still bring a lot of pressure to the snipers of the Shadow Company.
Every now and then there would be a muffled sound in the chaos of gunfire, and then the machine gunners or snipers on both sides would fall, and the Cuban snipers were more professional than the shooters of the Shadow Company, and instead of attacking with the infantry, they would lurk in the shadows of the battlefield in their cloaks, waiting like cobras for a chance to kill them.
Although the Shadow Company fell behind in the sniper duel, as Shepard's most trusted special group, the sniper team also has privileges that other teams do not have, such as calling in heavy firepower or something.
After the successive deaths of the sniper team, the commander of the sniper detachment immediately asked his men to abandon the plan to fight the Cuban snipers, after all, their own skills were inferior, and if they continued to fight, they would only increase casualties.
But the detachment had to be recovered, so the snipers who were no longer snipers immediately left the sniper position, jumped into the armored vehicles behind the defensive positions, and then pulled away the gunners who were lame in archery and replaced them with their own battles.
"Right to snipe? I'm 12.7 mm!"
A qualified sniper should be a very flexible tactical master, know what weapon to use in what situation, and if you can't snipe, then change to a cannon, anyway, there are sights!
So the Cuban snipers who had been found lurking were unlucky, because the joy of killing their opponents had not yet faded from their faces, and they saw strange guys in the scope aimed at themselves
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Large-caliber heavy machine guns, rapid-fire machine guns, and even bazookas, a hundred rounds will come if they miss, and the fire will cover them if they can't get rid of accurate shots, and several Cuban snipers will be hit without a trace by dense fire before they even have time to run away.
"It's a tricky opponent, if they had more men and better equipment, we wouldn't have to attack the airfield!"
"Captain Malashenko, I want to apologize to you, I thought you couldn't take the airport because you were too useless, but now it seems that I was wrong!"
"I accept your apology, Major Garcia, but now our priority is not to see who is right and who is wrong, taking the airport is the first priority, isn't it?"
"Yes, completing the tasks of the superiors is the first priority!"
"So, do you have any good ideas?"
Malashenko asked, looking at the lanky, short Cuban officer in front of him.
"Not at the moment, the opponent's defense is not leaky, seeing the moves, we don't have much chance of trying to get to the left of the door!"
"Then we can only rely on a frontal attack to complete the task given to us by our superiors?"
Malashenko scratched his head with some distress, he missed his old troops, such an airport was handed over to them, and it could be done in one day!
"Don't worry, my comrade, our opponents are also human, and they will have weaknesses, but we haven't found them!"
The commander of the Cuban paratroopers, Major García, lowered his binoculars and pointed to the west side of the airfield.
"You see, the firepower of the guards over there is not at all the same order of magnitude as the one in the eastern part of the central part of the airport, which means that they put those mercenaries to the west!"
"So, you want to make a breakthrough over there?"
Malashenko immediately understood.
"Yes, defeat those mercenaries, then our enemies will inevitably have to draw personnel to fill the gaps, and then we will have a chance to compress the encirclement and press their defenses back to the airfield!"
"Aren't we going to take advantage of the situation and take the airport?"
"Captain, haven't you discovered our opponent's greatest weakness?"
"What?"
"Their logistics are all delivered by transport planes in the evening!"
"But we don't have much to do right now to cut off their logistics! The range of the anti-aircraft artillery is not enough, and the mortars can't hit there!"
"Then find a way to get closer, now that we have a chance, there's a better chance than before, right?"