Chapter 53: Refusal (Asking for Votes, Asking for Collections)
When the casualties of the army in the era of cold weapons reached more than one-tenth of the army, the morale would be hit.
In the meat grinder of hot weapon warfare, the attrition rate of the army is staggering. For example, in the Battle of the Somme in World War I, the British lost 60,000 men in a single day, and a large number of front-line troops were wiped out.
In addition to being eliminated by the formation, the "loss of combat effectiveness" of most military units refers to the withdrawal and reorganization.
From the perspective of modern warfare, if the general casualty rate reaches 20 percent, there is a danger of losing combat effectiveness, and 30 percent is the recognized casualty rate limit of the world's armed forces.
Not everyone in the military is on the front lines, and logistics and technical arms also make up the majority of the establishment.
When a combatant is wounded, the lightly wounded person can take care of himself, while the seriously wounded person needs two people to carry him. This will delay the overall combat effectiveness.
A 30% battle loss means that logistical pressures affect the overall battle, and this is the standard by which the casualty limit is set.
But the people sent by Freud were different, they had no name, no name, no identity, and like the Benzi army on Iwo Jima, they were combatants destined to be abandoned.
The doctrine that mourning soldiers must win was used by Freud in his own men. For this force, there are only two outcomes.
Die or win.
They only exist to fight.
The flare fired by Chixia was seen by everyone, as were the soldier ants.
The moving convoy quickly adjusted, the machine gunners of the light vehicles concealed inside the vehicles, and the combat vehicles turned on all defensive measures, and the thermal imaging radar and infrared radar were instantly turned on, searching for possible enemies.
That red flare was a signal for Rorschach's combat forces to be an all-out attack.
Almost at the same moment, the broadsword mines that had been designed on both sides of the road were detonated.
The convoy marched on the highway, showing a serpentine state, and on this necessary road, it had already been laid a net by the ghost.
The broadswords that were staggered on both sides of the road spat out more than seven hundred steel balls in each of their bodies.
The explosion was like a broomstick, sweeping the dust onto the road, the sound of crackling was endless, and even the steel balls met in the air, bursting out with different sparks.
The targeted attack of the Broadsword mine, for those heavy combat vehicles, is almost just an tickle attack, and only light vehicles, such as the Humvee, are penetrated by that weak defense.
But that's not what the ghosts are fighting for, it's the dust that the broadsword blast kicks up.
Artificial sandstorms kicked up in the hot, dry land of North Africa are the best way to mask optical sights and detection radars.
After the explosion, the people lurking on both sides of the road lifted off their infrared invisibility suits and other camouflage on their bodies, and carried individual launchers.
All kinds of armor-piercing weapons that did not require any guidance were launched by the battle-hardened warriors in the Call of Duty for the first time, according to the location in their memory.
This kind of attack that almost relies on Meng, in the numerical superiority, there are really some fighters who rely on combat experience to hit the target.
Metal jets catapult inside the vehicle, scorching flesh and blood, and then taking life away.
However, these soldiers, who can only survive in victory, reacted quickly and began to suppress fire on both sides of the road.
The sound of automatic machine guns and rapid-fire guns was incessant, sweeping both sides of the road in a cross-covering manner.
This suppression of fire continued until the dust cleared, but by the time the soldiers searched through the observation windows and various types of equipment for the enemy, only discarded disposable launchers were found.
The ghost had long anticipated the enemy's reaction, and under his orders, everyone quickly withdrew from their positions after firing the canisters in their hands.
After all, according to Rorschach's requirements, the goal of the battle is not to annihilate these people at once, but to block them in sections and limit the enemy's activity space.
Waiting for the soldiers to look around, they noticed a big problem again.
There were several anti-tank mines on the road, as if to remind them that they had entered a minefield.
For combat vehicles, anti-tank mines are an absolute threat, not only causing damage to vehicle tires and tracks, turning combat vehicles into fixed targets, but also inflicting devastating blows on some immature chassis.
Seeing the bright mines on the road, the soldiers did not dare to test the desert on both sides of the road with their lives.
In addition to the traditional contact (pressure) fuse, a large number of non-triggering fuzes and infrared fuzes synthesized by new technologies have been used in modern anti-tank mine detonation. These fuses, with their own sensitive devices, detect targets by sensing changes in the external magnetic field, acoustics, ground vibrations and infrared spectrum caused by the armoured vehicle approaching the mine.
Deserts are excellent hiding places, and the climatic conditions of North Africa make it a pleasure to bury mines, and the weather will sweep away all traces of man-made mines.
The soldiers who reacted quickly could only follow the road, and the 30 mm caliber 2A42 machine gun on the Storm-K turret of the BTR-90 Rostock armored vehicle in the front row began to sweep the road.
A barrage of pinpoint fire detonated a mine on the road. The convoy began to shoot tentatively around the area, as it had done before, and then moved in the direction of Rorschach.
Listening to the sound of gunfire from far and near, Casper stood up, looked at Rorschach and said, "It seems that Mr. Freud's invitation to Mr. Rorschach has arrived." ”
"But I didn't plan to say yes!"
Casper then made an inviting gesture to Rorschach and pointed to the helicopter on the side.
Casper said, "According to the inference of the company's headquarters, Mr. Rorschach must have two different troops around him, and according to what you said, one of them is divided into three groups, no more than thirty men. And the other, judging by the last battle, should have only one combat battalion of troops. I admit their combat effectiveness, but not represent that they are opponents of the heavy firepower units sent by Mr. Freud. ”
Casper looked at Coco and said to Rorschach, "Give up, Mr. Rorschach." Mr. Freud was still sincere, after all, he did not send air troops. And in this game, you have already lost. ”
Rorschach stood up, looked at the approaching convoy in the distance, and said, "This is not necessarily ......"
Casper followed Rorschach's line of sight and said, "Confine the enemy to the road, you want to strike from the air?" But the surrounding airspace has been blocked, and there is an anti-aircraft missile battalion around, and any aircraft will be swatted to death like a fly. ”
"No, it only takes one attack to break the combat effectiveness of this army!"
"How is this possible......"
Casper was about to object to say something, but a flurry of firing began on the outskirts of the industrial zone.
The projectile smoke screen launcher is almost a covering type to throw the smoke screen around, regardless of direction, regardless of position, as if it is covering something, but the formation is too scattered to cover any large targets.
This situation made Casper a little unsure, and he didn't know what Rorschach's plans were.
Then he saw a blue beam of light, which instantly ran from one end of the road to the other, and on the road, it was the combat vehicle driven by those soldier ants.