"I plan to gather all the tank companies of the various combat battalions of the brigade. More than 50 tanks, forming an armored fist, under the cover of artillery, smashed towards the center of the enemy's defensive line. ”

"After a breakthrough is formed, our mechanized troops and motorized units will quickly follow up. We must open a 30-kilometer-deep wound in the enemy's position in at least one day, so as to create conditions for the follow-up friendly troops to break through and close the encirclement. ”

Perbov told his old partner about his plan.

After listening, Leroy thought about it for a while, and didn't have any opinions.

That's really Poebof's style: recklessly going up and gouging through the enemy.

"If you have no opinion, then do it. We set off tomorrow morning, the troops have rested for two days, and it is enough. I hope that those recruits who have just been added can be used and nothing goes wrong. ”

……

As it turned out, the recruits did not disappoint Perbov either. Compared with the veterans who have participated in many brutal battles, although these newly recruited soldiers are a little immature, their military skill level is absolutely adequate.

Early the next morning, when it was dawn, the 1st Brigade departed.

Earth-shattering artillery fire covered the enemy's positions.

The soldiers and leaders of the anti-Governor's Alliance were stunned by this ferocious artillery fire.

Prior to this, when fighting against the 7th and 8th divisions, they had learned the power of the alliance's artillery. But at that time, the two divisions combined were only about fifty.

But it was precisely because of the existence of these fifty heavy artillery pieces that the anti-governor allied forces of 70,000 or 80,000 people could not advance an inch.

It's okay to defend, relying on the fortifications, relying on the anti-artillery holes, you can barely resist; If you take the initiative to attack, there is no artillery counter, there is no armored force cover, and those fifty heavy artillery pieces are enough for their attacking troops to send as many as they want.

After giving away some heads, they knew they couldn't fight like that.

But before they could come up with some new methods, the Alliance's Iron Fist arrived first.

At this time, the troops of the rebels squatted in the anti-artillery holes and various fortifications as usual, and then the artillery came.

They thought it would be like the shelling that has been going on a daily basis for more than half a month. Although it is uncomfortable, although it will kill people, but once you are beaten, it will pass.

But in reality, it's not like that at all.

This time, the shelling was much more intensive and lasting than before.

This is not the effect of fifty guns!

And that's exactly what happened.

At this moment, within five divisions, a total of ten artillery battalions can be pulled out, and more than 300 artillery pieces are firing at the same time!

Five divisional and brigade-level units, all artillery units, were almost all concentrated and utilized. The combined artillery positions were concentrated in the direction where the Wind Extinguishing Brigade was about to launch an assault, and bombarded indiscriminately.

Within an hour, 100 rounds of 100 rounds and 30,000 rounds of 155 howitzers smashed into a position about eight kilometers wide in the center of the enemy army. On average, less than 30 centimeters, a 155 howitzer will be smashed - the shells will not be able to be put down!

What happened to the anti-gun hole?

If you hit a shot, the anti-artillery hole dug out is a little shallow, and it will be blown up; If you are lucky, if you are not hit, the shaking earth will also fall to the ground; I don't know how many times it has been shaken, but it can collapse all the anti-artillery holes.

Not to mention, it is impossible for all soldiers to stay in anti-artillery holes, and some can only stay in trenches or even foxholes.

If such a shot goes down and hits, it will be a loss of life.

And these 30,000 shells were just a prelude to the offensive.

When the artillery fire stopped, an officer of the Anti-Governor Coalition came out of a concrete bunker that had been erected and half-buried in the ground.

He was so hungry that his ears were deaf, and he even had dried blood hanging in his ears.

Just now, at least ten heavy artillery shots fell near the pillbox.

Fortunately, not a single shot hit the bunker directly, otherwise he would have died; Unfortunately, the trenches leading to the two exits of the pillbox were hit by artillery, which deafened his ears, and the flying artillery shrapnel killed several of his staff officers and cut off one of his arms.

Holding his bleeding arm, he walked out of the bunker and saw corpses strewn across the trenches. Some people are wailing, but there are also many people who can't even wail, and there are even some people who can't even find their bodies.

He staggered to his feet, climbed on the shooting pedal, and looked in the direction of the Union army.

He saw fifty steel monsters, and at a distance of about twenty to thirty meters, the stragglers formed in the direction of the trench, and they drove mightily.

And behind these steel monsters with cannon barrels, he also lost count of how many infantry chariots there were.

Further back, in the distance, there are many trucks full of infantry, which is even more unrealistic.

He shouted loudly to the soldiers, to come out and fight, to block the enemy's attack, but he could not hear the sound of his voice - he was already deaf.

No one answered his call.

At least in this small area of the position he is in, there are no survivors left.

What's next?

Before he could come up with a reason, he saw a tank, the barrel of which was turning, aimed at him.

He stared blankly at the black muzzle, emitting a burst of orange fire, and then it was dark in front of him, and he didn't know anything.

……

Lieutenant Colonel Perbof, who was about a few hundred meters away from the tanks on the front line, ventured out and took a telescope to check the battlefield.

He happened to see the scene just now.

He scolded and said, "Damn, if you see a mosquito, you have to shoot it, right?" Cannonballs don't need money, do they? ”

He looked a little depressed.

Not really because the tankmen wasted shells, but ......

"Damn, the artillerymen did all the work of Lao Tzu! What do I do? ”

He sat back in the car, not too happy.

Leroy, who was next to him, of course, understood what virtue his old partner was. He smiled and patted Perbov on the shoulder and comforted: "If you can solve the problem with shells, don't solve it with human lives, I think it's good." What's more, if you want to fight, it's not like you don't really have a war, although the artillery brothers are capable, can they really do all the work? ”

What Leroy said certainly makes sense.

Less than thirty centimeters a shell, that's an exaggeration. The enemy's position is not only one line, and the commander on the opposite side, no matter how amateurish and stupid, knows how to build a deep defensive line.

It was really badly bombed, but it was really not as wide as eight kilometers and at least three kilometers thick on the front, and there were really few soldiers.

In fact, the Wind Extinguishing Brigade still encountered resistance.

The enemy began to emerge, and some of the lucky survivors of the shelling had already emerged from bunkers, fortifications, and artillery holes at the behest of the officers, and launched a counterattack against the attacking enemy.

However......

The strength of this counterattack is like tickling.

I don't know if the artillery position of the anti-Governor's Confederate army was raised under the previous 30,000 heavy guns, anyway, there was no trace at this time;

The soldiers did have some weapons that could barely be considered anti-armor, such as bazookas, explosive packs, etc., but they were not numerous enough and not powerful enough. The bazooka, whether it's a Rambler or a Challenger tank, is a tickle, unless it's really close range, and it hits the thinnest parts of the tracks, wheels, and butt armor of tanks and armored vehicles very accurately.

The explosives pack had to be leaned on.

But that's hard, and in order to be accurate and powerful, you have to get very close to the armored units. However, other people's tanks and infantry chariots are not turtles, they run faster than people, and their firepower is fierce. Not to mention the cannon tubes, the machine guns on tanks, the machine guns of infantry fighting vehicles, and the machine guns of explosive shells are all things that have explosive damage to light infantry. Without fire cover, relying purely on light infantry, it will be destroyed before it can approach.

If you really have a lucky guy, or someone who is tenacious, you can wait until the tank passes by and suddenly rush out, then you want to succeed...... Again, it's almost impossible.

The tactics of the infantry and tank coordination and armored charge of the Wind Extinguishing Brigade are good at it.

The infantry of the Union Army was not vegetarian again.

This time, the infantry and tank coordination tactics adopted by the Extinguishing Wind Brigade were armor-guided shocks, with tanks in front, mechanized infantry in the center and infantry in the rear. Behind each tank's flanks, there are usually one or two infantry squads. The guns in their hands will educate the enemy who feels that the barrel of the tank does not turn fast enough and wants to strike from the side. At the same time, the infantry chariots, which are a little further behind, serve as the key fire support for the infantry.

At the same time, tank units do not make the mistake of being out of touch, often maintaining a distance of 20-100 meters from the infantry, and after capturing a position, the tanks will stop for a while and wait for the infantry to come up.

After the infantry comes up, it will complete the occupation and clearance of the surrounding area, and the tanks will set off again at this moment, and then break through a certain position, and the infantry will follow.

And so on.

After the motorized troops in the rear followed, they would carry out the final clean-up work on the enemy troops that had already been rushed to pieces.

This set of tactics, even if it is an enemy position with a tight defensive line, is not easy to defend against, let alone the current group of anti-Governor Allied forces.

They were originally a rabble pulled up from various settlements, with equipment, morale, training, and experience...... All have gaps that are visible to the naked eye. After being ploughed by 30,000 rounds of artillery again, there are not so many who have survived, not to mention, even if they are alive, their morale has long reached the border of collapse.

To be honest, if I wasn't forced to resist by the officers, I'm afraid I would have run away a long time ago, or hide and wait to surrender.

But...... Aren't these officers of the Anti-Doge's Confederate Army themselves afraid of death?

Apparently scared too.

In some places, the soldiers fled, and the officers tried to call them back, but to no avail, and they simply ran away;

Some officers, after shouting to the soldiers to go out and resist, themselves slipped away first;

Some officers simply ran away with their soldiers.

On the whole, these anti-Doge Confederates, after suffering a terrible shelling, were able to organize the rest of the people to carry out a certain degree of counterattack, which was quite good for their rabble.

But under the onslaught of the armored forces, this resistance was quickly shattered.

If the fleeing soldiers run to the sides, then the soldiers under Perbov will not pay much attention to it, and will not have time to take care of things on both sides of the battle line; And if you panic and run backwards, you will be pushed behind the ass by the armored forces all the way, which is obviously very bad. Two legs, can't run on wheels.

Especially after the enemy's resistance became less and less powerful, Perbov adopted bold and aggressive tactics, no longer allowing the infantry and armored units to maintain close cooperation, tactical discipline was relaxed, and more emphasis was placed on the speed of impact.

The infantry chariot began to overtake the running slow Challenger tank and went to the front; The engineer battalion also quickly caught up with the armed trucks, and when they reached a place where they could not run over, the sappers got out of their vehicles to fill in the trenches and build temporary roads.

It's dangerous, but it's not dangerous.

It was only two hours after the Extinguishing Wind Brigade was officially put into battle that the entire unit penetrated the most middle area of the enemy's defensive line.

Eight kilometers wide and four kilometers deep, it was completely washed out.

At this point, Commander Yan's 'central flowering' tactic can be regarded as a preliminary success.

The enemy's section, which is about fifty kilometers wide, has now been 'blossomed' from the middle section, and an eight-kilometer-wide salient has been punched out of the middle section.

All this, together with the artillery shelling to the completion of the assault by the armored forces, everything happened in just three hours.

Next, it's time for the next stage of the central flowering tactic: making dumplings.

The salient was hit, of course, in preparation for the total annihilation of the enemy.

After breaking through the defensive line, the Wind Extinguishing Brigade did not stop. After crossing the difficult trench area and the enemy's resistance, it was even easier to get to the back. The mechanized troops of the Wind Extinguishing Brigade ran at a very fast speed on this smooth road.

Five hours later, the vanguard of the Wind Extinguishing Brigade had already gone 50 kilometers away.

At this time, only eight hours had passed since the start of the shelling.

Eight hours, which was not even enough for an effective response to the anti-Doge Confederate forces, which had been divided into two pieces.

But Yan Fangxu's follow-up strike plan has followed.

The 2nd Motorized Infantry Division quickly followed from the salient of the Wind Extinguishing Brigade. A part of the troops was left to hold in the central salient, while the other troops, together with the Wind Extinguishing Brigade, were outflanked due north and west.

This is the rear road of the two armies of the enemy, which are divided.

At the same time, the 3rd Beast Slaughter Independent Regiment and the 7th and 8th Garrison Divisions, with the support of artillery, began to launch a full-scale attack with all their might.

The enemy's forces began to shake in full force.

The center was broken through, contact was lost on both sides, the rear road was outflanked, and the front was flooded with ferocious artillery fire......

Under the multi-faceted attack, they became dumpling fillings.

Yan Fangxu spent half a day to bloom in the center, and another day to wrap a solid dumpling.

The skin is thin and the filling is large, but the meat filling inside is not able to break through the dumpling skin that seems to have few troops.

They were surrounded and held out for three days.

No supplies, no ammunition, no reinforcements......

A rabble, counting on them until they run out of ammunition and food, and everyone dies?

Unrealistic.

By the fourth day, mass surrender of enemy forces began.

At this point, this dumpling with thin skin and big filling is even ripe.

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Happy Dragon Boat Festival!

Yesterday, a part of the content was missing, about Lacroxia's promotion to the ranks, just two sentences, I don't understand where the line was touched, and the review deleted it for me......

The second time I was deleted without knowing it, and it was annoying.

It has been re-filled.

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