Chapter 109: Bats
36 hours later, in a jungle in the northern suburbs of Mengka, 8 kilometers away from the main city and 5 kilometers away from the Mengka military camp, Chen Shen commanded the mercenaries of the Lion Regiment to unload the goods one by one from the car.
He shook his head and walked towards Chen Shen, lowered his voice and asked:
"Are you sure you can use all of these things? Are you sure your strategy will be successful? ”
"I mean, we could inflict a wave of casualties on the Seventh Brigade, but that's about it."
"It's too far away. We have difficulty even assessing the results of the killings. ”
"Seriously, your battle plan sounds like a joke, do you want to reconsider?"
Hearing his words, Chen Shen shook his head disdainfully, and then replied:
"So now you know why we survived so many battles? Do you know why you are so strong, but you are still defeated by us? ”
"The reason is actually quite simple – we dare to think, and you don't."
"A team like you always thinks that fighting a war should be one-dimensional and conformist."
"You will also play tactics and play with your heart, but you will only follow the cases in the textbooks, and even if there are changes, they are all within the basic strategy of conventional warfare."
"If you go to war like this, if you don't lose, you'll be a ghost-—— who won't read textbooks?"
"This is the gap between you and us, and this is the gap between you and me."
Chen Shen's few words directly stunned the white dog speechless, and the latter opened his mouth several times, and finally said:
"But you obviously have a better chance-—— the intelligence you have gathered shows that there may be a conflict between the Mengku camp on the Burmese side and the 7th Brigade of the Shan State Army, and the recent dispatch of the 7th Brigade has indeed verified this information."
"If the two of them really fight, the situation will definitely be chaotic, isn't it good for you to take that opportunity to carry out infiltration operations? Why do you have to do it now? ”
"This kind of intelligence is not my purpose in the first place, the soldiers are not tired of deceit, and the devil knows if they really want to fight?"
Chen Shen asked rhetorically, and then continued to explain:
"Of course, I'm not saying that this must be a trap set by the Seventh Brigade, because the relationship between them is really deteriorating."
"But so what? Even we can see that this is an opportunity for a surprise attack, Chen Yimin, as the military commander of the Seventh Brigade, can he see it? ”
"He will definitely be prepared, and he will even have additional, special defensive measures against us, and when the 7th Brigade really starts fighting the Burmese army, it will be when they are the most heavily defended and the most powerful."
"Why, then, do we have to hit the muzzle of the gun?"
"Surprise is the right strategy."
"We can create chaos on our own, so we don't have to wait for others."
"Don't say so much, go take out the hydrogen tank, blow up the balloon, and if the wind direction changes, we will spend so much time preparing in vain."
The white dog still wanted to refute, but after thinking about it carefully, he suddenly realized that after all, he was just a "helper" hired by Chen Shen, and he was only responsible for harassing and covering the task, and he actually had no say in their real battle plan.
In that case, let him be.
The white dog shook his head, turned around and unloaded the last tank of hydrogen from the pickup truck, and began to assist Chen Shen in filling the balloons.
At the same time, Chen Shen, who seemed to be silent and had already wandered into the world, was actually running wildly, confirming the details of the plan for the last time.
In fact, what he wanted to do was very simple, and it could be summed up in one sentence, that is, rush to the Mengka barracks, get close enough, and then aim at Chen Yimin's command post to fire two thermobaric bombs.
A single soldier cloud burst bomb can produce an overpressure of about 0.3Mpa within 3 meters of the explosion center, and a high temperature of about 2500 degrees will be generated during the combustion process, which can cause effective damage to targets within 50 square meters on the flat ground.
If the center of the explosion happens to be in a closed environment, and the environmental volume is within 120 cubic meters, the living target in the closed environment after the explosion of the cloudburst bomb is almost certain to die.
Because at this time, the overpressure generated by the cloud burst bomb will reach an astonishing 0.8Mpa.
According to the interrogation in the early stage and the long-range reconnaissance of Lin He, the command post has a total of 3 floors, a height of less than 8 meters, a length of 11 meters from north to south, and a width of 10 meters from east to west, and a total of 7 rooms.
In other words, the average volume of each relatively confined space is less than 120 cubic meters.
Even if one cloudburst is not enough, two or three rounds are enough.
But if such a plan is to be implemented, it is not at all simple.
It is impossible to infiltrate, the command post is the most heavily defended and closely monitored area, no matter how big a disturbance is created, as long as Chen Yimin shrinks into the command post, his loyal private soldiers will definitely return to the defense as quickly as possible, and then build the strongest defense line near the command post.
Want to break through?
Without dozens or hundreds of people and an absolutely crushing equipment advantage, you can't even get on the edges.
After all, now the defense line of the 7th Brigade has been extended to 3 kilometers outside the barracks, and the command post is in the most central position of the barracks, adding up to a distance of 4 kilometers inside and out!
At this distance, it can be said that all weapons held by non-warlord forces are ineffective.
The firing range of the bazooka is 1000 meters, and the mortar has problems with accuracy on the one hand, and armor-piercing ability on the other hand, which is not enough to penetrate the thick concrete armor of the command post.
As for the 107 rocket launcher in Chen Shen's hand, the accuracy of 1/80 is 60 meters when launched at a distance of 5 kilometers-—— which is already beyond the effective killing range of the rocket explosion.
This is simply not a piece of equipment suitable for precision strikes against single targets.
What? You say you want to engage in shelling?
No kidding, do you think that artillery with long-range strike, range-strike capability can be bought by any random person?
In ancient China, there was no problem for you to hide your sword privately, but if you secretly hid your armor, it would be a great crime of rebellion.
In northern Myanmar, "possession of cannons" is the same crime.
Therefore, there is only one feasible surprise attack plan, and that is to strike from the air.
These warlords have almost no experience in dealing with air raids, and they lack basic air defense monitoring means in the troops, coupled with the design that the paramotor can turn off and start the engine at any time in the air, Chen Shen can turn off the engine after reaching a sufficient height, glide silently to a predetermined position and hover, and then directly use the cloud burst bomb to carry out an empowerment attack from the air!
There is no problem with the attack, the problem is with the evacuation.
The paramotor has a maximum speed of only 50 km/h and is extremely slow to accelerate.
After completing the attack, the soldiers of the 7th Brigade, who were not killed on the spot, will inevitably react and begin to strafe themselves in the air without the ability to resist.
That's why, he needs balloons, he needs 107 fire, he needs additional cloudburst shells, he needs a lion corps.
All of this is in preparation for the evacuation.
Dozens of hydrogen balloons were hung with high-explosive charges with detonators, and they were allowed to float along the wind to the top of the 7th Brigade Mengka camp, and at the same time the attack was used to send a specific frequency signal by radio, and the receiver on the balloon received the signal and formed a circuit to ignite the excitation charge, which burned through the balloon, and then detonated the detonator and explosives after a short delay in combustion.
——
This is a simple air-delivered version of the IED, not to mention the Middle East, even the small days of World War II were used.
Now, Chen Shen has just scaled it up.
This time, he wanted Chen Yimin to see who was the ancestor in this area.
——
Oh no, there's a good chance he won't see it
In addition to the purpose of disrupting the local judgment and interrupting the opponent's OODA after the hydrogen balloon explodes, the Lion Corps will also immediately use 107 fire to bomb when the attack is completed.
The 24 rockets will be fired one by one, and they will be concentrated in the central area near the command post to suppress the enemy's reinforcement firepower and win a relatively safe firepower vacuum area for Chen Shen.
After doing all this, the Lion Corps had to stick to the predetermined flight path of the paramotor, using all kinds of weapons in their hands, including individual cloud burst bombs, to drag the enemy's pursuit force, so that Chen Shen could fly into the jungle and land smoothly.
It was not until Chen Shen confirmed that he had dropped the parachute that the Lion Corps could evacuate.
According to the flight speed estimates, they will hold out for at least 20 minutes.
It's not a simple task either, but
The Lion Corps must go and finish.
Half an hour later, all the hydrogen balloons were ready and the wind gradually began to stabilize.
Chen Shen led the others to aim in the direction of the Mengka camp in the distance, and released hydrogen balloons one after another.
Afterwards, he and Li Bang immediately went to the flat slope in the rear, and with the help of the members of the Lion Corps, they got on the paramotor and set off on the spot with a cloudburst bazooka on their backs.
At the moment when he saw the paramotor take off, the white dog waiting on the ground suddenly felt a little abrupt.
——
After more than ten years of fighting, this is the first time he has seen a live air raid in northern Burma.
Besides, it was done with a paramotor!
What the hell is this world?
Seeing that the paramotor had taken off and the "balloon army" was gradually drifting away, the white dog sighed deeply and gave orders to his teammates.
"Group 1 left two people in charge of releasing the rockets, and the rest of the people followed me to the scheduled No. 1 evacuation point and prepared for battle!"
In the air, Chen Shen carefully controlled the paramotor to fly in the direction of the camp with his back to the camp, and asked about the condition of the Li Gang.
Although the latter has undergone more than ten hours of short-term assault training, he can basically adapt to high altitude and paramotor flight, but he is inexperienced, and Chen Shen has to devote some energy to paying attention to his condition.
But the good thing is, at least from the current situation, he is still in good shape.
There was no moon in the sky at this time, and as the paramotor gradually rose, they also lost their vision in the night.
The only thing that could be used as a reference was the brightly lit camp a few kilometers away.
Chen Shen pulled up the paramotor, and then said to Li Bang:
"No. 1, pay attention to your own state, and if you feel any discomfort, you must explain it in time, which will affect the execution of subsequent tasks."
"Received, I don't feel too much of a problem, I'm sober."
"It's fine."
Hearing this, Chen Shen nodded subconsciously in the air, and then continued to ask:
"White Dog, have you arrived at the intended blocking location?"
"Arrived in 10 minutes. Damn, they've got a lot of sentry posts, and it's really not that easy to get around."
"I'll only give you 15 minutes at most, we're ready to hover and climb altitude, radio communications may be interrupted, and it's going according to plan."
"Understood, according to the original plan. The balloon was 3 kilometers away from the target point, about 40 meters high, and the ascent was slow, which we expected. ”
Hearing the white dog's answer, Chen Shen immediately added and asked:
"How much is the direction off?"
"The deviation from direction is slight, within two degrees, and according to the current route, the balloon will pass by the southeast side of the camp."
"The southeast side is ok. I started to climb. ”
The words fell, and Chen Shen gently pulled the joystick.
Then with the roar of the diesel engine, his paramotor flew higher and higher.
Li Bang behind him hurriedly grabbed the handrail, and when the luminous altimeter showed that the altitude had reached nearly 1,000 meters, Chen Shen turned back into level flight.
I have to say that even for him who was tired of sitting in a helicopter in his previous life, this is a rather novel experience.
The whole body was completely exposed to the air, and the cool night breeze blew, with the dark mountain forest below and the equally dark night sky above.
Aside from the barracks, the only thing that glowed in the sight of the two was the fluorescent indicator tape they carried.
Getting closer and closer to the Mengka camp, Chen Shen's radio finally searched for a signal from Lin He.
As an observer, he lurked on the slope of the hill about two kilometers away from the Mengka camp, always keeping an eye on the movements of the command post.
"Five, is the target still in the building?"
"Yes, I didn't see him come out."
Lin He's answer was not so concise and professional, he was not trained after all, but, as long as his meaning could be expressed clearly, it was enough.
"Turn off the engine and count down 10 minutes to start attacking."
"Understood, we've arrived at the point of blockade."
"5th, evacuate in 8 minutes."
"Understood, evacuate in 8 minutes."
"Number One, get ready for a cloudburst bomb."
"Ready."
A series of orders were issued, and in a very short period of time they were confirmed.
The height of the paramotor began to decrease, and the distance to the Mongka camp was getting closer and closer.
With a five-minute countdown and a distance of 3 kilometers, Chen Shen was already able to see the specific outline of the camp.
With a countdown of 3 minutes and a distance of 1 kilometer, the speed of the paramotor began to decrease under Chen Shen's deliberate control, and he recognized the location of the central command post.
Counting down to 1 minute, the paramotor came to the sky above the central command post at a height of 150 meters.
At this point, they had entered an extremely dangerous distance.
Because, under the reflection of the ground, the sky can already show a shadowy black shadow.
But in the end, no one found this bat flying silently in the dark night.
At the same time, at an altitude of about 100 meters, Chen Shen saw several hydrogen balloons with fluorescent markers.
Of the 40 balloons originally planned, no more than 20 actually flew here, but this was enough .
Counting down to 10 seconds, Chen Shen adjusted the position of the paramotor, the side was parallel to the open door of the command post, and then took over the PF89 cloud burst bomb prepared by Li Bang.
Both of them aimed at the door at the same time.
"3, 2, 1 fire!"
The order was given, the trigger was pulled, and the cloudburst shell came out of its chamber.
One of the two rockets went straight into the gate, and the other slammed into the ground outside the door.
"Bang!"
A loud explosion sounded, white smoke burst open, and then, the spread of incendiary ammunition was ignited instantly.
The flames exploded!
(End of chapter)