Chapter 419: The Second River Crossing
"Anyway, now the evidence is in our hands."
"Directly intervene in Pubei's affairs, and they are still sent to active special forces, and they can't clear this alone."
"Although there is a high probability that they will not admit it, there is a high probability that they will find a way to get around, but at least the initiative is ours."
"Go back first and keep the body safe."
"Maybe in the end, this corpse will be of great use!"
"Let's go, retreat!"
"It's not too early, it's time for the Kachin army to launch a second offensive, 1 soon"
"Understood."
The order was given, and everyone evacuated in the direction of the Nu River.
According to the plan, they will return the same way after crossing the Nu River, follow the Qingshui River all the way east, and finally return to the rolling position.
No one asks about the corpses of their teammates, because they all know that in such a high-intensity conflict, it is very unrealistic for you to expect to give your comrades a whole corpse.
To be able to get the seriously injured back is already extremely lucky.
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However, the seriously injured man did not survive in the end.
He had just arrived at the Nu River, and before he could cross the river, he swallowed his last breath.
Chen Shen didn't have a chance to ask him his last words, and after he started to hurry, he was in a coma all the time, relying purely on a large dose of adrenaline to maintain his basic heartbeat.
Chen Shen didn't think about "what would happen if Pingchuan was here", because he knew that with the injury of this wounded man's penetrating head injury, no one could save him.
This is the fifth teammate lost by the Dongfeng Corps this night, and it is a heavy casualty from any point of view.
The absence of the entire army was not only the key to Chen Shen's risky move, but also luck.
The Liangzi of the two sides has been completely concluded, and in Pubei, there will inevitably be a battle between the Eastern Corps and the Sixth Seal Team, and when this battle will take place, Chen Shen does not know.
He didn't have time to think about it now.
Because, as he expected, on the side of the Khoban Xiaoshan Bridge, the second round of Kachin's offensive has already begun.
After crossing the Nu River, before Chen Shen had time to catch his breath, he had already seen the continuous firelight rolling to the line of Huoban in the distance.
It was the enemy's artillery battalion that was bombing, but judging from the density and accuracy of the artillery fire, the efficiency of this round of shelling was no longer comparable to the efficiency of the previous shelling!
Sure enough, the DEVGRU guards cannot be ordinary targets, they are indeed the key to the qualitative change in the combat effectiveness of the Kachin army's artillery!
Now, this key point has been knocked out, which means that the most important link of Kachin's advantage has been missing.
In such a situation, are they still going to launch a strong attack?
Or is it that their commander has already decided to take a gamble?
Chen Shen's pace accelerated more and more, and half an hour later, he returned to the Huli position, the battle here was equally fierce, but Chen Shen could see at a glance that this part of the battle was a pure feint!
"Li Gang! Li Gang! Report your location! ”
Chen Shen called on the radio, and after a short pause, Li Bang replied:
"Shipwreck, I'm in Hoban!"
"The direction of Tori is a feint attack for the enemy, and I have readjusted the center of gravity of the defense!"
"At present, the defensive pressure of Hoban is extremely high, the allied forces have lost too many personnel, and the defensive strength has dropped to less than 1,500 people, and the defensive pressure is extremely great."
"We're going to think about blowing up the bridge and sinking the ship, waiting for you to make a decision!"
Hearing Li Bang's words, Chen Shen's brows immediately furrowed.
1500 people?!
A few hours earlier, when he had just left, the Confederates were still more than two thousand men approaching two and a half thousand.
And now, the Kachin side has just launched an offensive, and the number of people is already 1000 less??
Obviously, these people are definitely not normal combat attrition, they just ran away as deserters!
It's too vulnerable
But there is no way, what Chen Shen can do now is only rely on the strength of these 1,500 people to block the second round of Kachin's attack.
The first reinforcements from the Wa State will soon arrive, and they will not bring a large number of living forces this time, but they can bring a batch of the most critical and scarce equipment.
The anti-tank missiles promised by the small fish, and that large batch of bazookas.
These things may not completely solve the problem of insufficient armored forces, but at the very least, they can form an effective deterrent to the Kachin side, so that they will not dare to use armored units to carry out surprise attacks with impunity.
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But that's all for later.
Now, he had to decide whether to blow up the bridge or not.
If Peng Deren did not blow up the bridge in the first place in order to drag Kachin, now, their purpose has been achieved.
Without thinking about it anymore, Chen Shen said decisively:
"Fried! Blow up the bridge! ”
"Understood."
Chen Shen's words had just fallen, and 10 seconds later, in the extreme distance, on the small mountain bridge in Huoban, a huge flame rose into the sky.
The explosives had been arranged a long time ago, the fuses had already been laid, and there was no drama of "sacrificing bravely to blow up a bridge", and the death squad prepared by Peng Deren was ordered to evacuate after blocking the Kachin army for 35 minutes, and pressed the detonation switch with his hand.
The bridge, which had witnessed countless storms and was built with the help of the north, was wiped out in an instant, and the Kachin troops on the north side of the bridge watched in horror as the commandos who had boarded the bridge fell into the river in the explosion.
They didn't expect that the allied army would tear their faces so hard that they even blew up the last bridge on the Qingshui River, and they didn't expect that the other party had already put on a posture of defending the small mountain bridge, but in the end it would end hastily in such a way.
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However, this will not affect their attack.
Three M2 armored vehicles appeared and disappeared on the north bank of the Qingshui River, pouring fire on the Allied positions on the south bank.
The last assault boat covered more than a dozen speedboats and civilian boats, shuttling back and forth on the Qingshui River under the cover of night, sending batch after batch of infantry to the south bank.
With great superiority in firepower, their river crossing was hardly hindered in any way.
Armored vehicles can't pass?
It's okay, armored vehicles don't have to go over at all!
Chen Shen saw from a distance that a fierce exchange of fire had begun to take place near the Rolling Lane position, and the first batch of Kachin landings were strong private soldiers, who had already taken the first line of defense of the Allied forces with just one charge, and continued to advance like a sharp knife, trying to pierce the entire Rolling Position.
Unfortunately, they didn't get their way.
Because in the middle of the position, there is an impregnable reef.
A Dongfeng Corps group led by White Dog, as well as 50 private soldiers of the 7th Brigade.
These soldiers were not on the same level as the Allied forces in terms of firepower or will to fight, and even in the face of harassment by two propeller fighters in the air, they easily repelled the Kachin attack and pushed them back to the riverbank.
Seeing this scene, Chen Shen breathed a sigh of relief.
But he knew that the problem of the enemy's armored firepower had to be solved, otherwise, even if they threw troops to the shore round by round and crossed the river round by round, they would eventually eat away at the positions of the Allied forces.
The core is not killing, not battle damage, but morale!
While quickly rushing to the rolling position, Chen Shen ordered on the radio:
"Li Gang, deploy Dow!"
"Find a way to get rid of one armored car!"
"Understood, I'm arranging. Scout group, give me exact coordinate instructions. ”
"There is no window to open fire, and the other side is cautious."
The feedback from the reconnaissance team came quickly, and the fact was just as they said, the three armored vehicles of Kachin did not reveal the window period for the Dongfeng Corps to open fire and destroy.
The use of real armored units is not to rely on armor to carry all the damage, and then destroy each other with one punch and one kick like a rogue fight, which is something that only an unruly warlord like Zhao Jialiang can do.
On the premise of having the guidance of a master, the Kachin army's 3 taels of M2 played extremely smart.
One M2 equipped with an automatic grenade launcher relied on the bunker to continuously bomb the Allied positions in the anti-oblique direction, while the other two shuttled between civilian houses and woods, and whenever they received a signal from the infantry, they protruded from the bunker with high mobility, and used the fire control radar to quickly lock on to the target and complete the fire, and then entered the next bunker to conceal.
They will be exposed for no more than twenty seconds, and due to the unpredictability of their direction and position, it is basically impossible for the Dongfeng Corps to lock them with Dow!
Seeing that the few heavy machine gun positions of the Allied Army had been pulled out four in succession, Chen Shen couldn't help but be a little anxious.
However, the predicament faced by the Allies was far more than that, and just as the M2 had already established the advantage of fire suppression, an A29 in the air finally found its target, and dived downward, pouring all the dense cannon shells into a complex!
"Command under air strike!"
"Peng Deren, report the situation!"
"We're better to withdraw, withdraw!"
Chen Shen's heart sank, and if Kachin could accurately find the location of the headquarters, he would definitely continue to track and monitor the perimeter of the headquarters.
This plane must not have been an ordinary propeller aircraft, it must have been equipped with a trap observation system.
If Peng Deren withdraws and is exposed outside the building now, he will be greeted by an incomparably explosive air-to-ground strangulation!
"Be hidden! Do not expose the infrared signal! ”
Chen Shen immediately reminded, and Peng Deren also reacted, and replied calmly:
"We're still in the house, I can't continue to command, the command is handed over to you."
"Understood, Li Gang took over the command."
"Understood."
After a series of brief conversations, the transfer of command of the Allied forces was completed.
But Chen Shen's heart did not relax a bit.
No way, it's too hard to fight.
The Confederates were at a disadvantage in almost every way, the hope of breaking the tie was almost non-existent, and if it weren't for the fact that the enemy artillery had been basically incapacitated, the battle would have actually ended here.
In fact, the only chance for the Allied forces now is to continue to stay up until the opponent's planes run out of fuel, until the opponent runs out of ammunition, and until the support from the Wa State arrives.
But this is completely impossible, this is the Allied Army, but they are not volunteers
What to do?
Chen Shen's mind was racing, and at this time, he had already rushed to the rolling position and saw the white dog stationed here.
The latter's face was covered with dust, but his spirit was rather high.
Perhaps, as he said before, this is an opportunity for real "meritorious service".
However, no matter how excited he was, he couldn't change the fact that the Allied forces were losing and retreating.
The first line of defense has been completely lost, and if the opponent is allowed to break through the sandbar at the confluence of the Nu River and the Qingshui River and establish a beachhead, then the rolling position can be completely abandoned.
"Captain!"
"We have to cut off the opponent's offensive line!"
"Their ship! Their ship is the key! ”
"Their river crossing boats must be destroyed! Otherwise, even if it is an ant that is sent, we will be bitten to death! ”
"There are too many non-combat attrition, and the morale of the army is about to collapse!"
"I don't know how to hit a boat yet?"
Chen Shen raised his gun and knocked down the two Kachin soldiers who had rushed in front of him, and then quickly transferred two positions and continued to shout:
"We don't have heavy weapons, so we can't do effective damage to ships!"
"It's too dark to shoot accurately."
"Heavy machine-gun positions were suppressed, and firing was inefficient."
"What can you do? What about the fuel that Peng Deren prepared? ”
"It's useless, and it was blown up before the fight started."
"We're going to hit the boats, we're going to go out and set up positions on the sandbar!"
"Assault rifles can also deal damage at close range, and they must not be allowed to continue to send people over!"
The white dog threw out a grenade, and the advantage of the Russian-made big smashing artillery in the defensive battle was fully revealed, and the three Kachin soldiers who were too close were instantly blown down, and the offensive that had been organized was repulsed again.
The intensity of the conflict is obviously decreasing, but Chen Shen knows that this is not because the other party has given up.
On the contrary, this is the last tranquility, a manifestation of the other party's accumulation of strength!
It had to be dealt with immediately, and White Dog's plan was indeed feasible.
The only problem is that establishing a position on a sandbar means exposing oneself to heavy enemy fire, and dealing with both the left and front directions.
It's a life-for-life game, but a little weighing will show that it's the only way to play.
If you continue to hold on, the speed of non-combat attrition will exceed the rate of battlefield casualties!
Let them die, or let them run?
Ci is not in charge of the army, but when faced with this problem, Chen Shen can't do it without hesitation at all.
Raising his gun again to knock down an enemy who was lying on the ground and pretending to be dead, but in fact he was secretly aiming, Chen Shen spoke:
"You lead people to rush! Cover with smoke grenades and set up sandbar positions! ”
"Understood."
The white dog replied immediately, and then he gave the same order to all the soldiers in the rolling position.
Two minutes later, under the leadership of the Dongfeng Corps and the private soldiers of the Seventh Brigade, a "loose" counter-charge was officially launched.
From Chen Shen's point of view, this counter-charge was fought without momentum, and everyone ran forward "slowly" under the cover of smoke bombs, and even stumbled a little.
But this is the normal state of the battlefield, this is the normal state of Pubei.
Three minutes later, the Confederates arrived at the sandbar and quickly established a defense, looking for cover.
The ordinary soldiers didn't know what they were up against, but soon, when the smoke cleared, they realized that their commander had put themselves in a desperate situation.
An unprecedented burst of fire rang out, and this time, no one ran away.
Because, they can't run away.
(End of chapter)