Chapter 132, Battle of the Three Ponds
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Hong Xin Bu
Chapter 132, The Battle of Miike
After receiving the news sent by telegram that Morgan and others had escaped, Perbov realized that the road to Sanchi Town would definitely not be too peaceful.
To be honest, he was a little annoyed.
At any rate, his troops also stayed in Sanchi Town for more than two days, but they didn't realize that it was a den of thieves!
Recalling in hindsight, some clues could be seen at that time.But at that time, all his thoughts were planning the next actions, thinking about how many camps could be taken down through deterrence, where some military means might be needed...
To put it bluntly, it was not paying enough attention to the settled Sanchi Town that led to such a big mess.
Seven clerks from the Ministry of Civil Affairs escaped, which is good news.And the information they sent back made him very concerned.
In the wasteland, looters have always been a big problem.
In his operation this time, why did he want to keep all the agricultural population except the ones that must be kept?In addition to the large manpower shortage in Weixing City, there was another big problem, which Gu Hang had told him a long time ago: there was no energy to run those low-value small camps.
It's not true that there is no value at all, and the ratio of input to output is seriously unequal.If it wants to operate, it needs to import a lot of materials and support industries. To put it bluntly, it is to engage in "poverty alleviation" work.
But in addition to poverty alleviation, military forces have to be invested for protection.Otherwise, camps that get a little richer will become fat sheep that are targeted.
Marauders, monsters in the wild, these are the big threats in the wasteland.
Right now, in the area covered by Perbov's troops, in addition to gathering many camps, he also shouldered another task: suppressing bandits.
The remaining three agricultural camps need a stable environment to expand production; this area is also an important commercial route from Weixing City to Garbage Town. Garbage Town is an important source of raw materials for the industrial base of Weixing City. Garbage The town itself also needs to secure this transport route to import grain.
According to the governor, he wants every faction in this area to plant the flag of the new alliance, and of course the looters are among them.
Originally, Perbov didn't know that the banditry was so serious here, and he planned to finish the affairs of the survivors' settlements in various places first, and then talk about the banditry.
Now, it seems to be done ahead of time.
In the same way, Perbov could also judge that those looters would never have the guts to confront him head-on, otherwise they would have started fighting as early as when he entered Sanchi Town unprepared.
But since they finally chose to rebel, they must have something to rely on.
The environment of urban ruins...Guerrilla warfare...Perbov then thought of these, and made a judgment based on this: these gangs of looters can't really escape.Thousands of people, broken up into pieces, ran into the ruins before the war, and then attacked at any time to harass the business, then he really didn't have much to do with the other party.
The entire bandit suppression operation has become a protracted counter-guerrilla.
He came to a decision almost immediately.
"The whole army attacks immediately! Go to Sanchi Town!"
In addition to the rapid advance of the headquarters, he also gave orders to several other companies that were released.
According to his request, the two fastest mechanized infantry companies will go directly behind Sanchi Town's buttocks. The 'Wanderer V' infantry chariot has excellent off-road performance, and can maintain a relatively good forward speed without relying on the road.
His order to the two company commanders was to let them pinch the back of Sanchi Town.If they have already started to evacuate, attack directly, delay their evacuation, and wait for the main force to come to encircle.
The two motorized infantry companies quickly advanced along the roads in two directions, and the trucks carried soldiers from the direction connected by the road to Sanchi Town.
Perbov himself took the battalion headquarters and headed towards Sanchi Town along the main road. The tank battalion and artillery battalion may run slower, but they are also the strongest troops.
And a day later, when the main force led by Perbov was two days away from Sanchi Town, they received two messages.
There is already a fight ahead.
He sent the mechanized infantry company to penetrate behind, and it arrived just in time.They each caught a retreating marauder tribe by the tail and attacked directly.
The enemy obviously lacked awareness of the marching speed of the mechanized troops. This group of guys who relied on walking and hauling goods by bullock carts were caught off guard.
'Wanderer V' played a great role in the wilderness. The 40mm machine guns fired wildly without any scruples. Even if the looters used bullock carts and various goods as temporary shelters, it was difficult to stop them; The bolt machine gun, like a burst of small howitzers, bombarded the enemy crazily.
The infantry who got off the vehicle, accompanied the infantry fighting vehicle to advance and sweep, mainly doing the work of replenishing the gun.
There are guns among the enemy troops.The caliber of the small mountain cannon is not large, but if it is really set up, it can be blasted from the front a few times, and if you are unlucky, it can really blow up a few infantry tanks.
It's a pity that before those mountain cannons had time to set up their bombardment formation, they were hit by machine guns and bolt machine guns and were directly destroyed.
After these mountain cannons failed to play any role, the only way they could threaten the infantry vehicles was to shoot the bazooka directly.
But for this thing, if it exceeds 200 meters, it is difficult to guarantee the accuracy, and even if it hits, the power is not enough.If you really want to guarantee the hit rate and the power to threaten the side armor of the 'Wanderer', then you have to get within a range of tens of meters, and it is best to have two or three groups attack together.
How harsh is this condition?
There were quite a few warriors who tried to approach with their bazookas, but in this open field with no cover, there was no chance of approaching at all.The Rambler's vehicle crew has integrated a very good battlefield detection system. Most threats can be detected in advance through the observation port, and then a round of machine guns and explosive bombs will be fired over, and those brave warriors who dare to attack will be immediately killed. Take the tube in your hand and smash it together.
And even if one or two bazooka teams popped up in places where the infantry tanks couldn't observe well, that didn't matter.
Soldiers who dismount and fight on foot do exactly this job.
Soldiers at the T5 level, no matter what level of military skill they have, are strong enough.
You have barrels, and so do I, more than you; the gun in my hand is more accurate, farther and more powerful than yours.
A few shots were fired, or a bazooka shot was fired first, and those marauder fire teams who had finally approached were just taken away.
When the warriors who had the courage to launch a counterattack were almost dead, the remaining ones who were not courageous enough finally couldn't hold on and collapsed completely, and then they were like lambs waiting to be slaughtered in the wilderness, and were used by the soldiers in various ways. Such weapons were destroyed on the way to escape.
In fact, even if they are all brave and fearless, so what if they desperately resist?
Sudden attack by mechanized troops, no position, no bunker, lack of heavy weapons, and being in the open wilderness, that is a free target.
Of course, there were a lot of them, and quite a few of them escaped in a completely disorderly rout.
However, without luggage and supplies, it is uncertain how many of the looters who fled in the end will survive, and how many of them will return as a team.
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If it is said that the two mechanized infantry companies responsible for the outflanking fought a very beautiful surprise attack, which was a big victory, then the two motorized infantry companies that rushed to Sanchi Town along the road in two directions were stricken. A small loss, it was a tie.
These two companies are somewhat lacking in heavy weapons and heavy vehicles.
For a motorized infantry company, there are only Iron Bull troop trucks and Ranger motorcycles.
But the enemies they faced came prepared.
Judging from the battle report, those looters obviously expected that Perbov would lead the army.They placed mines and bombs on the road; they built barricades and positions on the road; they set up ambushes on both sides of the road, ready to kill from both sides when the team passed by.
All of their arrangements have worked.
However, the only thing they didn't expect was that the soldiers who came to fight would be so elite.
During the advance of a company, the Patrol motorcycle took the lead, and found the enemy soldiers blocking the road early, and sent the news back; A troop transport truck put down the soldiers and greeted them on both sides.
The bombs and mines along the road destroyed two trucks, but they failed to cause more casualties. The engineers who strengthened the company began to clear mines and built positions relying on vehicles.
These responses and reactions made the looters who were in the ambush feel a little confused.
Not right!
It's not like they haven't used similar methods in the past.Those caravans who were ambushed, even if they had relatively strong mercenaries and guards, would be dizzy after suffering such a blow, and it is very possible that they would collapse directly.
Even if it is not defeated, it is not bad to be able to barely rely on the defense line of the logistics organization to resist. How can there be room to fight back against the ambush?
The key is that the counterattack is particularly fierce!
An infantry squad dares to fight against hundreds of people.Their tactical movements are standard and effective. They lower their bodies and rely on the relatively small ups and downs of the terrain, and they can actually cover their bodies; when shooting at each other, their shooting skills are accurate and surprisingly powerful.On the other hand, on my own side, a flurry of bullets shot past, I don't know if they hit or not, anyway, no one fell down on the opposite side; on the contrary, when they pulled the trigger and fired three times, someone on their side would die.
It is a bit exaggerated that an infantry squad can block the ambushes in one direction and cannot rush up.
But so what?I can't have hundreds of people on my side. Is it true that ten of them will be beaten away?
After a short rest, they began to launch a powerful impact.Strengthen the firepower on the front to shoot at each other, and send people to penetrate around the side.
Who doesn't know how to intersperse?
As a result, the team in charge of interspersed ran into another infantry squad head-on.
Then, a small number of heavy firepower from the platoon and company came up.
At the convoy, after the mortar positions were urgently set up, they began to show off their power; the bazookas of the squad were also pulled out and replaced with high-explosive ammunition. When the looters launched an attack, they exploded and killed several people. indivual.
I really can't get in.
Then, more soldiers recoiled from the position built on the back of the car, and launched a countercharge in the direction of the two ambush soldiers.
The ambush soldiers on both sides of the road, each with two hundred men, were really crushed by such a rush.
However, these soldiers did not chase too hard.
After all, there will still be some casualties in a gun battle between infantry in the wilderness.
It's not necessary at all.
They retreated to their positions, allowing the marauders who had retreated a bit to come up again.
This hits the spot.
The efficiency of using guns to kill people on the battlefield is still too low.
In fact, as soon as the battle broke out, they had already informed the rear.
After receiving the news, in the artillery support company in the main force of the battalion headquarters far behind, the driver in charge of driving stepped on the accelerator to death.In less than half an hour, he ran almost [-] kilometers.
This is a somewhat risky decision, and the artillery battalion will have risks if it breaks away from protection.Accompanied by the protection, there are only dozens of soldiers drawn from the guard platoon, engineers and logistics on the Ranger motorcycle for protection.
But the looters, who had never seen heavy artillery before, didn't take this factor into consideration.
The artillery support company, which had advanced [-] kilometers, stopped the iron ox that was used as a tow truck, and then set up the towed artillery pulled behind.
Based on the directions sent back by the infantry in front, they set up the shooting positions.Then, the ten gods of war in front of them began to roar.
The 155mm howitzer they put out has a range of nearly 25 kilometers.
And there is exactly where the two motorized infantry companies in front fought.
After nearly an hour of entanglement and fighting with the ambush soldiers on both sides, they finally waited for the artillery support from the friendly side.
12 rounds of heavy artillery fell to a distance of 300 meters from their position, covering a circle and a half.
The looters were stunned.
The artillery shell, which is half the height of a person and weighs [-] kilograms, hits the ground enough to blow up a two-meter deep pit, and the damage range is nearly as large as a football field.
Those who were near the center of the explosion had no bones left; those who were a little further away had their internal organs shattered by the shock wave and were killed by shell fragments...
Without fortifications and bunkers, this round of shelling caused heavy losses to the ambushing and blocking looters.
In addition to the loss of personnel, the more serious blow is the morale.
In the previous hour of battle, they tried their best, but they couldn't take down this group of soldiers who were less than half their number, but they even let them recoil a few times, and some of them died.
Calculating with the heart but not the mind, waiting for work with ease, ambushing with the advantage of the location, and defeating the few with the many... All kinds of advantages are in my hands, and in the end, I ended up fighting a deadly battle against each other.
This was already frustrating for them.
And this round of heavy artillery smashed down, and it directly turned this frustration into a courage-breaking trend.
After fighting hard for an hour just now, I am afraid that not as many people died as in this round of shelling!
As soon as the time came, the looters whose morale had completely collapsed began to run back; and the few who stayed behind obeyed the orders of the leaders and captains, and immediately ushered in the second round of shelling.
After the heavy artillery bombardment that was enough to deafen the ears, no one who was still alive finally dared to continue fighting.
If you can't win a fight, and staying on the periphery is nothing but bombing, who will do it?
However, it is not so easy to escape at this time.
In the motorized infantry company, there are really motorcycles.
Those 'hunters' who had been taken into the position before, came out suddenly.There were two people, one was riding a bicycle, and the other was manipulating the machine gun mounted on the side of the car, and began to chase outward.A large number of infantrymen followed closely behind, killing out with the accompaniment of the charge.
How can escaped raiders outperform the 'patroller', which has excellent off-road performance?A large number of people were swept down by the light machine guns on the motorcycle, and once someone tried to stop and fight back, the rangers didn't bother much.The following infantry will immediately take out the bazooka to greet them, followed by intensive bullet shooting.
The looters who participated in this blocking and ambush battle suffered extremely heavy casualties, and none of them managed to escape from the battlefield in the end.
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Two battles and two reports, when they came to Perbov, still made him a little vigilant.
This is without a doubt a big win.On the two battlefields, at least 1000 or more enemies were routed, and there were countless casualties among them. There was no time to count them, but there must have been more than [-] of them anyway.
On our own side, the combined casualties of the two motorized rifle companies did not exceed double digits; the two motorized rifle companies were a little bit worse, but the combined casualties were about 30 people.
This battle loss ratio has reached 1:50, what else is there to be dissatisfied with?
Still there.
Perboff is summarizing lessons learned.
For example, the motorized infantry company should not be too forward, causing the rear artillery support to be in place an hour after the start of the battle.If this time can be raised by another half an hour, the casualties of the motorized rifle company may be further reduced.
For example, he has divided his troops more now, and he also has to consider what the follow-up actions will be for the looters in Sanchi Town who are still the main force.After all, he still doesn't have a clear idea of how many people, weapons and equipment, especially heavy weapons, are there and what they are.
What if the enemy also has relatively fierce heavy firepower and takes advantage of his current division of troops to attack one of the troops?
But thinking about it the other way around, this problem is unsolvable.
If he gathered his troops in one place, he might still be walking halfway. If the enemy took advantage of this time to fight a blocking battle on the road, even if it didn't have much effect, they blocked them layer by layer for a few hours. What should I do if the large group of looters who got the news took advantage of this opportunity to disperse and run away?
On the contrary, the current situation is not bad.
With the help of artillery, the motorized rifle company smashed through the ambushing enemy, drove to the front of Sanchi Town, and was already building a position and besieging it.
The machine step company is cruising behind, blocking the retreat.
Looking at it separately, the four companies locked the four directions of Sanchi Town, and actually blocked the gang of looters who gathered together and were about to evacuate in Sanchi Town.
As long as he can fight another big victory, fight a battle of annihilation, and with the results of the previous battle, at least five thousand looters will be eliminated.
From Weixing City to Garbage Town, the looters and bandits along the way were wiped out.
Of course, there will definitely be a small number of fish that slip through the net, but that is no longer a climate change.
How did the raiders get here?It is not ruled out that some people are born bad, but that is a very small number.Most of the looters were ordinary people who couldn't survive. In order to survive in this wasteland, they began to rob others.
Killing and extorting goods, it sounds hateful, but when you think about it, there is nothing you can do about it.
And if in Fuxing City, the 45-level welfare policy that Ms. Ossina is promoting can be successfully extended to all places in this area; most of the proletarian poor are relocated away, then the looters in this place will have a living environment will be wiped out quickly.
Without the source and the poor people who have more potential looters, then these bandits will be beaten one by one, and there will be no situation where the suppression is not clean, and the more they suppress, the more they suppress.
Sitting in the command vehicle, Upper Perbov thought about the whole thing carefully, and finally decided to continue to maintain the current combat method of dividing troops to encircle and suppress.
The risk is the risk. From purely military considerations, it is not appropriate to fight like this.
This is a bit of a political battle, but... Perbov remembered what the governor said when he was chatting with the officers. Military is an extension of politics, and war is the cruelest and most intense special violent political method.
He understands this a little bit now.
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"Damn it! This looks down on us too much!"
"They must be taught a harsh lesson!"
"Having armored vehicles and guns is great, isn't it?"
In Sanchi Town, the leaders are having a meeting.
From Terrell down, the crowd was excited and everyone clamored.
They spoke harsh words, but in fact, everyone panicked.
How can you not panic?
The original plan was to evacuate as soon as the army left, and try to bring as many bottles and cans as possible at home.In the end, an insider was able to escape, and those arrested clerks escaped.
Then, they made a plan, continued to withdraw, and even decided to take the first step and let some people leave with some luggage. By the way, they set up blocking positions on the way the enemy came, and used landmines and roadside bombs.
As a result, the blocking position was pierced by others within an hour, and most of the people sent to participate in the blocking battle were killed or injured; the army that first evacuated with part of the luggage was surrounded by others and then stole its butt, and was raided by mechanized troops on the plain Well, all the luggage and belongings that were escorted were gone. Of the [-] people, less than [-] returned.
The successive bad news really stunned people.
What is even more dizzying is the combat effectiveness displayed by the army of this new alliance.
Forty or so armored vehicles and less than two hundred infantrymen crushed ten times as many of our own troops, with almost no casualties; two hundred or so infantry relied on trucks to form a defensive position, sticking to nearly a thousand people and fought for an hour. Then the artillery fire covered the battle and cleared the light...
How to fight this?
Indeed, the main force of their group of looters is still missing, and there are still more than 3000 people in Sanchi Town.However, according to the combat strength shown by the new alliance army before, all three thousand people rushed up, probably just a matter of several rounds of artillery coverage and a round of armored troops.
Telling them to confess, that is not willing, just screaming fiercely.Terrell has already tried to attack, but if one of them really wants to lead his direct troops out to fight, no one will agree.
In the commotion, Terrell finally couldn't bear it anymore.
He slapped the table several times, and he didn't speak until everyone was quiet:
"Is the quarrel over?"
Seeing Terrell, the big leader, with a dark face, no one dared to speak after all.
But in fact, there are still many people who have disdain in their hearts, and even those who are not stingy, will directly show this emotion on their faces.
Among the looters, how can a leader maintain his majesty?
Without him, the military exploits.
If you can lead your brothers to win battles, lead them to drink and eat meat, then you are the most powerful, no matter whether it is loyalty or brutality, it is nothing more than a matter of style.
But if you lose... Those who are loyal will be stabbed in the back; those who rule cruelly will be overthrown.
He's not there yet, but there are signs of it.
Two disastrous defeats, plus being blocked in Sanchi Town and being in a desperate situation, this was a huge shake to his prestige.
He could even imagine that many people must have been shaken and thinking about what Bohr said before.
Is surrender a better option?Then the previous opportunity to enter the new alliance, is it not necessary to face the soldiers?Even if there is no privilege, it is better to be an ordinary civilian than to lose your life.
There are probably not a few people with this kind of thinking.And these things will all turn into resentment and fall on him, the great leader.
But there is still a way out.
He had to find a way out for his brothers, so his prestige might still have a chance to be maintained.
Seeing that the people below stopped talking because of his slap on the table, he felt a little relieved.Fortunately, the prestige accumulated over the years has not been exhausted.
He let out a long breath and began to talk about his plan:
"Those lackeys of the governor, to put it bluntly, there are only about [-] people, and their weapons and equipment are fierce, but in order to surround us, they divided their troops too much. We concentrated our strength and concentrated all the remaining artillery and all the explosives. In one place, attack with all your strength, and you will definitely be able to rush out."
Someone jumped out and sang the opposite tune: "The big leader said it lightly! Those who go to die are all our people!"
Immediately afterwards, another person said: "I don't know how many people will die on the way to rush out! Little Boer is quite right, why don't we just honestly forget it before."
First there were sporadic words, and then the rest of the people looked eager to try, as if the whole meeting was about to turn into a vegetable market.
But repeated gunshots interrupted the process of the quarrel.
The three who spoke just now had bullet holes in their foreheads.
They fell on their backs with faces full of disbelief.
It was Terrell who shot.
The rest of the people were all startled, with disbelief on their faces, as if they never thought that Terrell would dare to directly pull out a gun to kill someone in such a scene.
They all came from bandits, and in an instant, someone subconsciously wanted to draw a gun.
"Don't move!" Terrell shouted violently!
But at this time, how can roaring alone be useful?
Some people are still drawing guns.
But at this time, the many looters who were guarding around were already prepared, raised their guns, and pointed at those who had changed.
These people are undoubtedly Terrell's confidantes.
Since Terrell had anticipated the current scene, he would of course be prepared.
These guards who had already been prepared were all aiming at the leaders who had changed and fired, but when the bullets came out, they didn't have eyes, and it was common for the bullets to be skewed and shoot innocent people.
Many people fell down and died; those who were not moving at first, but suffered accidental injuries, some shouted, some tried to resist, but in the end, they were all swept to the ground just like the previous people.
Soon, all the leaders of the looters on one side of the conference hall were shot.
On the other side, there was no movement.
Over there, there are basically Terrell's hardcore supporters, and they even expected the scene at this moment.
After the matter subsided, Terrell stood up and scolded angrily: "A bunch of shameless things."
After cursing, he assigned his supporters to receive and integrate the tribe of the killed man.
At the end of the arrangement, he had someone drag in two wooden boxes from the outside.
After opening, what was wrapped in hay was one after another small green potion bottles.
"Send these down, and when it's time to break out, arrange for the commando to drink it."
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The flames of war came even more suddenly than expected.
Terrell wiped out the internal opponents, spent almost all the prestige he had accumulated over the years, and barely suppressed the tribes to which the slaughtered leaders belonged, and took over those people.
Immediately afterwards, he worked hard to mobilize the troops, hoping to mobilize the remaining 3000 to nearly 4000 people in Sanchi Town in one go, and carry out a full-scale breakout operation in the same direction.
The heavy artillery possessed by the New Alliance army was the weapon he feared most.
Once this thing is shot down, if the personnel stand a little denser, it will be tens of hundreds of casualties; however, the width of the battlefield to go out of the city to break through is not too large. If you want to break through decisively, you must ensure that the strength of the assault troops is sufficient , then it is impossible to pull the troops too loose.
However, this will greatly enhance the lethality of the opponent's artillery.
It is indeed a dilemma.
But no matter how difficult it is, you have to choose.
The method Terrell plans to adopt is to order the troops to make a sudden attack regardless of the cost, rushing to the range of dozens of meters with the enemy, or even fighting with a hand-to-hand sword.
In this way, the distance between the enemy and ourselves was pulled to a very close range, and the heavy artillery in the hands of the New Alliance Army did not work so well.
Always be wary of accidental injury, the other side is even more unbearable than your own side.
However, he somewhat underestimated the difficulty of integrating the troops after he killed himself.Although mutiny and direct internal fire were barely avoided, the speed at which the entire army regrouped and assembled forces was far behind expectations.
But before he prepared his troops to break through, it was the New Alliance Army that attacked them first.
At the beginning of the attack, the looters who were still in chaos in Sanchi Town were a little stunned.
Even Terrell was a little dazed when he ventured onto a high platform to fight outside.
There is no doubt that the heavy artillery bombarded first. On the edge of Sanchi Town, the buildings that followed the town, and the looters who dug trenches by the way, did not dare to show their heads when they were bombarded.If it weren't for the leaders of the various ministries, no one would dare to run. I'm afraid that this round of shelling would directly smash the outer defense line.
The looters hiding in the fortifications, bunkers, and trenches are actually fine in terms of casualties. If you don’t get hit by a frontal shot, don’t get too close to be shocked to death by the shock wave, and the fierce and terrible fragments will also be destroyed. Unable to penetrate cover and do damage.
Anyway, it wouldn't be like those unlucky guys who were conducting blocking operations outside before, and they would really die miserably when they were bombed in the wilderness.
However, the sound of cannons that can really deafen people's ears, and the terrifying power that makes the earth tremble, make people frightened.The artillery array of the key people must be more than 20 kilometers away. Even if they want to fight back, they can't even see a shadow.
It is possible to find a way to calculate the approximate position of the enemy's artillery array through the trajectory of the shell, but it is useless.I do have cannons at home, but the small-caliber miscellaneous mountain cannons can no longer maintain accuracy when they can be fired ten miles away. There is no way to deal with the heavy artillery positions [-] kilometers away, so they can only shrink their heads and be bombed.
But if it's just that, it's still within Terrell's expectations.
However, in addition to this round of shelling, he could see that the army of the new alliance had launched a formal onslaught.
Right after the bombardment, at a distance of maybe two hundred meters from the explosion point, the infantry of the new alliance had already emerged.The mortar team also showed their power and fired a round of shelling forward.
The soldiers were charging forward quickly. Before the temperature from the mortar and heavy artillery had dissipated, they had already rushed into the position that had just been bombed.
The bombed-out looters, the wounded were shot, and those who were lucky enough to have nothing to do, had no time to build any effective defense measures, and were scattered and clearly wiped out.
But of course the position does not have only one floor. Apart from the bombed position, there are of course other looters behind. If they come out to shoot at this moment, they will of course be able to threaten the attacking soldiers.
But they didn't, because a new round of artillery fire had already covered their positions.
The most frightening thing was that the infantrymen of the new alliance were only two hundred meters away from the explosion point.The killing range of that terrible heavy artillery is almost close to one hundred.
Are they really not afraid of being hit by a cannon, and it is a little bit crooked, and it hits their own people?
Gunners are not afraid, commanders are not afraid, and those infantrymen who are on the front line are not afraid of themselves?
Terrell has never seen such a posture.
A few words that he had only heard but never seen appeared in his mind: infantry coordination, Xu Jin barrage.
He knew that the fringe position that he had spent a lot of time building was finished.
But Terrell immediately realized that he couldn't really let the edge end.
Otherwise, the army of the new alliance will rush in, and without the fortifications and trenches on the edge of the town, the battle will become more difficult.
It was originally his starting position when he broke through the encirclement at the back.
Terrell gritted his teeth and issued an order to the troops in the rear, in order to let his own artillery fire as well.
The mountain artillery with a much smaller caliber, even if it can't reach the artillery positions behind the new alliance army, at least it will pose a threat to the enemy in front of them, and let them try the taste of artillery fire.
In addition, more looters, under his orders, counterattacked in the direction of the Union army's attack.
He didn't want to do this, but the situation was changing rapidly, and it was too late for him to slowly organize his team and find a way to break through.If you really want to fight a breakout battle, then you really need to defeat the enemy in front of you, and they will be able to take advantage of the situation.
However, just when he ordered a large number of his own troops to fill the first line and engage in close-range firefights with the soldiers of the new alliance, two new situations occurred.
First of all, they had just fired two rounds of artillery, and it was over.
He has ordered his own artillery to work hard to change a place with one cannon.However, the place in Sanchi Town is narrow, and it is not easy to deploy the artillery, and it is even more difficult to transfer it.What's more, although their guns are light, they lack traction vehicles, and relying on people to push them, the transfer speed cannot be guaranteed at all.
As a result, people caught him right.
Their artillery could not hit the artillery formations of the New Alliance Army, but their heavy artillery undoubtedly brought them into range.
After two rounds of shelling, the looters' artillery positions were gone.
Not only did the artillery suffer heavy casualties, but a large number of artillery pieces were also destroyed.
Of course, after the Union's artillery aimed their fire at the artillery formations in the town, they could no longer cover the soldiers fighting ahead.
Although the attacking infantry companies still have some mortars that can be used, the power of this thing is a bit far from that of the 155 howitzer.
This also slowed down the speed at which the soldiers broke through the outer defense line, and also allowed the looters who followed the troops to go up to the top, and really succeeded in pulling the engagement range to within 100 meters.
At this distance, the role of firearms is greatly enhanced, and it will be difficult for the alliance's heavy artillery to take care of them here.
No matter how accurate the artillery of the alliance was, and no matter how fearless the soldiers of the alliance were, the accidental injury of the artillery was not fake.Under the fear of rats, naturally, it is no longer possible to unscrupulously drop heavy artillery on the heads of the two sides fighting together.
However, just when this kind of thoughts that could only be forcibly comforted came to him, Terrell saw another scene that made his hands and feet cold.
The tank company of the new alliance, come up!
A total of twelve tanks set off clouds of smoke and dust on the dirt road. The 76mm smoothbore gun began to show off.
Knowing that there is no need to deal with any armored targets, the tanks are all equipped with high-explosive fragmentation shells.The twelve cannons fired at once, and at a distance of only a few hundred meters to less than a thousand meters, they began to attack the counter-offensive posture that the looters had just formed.
For these steel creations, the looters seemed to have nothing to do.
The infantry also took advantage of the cover of tank fire and began to move forward.They focused on Marauder fire teams trying to threaten tanks.As for the places where the enemy is defending, such as foxholes and temporary positions built by building ruins, there is nothing to talk about. Call the tank soldiers to go down with two shots, or even use coaxial machine guns to mop up.
Tracks rolled over trenches, and tanks moved into closer range, fighting in tandem with infantry.
The momentum of the looters' counterattack was directly destroyed, and those who dared to come close to engage in close firefights all experienced the power of tank guns and coaxial machine guns, resulting in heavy casualties.
Seeing this scene, Terrell finally couldn't maintain his composure.
Angrily, he picked up the field walkie-talkie and yelled: "Drink me all those medicines! Drink! Fight them! If you can't win, there is no way out!"
After he finished speaking, he took a few breaths, then shook his whole body, as if he understood something, he hurried off the podium.
Immediately afterwards, his closest and most confidant team protected him and went out of Sanchi Town from another direction.
He's going to run.
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This chapter is ten thousand!
(End of this chapter)
After receiving the news sent by telegram that Morgan and others had escaped, Perbov realized that the road to Sanchi Town would definitely not be too peaceful.
To be honest, he was a little annoyed.
At any rate, his troops also stayed in Sanchi Town for more than two days, but they didn't realize that it was a den of thieves!
Recalling in hindsight, some clues could be seen at that time.But at that time, all his thoughts were planning the next actions, thinking about how many camps could be taken down through deterrence, where some military means might be needed...
To put it bluntly, it was not paying enough attention to the settled Sanchi Town that led to such a big mess.
Seven clerks from the Ministry of Civil Affairs escaped, which is good news.And the information they sent back made him very concerned.
In the wasteland, looters have always been a big problem.
In his operation this time, why did he want to keep all the agricultural population except the ones that must be kept?In addition to the large manpower shortage in Weixing City, there was another big problem, which Gu Hang had told him a long time ago: there was no energy to run those low-value small camps.
It's not true that there is no value at all, and the ratio of input to output is seriously unequal.If it wants to operate, it needs to import a lot of materials and support industries. To put it bluntly, it is to engage in "poverty alleviation" work.
But in addition to poverty alleviation, military forces have to be invested for protection.Otherwise, camps that get a little richer will become fat sheep that are targeted.
Marauders, monsters in the wild, these are the big threats in the wasteland.
Right now, in the area covered by Perbov's troops, in addition to gathering many camps, he also shouldered another task: suppressing bandits.
The remaining three agricultural camps need a stable environment to expand production; this area is also an important commercial route from Weixing City to Garbage Town. Garbage Town is an important source of raw materials for the industrial base of Weixing City. Garbage The town itself also needs to secure this transport route to import grain.
According to the governor, he wants every faction in this area to plant the flag of the new alliance, and of course the looters are among them.
Originally, Perbov didn't know that the banditry was so serious here, and he planned to finish the affairs of the survivors' settlements in various places first, and then talk about the banditry.
Now, it seems to be done ahead of time.
In the same way, Perbov could also judge that those looters would never have the guts to confront him head-on, otherwise they would have started fighting as early as when he entered Sanchi Town unprepared.
But since they finally chose to rebel, they must have something to rely on.
The environment of urban ruins...Guerrilla warfare...Perbov then thought of these, and made a judgment based on this: these gangs of looters can't really escape.Thousands of people, broken up into pieces, ran into the ruins before the war, and then attacked at any time to harass the business, then he really didn't have much to do with the other party.
The entire bandit suppression operation has become a protracted counter-guerrilla.
He came to a decision almost immediately.
"The whole army attacks immediately! Go to Sanchi Town!"
In addition to the rapid advance of the headquarters, he also gave orders to several other companies that were released.
According to his request, the two fastest mechanized infantry companies will go directly behind Sanchi Town's buttocks. The 'Wanderer V' infantry chariot has excellent off-road performance, and can maintain a relatively good forward speed without relying on the road.
His order to the two company commanders was to let them pinch the back of Sanchi Town.If they have already started to evacuate, attack directly, delay their evacuation, and wait for the main force to come to encircle.
The two motorized infantry companies quickly advanced along the roads in two directions, and the trucks carried soldiers from the direction connected by the road to Sanchi Town.
Perbov himself took the battalion headquarters and headed towards Sanchi Town along the main road. The tank battalion and artillery battalion may run slower, but they are also the strongest troops.
And a day later, when the main force led by Perbov was two days away from Sanchi Town, they received two messages.
There is already a fight ahead.
He sent the mechanized infantry company to penetrate behind, and it arrived just in time.They each caught a retreating marauder tribe by the tail and attacked directly.
The enemy obviously lacked awareness of the marching speed of the mechanized troops. This group of guys who relied on walking and hauling goods by bullock carts were caught off guard.
'Wanderer V' played a great role in the wilderness. The 40mm machine guns fired wildly without any scruples. Even if the looters used bullock carts and various goods as temporary shelters, it was difficult to stop them; The bolt machine gun, like a burst of small howitzers, bombarded the enemy crazily.
The infantry who got off the vehicle, accompanied the infantry fighting vehicle to advance and sweep, mainly doing the work of replenishing the gun.
There are guns among the enemy troops.The caliber of the small mountain cannon is not large, but if it is really set up, it can be blasted from the front a few times, and if you are unlucky, it can really blow up a few infantry tanks.
It's a pity that before those mountain cannons had time to set up their bombardment formation, they were hit by machine guns and bolt machine guns and were directly destroyed.
After these mountain cannons failed to play any role, the only way they could threaten the infantry vehicles was to shoot the bazooka directly.
But for this thing, if it exceeds 200 meters, it is difficult to guarantee the accuracy, and even if it hits, the power is not enough.If you really want to guarantee the hit rate and the power to threaten the side armor of the 'Wanderer', then you have to get within a range of tens of meters, and it is best to have two or three groups attack together.
How harsh is this condition?
There were quite a few warriors who tried to approach with their bazookas, but in this open field with no cover, there was no chance of approaching at all.The Rambler's vehicle crew has integrated a very good battlefield detection system. Most threats can be detected in advance through the observation port, and then a round of machine guns and explosive bombs will be fired over, and those brave warriors who dare to attack will be immediately killed. Take the tube in your hand and smash it together.
And even if one or two bazooka teams popped up in places where the infantry tanks couldn't observe well, that didn't matter.
Soldiers who dismount and fight on foot do exactly this job.
Soldiers at the T5 level, no matter what level of military skill they have, are strong enough.
You have barrels, and so do I, more than you; the gun in my hand is more accurate, farther and more powerful than yours.
A few shots were fired, or a bazooka shot was fired first, and those marauder fire teams who had finally approached were just taken away.
When the warriors who had the courage to launch a counterattack were almost dead, the remaining ones who were not courageous enough finally couldn't hold on and collapsed completely, and then they were like lambs waiting to be slaughtered in the wilderness, and were used by the soldiers in various ways. Such weapons were destroyed on the way to escape.
In fact, even if they are all brave and fearless, so what if they desperately resist?
Sudden attack by mechanized troops, no position, no bunker, lack of heavy weapons, and being in the open wilderness, that is a free target.
Of course, there were a lot of them, and quite a few of them escaped in a completely disorderly rout.
However, without luggage and supplies, it is uncertain how many of the looters who fled in the end will survive, and how many of them will return as a team.
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If it is said that the two mechanized infantry companies responsible for the outflanking fought a very beautiful surprise attack, which was a big victory, then the two motorized infantry companies that rushed to Sanchi Town along the road in two directions were stricken. A small loss, it was a tie.
These two companies are somewhat lacking in heavy weapons and heavy vehicles.
For a motorized infantry company, there are only Iron Bull troop trucks and Ranger motorcycles.
But the enemies they faced came prepared.
Judging from the battle report, those looters obviously expected that Perbov would lead the army.They placed mines and bombs on the road; they built barricades and positions on the road; they set up ambushes on both sides of the road, ready to kill from both sides when the team passed by.
All of their arrangements have worked.
However, the only thing they didn't expect was that the soldiers who came to fight would be so elite.
During the advance of a company, the Patrol motorcycle took the lead, and found the enemy soldiers blocking the road early, and sent the news back; A troop transport truck put down the soldiers and greeted them on both sides.
The bombs and mines along the road destroyed two trucks, but they failed to cause more casualties. The engineers who strengthened the company began to clear mines and built positions relying on vehicles.
These responses and reactions made the looters who were in the ambush feel a little confused.
Not right!
It's not like they haven't used similar methods in the past.Those caravans who were ambushed, even if they had relatively strong mercenaries and guards, would be dizzy after suffering such a blow, and it is very possible that they would collapse directly.
Even if it is not defeated, it is not bad to be able to barely rely on the defense line of the logistics organization to resist. How can there be room to fight back against the ambush?
The key is that the counterattack is particularly fierce!
An infantry squad dares to fight against hundreds of people.Their tactical movements are standard and effective. They lower their bodies and rely on the relatively small ups and downs of the terrain, and they can actually cover their bodies; when shooting at each other, their shooting skills are accurate and surprisingly powerful.On the other hand, on my own side, a flurry of bullets shot past, I don't know if they hit or not, anyway, no one fell down on the opposite side; on the contrary, when they pulled the trigger and fired three times, someone on their side would die.
It is a bit exaggerated that an infantry squad can block the ambushes in one direction and cannot rush up.
But so what?I can't have hundreds of people on my side. Is it true that ten of them will be beaten away?
After a short rest, they began to launch a powerful impact.Strengthen the firepower on the front to shoot at each other, and send people to penetrate around the side.
Who doesn't know how to intersperse?
As a result, the team in charge of interspersed ran into another infantry squad head-on.
Then, a small number of heavy firepower from the platoon and company came up.
At the convoy, after the mortar positions were urgently set up, they began to show off their power; the bazookas of the squad were also pulled out and replaced with high-explosive ammunition. When the looters launched an attack, they exploded and killed several people. indivual.
I really can't get in.
Then, more soldiers recoiled from the position built on the back of the car, and launched a countercharge in the direction of the two ambush soldiers.
The ambush soldiers on both sides of the road, each with two hundred men, were really crushed by such a rush.
However, these soldiers did not chase too hard.
After all, there will still be some casualties in a gun battle between infantry in the wilderness.
It's not necessary at all.
They retreated to their positions, allowing the marauders who had retreated a bit to come up again.
This hits the spot.
The efficiency of using guns to kill people on the battlefield is still too low.
In fact, as soon as the battle broke out, they had already informed the rear.
After receiving the news, in the artillery support company in the main force of the battalion headquarters far behind, the driver in charge of driving stepped on the accelerator to death.In less than half an hour, he ran almost [-] kilometers.
This is a somewhat risky decision, and the artillery battalion will have risks if it breaks away from protection.Accompanied by the protection, there are only dozens of soldiers drawn from the guard platoon, engineers and logistics on the Ranger motorcycle for protection.
But the looters, who had never seen heavy artillery before, didn't take this factor into consideration.
The artillery support company, which had advanced [-] kilometers, stopped the iron ox that was used as a tow truck, and then set up the towed artillery pulled behind.
Based on the directions sent back by the infantry in front, they set up the shooting positions.Then, the ten gods of war in front of them began to roar.
The 155mm howitzer they put out has a range of nearly 25 kilometers.
And there is exactly where the two motorized infantry companies in front fought.
After nearly an hour of entanglement and fighting with the ambush soldiers on both sides, they finally waited for the artillery support from the friendly side.
12 rounds of heavy artillery fell to a distance of 300 meters from their position, covering a circle and a half.
The looters were stunned.
The artillery shell, which is half the height of a person and weighs [-] kilograms, hits the ground enough to blow up a two-meter deep pit, and the damage range is nearly as large as a football field.
Those who were near the center of the explosion had no bones left; those who were a little further away had their internal organs shattered by the shock wave and were killed by shell fragments...
Without fortifications and bunkers, this round of shelling caused heavy losses to the ambushing and blocking looters.
In addition to the loss of personnel, the more serious blow is the morale.
In the previous hour of battle, they tried their best, but they couldn't take down this group of soldiers who were less than half their number, but they even let them recoil a few times, and some of them died.
Calculating with the heart but not the mind, waiting for work with ease, ambushing with the advantage of the location, and defeating the few with the many... All kinds of advantages are in my hands, and in the end, I ended up fighting a deadly battle against each other.
This was already frustrating for them.
And this round of heavy artillery smashed down, and it directly turned this frustration into a courage-breaking trend.
After fighting hard for an hour just now, I am afraid that not as many people died as in this round of shelling!
As soon as the time came, the looters whose morale had completely collapsed began to run back; and the few who stayed behind obeyed the orders of the leaders and captains, and immediately ushered in the second round of shelling.
After the heavy artillery bombardment that was enough to deafen the ears, no one who was still alive finally dared to continue fighting.
If you can't win a fight, and staying on the periphery is nothing but bombing, who will do it?
However, it is not so easy to escape at this time.
In the motorized infantry company, there are really motorcycles.
Those 'hunters' who had been taken into the position before, came out suddenly.There were two people, one was riding a bicycle, and the other was manipulating the machine gun mounted on the side of the car, and began to chase outward.A large number of infantrymen followed closely behind, killing out with the accompaniment of the charge.
How can escaped raiders outperform the 'patroller', which has excellent off-road performance?A large number of people were swept down by the light machine guns on the motorcycle, and once someone tried to stop and fight back, the rangers didn't bother much.The following infantry will immediately take out the bazooka to greet them, followed by intensive bullet shooting.
The looters who participated in this blocking and ambush battle suffered extremely heavy casualties, and none of them managed to escape from the battlefield in the end.
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Two battles and two reports, when they came to Perbov, still made him a little vigilant.
This is without a doubt a big win.On the two battlefields, at least 1000 or more enemies were routed, and there were countless casualties among them. There was no time to count them, but there must have been more than [-] of them anyway.
On our own side, the combined casualties of the two motorized rifle companies did not exceed double digits; the two motorized rifle companies were a little bit worse, but the combined casualties were about 30 people.
This battle loss ratio has reached 1:50, what else is there to be dissatisfied with?
Still there.
Perboff is summarizing lessons learned.
For example, the motorized infantry company should not be too forward, causing the rear artillery support to be in place an hour after the start of the battle.If this time can be raised by another half an hour, the casualties of the motorized rifle company may be further reduced.
For example, he has divided his troops more now, and he also has to consider what the follow-up actions will be for the looters in Sanchi Town who are still the main force.After all, he still doesn't have a clear idea of how many people, weapons and equipment, especially heavy weapons, are there and what they are.
What if the enemy also has relatively fierce heavy firepower and takes advantage of his current division of troops to attack one of the troops?
But thinking about it the other way around, this problem is unsolvable.
If he gathered his troops in one place, he might still be walking halfway. If the enemy took advantage of this time to fight a blocking battle on the road, even if it didn't have much effect, they blocked them layer by layer for a few hours. What should I do if the large group of looters who got the news took advantage of this opportunity to disperse and run away?
On the contrary, the current situation is not bad.
With the help of artillery, the motorized rifle company smashed through the ambushing enemy, drove to the front of Sanchi Town, and was already building a position and besieging it.
The machine step company is cruising behind, blocking the retreat.
Looking at it separately, the four companies locked the four directions of Sanchi Town, and actually blocked the gang of looters who gathered together and were about to evacuate in Sanchi Town.
As long as he can fight another big victory, fight a battle of annihilation, and with the results of the previous battle, at least five thousand looters will be eliminated.
From Weixing City to Garbage Town, the looters and bandits along the way were wiped out.
Of course, there will definitely be a small number of fish that slip through the net, but that is no longer a climate change.
How did the raiders get here?It is not ruled out that some people are born bad, but that is a very small number.Most of the looters were ordinary people who couldn't survive. In order to survive in this wasteland, they began to rob others.
Killing and extorting goods, it sounds hateful, but when you think about it, there is nothing you can do about it.
And if in Fuxing City, the 45-level welfare policy that Ms. Ossina is promoting can be successfully extended to all places in this area; most of the proletarian poor are relocated away, then the looters in this place will have a living environment will be wiped out quickly.
Without the source and the poor people who have more potential looters, then these bandits will be beaten one by one, and there will be no situation where the suppression is not clean, and the more they suppress, the more they suppress.
Sitting in the command vehicle, Upper Perbov thought about the whole thing carefully, and finally decided to continue to maintain the current combat method of dividing troops to encircle and suppress.
The risk is the risk. From purely military considerations, it is not appropriate to fight like this.
This is a bit of a political battle, but... Perbov remembered what the governor said when he was chatting with the officers. Military is an extension of politics, and war is the cruelest and most intense special violent political method.
He understands this a little bit now.
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"Damn it! This looks down on us too much!"
"They must be taught a harsh lesson!"
"Having armored vehicles and guns is great, isn't it?"
In Sanchi Town, the leaders are having a meeting.
From Terrell down, the crowd was excited and everyone clamored.
They spoke harsh words, but in fact, everyone panicked.
How can you not panic?
The original plan was to evacuate as soon as the army left, and try to bring as many bottles and cans as possible at home.In the end, an insider was able to escape, and those arrested clerks escaped.
Then, they made a plan, continued to withdraw, and even decided to take the first step and let some people leave with some luggage. By the way, they set up blocking positions on the way the enemy came, and used landmines and roadside bombs.
As a result, the blocking position was pierced by others within an hour, and most of the people sent to participate in the blocking battle were killed or injured; the army that first evacuated with part of the luggage was surrounded by others and then stole its butt, and was raided by mechanized troops on the plain Well, all the luggage and belongings that were escorted were gone. Of the [-] people, less than [-] returned.
The successive bad news really stunned people.
What is even more dizzying is the combat effectiveness displayed by the army of this new alliance.
Forty or so armored vehicles and less than two hundred infantrymen crushed ten times as many of our own troops, with almost no casualties; two hundred or so infantry relied on trucks to form a defensive position, sticking to nearly a thousand people and fought for an hour. Then the artillery fire covered the battle and cleared the light...
How to fight this?
Indeed, the main force of their group of looters is still missing, and there are still more than 3000 people in Sanchi Town.However, according to the combat strength shown by the new alliance army before, all three thousand people rushed up, probably just a matter of several rounds of artillery coverage and a round of armored troops.
Telling them to confess, that is not willing, just screaming fiercely.Terrell has already tried to attack, but if one of them really wants to lead his direct troops out to fight, no one will agree.
In the commotion, Terrell finally couldn't bear it anymore.
He slapped the table several times, and he didn't speak until everyone was quiet:
"Is the quarrel over?"
Seeing Terrell, the big leader, with a dark face, no one dared to speak after all.
But in fact, there are still many people who have disdain in their hearts, and even those who are not stingy, will directly show this emotion on their faces.
Among the looters, how can a leader maintain his majesty?
Without him, the military exploits.
If you can lead your brothers to win battles, lead them to drink and eat meat, then you are the most powerful, no matter whether it is loyalty or brutality, it is nothing more than a matter of style.
But if you lose... Those who are loyal will be stabbed in the back; those who rule cruelly will be overthrown.
He's not there yet, but there are signs of it.
Two disastrous defeats, plus being blocked in Sanchi Town and being in a desperate situation, this was a huge shake to his prestige.
He could even imagine that many people must have been shaken and thinking about what Bohr said before.
Is surrender a better option?Then the previous opportunity to enter the new alliance, is it not necessary to face the soldiers?Even if there is no privilege, it is better to be an ordinary civilian than to lose your life.
There are probably not a few people with this kind of thinking.And these things will all turn into resentment and fall on him, the great leader.
But there is still a way out.
He had to find a way out for his brothers, so his prestige might still have a chance to be maintained.
Seeing that the people below stopped talking because of his slap on the table, he felt a little relieved.Fortunately, the prestige accumulated over the years has not been exhausted.
He let out a long breath and began to talk about his plan:
"Those lackeys of the governor, to put it bluntly, there are only about [-] people, and their weapons and equipment are fierce, but in order to surround us, they divided their troops too much. We concentrated our strength and concentrated all the remaining artillery and all the explosives. In one place, attack with all your strength, and you will definitely be able to rush out."
Someone jumped out and sang the opposite tune: "The big leader said it lightly! Those who go to die are all our people!"
Immediately afterwards, another person said: "I don't know how many people will die on the way to rush out! Little Boer is quite right, why don't we just honestly forget it before."
First there were sporadic words, and then the rest of the people looked eager to try, as if the whole meeting was about to turn into a vegetable market.
But repeated gunshots interrupted the process of the quarrel.
The three who spoke just now had bullet holes in their foreheads.
They fell on their backs with faces full of disbelief.
It was Terrell who shot.
The rest of the people were all startled, with disbelief on their faces, as if they never thought that Terrell would dare to directly pull out a gun to kill someone in such a scene.
They all came from bandits, and in an instant, someone subconsciously wanted to draw a gun.
"Don't move!" Terrell shouted violently!
But at this time, how can roaring alone be useful?
Some people are still drawing guns.
But at this time, the many looters who were guarding around were already prepared, raised their guns, and pointed at those who had changed.
These people are undoubtedly Terrell's confidantes.
Since Terrell had anticipated the current scene, he would of course be prepared.
These guards who had already been prepared were all aiming at the leaders who had changed and fired, but when the bullets came out, they didn't have eyes, and it was common for the bullets to be skewed and shoot innocent people.
Many people fell down and died; those who were not moving at first, but suffered accidental injuries, some shouted, some tried to resist, but in the end, they were all swept to the ground just like the previous people.
Soon, all the leaders of the looters on one side of the conference hall were shot.
On the other side, there was no movement.
Over there, there are basically Terrell's hardcore supporters, and they even expected the scene at this moment.
After the matter subsided, Terrell stood up and scolded angrily: "A bunch of shameless things."
After cursing, he assigned his supporters to receive and integrate the tribe of the killed man.
At the end of the arrangement, he had someone drag in two wooden boxes from the outside.
After opening, what was wrapped in hay was one after another small green potion bottles.
"Send these down, and when it's time to break out, arrange for the commando to drink it."
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The flames of war came even more suddenly than expected.
Terrell wiped out the internal opponents, spent almost all the prestige he had accumulated over the years, and barely suppressed the tribes to which the slaughtered leaders belonged, and took over those people.
Immediately afterwards, he worked hard to mobilize the troops, hoping to mobilize the remaining 3000 to nearly 4000 people in Sanchi Town in one go, and carry out a full-scale breakout operation in the same direction.
The heavy artillery possessed by the New Alliance army was the weapon he feared most.
Once this thing is shot down, if the personnel stand a little denser, it will be tens of hundreds of casualties; however, the width of the battlefield to go out of the city to break through is not too large. If you want to break through decisively, you must ensure that the strength of the assault troops is sufficient , then it is impossible to pull the troops too loose.
However, this will greatly enhance the lethality of the opponent's artillery.
It is indeed a dilemma.
But no matter how difficult it is, you have to choose.
The method Terrell plans to adopt is to order the troops to make a sudden attack regardless of the cost, rushing to the range of dozens of meters with the enemy, or even fighting with a hand-to-hand sword.
In this way, the distance between the enemy and ourselves was pulled to a very close range, and the heavy artillery in the hands of the New Alliance Army did not work so well.
Always be wary of accidental injury, the other side is even more unbearable than your own side.
However, he somewhat underestimated the difficulty of integrating the troops after he killed himself.Although mutiny and direct internal fire were barely avoided, the speed at which the entire army regrouped and assembled forces was far behind expectations.
But before he prepared his troops to break through, it was the New Alliance Army that attacked them first.
At the beginning of the attack, the looters who were still in chaos in Sanchi Town were a little stunned.
Even Terrell was a little dazed when he ventured onto a high platform to fight outside.
There is no doubt that the heavy artillery bombarded first. On the edge of Sanchi Town, the buildings that followed the town, and the looters who dug trenches by the way, did not dare to show their heads when they were bombarded.If it weren't for the leaders of the various ministries, no one would dare to run. I'm afraid that this round of shelling would directly smash the outer defense line.
The looters hiding in the fortifications, bunkers, and trenches are actually fine in terms of casualties. If you don’t get hit by a frontal shot, don’t get too close to be shocked to death by the shock wave, and the fierce and terrible fragments will also be destroyed. Unable to penetrate cover and do damage.
Anyway, it wouldn't be like those unlucky guys who were conducting blocking operations outside before, and they would really die miserably when they were bombed in the wilderness.
However, the sound of cannons that can really deafen people's ears, and the terrifying power that makes the earth tremble, make people frightened.The artillery array of the key people must be more than 20 kilometers away. Even if they want to fight back, they can't even see a shadow.
It is possible to find a way to calculate the approximate position of the enemy's artillery array through the trajectory of the shell, but it is useless.I do have cannons at home, but the small-caliber miscellaneous mountain cannons can no longer maintain accuracy when they can be fired ten miles away. There is no way to deal with the heavy artillery positions [-] kilometers away, so they can only shrink their heads and be bombed.
But if it's just that, it's still within Terrell's expectations.
However, in addition to this round of shelling, he could see that the army of the new alliance had launched a formal onslaught.
Right after the bombardment, at a distance of maybe two hundred meters from the explosion point, the infantry of the new alliance had already emerged.The mortar team also showed their power and fired a round of shelling forward.
The soldiers were charging forward quickly. Before the temperature from the mortar and heavy artillery had dissipated, they had already rushed into the position that had just been bombed.
The bombed-out looters, the wounded were shot, and those who were lucky enough to have nothing to do, had no time to build any effective defense measures, and were scattered and clearly wiped out.
But of course the position does not have only one floor. Apart from the bombed position, there are of course other looters behind. If they come out to shoot at this moment, they will of course be able to threaten the attacking soldiers.
But they didn't, because a new round of artillery fire had already covered their positions.
The most frightening thing was that the infantrymen of the new alliance were only two hundred meters away from the explosion point.The killing range of that terrible heavy artillery is almost close to one hundred.
Are they really not afraid of being hit by a cannon, and it is a little bit crooked, and it hits their own people?
Gunners are not afraid, commanders are not afraid, and those infantrymen who are on the front line are not afraid of themselves?
Terrell has never seen such a posture.
A few words that he had only heard but never seen appeared in his mind: infantry coordination, Xu Jin barrage.
He knew that the fringe position that he had spent a lot of time building was finished.
But Terrell immediately realized that he couldn't really let the edge end.
Otherwise, the army of the new alliance will rush in, and without the fortifications and trenches on the edge of the town, the battle will become more difficult.
It was originally his starting position when he broke through the encirclement at the back.
Terrell gritted his teeth and issued an order to the troops in the rear, in order to let his own artillery fire as well.
The mountain artillery with a much smaller caliber, even if it can't reach the artillery positions behind the new alliance army, at least it will pose a threat to the enemy in front of them, and let them try the taste of artillery fire.
In addition, more looters, under his orders, counterattacked in the direction of the Union army's attack.
He didn't want to do this, but the situation was changing rapidly, and it was too late for him to slowly organize his team and find a way to break through.If you really want to fight a breakout battle, then you really need to defeat the enemy in front of you, and they will be able to take advantage of the situation.
However, just when he ordered a large number of his own troops to fill the first line and engage in close-range firefights with the soldiers of the new alliance, two new situations occurred.
First of all, they had just fired two rounds of artillery, and it was over.
He has ordered his own artillery to work hard to change a place with one cannon.However, the place in Sanchi Town is narrow, and it is not easy to deploy the artillery, and it is even more difficult to transfer it.What's more, although their guns are light, they lack traction vehicles, and relying on people to push them, the transfer speed cannot be guaranteed at all.
As a result, people caught him right.
Their artillery could not hit the artillery formations of the New Alliance Army, but their heavy artillery undoubtedly brought them into range.
After two rounds of shelling, the looters' artillery positions were gone.
Not only did the artillery suffer heavy casualties, but a large number of artillery pieces were also destroyed.
Of course, after the Union's artillery aimed their fire at the artillery formations in the town, they could no longer cover the soldiers fighting ahead.
Although the attacking infantry companies still have some mortars that can be used, the power of this thing is a bit far from that of the 155 howitzer.
This also slowed down the speed at which the soldiers broke through the outer defense line, and also allowed the looters who followed the troops to go up to the top, and really succeeded in pulling the engagement range to within 100 meters.
At this distance, the role of firearms is greatly enhanced, and it will be difficult for the alliance's heavy artillery to take care of them here.
No matter how accurate the artillery of the alliance was, and no matter how fearless the soldiers of the alliance were, the accidental injury of the artillery was not fake.Under the fear of rats, naturally, it is no longer possible to unscrupulously drop heavy artillery on the heads of the two sides fighting together.
However, just when this kind of thoughts that could only be forcibly comforted came to him, Terrell saw another scene that made his hands and feet cold.
The tank company of the new alliance, come up!
A total of twelve tanks set off clouds of smoke and dust on the dirt road. The 76mm smoothbore gun began to show off.
Knowing that there is no need to deal with any armored targets, the tanks are all equipped with high-explosive fragmentation shells.The twelve cannons fired at once, and at a distance of only a few hundred meters to less than a thousand meters, they began to attack the counter-offensive posture that the looters had just formed.
For these steel creations, the looters seemed to have nothing to do.
The infantry also took advantage of the cover of tank fire and began to move forward.They focused on Marauder fire teams trying to threaten tanks.As for the places where the enemy is defending, such as foxholes and temporary positions built by building ruins, there is nothing to talk about. Call the tank soldiers to go down with two shots, or even use coaxial machine guns to mop up.
Tracks rolled over trenches, and tanks moved into closer range, fighting in tandem with infantry.
The momentum of the looters' counterattack was directly destroyed, and those who dared to come close to engage in close firefights all experienced the power of tank guns and coaxial machine guns, resulting in heavy casualties.
Seeing this scene, Terrell finally couldn't maintain his composure.
Angrily, he picked up the field walkie-talkie and yelled: "Drink me all those medicines! Drink! Fight them! If you can't win, there is no way out!"
After he finished speaking, he took a few breaths, then shook his whole body, as if he understood something, he hurried off the podium.
Immediately afterwards, his closest and most confidant team protected him and went out of Sanchi Town from another direction.
He's going to run.
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This chapter is ten thousand!
(End of this chapter)
