Chapter 139, the limit of persistence
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Hong Xin Bu
Chapter 139, the limit of persistence
Seeing the appearance of the 'Challenger' tank and another war machine that he didn't know, Li Kexi was shocked at first.
He really didn't expect to see such a thing here.
He once thought about buying a Challenger tank, especially after engaging in the Beast Slaughter Group.If there is such a tank as the core of the battle, accompanied by a large number of foot troops, and an artillery can provide support at any time, the battle will be much easier.
It's a pity that whether you can afford it or not is one aspect. The key is that there is no channel to buy it.
Not to mention, the chariot next to it.Although there are no cannons on it, the double-barreled cannons are not something to be underestimated.
And the two of them fired together, and the effect was astonishing.
A tank gun exploded among the green-skinned orcs, causing at least three casualties; what was even more terrifying was the machine gun on the infantry tank, and the side-by-side machine gun that didn't look like a machine gun at all. hit.
The 40mm caliber machine gun can also cause fatal damage when it hits the green skin; the strange side-by-side machine gun that explodes when fired can still explode from the enemy's body after a single shot, ensuring that it can kill an enemy green skin.
Under the crazy shooting, six or seven greenskins were directly killed on the road after one round.
After this round of firepower projection, plus the elimination of the infantry squad in front, a total of fifteen green-skinned orcs were killed.
Facts have proved that the orcs are not really brainless, they know how to charge upwards when they encounter a battle.On the contrary, their intelligence—or instinct—in combat is exceptional.
They knew that if they continued to charge upwards with this level of firepower, even if they all died on the road, they would never even think about rushing through the last 30 to [-] meters.
They dispersed to the surroundings, and found a bunker urgently.A guy popped his head out and shot the infantry squad, and he hit it, shattering a soldier's left arm.
Someone helped to perform a simple bandage with medical gauze-mainly to press and block the wound to minimize blood loss, and then the other two took the wounded and tried to retreat.
But the remaining seven people were not in a hurry to attack - just wait for the tanks and armored vehicles behind to come up.
After clearing this wave of enemies, they will continue to move forward, meet the enemy again, stop again, fight, and try to destroy the enemy. If they cannot be eliminated, they will preserve their vitality, and tanks and armored vehicles will come up again immediately.
Infantry-tank coordination is by no means a simple armored team in front, followed by infantry and using tanks or armored vehicles as cover, that is a very low-level approach.
In fact, when conducting an assault in an area with wide terrain and few obstacles, it is still possible for the armored troops to be in front and the infantry to follow up and attack within a range of tens of meters behind.
But at this moment and here, in the battle in the ruins of the city, it is usually necessary for the infantry to fight in the front line, and the armored troops cover their advance with firepower behind the infantry, and use the infantry's close combat advantages to eliminate the enemy one by one.
If the armored troops are in the front, the terrain and the enemy's situation are complicated. Who knows what kind of enemy will appear there, and what weapons will be used to pose a threat to the armored vehicles?
For example, there are enemy infantry in ambush and hiding, using weapons such as explosive kits and anti-tank rocket launchers, to attack tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.
Of course, Li Kexi didn't quite understand these so-called tactics of step-tank coordination. He only knew that the seemingly large number of green-skinned orc clusters had no chance of turning the tables, and would inevitably end up being wiped out up.
Compared with this tactical system of coordinated operations of tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and infantry, Li Kexi is actually more envious of the tanks and armored vehicles themselves.
I have a whole beast slaughter regiment with six or seven thousand people, and I can't make up a single tank; the offensive tactics of an infantry squad have tanks and armored vehicles to coordinate...
They are all human, so why is the gap so big? !
Tactics and so on can be practiced; equipment this thing, if you say no, then you really don’t have it, there is no way.
……
Perbov was not in a good mood.
He has received several battle damage reports.
According to the previous plan, there were a total of about [-] assault teams coordinated by Bu Tan, and they attacked in waves, only controlling a battlefield area about three or four kilometers wide.
He asked the front-line combat troops to push the battle situation forward two kilometers, which could be regarded as a head-on blow to those green-skinned orcs who were still rushing in.
The troops under Perbov's command have indeed successfully achieved their intended goals.Moreover, during the two-kilometer advance, at least 300 green-skinned orcs were wiped out under the firepower of the infantry and armored troops.
In the process, however, his troops were not without damage.
Two tanks were blown up, three armored vehicles were reimbursed, and more than 50 soldiers were killed or injured... This was enough to make his heart ache.
Moreover, this level of casualties will indeed affect the combat effectiveness of the entire battalion.
One of the biggest losses was when an assault team was almost wiped out.
Perbov saw the verbal briefing of the wounded soldiers after they retreated. It is said that they were ambushed by green-skinned orcs while they were marching.
Those green skins were very cunning and hid in the ruins of the building, and avoided the scope of the infantry hunting the enemy.Immediately afterwards, they launched an impact at the same time, and by the time they were discovered, they were already at a distance of six to seventy meters.
These orcs were tactically divided into four formations, and simultaneously attacked the infantry in front and the armored troops in the rear from both sides.
Suddenly entering close range, the infantry squad still suffered a big loss in the shooting.They shot four or five people at close range.But it was also shot at close range by the green-skinned people.The rough firearms in their hands can make a soldier incapable of fighting with one shot. Even if it hits a bulletproof vest, it may not necessarily kill him, but it is not a problem to break ribs and cause internal organ damage to reduce his combat effectiveness.
What's more frightening is that those green skins like to use shotguns very much, and the flying marbles sometimes break limbs.
In close combat, the soldiers suffered heavy casualties.
Afterwards, the green skins approached it in the field of cold weapon combat. Although the G9 rifle can be regarded as a useful long-handled weapon with a bayonet, it is still not the opponent of those green skins.
More importantly, they did not receive fire support from the armored forces for a while.
The armored forces are also hard to protect themselves.
More than [-] green-skinned orcs approached the vehicle from the side under the protection of the obstacle cover, and kept moving when the firing angle of the muzzle and the cannon turned, forcing the vehicle to be unable to fully exert its firepower Advantage.
Although a considerable number of green skins died on the way of charging, and were killed by the infantry guards accompanying the armored troops, seven or eight of them still approached.
The shotguns in their hands wiped out the accompanying infantry, and they also installed the explosive packs on the track side of the tank and the armor on the side and rear, and the same treatment was given to the armored vehicles.
These explosive packages just destroyed a tank and an armored vehicle.
If it wasn't for the fact that the squad leader who was ambushed immediately sent out a distress signal, and there happened to be a team a few hundred meters away from the nearest position, and immediately came to support them, they might really be wiped out by the regiment .
But despite this, they still suffered heavy losses.
Of the more than 20 infantrymen, only six survived, the tank was destroyed, and only one of the two infantry fighting vehicles remained.
An alarm bell was ringing in Purboff's head.
The enemy he faced this time was by no means something easy to deal with like a looter.
Although these green-skinned orcs only have light weapons or even cold weapons, they can only use human flesh to install explosives, which is a rather backward and primitive means to destroy armored troops, and it seems that these greenskins also seriously lack long-range fire.
But relying on their animal-like physical fitness, their surprisingly strong fighting ability at close range, and their fearless characteristics...
Even if his troops have a far superior firepower advantage over the opponent, losses in battle are still inevitable.
All in all, the self-defense Xingcheng was dispatched. So far, Perbov's first battalion has lost a total of two tanks (one lying on the road has not been repaired), two armored vehicles, and nearly a hundred casualties.
This means that his troops have lost more than 10%.
The battle against the greenskins must be arduous and arduous, but it has only just begun and there are already so many casualties... What will happen next?
I dare not even think about it!
But soon, he suppressed this apprehensive thought.
The battle will always go on.
The troops that set out in front had already pushed the line two kilometers away as planned, and wiped out a lot of greenskins.At the same time, due to their decisive forward pressure, a large number of greenskins who were already on the offensive had to retreat.
I have to say again that these green skins are wild, warlike, bloodthirsty, and easy to attack, but they are not without wisdom.Instead, they are quite cunning and pragmatic when it comes to combat.
Realizing that facing the impact of the armor, fighting on flat ground would be very disadvantageous and the loss was huge, those green skins did not continue to fight with flesh and blood again.
This also makes Perbov a bit of a pity, otherwise the green-skinned head he won might not be just in his early [-]s.
The green skins retracted and began to build simple fortifications, or simply relied on the ruins to defend layer by layer.
The difficulty for the armored composite force to continue to advance will become very great later.It is foreseeable that not only the results of the battle will drop sharply, but also the loss of oneself will be huge. If it is not done well, it is possible to make people lose one to two or one to one.
Perbov doesn't have that many manpower to deal with these green skins.
Once the predetermined goal is completed, there is no need to continue to rush forward.
The front-line combat troops began to defend on the spot, also relying on the ruined terrain, and built firepower points and fortifications at key positions.The advantage over those green skins is that the defensive positions established by his troops are supported by armored vehicles and tanks at a little distance behind.If those green skins dare to come out to attack the position, tank guns, machine guns, and bolt machine guns will teach them how to behave.
The two sides have thus entered a stage of confrontation.
If this situation is maintained, Perbov can accept it.
He has already discussed the goal of this battle with the political commissar of the battalion, several staff officers and adjutants.
It is impossible for them to turn the entire rotten battle into victory with a battalion of troops.What they have to do is to stabilize the front line, become the mainstay, plug the gap, and stop the overall collapse.
As long as the battle can be maintained until the governor arrives, it will be considered a success.
But those green skins don't seem to be planning to let it go, they still have the idea of continuing to break through human defenses.
But this time, Perbov was not polite to them.
Twelve kilometers away from the first-line battlefield, the 155 howitzer positions have been constructed.Not in the advance stage, a large number of adventurers have retreated from the front line and regrouped. There is no need to worry about accidental injury, and our own troops have also sent back the shooting elements from the front line.
Without further ado, five rounds of shelling went up first.
Sixty heavy artillery pieces landed on the green-skinned orcs' attack route in less than 10 minutes, and the nearest shell was even less than 100 meters away from the frontline soldiers.
How much damage these five rounds of shelling caused, it is difficult to go beyond the front line to investigate.But based on a rough estimate, I'm afraid the green-skinned orcs suffered more casualties than the previous casualties caused by tanks, armored vehicles and infantry.
After losing another three or four hundred green-skinned orcs, the green-skinned people who attacked the fifth district basically lost 20% of their vitality.
After five rounds of shelling, the attack that the green-skinned orcs had accumulated to launch was terminated, and they finally died down.
A 20% loss, of course, did not exceed the upper limit that the green-skinned orcs could bear.But the casualties must be meaningful. To bite the bullet and use heavy artillery to build a layered defensive position is not a question of bravery or not, it is a question of stupidity.
Greenskins are by no means stupid in combat.
Moreover, the green skin doesn't necessarily have to gnaw at this place.The battle surface that the first battalion expanded to withstand was only five or six kilometers wide.However, the width of the front line attacking Garbage Town in the ruins of the tower is probably more than [-] kilometers, covering the entire tower area and the surrounding suburbs.There is a large amount of front width for interspersing and outflanking.
If you can't chew it down, don't chew it, just change the place to hit it.
This point, Perbov also understand.
The scale of this war was originally a team composed of nearly 800 adventurers and armed scavengers against tens of thousands to [-] green-skinned orcs. The [-]-member synthetic battalion, no matter how well equipped it is, is like a heavy weight that can affect the balance of the balance.
But that's it at the highest level. You can't expect a battalion to withstand a [-]-kilometer front.
It's okay to be able to play the current results.
A large number of green-skinned living forces were killed, and the line of defense was stabilized, resisting the peak of the green-skinned orc assault force, buying time for rearranging the follow-up troops.
Perboff has done what he can.The rest depends on what people like Denison Henry and Jason Swan can do.
Oh, yes, he also received information that there was a leader of the beast slaughter group who was rescued by them.
You can also count on it.
Perbov has an estimate of the time he can withstand: before the artillery support company is empty of ammunition, it can defend; if the pressure is too high and the 155 howitzer shells are empty, then there is nothing to say, and quickly withdraw.
If you don't withdraw, it's tantamount to trapping the troops here for nothing.
A 155 howitzer weighs 60 kilograms and has 12 cannons. It has just fired five rounds, and the shells alone have fired three and a half tons.The logistics support company has three trucks, which are specially used to transport shells.Remove the shells used in Sanchi Town, and the remaining shells can be used for thirty rounds.
This is the limit of persistence.
(End of this chapter)
Seeing the appearance of the 'Challenger' tank and another war machine that he didn't know, Li Kexi was shocked at first.
He really didn't expect to see such a thing here.
He once thought about buying a Challenger tank, especially after engaging in the Beast Slaughter Group.If there is such a tank as the core of the battle, accompanied by a large number of foot troops, and an artillery can provide support at any time, the battle will be much easier.
It's a pity that whether you can afford it or not is one aspect. The key is that there is no channel to buy it.
Not to mention, the chariot next to it.Although there are no cannons on it, the double-barreled cannons are not something to be underestimated.
And the two of them fired together, and the effect was astonishing.
A tank gun exploded among the green-skinned orcs, causing at least three casualties; what was even more terrifying was the machine gun on the infantry tank, and the side-by-side machine gun that didn't look like a machine gun at all. hit.
The 40mm caliber machine gun can also cause fatal damage when it hits the green skin; the strange side-by-side machine gun that explodes when fired can still explode from the enemy's body after a single shot, ensuring that it can kill an enemy green skin.
Under the crazy shooting, six or seven greenskins were directly killed on the road after one round.
After this round of firepower projection, plus the elimination of the infantry squad in front, a total of fifteen green-skinned orcs were killed.
Facts have proved that the orcs are not really brainless, they know how to charge upwards when they encounter a battle.On the contrary, their intelligence—or instinct—in combat is exceptional.
They knew that if they continued to charge upwards with this level of firepower, even if they all died on the road, they would never even think about rushing through the last 30 to [-] meters.
They dispersed to the surroundings, and found a bunker urgently.A guy popped his head out and shot the infantry squad, and he hit it, shattering a soldier's left arm.
Someone helped to perform a simple bandage with medical gauze-mainly to press and block the wound to minimize blood loss, and then the other two took the wounded and tried to retreat.
But the remaining seven people were not in a hurry to attack - just wait for the tanks and armored vehicles behind to come up.
After clearing this wave of enemies, they will continue to move forward, meet the enemy again, stop again, fight, and try to destroy the enemy. If they cannot be eliminated, they will preserve their vitality, and tanks and armored vehicles will come up again immediately.
Infantry-tank coordination is by no means a simple armored team in front, followed by infantry and using tanks or armored vehicles as cover, that is a very low-level approach.
In fact, when conducting an assault in an area with wide terrain and few obstacles, it is still possible for the armored troops to be in front and the infantry to follow up and attack within a range of tens of meters behind.
But at this moment and here, in the battle in the ruins of the city, it is usually necessary for the infantry to fight in the front line, and the armored troops cover their advance with firepower behind the infantry, and use the infantry's close combat advantages to eliminate the enemy one by one.
If the armored troops are in the front, the terrain and the enemy's situation are complicated. Who knows what kind of enemy will appear there, and what weapons will be used to pose a threat to the armored vehicles?
For example, there are enemy infantry in ambush and hiding, using weapons such as explosive kits and anti-tank rocket launchers, to attack tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.
Of course, Li Kexi didn't quite understand these so-called tactics of step-tank coordination. He only knew that the seemingly large number of green-skinned orc clusters had no chance of turning the tables, and would inevitably end up being wiped out up.
Compared with this tactical system of coordinated operations of tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and infantry, Li Kexi is actually more envious of the tanks and armored vehicles themselves.
I have a whole beast slaughter regiment with six or seven thousand people, and I can't make up a single tank; the offensive tactics of an infantry squad have tanks and armored vehicles to coordinate...
They are all human, so why is the gap so big? !
Tactics and so on can be practiced; equipment this thing, if you say no, then you really don’t have it, there is no way.
……
Perbov was not in a good mood.
He has received several battle damage reports.
According to the previous plan, there were a total of about [-] assault teams coordinated by Bu Tan, and they attacked in waves, only controlling a battlefield area about three or four kilometers wide.
He asked the front-line combat troops to push the battle situation forward two kilometers, which could be regarded as a head-on blow to those green-skinned orcs who were still rushing in.
The troops under Perbov's command have indeed successfully achieved their intended goals.Moreover, during the two-kilometer advance, at least 300 green-skinned orcs were wiped out under the firepower of the infantry and armored troops.
In the process, however, his troops were not without damage.
Two tanks were blown up, three armored vehicles were reimbursed, and more than 50 soldiers were killed or injured... This was enough to make his heart ache.
Moreover, this level of casualties will indeed affect the combat effectiveness of the entire battalion.
One of the biggest losses was when an assault team was almost wiped out.
Perbov saw the verbal briefing of the wounded soldiers after they retreated. It is said that they were ambushed by green-skinned orcs while they were marching.
Those green skins were very cunning and hid in the ruins of the building, and avoided the scope of the infantry hunting the enemy.Immediately afterwards, they launched an impact at the same time, and by the time they were discovered, they were already at a distance of six to seventy meters.
These orcs were tactically divided into four formations, and simultaneously attacked the infantry in front and the armored troops in the rear from both sides.
Suddenly entering close range, the infantry squad still suffered a big loss in the shooting.They shot four or five people at close range.But it was also shot at close range by the green-skinned people.The rough firearms in their hands can make a soldier incapable of fighting with one shot. Even if it hits a bulletproof vest, it may not necessarily kill him, but it is not a problem to break ribs and cause internal organ damage to reduce his combat effectiveness.
What's more frightening is that those green skins like to use shotguns very much, and the flying marbles sometimes break limbs.
In close combat, the soldiers suffered heavy casualties.
Afterwards, the green skins approached it in the field of cold weapon combat. Although the G9 rifle can be regarded as a useful long-handled weapon with a bayonet, it is still not the opponent of those green skins.
More importantly, they did not receive fire support from the armored forces for a while.
The armored forces are also hard to protect themselves.
More than [-] green-skinned orcs approached the vehicle from the side under the protection of the obstacle cover, and kept moving when the firing angle of the muzzle and the cannon turned, forcing the vehicle to be unable to fully exert its firepower Advantage.
Although a considerable number of green skins died on the way of charging, and were killed by the infantry guards accompanying the armored troops, seven or eight of them still approached.
The shotguns in their hands wiped out the accompanying infantry, and they also installed the explosive packs on the track side of the tank and the armor on the side and rear, and the same treatment was given to the armored vehicles.
These explosive packages just destroyed a tank and an armored vehicle.
If it wasn't for the fact that the squad leader who was ambushed immediately sent out a distress signal, and there happened to be a team a few hundred meters away from the nearest position, and immediately came to support them, they might really be wiped out by the regiment .
But despite this, they still suffered heavy losses.
Of the more than 20 infantrymen, only six survived, the tank was destroyed, and only one of the two infantry fighting vehicles remained.
An alarm bell was ringing in Purboff's head.
The enemy he faced this time was by no means something easy to deal with like a looter.
Although these green-skinned orcs only have light weapons or even cold weapons, they can only use human flesh to install explosives, which is a rather backward and primitive means to destroy armored troops, and it seems that these greenskins also seriously lack long-range fire.
But relying on their animal-like physical fitness, their surprisingly strong fighting ability at close range, and their fearless characteristics...
Even if his troops have a far superior firepower advantage over the opponent, losses in battle are still inevitable.
All in all, the self-defense Xingcheng was dispatched. So far, Perbov's first battalion has lost a total of two tanks (one lying on the road has not been repaired), two armored vehicles, and nearly a hundred casualties.
This means that his troops have lost more than 10%.
The battle against the greenskins must be arduous and arduous, but it has only just begun and there are already so many casualties... What will happen next?
I dare not even think about it!
But soon, he suppressed this apprehensive thought.
The battle will always go on.
The troops that set out in front had already pushed the line two kilometers away as planned, and wiped out a lot of greenskins.At the same time, due to their decisive forward pressure, a large number of greenskins who were already on the offensive had to retreat.
I have to say again that these green skins are wild, warlike, bloodthirsty, and easy to attack, but they are not without wisdom.Instead, they are quite cunning and pragmatic when it comes to combat.
Realizing that facing the impact of the armor, fighting on flat ground would be very disadvantageous and the loss was huge, those green skins did not continue to fight with flesh and blood again.
This also makes Perbov a bit of a pity, otherwise the green-skinned head he won might not be just in his early [-]s.
The green skins retracted and began to build simple fortifications, or simply relied on the ruins to defend layer by layer.
The difficulty for the armored composite force to continue to advance will become very great later.It is foreseeable that not only the results of the battle will drop sharply, but also the loss of oneself will be huge. If it is not done well, it is possible to make people lose one to two or one to one.
Perbov doesn't have that many manpower to deal with these green skins.
Once the predetermined goal is completed, there is no need to continue to rush forward.
The front-line combat troops began to defend on the spot, also relying on the ruined terrain, and built firepower points and fortifications at key positions.The advantage over those green skins is that the defensive positions established by his troops are supported by armored vehicles and tanks at a little distance behind.If those green skins dare to come out to attack the position, tank guns, machine guns, and bolt machine guns will teach them how to behave.
The two sides have thus entered a stage of confrontation.
If this situation is maintained, Perbov can accept it.
He has already discussed the goal of this battle with the political commissar of the battalion, several staff officers and adjutants.
It is impossible for them to turn the entire rotten battle into victory with a battalion of troops.What they have to do is to stabilize the front line, become the mainstay, plug the gap, and stop the overall collapse.
As long as the battle can be maintained until the governor arrives, it will be considered a success.
But those green skins don't seem to be planning to let it go, they still have the idea of continuing to break through human defenses.
But this time, Perbov was not polite to them.
Twelve kilometers away from the first-line battlefield, the 155 howitzer positions have been constructed.Not in the advance stage, a large number of adventurers have retreated from the front line and regrouped. There is no need to worry about accidental injury, and our own troops have also sent back the shooting elements from the front line.
Without further ado, five rounds of shelling went up first.
Sixty heavy artillery pieces landed on the green-skinned orcs' attack route in less than 10 minutes, and the nearest shell was even less than 100 meters away from the frontline soldiers.
How much damage these five rounds of shelling caused, it is difficult to go beyond the front line to investigate.But based on a rough estimate, I'm afraid the green-skinned orcs suffered more casualties than the previous casualties caused by tanks, armored vehicles and infantry.
After losing another three or four hundred green-skinned orcs, the green-skinned people who attacked the fifth district basically lost 20% of their vitality.
After five rounds of shelling, the attack that the green-skinned orcs had accumulated to launch was terminated, and they finally died down.
A 20% loss, of course, did not exceed the upper limit that the green-skinned orcs could bear.But the casualties must be meaningful. To bite the bullet and use heavy artillery to build a layered defensive position is not a question of bravery or not, it is a question of stupidity.
Greenskins are by no means stupid in combat.
Moreover, the green skin doesn't necessarily have to gnaw at this place.The battle surface that the first battalion expanded to withstand was only five or six kilometers wide.However, the width of the front line attacking Garbage Town in the ruins of the tower is probably more than [-] kilometers, covering the entire tower area and the surrounding suburbs.There is a large amount of front width for interspersing and outflanking.
If you can't chew it down, don't chew it, just change the place to hit it.
This point, Perbov also understand.
The scale of this war was originally a team composed of nearly 800 adventurers and armed scavengers against tens of thousands to [-] green-skinned orcs. The [-]-member synthetic battalion, no matter how well equipped it is, is like a heavy weight that can affect the balance of the balance.
But that's it at the highest level. You can't expect a battalion to withstand a [-]-kilometer front.
It's okay to be able to play the current results.
A large number of green-skinned living forces were killed, and the line of defense was stabilized, resisting the peak of the green-skinned orc assault force, buying time for rearranging the follow-up troops.
Perboff has done what he can.The rest depends on what people like Denison Henry and Jason Swan can do.
Oh, yes, he also received information that there was a leader of the beast slaughter group who was rescued by them.
You can also count on it.
Perbov has an estimate of the time he can withstand: before the artillery support company is empty of ammunition, it can defend; if the pressure is too high and the 155 howitzer shells are empty, then there is nothing to say, and quickly withdraw.
If you don't withdraw, it's tantamount to trapping the troops here for nothing.
A 155 howitzer weighs 60 kilograms and has 12 cannons. It has just fired five rounds, and the shells alone have fired three and a half tons.The logistics support company has three trucks, which are specially used to transport shells.Remove the shells used in Sanchi Town, and the remaining shells can be used for thirty rounds.
This is the limit of persistence.
(End of this chapter)
