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Chapter 177, making dumplings
"I plan to gather all the tank companies of the combat battalions of the whole brigade. More than 50 tanks will form an armored fist, and under the cover of artillery, they will smash towards the center of the enemy's defense line."

"After the breakthrough is made, our mechanical and motorized troops will quickly follow up. We must open a [-]-kilometer-deep wound on the enemy's position for at least one day, so that we can provide the follow-up friendly troops , to create conditions for a breakthrough and encirclement.”

Perboff revealed his plan to his old partner.

After listening, Leroy thought for a while and didn't have any opinion.

This is really Perbov's style: go up and cut through the enemy.

"You have no objection, so let's do it. We will set off tomorrow morning. The troops have rested for two days, which is enough. I hope that the new recruits who have just come in can be used and nothing will go wrong."

……

As it turned out, the recruits didn't disappoint Perbov either.Compared with the veterans who participated in many brutal battles, although these newly recruited soldiers are a little immature, their military skills are absolutely sufficient.

Early the next morning, the first brigade set off when it was daylight.

The sky-shattering artillery fire covered the enemy's position.

The soldiers and leaders of the anti-governor alliance were all stunned by the fierce artillery fire.

Prior to this, when they fought against the 7th and 8th Divisions, they had experienced the power of the Alliance's artillery.But at that time, the two divisions together only had about fifty schools.

But it was precisely because of the existence of these fifty heavy artillery pieces that the 8 or [-] anti-governor allied forces were unable to advance an inch.

It's okay to guard, relying on fortifications and anti-gun holes, they can barely resist; if they take the initiative to attack, lack of artillery countermeasures and lack of armored troops to cover, the fifty heavy artillery is enough to make their attacking troops come How much to send.

After sending some heads, they knew they couldn't fight like this.

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

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

They thought that this was like the shelling they had suffered every day for more than half a month.Although it is uncomfortable, although it will kill people, but once it is endured, it will pass.

But actually, that's not the case at all.

This time the bombardment was much denser than before, and it lasted too long.

This is definitely not the effect that fifty cannons can blast!

That's exactly what happened.

At this moment, a total of ten artillery battalions can be drawn out of the five divisions, and more than three hundred cannons can be fired at the same time!
Almost all the artillery units of the five division and brigade units were concentrated and used.The joint artillery positions were concentrated in the direction where the Xifeng Brigade was about to launch an assault, bombarding indiscriminately.

Within an hour, one hundred rounds were fired, and 155 rounds of 30 howitzers hit the enemy's central position about eight kilometers wide.On average, if it is less than 155 centimeters, a [-] howitzer will hit it-the shells will not fit!
What happened to the blast hole?
When it hits the center, the hole dug out is a little shallower, and it will be blown down; if you are lucky, if you don't get hit in the middle, the shaking ground will also slam down the soil; It can collapse all the anti-bunker holes.

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

Such a shot goes down, hits, and a group of people lose their lives.

And these [-] shells are just the prelude to the attack.

When the artillery fire ceased, an officer against the governor's allied forces stepped out of a cement bunker built half buried in the ground in the trench.

He was a vegetarian, his ears were deaf, and he even had dried blood hanging by his ears.

Just now, at least ten rounds of heavy artillery landed near the bunker.

Fortunately, none of the shots hit the bunker directly, otherwise his life would have been lost; unfortunately, the trenches leading to the two exits of the bunker were hit by shells, which deafened his ears and made him fly. The incoming artillery shrapnel killed several staff officers around him and severed one of his arms.

Holding his bleeding arm, he walked out of the bunker, and what he saw were corpses all over the trench.Some people were wailing, but there were also many people who couldn't even wail, and there were even some people who couldn't even find their bodies.

He staggered, stepped on the shooting pedal like rolling and crawling, and looked in the direction of the alliance army.

He saw fifty steel monsters, at a distance of about 20 meters to 30 meters, scattered in the direction of the trench, and moved forward in a mighty manner.

And behind these steel monsters with gun barrels, there are also infantry combat vehicles that he can't count.

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

He shouted loudly for the soldiers to come out to fight and block the enemy's attack, but he couldn't even hear his own voice—he was already deaf.

No one answered his call.

At least on the small piece of ground he was in, there were no survivors.

What should I do next?
With a dizzy head, before he could figure out why, he saw a tank with its barrel turned and aimed at him.

He stared blankly at the pitch-black cannon muzzle, and there was a burst of orange fire, and then his eyes went dark, and he didn't know anything.

……

Following the charge of the troops, Lieutenant Colonel Perbov, who was about several hundred meters away from the tanks on the front line, ventured out and looked at the battlefield with a telescope.

He happened to see that scene just now.

He said cursingly: "Damn, if you see a mosquito, you have to shoot it, right? The shells don't cost money, right?"

He looked slightly depressed.

Not really because the tankers were wasting shells, but...

"Damn it, the artillery did all my work! What am I doing?"

He plopped back into the car, not too happy.

Leroy, who was next to him, of course understood the virtues of his old partner.He smiled and patted Perbov on the shoulder, and comforted him: "If you can solve the problem with shells, don't use human life to solve it. I think it's good. What's more, if you want to fight, you don't really have to fight." , Brother Artillery is capable, but can he really do all the work?"

What Leroy said certainly had a point.

A shell of less than [-] centimeters is an exaggeration.The enemy's position is not just a single line, no matter how amateurish and stupid the commander on the opposite side is, he also knows to build a deep line of defense.

It was really bad to be bombed, but it was really not that there were not many soldiers on the front that was eight kilometers wide and at least three kilometers thick.

In fact, the Xifeng Brigade encountered resistance.

The enemy began to show up, and some lucky people who survived the shelling had emerged from bunkers, fortifications, and bomb holes under the orders of the officers, and launched a counterattack against the attacking enemy.

however……

The strength of this counterattack is like scratching an itch.

The artillery positions of the Anti-Governor Allied Forces were fired under the previous [-] heavy artillery pieces. Anyway, they were nowhere to be seen at this time;
The soldiers did have some weapons that could barely be regarded as anti-armor, such as rocket launchers, explosive kits, etc., but the number was not large enough, and the power was not enough.The bazooka, whether it's the Rambler or the Challenger tank, is tickling, unless it's really close range, and it blows very accurately to the thinnest armor of the tracks, wheels, and buttocks of tanks and armored vehicles.

The dynamite pack requires people to lean on it.

But that's hard, for accuracy and power you have to be very close to armored units.However, their tanks and infantry vehicles are not tortoises, they run faster than humans, and their firepower is still fierce.Not to mention cannon tubes, machine guns on tanks, machine guns on infantry combat vehicles, and bolt machine guns are all things that can cause explosive damage to light infantry.Without fire cover, relying purely on light infantry, they will be smashed before they get close.

If you really want a lucky guy, or a tough guy who can wait until the tank passes by and then rush out suddenly, then it is basically impossible to succeed....

The Xifeng Brigade's infantry-tank coordination and armored charge tactics are good at it.

The infantry of the Union Army is not vegetarian.

This time, the infantry-tank coordination tactics adopted by the Xifeng Brigade are armor-guided shocks, tanks in front, mechanized infantry who dismount and fight in the middle, and infantry fighting vehicles in the rear.On both sides and rear of each tank, there are usually one or two infantry squads.The guns in their hands will educate those enemies who feel that the tank barrel cannot turn fast enough and want to strike from the side.At the same time, the infantry fighting vehicle a little further behind serves as the key fire support for the infantry.

At the same time, the tank unit will not make the mistake of being out of touch. It often keeps a distance of 20-100 meters from the infantry. After occupying a position, the tank will stop for a while, waiting for the infantry to come up.

After the infantry comes up, they will complete the occupation and clearing of the surrounding area. The tank will start again at this moment, and then break through a certain position, and the infantry will keep up.

so back and forth.

After the motorized troops behind catch up, they will carry out the final cleaning work on the enemy troops that have been washed to pieces.

This set of tactics, even an enemy position with a tight defense line, is not easy to defend, let alone the current group of anti-governor allied forces.

They were originally a rabble drawn from various settlements, and there were gaps in equipment, morale, training, experience... all that were visible to the naked eye.After being plowed again by [-] rounds of artillery, not so many survived. What's more, even if they were alive, their morale had long since reached the verge of collapse.

To be honest, if he hadn't been forced to resist by the officer, he might have already run away, or hid and waited to surrender.

But... Aren't the officers of the anti-governor allied army not afraid of death?
Obviously also afraid.

In some places the soldiers fled, and the officers tried to call them back, but in vain, they lost their minds and simply ran away;

Some officers, after calling on the soldiers to go out to resist, slipped away first;

Some officers simply ran away with their soldiers.

In general, these anti-governor allied forces, after suffering the terrible shelling, were able to organize the rest of the people to fight back to a certain extent. Considerably speaking, their status as a mob was pretty good.

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

If the fleeing soldiers ran to both sides, the soldiers under Perbov would not pay much attention to them, and they had no time to take care of things on both sides of the front line; but if they panicked and ran backwards, it would be tantamount to being chased away by armored troops all the way. Behind the ass, that's obviously pretty bad.Two legs can't run on wheels.

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

The infantry fighting vehicles began to overtake the slow Challenger tanks and came to the front; the engineer battalion rode armed trucks to catch up quickly, and when they encountered places that could not be run over, the engineers got out of the vehicles to fill in the trenches and build temporary roads.

This is actually very dangerous, but there is no danger.

Just after the Xifeng Brigade officially went into battle, just two hours later, the entire force pierced through the middle of the enemy's line of defense.

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

At this point, Commander Yan's strategy of "blossoming from the center" can be regarded as a preliminary success.

The enemy's line is about fifty kilometers wide, and it has now been 'bloomed' from the middle, and an eight-kilometer-wide protrusion has been punched out from the middle.

All this, from the bombardment to the completion of the assault by the armored forces, all happened within three hours.

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

The protruding part was shot, of course, in preparation for the complete annihilation of the enemy.

After breaking through the line of defense, the Xifeng Brigade did not stop.After crossing the difficult trench area and the enemy's resistance, the road to the back is even smoother.The mechanized troops of the Xifeng Brigade ran very fast on this smooth road.

Five hours later, the vanguard of the Xifeng Brigade had gone fifty kilometers away.

At this time, only eight hours had passed since the bombardment started.

Eight hours is not even enough time for the anti-governor allied forces to react effectively.

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

The 2nd Motorized Infantry Division quickly followed up from the salient part of Xifeng Brigade.A part of the troops was left to stick to the central salient, while the other troops, together with the Xifeng Brigade, outflanked due north and due west respectively.

This is the rear route of the two divided armies of the enemy.

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

The enemy's forces began to waver across the board.

The center was broken through, the two sides lost contact, the rear was outflanked, and the front was flooded by fierce artillery fire...

Under attack from many sides, they became dumpling stuffing.

It took Yan Fangxu half a day to make the center blossom, and another day to make a solid dumpling.

The skin is thin and the stuffing is big, but the meat stuffing inside is not capable of breaking through the seemingly small dumpling skin.

Surrounded by them, they held firm for three days.

No supplies, no ammo, no reinforcements...

A group of rabble, expecting them to fight until they run out of ammunition and food, and everyone dies?

Unrealistic.

By the fourth day, the enemy began to surrender in large areas.

So far, this dumpling with thin skin and big stuffing is considered fully cooked.

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Happy Dragon Boat Festival!

A part of the content was missing yesterday. About La Croix’s promotion to the military rank, there are only two sentences. I don’t understand where it hit the line.

The content was deleted without knowing it for the second time, which is very annoying.

It has been refilled.

(End of this chapter)