In the later stage, the enemy's Second Mechanized Brigade ran very fast and in a scattered manner. With only twenty armed helicopters, it took too much time to disperse and catch up with more armored vehicles.
After hearing the good news, Li Xin asked again, "What are the losses of the Army Aviation Group?"
The joy in Weng Hua's tone faded as he said, "Two attack helicopters crashed, and three others were hit, but luckily managed to return to base."
Li Xin nodded silently upon hearing this. After a moment's silence, he said, "Arrange Ahmed to have the mountain warriors who haven't gone far go to the crash site to collect the bodies of the brothers."
Weng Hua nodded heavily and said, "Yes! Manager!"
After arranging these tasks, Li Xin opened the holographic map and looked at the locations of Yanaka Valley, Gapgu Valley, and Wabidal Valley.
Said: "Arrange the troops of the 253rd Mechanized Brigade to begin the assault on the rear of the enemy group!"
"Intercept the enemy's supply routes and retreat routes!"
"I'm going to block them all here!"
Weng Hua responded: "Yes! Supervisor!!"
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Soon, the 253rd Mechanized Brigade, which had just finished the battle, had no intention of stopping and continued to charge forward at full speed. Accompanying the battle was Wan Wenbing's mecha squadron and forty dagger servants.
Most of the enemy's troops set up a defense line at the foot of the plateau, trying to stop Li Xin there.
Now that Li Xin has broken through one of the defense lines, the other lines of defense will be in trouble.
Unless you escape immediately, you may be trapped inside.
But retreating and escaping may seem easy, but it is not easy at all to actually withdraw.
Li Xin also arranged feint attack troops on the other three defense lines. These enemies wanted to retreat, but they were afraid that these feint attack troops would turn from feint attack to real attack.
Especially in the Yanaka Valley, there are twenty Hound-type mechas in Nordon Castle, and the attacking force also has twenty Dagger Servants and one Vanguard.
In terms of combat effectiveness, the offensive forces still have the upper hand.
At the command center of the attacking force.
The commander is receiving the latest combat orders.
"Yes! Yes! Yes!"
"Great, I get it!"
"We will launch an immediate attack, do our utmost to contain the enemy, and give our allies enough time to establish an encirclement!"
Finally, the commander hung up the phone and quickly said to the staff officer beside him: "Quick! Connect the artillery to me!"
"Fire at full speed and bombard the enemy positions. Don't give them a chance to evacuate!"
Soon, the busy artillerymen opened fire again.
The temperature in the plateau and mountainous areas in early spring is still very low.
But even in such low temperatures, the artillerymen only wore single layers of clothing.
They brought the shells, loaded the gun barrel with propellant, and then pulled the breech block, and the howitzer let out a war roar.
For example, a 210-caliber howitzer cannot be moved by one person and can only be transported with a cart.
In the cold wind, white smoke was even coming out of the bodies of these artillerymen, and they were covered in sweat.
It is conceivable that these artillerymen have consumed a lot of physical energy at this time.
Compared with the physical energy they consumed, the firepower they released was even more ferocious.
One by one, the enemy's defensive positions began to come under attack from artillery fire.
In the enemy's headquarters.
The commander's face looked grim. He paced back and forth, thinking about how to respond.
After a short while, he gave orders to one side's staff: "Order 12, 14, 23... these defensive positions to continue to hold their positions."
"The rest of the troops, begin preparing to retreat!"
"The blocking troops must give us at least one day to hold on. After one day, they can break out on their own!"
The staff quickly issued the latest combat orders.
The defensive positions in the rear soon began to retreat in small groups. This was a long task.
Just like an attack, evacuation in modern warfare cannot be a mass retreat.
Otherwise, long-range artillery fire will soon come, and if you want to retreat, you can only leave in a small scale and disperse the distance between them.
If you want to retreat in a group, the enemy will not be able to detect it unless you have air superiority.
But on these battlefields, this is obviously impossible.
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On the other side, Han Chun, the commander of the 253rd Brigade under Li Xin, was constantly urging his troops to speed up.
“Hurry, hurry, hurry!”
"Don't worry about the ones who are falling behind, charge at full speed!"
"As long as we can block the enemy's retreat route, we will have accomplished a great feat!"
Main battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and even various anti-aircraft vehicles are running very fast on the road.
Originally, this Lake Sislan Highway was the supply route used by Nordenburg and his men, and many places were blown up along the way.
But this is only effective for blocking trucks and other motorized infantry, but it is not as effective for tracked armored vehicles.
The armored vehicles rushed forward and reached the planned combat position in just a few hours.
Here these armored vehicles began to establish a defense line, and the soldiers even got off the vehicles to build tank bunkers, etc.
When the retreating troops of Dewan Technology, Nordon Castle, and the Gasu Order arrived at this position, they were completely dumbfounded.
This crude defense line may seem fragile, but those are all armored units. Compared with them, these retreating infantrymen are truly vulnerable.
Although tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and other armored vehicles appear somewhat vulnerable when facing armor-piercing weapons, such as anti-tank missiles carried by individual soldiers.
But if you want to destroy a tank, it would be very difficult to do so in a head-on battle unless you launch a surprise attack.
A charge by an armored cluster can defeat a large number of retreating enemies, not to mention that there is also a mecha squadron following the armored force, which is an even more powerful weapon.
The 253rd Mechanized Brigade did not have to wait here for too long, and the subsequent motorized troops had already arrived at the battlefield.
Li Xin directly arranged two brigades of garrison units to take over their defense line, namely the Fifth Garrison Brigade and the Sixth Garrison Brigade.
As for the 253rd Mechanized Brigade, they now have the latest orders.
This force will directly follow the mecha troops, assault the position of Nodong Fort, and capture this strategic support point.
According to the original battle plan, Li Xin was supposed to personally lead a large force to this target.
But now it’s different. The enemy’s main force has been annihilated, and it’s only a matter of time before the rest are defeated.
The current situation is that Li Xin needs to keep the fruits of his victory.
The Mechanized Brigade will attack the farthest Nordon Castle, while the motorized garrison and mountain brigade will be responsible for taking over the Gaswu Submersible Order and Dewan Technology.
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