Chapter 232: If I don’t kill this beast, I will not be a human being!
There were many troops stationed in the armored regiment's supply area, and more than one camp was attacked.
There was an explosion.
The regimental headquarters, which was several kilometers away in the rear, received the news. The deputy commander on duty jumped out of the operations room and rushed out of the tent with a pale face.
At this moment, it was already bright.
The smell of gunpowder in the air makes people feel uneasy.
"What happened? Where was attacked?"
"Weren't we notified to all units to strengthen their defenses at night? How did the enemy still get close to us?"
When the deputy commander of the armored regiment asked these questions, his lips were trembling. Their regiment's first battalion had already been judged to have suffered combat damage.
At the beginning of the war, the entire battalion was destroyed in battle, which was no small matter.
The regiment commander and the political commissar were worried most of the night and planned to go to the division headquarters after dawn to conduct a deep self-examination.
At this critical juncture, the baggage area was lost again.
The entire group will be nailed to the pillar of shame, the kind that can't be taken down even with the help of the buttons.
The team leader was scolded severely, and the whole team had no chance of a peaceful day for the next six months.
"Deputy Regimental Officer, it looks like the 6th Company of the 2nd Battalion has been attacked by the Red Army. The communication over there has been cut off."
The regimental staff officer raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead and responded hurriedly.
"What the hell are we still communicating? The shells are falling right on our doorstep. Go, notify the Army Aviation Unit to scout north and prepare for a fire strike. We must find out the identity of the attacking Red Army."
"Orders, the 4th, 8th, and 9th Armored Companies, establish blocking positions immediately."
"Order, regimental rocket crews, prepare for battle. I don't care if these Red Army soldiers are made of iron or steel, I'm going to crush these dogs to death."
"yes!"
The regimental staff officer straightened his chest and returned to the duty room to give orders.
As soon as he left, four or five small drones broke into the regiment headquarters as if no one was around.
Not only that, there were two large drones hovering in the sky.
The layout of the base was transmitted back to the rear terminal immediately.
"Captain, it's a big fish! We found a bighead carp!"
The deputy commander of the Blue Army Armored Regiment was photographed by a drone while standing outside the command room.
The veteran soldier from the reconnaissance company who was in charge of supervising the footage ran up to Chen Mo with a military notebook in his hand to claim credit.
As a scout, I can roughly judge the rank of some officers based on their temperament without even looking at their rank.
When Chen Mo heard the word "fathead fish", his eyes also lit up. In the raid tonight, they lost a battalion commander and felt that they were at a disadvantage.
Lean over to the screen and take a look.
At this moment, the deputy commander had already noticed something was wrong and avoided drone reconnaissance and entered the command room.
But there's no use hiding.
Chen Mo believed the judgment of the veteran of the reconnaissance company. What's more, tents were set up in other places in the supply area, but this place was ordinary, but it was equipped with mobile houses.
There were no tents around, only upright wooden poles with communication wires pulled on them. Occasionally, people would appear, all wearing military uniforms similar to those of cadres.
"Oh, you're really a big fish. Your petty-bourgeois mentality is harmful. You even dare to make the headquarters building special."
"He's also someone who isn't afraid of being bombarded."
Chen Mo smiled and turned to look at Feng Guoqing: "Old Feng, notify the howitzer team to blow up this place for me."
"Reloading maneuver speed remains unchanged, continue the full-speed assault!!"
"yes!"
Feng Guoqing is the combat staff officer of the Blue Army Battalion. During wartime, the three commanders, the battalion commander, the deputy battalion commander, and the political instructor, cannot be assigned to the same position. Old Feng followed Chen Mo and naturally also served as the communications staff officer.
Orders were issued one by one.
The happiest ones must be the howitzer team. The information battalion gets intelligence the fastest, and the cross-linked satellite positioning system can link with drones and transmit the specific coordinates back at the first time.
The howitzer team didn't have to think at all. When the attack order was given, the people firing the arrows had already measured the distance and the angle of the artillery fire for them.
Boom boom boom!!!
There was another roar of artillery fire. The instantaneous fuse meant that the shells would explode as soon as they hit the ground.
The power of an entire howitzer battery was so great that half the sky was covered with the smoke from the shells.
Boom boom boom!!!
The Blue Army Armored Regiment's headquarters was instantly covered by artillery fire. The regiment commander and the political commissar had just woken up and had no time to fasten their belts before the entire headquarters was covered in dust from the exploding artillery shells.
This round of artillery fire caused a low proportion of casualties, but it basically wiped out the entire regiment's commanding personnel.
Discover and destroy.
At this moment, Chen Mo figured it out.
In the regiment command room, the deputy commander stood there in a daze as he watched the sensors on his body being triggered.
He moved his lips but couldn't utter a word.
He has fought in wars for nearly half of his life. As a deputy regimental-level cadre of the 61st Division Armored Regiment, what kind of scenes has he not seen?
But this time, he was defeated humiliatingly, unwillingly, and inexplicably.
The deputy captain took a few steps back and clenched the armrests of the chair with both hands, barely able to steady himself.
"Deputy Commander, we, we are defeated!"
The regimental staff officer murmured with a sad face, saying that this attack was indeed too much of a blow to them.
"It's okay. Has the order been given?"
"It has been ordered."
"That's good, that's good." The deputy commander nodded, his expression somewhat bewildered. "It's too early to talk about defeat. An exercise, getting the troops out and ready to go, is far more meaningful than firing those two shots."
Apart from saying this, he had no better reason to comfort himself.
However, the deputy head's words of comfort to himself were not without reason.
The Blue Army Division Armored Regiment responded very quickly, especially in the preparation of long-range rocket artillery. The safety of the entire regiment's baggage area was a serious issue.
Four multiple rocket launcher vehicles were specially arranged for quick response.
Due to frequent explosions nearby, other garrisons were still unaware of the bombing of the regimental headquarters.
Upon receiving the order from the regimental headquarters, the captain immediately assembled the entire company.
"Rocket launchers assemble and prepare for company battle formation."
"Set off!!"
As the order was issued, four rocket vehicles scattered in the mixed operation team started moving slowly.
The vehicles are arranged in battle formation with a distance of ten meters between them.
This kind of battle formation is generally related to the characteristics of rocket artillery, a multi-shot weapon with a crew of four vehicles that can fire 80 rockets in one minute.
The advantages are fast firing speed, strong firepower and good surprise, but the disadvantages are also obvious, the ejection dispersion gap is too large.
Therefore, this weapon is rarely used by a single vehicle group, but rather by multiple vehicles in a cascade, specifically to attack distributed enemies.
Before the target is found, the rocket crew will not gather together, including the mixed maneuvering process, they will maneuver separately.
The reason is simple. As the main output of long-range firepower on the ground, we must always be on guard against being taken away by the enemy in one wave.
The blocking lines of the 4th, 8th and 9th companies in front have been opened. The long-range rocket artillery crews have completed assembly and quickly positioned the vehicle body horizontally. Four metal hydraulic columns slowly extend from the vehicle bridge and press against the ground to stabilize the artillery vehicle.
At the same time, the multi-barreled main turret on the top of the carriage rises.
"Adjust the firing parameters. Tentatively set the firing angle to 57 degrees, the range to 10 kilometers, and the strike mode to multiple-round bursts."
The captain guessed the distance based on the movement of the artillery fire and adjusted the shooting parameters for the first time.
However, this adjustment is not accurate, and a second adjustment will be made later after the reconnaissance troops have clarified the enemy situation.
The company commander was already furious. He had just heard the sound of the tank's smoothbore gun. Everyone was ready. This time, they were sure to wipe out the Red Army's tank cluster in one go.
That’s a good idea indeed.
But the problem is that the Blue Army Division's mechanized warfare was crushed by various information-based means.
The defense line behind the Blue Army's baggage depot has just been completed.
The drone’s extended reconnaissance reaches overhead.
The specific coordinate information was collected by the cross-linked satellite positioning system and transmitted to the rocket artillery group in the rear.
Not only that, the heavy assault group arranged by Chen Mo also arrived at the Sixth Company, which was the entrance to the camp that was first bombed.
The assault cluster formed a 500-meter horizontal and 3,000-meter vertical expansion.
The assault form used the classic mode of three-wave operations. Tanks and armored infantry fighting vehicles cooperated to form a huge triangular pointed weapon with a continuous dynamic chain. The characteristics of penetration, lightning strike, and cluster dynamic chain were extremely obvious.
The formation of clusters is still possible thanks to the cross-linked positioning system, which can adjust the maneuverable position of the tanks at any time.
At this time, let alone the armored regiment that had been half-crippled.
Even a fully organized armored regiment-level firepower could not withstand the scale of the informationized battalion's long-range rear and front-line assaults.
The heavily armed group drove to the camp gate.
The surviving soldiers of the Blue Army's Sixth Company carried individual rocket launchers and tried to stop the group from entering the camp.
But at this time, can we still stop it?
Smoothbore cannons and heavy machine guns launched an attack on the Blue Army's defense line like raindrops.
There were trenches dug at the entrance to the camp. After Chen Mo learned about the terrain in advance through a drone, he immediately transmitted it to Liu Hongyun, the leader of the ground assault team.
The assault formation contracted and the spears thrust forward.
A crazy massacre broke out.
Ta-da-da. Boom-boom-boom.
With the clustered dynamic chain charge and the howitzer group in the rear constantly helping to clear obstacles, the stationed units in the Blue Army's supply area were unable to organize a decent resistance.
The ground armored battle began with extreme brutality.
The first batch of more than a dozen tanks and armored vehicles that broke into the camp were destroyed by heavy machine guns before the Blue Army soldiers could organize a decent resistance.
The firepower that was a little further away was locked onto by the helicopters roaming on both wings of the cluster.
On the undulating land of the camp, the tanks advanced at high speed, the engines roared, and the earth was trembling.
The three-meter-long gun barrel vibrates as the tank body bumps. The purely mechanical design of the gun ear compensates for the changes in shooting balance caused by the thrust of the artillery shells during the mobile assault.
Just a few seconds.
The Blue Army Sixth Company’s base, which had been bombed once, was occupied by the steel monster.
The Blue Army soldiers hid in the corner with dejected faces, watching the armored cluster trample on their camp, countless tents overturned by cluster tanks, and their ropes cut by the coordinating infantry.
At this moment, the Red Army was like bandits breaking into the enemy camp.
With a wave of cluster attacks, the heavy tanks destroyed the high ground blocking line firepower points established by the 4th and 8th companies in the rear based on the terrain from the front.
Many armored and mechanized infantry soldiers were targeted by helicopters before they could even react.
Bombarded by heavy artillery.
The Blue Army's rocket artillery team waited until the enemy was almost there, but they still didn't wait for their own scouts to provide coordinates and adjust the shooting parameters.
On the contrary, the rocket crew on Chen Mo's side launched a covering bombing on the Blue Army's defense line from a distance of 15 kilometers.
With heavy armored clusters attacking in the front and long-range artillery covering the back, in this era without ballistic radar, the Blue Army was suppressed by the system and had no ability to fight back.
One after another, blue army officers and soldiers slumped on the ground dejectedly. Many of them had realized that their exercise journey was over.
A large-scale military exercise.
There were thousands of units participating in the war. Before setting off, the ordinary soldiers' fantasies of performing well, making meritorious contributions, and getting promoted were completely shattered in an instant.
The commander of the fourth company, who received the order from the regiment headquarters, watched as the defense line he had built was easily broken through by the Red Army.
He was also hit by the first round of artillery fire and suffered casualties.
He stood blankly in front of the defense line, watching the tank pass by him three meters away and rush to the baggage area in the rear.
The red flames and the cold light cast by the tank armor reflected on his face.
The fourth company commander muttered a few curses and collapsed on the ground. He was dragged to a farther position by other injured soldiers in the company.
The Blue Army tried to counterattack. The surviving soldiers of several companies were lurking on the flanks, planning to use individual weapons to kill the Red Army's heavy armored group.
But there is nothing to be done, because every drone on the battlefield is the Red Army’s scout.
Often, the Blue Army had just gathered its troops and had no time to organize effective resistance before they were locked on by helicopters and taken away in one round.
This kind of fighting style and encounter was the first time that the Blue Army Armored Regiment encountered this kind of fighting style and encounter.
The helicopters sent out by the armored regiment were ineffective. After their bombs were lost, they were forced to abandon their infantry and withdraw from the battlefield.
This battle cannot be fought.
If the fighting continues, the only aviation firepower in the supply area will also become a target for the Red Army's mechanized infantry.
As they got closer and closer to the baggage area and advanced several kilometers on the battlefield, Chen Mo only cared about speed, which led to the battlefield becoming extremely chaotic, and the remaining firepower of the Blue Army could not be cleaned up.
The 9th Mechanized Infantry Company was bombed by rockets. The surviving soldiers joined forces with the 3rd Battalion Tank Company that came to support from afar, and tried to organize the soldiers, rely on the terrain and vehicles to counterattack, and establish multiple firepower points.
But unfortunately.
At this point in the battle, our heavy firepower was accurately bombed by the Red Army every time and was of no help at all.
Their resistance did not change the overall situation much.
The Type 96 heavy tank roared fiercely at close range, and the infantry and armored troops worked together to press forward step by step.
Early morning of the 10th.
The soldiers of the second and third battalions of the Blue Army Division Armored Regiment watched their positions being captured with their own eyes.
For countless soldiers, all they remembered were flames, explosions, machine guns, rifles, grenades, missiles, disorderly comrades, burning vehicles, dragged tents, and devastated camps.
Powerlessness, a huge feeling of powerlessness and despair swept across the entire battlefield like a gale.
The staff of the directorate who stayed at the Blue Army’s base were stunned!
Battlefield observers were equally stunned.
They never imagined that an armored regiment guarding the baggage area on the Eastern Front would be defeated so thoroughly and so quickly.
The last line of defense couldn't hold it back.
It is no exaggeration to say that the heavy armored cluster does not even need to fire its guns, just by charging forward, it can break up the last line of defense and firepower points.
Smoke rose and flames of war raged, but the raid was coming to an end.
The Blue Army's baggage depot was captured, and more than a dozen refueling depots and ammunition depots were exposed in front of the heavy armored group.
The tank slowly stopped moving.
Not to mention that the Blue Army felt that the defeat was a bit unreal, even Liu Hongyun and his team did not expect that this battle would go so smoothly.
At this time.
If we were to ask who is the most sober in the entire camp, it would be Chen Mo.
He knew in advance how severe the system's suppression was, no less than Maxim's attack on the cavalry, so the current results were not surprising.
Seeing his own tank stop next to the fuel tank, Chen Mo bared his teeth, picked up the communicator and cursed: "Ground assault team, what are you doing?"
"You can't use the Blues' oil? Or is it that other people's oil is hard to burn? Go refill it."
"Liang Platoon, quickly drive our tanker over and fill up the stored oil. Also, find someone to drive the Blue Army's tanker back."
"Pull back all the ammunition you can. Damn it, you don't know how to be careful in your daily life."
"Entire battalion, allow twenty minutes to move supplies. In twenty minutes, the entire battalion will move westward toward the Red Army artillery regiment's position."
"Reconnaissance team, release drones and radars to scout all mobile targets within a 50-kilometer radius."
"Once you find the Blue Army rescue team, report immediately!"
"Follow the order!!"
Chen Mo rubbed his hands excitedly in the command vehicle.
He knew that after this battle, the system experiment required by Dean Lu could be completed, and he did not let the college down.
The soldier who was driving in front was stunned for a few seconds after hearing the order from his battalion commander.
Then they stepped on the accelerator and maneuvered towards the fuel tank.
The eliminated soldiers of the Blue Army watched with their own eyes as the Red Army soldiers used oil guns to spray their own fuel into the tanks' fuel tanks.
The Red Army arranged for people to drive away their own oil tankers one by one.
The ammunition was almost gone.
Since the 142 transport vehicle could not hold all the ammunition, the Red Army soldiers carried some of the ammunition boxes into the armored vehicle. They would rather suffer and have nowhere to sit than not to carry the bullets back.
"You beasts! This is not the Red Army, it's nothing but bandits."
An old Blue Army soldier muttered to himself as he watched.
"Which unit of the 139th Division is this? Damn, the tank's paint job doesn't look like it belongs to the 139th Division."
Another veteran was even more confused. The battle was already over, but he still didn't know which unit it was. He hadn't encountered such a battle in many years.
Twenty minutes are the most enjoyable twenty minutes for the information battalion. They can still replenish oil and ammunition, but they can use the Blue Army's supplies, and the feeling is different.
But for the Blues.
These twenty minutes were undoubtedly the darkest and most depressing time.
At 7:40 in the morning, Chen Mo ordered the Blue Army Battalion to retreat.
Each team aimed directly at the Red Army artillery regiment. With thunder and lightning raging, they raised a three-kilometer-long smoke signal on the ground and fled in a hurry.
Chen Mo is self-aware.
The Blue Army Battalion's combat effectiveness benefited from the support of the system, and they were able to anticipate the enemy and achieve this victory.
But system suppression is not invincible.
As long as the Blue Army Division reacts and coordinates with the 6th Air Division to launch another bombing, even the most powerful system will be defeated.
It caused such a big disaster.
Chen Mo knew very well that only the Red Army Division could ensure his safety. As for how to do it, such a troublesome matter, he would leave it to the Red Army to figure out.
The Blue Army Battalion began to retreat at 7:40 in the morning, and the rescue troops arrived at the Eastern Front Armored Regiment's supply area at 8:10.
There was a half-hour gap in between.
When the news reached the Blue Army Division Headquarters, Division Commander Wang Songhe had slept too late in the middle of the night and was not fully awake when he was awakened by the combat staff officer Lin Yifeng.
Division headquarters.
Political Commissar Fang Yong, Chief of Staff Qin Hui, and a group of staff members turned pale and were so angry that they couldn't eat.
One night.
In just one night, the entire division was re-equipped, and more than a dozen grassroots officers on the northwest line were assassinated, which was almost equivalent to the grassroots command of an entire battalion being killed to the point of being utterly destroyed.
The combat effectiveness dropped by more than 50%.
Although the organization was still there, it had almost no ability to maneuver over long distances, and the plan to strategically penetrate the Red Army divisions was partially shelved.
That's all.
After all, for a division-level unit, the casualties of a battalion are nothing.
But what about the Eastern Front?
According to statistics, a total of 2,800 soldiers from the armored regiment and the mechanized infantry regiment were wiped out overnight.
That’s not even counting the loss of the supply area and the impact on the overall strategic layout.
The loss of manpower alone reached one-fifth of the entire division.
The combat losses were even more exaggerated, accounting for almost a quarter of the entire division.
After Wang Songhe received the report.
He stood next to the map in the combat command room, staring at it for three minutes without saying a word.
In the early hours of last night, he guessed that the Informationized Battalion might not have been defeated by the bomber formation, but he did not expect that a mere battalion could be so bold.
The entire eastern front supply zone was destroyed.
Wang Songhe took a long time to adjust himself before he could barely suppress the anger in his heart.
He gritted his teeth and uttered a few words.
"If I don't kill this beast, I will not be a human being!!"
"What about Wu? What did he promise me before the war?"
"They say the armored regiment is the pillar of the Eastern Front. My god, is this how you give me your godly legs?"
When Wang Songhe was angry, he kicked over the chair next to him. The chair leg hit the ankle of a nearby staff officer, and he felt numb all over due to the pain.
But he just gritted his teeth and dared not say a word.
The commander is furious, who dares to interrupt him?
Even Commander Wu of the Armored Regiment, who was usually the darling of the division and the mainstay of the Motorized Infantry Division, now became "someone with the surname Wu", and others dared not say a word.
Commander Wang walked up to the command desk, slammed the entire desk, and yelled, "Hasn't the armored regiment arrived yet?"
"Last night, we repeatedly issued orders to strengthen our defenses and remain vigilant."
"Is this the result you gave me?"
"I see you're all getting old. You've had too much of a comfortable life and you don't even know how to fight anymore."
"You son of a bitch, this is my entire regiment, 2,800 men. It'll take you all night to call the roll, right?"
"Is this how much damage he suffered in battle?"
Seeing that Commander Wang had been cursing for a long time and had finally cooled down a little, Political Commissar Fang stood up from his chair, took out a cigarette from his pocket, handed it to him, and said soothingly: "Old Wang, calm down too."
"Right now, things have happened."
"Morale among the subordinate units is a problem, and we must adjust our strategic direction as soon as possible."
"And this information battalion. Keeping it around will always be a nuisance. We need to integrate it and curb its momentum first."
"snort!"
Wang Songhe snorted coldly: "Contain it, how to contain it?"
"The Seventh War Zone has been designated as an experimental area. This is great. I've completely lost face."
"After all this trouble, the director's office will definitely issue instructions today. Just wait, it won't be long before the director's office issues a notice."
"Son of a bitch, I've been a soldier for most of my life, and today I've become someone else's stepping stone."
"By the way, where did Chen and his men run off to?"
"Commander, according to the rescue unit's report, judging by the direction of the enemy's moving tracks, they should be camping near the Red Army's artillery regiment."
War Staff Officer Wang Yifeng responded.
"He went to the artillery regiment?"
Upon hearing this, Wang Songhe was also stunned. He had exactly the same idea as Gao Jin.
Damn, is this how you fight a war?
"Hey, this guy is really thick-skinned, damn it, after beating me up, he turned around and went to join Lao Li?"
After Wang Songhe figured out that Chen Mo was afraid of revenge, he was so angry that he laughed.
Damn, I’ve been in the army for so many years, but I’ve never seen such a shameless person.
Is there any officer capable of doing such a shameful and disgraceful thing?
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