Chapter 132, Battle of Sanchi
After receiving the news sent by telegram that Morgan and others had escaped, Perbov realized that the journey to Sanchi Town would definitely not be peaceful.
To be honest, he was a little annoyed.
After all, his troops had stayed in Sanchi Town for more than two days, yet they didn't realize that it was a den of thieves!
Looking back now, he could see some clues at that time. But at that time, he was fully focused on planning the next move, thinking about how many camps could be taken down through deterrence, where he might need to use some military means...
To put it bluntly, it was because we didn't pay enough attention to Sanchi Town, which had already been resolved, that such a big mess occurred.
The seven clerks from the Ministry of Civil Affairs had escaped, which was good news. The intelligence they sent back also made him very concerned.
In the wasteland, pillagers have always been a major problem.
Why did he move away all the people except the agricultural population that had to be retained? In addition to the large manpower gap in Weixing City, there was another big problem, which Gu Hang had told him about long ago: there was no energy to run those small camps with low value.
It's not that there is really no value there, but the input-output ratio is seriously unequal. If you want to operate it, you need to import a lot of materials and support industries, which is to say, it is to do "poverty alleviation" work.
But in addition to poverty alleviation, military forces must be deployed for protection. Otherwise, the slightly richer camps will become fat sheep that are targeted.
Marauders and monsters in the wild are all big threats in the wasteland.
At present, in addition to collecting many camps, the area covered by Perbov's troops also has another task: suppressing bandits.
The three remaining agricultural camps need a stable environment to expand production; this area is also an important trade route from Weixing City to Garbage Town. Garbage Town is a very important source of raw materials for Weixing City’s industrial base, and Garbage Town itself also needs to ensure this transportation route and import food.
According to the Governor, he wanted every force in this area to fly the flag of the new alliance, and the raiders were of course among them.
Originally, Perbov didn't know that the bandit problem here was so serious. He planned to finish the work of the survivors' settlements in various places before talking about suppressing the bandits.
Now, it seems we have to do it in advance.
Similarly, Perbov could also judge that those robbers definitely did not have the courage to confront him head-on, otherwise they would have started fighting as soon as he entered Sanchi Town without any preparation.
But since they finally chose to rebel, they must have something to rely on.
Urban ruins... guerrilla warfare... Perbov thought about these and made a judgment: he couldn't let these looters get away. Thousands of people, divided into small groups, ran into the pre-war ruins, and then attacked and harassed the merchants at any time, then he really didn't have many ways to deal with them.
The entire anti-bandit operation turned into a protracted counter-guerrilla campaign.
He made his decision almost immediately.
"All troops, attack immediately! Go to Sanchi Town!"
In addition to the rapid advance of his 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. The "Wanderer V" infantry fighting vehicle has excellent off-road performance and can maintain a relatively good forward speed without relying on roads.
He ordered the two company commanders to block the retreat of Sanchi Town. If they had already started to evacuate, they should directly launch an attack to delay their evacuation and wait for the main force to come and encircle them.
The two motorized infantry companies quickly advanced along the roads in two directions, and trucks carrying soldiers rushed towards Sanchi Town from the direction of the roads.
Perbov himself led the battalion headquarters along the main road towards Sanchi Town. The tank battalion and artillery battalion might run a little slower, but they were also the strongest troops.
A day later, when the main force led by Perbov was still two days away from Sanchi Town, they received two pieces of news.
The fighting has already started up ahead.
The mechanized infantry companies he had sent to infiltrate the rear had arrived just in time. They had each caught up with the tail of a retreating raider tribe and launched a direct attack.
The enemy obviously lacked awareness of the marching speed of mechanized troops, and this group of guys who had to walk and use ox carts to pull goods were caught off guard.
The 'Wanderer V' played a great role in the wilderness. The 40mm machine gun fired crazily without any scruples. Even if the looters used ox carts and various goods as temporary shelters, they could not stop it. The modified and placed on the weapon station of the infantry fighting vehicle, the explosive machine gun replaced the coaxial machine gun, like a small howitzer with continuous firing, bombarded the enemy crazily.
The infantrymen who got off the vehicle accompanied the infantry fighting vehicles in advancing and sweeping, and their main job was to provide follow-up fire.
The enemy had artillery. The caliber of the small mountain artillery was not large, but if it was really deployed and fired a few times head-on, it could actually destroy a few infantry fighting vehicles if we were unlucky.
Unfortunately, before those mountain cannons could even form a firing formation, they were hit by machine guns and explosive machine guns and were directly destroyed.
After these mountain cannons were of no use, the only means left to threaten infantry fighting vehicles was direct-fire rocket launchers.
But it's hard to guarantee accuracy beyond 200 meters, and even if it hits, the power is not enough. If you really want to guarantee both the hit rate and the power to threaten the side armor of the "Wanderer", you have to get within a few dozen meters, and it's best to have two or three groups attack together.
How harsh is this condition?
Many warriors tried to approach with rocket launchers, but in this field with little cover, there was no chance of getting close. The Wanderer's crew had an excellent battlefield reconnaissance system integrated into it, and most threats could be detected in advance through the observation port, and then a round of machine guns and explosive shells would be fired, immediately destroying those warriors who dared to come up, including the rocket launchers in their hands.
Even if there is a place where the infantry fighting vehicles cannot observe well and one or two rocket launcher teams suddenly appear, it is not a big deal.
This is the job of soldiers who get off the vehicle and fight on foot.
T5 soldiers are strong enough in all their military skill levels.
You have bullets, and I have them too, more than you; the gun in my hand can shoot more accurately, farther, and with more powerful firepower than yours.
With just a few bursts of fire, or a quick launch of a rocket launcher, the raider fire teams that had finally gotten close were wiped out.
When most of the warriors who had the courage to launch a counterattack were killed, the remaining warriors who were not brave enough could not hold on any longer and were completely defeated. Then, they were killed by the soldiers with all kinds of weapons on their way to escape like lambs to be slaughtered in the wilderness.
In fact, even if they are all fearless and fight hard, what can they do?
If they were suddenly attacked by mechanized troops, with no positions, no shelters, no heavy weapons, and in the open wilderness, they would be easy targets.
Of course, there were more of them, and in the completely disorderly rout, quite a few people still escaped.
However, without baggage and supplies, it is hard to say how many of the fleeing looters will survive, and how many will be able to regroup and return.
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If the two mechanized infantry companies responsible for the encirclement fought a very beautiful surprise attack and won a great victory, then the two motorized infantry companies that attacked Sanchi Town along the road in two directions suffered a small loss and ended up in a draw.
These two companies are somewhat lacking in heavy weapons and heavy vehicles.
For a motorized infantry company, all they have are Iron Ox troop transport trucks and Ranger motorcycles.
But the enemies they faced were well prepared.
According to the battle report, the looters had obviously expected Perbov to lead his troops. They laid mines and bombs on the road, built roadblocks and positions, and set up ambushes on both sides of the road, ready to attack from both sides when the troops passed by.
All their arrangements have worked.
However, the only thing they did not expect was that the soldiers coming to fight would be so elite.
As a company was advancing, the Ranger motorcycles took the lead and discovered the enemy soldiers blocking the road early on, and reported the news back; the reconnaissance squad in the company also discovered the ambushes on both sides, and immediately troop transport trucks dropped off the soldiers and headed towards both sides.
The bombs and mines along the road destroyed two trucks, but failed to cause further casualties. The engineers reinforced to the company began to clear mines and build positions with the help of vehicles.
These responses and reactions made the raiders who were ambushing feel a little confused.
Something is wrong!
It's not like they haven't used similar methods in the past. Even if the caravans that were ambushed had strong mercenaries and guards, they would be disoriented and likely to collapse directly after suffering such a blow.
Even if they were not defeated, it would be good enough if they could barely rely on the baggage to organize a defense line and resist. How could they have the spare energy to counterattack the ambush?
The key is that the counterattack is particularly fierce!
An infantry squad dared to fight against hundreds of people. Their tactical movements were standard and effective. They crouched low and relied on the terrain, which was not very undulating, to hide their bodies. When they were shooting at each other, their shooting skills were accurate and their power was surprisingly strong. On the contrary, they fired a volley of bullets at them, and they didn't know whether they hit the target or not. Anyway, no one on the opposite side fell down. On the contrary, they pulled the trigger and fired a few three-shot bursts, and someone on their side would die.
It is a bit exaggerated that one infantry squad can block the ambush troops in one direction and prevent them from charging forward.
But what can we do? We can't let the enemy drive us away with just ten of our men, right?
After a short rest, they launched a powerful attack, increasing their firepower in the front and sending people to attack from the sides.
Who doesn't know how to interject?
As a result, the team responsible for the infiltration encountered another infantry squad head-on.
Next, a small amount of heavy firepower from the platoon and company arrived.
At the convoy, mortar positions were urgently set up and began to show their power; the team's rocket launchers were also taken out and replaced with high-explosive ammunition, and when the looters launched the attack, several were killed with one shot.
It's really impossible to attack.
Then, more soldiers rushed out from the positions built with cars and launched a counterattack in the direction of the two ambushes.
The ambushes on both sides of the road, each with about 200 men, were actually defeated by this charge.
However, these soldiers did not pursue too hard.
After all, there will be some casualties in a gunfight between infantry in the wilderness.
There is no need at all.
They retreated back to their position, allowing the raiders, who had retreated somewhat, to come back again.
This is exactly what I want.
The efficiency of using guns to kill people on the battlefield is still too low.
In fact, as soon as the battle started, they had already informed the rear of the news.
After receiving the news, the driver of the artillery support company in the main force of the battalion, which was far behind, stepped on the accelerator. In less than half an hour, he ran nearly 20 kilometers.
This was a somewhat risky decision, as it would be risky for the artillery battalion to move forward without protection. The only people who accompanied and protected them were dozens of soldiers on patrol motorcycles drawn from the guard platoon, engineers, and logistics.
But the looters, who had obviously never seen heavy artillery, did not take this factor into consideration.
The artillery support company advanced 20 kilometers, stopped the iron ox that was towing the truck, and then set up the towing artillery behind it.
Using the directions sent back by the infantry in front, they set the shooting parameters. Then, the ten war gods in front of them began to roar.
The 155mm howitzers they deployed have a range of nearly 25 kilometers.
And that is where the two motorized infantry companies in front are fighting.
After fighting face to face and with ambushes on both sides for nearly an hour, they finally received friendly artillery support.
Twelve heavy artillery shells fell about two or three hundred meters away from their position, covering a circle and a half.
The looters were stunned.
A shell that was half a person's height and weighed fifty kilograms was enough to create a two-meter-deep pit when it hit the ground, and the killing range was nearly the size of a football field.
Those who were close to the center of the explosion were killed; those who were farther away had their internal organs shattered by the shock wave and were killed by shell fragments...
Without fortifications or bunkers, this round of shelling caused heavy losses to the looters who were ambushing and blocking the way.
In addition to the loss of personnel, the even more severe blow was to morale.
In the previous one hour of fighting, they tried their best but failed to defeat this group of soldiers whose number was less than half of theirs. Instead, they were counterattacked several times and some of their men died.
I had all the advantages, but in the end it ended up in a stalemate.
This already made them very discouraged.
This round of heavy artillery fire directly turned this discouragement into fear.
We just fought for an hour, and the number of casualties may not be as many as those killed in this round of shelling!
As soon as they arrived, the looters, whose morale had completely collapsed, began to run back; and the few who obeyed the orders of the leader and captain and stayed behind were immediately met with a second round of shelling.
After the deafening heavy artillery bombardment ended, no one left alive dared to continue fighting.
You can't win the fight, and just staying on the periphery is just a waste of time getting bombed. Who would do that?
However, it was not so easy to escape at this time.
There are real motorcycles in the motorized infantry company.
The 'Hunters' that had been put into the position earlier came out with a rumble. Two people in each vehicle, one on a bicycle and the other manning a machine gun mounted on the side of the vehicle, began to chase. A large number of infantry followed closely behind, charging out to the accompaniment of the charge.
How could the fleeing looters outrun the 'Hunter' with its excellent off-road performance? A large number of people were mowed down by the light machine guns on the motorcycles, and once someone tried to stop and fight back, the Hunter would not bother to fight. The infantry that followed would immediately take out their rocket launchers and greet them, followed by intensive gunfire.
The looters who participated in this blocking and ambush battle suffered heavy casualties, and only one in ten was able to escape the battlefield.
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Two battles, two reports, when they reached Perbov's hands, they still made him somewhat alert.
This was undoubtedly a great victory. On the two battlefields, at least two thousand enemies were defeated, and the number of casualties was so numerous that there was no time to count them, but it was definitely more than a thousand.
On our side, the combined casualties of the two mechanized infantry companies were less than double digits; the two motorized infantry companies were slightly worse off, but the combined casualties were only about thirty people.
The casualty ratio is 1:50. What else is there to be dissatisfied about?
Yes, there are.
Perbov is summing up the lessons learned.
For example, the mechanized infantry company should not be allowed to advance too far, resulting in the artillery support from the rear not arriving until an hour after the battle begins. If this time can be advanced by another half an hour, the casualties of the mechanized infantry company may be further reduced.
For example, he has divided his troops into many groups now, and he also has to consider the follow-up actions of the Sanchi Town looters whose main force is still there. After all, he still doesn't know clearly how many people the other side has, and how many weapons and equipment, especially heavy weapons, they have.
What if the enemy also has relatively strong firepower and takes advantage of the current situation of his troops being divided to launch a fierce attack on one of the troops?
But on the other hand, this problem has no solution.
If he gathered his troops in one place, they might still be on the road. If the enemy took advantage of this opportunity to start a blocking battle on the road, even if it didn't have much effect and blocked them layer by layer for several hours, what if the large group of looters in the rear who got the news really took advantage of this opportunity to break up and run away?
On the contrary, the current situation is still good.
With the help of artillery, the motorized infantry company defeated the ambushed enemy and advanced to the front of Sanchi Town, where they were already building positions and carrying out siege.
The mechanized infantry company cruised behind and blocked the retreat route.
The four companies separately locked down the four directions of Sanchi Town, and effectively blocked the group of robbers who had gathered together and were preparing to evacuate in Sanchi Town.
As long as he could win another great victory and win a decisive battle, then combined with the results of the previous battles, at least five thousand raiders would be eliminated.
From Weixing City to Laji Town, all the robbers and bandits along the way were wiped out.
Of course, there will definitely be a few that slip through the net, but that is no longer a big deal.
How did the looters come from? It is possible that some people are born bad, but they are a minority. Most looters are ordinary people who can't survive. In order to survive in this wasteland, they start to steal the lives of others.
Murder and robbery may sound abominable, but if you think about it carefully, there is nothing you can do about it.
And if the policy of 45-level welfare that Ms. Ossena is promoting in Renaissance City can be successfully extended to all places in this area, and most of the propertyless poor are relocated away, then the soil for the survival of the looters in this area will be quickly eliminated.
Without the poor people who are the source and the more potential robbers, the fewer bandits there are, and there will be no situation where the bandits cannot be completely wiped out or the more they are wiped out, the more they will appear.
Sitting in the command vehicle, Perbov thought about the whole situation carefully. Finally, he decided to continue with the current method of dividing the troops and encircling the enemy.
Risks aside, from a purely military perspective, it is not a good idea to fight like this.
This was a bit like a political war, but... Perbov remembered what the governor had said when he was chatting with the officers one time, that the military was an extension of politics, and that war was a special kind of violent political means that was the most cruel and intense.
He now understands a little bit what this means.
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"Damn it! This is too much of a disrespect for us!"
"They must be taught a severe lesson!"
"Is it so great to have armored vehicles and artillery?"
In Sanchi Town, the leaders were holding a meeting.
From Terrell on down, the crowd was excited and clamoring.
Although they said harsh words, in fact, they were all very panicked.
How can I not panic?
The original plan was to evacuate as soon as the army left and take as many bottles and jars as possible with them. But a traitor emerged and the arrested clerks escaped.
Then, they made a plan to continue the retreat, and even decided to take the lead and let some people leave first with some supplies. By the way, they set up blocking positions on the enemy's way and used mines and roadside bombs.
As a result, the blocking position was penetrated within an hour, and most of the people sent to participate in the blocking battle were killed or wounded; the army that evacuated first with some baggage was ambushed from behind and attacked by mechanized troops on the plain. All the baggage and belongings they were escorting were lost, and of the 2,000 people, less than 400 escaped.
The series of bad news really made me feel confused.
What is even more dizzying is the combat effectiveness displayed by the army of this new alliance.
More than 40 armored vehicles and less than 200 infantrymen crushed ten times their own number with ease, with almost no casualties; the 200 infantrymen formed a defensive position with the help of trucks, fighting with nearly 1,000 people for an hour, and then attracted artillery fire to wipe them out in one battle...
How to fight this?
Indeed, the main force of the looters had not yet arrived, and there were still more than 3,000 people in Sanchi Town. But according to the combat strength shown by the New Alliance Army before, if all these 3,000 people rushed forward, it would probably only take a few rounds of artillery coverage and a round of attack by the armored forces.
They would not give in, they just said it loudly. Terrell had tried to call out the generals, but if he really asked any of them to lead their own troops to fight, no one would be willing.
Amid the commotion, Terrell finally couldn't help it.
He slammed the table several times until everyone was quiet, then he spoke:
"Are you done quarreling?"
Looking at the gloomy face of the great leader Terrell, no one dared to speak.
But in fact, there are still many people who feel disdain in their hearts, and some of them will even show this emotion directly on their faces.
How can a leader maintain his dignity among the raiders?
There is no other reason, it’s just military achievement.
If you can lead your brothers to victory, and drink and eat meat with them, then you are the best. No matter whether you are loyal or brutal, it is just a matter of style.
But if you lose the battle... those who are loyal will be stabbed in the back; those who rule cruelly will be overthrown by others.
He hasn't reached that point yet, but there are signs of it.
Two disastrous defeats, plus being trapped in Sanchi Town and in a desperate situation, were a huge blow to his prestige.
He could even imagine that there must be many people who were already wavering and thinking about what Bol had said before.
Would surrender be a better option? Wouldn't it be better to join the new alliance with the previous opportunity, so that I wouldn't have to face the enemy directly? Even if I lost my privileges and became an ordinary civilian, it would be better than losing my life.
There are probably quite a few people who have this kind of thought. And all these things will 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, then he might have a chance to maintain his prestige.
Seeing that the people below had stopped talking because of his action of slamming the table, he felt a little relieved. Fortunately, the prestige accumulated over the years had not been completely exhausted.
He let out a long breath and began to describe his plan:
"To put it bluntly, those lackeys of the Governor are only about 800 strong. Their weapons and equipment are terrible, but in order to surround us, they have divided their forces too much. We must concentrate our forces, all the remaining artillery and all the explosives in one place, and charge with all our strength. We will definitely break out."
Someone jumped out and sang a different tune: "It's easy for the chief to say that! Those who are going to die are our people!"
Then someone else said, "If we rush out, I wonder how many people will die along the way! Little Boll is right. It would be better if we just stayed quiet."
At first there were sporadic conversations, and then everyone looked eager to try, as if the entire meeting was about to turn into a vegetable market.
But a series of gunshots interrupted the quarrel.
The three people who just spoke all had a bullet hole on their foreheads.
They fell on their backs with disbelief on their faces.
It was Terrell who fired the shot.
The rest of the people were all shocked, with expressions of disbelief on their faces, as if they had never expected that Trail would dare to pull out a gun and kill someone in such a situation.
They were all born bandits, and in an instant, some of them subconsciously wanted to pull out their guns.
"Don't move!" Terrell shouted!
But at this time, how could just yelling be of any use?
Some people continue to pull out guns.
But at this time, the many robbers guarding nearby, as if they had been prepared, raised their guns and aimed at those who made any unusual movements.
These people are undoubtedly Terrell's confidants.
Since Terrell had anticipated the current situation, he was certainly prepared.
These guards who had been prepared in advance were aiming at those leaders who made unusual movements and firing, but the bullets were not blind, and it was common for the bullets to go off target and hit innocent people.
Many people fell down and died; some of those who had not made any movement but were accidentally injured were shouting and some tried to resist, but in the end they were all knocked to the ground like those before them.
Soon, all the looters’ leaders on one side of the conference hall were shot dead.
On the other side, there was no movement.
Over there, there were Terrell's die-hard supporters, and they had even anticipated the scene at this moment.
After the incident was settled, Terrell stood up and angrily cursed: "A bunch of shameless people."
After cursing, he assigned his supporters to receive and integrate the followers of the people who had been killed.
At the end of the arrangements, he had someone drag in two wooden boxes from outside.
After opening it, inside were small green potion bottles wrapped in hay.
"Distribute these, and when we break out, have the commandos drink them."
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The war came more suddenly than expected.
Trail cleared out internal opponents and spent almost all the prestige he had accumulated over the years. He barely suppressed the tribes of the slaughtered leaders and took over those people.
Next, he tried hard to mobilize the troops, hoping to mobilize all the remaining 3,000 to 4,000 people in Sanchi Town at once, and launch an all-out breakout operation in the same direction.
The heavy artillery possessed by the New Alliance Army was the weapon he feared most.
If this thing fires down on you, if the people are standing a little more densely, there will be dozens or even hundreds of casualties. But unfortunately, the width of the battlefield for breaking out of the city is not too large. If you want to break out resolutely and ensure that the assault force has enough strength, you can't stretch the troops too far.
However, this will greatly increase the lethality of the enemy's artillery.
It is indeed a dilemma.
But no matter how difficult it is, you have to make a choice.
The approach that Trail planned to take was to order his troops to launch a fierce assault at all costs, to rush to within dozens of meters of the enemy, or even to the range where they could engage in hand-to-hand combat and fight to the death.
As a result, the distance between the enemy and us was pulled very close, and the heavy artillery in the hands of the New Alliance Army could not be used so well.
We always have to worry about accidental injuries, because the other side can't afford to lose anyone more than we can.
However, he somewhat underestimated the difficulty of reuniting the troops after killing people. Although he barely avoided mutiny and direct internal fighting, the speed of the entire army's regrouping and gathering strength was far less than expected.
Before he could prepare his troops to break out, the New Alliance Army attacked them first.
At the beginning of the attack, the looters who were still in chaos in Sanchi Town were a little dazed.
Even Terrell was a little confused when he ventured onto a high platform to watch the battle.
There is no doubt that the heavy artillery first bombarded the edge of Sanchi Town, followed by the town's buildings and the looters who dug trenches. When they were bombarded, they did not dare to show their heads. If it were not for the pressure from the leaders of various tribes, no one would dare to run. I am afraid that this round of artillery fire would directly destroy the outer defense line.
The casualties of the looters hiding in fortifications, bunkers, and trenches were actually not that severe. They were not hit head-on or too close to the shock wave to be killed or injured. The fierce and terrifying fragments were unable to penetrate their cover and cause casualties.
At least they won’t be like those unlucky guys who were engaged in blocking operations before, and died miserably when they were bombed in the wilderness.
However, the deafening sound of the artillery and the terrifying force that made the ground tremble were terrifying. The key point was that the enemy's artillery array was probably more than 20 kilometers away. Even if they wanted to fight back, they couldn't even see a shadow.
We can calculate the approximate position of the enemy's artillery array through the trajectory of the artillery shells, but it is useless. We do have artillery at home, but those small-caliber, miscellaneous mountain artillery can't maintain accuracy after firing ten miles. There is no way to deal with the heavy artillery position twenty kilometers away, and we can only shrink our heads and take the bombing.
But if that were all, it would still be within Terrell's expectations.
However, during this round of bombardment, he could see that the New Alliance's army had already launched a formal offensive.
Right after the bombardment, the infantry of the New Alliance appeared about 200 meters away from the explosion point. The mortar group also showed its power and fired a round of bombardment forward.
The soldiers were charging forward quickly. Before the heat from the mortars and heavy artillery had dissipated, they had already rushed into the positions that had just been bombed.
The looters were stunned by the explosion, and the injured were shot again. Those who were lucky enough to be unharmed did not have time to build any effective defenses and were wiped out in a scattered manner.
But the position certainly does not have only one floor. In addition to the position that was bombed, there are of course other looters behind it. If they pop up and shoot at this moment, they will certainly threaten the attacking soldiers.
But they didn't, because a new round of artillery fire had already covered their positions.
The most terrifying thing was that the infantry of the New Alliance was only about 200 meters away from the explosion point. The killing range of that terrible heavy artillery was almost close to 100.
Aren't they really afraid that a cannon shot might deviate a little and hit one of their own people?
The gunners are not afraid, the commanders are not afraid, so aren't the infantrymen on the front line afraid either?
Terrell had never seen anything like this.
Several words that he had only heard of but never seen before appeared in his mind: infantry-artillery coordination and slow-moving barrage.
He knew that the edge position that he had spent a lot of time building was destroyed.
But Terrell immediately realized that he couldn't really let the edge position end.
Otherwise, if the New Alliance's army rushed in, the battle would become much more difficult without the fortifications and trenches on the edge of the town.
That was originally the starting position for his breakout operation.
Terrell gritted his teeth and issued an order to the troops in the rear, asking their artillery to open fire as well.
Even if the mountain artillery with a much smaller caliber cannot hit the artillery positions behind the New Alliance Army, it will at least pose a threat to the enemy in front of them and let them taste the power of artillery fire.
In addition, more raiders, under his command, counterattacked in the direction of the Allied forces' attack.
He didn't want to do this, but the situation changed so quickly that he didn't have time to slowly organize the team and find a way to break out. If they really wanted to fight a breakout, they would have to defeat the enemy in front of them, and then they could take advantage of the situation to break out.
However, just when he had ordered a large number of his own troops to fill the first line and engage in close combat with the soldiers of the New Alliance, two new situations occurred.
First of all, they had just fired two rounds of artillery fire and were finished.
He had already ordered his artillery to move to another location after firing a shot. However, the space in Sanchi Town was narrow, and it was not easy for the artillery to deploy, let alone move. Moreover, although their artillery was light, it lacked a towing vehicle, and it could not be moved quickly if it had to be pushed by people.
As a result, he was caught red-handed.
Their artillery could not hit the New Alliance Army's artillery, but the enemy's heavy artillery undoubtedly brought their artillery within its range.
After two rounds of bombardment, the raiders' artillery positions were destroyed.
Not only did the artillerymen suffer heavy casualties, but a large number of artillery pieces were also destroyed.
Of course, after the Alliance artillery directed its firepower at the artillery array in the town, it could no longer provide cover for the soldiers fighting in the front.
Although the attacking infantry companies still had some mortars available, their power was far inferior to that of the 155mm howitzers.
This slowed down the speed at which the soldiers broke through the outer defense line, and also allowed the raiders who followed up to successfully reduce the range of engagement to less than 100 meters.
At this distance, the role of firearms is greatly enhanced, and it will be difficult for the Alliance's heavy artillery to provide coverage here.
No matter how accurate the Alliance's artillery was, or how fearless the Alliance's soldiers were, the possibility of accidental injuries from artillery fire was real. They were afraid of using heavy artillery to hit the two sides in the melee.
However, just when this thought of forcibly comforting himself came to his mind, Trail saw a scene that made his hands and feet cold again.
The tank company of the New Alliance is coming up!
A total of twelve tanks were on the dirt road, raising clouds of dust. The 76mm smoothbore guns began to show their power.
Knowing that they didn't have to deal with any armored targets, the tanks were loaded with high-explosive fragmentation shells. Twelve guns opened fire at the same time, and at a distance of only a few hundred meters, less than a thousand meters, they began to attack the looters' newly formed counterattack.
The raiders seemed helpless against these iron creations.
The infantry also began to move forward under the cover of the tanks' firepower. They focused on attacking the looters' fire teams that tried to threaten the tanks. As for the places where the enemy was holding on, such as foxholes and temporary positions built using building ruins, there was nothing to say. They just called in the tanks to fire a few shots or even use coaxial machine guns to sweep them.
The tracks rolled over the trenches, and the tanks moved in closer to fight in coordination with the infantry.
The looters' counterattack momentum was directly destroyed, and those who dared to get close for close combat all experienced the power of tank guns and coaxial machine guns, and suffered heavy casualties.
Seeing this scene, Terrell finally lost his composure.
He pulled up the battlefield intercom in a rage and yelled, "Drink all those potions! Drink! Fight them! If you can't win, there's no way to survive!"
After saying this, he took a few deep breaths, then shuddered all over, as if he understood something, and hurried down the command platform.
Then, his closest and most trusted team protected him and headed out of Sanchi Town from another direction.
He is about to run away.
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