Chapter 523 Blitzkrieg (2/2)(1/2)
At 4 o'clock in the morning, the three-pronged army of the US military coalition officially launched the attack!
At 4:25, the U.S. bombers arrived over the head of the YLK army and began to cover the bombing!
At 4:50, tank troops from both sides encountered each other!
At 4:55, the U.S. tank troops retreated and the armed helicopter troops dispatched to bomb the YLK tank troops.
At 5:30, the US military helicopter gunship retreated, and the YLK army lost more than 450 tanks!
At 5:40, the US tank troops entered the battlefield again and began to outflank the enemy on a large scale, using harassment and delay tactics.
At 6:30, the U.S. armed helicopter force entered the battlefield again. This time, only one-third of the helicopters entered the battlefield. The U.S. tank force did not retreat and continued to perform entanglement missions and repeated bombing missions.
At 6:50, the second wave of US helicopter troops entered the battlefield, and the first wave of helicopter troops returned to remount their weapons.
At 7:10, the YLK heavy artillery force began indiscriminate bombing at the relatively densely populated area of US troops at the front of the battlefield on both sides in an attempt to save our own tank forces with a small amount of losses.
At 7:12, the U.S. military counter-artillery radar captured the location of the YLK artillery position, and the bomber force bombed the enemy missile force.
At 7:15, 38 Tomahawk missiles were launched from the rear of the US military, attacking YLK army artillery positions at 8 coordinates! At 7:25, the US military M270 self-propelled rocket launched, indiscriminately attacking the YLK artillery position 60 kilometers away
Cover bombing!
At 7:40, the YLK forward artillery position completely misfired, completely losing its long-range strike capability!
At 9 o'clock in the morning, the YLK army's front-line tank troops were completely wiped out. The battlefield was full of wreckage of T-72s. The US tank troops broke through the YLK blockade and headed directly towards the interior, with overwhelming momentum!!
The YLK people are still continuing the most mature tunnel combat method since World War II, and it was tested and tempered in practice during the Iran-Iraq War.
Facts have proven that tunnels and trenches can indeed significantly reduce casualties and block enemy attacks, even in the face of tank troops!
Tanks have shooting angles. Taking the US military's M1A1 as an example, the tank's artillery has a killing range of 150-3000 meters. In other words, when it enters the 150-meter range, the tank's artillery is useless. At this time, the tank can only rely on its own automatic attack.
Bring a machine gun!
Within this distance, the tank can only rely on the machine gun above or the armored vehicle following it.
Relying on tunnels and trenches, as long as you avoid the bombardment of tank artillery, after entering 150 meters, the Soviet AT-5 anti-tank missile will dominate the world!
The minimum range of 25 meters is enough to make the US tanks drink a pot!
As long as their trench defense lines have not been destroyed, the YLK army will still maintain confidence!
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After eliminating the tank troops, artillery troops, and missile troops, the YLK people fled after losing most of their air troops.
The US tank troops quickly reached the first line of defense in Seleman, a town in the west of YLK!
After approaching 3 kilometers and entering the optimal range of the M1A1, the US tank immediately slowed down. At the same time, the armed helicopters circled in the sky and began to dive towards the defense line.
Armed helicopters, the nightmare of ground troops!
Covered by a round of rockets, the armed helicopters arrived overhead, staggered, and began to pour firepower into the trenches with crossfire!
As soon as the armed helicopter over there started to show off its power, the tanks over there immediately accelerated and rushed forward. If anyone pays attention at this time, they will find that the tanks in the second row look very strange.
The barrel on the turret was missing, and a bulldozer-like bucket was added in front of the tank. However, unlike ordinary bulldozers, this bucket cannot move up and down flexibly.
Not only has the front been changed, but a layer of bulletproof grilles has been welded to the outside of the reactive armor on both sides. Three kilometers is not far, and even in the desert, the tank's speed has not slowed down.
Under the cover of the armed helicopters, the tanks in the first row stopped after reaching 1.5 kilometers. The turrets roared and cooperated with the helicopters in the sky to suppress the YLK people. On the contrary, the strange tanks in the second row rushed very quickly.
YLK people are not stupid either. Although they didn’t understand what was going on with these strange tanks for a while, they were pressed for time and couldn’t control that much. After taking aim, the AT-5s fired out like “bang”, “bang” and “bang”.
The killing principle of anti-tank rockets is to use metal jets, not high-explosive. This kind of warhead is not effective when facing bulletproof grilles and reactive armor.
Now that the tank's cannon has been removed, and the turret does not need to consider the left and right rotation angles, and can add bullet-proof grilles at will, this wave of attacks did not bring about anything other than blowing holes in the modified bodies of several strange tanks.
What harm.
After rushing all the way to the vicinity of the trench, the truck body was put down, and the truck body pushed the sand on the ground. When it started, black smoke came out, and the sand flooded towards the trench like a wave!
Amid the horrified shouts of the YLK people, the trench was completely submerged by the sand pushed in! Counterattack?
Let’s get the fuck out of the sand first!!
At this time, the YLK people finally knew what this strange tank was used for! This was to use a bulldozer to fill the entire trench with sand!
This is a desert area. Although not a blade of grass grows, there is really no shortage of sand.
Some of the frightened YLK people jumped out of the trenches and ran towards the rear, but they were shot to pieces by the cannons of the helicopter gunships in the sky before they could run far.
Seeing the miserable condition of their companions, the YLK people behind could only shrink back again.
The battlefield is so cruel. No matter what choice you make, you will die. You will die early and die late. But everyone wants to live a little longer, as long as they kill these strange tanks!
There is no time for people to think of solutions slowly on the battlefield. What can the frightened YLK people use? Machine guns, grenades, RPG, AT-5
These strange tanks were adjusting their directions on their own, letting the machine guns spray sparks all over their bodies, letting the high-explosive RPG blast a hole in the bulletproof grille, and the bulldozer tanks seemed to be ruthless machines.
After getting a good angle, I pushed the sand and soil straight along the trench!
The amount of sand pushed up did not increase until it could no longer be pushed. It all fell into the trench that was more than one meter wide.
Buried alive!!!
The trenches that the YLK people worked so hard to dig in the desert are just gone. As for the losses of the US military, do a dozen modified tanks count?
The traditional tactics of using trenches to deal with tanks, such as using explosives to attack the bottom from below, such as exploding tracks and so on, are completely useless.
These days, when he learned through reconnaissance planes and special forces that the YLK people were digging trenches again, Norman could only sneer. This is a fucking desert. This is not Shangganling or Changjin Lake.
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Not even as good as the fucking rain forest over there in Vietnam!
There is no need for bulldozers over there, and tunnel tactics are invincible, but here is a fucking desert! The enemy you are facing is not like Iran. We are the number one US military in the world! This kind of mechanical tactics is courting death!
As early as the Iran-Iraq war, the Gujiao Building had a dedicated staff group that conducted countless simulated battles. The target was Iran, which was also YLK.
At the beginning, everyone could only charge hard with tanks. At worst, they would suffer some losses. They said that the base was just a single weapon. It might destroy dozens of tanks, but facing the charge of hundreds of tanks, it would only be able to bear 10% or 20% of the load.
Just a loss.
US military losses are high!
But gradually, one day, a staff officer, Xu, saw a construction site or a snowplow or something else, and suddenly thought of using a bulldozer. Later, he switched to a modified tank bulldozer, and the effect was outstanding.
Look at the battlefield. The forest of arms stretching out from the trenches is like a cemetery for the dead. There is no blood, no corpses, and no smoke. I don’t know why, but just looking at it makes people feel cold all over.
Even veterans who have fought in the war
Seleman, after the previous lines of defense were breached, U.S. tanks and armored vehicles covered the army and drove into the town in a mighty manner.
YLK is an important town in the southeast with a population of 120,000....
The town is very large, with two-story buildings as the main buildings, and there are few high-rise buildings. The stage is relatively wide, and there is no problem for two tanks to pass in parallel.
Perhaps the front line of defense was broken through so easily that the city's defenders completely lost their will to resist. The gunshots were loud, but their willpower was very weak. They almost surrendered as soon as they rushed.
At 11 o'clock in the morning, under the command of Lieutenant General Luck, the Western Route Army completely occupied Seleman.
After a short rest, the West Route Army will go straight to the Euphrates River, and then completely cut off the retreat route of 41 divisions and 540,000 people deployed by Sha Damu in Kuwait!
The West Route Army advanced smoothly, and the Center Route Army and the East Route Army, which were supported by the navy, also advanced at a not slow pace.
After completely seizing air superiority and destroying almost all the effective air defense weapons of the YLK people, the U.S. military unscrupulously used a large number of armed helicopters to provide ground fire support. The YLK people retreated steadily, with almost no power to fight back!
Great results!
At 1:30 in the afternoon, Sha Damu, who was far away in Baghdad, finally received accurate news from the front line, which was sent by "friends". The accuracy of the news was much more accurate than what the front line sent intermittently.
Even the detailed tactics of the US military are fully displayed.
After seeing the battle report that stated that the US military used tanks converted into bulldozers to bury his army alive with almost no damage, Sha Damu slumped down on his chair with a dumbfounded look on his face.
Not to mention being stupid, even other countries within the coalition were dumbfounded.
Many times it's a matter of thinking inertia. It's not that this thing is so advanced, but the thinking inertia makes people think it can be solved so easily!
Anyway, since then, the concept that tunnel warfare in desert areas is just a pit has been left to people.
The most painful thing is Silly Damu. He buried all the treasures of delaying the US military in the rolling yellow sand of YLK! Otherwise, do you expect to use street fighting to delay the US military?
As long as it can be close to the road and ensure logistics transportation, the US military will be invincible!
But now, as soon as the bulldozer tactic comes out, Sha Damu's plan has completely come to nothing. It's over!
However, Silly Damu is really not willing to fail like this! He still has the ability to fight back!
He also has scuds!
Of course, the Scuds can no longer attack the Israelis at this time. The last bit of value in Israel has been squeezed out.
Bomb the U.S. military with missiles and intimidate the U.S. military with excessive casualties.
After the Vietnam War, the whole world knew that Americans were afraid of excessive casualties, which would cause anti-war protests and cause the government to fail in the election!!
Now, there is only one way!
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the three-pronged U.S. Army launched a new round of attack again!
There were almost no casualties in the morning's attack. Taking the King of Land War as an example, the YLK lost more than 1,200 tanks, while the entire coalition lost less than 20 tanks!
To be continued...