Chapter Seventeen Like Beating a Rabbit
The enemy is still 100 kilometers away from the base, which is the maximum detection radius of the base at present. At the marching speed of the cavalry, it will take at least three hours to enter the attackable area. Zhong Yi was still in a state of madness, and this promotion reward was too cool. Was this the legendary big level jump or second job change? The mission target is also... Hmm, how to say it? In normal times, this target is quite difficult, annihilating more than twice the number of enemies themselves, not every unit can do it easily. But in the current situation, with the 59-style tank as the main armored regiment VS the cavalry corps still in World War I, hehe, was the gap between the US military and the Iraqi National Guard during the second Gulf War as big as now?
Right, didn't the US military always brag about "zero casualties" in war? Let me show them what real zero casualties look like.
Qian Zhihao in the reconnaissance vehicle transmitted back information: There is a cavalry unit of nearly a thousand people rapidly approaching the base, and the guard squad has shaken off the enemy according to plan. Here, Zhong Yi switched the communication device to Huo Lu who was in charge of the gate blocking position: The enemy will appear in two hours, act according to plan.
Then... then there was nothing to do with Commander Comrade, after the last shell-shocked experience, the Red Guardsmen resolutely opposed the commander's personal presence on the front line. In Jiang Yunzhi's words: "Commander, you just wait for good news in the base main building, you strategize and we'll fight a thousand miles away!"
"This isn't depriving Father of his right to participate in the war, is it?" Zhong Yi protested several times, but Jiang Yunzhi used the method of getting all the officers to sign their names, forcing Commander Comrade to give in.
A row of engineers has been recruited, and the base's available funds are less than 100,000. Before this battle is over, all mining trucks have stopped at the edge of the mining area to suspend mining operations. "At this rate of spending, even a wealthy family wouldn't have much savings left. We must cut expenses and increase revenue!" Zhong Yi sighed and clicked to recruit two scientists. Deng Grandfather said that science and technology are the primary productive forces! "May Buddha bless us, may God protect us, I don't know which deity is in charge of this land, but we've prayed to them all. Hopefully these two scientists are experts in army equipment, not dynamics or naval vessels, although those would be good too, but we can't use them now."
The time was almost up, and Zhong Yi turned the holographic screen's camera to the base gate. With two machine gun bunkers as cover, Huo Lu led a row of soldiers in building a semi-circular position. Because their opponents were cavalry, they dug their trenches very wide, with a parapet over a meter high behind which was a ditch more than two meters wide, making it difficult for the cavalry to jump over. This was thanks to a company of engineers who had arrived yesterday, each equipped not only with rifles but also with small engineer shovels, digging the trenches quickly, doubling the width of the original plan of over a meter.
In addition to the two machine gun pillboxes on both sides, there were also two Type 56 light machine guns in the position, and a Type 58 heavy machine gun with chain ammunition supply in the middle. Huo Lu had prepared ten spare barrels, and more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition were already linked together in a pile. The standard 7.62mm caliber bullets for the base's Type 56 assault rifles and light and heavy machine guns were all the same, which greatly reduced the logistical pressure on supplies.
In addition to the two 60mm mortars and two 40mm grenade launchers, the firepower configuration on the position gave Hollo confidence that he could hold off the cavalry regiment with half of his men, but the commander insisted on fighting a zero-casualty battle, only holding out for twenty minutes before quickly withdrawing in armored vehicles. Using full armor to deal with the enemy's cavalry, Hollo sighed at the commander's despicable tactics and felt deeply sorry for the enemy cavalry regiment to have encountered such an opponent. What did that captured Major Rooni say? Yes, completely lacking in gentlemanly demeanor.
Yes, Zhong Yi believes that talking about what kind of gentlemanly demeanor on the battlefield is irresponsible to his subordinates. The lives of a thousand enemies are not as important as one soldier's life on our side. If abandoning so-called gentlemanly demeanor can win wars and reduce casualties, then let me be more despicable!
"Under the leadership of Zhang, our Southern Chinese Liberation Army was invincible in World War II. Outsiders often like to call General Jiang Yunzhi and General Lin Youfang, who defeated the Malayan Tiger Mountain, as the two greatest military gods of the Southern Chinese army. However, behind every major battle, there were Zhang's painstaking plans. I think it is unfair that Zhang has not gained a corresponding position in world military history, although he himself never cared." - Excerpt from "Days by the Emperor's Side"
The battle began at 14:32 on October 20, 1934. The Australian 3rd Cavalry Regiment did not send out liaison officers again, but instead launched a direct charge from two kilometers away from the base gate. In World War I, an Australian cavalry regiment under British command had defeated Turkish troops armed with machine guns and artillery using dense charging tactics, which was also the only honor of the Australian army throughout World War I.
This time, their opponents were not a group of workers and peasants who had just picked up weapons, nor were they Turkish soldiers who couldn't even hold their guns steady in the face of a cavalry charge. Their opponents were the PLA, known as the "Tigers on Land", Red Guards with arduous training and unwavering faith. As soon as the Australian cavalry charged into 800 meters, the heavy machine guns on the fortifications and positions erupted like a scream, followed by the light machine guns. The 56-style rifles fired in harmony, playing a symphony of death. Those who were lucky enough to be knocked down by light gunfire were considered fortunate; the most terrifying ones were those who were torn apart by the powerful heavy machine guns, with their blood and flesh flying everywhere. Whether it was a horse or a person that was hit, falling to the ground in this dense charge formation meant certain death. More cavalrymen died not from machine gun bullets, but under the iron hooves of their comrades.
One hundred meters, the red earth of one hundred meters in the desert was dyed even redder by the blood water that flowed like a river; one hundred meters, on the hopeless charging road, at least two cavalrymen were left behind for every meter. When the characteristic "boom, boom" sound of the howitzer started, the long-awaited retreat order was finally issued, but this wasn't a retreat, it was a race with death, and the machine gun bullets behind them were still dense and unrelenting, the howitzer shells prolonging their bombardment, like heavy stones falling into water, only the splashes that rose up were red blood. Those who have never been on the battlefield will not understand how lucky one must be to run back unscathed under such an attack.
Zhong Yi let out a long sigh as he gazed at the battlefield through the holographic map, reminding him of the Ba Li Bridge and the heroic Mongolian prince and cavalry's tragic fate. He pressed down on the communication device, connecting with the infantry tank behind the frontline gate, and had the communications officer call over Huo Lu, who was still gloating. As soon as he heard Huo Lu's voice, Zhong Yi immediately launched into a torrent of abuse: "You idiot! I told you to lure the enemy into the base, but instead you're attacking so fiercely right from the start - what if they retreat?"
"Huo Lu Da Han, got excited and forgot the task assigned by his superior. 'Sorry, sir, I was too excited, it's like hunting rabbits.'"
"Scared... everyone away, I'm the only one left asking you!"
"Yes, sir! We will resolutely complete our task and won't let them escape!"
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