Chapter 1572: 1573 relies on brute force
Chapter 1572 Chapter 1573 Relying on brute force
Feng Kezhi put down the telescope in his hand and handed it to the orderly beside him. He looked at one of his division commanders and asked, "If I give you five hours, can you capture the high ground on the opposite side?"
“Yes!” the division commander replied with certainty: “If I can’t get it off, I will bury myself in that place!”
"Very good! Let the artillery prepare, cover it with rockets, and choose incendiary bombs... The 1st Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the 9th Armored Division will cover... I will give you 5 hours to penetrate here and hold the road below the high ground in our own hands. "Inside." Feng Kezhi said as he raised his legs and walked out of the hidden observation post along the curved trench.
"General! Pay attention to safety." The guard followed Feng Kezhi and warned him. They were less than a thousand meters away from the enemy's position, which was still very dangerous. If the opponent attacks with mortars, then all of them at this distance may be hit by the shells.
"I know, I have been very careful and did not show my head..." Feng Kezhi smiled and explained to his guards as he bypassed the soldiers who were preparing for a new round of attack on the position.
Where he passed by, the soldiers sitting on the ground to rest stood up and saluted. Feng Kezhi also returned a military salute. Because the level difference was so big, no one shouted "Long Live His Majesty the Emperor", and Feng Kezhi didn't need to reply.
Before he came to the front line, he had carefully analyzed the strategic deployment intelligence of the Ice Empire. The reconnaissance satellite provided detailed data analysis, including various details. Feng Kezhi may know the troops commanded by Moss better than Moss.
Feng Kezhi knew that the dozen or so large field airports built by the dwarves on the front line had been systematically destroyed. Planes could not take off from these airports at all. The dwarves' fighter jets all took off from farther airports, near the war zone. There is actually not much fuel left.
If the air force's task of supporting the ground was not too heavy, the Tang Army might have driven the dwarf's aircraft out of the airspace of the war zone by relying on its range advantage.
He also knew that the dwarves were desperately strengthening their defenses, preparing to defend Everwinter City to prevent the Tang Army from controlling the port, and trying to use shipping bottlenecks to limit the Tang Army's logistical supplies.
It's just that now the Tang army is backed by a temporary port and has received sufficient supplies, but the dwarves are almost unaware of all this.
He also knew that the dwarf 6th Army stationed on the southern border was heading north, moving along several railway lines, and was almost reaching the Ironforge line.
In another seven or eight days, they may join the battle and cause more trouble for the Tang army's attack. That's why Feng Kezhi decided to give the dwarf a fatal attack now.
The main force of his 9th Army will open a gap on the flank, and then the armored group will open the way, encircling Everwinter City in one go, completely crushing the dwarves' strategic intentions.
There is no skill, he just wants to use brute force to tear apart the dwarves' defense, use the heaviest fist to crush the ice empire's will to resist, and turn the dwarves' defense into powder.
A few minutes later, a new round of offensive by the Tang Army began. The dwarf defense troops who were caught off guard were suddenly overwhelmed by the overwhelming attack.
The defenders of the Ice Empire have always believed that the Tang Army actually did not have much supplies. They believed that the Tang Army was troubled by logistics and would not be able to continue high-intensity operations in a short period of time. But now, they found that they had guessed wrong. A new army appeared in front of them, and their numbers seemed to have never been seen before!
Hundreds of cannonballs landed on the dwarf position. Before the dwarf troops who built the trenches could react, they were almost buried alive by the raised earth that covered the sky and the sun.
The Tang Army's artillery and the infantry's advance cooperated very closely. Before the artillery fire here stopped, the Tang Army's advance there had already begun.
The barrage advanced slowly, suppressing the dwarf troops on the position so that they could not even lift their heads. Subsequent reinforcements were blocked and unable to support the frontline troops who were being beaten, and the dwarf artillerymen behind them did not even understand what was going on.
According to the previous plan, Tang's attack aircraft taking off from the frontline airport began to participate in the battle on a large scale. The Thunder attack aircraft that had missed the landing operation before had exerted their huge suppressive power this time.
This kind of aircraft, which the dwarf troops had never seen before, roared in the sky, like vultures. As soon as they saw something moving on the ground, they would immediately start swooping and shooting.
The cannons deployed by the Ice Empire were destroyed and suppressed by these attack aircraft. More than half an hour after the bombardment began, they were unable to gather their strength to launch a counterattack.
In other words, half an hour after the attack was launched, the Tang army did not encounter any artillery counterattack from the dwarf troops. They attacked without any pressure and directly broke through the first defensive position built by the dwarves.
The battle was not over yet. After only 20 minutes, the Tang Army's assault group appeared near the dwarves' second line of defense. A large number of Tang mechanized troops were crushed head-on, and the dwarves who lacked anti-tank weapons collapsed instantly.
The two positions were lost in less than an hour. The fortification area secured by the Ice Empire's 1st Group Army was about to be captured by the Tang Army.
In the headquarters of the 1st Army of the Dwarf Empire, all the telephones were busy. The officers grabbed the phone receivers and kept shouting, trying to prevent an unprecedented rout.
"Hey! Hello? Hold on! Hold on! There are 1,000 of you! Why can't you even hold a high ground!" An officer angrily ordered his men to hold on to their position, but his troops were almost wiped out by artillery fire. All done.
On the other end of the phone, in a half-collapsed bunker, a dwarf commander in the fixed position held the helmet above his head with one hand and grabbed the phone with the other. He desperately explained his difficulties: "Sir! Tang Jun put all the The shells are hitting my position! Hello? There are explosions everywhere!
He was not exaggerating at all, because the hilltop where he was was had indeed been flooded by artillery shells. As far as the eye could see, there were craters everywhere. As soon as the Tang army's artillery fire stopped, tanks rolled over the soft soil and rushed in front of them.
Now intensive gunshots can be heard from the trenches outside, and it seems that the dwarf defense forces can no longer hold on for long. Although they vowed to live and die with the position, the Tang army really did not give them a chance to fight **** battles.
"Hello? Hello?" Soon, he found that the phone line seemed to be disconnected, and he could no longer hear the hysterical roar of his boss.