pdf-ebookys #344 - Eastern Front
#344 - Eastern Front
East of the Cheongcheon River.
The night was like smoke, enveloping the fields.
But the night sky was not peaceful.
The sound of cannons rumbled, the firelight flickered, and everywhere there were fierce tongues of fire spitting!
"The Rogue Eagles are indeed worthy of being a strong army." Li Yunlong saw the fierce counter-fire from the Rogue Eagles' 19th Regiment, with tongues of fire flickering everywhere, making Li Yunlong's eyelids twitch. He had never seen such fierce fighting before.
Fortunately, he was mentally prepared, so he could calmly accept everything now.
It was the first time facing the Rogue Eagles head-on, and Li Yunlong couldn't help but be concerned.
He followed Shen Quan's division headquarters directly to the front line. They were all battle-hardened veterans who had emerged from a hail of bullets, and they were not afraid to face the superpower of Blue Star, even though they were facing it.
On the contrary, even though he had already thought highly of the Rogue Eagles, Li Yunlong was not afraid of any challenge.
In his opinion, his 16th Army's current equipment was not far from being the top field army on Blue Star.
Compared to facing the Japanese field regiment with millet and rifles in the 1940s, it was already a world of difference.
Li Yunlong and Shen Quan's first target of attack was the position of the 19th Regiment, the main force of the 24th Division.
"Yes, Chief, fortunately, our firepower has also been increasing in the past few years, and the tank battalion has finally arrived. If it weren't for the tanks bearing the enemy's firepower in front, this round would have been a pure infantry charge, and our army's losses would have been a bit heavy."
Shen Quan's eyes were dark. He was also very cautious about the Rogue Eagles. He did not relax his vigilance because of the ease of annihilating the two divisions of the Southern Army. He strictly followed the tactics of infantry-artillery coordination and infantry-tank coordination.
Today, he really encountered a formidable opponent. Even after a round of covering artillery fire, which eliminated some of the Rogue Eagles' troops and firepower, the remaining firepower on the Rogue Eagles' position was almost the same as when they fought the Kwantung Army.
Under such firepower, if they simply sent infantry to charge, it would be a disaster!
For Shen Quan, he did not have the experience of the main world's historical timeline. In that timeline, with firepower far inferior to that of the Rogue Eagles, even if the soldiers tried their best and were not afraid of sacrifice, they only succeeded once in five battles to annihilate a whole regiment of the opponent!
It can be seen that the Rogue Eagles' army is not easy to deal with, especially his reinforcements, which are completely integrated sea, land, and air firepower.
Even in this timeline, Ding Wei and Li Yunlong have greatly increased their firepower, and it is not easy to take down such a unit.
This is simply a piece of steel, not a bone!
"Tanks are the army's hardest fist." Li Yunlong looked at the rumbling sound of tanks advancing in the distance, and the occasional bursts of artillery fire and sparks hitting the tank armor, his thoughts fluctuating.
"Old Shen, I don't think it's enough to have a tank battalion assigned to the division. At least each main regiment should have a tank company. Speaking of which, the Rogue Eagles are really generous. They have more than 100 tanks and armored vehicles in one division. I think that's reasonable. We should also give the main regiment a pair of strong fists. Now that we've encountered a strong opponent like the Rogue Eagles, if we don't have tanks, our tactics will be very passive."
Li Yunlong was not too excited because the troops were advancing as expected at the moment.
"Yes, Chief, the Rogue Eagles' tank units have not yet counterattacked. If our army didn't have tanks and crashed into such dense firepower defense, and encountered the enemy's tank counterattack, perhaps our charge would have been directly crushed. I think the role of tanks should be further recognized. We can have fewer infantry. In today's war, the role of infantry under artillery and tanks, the significance of numbers has been greatly weakened. Unless it's a position defense battle, otherwise, in such a frontal charge, the enemy's firepower forms a crossfire, plus the artillery fire covers the distance. The enemy is just a regiment's position. If we invest two or three pure infantry divisions, the price we pay to take it down would be unimaginable." Shen Quan also saw some new changes in modern warfare.
"Boss Ren is the one who is truly hiding his strength. If he hadn't analyzed the Rogue Eagles' troops so clearly, and we had blindly relied on human wave tactics to fight this war, I'm afraid it would have been ugly."
Speaking of that brother, Li Yunlong smiled knowingly.
Yes.
Fortunately, we have Brother Ren.
No matter how strong the Rogue Eagles are, today we will press him to the ground and rub him hard.
Pyeongseong方面.
The Rogue Eagles' forward command post.
Lieutenant General Kendall of the Rogue Eagles' First Army did not have the composure of Li Yunlong and Shen Quan. As the commander of the forward command post, after receiving the urgent reports from the 27th Brigade and the 24th Division, Lieutenant General Kendall completely panicked. The opponent was too powerful, and now he had to abandon all illusions and start saving the 24th Division!
The situation at the front was changing rapidly, making Kendall a little caught off guard.
The fierceness of the Dragon Country's army's firepower, according to the feedback from the front, Major General Church bluntly said that it was even better than the Rogue Eagles' main division!
While the 24th Division was still concentrating its forces to defend and preparing to hold out for reinforcements, the situation of John Bull's 27th Brigade on the other side was very bad.
According to Brigadier General Coward's report, two main battalions were attacked at the same time, and now the position may not even last through the first round. The 27th Brigade is now calling the howitzer battalion for artillery support, but now it takes time to figure out the specific location of the enemy's attack distribution. In the dark, artillery observers are very difficult to confirm the location, which makes the artillery position deployed about 5 kilometers behind the brigade headquarters unable to launch an artillery counterattack for a long time.
Without the covering fire of howitzers, the enemy surged like a tide behind the tanks, and the 27th Brigade's defensive line was broken through like paper!
The 1st Cavalry Division has been dispatched to rescue. The Rogue Eagles' 1st Cavalry Division currently has three infantry regiments, the 5th Cavalry, the 7th Cavalry, and the 8th Cavalry, the 71st (Heavy) Tank Battalion and the 70th (Medium) Tank Battalion, as well as the 8th Engineer Battalion, the 61st, 77th, 82nd, and 99th Artillery Battalions, and the 29th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion and other main combat units, with a full strength of more than 17,000 people. The entire division is mechanized and equipped with powerful artillery units and tank detachments. The firepower and combat power are the absolute main force of the Rogue Eagles' Eighth Army, even stronger than the 24th Infantry Division by five points!
The 71st (Heavy) Tank Battalion is equipped with M46 Patton tanks, and the tank gun caliber reaches 90 mm, which is powerful enough to suppress the 85 mm tank gun of the Great Bear T-34 tank. The M426 Pershing heavy tank is improved on the basis, and the armor inherits the M26 thick armor. The tank's frontal armor is 102 mm/46°, which is equivalent to about 153 mm of vertical armor, the side armor is 76 mm, the turret shield is 114 mm, and the 90 mm tank gun can penetrate armor with a thickness of 147 mm at a distance of 1000 meters!
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This is the Rogue Eagles' main heavy tank, and its power has already posed a huge threat to the Dragon Country's T-34 composite armor magic modification version. In the attack battle after the Incheon landing, the Rogue Eagles' 6th Tank Battalion encountered a tank company of the Northern People's Army composed of 8 T-34-85s and 1 SU-76. It actually annihilated the entire People's Army tank company at the cost of no losses, which proves that the performance of the M46 has exceeded the original T-34.
At this moment, in the peninsula, the Rogue Eagles have 3 such heavy tank battalions, each tank battalion has 69 M46 heavy tanks, and 2 M24 Chaffee command tanks.
This is the Rogue Eagles' fist unit.
Now Lieutenant General Kendall has stretched out his fist!
It is only more than 60 kilometers from Pyeongseong to the 24th Division. If it is normal, the 1st Cavalry Division will arrive in 2 hours.
This is also one of the reasons why the Rogue Eagles' 24th Division dared to突击 so boldly.
I just didn't expect to encounter a strong opponent like Li Yunlong and his men!
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