RPAGF #356 - Artillery counterattack
#356 - Artillery counterattack
Half an hour after the Dragon Country launched its first round of artillery fire, the Rogue Eagle and its allied forces finally launched their belated counter-artillery fire.
In the sky, crimson shells flew everywhere. The artillery radar lurking on the front line detected the shells fired from the Rogue Eagle positions. The radar vehicle beeped and buzzed, warning of incoming enemy shells. The screen began to flash continuously, and based on the detected enemy trajectory information, it began to reverse-calculate the position of the artillery.
Soon, a dense array of precise coordinates of cannons appeared on an artillery radar. Two radar soldiers nervously used the field phone to report the latest location information of the enemy artillery positions, taking turns to report and correct, quickly transmitting it to the 122 rocket launcher and 107 rocket launcher commanders not far away.
They began to assign tasks according to the distance. In less than a minute, they completed the task assignment and adjusted the azimuth and angle of the rocket launchers. A round of counter-artillery strike was completed in 3 minutes!
The 122 rocket launcher has a range of up to 20 kilometers, easily reaching any enemy artillery target on the front line.
The improved 107 rocket launcher has a new extended-range rocket, increasing the range to 12 kilometers, which would be fatal to the 75mm mountain guns and 105mm howitzers deployed on the front lines by the Rogue Eagle Allied Forces.
Soon, after firing a round of rockets, the forward counter-artillery squad began to move its position.
After arriving at the new location, along with the team's ammunition supply trucks, they began to carry out the ammunition assembly work nervously. As the main force of the front-line counter-attack artillery, each counter-artillery squad had an ammunition supply for 5 salvoes, plus the rockets they brought themselves, each squad had the ability to fire 6 salvoes!
For a single battle, this equipment was barely enough.
"What? Our 6 artillery battalion positions were destroyed in one go?!" Brigadier General Kaiser of the Rogue Eagle's 2nd Infantry Division heard the information fed back from the artillery and his mind buzzed. His CPU was almost crashed.
They had only just launched the first round of trial shells in retaliation, and they hadn't even had time to correct the target, so how could they suddenly be blown up?
Could there be an internal spy who told the opponent about the artillery position?!
That's impossible!
Brigadier General Kaiser took several deep breaths to calm down. The defense line he was responsible for was equipped with only 15 artillery battalions of various types. Now 40% of them were written off all at once. The most important thing was that he couldn't figure out why these artillery positions were destroyed so quickly.
If he couldn't figure out the reason, then the artillery would basically not dare to move out again. For the current tense situation on the front line, losing the support of the artillery would basically mean losing half of his life!
"It was destroyed by the enemy's rocket artillery. We suspect that the enemy has mastered a mysterious weapon that can accurately locate artillery positions, because without exception, all the artillery positions that were destroyed this time were artillery that had just opened fire," the operations staff calmly analyzed, almost finding out the truth.
"Each position suffered a devastating blow from rocket artillery, including both 122mm rockets and 107mm rockets. It is definitely the enemy's mobile rocket artillery unit."
After listening, Brigadier General Kaiser closed his eyes and pondered for a while before opening them. "Can we find the approximate location of their mobile rocket artillery unit?"
"General, it's difficult, but they should be somewhere on the front line, within a few kilometers of our position, because the range of the 107mm rocket launcher is limited. They must get close to the front line to have a chance to strike our artillery positions," the operations staff obviously had some brains and quickly analyzed the general situation.
"Send out the M3 armored company to search for them!" Brigadier General Kaiser no longer hesitated, "They must be moving along the road, so the area we search will not be too large, go find them and kill them!"
"In addition, order all tank battalions to enter a state of combat readiness. Once enemy tanks appear on the front line, immediately go up and solve them!"
After being strengthened, the Rogue Eagle's 2nd Infantry Division alone had more than 200 M26 and M46 heavy tanks. The John Bull and Turkey brigades also had a light tank company each, plus the Southern Army's 2 M4 Sherman tank battalions. Brigadier General Kaiser had more than 300 tanks of various types.
This was a huge armored force. After the Incheon landing, so many tanks were enough to sweep the North and almost wipe out the Northern Army.
If the Volunteer Army had been a few days later, they would have been able to meet at the Yalu River!
Brigadier General Kaiser didn't think so much about these things at the moment. He was considering whether to ask the front-line headquarters for reinforcements.
But now he was completely in the dark. Who the opponent was, how many troops and armored forces they had, he still knew nothing. This was the most terrifying thing, facing a completely unknown opponent, you don't even know what kind of power they possess!
However, Brigadier General Kaiser had not forgotten the lesson of the 24th Division.
After Zhang Dabiao and the others finished, they would simply replenish ammunition and rest, and then launch a lightning attack on Pingcheng on the premise of smashing the plain defense line!
Using wave-like tactics, one wave after another went south, completely giving the Rogue Eagle Allied Forces no chance to breathe!
The 16th Army and the 18th Army advanced alternately, and the 38th Army and the 40th Army were behind to fill in at any time, while controlling the newly captured railway trunk line to protect the lifeline of logistical support.
This battle, with one link interlocking with another, now put the greatest pressure on the air force!
Because the Rogue Eagle's air force was still far superior to the Dragon Country's air force, at least in terms of numbers, it was suppressed several times over.
Therefore, in the Supreme Command, the brigade commander was now most concerned about the latest intelligence information scanned by the radar.
Of course, it was still late at night, and the Rogue Eagle's air force did not yet have the ability to fight around the clock, so the air was basically clear.
The information on the troops' artillery fire and the results of the counter-artillery troops could not yet be observed and confirmed by technical means. It could only be our side's losses. However, since the artillery fire began an hour ago, the enemy's artillery counter-attack had only fired one round and then died down. The losses caused to our artillery could be almost ignored. It seemed that the effect of the counter-artillery squad was very good.
Li Yunlong and the others' artillery radar, which was replaced this time, had a miraculous effect in this battle. At least it had scared the Rogue Eagle Allied Forces' artillery so much that they did not dare to fire.
"Our artillery must not be careless. After completing an hour of artillery fire, we must move our position," the commander of the Supreme Command pointed to the front-line map, "An hour of artillery fire, two base numbers of shells have been fired. I think we can try to launch an attack."
The commander of the Supreme Command had never fought such a rich battle before, but seeing the consumption of shells, he was a little unhappy. In just one hour, he had fired all the shells he had used to command battles in the past!
With such a huge consumption, the commander of the Supreme Command felt a little overwhelmed.
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