Chapter 1399 Artillery Bombardment

Just after dawn, Commander Kulik of the third regiment got out of his command vehicle and moved his joints as if no one else was around. He had been ordered to raid Merida last night, and things went wrong. The whole group of more than 1,000 people dragged their feet when they got together, and had to leave the main road and take the trail when they got halfway.

As a result, the trail was extremely bumpy and the speed of advancement was slow. After tossing and tossing all night, they finally arrived near the city of Merida. As a result, all the subordinates asked to rest for two hours before taking action. In the dark night, Captain Kulik did not refuse the request of his subordinates, because he himself was tired.

The third regiment adapted from gangsters has always been loosely disciplined. They were originally the private soldiers of the Diego family, and they became a habit of lawlessness. The head of the regiment has no way to strictly demand them, otherwise the soldiers will mutiny.

Originally agreed to rest for two hours, but as soon as I lay down, several hours passed. It wasn't until dawn that the head of the group climbed out of his tent. The cool air made him feel refreshed. He was so refreshed that he called his adjutant and asked, "How far are we from Merida?"

"About ten kilometers," said the adjutant.

"Let our artillery fire into the city, and at the same time let the boys in the regiment get up." Captain Kulik said proudly. He tightened the belt on his trousers, looked back at the two girls lying in the tent behind him, and thought that when marching and fighting, he just wanted to shoot cannons!

The adjutant is a retired sergeant. His mission is to assist his regiment commander in controlling the troops. At least he has some military common sense. He hesitated and asked: "Commander, will this cause panic in the city? If the city is in a mess, it will not be good for us to accept it."

"We are here to suppress the rebellion, not to hold a carnival." Commander Kulik grinned, and he slapped the adjutant on the shoulder vigorously, "Suppressing the rebellion is to fire guns, to completely frighten those lucky guys in the city , tell them to be obedient and never dare to resist again.”

The adjutant was helpless, nodded and stepped back to deliver the order. Half an hour later, the regimental artillery company equipped with the m119 105mm howitzer opened fire. The artillery of the government army had no specific target at all, but just fired at the city at the maximum range.

The rumble of cannons was deafening, but it awakened all the sleeping soldiers of the third regiment. They crawled out of various sleeping bags and tents, and quickly relaxed after learning that their own artillery had fired.

"Full team, whole team, we will set off into the city after the shelling is over. The commander allows you to rob for a day. You son of a bitch, you can have a good day of fun!" The officers in the regiment began to mobilize the soldiers one by one. get organized.

In the last days, the bandit-like army is the mainstream. The army of the Diego regime relied on looting and brutality to maintain order and morale. The officers used hostile words and actions to control their subordinates, while the soldiers at the grassroots level vented the tyranny they had endured to the more unfortunate bottom of society.

With punches and kicks, more than a thousand people were driven into their respective vehicles. The engines started one after another, and groups of soldiers drove towards the city of Merida. When they thought about it, the people in the city must have been scared out of their wits by the rumbling grenade explosion, waiting for them but bullying them.

The artillery company of the third regiment fired dozens of shells before stopping firing. The city of Merida, which was suddenly bombarded, was in quite a panic. The areas hit by shelling suffered heavy casualties, and the survivors could not maintain their sanity and composure in the explosion.

"Hold on, hold on." In the barricades on the outskirts of the city, a Mexican officer was reassuring his subordinates who were fighting for the first time. A row squatted in a temporarily dug trench, and everyone resisted and stood firm with rather crude weapons.

The officer leading the security force was infiltrated by the Mo Jiezhen, and had received training from the Aurora Legion. He can still joke to his subordinates at this moment: "In Havana, the instructors used heavy machine guns to shoot above our heads, and used grenades to explode around us. That's what it feels like..."

The officer's relaxation made the soldiers feel better, and not long after the shelling ended, the soldier in charge of guarding in front shouted: "Head,

The enemy is coming up. "

A battalion of the third regiment swaggered in armored vehicles along Highway 180 entering the city and arrived outside Merida. When they entered the city, they found that the road had been cut off. A wide and deep trench appeared before them.

In the binoculars, soldiers of the government army got out of the car and cursed. Dozens of vehicles are crowded on the road, which is very dense. The IML officer squatting behind the barricade couldn't help his heart beating faster and his throat was dry. He had received battlefield pressure training, but it was also his first time in actual combat.

"The artillery group, I am a group in Area B. There are about 300 enemies on Route 180 in front of me, and the coordinates are the 75th and 76th areas. Request firepower test." The leading officer directly on the radio Contact the security force artillery group at the rear to act as an artillery observation post.

"Understood, seventy-five, seventy-six areas, three test shots." The reply on the radio was very calm, the artillery as a technical arm was personally controlled by the military advisory group from the Aurora Legion, and they were all experienced veterans.

Where will the enemy come from? This problem has long been repeatedly confirmed in the investigation of the Merida security forces. At this moment, a battalion of the enemy appeared outside the city, and was immediately targeted by the artillery group of the public security army that had already planned to shoot Zhu Yuan.

A battalion of twelve 66-type howitzers are all big guys with a caliber of 152 mm. This thing was originally the main artillery of the rabbit, and the equipment used to fight Vietnam in the past has only been gradually retired in recent years. Now he was dragged to the wasteland by Zhou Qingfeng.

Assisted by the existing digital artillery equipment in the wasteland, the commander issued a firing order after the muzzles of the artillery group were simply adjusted.

Twelve cannons bombarded and fired continuously, thick smoke and flames spewed out, thunderous vibrations spread throughout the city, and large-caliber grenades flew out one after another. The target was the soldiers of the third regiment of the government army who were still acting stupid a few kilometers away.

The speed of the cannonball exceeds 900 meters per second, which is two or three times faster than sound. Before the sound of the cannon was heard, a hail of shells flew over and landed with a crash.

Due to the clear target indication, the artillery group strikes very accurately. The first artillery shell directly hit the crowd behind the blocking trench outside the city, and more than ten kilograms of high explosives exploded, and a radius of tens of meters was immediately enveloped in thick smoke.

In the thick smoke, more than a dozen shells followed closely, and the sound of explosions continued one after another. Occasionally, fragmented human bodies and vehicle parts can be seen being blown into the sky, but what happened in the thick smoke...is there even a need to think about it? It must have been fried to pieces!

The sound of rumbling cannons spread more than ten kilometers away, and the second wave of the third regiment's convoy had just set off at this moment. Hearing the muffled thunder-like sound from a distance, Captain Kulik thought it was thunder and it was about to rain.

And because the third regiment came running from a small road, it took a long time for the security force scouts to confirm their location after wandering around in the dark for a long time.

However, in this era of discovery and destruction, danger will come after the information is communicated. The big guy with the thickest tube at the rear of the gun group also began to adjust the steering and height control, and the gun barrel moved slightly, and it was about to fire!