Chapter 1655 Laziness

More than ten kilometers north of Querétaro, there is an unnamed hill.

Raphael squatted on the top of the hill with his platoon for two hours. The trenches had been dug, the bunkers had been built, and the camouflage nets had been fully draped. There are three shifts and nine observation points in the whole row. They just stay on the top of the mountain quietly and look at the several kilometers wide plateau passage below the mountain.

With the assistance of Dr. Osborne, the weapons and equipment of the "Mo Tongzheng" side are not inferior to those of the Aurora Legion, and even far surpassed them in some respects. For example, the reconnaissance equipment loaded on various drones, helicopters, and even fighter jets is much better, and the battlefield can be observed from a few kilometers or even more than ten kilometers away.

On the side of the Aurora Legion, weapons that are too advanced cannot be regarded as ordinary items, and they must be transported by opening the time and space gate.

The last time Zhou Qingfeng got a large freighter to transport the equipment of the "Mechanician", it took too much time to open the time-space gate, which made him shy in transporting cutting-edge weapons. The quality of the troops of the Legion is not high, and they lag behind in reconnaissance and air defense equipment.

Raphael can now see the huge gap caused by this backwardness. After the minefield in front of him was laid out for the first time, Bray's convoy left quickly, with only a small number of infantry personnel nearby to observe the enemy's situation.

Not long after, rockets from the side of the "Mo Tongzheng" flew over. Even if there is no satellite positioning, the distance and azimuth can be accurately calculated by map operation alone. When the overwhelming minesweeping rockets fall, the entire minefield is rumbling and chaotic.

The kilometers-wide natural passage between the hills is like a carpet of explosion smoke and dust, and the minesweeping rockets throw hundreds of sub-munitions and explode on the ground. Every small explosion triggers a response from the ground with clouds of mines.

In this area, there are tens of thousands of small anti-personnel mines. They stick out a spider web of trip strings, which explode at the slightest touch.

Anti-personnel mines have limited power, and when they explode, they are only a small cloud of smoke, but the anti-tank mines protected by them are terrible. Type 69 anti-tank mines are too old and have no anti-explosion, secondary detonation, and anti-mine functions. The high pressure caused by the explosion of mine-clearing bombs can easily trigger them.

There are nearly 10,000 anti-tank mines in the minefield, and when they are detonated in one breath, it is like nearly 10,000 heavy artillery shells exploding on the ground without interruption. The smoke from the explosion rose into the air and spread, soon covering the entire passage and the surrounding hills.

Raphael was staying on a hill not far from the minefield, and the violent explosion made the ground tremble continuously. This natural disaster-like scene not only made him extremely uncomfortable physically while lying in the trench, but also endured great psychological pressure.

There are many recruits in the platoon, and no one has ever seen such a horrible thing. Many soldiers vented their fear by yelling in horror, and some soldiers simply jumped out of the bunker and ran around, panicking and losing their minds.

"Hold down the running soldiers, and if you can't hold them down, knock them out." Raphael couldn't watch his platoon lose control, so he could only stand up and give orders. But the explosion under the hill made his shouts useless, and he could only stand up and catch those soldiers who were running around.

The entire demining process only took a few minutes. When the smoke and dust cleared, Rafael's entire platoon was scattered in a mess within a few hundred meters around the trench on the top of the mountain. Many people gasped heavily, their chests rose and fell violently, and they got up with muddy faces, seeing the reaction from the outside world as if they had been in a lifetime.

"Go back to the position, go back to your bunker. You have to be thankful that these rockets are not coming towards us, otherwise we would have died long ago." Rafael yelled for a while, he was exhausted and his legs were weak.

The soldiers in the platoon came back one by one in a daze, and someone shouted in alarm: "Platoon leader, look at our rear position."

Everyone turned their heads and suddenly gasped.

The enemy's rocket launchers not only performed the minesweeping mission, but also a large number of rockets attacked the army positions behind the minefields. These positions are mainly trenches, bunkers, and semi-permanent fortifications. Although they are not perfect, they are strong enough for Raphael.

Now Raphael raises the telescope again,

What I saw was the ground churning after being bombarded by carpets. The trenches were flattened, the steel bunkers were crooked, and some even overturned and buckled on the ground, and the fortifications spliced ​​​​with reinforced concrete pre-components were blown to pieces.

Immediately after the shelling, a large number of people came out to repair the fortifications. Rafael also saw one or two scorched arms or thighs emerging from the blasted floating soil from time to time, causing many casualties.

"Platoon leader, look." Another soldier pointed to the minefield under the hill that had just been plowed by rockets. There have been many potholes and bullet craters in the originally flat area, and the convoy that just laid the mines has come again this time.

The mine-laying rockets were fired again, the white umbrella flowers covered the smoking minefield again, and the anti-personnel mines were nested with the anti-tank mines again-it seemed that this mine-laying convoy was well concealed just now, fart Nothing.

Just looking at the minefield full of umbrella flowers again, Raphael suddenly had a bad feeling. He immediately shouted to the soldiers under him: "Go back to the bunker, this time kill and don't move."

Sure enough, the minefield had just been set up this time, and before the convoy had time to run far, another wave of rocket bombs fell down—the rumbling explosion happened again, and Raphael himself could only hug his head and cover his ears, With his mouth wide open, he lay on his side in the bunker and suffered.

When the vibration on the ground stopped again, Raphael and his men poked their heads out of the bunker, and saw thousands more 'moon craters' in front of them, big craters followed by smaller craters, one crater after another. Infinity also....

This was repeated several times, and the legion's position was also ravaged several times. Every time the shelling was over, troops came out to lay mines again, and every time a position was destroyed, officers and soldiers came out to repair it.

Among them, the mine-laying convoy is considered the most dangerous. Their mine-laying rockets do not have enough range, and they have to drive to the front of the position to launch every time. After each launch, you must slip away quickly, and if you slow down a little, you will be covered by enemy rockets.

During the third mine-laying, Rafael's platoon simply left several mine-laying vehicles behind as the vehicles broke down and blocked the road. A group of people panicked and squeezed into the car that could still drive and ran away in a hurry.

Seeing the distressed appearance of this army, Raphael still wanted to laugh. It can be seen that they were covered by enemy firepower because they did not retreat in time, and the whole platoon was heartbroken. This kind of attitude of only being beaten and not fighting back is a blow to morale. Raphael himself fell silent.

After the fourth large-scale bombardment of the 'Mo Tongzhen', the mine-laying troops could not come out again. Only a dozen mine-laying vehicles were left at the scene, which were charred black and scattered, proving that a unit had once fought here.

Ugh…….

A few days later, Raphael completed the garrison task above and led the team to evacuate for rest. He happened to meet an officer who was laying rockets, and asked him if he couldn't attack because of too many casualties on the first day of the battle?

"Ah..., you mean the hill passage in the industrial area?"

"correct."

"That's the main direction of the enemy's attack, so it's natural to lay mines to block it. We suffered a lot of losses, but 20,000 to 30,000 anti-tank mines were dropped in that place. The charge of each anti-tank mine is equivalent to A 155 caliber heavy artillery shell.

That place was covered by the firepower of the enemy and ours three or four times in front and back, and there were tens of thousands of large pits over three meters in the passage of just a few kilometers, and there were countless small pits. When we see this situation, we naturally don't need to go to mine. "

"Ah..., I thought you had lost too much, but it turned out that you were lazy!"