Chapter 1656 Consumption

Forty kilometers west of Queretaro is the small town of Celaya. This is part of the Querétaro city fortress group, and it is the parallel line for the northward advance of the Aurora Legion.

This time going south, the 'Mo Tongzheng' was equipped with a lot of US military reconnaissance equipment. However, it is said to be "a lot", but it can only meet the needs of one battlefield direction.

On the front of the attack, Commander McCain, who commanded the new 1st Armored Division of the "Mexist Formation", had a great time using it. On the other side, the 2nd Armored Division responsible for fighting Celaya had to use his life to test it.

Fortunately, the Aurora Legion's ability in long-distance reconnaissance is also weak enough. Both sides know the approximate location of the opponent, but they don't know where the specific firepower points are, so it's basically even.

Lieutenant Rubin stood on a layer of floating soil on the front line of Celaya, struggling to pull in a blown-out ditch. He quickly touched a foot, and pulled it hard, but the force in his hand was loosened, and half of the leg was pulled out.

"Damn." Rubin cursed, and continued to search for survivors in the trench. He was followed by two orderlies, who were also busy shouting, "Is anyone still alive? Answer me, are there any people in the first row of the second company alive?"

The battlefield trenching machine can easily build simple trenches, anti-gun holes, ammunition storage points, and caves for hiding soldiers. Each steel bunker is a fire support point for the S-shaped trench.

Hearing that there was an enemy attack, Lieutenant Rubin also specially ordered his subordinates to fill sandbags with soil to strengthen the defense of the fortification. But no matter what the defense is, a direct hit from a 155-caliber howitzer is useless.

Lu Bin was the follower of the old housekeeper Martin when Zhou Qingfeng was a fake governor in Merida. Old Martin was getting old, basically he could only live by Zhou Qingfeng's side for the elderly. And Rubin and his twin brother have a long way to go.

Zhou Qingfeng originally wanted to find an easy job for the Rubin brothers, but the brothers insisted on joining the army. Joining the army during the war is a real test of ability. From the current point of view, Rubin is not competent as a company commander.

However, there are not many competent Mexican officers in the Mexican army at present, and Rubin is the tallest among the short ones.

As soon as the war started today, the overwhelming artillery fire made Rubin see the true cruelty of war. The enemy used several large-caliber howitzers with a range of 30 to 40 kilometers to accurately cover the forward position in charge of Rubin. So a platoon in the position is basically reimbursed.

"Company commander, the battalion sent us two supplementary platoons. The battalion commander asked us to put fewer people in the front, and leave a few observation posts. It is enough. The main force should be placed in the hiding cave at the rear." Follow dozens of recruits.

The two platoon leaders who led the team came up to meet their company commander, and Rubin immediately arranged for these new troops to rebuild the fortifications, otherwise they would be killed by the enemy in a real fight.

The tragic scene on the battlefield frightened the new recruits. Many people saw the shattered corpses in the artillery fire, collapsed on the ground and cried, and had to be kicked by the officer to move.

"Let these crybabys get up, the enemy will launch another wave of shelling at any time." Rubin was no stranger to it. He is now an ordinary officer on the front line, knowing Zhou Qingfeng or not will not bring him much benefit, all he can do is to work hard to maintain the morale of his subordinates.

The commander of the "Mexist Formation" on the Celaya front line used a very simple strategy. He has few reconnaissance equipment, but the M109A6 artillery in his hand has a long range and is equipped with artillery radar. As long as the heavy artillery of the Legion on Celaya's main position opened fire, he could easily knock it out.

In order to let the defenders' heavy artillery fire, the commander of the "Mo Tong Formation" kept sending out a company or a battalion of troops to test. If the heavy artillery of the defenders did not fire, he used his long-range heavy artillery to knock down the fortifications of the defenders on the forward positions one by one.

After several losses, the heavy artillery of the defenders could not easily support the forward positions. As a result, front-line companies like Rubin have to repel the incoming enemy on their own, and they have to carry the shells that the enemy may drop at any time.

And what does Rubin rely on to resist? Relying on the continuous supply of supplementary soldiers, relying on the two 65-type 'double 37' anti-aircraft guns guarding the front line.

To put it bluntly..., it depends on consumption.

"Company commander, one of our guns is broken." An orderly ran over in a panic.

As soon as he heard that the cannon was broken, Rubin suddenly became anxious. He can resist the front with two flat-firing anti-aircraft guns, and if one is broken, he will be in big trouble.

After rushing to the artillery position in the trench, there was indeed a "double three-seven" anti-aircraft gun with its gun belt position blown up, and the artilleryman who operated the gun was completely dead. From this point of view, it is the laser-guided artillery shells, and the ones responsible for the guidance are the enemies that are touched outside the front line.

"Don't these idiots know how to move their positions immediately after firing?" Rubin scolded, and quickly asked the orderlies to ask for help from the battalion headquarters, asking for another "double three-seven" anti-aircraft artillery battery. He also ordered: "Go and get our camouflage gun, and re-arrange it on this gun position."

The soldiers in the company quickly moved a set of simple camouflage guns along the trench. This thing is an inflatable large bag, which looks like a cannon muzzle hidden in a steel bunker after inflating. Whether it is long distance or short distance, it is very deceptive.

This camouflaged muzzle also has its own sound and light effects, and can even spray flames remotely—as long as you pay, thousands of private companies along the coast of Huahuajia can spare no effort to meet any of your product requirements. Only you can't think of it, but they can't do it.

If the money is enough, everything is easy to say.

But Zhou Qingfeng is rich.

All kinds of camouflaged weapons with gunfire effects and even infrared features filled the entire front line. Rubin even got dozens of inflatable soldiers in military uniforms on the front line, and even put out a dozen camouflage guns. This stance can scare opponents to death or increase their ammo consumption tenfold.

But before the position was repaired, Rubin received a report from the frontline investigators that a micro-drone was shot down three kilometers away.

"Go to the anti-battery hole, go to the anti-battery hole quickly. Those damned enemies may be pointing their laser irradiators at us." Rubin left a small number of people on the front line, and the rest of the people They all rushed to the blast holes covered with four or five meters thick soil and reinforced with steel plates.

And the large-caliber mortars of the battalion headquarters in the rear were firing under the guidance of the drone, and there were bursts of tom-tom on the battlefield. The mortars on the vehicle moved after firing a few rounds, and several cannons kept firing alternately to maintain a suppressed state.

Rubin is also rushing towards his forward headquarters. War is the place where people are trained the most. At this moment, he can quickly understand what he has learned in the short training course for junior officers. As long as he can survive, his experience can be accumulated.

And just as Rubin was running in the trench, there was an unexpected explosion around him, like an explosive airflow like a raging wave. Shell after shell slammed around him like thunder of judgment in hell.

When the subordinates dug Rubin out of the floating soil, his ears were bleeding and he couldn't hear the sound, his footing was unstable, his face was dull, and he looked like a fool. And when he was carried to the field hospital, he saw that a bomb hole in the field was blown up by a ground penetrating bomb, and the corpses were flying all over the field...

A supplementary platoon that Rubin had driven into hiding not long ago was finished.

War... is the most rational madness of mankind. .

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