Chapter 1463: Complete Defeat of U.S. Artillery

"My infantry battalion was attacked intensively by hundreds of artillery pieces from the Iraqi-Syrian Federal Guard, and suffered heavy losses. I request for support..."

Messages for help from the infantry battalion kept going out, Major Sam, his hair was all gray.

The artillery shells that just fell covered the entire Tarawa Heights. Hundreds of American soldiers in the infantry battalion had lost more than half of them before seeing the enemy, and most of them were still wounded.

The Iranian soldiers of the two regiments on the side also suffered huge losses. When the battle started, the enemy had not been seen yet, and their combat effectiveness was reduced by half. The U.S. Army has never suffered such a big loss.

The most difficult thing for Major Sam to accept is that so many intelligence departments don't even know that the Iraqi-Syrian Federation dispatched hundreds of artillery pieces, and let the other side's artillery bombard their positions calmly. It is also difficult to preserve more than half of the combat forces in the Tarawa Heights.

The most frightening thing about the artillery fire just now was that the shells fell at the same time. This was the reason for the huge casualties, and there was no need for calibration firing at all. A direct attack would cover the entire firepower of the diffusion surface.

Not to mention just a battalion, even an armored brigade placed on the Tarawa Highlands would not be able to withstand such an attack.

The lethality of modern large-caliber howitzers can also exert the same attack effect as rocket launchers. Compared with the secondary strike efficiency and effective lethality of rocket launchers, artillery is actually more terrifying.

From Major Sam's point of view, the Iraqi-Syrian Federation used at least one hundred and fifty artillery pieces in the moment of fire coverage.

The Iraqi-Syrian Federation has been a country that likes to use artillery since it was in Iraq. After all, the lethal effect and cost of artillery are the cheapest in modern warfare compared with missiles and rocket launchers.

The use of the artillery of the Iraqi-Syrian Federal Guard is also accompanied by almost every war. Although Major Sam also made arrangements for this, the soldiers' defenses were all spread out to form a cross formation one by one, and foxholes were dug. The front of the defense is expanded, and the firepower is reasonably matched and used, which also allows the opponent's artillery and firepower to cover, and will not cause too much damage to oneself.

But now, Major Sam clearly realizes that he still underestimates his opponents. The strength of the Iraqi-Syrian Federation is not accidental, nor is it just a silver-like pewter head as the media advertises, let alone in front of the powerful US military. cowardice.

On the contrary, from the beginning of the war to the present, the U.S. military has been suffering, the navy has suffered, the air force has also suffered, and the moment the ground war began, the army has also suffered a small loss.

Major Sam didn't care about anything else, and sent a message for help directly to his brigade headquarters.

The 112th Infantry Battalion has lost more than half of it. Without support, it would be impossible to withstand the 12-hour attack of the Iraqi-Syrian Federal Guard.

Maybe with a few more fire coverages, everything will be over.

After receiving the report from Major Sam, the 11th Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the U.S. Eighth Army immediately dispatched the 113th Armored Battalion to support it.

Even the headquarters of the 112th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, several kilometers away, could clearly feel the power of the shelling just now. Hundreds of shells exploded on the position at the same time, and no one could bear it.

The rapidly supported 113th Armored Battalion is the main combat force of the 11th Mechanized Infantry Brigade. It has 18 Abrams main battle tanks and 24 armored vehicles, and its firepower configuration is very powerful.

When the 113th Armored Battalion started to set off, a self-propelled artillery battalion of the 11th Mechanized Infantry Brigade was also preparing for a counterattack.

During the shelling just now, the self-propelled howitzer battalion has almost locked the approximate position of the pacifier through the trajectory of the shell captured by the radar.

It’s only a distance of more than 80 kilometers, and there is no self-propelled howitzer that can beat the US military. Although the range of conventional artillery shells is only more than 50 kilometers, using rocket-extended range ammunition, let alone more than 80 kilometers, even if it is 100 kilometers, That's perfectly fine.

Moreover, the target of the attack is the artillery position of the Iraqi-Syrian Federation. It is not to precisely destroy some defensive bunkers or slow-moving targets, but a large frontal position. Therefore, using rockets with extended range does not worry about missing the target. .

At this moment, the efficient response capabilities of the U.S. combat forces are also fully reflected.

Even in a disadvantaged and passive situation, the US military's counterattack is still as sharp as ever.

Eighteen self-propelled artillery were quickly deployed on the established position, and the raised barrels were aimed at the so-called Iraqi-Syrian Federation artillery group more than 80 kilometers away.

As soon as the preparations were over, the shelling began.

In order to be able to cause effective damage to the Iraqi-Syrian Federation artillery cluster, the U.S. military did not conduct any calibration firing. It fully believed in the results obtained by its own ballistic calculation system, and launched intensive rapid-fire against targets more than 80 kilometers away.

It should be said that the United States is also a country with traditional artillery, and it has also developed the masterpiece of the battleship period. Although the self-propelled artillery of the US military has not received much attention, it has all the performance and technical data that it should have.

Moreover, the lethality of the US military's 155mm howitzer is not inferior to the same caliber artillery of the Red Police Corps, and it also maximizes the explosive power of explosives.

The pacifier artillery position, the plows on the four mechanical arms of the two pacifiers are quickly pulled out from the deep underground, the tires on the side of the stable support are lowered to support the heavy body of the pacifier, and the power system turns on the turbocharger , four pairs of huge load-bearing wheels, carrying the calmer to move away.

Hundreds of meters away, there was the whistling sound of shells in the sky, and one after another artillery fire fell on the surroundings of the Peacemaker artillery position, and a few fell on the positions of the previous two Peacekeepers.

And the other five pacifiers didn't even move their positions, and no shells fell on their positions.

When the gunpowder smoke filled the pacifier position, the five pacifiers that did not move roared again. This time, the barrel was slightly raised, and two shells were fired in a row, flying along the US howitzer shells. Ballistic, flying towards the US self-propelled artillery positions.

In modern warfare, the contest between self-propelled artillery is a very common battle in ground warfare.

On the U.S. self-propelled artillery positions, the alarm had just sounded inside each self-propelled artillery, and the shells across the night sky had already landed in the U.S. self-propelled artillery positions.

Eighteen self-propelled artillery were instantly annihilated in the explosion, and the pacifiers showed their sharp counterattacks.

In just one round of attack, of the eighteen self-propelled artillery, eight were destroyed by shells that fell directly, and four lost their combat capabilities.

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