507. Chapter 507 - Rocket Artillery Raid
Kentree is a medium-sized city in the southern part of the country, located in the center of the southern part of the country, although it is small in size, but it has a prominent strategic position. Lin Rui and the others arrived at the devastated city with fifty mercenaries in several troop transport trucks.
The war has caused great damage, the farmland on the outskirts has been destroyed, the houses have collapsed, and the originally spacious roads in the city have become a mess, with many corpses lying on the roads that have not yet had time to be cleaned up, many burning buildings and broken billboards, and under the gray-yellow sky, it looks like an apocalyptic scene.
Members of the Liberation Organization and mercenaries in the city are busy building fortifications in preparation for the next stage of government attacks. No one paid attention to the corpses, and in fact they didn't have time to dispose of them.
A wounded Yan zhòng, a black soldier with only one eye left, huddled behind a concrete shelter on a street corner. Whispering something in the local vernacular, maybe praying, maybe talking to yourself. No one understood, and no one knew if he was still conscious.
Lin Rui's heavy military boots stepped on the pavement covered with broken glass and collapsed buildings, and the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder and burnt. They found the headquarters of the Liberation Organization, which was located in the city.
There was a lot of chaos in the headquarters, and everyone was nervously busy.
"Hey, you guys again?!Go to the north, we have to put up more barricades there, the government army will be coming soon!" A mercenary Rui and the others hurriedly walked over and said, "Hey, what about you, which squad are you from?"
Lin Rui, the Gurkha scimitar on the mercenary's waist, smiled slightly, "Are you from the Gurkha team? Where is Surya, take me to see Surya." ”
"Chief Surya has just gone to inspect the ambush on the east side, you can talk to me about something. A black man with a weapon walked over and said. "I am a colonel of the armed forces of the National Liberation Organization of Gan, my name is ......"
"Alright, Colonel!" Lin Rui waved his hand, "I can't remember your names. This squad of ours is also an independent combat team, and is not part of your combat sequence, so it is not under your command. But I need intelligence on the enemy, and the more detailed the better. ”
"Well, I know who you are. The commander has told me that you will come. The black colonel nodded, "What do you want to know?"
"We need complete intelligence on the government forces, where their camps are, who the commanders are, the basic information about the personnel and armament. "How long have you been fighting them?"
"It's been a long time since yesterday afternoon. But the city is still under our control, and the pace of their attack is getting slower and slower. I guess it should stop until the evening. The colonel replied, "Their main attack is completely blocked by us, and it will be very costly to attack them." ”
As he was talking, there was a sudden explosion in the distance, followed by a series of explosions that made the ground tremble.
"It's not like they're slowing down. Lin Rui shrugged.
"Damn, it's those guns again. The colonel patted the computer dust that fell on his head, and said with some anger, "These guys have been shelling us with their own artillery." Even if their accuracy is poor, it has caused a certain amount of damage. In fact, our casualties were killed and wounded by these shells in the city. ”
"Does the government army have artillery?" Lin Rui frowned.
Jason thought for a moment and said, "It sounds like MLRS, but it's not large. Most likely 107 rocket artillery. ”
Often, the AK-47 assault rifle, RPG-7 rocket launcher and 107mm rocket launcher are listed alongside the three most famous conventional weapons in the world. Although the psychological warfare department of the US military has hyped up these three weapons in the media, these three weapons are "low-tech, low-price, low-cost and low-quality weapons for personnel use." But in the Vietnam and Iraq wars, this equipment played a huge role.
Tactically, the AK-47RPG-7 and 107-mm rocket artillery have their own division of labor. For targets beyond 300 meters, only 107-mm rocket artillery is a simple, practical, cheap and reliable weapon. The front-line officers and men of the US military who fought with 107-mm rocket artillery on the battlefield were generally in awe of this simple-looking Oriental rocket artillery. In Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. military has taken great care to collect all three weapons.
In fact, the 107mm rocket launcher is a highly humanized high-quality artillery, and various parameters have been repeatedly optimized. First of all, the artillery rocket projectile was designed for 18. 8 kilograms, one person just carries one, and it can withstand long-distance marching in difficult terrain. Not only is the overall weight light, but it can also be quickly disassembled and combined, and the individual parts weigh no more than 30 kg when disassembled.
Adults can walk on their backs. Even if it is assembled, it can be pulled by one person.
And this rocket artillery is probably the world's most suitable heavy weapon for guerrilla warfare and special forces use. Rocket launch tube length 0. 9 meters, supported by a tripod, with a total weight of 23 kg, a range of up to 8. 5 km, and the precision is high and powerful. A muscular special forces fighter can carry this single rocket launcher and two shells to the launch point on his own, attack the enemy's vital targets from a long distance, and then evacuate safely.
So as soon as they heard that the government army on the opposite side had this kind of weapon, Lin Rui and Jiang An immediately realized that there might be a problem here.
Lin Rui immediately asked, "Did they have this kind of weapon when you fought against the government army before?"
"We hadn't encountered them before, and we always thought they didn't have artillery like us. So I suffered a lot this time. The colonel shook his head.
"That's right, it should be someone from Morningstar. Lin Rui whispered to Dao Jason, "Can you judge their approximate range." ”
"In terms of range, the maximum range of rocket artillery is 8. 5 km. These people should not be too far away. Jason replied.
Lin Rui nodded and said, "Since we have met, we will go and extract this tooth of Morningstar Company and follow me." ”
"Hey, wait, where are you going? are you going to take out their artillery positions?" said the Colonel, frowning, "but we still need to strengthen the fortifications, and we can't spare anyone to cover you." ”
"Boom !!" was a messy burst of artillery fire, which caused a nearby building to finally fall to the side unbearably, raising a large amount of dust and smoke.
Lin Rui shook his head, "I didn't say I wanted you to cover either, Colonel. Take your men and build your defenses well. My men will take out these bazookas, which are a welcome gift for you. ”
"Hey, but...... Oh, damn it!" the colonel of the National Liberation Organization wanted to say something more, but Lin Rui had already waved his hand and led his men to rush forward in the face of artillery fire. The colonel was stunned with anger, but there was nothing he could do.