Chapter 41: Assault on the base
The snake meat I ate in the morning had already been digested, and now I was hungry again.
Fortunately, there are some canned beef on the truck, the canned food of this era is not like later generations, it is meat, in fact, it is all flour, and some artificial things called meat essence are added, which tastes like meat, in fact, there is not even a bone.
Today's canned beef is full of large pieces of beef, and after processing, it is not stuffed with teeth, and after eating half of it, it is almost full.
Zhang Feng sat in the passenger seat of the truck in front of him, looking at a base that was approaching.
He couldn't help but wonder, how did the Persians find it? The place here is simply perfect, surrounded by swamps, but here, it is a small piece of high ground, the soil is hard, and it is relatively empty.
With binoculars, you can see rows of neatly arranged tanker trucks and ammunition trucks in the distance, which are all logistical support for tank operations, as long as those off-road trucks are blown up, the Persians will have to walk back to Ahvaz.
Because it is covered with a protective net, if you look at it from the sky, you can only see a swamp of one color, and you can't find it at all.
It's just that when I saw this huge logistics convoy, I saw only one Chieftain, undergoing repairs, and a few armored vehicles scattered around.
Some guards are nervously guarding the base, and at the intersection, several heavy machine guns are erected.
Zhang Feng secretly rejoiced that if he came here on foot, not to mention the energy he consumed, the key was that he did not have enough ability to blow up this place, but now it was different, they had become regular "Iranian soldiers", driving off-road trucks, followed by a chief tank.
With mental calculation or not, this base is their free dinner.
At this time, the sun had already set in the west, and the golden brilliance sprinkled the entire swamp, and the base was shrouded in a strange color.
"Stop!" The outermost sentry, two tall Iranian soldiers, had already begun to ask: "Which of your troops?" ”
"Transport Company of the 4th Battalion of the 52nd Brigade of the 32nd Armored Division of the Iranian Revolutionary Army. Carry out the brigade commander's order and go outside to rescue a Chieftain tank stuck in a swamp. Hades, who drove the first tanker, said in fluent Iranian.
The sentry looked twice, and saw that behind the two trucks, followed by a Chieftain tank, the Chief's turret was covered with mud, and it was obvious that it had taken great effort to save it.
"There's already a war ahead, why did you come back?" The sentry said: "Hurry up and refuel on the tanker truck, and go to the front line to beat the Iraqis!" ”
Seeing the situation, he seemed to feel remorse for not going to the front, and he beat the Iraqi people's wishes and left them to the chief.
"Allah willing, we will go right away." Hades said.
The sentries moved the barricades, and two off-road trucks drove into the base one after the other.
Driving into the base, Zhang Feng found that the tanker trucks had already started and were preparing to drive out in the other direction.
It couldn't have come at a better time! Zhang Feng knew that those tanker trucks must have gone to supply the chieftain.
With the offensive of a large-scale armored group, the supply of oil is a very important issue, if the fuel cannot be replenished in time, the armored group will lose its combat effectiveness.
In later generations, when Zhang Feng participated in military exercises, he knew the important surname of this supply, especially the tank with gas turbines, which had to be replenished every three or four hours, and the most common form was to use a tanker truck to refuel directly, and the corresponding tanker truck was also relatively special, with a fuel pump, with a plurality of long refueling guns, which could refuel multiple tanks at the same time.
More advanced is to lay refueling hoses, from the field oil depot directly to the location, using oil pipelines to transport oil, as a member of the special forces, he once took on the heavy task of defending this oil pipeline.
Now, seeing those tanker trucks ready to drive out, he knew that the chiefs at the front were starting to get hungry.
Want to eat? There are no doors.
"Marwan, take out the first tanker." Zhang Feng said on the radio and the chief tank behind him.
At this time, the tank convoy had already driven onto the gray road, and because it was dark, Zhang Feng did not realize that it was a temporary cement road.
"Yes." Marwan drove the chief and had already driven into the base. He originally wanted to make the chieftain who was being repaired the first target, but was ordered by Zhang Feng to go to the trouble of the refueling convoy first.
The chieftain's turret began to turn, and the thick barrel of the cannon rose.
"Hey, what are you doing?" One of the sentries noticed that something was wrong, the chief did not stop in a fixed position, as usual, and drove forward, the turret still turning.
"Da, da." The fighters on the second off-road truck all poked their heads out and fired fiercely at the sentries outside.
Immediately, he was beaten into a hornet's nest.
At this time, all the Iranians knew that there was a battle and that their own base had been attacked!
The soldiers in charge of the sentry in the bunker were the first to react, and the fire of the heavy machine guns immediately strafed here.
"Boom!" A grenade, flying out of the chief's gun, did not hit the first tanker, but hit the open field next to it.
Because none of them had ever shot the Iranian Chieftain tanks, it was already good to be able to fire shells for the first time with such accuracy.
So, they chose grenades.
To deal with different targets, you need to choose different types of ammunition, to deal with enemy tanks, you can only use armor-piercing shells and armor-shattering shells, and to deal with large-area personnel, mainly use grenades, armor-piercing shells rely on penetrating armor to destroy the enemy, and grenades mainly rely on shrapnel to kill and kill.
If an armor-piercing shell is used, as long as it does not hit the tanker, it will not have any lethality, and the grenade is different, although the grenade did not hit directly, but exploded next to it, however, the huge air current, which has already overturned the first tanker truck to the ground, and scattered fragments, shot into the tanker tank.
"Boom!" A huge fire burst out of the tanker, and the diesel fuel loaded in the tanker truck exploded violently.
Diesel fuel is not easy to ignite, however, in a tanker, there is already a certain amount of oil and gas (volatile diesel mixed with air), so that when the critical point of combustion is reached, combustion will occur.
Large-scale combustion in a small space is an explosion.
Brilliant firelight, reflected in the sunset.
"Dangdang!" Zhang Feng only felt a few bullets hitting the off-road truck he was on.
Fortunately, it is a military truck with a certain amount of bulletproof ability, Zhang Feng shouted on the radio: "Attention, focus on blowing up the fuel truck and ammunition here." ”
The two cars spun back and forth, dodging each other's bullets.
The chief finally came back to his senses, and the synchronized machine guns on the turret kept firing at the Iranian infantry who were hurrying in, while the artillery was once again aimed at the chieftain who was parked for repairs. At this moment, the other party has already launched and is preparing to face off against himself.
This time it's a hit! Marwan thought to himself.
"Armor-piercing shells, ready."
Rajawi would never have imagined that he was fighting bloodily in front of him, and who knew that there was already a fire in the backyard.
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