"Our infantry battalion was intensively attacked by hundreds of artillery pieces of the Iraqi-Syrian Federal Guard, suffered heavy losses, and requested reinforcements ......"

The infantry battalion's pleas for help kept coming, and Major Sam, his hair was gray. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The shells that had just fallen covered the entire Tarawa Heights, and hundreds of American soldiers in the infantry battalion had already lost more than half of them before they could see the enemy, and most of them were still wounded.

The Iranian soldiers of the two regiments on the side also suffered huge losses, and when the battle began, they had not yet seen the enemy, and their combat strength had been reduced by half, so how could the US Army have suffered such a big loss.

What is most difficult for Major Sam to accept is that so many intelligence services do not even know that the Iraq-Syria Federation has dispatched hundreds of artillery pieces, and let the opponent's artillery calmly launch artillery bombardments on their own positions, and it is difficult to save more than half of the combat force even if anyone stays in this Tarawa Heights.

The most terrible thing about the artillery fire just now is that the shells fell at the same time, which is the reason for such huge casualties, and there is no need for calibration at all, and the direct attack is the full fire coverage of the diffusion surface.

Not to mention that it is just a battalion, even if an armored brigade is placed on the Tarawa Heights, it cannot withstand such an attack.

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

In Major Sam's opinion, the firepower of the moment just now was covered, and the Iraq-Syrian Federation used at least more than one hundred and fifty artillery pieces.

After all, the lethal effect and cost of artillery are the cheapest in modern warfare compared to missiles and rocket artillery.

The use of artillery of the Iraqi-Syrian Federal Guard has also accompanied almost every war, although Major Sam has also made arrangements for this, so that the soldiers' defenses are all dispersed, forming a formation that crosses each other, digging foxholes, expanding the front of the defense, and using the firepower reasonably, so that the opponent's artillery fire and firepower will not cause too much damage to himself.

And now, Major Sam clearly understands that he still underestimates his opponent, and the strength of the Iraq-Syria Federation is not accidental, nor is it like the media propaganda, it is just a silver pewter spearhead, and he will not be cowardly in front of the powerful American army.

On the contrary, from the beginning of the war to the present, it has been the US military that has been suffering, the navy has suffered, the air force has also suffered, and the ground war has also suffered a small loss at the moment it began.

Major Sam didn't care about anything else, and sent a message directly to his brigade headquarters asking for help, the 112th Infantry Battalion had already lost more than half, and without support, it would be impossible to withstand the 12-hour attack of the Iraqi-Syrian Federal Guard.

Maybe a few more firepower covers and it's all over.

The 11th Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the Eighth Army of the U.S. Army, after receiving Major Sam's report, immediately dispatched the 113th Armored Battalion to support.

Even the command of the 112th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, which was several kilometers away, clearly felt its power in the shelling just now, and hundreds of shells exploded on the position at the same time, and no one could withstand it.

The 113th Armored Battalion, which is supported by fire, is the main combat force of the 11th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, with 18 Abrams main battle tanks and 24 armored vehicles, and the firepower is very powerful.

And by the time the 113th Armored Battalion began to set off, a self-propelled artillery battalion of the 11th Mechanized Infantry Brigade was also beginning to prepare for a counterattack.

During the shelling just now, through the trajectory of the shells captured by the radar, the self-propelled howitzer battalion had almost locked on to the approximate position of the pacifiers.

It is only a distance of more than 80 kilometers, and it is not possible to find the self-propelled howitzers of the US army, although the range of conventional shells is only more than 50 kilometers, but the use of rocket range extender shells, let alone more than 80 kilometers, even if it is 100 kilometers, it is no problem at all.

Moreover, the target of the attack was the artillery position of the Iraq-Syrian Federation, not to accurately destroy any defensive pillboxes or slow-moving targets, but a large frontal position, so the use of rocket range extender projectiles is not worried about not hitting the target.

At this moment, the efficient response capability of the US combat units has also been fully reflected.

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

Eighteen self-propelled guns quickly deployed on the established positions, and the barrels raised high were aimed at the so-called Iraq-Syrian federal artillery cluster more than 80 kilometers away.

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

In order to be able to inflict effective casualties on the Iraqi-Syrian federal artillery group, the US military did not carry out any calibrated fire, fully believing in the results of its ballistic calculation system, and launched intensive rapid fire on targets more than 80 kilometers away.

To say that the United States is also a traditional artillery country, and has also developed the battleship period, the US military's self-propelled artillery, although not very important, but all the performance and technical data that should be available, also have all the necessary performance and technical data.

Moreover, the lethality of the US 155-mm howitzer is not inferior to the same caliber artillery of the Red Guard Corps, and it also exerts the explosive power of explosives to the extreme.

The Pacifier's artillery position, the plough on the four mechanical arms of the two Pacifiers, quickly pulled out of the deep underground, the tires on the side of the stable support were lowered, supporting the heavy body of the Pacifier, the power system turned on the turbocharger, and four pairs of huge load-bearing wheels carried the Pacifier to move.

Hundreds of meters away, the whistling of shells could be heard in the sky, and one by one the artillery fire fell around the artillery position of the pacifiers, and several fell on the positions of the two previous pacifiers.

The other five pacifiers did not even move their positions, and no shells fell on their positions.

When the smoke of gunpowder was filled with the position of the pacifiers, the five troopers who did not move also let out an angry roar again, this time the barrels were slightly raised, and two shells were fired in succession, following the trajectory of the US howitzer shells, and flew towards the US self-propelled artillery positions.

Modern warfare, the contest between self-propelled guns, is a very common battle in ground warfare.

On the US self-propelled artillery position, the alarm had just sounded inside each self-propelled gun, and the shells that streaked through the night sky had already fallen on the US self-propelled artillery position.

Eighteen self-propelled guns were annihilated in the explosion in an instant, and the pacifiers showed their sharp counterattack.

In just one round of attack, eighteen self-propelled guns, eight of which were destroyed by falling shells, and four were incapacitated.

(To be continued.) )