Chapter 361 Offense and Defense
The entire Twin Peaks is now in chaos, with bullets and artillery shells flying everywhere.
The artillery units located in the distant Sakura Kingdom had difficulty hitting their targets.
These Jieke Group's artillery are buried deep in concave tunnels, and their howitzers fire straight from high points, making it difficult to hit the artillery hidden in the concave tunnel.
They could only blast randomly at the upper levels of the mountain, but they could not effectively kill the soldiers of the Jieke Group hidden deep in the tunnels.
Located at the waist of the Twin Peaks, after a week of bombing here, the bare stone walls below were exposed. The entire stone wall was densely packed with hidden fire points.
The soldiers of Jieke's security opened the shooting window, lifted off the camouflaged rocks and scorched earth outside, stuck their deadly machine guns out of the shooting window, and wildly killed the Sakura Country soldiers who were climbing the mountain.
Further away, those armored vehicles and tanks want to come up, but the mountain road is not easy for these steel behemoths to travel. They can only withstand the indiscriminate bombing of the Jieke Group while using various machine guns, machine guns, and tank cannons to support the mountains as much as possible. .
Unfortunately, these bulky guys have not escaped the sanctions of the Jieke Group.
Various anti-tank missiles flew down the mountain. These giant steel beasts moving with difficulty on the mountain road were like prey pierced by hunters' spears. Many of them were destroyed on the mountain road, and even blocked the passage of vehicles behind them.
The only ones who can truly fight flexibly on the Twin Peaks are infantry, but the infantry are all suppressed on the mountain peaks and cannot raise their heads to fight back.
Suddenly, under machine gun fire and various light and heavy firepower attacks, the scene was littered with corpses.
Countless Sakura Kingdom soldiers and Zen Kingdom government troops could only hide in craters, under slopes and behind rocks, shivering.
In this way, they still have to face the covert sniping by the super soldier snipers of the Jieko Group, or the precise bombardment of heavy artillery. They are completely unable to organize an effective counterattack. If they rush out and expose themselves to sight, they will only die faster.
"What's going on? Why didn't you find all the soldiers of the Jieko Group hiding underground?"
Saito Ayumitsu, who commanded this joint force to attack the Twin Peaks, was furious. His heart was bleeding when he looked at the soldiers who were being slaughtered in large numbers.
"Prior intelligence and investigation methods did not discover that the other party had built intricate tunnels inside the Twin Peaks. How did they complete such a project in such a short period of time, and such a large amount of bombing did not detect it."
The army staff officer beside him held up his binoculars with a solemn expression.
They still underestimated the tenacity of the Jieko Group and originally thought that the Jieko Group would abandon Twin Peaks.
Before boarding the Twin Peaks, they also used drones, satellites, high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, and even infrared thermal imaging cameras to determine that there were no living people on the Twin Peaks and that the entire mountain had been blasted into scorched earth.
The army staff officer couldn't figure it out. In fact, Thousand-Hand Centipede had worked hard at Twin Peaks, dug various tunnels, and made targeted disguises on the outside.
At the same time, the soldiers are also wearing Tianyuan protective clothing. When the infrared thermal imaging camera shines on the Tianyuan protective clothing, it will be directly isolated by the Tianyuan protective clothing, and the body heat will not spread out at all.
"Let the fighter planes support you, and the fighters in the rear will change their ammunition and come over with ground-penetrating bombs and thermobaric bombs."
Saito Ayumitsu issued the order. Seeing that the infantry were suppressed on the Twin Peaks and unable to advance or retreat, they could only seek air support to break the situation.
The speed of the fighter planes was very fast. The fighters that were waiting in the sky used guided bombs to carry out precise bombing after the infantry revealed the coordinates.
Amidst the roar of the fighter plane, small black dots fell from the belly and wings of the plane, landing on the Twin Peaks.
In an instant, earth and rocks were flying on the Twin Peaks, and guided bombs exploded into deep craters, but they could not really threaten the deep craters.
After the shock and tinnitus caused by the explosion disappeared, the sound of gunfire pierced the smoke.
However, the situation changed when fighter planes carrying thermobaric bombs and heavy ground-penetrating bombs flew over the Twin Peaks from the rear airport.
A thermobaric bomb was dropped from a high altitude and fell into the tunnel. When it exploded, it was like a big firework. It instantly released a large amount of heat energy, forming a high-temperature and high-pressure fireball with a core temperature of more than 2,000 degrees.
The Jieko security soldiers in the tunnel were directly torn apart by the impact of the thermobaric bomb, and the expanding fireball rushed along the tunnel toward the interior of the Twin Peaks.
"Close the fire valve."
The commander yelled, and a super soldier rushed forward, pulled down the valve protection bolt, and the fire valve quickly closed.
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The fire ball hit the fire valve with overpressure, and the shock wave caused the fire valve to sway violently. Fortunately, the material used was excellent and strong enough. The soldiers inside finally breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the damage caused by the thermobaric bomb with lingering fear.
Weapons such as thermobaric bombs explode in small spaces such as closed indoors, underground caves, and rock caves. The killing effect is 100% higher than that in open spaces, especially for soft targets.
Even if many soldiers in the tunnel escape the flames and shock waves, their respiratory tracts will be burned, resulting in combat attrition.
In addition to thermobaric bombs, heavy ground-penetrating bombs also fell.
This ground-penetrating bomb is like a nail, penetrating through the thick soil layer. After a delay of a few seconds, you can see the nearby ground shaking violently, and billowing smoke and dust spewing out of the exposed shooting windows and ventilation channels. out.
At the location where the earth-penetrating bomb fell, hundreds of tons of soil and rocks were lifted up, forming a rising mud column tens of meters high, which looked majestic and spectacular.
Ground-penetrating bombs can penetrate tens of meters of soil and reinforced concrete. When they explode, they have the ability to couple underground, and the destruction effect is much stronger than simply exploding on the ground.
Many Jieko soldiers were shocked to death underground by the explosion. This kind of human killer weapon would only lead to death even if the super soldiers encountered it.
In order to deal with the Jieke Group, the Group of Eight prepared a large number of thermobaric bombs and ground-penetrating bombs. At this time, facing the strong defense of the Twin Peaks, they dropped them one after another, even if there were sometimes accidental injuries to friendly forces, they did not care.
"Reduce the number of outward-facing shooting windows, activate closed-loop independent defense in each tunnel, adopt guerrilla tactics when shooting, and don't stay in one tunnel all the time."
On Twin Peaks, Li Yuqi calmly issued orders and changed his tactical thinking.
At this time, they were suppressed by thermobaric bombs and ground-penetrating bombs. While many helicopters were flying in to suppress the fire, there were even transport and rescue helicopters flying down to rescue the Sakura Kingdom soldiers trapped in the Twin Peaks.
Although helicopters were destroyed by anti-tank missiles from time to time, many Zen and Sakura soldiers were also rescued.
After Li Yuqi's order was carried out, the firepower of Jieke Group began to weaken on Twin Peaks.
Many hidden fire points are no longer under continuous fire from heavy machine guns, which greatly reduces the pressure on the Sakura and Zen government forces.
In the face of the continuous bombardment of thermobaric bombs and ground-penetrating bombs from outside, the intricate tunnels of Twin Peaks began to have alloy fireproof, shockproof and explosion-proof doors, making the tunnels independent of each other.
In this way, even if a tunnel is hit by thermobaric bombs and ground-penetrating bombs, the flames and shock waves will not follow the tunnel and kill the soldiers in other connected tunnels.
On the Twin Peaks, most of the heavy machine guns and artillery were retracted, leaving some for mobile operations. Those heavy machine gunners would never shoot in the tunnel for more than half a minute. After shooting a shuttle, they would move on the spot.
After the artillery fired one shot, it was immediately pulled back.
Although the firepower of the Jieko Group has been greatly weakened as a result, the mortality rate has also been greatly reduced. Many of the fallen thermobaric bombs and ground-penetrating bombs can only blow up and destroy empty tunnels.
The war situation reached a stalemate at this moment, and the Jieko Group took the initiative to retract its fangs and claws, relying on the strong defenses of Twin Peaks to stay in place.
The Zen government troops and Sakura country soldiers had no other choice but to rely on various heavy firepower to suppress them.
The infantry were still being killed and wounded, but they had no tunnel protection or flexible movement, and eventually had to slowly retreat to the foot of the mountain.
This process lasted for several hours, until it got dark, and then they abandoned the corpses scattered all over the mountains and evacuated the outskirts of Twin Peaks in embarrassment.
After counting, it was found that the number of dead, injured and missing Zen and Sakura soldiers on the Twin Peaks that day reached an astonishing nine thousand, and the losses were extremely huge.
Out of a vengeful mentality, in the next few days, the Zen government troops and Sakura country soldiers continued to throw massive amounts of ammunition at the Twin Peaks, but Jacko's security guard was hiding inside the Twin Peaks and could not get out.
Even a heavy ground-penetrating bomb cannot reach hundreds of meters inside the mountain. It is absolutely safe for Jieke's security soldiers to stay here.
Seeing that the bombing failed, the Sakura Kingdom soldiers launched a fire attack on the Twin Peaks through artillery and air force.
Napalm bombs were dropped on the Twin Peaks, and fires continued throughout the night, in an attempt to suffocate and kill the Jaco security soldiers inside the Twin Peaks.
However, Jieke Group has already taken precautions against this. It has independent energy sources and oxygen generators, as well as radiation protection and gas protection equipment.
Water and food are also stored in sufficient quantities for half a year. The ammunition depot is at the deepest point of the Twin Peaks. The amount of ammunition stored is enough to beat the weapons of the soldiers here until they are useless.
After bombing and fire attacks were ineffective, Sakura Kingdom tried to send out elite special forces, hoping to sneak into the Twin Peaks tunnel, open a passage, and then send infantry to occupy it.
In the deep tunnel.
An elite combat company from the Sakura Kingdom Special Operations Group, also known as the 'Dragon of the Self-Defense Forces', secretly sneaked into an abandoned tunnel late at night under the cover of fighter planes and helicopters.
They planned to occupy several tunnels, just like the ancient soldiers who climbed the city wall first, establishing a foothold for the rear troops.
At that time, infantry and armored vehicles can continue to encroach inside along the tunnel.
Unlike before, I could only be constantly shot by heavy machine guns and bombarded by artillery shells during the climbing process of Twin Peaks.
"Don't make any noise, be quiet, and try to deal with people with knives and silenced pistols if you encounter them."
The commander of this special force, company commander Kobayashi Yanpei, did not speak, but used military gestures to convey his command.
This special operations company is also silent. As the first special forces created by the Sakura Kingdom twenty years ago, they have received guidance and devilish training from the Delta Force of the Beautiful Country, and their technical and tactical skills are very good.
At this time, in the tunnel, hundreds of special forces were in an orderly manner, covering and guarding each other, and alternately passing through the underground tunnel. There was no word exchange throughout the process, and they relied entirely on silent military gestures on the battlefield for tactical communication. They communicated with each other, as if As a whole, the entire infiltration process is very smooth.
"Why is there no one?"
After walking several hundred meters, Kobayashi Yanping drew a map on a simple piece of paper, including the route they took and the forks they encountered along the way.
Logically speaking, the quality of the soldiers of the Jieko Group should not let down their guard so much. There is not even a single guarding soldier within a few hundred meters.
Moreover, many alloy gates along the way were open and not closed, which made their progress very smooth.
While Kobayashi Yanping was thinking this, several noises suddenly came from behind the team.
The special forces of Sakura Country wearing low-light night vision goggles looked at it and couldn't help shouting: "Why is the alloy door behind closed?"
Kobayashi Yanping's expression suddenly changed, he didn't care about alerting the enemy, and shouted: "No, we have fallen into a trap, the enemy let us in deliberately."
He said that why it went so smoothly, the traces of himself and others must have been exposed to the eyes of Jieke's security guards. The other party wanted to let him go deep into the underground tunnel and close the door to beat the dog.
As if to verify his suspicion, almost the next second, dull footsteps came from ahead.
Several first-class super soldiers wearing alloy armor and carrying various heavy weapons rushed over quickly.
"Steel Battalion Warriors."
With a flash, when the low-light night vision goggles clearly showed the appearance of the enemy, the feet of all Sakura Kingdom soldiers felt a little weak.
They could not imagine why the first-class super soldier of the Steel Battalion, the ace among the aces of the Jieko Group, would appear here.
In the past, treasures like this would only be used by the Jieko Group to deal with decisive battles, and would not be put into ordinary frontal battlefields.
These Sakura Country soldiers didn't know that the first-class super soldiers had been transferred to ordinary troops and used as elite assault forces.
The members of the Steel Battalion have all been replaced by more ferocious genetic warriors.
Before these Sakura Kingdom special forces could understand this, the first-class super soldiers opened fire first with their extraordinary reflexes.
Zizzi!
There was a buzzing sound of continuous rotation. A first-class super soldier held a six-barrel Gatling gun. Bullets shrouded him like a rain curtain. The Sakura Kingdom special forces faced him. Seven or eight people were beaten into sieves on the spot.
The remaining Sakura Kingdom special forces soldiers were so scared that they hurriedly hid in the winding and bifurcated tunnels to avoid direct bullets.
"Turtle sons, help you warm yourself by the fire."
Amidst the ferocious laughter, another first-class super soldier dual-wielded two specially modified flamethrowers, and the rolling fire dragon roared out. The air burned by thousands of degrees of heat continued to spread and surge along the narrow tunnel.
Many Sakura Kingdom special forces who were hiding in the bend and thought they had temporarily escaped disaster were caught off guard and were directly engulfed by the rolling flames. They were ignited into living beings, rolling around on the ground with howls.
(End of chapter)