Chapter 487: Terrible Offensive Preparations
If you look at the battle situation map of Lubion 5, the sixteen cities controlled by the 'Renaissance Alliance' led by Franklin from north to south have their actual control After the areas are connected, it is actually a long strip-shaped area with a very large area.
This is also the basic line of the 'Revival Alliance', which is to control large cities to obtain more resources and population, and the defensive resilience of large cities is much stronger than ordinary targets. To a certain extent, It can be regarded as picking an advantageous 'position' for possible defensive operations.
Since the armed forces of 'General Lampard' have targeted the Renaissance Alliance, they have controlled the industrial areas and satellite cities around these cities. Although they cannot control all industrial areas due to troop strength issues, they Still, most of the valuable areas are under control.
As for those areas that could not be completely controlled due to military strength issues, this 'General Lampard' did not hesitate to order damage that could not be repaired in a short period of time, regardless of the fact that there were also a large number of residents near these areas. .
As a result, these residents who had lost their food supply were forced to flee towards cities controlled by the Renaissance Alliance, which further increased the difficulty of management and the tightness of material supplies for Franklin and others.
Although General Lampard's forces cannot completely surround the Renaissance Alliance, it actually still limits the direction of their external expansion.
Occupying those destroyed industrial areas or satellite cities basically yields nothing. On the contrary, the further expansion of the defensive area leads to an increasing shortage of troops. This is obviously an approach that does more harm than good, so Franklin They gave up this plan after receiving the field survey information sent back by the investigation team.
So the only areas that can be expanded are those areas actually controlled by General Lampard, but this exposes another problem.
They cannot defeat the defenders in these areas
At the same time, the middle position of the 'long strip' control area of the Renaissance Alliance is also a key point. If it is attacked and broken through, the entire control area will be divided into two. Therefore, under the advice of his staff, Franklin Heavy defense was also deployed here.
This has resulted in a further reduction in the number of troops that can participate in combat offensive missions.
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33 kilometers west of the edge of Mitala city, the second attack group of the Renaissance Alliance, the advance team assembly area.
Captain Jenny, commander of Company A of Battalion B of the 2nd Attack Group Combat Reserve, looked at the dispersed and concealed teams that had assembled behind the woods, frowned and retreated into the armored command vehicle.
He patted his deputy, Lieutenant Kent, the executive officer of Company A, on the shoulder, and then asked:
"During the combat mobilization meeting last night, didn't you say that we would be strengthened with another counterattack?" Armored platoon? How come there is no trace of it yet? "
The anti-armored platoon mentioned by Captain Jenny refers to a platoon-level unit composed of 4 "Cavalry" medium-sized multi-legged tanks, 2 guns The configuration of 130 straight/curved dual-purpose electrothermal chemical cannon + 2 plasma cannons is the standard basic anti-armor configuration among the ground forces of the Renaissance Alliance.
At the battle mobilization meeting the night before, when the headquarters assigned the task of serving as the 'advance team' to Company A, it also promised to strengthen an additional anti-armor platoon to increase their firepower.
By the way, although the current ground forces of the Renaissance Alliance are a large number of mixed military and police forces, in terms of organization, command system and habits, they are still the same as the galaxy garrison force. In other words, the Federation Army's old Tradition'.
Before the battle begins, the forward command post assigns battalion-level troops as combat reserves and sends a company as the 'advance team'.
Different from the 'vanguard troops' that most people are more familiar with, the 'vanguard troops' are small groups of troops dispatched by the forward attack battalion after the battle begins, deploying in the front, left and right directions of the attack arrow.
The 'advance team' enters into a dynamic environment far away from the main force's firepower and support nodes to engage the enemy before the battle begins, to perform the task of driving, annihilating and alerting the enemy, and launching an attack for the subsequent main force. Create conditions.
Under normal circumstances, a mechanized infantry company is sent to perform this task, so the task of this 'advance team' naturally falls on Captain Jenny's company.
As a former garrison officer, Captain Jenny had no objections to this arrangement.
But he had a strong opinion on the fact that the originally promised strengthened anti-armor platoon had not yet arrived.
After hearing his complaint, the executive officer, Lieutenant Kent, who was busy at the command terminal, also opened a new window and said angrily:
“I can’t come. Just now. The news was sent that this anti-armor platoon was intercepted and sent to the forward attack battalion. "I'm so CTM! Why are these grandsons from the forward attack battalion coming to intercept the enemy again?"
Captain Jenny suddenly became angry: "It was the same last time. As a result, we ran into a mixed team of the opponent's 'Cavalry' and 'Tarantula', and we almost couldn't evacuate! ”
Seeing that Jenny was already head-over-heels, he picked up the communicator and was about to hit his front finger directly to complain. Lieutenant Kent immediately stopped him with quick eyesight and quick hands.
"Is it useful if you file a complaint? Don't you think about whose confidant the battalion commander of the forward assault battalion is? Do you think you can win against him?
Besides, it's far from scheduled now There are only 10 minutes left in the departure time. If you delay the time because of this, you will be blamed by the front finger."
Lieutenant Kent's words made Captain Jenny quickly calm down.
He thought of the battalion commander of the forward attack battalion. He was a direct descendant of a certain officer in the basic command post, a direct descendant of a brigade-level unit commander. It was really difficult for him to file a complaint in his own capacity. Please.
"Hey, you said Mr. Franklin is such a good person, why did he recruit such a bunch of worms into the team?" Captain Jenny said with some frustration, his expression also looked a little lonely.
Looking at his appearance, Lieutenant Kent felt uncomfortable, but he still fulfilled the duties of a combat adjutant. He remained calm at this time and said at the same time:
< br>"Don't think too much, brother, these things are not something that either of us can consider. What you have to do now is to calm down and take command, lead everyone to complete the mission and then withdraw."
"Well, You're right, I shouldn't be disturbed by these nonsense at this time."
Captain Jenny nodded, calmed down and sat in the main command seat of the armored command vehicle, then opened the door. Combat map.
"Let's be careful this time. The front finger picker Sosou only sent one company to carry out the annihilation alert, and it's our mechanized infantry company.
I really don't know what to think, it's the same face Exploring the grass, is our infantry more durable than HCP or main battle tanks?
Taking a step back, you can get some mixed units of medium-sized multi-legged and light multi-legged units, and their combat effectiveness will be higher. Much higher than us."
The outspoken company commander couldn't stop complaining, and Lieutenant Kent beside him could only respond in a bitter mood:
"The Army's combat doctrine requires the use of a mechanized infantry company as the 'advance team'. People say that they are just acting in accordance with the doctrine. Why are you so angry?"
"Then isn't this typical dogmatism? Considering that it has been so long since the war between the Federation and the Empire, it's time for combat experience to be updated with the times, right? It's obvious that heavy armored units will serve as the 'advance team'. The advantage is far greater than the advantage brought by the mobility of the mechanized infantry company!”
During the exchange between Captain Jenny and Lieutenant Kent, Company A also began to take action under the command of the former! , nearly 20 wheeled armored vehicles drove out of the assembly area in a marching formation and headed towards the target enemy-controlled area.
But soon, they were intercepted by the first warning position.
(End of this chapter)