Chapter 1045 tear open the gap
Looking down from space, the photos taken by the satellites show that Nevada, which covers a huge area, looks like a skin scratched by a crazy cat, is covered with a large number of dark marks from the north and south. They are all mountains raised in the large basin, towering like Jefferson Mountain. In the trough, there are many tributaries of the Humboldt River. There are undulating meadows everywhere, with rocks everywhere, and the deserts and Gobi are mixed with the terrain. The terrain is so complex that it is extremely difficult to build a road.
Until two years ago, the population of a state equivalent to a province in China, which is probably less than one million people, was mostly concentrated in the capital Carson area, as well as Vegas in the southeast, and the curved development route between the mountains in the middle.
But to be honest, the population is too small and the roads are too poor, so that except for the north and south ends, there are not even a large area of land in the middle of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, and the cowboys are used to riding horses back and forth to deliver letters, which is the only way to go.
With the outbreak of the war, the residents of only a few cities simply scattered and empty, and no one wanted to stay and be harmed by the legendary cruel Chinese troops. Of course, more were forced to move away when the US troops were withdrawn.
During that period, the air-space and the air-space were defeated step by step, and the annihilation battles of several consecutive armies made the Americans think that they might be beaten to the middle. In order to block the enemy along the way, they destroyed all the important buildings, bridges, roads, and dams that could be used, and the population was directly abducted, leaving a mess.
So much so far, the entire state has few locals left except for the deep mountains and forests.
Such a broken environment. If you want to use large-scale troops to fight, you will be self-inflicted, but it is extremely suitable for small groups of troops to deal with guerrilla warfare. The premise is that you have to have a way to solve the supply problem. Otherwise, people will not die of thirst, but they will definitely not feel good.
Just when the US military began a large-scale operation, the Chinese troops responsible for the defense of this direction would naturally not be idle. It was about 200 kilometers away from the enemy's base camp Salt Lake City. On the right side of the valley where a tributary originated, on the lush vegetation high ground, a special reconnaissance team in camouflage uniforms lurked under the green trees. Captain Zhuang Yongyi was chewing dry beef strips in his mouth, and his hands slightly covered the front of the telescope to prevent the reflected sunlight from being discovered by the enemy in the distance, and focused on looking a few kilometers away.
Next to him, several team members each chose a corner, carefully chewing food with head bites, siping hard-earned water in small sips. It seemed relaxing, but in fact, the firearms in their hands and chests were not closed. It only takes one second to load the bullets and can be carried out.
Above his head, another turbid roar passed by. Zhuang Yongyi looked up and glanced at him and muttered in a low voice: "His grandma! American Japanese boats are rampant these days! The density of aircraft is obviously high. Could it be that the general attack is going to be launched?"
After saying that, I felt funny. How could it be! With this broken terrain, from Salt Lake City to Vegas or Carson, there is almost no supply point in the four or five hundred kilometers of land in the middle, and the mountains are crisscrossed and the deserts are mixed. Mechanized troops want to advance peacefully, unless they are temporarily built roads and bridges, and are mentally prepared to go back. Otherwise, a vast world is the best line of defense! In addition to the Air Force, you can travel in the sky, the Army, it is better to wash and sleep!
Their special reconnaissance teams have at least a hundred or so special mountain divisions in the entire Wangzhangtang. It is no problem to double the number several times as needed.
The tasks they undertake are mainly aerial parachutes or close-range helicopter transports to complex and changeable mountainous areas. On the one hand, they set up hidden reconnaissance points to supervise and prevent large-scale advances by the enemy; on the other hand, they set up temporary rescue stations to be ready to receive pilots shot down in air combat at any time - whether they are from their own or from the US military, they will be gathered together.
Furthermore, it is to protect the air-to-defense radar, communication base station or signal reception established in front, and release towers and other things.
Because the battlefield is so empty, there are thousands of times more animals than people. In addition to being busy every day, the scouts are more bored waiting, which requires excellent patience and tenacious will. After all, it is too difficult to change shifts once, so you can only expect the land aviation helicopters to pick up and drop off batches.
Fights occur very rarely. The infiltration forces sent in by the Americans are very few. The local people do not want to mess with fully armed soldiers at all. As long as they do not rob their property, they can sway whatever you want. The large number of American paratroopers shot down rarely rush to be martyrs. They have pistols for self-defense, but they will never be used to confront scouts holding assault rifles or even machine guns. That is asking for death.
Just like in the past few days, the air battle between the two sides has entered a white-hot stage again, and the number of shot down has increased sharply. You can see the plane crashes in the distance of the clear sky, dragging the rolling smoke into the ground, and blooming white umbrella flowers. If it is too far away, Zhuang Yongyi and the others are too lazy to move and cannot make trouble.
Those who are close to each other are just moving their legs and feet, scattered around and caught them, stuffed them into the captive cave, and waited for the plane to receive them.
For your own people, because there is a high-power walkie-talkie available, the pilot can contact the low altitude through the receiver on the seat, and then control the parachute to fly towards it, saving a lot of trouble.
Days go by quickly as the days go by.
After stroking around the sky, he didn't notice the plane falling. Zhuang Yongyi looked down at the green vegetation for a while, took a rest, took a sip of water, swallowed the chewed beef jerky, raised his telescope again, scanned the valleys on both sides. Suddenly, he seemed to see something swaying. When he wanted to look carefully, he didn't notice it!
If it were ordinary people, they might have regarded it as a long time of dazzling, a fantasy world, or something like wild animals, horses and livestock that were let go, so they would not take it seriously. But he had an extremely serious and cautious personality. He closed his eyes hard and calmed down, and adjusted the focus again, but he still didn't find it. But for some reason, he just felt something was wrong!
The soldiers around him were aware of his abnormality without giving instructions, and turned around without saying a word. With the minimum range of movement, with the gun in his hand, he carefully poked out behind the resting trees, stones and ridges, and then searched in all directions, bit by bit, without missing any suspicious traces.
Zhuang Yongyi stared at the end of the corner of the valley at least three kilometers away, thinking quickly in his mind, looking for the different feelings that passed by. Five minutes later, when the camera turned, he suddenly thought about the problem - there were some annoying things in that field of vision!
Yes! There has been a change!
As an excellent scout, even if he cannot remember it, he will leave a corresponding image of the terrain and landform he has seen in his mind. He will not ignore it in a short period of time. At this time, he recalled the problems and compared them again and found that the shape of several clusters of weeds was very unnatural!
It's not animals, but humans disguised!
"All notice! At 11 o'clock, the distance between the 3rd area, 3100, I found a suspected enemy situation!"
After whispering, a sniper immediately turned the 10x white light sight to meet it, and after careful observation, he replied: "Can confirm! At least three enemy troops in camouflage disguise! It is not our clothing, it should be Americans!"
Zhuang Yongyi gently patted the stone under him and cursed: "His grandma! I learned it fast enough! I have only been a few days ago, and I have imitated the camouflage uniform! However, it is still too early to learn our tactics! Humph, even the basic lurking and hidden search is not up to standard!"
A unit is not really able to hide it just by equipping camouflage uniforms. How to change tactics and habits accordingly is the most difficult.
The US military has just started using this thing. The corresponding tactics are just summarized by the Operations Hall led by Eisenhower. There are basically no specific practices and training in the army. They rushed into battle. After more than half a year of regular training, they are used to becoming natural soldiers or following dogmas. How can there be no loopholes?
Not to mention anything else, there is only one thing, how to naturally integrate yourself with the surrounding environment is something that requires repeated training. Usually, the best among them are snipers or elite scouts. Ordinary soldiers, especially those who are established, need to do it, it is really not something that can be done in just a few days. There are so many tricks in it that are countless!
Therefore, when you look at the bad actions of the guy opposite, Zhuang Yongyi and the others knew that they were definitely not their own!
"Old Qian! Go and explore their reality!"
The sniper agreed, put the gun on his back, took out a pistol with double rows of magazines, put on a good suit, and leaped between the rocks and trees with his legs, running out towards the bottom of the mountain. In a few moments, he hid into a vast green space.
Zhuang Yongyi used a telescope to look at the valley on the other side. This time, he did not find any abnormalities, but he did not dare to take it lightly, let a team member stare and continue to observe the front.
Three kilometers away, the rising and disturbing of the air made the scenery in the field of view look like it was shaking in the confusing light and shadow, which was very tiring. However, the other party was still relatively cooperative. After waiting for about a few minutes, the three discovered targets stood up, holding guns in their hands, and began to climb the hillside carefully. It seemed that they had clearly fallen in love with this high ground and were about to come up to do reconnaissance.
"Hey, it's quite interesting."
Zhuang Yongyi grumbled in a low voice. It seems that the enemy is not ordinary soldiers. It is clearly the reconnaissance team that came out and the elite troops who pioneered the way. This means that there may be a large group of troops following up later. His leisurely and boring life seems to be over.
The sniper Lao Qian was very fast, and the target at the foot of the mountain could climb up to three or four hundred meters. He had already moved to the lower end of the saddle-shaped ridge. He first used a telescope to observe the distance from the relatively open side. After a while, he found a place about two kilometers away, which was obviously inconsistent.
Looking further down, there were more than three scouts slowly moving in, with seven people, divided into two groups, covering each other and touching forward. The speed was not fast, and it seemed that they were very tired.
After reporting to the tactical radio station, Zhuang Yongyi asked him to continue monitoring, leaving a team member to watch the way out, and immediately rushed over with the rest.
A few minutes later, when he arrived at the mountain, the sniper Lao Qian also made a preliminary judgment: "It should be a unit of no less than one hundred people. It seems to have motor vehicles, but they are all pretending. It is probably not easy to find out from the air. It is obvious that the number of items his vanguards carry is not small, so they should be well prepared. It is not like temporary reconnaissance."
Zhuang Yongyi nodded: "This is going to plan to carry out the mission for a long time! Good guy, we have caught a big fish! But we definitely can't eat them, report it to the top!"
Their task is not to exchange fire head-on, hide themselves, observe them well, and report the situation at any time, which is serious.
The information was transmitted through the radio station. The electronic reconnaissance plane hovered over the war zone immediately passed on the situation. It didn't take long to arrive directly at the command center of Wang Zhangtang's First Special Mountain Division.
After the lively battle last year, they and Sima Jinming's two independent brigade-level units were officially upgraded to divisions directly under the headquarters. Their troops also increased from more than 20,000 to around 50,000. They were stationed in Las Vegas and Phoenix respectively, and started a tug-of-war with the US military.
If there are too many people, the energy will naturally be thick.
However, as an offensive force, Wang Zhangtang was so frustrated that he had been staying there for half a year without making trouble. Today, several groups of reconnaissance teams found abnormal enemy tracks. There were even fierce firefights, and he immediately became interested.
The coordinates of the report were marked significantly on the military map. He glanced at him and immediately saw the problem--there was too wide-scattered! This was definitely not an ordinary test! Coupled with the fierceness of the air attack, he felt a strange smell. The Americans were about to make trouble!
Chief of Staff Zhao Guoxiang briefly summarized the conclusions they came to: "Given that our special reconnaissance team would not carelessly encounter an enemy casually, then there is only one truth. The other party has a large number of camouflage disguised troops of good quality, and is scattered in a vast buffer zone, advancing separately, and has been moving forward for a long time, which shows that it is a deliberate attitude. The General Staff believes that this abnormality should be regarded as a sign of his full-scale attack!"
"A full attack?"
Wang Zhangtang's eyes swept through the northeast of Vegas, and the two sides were stalemate buffer zones, and he laughed: "I'm just afraid they won't come! But how do they plan to send large-scale troops here? Isn't the attack on our air force enough in the past six months?"
It should be said that it is enough!
Zhao Guoxiang smiled: "Maybe they have a new trick to break the deadlock! But more often, they may be beaten by the fear attack tactics of the general manager! If they fight back continuously, they will be in chaos and can't handle it. You can't do it if you don't fight hard!"
Wang Zhangtang sucked his teeth: "No matter how many ways he comes, I will only go all the way! In the final analysis, everyone needs to meet with swords and guns to decide the outcome. As long as the Air Force does not lose its chains, who are we afraid of on the ground? No matter how much he is, we will clean up all the enemy he finds!"
"clear!"
Zhao Guoxiang immediately set out to arrange the attack aircraft to work. He has always been a masterpiece of the "pergers" attack aircraft and is familiar with it.
Not long after, Zhuang Yongyi and his troops who discovered the enemy soon had attack aircraft rushing from a distance according to coordinates and swept to suspicious places with rockets and bombs.
But the US military was not prepared at all! Not long after the attack plane appeared, their fighter planes suddenly pulled out of the air battle, swarmed and rushed down, fighting fiercely to stop their big attacks, and immediately made the situation on the battlefield more chaotic!
Similar situations soon broke out on more than a dozen battlefields!
In Salt Lake City, the United States Army Front Enemy Command, and the 3rd Army responsible for the attack, Eisenhower, who was on the front line, calmly listened to the news coming from everywhere, and his face was full of confidence.
Everything was moving towards the plan he expected and made in advance. Those troops searching for suspicious areas were soon discovered. How could the Chinese stay in the rear and be beaten passively? Their reconnaissance power must be good!
But it doesn't matter. The reconnaissance forces discovered are just a very small number of them. The seemingly large mechanized forces are all empty-handed, and they are baits used to attract enemy reconnaissance and air strike forces.
The real main force of action will never follow those obvious channels. They will advance from the most troublesome and complex mountainous areas to the front at night.
Lieutenant General Walter Kruger always frowned, looking at the performance of the brigade general in front of him with dissatisfaction, and disagreed with the practice of sacrificing more than a dozen elite scouts. Is it necessary to put such great efforts into concealing the march just to cover up the marching?
It would be better to send them to the battlefield directly! At least, you won’t die in a frustration, it’s inexplicable!
However, with the support of Chief of Staff of Marshall, no one can do anything to him for a while. Let’s see, whether his tricks are effective or not!
A large number of troops, from Salt Lake City, from New Mexico, from the north, crossed mountains and ridges towards the enemy's defense line, crossed the desert, and marched out at night.
Zhuang Yongyi and the others finally broke out in fierce firefighting with the enemy reconnaissance team that came out! Pieces of sudden flash of explosions broke out in the quiet valley for a long time, and howling bullets spilled out in the exchange of fire between the two sides!
The US military reconnaissance team, which had significantly poorer quality, only lasted for a few minutes and four died. The other three immediately ran away to the depths of the forest. The speed and determination of their attitude were all unusual.
Chapter completed!