...Ao, Fangtou's troops of the infantry division left Yuya on the afternoon of July 7, and the talk was not beyond Pei Chengyi's expectations. In his opinion, Duqiwei had no choice but to defend Diyabakir, but also to gain time for adjusting the defense deployment through active counterattacks.

After contacting Yuan Chenhao and asking him to pay attention to the operations of the 7th Infantry Division, Pei Chengyi answered Jiang Wancheng's phone number.

The fifth combat unit has arrived in Aleppo and is preparing to rush to the war zone.

According to Pei Chengyi's deployment, the fifth combat unit will fight side by side with the eighth combat unit, first joining forces to capture Osmaniye, and then march southward, forcing the US troops to defend Iskendron to the death. Although when deploying tasks for Wang Xueping, Pei Chengyi did not ask the thugs to capture Iskendron, considering that the 7th Infantry Division had already launched an active attack in the east, Pei Chengyi changed his mind and decided to attack Iskendron fiercely.

Of course, before the fifth combat unit arrived at the battlefield, the decisive battle to the east had begun.

The 10th battles against the Le Infantry Division.

Baghdad time occupied the Ukrainian division on July 7. The vanguard of the 7th Infantry Division fought a single reconnaissance unit about a kilometer west of Batmann, near Bismeer, and fired the first shot of the battle in the first battle to decide the outcome in the movement.

Although this small-scale battle was not very intense, both sides realized the power of each other.

In fact, the protagonist of this battle is the long-range artillery of both sides.

According to Li Dongshi's deployment, the most advanced reconnaissance unit immediately released a small unmanned reconnaissance aircraft after discovering the US military and sent the battlefield information to the military information platform. Because it was combat information, long-range artillery deployed hundreds of kilometers away did not need to ask the superiors at all. It only needed to contact the reconnaissance unit and confirm the fire strike request, and the artillery fire strike could be carried out according to the data provided by the reconnaissance unit. If the single artillery in the first battle was not supported by the combat in the direction of Silter, the vanguard of the 7th Infantry Division would never have reached Batman. Even if only the thugs and artillery brigades participated in the battle, the US military was still caught off guard in the rapid artillery attack in the previous minute.

After being bombarded, the US military quickly dispersed and called for artillery fire support.

Unfortunately, even if the US long-range artillery is used to use extended-range artillery shells, it cannot deal with the single artillery brigade deployed in Mosul. In addition, when supporting the vanguard of the 7th Infantry Division, it must also use extended-range artillery shells with a range of more than kilometers.

Mu Yong doubted that the power and accuracy of extended-range shells are not as powerful and accurate as ordinary shells.

What is different from traditional artillery is that the caliber of the electromagnetic gun is not measured by size, but by mass. The reason is very simple. The "barrel" of the orbiting electromagnetic gun is that several guide rails were originally parallel rails, and later four or even more parallel rails were developed. When firing shells, it is not impossible to spin the shells, but the shells are in direct contact with the rails. If the shells are allowed to rotate within the barrel, the barrels will be severely worn and the service life of the barrels will be shortened. Therefore, in order to improve the accuracy of the shells, in addition to controlling the rocket engines with attitude, the quality must also be accurately controlled. In fact, the electromagnetic guns have very high requirements for the launch quality of the shells, and are often accurate to milligrams. In this way,

When installing extended-range rocket engines to increase the range of artillery shells, the payload of the shells must be reduced and even the aerodynamic shape of the shells must be changed. According to the standards of the Republic Army, the payload of extended-range ammunition is only one-third of the impact of ordinary artillery shells is less than half of the impact of ordinary artillery shells, and the purchase price is twice that of ordinary artillery shells. Therefore, the artillery of the Republic Army rarely uses extended-range ammunition in combat. Only wealthy navys will use extended-range ammunition on a large scale. Mainly, the navy's electromagnetic guns can only be deployed on large warships, and the value of large warships is far greater than that of the army's electromagnetic gun system. The navy cannot afford the losses of large warships and cannot allow large warships to take risks in combat.

What's even more terrible is that the US artillery has no clear target.

In other words, the US military's artillery counterattack did not find the right target, and could only open fire at places where there might be ambushing the Republic's scouts.

It has to be admitted that the US military rarely considers the issue of consumption when fighting.

Faced with the Republic Army's artillery lasting only minutes, the US military's artillery "counterattack" lasted for nearly minutes. It was not until the "suspicious" target was indeed not found.

According to the US Army's war report, the two artillery brigades that provided artillery support to the 7th Infantry Division consumed a total of 2 red-stewed ammunition in the attack.

Unfortunately, the US military's artillery could not continue, because the two artillery brigades affiliated to the thugs, the Armored Division and the 3rd Infantry Division received a request for artillery support while rushing to Sivas. In order to arrive at the destination in time according to the order of the Joint Commander, the two artillery brigades must speed up the marching speed, so in the early morning of July 8, they entered the artillery position. The two artillery brigades were unable to provide artillery support to the 7th Infantry Division again.

What's so bad is that the artillery brigade of the 7th Infantry Division failed to complete the deployment in time.

According to the initial plan, the artillery brigade of the 7th Infantry Division will also be deployed in Diyabakir. With the Republic Army launching a fierce attack in the east, Diyabakir is about to become the front line, so when Duchiwei decided to let the 7th Infantry Division launch a counterattack, he also allowed the artillery brigade of the 7th Infantry Division to move to the rear. Although compared with the artillery brigade of the thugs, the Armored Division and the 3rd Infantry Division, the artillery brigade of the Infantry Division did not go in a detour. The transport group received an order before reaching Maiyabaker, the capital of the Trabzont Trabzon Province on the Black Sea coast, and one of the famous deep-water ports in the Erer District of the Tenth Terrhaevon, Trabzon did not allow the position to be stationed by the Infantry Division, so after arriving at the destination, the US military had to spend a lot of effort to build a position, and as soon as possible, he could only start fighting on the morning of the 8th.

Of course, the continuous shooting that takes up minutes has a very direct effect.

After the single reconnaissance unit in the tenth battle was driven away, the US army continued to advance.

Perhaps he did not expect that the US military would have such fierce artillery fire, so in the following operations, Li Dongshi seemed a little too cautious and did not continue to suppress the US military. Of course, what happened later proved that Li Dongshi was not afraid of the US military's artillery fire strike, but wanted to achieve greater victory.

In the evening, the vanguard of the 7th Infantry Division arrived about a kilometer west of Batman.

Facing the defense line of the tenth combat unit, the US military did not continue to advance.

In fact, the tenth combat unit did not build a defense line in the sense of play, nor even built a solid enough defensive position and fortifications.

During the adaptation, the tactical ideas of the Republic Army also changed greatly.

Strictly speaking, organizational reform is based on tactical innovation. Without new tactical ideas, there would be no new military organization.

Compared with several systems, the biggest progress of the Republic's Army is undoubtedly the ability to cooperate in combat. This includes the coordination between various armies within the army, such as the cooperation between armored soldiers and artillery, army aviation, scouts and other troops, as well as the cooperation between the army and other armies, such as cooperation with the air force. In any case, the scene of the army fighting alone will never appear again. In the context of coordinated combat, unless the situation is extremely unfavorable, the ground forces are completely unnecessary to carry out in the traditional way.

Defensive combat. According to the experience summarized by the Army in many wars such as the Indian War, mobile defense is the most effective way of defense combat. As the airborne troops are also equipped with powerful armored combat vehicles, the theory of mobile defense combat is becoming more and more perfect. It can be seen that the basis of tactical innovation is technological progress. In reality, the core idea of ​​mobile defense combat is to make full use of the strong maneuverability of the troops and use high-speed and efficient tactical counterattack to dissolve the enemy's attack, that is, use offense to deal with offense, and achieve the purpose of defense.

At first, Li Dongshi was not very comfortable with the new defensive tactics.

No matter what, he is a general from an airborne army and is better at position defense.

In fact, the officers and soldiers of the tenth combat unit were not very accustomed to new defensive tactics.

That's exactly that. After the establishment of the 10th combat unit, it has been conducting high-intensity scraping training in the southwest of the Republic. For this arrangement, in the words of the Chief of Staff of the Republic Army, scraping a unit that is good at attack is much more difficult than scraping a unit that is good at defense. That is why the airborne troops are familiar with offensive tactics. Tang Yinglong's words are not wrong. After all, in the Republic Army, there are only three airborne brigades who are really good at position defense operations, and the other troops are good at attacking. Instead of letting other troops learn how to fight position defense, it is better to let the airborne troops learn how to fight armored assault wars.

The result of high-intensity training is that the 10th combat unit is the most comprehensive unit in the Republic Army's army.

Facing the attack of the 7th Infantry Division of the US Army, Li Dongshi neither carelessly underestimated the enemy nor overestimated the opponent's strength.

At that time, the vanguard of the US military had about four people, and the main force expected to arrive in the early morning of July 8 included approximately Tian Ming officers and soldiers. Li Dongshi only left two combat battalions on the front. In addition to the troops that assisted the First Combat Unit in the direction of Silter, Li Dongshi also had at least 6 combat battalions and a support battalion in his hands, and was able to participate in the battle against the 7th Infantry Division at any time.

From this we can see that Li Dongshi left behind a very powerful reserve team.

In fact, the 7th Infantry Division is not weak.

Among the many ace units of the US military, the 7th Infantry Division was not the most famous. However, in terms of combat strength, the 7th Infantry Division was strong enough. During the Peninsula War, it was the blocking operation of the Le Infantry Division on the 38th parallel that forced the Republic Army to slow down the pace of offensives and gained enough time for the US authorities to "retreat retreat and gain enough time. It was this battle that made the 7th Infantry Division famous and was retained in the subsequent adaptation. It became one of the most complete infantry divisions in the US Army.

Just like the tasks undertaken by the U.S. Army in the U.S. military, the largest number of infantry units in the U.S. are actually ground forces that attach more importance to defense capabilities.

According to the military idea of ​​the US military, even if we fight with powerful opponents like the Republican army, it is not the army, but the air force and the navy that bear the heavy responsibility. It is precisely this that the 7th Infantry Division further strengthened its defensive combat capabilities when it was adapted. According to the combat idea of ​​the US military, defensive combat capabilities are definitely not the ability to explore and build positions, but the ability to pay more attention to the combat capabilities of armored forces. In fact, after the Iran War, the US authorities were absorbing the lack of offensive capabilities. In the Peninsula War

.The defects of the lack of assault capabilities of the US Army were completely exposed. For example, when attacking the Five Elders, if the offensive capabilities of the US ground troops were stronger, the two army divisions would not be wiped out. When the Republic Army fought a refreshing offensive battle on the South Asian subcontinent, the US Army finally realized it. In a sense, letting Buchanchel carry out organizational reforms in the European Legion was the action taken by the US Army to explore new tactics, but the effect was small and fixed.

In general, the 7th Infantry Division is not lacking in assault capabilities.

For the US military, all they lack is the ability to support assaults, firepower.

Because the US military first opened up the situation in joint combat, the US Army gave up firepower too early, or placed firepower support on other branches of the army. Although the US Army's artillery is not weak and is even in a leading position in some aspects, for example, the United States' technical level in guided ammunition is much higher than that of the Republic. However, compared with the overall combat effectiveness of the US military and the strong enemies faced by the US Army, the construction of its artillery is still seriously lagging behind, especially in artillery tactical thinking. The US military is too far apart. In many cases, the US military only regards artillery support as a means of assisting offense or defense, rather than the main means of attacking the enemy.

Another problem is that the US military attaches too much importance to precise strikes.

Although at some point, precision strikes are irreplaceable, especially in local wars against weak countries, precision strikes are the main means to avoid civilian casualties. However, in large-scale wars, the main significance of precision strikes is to reduce the dispatch of combat aircraft and ammunition consumption when attacking high-value military targets of the enemy, thereby improving strike efficiency and reducing losses on one's own side. In frontal warfare, especially in ground battles with armored clusters as the residence, the significance of precision strikes is not so obvious.

In short, in the face of the single defense line of the 10th battle, the 7th Infantry Division's offensive power was too weak.

It is precisely because of this that Li Dongshi dared to use two battalions to defend the front line and put the main force on the counterattack.

After nightfall, the US military took the lead in preparing for artillery fire.

It has to be said that Li Dongshi's deployment made the artillery fire strikes carried out by the US military before the attack become meaningless. It is not that the US military's artillery fire strikes were not fierce enough. In order to support the 7th Infantry Division's attack, Duqiwei asked the 2nd Armored Division, which had just entered the artillery position in Iskendren, and the artillery brigade of the 4th Infantry Division, to shell the defensive positions of the 10th combat unit. Because the two artillery brigades were deployed near the port and could easily obtain ammunition, in about minutes of artillery attack, the two brigades' approximately ugly electromagnetic gun system poured about aiming shells to the front line at the fastest speed, and repeatedly shelled the defensive positions of the 10th combat unit several times. The shelling effect was not obvious.

The main reason is that the single defense deployment of the tenth battle was too sparse, with only two battalions of troops in the defense zone with a width of nearly kilometers and a depth of more than kilometers. The fortifications built by the tenth combat unit were enough to cover the defensive forces of the old battalion. That is to say, the two battalions that were responsible for the frontal defense mission were not only dispersed as much as possible, but also received the best protection. According to the single combat record of the tenth battle, in the shooting of the fifteenth minute, only Gu officers and soldiers were killed by thugs. A heavy rainbow blade-pound shell was hit, and 22 people were injured. Compared with the ammunition consumption of Kou Stew and the preparation time of artillery fire for a period of up to minus the fire preparation time, this casualty was nothing.

When the US military launched an attack, it realized what was the most effective defense.

In any case, Bianmin's shelling provided Li Dongshi with time to prepare for counterattack.

When the US military launched an attack, the counterattack of the tenth combat unit also began.

This "pressure-type" defensive counterattack tactic is summarized by the tenth combat unit during the training. Although in the eyes of most people, when the attacking force network first launched an attack, the morale was high and the fighting spirit was high. When the defense force launched a counterattack at this time, it is very likely to be crushed to pieces on the front line of the attacking force. However, when the morale and fighting spirit of the defensive force are no worse than that of the attacking force, and the combat effectiveness is not worse than that of the attacking force, only a resolute and decisive counterattack can the attacking action be carried out in the bud. To put it simply, it is to launch a counterattack when the enemy's attacking force has not had time to develop and cannot effectively exert its military advantage.

It's easy to say, but it's definitely not easy to do.

Such a simple tactic was not adopted before, not because no one thought of it, but because no unit had such strength.

To be honest, I'm not sure about this. The other nine combat units of the Republic Army have such strength.

This time, the tenth battle proved its actual situation in just minutes.

The battle ended with a point of point. That is, when the US military's artillery was about to be prepared to thug, the 7th Infantry's offensive troops stopped moving forward under the single counterattack of the tenth battle.

The problem is that the battle did not end.

The best defense is to attack. The essence of defensive counterattack is not to block the enemy's attack. Instead, to destroy the enemy's next attack through counterattack, or even to regain the initiative on the battlefield from the enemy, and to turn from defense to attack.

Li Dongshi left enough reserve teams to launch an attack.
Chapter completed!