Chapter 874: General Attack without Artillery
"Don't even mention that we can't spare our efforts. Even if we can, we can't do anything. Compared with the Sindhu people, the southern comrades are more important to us. Losing them is like cutting off one of our own hands. Without their containment in the Far East, we will face great pressure from the Oceanic Pact countries alone. In addition, we cannot control the attitudes of our allies in the camp."

The Russians are in a difficult situation too, as the most capable countries in the same camp are not very friendly towards them.

As for the rest, hey~~~~~~ let’s not talk about it.

It's just like the Oceanic Treaty Organization is actually a group of weaklings except for the Citigroup, the Gallic Rooster and the John Bull. After a few decades, even the John Bull can be thrown aside. On the contrary, the Huskies and the European Footcloths, although weird, can fight better.

For the Russians, when a country treats them like this, it may not be clear whose problem it is. But when most of the countries that can fight are in this tone, the Russians should actually reflect on their own problems.

But at this moment, the Russians obviously can't take care of this matter. The real thing is how to solve the problem at hand.

"Let us make our voice heard to our comrades in the south, and at the same time provide weapons assistance to Sindhu." This was the best solution the Russians could think of, and it was half an agreement.

I mediated according to your request, and there was nothing I could do if the comrades in the south did not listen to me.

But don't worry, I will provide you with weapons.

"Don't provide air force weapons!"

"Dawali, what do you mean?"

"I have a feeling that providing air force weapons will not only be of little use, but will also bring some bad effects. And don't forget that, apart from the unreliable radar air-to-air missiles, the best infrared air-to-air missiles we can provide are technologies provided by our southern comrades. According to the relevant agreements, we should not provide them to their opponents."

We still have to save face, and it is hard to say whether providing it rashly will lead to any extreme response from our southern comrades. For the Russians, some of the advanced technologies of our southern comrades are still very attractive.

This reason successfully convinced other comrades that, indeed, this matter was still not appropriate.

But as for the situation of the Russians, as we all know, in 62, if they wanted to transport by air, they might not have had enough capacity. If they wanted to transport by sea, they had to send their ships slowly on the sea, and they also had to engage in a verbal lawsuit with the Huskies. A considerable part of their military equipment production capacity was on the plain where the two brothers fought each other decades later, and could only pass under the noses of the Huskies.

Pineapple Sea and Arctic route? What are you thinking? The reason why John Bull held his nose and let the almost unarmed polar islanders ride on his neck and shit, and the so-called "cod war" was simply a big fight, wasn't it because the American people wanted to block the Pineapple Sea and force John Bull to deploy forces "legally" on the polar islands.

As for the only ice-free port in the Far East, don't think too much about it. It would be a blessing if they can maintain their own supplies and the aid of the peninsula. The Xibo Desert Railway is very fragile these days.

Due to geographical reasons, Russia's shipping is weak, as those who understand will understand.

"Why don't we do something?" Some Russians were unwilling to give in.

"What else can we do? Especially when there is still no clear result on the pirate issue at sea." If we really want to completely break off relations with the Citigroup guys, we must not offend our comrades in the South.

After all, this guy can really confront the Citigroup guys head-on, and his record is verifiable.

"Okay, let's do these things tomorrow morning."

There is indeed not much that can be done. Now there is intelligence indicating that the Citigroup is determined to fight to the death this time. The previous confrontation at sea will become like child's play in the face of what is about to happen.

Compared to the dilemma of the Russians, the Americans are much simpler.

Just mindlessly support the three leaders. The Russians have mixed feelings towards us, but the Americans are very pure. They just hate us, nothing else.

After all, we slapped him in the face in front of the whole world more than ten years ago. Anyone would be furious.

"This is the best opportunity, Xiangdong..." At this point, the Citigroup guy in charge of this matter was stuck. To whom?

He realized this problem. Who would care about you? Orientals are now in a state of "unselectable" for Citigroup guys, and they can't do anything even if they have the strength.

Through the Russians? What a joke! That would make the Russians laugh. And compared to what is happening in Cigar Country right now, the life and death of the Sindhu people is nothing.

And as far as the Citigroup knows, the Russians' words may not work well with the Orientals. They are two brothers in distress.

"Provide the Sindhu people with all the assistance we can, hoping that they can hold back the Orientals for a longer period of time. Use the media to completely turn public opinion to the Sindhu side, and notify the allies of the Oceanic Treaty Organization to maintain a consistent attitude with us."

The commander-in-chief with a wild imagination can't take care of this matter for the time being, and we, the ministers, have to share his worries. If the things in the Cigar Country become completely out of control, then the big guy who is second only to the Russians will be released without restraint, which will be a disaster in the Far East. At least on the continent in this direction, the white bear will have no worries.

Even though they were arguing a lot, if they really started fighting, they would definitely get hurt in the face.

On the morning of the 22nd, the Russians, who were busy with their lawsuit with the Americans, took some time out to greet us and expressed the hope that both sides would immediately cease fire.

The comrades from the foreign affairs department delivered the Russians' diplomatic note to the chief, who looked at it and laughed.

"They are talking without any pain. They are like a son selling his father's land. I have prepared the meal, but they still want us not to eat it. This is unreasonable. No matter what they do, we should fight as we should. We should first take down this important support point on the western line of Shannan. At the same time, we should destroy the enemy's manpower to the maximum extent and squeeze their strategic space."

At this time, with the support of the positioning system, our troops, who had been traveling day and night, had completed the encirclement of this important town on the north bank of the river, encircling the 3000 enemy troops in a rectangular area no more than 10 kilometers long from east to west and 5 kilometers wide from north to south.

Our troop deployment is still mainly aimed at destroying the enemy's Western Brigade's field troops. Heavy troops are deployed in the western part of this area, while the northern and eastern parts of this area are a mixture of plateau local border defense forces and a small number of field troops to guard the enemy's route to the north. There are large rivers in the south, which surround the enemy on all sides.

At this time, on the eastern front of the Shannan area, our troops only carried out a feint to tie down the enemies here, making it impossible for them to look west and rush to support from the eastern section of Shannan to the western section.

Although the enemy may not have this intention, the same thing applies: we should do what we are supposed to do.

"Command from the headquarters, with our troops as the main force, we will launch a general attack on the enemy at 12 noon today."

The forward command has followed our troops and moved all the way to the rear of this heavy military group, not far from the corner where the river turns from north-south to west-east.

"The enemy's artillery can't reach our rocket launchers. We will destroy their artillery as soon as possible during the pre-war fire preparation. However, the artillery support only stops here. Our artillery will only be used to attack the enemy's artillery. In the battle of siege, except for a small number of 75 unaccompanied, you will not get artillery support. The closer you are to the core of the enemy, the more so."

The artillery of Zang San mainly comes from the 81mm mortars of its former colonial master John Bull. It is inevitable that it will be a bit stretched if it wants to compete with the 107mm mortar in range. Therefore, our artillery, supported by the Tu-4 special reconnaissance unit, has sufficient confidence, calmly arranges, and uses superior firepower to annihilate the enemy artillery in one fell swoop.

"why?"

"Their core area is in a town, and in this town, there are houses of our people, that's why. This may bring greater sacrifices, but this is the mission."

No wonder after destroying the enemy's artillery, even the mortars would not provide support anymore. Only the 75mm direct fire support was available, as it was accurate and less likely to cause accidental injuries.

"I understand, I promise to complete the task!"

No more fighting without artillery? No, we have fought many battles without artillery support for various reasons. All of this is for the safety of people's lives and property. Our troops have no choice but to make such sacrifices.

Besides, it doesn’t matter if we don’t have 107mm rifle or 82mm mortar, we still have 75mm rifle, and the real close combat killer - 61mm rifle and those weird grenades.

Comrades consider gun-mounted grenades, stun grenades, and tear gas grenades as grenades.

It can be thrown away after it is fired. It has an optical sight with a caliber and rangefinder, a short barrel, and is light and flexible. The 61mm rifle is much more useful than the 75mm rifle in close combat.

"The helicopters in the rear have brought up another batch of ammunition, mainly 61mm rounds. Feel free to use them. There's plenty."

"That's great!" The spearhead units responsible for the main attack mission were overjoyed.

The comrades started eating at 11 o'clock in advance. The comrades in the kitchens were very embarrassed: "Comrades, the conditions are difficult, and we only have self-heating rations. Please make do with it. When the battle is over, I will make you braised pork and vermicelli."

The comrades ate the hot self-heating rations and joked with the comrades in the kitchen: "Forget it, forget it, you can keep these good things and give them to the prisoners. We treat the prisoners well, and we are not joking."

The comrades all laughed.

Maybe there will be sacrifices among them, and maybe the inability to use artillery will increase the sacrifices, but the fearless soldiers are not afraid. They are our ordinary people, and we should take care of them.

The well-fed comrades fastened their bulletproof plates, adjusted their helmets, put on their combat equipment, and began to enter the positions.

At twelve noon, without any order from the headquarters, several 107 artillery positions distributed in the western part of the town opened fire at the same time. Amidst the huge roar and smoke, one rocket after another flew towards the enemy artillery positions that had already been clearly scouted.

(End of this chapter)