District 9

It’s around eight o’clock in the morning on the Hongdan battlefield.

Yan Hu's First Army launched a general offensive. Their artillery regiment and the artillery regiment of the 33rd Brigade, according to yesterday's offensive rhythm, rushed into the mountain group held by the 122nd Army and launched artillery fire to clear the ground.

The roar of artillery resounded throughout the earth. The armored units of the First Army and the 33rd Brigade took advantage of this moment to begin to advance rapidly from yesterday's offensive line, and stopped in front of the wave pit and the frozen mud pit.

After the armored troops were lined up, the infantry combat units of the First Army and the remaining infantry of the 33rd Brigade all launched a mechanized charge and headed straight for the mountain group.

To be honest, Yan Hu's real-time tactical adjustments still have two tricks. He noticed that He Dachuan's 122nd Army, in order to protect Hongdan Airport from air attacks, placed all artillery and air defense units behind the large corps. In other words, He Dachuan was holding on to the mountains and had no long-range artillery fire. Supported.

This was an opportunity for Yan Hu, so he chose to rush through the mountains. As long as the defenders here are defeated, after the armored troops pass through, they can drive straight in and aim at Hongdan Airport.

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Mountain.

A reconnaissance company commander of the 122nd Army was lying at the entrance of the bunker under the rock layer, observing the battlefield despite the flames of war. He discovered that the enemy's armored forces were taking advantage of the moment when their own side was covered by artillery fire to use steel plates to pave the frozen mud pits and corrugated armor-resistant positions.

After the reconnaissance company commander discovered this situation, he immediately reported it to his superiors.

In the headquarters, after He Dachuan learned that the other party was paving the road, he immediately said to the staff: "Damn it, as soon as the artillery fire stops, their large troops will come up. Inform all troops to prepare for close combat with the enemy." Fight hand-to-hand, and at the same time notify the two regiments responsible for sniping forward positions to prepare for counterattack. Damn it, you must not let them pave the road, otherwise the Hongdan Airport will be gone as soon as the armored troops rush through the mountains. .”

At about 9:30 in the morning, the enemy's artillery fire completely stopped. However, the soldiers of the 122nd Army hiding in the cave bunker found that the enemy troops had fully moved up the mountain before they could break out of the bunker to garrison.

Yan Hu's new tactic is to attack quickly. When the firepower is covered, the soldiers of your 122nd Army will not dare to rush out of the bunker to block the attack. After the firepower ends, their mechanized infantry units have arrived at the bottom of the mountain and began to charge upward on a large scale.

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Position on the south side of the mountains.

Just when Ai Hao was about to lead his regiment to rush out and hold on to their position, the soldier at the entrance of the cave yelled, "Captain, the soldiers from Ou District 1 are coming and are already at the entrance of the cave."

At the entrance of the cave.

Hundreds of soldiers from the 33rd Brigade have already taken up their positions. The people at the back are constructing machine gun positions, and the people at the front are holding flamethrowers and leaning on both sides of the cave entrance.

"Tear gas, burning gas, throw it in, throw it all in!" The Ou No. 1 officer at the entrance of the cave waved his hands and shouted.

As soon as he finished speaking, dozens of soldiers took throwing weapons and threw them wildly into the cave. Their machine gun positions were also firing wildly into the cave to cover them.

Inside the mountain.

The soldiers of the Aihao Regiment blocking the door were choked with tears and their bodies were on fire because the enemy not only threw tear gas but also incendiary weapons, in order to force the people inside the cave to fight back.

The mountain bunker was dug temporarily, and the total construction length was less than two days, so there was no ventilation equipment or electrical equipment. As soon as a large number of area-throwing weapons came in, many soldiers couldn't bear it, not psychologically, but physically.

There was smoke billowing in the mountain tunnel, and the deputy commander ran to Ai Hao and shouted: "Go out and fight them!"

"Go ahead, go ahead." Ai Hao waved his hands and shouted, "Everyone, get ready!"

"What the fuck, put on the bayonet!" the deputy regiment shouted with his eyes wide open.

"Get a feather bayonet, it's too short and useless." Ai Hao turned around and shouted: "Go to the engineer depot and get what's inside. Bring me some heavy-armored soldiers, the kind who are not afraid of death. Open the way for your comrades."

The fire and smoke soared into the sky in the tunnel, and even the many soldiers from the European Area 1 blocking the door couldn't stand it. Although they were wearing military gas masks, when the smoke concentration was so high, it was useless because as long as you moved your neck, there would be air leakage points.

There is no comparison between regular infantry gas masks and those of special forces. Mass-produced ones are relatively rough.

At the entrance of the cave, the officer from Area 1 Ou was sweating on his forehead. He stared at the cave entrance with his eyes wide open, always observing the situation inside. But to his surprise, the shouts of the soldiers of the 122nd Army inside had stopped.

Silence, eerie silence, permeated this small battlefield. All the soldiers in the European Area 1 were in full preparedness, feeling uneasy in their hearts. Some people were even afraid to the point of vomiting...

About half a minute later, footsteps suddenly erupted in the corridor.

"They're coming out," the officer from Ou No. 1 yelled, "Get ready to attack!"

"Come on!!" Ai Hao's shout rang out in the tunnel.

More than twenty soldiers of the 122nd Army wearing heavy armor combat uniforms, holding steel plate shields, rushed out of the cave in a daze.

On both sides, soldiers from the Ou District 1 who had been ambushed in advance, armed with flamethrowers, swept directly towards the entrance of the cave.

The scorching flames rushed several meters high, and all the running heavy-armored soldiers were ignited with flames. At this time, the machine gun positions on the rear of the enemy troops also opened fire, shooting wildly at the entrance of the cave.

Seven or eight heavily armored soldiers were melted as soon as they ran out. No matter how powerful the bulletproof vest or combat uniform is, it cannot withstand a flamethrower that can explode hundreds of heat in an instant!

Many people fell into the flames and were incinerated, but those who could still run kept moving forward.

These people rushed out first under the fiercest attack, followed by the large army led by Ai Hao.

Fifty or sixty people rushed out of the cave almost in the blink of an eye. They all held military shovels and military shovels for digging into the mountain. They dispersed very quickly and rushed directly into the crowd.

"CNM, the gun is useless at this range, chop me to death!" Ai Hao's neck had veins popping out, and he rushed directly into the crowd with a military shovel nearly one and a half meters long.

"Pfft!!!"

Ai Hao swung his arms and struck a military shovel directly on the neck of a soldier from the European First District holding a flamethrower.

"Si!"

Blood spurted out, the soldier's combat uniform was chopped to pieces, his neck was cut in half, and he fell to the ground on his back.

At the same time, the deputy commander stepped forward to pick up the enemy's flamethrower and swiped at the opponent's machine gun position.

Immediately afterwards, more than a hundred people rushed out of the cave. They rushed into the enemy's machine gun position with Aihao holding military shovels.

Many soldiers of the Aihao regiment fell down during the charge, but after the large force entered the machine gun position, the advantage of the military shovel suddenly became apparent. This thing should be longer than a rifle, and the blade of the shovel has a wide range. As long as it is chopped hard enough, it can kill a person in almost one stroke, and the other person will not die but will be seriously injured.

Hundreds of people charged forward, directly killing the enemy's machine gun positions.

Everyone was waving their arms mechanically. Their eyes no longer recognized each other. They only saw that the clothes on the other party were different, so they cut them to death with their deadly hands.

At this time, the soldiers of the 122nd Army no longer had fear in their hearts, but were numbly executing the actions in their brains, slashing around with red eyes.

There was blood flowing at the entrance of the cave and corpses strewn everywhere.

Ai Hao and others didn't notice at all that there were actually more than a hundred enemy soldiers outside who heard the sound of fighting and rushed over to support them. However, after these people entered the meat grinder-like battlefield, they were all mechanically beaten by the soldiers who rushed out. Cut down.

This small-scale positional battle lasted less than five minutes in total, but Ai Hao felt that a century had passed. When he found that there were very few enemy troops around him, he also lost strength and sat down on the corpse in the snow with a thud.

There were at least more than 300 corpses at the entrance of the cave, and countless wounded soldiers from both the enemy and ourselves were piled together. The scene was like a hell on earth.

After Ai Hao rested for less than two seconds, he suddenly heard footsteps coming from the left. He instinctively used the stick with which the shovel head flew off to support himself and stood up and yelled: "Damn it, someone else is here again, get ready to continue!"

As soon as the shouts fell, the rest of the soldiers immediately gathered and rushed down with military shovels and firearms.

At the bottom of the hillside, more than twenty soldiers from the Ou District 1 who ran out of the meat grinding battlefield turned pale and trembled with fear when they saw Ai Hao and others rushing out.

"Go on!"

Ai Hao gritted his teeth and moved forward.

"Hooraa!"

More than 20 enemy soldiers turned around and ran away without hesitation. Their minds were filled with the countless corpses and wailing at the entrance of the cave.

After Ai Hao saw the opponent running away, his body lost strength again. He held on to the stick with both hands to prevent himself from falling.

"...How many people are missing?" Ai Hao asked.

The deputy commander held his abdomen with his intestines leaking out and said through gritted teeth: "They died more than us. They were scared to death..."

"ah!"

Ai Hao nodded slowly, and just as he was about to turn around and command the troops, his body fell uncontrollably into the snow. He was stabbed in the leg by a bullet, and his left arm was burned by a flamethrower, and his skin and flesh were scorched.

This battle is just a microcosm of the larger battlefield.

The heroic brigade led by Ou Xiaobin is worthy of being called the Iron Army on the Yemen battlefield!

On another hilltop, He Dachuan was shot in the shoulder. He pointed at the enemy's offensive line and shouted: "Charge again, charge me again! We can't let them pave the way. Even if they are beaten, we must hold on there!"

"Old He...Old He!" the chief of staff shouted

"What's wrong?!" He Dachuan's ears were almost deafened, and he roared so loudly.

"...You...your brother-in-law...Ai Bin is gone...," the chief of staff whispered, "Ai Hao is seriously injured."

He Dachuan was stunned for a moment, and did not answer the chief of staff's words at all. He just pointed at the battlefield and shouted: "Use me as the line, counterattack troops. If anyone wants to retreat from my position, I will kill him on the spot! Charge again!!" "

"The troops are almost exhausted. When will the support come?" the chief of staff shouted with a cry.

The Battle of Hongdan Airport lasted from the morning until about ten o'clock in the evening. The 122nd Army lost nearly 10,000 people in the battle, and all the main combat units above the regiment level were in a state of remnant strength. One of He Dachuan's brothers-in-law, Ai Bin, was killed in the battle, and six officers from his staff were killed in the battle.

The number of combat attrition of Yan Hu's First Army was almost the same as that of the 122nd Army, while the 33rd Armored Brigade had a combat attrition of more than 80% and completely withdrew from the battlefield.

At around 3 o'clock in the morning, He Dachuan looked at the corpses scattered all over the mountains and plains, but still did not give the final order to retreat. The red sweater on his body... was full of blood spots and holes.

"Weng!!!"

At this moment, the roar of a transport plane suddenly floated over the south side.

He Dachuan suddenly raised his head.

On the plane, Xiaobai took the communication equipment and shouted: "Our army will land at Hongdan Airport immediately and ask the ground for landing space!"

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In an unknown area, Jiang Xiaolong took the phone and asked in English: "She is at your place, right?"

At the same time, Feng Ji's regiment, which came from the battlefield in the fourth district, also landed on the Bund of Yemen. But after Feng Ji got off the boat, he suddenly felt inexplicably flustered and turned to look at the sky: "Is it foggy? Why is it so gray..."