City: I Have A Red Alert Base

Chapter 45: Air Assault Battalion

The minimum killing radius of a 155mm artillery shell is 60 meters. After each 155 shells fall into the enemy's position, the explosion shock wave is 1413 square meters.

It is known that the defensive position of the Northern Autonomous Army is 40 kilometers long, 30 kilometers wide, and has a surface base of 1,600 square kilometers.

So how many 155mm shells are needed to plow once?

"The answer is 11,323!" Ma Hongzhen grinned at the frontline headquarters of the Red Police Corps. With such a simple question, can it be difficult to get him?

"Wrong." However, Chen Xuance said lightly: "The answer is 1550 coins."

Ma Hongzhen was stunned for a moment, and then asked with a puzzled face: "How is it possible that there are only 1550 shells! At least tens of thousands! Even if you count the shells of the 105mm self-propelled artillery and the M270 multiple rocket launcher, it is impossible. 1550 pieces!"

Although from the outside, Ma Hongzhen is a big three and five rough man, but his calculation ability is still very good. This kind of arithmetic problem at the junior high school level can be solved by mental calculation.

I saw Chen Xuan Ce sighed and said: "You forgot the most important thing, the type of shells, this kind of fire-covered shelling, we will not use ordinary shells, this shelling, either air-explosive shells or sub-munitions, kills and hurts. The radius is at least 360 meters."

Ma Hongzhen was stunned in place, and the surrounding Red Police officers couldn't help laughing softly as they watched the two bosses battle their IQs there.

Different from ordinary artillery shells, air-explosive bombs and sub-munitions were detonated in the air just before falling into the enemy's position, and the killing radius was several times or even ten times that of the explosion after landing.

For temporary fortifications such as the enemy, special bombs specially designed to deal with permanent military fortifications are simply not needed. It is right to use air-explosive bombs and sub-munitions directly to blast them.

Therefore, Chen Xuance's statement is indeed correct. With the lethal radius of 155mm airbursts and submunitions, it really only takes more than 1,500 airbursts and submunitions to plow through the position of the Northern Autonomous Army on the opposite side.

Not to mention the 105mm gun and the M270 multiple rocket launcher.

After being played with his IQ, Ma Hongzhen picked up the binoculars angrily, walked out of the headquarters, found a well-placed observation post, and watched the fireworks show.

On the opposite position of the Northern Autonomous Army, there were various explosions one after another, including artillery shells fired by barrel artillery, and rocket shells with thin skin and big stuffing.

The explosion smoke from the M777 155mm howitzer is enough. The 227mm rocket launcher of the M270 multiple rocket launcher is a small mushroom cloud.

Moreover, the rocket artillery also has terminally-guided anti-tank submunitions specially designed for bunker fortifications and tank armor, which are designed to penetrate defenses and armor. After this hour of shelling, the enemy's tanks and armored vehicles do not know how many are left.

Not only that, the M270 rocket launcher can also fire mine-laying bombs, directly scattering mines into enemy positions.

Think about when the bombardment is over, and when the enemy cleans the battlefield, he lifts the corpse of a friendly army or digs a collapsed anti-artillery hole, and suddenly a mine is detonated.

Just not too sour.

In the Red Police base, Wang Yao also watched the live broadcast of the shelling of the positions of the Northern Autonomous Army through frontline cameras.

Through the spy satellite, he could even clearly see every building in the northern autonomous army position, as well as some hidden tanks and armored vehicles and artillery, and the artillerymen on the front line were also waiting for these targets to explode.

Although with the combat effectiveness of the Red Police Corps, the two combined combat brigades on the front line were enough to knock down the Northern Autonomous Army in Sheikh City, but they would definitely cause some additional casualties after being involved in positional warfare and street fighting.

In particular, a city like Sheikh City, which is located on a mountain pass, is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Its terrain is like the cemetery of the empire, and it is difficult for the armored power to exert its full strength.

So Wang Yao didn't plan to storm Sheikh City, but prepared a small gift for Berbera.

"How are the preparations for the air assault battalion?" Wang Yao turned off the live broadcast of the shelling on the front line and asked Xue Beichen next to him.

"Report to the commander-in-chief, the air assault battalion has been formed, but there is still one C-17 transport aircraft in production, which will take about two hours." Xue Beichen reported.

Wang Yao looked at the time, it was past three o'clock in the afternoon.

Then he looked at the straight-line distance from the airport of the Red Police Base to Berbera on the map, about 500 kilometers.

At the speed of a C-17 transport plane, it can reach the sky over Berbera in less than an hour.

Afterwards, Wang Yao instructed: "If there is enough time, let the air assault battalion leave at one o'clock in the morning."

Starting from this time, when we arrive at Berbera, it is the time when people are most asleep in the middle of the night.

"Yes, Commander!" Xue Beichen stood at attention and saluted.

The time soon came to evening.

The air assault battalion was assembled on the runway at the Red Alert base.

This is a special force dedicated to airborne operations, and every soldier is a three-star red police soldier who has undergone rigorous training.

They compressed some arms, making the entire air assault battalion only 800 people, but their equipment increased instead of decreasing.

I saw that on the runway of the airport of the Red Police Base under the night, dozens of C-17 large transport planes had opened their cabins, waiting for the soldiers of the air assault battalion.

Each C-17 large transport aircraft can carry 103 heavily armed soldiers, and the soldiers of the entire air assault battalion only need eight C-17 large transport aircraft to be fully loaded.

The remaining C-17s were loaded with heavy equipment from the air assault battalion.

I saw grizzly tanks driving into the cabin of the C-17 large transport aircraft, and the staff were installing special airborne parachute bags for these 20-ton big guys.

And the tank soldiers are also doing the final inspection.

After the grizzly tanks were air-dropped, they would jump down, quickly find the grizzly tanks on several sides after landing, and then start the tanks within fifteen minutes.

In addition to the Grizzly Tank, there are also 105mm self-propelled artillery vehicles that were loaded into the belly of the C-17 transport aircraft.

In order to enhance the firepower of the air raid camp, even three M777 155mm towed howitzers were loaded into the stomach.

This 155mm towed howitzer weighs only about 4.22 tons, and a C-17 can fit several.

As the ground crew who ran up waved the baton in their hands, the twelve intruder attack aircraft and twelve Black Hawk fighter jets responsible for the air raid escort mission took off first.

After these escort planes took off, the C-17 large transport plane began to roar, slowly slipped into the runway, and began to take off.

The air raid was code-named 'Black Storm'.

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