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Chapter 4189 Urban Street Fighting

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    ¡°I am the commander-in-chief of this operation, and Vitampol is about to become the main battlefield of this battle. If I do not stay here and just organize a retreat, then I will be an unqualified commander.

    I have to stay here, I trust my people will organize a retreat.  And I want to be with my second regiment and fight this battle well.  We don¡¯t have much time to argue, so instead of spending time arguing about these little things, it¡¯s better to take active action and be prepared.  "General Edgar Landau said firmly. "I need to know about the defense situation of Vitambol.  "

    Jiang An was silent for a while, nodded and said, "We will deploy our troops on the left wing of Vitampol and concentrate all anti-tank equipment. On the nearby high ground, we have deployed all anti-tank guns.

    Use the terrain of Vitampol to deploy anti-tank mines and roadside bombs.  This is used to delay the opponent's offensive.  Buy enough time.  If the enemy attacks Vitambore, we must hold out at Vitambore until the other troops are evacuated.

    Vitambol is a fortress town. We can make use of the town¡¯s terrain and a large number of bunker facilities.  Try to drag the opponent into urban street fighting.  The Moroccan armored forces adopt French training methods, and their tactical deployment in street fighting also follows the French.

    Since it is an armored force, tanks are a must. To control roads and occupy intersections, tanks can still play a strong role!  Roadside mine protection is very important. Today's armed organizations have made excellent use of roadside bombs with LEDs. This is a cheap and easy-to-use thing!  It is also our main means of fighting against them.

    So they will use infantry to accompany the armored vehicles to clear the way, with mine protection in front and fire cover in the back.  Armored infantry fighting vehicles are an important support force for light infantry.  On the road, tanks can gallop freely, but once street fighting actually begins, it is difficult to say how much role the tanks can play.

    There are VBR-type armored vehicles covering the front and rear of a tank. These VBR-type armored vehicles have the super off-road capabilities of jeeps, as well as armor and machine gun firepower. When encountering enemies, they can quickly form a combination of light and heavy firepower with the tank, and can  Take advantage of mobility and defense to quickly approach or escape enemy forces.

    So for this kind of urban street fighting, their basic equipment team formation is the configuration of two off-road armored vehicles and one tank.  "

    "Okay, I probably understand what you said. What I want to know is how should we respond?" General Edgar Lando asked with a frown.

    Shogan replied, "This is the first major difference between urban warfare and field warfare. As a large settlement with dense population and buildings, the city has a narrow and closed space, with undulating buildings and complicated roads. This will cause difficulties for the attacker.  great difficulty.

    Because the firepower of their main corps cannot be fully deployed, most of the attacking infantry and tank units march along a few main roads. Many viaducts and roads cannot bear the huge weight of tanks. The attacker must carefully plan the road to make the attack roughly  The direction can basically be predicted.

    The infantry advanced towards a small building complex under the cover of tanks, and the tanks could only break through from the front of the road.  The result was vulnerability to well-positioned explosives and rifle fire.

    Because the main road in urban warfare is the only way for armored vehicles to pass through, there is no suddenness at all.  This makes their actions easy to predict, and we only need to guard a few key positions.  This caused the enemy's entire armored force to be delayed.

    When the enemy troops are marching, they are always under the observation and surveillance of tall buildings in the city. At the same time, they are threatened by the firepower points of the buildings on both sides in the direction of advance. The troops have to cautiously move forward and be ready to attack tall buildings from above at any time.  .

    The enemy infantry must get off the vehicle to cover the tank operations, but cannot break through in vehicles. The speed and assault advantages of the tank and armored vehicle detachments cannot be used.  As the defender, we can hold back the powerful offensive force with only one force and buy time to calmly adjust our defense.

    The complex terrain restricted the movement of armored vehicles. During the attack, we could only rely on infantry detachments to make deep penetrations. The infantry walking in the alleys did not receive strong support from tanks, and over-reliance on tanks made the troops unable to move forward.  Being separated from the main road and losing combat flexibility.  We can use the complex terrain of the alley to suddenly enter the place and fight at close range.

    Within a distance of 10 to 20 meters, anti-tank rocket launchers can easily destroy their tanks.  As long as we are sudden enough, we can still hit them.

    In addition, we must set up a large number of roadblocks in Vitampol to restrict the passage of tanks.  It's not to hinder their progress, but to restrict them from moving forward in an overall formation.  Forcing enemy armored units to advance in a band.  Attacking troops squeezed into a line in narrow city streets often become targets.

    Because this way the attacking force is stretched very long, the head and tail cannot look at each other. The destruction of one or two tanks at the head and tail is enough to block the road and prevent the troops from moving, and then they will be cut into several sections by the defensive firepower and defeated one by one.

    Moreover, such complex terrain makes obstacles and landmines the most dangerous enemies. It is difficult for offensive forces to detect powerful roadside bombs and car bombs among a pile of broken bricks and rubble. We can make these Moroccans not yet  If the enemy is discovered, the losses will be heavy.  "

    "But the opponent is a tank, and tanks can overwhelm everything." The officer said hesitantly.

    "Tanks cannot overwhelm everything. This may be possible in field battles, but not in symbolic street battles in cities. Especially places like Vitampore, which were established as military fortresses with tall and solid buildings, we have natural resources.  network of fortifications.

    This is another major difference between urban warfare and field warfare. For the attacker, firepower is the best weapon to break down the defense. Generally, simple fortifications built in a field environment are mostly civil structures with a few prefabricated parts and a few laid  There are minefields.  It is simply difficult to withstand the stormy blows of large-caliber suppressed artillery.

    Tanks and other assault weapons can break through local defenses in multiple ways and develop in depth when the defender is suddenly hit by fire and fails to respond. Under the danger of being cut off by the defense line and being surrounded and annihilated, the defending troops will generally choose to retreat.

    But this is only applicable to field battles, not urban battles.  The rows of buildings in the town of Vitampol provide us with numerous solid defensive support points of reinforced concrete structures, which can not only withstand the fierce attacks of artillery and aviation, but also protect personnel and weapons and equipment under the firepower of the attackers.

    Even if the building is blown up, the damaged structure and collapsed bricks and tiles will immediately turn into natural obstacles, and the attacker will be unable to move forward without clearing the obstacles.

    Therefore, both the United States and Israel have equipped their troops with installed bulldozers. The large number of bulldozers equipped with Russian tanks also play a certain role, but the Moroccan army does not.  In fact, their armored units are used for desert cross-country combat, and they have never considered using tanks for urban street fighting.

    This actually delayed the enemy's offensive rhythm, and its effect was no less than the tenacious resistance of several troops.  Lin Rui explained in a low voice.

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