Song Heping's command vehicle stopped about 5 kiloters away from the refinery. As the commander, he no longer needs to personally lead the troops onto the battlefield. He can understand the battlefield situation through real-ti images transmitted by drones and reports from various team leaders.
But the images transmitted by the drones still made his blood boil.
Currently, although the first and second battalions have succeeded in their raids, the resistance within the refinery has exceeded expectations.
The more crucial point is that the refinery must be captured more quickly.
If the 1515 Ard in Bayji City gather their strength and organize a large force to enter the refinery and engage in a tug-of-war battle with the first and second battalions, it would significantly delay the entire battle.
Ti is extrely precious.
After this fight here, it's expected that Buckdadi will soon learn about Bayji being attacked, and Az in Tetric will also be inford.
Appearing here ans that the militia forces outside Tetric are not under his command.
This way, Az's confidence to counterattack will greatly increase, and it's estimated that he will imdiately organize nearly thirty thousand 1515 mbers in the city to counterattack Jiang Feng and Samir.
"Command Abu You to intensify the attack! Tell him, attack harder in the west of the city, and the pressure here will be alleviated!"
Song Heping shouted to the communications soldier.
He needed the feint on the west side to beco a real strong attack, to maximize the containnt of the reserve forces within Bayji City, preventing them from sending reinforcents to the refinery.
anwhile, outside Tetric.
Before the break of dawn, Jiang Feng and Samir stayed up all night.
The battle towards Bayji has already begun, their hearts were in their throats.
"Drone reconnaissance shows no signs of large-scale movents by the garrison in Tetric City."
The technical officer of the drone company reported.
Samir breathed a sigh of relief, wiping off the cold sweat on his forehead: "It seems that Az has really been bluffed by us."
Jiang Feng, however, did not dare to be careless: "We can't let our guard down. Command the artillery to perform another round of rapid fire, target five hundred ters behind the enemy's frontline positions, creating the illusion that we are about to launch an attack! After firing, we need to imdiately retreat according to plan!"
Soon, on the "Liberation Forces" artillery positions, a few heavy guns and nurous mortars roared again, shells flew over the middle ground of confrontation between both sides, hitting near the area where Tetric's garrison might be assembled.
The smoke and dust of explosions rose once more.
This round of shelling undoubtedly further solidified Az's judgnt — the "Liberation Forces" main force is still present, and the assault is imminent.
He was even more determined to hold his ground waiting for reinforcents, even reallocating forces from other directions to strengthen the frontal defense.
He was completely unaware that he was perfectly playing the role of the "fearful defending general" in Song Heping's script.
As dawn broke, the battle within Bayji Refinery reached a fever pitch.
So fanatic defenders retreated to the core control building, attempting a final stand.
"Ti waits for no one!"
Song Heping checked the ti and sternly questioned via radio:
"Milosh, can you finish in twenty minutes?"
At this mont, Battalion Commander Milosh had already infiltrated near the control building.
"Can finish!"
Milosh gave a firm reply, then radioed Battalion Commander Wells responsible for remote support.
"Wells, have your remote fire suppress the enemies in the building, I only need five minutes! Don't give them the chance to attack us in five minutes, I need to send people in to blast the building with directed explosives! Damn it! Fighting room by room, staircase by staircase causes too many casualties. Blast it directly to save trouble!"
"Sure, go ahead! Leave the fire support to !"
After speaking, Wells ran personally to the artillery position.
"Imdiately cover the position of the control building within the refinery with shots, blow away those bastards on the rooftop for ! Don't let them attack the advancing troops of the first battalion from the rooftop!"
"Yes! I will give them a rapid fire package!" The mortar company commander was full of confidence.
"Five minutes!"
Wells extended his hand, spread five fingers, and waved them forcefully at the mortar company commander, shouting loudly:
"I want you to maintain fire suppression for at least five minutes, the assault team of the first battalion needs ti to enter the building for demolition!"
"Understood! Commander!"
The company commander wiped his face, smudged with oil and dust, but his eyes were exceptionally determined, "Just watch what I'll do!"
Orders spread through the mortar position like electric current.
The artilleryn operated like well-wound intricate machines, beginning to run at high speed.
"Attention! Target, control building and rooftop area! High explosive bombs, instant fuses! Sight XXX, direction XXX! One round for test fire!"
The company commander's shout echoed across the position.
The loaders quickly took out the heavy 81mm high explosive killing bombs from the green ammunition boxes, smoothly sliding them into the mortar barrel.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
A succession of muffled shots sounded, the hot gas from the muzzle instantly blew the dust on the ground into a ring.
Several shells whistled sharply as they cut through the air polluted by gunpowder smoke, heading at high trajectory towards the core area of the refinery not far away.
The fleeting flight ti felt elongated.
All the gunners slightly lifted their heads, their eyes tracking the invisible trajectory of the shells.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
The test shells exploded into black and red fireballs on the roof of the control building and the nearby open ground, scattering fragnts that shredded the roof railings and suspected machine gun emplacents to pieces.
Faintly visible, human remains were hurled into the air.
"Target area hit! Correct paraters, right zero-zero-two, add one! Whole company! Five rapid shots! Fire!"
The observer quickly reported the data, and the company commander's orders were seamlessly executed.
The true steel storm had begun!
Thud!
Thud!
Thud!
Thud!
Thud!
The entire mortar position erupted in a continuous and dense roar!
Shell after shell launched with extrely high firing speed, forming an almost unbroken trajectory of death in the sky.
The control building and its surrounding area were instantly engulfed in a series of explosive flas and dense smoke!
"Rumble——!"
The sound of explosions was no longer just separate bursts but rged into a continuous rumbling roar!
The high explosive warheads continuously crashed into the steel and concrete building structure and the rooftop platform, each explosion causing violent tremors, hurling massive chunks of cent upwards and then down.
On the rooftop platform, over a dozen 1515 ard militants survived only seconds under this absolute destructive coverage.
The dense mortar shells turned the entire rooftop into a boiling cauldron.
A heavy machine gun, which had been spitting fire seconds ago, was directly hit, turning it and the gunner into flying debris.
Thick smoke and dust totally shrouded the upper half of the building, with only occasional gusts tearing through to reveal flashes of fire inside.
On the real-ti drone feed from Song Heping's command vehicle, flashes of explosions on the control building's top floor kept flickering through the smoke and dust, resembling the climax of the most explosive war movie.
"Beautiful job!"
Milosh couldn't help but punch the air furiously as he watched through binoculars, "Demolition team, go! Quickly!!"
Already under the cover of smoke bombs, the demolition team swiftly moved to the building's shadowed flank, taking advantage of the artillery's absolute suppression to quickly enter the control building through a breach opened by a previous RPG.
Outside, the sound of artillery was like hell, but inside, more intense and concentrated gunfire and grenade explosions erupted instantly——
Brutal indoor close combat had begun.
The bombardnt continued.
The mortar crew was drenched in sweat, and the loader's arms started to ache, but they remained committed to fulfilling the "five-minute fire suppression" promise.
The air was filled with a strong sll of gunpowder, and everyone's nerves were stretched to the limit.
For the demolition team inside the building, these five minutes were a matter of life and death.
For the 1515 defenders trapped inside, it was a destructive symphony long as a century.
Wells watched his watch, and as the second hand just passed the fifth-minute mark, he decisively gave the command:
"Extend artillery fire! Block the north and south passageways of the building, prevent enemy reinforcents!"
The deafening artillery fire suddenly changed, the impact points began to spread around the building, creating an isolating firewall.
Almost at the sa ti as the artillery shifted, Milosh's radio crackled with the slightly breathless yet clear voice of the demolition team leader:
"Explosives are set! All personnel have evacuated the building! Repeat, explosives are set, personnel have evacuated!"
Milosh grabbed the transmitter, shouting with all his might: "Detonate!"
"BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!"
A blast far greater than any previous shelling erupted from within the control building!
The mid-lower section of the building suddenly ballooned outward, with massive tongues of fire and thick smoke spewing out from windows and breaches!
Then, amid the nerve-racking screeches of twisting steel, the entire building slowly tilted to one side, rapidly beginning to collapse!
Huge chunks of concrete and steel structures crushed and shattered against each other, crashing to the ground and triggering secondary tremors and dust clouds, like a minor earthquake.
The fall of the refinery's most crucial vantage point—the control building—beca the last straw that broke the psychological defenses of the Bayji defenders.
The remaining troops began a large-scale rout, their formations completely collapsed.
In the west of the city, the Abu You Brigade, upon receiving encouragent from Song Heping, attacked with renewed vigor and even broke through parts of the city defenses, plunging the inner city garrison into a desperate two-front battle.
The total collapse of Bayji's 1515 Ard Forces had begun.
Song Heping watched through the screen as the gunfire in the refinery area gradually subsided, and the rcenaries began waving signal rods to mark the occupied areas, and he slowly exhaled in relief.
The primary objective of the first phase was essentially achieved.
But he knew that a more severe test was about to co from the direction of Tetric.
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