After the explosion, the massive shockwave destroyed the artillery position, and most of the I5I5 artilleryn were killed instantly, with only a few able to move or crawl, and so even managing to run.
However, their movents beca strange, staggering a few steps and then falling, just like soone drunk.
The shockwave, combined with the high-decibel noise, shattered their eardrums, causing them to lose balance.
Actually, you couldn't find a single person in good condition at the position now.
At this mont, Hunter spotted an opportunity to perform.
His M24 sniper rifle began to do its job.
He shot at whoever bounced the most.
The poor artilleryn, who were lucky enough to escape the imdiate explosion, didn't even have ti to understand what happened before being sent to et their maker by Hunter's sniper rifle.
Even though Song Heping was hiding behind a pile of rubble, he could still feel the vibrations from the ground, and the sand and dust swept over by the shockwave covered them both with a thick layer of mud.
Thankfully, they were wearing camouflage scarves over their faces, which proved to be beneficial now, otherwise their mouths would have been filled with sand and dirt.
"Take a look, clear the area."
After the explosion, Song Heping picked up his gun and started to slowly approach the artillery position along the edge of the sand dune.
He avoided going through the middle as much as possible.
Because it was very dangerous there.
He sotis encountered unexploded ordnance during his ti in the army learning about mortars.
This thing is very terrifying.
Because they are equipped with triggers, no one knows when they might explode.
The recent explosion definitely left behind so unexploded ordnance at the scene, or scattered everywhere.
He had to be very careful, watching his steps and also watch out for any I5I5 soldiers who might not be fully dead ahead.
He had walked only a few ters when he indeed saw one.
But it was a disabled one.
His abdon was torn open, with intestines spilling out.
Song Heping granted him two bullets, considering it a good deed.
Along the way, he saw many half-dead I5I5 soldiers.
The power of the explosion was imnse.
An entire truckload of mortar shells detonated, leaving a huge sand pit in the center of the artillery position.
It was nearly ten ters wide.
"Jiang Feng, don't touch those unexploded shells."
He warned his companion.
This was a 100mm caliber mortar.
In actual combat, the intensive lethality range of a 100mm mortar shell can reach up to 30 ters, covering an area of 2600 square ters, which is about the size of four basketball courts. The number of shrapnel from a shell explosion can reach up to 3000 pieces, nearly as powerful as a 105mm howitzer shell.
Suddenly, Song Heping saw a complete barrel lying on the ground, which looked very familiar, making his eyes light up.
"Type 71?"
He quickly turned back to call Jiang Feng: "Jiang Feng, co take a look."
Jiang Feng approached.
He cried out in surprise as well.
"Why is it a Type 71?"
This model of mortar appearing here was truly unexpected.
"How did these get into the hands of I5I5?"
"I rember now..."
Song Heping suddenly recalled sothing.
During the Iran-Iraq war, that is, in the 1980s.
At that ti, Illiguo purchased quite so weapons from China.
Including tanks and, of course, artillery.
This included mortars of 120 and 100mm calibers, among them was the Type 71.
Now, these weapons appearing here suggests that the source of I5I5's weapons might be related to the arsenals of the forr governnt army of Illiguo.
The person who managed to get these weapons and supply them to the I5I5 organization, Song Heping guessed, must be those sons of bitches from the CIA.
After all, these weapons were left behind by the forr governnt army. When the Coalition forces arrived, they basically beca stock. In order to make money, the Arican military-industrial complex lobbied the old n in Congress, and the old n ordered the US troops in Iraq to have the new Illiguo Defense Forces purchase all Arican equipnt, and to phase out the old ones, even if they still worked.
Speaking of which, it's all business, and Arican Commissioner Smith surely made a fortune from these huge military contracts.
Song Heping took particular note of this matter.
The materials departnt of the new governnt was all their people.
To clarify the source of these weapons was simple, having Yusuf check the inventory would reveal it. Besides his own sales to South Arica, one look at who took a large amount of old governnt military equipnt would reveal all.
Then, whoever was backing the I5I5 organization behind the scenes would beco clear.
After cleaning up the scene, a voice suddenly transmitted from a walkie-talkie lying on the ground.
It was a miracle that, after the intense explosion, so walkie-talkies weren't destroyed.
Picking it up and listening, he found it was the commander ahead calling, asking why the shelling had stopped.
"Heh heh, they probably don't know their artilleryn have all gone to et God."
Jiang Feng looked towards Lavo Town in the distance, unable to help but remark, "I guess now Samir and their guys will have a lot less pressure."
Song Heping looked towards the distant firing line.
The sound of gunfire was still incessantly crashing there.
Occasionally, tracer rounds could be seen streaking through the darkness, leaving trajectories and a network of fire.
It seed that the firefight was intense.
Now he was unable to contact Samir, not knowing how they are doing over there, or in which direction the enemy's assault was most fierce.
However, even getting this information seed like it wouldn't be of much help.
Because he only had six people.
Although tonight I5I5 launched attacks in more than one direction, perhaps attacks are happening at other militia strongholds as well.
But near Lavo Town, he estimated there must be nearly a thousand people.
Six people simply cannot contend with so many.
"Boss, where do we enter the town from now?"
Disaster Star also felt that the situation was very thorny, so he ca to ask Song Heping.
Among them, only Song Heping could co up with a solution.
Song Heping frowned as he gazed into the distance, muttering, "Soon they will discover that the artillery position has been destroyed. It would be troubleso if they send people to pursue us..."
Different tactical plans flashed through his mind.
Song Heping must choose the most suitable and effective thod to execute.
A slip-up by the six-person squad ant total annihilation.
His bargaining chips were few.
He couldn't afford to command carelessly.
"Latif!"
After half a minute of contemplation.
Song Heping seed to have an idea.
"What are your orders?" Latif responded very quickly; he knew he had to listen to Song Heping tonight, otherwise Samir would be dood.
"Take this, talk to them, ask for new coordinates and new firing positions."
Song Heping handed over the walkie-talkie.
"My accent is too heavy, they would definitely recognize it. You are a local; you could confuse them."
"Okay."
Latif took the walkie-talkie and walked to the side to start a conversation with the commander on the channel.
He was also a clever person.
It was just bluffing anyway.
Claiming the coordinates had deviated and that the artillery shells were temporarily out of supply.
Basically, it was all about lying to extract information.
Song Heping told Jiang Feng, "Go see how many cannons are still functional."
"Look for cannons?!"
Jiang Feng awkwardly surveyed the surroundings.
Bodies were strewn everywhere as well as scattered mortar parts.
The cannon bases, barrels, and seats were all separated, scattered all around.
"Yes, go now!"
"Okay!"
Jiang Feng turned and left to carry out the command.
Song Heping took out a PDA and began accessing the electronic map of the area.
Latif got results quickly too.
"They gave the coordinates."
"Tell ..."
Under Latif's guidance, Song Heping entered the firing coordinates and frontline positions into the electronic map, pinning their locations.
"Right here..."
He stared at the engagent point.
This was an entrance on the west side of Lavo Town.
It seed that the ard forces of the I5I5 organization were pushing in this direction.
Typically, an assault battle would consist of multiple feints and a primary attack.
Concentrating forces to break through at one point.
As long as they breached a spot, troops could rush in, and the enemy's defense would collapse, resulting in disarray.
After marking the fire line, Song Heping began searching around it.
"Boss, what are you looking for?"
"Looking for their headquarters."
"You can find that?"
"Headquarters are generally established near the engagent point but beyond the enemy's shooting range in a safe zone. Being close to the frontline headquarters has the advantage of optimizing the delivery of commands. I5I5's communication equipnt isn't advanced; they definitely use this pattern, so their headquarters should be here..."
Song Heping's touch pen circled two points on the electronic map.
"Collins, Klein, each of you take a vehicle and head to these two points for close reconnaissance. Rember to drive without lights, you have night-vision equipnt and can see further than they can, don't get detected. Once you locate their headquarters, imdiately report the coordinates on the radio, and soone stay there as a guide!"
"Okay!"
"Understood!"
Song Heping broke down his tactic.
Now everyone knew, Song Heping was aiming to strike the king first by targeting the horse—the commanders.
A small squad against a large force absolutely cannot engage in a hard fight; that would only lead to a dead end.
A small squad must have its own way of fighting.
And decapitation tactics were the best choice among all tactics.
Destroying the enemy's headquarters, considering the combat level and troop quality of an organization like I5I5, they would definitely be thrown into chaos.
Once I5I5's offensive beca disorganized, whether Samir in the town could seize the opportunity to counterattack depended on Samir's own level of command and combat proficiency.
If Samir was a rubbish commander, then no one could help him.
"Once they find the coordinates later, we will imdiately start shelling the headquarters!"
Song Heping turned to Jiang Feng.
"How many cannons can we still make do with?"
"Not many!" Jiang Feng complained: "The blasting was too thorough, many of the barrels are twisted, now only one cannon is still intact, but it's missing its sight; there's another one where everything is gone except for the straight barrel, it can fire!"
"Okay, Disaster Star, quickly get the cannon over here and set it up, bring that smooth cannon barrel, I'll give them a quick shot!"
The cannon was quickly set up, and the smooth barrel was placed beside Song Heping.
After rummaging for ammunition, there were still more than ten complete, undamaged shells left in a box, with charge bags still attached around the tailpipe, but only type 1 charges were left, the rest were destroyed in the explosion.
Fortunately, the distance was close enough, Song Heping estimated, about 800 ters to the town.
Increasing the firing angle, the minimum range of the Type 71 100 mortar was about 200 ters. It could work!
"Will this work?" Jiang Feng looked at the two severely damaged cannons and couldn't help worrying: "Just relying on these two things to take down their headquarters?"
Song Heping said, "One shot can blast 30 square ters, and the shrapnel damage even exceeds that area. A good poultice that draws out pus is a good poultice. Do you want us few to storm their headquarters? If they have an entire platoon nearby, going there will not be enough even for all of us to die!"
"That's true…"
Jiang Feng laughed.
"It's better than us attacking it ourselves."
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