Justin didn't get a detailed map of the minefield. In fact, the British didn't have it.
The British just laid mines according to the general area and buried them. Even if they knew where to go to the minefield, even they dared not go inside.
According to the truth, when burying mines, we have to remember the location of mines and be ready to clean them up after the war. However, the truth is only truth. Who has time to do so when there is a real war, otherwise, there will not be so many minefields in the world that are not allowed to enter by strangers for decades.
The British just leave after a war. They don't care about the life and death of the local people, so it's even if they bury the mines and their own people can't step on them.
For Gao Yang, he just knew that it was a safe area. He didn't take charge of how to mine after the war.
There are no mines on the beach in gaisalai, and there are no mines outside the city in the northeast. The British are too busy to bury all the mines.
The long and narrow city of gaisalai can attack in two directions. That's enough.
The supply ships of the skeleton Gang arrive first, including fresh water, food and the most important shells. It takes a long time to send these things from the sea to the land, and then distribute them to each artillery position from the land.
Ulyanko's ship arrived later. Although there were not many things to be transported, the oil and ammunition could not be directly transported ashore from the large ship. Therefore, it took a lot of time to get barrels of oil and ammunition for the helicopter to the small boat first and then send them ashore little by little.
All night, I was preparing for the coming general attack, and almost all the people who had no combat mission were used.
It's nice to use the two helicopters, but it's really troublesome to wait on them. The people brought by uliyangke alone are 20 ground crew.
Helicopters don't need an airport. They can take off and land on a flat ground. However, the maintenance work on the ground can't be less. Moreover, refueling and reloading are certainly inseparable. All these require manpower and experienced professionals.
People who can fight with armed helicopters must be a country, and at least have a little family background. Or a large company such as EO company in South Africa can afford helicopters. As for the poor, let's give up the idea.
Besides, if you use a helicopter, even if you don't prepare for the airport and find an open space, you have to have a fuel truck. With a fuel truck, where does the fuel in the fuel truck come from?
The helicopter burns aviation kerosene. When ulyanko comes, he must be ready to bring it with him. If Gao Yang comes to get it, he doesn't know where to buy aviation kerosene.
Therefore, armed helicopters are not expensive to buy, and supporting weapons and ammunition can also be bought, but maintenance and logistics are really troublesome and expensive.
This time, when the armed helicopter was brought to the war, there were no refueling vehicles. They had to manually use the oil pump to refuel the helicopter's fuel tank. The speed was very slow and dangerous. There was no way. It was OK to do it in a hurry, but no one could stand it for a long time, and basically there was no need to consider the problem of transition.
There are helicopters, but they can only be fixed in one place, and a base is built to maintain and park them. These tasks still need to be done by someone. It needs to raise another group of people. In terms of the strength of Satan's mercenary regiment, it's unnecessary to think about having their own armed helicopters. Big Ivan can't afford to give them away. Otherwise, Gaoyang will be polite there, I must have laughed happily.
There is no equipment. It takes pure labor to refuel the helicopter and hang bombs. Basically, there are no auxiliary mechanical facilities. It is already midnight when the things are transported from the ship. In order to seize the time, the ground crew who just got off the ship are busy refuelling and loading bombs without taking a drink.
The artillery has been in place, the attack troops have been launched, and the sky is dimming. Everyone is waiting for the helicopter to go up to the sky. The general attack can start only when the helicopter arrives in the sky.
Finally, Gao Yang heard the sound of the propeller. After watching the helicopter appear in the sky, he heard the voice of ulyanko.
"Report, the lightning is in place."
"Report, the thunder is in place."
The helicopter piloted by ulyanko is code named thunder and the other is code named lightning.
All Satan's members are in the northeast of gaisalai, which is the main attack direction, and ulyanko will also operate in this airspace to provide cover for the attacking forces, while the other aircraft will provide cover for restraining the attack from the sea and attacking from the safe passage in the southwest.
The helicopter code is just taken casually. In order to distinguish the two helicopters, it is also convenient to call for support and command.
After taking a deep breath, Gao Yang said in the walkie talkie, "fire preparation for 15 minutes! Release!"
Now all the radios share the same frequency. When Gao Yang gives the order, the artillery preparation begins immediately.
When the artillery fired, the shells poured into the coordinates set in advance, and the helicopter began to look for threatening targets to clear. At the same time, the helicopter had a very good vision and could provide direct targets for the artillery.
After shelling for 15 minutes, he blasted all the targets he could see. As soon as the artillery stopped on time, Gao Yang immediately said, "attack!"
The first wave of attack formation immediately began to act. One platoon of the teaching company, plus all the first company and the second company, launched an attack from the northeast of gaisalai.
The third company launched an attack from the southwest safe passage.
The fourth company took a speedboat from the sea and made the illusion of landing, but if they were violently blocked, they would withdraw to a safe distance. Of course, if they did not encounter strong resistance, the feint would become a real attack.
The Satan mercenary regiment did not fight with the first wave of attack formation.
In charge of the first wave of attack forward team, the casualties must be the largest. There are only ten people in Gaoyang. Although the combat power is the strongest, it does not play a great role in this large-scale operation, but is likely to become the target of enemy snipers.
Now the Satan mercenary regiment is really responsible for tackling tough problems. After the first wave of troops are pressed and the enemy's firepower is proved, the Satan mercenary regiment will lead the reserve team to follow up. Once the forward team meets an insurmountable point, the Satan mercenary regiment will attack with the reserve team and pull out the nails that are difficult for the forward team to overcome.
Command, and then clear the enemies that the skeleton gang can't solve. This is the role of praising them.
The northeast direction of gaissale should be stationed and defended by local pirates. This should be the weakest place for gaissale defense. If it were only those pirates, some people of the skeleton Gang standing army could take gaissale with one charge, but now gaissale has many British people, and they may have changed their defense with pirates now, Or strengthen the defensive force in the northeast. Therefore, Gao Yang doesn't think he can easily attack from the northeast. He is also prepared for great casualties in the forward force.
Two companies plus one platoon, which is already a lot in terms of the attack area they can use.
Staying at a distance of 1500 meters, he held up his telescope to check the progress of the forward force, and TREB was right beside him and was ready to shoot. In addition, groliov was ready to shoot with a machine gun.
And, of course, Tommy, who now has a lot of shells and is ready to provide cover for the attacking forces.
The attack distance was 1500 meters. The forward troops did not attack fast. They bent down and trotted to the city of gaisalai. When it was almost a kilometer away from gaisalai, the defenders in the city opened fire.
The enemy opened fire when the distance was still far away, which made Gao Yang very happy, because it showed that the enemy was careless. In this distance, that is, heavy machine guns threatened the attacking forces, but the enemy's heavy machine guns and rifles opened fire together, which only showed that those careless pirates were wasting bullets.
Only when the attacking forces are close to less than 200 meters away from the enemy will they launch an assault, break down the enemy and break through their defense line at one stroke. Now, it is time for the covering forces to fire.
As soon as the enemy opened fire, their position was exposed. Ulyanko in the sky was waiting. At this time, machine guns and rockets fired at the machine gun fire bullets immediately, while Tommy and groliov were not vegetarian. Of course, there were artillery. Immediately, shells and bullets knocked at the exposed fire spots of the enemy.
Cui Bo also shot, but at a distance of 1500 meters, he just took part in the fun.
After a series of blows and explosions, the enemy was basically silent. Like walking, the forward troops easily approached the dangerous area less than 500 meters away from the enemy's defense line.
It was less than 500 meters away from the enemy's position, which was already the effective firing range of automatic rifles. Gao Yang's heart began to raise. Whether the enemy's combat effectiveness was strong or weak should be seen at this time.
The tactical actions of the forward troops began to increase, and the assault speed also accelerated. At this time, Gao Yang saw that people began to fall continuously in the front position of the team.
Casualties are inevitable, and the snipers who will meet the enemy have long been expected. However, seeing that four people have fallen in a row, Gao Yang immediately clenched his teeth, because the fallen people are all the least and least able to fall. They are all commanders.
"Report! Enemy sniper! The commander of the second company was killed, and the platoon commander of the second company performed his duties!"
"Report and teach that the platoon leader of the third platoon of the company was killed!"
Just like this, one company commander and three platoon commanders died in the forward force, one of which was the platoon commander of the teaching company.
Before the attack, Gao Yang had ordered all officers to remove everything different from ordinary soldiers. However, some of their habitual actions would still expose their identity, such as waving and commanding, and snipers would never ignore these actions.
"Thunder report, no position of enemy sniper found!"
Cui Bo also shouted, "I didn't find it!"
Gao Yang sighed. The enemy had too many snipers. It was really difficult to fight, and it was really scary.