Don't talk about martial arts, I'm a war contractor

Chapter 439 High-frequency output, day and night battle (asking for monthly tickets!)

No matter whether it’s big or small, isn’t this thing better than a mortar?
In the absence of interference, the combat effectiveness of an FPV drone equipped with armor-piercing and fragmentation warheads is indeed better than indirect fire such as mortars. After all, it can also be considered a precision strike.

This also made Taiquidda feel like he was left behind by the times, and the mortar crew he had trained so hard all became sitting ducks.

No, if the enemy can use it, they can use it too.

Because the threshold for using this weapon does not seem to be very high, they should be able to afford it with the money they earn from selling tanks and artillery shells.

Once they have learned this new tactic, the young men in the organization can turn around and attack the enemy's armored forces.

It is worth exchanging ten of these drones for one of the enemy's infantry fighting vehicles.

Even weapons like the portable air defense missiles of the Fire Defense Force can shoot down this, so it shouldn't be difficult to deal with it, right?
Taiquidda immediately thought of the equipment that could restrain drones, and suddenly felt that the mortar was not so useless after all, as at least the shells could not be shot down.

But at present, it seems that only one company, Jihuo Defense, owns this kind of weapon. They don't have this problem when fighting against government forces and the Chinese.

"Boom~Boom~Boom~~"

The sound of the explosion brought his scattered thoughts back to reality. That was all in the future; now they were still fighting the enemy.

"All mortar crews hide where they are. The enemy is targeting you."

Lao Tai called a halt to the counterattacks of all mortar units. The third batch of mortar aircraft that took off with bombs suddenly lost their targets and could only smash down the gathered militants nearby.

It's worth exchanging a thousand dollars for two or three heads, especially when it comes to replenishing ammunition.

The thick door of the armored container was opened, and piles of machine gun ammunition chains were carried to the convoy by the soldiers of the village protection team.

The three tanks that had emptied their automatic loaders were also restocked with explosive bombs. In this combat environment, each tank's shot affected one firing point at a time, and without reinforced concrete as cover, they would be too damaging.

But the easily excavated sandy soil was also used by the Tuareg to build a large number of tunnels.

These tunnels cannot be used for attack, but they are more than enough for defense. No one knows how many militants are hiding in the courtyard that has been bombed into ruins.

"Just use the flamethrower. We have all been equipped with S-8BM penetrating rounds."

Xia Yu gave orders over the radio.

To deal with targets hiding in tunnels, fire attack and direct penetration are the most effective tactics.

Not to mention the fire attack, three FPH 3C flamethrowers and modulation supply equipment have been transported to the temporary supply point in the city and distributed to three digital teams for use.

The CH-4 patrolling above Kidar was not idle after it ran out of ammunition. Dozens of ruined courtyards with people coming in and out were marked, ready to provide guidance for the two armed helicopters at any time.

"Yes, boss!"

Everyone took action immediately.

"Wow~Wow~~"

After completing their ammunition replenishment, Old Deer Tiger and Longbow Cross Deer took off again and flew over Kidar again.

"Calling Weasel, this is Bulldog, our 2nd Squadron's minesweeper has been destroyed, our advance is blocked, requesting air support."

Henry called for help on the radio.

The tractor was just a tractor after all, and it was destroyed by the recoilless rifle under the protection of several VBCIs. Fortunately, there were no casualties.

"The weasel understands. The cuckoo will go to support immediately!"

Xia Yu assigned the work to Lao Han and others.

"Hey~~"

"Boom~~"

The Longbow Crossbow turned around and fired an anti-tank missile, directly blasting the pickup truck equipped with an SPG-9 recoilless gun on the corner of the street into the sky.

This time we are fighting against the red hellfire, BLUE ARROW 7 which has the same indicators as the real one.

The price is 6 Euros per round, which is only half as expensive as a laser-guided rocket. However, the huge tandem shaped charge armor-piercing warhead, despite its weak splash damage capability, still wiped out half an infantry squad next to the pickup truck.

"Dong~dong~dong~~"

As the distance shortened, the roar of machine guns was heard. With a burst of fire from the Cinderella crew, the siege of nine VBCI infantry fighting vehicles was directly resolved.

On the other side, Xia Yu successfully locked onto the first target under the guidance of CH-4.

"咻~咻~咻~~"

Aiming at a seemingly ruined earthen house, Lao Luhu fired a round of four S-4BM penetrating bullets.

This rocket has a specially optimized warhead that can easily penetrate reinforced concrete up to 800mm thick and is designed to destroy bunkers and runways.

"Boom~Boom~Boom~~"

There was a series of explosions immediately after landing, and a firepower squad hiding in the tunnel lost all combat effectiveness before they even saw the enemy.

The six rocket pods carried by the two armed helicopters had a total of 6 such penetrating bombs, which were cleared tunnel by tunnel. By the time all the ammunition was used up, 120 of them were conservatively destroyed.

“Pfft~sss~~”

Fire dragons were sprayed into the tunnel from the entrance. The three flamethrower teams on the ground reloaded the guns multiple times, consuming a whole barrel (3 liters) of pre-mixed napalm.

"Boom~Boom~~"

A few dull explosions were heard coming from the tunnel, and it was obvious that the RPG and artillery shells had exploded after being burned.

The fighting lasted from the afternoon until dark. With high-intensity air-to-ground coordinated advancement, the mopping-up force completely occupied the southern part of Kidar and captured the central urban area.

Under the escort of the instructor team, the transport convoy delivered supplies to the city again.

In addition to ammunition, the concentrated fire defense side also has today's dinner and tomorrow's breakfast, while the hairy army can only eat individual rations.

"The Fierce Eagle crew has returned to Oga, and the Howling Sea Eagle crew has taken over the patrol."

A fully-loaded CH-4 flew over Kidar again, announcing the end of today's offensive.

Human physical energy is limited. It is possible to fight continuously for a day and a night, but not only will it be impossible to take down the entire Kidar, but the personnel and equipment will be completely exhausted and will have no endurance.

It would be better for the war zone to rest on the spot and leave some combat teams to take turns on duty to deal with possible attacks.

That is to say, with the integrated reconnaissance and strike drone, the danger of doing so is greatly reduced.

"Wow~Wow~~"

Driving the second load of ammunition, Lao Luhu returned to the village camp. Xia Yu, who was hungry, finished a whole pot of braised pork with rice.

Andre, who had eaten in advance, sat in the cockpit of an armed AS 550, ready to take off at any time to provide fire support to the ground forces in the city.

The combination of two Hoth-3 and Rh202 machine guns makes the firepower of the light armed helicopter relatively weak, but it is enough to repel the enemy's night attack.

The maintenance team uses the night time to perform maintenance on the Deer Tiger and Longbow Crossbow that are used intensively during the day.

And with the cover of night, a sneak attack seems to be a good option?

It's not that the Tuareg people don't remember the pain of being beaten, and they still haven't learned their lesson even after more than half of their multiple rocket launchers and armed helicopters were destroyed. It's that they have no other choice.

Only by destroying the two armed helicopters that were focusing their firepower on defense could the pressure on Kidar be relieved.

After counting the casualties tonight, Taiquidda discovered that the organization had lost nearly 1000 people in just one day, which is almost close to the casualties from the previous bombing.

This is the horror of street fighting, it has become a meat grinder. Even though the mopping-up force has an advantage, the Chinese side was beaten to death and three were injured because of a gap in defense.

The situation of concentrated fire defense was not bad, except that a BTR-82S of the village protection team was hit by five or six bullets from the side by a 14.5mm machine gun, killing two rotation infantrymen who did not get off the vehicle.

Under this kind of battle intensity, the equipment's protection is still not good enough. Fortunately, they still have the heavy equipment of regular employees in the front to take the damage, and they only need to take care of the back.

The government forces in charge of the periphery lost a company. They had no advantage in firepower and defense. Even if they did not undertake the main attack, they could not avoid this level of casualties. However, it was better than being suppressed before.

The only group that suffered heavy losses was the Coordination of Azawad, which thought it was incredibly strong and that everything would be fine as long as it could survive the enemy's three bombing attacks and enter street fighting.

But who knew that this was just the beginning of the nightmare. The enemy's tactics were dazzling. The portable anti-aircraft missiles they had prepared became fire sticks and the mortars became targets.

The anti-tank minefield laid in advance is passable by pickup trucks, but as soon as their pickup trucks come out, they will be knocked down by armed helicopters in the sky, not to mention that the combat teams hiding in the tunnels have lost contact one by one and were all killed by flamethrowers and those special rockets.

Massacre, this was simply a one-sided massacre.

Moreover, if we don't take down the armed helicopters that are concentrating fire on defense tonight, such a massacre will continue tomorrow.

So when Taiquidda gave the order, he did not hesitate at all and directly mobilized the armed personnel scattered outside the city to prepare for an attack on the village camp.

The main reason for not transferring people from the city is that we are afraid of being photographed by drones in the sky.

But if there are drones over Kidar, does that mean there are no village camps 20 kilometers away from the city?

The Sparrowhawk B for concentrated fire defense was launched into the air after nightfall and has been cruising over the camp, monitoring any abnormal heat sources within a radius of 10 kilometers.

Then we found four 4mm multiple rocket launchers towed by pickup trucks.

The theoretical range of non-patented pirated products is just over 8 kilometers, and the actual distance should be controlled within 5 kilometers at best.

If there were no reconnaissance and strike drones, a close salvo would simply fire all 48 rockets into the open-air, shelterless village camp.

The vehicle can still hold on, and the helicopter body is fine, but if the tail rotor and hub structure are damaged by fragments, there is no way it can take off and fight.

So now that these people are here, don’t even think about leaving.

"Hey~~"

Without waiting for the sneaky group to stop the car, Sparrowhawk B fired a captured Spike LR. The 14-kilogram projectile dragged a long optical fiber towards the leading armed pickup truck.

"Boom~~"

The flames of the explosion lit up in the dark night, causing all drivers to step on their brakes hard, and the remaining three pickup trucks all stopped.

"It's a drone. Damn it. They have a drone over here in the camp too. Quickly shoot it down."

"Hey~~"

"Boom~~"

The commander had just finished assigning the mission when the second missile sent him flying.

After clearing its bombs, the Sparrowhawk B quickly increased its flying altitude and escaped above the firing height of the portable air defense missiles, and the following things became easy.

"Dong~~"

The SH-1 gun crew on duty fired a 155mm illumination shell, and the sky became bright the next second.

The two surviving pickup trucks had no way to escape at this point.

"Woo~woo~~"

Two FPV drones with missiles drove out of the camp one after the other and flew towards the remaining targets at the speed of a racing car.

"Boom~Boom~~"

There were two consecutive violent explosions, and without Xia Yu who was in deep sleep knowing, the people left behind in the camp easily resolved the crisis.

"To glider, this is meerkat, requesting air support."

The explosion was like a signal, and the militants in the city also launched a night attack. The Sea Eagle crew shot down three AR-3s in one breath. Hans and his men were in urgent need of assistance.

"Glider received, will be there in five minutes!"

"Wow~Wow~~"

Andre started the helicopter at the fastest speed, took off on the spot and flew rapidly towards Kidar.

First, two HOT-3 missiles took out two armed pickup trucks with UB32A rocket pods installed in the rear buckets at a long distance. The Tuaregs also disliked the S-5 rockets because of their weak power and poor accuracy, but they were still good for ground fire coverage.

Unfortunately, the anti-tank missile hit the target before half of the 32 rockets were fired.

"Dong~dong~dong~~"

The roar of the Rh202 cannon on the side of the aircraft sounded soon after. Its accuracy was not as good as the 30mm cannon of the Longbow Crossbow, but if it was just for night fire support, a large quantity would be enough.

However, firing the machine gun inevitably requires lowering the flight altitude.

"咻~咻~咻~~"

The armed Fennec Fox was locked by four or five portable anti-aircraft missiles at the same time while firing, and the Red Cheetah's dual 35mm anti-aircraft guns below responded immediately.

"Dong~dong~dong~~"

"Puff~Puff~Puff~Boom~"

These missiles were destroyed by dense tungsten balls before they could even break through Mach 1, and the coordinated air defense of Azawad was once again in vain.

The Red Cheetah, which had been resupplied twice, was spraying ammunition indiscriminately, aiming to shoot down all flying objects in the sky above Kidar that were not from its own camp.

Anyway, there are Chinese people who are willing to pay for the 2000mm programmable ammunition priced at 35 euros per round.

In addition to air defense, the Cheetah A9 lowered its muzzle several times and, under the guidance of the Wu-2, attacked multiple soft targets that were not visible at a distance of 500 meters.

It’s not that the other three infantry fighting vehicles can’t do this job, but how can a single-barreled weapon have as high a firepower density as a double-barreled one?
Just like that, leaving behind more than 200 bodies, the militants returned to where they came from.

This was a failed night attack, both inside and outside the city, and when Xia Yu learned the details, it was already the next morning.

"Was it lively last night?"

"Yes, Boss. They want to relieve the pressure today by launching a surprise attack, but they don't have enough strength to shoot down our armed helicopters."

Rob, who was on duty, spoke up.

If the other party had left a few BM-21s for a surprise attack last night, Xia Yu would not have been so careless and just fell asleep.

Unfortunately, they had destroyed all the stocks in Kidar area before. Even if there were a few vehicles left, they were in the direction of Tinkebatu and were blocked by government forces, so they could not be transported here at this moment.

As for the genuine Ace Ace in the Middle East region, they have learned how to use drones, and the drone jammers in the village camps are always turned on. When they fly in, the screen goes black and there are no blind spots at all.

When doing battlefield business, safety always comes first, and Xia Yu has never relaxed in this regard.

"Dip~dip~dip~~"

Suddenly, his satellite phone rang.

I picked it up and looked at the saved number, and it turned out to be the old king.

(End of this chapter)