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Chapter 550: All Destroyed
"The enemy is fleeing. We can no longer contain them. Should we give chase?"

In the command room, Chen Chen's brows instantly knitted together when he heard the report from the battlefield ahead.

This attack can be said to have gone extremely smoothly. Intelligence, equipment, and tactics were completely suppressed, and an encirclement had been formed. The opponent did not launch any effective counterattack, and not even one of our key equipment was lost. It was definitely a crushing victory.

And now, the feedback we got from Li Bang was that the enemy broke through the encirclement and ran away?
How can this be?

"What's going on? The helicopters and armored vehicles are here, how can they get away?"

"Suicidal dispersed breakout!"

"The enemy's command system has completely collapsed. They have no intention of fighting anymore!"

"These people are completely crazy, every one of them is running in a different direction!"

"There are JD elements everywhere who are willing to self-destruct. Our firepower is completely tied down and our firepower efficiency is very low!"

"The hole is too big, we can't close it!"

Hearing Li Bang's words, Chen Chen took a deep breath.

What he worried about most happened.

In fact, no matter on which battlefield, what the advantaged side worries most is not the opponent's dying counterattack, but the collapse of the troops after losing effective command.

Because compared to an organized and well-directed fight to the death, the troubles and losses caused by the scattered soldiers are much greater.

If you want to annihilate them, you will have to allocate a large number of troops to follow the direction of their escape to pursue and clear them out. This will inevitably put each pursuit team in an isolated and helpless situation. Once the enemy regroups and launches a counterattack, the offensive and defensive situation will change immediately.

Casualties on our side are inevitable, but in contrast, the benefits of pursuit are minimal.

Of course, if we follow this logic and the old saying “Don’t chase a desperate enemy”, wouldn’t it be enough to just give up the pursuit and let them escape?

In some cases, this is certainly possible.

For example, when two countries are at war, if the army of one side has been defeated and cannot reorganize and fight back in a short period of time, they will just run away.

It doesn't matter if I don't pursue or destroy them, because by the time their higher-level commanders come to their senses and reorganize them, I may have already captured a large area of ​​​​territory and achieved actual control. By that time, it will not matter much whether you resist or not.

But the problem is that this is not the situation the Tiger Corps is facing now.

ISIS is not a well-trained army, and the battle between the two sides is not a battle between "countries".

The essence of the war on terror is not much different from the war on banditry. As long as the bandits are not completely eliminated, they will rapidly multiply like cancer cells and re-form their scale!

Therefore, before the battle began, Chen Chen had already predicted the possible outcome.

He delayed the helicopter's attack time, controlled the combat distance of the armored assault company, and even reserved reserves for the four infantry companies.

But the problem was that he had no way of truly grasping every detail on the battlefield. He could not have imagined that at the critical moment when the friendly forces were about to close the gap, the other side actually used a self-destruct tactic that completely violated common sense on the battlefield.

Who could they bomb?

Objectively speaking, it was impossible for them to cause too much effective casualties, otherwise the key information in Li Bang’s report would not have been just “cannot catch” but “cannot keep”.

However, such actions did cause great trouble to the formation of the encirclement.

After all, Suhail's Tiger Corps is not a truly elite unit as well-trained as the Dongfeng Corps. In the previous brainwashing, they may have indeed formed the inertia of executing orders, but this inertia is based on the premise that the impact of the real battlefield on them does not exceed a certain threshold.

Bullets, artillery shells, and explosions are unlikely to exceed this threshold, but a missile, a heavy bomb, or more weapons that exceed their cognitive limits will definitely exceed it.

Similarly, a large number of horrific scenes of human self-explosion also crossed this threshold, causing the Tiger Corps' command efficiency to collapse to a certain extent.

Chen Chen could even imagine the current scene on the battlefield.

After seeing the first explosion, the soldiers of the Tiger Corps may not have reacted yet. They just instinctively pointed their guns in the direction of the explosion, trying to find the source of the explosion.

Immediately afterwards, more explosions occurred at closer ranges, and the scene of blood and flesh flying everywhere appeared in front of everyone for the first time.

At this time, some people should have fallen into panic, but under the suppression of grassroots commanders, their actions could still be barely kept in order.

However, everything became different after the first round of casualties caused by the self-explosion occurred.

Most people will lose their minds due to fear. They will instinctively search for high-risk targets that pose the greatest threat to them, and because of the randomness of the attack, the time they spend searching for the target will be greatly prolonged.

In many cases, several or even dozens of people would aim at a target at the same time. The bullets they fired might smash the JD members into pieces before they exploded, and the momentum of casualties on their side would be curbed immediately. But this also meant
An extremely serious waste of firepower.

At this point, the situation of "too many holes" reported by Li Bang appeared.

Without effective restraint on the soldiers of the Tiger Corps, it would be impossible to accurately plug every gap!
Even with helicopters and armored vehicles, the efficiency of blocking and intercepting will be quite low!

The thread was clear. Chen Chen thought for a moment and then gave the order:

"Dispatch two hundred men from the 3rd and 4th companies to use vehicles to maneuver to the periphery of the battlefield to pursue and intercept. The rest of the teams remain stationary."

"Let those who get away run, and try to destroy their large forces!"

"understand!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Bang answered immediately.

Based on Chen Chen's order, as a front-line battlefield commander, Li Bang made new optimizations to this order within the scope of his authority.

He transferred the two helicopters hovering in the sky away from the battlefield to participate in the pursuit, because he knew that at this time in the main battlefield, the necessity of aerial firepower was no longer high. Instead of wasting it there, it would be better to let it do something more cost-effective!

The order was quickly transmitted to various combat units, and at this time, the situation on the battlefield changed again due to Li Bang's adjustments.

As the two helicopters left, the psychological pressure on ISIS was significantly reduced, small-scale orderly command began to appear, and they even launched a small climax of counterattacks.

Two machine gun pickups were destroyed by ISIS rockets, and the remaining enemy artillery also found the howitzers that had not been destroyed and fired a round of salvos at the nearby Tiger Corps position.
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However, there were only three shells fired in this round of salvos.

Such a counterattack was too weak for the Tiger Corps, which had already gained the upper hand.

Fierce retaliation came immediately. The muzzle of the 122mm self-propelled artillery quickly turned and accurately threw the anti-personnel shells in the turret at the location of the enemy artillery.

After a loud bang, ISIS's artillery fell silent again, and the elite JD militia, which had been organized with great difficulty, was hit by a round of covering attacks from automatic grenades!

The grenades fell like hail, destroying the enemy's last psychological defense.

The morale that had been slightly restored after the helicopter left was completely gone at this moment.

Because they found that even without helicopters and air units, their enemies still had an overwhelming advantage! At this moment, all struggles were meaningless.

On the battlefield, JD elements were fleeing everywhere in the mountains and plains. The large-scale offensive that they had organized with great difficulty had in fact been completely thwarted.

After confirming that it was impossible to wipe out all these JD members at once, Chen Chen immediately issued new orders.

"Dongfeng Corps Group 1 and Group 2, withdraw from the battlefield."

"Hand over command of Rainbow 2 to search for high-value enemy targets."

"Their commander hasn't shown up yet, find a way to find him!"

"understand!"

After the order was issued, two groups of the Dongfeng Corps took immediate action.

They withdrew from their positions as quickly as possible and hid in the designated evacuation point on the original battlefield.

Their purpose was not to evacuate. After circling a few hundred meters to the east, the team successfully established communication with the drone and began a large-scale search with the help of the drone.

Of course, in this situation, it is extremely difficult to find the opponent's high-level targets. The enemies are all pigs with guns. How can you judge which pig is more valuable?

Maybe we can only rely on luck and try to find those small, subtle differences in each group of fleeing militants.

Chen Chen didn't hold out much hope for this, but he was going to give it a try anyway.

At the same time, Ivan in the command room was monitoring the signals coming from radar stations in various regions of Syria.

According to their prediction, this group of militants could not have been without air support because they had already been dispatched before.

The reason why it hasn't arrived yet must be due to a discrepancy in intelligence or a mistake in decision-making.

Well, now that the battle is coming to an end, the expected air support should be arriving anyway.
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And this is indeed the case.

"Border radar station reports, high-speed target detected!"

"Lost signal!"

"The other party used stronger electromagnetic interference!"

“It’s all noise!”

"This appears to be the jamming signature of the EA-18!"

coming.

Chen Chen's heart suddenly sank.

EA-18, if Ivan’s judgment is correct, it means that the Americans have once again stepped into this muddy water!
"All ground-based air defense units, get ready."

"Missile air defense vehicles, 630 retreat to a safe location, actively shut down radar, and wait for an opportunity!"

"Aerial units, charge in the opposite direction of the enemy's attack. Remain silent and find a way to escape!"

"understand!"

At this moment, Chen Chen was extremely nervous.

Because he knew that in the face of absolute power, everything he did was meaningless and even ridiculous!
In the skies of Syria, or even in the skies of the world, who can defeat the EA-18G?

That thing is the epitome of the world's most advanced electronic countermeasure technology. Judging from the war history of the past decade, every time it enters the battlefield, it basically means the demise of a country's regime!

Its true nemesis would not be born until nearly ten years later in that magical land in the north.

And now, such nemesis obviously does not exist.

At this point in 2011, no country had the ability to destroy that small plane.

Yes, maybe through some means, you can shoot down a Blackbird reconnaissance plane traveling at a speed of more than Mach 3 at an altitude of 18 meters. However, no matter what weapon you use, it is impossible to shoot down the EA-, which is so obvious that you can even see it with your eyes, without resolving the strong electromagnetic interference!
This is the real horror of "electromagnetic dominance". When it comes, you can only hope that your air defense forces or the fighter jets already in the air will be lucky enough to find it within visual range, and then use rockets and aircraft cannons to deal with it.
Chen Chen stared at the screen nervously, fearing that in the next second, even his communication with the front line would be cut off due to strong electromagnetic interference.
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However, a low-probability event that was not unexpected but was certainly beyond his plan happened.

Ten minutes passed, and according to the flight speed, the EA-18G, which should have arrived at the battlefield long ago, did not show up at all, the range of electromagnetic interference did not expand, and Ahashiri did not suffer any air attack from the enemy.

Chen Chen suddenly felt uneasy, and along with this uneasiness came a sense of relief.

Coming towards me.

Knowing that their main force had been mobilized to the vicinity of Raqqa, the enemy still carried out the attack on Tabqa Air Base!

This is the only answer!
"Everyone start evacuating!"

"Enter the underground bunker!"

"Li Bang, you will take over the command!"

"After the attack is over, I will get back in touch with you as soon as possible!"

Once the order was given, everyone in the command center took immediate action.

Just like they had rehearsed several times before, a group of fake targets destined to be sacrificed were released, and then the real command core entered the underground bunker that had been prepared long ago.

Two minutes later, the air strike that Chen Chen was "looking forward to" arrived.

At the Tabka Air Force Base, the radars and anti-aircraft missile positions that were forcibly turned on were destroyed one by one, and the convoy leaving the base was completely blown to pieces by several missiles.

Afterwards, under the cover of EA-18G, more than a dozen fighter jets that participated in the air strike leisurely evacuated the battlefield.

When Chen Chen returned to the ground again, what he saw was an "airport" that had been completely destroyed and turned into ruins.

The other side never paid any attention to the Syrian fighter jets that were obviously within the detection range of the early warning aircraft, because they had no way to land.

In other words, even if they managed to make an emergency landing, they would not be able to take off and fight again.

Because Chen Chen received the latest information.

In the past 30 minutes, from Damascus to Aleppo, from Latakia to Tabqa, all military and civilian airports in Syria that are capable of taking off fighter jets have been shut down.
All destroyed.

Not a single one is left.

(End of this chapter)