Chapter 344 05.0343: "Operation Behind Enemy Lines (Part )"

A new batch of Astra Militarum reserves rushed into the pass in Chimaera infantry fighting vehicles and arrived at the front line where the fighting was intense and tragic, replacing the damaged mechanized line soldiers and part of the heavy dragoon troops.

They were the grenadiers from the 88th Infantry Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, and the Highland Ranger Company of the 42nd British Highland Guards, the 'anvil' guarding the flank of the st Brigade.

The Hyberian Britons (Irish) wearing top hats and the Highland Britons (Scottish) wearing black berets and peculiar dark green plaid skirts, launched a devastating attack on the rebel front to the tune of "Highland Britons Warriors" played by bagpipers on the battlefield.

This combined commando force was Sir Wellesley's trump card.

Just looking at these tall and mighty men who are not afraid of sacrifice and rushing towards you with such momentum is enough to make ordinary people's hair stand on end.

Especially those short-skirted hunks from the 42nd Highland Guards.

They are both a solid anvil that is good at defending and a fierce hammer that is good at breaking through the battle line.

Even the bagpipe players in their army were not afraid of the flying bullets on the battlefield. They puffed up their cheeks calmly, played bagpipe music on the battlefield, and even rushed to the front.

The Highland warriors following behind the bagpipers had terrifying indigo stripes painted on their faces, a characteristic of Highland Britain's cultural tradition. This formed a sharp contrast with the elegant and respectable red British military uniforms on their bodies and the strange plaid skirts on their bodies.

Armed with sharp broadswords, demolition axes and grenades, they mercilessly chopped the enemies into flying human fragments. After charging and killing, they were covered in blood and looked like terrible ghosts rushing out of hell.

From a distance, they looked indigo and red, and they let out deafening and rough war roars in battle.

The roar actually caused a serious shock to the morale of the rebel troops that were attacked by them, and they fled. This rare and shocking dramatic scene caused the noble ladies who were tasting the delicious pudding to applaud and marvel.

Horatio, who was in the dark vision, had no time to pay attention to the front battlefield. He was closely watching the several infiltration troops he was in charge of on the war sand table.

As the holder of the Hand of Command, he has a unique advantage over others in the Dark Sight.

With the help of his fingertips, he can adjust the perspective of the battlefield at will, shrinking it to become a strategic battlefield covered with military cards, or zooming it in to see the specific battle scenes of every class and every person from a 360-degree perspective, covering every detail.

If necessary, you can also use your command hand in small-scale tactical operations to plan the specific combat positions of the soldiers.

This familiar sense of operation reminded Horatio of "Wargame: Red Dragon" and "Advance Order" that he played in his previous life.

[Shit, I wonder if the new DLC Northern Army Group that lazy dog ​​Eugen was taking so long to work on has been updated after being in this world for so long.] Thinking of this, he felt a little nostalgic, and suddenly thought of it.

Horatio took a deep breath and returned his thoughts to the sand table, staring intently at the team's progress and the vision they explored.

The fighting on the front line was in full swing with gunfire flying and shouts of killing everywhere, but around the infiltration and reconnaissance unit there was a rare silence in stark contrast.

Everyone was carefully advancing and scouting along the patrol route planned by Horatio. Along the way, they had seen several positions destroyed by death strike missiles.

The artillery pieces on the entire position were baked into a greasy black-gray color, and the ground was covered with charred debris. They were the artillery operators who were carbonized by the heat wave of the explosion.

Several of the locations marked by Louise had been scouted and did have positions, but they had all been destroyed.

The reconnaissance team began to move towards the slope that Louise specifically mentioned, and everyone once again entered a patch of tall cash crops. These sturdy crops, which looked like green onions and were two people tall, were enough to conceal the scouts' tracks.

Although the reconnaissance team was protected by tall bushes of cash crops, no one knew what was behind the cover. However, Horatio, who could see the terrain clearly, could ensure that the reconnaissance team would not go astray.

With the help of Bird's-Eye Sight, Horatio can quickly spot the enemy, but this is also based on the condition that the unit has a view of the target.

The only sound around was the rustling of animals caused by the breeze, and even the sound of breathing was almost inaudible. However, Leidos suddenly raised his hand and signaled the people next to him to stop moving forward.

Captain Sharp stopped immediately. After looking around, the rough man set his eyes on the feet of his own shoes. Above his black leather shoes, a silver thread that reflected a faint light was particularly conspicuous against the dark background of the shoe surface.

"S-3 tripwire mine." The rough officer slowly squatted down, put the bayonet and tactical knife together to form a pair of demolition scissors, and cut the silver wire gently.

This was a danger that the war sand table could not warn of, and could only rely on experienced soldiers to discover and deal with it themselves. Everyone perked up, their expressions under the masks were solemn, but also a little excited.

This type of mine is an S-shaped jumping mine commonly used by the Astra Militarum. As long as the fuse is tripped, an anti-personnel mine will jump out of the soil and explode in the air at a height of about three feet, using air-burst fragments to pose a terrible and deadly threat to lightly armored infantry within a range of fifty yards.

But this also means that there must be high-value targets nearby that the rebels need to protect, otherwise no one would lay mines in the farmland casually.

The Hell's vanguards turned on the trap-searching devices on their helmets one after another. Under the positioning of the photosensitive reflection waves, the silver threads were very conspicuous.

The Assault Type Heavy Power Armor was designed as an engineering support vanguard from the beginning, and it comes with many engineering components, so clearing mines is not a difficult task.

In about five minutes, a safe path was cleared and the 27 jumping mine fuses were removed silently without causing any noise.

Soon after they advanced further, they heard voices shouting.

"Pay attention! After their attacks are thwarted, those Corpse King lackeys will soon call for air strikes from the Imperial Navy. In order to avoid accidental injuries, they dare not use carpet bombing and can only provide fire support close to the ground. Shoot them all down this time!"

"Ammunition! Bring a few more boxes over!"

"Scout, debug the anti-aircraft radar!"

"Remember, if you can't take it down this time, the first group to fight in the blood pit duel tonight will be your anti-aircraft detection group!"

"Yes, sir!"

Hiding in the crops, Leidos used the reconnaissance goggles to see the anti-aircraft positions arranged in a trapezoidal shape not far away.

Everything he witnessed was immediately perceived by Horatio.

Horatio locked onto the enemy's artillery position and zoomed in to the maximum, able to see the situation there as if he were actually there.

In front are four scattered and separately arranged towed Hydra anti-aircraft guns, and two mobile defense self-propelled Hydra anti-aircraft guns.

Behind the trapezoidal Hydra position is the earthshaker position. The artillerymen are prying open the ammunition boxes one by one, which are filled with air-burst ammunition and high-explosive ammunition for anti-aircraft use.

Just as Louise expected, there was another small group of people setting up an air search radar on the top of the small slope.

The long and thick pipeline was dragged from the air search augury radar device all the way to the integrated fire support position.

Then it split into two, one branch connected to the display and control console of the Hydra anti-aircraft artillery position, and the other branch connected to the display and control console of the earth-shaking artillery position.

The principle is to capture and locate the aircraft's position and speed through the airborne bird radar, and then send the parameters to the display and control console, which will calculate the locking advance.

The cooperation of the two is a terrible threat to any target flying in the sky. It can increase the hit rate of anti-aircraft artillery against near-ground aircraft from nine out of ten to nine out of ten.

These equipments, which were still being debugged and installed, had just been pulled over from the former Astra Militarum warehouse on this planet. It was obvious that the rebels stationed on Mount Montachia had played out the last trump card they had.

"Captain Sharp, have one squad of riflemen stay here to guard the artillery position, and the other squad and the Hell Scouts occupy the hillside first to destroy the enemy's anti-aircraft radar!"

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(British Highlanders uniform reference)
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