The offensive operation went south very smoothly.

Although the harshness of the Vanluo Desert is greater than that of the Mua Desert, especially in the second half of the year, sandstorms are very common and often last for several days. Not to mention people, even camels, known as the "Desert Boat", are difficult to survive in such a harsh environment. However, for the Fifth Land Warrior Division who has experienced the test of the Posar Bay War, the 200-kilometer field marching from Balmer to Trad is not difficult.

Of course, luck is also very important.

At least in the past few days, there was no other discomfort in the Fanluo Desert except for the huge temperature difference between day and night.

The assault troops commanded by Liu Zunshan set off on the night of the 13th. By the early morning of the 14th, they had already traveled 100 kilometers to reach near Gilha in the lower reaches of the Luni River.

This is a small town located in the desert, to be precise, another oasis under the Looney River.

Because it is an inland river, the Luni River will be cut off when the dry season arrives. The several ancient trade roads passing through the lower reaches of the Luni River can only rely on a few oasis along the way. Gilha is on the ancient trade road and is also the only water source within a radius of hundreds of kilometers.

Even now, Gilha's status has not been reduced.

During peacetime, caravans have always traveled between the Vanluo Kingdom and Pakistan Railway.

For the residents of this "paradise", the national borders are obviously not as clear as those on the map.

The ancient business road that has existed for thousands of years is still prosperous, and before the vanguard of the Fifth Land Warrior Division arrived, the locals did not realize that they were about to be affected by the war.

However, this is not a bad thing.

At least when the vanguard arrived, the local residents did not resist, and even regarded the tanks and tanks that suddenly appeared outside the town as a threat.

The troops sent by Liu Zunshan to maintain order were still watched by a group of children outside the town.

The town's police station, including the director, surrendered after the patrol arrived, handed over three antique Lee Enfield rifles and a revolver with only 4 bullets left. Then he took off his uniform and went home.

The assault troops only stayed in Gilha for a few hours, refueled the tanks and tanks and conducted necessary inspections before setting off again.

If you want to say it, the biggest trouble is actually logistics support.

Although the assault troops are marching on the road, the road conditions are very bad. We must also consider the supply convoys that follow up behind. To be precise, they are wheeled vehicles with relatively poor off-road capabilities, especially transport trucks. Therefore, the main battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles of the assault troops do not occupy the highway. They march in the deserts on both sides of the road almost the entire journey, which inevitably consumes more fuel.

Strictly speaking, the fuel consumed by outdoor marching is several times that of road marching!

The key is that the assault troops must maintain a good combat state and cannot replenish the fuel after burning out all the fuel. At most, half of it must stop. Otherwise, after encountering the enemy, the tanks and tanks will lose their combat capabilities because they have no fuel.

That's why the assault troops stopped in Gilha for a few hours.

After that, it was still a smooth journey.

By the afternoon of the 14th, the assault troops had already reached the north of Trad and stopped in the western vein of the Alavalli Ridge, to be precise, the north of the hilly area south of the Vanro Desert.

This place is less than 20 kilometers away from Trad.

While Liu Zunshan was preparing for the attack, he also sent a reconnaissance platoon to Trad to investigate the defensive deployment of the Fan army.

Actually, this is a bit redundant.

The information provided by the Air Force is correct. The Fantasy army stationed in Trad lacks armored forces such as tanks and tanks, and does not build a defensive position outside the town.

It is said to be a garrison, but it is actually more like a public security force.

Relatively speaking, the minefield deployed along the highway poses a greater threat.

When the reconnaissance troops tried to get closer, they accidentally entered the minefield, and a wheeled armored vehicle pressed the mine. Fortunately, it was an anti-personnel mine, which did not blow up the bottom armor of the armored vehicle. The three officers and soldiers in the armored vehicle had no other serious injuries except hearing damage and mild concussion.

However, this is also expected.

That's why the first person to fight after nightfall was to follow the assault troops and had 4 BZ-68SD rocket minesweepers.

DZ-68SD is actually a 12-link guide rail rocket launcher installed on the chassis of the BZ-68 armored conveyor vehicle. When using a special minesweeping rocket, only 3 volleys at a time can clear a safety passage of 200 meters within 800 meters in front of it. In theory, a row of four minesweeping vehicles can open a safety passage of more than 12 kilometers in a length of 15 minutes. If the width of the safety passage needs to be expanded, the four minesweeping vehicles can also work at the same time. Which minesweeping tactic is used depends on the specific situation, such as the size of the troops, or the speed of the assault march you want to achieve.

The most prominent advantage of clearing landmines through blasting is its high efficiency, and there are also disadvantages, that is, it may not be able to remove all landmines.

To this end, it is also necessary to install minesweeping bracelets on the main battle tank that takes the lead.

When designing any main battle tank, the installation of minesweeping bracelets will be considered, and bolts are left on the bottom armor of the vehicle body to connect the minesweeping bracelets.

In addition, battalion-level armored troops are generally equipped with several mine-sweeping bracelets.

To be said, mine-sweeping bracelets have become a "must-have" plug-in equipment for main battle tanks, and their value is not only used to clear mines.

In the late stage of the Posa Bay War, especially when entering the urban attack stage, the soldiers on the front line discovered that the main battle tank equipped with minesweeping bracelets was a powerful tool to eliminate barricades. It played an irreplaceable role in the rapid advancement of battles, and at some point it was even the only choice.

That's why the two armored battalions of the assault troops each prepared 8 minesweeping bracelets.

The next offensive action is not difficult.

As the engineers cleared the obstacles, the armored troops quickly passed through the minefield and in less than 3 hours it advanced to the outskirts of Trad.

Although the subsequent troops have not yet followed, the high-explosive bombs fired by tank guns are more than enough to deal with several fortifications in the hasty facilities of the Fan army.

The key point is that the Fan army has no anti-armored weapon that can deal with ZT-99AL.

Not to mention anti-tank missiles, there are not even a few rocket launchers.

What's more, the Marines' tanks opened fire more than 1,000 meters away, and did not get close to the defensive position of the Fan army, so they did not give the Fan army a chance to counterattack.

As more than a dozen ZT-99ALs were lined up and advancing towards the city, the Fan army launched a white flag that surrendered.

Interestingly, the officers who were commanding the battle on the front line were a little worried and did not immediately accept the surrender of the Fan army, and even called on the Fan army to stay on the position.

The main thing is that the infantry in the coordinated combat is still assisting engineers in the back to clear the mine clearance and clear the obstacles caused by mine clearance.

The key is that it will definitely damage the road surface while blasting and sweeping, causing huge trouble for the wheeled vehicles following behind.

The infantry arrived before the Fan army surrendered.

I originally planned to occupy Trad in one night, but the battle was over before the early morning of the 15th.

Of course, this is not a bad thing.

In the next few hours, the officers and soldiers who had fought for two days could have a good sleep and start a new journey in full spirit after dawn.

However, the telegram sent by Hou Chensheng made the assault troops stay in Traddo for one day.

It was not that the main force of the Fifth Land Warrior Division was too slow to advance, but that the assault troops ran too fast and encountered some unexpected troubles.

In Gilha, the main force of the 5th Marine Division was not able to obtain enough freshwater!

According to the plan, about 800 tons of fresh water will be extracted from three deep wells in Girha. The staff of the Front Command made this judgment based on the average water effluent of the three deep wells in the dry season over the past decade. The problem is that this is not the lowest value.

This year's situation is very special.

Affected by the war, especially in the upper reaches of the Luni River, hundreds of thousands of additional Fantasy troops were consumed, so the downstream of the Luni River was about 20 days earlier than in previous years. As a result, the effluent of the three deep wells in Girha was much lower than the average in previous years.

Before the main force of the 5th Marine Division arrived, the engineering troops left in Girha extracted only 500 tons of fresh water.

In addition, some need to be left for local residents, and purification is required to filter out impurities. Only 400 tons can be provided to the main force.

Only half the plan.

Then, another 400 tons have to be transported from the rear.

But the problem is that the four combat brigades of the Fifth Land Force Division must replenish at least 2,000 tons of fresh water before arriving at Trad, and the planned transportation supply is 1,200 tons. The supply location is Gilha. After replenishing the supply here, you have to go to Trad before the next replenishment operation will be carried out.

In order to transport 1,200 tons of fresh water, 60 tankers with a capacity of 20 tons were used.

If you want to say, these are all the tankers you can find.

Other tankers are transporting fuel to combat troops.

Then, if you want to transport an additional 400 tons of fresh water, you can only use other vehicles, such as heavy helicopters.

This is how Hou Chensheng arranged it to let the heavy helicopters originally used to transport food, ammunition and other materials fly an additional flight to airlift 400 tons of fresh water to Gilha.

Because there was no extra fresh water in Barmel, he had to fly back to Hydebara. The round-trip range was more than 600 kilometers, and the loading and unloading time required, so it took at least 10 hours to make a delay, and the propulsion speed of the main force of the Fifth Land Warrior Division was thus slowed down by more than 10 hours.

In fact, the delay is more than that.

While the main force of the Fifth Land Warrior Division was waiting for Tamsui to replenish supplies, [Literature Museum www.wxguan.vip] On the night of the 14th, the battle over Deaeger also started.

After the "March of Suffering" on the 2nd day, the 41st Army of the Southern Vatican Army Group set out from Udaipur finally arrived in Deaegel.

To be precise, it was about 30 kilometers south of Deaeger that he encountered the armored forces of the Imperial Marines.

In fact, the Fan army got into the ambush circle.

Although he planned to fight the decisive battle with the Fan army at Deager, he never thought about going to Ding Zhennan or grassroots officers and soldiers who had to rely on their positions to fight defensive wars.

Even defense is mainly based on mobile warfare.

There were only 7 battalions left in Deaeger, and there were only 4 combat battalions, with less than 3,500 officers and soldiers, and only more than 2,000 combat personnel.

In contrast, the field airport in the southern suburbs of Deaogle covers an area of ​​10 square kilometers.

It can be seen that if it is a passive defense, it cannot be defended at all!

The key point is that this time the main force of the southern faction of the Fan army came, not only with a force of more than 200,000, but also with a large number of heavy weapons.

According to the information provided by the Air Force, this Fan army had hundreds of large-caliber artillery.

Although most of them are old artillery decades ago, and their performance in all aspects cannot be compared with today's main artillery, with its huge number, it can still pose a serious threat to the imperial army guarding Deaeger, especially the artillery deployed near field airports.

Affected by this, the enemy cannot be approached.

It is precisely because after obtaining the consent of the Front Command, Colonel Peng Yuhui, who stayed to command the battle, decided to fight an ambush south of Deaeger, to defeat the vigor of the Fan army, block the Fan army far enough from the field airport, and then consider position defense.

To this end, Peng Yuhui used 2 armored battalions and 1 mechanical stairs battalion.

The main force is two armored battalions, and the Mechanical Battalion is the reserve team.
To be continued...