Chapter 4708: Go all out

Lin Rui and others are not passively defending. In addition to defending several enemy key attack positions, they also built a position on the town and the central highland position, respectively named zone d and zone e. Once the front is lost, these two positions can continue to be held by the terrain.
And the actuary Jiangan also plans to build a third artillery position in the northern Wadi Torham Valley. Due to the rapid advancement of the Orumi Federal Army, the personnel, equipment, and materials they originally planned to transport to the rear were transferred to another nearby town.
Although the Orumi Federal Forces organized a full-scale attack in an attempt to cut off reinforcements and supplies to the militia from the rear, the Trident Company’s material support team used multiple short-distance transfers, which made the Oumi Federal Army’s blockade not effective. ideal.
Because the 2nd company under General Quinn suffered a devastating blow in the previous battle, it has been unable to continue to defend Area A. Therefore, the position in area a is now fully taken over by the Trident mercenaries.
Moreover, the operations of these mercenaries in area a must be carried out with almost no friendly cover.
Lincoln is the former O2 team B group leader and an outstanding professional soldier. Served as the commander of the reconnaissance company directly under the Marine Corps. All the responsibility for the defense of the mid lane lies on his shoulders.
He realized that facing the fire of the Orumi Federal Army, he had an advantage, and it would be difficult to stick to combat. He advocated relying on favorable terrain and strong fortifications to implement defense in depth.
However, General Quinn believed that this was a timid approach. He should try his best to prevent the enemy from coming up and insist on destroying the enemy before the battle. In the end, the actuary made a compromise plan, focusing on defense in depth and supplemented by flank defense.
General Quinn’s troops built strong fortifications along their positions for defense; the main mercenary forces were concentrated between area a and area d for defense in depth.
The actuary Jiangan is determined to build a strong defensive group of area a and area d, with area d as the core position, two positions as the main defensive zone, and in area c, which is suitable for charging, a strong dark fort is the backbone of the defense. position.
Their fortifications have been built several months in advance. Most of them are based on underground tunnels. The dark fortresses are organically combined with natural rocks and are connected by traffic trenches. Artillery positions were mostly built semi-underground, which greatly improved their survivability under heavy bombardment.
The artillery and communication network are well protected, and the tunnels built around the town have as many as 6-7 floors! In view of the coordinated combat characteristics of the Orumi Federal Army's armored infantry, actuaries laid a large number of mines in the depths of the position, and light and heavy artillery formed a dense firepower network.
The configuration of all weapons and shooting targets have been accurately calculated, which can conceal themselves and maximize damage to the enemy. The only downside is that their artillery is still insufficient.
Due to lack of time, when the Orumi Federal Army launched an offensive, a rocket battalion of General Hassan did not have time to pull over.
In view of the characteristics of these militia forces, Lin Rui also gave them special regulations. Including some tactics such as close-range shooting, mobile defense, decoy, etc. These painstaking efforts have indeed caused great difficulties to the Orumi Federal Army, making this battle the cruelest, arduous, and tragic battle in the Battle of Western Sahara so far.
The Orumi Federal Army’s attack on these militia units has been in full swing since the 22nd, and the focus has also shifted from the previous area a to area c. As of the 24th, there have been more than 20 shelling attacks, which consumed a lot of shells. But the Orumi Federal Army's intensive firepower bombardment failed to completely smash the militia's defense line.
One is because the fortifications of the militiamen were built as soon as they were mentioned, and many of them were semi-underground concrete fortifications, which were extremely strong and had limited shelling effects.
Moreover, those cunning mercenaries can always repair quickly after the artillery attack, and after initially grasping the powerful firepower of the Orumi Federal Army, they devote themselves to building fortifications with tunnels as the backbone.
The Red Baron was quite dissatisfied with this. Although he knew that these militias were actually the reserve forces of the previous Moroccan army, they were actually well-trained veterans. But it is still unacceptable for the war to be fought like this.
To this end, he specially met with the commander of the Orumi Federal Forces-Colonel Hessel.
Hesser hesitated and said, "This Odarat itself is a strategic town. Both Morocco and the People's Front of Western Sahara have operated here. It is the most difficult town to capture.
Now these militias have spent a lot of money to rebuild these fortifications, coupled with their defensive firepower configuration, formed a very efficient defense system. I am afraid we will pay a lot of casualties if we want to win here. "
"It's about the same as I expected, but we can't hold back. In view of the great strategic value of Odalat for this war, I order it to be taken at any cost." The Red Baron glanced at Commander Hessel official. "If you can't, I will give your command to those who do."
Hessel had no choice but to fight for his life and take down Odalat.
In the early morning of the 26th, the federal forces from Orumi clearly stepped up their offensive. To prevent the offensive of the Orumi Federal Army. The artillery of the Moroccan militia began to suppress fire. The tragic battle officially began.
General Quinn’s fire support formation also joined the artillery battle, and began to implement pre-fire preparations. All positions on the entire battlefield were divided into lots, and the identified targets were destroyed one by one. Although the shelling effect is not satisfactory. After all, there are only some small and medium caliber artillery.
Although General Hassan’s rocket battalion has arrived, due to concealment considerations, none of them fired.
In the morning, after the shelling by both sides. Under the cover of armored vehicles, the Orumi Federal Army rushed into the position, using two minesweeping vehicles as the lead, trying to detect and remove mines and obstacles.
After they rushed to the battlefield, Lin Rui ordered the rocket battalion to open fire. The firepower of several rounds of rocket launchers was covered, and the armors in many places were destroyed or injured, and there were heavy casualties. The Orumi Federal Army was shocked. They didn't expect these militiamen to have such fierce firepower. Fired back again.
The artillery fire of the Moroccan militia continued to strike through the front observation post, observe and correct the impact point, and continued the artillery. Odalat was almost completely submerged by the smoke bombarded by fire from both sides, and the infantry had to suspend the charge, and were unable to move in the tunnel.
While the artillery fire continued, Lin Rui's two mercenary units started operations from the west of Area A and the north of Area C. Unite with General Hassan’s forces and point to the enemy’s core position on the east side of Area C.
This was a surprise attack. The previous artillery battles, even exposing the deployment of rockets, were all for this operation.