Chapter 5047: Active defense

Lin Rui and others finally ushered in darkness. The terrorists of the Jihadist League spent a whole day without taking down Metmar Faq. Outlying positions.
Seeing darkness, the situation is even worse for the offensive troops. The Jihadist Alliance finally gave up the attack, and the two sides temporarily ceased fire.
On the outer position of Metmar Fagor, Lin Rui took advantage of the darkness to check the defense situation of the position.
Although I have already had a certain psychological preparation. But the loss of the Western Sahara local armed alliance still made Lin Rui quite disappointed.
Many of them are local armed forces. To put it bluntly, they are guerrillas that have not fought any major battles. Quite uncomfortable with such a large-scale battle.
Coupled with the low combat effectiveness, the troop losses are quite severe. The eighth company that encountered the strongest offensive, with the strong support of the sixth company, still lost more than half.
And this eighth company, which belongs to the second battalion, can be regarded as one of the most capable troops under Hassan.
"Rick, you can't go on like this. The loss of personnel and the consumption of ammunition are too great. We did block the enemy, but the consumption like this will continue. We can't last long.
You understand, I am not referring to the troops being lighted up, but the loss of the outer positions.
Once the outer line of defense is broken, we can only retreat to the city and fight the enemy in the street. The enemy's military advantage can be fully utilized. "General Hassan was worried.
"I understand. So the outer positions cannot be lost. We can retreat to the second line of defense, or even shrink to the third defensive position, but we must never lose the outer positions." Lin Rui nodded.
"But this is tantamount to a disguised refueling tactic. We are constantly increasing our troops on the front line and are constantly being consumed.
And we are also facing the problem of insufficient ammunition reserves.
Sausages and their clay cannons can indeed last for a while, we can't just hold them like this. Sooner or later, the outer positions will be lost.
We have to fight for the initiative. "General Hassan paced back and forth.
"How to take the initiative?" Actuarial said, shook his head, "As you said, we do not have an advantage in terms of force and firepower, and we have to face the problem of insufficient ammunition.
It is quite unwise to take the initiative to defend under such circumstances. The best way for us now is to rely on the current position of defense to delay enough time.
Wait for the crystal equipment and ammunition to arrive, so that we can at least guarantee that Metemafaq will not be lost.
What we urgently need now is not how to fight back against the enemy, but to defend here. "
"But it's not a way to defend it. If we polish all our troops here. Can Metmarfag defend it?
The second battalion is my most powerful force. They have followed me in many battles, and I deliberately transferred their best eighth company to the most critical part of defense.
But as a result, the Eighth Company was crippled all at once, and the Sixth Company sent to support the loss was not small. But we just blocked the enemy, nothing more.
Although we also caused considerable damage to the enemy. But their strength is also higher than ours, they can afford to lose. And they have a lot of armor and artillery.
I was thinking, if we exhaust all the troops we can fight. What about the next battle?
Other troops of the local armed alliance? Although we mixed them together, their combat effectiveness is still worrying.
Don't say you look down on them, even Lao Tzu's troops look down on them. It's okay to let them assist in the defense. Let them defend the enemy. I don't think there is much hope. "General Hassan was a bit depressed.
"Be patient, General Hassan. Although the current situation is not good for us, it has not yet reached the point of despair.
Even at any time, as a commander, you should not have such a mentality. The Eighth Company and the Sixth Company were withdrawn first, allowing them to supplement and rest.
Replaced by our people, plus some local Union troops. Let's talk through this time. Lin Rui shook his head.
"We still have a few helicopters. Otherwise, let them go into battle tomorrow to cover our ground defense." General Hassan looked at Lin Rui.
"This is not a good idea. Our helicopters are not gunship helicopters. It's just a transport helicopter with a door machine gun.
The opponent's individual air defense missiles are not vegetarian. And those armored vehicles, enemy armored vehicles, have a certain degree of air defense capability.
Our helicopters are engaged in night reconnaissance or something, maybe it can come in handy. If you really want to go to the battlefield, there will be no good results. Lin Rui shook his head. "But don't worry, I have another arrangement tonight." "
"Other arrangements?" General Hassan looked at him.
"I have already set up a separate mission with Sausage for this matter. I don't know if you have discovered that the enemy's several attacks today were launched by relying on the sand dunes at this location.
There is a sand dune on this side of the position, right at our blind spot. Every time they can calmly launch an attack from here, they can regroup here when they retreat. "Lin Rui pointed at the map.
"I have also noticed. From the satellite image, this is not a temporary dune. Because the shape of the dune is pyramidal." The actuary replied Jiangan.
"The shape of the dunes can be divided into crescent-shaped dunes and longitudinal sand ridges.
The crescent-shaped sand dunes are also called horizontal sand dunes. The plane is like a crescent moon, and the direction is perpendicular to or greater than 60 degrees to the wind direction. The windward is a raised and is relatively gentle. The leeward is concave and relatively steep.
This sand dune will move in the direction of the wind.
The direction of the longitudinal sand ridges is basically the same as the direction of the wind, generally less than 30 degrees. It is spread in long strips, and the longest can reach dozens of kilometers. Will also change with the wind.
Only this kind of star-shaped or pyramid-shaped sand dunes are in the shape of a multi-pointed star on the plan. This kind of sand dunes move side by side or move very slowly, so it is also called a fixed sand dune and becomes a signpost for desert travelers.
Judging from our current satellite image, the sand dune over there is a fixed sand dune. Due to geographical reasons, such a sand dune has a layer of salt crust on the surface, which will not be displaced by wind.
The enemy used this fixed dune as the starting point and assembly location for the attack. It does have a certain impact on us. "
"No wonder every time we beat them back, they will soon regroup and attack again." General Hassan also nodded.
"So we have to take advantage of tonight to prepare some surprises for our enemies." Lin Rui pointed the map with his finger. "I have ordered sausages to take people and prepared a lot of explosives. I lie in ambush in this area in the dark.
When the enemy launches an offensive tomorrow, they will give the enemy a disarm. By the way, also blow up this dune.
It makes it difficult for the enemy to get effective cover and is exposed to our long-range firepower. This is what you want, a relatively active defense. "