Cavalry vs Armor

In the field outside Ankewei City, in the mountains filled with corpses, the footsteps of war are approaching quickly again.

The rapid and sharp whistle broke the brief silence of the battlefield, followed by a tidal wave of shouts, as if resounding through the sky. As the shouting got closer and louder, the sound of the hooves became more and more dense, as if countless giants were beating the war drums of the earth, and the whole field seemed to be shaking.

On the gently undulating field northeast of Ankewei, a thin black line appeared, and this thin red line was getting bigger and bigger. It got wider and wider and eventually evolved into a black ocean. In this group of black seas, the Oromi Federation flag is fluttering in the wind. They came surging like waves in a tropical storm, and swept in like a flood that burst a bank. Wherever they passed, they were submerged by the red ocean. Gives a great sense of spiritual shock.

As the red ocean got closer, everyone finally saw clearly that it was the cavalry unit of the Orumi Federation. However, this cavalry unit seems to be a little special. They are advancing very fast, advancing hundreds of meters in the blink of an eye, and those who rush ahead are not horses, but camels. Camel cavalry in Africa!

Camels have some very distinct military advantages over horses. On the feed, camels can withstand feeding roughage for a long time, and the camels themselves are extremely drought tolerant. In the march, it can actually bring great savings to the army in terms of logistics, and the carrying capacity of its own camels makes them often serve as transporters. At the same time, camels are better than horses in adapting to the terrain. The thick feet of camels allow them to move on terrains such as quicksand and rocky beaches, which are undoubtedly quite dangerous for horses.

The gunshots at the guard posts were getting louder and louder.

With sporadic gunshots, cavalry in the red ocean fell. But in an instant, he was overwhelmed by his later companions. Their unfortunate corpses have been trampled by countless companions and turned into meat sauce. Maybe after the war, someone will find that their flesh and blood have been closely linked with the earth and are inseparable.

Lin Rui touched the beard that had just grown on his face, and then touched his chin vigorously. "Camel cavalry? They really want to use this against armored vehicles?"

The Captain Anmore nodded expressionlessly, "This should be the army of the Orumi Federation in the northwest desert region, and it should belong to Claude's army. It is specially responsible for fighting and guarding on the desert border, and its role is similar to that of Claude. Rangers.

Simply being a cavalry is nothing to fear, and the development of the camel cavalry itself is greatly influenced by the habits of camels. The running speed of the camel is much lower than that of the horse, and when the camel runs, the body steps at the same time, so the body will sway from side to side. The addition of the two will not only cause the camel cavalry to have a limited impact when charging, but it will also be difficult for the rider to sway the camel. Perform substantial physical activity while sprinting at full strength. "

"But the cavalry riding the camel has a few bazookas per person, so it's a little troublesome." Lin Rui put down the binoculars.

These non-traditional camel cavalrymen in the northwest are not using traditional scimitars, but are equipped with bazookas and automatic weapons.

In Africa, resources are scarce. But the popularity of ak47 and rpg bazooka is beyond imagination.

Whether it is African government troops or various anti-government armed forces, cheap rocket launchers are standard equipment.

It was too late for Lin Rui and others to return to the team, so they had to stick to the hill with several armored vehicles of the Anmor Army, looking down at everything in front of them. I only saw that the camel cavalry at the foot of the mountain has flocked to the brothers of the Anmor army, and the brothers of the Anmor army are also ready to fight.

The light and heavy weapons of armored vehicles and light tanks were aimed at the advancing black ocean, just waiting for an order. Lin Rui personally ordered that all weapons would be fired intensively.

However, just when the black ocean was about to enter the range, suddenly, they scattered with a clatter, spreading out in all directions. The black ocean instantly turned into small black dots, like ants running around on the ground.

"Damn it! The cunning guy 1 The company commander of the Anmor army cursed. The soldiers he led in the distance also filed down, and bravely went up to intercept those little red dots.

The two sides launched a fierce melee. Although the camel cavalry were numerous, they were also very fast. However, in the face of the powerful machine gun fire of the Anmor army, they continued to fall. Of course, during this period, there were also armored vehicles of Anmor's army that were destroyed by the opponent's rocket launchers, and had to get out of the armored vehicles to fight as infantry.

Lin Rui understood a little, and learned the lesson of the previous troop that was almost wiped out. This time, the attacking formation of the opposing camel cavalry was very open. They no longer attacked the Anmore military positions in dense formations, but adopted the same tactics as the nomadic cavalry of Africa, that is, scattered concentric assaults.

Due to the high speed of these camels, the intensive firepower of the armored vehicles is difficult to fully exert. Even if the intensive firepower can slightly block the enemy's advance speed. But the consumption of ammunition has also become large.

"Disperse! Fight against 1 in units of companies. Lin Rui issued an order to send signals to all directions.

Anmore's light chariots immediately dispersed, each facing their own enemies. This tactic of fighting against each other is not a temporary measure, nor is it Lin Rui's expedient measure, but the result of careful and cruel training. When Lin Rui founded this Anmore armored force, he was sensitively aware of the application of armored tactics in various small towns.

The enemy will surely resort to harassment or scattered assaults. Try to fight on a small scale, relying on your own skilled terrain and technology to defeat this newly formed Anmor army.

Especially those nomads have always been a piece of Lin Rui's heart. In African history, because of the existence of nomadic cavalry, it has brought too many variables to this African land.

The other is the African urban environment. When a chariot enters a narrow environment such as a town, it will pick a single column or double column, and assign each vehicle a 360-degree responsibility sector, but this approach is not possible in high-rise chessboards. It is not practical in towns where road planning is based on the rudiments of the road, because as long as vehicles pass through the intersection, the weapon system can only monitor one side, leaving the other side exposed to threats.

Urban warfare can be said to be the most feared combat environment for armored troops. The main reason is that the dense buildings block the field of vision, which greatly reduces the perception ability of the vehicle and the range advantage of the weapon, and the mobility advantage of the vehicle cannot be used in towns. In addition, the urban area also gives the defenders a large number of places to hide and ambush. For example, if the armored troops are properly lured into the town, they can even be combined with mines, anti-tank weapons, mortars and snipers to concentrate firepower and be paralyzed in one breath. and destroy large numbers of armored units.

Especially in densely populated areas, road planning is a checkerboard, this environment is a big challenge for armored commanders and non-commissioned officers.

If the regulations are followed, when the convoy enters the town, the units advance in column or double column formation and assign each vehicle a 360-degree sector of responsibility to monitor all possible enemy paths and hiding spots.

However, enemy fire comes from vertically oriented roofs and the streets on either side, preventing traditional sectors of responsibility from working optimally. For example, when a traditional column or double column is adopted, when the chariot passes through an intersection, in addition to the front side may be seen by the enemy, the sides may also be exposed to the enemy's sight, and although the front intersection can be seen by the rear vehicle. Surveillance, but the weapon system of the combat vehicle can only point to one side of the intersection, and the other side can only be exposed to enemy fire. Although the exposed side can be compensated by the commander's machine gun, the effect is far less than that of the turret facing the threat.

Lin Rui's solution was to let Anmore's army improvise a fixed tactic. This formation was discovered and summed up by the US military on the Iraqi battlefield, a box-shaped formation.

A hybrid mobile-receiving formation is adopted, which is also a variant of double-column, which is different from the double-column where vehicles on both sides will stagger before and after. The battleship-like box formation effectively provides all-round surveillance in a checkerboard-style street environment and maximizes the effectiveness of the armor.

Although this is not an urban environment, such a formation can take into account both the flanks and the rear, is a defensive formation, and has better sight lines. Avoid these camel cavalry attacking from all sides, leaving the vulnerable rear of the armored vehicle exposed to enemy fire.

The melee between the camel cavalry and the armor really opened up as the two sides dispersed.

In face-to-face organized combat, tactics and organization may play the biggest role. Discipline and organization are the basic conditions for victory, but in individual battles, individual skill and courage dominate. Location.

At this point, Claude of the Orumi Federation Army also had to admire Lin Rui's shrewdness. As a soldier, he also understands that if it weren't for brutal training, it would be difficult for a new army to master the complex formations of armored convoys in such a short period of time.

Camel cavalry is fast, which is its strength and its weakness. Its disadvantage is that it is not easy to turn quickly, and it must have a relatively large turning radius.

The two camel cavalrymen just passed behind an armored vehicle. The rocket launchers in their hands were already set up, but the strong inertia prevented them from launching smoothly. The camel under their crotch is turning at high speed, and in this state, they must firmly control their body so as not to be thrown out.

But it was this delay that both cavalrymen and their camels were bloodied by the large-caliber machine guns.

A series of shots, the dense bullets made the oncoming camel cavalry dizzy, like peach blossoms after the rain, falling one after another.

But the large number of camel cavalry also destroyed part of the armor, and the rocket launchers in their hands were not vegetarian. Bazooka, as a lightweight anti-tank weapon, is both very common and the most difficult to defend.

This is also the result of welding grid armor to the armor of the Anmor army. The grille armor, which looks like an iron cage, is 46 mm away from the car body, and the distance between the grilles is 50 mm.

The Soviet rpg-7, its propulsion method is inertial propulsion at first about 100 meters. After the time reaches a threshold, the rocket is re-ignited to accelerate, so when the distance is relatively close, the rocket does not ignite but relies on inertia, probably A speed of more than 100 meters per second. Its fuze is a contact fuze, and it has a very long point in front of it, and that is the fuze, and if it doesn't hit something directly, it won't blow up.

Since the rpg-7 40mm rocket launcher is a super-caliber 70.5mm or 85mm rocket extended-range armor-piercing projectile, when the cone at the front of the rocket projectile hits the grille armor space, it will not hit the fuze Piezoelectric crystals, so that the warhead cannot be detonated.

The effective protection rate of ordinary grid armor to rpg-7 can reach 60%. A combat vehicle and light armoured combat vehicle ideal for street fighting. However, it has almost no defense against kinetic energy armor-piercing projectiles.

It can be said that it is specially used for RPG rocket launchers.

The main means of attack of these camel cavalry is the rpg bazooka in their hands.

In fact, the so-called camel cavalry fighting armor is basically equivalent to a death squad-style charge. That is, regardless of life and death, rushing up to launch a bazooka at the armored vehicle.

Either die without a corpse, or kill the armored vehicle on the opposite side. Of course, how to charge and how to avoid the firepower of armored vehicles is a technical task. Usually the camel cavalry adopted the method of dispersing quickly, detouring to the flanks, or even going to the rear to attack.

However, Lin Rui, a box-shaped formation specially designed for urban street fighting terrain, turned one armored company into a small group to fight. Taking advantage of firepower, he blocked as many directions as possible. Although several armored vehicles were also destroyed, most of the camel cavalry were beaten to death.

And camels are creatures with a very sensitive sense of smell, and they have an instinctive fear of the **** smell of the same kind. It was fine at first, but a large number of camel cavalrymen were killed. In such a **** environment, camels began to lose their cool.

Even well-trained cavalry had difficulty controlling them smoothly. The battle was originally one-sided, but now it's even more complete. The rest of the cavalry began to mess up. Their bazookas were not very effective. On the one hand, the bumps when the camels ran made them poor in aiming. On the other hand, the home-made grid armor of the Anmor army is also a big reason to limit the power of the bazooka.

Many rockets are blocked by the steel bars of the grid armor, and some are even directly stuck in the middle of the grid armor, which cannot be guaranteed. Even if it exploded, the power would be greatly reduced because of the distance from the armor.

And the grenades fired by the Oromi Federation Army riding on camels were even less effective. This thing itself is to deal with infantry. Although the quality of the armor of the Anmor army is almost, it can prevent the fragmentation of this grenade.

But the firepower of those armored vehicles and even tanks is a super killer for camel cavalry.

(End of this chapter)