Due to the lack of qualified artillery, Shadow Company did not field squad support firepower such as mortars. The P's preferred grenade launchers with limited range but lighter weight.
Therefore, in each combat team, in addition to the dedicated grenadiers, other combatants can also carry 9 grenade launchers if they do not feel that the burden is too heavy, but they generally only have a few fragmentation grenades on them.
And the distance of two hundred meters is also within the effective range of these grenade launchers!
Although the battle formation had been stretched far apart, the first company still suffered losses in the explosion. Two infantrymen were directly pierced by fragments of fragile bodies and fell down. One died on the spot, while the other suffered from crazy blood loss during convulsions. When the medics came jumping on the battlefield, the eyes of this unfortunate man had lost their luster.
The bombardment of rifle grenades from the direction of the hangar is still endless. The MPLA soldiers hiding behind reverse slopes and bunkers can only try their best to lower their bodies to avoid, but the rifle grenades fired at a high projectile angle can still kill the unlucky ones in a few seconds. The eggs were fried.
However, the MPLA soldiers also saw the figures moving behind the concrete wall. As the personnel arrived one after another, the two sides immediately began a fierce exchange of fire.
After the exchange of fire, the Soviet instructors who were commanding the battle on the front line realized something was wrong, because their opponent's long-range firepower seemed to be ridiculously accurate. At a distance of two hundred meters, his side had more people and stronger firepower, but on the contrary, his own side Being suppressed to death.
Captain Butter did not deploy all his men on the front line at one go. He deployed only two-thirds of his men, and he also required everyone not to stay in one position, but to constantly move their firing positions.
Thanks to the one-man sights and complete bunkers, the enemy of the Butter Division fought for a full 20 minutes, but there was no report of any losses. Instead, nearly 20 people of the MPLA were injured.
This caught Yilian, who was accustomed to stretching his opponents, off guard. Despite the training from Soviet and Cuban instructors, when the offensive momentum was blunted, most of the MPLA soldiers immediately chose the stupid method of squatting in place and shooting at each other.
Especially those machine gunners who were responsible for the fire support point. Most of the machine gun teams directly chose to stay in place and continue shooting, and these swaggering guys naturally received the focus of snipers.
After four machine gunners were killed in succession, the belated MPLA commander finally reacted. He separated his platoon with the least losses and began to maneuver toward the west, trying to detour from the direction of the oil tank area. While driving away the snipers who continued to put pressure on themselves. Chinese website
Although the commander tried his best to let the frontal troops attract the enemy's attention, the circuitous infantry platoon was still clearly visible to the snipers of the Butter Squadron.
Then, the butter squad leader immediately dispatched his reserve team, and the two sides began a battlefield race. One headed towards the oil tank area on the outside of the airport, and the other headed towards the oil tank area on the inside of the airport.
The Butter Squadron moved a step faster due to the advantage of the terrain. When the People's Liberation Army's roundabout squadron braved the hail of bullets and lost several people and finally reached the outside of the oil tank area, the machine gunners of the Butter Squadron had already set up 0 on the oil tank. machine gun.
The commander of the roundabout detachment did not even carefully observe the situation nearby. He listened to the constant reports of his own losses on the radio and became anxious. He took the lead in crossing the outer wall and tried to launch an assault.
And when he landed, he noticed that the black muzzle of the gun had been locked on him right next to the guardrail on top of the oil tank, less than a hundred meters away.
"Don't come here, there's an ambush!"
The commander shouted while raising the AK47 rifle in his hand and was about to fire. The 0 general-purpose machine gun at the top was already spitting out tongues of flame. In just a moment, the commander and the dozen or so people behind him had climbed onto the outer wall. The soldiers were pierced by bullets. Under the ruthless gunfire from high places, the bodies of these soldiers were like watermelons with blood and flesh flying everywhere. The MPLA soldiers who had nowhere to dodge were like explosives bursting from the machine. They were scattered all over the ground like rice cakes, and there were even half-beaten corpses hanging on the outer wall, dangling incessantly.
The MPLA soldiers who were caught off guard by the ambush lost their commander.
After that, they immediately fell into chaos. They were suppressed behind the outer wall and tried to continue to break through in place. Several soldiers scrambled to climb the high wall again, or tried to shoot with the machine guns high up with the support of their comrades.
But their efforts were only to continue to leave a few tattered corpses in the same place.
The Butter Squadron was not a fool waiting to fight the enemy. Under the cover of machine gun fire from a high place, a combat team went around from under the oil tank to the wall, and then threw grenades towards the outside of the wall.
The soldiers of the People's Liberation Army did not expect that the enemy would dare to fight back. They were still trying to break through the machine gun suppression. Several grenades exploded in the crowd. The explosion and fragments directly caused heavy damage to the crowd gathered together. The platoon, which had already lost half its men, lost seven more people, and most of the remaining ones were covered in blood and scarred.
Then, under the leadership of the team leader, the Shadow Company's combat team, codenamed Butter E, bravely climbed up the outer wall of the airport, and then fired violently at the chaotic MPLA troops below. The P's had no time to finish their rifle magazines. After changing, they simply pulled out their pistols and continued shooting. Only after all the weapon magazines on their bodies were emptied did the team jump back into the wall.
The MPLA's circuitous platoon was thus wiped out. There were more than thirty people in the entire platoon. Except for two seriously wounded men who crawled back to the battlefield with scars, all the others died under the wall.
The company commander who was commanding from the front didn't even know that all his detour troops had been lost. He was still waiting anxiously for the battle line to change. His company was suppressed in the last two hundred meters and was unable to continue. Moving forward, the company commander could only pin his hopes on the front on his right, which was attacking the second company in the hangar on the southeast side. If they could open a breakthrough in the front, it would inevitably cause the enemies on their side to mobilize.
But the news on the radio made him a little at a loss, because compared to his company, the second company suffered greater resistance and suffered more casualties. Even less than an hour into the battle, the commander of the second company had already become A platoon leader, because the original two chief officers had already fallen down less than a hundred meters away from the hangar.
The entire offensive on the southern front of the airport has stalled!
