Compared with the fighting on the south side, on the east side, the defense in charge of the Butter Squadron entered a fever pitch from the beginning. The squad leader did not let the TOW missiles fire first. Instead, he waited until the offensive column of Cuban tanks entered the street before letting the TOW missiles fire. The missile was fired at the target from a distance of less than three hundred meters.
This blow turned the Cuban tank directly into a manned space flight. The jet penetrated the body of the vehicle and took away all the people in the vehicle. It also ignited the fuel tank and ammunition rack. The violent explosion directly separated the tank from the turret, and the explosion The force even threw the turret several meters away.
Different from the spacious terrain on the south side, the Cuban armored forces chose a 600-meter-long narrow road for their attack route from the east. This is a residential area for local residents. There are also clothes hanging outside to dry on the second floors of the buildings on both sides of the road. Clothes, these buildings vary in size, but the terrain is complex, and many buildings are connected by large yards.
The focus of the Butter Squadron's defense was not on the buildings on the street. These fragile houses were the focus of Cuban tanks. After the first vehicle was destroyed, they switched formations and began to use tanks to ram into these houses unscrupulously. After it turns into ruins, run over it again.
Therefore, the focus of the Butter Squadron's defense was on the courtyards and alleyway entrances. They deployed explosives at the alleyway entrances, mortars in the farther courtyards, and then ambush rocket launchers and recoilless rifles in the courtyards close to the streets, waiting for Cuban tanks to destroy the buildings. , and then use rocket launchers and recoilless rifles to attack the side of the tank when it is blinded by dust.
Relying on this tactic, the Cuban armored forces destroyed one tank and damaged another tank less than a hundred meters into the town. Especially when the damaged Cuban tank had to stop advancing because it caught fire, a brave man The p rushed forward. When the Cuban armored soldiers opened the hatch, this guy directly poked the RPD machine gun in his hand into the hatch and fired the entire ammunition chain randomly. Then he dropped a grenade with satisfaction. leave.
Although the initial battle was successful, the situation on the defensive side did not improve. After the Cuban armored forces suffered losses, they also adjusted their tactics very quickly, switching from I-line advancement to one-line advancement. The firing regulations also prohibited firing at will and turned it into confrontation. Fire at any suspicious target. Z.br>
As a result, the defensive tactics of the Butter Squadron were restrained by the Cuban troops. The shooters waited for the Cuban tanks to appear before they opened fire. But the Cuban tanks did not have this need at all. They adjusted the fuse of the shell so that it would penetrate the wall before exploding. Then they began to attack the walls that could be used unscrupulously. If there was an ambush behind the wall, the shells that penetrated the wall would cause heavy casualties to the ambushers. If there was no one behind the wall, they would switch to the next target and continue firing.
This method caught the Butter Squadron off guard. The shooters could only start moving to find targets to shoot at, but it was difficult for the rocket launchers in their hands to directly cause fatal damage to the soldiers. Less than an hour after the battle, except at the beginning of the war, the Cuban tanks suffered losses. In addition, they later eliminated more than 20 soldiers and nearly a hundred FRELIMO infantrymen at the cost of only four tanks being wounded.
The southeastern periphery of Caddo Town also fell under the control of Cuban tanks. The motorized infantry company and reconnaissance company following the tank regiment began to enter the city to clear out the remaining enemies.
The best weapon against tanks is always a tank. The battle between infantry and tanks is equivalent to a three-year-old child boxing with a fighting champion. Without sufficiently lethal anti-tank weapons, infantry is really limited in what it can do.
Butter Squadron and Duff Squadron were forced to start a continuous retreat, which put Hannibal under tremendous pressure. At this moment, the only means they could effectively delay the Cuban tank attack was a sparse number of anti-tank mines, but these The hit of the mine is purely based on appearance. After hitting the Cuban tank, it only destroys the track rather than attacking the body.
This forced Hannibal to put the Edward and Charlie detachments into battle, but the situation of these two detachments did not improve much. Although at a distance of several hundred meters, the 90mm French artillery on the A90 armored vehicles that went into battle fired The armor-piercing shells can effectively threaten Cuban tanks, but the latter's fragile armor can also be effectively penetrated by Cuban tanks.
In addition, the number was less than a fraction of the number of Cuban tanks. The two sides exchanged fire for more than thirty times in total, but the final result was zero to zero. Whether it was the Cuban gunners or the Shadow Company gunners, for
To protect themselves as much as possible, they usually use the one-shot escape tactic. When both sides see the figures, they fire first. After the fight, they don't look at the results and just run away.
As for the Sherman tanks that Shepard bought, these World War II antiques were not worthy of being used in battle at all. The 75mm gun could only threaten the rear body of the T55 tank. Hannibal left these tanks on the west side of the town. Prepare to be used as a fixed turret for evacuation.
Hannibal has decided to get rid of all these backward scrap metals, and then replace his people with more missiles, provided that they can return alive.
But in any case, it seems that Cardo's fall is only a matter of time. The Cuban tank troops have already controlled one-seventh of the town and are still expanding. The opponent's armor commander is like a boss in the game. His own troops were continuously sent into the city, putting pressure on the opponent bit by bit. At this moment, there were more than 30 Cuban tanks raging in the town, and the injured tanks were also being repaired simultaneously. The skilled engineers Start welding directly on site.
But even so, Hannibal still did not give up. This was no longer about victory or defeat, but about the dignity and honor of a soldier.
"Distribute all the rocket launchers. I don't care what method you use. You must stop them in the business area. It doesn't matter even if you let those ANLF soldiers work as ***. I don't want any casualty figures. I just want them." Business district!"
Under Hannibal's order, the retreating frontline troops finally found their backbone and thought of temporary emergency measures. They used the few remaining explosives to blast all the buildings approaching the business district from the southeast. Then, when the Cuban tanks tried to cross the ruins, they repeatedly attacked the vehicle tracks with heavy firepower. By relying on this method, Hannibal successfully blocked the Cuban tanks at the defense node of the business district south of the town.
The latter also understood that the terrain was unfavorable to them, so they immediately stopped the attack and began to readjust. Before that, the remaining work was left to the artillery!
