Mercenary’s War
Chapter 1150 - 1150 One Thousand One Hundred Thirty-Three One After Another

1150: Chapter One Thousand One Hundred Thirty-Three: One After Another 1150: Chapter One Thousand One Hundred Thirty-Three: One After Another Frey was leading the anti-tank team in retreat, their position awkwardly indefensible, unable to attack the first suicide truck in time.

But, on the wall, there were still men manning rocket launchers.

The rocket launchers fired, but failed to hit the high-speed advancing truck, which ultimately exploded upon crashing into the barricade blocking the west gate.

Behind the gate was a hardened ground, and as the original location around the gate wouldn’t have been strong, the west gate was blocked up later with various objects, but there was only a single layer of barricade at the gate.

The explosion was massive, sandbags, rocks, and the stacked wall were all damaged in the blast, allowing infantry to climb through the gap created in the west gate into the prison, which was not possible before as they couldn’t breach the prison at all.

Of course, although the barricade at the west gate was damaged and infantry could crawl into the prison through the collapsed area, a pile of rocks and broken bricks was stacked up very high, preventing cars and armored vehicles from entering.

Following the truck was a bulldozer, which now demonstrated its usefulness, shifting the blasted rubble aside as much as possible.

The bulldozer itself also carried a large amount of fake explosives, so when its own effectiveness was exhausted, boom, it would blow up itself, further destroying a portion of the barricade.

The Rebel Army’s method of clearing the way was brutal but efficient; their first attack went smoothly, and for the Rebel Army to experience smooth operations meant that the defending forces were now passive.

Seeing the Rebel Army’s bulldozer approaching, Gao Yang roared, “Little Fly!

Don’t let them get any closer!”

If the prison’s gate were to be completely breached, and the enemy’s tanks and armored vehicles could charge in, then the battle would truly become challenging.

The bulldozer was rapidly approaching the gate, and at this time, the anti-tank team led by Frey finally opened fire from the building.

Facing a fast-approaching target, they couldn’t dare to shoot one round at a time; to increase the hit rate, they would definitely fire volleys of rocket rounds.

Three rockets were launched together, one hit in front, one hit the bulldozer’s side, but finally, another rocket hit the side of the bulldozer.

The bulldozer raised its shovel, which could offer a degree of protection, but it obviously couldn’t block an attack from the side, and with an explosion, the bulldozer’s advance came to an immediate stop.

However, the rocket did not hit the location on the bulldozer where the fake explosives were transported, so although it stopped, it didn’t explode.

Whether it exploded or not, the stopping was enough.

Gao Yang said urgently, “Stop firing at that bulldozer, it’s lost mobility.

If the enemy approaches, then target that bulldozer.”

Gao Yang had a clear strategy in mind, but Saidev said in a grave tone, “No need to shoot, but don’t get your hopes up.”

Sure enough, as soon as Saidev’s words ended, the bulldozer exploded.

After realizing it couldn’t move any further, the driver of the bulldozer detonated it himself.

They could take a breather for a moment; the battle once again entered a pattern where the Rebel Army would continue shelling and the defending forces would stay hidden, only exposing themselves if the Rebel Army didn’t push infantry forward.

If the surrounding wall, the key factor the prison had been defended until now, wasn’t dealt with, the Rebel Army certainly wouldn’t launch a final assault.

Only infantry, once at the base of the wall, would be helpless and subject to the defending force’s advantage to inflict heavy damage.

The Rebel Army didn’t have such high organizational capabilities or strong command abilities.

Of course, this is relative, but ultimately, it meant the Rebel Army still couldn’t maintain seamless transitions between each offensive.

The Rebel Army’s artillery fire gradually slowed down, and the pressure of direct fire support also lessened.

After about forty minutes of such conditions, the Rebel Army intensified their firepower again, which meant their second suicide attack was coming.

At this point, Jansen spoke with a helpless tone, “Boss, there are a lot of suicide trucks, I’ve spotted eleven, and among them, there’s one that’s very big, exceptionally huge.”

Gao Yang felt helpless too and said in a deep voice, “How big?”

“Bigger than the one during the last attack on Kendy Prison, and it’s more heavily armored.

The whole truck is boxed in with steel plates, even the tires are armored.”

“F**k, how thick is the armor?”

It was clear the enemy had learned its lesson, becoming smart after discovering in the last attack on the prison that their suicide truck’s armor couldn’t withstand armor-piercing bullets, so this time they used thickened armor.

Therefore, when Gao Yang asked about the armor thickness, he actually already had his answer.

Jansen said with a tone of helplessness, “Boss, the drone is positioned to cover both the prison and the village, and it’s at a high altitude.

If we want to know the armor thickness, we would have to redirect the drone there.”

Gao Yang helplessly replied, “Forget it, that’s their last truck for attacking the building.

The armor must be incredibly thick.

Don’t bother with reconnaissance.”

“Boss, the enemy’s trucks are coming again, this time there are six of them, my God, five are bulldozers, and F**k, there’s another one, let me have a look, it’s a tracked bulldozer.”

Normally, when the Rebel Army attacks Aleppo Prison, they come from the west because there is a highway there.

But this time is different; they have brought a lot of excavators and bulldozers, which can come from any direction around the prison.

“They’re coming, all six trucks together!”

The prison has two layers of walls and a trench; the Rebel Army can’t expect to flatten all barriers with a single blast.

But that doesn’t matter as they have many trucks for suicide-attacks that can come again and again, slowly.

Moreover, the enemy has played a clever move this time.

They drove five excavators and a bulldozer in a V formation, keeping a certain safety distance from each other.

Even if an excavator nearby is blown up, it will not trigger an explosion at this distance, and then they charged with the buckets held high.

Watching the enemy’s actions, Gao Yang was dumbfounded and exclaimed, “What the hell is this, acrobatics?”

Saidev shouted, “We can’t let the enemy get close, destroy them at all costs!”

Lifting the excavator buckets high has a big advantage: from a certain angle, it makes it difficult for the rocket launcher operators, who have the advantage of height, to hit the top.

When the distance was still great, the rocket launchers couldn’t hit the excavators, and when they got close enough, firing the rocket launchers would hit the buckets, rendering armor-piercing rocket shells ineffective.

If firing from the sides, you can only start from the side excavators.

Not to mention the issue of hit rate, even if it was high, you could only attack from the sides, and time was very short from launching the rockets to when the excavators got close.

As the excavators charged straight from the west and entered within three hundred meters, the rocket launcher operators on the walls began to fire one after another, but the effect was not very good.

After three side excavators were hit, when the excavators had reached less than thirty meters away from the main gate, Frey and his men finally opened fire.

Once close, the angles change.

At this distance, Frey could choose to either attack the top or hit the front of the excavator’s body.

Frey was just one man, he couldn’t take on the task of hitting three excavators all by himself, so the anti-tank rocket launcher team fired one after another.

It took seven rocket launchers to finally stop the excavators.

Gao Yang felt that the rocket launchers were being consumed too quickly, which was not a good sign, but in order to prevent the Rebel Army’s excavators from getting close, they had no choice but to expend a large number of rocket launchers.

They must not allow the Rebel Army to open the gate.

If it is made too easy for tanks to force their way through by blowing up the collapsed barriers at a certain angle, then it would be difficult to defend.

There was another problem: Gao Yang and his group were positioned at the westernmost end of the star-shaped building.

They were stationed there because it was an excellent point of firepower.

However, it was too close to the main gate—just a mere twenty meters away.

If they allowed the enemy to clear an attack path, especially a smooth one that could allow suicide trucks to drive into the prison, it meant that the defenders could no longer control the situation.

Once the enemy loaded a massive amount of Fake Medicine into the trucks and exploded them at the gate, or even inside, at least no one in Gao Yang’s position would survive.

Gao Yang recalled Kendy Hospital, where a truck loaded with dozens of tons of Fake Medicine exploded just a dozen meters from the hospital building, causing a third of the building to collapse.

Dozens of tons of Fake Medicine—if the distance isn’t far enough, without reaching a safe separation, you don’t even need to be killed directly by the shockwave or shrapnel; the blast alone would be lethal.

The enemy’s tank gun began to turn again; this time, targeting Frey’s position.

“Little Fly!

Run!”

Gao Yang sent out the warning, and shortly after, the tank gun began firing continuously.

After several shots, the enemy’s offensive slowed down again.

For a short while, the enemy even stopped firing.

The enemy had not retreated, so they had not given up on the offensive, just reorganizing for the next attack.

Taking advantage of the brief respite before the Rebel Army’s assault resumed, Gao Yang hurriedly approached Saidev and said in a serious tone, “The enemy is determined, and they have deployed equipment far exceeding the previous instances.

We’ve been fighting up to now, and it seems their equipment is still on the way.

Right now, we can’t determine how much equipment the enemy still has.

I believe that we must organize a part of the reserve force to wait at the safest place, in case we can’t stop the enemy’s suicide trucks from getting close and exploding, so that there will still be people awake to resist the subsequent enemy personnel entering.”

Gao Yang did not want to see a tragedy like what happened at Kendy Hospital, where after the building was blown up, everyone inside lost their fighting capability, allowing the Rebel Army personnel who entered later to easily carry out a massacre.

The advantage of Aleppo Prison is that it has three buildings that can be used as fortresses.

With this, there will always be somewhere to hide a group of people in advance as the last resistive force.

(To be continued.

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