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On the evening of the 26th, the armed forces of the Tuareg Liberation Organization suddenly began to enter the security zone.

This warning zone was originally a security warning zone set up by the United Nations Security Council MINUSMA in accordance with the ceasefire agreement between the two sides.

This has been a balance that has been maintained for several years, and although fragile, the original is still valid.

But on this night, this fragile balance was broken again. Serious clashes broke out between the Tuareg Liberation Organization and the Mali government forces.

Rockets and mortars were used by both sides, and the Tuareg Liberation Group's offensive did not stop until dawn.

The Mali government army, relying on tenacious fortifications and a prepared defense plan, survived until dawn.

Lin Rui and his military advisory group stayed up all night. They kept communicating with the Malian troops and monitoring the enemy's movements. And the attack strength of these troops.

And according to the situation on the battlefield, organize troops in time to respond. During the night of gunfire, the camp in Gao played a huge role.

Until dawn, the Tuareg Liberation Organization did not gain more results. Finally, at dawn, a full retreat.

With a cup of coffee in his hand, Lin Rui listened to the battle report from the front line. After listening, quickly made a criticism.

"It's a busy night." The actuary raised Kishi's head. "Four camps deployed by the Malian military in the Gao region were attacked simultaneously.

And the scale of the attack far exceeded our previous expectations. We didn't think they would have been able to commit such a large force at the beginning of the conflict.

At most it was a tentative attack.

But judging from the current situation, this is not just a simple tentative attack. According to the information obtained so far, they have invested at least two battalions of troops. "

"I'm afraid it's more than that." Colonel Neil frowned, "Intel from several nearby positions all confirmed that the enemy troops used rocket launchers and large-caliber mortars.

There were two positions where even light armor appeared. From what we know of the Tuareg Liberation Organization, their light armor will only be equipped with regimental level units. "

"The losses of both the enemy and the enemy are basically in line with our judgment. After the fierce battle last night, we did not have much loss.

Of course, these are also because we are well prepared. We have built very effective fortifications in front of each position.

Including the Khosla blast wall and the trenches and paratrooper pits we built in advance all played a very important role. "The actuary Jiang shore replied.

"Gentlemen, this is just the beginning. The enemy's true ability has not yet been revealed." Lin Rui turned around and said.

"Could it be that they will launch a further offensive? This is because they broke the ceasefire agreement first and launched an attack on us unilaterally." Colonel Neil frowned, "Don't they, don't want to explain this?"

"With this level of conflict, they can find an excuse at will. Then, with the help of the exchange of fire between the two sides, the conflict will continue to intensify.

So at this time, it is useless to exert diplomatic pressure on them. If they really cared about the pressure, they wouldn't launch an offensive operation at all. "Lin Rui shook his head.

"Boss is right. Before they launched the offensive, I'm afraid they have already thought of an excuse. What we have to do now is not to worry about whether they are unilaterally picking things up.

Instead, plan ahead. The actuary Jiangan replied. "Judging from their offensive actions yesterday, their main breakthrough path should be the Askia Tomb in the north of Gao, and go southward."

This is also in line with our previous estimates. There is a famous world cultural heritage, and they chose to camp there to avoid more artillery attacks from us there.

In fact, according to our current information, their headquarters should be near the Tomb of Askia.

And at present, the army has been divided into four groups, but the main force should be a force that is close to the Niger River and goes south along the river. The total number should be on one camp.

And there is news that it is a battalion of the Tuareg Liberation Organization that is very good at fighting. It is said that he once fought with an extremist terrorist organization for a whole month. It is hard to scare the extremist terrorist organizations. "

"Courage Battalion." Colonel Neil nodded, "This is indeed the best unit they can fight.

So that is to say, they are very likely to focus their attack on the west side, along the Niger River. "

"The information we have so far is not enough to make such an inference. But Colonel, your thinking is not unreasonable." Lin Rui pointed to the map and said, "The west side is the weakest defense position.

The camp we are currently in has both east and west sides, and the main defense is due north.

If they take the western route along the Niger River, they are completely out of our defense range.

Our previous linear defense lined up through several fixed camps is not without weaknesses.

The main weakness lies in the junction of the two positions.

That is to say, this joint defense is flawed at the joint point of each other. If they go straight through this route on the west side, it will indeed pose a great threat to us. "

Colonel Neil looked at the icon on the map and nodded repeatedly, "That is indeed the case. Mr. Rick, do you have any good ideas?"

Lin Rui glanced at him, "Yes, but my solution is to do nothing."

"Could it be that we don't do anything if we let them drive straight in on the west side?" Colonel Neil looked at Lin Rui in surprise.

"It's not that we don't do anything, but we need to wait for an appropriate time." Lin Rui pointed to the map and said, "Judging from the history of previous battles, the Tuaregs are actually not good at large-scale battles. This is different from their It is related to the combat habits of nomadic peoples.

They are good at high mobility and fast action. But it is not good at advancing steadily with large-scale troops.

It is still because their number cannot reach this scale, and secondly, it is because their command system cannot support this combat mode.

So what they are best at is assault. A certain unit acts as the assault arrow, and this unit will penetrate the defense of the enemy unit at the fastest speed.

First fundamentally disrupt the opponent's defense.

Then other troops, attacking from multiple positions simultaneously. Like a pack of wolves, bite enemies from multiple directions.

Through a high degree of mobility, to achieve a local superior force, divide and surround the enemy's troops. This is their usual routine. "

After hearing this, Colonel Neil couldn't help nodding, "That's true, our troops have suffered a lot like this before.

They often use one unit as the focus of the assault, and at the same time as the forcible assault, they use other troops to carry out auxiliary attacks.

It often hits us hard from head to tail. In addition, most of them are based on convoys, and their mobility and impact are very strong. "

"But this time they may not be able to do it. For the high-mobility combat mode, there is a tried-and-tested solution, and that is dragging.

If the enemy relies on high-speed maneuvering to fight, we must try to hold him back and limit their high-speed maneuvering.

A fast horse often has no stamina. So the best sprinters often can't beat the marathon.

If they want to be fast, we need to be slow, to hold them back, so that the offensive rhythm is completely under our control. "The actuary Jiang An smiled.

"Slow? How can you fight fast when you are slow?" Colonel Neil said in amazement, "The enemy is attacking with lightning, and we will fight slowly? How can this work?"

"Colonel, the so-called slow does not mean this. Our so-called slow refers to the continuous delay and delay tactics that control the battle rhythm, so that the enemy's high-speed mobility cannot be used.

Although it is said that soldiers are expensive and fast, sometimes speed is also a weakness. Especially when the troops are advancing at high speed, if the follow-up troops have no time to follow up, then the troops advancing at high speed often become a lone army. "Lin Rui said slowly.

"Lone army?" Colonel Neil asked in astonishment. "But they obviously have four troops."

"That's right, but we only need to let go of one of them and let him rush forward at high speed. But we must firmly control the other troops and prevent them from advancing.

Then the high-speed advancing troops will become a lone army, especially when they are out of touch with the follow-up troops, there is no support from the left and right, and there is no strong support from the rear.

No matter how fast they charge, in the end as long as we seal off his rear, this army will become a turtle in an urn. "The actuary drew a line on the map.

"You mean that we let the army on the west side go south, but we must withstand the pressure of the other three troops." Colonel Neil thought deeply.

Lin Rui nodded, "That's right, the troops on the west side are advancing along the Niger River. I really don't have much defense against them.

If we allocate too many troops to limit them, the effect will not be very good. Then we'll just let them in.

But the rest of the troops, we must keep them out of this line.

In this case, the enemy army will be in a state where three troops are frustrated and one army is driving straight.

If their army was to cover the other three troops in turn, their advancing speed would be meaningless.

On the contrary, if they try to use this force to open up the situation and let this force continue to penetrate, it will put this force in danger.

Because of the linear defense system we use, theoretically as long as our troops are sufficient, we can continue to extend this line of defense.

When the enemy's troops penetrated to a certain extent, we suddenly extended the defense line and cut off their retreat.

This enemy's ace force can be completely separated from other enemy forces. End up eating it. "

"But what if they drive straight in and enter the city of Gao?" Colonel Neil asked worriedly.

"Then let them occupy the city of Gao. This is only a battalion of troops. Even if they occupy the city of Gao, how long can they occupy it?

Conversely, even if they occupy the urban area of ​​Gao, as long as other troops do not keep up. They are still alone.

Their occupation of Gao is only symbolic. In reality, they were just trapped in Gao.

Because when they got here, they couldn't go any further. Several other positions have been completely locked by us.

Even if you want to retreat, it is impossible to retreat. And the other brother troops couldn't keep up with them at all.

They can't go in and out, and they can't retreat. We can only stay in Gao, waiting for us to free up our hands to surround and annihilate them. "The actuary Jiang shore replied.

"But if this is the case, doesn't it mean that we will lose Gao?" Colonel Neil was a little unwilling.

"Colonel, the essence of war is not to siege cities and land. It is to destroy the enemy's vital forces.

We are not afraid of the enemy occupying our city, what we fear is the enemy occupying our city with a large number of troops.

Colonel, can you see the difference? "

Colonel Neil frowned, "Aren't they all occupied by the enemy? I don't understand the difference."

"Well, on the one hand, we let the enemy sacrifice most of his troops, and only a company of troops occupied the city.

On the other side, the enemy occupied the city with several regiments and even several divisions. Which do you think is more difficult to deal with? asked the actuary.

"Naturally, it is more difficult to deal with a large number of enemies occupying the city." Colonel Neil nodded. "If it's really just a company of troops, let alone occupying the city, I'm afraid they can't even deal with the police force in the city."

"This is just a metaphor. What we have to do is to eliminate the enemy fundamentally. It doesn't matter whether they occupy the city or not. The city is already there. Even if it is occupied by the enemy, we can take it back.

However, the loss of a large number of troops cannot be replenished in a short time.

Therefore, the real essence of war is to destroy the enemy's vital strength and make the enemy unable to fight any more. The comparison between the two sides is the overall combat effectiveness, not who occupies more cities. "The actuary explained.

"That's what I said, but if Gao falls into the hands of the enemy, I'm afraid the higher-ups won't agree. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com" Colonel Neil frowned. "We went all out to prepare for the war, but in the end the enemy occupied Gao, which would be seen as a failure by the higher-ups."

"Colonel, that's why we need you. I need you as a liaison officer to communicate well with the upper echelons of Mali.

There are many things that we can't completely listen to the employer, because the employer is not here, and they don't understand the immediate situation on the battlefield.

And we are on the battlefield. We know the current situation on the battlefield better than anyone else. If at this time we are subject to orders from above everywhere, then this battle will be fought very hard.

Colonel Neil, do you understand what I mean? We need you to communicate well with the upper echelon of Mali to ensure that our command can be fully implemented.

Instead of catering to the needs of your superiors. We will have some tactical trade-offs, and you have to make sure that our tactics are executed correctly. Lin Rui looked at Colonel Neil and said.

"Mr. Rick, you will embarrass me like this?" Colonel Neal smiled wryly.

"Colonel, we are on the battlefield. No one has it easy. We men are working hard for your victory, and your soldiers are fighting hard.

War is not easy. Because people who think war is easy, usually die in war. Lin Rui patted Neil on the shoulder.

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