The Hongdan Airport in Yemen is about 300 kilometers away from the inner port. The airport covers an area of ​​about 650,000 square meters, which is not large in scale, equivalent to about half of the capital airport before the first year. He Dachuan led his 122nd Army to resist the enemy here.

The Battle of Yemen is an annihilation war launched by the European Zone. The strategic purpose is to eliminate the Gu Yan corps that were placed here. Therefore, this war does not involve the offense and defense of the main city, nor does it involve the occupation of the territory. Simply put, it means that if both sides completely smash and lose each other, it will be considered victory.

Such a war will have several obvious decisive points for the attacking party.

1. The attack on the Logistics Support Corps is very critical. As long as the defensive party's logistics forces can be broken, the opponent loses the war endurance ability and will definitely lose.

2. The capture of military bases, airports and other places controlled by the enemy is also a very important part. As long as these important military areas can be captured, the opponent will lose follow-up support and can only rely on the existing number of people and military equipment to fight. This is very important for the European Zone. Because they know that the three major zones have the ability to provide airborne support to the Yemen battlefield.

In addition to the above two points, there are also factors such as the advancement speed of the enemy's frontier defensive positions, as well as the squeezing of Gu Yan's corps' activity space, allowing them to retreat continuously, and affecting the defense areas of local military and political forces, which are the key to determining the outcome of the war.

Based on the above reasons, Westbrook used the tactic to make the coalition forces triangle and launch an attack on Gu Yan's corps.

The First Army of the Zhou regiment cooperated with the 33rd Armored Brigade of the Marine Corps in the first zone of Xiadao, as well as some fleet air force, to attack towards Hongdan Airport.

In the central battlefield, the 20,000 troops in the first European zone, cooperated with the 30,000 troops of the Zhou regiment to attack Huo Zhenghua's troops and Teng's troops from Gu Yan's troops.

On the right battlefield, the naval fleet cooperated with the remaining Marines and two infantry brigades to take the opportunity to attack the side rib defense area of ​​Gu Yan's corps and serve as the sharp knife combat force.

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The frontal battlefield will not be discussed for the time being, but only reflects the tragic and passionate battle at Hongdan Airport.

The person responsible for attacking here was Yan Hu, a general of the Zhou clan. He used to be a division commander. He was brave in the civil war in the seventh district and had excellent tactical command ability. When the Zhou clan was about to retreat to the seventh district, he took his own division to be responsible for the cover mission on the periphery. His troops were also finally retreated to the ship. A full-scale division fought to the end, leaving less than three thousand people.

After the Zhou clan retreated to Xiadao, it was Li Bokang and Zhou Xingli who proposed that the latter was promoted to the position of commander and served as commander of the First Army.

The First Army of the Zhou clan has more than 25,000 people and is equipped with two armored regiments and two artillery regiments. It is considered the ace in Zhou Xingli's hands. The direct descendant, this old guy, was not willing to use this unit in the battlefield of the fourth zone, which shows his preference for the First Army.

In addition to the First Zhou Army, the 33rd Armored Brigade of the Marine Corps in the European Zone 1 were also attacking Hongdan Airport. They had nearly 6,000 men, more than 400 tanks, and more than 500 armored vehicles. Their positional combat offensive capabilities were very outstanding.

After Yan Hu was called, Li Bokang personally called him and said the order in a concise manner: "The 33rd Armored Brigade has been allocated to you. This is the ace of the European Zone 1 in Xia Island. I have no other requirements. You must capture Hongdan Airport within two days and continue to advance, forcing Gu Yan to shrink his troops on the front battlefield to retreat."

After hearing this, Yan Hu replied proudly: "The person guarding Hongdan Airport is He Dachuan. This person is a bandit general. The troops he led in the inland before were not qualified to go to the front battlefield. General Staff, I promise to kill him at Hongdan Airport, two days will be enough."

"Don't be careless."

"yes!"

Although Yan Hu seemed to have a reckless answer and a little arrogant, he actually has a rich combat experience and is very cautious. After receiving the order, he did not rush to launch a general attack on Hongdan Airport that night, but ordered the troops to move forward slowly and push forward step by step.

The role of the 33rd Brigade is to cooperate with the First Army, so the generals in the European Zone still respect Yan Hu very much because they also want to win, so they also gave the greatest cooperation on the issue of troops' advancement.

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Yan Hu ordered the troops to move forward like an old lady. What was he trying to do?

It's actually very simple, he's waiting for dawn.

The four districts are mountainous and complex, and their sight is blocked at night, which is a disadvantage for the attacking party.

At around three o'clock in the morning, Yan Hu's first Zhou army had actually reached the attacking position, but did not move forward any further, but instead stationed troops along the offensive line and started a rest.

In the command center, a staff officer quickly walked to Yan Hu and said bluntly: "The commander, the air unit in the European Zone 1, conducted three reconnaissances at Hongdan Airport. They found that He Dachuan placed his air defense firepower and artillery regiments around the airport, and the defense positions were about five kilometers away from the airport. Their main force was not sure where they were scattered, and no large infantry garrisons were detected. The nearest location to us was not even a defensive fortification, and the door was wide open, and I don't know what the hell was."

"Haha." Yan Hu sneered when he heard the sound: "His infantry is on the air defense position and the front side of the artillery position, and must be on the surrounding mountains. I personally predict that their infantry will be at least thirty to fifty kilometers away from Hongdan Airport."

"Why do this? They can build a defensive position outside the mountain group to block us?" The staff officer was a little puzzled.

"Because He Dachuan dared not place his defensive positions around the airport. His army was adapted from a brigade, with a total of about 20,000 people. If such a small force garrisoned around an airport, how could it play any role? Our armored troops pushed forward and just squeezed their defense zone slightly. The air force on the back immediately had an attack corridor. A few waves of fire could blow up the Hongdan Airport to flatten the ground. What's the point of their defense?" Yan Hu pointed to the map and said: "He concentrated air defense firepower, and the artillery regiment was around the airport, just to prevent the air force from entering air strikes. Infantry was placed further in front to extend the battlefield space and prevent our armored regiments and infantry from advancing, so that the airport could not be lost, do you understand?"

The staff officer listened to Yan Hu's analysis and nodded slowly: "So, He Dachuan, a mud-legged man, really has some military command capabilities?"

"The three major regions have been unified for more than two years. He Dachuan has a clean foundation, loves to play with his life, and is obedient. Qin Yu wants to train him, even if he is a pig, he will definitely take off now." Yan Hu frowned and pointed to the map and said, "I won't underestimate him, but I will definitely kill him in the red pill! Order the artillery regiment to prepare, and wash the floor when it dawns."

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On the mountain range about forty kilometers away from Hongdan Airport, He Dachuan was wearing a fiery red sweater and holding a telescope, looking at the enemy's offensive forces.

The sweater was knitted by Etank for him, just to make good luck.

"Notify all infantry units that no matter how the enemy bombs, no one can leave the mountain position for me." He Dachuan blinked his eyes and said, "Just shrank, learn from the turtle!"

He Dachuan, who was not even qualified to go to the front battlefield, experienced unification and time accumulation, and I don’t know if he could come up with a qualified academic report at Hongdan Airport.

It was past six o'clock in the morning and it was bright.

The air force in Europe One flew into the battlefield densely and began to drop bombs.
Chapter completed!