GATE : Thus the Warsaw Pact fought there

Part 2 : Killing ground

1st Day inside the Gate
Warsaw Pact temporarily FOB, Unnamed Hill.

 As a result of the battle to secure the hill last night, Warsaw Pact forces are able to secure a bridgehead on this of the Gate and establish a temporary FOB with their infantry and armored units take a strong defensive position on a surrounding area but even though their enemy got beat to crap last night they still maintain a foothold on flatland down below the hill. This is why Potemkin and other unit commanders got summoned to the command tent to discuss today's battle plan.

 As Potemkin entered the command tent was greeted by 1st and 3rd BTG commanders along with their briefer, the same Colonel from yesterday. "Your guys have done a great job last night, high command are more than happy about the result." The Colonel speaks, giving a grateful expression before turning to his regular look. "However, your job here is not done. High command gives us orders to eliminate the enemy's position below the hill and take it but does not tell us how exactly they want us to proceed so I guess it's your choice on how to conduct this." Immediately after the Colonel finished his sentence, all 3 BTG commanders nodded and began their planning.

 "Well, how do we start?" the 1st BTG commander asked, he's a Lieutenant Colonel from NPA's Land Forces named Fritz Schneider and judging from his uniform he's a kombat (battalion commander) from 9th Panzer Division.
 "Can't we just simply bomb them into submission?" said Imre Horthy, a Hungarian Lieutenant Colonel, 3rd BTG commander.
 "That's...sounds like a good idea actually." Potemkin replied but before anyone could react to that sentence Potemkin immediately continued.
 "But as you may know, our logistical situation is not the best right now and we don't know when it will get better. Look, I too want to send them back to the stone age with 152 mm shells but we didn't have enough ammunition to completely annihilate them and even if we did get more ammunition it would still take a while before sufficient amounts of them are available. Not only that we will give our enemy more time to reinforce and resupply but also cause a delay in our battleplan which would definitely piss high command off and I don't want to explain why it took us so long to achieve our objective."
 "Yeah, me neither." Fritz agreed and while Horthy, as much as he wanted to argue with Potemkin's words, had to stand down and nod as he too didn't want to get in trouble with high command.
 "If everyone agrees with that, I'll propose this ; we bombard their position with MLRs or whatever artillery pieces that you have in your disposal and then we would crush them with mechanized assault. My BTG will lead the charge while you both mop up the flank. Most importantly, make sure every single one of your ammunition counts as I know we all want to make use of our limited supply as much as possible." Seeing that both of his counterparts agree with his point, Potemkin proposes his plan of attacking. Fritz and Horthy take a while to analyze Potemkin's proposal before giving Potemkin a nod.

 Keeping the plan simple while using as much advantage as possible is the best plan they have as of now because they lack sufficient information about the enemy forces and map of the surrounding area as they didn't have enough time to gather intelligence just yet. Waiting for more information might make more sense but that would result in them letting their enemy get much needed time to rest and reinforce that would result in a more difficult campaign overall so taking a risk and being aggressive is more viable in their opinion.

 As they concluded the meeting Potemkin and both of his counterparts left the command tent and returned back to their unit to prepare them for an assault and after a while, Potemkin rally his men near the center of the FOB and organize them into four column as they leave the FOB alongside the other two BTG while their artillery pieces roll into firing position and wait for the order to strike.
 While all of this is happening, Potemkin uses a radio in his BMP-1K to coordinate his unit movement while re-checking vital information such as artillery firing position and area where the shell would land as he tries to avoid friendly fire incidents as much as he could. When they approach within 1-2 km from the target area Potemkin gives a signal for his unit to form a wedge formation with tanks unit on the front and IFV driving along it and then call for an opening barrage from artillery units. Seconds after his order was given via radio, all hell broke loose from their enemy's perspective as 122 mm HE rockets from RM-70 rain down on them followed immediately by a devastating strike from DANA's 152 mm shells. The other 2 units also follow this trend as rockets from Uragan (BM-27) of the 1st BTG and 122 mm shells from 3rd BTG's Gvozdika land a catastrophic strike among the enemy's rank causing high casualties among them. This opening barrage took the enemy by surprise as they didn't expect this much firepower from their enemy partly because they didn't encounter this many shells when they attacked them last night.

 The situation becomes even worse as they are still shocked by the artillery strike when Warsaw Pact forces launch a full scale attack on their position. GDR BMP-1 along with Soviet BMP-2 and BTR-80 roll up on their position with terrifying speed while its main armament easily rip through even the highest quality armor they could get their hands on with Polish T-72M1, Bulgarian T-62M and Soviet T-80BV using their 125 mm to eliminate any structure within their path. After their armored unit successfully breach the defensive perimeter, the Warsaw Pact infantry units quickly pour into the area and mop up remaining soldiers within the vicinity of the camp as the battle becomes a killing ground. Soldiers who are lucky enough to survive the artillery barrage are quickly mown down by gunfire while most of the survivors fleeing from the scene as they realized they couldn't go up against such a force. Still, some well-trained soldiers did put up a surprising amount of resistance and cause some casualties within the Warsaw Pact's infantrymen but their efforts were in vain when going up against such superior force and they were ultimately defeated with ease. After spending nearly an hour clearing the camp the fighting stopped and the Warsaw Pact's flag was raised among the piles of bodies of their once alive enemies.