Chapter 33 The Weird Night(1/2)
The smoke of gunpowder never seemed to dissipate over Tsaritsyn, especially after the Ming Dynasty landed in Corsica, the French army's attack became even more fierce.
The French army and their allies launched an attack on the Tsaritsyn Railway Station, the last position of the Ming army, day and night.
"How many of those ghost cannons have been killed?" Old Monkey took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and handed it to Bayan.
"Maybe Sanmen!"
"possible?"
"The third one has not been confirmed, but the ghost cannon was never fired again before dark."
After hearing Bayan's answer, the old monkey nodded.
This is just a routine inquiry before handing over the position!
"Tell your brothers to be careful and avoid artillery fire. These idiots actually used heavy rocket shells to cover the area before attacking.
You saw it when you came here too!”
The old monkey nodded. When he crossed the bridge, he saw that there were many holes in the Volga River, revealing the dark water inside.
It's so damn cold that some of the areas that were blasted have refrozen.
What's inside the river is nothing, but the craters along the river are shocking.
The ground was frozen harder than stone, and a large hole three to four meters deep was blasted out.
There is no moon today and it is very dark.
If you really fall into such a pit, you will be disabled even if you don't die. Even if you are lucky, you will break your leg.
The damn weather in Russia is freezing everyone.
"Two places in the basement's fortifications collapsed. The entrance to the west cannot hide people, so be careful when decorating it.
Also, the water tower is no longer stable.
It took no less than ten direct hits from artillery shells during the day, but fortunately it was originally built solidly.
In addition, when it was just dark, I placed mines three to four hundred meters in front of the position.
After a while, the mortarman will give you the various elements. When the mine explodes, you just need to press the various elements to hit it.
The rest is nothing, just the usual routine.”
Bayan thought for a while and felt that there was really nothing wrong with it.
"Are there many casualties?"
"More than twenty were injured and eight died. All were shot wounds, not gunshot wounds.
Phone soldiers died the most!
Now, we have all become artillery observation posts.
Throw cannonballs here from both sides!
Do you know how much ammunition we consumed last night?" It was time to withdraw, and Bayan was obviously in a better mood.
"How many?"
"Two boxes!"
The old monkey glanced at Bayan and then stopped talking.
One box of ammunition contains 800 rounds, and two boxes of ammunition equals 1,600 rounds.
In broad daylight, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., playing ping pong pong for a whole day, only 1,600 rounds of ammunition were consumed.
The "intensity" of the battle can be seen clearly.
"Be careful at night. When it gets dark, I watch from the water tower. The other side seems to be holding something back."
"What?"
"I don't know. Anyway, be careful."
After Bayan finished speaking, he left. Many soldiers were carrying stretchers. On them lay dying soldiers!
Judging from the old monkey's poisonous eyes, after twelve hours of guarding, at least five of these wounded people would not be able to hold on.
After entering the position, go to the underground bunker to take a look.
Sure enough, the underground bunker at the west entrance of the train station collapsed in two places, and it collapsed at the entrance.
At this time, the underground bunker at the west entrance was completely destroyed.
“dig around and see if you can make an opening.
Otherwise, the people guarding here will die during the shelling."
The old monkey decided to save it. The entire train station was no longer complete.
Many of the blown bricks turned into powder due to repeated bombing!
The smoke from a falling cannonball can turn a person gray all of a sudden.
If you are in the smoke, you feel like you will choke to death immediately.
The soldiers started digging with a bang, and sparks shot out after being poked with the shovel a few times.
When the basement was first built, there was a lot of steel in the cement.
"How big of a brain do you have? Get explosives and blow them up!" The old monkey was somewhat doubtful of the IQ of these soldiers.
Are you going to dig out the ruins of reinforced concrete with a fucking shovel?
Soldiers don't have much else, and they definitely have enough explosives.
This time, the old monkey brought more than twenty boxes.
The Ming army was busy clearing the tunnel, but the French army... there was no movement.
And there was still no movement all night!
Until twelve o'clock in the evening, not a single gunshot was heard from the other side.
The old monkey stood on the water tower and looked through the small hole with a telescope for several hours.
My feet were so cold that I couldn't feel anything, my hands were almost numb, and my gloves were probably frozen on the telescope.
The old monkey was very nervous!
If the bullets were flying like locusts and the shells were hitting the position randomly, he was really not afraid!
It was such quietness that made him feel uneasy.
After years of licking blood on the battlefield, the old monkey has developed a sixth sense that is beyond ordinary people.
His sixth sense told him that if the enemy tried to attack, the world would be shattered.
One night, minute by minute passed like this in the old monkey's uneasiness.
The old monkey felt like he was living like a year!
My whole body was numb from the cold, so I put down the telescope in my hand, put my hands into my crotch, and kept tapping my feet on the ground.
"Damn it!" His body was hidden in the darkness and he lit a cigarette.
If there was no wall in front of him, he would not dare to do this even if he were killed.
My eyes have been staring all night, and now I shed tears when I see the cool breeze.
The most disgusting thing is that it was so dark that I couldn't see anything clearly.
To be exact, I didn't see anything.
The sky was as dark as thick ink, and the coalition positions in the distance didn't even have any lights.
I looked at my watch, it was already half past two in the morning.
In three and a half hours, someone will come to replace him.
The Ming Army's shift changes every twelve hours, and they will never let their company fight until they run out of ammunition and food.
The withdrawn troops will be replenished with equipment and personnel as quickly as possible.
Just like Bayan's company, it appeared on the battlefield a day later, and it was another fully-staffed company.
The direct consequence of the Ming army's rapid replenishment was that many companies were crippled countless times.
But there will be no annihilated company!
It is not easy to do this when the military strength is so tight.
After smoking a cigarette, there was still no movement from the other side.
"Call the back and ask them to increase the intensity of the flares.
Damn it, every ten minutes, you can’t even see a rabbit.”
After slamming down the cigarette butt, the old monkey picked up the binoculars and looked at the coalition positions a few kilometers away.
A flare fell, and the enemy's position was illuminated into daylight.
To be continued...