The night attack plunged the entire position into chaos, with gunshots, shouts, and curses mingling together.
"Don't panic! The number of enemies is very small!"
Although the new recruits were panicked, fortunately, the experienced company officers were calm and calm. While they encouraged the soldiers, they took the lead in counterattacking the enemy.
Under this situation, the soldiers began to stabilize, picked up their guns and hid behind the bunkers, aiming at the darkness. In other parts of the stronghold, gunshots also echoed, and shouts of orders and painful screams rang out in the camps of each company.
It sounds like there are enemies everywhere outside the darkness.
Hayes also picked up the gun and pointed it outside, but there was nothing to aim at and nothing could be seen. The gunfire came from the darkness, and they could only shoot blindly.
It would be a miracle if it actually hit something.
At this time, the officer finally took out his night vision goggles and saw the enemy hiding in the darkness, wearing a cloak and wearing night vision equipment.
In fact, the soldiers in the camp should also have night vision goggles, but due to transportation and distribution reasons, these equipments were not in place until they went to the battlefield. As a result, their eyes were now dark. Then the officers took out their illumination guns and fired a few rounds.
Flares.
Hayes finally saw the guys crawling among the ruins.
"Fire!"
With a piercing snap, a row of lasers shot into the darkness driven away by the lights, and similar piercing sounds were heard elsewhere in the camp.
Hayes saw one night raider hit by a laser on his body and legs. He trembled for a few times and then stopped moving. The other night raiders started running quickly, seemingly trying to retreat.
"Kill these bastards!"
The soldiers who were disturbed from their rest were very angry. They finally found their direction and found something that could be put into battle.
With a defiant and angry roar, they stood up as one and rushed across the broken stone.
Hayes didn't rush out. His eyes were wide open and sweat was coming from his skin, and then he heard explosions and gunshots.
The heretics deployed mines, and the first few people who rushed out were blown to the ground. Then the others did not dare to pursue them anymore and could only shoot at those figures in the back.
As the lights gradually went out, the darkness was filled with the cries of the wounded and dying.
The first night attack came and went like this, and it looked like they were losing.
In the following time, everyone was highly nervous. They were afraid of the next night attack. The repaired searchlights scanned the darkness almost non-stop. However, the regiment headquarters did not respond to this night attack and just let them continue.
Stay in position.
However, the enemy did not appear. Hayes persisted for several hours, half asleep and half awake. Almost when he was about to lie down, some rocks among the ruins and rubble a kilometer away from the stronghold became loose for a moment.
Underground, there are more than a dozen dark pipe entrances exposed.
Then, heretical soldiers wearing red carapace swarmed out of the pipe with guns in hand, like a gushing flood, and shouted slogans——
"Destroy the false emperor! Long live the Black-Hearted King!!!!"
In an instant, everyone woke up, and Hashet hurriedly stood up and looked outside, his bloodshot eyes widening.
I saw that the three directions of the water supply station were already covered with huge waves of enemy soldiers. They were running among the ruins, the weapons in their hands emitting a cold light, like the flood that burst the embankment, rushing towards them overwhelmingly, roaring and screaming wildly.
The shouting is terrifying.
"Damn you! Why are there so many!"
Everyone was dumbfounded. The number of enemies was at least 3,000, but they only had less than 500 people. There were still heretics rushing out of the underground pipes in a queue, and the final number may exceed 5,000!
The enemy's charge was like a landslide and a tsunami. Many of the soldiers stationed there were so frightened that their gun-holding hands trembled. Their counterattacks were scattered and unable to stop the enemy's offensive.
"Shoot! Shoot!"
Hayes was so frightened that he woke up. He followed the company commander's instructions and kept shooting. Now he didn't need to aim at all. There were enemies everywhere.
Suddenly, there was a scream in the air, and then an explosion rose near the stronghold. The enemy even had remaining artillery!
Although the defenders of the stronghold tried their best to shoot, they were unable to withstand the overwhelming number of enemies. Hayes also saw some savage mutants wearing simple blue armors leading the attack. Most of them had deformed heads like cattle or sheep, holding hand-held weapons.
The roar of the brutal melee weapons shook the air, and even the earth trembled under their hooves.
Soon, the enemy at the front rushed up, and one of the mutants brandished an ax larger than a human. It roared, and the huge sharp blade took away the lives of the two soldiers in one go.
The soldiers struggled to resist the charge. A brave company commander killed a mutant with a grenade, and then became a mutilated corpse, with the flesh and bones trampled into mud.
More heretical soldiers rushed forward, driving their bayonets into the chests of the panicked defenders, killing one decisively and swiftly, and then turned to the next.
The brutal hand-to-hand combat broke the morale of these exhausted defenders, and many began to retreat or even flee.
Even the company commanders started waving their hands and yelling:
"Back off! Back off!"
The soldiers began to rout, and some fell to their knees sobbing, before being killed by bayonets thrust from behind.
In such a terrifying situation, Hayes could only follow the team and run backwards. For some reason, every detail at this time was engraved in his memory, and the heart beating in his chest seemed not to be his own.
He originally thought that their way of death might be to fight to the last moment and die in a pool of blood and glory.
And now it seems that they may die in the most humiliating way.
Bullets, lasers and grenades rained down.
The head was smashed, the limbs were blown off, the body exploded like rotten fruit, and the massacre officially began. Hayes was caught between the screaming people and the dying bodies. He was terrified, unable to think, and only had the instinct of survival in his heart.
Blood was flowing on the ground, and blood mist sprayed into the air. There was only the smell of blood in Hayes's nose, and he almost slipped into the blood.
He saw a soldier reaching out to him. His body was torn apart from the waist down, and his internal organs were dripping on the ground.
"save--"
Although Hayes was very scared, after a brief pause, he ran over and stretched out his hand.
"I'll take you to the doctor..."
As soon as he took hold of the opponent's hand, a laser shot was fired, which directly opened the man's head and helmet. In the end, the blood-covered hand was unable to slip from Hayes's hand.
While everyone was retreating, the political commissar was still trying to maintain order. The young Juyin Dole was sweating profusely. He stood on a high place, raised his pistol high, and shouted at the top of his lungs:
"Soldiers! Don't retreat! Hold on! Hold on! Be loyal to the Emperor!"
Suddenly, a hand grabbed his coat and pulled him down from the height, and then a grenade exploded no more than five meters away from him.
"Political Commissar! I can't stand it anymore! Let's go!"
Hachet held Ju Yin's arm and tried to escape with him, but the political commissar pointed his gun at his hat, which was tilted to one side, and said hoarsely:
"The theater commander has ordered not to retreat even one step. If we retreat, everyone will-"
Before he finished speaking, a sharp roar pierced the top of his head, and then the earth trembled, and the sky-high firelight rose from near the water supply station, obliterating the groups of heretical soldiers.
The Imperial artillery began its deadliest firing!