"Pa!" A flare exploded in the sky, illuminating the nearby position that was already full of bomb craters. Under the cold light, a paratrooper of the Tang Army aimed his rifle grenade at the hole where the flare flew.
Location.
He aimed very calmly, and then a rifle grenade exploded into a place full of dwarf soldiers, sending smoke and dust billowing into the air.
Before the dwarf machine gunner had time to place his weapon, he was hit by shrapnel and fell on the path forward.
The positions of both sides were too close, and the dwarves did not expect that the Tang paratroopers would dare to put them in such a close position before they started to fight back, and the fire was so violent as soon as they opened fire.
As if it had touched flaming plastic, the vanguard of the dwarf troops melted away. Hundreds of soldiers were killed by the Tang army before they could figure out what was going on.
Several Black Hawk helicopters came from nowhere and poured their rockets on the dwarf troops. Explosions were heard one after another. Even the dwarf tanks were directly hit by rockets and turned into wreckage.
Immediately afterwards, the dwarves had to allocate part of their troops to cover their flanks in the south: the Tang State Marine Corps, which occupied position 6, mobilized some troops to go north, which seriously threatened the flanks of the 1st Group Army of the Ice Empire.
At about 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, when the 2nd Army on the west side was already trapped and had to fight for its own survival, the 1st Armored Division of the 1st Army of the Dwarves began the real offensive.
A Type 10 tank staggered over a bomb crater, drove past the burning wreckage of a friendly tank, and drove towards the Tang Army's position.
In the trench, a Tang Army paratrooper inserted a rocket launcher into the front end of the launch tube, and then pulled the safety on the warhead. He put the prepared rocket launcher on his shoulder, and the soldier loudly reminded his comrades who were firing: "
rocket missile!"
Everyone subconsciously shrank their necks. The paratrooper stood up, took aim at the approaching tank in the distance, and pulled the trigger.
"Hoo!" The airflow from the rear blew up the dust behind him, and with bright firelight, the rocket rushed straight towards the majestic-looking Type 10 tank.
"Boom!" A huge explosion sounded, and in the thick smoke, the figure of the Type 10 tank gradually became clear. It continued to drive forward for about ten meters before stopping, and then it became paralyzed motionless.
In situ.
Raindrops of bullets hit around the position where the Tang Army's anti-tank fighters were hiding. They discovered the enemy and desperately hoped to kill the guy who had just destroyed their tank.
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"Fifty meters! They are about to throw grenades!" The platoon leader not far away reminded his soldiers, then picked up his assault rifle and fired wildly at the distance.
"Boom!" Sure enough, some dwarves threw grenades eagerly, but due to the distance, these grenades exploded in front of the Tang army's position, and did not cause many casualties.
However, the explosion drove back the Tang soldiers who were shooting, and the dwarf offensive force finally found an opportunity to make a big leap forward.
"For the Empire!" A dwarf held a rifle with a bayonet installed, stood up and loudly encouraged his companions. There was a medal hanging on his chest, which was proof that he had participated in the war against the Yangmu Empire.
"Long live His Majesty the Emperor!" A group of dwarf soldiers shouted. They clamored to get up from the ground, and then took heavy steps and rushed towards the Tang Army's trenches that were just around the corner.
"Thud, tug, tug!" The machine guns of the Tang Army ambushed on the flanks suddenly roared, and a row of tracer bullets instantly knocked down the dwarf soldiers in droves. These soldiers were cut down by sickles like ears of wheat in a wheat field. In just an instant, two or three of them fell.
Ten people were killed.
"Side! Side!" The attacking dwarf discovered the fatal machine gun on the side and loudly reminded his comrades to pay attention. A bullet came, interrupting his shout. He covered his chest and fell down, but the surrounding dwarf soldiers had already
At his reminder, the hidden Tang Army machine gun group was discovered.
"Ula!" While shouting, some dwarves changed the direction of their attack. They looked for a temporary bunker, pulled out grenades from their bodies, and threw them near the Tang Army's machine gun position.
"Boom!" A grenade exploded in front of the machine gun, and the mud stirred up made the two Tang Army machine gunners have to squint their eyes.
"Boom!" The second grenade exploded, almost overturning the two machine gunners. Their bodies were covered with flying soil, as if they were about to be buried.
"Boom!" The third grenade exploded in their trench, and two Tang Army machine gunners were penetrated by the shrapnel. Blood and torn cloth flew everywhere, and the machine gun also lost its balance and fell over.
On one side.
Seeing that an exposed machine gun position was taken out by themselves, the dwarf soldiers who dropped the bombs let out bursts of cheers. They got up from the ground and continued to move forward, and then were knocked down by bullets coming from the front...
The Tang Army's position was still as solid as a rock, and the Ice Empire's 1st Armored Division's attack still failed to open up the situation. As one tank after another was destroyed, the first attack seemed to have reached a stalemate.
The Tang army had never encountered an opponent who was unwilling to give up despite such a heavy sacrifice, and the dwarves were also shocked by the Tang paratroopers' fighting will to fight to the death.
Both sides seemed to be angry. After Xiang Ziyu saw the news that 17 people in his battalion were killed, instead of ordering to shrink the position, Xiang Ziyu personally led a local counterattack.
The dwarves put in 20 new tanks, ran over the corpses of friendly troops, drove past the wreckage of previously destroyed tanks, and launched another charge.
The battle lasted until about 0:40 before both sides stopped fighting: a battalion on the Tang Army's side that stood firm lost about 30 people and consumed a lot of ammunition; almost an armored battalion and an infantry regiment on the Dwarf side had to withdraw.
Out of battle.
What prevented the two sides from continuing the bloody battle was the roaring 50 H-6 bombers of the Datang Imperial Air Force. These planes dropped bombs behind the dwarves and bombed the unfolding follow-up troops of the Ice Empire's 1st Group Army.
The dozens of tons of bombs calmed down the dwarves. The precision-guided munitions dropped by the intruder attack planes that followed caused the dwarves to lose a lot of heavy weapons and equipment. They had to pause the attack and think about what they were going to hit.
