On the fourth day of the attack on Lijiacun, it seems that the Dahua Empire's attack became more fierce because of the news that the Tang Navy had successfully attacked ports in various countries.
Almost regardless of losses, the soldiers launched a charge like a tide. While these soldiers were shouting slogans and moving forward, the Dahua artillery bombardment did not stop.
Along with the raindrops, hundreds of artillery shells fell. These artillery shells fell densely on the Tang Army's position, allowing the Tang Army to experience what it meant to suppress fire.
The trenches that had been reinforced and repaired repeatedly became dilapidated under the ravages of shells. The ground trembled with every explosion, and the water in the foxholes seemed to never calm down.
A soldier carried an ammunition box made of wood and shuttled through the narrow trench. He ran to a hidden machine gun position at the end and then put down the ammunition box.
He opened the ammunition box, took out the ammunition chain from inside, and completed the handover with the deputy shooter in the raincoat's simple rain shelter: "5 ammunition chains, 500 rounds of ammunition, save your time, I will come again
It takes about half an hour at a time."
"Don't worry! We won't waste it, but you have to send it again quickly. The enemy started to attack again." The deputy shooter's clothes were wet and there were a lot of leaks around. This is not a villa, so it is definitely not that
Comfortable.
The soldier in the raincoat said "good" and turned around to get back into the rain. In the distance, on the open space that looked like the surface of the moon, artillery shells fell one after another again.
"They have been fighting for more than three days and they haven't adjusted their shooting at Zhu Yuan?" the machine gunner muttered with some disdain as he looked at the place where the explosion occurred in the distance.
The artillery of the Dahua Army is large in scale, but its command and usage is very rigid. They have little combat experience and their tactics are very rigid.
In the past few days of the attack, they rarely poured the artillery shells to the most accurate position in time and accurately. They either shot close and landed in the open space between the two armies, or they shot far away and landed in the Li family village. It was impossible to
Form effective suppression.
In comparison, those Maxim heavy machine guns with shields pushed up directly by Dahua soldiers were more threatening. They were at least within visual distance, providing timely and accurate fire suppression.
"Chu tu tu tu!" In the woods on the other side, the machine gun has begun to roar. Listening to the continuous sound of the cloth tearing machine in the rain has a special charm.
Under the cover of tanks, the attacking Dahua Army soldiers rushed into the woods in the rain, and a chaotic fight began, where both sides tried to decide the winner.
As the battle continued, a terrifying roar suddenly pierced the air. Even in the pattering rain, the heart-stopping roar could be clearly heard.
That was the sound left by super-large-caliber artillery shells as they tore through the air, and then black smoke began to billow into the sky from the woods.
A dull, despairing explosion came from the woods, and the Dahua Empire's 300mm-caliber heavy artillery finally joined the battle.
That was when the Dahua Empire's railway artillery joined the battle 15 kilometers away. They let out terrifying roars, making the battle on the frontal battlefield even more fierce.
"Damn! The enemy's heavy artillery! Didn't they wait for their own people to retreat before opening fire?" The commander of the Tang Army was so angry at the sight before him that he gritted his teeth.
He arranged a lot of guard troops in the forest, because there was no room for loss in the forest. But he did not expect that the Great China Empire would attack indiscriminately.
Before the Dahua army could retreat, their own artillery couldn't wait to start covering fire. Countless artillery shells fell into the forest, blowing up the trees.
In fact, he didn't know that the Dahua Empire's artillery simply calculated the coordinate parameters wrong, so all the artillery shells that bombed Lijia Village hit the woodland in the north of Lijia Village.
As a result, this shelling turned out to be a blessing in disguise, and it really severely damaged the Tang Army garrison stationed in the north of Lijiacun.
"It's finished. Several No. 4 tanks in the forest and a battalion of soldiers are finished!" Seeing the densely falling shells, the commander of the Tang Army turned pale.
Looking at the Dahua army that was still charging into the woods, the commander of the Tang army knew that his flank was probably going to be lost.
"The reinforcing platoon has withdrawn. They have lost seven or eight people. They really can't survive. The artillery fire is too fierce." An officer came back in embarrassment to report the news of the failure of the reinforcements.
In the woods that were about to be bombed to the ground, the battle was still going on. Next to the Tang Army tanks that had been destroyed by shelling, the grenadiers tried their best to block the enemy's approach.
They fired continuously with Type 56 assault rifles, pouring bullets into the enemy's huge crowds. As the last magazine was used up, the soldiers had to take out grenades and insert bayonets for their assault rifles.
Finally, the last machine gun position fell silent. The shooter who had run out of bullets smiled bitterly and took out the pistol from his waist.
"The enemy is coming!" the commander reminded everyone loudly, and then pointed the muzzle of his pistol at the Dahua soldiers.
"Fix the bayonet!" A platoon leader pulled out the special spur of the Type 56 assault rifle from his waist and sang loudly at the top of his voice: "Long live His Majesty the King!"
"For His Majesty the King!" All the soldiers who had run out of bullets pulled out their bayonets and inserted them under the muzzles of their guns.
When Tang Mo designed the weapon, he did not design the bayonet into a fixed and foldable style, but adopted a detached design.
Following the command, the soldiers of the Tang Army inserted their bayonets, took out the remaining grenades, and started a hand-to-hand battle with the rushing Dahua army.
Just after the explosion of the grenade, wolf-like soldiers of the Tang Army rushed out from the smoke. Unprepared, the Dahua soldiers at the front were knocked to the ground by the bayonets of the Tang Army.
"Kill!" The soldiers of the Tang Army were full of momentum, but they were small in number but launched a counterattack. They crossed over the wreckage of their own tanks, crossed over the wreckage of the enemy tanks, and even once forced the Dahua soldiers who rushed into the forest to the edge of the forest.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! There were screams and shouts of killing everywhere for a while. The sound of fighting gold and iron accompanied by begging for mercy and crying made the whole forest lively.
It's a pity that the difference in strength between the two sides was too great. The Tang army's less than two hundred soldiers were quickly overwhelmed by the thousands of Dahua troops.
The attacking grenadiers of the Tang Army fell one after another, but the attacking soldiers of Dahua could not see any decreasing trend at all.
"Ah!" The Tang Army commander who had used up the last magazine dropped his pistol on the ground, picked up an engineer shovel from beside him, shouted, followed his soldiers, and rushed towards the enemy.
He kept running forward, and when he bumped into the first enemy, he swung the shovel in his hand and struck the opponent on the neck.
Before he could draw his weapon, a Dahua soldier in front of him thrust a bayonet into his chest. Blood spattered out and splashed all over the opponent's face.
The Chinese man who impaled him was young, twenty years old at most. He was obviously frightened by the blood. He pulled out his bayonet and stabbed him hard for a second and third time.
He waited until the Tang officer was lying on the ground without any movement, then he stopped due to exhaustion. In the rain, more Dahua soldiers passed him and ran madly towards the woods.
Those who occupy this forest first will be rewarded with one coin! Anyone who retreats will be killed without mercy! This is the order given to them by the superiors. This is the reason for their crazy attack!
"Boom!" Another round of artillery shells fell, this time it was not the artillery of the Great China Empire, but the artillery of the Tang Army pouring their ammunition.
The panicked soldiers of Dahua lost their foothold and lost hundreds of people. However, they finally occupied the forest and began to build their own position.
"Thud, tut, tut!" On the machine gun position that had just been replenished with ammunition, the machine gunners of the Tang Army began to fire. The Dahua army attacking Lijiacun directly in front was defeated again in the rain.
They abandoned hundreds of corpses and began a hasty retreat after successfully seizing the forest land in a flank attack.
Now, they don't need to attack from the open space far away. If they start from the woodland, they only need a few dozen meters to invade Lijia Village.
The grenadiers who rushed over for emergency reinforcements have begun to build a defense line close to the north of the village. They built flanking machine gun positions based on the ruins of the village and hid snipers in the buildings.
"Hoo! Hoo!" Just when everyone thought the battle would stop briefly, the Dahua Empire's heavy railway cannon, which had corrected its coordinates, began roaring again.
One after another, huge shells pierced the air and fell towards Lijiacun, then exploded inside the buildings and on the streets.
The huge explosion blew off the roof of the building, caused the walls to collapse, and left a crater with a diameter of more than ten meters on the ground.
The horrific explosion shook the entire Lijia Village, and the broken glass on almost all the buildings was rattling.
Another building that seemed to be relatively intact collapsed, and the tiles on the roof fell down, burying the front of a scrapped jeep under the rubble.
The car was destroyed by the previous shelling, the engine was broken, and the car body was full of holes left by shrapnel. But now it was completely destroyed, with only the rear of the car exposed.
The bombardment continued, as if the artillery shells of the Dahua Empire were free of charge, and then the 150mm heavy artillery of the Dahua Empire also joined the carnival. The defenders of the Tang Kingdom suffered in this environment for several more hours.
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"I'm really a crow's mouth." Looking at the machine gunners of the Tang Army who were bombarded behind them like a ghost town, they laughed at themselves depressedly in the trench.
He just said that he didn't make any progress, but he was slapped in the face.
"You'd better stop talking." The deputy shooter also felt a little ashamed, and leaned against the damp foxhole and complained: "You have a crow's mouth."
