Infantry fortresses were being built one after another. Although sniper Zhang Changlin was still lying quietly on the ground, his hand was tightly grasping the sandbags that leaked out of the sandbags.
At this moment, three fire bases that have sprayed flames towards the Sihang Warehouse building have been established. Heavy machine guns, light machine guns, and grenades fired fiercely at the Sihang Warehouse without stopping.
Under the morning light, red ballistic trajectories intertwined like rain, and the smoke from grenade ammunition that exploded from time to time filled the air with yellow-green poisonous gas.
It would be fine if that was all, but unfortunately in the artillery base 800 meters away, the muzzle of the 25mm anti-aircraft gun sounded a rhythmic "tat-tat-tap-tat" from time to time, with the sound of five rounds fired.
Unlike the almost continuous firing of heavy machine guns, the firing of anti-aircraft guns is heavier and more violent.
It was not that the cannons in the Sihang Warehouse did not fire back, but after only a few shots were fired, they were suppressed by the opponent's anti-aircraft guns.
Especially the gunners who have only received simple training cannot hit targets that are farther away.
Moreover, those anti-aircraft guns did not give them multiple opportunities to fire. Once counterattacks were detected, they would immediately be attacked by several anti-aircraft guns continuously.
"Damn anti-aircraft guns."
While cursing in his heart, his dark eyes stared through the scope at the anti-aircraft gun that kept spitting out flames.
Even in the sniper scope, the target eight hundred meters away was pitifully small. But when yellow-green smoke was everywhere, this was Zhang Changlin's only choice.
Yes, his snipers must suppress the anti-aircraft fire. If this continues, the defenders in the Sihang Warehouse will not be able to hold on for long.
"Pass it down, use the sights to fire anti-aircraft guns."
The sniper not far away did not move his hands. Even if he shouted, there was still no movement at all including the ghillie suit he was wearing.
Although when Zhang Sixing first told them about the sniper's method of action, no one understood it. But after yesterday's battle, the surviving sharpshooters all consciously abide by the simple rules and told each new sharpshooter to join them.
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"Bang"
Someone shot.
Zhang Changlin froze his eyes and stared closely at the anti-aircraft artillery position in the distance, which was still making noisy "ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta" firing sounds.
"well"
Since the anti-aircraft gun started firing, he has organized snipers to attack several times. However, it is a pity that the number of hits on the anti-aircraft gun gunner is pitiful.
"Bah, bah, bah..."
Several more gunshots were fired nearby, but unfortunately they still failed to hit the anti-aircraft gunner.
No longer placing his hope on others, Zhang Changlin's dark eyes stared closely at the location of the anti-aircraft gunner.
Through the six-fold mirror, he could clearly see a gunner taking a clip of shells and loading them into the magazine. He held his breath, and then exhaled gently...
"Bang"
The gunfire rang out, and to Zhang Changlin's great disappointment, the gunner had already pressed in the shells, and then the anti-aircraft gun continued to spray shells toward the Sihang Warehouse "tap-tat-tap-tat".
Commander Zhang, when can you come back?
While sighing in his heart, he couldn't help but complain that the new arrivals Cao Zijin and Lu Feizhang were useless and couldn't even hold a captive.
If they weren't so useless, would the little devils be so rampant now?
Just as he was thinking to himself, a large number of Japanese Marines suddenly appeared from behind the three firepower bases that had just been built to suppress the firepower of the Sihang Warehouse.
Different from the previous attacks, this time they charged with tools on their backs under suppressed fire.
Seeing this situation, Zhang Changlin turned around and shouted downstairs,
"Attention, the Japanese are attacking."
As he roared, the people in Sihang Warehouse, who had been enduring the artillery fire, suddenly began to fight back.
"Boom, boom, boom..."
The heavy machine guns sent by the British army sprayed long tongues of flame at the charging Japanese soldiers.
From the roof of the building, you can clearly see the power of those heavy machine guns. A bullet flying over can often hit several people.
Not only that, but at this time, two tanks began to show their power at the corner downstairs.
Their placement and the rotatable turret can easily and completely cover the east, west and south of the Sihang Warehouse with firepower.
Because of its armor coverage, it doesn't care about the opponent's light fire attack at all, and even because of its placement, it is outside the range of the opponent's fire attack.
Zhang Changlin saw with his own eyes that a large number of Japanese soldiers fell on the charging road.
However, what he didn't expect was that the Japanese soldiers had no intention of stopping even though they faced a storm of firepower.
This time the Japanese Marine Corps dispatched six tanks, and the infantrymen hid behind the tanks and endured the firepower of the four rows of warehouses.
They ran forward, only ran less than a hundred meters, and then fell to the ground. Then they used everything they could to cover themselves.
For example, dragging the corpse of a Marine who died in battle the day before to cover himself.
Unfortunately, there are often booby traps placed underneath those corpses.
After dragging the body and holding the helmet, he was immediately hit by bullets and thunder into the sky. Several ropes were tied to the helmet, which immediately activated other mines nearby.
"Peng Peng Peng"
There were several muffled sounds, and everyone with their helmets on was sprayed into the air, and then burst into balls of fire.
As shrapnel flew from the air to the ground, screams came from the Japanese Marine Corps.
There's no way, there's no way to defend against this kind of jumping mine, and there's no way to hide from it. For the Japanese who only know how to play light infantry, it's their biggest nemesis.
Its principle is actually similar to air-dropped "cluster bombs", because "consular bombs" are air-exploded shotguns that can cause huge damage to people on the ground, so they were banned by international conventions after the war.
And of course these booby traps were not laid by Zhang Sixing, but were the result of old smoker Li Youtian carrying forward the minelaying techniques taught to him by Zhang Sixing.
Unfortunately, although there were mine arrays to block the Japanese charge, it was clear that the Japanese army did not rush to the end this time.
Instead, fire bases and fortresses were established every fifty meters. When the Sihang Warehouse was under continuous attack by poison gas bombs and anti-aircraft guns, it would be difficult to prevent the construction of these bases.
Of course, the Japanese also paid a huge price, but almost everyone could only watch them complete their mission while enduring poison gas and artillery fire.
The tank then continued to advance, and the Japanese Marine infantry following behind continued to approach.
Despite suffering many casualties, the Japanese Marines continued to advance with the determination to capture the Sihang Warehouse.
At the same time, the people behind were using building debris and sandbags to build a trench system on the unobstructed battlefield.
If this situation does not change, four thousand warehouses will inevitably be captured in less than a day at most.
After all, no matter how fierce the firepower is and no matter how clever the attack, when the troops can move to the entrance of Sihang Warehouse at a very small cost.
So no matter who is defending Sihang Warehouse, they cannot face the attack of thousands of Japanese soldiers without losing.