Chapter 391: Battle of Monor (Part II)
"Fire, fire."
A Romanian front-line officer was in a fit of rage giving the order to open fire on his own soldiers.
Following the officer's order, the Romanian soldiers, who were already furious, immediately fired revenge bullets at the Hungarian soldiers who were rushing towards them.
What the hell did the Hungarians do to make the Romanian officers and soldiers at the front so angry. In fact, it is nothing, it is the shelling of the area of engagement. It's just that the timing of the shelling was when the first attack was about to be withdrawn, which caught the Romanian officers and soldiers off guard.
In essence, the Hungarian soldiers suffered more casualties in this sudden shelling, but the Romanian officers and soldiers believed that they had been deceived. Yes, there are still some unwritten rules that need to be followed when fighting in Europe at the moment, even if everyone is fighting for their lives on the battlefield. And it was clear that the Hungarians had broken the rules, which made the Romanian soldiers extremely angry.
The incessant burst of angry gunfire made the attacking Hungarian soldiers suffer. In the face of the most accurate marksmanship, the Hungarian soldiers, like the blocked tide, could not suppress the invisible line. From time to time, brave Hungarian soldiers try to cross this invisible line, and this only adds an innocent life to the battlefield.
But there is a special point in everything, and just when the Hungarian soldiers were overwhelmed by the dense rain of bullets and bullets, a sturdy figure rushed out with a dodge left and right. I saw that the Hungarian soldier took advantage of the terrain to move quickly, dodging many bullets that were intended to knock him down.
And the soldier's performance attracted the Hungarian soldiers, who were so pressed that they couldn't raise their heads, and applauded again and again.
"Tamut, rush over."
"Let the Romanians know we're good."
The actions of the soldier, known as Tamut, attracted more attention from the position, and more gunfire rang out at him. At this time, Tamut was not simple, and after feeling that he had received too much attention, he lowered his head and hid in a crater that was still emitting gunsmoke.
The air of bullets flying over his head lifted the military hat he was wearing on the ground. This made Tamut, who had just gone through a strenuous exercise and was still sweating on his face, feel scared for a while. Just now, he almost felt that he was going to throw himself into the arms of death.
The Hungarian soldiers' morale was boosted by Tamut's behavior, and when the leading officer saw this opportunity, he immediately shouted loudly: "The enemy has nothing to fear, follow me." ”
After saying that, he immediately bent down and rushed towards the Romanian position, and seeing that the leading officers were so brave, these Hungarian soldiers immediately followed. And the actions of these soldiers immediately caused a chain reaction, and after seeing someone lead the charge, the other commanders made the same choice. So on the battlefield, there was a scene of Hungarian soldiers charging on all fronts.
Fearless of the oncoming hail of bullets, these soldiers rushed towards the Romanian position not far away.
And Londelier, who was observing the situation on the battlefield in the rear, looked at this scene through the telescope and said excitedly: "This is the tactic I want, play well." ”
Then he ordered the staff officer beside him: "Call the artillery units at once and ask them to block possible reinforcements from the enemy." ”
"Yes"
After receiving a reply from the communications staff officer who had received the order from Rundelier, he immediately rushed to give the order of the commander-in-chief.
After the communications staff officer left, Landlier continued to pick up his glasses to observe the battle on the front line. In the expectant eyes of Landreel, the Hungarian troops attacking from the front endured huge casualties and finally rushed to the position.
A fierce white-knuckle battle began.
"Kill"
A Hungarian soldier roared and jumped into the trench with a rifle loaded with a bayonet, while other Hungarian soldiers who followed him also jumped into the trench. The Romanian soldiers in the defensive position, except for a few who were lost in the initial surprise attack, the others picked up their rifles with bayonets and engaged in a fierce fight with the Hungarian soldiers.
A Hungarian soldier confronts a Romanian soldier staring at him, both armed with rifles on high alert. They looked at each other so seriously, for fear that they would not pay attention and bring endless remorse to themselves.
In this tense moment, a speck of dust is likely to be the key to the fate of both parties.
This tense, exciting and dignified atmosphere was always pressing the nerves of the two soldiers, making them themselves feel beads of sweat on their foreheads. And at this moment, beads of sweat on the Hungarian soldier's forehead rolled down into his eyes, making him inadvertently pause his eyes.
Seeing the opportunity, the Romanian soldier stepped forward with an arrow, handed the weapon in his hand forward, and roared angrily at the same time. The Hungarian soldier, who had lost the opportunity, hurriedly used his rifle to block the attack.
The Romanian soldier, who had seen an opportunity, was picking at his rifle and losing his position to reveal the empty door. Then he was kicked in the lower abdomen, and instantly sat the Hungarian soldier on the ground. The sharp pain in the lower abdomen made the Hungarian soldier's hand tremble slightly, and the Romanian soldier did not pity his opponent, and continued to pick out the opponent's rifle behind, and stepped forward to solve the opponent with a thrust.
It seems complicated to say, but in fact, it took just a few seconds for the two to distinguish the winner and loser. The result is also obvious, one death and one life, this is the cruelty of white-knuckle warfare. White-knuckle combat requires rigorous training and excellent psychological qualities to survive in this kind of hand-to-hand combat.
And white-knuckle battlefields like this are everywhere on the battlefield. However, unlike the Hungarians, who fought alone, the Romanian soldiers had a good cooperation with each other. They relied on their teammates in twos and threes to fight with their opponents.
Therefore, the Romanian soldiers on the battlefield were not afraid of Hungarian soldiers who were not much more numerous than themselves in white-knuckle combat. This was indeed the case on the battlefield, with the Hungarians in the absolute majority of the soldiers who fell in the white-knuckle battle. Seeing his comrades lying in a pool of blood, these training hours were not as long as those of the Hungarian soldiers in Romania, and they could no longer suppress the fear in their hearts and were driven out of the position.
The attack, on which Landreel had high hopes, was a complete failure.
After seeing his soldiers being driven out of the position, Landreel angrily threw away his military hat, especially after seeing the casualty figures, he even scolded: "It's really damn, I can't take the position after losing so many people." ”
It turned out that the battle cost the attacking Hungary close to 20,000 men, and according to Landreel's observations, the Romanian army lost no more than 4,000 men this time. The ratio of casualties to five to one is really ugly.
And for this battle, the Romanian side is also summing up, mainly because the front-line suppression weapons are not enough, so that the Hungarian group charge tactics worked. This is not so much to say that there were too few machine guns suppressed in the front-line positions, but too many losses. Under the heavy fire of the Hungarians, many machine guns did not play their due role.
In response to this situation, Admiral Salamik's approach was also simple and rude, directly mobilizing a lot of machine guns from the second and third line positions to strengthen the first line positions. In this way, there are basically 1.3 heavy machine guns and 4.1 light machine guns every 100 meters on the front-line position, and such ferocious firepower is still allowed to use the trick of group charge, then the position commander needs to be transferred back to the military academy to learn anew.
Sure enough, in the following days, the Hungarians were completely overwhelmed by the heavier bullets and could not get close to the Romanian positions. Even its artillery units, ignoring the Romanian counter-artillery, could not change in the slightest by shelling the front-line positions.
However, when Romania stubbornly resisted the onslaught of the Hungarian soldiers, the loss of front-line support weapons such as machine guns was also very large. The number of light and heavy machine guns plummeted from 5.4 per 100 meters to 2.3. In particular, heavy machine guns, which are difficult to move, wear out very quickly.
While the main forces of the People's Army and the Central Route Army were engaged in fierce battles, the Romanian troops on both flanks were not idle, and they swooped down on Monol, led by Lieutenant General Mandiv, commander of the 3rd Division, and Lieutenant General Ankodar, commander of the 1st Janissary Division.