The Eastern Battalion did not seem to be in a hurry to attack this place directly, and the intensity of their shelling increased with time, and the shells became more and more dense.

This is not a surprise to me. Artillery bombardment, infantry rush, artillery bombardment, infantry rush! Infantry rush after artillery bombardment! This routine has been performed on this planet for many years, and more importantly, the opponent's artillery of this caliber is not a big threat to me. The real battle only comes when the infantry is charged.

Umunis, who was beside me, seemed very uncomfortable with such a bombardment, he looked nervous, looked at me and said, "Can you stand this tossing in this place like a plow?" ”

"If you can't stand it, you have to take it." I said.

Younis sighed and said, "Bad news for you." Originally, I was going to ask the Serbian government army to intervene, but now it seems impossible. NATO has already informed them about the operation. NATO says that there is evidence to prove that you and your people are an illegal armed group and belong to an extremist organization, which has seriously undermined regional peace and stability. The Eastern Battalion has been given permission to carry out a clearance operation against you. And I hope that the Serbian army will cooperate with them to block the surrounding roads leading to here, so as not to cause accidental injuries and prevent possible support from your door. ”

"Hahaha." Listening to Eunice's words, I couldn't help but laugh, "It's the funniest joke I've ever heard in my life." Illegal arming? Haha, let them know today how powerful the illegal armed forces are. I said and looked at the old fellow, Younis, "Don't look to the government forces, I didn't expect them to help in the first place. ”

"Milk and Pulcich have sent news that the Earl has come with men, about two hundred or so." Said the oil bottle.

"Hmph, speaking of Salish. My friend in Kosovo also has news that there are people coming here in Kosovo to support Salish, and even Albania is organizing manpower. The old fellow Eunice looked at me after speaking, "Have you planned this?" ”

"Nope." I shook my head, "But what if you come?" I'm ready to fight here anyway. Why are you cringing now? Didn't I remember that you used to fight the Yankees in Baghdad until the end and were captured? Even when I saved you, you were more enthusiastic than now, why did you become like this now? I finished looking at the oil bottle, "Tell Milk and Pulcic not to act rashly." Now I'm a punching bag, and they're watching the show now, just watch it well. ”

After about ten minutes of shelling, the intensity quickly subsided, and at the same time the observation post heard that armed men began to approach the barracks under the cover of artillery fire. After a while, the shelling gradually stopped, and then the gunfire rang out, and the old fellow Yugovich came with the news that the men he had arranged at the wall were in place and began to fire at the attackers.

"That's because I didn't want to run away then. Enough running, understand? Just get ready for the final battle there! But it's different here, in fact, we have a lot of room for manoeuvre, so we don't have to work so hard at all! Younis spoke.

"You're going to let your old friend in Kosovo do the activity and make him think about not letting those armed people come over. That's what you should do now, you don't care about the rest, if you can't win this battle in the end, I'll think of letting you out alive. I said as I listened to the faint sound of gunfire outside, "I'll go out and have a look first, you stay here and don't move." ”

I quickly took the oil bottle to a below-ground observation point near the gate at point B. I looked in the direction of the gate, only to see that the wall that had been simply repaired at this moment was once again blown up and crumbled, and several figures were shooting from time to time near the wall towards the barracks. Judging by the intensity of the opponent's firepower and the sound of gunfire, their attack was not fierce, but more like a test. It should be to see how determined we are to fight for the road to the barracks.

With such a strong resistance, the other side will think that we cannot effectively stop them or are not prepared to fight them for an area outside the barracks. In fact, this is also the case in my plan, although they attack this section of the road, if they arrange people around the wall to resist, it will inevitably cause some damage to them, but these people will have a hard time dodging the other side's artillery fire, and the other side will not be stupid enough to use men to rush after seeing that we are determined to resist, shells and heavy machine guns will be their best choice. In Colombia, Walker and I fortified layer by layer, resisting step by step, and finally caused us the most suppression of the opponent's mortar, and after the mortars were eliminated, when it came to the onslaught with people, although in the end we suffered heavy losses, but the price paid by the other side was very tragic, and the most important thing was that we fought like this when there was a big gap in the number and quality of personnel. Factoring in this, the Wizard could be said to have been a complete fiasco in that battle.

Now, the men I command are experienced in combat, and although there is a gap in weaponry, they are much smaller than in Colombia. The terrain here is much more favorable, so as long as we effectively dodge the shelling, and have more face-to-face battles with the other side, our chances of victory will be very good.

There is an old saying, "Recruits are afraid of artillery, veterans are afraid of machine guns." This sentence is actually an old saying, and the old one has been outdated for a long time. As early as World War II, when the number of artillery surged, there were more and more types, the S speed became faster and faster, and the power of shells became more and more powerful, and the horror of artillery had long surpassed that of machine guns. With the intensity of the shelling in World War II, it was possible to achieve continuous and long-term overwhelming artillery coverage. At this intensity, it is not only the physical that kills, but also the psychological deterrence. There are also many people who were not killed or injured by explosions or fragments, but were shocked to death and injured. So I'm not going to leave people out of cover to fight, at least to keep that happening as little as possible.

The tentative assault lasted about five minutes, and then a new round of shelling began. The people around the wall quickly retreated and hid in their respective hiding places.

Most of the shells in this round of shelling fell on the area around the wall and in the barracks near the wall, and the area I was responsible for was hit by shells from time to time, and the explosions were heard one after another.

"Looks like they're going to start the first round of attacks." Yugovic's voice came through the communicator.

That's pretty much what I judged. They should have come to a real attack by now. "Don't move. Let them in first. I said.

Tosic asked if he wanted to fight back with artillery fire. Drag the oil bottle asked.

I shook my head, "No. Keep them hidden. Let them prepare to shell the road to the barracks, waiting for my orders. ”

"What should I do in a moment? I've looked at the place before. It was the barracks in front of the assault, and I was going to go there when the battle began. Trovic spoke beside me.

I know what he's referring to, but the B area I'm defending is an area near the gate, and there's a barracks in the direction of the gate, where you can directly attack people coming in through the gate.

"Don't worry. When they really start you go, it's not time yet. There should be a lot of damage to the house there, remember to hit the hole S close to the ground after you go, don't get up. And be ready to retreat at any time. I said.

Seeing that I agreed, Trovic nodded excitedly, "I see." Everything is up to you, and I will abide by it. ”

Soon, the enemy's artillery fire began to extend into the barracks, and the sound of heavy machine guns was heard below, and the bullets hit the walls directly, and some of the broken walls were overwhelmed by the heavy machine gun attacks and disintegrated and fragments were scattered everywhere.

"Almost." I looked at Trovic, "Remember. Put more people in and then fight! Bring fewer people in yourself. ”

"Understood!" Trovic agreed, and went down the underground passage with two men.

"You go to Area A, get ready to fight." I looked at the oil bottle.

After he left, I continued through the communicator: "Guys, remember what I did during the previous training. Don't be entangled in the gains and losses of a room, pay attention to the entire defensive area, this is not a positional war, there is no first or last line of defense, everywhere is the front line and the last line, you are flexible, the adjacent ones should communicate and coordinate more, the final requirement is that their respective defense areas must not be lost, ready to counterattack at any time! ”

After a while, several smoke bombs were thrown in, and soon the smoke began to rise, slowly covering the direction of the gate and the surrounding wall, which showed that the other party did not know the situation here for us, and was afraid that we would give them a head-on attack, so first cover the sight and gather people around the wall and the gate to see the situation.

I looked at the people behind me, ordered five people, and led them quickly to a barracks on the left side of the barracks occupied by Trovic, slightly off-the direction of the gate, where the roof had collapsed and the walls had partially collapsed. I picked three people, "You three stay here." Use these S-holes close to the ground to hit when you hit them, don't stand up easily, and if you get outflanked, be ready to get out of here. ”

"Understood." The three immediately began to prepare.

I led the other two to the house further to the left, and as I had instructed them in the previous way, there was movement near the gate and the wall, and there was a muffled sound of grenade firers, and then the barracks in Trovic, the two barracks in Area A, the one on our right that had just been manned, and the barracks on the side of Vurich exploded. Then a series of grenades were fired, and for a while, explosions were taking place in all three areas, except for Yugovichi, which was relatively quiet in Area D.

"It seems that there are a lot of people here." I couldn't help but whisper. Judging from the density of the grenades and the multiple targets attacked separately, the opponent is preparing to divide into multiple teams and enter the barracks from different locations at the same time.

"Everyone! Pay attention to the respective area of responsibility. The smoke should dissipate after a while, keep an eye on it. I said through the communicator.

As the smoke gradually cleared, the opposing machine guns rang out. The bullets didn't look like they had found the target S-hit, and at the moment they shouldn't have a clear S-hit target, the bullet hit the barracks of our platoon, and these S-hits were more like assuming that there was an enemy here. Accompanied by the sound of gunshots, a figure could be faintly seen flickering through the smoke.

It's finally here! I couldn't help but get a little excited, and the communicator in my ears came from the voice of each area announcing the discovery of the target.

"Let them in! Don't be in a hurry! I left the place and made a quick trip to Trovich's barracks. He and his two men had assumed that MG42 was the S strike and the other was the loader, and he stood aside and looked out through an S hole, which meant that he would not go to C as a weapon, but as an eye and a conductor, telling the two men to go there. This scene reminds me of the image of the enemy in the bunker in many old movies, such as "Dong Cunrui"...

When Trovic saw me coming, he said, "When are you going to fight?" It's all close. ”

I looked out through the S hole, and sure enough, the other party suddenly picked up speed, and from here I saw that the people who entered the barracks were divided into three teams, one team headed towards Area C, one team headed towards Area A, and one team came towards here. Outside the fence, there were still people who didn't move, because a grenade hit the D section in the corner.

"Everyone! Aim for your goals! After I fired here, everyone started to S-hit! I looked at the approaching figure outside, "Fire!" ”

Trovic pointed to a target, "S hit!" Then the characteristic sound of MG42 rang out, and after the bullet knocked a figure to the ground, more rushed into the smoke that had not completely dispersed, only to see the sound of people shouting in the smoke, and then the machine gun on the opposite side fired at me.

"Da-da." The barracks on either side of me opened fire, followed by the oil bottles, and then the burich. The old guy Yugovich did not shoot, except for the occasional grenade flying over and exploding, no one was striking. But after a few moments, the grenade no longer flew there, but flew towards us along with the bullets from the other side

Naturally, the bullets couldn't penetrate our wall, and their S-hits actually had no effect, but the grenade was different, and one shot hit the left corner of our side, blasting a broken D in the corner. Then another one exploded not far in front of us, and the blast wave and air of the explosion swept through the S-hole with fragments and sand, knocking MG42's loader directly to the ground.

As soon as Trovic took his place, he pulled the somewhat dazed S hand, "Keep the S hit!" S-hit! ”

I looked outside, and the other side continued to attack under the cover of grenades and machine guns, and they knew that there was a place to stop from time to time, and that this area was either going in or retreating, and it was the worst choice to stay where you were.

"Attention! Watch out for RPGs and grenade launchers to attack the outer area of the wall! I said through the communicator as I dragged the wounded Trovic's men into the tunnel, and then I called for the man on standby to send the man to the rear for processing, and summoned one to go to Trovic's to replenish it. Just as I was reflexively returning to Trovic, explosions were heard at the fence and at the gates.

Shelling is much more powerful than machine guns, especially intensive artillery fire, prolonged bombardment. The so-called cannon machine gun may have appeared in the period when the melee equipment of the medium ** valve was relatively backward, or some time after that. At that time, the number of weapons and artillery was insufficient, and the number of backward weapons had to be compensated by the large number of personnel, and the machine guns were extremely terrifying under this style of fighting. And on the European theater of World War II, this sentence was already very outdated. And Shangganling, which we have been familiar with since childhood, can carefully understand the scene at that time. At that time, our volunteer army was subjected to unusually dense artillery bombardment, and I remember that it seemed to be an explosion every few seconds (I can't remember the specifics), which was also the anti-use of refueling tactics by our army at that time, one by one or in small batches, in batches. Die one to make up for the other, and avoid piling up to achieve an important reason for the purpose of reducing casualties.

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