Battlefield of All Sides

Chapter 196
The bullets of the machine gun spewed out continuously. Li Mu frantically manipulated the machine gun to fire violently. Raffle next to him kept helping to reload the bullets. This Maxim heavy machine gun turned out to be the most durable weapon on the battlefield.

And Li Mu also withstood the most violent firepower attack. This machine gun was too much of a threat to the British and French allied forces. Fortunately, the surrounding area was covered by the dead soldiers and the sandbags, and Li Mu and Raffle were not injured.

Li Mu had no good way to face the British and French allied forces rushing forward in groups. He could only use machine guns to attack continuously, and at the same time looked at his position, hoping that those guys would not get angry Rush forward and bayonet each other.

At this moment, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and Li Mu was completely drenched. The rainwater flowed down the brim of his hat to his face, and then to his collar. The clothes were tightly fitted to his body, which made his body feel very uncomfortable.

Even though the Maxim machine gun in front of it had the help of the cooling water cylinder, the front muzzle was still red, and white smoke came out, and the surrounding air was full of the pungent smell of gunpowder.

Once again, a bullet belt was emptied, and Ralph next to him was scrambling to find a new bullet belt, but Li Mu suddenly came back to his senses, and looked at the foggy position ahead, but at the moment he patted Ruffle. .

"Ralph, listen to the movement outside, is there no sound?"

Raffle turned his head and looked out suspiciously. The ground was gray and the visibility was extremely low at the moment. Raph pricked up his ears to listen, but turned his head to look at Li Mu in surprise.

"Battalion Commander, there seems to be no sound. Those British guys retreated?"

Li Mu wasn't sure what the situation was, so he just asked Raph to stay at the machine gun position to pay attention to the situation, and then went downstairs to let the soldiers check the situation.

Running back into the trench again, the soldiers here seemed to have noticed the change in the situation, and they stopped their gunfire one by one, and gradually came to their senses one by one under Li Mu's order.

The battlefield suddenly became very quiet, and the fighting on the entire front seemed to stop in an instant.

Some soldiers hurriedly looked towards the position in front of them, but all they saw was gray weather. The heavy rain seemed to have been falling for a long time, but it failed to dispel the smoke in the air.

Li Mu looked around, and finally waved his hands to tell all these people to cease fire. At the same time, he quickly asked the soldiers to treat the wounded and strengthen the position.

Li Mu found a company commander and asked him to organize a small team to the front to see what was going on.

The team on this side climbed up to the front to check the situation, but Li Mu, who returned to the trench on the other side, stepped into the water. The water at the bottom of the trench had already covered his ankles, and his boots were like The kettle is average.

Li Mu swayed for a while, his body was wet and uncomfortable, and he was thinking about how to dry his clothes. At this time, the soldiers who went out to investigate also came back. According to their report, it seemed that it was because the rain was too heavy. Those enemy troops were pulled down, and even the original position had begun to stop the gunfire.

Although there is no need to continue the battle for the time being, there are not many people who are happy, because the current situation is really heavy.

Corpses were brought down from the battlefield one after another. Hans counted the statistics. After the battle, more than 100 people were killed or injured, and the number of people in the entire battalion was only in the early [-]s.

The damage to the personnel is already heartbreaking, but the environment of the position is also changing rapidly. The tunnels are flooded, and every soldier is soaked. Although it doesn't matter for the time being, it is easy to cause problems in such weather.

Now that he knew that the situation was stable for the time being, Li Mu immediately let only a small number of people stay on the ground to garrison, and all the other people returned to the fortification, lit the wood stored inside and started baking clothes, and at the same time ordered a group of people to go out Digging trenches for drainage.

The bunker was full of howling wounded soldiers, Li Mu couldn't stay inside, dried his shoes for a while, and then went out immediately.

The rain outside became lighter, and the surrounding vision gradually became clearer. The rain washed away the smell of gunpowder smoke and blood in the air, and Li Mu could already see the corpses all over the field from a distance.

This scorched black battlefield full of water vapor is really like a hell on earth at this moment.

Li Mu looked up at the sky. He didn't know what time it was, but it was probably already in the afternoon. Although the sky was getting dark at this time, Li Mu still felt that he had to do something.

Today's battle is definitely not over, and those enemy troops will definitely think about what to do at night.

Second-line positions may be less dangerous, but they must also guard against enemy sneak attacks.

Especially at night once the enemy breaks into the trenches, we must find a way to subdue them.

Li Mu looked around, and finally found a few broken tree sticks, shorter than his arms, but strong enough to make a sound of breaking wind when he waved them briefly.

At this moment, Ralph walked to Li Mu's side and saw Li Mu waving a short stick indiscriminately. He didn't know what he was going to do, so he walked up to ask after watching for a while.

"Commander, what are you going to do?"

Li Mu put down the stick in his hand, and said to him immediately: "Do we have any melee weapons?"

Ralph froze for a moment, nodded and pulled out the bayonet from his waist: "Yes, this one can also be loaded into a gun. It's very sharp, and it can be pierced open with a single knife."

Li Mu couldn't help laughing when he heard Raffle say this. He took the thing in his hand, looked at the thin blade, and handed the bayonet back to him.

"Forget about this thing. It's not very lethal. Go and look for it for me to see if there are any nails or something. If there is no such thing, break off a few sections of the barbed wire on the ground for me."

Ralph was a little confused and did what Li Mu said, while several other soldiers who were repairing the fortifications all looked over, but Li Mu immediately beckoned, asking them to find some such wooden short sticks Come on, the more the merrier.

After a while, there were more than a dozen of these sticks beside Li Mu, and Raffle also came with a box of iron nails and a small roll of barbed wire. They all looked at Li Mu and wondered if their chief had come up with another plan. What a crazy idea.

Li Mu took the thing and knocked the nails on. The sharp part of the nails got out of the wood, and knocked around the stick. The protruding nail tips felt like a mace.

Li Mu took another piece of barbed wire, wrapped it around the upper end of the wooden stick, wrapped it around the place where he was holding it, and handed it to a soldier next to him.

"Stand in the tunnel and try it out, see if you can use it well?"

The soldier stood in the muddy and wet tunnel, held the wooden stick and waved it twice with some uncertainty, but his expression was suddenly happy.

"This is easy to use. If those British guys stand in the trenches, just slap his bayonet away, and I can slap his brains out."

Several soldiers went down to try it one after another, and they were all pleasantly surprised at the moment. Raph couldn't believe it, but he had to admit that his commander's whimsy was very good.

Li Mu also immediately ordered these people to speed up the collection and production of this kind of mace, preferably one for each person.

"Battalion Commander, what are you doing this for?" Ralph said a little puzzled.

Li Mu looked at the boy with wet black hair on his head and said calmly.

"At night, it was so difficult for us to defend during the day. Those British guys and Frenchmen came over in the middle of the night. This battle will be fought in the trenches then."

"How is this possible, so many people have died today, and they still have the guts to rush forward?"

Li Mu glanced at him, looked at the drowsy sky all day, and sighed.

"It's because they can't rush up that they try everything they can."

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(End of this chapter)