Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 704 704 Crow's Mouth

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's shelling had not stopped.

Hundreds of artillery shells fell together with the raindrops. 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 repeatedly reinforced and repaired became dilapidated under the devastation of the 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 definitely 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 hello and turned his head and got 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 range yet?” The machine gunner muttered with disdain as he looked at the place where the explosion occurred in the distance.

 The artillery of the Dahua Army is very large, 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 offensive, 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 Create effective suppression.

Comparatively, the Maxim heavy machine guns with shields pushed up directly by Dahua soldiers are more threatening. They are at least within visual distance, providing timely and accurate fire suppression.

 “Chuchuchu!” In the woods on the other side, the machine gun had already started roaring. Listening to the continuous sound of the cloth tearing machine in the rain has a unique charm.

 The attacking soldiers of the Dahua Army rushed into the woods under the cover of tanks in the rain, and a chaotic fight began, where both sides tried to decide the winner.

 As the battle continued, a sudden terrifying roar pierced the air. Even in the pouring rain, you can clearly hear the heart-stopping sound.

That was the sound left by super-large-caliber artillery shells when they tore through the air, and then black smoke began to billow into the sky from the woods.

 A dull, desperate explosion came from the woods, and the 300mm heavy artillery of the Dahua Empire finally joined the battle.

That was when the Dahua Empire's railway artillery joined the battle 15 kilometers away. They roared with terror, 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 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 didn't expect that the Dahua Empire would attack indiscriminately.

 Before the Dahua army retreated, their own artillery couldn't wait to start covering fire. Countless 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 incorrectly, 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 over. Several No. 4 tanks in the woods and a battalion of soldiers are over!" 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 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 reduced to the ground, the fighting was still going on. Next to the tanks of the Tang Army that were 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. With the last magazine empty, 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 in his waist.

 “The enemy is coming!” the commander reminded everyone loudly, and then pointed the muzzle of his pistol at the Dahua soldiers.

 “Fire 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 took out their bayonets and inserted them under the muzzles of their guns. When designing the weapon, Tang Mo did not design the bayonet to be a fixed folding 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 launched a counterattack despite being small in number. They crossed the wreckage of their own tanks, crossed the wreckage of enemy tanks, and even once forced the Dahua soldiers who rushed into the forest to the edge of the forest.

 For a time there were screams and shouts of killing everywhere. The fighting sounds of gold and iron, accompanied by begging for mercy and cries, made the whole forest lively.

It's a pity that the difference in strength between the two sides was too great. The less than 200 Tang 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 did 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 engineering shovel from his side, shouted, followed his soldiers, and rushed towards the enemy.

 He kept running forward, and then when he hit the first enemy, he swung the shovel in his hand and hit the opponent's 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 stabbed him was not very old, twenty years old at most. He was obviously frightened by the blood, so he pulled out his bayonet and stabbed him hard a second time and a third time.

Hunted until the Tang officer lay on the ground without any movement, he stopped exhausted. In the rain, more Dahua soldiers passed him and ran madly towards the woods.

The first person to occupy this forest will be rewarded with one coin! Those who retreat will be killed without mercy! This is the order given to them by the superiors, and 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 footing and lost hundreds of people in one fell swoop. 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 Lijia Village was defeated again in the rain.

They left behind hundreds of corpses and began a hasty retreat after successfully capturing the woodland in a flank attack.

 Now, they don't have to attack from a distant open space. If they set out from the woodland, they would only need a few dozen meters to invade Lijia Village.

The grenadiers who had rushed over for emergency reinforcements had begun to build a defense line close to the north of the village. They relied on the ruins in the village to build flanking machine gun positions 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, started roaring again.

One huge shell after another pierced the air and fell towards Lijia Village, 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.

That horrific explosion shook the entire Lijia Village, and broken glass on almost all 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's completely gone, with only the rear end 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. .

“I’m really a crow’s mouth.” Looking at the machine gunner of the Tang Army who was bombarded behind him like a ghost town, he laughed at himself depressedly in the trench.

 He just said that he had not made 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: "The crow's mouth."

 (End of this chapter)