After a burst of artillery fire, more than 400 wolf officers and soldiers wearing leather armor launched an attack on the two-kilometer-long defense line of the Zhou army with the tactics of a straggler.

Some of them were wolf clan officers and soldiers, and they were still holding steel shields in their hands.

This steel plate shield is one of the standard equipment of the Silver Wolf Empire, with a thickness of 15 mm, a height of 1.3 meters, a width of 0.8 meters, and a weight of 123 kg.

Only the officers and soldiers of the wolf clan who have reached the level of "warriors" can hold such a heavy steel shield and advance on the battlefield.

The armies of the other five orc countries, as well as the armies of various human countries, are equipped with steel plate shields because of the existence of orc warriors and human warriors.

The most exaggerated steel plate shield can even weigh up to 600 kilograms, and only the bronze warrior of the beast clan or the grandmaster warrior of the human race can carry such a heavy steel plate shield to the battlefield.

After the enemy's artillery stopped, Xie Dong quickly entered the position with several soldiers in the anti-artillery hole, and the officers and soldiers in the other anti-artillery holes also ran out with weapons and scattered in the trenches at the front.

As a machine gunner, Liu Erga racked an MG-34 general-purpose machine gun and immediately said to the ammunition hand Wang Gouyu: "Gouyu, get on the armor-piercing bullet!" ”

"Understood, Brother Erga!"

One-third of the 7.92×57 mm rifle bullets that Zhou Rui got from the lottery system were armor-piercing bullets, and the remaining two-thirds were ordinary bullets.

The copper shell of the armor-piercing bullet is filled with a steel core, and the ordinary bullet is equipped with a lead core, because the steel core is very hard and can penetrate a certain thickness of armor.

However, the effective range of armor-piercing bullets is closer than that of ordinary bullets.

Liu Erga controlled the MG-34 general-purpose machine gun, aiming at the officers and soldiers of the wolf clan who were getting closer and closer, and his palms couldn't help sweating.

When I heard Xie Dong not far away, he shouted: "Hit-"

Liu Erga immediately pulled the trigger and shot towards the wolf soldiers who were about a hundred meters away.

Due to nervousness, Liu Erga quickly ran out of a 300-round bullet chain, and during the interval when the ammunition hand Wang Gou re-changed the bullet chain, Xie Dong shouted to Liu Erga: "Liu Erga, save a little son bullet for Lao Tzu!"

Dot and shoot! Do you know how to shoot! ”

Liu Erga hurriedly responded: "Complain, my hand was stiff just now, and I didn't have time to release the trigger!" ”

Then Liu Erga whispered to the ammunition hand Wang Gouyu: "Gouyu, why didn't you remind me just now." ”

Wang Gouyu said with a sad face: "Brother Erga, I'...... I peed my pants. ”

With the support of the 5th Infantry Battalion and the 6th Infantry Battalion, the 3rd Battalion and 3rd Company of the 3rd Battalion where Xie Dong was stationed were responsible for defending the position of only about 300 meters.

Xie Dong's company has a total of 138 officers and soldiers, except for the machine gunner, each officer and soldier is equipped with a Mauser 98K rifle, and the officers above the deputy squad leader and the machine gunner are also equipped with a Type 54 pistol.

In addition, the entire company is equipped with 3 MG-34 general-purpose machine guns and 9 ZB-26 light machine guns, which is absolutely luxurious.

You must know that this is not Xie Dong's company, which has such a luxurious firepower configuration, but all the army companies of the Zhou family have this kind of firepower configuration.

On a line of about two kilometers, 3 infantry battalions of the 3rd Infantry Regiment of the 22nd Separate Brigade were engaged in 7 companies at once.

When 21 MG-34 general-purpose machine guns and 63 ZB-26 light machine guns of 7 companies sounded at the same time, Nichka, the commander of the 32nd Marine Brigade of the Silver Wolf Imperial Navy, who commanded the operation, was confused.

Is this still a human army like a weak chicken?

How could it be equipped with so many heavy machine guns?

The more than 400 officers and soldiers of the wolf clan who charged, although they were all wearing leather armor made of low-level fierce beast skins or intermediate fierce beast skins, there were even more than 30 wolf clan officers and soldiers who had reached the "warrior" level, holding steel shields.

But both the ZB-26 light machine gun and the MG-34 general-purpose machine gun can fire armor-piercing shells, not to mention leather armor made of ferocious animal skin, and even a 15-millimeter-thick steel shield cannot block dense armor-piercing shells.

You must know that the armor-piercing bullets fired by the MG-34 general-purpose machine gun can't even resist the defense of the lord-level beast.

More than 400 officers and soldiers of the wolf clan were defeated almost instantly, and the remaining officers and soldiers of the wolf clan could only lie on the ground immediately and return fire with rifles and machine guns in their hands.

Seeing that the 1st Infantry Regiment under his command was attacking a battalion and was blocked by the enemy's strong fire, Nichka immediately ordered 16 70mm infantry guns of the 1st Infantry Regiment Artillery Battalion to suppress the machine gun fire of the enemy's position.

However, to Nichka's horror, 16 70mm infantry guns had just fired two rounds of shells when their artillery positions were covered by the enemy's artillery.

An artillery battalion equipped with 16 70-mm infantry guns and more than 300 officers and men has hardly played a role, and the formation can basically be abolished.

The 3rd Infantry Regiment of the 22nd Independent Brigade made a meritorious contribution to the 30 French Type 1897 field guns of the 75th Artillery Battalion.

At the time of the first round of artillery shelling of the forward positions by the enemy artillery, the artillery battalion of the 3rd Infantry Regiment basically confirmed the position of the enemy artillery positions.

I didn't expect the enemy artillery to be so arrogant, after the first round of shelling, there was no transfer of position, so what was polite about the artillery battalion of the 3rd Infantry Regiment.

A burst of rapid fire wiped out the enemy artillery about 4 kilometers away.

Subsequently, the 30 field guns of the artillery battalion began to launch intensive artillery bombardment on the open area in front of their positions.

In the end, the wolf officers and soldiers of a battalion, after suffering another round of artillery shells, only withdrew less than 200 people, which made the commander of the 32nd Marine Brigade, Nichka, gasp.

Nichka had to pay attention to the human army blocking in front, and immediately asked the division commander Rofeld to let the 16 120mm large-caliber howitzers of the heavy artillery battalion be put into battle.

Knowing that the opponent's firepower was extremely strong, and he was armed with a large number of heavy machine guns and large-caliber artillery, he had no way to sleep in peace, and went directly to the front of the battlefield.

"Nichka, is the firepower of this human army really strong?" Rofell asked in a deep voice.

Nichka said with a wry smile: "Division commander, I sent an infantry battalion, but it was routed without touching the edge of the opponent's position, and the loss was more than half.

In addition, the artillery battalion of the 1st Infantry Regiment was also almost wiped out under the counterattack of the opponent's large-caliber artillery, 16 70-mm infantry guns were blown up, and less than 100 people remained alive in the artillery battalion of more than 300 people. ”

Rofell rubbed his hands together, "Looks like this game has become interesting."

Bring in the other 2 infantry regiments under your command.

I want to see how strong this human army of the Ganyang Zhou family is? ”

As the army of the Silver Wolf Empire continued to increase its attack, especially the opponent's artillery and infantry coordinated operations, it brought great pressure to Xie Dong's company, and the number of casualties was also increasing.

Although the battalion headquarters sent two supplementary companies to Xie Dong one after another, these two supplementary companies added up to only 12 veterans, and the remaining 240 recruits were all young and strong men who were temporarily recruited from the civilian population.

Each of the 240 recruits had only three grenades and a broadsword, and many of them didn't even know how to use rifles.

But someone is better than no one, and Xie Dong can only send all these recruits to the battlefield and let the veterans teach them how to shoot.

If a veteran is killed or seriously wounded, the recruit must pick up the gun left behind by the veteran and continue to fight.

However, the cruelty of the battlefield, not to mention these temporary recruits, even the "veterans" who have been in the army for a few months can't bear it.

After the fierce battle lasted until more than 2 o'clock in the morning of the 27th, Xie Dong personally killed seven deserters, including two "veterans" and five recruits.

Xie Dongmao walked in the trench with his waist bent and shouted in a hoarse voice: "I'll repeat it again!" Those who retreat will be shot on the spot!

I didn't receive the order to retreat, even if there was only one person left, I had to guard the position for Lao Tzu! ”