Chapter 70: The Waves Rise Hard

When the central city of Aocheng is covered by a huge explosion and the ground continues to tremble, Weiss is walking through the labyrinth of city sewers with a guerrilla squad of 15 people. These Union soldiers, the vast majority of whom were his "old troops", volunteered to join this "expedition" with an uncertain future, and no one knew what kind of danger they would encounter and whether they would have a chance to return alive. Some people have faith in their commanders, others prefer to go out into battle rather than wait for the enemy to come, and for whatever purpose, they are willing, so they are focused and move neatly.

Urban guerrilla warfare inevitably involves fighting an enemy with superior numbers, and in addition to carrying conventional weapons such as rifles, bayonets, and spinball bullets, the Union soldiers also carried two water-cooled machine guns with their brackets removed. In addition, almost everyone was issued a revolver or semi-automatic pistol, either one or two, and the marching backpacks were also stuffed with spare ammunition, and the three youngest soldiers each carried two explosives bags. If there are others, they will probably be taken aback by this group of heavily loaded soldiers: is this posture going to open up a new battlefield?

The violent explosion, the shaking of the ground and the shaking of the mountains, made Weiss and his team stop for the time being. By looking at the numbers at the forks in the waterways, combined with the map of the sewers, he quickly determined where he was now: one block from the church school in the north of the city, where they would return to the surface for guerrilla warfare. As for the city center, where the Grumman Building is located, it has now been left far behind them.

The explosion was ferocious, and the aftermath was fast. Weiss put away his map and led the soldiers on. Along the way, the winding sewers walked for more than ten miles, and the Federation soldiers encountered along the way added up to forty or fifty people, but basically they were injured and ineffective, and even if the fighting spirit still existed, they lacked combat ability. So, all Weiss and his team could do was give them some medicine and guide them south.

As he walked, Weiss suddenly stopped, raised his left hand, and signaled to the soldiers that there was a situation ahead.

At this moment, two dazzling red dotted frames appeared in his special field of vision, but the enemy's position was higher than the level of the sewer they were in, which looked like a maintenance passage between the sewer and the ground. Is the enemy preparing to enter the sewers, or is it a relatively safe place to monitor and listen to the movement in the sewers?

Weiss and the others stayed in place for a while, and the two red frames basically did not move their positions, so it seems that the enemy did not plan to enter the complex underground world for the time being, but they did not destroy the maintenance passage, but instead stationed soldiers, obviously they already had further plans.

"Notts, Valles, you two follow me, and the others are ready to fight and do what I command." Weiss lowered his voice, but in the silence of the sewers, even at the end of the line, he could hear his commands.

The two men named, armed with bayonet-mounted Grumman rifles, tiptoed behind Weiss.

With a revolver in his right hand and a bayonet in his left, Weiss moved step by step to the pit entrance.

Inside the mouth of the passage, a glimmer of light shone through.

He leaned on the entrance of the passage and poked his head out to see that there was a common vertical ladder for the dredging personnel to enter and exit, and the faint light came from above, obviously someone had brought something to block the passage, but it was not the original iron cover, so there would be a gap in the light.

The two enemies previously observed, just behind the obstacle.

Weiss squinted and saw that there were only two enemies on it, and as for the situation on the outside, it was beyond the scope of his "wall peeping".

In terms of combat readings, these two enemies are normal characters, and it is not difficult to deal with them, the difficulty is to take them out without making them too loud. This seems to be an unsolvable problem, so simply bypass it and find other channels?

Weiss thought for a moment and quickly made a decision. He took off his helmet and handed it to his companion, put the bayonet back into its scabbard, freed his left hand, and removed a pineapple bullet from behind his waist. He took a deep breath, walked into the passageway, climbed a few steps along the ladder net, then held the ladder with his right hand, and tried to push the obstacle with his left hand, and found that it was heavier than expected. So he knocked hard a few times and shouted, "Help! I need help! ”

Weiss's Norman is very good, but it is separated by obstacles, and it is shouting while knocking, and the Normans above should not hear it clearly.

After a few moments, a Norman voice came from above: "Who are you?" ”

"Scout detachment, Wall Harts! I'm hurt," Weiss said a name, and deliberately pushed the obstruction up very hard.

The two Norman soldiers probably never dreamed that the federal army that they had beaten so badly would actually take the initiative to send them to the door, and the mentality of winning and the psychology of helping their companions made them relax their vigilance.

After the obstacle above his head was removed, Weiss saw the opportunity, used his hands and feet together, and climbed up violently, holding a pineapple bullet in his left hand and a pistol in his right hand, and shouted coldly in the attitude of an outlaw: "Don't move, if you move, you won't die!" ”

The two Norman soldiers were stunned by the unexpected situation, and they did not have time to resist, nor did they shout, but only looked at Weiss with an incredulous gaze, and the pineapple bullet he had raised high.

Weiss did not hesitate at all, and sealed the porch leaving the maintenance room with a brisk stride, and when Notts and Valais followed, they had them tie up the two hapless Norman soldiers.

"It's not scientific!" Before being gagged, a Norman soldier muttered unwillingly.

Weiss ignored him, and the Norman language he learned from the Norman army made this successful operation possible, but it was precisely because he learned it in a hurry, and he knew too little to pry more useful information out of the mouths of the two Norman soldiers.

Once the situation was under control, Weiss cautiously walked through the porch, next to the maintenance room was a basement. Through the narrow basement windows, Norman armored vehicles and trucks can be seen parked in the open area between the buildings, and many Norman soldiers resting under the eaves wrapped in blankets.

This is supposed to be the church school in the North End, which is now a temporary camp for the Norman army.

The battle of Ojo is not over yet, the violent explosion just now is the embodiment of the defenders' will to resist, and the Norman soldiers are not machines after all, as long as the energy is sufficient, they can continue to operate. With a limited total number of troops, at the end of the day and night, basically every unit had been fighting on the battlefield for a long time, and even if victory was in sight, they had to rotate down to rest.

In terms of energy, these Norman soldiers in front of them are at the end of their power. What better chance to sneak up than this?

Weiss quickly returned to the maintenance passage, beckoned all the Union soldiers who were on standby in the sewers to come up, and divided them into three battle groups, two of each with a machine gun, to go out of the basement to launch a surprise attack, and the third group stayed in the basement to guard the back road.

"Brothers, it's time to give the enemy a taste of what we're capable of! Sortie! Weiss clenched his fists.

Despite the presence of hundreds of well-trained and well-armed Norman soldiers outside, as well as an unknown number of armored vehicles and machine guns, the Union soldiers rushed out without hesitation. Under Weiss's direct command, after the two battle groups left the basement, one left and one right, they set up a firing position nearby, and threw a wave of thunder at the Normans as usual, blowing up the resting Norman soldiers in a daze.

In such a night raid, the visual effects alone are enough to make the attacker feel hearty, and the sound of gunfire explosions and the wails of the enemy make people's blood boil irrepressibly. Instead of staying behind the soldiers, Weiss "wandered" around the firing position with his head bowed and his waist bent, sometimes bombarding enemy soldiers with large-caliber revolvers and sometimes throwing pineapple bullets at enemy dense positions. In the first five minutes of the battle, the Normans had already paid no less than 100 casualties, and the losses on the side of the raiders were insignificant, but as time passed, especially after the Normans machine guns and armored vehicles were put into battle, the advantage of the raiders was lost. With Weiss's order, everyone quickly retreated to the basement, and they decisively detonated the explosives, blocking the Normans' follow-up path.

"Don't stop, head south!"

After returning to the sewers, Weiss did not have time to count the number of people and inquire about the situation of the battle, so he directly beckoned the soldiers to move. The maintenance channels leading from the ground to the sewer are not densely distributed, basically there are only a few in each block, but to go down from the ground to the sewer, not only the maintenance channels are available, in case of emergency, the cellar wells on the street and the drainage outlets of large buildings can be used. The Normans suffered heavy losses this time, and their commanders would certainly not rest on their laurels, and the best strategy was to move away from tracking as soon as possible.

The group carried two Norman prisoners of war and kept running along the route they had come. Before the invasion of the war, the sewers of the city of Austria were as wide as the drawings show, but after the large-scale shelling of the Norman army and the fierce street fighting between the two armies, it was not uncommon for them to collapse and blockage.

In this way, Weiss took his night raid detachment for most of the distance in one go, and only after making sure that the danger was cleared did he stop for a short rest. After counting, it was found that only one comrade had been killed in the battle, and another had been slightly wounded. This sneak attack, killing and wounding Norman soldiers, and capturing two people, can be regarded as a bad breath for the hard fighting during the day.

With a solid record, Weiss cheered up the soldiers and gained momentum: "Brothers, let's do this!" Attack quickly, move quickly, let the enemy be beaten everywhere, and chase into the sewers is also a black eye, and you can't find us at all! Just do it, come a few more times, and keep it to drive the enemy crazy! ”