The Union officers and soldiers rested and replenished for more than an hour on the Scamo Heights, and the second wave of the Norman offensive arrived as scheduled.

This time, Weiss did not stay in the reserve position anymore. The reserve replaced the company with heavy casualties and took up the main position. The newcomers seemed accustomed to the ferocious artillery fire of the Norman army, calmly going back and forth to the bunker tunnels, and when the Norman chariots and Norman infantry were surging in, they calmly prepared their weapons and ammunition until the officer gave the order to open fire, and then pulled the trigger!

This brutal battlefield and bloody battles made the young soldiers grow up quickly. If you can survive this battle, you will get a surprising transformation in terms of combat skills and mental psychology, but in the face of the Norman army that is determined to win, only a few people who fight on the Scamo Heights may survive......

Before the Norman army approached the position, Weiss used the experience and inspiration he gained from two battles to help the Union officers and soldiers around him deal with the formidable enemy. The Normans, who were skilled in tactics, often attacked in the face of the defenders' dense firepower, and at the same time used machine guns and rapid-fire guns to fire at close range, forming an offset mode that was favorable to the attackers by suppressing the defenders' firepower and killing and wounding the defenders. During the Battle of the Northern Frontier, the Norman Royal 1st Marine Division repeatedly stormed the Union positions, and in the end the casualties were only comparable to those of the defenders, and at the Battle of Belakaser Pass, the Norman army captured the fortress at a much smaller cost than the Union defenders.

Of course, the offensive tactics of the Norman army were not invulnerable, in fact, as long as you are familiar with them and study them, it is not difficult to find a way to deal with them. In the trenches, Weiss repeatedly told his soldiers not to shoot continuously, to beware of enemy fire and spindle shells, and to make good use of them.

In the main position on the Scarmo Heights, the 23rd Reserve Regiment and the 404th Reserve Regiment of the 344th National Defense Division fought very tenaciously, and the adequate preparations made before the war provided them with material support, while on their opposite, the Norman army, after the first wave of attack, adjusted the method and rhythm of the attack accordingly, those chariots in steel armor no longer hit the high ground, but provided fire output at the foot of the mountain, and the infantry took on the main attack task, Small infantry battle groups of tens or hundreds of men replaced large and medium-sized infantry battle groups of hundreds or thousands, and the core of each infantry battle group was bombardiers and flamethrowers. The range of the spinax bullets and the range of the flamethrowers were limited, and the Norman infantry battle group did not show its power until it reached the defenders' positions, and once they got close to the positions, the defenders would panic and tremble - those flamethrowers with flamethrowers were not demons or demons, and as long as they released their blazing whips, the defenders' positions would be wailing. Those terrifying flames, as if the air became extremely hot, created one purgatory-like scene after another, and instantly destroyed people's fighting spirit and courage.

Seeing that the position on the right side was caught in a sea of fire and the defensive firepower was sharply reduced, Weiss hurriedly beckoned to the machine gun battle group on the side: "Rapid-fire gun, five hundred feet in front of the right side of the target, shoot continuously!" ”

It was a 5PIR (25mm) rapid-fire gun, which was attached to an infantry company in the standard establishment of a defense division. At Weiss's call, the gunners quickly turned around and fired heavily at the approaching Norman infantry group. The slanting firepower killed and wounded more than a dozen Norman infantry in the blink of an eye, temporarily suppressing the remaining soldiers in place, but their attack did not stop, even if they fell to the ground, they continued to attack with pineapple bullets, and after the successive explosions, there was no longer a figure in the defending position they were directly opposed.

Seeing this, Weiss hurriedly shouted to a non-commissioned officer beside him: "Gofa, bring your detachment with me!" ”

Fierce battles and tragic battles sometimes make people shudder and fear, and sometimes make people's blood boil. Weiss got up to leave, and the non-commissioned officer he had called by name followed without hesitation, followed by more than a dozen Union soldiers under his command, some of them with steadfast eyes and fearless faces, others with panic and stumbling.

As he moved along the trench, Weiss deliberately lowered his figure, sometimes running in small steps, sometimes stopping to check on the enemy. As long as their rapid-fire guns continued to fire, the Norman infantry, which had broken through to a distance of only a hundred feet from the defenders' position, could not move, but the good times did not last long, and a few shells came whizzing and landed on the position they had just been in Weiss, and after a series of explosions, the rapid-fire cannon was completely dumbfounded.

As soon as the rapid-fire guns stopped, the Norman infantrymen were like sharks smelling blood, and they quickly rushed forward in an excited manner. Weiss took out a pineapple bullet from behind his waist, pulled off the buckle, threw it out violently, and called out: "Gofa, drop the bomb!" ”

The spinach bullet made a just right arc in the air and landed impartially among the Norman infantry. Weiss continued to trot forward a few steps, and suddenly a black shadow flashed in front of him, and then the fire flashed in front of him, and the whole person seemed to be hit by a high-speed car from the front, and flew out upside down in an instant, and at the moment when the severe pain came, he seemed to be erased by the world, and suddenly lost all consciousness.

I don't know how long later, Weiss suddenly opened his eyes, and his whole body consciousness was restored under the guidance of vision. Before he could calm his breath, he noticed that there were Norman soldiers all around. At this moment, he couldn't move, he didn't move, he could only watch the Normans shake in his sight. Some of them were reinforcing their positions, others were cleaning up corpses along the trenches, carrying the remains of Norman soldiers aside, putting Union soldiers aside, and the weapons in the trenches being gathered and piled together.

How long have you fainted? The Scamo Heights have all been captured by the Norman army? Did the federal forces on the other side blow up the bridge? Did you launch a counterattack?

This series of thoughts gave Weiss even more headaches. Suddenly, a Norman soldier approached, and Leng Buding found that the federal soldier lying on the ground was looking at him with his eyes open, and hurriedly picked up the gun, pointed the muzzle of the gun at Weiss, and shouted something, but Weiss did not understand it at all. With the Norman army's notoriety for treating prisoners of war, he was ready to do justice at any time. However, the green-faced Norman soldier did not shoot him. Two Norman soldiers quickly ran nearby, rifles in their hands, and they didn't seriously aim at Weiss from beginning to end. After a brief exchange between the three of them, the older one scrambled his rifle on his back, crouched down in front of Weiss, and said in a jerky Ulster dialect: "Surrender and live." ”

Weiss glared and frowned, his body had just regained some strength. If he had a gun in his hand, he could still fight these Norman soldiers, but his pistol was lost when he fainted, and he was completely killed by his fists. However, he was unwilling to surrender to the Normans in a conscious situation, clenching his fists, and hesitating between survival and heroism. Just then, a clear-eyed Norman soldier came running, carrying no weapon but carrying a box with a generic medical designation. After crouching down, he said in a voice that Weiss could barely discern: "Don't move, medical!" ”

The appearance of this medical soldier made Weiss unconsciously give up the idea of resisting. He lay motionless, letting the other man check his injuries. The Norman medic removed medical tools from the medicine box and debrided and bandaged Weiss's head, right arm, and abdomen. In just a few minutes, Weiss felt much better, and when the medic had packed his things, the Norman soldier crouching next to him quickly snatched the dagger from Weiss's belt, searched his pockets, and lifted him up from the ground.

The two Norman soldiers standing next to them raised their guns and each took a step back.

The medic said a few words to his companion and walked away with the medicine box on his back. The slightly older Norman soldier said something to the young soldier who had discovered Weiss, and then reiterated to Weiss in Ulster: "Surrender and live." ”

Weiss didn't say anything, and he didn't say anything.

The young Norman soldier drew his bayonet and mounted it on his rifle, and shook the tip of his knife at Weiss, signaling him to move forward. The two made their way down the mountain, and along the way, Weiss saw Norman chariots destroyed in the battle and many corpses of the dead that had not yet been cleaned up. Although it took only two charges to take the Scarmo Heights, the Norman army paid a considerable price. A rough estimate of the number of dead is two or three thousand, which may be slightly less than the losses of the defenders, but the difference should not be too great.

Instead of descending to the foot of the hill, the two men came to the forward position of the defenders' defensive system, which had become a field transit point for the Norman army, and deployed temporary medical, command, and baggage units. In a large crater, Weiss saw dozens of captured Union soldiers, mostly wounded and treated in the field, sitting or lying down.

Several Norman soldiers, armed with bayonets, watched them condescendingly from the edge of the crater.

At the signal of the young Norman soldier, Weiss walked down the crater. Someone recognized him, but it was just a simple eye contact, no one said hello.

Weiss consciously sat down next to the familiar non-commissioned officer and whispered to him about the battle. Through the non-commissioned officer's account, Weiss learned that although the defenders could not survive the second wave of Norman attacks, they were still very tenacious in the battle, and basically fought with the Normans to the end. The sound of gunfire and explosions on the back of the hill continued for a long time after the fall of the hilltop position, but it was now completely inaudible.

From the early afternoon to the evening, the Normans did not "feed" the prisoners, but only provided some fresh water. By dusk, they were driven out of the crater by the Normans, marched to the foot of the hill, and left the battlefield in several trucks. The trucks drove north for more than half an hour, transporting Union POWs to an open field surrounded by barbed wire.

Weiss looked up at the fading night and took a deep breath, looking like he was going to camp in the open air......

This season, the weather outside is not too cold. The captured federal officers and soldiers spontaneously huddled together to keep warm, and the long night was not too difficult, but after nightfall, the battlefield was still under constant artillery fire, and in the middle of the night, a huge roar of flying ships was heard in the sky, and soon there was a dense explosion from the south, and the fierce exchange of fire continued until the early morning, until the sky was white.

After daybreak, the Federalist prisoners of war were transported by the Normans, and they brought bad news: the Normans stormed the Federalist positions overnight, they successfully erected pontoon bridges, established a bridgehead on the south bank, and in the second half of the night they sacrificed their specialty airborne assault tactics, leaving the Union troops on the Sambara River defense line vulnerable to the enemy. The only thing to be thankful for is that this line did not collapse with a bang, and the Union forces are still stubbornly resisting in various positions......