"How many more flares do we have?"

In the depths of the night, Weiss asked the Union sergeant next to him.

The non-commissioned officer turned to his soldiers for questioning, and after a while, the answer returned to him.

"Two shots, two last shots!"

Weiss squinted and observed for a few seconds: "Reload, ready to launch, southeast ......"

For the new commander who was working with him for the first time, the non-commissioned officer did not hesitate to accept the order, and ordered his soldiers to do so.

A Union soldier came to the front of the group with a thick-barreled firearm shaped like a single-barreled shotgun, and he crouched down, the butt of the rifle against the ground, the muzzle pointed diagonally to the southeast.

In a moment, Weiss ordered: "Maximum range, first shot, shoot!" ”

The non-commissioned officer stepped forward and said in a low voice: "Extreme firing angle, first shot!" ”

The Union soldier opened the safety of the gun, adjusted the muzzle slightly, and pulled the trigger.

I only heard a muffled bang, and a faint smoke of gunpowder faintly appeared in my sight. A few seconds later, a blinding light suddenly bloomed in the distant darkness, streaking across the night sky and lighting up a small area of the ground.

Weiss picked up the binoculars hanging on his chest and looked at them: "1 square clockwise, second shot, shoot!" ”

The non-commissioned officer immediately ordered: "Turn right 1 square, the limit angle of fire, and shoot twice!" ”

In the immediate interval, the Union soldier manually withdrew the cartridge case, loaded a special bullet comparable in size to a large-caliber machine gun into the chamber, held the gun as it was, adjusted slightly, and fired it twice.

The first flare, in fact, had already "pulled" some Norman soldiers in front of the Union position, it shone in the night sky without warning, itself a warning to the Union officers and soldiers on the position, and the second flare was better positioned, exposing the Normans who tried to raid the position to the defenders. Suddenly, the guns on the Union army position were bursting loudly, and the guns and shells poured down in front of the position, and the casualties of the Norman soldiers who lacked shelter increased sharply. In such a situation, they either advance or retreat, and there is no third way to choose.

Judging from the configuration of defensive facilities, the guard position of the 793rd Garrison Regiment should be the starting position of the Federal Army's offensive before, there are criss-crossing trenches and a considerable number of firepower points, but there are few barbed wire and defensive trenches, and it is estimated that there is no minefield, and it is not impossible for the infantry to attack, but there are only more than 200 Normans left in front of them, and only about half of them may have weapons.

The defensive fire on the position was like a fierce beast awakened from sleep, and it opened its bloody mouth impressively. Although some of the Normans had already reached a position only two or three hundred feet from their positions, in the face of the threat of this roar of death, they retreated decisively, but there was no cover from the craters and mounds, and many fell on the way to retreat, and the survivors were already in a crush, some of them kept retreating, and some changed direction and went south.

Weiss and his two detachments of forty or fifty Union soldiers lay quietly on the ground, waiting for the dazed Norman soldiers to hit the muzzle of the gun, and then they could easily deal with them. But at this moment, the night sky was suddenly illuminated by the blazing firelight, the ground trembled, and a huge sound rolled in, as if it had the terrifying power to annihilate everything......

Seeing the vision in the night, the Normans who were out of range of the 793rd Garrison stopped moving for a while and crawled down. Seeing this, Weiss turned around and looked at the apocalyptic scene with amazement: countless artillery fires converged into an extremely spectacular meteor shower, the end of the horizon became a place of magma boiling and flames, and the sky as deep as ink was like an upside-down cauldron, roasted red by the raging fire!

What's going on? Did the Normans launch a frontal attack? They were still pressed and beaten before, where did this earth-destroying artillery fire come from? Is this a strategy to deliberately hide strength and show weakness to the enemy?

A series of questions appeared in Weiss's mind. Just now, he looked at the Norman soldiers with a playful eye, and only a few seconds later, they themselves fell into the situation of being attacked on their backs, which is really ironic!

A series of explosions in the distance gave the night a light like dawn. Without using a special field of vision, Weiss saw a troop coming behind him, and judging by the soldiers' attire, it was undoubtedly a Union Army.

The non-commissioned officer next to him also noticed the unit, and he said loudly: "Look, it's our reinforcements coming." ”

In the general trend, with the role of Weiss's acting captain and commander of the reconnaissance battalion, I am afraid that he is powerless. After experiencing all kinds of ups and downs, he has given up his proud but unrealistic sense of responsibility, and examined his situation with a more rational and realistic way of thinking and made his own decisions.

If this fierce artillery fire is really a clarion call for the Norman army to launch a counterattack on all fronts, then the energy and strength of the federal army will inevitably be concentrated on the front of the battlefield, and these Norman troops parachuted into the area controlled by the federal army, together with the Norman prisoners of war they have rescued, although they will not be as unscrupulous as a fish entering the sea and a tiger returning to the mountains and forests, will definitely create a lot of trouble for the federal army, and it will be even more difficult to strangle them at that time...... Yes, now is the time!

Without waiting for reinforcements to come up, Weiss resolutely ordered: "All attention, prepare to attack, bayonet!" ”

Some of the Union soldiers of the two detachments had already loaded their rifles with bayonets, and those who were more confident in their advanced combat abilities, or who preferred accurate shooting, also silently drew their bayonets and skillfully mounted them on the muzzles of their guns.

Before the attack, Weiss took a deep breath and squinted at the battlefield, the enemy in front of him was only thirty or forty people, loose formation, low morale, it seemed that the sneak attack was not successful, but most of the Norman troops who were beaten by the fat still went south. By the time the small rout in front of them had been eliminated, the Norman soldiers who had moved south must have gone far. If the pursuit continues, it may not be able to completely annihilate this group of enemies, but it will definitely affect the combat deployment of the reconnaissance battalion and even the guard regiment.

So, annihilate the enemy in front of you, and then quickly return to the team!

Another earth-shaking explosion rang out, and Weiss, sensing that the Normans were trying to gather their formation, said that it was too late and too soon, and with all his strength, he shouted "attack", and jumped to his feet, spear in hand, thunder in hand, and rushed forward in great stride.

The reinforcements were behind them, and the Union soldiers stood up and moved forward with their non-commissioned officers without hesitation, in such a situation and environment, they could not distinguish the combat levels, could not organize alternate cover, and rushed forward in such a wave.

The Normans, for the most part, had not expected the Union army to charge them from this side, from such a close distance, and they were terrified and at the same time rejoiced at the massive artillery bombardment of their own side, and were unprepared for the re-engraving of the battle, and the most brutal hand-to-hand combat. Those who have weapons, the first reaction is basically to raise their guns to shoot, and those who do not have weapons, most of them pull their legs and run, after all, both sides are well-trained soldiers, bayonets to bayonets and fights, fists to bayonets? It's basically the same as sending them to death!

The Norman division was a great encouragement to the Union soldiers, who bravely advanced in the face of the enemy's bullets. The crisp sound of gunfire was completely hidden in the rumbling artillery fire, and there were constantly Union soldiers who were shot, some were killed on the spot, and some fell to the ground and struggled to get up, wounded and continued to fight. In the blink of an eye, the Union soldiers rushed to the Normans, including Weiss, several people suddenly threw thunder at the Normans in the distance, the explosion of the pineball bullet overturned more than a dozen Norman soldiers, and then, the bayonets in the hands of the Union soldiers and the bullets fired from the chamber of the guns crashed into the Normans' bodies......

It was a battle without suspense, but as long as there was still a Norman resisting, Weiss and his new companions gave it their all.

The battle, from the time Weiss began their charge to the last Norman with his hands raised in the air, lasted less than three minutes. In the short time, the reinforcements who arrived at full speed still missed the battle, and their role was only to help count the prisoners of war and clean up the battlefield.

In this battle, in addition to the unquantifiable casualties caused by the spinball bullets, Weiss also killed a Norman non-commissioned officer and wounded a Norman soldier, and everything seemed to be captured. In his own opinion, today's calmness and fluency are similar to their performance during the border battle.

Standing in the field of blood, standing among the remains of the dead, Weiss stood indifferently. In the distance, massive enemy shelling continued, and there were signs of extending deep into the Union positions. In the face of such a fierce artillery storm, the confidence that the Union army had regained was being tested and baptized, and in his mind, the meaning behind this shelling of dozens of tons of ammunition per minute was more intriguing than this spectacular and terrifying scene.

So, he calmed down, got rid of distracting thoughts, and focused his attention on the farthest end of his special vision. Looking at the night sky, he saw only the moving Federation warships, not the Norman flying units; Looking through the battlefield, past the countless green combat units, and the battlefield purgatory that constantly created death, he saw a number of stars like red, which were countless Norman soldiers, and behind them, flying ships parked on the ground, the fierce artillery fire, which was fired.

Twenty, thirty, forty......

The natural curve of the surface made it impossible for Weiss to accurately detect the number of enemy ships, but the field of view combined with the intensity of the shelling could make it possible to infer that the number of enemy ships greatly exceeded expectations. Could it be that with the exception of the Eastern Fleet deployed on the front line of the Monamolin Mountains, the remaining flying forces of the Norman Empire have poured out? Why did they abandon their traditional tactics of air supremacy and stay on the ground as a steel barricade, not to lure the Federation fleet closer?

When Weiss left the special field of vision with great astonishment and worry, the whole person seemed to collapse, and he didn't even have the strength to continue standing, and sat directly on the ground.