After Ge Dabao knocked down the two enemies who suddenly appeared from around the corner with a submachine gun, Ge Dabao immediately hid his body behind a cement pillar, and then the other enemies who appeared around the corner used rifles and light machine guns to splash the cement pillar where Ge Dabao was hidden.

Ge Dabao shouted behind him: "The machine gun squad suppresses the firepower, and knock down the enemy's machine gun for me!" ”

Immediately, the soldiers of the Tang Royal Army behind Ge Dabao set up six general-purpose machine guns and fiercely strafed the soldiers of the Jisk Army who appeared.

Ge Dabao is a native of Changyang County, Pingfu County, Southern Hebei Province, the Tang Empire, and has a total of three brothers in the family, in addition to the youngest third brother Ge Sanbao, Ge Dabao and the second brother Ge Erbao both participated in the Tang Royal Army before the war between the Tang Empire and the Seven Nations Alliance, and both brothers have made military merits on the battlefield, Ge Dabao became a platoon commander of a field division by virtue of military merits, and Ge Erbao became a platoon commander of a garrison division by virtue of military merits, with the rank of second lieutenant.

Ge Dabao's 336th Field Division was participating in the battle to attack the city of Koshek in Latukot Prefecture, the Gisk Empire, and the time had now reached the morning of August 18, 3016 in the Tang calendar.

After the Tang Royal Army, which attacked Koshek City, seized the periphery of Koshek City with the cooperation of the Tang Royal Air Force, due to the unexpected choice of the 40th Division of the Jisk Royal Army to surrender to the Tang Royal Army, a huge gap suddenly appeared in the defense line of Koshek City, and more than a dozen divisions of the Tang Royal Army immediately entered the urban area of Koshek City from the gap.

Although the surrender of the 40th Division of the Gisk Royal Army put the defenders of Koshek City in a very disadvantageous situation, the other eight infantry divisions of the Gisk Royal Army stationed in Koshek City, as well as more than one million civilian armies, under the leadership of the city defense commander Kalp, launched repeated battles with the Tang Royal Army one by one street and house by house, and after four days of brutal street fighting, the defenders of the Gisk Empire still occupied almost half of the urban area of Koshek City.

In such a tragic street battle, large-caliber artillery and fighters have been somewhat useless, which also made the Tang Royal Army pay a considerable price in four days, but unfortunately it still did not capture all the city of Koshek.

Ge Dabao's infantry company is attacking a six-story building that has not been completed, and in the past few days, this six-story concrete building has changed hands several times, and due to the bombing of the Tang Royal Air Force and the shelling of large-caliber artillery, this six-story building has already become dilapidated.

The infantry platoon led by Ge Dabao consisted of three infantry squads and a machine gun squad, and the machine gun squad was equipped with six MG-42 general-purpose machine guns, and the total number of people was originally 70 people, but before attacking this unfinished six-story building, Ge Dabao's infantry platoon, after the first two battles, only had less than 50 people left.

Now Ge Dabao and his people have rushed to the fourth floor, but there are only more than 30 officers and soldiers left with Ge Dabao, but the six MG-42 general-purpose machine guns in the machine gun squad have not been lost, and it is precisely by relying on these six MG-42 general-purpose machine guns that Ge Dabao's infantry platoon has eliminated almost half of the more than 20 Gisk army soldiers who suddenly appeared from a corner on the fourth floor.

According to the original establishment of the infantry platoon of the Tang Royal Army, the machine gun squad is only equipped with three general-purpose machine guns, but in order to strengthen the firepower of the infantry platoon, the infantry platoon is now equipped with six general-purpose machine guns in each infantry division of the Tang Royal Army.

Behind the corner is the staircase leading to the fifth floor, more than 20 Gisk army soldiers rushed down from the fifth floor, ready to retake the fourth floor, seeing that the fire on Ge Dabao's side was too fierce, the surviving dozen Jisk army soldiers retreated from the stairs to the fifth floor.

Ge Dabao was just about to take the remaining officers and soldiers under his command to continue to rush to the fifth floor, when he suddenly received an order from the company commander to let Ge Dabao's platoon clear the remnants of the enemy on the fourth floor, and then the task of attacking the fifth floor was handed over to another infantry platoon.

At about 10:30 a.m. on 18 August, Ge Dabao's infantry company finally cleared out the stubborn enemy in the entire six-story building and recaptured the unfinished six-story building.

Company commander Zhang Hongqing summoned the platoon commanders of the three infantry platoons and the platoon commanders of a mortar platoon under his command, among which the original platoon commander of the first infantry platoon had died, and now the platoon commander of the first infantry platoon was originally the deputy platoon commander, and Ge Dabao was the platoon commander of the second infantry platoon.

Company commander Zhang Hongqing said in a deep voice: "Although our company has knocked down this six-story building that has not been completed, but our company has basically been disabled, I have reported the situation of our company to my superiors, and soon other companies will take over our company to guard this high-rise building, but before that, even if our company is exhausted, we have to defend this high-rise building." ”

Ge Dabao immediately said loudly: "Company commander, you can explain the task!" None of the brothers is a bad breed! ”

Chen Hongbin, who had just taken over the position of platoon commander of the first infantry platoon, also said in an impassioned tone: "Company commander, as long as there is one person alive in our platoon, not a single enemy will be allowed to enter this building. ”

Although the platoon commander of the third infantry platoon and the platoon commander of the mortar platoon did not speak, the eyes in the eyes of the two of them were extremely firm.

Company commander Zhang Hongqing immediately ordered: "One platoon guards the first floor, the second platoon guards the second and third floors, the third platoon guards the fourth and fifth floors, and the mortar platoon and the company headquarters guard the sixth floor. ”

The Gisk army counterattacked very quickly, but the Gisk army that participated in the counterattack this time was all composed of civilian arms, and even many women with guns also participated in this counterattack.

"Hit-" Ge Dabao, who was leaning behind a broken gap on the second floor, yelled, and then used the submachine gun in his hand to shoot at the hundreds of Gisk civilian forces who were charging over.

Almost at the same time as Ge Dabao pulled the trigger of the submachine gun, countless bullets, mixed with shells from six 60mm mortars, poured down on hundreds of Gisk civilians, and rows of Gisk civilians were shot in the path of the charge, but the Jisk civilians behind them rushed towards the broken six-story building as if they could not see the dead people in front of them.

Ge Dabao's company repelled more than a dozen charges of the Kisk civilian forces in a row, but the reinforcements still did not arrive, and to make matters worse, the ammunition was almost exhausted.

After repelling another charge of the Kisk civilian forces, Ge Dabao shook his sore shoulders, and then asked Zhang Hongqing, the company commander beside him: "Company commander, when will the other companies that replaced our company come over, our company has repelled the enemy's charge more than a dozen times, and at least eliminated thousands of armed Jisk civilians, and now our company is not only running out of personnel, but also running out of ammunition, and many brothers have no choice but to start fighting with the weapons of the Gisk army." ”

Company commander Zhang Hongqing said with a solemn face: "The Gisk defenders of Koshek City suddenly launched a counterattack on the whole line, and the company that was originally going to replace our company was blocked halfway, and the regiment commander ordered our company to be like nails, nailed here, waiting for the arrival of the follow-up troops." ”

The infantry company, which was originally fully organized into 280 people, is now able to hold on to the battle with only 50 people, of which the first infantry platoon has lost its combat effectiveness, except for a few seriously wounded, all the others were killed, including Chen Hongbin, who had just taken over as the commander of the first infantry platoon, who also died heroically in the white-knuckle battle.

Company commander Zhang Hongqing felt that the pressure was very great now, not that he was afraid of dying, but that the six-story building, which he had finally recaptured, would be recaptured by the Gisk defenders.

Ge Dabao sighed and said: "I think something went wrong, otherwise the reinforcements should have arrived a long time ago, so there is nothing to say, let's fight with the Jisk people!" ”

Company commander Zhang Hongqing immediately said: "Dabao, I will hand over the remaining ten people of the mortar platoon to you, no matter what, we have to hold the first floor, as long as the enemy is not allowed to attack the building, we still have a chance to wait for the arrival of reinforcements, if the enemy attacks, there are so many stairs in the building, with our remaining few people, we may not be able to hold it for half an hour." ”

The mortar platoon of this infantry company was no longer out of mortar shells, and the officers and men had already picked up their guns and joined the battle.

Ge Dabao hesitated for a moment and said: "Company commander, there are still sixteen people in my second platoon, plus ten people in the mortar platoon, if you guard the first floor, the number of people is enough, but there is really not much ammunition." ”

Company commander Zhang Hongqing immediately said: "I will give you 2,000 rounds of 7.92 mm bullets and 80 grenades, as long as you have one person left, you must also block the enemy outside the first floor." ”

Ge Dabao said without hesitation: "Company commander, don't worry, as long as I, Ge Dabao, am still alive, the people of Jisk don't want to set foot in this building again!" ”

As soon as Ge Dabao's words fell, a soldier ran over and excitedly shouted to the company commander Zhang Hongqing and Ge Dabao: "Reinforcements have arrived!" Company commanders, platoon commanders, reinforcements are coming, and it seems that at least two infantry companies are coming! ”

When the company commanders Zhang Hongqing and Ge Dabao heard this, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in their hearts, it seems that they don't have to be martyrs today.

On the evening of August 18, 3016 in the Tang calendar, in the basement of a building in Koshek City, Vikta, the commander of the 48th Division of the Royal Army of Gisk, said with a wry smile to Kalp, the commander of the city defense of Koshek City: "Commander, this large-scale counterattack we organized today did not achieve the effect we had previously envisaged, but increased the casualties by 70,000 or 80,000 people. ”

Culp, the commander of the city defense with a somewhat haggard face, said calmly: "Today's counterattack, I don't want to achieve any results, it's just that the morale of our defenders in the past few days is too low, today's counterattack, I want to tell the defenders of all departments that our Gisk Royal Army has not yet reached the point of exhaustion in Koshek City, and our Gisk Royal Army still has the strength to counterattack!" ”

The commander of the 48th Division, Vikta, hesitated for a moment and said: "Commander, so far, of the eight infantry divisions in Koshek City, only about 500,000 people are still able to maintain combat effectiveness, and about 900,000 of the 1.3 million civilian armed forces remain, but the Tang Army is constantly increasing its strength to Koshek City, so if we continue to fight, we ......"

Before the commander of the 48th Division, Vikta, could finish his words before he was interrupted by a cold snort from the commander of the city defense, Culp, "Hmph-what, you also want to discipline Nat?" ”

Konate is the commander of the 40th Division of the Royal Army of Kisk, and if it were not for the surrender of the 40th Division of the Royal Army led by Konat, the situation on the side of the Gisk Army in the city of Koshek should be much better than it is now.

When the 40th Division of the Gisk Royal Army surrendered, it handed over all the urban areas it defended to the Tang Army, including some underground fortifications.

Relying on the ground and underground fortifications mastered by the 40th Division of the Gisk Royal Army, the Datang Army continued to encroach on other positions of the Gisk Royal Army, and captured almost half of the city of Koshek in just four days.

The commander of the 48th Division, Vikta, immediately waved his hand and said: "Commander, don't get me wrong, I, Vikta, am loyal to the empire and will never do anything like treason to the enemy. ”

The expression on the face of the city defense commander Culp softened, "Alas-I don't know this truth, but the Datang army controls the air supremacy, and in terms of artillery, it has completely suppressed the artillery units of our eight infantry divisions. ”

Vikta, the commander of the 48th Division, sighed helplessly, "Commander, is there any news from the War Department?" ”

The commander of the city defense, Karp, said gloomily: "We don't have to count on reinforcements or anything, now the coast of our Jisk Empire has been blocked by the Tang Navy, and the other four armies belonging to the Southern Theater of the Nine Nations Military Alliance cannot enter the territory of our Jisk Empire at all, and the War Department has now not been able to mobilize enough troops to rescue Koshek City." ”

Vikta, the commander of the 48th Division, frowned and asked, "When will the navies of the other four countries in the Southern Theater come to the waters of our Jisk Empire?" Now the main force of our Gisk Royal Navy, as well as the main force of the Orenza Navy, are trapped in the port of Groning, and only when the navies of the other four countries in the southern theater come over and gather the main forces of the navies of the six countries, it is possible to defeat the Tang Navy, regain the sea supremacy along the coast of our Gisk Empire, and put the land forces of the other four countries in. ”

The commander of the city defense, Culp, shook his head and said, "Those issues are not something we should think about, our task is only to hold the city of Koshek!" ”