Chapter 4: The Mid Lane Killer
In the operational command room in the city of Uzunkepulu, Kemal walked restlessly back and forth. His right flank was in danger twice under the fierce attacks of the opponent, but fortunately Ollie left behind the planes that could fight to support the right flank. However, the pressure on his side is not small, although the attack launched by the opponent on the frontal field position of Uzunkepu in the morning was repulsed, but the fortifications there were enough, the minefield and barbed wire fence had basically been cleared by the other side, and even several sections of the trench had been filled, and he was ready to let the troops retreat into the city for defense. With a population of about 200,000 and a large urban area crisscrossed by houses and streets, Kemal had three barricades in the city two days ago.
The unfavorable attack on the left flank annoyed the commander-in-chief of the Turkish army, Field Marshal Carter, but he expected another attack on his side to take the position outside the city, which had been bombarded with artillery. Although he was also an ardent supporter of this one-wing oppression tactic, he proposed a direct all-out assault from the outset in the face of the huge disparity between the enemy and our forces, but Marshal Tatvanan and several other staff officers insisted on using the successful tactics of Ankara's victory, and he did not raise strong objections. Now he feels that it is completely redundant, and once he succeeds in breaking through in the middle, then the opponent will only be defeated even if he does not surrender.
"Staff officer, inform the artillery unit to carry out another ten minutes of artillery bombardment, and then the cavalry will charge first!" After Marshal Carter gave the order, he raised his binoculars and looked at the position in the distance, where the trenches and trenches could no longer hold back the onslaught of his cavalry.
"Tell Marshal Tat that we are about to break through the defense line and rush into the city, and if he really can't move forward, it doesn't matter, we will meet him in the city!"
A quarter of an hour later, Carter saw his cavalry rush through the empty defensive positions and charge straight into the city under the leadership of the cavalry commander, but after that the cavalry seemed to disappear, and not even a horse was seen again.
"The infantry do not enter the city for the time being, and the artillery positions move forward? miles, bombardment the city! Carter had already guessed the fate of the cavalry, so he ordered the infantry to march into the city after the shelling.
At this time, the city of Uzunkeplu was quiet, and the streets to the east were lined with the corpses of thousands of Turkish cavalrymen and their horses, and only a few ownerless horses stood quietly on the side of the road.
Michael. Sergeant Rudra sat under the east-facing window on the third floor of a house and wiped his precious rifle, a modified Mauser 1898 rifle with a caliber of 7.92 mm, a length of 1.255 meters, a weight of 4.08 kg, a magazine capacity of 5 rounds, and a quadruple scope. He was a soldier in the sniper unit of the East Prussian Regiment of the German Empire, and a month earlier he and 19 other companions had been sent to Turkey, and now twenty snipers, including him, had been scattered throughout the city of Uzunkeplü.
He had not fired a single shot from the hunt for the Turkish cavalry, and the men were completely exposed to the streets, easily torn to pieces by the fire points of the windows and roofs on both sides. For him, only those worthy goals are attractive. When the cannon outside the city rang out, Rudra left the east-facing room like the other soldiers in the city, found a bed in the room on the west side of the house, and went to sleep under it.
Half an hour later, the cannon fire stopped, and Rudra opened his eyes in his sleep, and instantly transformed into a messenger of hell, and began to take the lives of those he fancied. Half of the walls of the east-facing room had been torn open by shells, but the ruin-like scene suited his appetite, he took out his rifle and used the scope to observe the situation in the distance, where the soldiers of the Turkish government army were entering the city, so he put down his rifle and took out the water bottle and poured a small sip, then pulled the gun and looked at the bullets in the magazine, a full 5 rounds, which meant that 5 Turkish lives would be gone with them.
When Rudra raised his rifle again, the government soldiers had already come to the street where the cavalry had been slaughtered, and they seemed to be stunned and did not dare to advance, when suddenly a lieutenant officer said something loudly, and the soldiers around him began to disperse to both sides of the street.
"Alright, that's you!" Rudra's lips moved slightly, and a hole appeared in the officer's forehead in the scope, and then fell straight back.
Just as the soldiers on the street were looking around, black muzzles suddenly appeared from many windows facing the street, and the sound of machine guns and rifles firing instantly filled the city. Government soldiers who had no shelter in the streets were shot and fell, and the remaining soldiers quickly retreated a few blocks away, in their usual swift retreat.
Rudra looked through the scope at the street, and in a few minutes the blood was already pouring down the street, and the wounded soldier was lying on the ground convulsing in pain, such a bloody scene made him lose his appetite for tomorrow's dinner. He had nothing to gain just now except to shoot the lieutenant officer, and the other 2 Maxims and more than 30 rifles on the street left him little chance. He began to search farther away, the sniper rifle's range allowed him to reach targets two blocks away, but the farther away he was, the less likely he would hit.
In the distance, government soldiers searched house by house, but Kemal's troops seemed to have defended from this street, and at the end of the block was their first barricade. Over the next few minutes, Rudra struck a communications soldier and a hapless second lieutenant officer on the street, killing the communications officer instantly, and the second lieutenant seemed to have better luck, and the soldiers next to him carried him away with all his hands, and it seemed that he might be able to pick up a small life.
Rudra put away his rifle, leaned against the corner and closed his eyes to rest for a while, and from time to time there was a fierce gunfire in the distance, and it seemed that the government soldiers on the street had suffered again.
Boom! There was an explosion not far away, and Rudra was about to hide in the room he had just had, but he didn't seem to hear the sound of a cannonball cutting through the air. So he carefully observed the situation outside, and a house not far in front of him was emitting black smoke, but it did not seem to be caused by the shells of large-caliber artillery.
Boom! Black smoke billowed from the second floor of another house, and this time he found the "murderer" - an infantry cannon appeared at the corner of the street in the distance, and it was it that fired two shells in succession. Rudra observed with his scope that the distance of the infantry cannon was about 750 meters, and the cannon was swaggering at the corner of the street, and several soldiers around him were busy stuffing shells into the barrel, and he aimed at one of them and gently pulled the trigger. Several of the artillerymen around the infantry cannon were smiling and about to listen, but they saw the guy who was pulling the cannon rope suddenly clutching his chest and fell to the ground, and they ran over to see what was happening, when another guy burst out of his back and fell to the ground, so frightened that the group of artillerymen scattered and fled to the corners of the streets on both sides. Rudra smiled and flashed under the window, pulling the gun and pressing the bullet into the magazine. The next 5 bullets reimbursed 3 gunners, and the other two unlucky guys were hit in the arm 1, which is estimated to be reimbursed here, and 1 is probably the ancestor Jide, but he was only shot in the thigh, but the infantry gun was basically paralyzed there.
Field Marshal Carter outside the city was very unhappy at this time, after his infantry entered the city, they first found that the cavalry that had rushed into the city before had indeed all been killed, and then the infantry troops occupied the outermost streets, and they also began to be stubbornly resisted, and within an hour they suffered nearly a thousand casualties but could not move an inch, in this case they did not want to occupy the city until dark.
"What a bunch of idiots! Order the troops who entered the city to return to me, I will kill them with shelling! Carter shouted through gritted teeth.