Chapter 623: Meat Grinder (First Shift)
Black dots came from the sky, dragging a sharp whistling sound, dragging a sound like a train whistle, flying towards them!
Just when these people who had just stood up realized that the whistle in the air was unusual, just when they were still a little surprised, suddenly someone shouted loudly in terror. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Shelling!"
"Lie down!"
At the moment when this sound sounded, the cannonballs fell on them, but in just a dozen seconds, hundreds of cannonballs fell into the straggler line like raindrops, hundreds of white smoke balls, black smoke clouds with orange red fireworks rose up, and the straggler line was instantly shrouded in smoke raised by cannonballs, the most astonishing of which was the black smoke cloud that rose into the air hundreds of meters high after several loud bangs. Countless limbs and wreckage were thrown hundreds of meters into the air in a cloud of smoke......
The shelling from the sea was so fierce that it was completely beyond people's imagination, and in the face of the shelling from the sea, the allied artillerymen who had been faithfully performing their duties - the Allied artillery, which suppressed the British artillery under the guidance of the balloons, was dumbfounded, their guns did not have such a long range, and the power was far less than that of the naval guns, so that they could only watch the infantry not even lift their heads under the British shelling.
At this time, everything around the Irish soldiers, who were caught in the fire, was burning, and the grass was set on fire. Amid the roar of flames, the rumble of shells, and the black clouds of smoke, red-hot shrapnel staggered between the open field less than two hundred meters from the British front, and in the blast wave of the shells the uniforms were torn apart, and the soldiers of the Guards even forgot about their past training, but ran there in terror, and then lost their lives to the blazing shrapnel.
The officer, lying in the crater and holding the command knife in his hand, spat out the sand in his mouth. Looking at the pale and nervous soldiers around him, everyone was lying on the ground now, and everyone on the grass was frightened by the platoon guns fired by the British Royal Navy, especially the violent explosions that frightened most of the soldiers.
For them, they had never experienced such heavy artillery fire, and now they even began to envy the British, at least they still had trenches to hide from the shelling, and they had nothing!
“…… Soldiers! Forget about enemy fire! God is with us! Whether it is death or survival, everything is God's will! By God's will! For Ireland! For freedom! Raise your heads and charge forward! Hooray......"
A young officer in the crater, who may have studied in a church school, suddenly jumped out of the crater and shouted loudly there, trying to awaken the courage of the soldiers around him, for whom nothing now existed.
"Be God's will! For Ireland! For freedom! ”
In the midst of the shouts, he stumbled and charged forward with his command knife in a somewhat clumsy way, struggling to keep his balance over craters and mounds of dirt. At the same time, do not forget to kick and punch the soldiers who are lying on the ground to make them charge.
One, two, three......
Driven by him, hundreds of soldiers regained their courage and advanced under heavy artillery fire, unable to stop them even if the shells fell at their feet.
"Be God's will! For Ireland! For freedom! ”
As a cultist, he seemed to attribute everything to God, he didn't even hear the whistling of the cannonballs overhead, nor did he notice that the cannonballs landed beside him, and with a loud bang, the entire back of the saber-wielding officer felt a scorching wave of air rushing towards him, and this terrible force pushed him off the ground. At the same time, he felt that his body was torn in two, and when the last glimmer of hope was shattered, he saw the soldier who had been lying on the ground stand up.
More soldiers had already risen and charged desperately......
Although their courage was admirable, the Chinese officers who fell into the bunker saw only a sigh from the bottom of their hearts, because everything was already doomed - the charge would not change anything because of their courage.
"Why?"
In a bunker, the young staff officer seemed puzzled as he watched the Irish soldiers shouting for an attack in front of him under artillery fire.
"We could have sent sappers to open a passage before the battle began...... Why, why did it happen......"
Obviously, the young officer could not understand the current style of play, and in his opinion, it was simply to send those people to death.
"Sir, now that our forces are very limited, and the losses are so large, what will we do in the future?"
"In the future?"
The general, who wore the rank of lieutenant general on the collar of his military uniform, sneered, looked at the Irishmen from the binoculars and said.
"How can the Irish remember our kindness without experiencing sacrifices, without paying the price, they want to start this battle themselves, we meet their demands, only when they shed their blood, will they know that freedom is not easy to get, and will understand what price we have paid to help them, otherwise, they will soon forget the sacrifices we have made for them, so, let them try it for themselves......"
Sometimes, wars are always like this, and wars may be cruel, but in reality, it is politics that is even more brutal, and any war that involves politics becomes even more brutal.
The sound of the explosion gradually extended to the back, and the shaking of the bunker became smaller and smaller, and only the extremely muffled explosion could be heard in the distance. The British sergeant inside the bunker clenched his rifle tightly in his hand and looked out of the entrance with alarm. "Quick...... The Irish pig is coming! Hurry, hurry! ”
A head poked through the billowing smoke and dust, and the man standing by the doorway shouted loudly, and the man pointed outwards and shouted at the people inside. With that, he turned and disappeared into the smoke.
The Irish pig is coming!
A dozen or so red shrimp soldiers in the bunker quickly rushed out of the bunker. Tom followed Dimis out of the cover that had been protecting them, and the two of them quickly ran to where they were supposed to be. The shells were still exploding near them, and the shells made a dull whistling sound, falling from the top of their heads to the rear, and the blown up clods of earth flew everywhere behind them, some of the shells landed in the trenches, and then smashed their bodies, their positions would have completely changed, completely full of holes, and the sky was no longer blue, and the billowing black smoke made the top of their heads a blood-red. And in the smoke they saw the Irish, who were attacking under artillery fire, and they were even cutting barbed wire with pliers. Whizzing......
Tom's ears rang from time to time with the sound of bullets hitting the dirt. For a split second, he felt that the bullets were aimed at him, so much so that he immediately felt the threat of death, even though he felt like he could be killed at any moment in the trenches.
As the sound of gunfire rang in his ears, he slowly raised his head and peeked out of the trench to look out. As far as the eye could see, there was smoke everywhere outside, as if it was winter in London, and the vision was a little blurry, and through the thick smoke, groups of vague figures could be vaguely seen moving towards them. The fleet at sea continued to fire cannonballs, countless shells flew into the smoke, exploding orange-red fireballs, and the violent explosion dispersed the smoke a corner, but it was soon engulfed by the surrounding smoke. The smoke seemed to be diluted by the explosion of the shells that kept flying, and in this moment, it seemed that the Irishmen could be seen clearly and what they were doing. At the same time, the sound of Irish shooting could be heard in the smoke of gunfire, and while some of the Irish were destroying the barbed wire, many more were lying in the craters and shooting at the British in the trenches to protect the others from cutting the barbed wire.
"They are destroying barbed wire! Shoot, shoot......"
Tom heard and heard people in the trenches shouting there, many people were there blindly shooting, but now his attention was not on it, his whole person was attracted by the black and red fire that exploded, for the flames that could take away dozens or hundreds of people in his eyes, like the roar of the devil in his childhood, it could devour everything in heaven and earth. This fear made his mind completely blank, so that he didn't even know to shoot, and at that moment, he was suddenly kicked so hard that he almost jumped up on the reflex. "Quick! Shoot straight ahead! …… Fast! Everybody is going to launch! If you don't want the Irish pig to be killed, hit it hard! It was only then that Tom realized what was going on, a war, a war to the death, and in the trenches, where the captain was shouting at them in an anxious voice, and there was the constant sound of rifle fire all around him. The dull sound of gunfire echoed across the battlefield, and Tom, who had come to his senses, gasped, put his rifle at the firing port, aimed ahead and pulled the trigger. The rifle slammed into the back seat, and by this time the shouts of the commanders could no longer be heard. Now there is only one voice in his head,
"Shoot forward!"
Kill those Irish mongrels!
Driven by these thoughts, he kept loading the bullets into the chamber of the gun, and then shot through the firing port, and the bullets made him shoot out, and he could see the vague figures that kept surging upwards as the bullets burrowed into the smoke one by one......
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