Chapter 578: Resistance Battle (Part II)

"Fire! Fire! With the order of the company commander, many Ming firepower points on this position opened fire one after another, and the dense chain of bullets swept into the US attack queue, and a large number of US troops were immediately brought down. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 After the Ming army opened fire, the US officers and soldiers who were slowly climbing the slope suddenly fell to the ground one after another to find cover and fired at the Ming troops on the hillside.

The officers and men of the US military are all professional soldiers who have undergone long-term training, and they are definitely not the kind of cannon fodder men who are temporarily pulled into the army and sent to the battlefield with a gun. They knew how to fight tactics, and when attacking the hillside, they always slowly opened the straggler line, and widened the distance between them as much as possible to disperse the firepower of the Ming army.

Moreover, these US officers and men kept moving back and forth as they advanced, alternating and cooperating. They would not charge early until they were 100 meters away from the Ming position, and they would maintain their physical strength until they were within 100 meters of the Ming position.

Like the Ming army, the United States, which is rich in resources and has strong industrial production capacity, can provide their army with sufficient supplies. Ordinary soldiers even have thousands of rounds of target ammunition every year. This is something that a resource-poor country like Japan would not dare to imagine. Only the Ming Dynasty and the United States in the world can support this kind of horrific consumption.

For the Ming army, the US army was a formidable opponent with guaranteed morale and good combat effectiveness. Compared with the Ming army, although there is a gap, it is definitely not as obvious as the generation gap with Japan. This is the existence that can really pose a threat to the hegemony of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, the American troops who launched an attack in front of the first company's position were about two companies or so. The U.S. troops rushing ahead had approached the 200-meter line. The armored vehicles, mortars and heavy machine guns in the rear of the American army have been constantly suppressing the Ming positions on the hillside, which has brought a lot of trouble to the Ming army.

"These turtle sons are much more difficult to deal with than the Japanese." The commander of the first company was from the interior and was a senior officer in the Marine Corps. After carefully observing the situation on the battlefield, he quickly ordered the company's heavy machine guns and mortars to start firing. At the same time, he picked up the walkie-talkie and yelled at the battalion headquarters to call for reinforcements.

All armies are the same, whether they are attacking or defending, the commanders will desperately ask their superiors for reinforcements and reinforcements. Everything from reinforcements to artillery support, from ammunition replenishment to air strikes, as long as it is owned by one's superiors. This situation is no exception, even down to the level of army groups.

The Daming Marine Corps had one machine gun per squad, while the fire support platoon had six machine guns and three 60mm mortars for heavy fire support. When they came to this position, they also received two 20-mm machine guns from the logistics office of the division headquarters, which were placed in a fortified bunker. These heavy firepower used a dense rain of bullets to firmly suppress the American troops from a distance of 200 meters, unable to continue to advance.

"Reload, cover me!" Li Mu shouted loudly towards another machine-gun fire point more than ten meters away.

Soon, Li Mu's machine gun bullet chain was finished, and he and his ammunition player Wu Guozheng finished replacing the ammunition as quickly as possible, and then continued to fire and shoot to suppress the American soldiers below to cover the comrades and change ammunition.

Now this distance is generally the world of heavy weapons, and other infantry weapons, especially submachine guns, are basically watching the excitement. At such a distance, even Suomi could not maintain accurate shooting accuracy.

There are exceptions, though, like snipers with single-shot sniper rifles, who shoot almost as far as a machine gun.

The snipers of the Ming Dynasty are all assigned to the squad, each squad has a sniper, and each company will have a combat team. These snipers who are assigned to various grassroots units are basically some soldiers with better marksmanship, not those who really graduated from the sniper training academy, and those elites are all in the specialized sniper units. However, the marksmanship of these sharpshooters is not bad.

As the last and only active single-shot bolt-action rifle in the Ming Army, this single-shot rifle numbered Z37 used by snipers has a long range, great power and extremely high accuracy. Equipped with an eightfold sniper scope, it can effectively enhance the combat ability of snipers. At this moment, the snipers on the Ming army's positions hid in their own positions, hitting the American officers who were rising with accurate shots.

The direct fire of the mortar and armored units of the Americans brought considerable losses to the positions of the Ming troops, and several firing points were knocked out by them. However, the support of the Ming army also came quickly, and the swarms of 105 and 155 mm heavy artillery shells flying from the rear quickly covered many American fire points.

The battlefield was raining bullets, and the sky was full of dense ballistics flying back and forth. Both sides are basically heavy weapons consuming each other. It's to see who can resist the loss.

The US attack finally came to an end after more than half an hour, and after the clarion call for retreat sounded, a large number of US officers and men disappeared from the sight of the Ming army as if the tide had receded.

More than 10 minutes later, a group of unarmed American medics with a red cross logo on their arms searched for the wounded on the position under the watchful eye of the Ming army, and then loaded the officers and soldiers who had died in battle into body bags and transported them away.

The Ming troops on the battlefield just watched indifferently as those American medics did these things, and did not interfere or make trouble. It's a common rule on the battlefield. Of course, when encountering an army that does not pay attention to such rules, it will naturally have corresponding ways to deal with it.

Although the scale of the US attack was not small, their losses were not large compared to the troops they invested, and it was more like a tentative attack.

"The water is coming!" The Ming officers and soldiers, whose mouths were blistered by the scorching California sun, finally heard a voice like heaven. A dozen or so heavy soldiers who had gone down the mountain in the morning to fetch water and supplies finally returned.

"Don't rob, don't rob. All of them! In the face of the swarm of officers and soldiers who flocked to the baggage soldiers, a company of commanders shouted, "Return to your positions!" The baggage soldiers were distributed according to the squad platoon. All squad and platoon leaders have mastered their positions! ”

In the army, the commander's order is very important, and after the company commander roared, the originally noisy position was immediately stabilized. The baggage soldiers carrying aluminum boxes on their backs sweated profusely and carried the water from the bottom of the mountain to various fire points. Officers and soldiers who were thirsty were given clean water.

"It's fucking refreshing!" After pouring a large pot of water fiercely, Li Muman poured it from his head with a heart. The feeling of being chilling is really very comfortable.

"I didn't know much before, but it turned out that drinking a big pot of water when I was thirsty was such a pleasant thing." Wu Guozheng put down his kettle and got up to go to the ammunition point to get some ammunition and come back.

"Shelling !!"

Almost as soon as the shouts were heard, a dense rain of bullets had already fallen on the positions of the Ming army. This is a very rare thing, because it is dinner time, and according to the customary rules agreed by both parties these days, the film will not be opened at this time. The Ming army, which was caught off guard, was immediately hit by a lot of blows.

"Hidden !!"

Clouds of dust rose over a sparse wooded area several kilometers away, where the U.S. artillery positions were located. The Ming army did not expect that the Americans would actually send artillery to such a close distance.

"All out!!" Before Li Mu and Wu Guozheng, who had crawled into the anti-artillery hole, had no time to catch their breath, the company commander's roar spread throughout the entire position: "Hurry up and enter the position, the Americans are coming!" ”

Not only did the Americans launch an attack at the meal point, but before the shelling was over, the US officers and soldiers who were all over the mountain poured out of the woods below the mountain and quickly approached the Ming position on the hillside.

"Zizi~~~" MG42's chainsaw-like shooting sound resounded through the Ming army's position, and countless dense bullets flew into the group of American troops at the bottom of the mountain, knocking down one piece after another of American troops to the ground. But there are too many Americans. Li Mu looked down from his position, and the almost endless American officers and soldiers were like layers of tide surging towards the top of the mountain.

Hundreds of American tanks and armored vehicles also drove down the hill and opened heavy fire on the Ming positions with artillery and machine guns. The roar of engines could be heard in the sky. From the clouds in the distance, groups of American fighters rushed out of the clouds, and rushed towards the Ming army's position with a roar.

"It's fucking going to kill you." Li Mu, whose eyes were full of bloodshots, swallowed his saliva vigorously, turned his head to Wu Guozheng on the side, and ordered in a deep voice, "Go and get me ammunition!" ”

The sudden and large-scale attack of the Americans put great pressure on the Ming army. Their position was on a hillside, and it was a distance of several kilometers to get support, and it was uphill. Although it was difficult for the U.S. army to attack on the back, it was also difficult for the Ming army to support.

"Boom!" In the sky, a U.S. dive bomber got caught in a dense chain of several Growlers, and was quickly torn apart into several burning pieces and fell heavily to the ground, causing huge flames and smoke. However, there were too many Americans, and they were not afraid of the fierce fire of the Ming army, and they continued to roar down one after another.

The U.S. bomber group attacked not only the Ming positions on the hillside, but also the rear positions and artillery positions of the Ming troops in the river valley. The Ming positions in the valley had a more powerful anti-aircraft force, where a large number of 88-mm heavy anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft guns of various calibers were deployed.

The dense anti-aircraft artillery fire was like a dragon of fire that rushed into the sky. Moreover, the reaction of the Ming army's army aviation units was also very rapid, and in less than 10 minutes, army aviation fighters and US fighters who rushed over to support were strangled together in the sky. However, the Americans did not care about their huge losses as if they were crazy, and attacked the Ming positions fiercely one after another.

The strength of the Ming army was greatly contained. Many artillery positions were forced to move under the bombardment of American fighters or were blown up by heavy bombardment by American fighters regardless of losses. This directly affected the fire support of the Ming army on the front line. (To be continued.) )