Chapter Twenty-Four: The Rain Fights in the Wilderness (I)

"Send a message to the boss immediately, saying that the enemy has appeared, the distance is about 1500 meters, send it out quickly!!" Firay, who was watching the road to the north with a telescope on the top of the turret that was opened, saw the black dots faintly appearing in the rain curtain, quickly got into the turret and closed the top of the turret with his hand, and shouted at the communicator.

The communicator quickly pressed the headset of the Fug-8 radio station tightly to his left ear, and called out loudly to the receiver of the radio coverage: "The enemy has appeared, in the direction of 12:30, the distance is 1600!! Repeat! The enemy has appeared, in the direction of 12:30, at a distance of 1600 !! (Note 1)

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"Commander, the reconnaissance vehicle in front has sent a message saying that the enemy has appeared!!" The Black Panther Type A messenger quickly reported to Zhang Shixin, who was picking up a kettle and pouring a mouthful of water into his mouth.

"Pass the order, everyone get ready to fight! Also ask if the self-propelled guns can attack the position of the ramp. Zhang Shixin looked at the ramp in front of his tank in the periscope and said.

"Yes, Commander!" The correspondent faithfully fulfilled Zhang Shixin's order.

After a while, the communicator replied to the predictions of each of the three self-propelled guns, all of which were very likely to accidentally injure friendly soldiers, and the angle of the ramp was too narrow.

"......" Zhang Shixin said helplessly: "Forget it, let them mainly protect the mortar position, pass the order, and the whole army will prepare for battle." After Zhang Shixin finished saying this, he opened the roof cover and leaned his body against the butt of the MG-34......

And around him, the entire hillside was crisscrossed with thick or thin formwork at the bottom, and dug bunker trenches.

As for why the bottom is covered with planks?

The foundation was soaked and softened by the rain, if it weren't for Zhang Shixin, who saw the anti-virus vehicle slowly sinking after driving into a simple tank bunker facing the road, he quickly discovered this problem, and after spending a lot of effort to pull the VK-3601H out of the bunker, he thought of a way to place a large nailed wooden board in the bunker to delay the subsidence......

Do planks cost money?

Absolutely, but almost negligibly.

Despite this, after Zhang Shixin completed this remedy, he looked at the single-digit silver coin deposit and shook his head helplessly.

"It's really bankrupt now, and it's very clean."

This is Zhang Shixin's idea.

However, seeing that her own Panther Type A and anti-virus vehicle were properly in the bunker, Zhang Shixin knew that the money was well spent.

The soldiers unscrewed the primer caps of the M24 grenades, gently pulled out the lead at the bottom, and placed them on the wall of the trench next to them.

Doing so would have probably made the grenade firing a mute, but the system produced it must be a high-quality product.

According to Sinia, even if you throw a grenade in the water and soak it for a month, it can still detonate in the water if you don't forcibly change the structure of the grenade.

In the same way, the primer of the shell and bullet will not have the problem of dumb fire being flooded.

Of course, if the grenade is easily exploded by the opponent's shell, this is not included in the safety factor of the system product.

Because of this, Zhang Shixin was relieved to let the soldiers put grenades, bullets, and even S-shaped grenade launchers on the wall of the trench, not afraid of problems.

As for how the hell did those S-type grenade launchers come from?

Of course, Zhang Shixin also asked this question, but Sinia's answer was that this thing was originally matched with the elite soldier's own equipment.

"......" Zhang Shixin had serious doubts about this, but he did not continue to ask.

In fact, what Sinia said was also true, she added the little skill points that Zhang Shixin got every time she promoted to the weapon enhancement of elite soldiers. The enhancement is the S-shaped man-to-man grenade launcher.

Although the S-type man-to-man grenade is not as good as the M45 "Slaughterer" with two units per tank, if the opponent charges intensively, it is not a problem to bring down a person with a radius of about 10 meters.

Therefore, even if Zhang Shixin knew what was going on, it was hard to say whether Sinia had done bad things for him with good intentions.

"Now, it's all set. Just wait for the battle to begin. Zhang Shixin passed the crosshair of MG-34 and stared at the corner of the road.

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"This kind of ghost weather is too hateful, and if it goes on like this, even if it reaches Glossie, I'm afraid that the non-combat attrition may reach a quarter or even a third. If the other party reacts, it is unlikely that he wants to take down Grosie easily. Kalas looked at the paper in his hand that recorded dense attrition data, and more than a dozen tanks alone broke down, and couldn't help but sigh slightly.

Although a dozen tanks is not a huge loss for the overall strength of the team, the problem is that the non-combat attrition of armored vehicles and trucks is much more serious than that of tanks.

Moreover, in order to carry more infantry units, he had to transfer some military supplies to some broken down trucks, and move more space to carry infantry.

"Alas......" Listening to the ticking sound of the armor on the top of the armored car being hit by the rain, Kalas shook his head helplessly.

Unbeknownst to him, he was that on the road the convoy was passing, on a mountain road to their left, a tank draped in camouflage nets was hiding behind a weed, quietly turning its turret. Aligned in the direction of the convoy.

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"Dididi......Dididi" one after another, and large or small red dots quickly appeared on the tactical map in Zhang Shixin's mind.

"Kala" Zhang Shixin quickly pulled the bolt of the MG-34 general-purpose machine gun in front of him to load the bullet.

At the same time, all of them are ready to fight:

The machine gunner and anti-tank rifleman flicked the trigger to put the gun into a ready state of fire.

The tank loader stuffs the armor-piercing shell in his hand into the chamber of the gun, and then quickly pulls down the gun door to signal that the gunner can attack at any time.

Snipers have adjusted the magnification of their riflescopes to improve the actual hit rate......

The infantry mortars, located on the flat ground behind the hillside, quietly listened to the sound of several SDKFZ255-SC(P) full-tracked multi-purpose auxiliary vehicles equipped with loudspeakers attached to the nearby self-propelled mortars, so that they could adjust the firing angle at any time.

The gunner of the self-propelled mortar moves the muzzle of the mounted mortar to the range of response through the Hawkeye mode to prepare for the attack.

As for self-propelled guns, the muzzles were aimed at the road that ran under the hills, just in case.

Fighting between the two sides was on the verge of breaking out.

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A few minutes later, a considerable part of the opposing convoy finally appeared behind the predetermined line of attack where most of the attacks could be effective, and with the help of rain curtains and improvised camouflaged ambushes, they used their weapons against the enemy.

Or the trigger of a machine gun, or the electronic ignition button, or the slide of a prepared mortar shell into the barrel......

In short, any enemy convoy that entered this line of attack was fiercely attacked.

On the slope of the hills, the sound of guns and cannons continued to roar, giving the enemy troops who entered the attack range a continuous attack.

Under the road, armored vehicles and tanks were hit from time to time, and after advancing for a while, violent explosions or halted, and many Hellington troops who were ignited by the blue flames from the explosion of energy stones escaped from the tanks or armored vehicles.

It's just that a considerable number of the Hellington soldiers' fire men didn't wait for the flames on their bodies to be extinguished by the rain, and they were shattered by a large-caliber 20mm armor-piercing bullet.

Zhang Shixin was shooting the MG-34 at the burning men he could see or the Hellington soldiers who saw the opportunity quickly and quickly jumped out of the car, harvesting the other party's lives with three short shots.

At this time, the anti-tank riflemen also put their guns facing upwards, pressed the barrel of their guns into the trench, removed the magazines that had been exhausted, picked up another magazine full of bullets on the wall of the trench with both hands, fixed it at the position of the inlet, quickly pulled down the trigger, adjusted the firing angle again, and shot at the armored vehicles or soldiers of the Helrington Army......

The Rhino tank destroyer located next to the No. 3 assault gun also ran out of magazines for 5 75mm shells, and the gunner wearing a raincoat quickly shook the gun's up and down firing angle crank, and after the muzzle of the gun was facing the sky as much as possible, the loader who was also wearing a raincoat on the side pulled down the magazine for the empty shells, and then turned around and picked up a magazine on the side of the warhead, carefully inserted it into the ammunition intake, and locked the two movable locks, patted the gunner's shoulder, and signaled that the reload was complete.

The gunner quickly shook the mechanical joystick again, and after placing the muzzle of the gun flat into the firing position, pressed the electronic ignition button.

With the sound of the shells falling on the bottom plate of the armor with the sound of the shells being automatically withdrawn from the breech, the weak armor of the engine part of an armored car was pierced, and blue flames were quickly sprayed outward......

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"What!? The convoy in front encountered an ambush with strong fire and suffered heavy losses?!! Kalas gave the communicator an incredulous look, then pulled open the rear armored door and ran out of the stopped armored vehicle in the rain to see what was ahead.

When he saw the smoke from the explosion of the black cannonballs in front of him, the sound of gunfire mixed with the rain, and the chaotic explosions, the almost faint screams, Kalas, who let the rain hit him, knew that he had really been ambushed.

And the firepower is still very strong ambush troops.

After confirming this fact, he quickly returned to the back compartment of the armored car, grabbed the communicator's headset, and shouted: "I am Karas Anthony, and now I order the troops that have not been attacked to retreat and regroup!" Repeat, I'm Callas Anthony, and I'm now ordering the troops that were not attacked to retreat and regroup!! ”

Karas's order quickly reached the ears of most of the signal corps in the convoy......

As for the signal corps who did not receive this order, there are only two of them now, waiting to die or already dead......

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"Commander, they're back." The signal soldier shouted at Zhang Shixin, who was slapping down the cover of the MG-34 gun that was putting on the bullet belt, and was about to shoot.

Zhang Shixin was stunned for a moment, and after confirming on the tactical map that there were indeed many red dots retreating, he said: "Let the troops gradually reduce the heavy firepower output, and we can temporarily get a little rest time by destroying this group of enemies." Also, hand me two large bullets on a chain!! ”

Zhang Shixin said, his right hand slammed the bolt, loaded the bullet and continued to shoot.

With Zhang Shixin's order, the firing frequency of tanks, mortars and anti-tank rifles suddenly decreased significantly, but the firing frequency of machine guns and sniper rifles remained at a dense level.

A few minutes later, with the last few small red dots hiding behind a tank, destroyed by a 128mm mortar, Zhang Shixin ordered a ceasefire and the team took a temporary break.

After touching the air-cooled fan of the MG-34, which was a little hot, Zhang Shixin glanced at the scene in front of him and had to shake his head, because it was too miserable, and the considerable distance in front of the defense line was full of large or small craters smashed by mortars with ballistic deviations, so how miserable the end of the convoy in the center of the attack was, you can imagine......

He was not interested in using a telescope to take a closer look at the destroyed tanks and armored vehicles, as well as the tragic images of soldiers who had been torn apart by 20mm anti-tank armor-piercing shells. What he wants to do is not to kill people for fun, he hopes that he can solve the problem without using one shot at a time.

But it can't be because it's ...... It's war.

The almost endless rain washed away the blood on the road, extinguishing the flames of the destroyed tank and armored vehicles, and at the same time, the cool feeling it brought made Zhang Shixin have to hate the war, because the war has caused many people to lose their most important things.

"......" looked through the rain curtain and looked at the north of the road, Zhang Shixin was silent......

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"General, the troops of that one and a half regiments were too miserable, the opponent's fire was pouring down on us like raindrops, and I saw that they had no power to fight back at all, and they were pressed by the enemy on the ground and hit hard." A certain regiment commander, who had lost half of the regiment, was wearing a raincoat and cried to Kalas with tears in his eyes.

"......", who was also wearing a raincoat and standing next to a large makeshift table in the rain, shook his head speechlessly, because even he probably couldn't do anything in that situation.

But as the commander of a unit, he still stopped the regiment commander's attack on the morale of the army: "Okay, don't cry, things have come to this point, we need to find a solution now." What do you all say about what we're going to do next? ”

After a while, Kalas found that no one had picked up the topic, and he couldn't help but glance at the middle and senior officers standing in front of the table in raincoats, and there was a slight look of disappointment in his eyes.

One of the brigade commanders glanced at his colleagues around him, and saw that no one wanted to take up the topic of Callas, so he emboldened himself and said: "General, our own mission is to raid Gloch, but now it is clear that the Capani army has discovered our intentions. Our plans for raids have become pointless. So should we ...... How about asking the commander for an order before making a decision? ”

Kalas quietly listened to the brigade commander's advice and found that the other party's advice was very good. So he smiled and nodded: "Okay, your suggestion is very pertinent, you can use my name to ask the command what we should do next." ”

"Yes! Checkmate!!! The brigade commander excitedly saluted Karas, then ignored the envious or jealous looks of his colleagues and turned to a truck with a long-range transmitter......

"Let's wait here for instructions from the headquarters." Kalas glanced at the reactions of his temporary subordinates, and snorted coldly in his heart: "No one spoke up just now when I asked you to speak, but now you are jealous of others, so that's all you can do." ”

Ten minutes later, the brigade commander walked in front of everyone with a special waterproof paper, but what was strange was that the expression on the brigade commander's face was no longer so excited, and it could even be described as the word endurance.

The officers had to guess what had happened to make the other change so fast.

The answer was revealed after the brigade commander handed the waterproof paper to Callas.

One glance at the waterproof paper that says Storm Gloch at all costs, and the famous one below is Lawrence Hiho Winn Hrington.

Callas was also angry, but he quickly resisted his anger and said to the people, "Look at this note, tell me what you think. ”

The note was passed out......

A few minutes later, the officers all looked similar to the brigade commander, but they could only silently hold back their anger because of the man who sent the telegram.

When the note reached Karas's hand again, Karas took everyone's expressions in his eyes.

But he didn't say anything, but said lightly: "Do you have any opinions?" If not, we will have to follow the orders of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. ”

Glancing at the many officers who wanted to stop talking, Kalas could only shake his head secretly in his heart, and said in his mouth: "Since this is the case, everyone go back to their own troops and prepare, and we will attack again in half an hour." ”

"Yes! Checkmate! After giving a military salute to Callas, the crowd left the table and trotted out to their troops.

Castas silently glanced at the waterproof paper in his hand again, tearing it to shreds without saying a word.

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"Your Highness the Crown Prince, why did you not know that I, the commander-in-chief, ordered General Kalas to continue to storm Glossy." In his office, Field Marshal Augs Tudor of King Helrington [***] looked at the middle-aged man who was sitting in his place with a bewitching female soldier. Resisting his anger, he said.

"Marshal Augs, I'm here to supervise your capture of Capani as soon as possible, and my father has told you about that. I have to say that you are really useless, you can't even beat a little Heather, and the heavy responsibility of the kingdom is actually entrusted to you and those people in the Southern Army, I have to say that my father did something wrong this time. The middle-aged man did not hesitate to sneer at the aged Augs.

"Okay, since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has his own high opinions, you might as well talk about it." Augs, whose anger had reached the critical point of the outbreak, said coldly.

"Of course, I'm here mainly with a troop that intends to attack Capani City via Veathro. Of course, the commander of this force is still me. I'd love to see what kind of stunner that Capani's new queen is. Hahahaha...... Isn't my plan perfect. The middle-aged man burst out laughing.

"You're crazy, if the city of Capani is heavily defended, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ......" Augs didn't finish his sentence when he was knocked unconscious from behind by a man.

"Oh...... My good friend, when did you come? The middle-aged man said in surprise when he saw a young man standing behind Augs, who was slowly falling, with black bangs and black eyes exposed, and said.

"I'm here to support you. Plus, I brought you all the things you wanted. The black-robed young man said, flew a box without any sign in front of the middle-aged man, and then glanced at the middle-aged man who was staring at the box, his eyes were showing endless ** eyes, and continued: "This is only a part, as long as you defeat Capani City, I will give you the rest as a reward." ”

After listening to the words of the black-robed young man, the middle-aged man quickly opened the box, took out one of the small packets of purple powder, and then took out a piece of silver foil at the bottom of the box and poured the powder on it......

Looking at the middle-aged man who was engrossed in his "work", a hint of imperceptible smile appeared on the corner of the young man's mouth......

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"General, the casualties of the troops are so heavy that we can't rush to that steep slope at all!!" A regimental commander with a thick bandage on his head had to retreat to treat his wounds after being hit by a mortar shell and being rescued by the crew, and then found Kalas and cried.

"......" Karas, who had rearranged his headquarters at a corner, said helplessly: "I know that the troops have suffered heavy casualties, but we have no way to retreat now, and what are our artillery units doing?!" ”

"General, none of our long-barreled howitzers can hit that position......" The temporary brigade commander, who was integrated into one artillery brigade, had to tell a fact.

They also tried to forcibly shoot at Zhang Shixin's defensive line in an area that could barely spread out, but except for a few shells that hit the back of Zhang Shixin's position, creating craters one after another, the other shells, either hit the steep mountain wall in front of them, shook down stones, killed and injured several infantry on the perimeter guard, or flew to an unknown place, in short, they couldn't even see the explosion.

"Won't you push the artillery to the front?" Do it for me right now! Kalas looked angrily at the artillery brigade commander in front of him, who, after a few tremors of his lips, finally had to leave the temporary headquarters with a salute.

In the tent, many officers showed a trace of sympathy for the commander of the artillery brigade just now, but they didn't have much time to pay attention to each other, because they didn't know when it would be their turn to lead their troops to attack the enemy's position.

"General, after fighting for so long, would it be better for us to let the soldiers rest for a while?" One of the officers glanced at Callas and saluted.

"......" Kalas was silent for a while, and finally nodded: "Let the troops rest for a while after the news of this wave of troops is coming." In addition, the people of the cooking class are ordered to cook. ”

All the officers left Karas's headquarters again, leaving Kalas alone silently watching the empty tent, not knowing what to think......

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"Full Fire!! Glancing at the Herrington Army, which was gradually approaching the hills again, he shouted, and with the slight shock caused by the Panther A firing a 75mm armor-piercing round at one of the enemy's tanks, he also attacked some of the infantry hiding behind the tank armored vehicles.

And after he gave the order to attack, Zhang Shixin's subordinate troops also launched attacks on their targets.

Mortar shells whizzed, raining down on the enemy's dense formation from the positions behind the hills, blasting craters and damaging many unlucky tanks and armored vehicles.

The MG-34, L-39 anti-tank rifles, as well as the K98K sniper rifles above the hills, wounded and even killed a Helrington Army infantry in almost every attack.

But because the number of opponents was also increasing, soon, the trenches on the front of the left flank, the defending infantry began to suffer casualties.

But when the opponent rushed to a distance of more than 20 meters, the soldiers who could still do combat threw the M24 grenades that had been prepared long ago.

After a series of small explosions, the tactical map in Zhang Shixin's mind showed that the infantry in that direction was immediately put down in large pieces.

Although the enemy's troops suffered heavy losses, under the cover of a large number of tanks and armored vehicles, many of the infantry of the Herrington Army relied on the wreckage of the destroyed tank and armored vehicles, and the Herrington Army, as a follow-up force, once again stormed the defense line on the left flank.

Looking at this scene, Zhang Shixin aimed the muzzle of the gun at the left, and then pulled the trigger, this time he was no longer shooting, but directly strafing.

It's just that before Zhang Shixin ran out of bullets in this large chain box, he found that the barrel of the MG-34 had "struck".

"Your sister!! Hand a barrel and two cartridge boxes, and ask the right wing to mobilize 50 people to go to the left flank to assist in the defense!! While Zhang Shixin shouted loudly, he quickly unfastened the barrel fixing movable lock of the MG-34, and twisted the barrel of the gun 90 degrees clockwise with his gloved hands......

After a while, a scrapped barrel was pulled out by Zhang Shixin, and after pulling out the hot barrel and throwing it into a tank, Zhang Shixin took a new barrel and inserted it into the holster......

Zhang Shixin, who had finished preparation, was about to shoot again when he found that the red dot on the hillside was retreating again......

At the same time, several red flares streaked across the sky......

"Can you finally take a break?" Zhang Shixin glanced at the desolate hillside, and as far as he could see, dozens of tanks and armored vehicles emitting black smoke and even a little blue flame that had not yet been extinguished were quietly sinking into the mud, and the corpses of many dead soldiers were lying on the hillside full of craters, never to wake up again.

"Passing it down, except for the necessary precautions, everyone else should take a break and eat something." Zhang Shixin drilled back into the tank and said to the communicator......

As the cans were slowly cut open by the soldiers with the daggers' own opening slots, there was an unpleasant but peaceful sound on the battlefield......

No one knows when the battle will start again, then...... This brief peace is a right between the soldiers on both sides......

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Note 1: Communicators usually report enemy distances in yards rather than meters, and the distance of one yard is about 0.914 meters.

There are two types of hour hand method, one is based on the report car, the front is in the direction of 12 o'clock, and the back is in the direction of 6 o'clock. One is based on the north side of the map, with 12 points in the north and 6 points in the south due south.

And here we take the map positioning method. The hour hand is located at 12:30 p.m., about 15 degrees east-north. One and a half points is northeast, and so on.

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