Just as the sky was getting brighter and Li Yongji seized the time to concentrate his troops and prepare to start a counterattack, the frontal offensive of the Americans was once again strengthened, and it simply entered the final climax.

The reason is very simple, Burnside also knows that after dawn is conducive to the Chinese's firepower output, plus he feels that the Chinese's defense is somewhat weak, so he wants to take this opportunity to break through and completely defeat the Chinese.

Burnside had a hunch that if he could not break through the Chinese defense line at this last moment and flood the Chinese position with his own sea of people, when they came back to their senses and regained their stability, there would be no more chance.

In fact, the Americans have been fighting for seven or eight hours since they began their attack in the middle of the night, not to mention fatigue, just looking at the corpses everywhere on the way of the charge, we know that the Americans have paid huge casualties during this period, and it is destined to be a surprising number.

If it were daytime, with such high casualties, the Americans would have collapsed long ago, and even the high-morale New Virginia Regiment would not have been able to bear such high casualties, after all, people have a fear mentality.

However, because it was a night when the line of sight was not clear, it was still snowing heavily, and the Americans were divided into dozens of waves of scattered troops to carry out a wide frontal attack in waves, so they did not know the specific casualties of each other, and only knew that they were rushing and fighting fiercely under the orders of the above.

As for those who could not rush through, or who were scattered and retreated, there were naturally waves of warlords on horseback waiting for them, and as soon as they found someone fleeing, they would rush over, and with a whip and a roar, they would regroup these people, rest a little, organize a little, and then continue to retreat, becoming another wave of attacks.

To put it bluntly, it is not a question of courage or not for Americans today. Rather, like those clueless flocks, they themselves may know that attacking the Chinese positions is terrible, but because everyone is rushing forward, there are people in front and behind, left and right, and they are also forced to rush forward until they are killed and wounded by Chinese bullets, or they are bombarded by artillery fire.

This is the so-called herd effect, when everyone is rushing towards one place, they also lose the ability to think independently, and can only rush forward. At this time, unless there is a stronger stimulus to bring them back to their senses, they will rush over it together, even if there is a cliff ahead.

In the past, the artillery bombardment of the Chinese was a good medicine to stimulate their sobriety, and the damage caused by a few shells, in this weather, especially in the case of stragglers, the actual damage caused may not be as good as the machine gun submachine gun of the Chinese. However, the strong sound and light effect and the extremely tragic killing effect greatly shocked the people around them, making people involuntarily afraid, so as to subconsciously retreat.

But. At this time, they will find that when they retreat to a certain distance, they will face a new wave of charging troops again. Then they will find out tragically, because there are people all around, and they can't go back at all. Especially when the assault force is mixed with law enforcement teams, this kind of backward escape is even less likely.

In other words, Burnside's method of forming a team and charging in waves can not only cause a continuous sense of exhaustion to the defenders, but also stop their own rout, that is, when the front wave of troops begins to break and flee, they will be involuntarily coerced by the next wave of charging troops and forced to rush forward again.

The best way to deal with a wave attack is to cut off their offensive rhythm, and the best way to cut off the offensive rhythm is to use heavy artillery fire to carry out blocking bombardment. As long as their rhythm is disrupted, this headache-inducing wave attack will be temporarily contained.

In the past, the artillery fire of the expeditionary force had been doing this, and once the front-line troops found that the American offensive was too sharp for them to stop, they would call for artillery support, and then use guò artillery support to cut off the follow-up troops of the offensive tide, and they would feel at ease to strike at the approaching enemy.

Originally, this artillery fire of the Chinese defenders blocked the follow-up troops, and the rhythm of the infantry to eliminate the forward troops was also quite good, just to restrain the wave attack, but because of the sneak attack of the Americans' partial division, they accidentally knocked out the artillery positions of the expeditionary force and pinned down the task force, and for a long time, the Chinese artillery could no longer give sufficient support to the front line.

It's as if the rhythm of the defenders has been disrupted, and the wave attack of the Americans has restored the rhythm of the past.

In this way, although the defenders still relied on rapid-fire weapons to inflict great casualties on the attacking troops, because the Americans' attacks continued in waves, it seemed as if they could not be killed at all, giving people huge psychological pressure, which led to the loss of two lines of defense in succession.

Therefore, the reason why the front line of defense was lost was different from the negligence in the direction of the port, that is, it really made strong resistance, and in the end it was unable to stop those endless sea of soldiers, and in order to reduce losses, it took the initiative to retreat.

Therefore, don't look at the defensive force of Baiyun Flying Control zhì only has the third line of defense, but his soldiers actually did not lose much, because either they have retreated back to the third line of defense in advance, or they have retreated to the support point fortress, which seems to be pressed and beaten, and the knight is equivalent to putting away his fists and preparing to attack.

Of course, although this tactical behavior is correct, the retreat itself is very demoralizing after all, so in the actual operation process, after retreating to the third line of defense, many of the soldiers of the expeditionary force are actually a little panicked.

Fortunately, there were a large number of military police and grass-roots staff officers in the unit, and this phenomenon of declining morale was discovered in time, and the communication system that was delegated to the group level made this situation of low morale reported to the command headquarters in a timely manner, so that Li Yongji knew about it.

Then, now that he knew that the morale of the army was greatly depressed, Li Yongji simply used a hearty counter-shock and annihilation battle to clear away the sneak attack troops and let everyone get rid of their worries.

Knowing that the sneak attack troops had been annihilated and had no worries, and that the third line of defense was the last line of defense, everyone had no way to retreat at all, so the morale of the officers and men of the expeditionary expedition on the frontal battlefield was really greatly boosted, and the intensity of the counterattack was greatly strengthened compared with before.

The intensification of this counterattack soon made the attacking Americans feel tremendous pressure, and even Burnside, who took the initiative to move the headquarters forward.

And, Burnside also knows. There is not much time left for himself, because he has no food, in order to stop this attack, he has already let everyone eat all the remaining food in advance, if this time can not complete the battle, rush into the Chinese positions, defeat these Chinese, then what awaits them can only be defeat.

Burnside had no idea of a protracted war, nor did he hope for his soldiers to fight hard. It seemed to him that as soon as this final assault failed, he simply surrendered, neither besieged nor fled, because that would be pointless.

Therefore, it is with this kind of thinking that Burnside sends one army after another to the battlefield without any distress, with wave after wave of impact. With endless blood and lives, to consume the firepower of the Chinese.

Now, seeing that he has broken through the two lines of defense of the Chinese in a row, the last line of defense remains. Burnside felt that victory was in sight, and even if the Chinese resistance became sharp again, he did not care.

After all, in Burnside's view, the last line of defense. It's normal for resistance to be fierce at all, even if it seems four or five times stronger than before.

To know. What Bernside fears most is not the Chinese's machine guns, but their continuous terrifying artillery fire, but now it seems that the Chinese's artillery positions have been destroyed by their own sneak attack troops, otherwise they would not have opened fire to stop them until now!

Since the most terrible artillery attack of the Chinese has disappeared, it is a fool not to take the opportunity to attack again.

Moreover, now that the sky is already bright, the machine gun fire of the Chinese will be more accurate, if you can't rush in at this time, then maybe it will be turned over by the Chinese.

Therefore, after seeing the dawn, not only Li Yongji was trying to take the opportunity to counterattack, but Burnside also happily took out his long-cherished new force, a full 50,000 recuperating troops, and the elite troops who had never been on the battlefield before threw themselves into it.

The current Burnside, like a rich and fierce gambler, after seeing the dawn of victory, simply comes to the full pressure of winning or losing in one game, and wants to get a comprehensive victory in the shortest possible time, so as not to have too many dreams at night.

I have to say that Burnside's move is still quite sharp, and the battle has been fought so far, not only the attackers are exhausted, but even the defenders are unable to take turns to rest because they have not been supported by artillery fire for a long time, and they have to defend in three directions, so that the defenders are exhausted.

At this time, Burnside suddenly threw a new force of 50,000 men into a local position in one direction, and the pressure on the people immediately increased greatly.

These 50,000 people were organized into five columns by Burnside, each with 10,000 people, including 10,000 cavalry, which can be said to be the real core elite of the New Virginia Legion.

This time, when he saw that the attack in front of him could not be attacked for a long time, he immediately led with 10,000 cavalry and rushed forward with overwhelming momentum, while the 40,000 troops behind followed closely behind the cavalry, holding up the spears with bayonets, and charging forward with a roar.

The group charge of 10,000 cavalry is indeed huge, but compared to their own impact and lethality, the psychological pressure is actually a little greater, especially before the engagement!

Generally speaking, in the face of this kind of galloping cavalry charge, it is difficult for pure infantry to resist this pressure head-on, and the more timid will pee their pants when they see this scene, and only the kind of well-trained and high-morale troops can barely resist this kind of cavalry charge when they form a battle formation.

But it is a pity that the American cavalry at this time, facing the expeditionary force equipped with a large amount of machine gun firepower and morale is also not lost, after seeing the Americans dispatch cavalry, they decisively strengthened the firepower output, and projected most of the firepower to these cavalry units with larger targets.

Soon, this seemingly arrogant cavalry was like a raging wave hitting a solid reef, and the dense machine-gun fire strafed it, and the cavalry was shot and fell one after another, especially the horses, because the target was larger, and the wounds were especially severe.

These Chinese do not have a tradition of cherishing war horses, they pay attention to shooting people and horses first, so when they see these cavalry with larger targets rushing over, they immediately strafe them with more fierce fire, completely crushing them before the other side rushes over.

However, although the cavalry suffered heavy losses, they also managed to attract a large amount of firepower, so the infantry took advantage of the opportunity to charge quickly, and soon approached the third line of defense. Even many of the forward troops are only thirty meters away from the third line of defense, and almost each other can see each other's faces!

At this distance, although there are many barbed wire, but at this time the Americans have gone crazy, many of them see the barbed wire, will not slowly lay it with a wooden plank, or cut off the barbed wire with pliers, but directly lie forward, using their own body as a pedal, and the people behind are stepping on this human pedal one after another. Continue to rush forward with a roar.

However, such a brave American was greeted not by the panic of the Chinese, but by waves of grenades and grenades.

These guns and grenades, all issued by the guò grenade launcher, were originally not a few in number, and they were basically in Li Yongji's personal guard troops, so they did not come in handy when defending in front, but now. These grenadiers were replenished in time and assigned to Bai Yunfei's unified dispatch, and they made a great contribution in this blocking battle at once!

When a large number of grenades and grenades were dropped, there was a continuous explosion of explosions. Although the scale of the explosion is not comparable to that of real artillery, because they are all blasting shells, and there are many explosive fragments, it is an attack on the barbed wire area. So immediately inflicted heavy casualties on the Americans, restraining their further charge.

Immediately afterwards, 56 Chong also roared wildly. The torrential rain of bullets swept fiercely, sweeping down the Americans who rushed over like wheat harvesting flakes.

However, although the Chinese had fierce firepower, the Americans also went crazy at this time, and the people in front died, and the people behind continued, and with this kind of lifeless momentum, they rushed forward with huge casualties.

In this way, fifty meters in front of the position, the Chinese and the Americans broke out in the most murderous steel bullet against meat bullet competition!

One was invincible in firepower, the other was fierce, and everyone had the most direct battle in this area of 30 to 400 meters.

The two sides continued like this for more than 40 minutes, during which time the corpses of the Americans had completely covered the barbed wire, and the road to charge was paved with endless corpses.

And as the defenders, the Chinese are also red-eyed, many machine guns and automatic rifles have red barrels because of continuous shooting, so that they can not continue to shoot for a period of time, many people have to take out pistols to deal with those endless American soldiers, and even the people behind have picked up the sapper shovel and are ready for white-knuckle combat.

However, just when the defenders were exhausted, the attackers were also suffering heavy casualties, and their stamina was weak, suddenly a continuous bombardment broke out five hundred meters from the front line of the position, which swallowed up the Americans who continued to rush forward at once.

It is clear that this is a salvo of shipborne rocket artillery, and only shipborne 122-mm rocket artillery can hit such a shocking fire cover at once.

And that's not all, immediately after that, another wave of artillery fire with a slightly less powerful explosion came again, and it was the masterpiece of the 76-mm rapid-fire gun.

Being bombarded by such a burst, the rhythm of the Americans' attack was disrupted at once, and at this moment, the ground trembled again, and many Americans who were lying down because of the artillery attack looked up and were shocked to find that hideous and terrifying ironclad chariots suddenly appeared from the Chinese positions!

That's right, these combat vehicles are the tracked armored vehicles of the Guards Armored Battalion, and this armored unit is only the vanguard of the counterattack force of the expeditionary force.

With the appearance of armored vehicles, the artillery attack began to shoot extendedly, as if to clear the way for the counterattacking troops, and in the direction of the defenders, for the first time, a mournful charge horn sounded!

With the sound of the charging horn, all the Chinese on the position jumped out, some with sapper shovels, some with bayonet automatic rifles, some just with small pistols, and then like tigers in the mountains, fiercely rushed towards the Americans in the corpses strewn in the field!

The great counterattack of the Chinese has finally begun, and the Americans at this time, who are already at the end of the crossbow, are already numb, and now seeing the Chinese who are like a rainbow, they can no longer raise a little resistance **, either immediately kneel down and surrender, or turn their heads and run away!

In this way, under the great counterattack of the Chinese, the seemingly endless offensive of the Americans finally collapsed completely! (To be continued......)