The snipermen of the guard company were unmissable, but this did not stop their charge relative to the number of Australian attackers. At a distance of 100 meters, which is also the best distance for the Type 56 rifle to kill, the Red Alert soldiers shouted loudly, "Aim, shoot!" ”

The performance of the indigenous soldiers was really unsatisfactory. Regardless of whether the hit is accurate or not, those who can close one eye and aim seriously are considered excellent; Most of them have both eyes closed and keep pulling the trigger; The more timid ones simply pressed their faces to the ground and pointed their guns at the sky.

The gunfire on the position was suddenly intensive, and the charging Australian soldiers hurriedly hid themselves, but there were so many hidden points on the charging road, most of the Australian soldiers were lying on the ground, and then they stood up in the scolding of the officers, and they found that the gunfire on the position was very fast, but there were not many people who were really shot. Remembering that the enemy in the trench was just a group of natives who picked up guns, the confidence of the Australian soldiers suddenly rose, and a group of erect animals were themselves, even if they were given guns, they were still a herd of lambs to the slaughter. Many of the Australian troops even puffed up their chests and let the noble British Imperial Army bow their heads in front of a group of animals, which was a shame.

Qian Zhihao is about to be mad, this Nima is not afraid of god-like opponents...... Waving your hand, you can't shoot a gun, **** is okay, right? The National Guard deployed to the platoon-level portable 60 mm mortar run began to exert its power, fortunately, these specially selected indigenous gunners are relatively calm, although it is not so standard, but the position area is large, every time the artillery goes out, it can always blow up a few Australian troops, plus the Red Guard soldiers shouted and shouted, and even kicked and kicked under the compulsory order, the shooting on the position was finally more reliable, at least it would not hit the sky, and the first exploratory attack of the Australian army was finally repulsed.

After the natives saw that the Federation soldiers who had been acting on their heads for more than a hundred years were repelled by them, a few of them jumped out of the position uncontrollably and shouted, but they were pulled down by the nearby Red Alert soldiers and kicked their legs by the way, "You don't want to die?" Don't bother others! ”

Different from the knock of 60 mortars, the howitzers of the Australian army were "chirping" across the sky, and then exploded violently. Looking at the eyes of the Red Guard soldiers, in addition to fear, there was an extra respect.

The morning passed quickly in such an attack, the Australian army did not do its best, and Qian Zhihao did not use the machine gun bunker hidden under the position. The indigenous soldiers gradually adapted to the atmosphere of the battlefield and slowly returned to their normal level of training. Although many of their brothers of the same race were killed, they also shot more white soldiers, which made them more confident. Every time the Australian army retreated, the natives, like the Red Police soldiers around them, silently chewed on compressed biscuits, passed water bottles to each other and took a few sips, or leaned against the ditch wall to press bullets one after another into the empty magazines.

The general offensive of the Australian army began in the afternoon, and the follow-up troops arrived at Kalgoorlie with the headquarters of the second division of the Royal Australian Army, the second division from New South Wales, one of the two main forces of the Australian Army, the all-British armament division, equipped with large-caliber artillery, and an armored battalion in the second division, equipped with the latest British A10E1 cruiser tank, which was often called the Mark 2 cruiser tank by tank enthusiasts in later generations. The so-called cruiser tank refers to the relatively weak armor, but the speed is fast, suitable for rapid maneuvering, similar to the concept of cruiser in the navy.

Such a force is infinitely close to the equipment of the British army at the beginning of World War II, and there are only two divisions in Australia, and the other is the first division in Melbourne.

The 25-pounder howitzers of the 2nd Division's artillery battalion began to prepare for fire, and unlike the old guns that preceded it, the latest British artillery gun, nicknamed the cannon howitzer in World War II, was so powerful that a single shell could destroy a trench several meters long. This caused great casualties to the 102nd Regiment of the Guards, which did not build permanent fortifications and only used temporary trenches as shelters, and many soldiers were even buried alive in the collapsed trenches. After a morning of positional warfare, the natives who had managed to show some confidence suddenly fell into panic again, despite the loud scolding of the Red Guard soldiers, there were still some frightened soldiers who ran out of the trenches crying, and when the angry Qian Zhihao ordered the sniper to turn his gun and aim at the deserter, he turned it over in frustration. They don't have to shoot the deserters themselves at all, under the dense coverage of the Australian artillery, staying in the trenches, there is still a chance to live, and those who run out of the position are all turned into corpses and fragments in the roaring explosion, and even directly vaporized and completely disappeared.

Qian Zhihao covered his ears and opened his mouth to scold, "What do our artillerymen eat?" Wasn't Commander Chiang in the artillery position? No one answered him, and the rumbling of artillery on the position made most of the soldiers temporarily deaf.

In fact, Jiang Yunzhi cannot be blamed for this, although the towed 100-millimeter mortar equipped by the guard is equipped with a larger caliber, and the British army's 25-pound is less than 88 millimeters, but the range of the mortar is only more than 7,000 meters, and the range of the 25-pounder cannon howitzer reaches 12,500 meters. The embarrassing point is that the heavy mortars of the guards cannot hit people at all, and if they return fire after the artillery, the result is nothing more than that the artillery is completely destroyed. Although the mortars were easy to move, Jiang Yunzhi could not find enough military cards at all -- in order to ensure the expedition to Perth and the supply of the armored regiment, the engineering units had already been fully dispatched, and as for the guards, out of precautions against the local Australians, Zhong Yi did not prepare engineering troops for them at all.

When Qian Zhihao was scolding while being bombarded by the frontline position, Jiang Yunzhi was also so anxious that he was sweating like a pulp. Both commanders knew that it was only a matter of time before the indigenous soldiers had a psychological breakdown on such a scale of shelling.

"Commander Chiang, Hebar leads the cavalry battalion to report to you! Please assign the task! ”

Jiang Yunzhi, whose collar was already soaked, suddenly found that Hebar had arrived at some point. In the previous meeting, Hebar had been appointed by Zhong Yi as the chief of staff of the guards, whether it was his rank of colonel or his position in the army, he was higher than Major Jiang Yunzhi, the deputy commander of the armored regiment, but Hebar's military salute Major Jiang did not feel any abruptness, but was very surprised that Hebar would appear here. Isn't it said that white soldiers never turn their guns on their fellow whites? Jiang Yunzhi has not used those four tanks, and he has not been wary of the 101st Regiment.

Seeing that Jiang Yunzhi had not spoken, Hebal shouted loudly again: "Commander Jiang, Hebal led the cavalry battalion to request the assignment of combat missions. ”