Volume 6: "I Am the Legend" (II) Chapter 61: The Bloody Battle of Coranto (3)
When Alberta reached the Coranto Pass, the first thing he did was to order the soldiers to dig the earth. And dig regularly. A trench about 1.2 meters wide was dug. The height is more than one person, and above the trench facing the enemy, the excavated soil is filled with sacks and piled on the enemy-facing side of the trench.
Since the height of the trench was more than a man's height, a high slope was dug under the side of the trench facing the enemy, and the soldiers could stand on it, just in time to peek out from the gap in the sandbags and aim at the enemy.
Alberta dug the trench nearly 200 meters long, and behind the first trench, dug a short circular trench, this prototype trench was much higher than the previous trench, and two heavy machine guns were set up in this circular trench. The range of the heavy machine gun is crossed, and it is completely possible to completely cover the enemy attacking from the south of the first trench.
Alberta also set up ten light machine-gun positions in the trenches. And one hundred soldiers were deployed in batches in the first and second trenches, with eighty soldiers in the first trench and twenty soldiers in the second trench. And the first trench and the second trench are connected by passages.
Of course, this trench is actually a simple "trench"! Trench tactics used only by the Empire. Alberta knew that Alberta had deployed a hail 20 mm rapid-fire cannon at the rear of the two trenches. And the same trenches and burlap sandbags were used as protection for the cannons.
Alberta counted the soldiers' equipment, each carrying a Manlich eight-round rifle with 80 rounds of ammunition. And carrying five grenades, such rifle soldiers totaled a hundred. There are also ten LMG crews, each using a Storm LMG and a total of 640 rounds of ammunition, or 20 LMG magazines. Ten light machine gun crews consisted of a total of thirty soldiers. The two heavy machine gun crews each carried two boxes of cartridge box ammunition, with a total of 400 rounds. The two groups were 800 rounds of ammunition. Of course, the rest of the light and heavy machine gun crew, carrying rifles and the same amount of ammunition as ordinary riflemen.
The Hail 20 mm rapid-fire cannon carried 200 rounds of reserve shells. There were ten people in the artillery squad. This brings the total number of soldiers Alberta to 159. Of course, he grouped eight cavalrymen and himself in the command squad. They, in the improvised trenches, quietly await the arrival of the enemy!
However, Second Lieutenant Sierhart was a little puzzled by Alberta's way of laying out the battlefield, and he asked: "What if the enemy breaks through from the east and west sides of the trenches of our front?" ”
Alberta informed Ensign Siehart: "They can't do that. Because the trench occupies 200 meters, the distance from the remaining ditch to the east and west sides of the pass will not exceed 400 meters. Therefore, if they want to break through from the left and right sides of the trench, then they will definitely not rush through. They will be exposed to our fire! Our firepower can fully cover the distance of 400 meters from the battlefield trenches to the mountain passes on the east and west sides. It's called: trench tactics! "Of course, Alberta learned trench tactics through Lieutenant Colonel Elta, the intelligence officer of the Duchy of Casdilipa, who stole out of Imperial tactics.
Second Lieutenant Sieulhardt was skeptical, but Alberta said to him: "You should be optimistic about a one-sided war!" ”
On the fifteenth day, the sun rose in the east. The glow of the sunrise hits the Colanto Pass. It's extraordinarily beautiful.
Eighteen hundred men of the rebel Froome regiment under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Froome were already stationed outside the mountain pass. The tent barracks were already stationed outside the mountain pass. When Lieutenant Colonel Froome saw Alberta's army arranging themselves "in a trench underground," Froome laughed! He was laughing at the poor fellows who were about to die and didn't understand how war worked...... However, in the next two hours, Alberta's tactics brought Froome not only shock, but death-like fear!
Before the imminent offensive of the enemy rebels, that is, Lieutenant Colonel Froome. Alberta said only one word to all the soldiers present: "My soldiers, I need you to take the lives of the enemy, that is, the rebels when they charge!" ”
With just one simple sentence, even the Albertan soldiers on the battlefield looked at themselves with suspicion...... But only Alberta knew that his soldiers were about to achieve a shocking victory! And this battle will be the initial point of their start!
Because Alberta had seen it in the port of Epalai, the Opperon Empire used such advanced weapons to carry out a massacre attack on the defenders of the port of Epale...... And Alberta is now, with the same weapons, ready to deal a devastating blow to the enemy!
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Lieutenant Colonel Froome immediately ordered two companies, that is, 600 rebel troops, to take their weapons and start charging! With a whistle......
The rebels charged! Alberta is waiting...... He waited for the position of these rebels from the trenches.
Wait until the rebels are still three hundred meters away from the trenches! These rebels are almost crazy! They looked at the soldiers in front of them, their bloodthirsty nature had made them monsters! There are even some of them who are desperately firing guns into the sky! They're crazy......
Suddenly, Alberta looked at the distance on the telescope and the ruler, they were still three hundred meters from the front line! Alberta yelled: "Hit! "So, the whistle sounded three times on the Alberta side, which was completely different from the rebel army.
Next, a shocking scene happened to the rebels:
Ten light machine guns in the first trench fired at the same time, and the two heavy machine guns after the first trench followed the sound of the light machine guns firing, and then opened fire almost at the same time! On the battlefield, only the sound of light and heavy machine guns with "da-......" can be heard! and the characteristic sound of pulling the bolt after each shot, which is characteristic of countless Manlich rifles! The battlefield was filled with gunfire from Alberta's army!
Moment...... The rebel soldiers who charged ahead fell to the ground as if they had been cut wheat...... Some of them were hit by heavy machine guns, and they were directly beaten into a pink blood mist and exploded in the air!
Since the rebels were using one-child rifles, most of them were almost instantly beaten dumb! Silly in place, watching the rebel soldiers around them die, they don't know whether to continue charging or retreat! All they saw were countless rebel soldiers, falling to the ground as if they had been harvested...... There were even rebel soldiers whose one-child rifles fired a single round only to hit the sandbags of the improvised trenches set up by the Albertan army...... Before they could change their ammunition, the rebel soldier could only watch as the rebels beside him were smashed into a mist of blood by heavy machine guns...... And he was just about to run away when a bullet from a Manlich rifle pierced his skull......
Just when the two rebel companies that charged up were ruthlessly knocked down like cutting wheat, at the moment when countless rebel soldiers fell to the ground and died tragically!
The rapid-fire guns of the Alberta army fired! With a rumbling sound, a rapid-fire cannon shell burst through the crowd of rebel soldiers! At least three rebel soldiers were bombed and nowhere to be found......
Just then, a second shell hit the way of the rebels' charge!
One of the rebels was charging frantically when a second shell landed around him. He was knocked to the ground...... When he came back to his senses, he realized that he was not dead! And the two rebel soldiers beside him became a puddle of blood because of the artillery attack...... He stood up happily, but not before he could revel! He found that his left arm had been blown up by the shelling he had just done! He saw where his bloody severed arm was bleeding. He yelled like crazy...... He screamed four times as if he had broken down, and before he could scream a fifth, three bullets from the heavy machine gun hit him! The barrage of heavy machine guns "cut off" him by the waist, and he fell to the ground like a worm, surging like a worm, and after a few movements, he was killed by a bullet from a Manlich rifle in the head......
At this time, the rebel charging team finally couldn't hold it anymore! began to retreat in full force...... They threw away almost everything they could as they retreated. Even the rifle was thrown away! For they did not feel that the rifle was a weapon to protect their lives, except that the old-fashioned one-child bolt-action rifle was in the way of their escape......
Alberta's army saw the rebels retreat like lost dogs...... No, not a retreat, but a rout! The soldiers of Alberta watched in shock! They could hardly believe that they had won the battle......
At this time, Alberta's prestige in the hearts of soldiers reached its peak! Almost Alberta's name has become synonymous with victory!
I don't know which soldier shouted: "Alberta! So all the soldiers shouted in unison, "Alberta...... Alberta...... Alberta! "The voices of the soldiers became a wave, and they had a rhythm and sound in unison!
Alberta came to the front of the position, and he shouted: "Soldiers! You are the most heroic! As soon as Alberta's words fell, a burst of cheers erupted from the battlefield! Immediately afterward, Alberta said, "Prepare for the next round of enemy charges!" ”
The warriors of Alberta are almost madly roaring in victory! These soldiers were villagers for the first half of the month, and they were still weak beings who were bullied by the rebels for the previous month...... And now, they have become formidable warriors, soldiers who can protect their own villages! They defeated the enemy, and their enemies, the rebel soldiers, Lieutenant Colonel Froome's rebel infantry, charged up like a rising tide and retreated as quickly as the waves receded, and the first charge of the rebels ended in the collapse of the entire line......
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