Chapter 1281: Stalemate
That's right, hold on.
With a gentle hillside behind the camp, it was almost impossible to retreat to the top of the hill in the face of bullets, and the rescue team was divided up and could not receive reliable support in the short term. In an extremely unfavorable situation, holding on to this position is the only way to inflict maximum damage on the enemy at the moment.
After all, the gap in the number of people on both sides is too big, and everyone's backpacks are filled with food, clothes and other supplies, and they don't even bring a heavy machine gun, which makes the weapons on both sides basically at the same level, and it is difficult to rely on long-range firepower to make up for the lack of quantity as in the past.
Fifty against a thousand, the fish ball can already expect the result.
He admitted that when this thought came to him, he was still a little scared in his heart, but he was no longer the coward who would only hold his head and retreat in the past, and fear would not affect his duties as a squad leader.
Even if he dies here, he will make the other party pay enough price!
Obviously, the other teammates were also thinking the same way at the moment, otherwise they would not have deliberately pressed the firing speed and put the enemy within two hundred meters.
The bullets you carry are limited, and you can only achieve the best hit rate in medium and close combat.
Of course, the enemy's crosshairs will also increase due to the shortening of the distance, this is a double-edged sword, and the will will determine everything.
The hillside slowed down the opponent's movements, and Yumaru waited for nearly a minute before he saw someone enter the 100-meter circle—a distance at which he could see the face of the attacker with a lookout glass. And this once again confirmed his previous suspicion, most of the people's faces were clean, not at all like refugees coming and going in the wind and rain, and their actions and expressions showed no signs of being forced.
He doesn't have to worry about killing innocents by mistake anymore.
The fish ball is aimed at the enemy who is rushing to the front and pulls the trigger.
The teammates around him also chose to fire at this moment.
For a moment, the gunfire on the camp suddenly exploded, instantly overshadowing the other party's movements. The attacker who rushed to the front fell in the blink of an eye, and the momentum of the attack suddenly stalled. The surrounding enemies lay down and fired back at the First Army, and it is not known whether they had figured out such a method of confrontation in the past battles, or if they had been guided by the devil, and the situation turned into mutual shooting.
Just as the two sides were stalemate, the enemy behind pushed several cloth-covered two-wheeled carts closer to the front.
Compared with horse-drawn carts and mules, the carts that rely on manual push and pull are more suitable for ordinary people, especially when the family is relocating and needs to carry a large amount of goods. He thought it was just a prop used by the enemy to disguise his identity, but he didn't expect that after starting to charge, the other party still didn't give up these bulky carts.
It wasn't until the cover was lifted that the fish ball found that the board truck was actually towing a Mark 1 heavy machine gun!
"Da Da Da-"
The rapid burst of fire immediately suppressed the firepower of the First Army, and the bullets it was equipped with had a tracer effect, and the aim was much better than that of bolt-action rifles. The front of the camp seemed to be boiling, and the grass full of wild flowers was splashed with mud, and if it weren't for the barracks to resist, I was afraid that this wave would make them lose the ability to fight back.
Thankfully, instead of setting up a machine-gun position at the maximum distance, the enemy threw it into the charge. Now the machine guns were only about two hundred meters away from the defensive line, and the First Army was scattered enough, which gave them a chance to breathe.
"Hansen!" yelled.
The latter made a clear gesture and ran towards the edge of the camp with his rifle in hand.
The First Army seldom encountered a situation in which its firepower was inferior, and according to the regulations in the combat manual, once it fell into a disadvantageous situation of weak firepower, it should call in the rear artillery for support as soon as possible, or specifically target the enemy's firepower points to carry out countermeasures. Obviously, the only action that the rescue team can take at this time is to use efficient and accurate sniping to deter the momentum of the enemy's attack.
Taking advantage of the machine gun reload, Yumaru and his teammates raised their heads and fired a fierce shot, attracting the opponent's attention to themselves as much as possible. Hansen didn't disappoint, as he dropped the shooter on the cart to the ground with two shots. The follow-up people who wanted to climb onto the scooter were also named one by one.
Without the suppression of the machine guns, the enemy who took advantage of the charging was repulsed by a round of fire before he could run ten steps, and the battle situation returned to the original point.
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"Damn, why haven't these shitties captured the camp yet?" said Marvion, looking up at the sun setting in the west, and stamped his feet impatiently. "Viscount Nanoth, are your people too cowardly to even take a flank! If it drags on until night, the Grey Castle people will flee!"
As commanders, they naturally don't have to rush to the front line like servants and mercenaries, not to mention that these Gray Castle people never pay attention to the rules of aristocratic warfare, and they deliberately keep their hands behind and exchange ransom after being captured...... None of them exist. They had long seen the attitude of the Grey Castle people towards the nobles, and leading the charge as in the past would not get any honor and respect, and would only be the first to be beaten into a hornet's nest.
"They've done their best, and your men aren't much better," Nanos complained, "obviously with the largest number of people, but at the back of the line. If your central forces could advance a hundred paces further, the camp would have been taken long ago. ”
"You—" Marvien was so choked that he couldn't speak, so he had to look sullenly at the front line, but he wrote down the hatred in his heart.
When I become the King of Eternal Winter, I will make you look good!
But the most important thing now is to win, without victory, the Lord of the Sky will not look at him differently.
It's just that he doesn't understand, why did the situation get so anxious?
Everything went as planned, and in order to prevent the Greykeepers from discovering a flaw, they did not choose to set up an ambush in the town, nor did they divide the way to outflank each other in advance - in this valley, the forces and arrangements of both sides were clear at a glance, and any details that could lead to exposure, he carefully considered. As for the townspeople who might leak the news, he didn't let go of any of them.
And the development of the truth is the same, by the time the Grey Castle people noticed the abnormality, the distance between the two sides had narrowed to hundreds of steps. With far more muskets and outnumbered each other, the battle should have ended quickly, but why had they not been able to storm the camp until now?
Even if the other party has one gun per person, it is only about fifty, and the aristocratic alliance army has as many as two hundred!
In Marvien's imagination, the Grey Castle people should have been terrified in the face of such ferocious firepower.
But what he saw was the other way around.
The coalition forces were crushed on the hillside and could not move, and several charges were repulsed by heavy fire, but the counterattack organized here was not painful, and the attack did not weaken the defense of the Grey Castle until now, as if the enemy had three heads and six arms and could control several muskets at the same time.
The repeating musket on which he had high hopes was even more ineffective, not only failed to destroy the will of the Grey Castle people, but swept away his own men during several charges. Looking from the foot of the hillside, I saw a circle of corpses lying around and in front of the repeating muskets that had been transported with great difficulty, and no one dared to touch them anymore.
If this continues, won't the bright prospects you are looking forward to come to naught?
You must know that Yongdong can't produce bullets, and if he can't capture enough ammunition in this battle, how can he have a chance to bite the flesh of the Greykeepers in the next battle?
"Don't be impatient, my lord," said Fowler, reassuringly, "I have observed that the enemy's gunfire has become much thinner than before, and that they are running out of ammunition. Just hold on a little longer and we can win the way we do best. After all, they only have muskets, and we have everything. ”
But then it would be impossible to capture more bullets, Maveen thought bitterly. Forget it, the bullet can be asked for by the Lord of the Sky Dome later, and the top priority is to completely annihilate this group of Grey Castle people! He called a guard, "Pass my order, the reward promised before will be doubled, and the first one to rush into the position will have a hundred bounty dragons!"