"Hold on, artillery support in the base will arrive immediately!"

In the communication room inside Cave No. 2, the staff officer of the Marine Corps had an extremely ugly face, and he quickly reassured him through the microphone, and just hung up the communication between the two sides, the piercing bell rang again. His eyes were also a little anxious, gritting his teeth but reaching out to pick up the communication microphone again, and there was a hurried report voice from it as before, which also made the expression between his eyebrows more and more gloomy.

He was almost overwhelmed by the rush of calls, and he had no authority to act on his own in the face of the tense content of the report and the request for fire support. The staff officer casually said a few words to the five communicators beside him who were still in the process of emergency calling, turned around and walked out of the communication room quickly, came to the central command room next door, and looked at Karl, who was lying in front of the table with a solemn face and still studying the military map, and couldn't help but report urgently: "That group of Soviets has launched a full-scale attack on our side, and the outer defensive pillboxes can no longer achieve fire suppression, so we ask for our artillery support." ”

Karl was still lying on the huge wooden table, his expressionless face was only solemn and dignified, the pencil in his hand quickly wrote and drew on the map, marking the battle information that came at all times, and he also quickly ordered orders to another staff officer next to him, and quickly issued them through the communication in the command room. Although a series of orders were issued, his face still did not improve in the slightest, he turned his head and glanced at the staff officer who was looking at him, and said in a somewhat anxious voice: "Our artillery support frequency has reached its limit, and it is impossible to continue to provide more fire support!" ”

"A total of five pillboxes in the west, north, and south were fully attacked by the enemy, and due to the strong density of enemy firepower, the offensive formation was scattered, and it was impossible to quickly defeat their attack!"

And the staff officer's face was even more ugly, he walked quickly to Karl's side, his eyes looked at the military map that had been marked with various military symbols, his face was as gloomy as the dark clouds of winter in the Rocky Mountains. And gritted his teeth tightly, opened his mouth or clenched his fists, and quickly reported to Karl: "Six people were killed in the western forward defensive bunkers, four people were killed in the southwest bunkers and northwest bunkers, and one was killed in the southern bunkers. ”

"But even so, we still don't have more artillery support, and now our Marines can do all they can do is grit their teeth and use their bravery to resist the attack of that group of Soviets!"

The palm of his hand slapped heavily on the table, and Karl's voice was like a roar of a beast that had been driven to a dead end, he raised his head and glanced at the two staff officers in front of him, his bloodshot eyes were extremely depressed, and he also refocused his gaze on the map in front of him, pointing to the west, south, and north directions, and his voice became slightly hoarse because of his words: "We only have six guns, and in the face of the Soviets' attack on all fronts, the support we can provide is already extremely scattered, And we must also focus on taking care of the forward defensive bunkers in the west, otherwise we will now have to abandon the bunker that pinned down most of the Soviets and directly use Cave No. 5 as the front-line battlefield! ”

None of them expected that the Soviets would be like crazy, and they would directly launch a full-scale general attack in the face of their well-defended bunker group. Even if they suffered heavy casualties in the attack, the group of Soviets were like crazy people who were not afraid of death, shouting and holding their weapons, and advancing in the three directions of the west, south, and north again and again in a scattered attack method, and the wave of attack sequence, like the waves of the sea, gave them no respite!

The number of a standard infantry regiment is 2,000 elite Soviet infantrymen. And they all have quite a wealth of actual combat experience, and it is almost not an exaggeration to say that they are veterans who often crawl and fight on the battlefield. Especially when they no longer cared about casualties, they cooperated with each other to move forward, and with the support of AKM automatic rifles and light machine guns, as well as T55 tank guns, they directly advanced to within 100 meters of the defensive pillbox, an extremely dangerous distance.

This is not only this group of Soviet elite infantry, facing the triple fire suppression of light and heavy machine guns and M4A1 assault rifles inside the defensive pillbox, because relatively speaking, even the marines inside the defensive bunker have to face the fire of the AKM assault rifles in the hands of those Soviet elites whenever they manipulate their weapons to shoot outward through the narrow shooting hole, but at a distance of 100 meters, the range of the exchange of fire between the two sides is already a close firefight. Heavy machine guns are no longer relied on for long-range fire suppression.

Close firing training is a tactical maneuver that must be learned during training for any recruit. And for these Soviet elites, it was as simple as daily training. If it weren't for the fact that the shooting holes were still long and narrow, only a dozen centimeters high, and the fierce light and heavy firepower of the upper and lower layers, it is estimated that the marines in the defensive bunkers would have been completely emptied of the bunkers one by one by this group of elite Soviet veterans who had experienced an unknown number of actual battles.

But for these Soviet elites, advancing to a distance of less than 100 meters under the dense firepower of five defensive pillboxes has also reached a limit. Just look at the corpses that appeared on the hillside behind them from top to bottom, almost every meter, and you can see what kind of terrifying fire they have encountered in the process of advancing. If it were an ordinary infantry regiment, I am afraid that after they had suffered so many casualties in a short period of time, they would have been on the verge of collapse a long time ago, and they would no longer have the morale to continue fighting.

"All the same, all the same, all the same—"

The M2 Browning heavy machine gun in the defensive bunker was still spewing muzzle flames, and the dull sound still echoed in the space, and a large number of metal shells had filled the feet of the main shooter, building up pieces of empty shells. But on the ground next to it, there were already nearly three spare barrels placed there to cool, but now the barrel that was still attached to the heavy machine gun had also emitted a slight heat, indicating that it had become more and more hot with the non-stop firing at all.

And the faces of the marines inside have changed from excitement to fear now, especially the main shooter who is responsible for controlling the M2 Browning heavy machine gun, almost every time he suppresses the fire outside, his expression is with a certain despair. This is the outermost bunker on the west side, and it is also the place with the highest death rate among the many bunkers!

Just on the third level of the defensive bunker, where the Marines were supposed to rest or hide from the onslaught of onslaught, had been occupied by the bodies of six Marines with their faces covered. This fierce exchange of fire also had huge casualties on them in the defensive bunkers, not only the elite Soviet infantry that was already approaching a distance of 100 meters, but even the rifled guns of the T55 tank that were thousands of meters away, they were a huge threat, and they could die in an instant.

The tank gun of the T55 is a 100mm rifled gun, which is based on the tank hit rate and accuracy, and does not take into account today's tank guns at all, usually with smoothbore guns, which are more armor-piercing guns. As long as a shell hits the outer wall of the defensive bunker, the violent vibration will make the M2 Browning heavy machine gun lose its accuracy, so that the Soviet elite infantry can take advantage of this short time to rush forward a few meters like a gallop, and the distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer.

Even when the shell of the tank gun directly hit the shooting hole, although the narrow shooting hole of more than ten centimeters was not enough for the shell to penetrate throughout, the terrifying force also instantly cracked the concrete in the shooting hole, and the concrete fragments produced were not much more powerful than the bullet in the instantaneous inertia formed by the squeezing of the shell. And the Marine soldiers who died in the battle were precisely because they collided head-on with these fragments of concrete that instantly collapsed and directly penetrated the vital point that the tragedy occurred.

The two marines on the lowest level also drilled out of the connecting tunnel, and pushed a scooter in their hands, which also piled up six boxes of heavy machine gun bullets, quickly unloaded and put on the pulley hook next to them, and then were pulled up by the pulleys inside the defensive bunker, quickly opened the wooden box with a crowbar, grabbed the yellow-orange heavy machine gun bullet chain inside, and came to the M2 Browning heavy machine gun that was still shooting, and replenished the ammunition that had been almost exhausted.

Their ammunition consumption is extremely high, two M2 Browning heavy machine guns and three M249 light machine guns have ammunition consumption per minute, even the saving control has reached 3,000 rounds per minute, after all, there are too many Soviets on the periphery, and they are getting closer and closer to their defensive bunkers, once they come to the close range of the defensive bunkers, they only need two grenades to throw in, they must quickly abandon all heavy weapons and retreat to the third layer of safety area.

Because of the speed of their ammunition consumption, they can no longer catch up with the supply of the rear cave base, and the attack density of the Soviets in front of them is getting bigger and bigger, and the threat to them is becoming more and more terrifying. Even as time passed, they themselves felt that if there was no more support, I am afraid that the Soviets in front of them would really have to get close to the defensive bunkers, so that they would all be forced to evacuate the third layer, and they would also completely lose the outermost defensive position of this cave base! (To be continued.) )