Chapter 163: The Wolf Is Coming
Knock Knock Knock –
The shrill sirens echoed in bomb shelter No. 79.
As the captain of the 37th Company of the Airborne Division of the Kingdom Army stationed here, Kent woke up in his sleep.
Alert?
There will be no mistake, he is not asleep, the sound of the panic is indeed the sound of the siren, and there is only one reason for the siren, that is, the bomb shelter has been attacked by the enemy.
"Damn it!"
Kent hurriedly got up from the bed, and before he even had time to put on his military boots, he hurried to the entrance of the dugout.
When he came to see the entrance of the air-raid shelter, he found that the entire company had been assembled before him, so he grabbed a soldier in a panic and asked, "Soldier, tell me, why the sirens sounded, is it an attack by the Imperial Army?"
"Report to the company commander, the Imperial Army has just launched a surprise attack......"
Hearing the soldier's report, Kent turned pale on the spot, because this is a bomb shelter, once the Imperial army launches a surprise attack from the gate, then it means that they have no way back, only to fight to the death.
"Help! Immediately release the call for help. ”
Kent had a flash of inspiration, and he realized that the top priority was to release the signal for help, as long as the signal for help was released, the troops in charge of reinforcements could arrive within 20 minutes, which meant that they only needed to hold on until 20 minutes and still have a chance of survival.
"The call for help was released by the time the enemy launched a surprise attack. ”
The deputy company commander pushed aside everyone and came to Kent and said, "But the problem is ......"
Hearing the word question, Kent sighed in his heart: "Could it be that the Imperial soldiers are so numerous that we can't even support it for 20 minutes, the deputy company commander, please report the current casualties immediately." ”
"This ...... Contrary. ”
A hint of suspicion flashed on the face of the deputy company commander: "It seems that the attack force of the Imperial Army is less than 15 people, and now it has disappeared without a trace, as for our casualties, we have only lost one soldier." ”
"That's good, that's good. ”
Kent sighed: "Probably just the stupid Imperial Army is testing the strength here, it shouldn't be a big problem, you re-release the flares, tell the reinforcements not to use, by the way, the guards will be doubled tonight." ”
"Yes, Company Commander. ”
The deputy company commander nodded, and then did as Kent had requested.
And although Kent was afraid that the Imperial Army would send a large force to attack after the temptation, he could not leave his post without permission, even if he knew that he was dead, he had to carry out the garrison mission, and even if the Imperial Army broke through with a large force, he also needed to be responsible for pestering the Imperial Army, waiting for reinforcements to wipe out the Imperial Army.
With uneasy feelings.
Kent went back to bed, this time getting dressed and putting away his boots in case something unexpected happened.
Closing his eyes, Kent could not sleep peacefully, for there was a faint uneasiness in his heart, and he did not know where it came from, but he knew that nothing good would happen next.
Why?
As a veteran over 35 years old, his premonition of war was particularly effective.
And it turned out that his premonition was not wrong, and after half an hour, the sirens sounded again, and this time he was the first to rush to the gate of the bomb shelter, and at first glance he saw 3 corpses lying on the ground.
All three soldiers died in the same way, with crossbow arrows piercing their throats.
As for the sole survivor, after sounding the alarm and releasing the call for help flare, he cowered in the corner and shivered, his eyes full of fear.
"Tell me, what happened?"
Kent grabbed the other man's collar and asked loudly.
Only then did the frightened soldier come back to his senses and said, "Report to the company commander, just now, just now, the Imperial Army launched another surprise attack, and they used crossbows to fight from a distance, and they caught us off guard. ”
"Another temptation, isn't it?"
Kent immediately denied himself: "Could it be that the Imperial Army is using the new tactics of the Imperial Army mentioned in the last meeting of low-level officers of the whole army, the tactics of harassing the enemy?"
Harass the enemy, then attack suddenly.
This tactic of combining the virtual and the real is the most feared tactic of the Kingdom Army recently, but fortunately, this tactic seems to have only been encountered once in the central area, and the 3rd Brigade had to abandon the blockade line and concentrate in one place.
Originally, Kent was also quite dismissive of the rhetoric of the 3 Brigade.
If you lose, you lose, why bother mythologizing the imperial army, this is not what it is to disturb the morale of the army, but it is not until today that he encounters this method of warfare, and Kent does not know what disgusting is.
Defend it, the Imperial Army's tricks.
If you don't defend it, the Imperial Army may attack directly.
What is even more helpless is that, according to the last meeting, the division staff of the Royal Army does not seem to have come up with any way to deal with the current tactics of harassing the enemy, and the only way that is still limited is to combine troops in one place and concentrate on defense.
But the problem is that once the defense is concentrated, it means giving up control of the bomb shelter.
In the absence of any way, Kent could only honestly continue to hold the defensive line, passively subjected to the never-ending harassment of the Imperial army, and this harassment lasted for a whole day and a night.
Staring at his blood-red eyes, Kent now wondered if the soldiers of the Imperial Army didn't need to rest?
24 hours a day, random harassment at random times, and once they reacted because they ignored it directly, and even broke through the gate of the bomb shelter by the Imperial army.
And this is not an isolated case.
In each bomb shelter, the Imperial Army has more than 70 people responsible for 24-hour uninterrupted disturbance warfare, and disturbance warfare is one of the sub-tactics derived from guerrilla tactics, this tactic is mainly aimed at the garrison troops, and its results are naturally obvious.
The time came to the next evening.
The first to collapse of the Royal Army was not the troops stationed in the bomb shelters, but the large-scale support forces responsible for reinforcing the bomb shelters, whose task was to immediately organize troops to rescue when they received a call for help.
But the problem is that for nearly 36 hours, there are calls for help every moment.
Constrained by orders, they had to run around, often only halfway through when friendly forces sent a safety signal that their reinforcements were no longer needed, prompting the reinforcements to suspect that they had been tricked.
And the story of "The Wolf Comes" is not only applicable to Earth, but also to this other world, and now the exhausted reinforcements have turned a blind eye to one call for help after another, and they just want to rest at the moment.
Report. ”
The door to the Imperial Army's Temporary Operational Command was pushed open, and a scout said to Vega, who was sitting in the main seat, "According to the latest information, the Royal Army reinforcements have begun to ignore any call for help. ”
A bright smile appeared on Vega's lips.
He stood up and looked at the generals with dark circles and said: "Since the Kingdom Army is unwilling to give up control of the bomb shelter, I think the time is ripe now, and then I need to use the remaining 1,500 troops to teach the Kingdom Army a painful lesson, please raise your hands and authorize." ”