Chapter 5: Midnight Assault
"Boom, boom, boom......"
The cannon was fired again, and the group of Gallians on the opposite side, who had so many shells that they were hurting, fired again......
Tiredly turned over, took out the pocket watch from his pocket and took the lamp, it was already five o'clock.
"It's a change of the guard, Ogake, it's your turn. ”
The sky was full of shells whizzing at the artillery positions in the north of the city, but the soldiers in the city were not worried about it.
The Gallians were reluctant to blow up their own cities, and the emperor had known this for a long time.
Stay in the city and don't have to worry about being hit by shells, they know it well.
It's just that this group of Galia people who don't let people sleep are too annoying, and they haven't fired enough shells all night?
"Got it, is there a late night snack in the restaurant?"
After a lazy snort, the next sentry came out of the bed, put on his armor, and walked outside.
"What a late-night snack, it's almost breakfast. ”
Angrily throwing the gun at the other side, the tired soldier threw down his helmet and fell asleep on the bed without even taking off his armor.
From early yesterday morning until now, the shelling of the Galia people has not stopped, and everyone's nerves have been tense all day, but as a result, except for the shells flying overhead, not even a shadow of the Garia army on the other side has been seen.
The emperor **, who had been harassed by shells for a day without rest, finally couldn't hold on.
Now it's time to rest.
The only thing to be thankful for is that the soldiers of the 11th Brigade are also veterans of combat experience, and sleeping under the sound of artillery is not too difficult for them.
Let the artillery in the back have a headache, we infantry are going to sleep......
In the blink of an eye, the soldier lying on the bed fell asleep with the other soldiers who had collapsed all night.
I didn't even know that the comrade-in-arms at the door, who had just been out for less than two minutes, had been killed.
............
"The gate is cleared. ”
"The sentry is cleared. ”
"There was no movement in the direction of the barricades, everything went well. ”
Under the cover of the last darkness before dawn, and under the cover of rumbling cannons, the three of Karl successfully eliminated an enemy post near the bridgehead and found a squad of emperors hidden in the dwellings.
"The enemy inside slept very well, and walked without a sound at all. ”
The Cossack, who was carrying a walkie-talkie, whispered to Karl and said lightly with a blood-dripping dagger in his hand
"Now we can go door to door looking for enemy fire points. Oops!"
But before the Cossack could finish speaking, he was punched by Karl.
"Stupid, what are you going to do?!Why don't you leave a job to ask for some useful information!"
It's good now, I don't have a tongue and I have to find it myself.
"Carl, phone line!"
Kate found that the house had a lot of telephones leading to the outside, apparently a communication relay station, because the enemy was in a hurry to deploy the defenses, and the telephone lines obviously did not have time to hide, but simply pulled out of the windows and doorways, and swaggered on the side of the street.
"We can follow these telephone lines to find enemy firing points. ”
Most of the telephone lines were pulled directly into the city and north of the city, and few were pulled towards the river, indicating that the enemy's main defense point was really not placed near the river, but only near the bridgehead.
"There's also a map of the deployment of the engineering units to build fortifications. ”
Kate then handed Carl another copy of the map.
"This thing is so important! He can tell us directly where the enemy's defenses are. ”
"Squeak...... This is the Virgin, the 7th squad has already started crossing the river according to the scheduled plan, please indicate if there is an enemy near the crossing point. ”
Wilkin's voice came over the radio, and it seemed that the Seventh Team had already crossed the river on time.
"This is Karl, no heavy fire points or fortifications have been found near the original crossing point of the seventh team, and the river crossing plan is proceeding normally. ”
On the captured map, there were no decent enemy fortifications around the pre-selected crossing point for Karl.
Apparently the enemy did not think that the Galias would leave the bridge and come over the river.
"Why are these emperors so idiotic? Concentrate all their firepower near the bridgehead and ignore the two wings?"
Looking at the obvious empty wings on the enemy's fortification defense map, even the Cossacks, who did not study, felt that there was something wrong with the commander of the emperor.
However, after this period of contact with the Emperor ** and the Gallia Army, Karl already understood the reason.
"It's both helplessness and inertia. Emperor ** is now seriously depleted in troops and equipment, and it is impossible to defend the entire river beach, so it is normal to concentrate on defending the bridgehead that is most likely to be used as an assault point, and there are ......"
Recalling what Audrey had told her about the last Battle of Basel, Karl continued
"During the last Basel offensive, the regular army did not make a single attack across the river with a clear numerical advantage and river-crossing equipment, and directly attacked from the bridge, lost their armor and lost their armor, and even lost the southern defense line of the city. The commander of the 11th Brigade who had won a great victory in Basel was in command this time, and he had destroyed all the equipment for crossing the river in the vicinity before the battle began.
It's a pity that it's not enough, it's Carl who is in command of the battle this time, and he is led by a group of high-ranking people, so he won't make the boring mistake of the regular army.
"But I don't think the enemy has any mobile forces on the second front, so now is not the time for us to attack, and everything will wait until the battle of crossing the river begins, and the enemy ambush is exhausted. ”
"So what are we going to do now?"
"Go to the east to support the 422 operation, the map indicates that there are three enemy bunkers near the east crossing point, and 422 will suffer if you don't do it. ”
"Having Wittman and the third vehicle to cover shouldn't be a problem, right?"
"It's because Wittmann is in charge of the east that I'm worried. ”
"Snort...... This is Krut, Unit 422 and Chariot No. 3 have begun to cross the river, asking for instructions. ”
Sure enough, according to the plan, 422 also started
"This is Carl, Kluet, Wittman, there are three new enemy bunkers opposite your crossing point, in the direction of eleven o'clock and twelve o'clock and two o'clock at your crossing point, your river crossing operation may be difficult, please be careful!"
"Is it possible to change the crossing point?"
Kate asked
"No, it's too late, the shelling will end in five minutes, and then the sound of tanks will be found to be more dangerous for Unit 422!"
After a short period of thought, Carl decided to go ahead with the attack
"Cross the river now! The attack plan remains unchanged!422 Cross the river at the original location...... Artillery troops! Shoot at the transfer! Aim at the east bank of the river, and if the situation is not right, I will blow up the buildings on the bank of the river!"
Sacrificing his subordinates to keep the city would not have been done.
"Alyssa, you drive the tank to the east now! You're going to play in a moment!"