Chapter 42: The Battle of Kodor Town (1)
"Boom, boom...... Boom ......!"
Eleven kilometers west of the town of Kodor, artillery roared, and Brigadier General Solo, the commander of the 23rd Infantry Division of the Imperial Army, who was attacking, mobilized all the magic crystal cannons in his hand to fiercely bombard the positions of the coalition forces of the Duchy of Lucerne.
Seven hours had passed since the start of the campaign, and many of the other units had broken through the positions of the allied forces of the Kingdom of Gaul, while Brigadier General Solo's 23rd Infantry Division had made no progress and had lost a large number of soldiers.
The generals of the Imperial Army were arrogant, and they looked down on their counterparts in the Eastern Continent, but now this perception had long since disappeared from the mind of Brigadier General Solo, because he had encountered a difficult opponent today.
"Order the troops to launch a fifth offensive!"
In the binoculars of Brigadier General Solo, the soldiers of the Imperial Army in black uniforms bent over and slowly trotted towards the position of the 75th Infantry Division of the Allied Army, that is, Brigadier General Louis's troops。
"Chirp...... Boom!"
Brigadier General Solo's annoying voice appeared again, the light mortars equipped by the coalition army gave him the most headache, because the firing position was two meters underground, and the magic crystal cannon of the Imperial Army could not be destroyed at all, and a large number of mortars could unscrupulously rain cannonballs at the attacking Imperial soldiers.
"Dada......!"
Dozens of whips appeared on the coalition position, and the MG-08 water-cooled heavy machine gun equipped by the coalition forces of the Duchy of Lucerne became the scythe of death, and the Imperial soldiers who rushed to the front fell down in pieces, and the Imperial soldiers behind immediately lay down, and the momentum of the attack was suddenly suppressed.
"Immediately order the artillerymen to knock out the enemy's machine guns for me!"
The Imperial cannons, which had just stopped, roared again, and burst shells flew towards the Coalition machine gun positions.
A coalition machine-gun position was hit by a burst shell, and the flames of the machine-gun that were firing disappeared instantly, but before the smoke of the explosion could disperse, the machine gun fired violently again, and the hit just now did not seem to have much effect.
The machine gun positions of the coalition forces were all made of half-meter-thick logs, heavy sandbags and cement, and the bursting shells fired by the small-caliber cannons of the Imperial Army could not cause damage to them at all, and it was difficult to destroy them unless they were directly hit by the magic bullets fired by the large-caliber magic crystal cannons.
As soon as Brigadier General Louis led his troops arrived in Kodor Town, he mobilized all the soldiers to build fortifications at Ouyang Yu's suggestion, and in a few days, several strong field fortifications were built around Kodor Town, which made the attacking Imperial Army soldiers suffer.
Under the threat of bullets like a torrential rain, the soldiers of the Imperial Army finally approached the position of the coalition army, but they encountered a big problem, three barbed wire fences that continuously surrounded the entire coalition position were horizontally in front of them, the barbed wire shears were constantly pulled, and it was difficult to completely destroy the bombardment with magic crystal cannons, and the first four attacks of the Imperial army were blocked in front of the barbed wire.
The dense barbed wire with barbed hooks is about a meter high, and it is almost impossible for the soldiers of the Imperial Army to cross the barbed wire with their bare hands, because the barbed wire barbed hooks will hook their uniforms, and they cannot struggle after being hooked, and the more they struggle, the tighter they will be entangled, and then they will become a good target for the allied soldiers.
The Imperial soldiers could only attack the few openings that had been blown open, but those openings often hit most of the coalition firepower, and the Imperial soldiers who tried to rush in were all shot and killed, and a layer of corpses of Imperial soldiers was piled up near the cracks in the barbed wire.
In order to achieve victory, the soldiers of the Imperial Army rushed forward one after another to the places that were bombed out, and the coalition forces also mobilized a large number of heavy machine guns and submachine guns to resist, in order to ensure the smooth attack, Brigadier General Solo ordered the cannon group to continue to hit the machine gun bunkers of the coalition army, and the mortars of the coalition army also began to bombard the dense places of the Imperial soldiers, and both sides took out all their strength to defeat the opponent, and the battle entered a white-hot stage.
Sergeant Blue of the coalition army, who was in charge of operating the heavy machine gun, calmly harvested the lives of the Imperial soldiers with long point fire, he was also a veteran of a hundred battles, and knew that the more critical the moment, the more calm he became, and his calmness infected the soldiers of his same group, each performing its own duties, like a cold machine very efficient in destroying the enemy.
"Boom......!"
A popping bomb struck the top of the fortress where Blue was, and the violent shaking and sound caused him to fall, and when he got up, he shouted, "Are you all right?"
"It's fine!"
"I'm fine!"
"It's okay, I'm going to change the cartridge!"
Blue operated the machine gun to fire a burst of bullets, shooting all the remaining bullets on the cartridge belt, Private Jax immediately took the spare cartridge belt to replace, but halfway through the change, a stray bullet from nowhere hit Jax's head, the steel helmet on Jax's head was shot through, and the light bullet was shot into his head along with the steel helmet fragments.
The battle was fierce, and Blue didn't have time to mourn the death of his comrades, because he had seen too much, and glanced at Jax who was still twitching on the ground, he started to change the half-changed cartridge belt, pulled the bolt and pressed the firing button fiercely, after a short pause, the MG-08 heavy machine gun roared again, but this time Blue did not shoot long, but pressed the firing button tightly, in this way to vent his inner sorrow for the death of his comrades and anger against the enemy.
"Whew......!"
A yellow-brown magic bullet in the sky flew from a distance, and fell to the machine gun fortress where Blue was located in an arc trajectory, this yellow-brown magic bullet did not explode, and after hitting the machine gun fortress, it spread out and became a yellow-brown light cluster with a diameter of more than ten meters, and then generated an extremely strong suction force from the center of the light cluster, and the objects shrouded by the light cluster, whether it was a log or a sandbag used to build the fortress or the soldiers inside, including the soil on the ground, all rotated and were sucked into the center of the light cluster. Compression and compression, all the objects that were sucked in were compressed into a sphere with a diameter of less than half a meter by super gravity, and the light cluster that had just diffused out also shrank inward, and after absorbing the last bit of light, the ball seemed to have reached a critical point, and bright yellow-brown light flashed out from the surface of the sphere, and finally exploded with a bang, and the blast wave swept across all objects within a radius of one hundred meters.
"What is this?!"
In the hidden command post not far behind the front line of the battle, Ouyang Yu was stunned to see that more than a dozen yellow-brown magic bullets fell one after another on the position of the coalition forces, seven or eight machine gun fortresses and at least more than a hundred meters of coalition soldiers were eliminated, in the telescope, Ouyang Yu saw many coalition soldiers within the scope of the light group, waving their hands and feet and screaming and being sucked into the center of the light group, such a scene made Ouyang Yu's back break out in a large amount of cold sweat, if she could choose to die, she definitely didn't want to be killed like this.
Brigadier General Louis also saw the same scene, but he didn't have the same reaction as Ouyang Yu, because he had seen it, "These are the gravity bullets fired by the large-caliber earth-based gravity howitzers of the Imperial Army, and this is the effect after the gravity bomb hits the target." ”
Weapons developed on the basis of magic and alchemy, the principle is completely different from the weapons on the earth, and the effect is very different, gravity weapons will not appear in the current level of natural science on the earth for a few hundred years, and in this other world that only has the level of civilization and technology in the nineteenth century, it should be said that it is really not a loss of another world?
The gravitational bombardment of the Imperial Army caused great damage and losses to the Allied bombardment, especially the machine gun fortress was taken care of, at least half of the heavy machine guns were wiped out along with the soldiers of the machine gun group, and the soldiers also lost thousands of people, Brigadier General Louis had no choice but to order the first line of positions to be abandoned, and the whole army moved to the second line.
In order to prevent the Imperial Army from pursuing the coalition forces to shoot out the artillery fire on their side for interception and shooting, Brigadier General Louis only had small-caliber fire magic crystal cannons, and there were not many of them, so he had not fired in the previous battle, and he took advantage of the fact that the Imperial Army soldiers seized the first line of positions and carelessly pursued, and ordered the hidden artillery under his command to fire a hard lesson to the Imperial Army, and the artillery company under Ouyang Yu also joined the artillery bombardment, and the pursuing Imperial Army was blinded for a while, and had to stop the pursuit。