Chapter 207: Trench Battle (II)
Almost as soon as they retreated to the trenches, a round of shells came at them, and apparently the artillerymen of the Golden Eagle Empire readjusted the angle of their muzzles and began shelling.
Unfortunately, their artillery was too backward and heavy, and it took a lot of time to adjust the muzzle angle every time, so it was difficult to hit the enemy, and this time it was the same, until they retreated, and the artillery fire that followed was more like a farewell to them.
And as the commander, Agukos, the most heart-wrenching thing is the loss of the hundreds of white-armored troops, after all, these white-armored troops are the absolute elite selected from the troops, and the armor on their bodies is made of the armor of those starships, the number is limited, this time the loss of a few hundred, can it not make him heartache!
So he no longer tried to send elites like the White Armor Army to fight, but continued to let those ordinary soldiers and a large number of cannon fodder beasts attack, depleting the enemy's ammunition little by little.
It is said that the attack of the white armor army before was not ineffective, at least it helped the follow-up army destroy a lot of barbed wire.
Otherwise, the follow-up ordinary soldiers, facing the barbed wire fences and heavy trenches laid by the enemy on the opposite side, want to really attack the opponent's position, and they don't know how many casualties they will have to pay!
And now, relying on the cover of those white-armored soldiers, at least those barbed wires have been cut, and the soldiers who follow up can charge at full speed without any scruples.
In the face of waves of the attacking enemy, the black sledgehammer, which had lost the heavy artillery fire support in the rear, could only use the light weapons at hand to resist.
And this undoubtedly greatly increased their ammunition consumption, just one morning, they originally expected to be able to use three days of ammunition is about to bottom out, that for the ammunition consumption of the most eyes, two of them have been completely dumb.
Suddenly the fire suppression of two machine guns was missing, and the pressure on the black sledgehammer suddenly became greater, and many enemy troops took advantage of the situation to rush directly into the trenches and started a white-knuckle battle with the black sledgehammer.
After repelling another enemy attack with great difficulty, the battalion where Wu Dazhui was located also suffered more than 100 casualties.
In order to avoid further expansion of losses, the staff of the rear, after deliberation, decided to let the troops retreat and take the initiative to give up the first line of defense.
After receiving the order to retreat, Wu Dahammer could only reluctantly lead his men to retreat.
As soon as their side retreated, the enemy couldn't wait to pounce and occupy the position.
Listening to the cheers of the enemy troops not far from the rear after occupying the position, they were very embarrassed when they arrived, if it weren't for the fact that the artillery positions in the rear were ended and there was no artillery cover, they would not have lost their positions so quickly.
At this time, the rear also found out that the elite white-armored heavy cavalry of the enemy army spent several days, secretly sparing their own frontal positions and most of the flank troops, and finally successfully went around a direction suitable for cavalry to charge at the rear of the flank, and suddenly launched an attack.
Because the enemy was very careful this time and did not reveal his whereabouts all the time, when he launched the attack, only a second-line infantry regiment around the rear artillery position had time to meet it.
This infantry regiment belongs to the Eagle Yang Army sequence, compared to the real front-line troops, their equipment is much worse, only a small number of soldiers are equipped with the latest type of demon exterminator type II rifle, most of them are still using the demon exterminator type 1 flintlock rifle, and the armor is not like the first-line troops with a set of extraordinary armor per capita, most of them are still ordinary plate armor.
As a result, they had no resistance to the white-armored heavy cavalry, and they were quickly cut through the defensive line by the opponent, and then broke through the artillery position, destroying all their heavy artillery.
The loss of so many heavy artillery pieces at once greatly weakened the defense of the Qinglong Empire in this area, and some officers began to shirk their responsibilities continuously, and finally the infantry regiment of the Eagle Yang Army became an unlucky bastard with a black cauldron.
In fact, the infantry regiment of this Eagle Yang Army was really unlucky, their equipment was already much worse than that of the front-line troops, so even if they were fully prepared in advance, it would be difficult to stop those white-armored heavy cavalry.
What's more, in this attack, they did their best, and the most powerful evidence of this is that the entire regiment suffered more than half of the casualties, and even the regiment commander was killed in battle.
If it weren't for the desperate resistance, their infantry regiment, which was not the main target of the opponent's attack, would not have suffered such heavy casualties.
However, perhaps because their regimental commanders were all killed in battle, they were not allowed to speak for them among the middle and upper rank officers, so they finally became the scapegoats for this defeat, and the entire regiment was demoted to a local garrison, and then sent to a city to carry out garrison duties.
Although this result is a punishment, it may also be a good result for the soldiers of this regiment, after all, now the Golden Eagle Empire is launching a fierce attack with all its might, because the opponent's strength far exceeds the side of the Golden Eagle Empire, so on all fronts, the troops on the front line are under great pressure, and it is possible for one to be accidentally wiped out.
Now the soldiers of this infantry regiment have been relegated to local garrisons, and they can go to the rear to carry out garrison duties, and they can also temporarily leave this dangerous front-line battlefield and get some respite.
And the black sledgehammer and them, they all have to continue to fight on the front line, the current situation can be said to be very unfavorable for them, their line of defense has obviously become the direction of the Golden Eagle Empire's main attack.
On this line of defense, although the troops of the Blue Dragon Empire are all elite soldiers assembled in advance, due to the elite soldier policy that the Blue Dragon Empire has been implementing, the number of these elite soldiers has not been much, and now even with the addition of those Eagle Yang Army soldiers, the number has barely exceeded one million.
On this front, there were originally about 180,000 troops, and after this period of fierce fighting, there were still about 150,000 left. However, they also eliminated at least 100,000 enemy soldiers at the same time, and as for those cannon fodder beasts, the number is probably more than a million.
It's a pity that now that they have lost the fire support of heavy artillery, they can only keep retreating, relying on the initiative to abandon some front-line positions to delay time.
After learning about the situation here, the other theaters have already begun to mobilize reinforcements to support, and these reinforcements will have a lot of undead troops in addition to some elite soldiers.
Although the equipment level and strength of those undead soldiers are similar to those of the militia troops in the rear, they are not afraid of death, they will not be tired, and the number is extremely sufficient, and the rear Roaring Island will arm at least 500,000 of these cannon fodder troops every month, so at the critical moment, it is no problem to let them go to the top for a while.
The commander of the Golden Eagle Empire, Agucos, also knew that the other party must have been mobilizing reinforcements, so he was now constantly launching onslaught at any cost, just to successfully break through the opponent's defense line before the opponent's reinforcements arrived.
Since the Golden Eagle Empire is now exhausted, the young men of the right age have basically been drawn out and sent into the army, so Agukos now has extremely sufficient troops in his hands, just the number of troops he used to attack the black sledgehammer and their defense line is as much as two million, and now he has only suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties, which is nothing to him, in Agukos's opinion, as long as he can successfully break through the opponent's defense line, even if it is worth dying a million soldiers, as for those cannon fodder beasts, It is even more day and night when they are sent to the front line to consume the enemy's ammunition and physical strength.
In the face of such a relentless onslaught from the enemy, it was becoming more and more difficult for them to resist the black sledgehammer, and the several lines of defense laid in advance had all been voluntarily abandoned, and now they were retreating to a hill.
The hill is not very high, and the peak is only about 300 meters high. On both sides of the hill, there were muddy swamps, which were impassable for the army, so when they passed through here before, they had climbed little by little from the top of this hill.
Wu Dazhui felt that although this hill was not high, it could be regarded as the commanding height of the surrounding area, and there were swamps on both sides, so if he could re-establish a defensive line on the top of the mountain, he decided that he could resist the enemy army for a few more days.
However, what made Wu Dazhui dumbfounded was that his regiment commander, a veteran codenamed Big Horse Monkey, actually led them to directly abandon the commanding height of the mountaintop, and instead took them on the back of the mountain, at a distance of about eighty meters from the top of the mountain, to start building a defensive line.
This can't help but make Wu Da Sledgehammer wonder if this guy secretly drank and drank his head in private, after all, in the war, as long as an officer with a little common sense will realize the huge role of the commanding heights!
However, the commander of his regiment directly gave up the commanding height, and began to build a defensive line on the other side of the mountain, more than 80 meters from the top of the mountain.
In this way, the enemy will not be able to easily occupy the top of the mountain! Then the opponent can also send troops from the top of the hill to attack their defensive line from a high position.
Wu Da Hammer had the heart to go to the regiment commander to ask for clarification, but the other party went to discuss the next strategy with several other regiment commanders, so Wu Da Hammer could only dig trenches with other soldiers while waiting for his own regiment commander to come back.
At the same time, Guo Dafu had already taken Ma Wanfu and successfully resisted the Central Continent, in fact, he could have been faster, but this time after all, he brought Ma Wanfu such an ordinary person, so he didn't dare to fly too fast, so it took more than two days to arrive in the Central Continent.
Although Guo Dafu and the others had tried their best to slow down the flight speed, as soon as Ma Wanfu got off Xiaoqing's back, he immediately began to vomit and diarrhea, and his legs were even softer like noodles, and he couldn't stand up at all with his own strength.
When Guo Dafu saw the other party's virtue, he knew that the other party would not be able to continue to investigate in various places in a short period of time, so he simply asked him to stay in this seaside fishing village to recuperate for a period of time, and then start again after adjusting his state.
Although Ma Wanfu's entourage was in better physical condition, they were not in good condition at this time, and they were all pale, so they agreed with Guo Dafu's proposal.
So Ma Wanfu soon entered this small fishing village not far away, supported by several entourages.
And after Guo Dafu said hello to the village chief of that village, he rushed to the front line again with King Jinwu, Xiaoqing and others.
Coincidentally, the seaside fishing village arranged by Guo Dafu for Ma Wanfu happens to be Kuyan Village, and the reason why he chose this village to put down Ma Wanfu is that this village looks good, but it is located in the rear, which has been repeatedly cleared by the militia recently, and the security is also sufficient, so that Ma Wanfu and them can rest at ease.