"Don't take it seriously, Tazmi! It's just a joke! It's the boss who wants us to focus here. It's just a method I used to avoid suspicion from other Tegu envoys. I think the boss also found out that the revolutionary army is abnormal now, right? "

"I'll just say it! I'll just say it!! How could Big Brother like a man!"

"Cough... The topic just now will continue later. Now let's talk about the revolutionary army... and the current situation of the coalition army."

Brand, who didn't completely deny that he liked men, and was planning to continue the previous topic in the future, coughed lightly and stood in front of the portable toilet with Tazmi, and turned his back to the three women who had entered the toilet behind him. They talked to the toilet about doubts about the status quo, doubts about the behavior of the revolutionary army, and the road ahead for the night raid.

The dividing line between the dark sky and the bright red flames, on the other side of the distant horizon, is a one-sided battle. No, no, anyone with a little knowledge of modern warfare wouldn't call this a battle, because...it's totally slaughter.

In the plain with no cover and no undulating ground, not only is there no armored troops at all, but also the infantry of flesh and blood move in a dense formation towards the artillery positions that are well prepared and deploy a large number of artillery pieces. This kind of attack method ...not even anyone with a little common sense of modern warfare can do it.

It is a pity, however, that people in this era really do not have the common sense of modern warfare. Although some weapons are already very developed, their tactical thinking is still in the era of cold weapons. Even not long ago, Bud and Esther Si and the minister were surprised that Yongye built a defensive position in a place like the plain that was not suitable for defense.

However, although they know the power of the artillery now, they have no way to retreat, because they know that under this extremely low momentum, if they retreat, once the artillery continues to follow up for a while, millions of troops will It would get out of control and turn into the biggest rout in history.

Now is the time to move forward. They don’t have the option of retreating temporarily and regrouping. Even if the retreat can be completed, when Eternal Night advances again, the artillery can still rely on far beyond their attack range, far to them. Carry out the massacre, forcing them to run over slowly again.

The artillery shells that exploded in front of them successfully caused a major blow to the soldiers of the coalition army. On the terrain without cover, the coalition forces have completely become the target of the artillery in the north.

The well-prepared artillery unit made the vanguard of the coalition army start to run away, and many lives became the souls of the artillery.

However... although the artillery is very powerful, the number of coalition forces is too large, and a large number of civilians are charged like a snowball, and the number has expanded countlessly compared to the initial situation where there were not many people.

The revolutionary army of nearly 1.5 million, plus the imperial guards and a large number of local troops not occupied by the revolutionary army, has exceeded 2 million in total.

Although most of the two million are strong men with little combat power, or poor peasants who have just picked up weapons, there is an absolute base. Even if the heavy artillery wants to kill them all, it will take a lot of time, and... Due to time constraints, currently Only the First Corps directly under Yongye has heavy artillery, while the rest are medium and light artillery.

The artillery fire made the front of the coalition army almost collapse, but under the deterrence of swords and guns behind them, they could only run forward desperately, desperately rushing to the position of the northern army, like a duck that was driven away, charging scattered.

The cannon fodder of the coalition forces who were farmers not long ago ran desperately, and finally reached the front of the position when the sky was white with fish belly in the distance when dawn came.

In their eyes, they can say that the dawn has finally arrived, and they only need to climb over the barbed wire and break through the trenches, then...they can gain hope.

"Come on?"

After running around all night, these cannon fodder strikers were exhausted, but they still raised their last strength and rushed towards the barbed wire howling.

"Enter the range, don't use the mortar, and start firing the rest!"

Because the enemy is obviously just a miscellaneous soldier who consumes ammunition, the front-line commanders tacitly did not use the mortar in the trenches, but used rifles, as well as the six-barreled GMT machine gun based on the world of the Iron City. Improved manual six Tubes of Gatling guns, with a swarm of artillery fire, before they passed through the minefields, inflicted heavy, swarming fire.

The command sounded, the six-barrel Gatling machine gun was shaken, and at the same time the deafening sound of continuous shooting began to sound continuously. As the current main firepower output, the six-barrel Gatling machine gun, in conjunction with the nearby firearms, opened a barrage, immediately on the whole line. The coalition's charge was contained within the range.

The strong men with cold weapons, let alone trenches and barbed wire, could not even approach the traps, and fell in rows in the dense metal storm.

"Is this a target to be sent as a living person to train my soldiers in marksmanship? ... Really ... With the labor force as cannon fodder, haven't these revolutionary troops thought about the future?"

Looking at the fallen coalition vanguards, Yong Ye shook his head wordlessly. Although he knew that these people who looked like peasants were being forced, he could only choose to let the soldiers open fire, otherwise these people would be forced to open fire. It's time to rush over the mine, and die in a large area, triggering both the trap and the mine.

And then... when they storm the trenches with the main coalition forces, his soldiers will be dead.

At this time, the only choice is to be cruel, but... In fact, in the era of cold weapons, most countries have the behavior of capturing strong men to fill the population to fight, and there is no ancient general who sees that the place is a strong man who was arrested and shows mercy, because There is no other choice at this time.

The battle in front of him was a battle with an absolute age gap, and it was an overwhelming slaughter.

Even if the coalition has 2 million, but there are modern hot weapons here, it is not so simple for them to break through the enemy line. If they change the world, I am afraid they will end the battle without injury, but...

The personal force in this world is very high, and these mobs can only be regarded as mobs. Naturally, it is a one-sided slaughter. If it is facing Bude's guards, it will be difficult to kill.

Generally, the armor of heavy soldiers in ancient times cannot defend against bullets of automatic rifles, but the steelmaking technology in this world is very good, and in this era of this world, there are also automatic rifles, so it is impossible to have no defense against bullets.

With the best equipment of the Empire, the heavy armor of the Guards that exists as the trump card can be penetrated by the ordinary Imperial Army equipped with automatic rifles, then the Guards who use cold weapons to fight can not be called the trump card.

Gradually... As time went by, most of the miscellaneous soldiers who had been driven out as cannon fodder at the front had been killed or injured. Soldiers who were alive started digging trenches to create bunkers with agricultural tools in their hands, and dead bodies were also used as ready-made bunkers.

At this time, the mortars in the trenches began to fire non-stop guns without sparing ammunition, bombarding the rifle teams in the enemy's bunkers with curved ballistics.

The coalition rifle team, who was half-kneeling on the ground and relying on the corpses of the previous soldiers for defense, was still shooting at the northern army positions with their rifles, covering the colleagues who were carrying knives with disparate firepower.

"Die! Die! Die! Die!!—die all?"

The current war situation made the imperial riflemen, Baker feel great fear, he was extremely panic, he wanted to escape, but the military order was hard to violate, in order not to be killed by the supervising team behind him, he could only keep hating himself. Equally terrified colleagues yelled and shot, as if they just had to do this to get the fear out of their minds.

However, in the next instant, Baker, who was blindly shooting by relying on the deceased to take cover, suddenly saw flames rising into the sky from the enemy's trenches, and something else flew out.

Dazedly chasing the shadow that could not be seen with his eyes, then the huge impact shook the ground, and a feeling of upside-down sight hit Baker, who was overturned by the impact and instantly lost his balance and fell to the ground.

Many soldiers who were shooting around fell to the ground, and many cold-weapon infantrymen who were still charging around stood still or accidentally fell during the charge.

But those of them are just those who fell to the ground, they are all lucky, and those who are unlucky are already flying in the sky.

The dense mortar shells slanted like raindrops on the defense line that the coalition forces had just constructed, and instantly completely disintegrated the defense line that the coalition forces finally built.

Baker's luck is very good. His position is a prominent part, and he just avoided the attack of the artillery fire. Although many friendly troops standing beside him were killed by shrapnel, he was only disturbed by the shock wave, but he did not know his good luck. , just felt that he was suddenly disturbed by the shock wave.

What arrived a little later than the impact was the blasting wind that was packed with a lot of heat, but it left Baker too busy to take care of other things. His eyes, nose and mouth were all attacked by the blasting wind mixed with dust and scorched earth behind him.

The battlefield, which had been unusually noisy before, mixed with the rumbling of cannons, the whining of people, and the sound of rifle shooting, suddenly became quiet in Baker's ears.

There was an eerie silence on the battlefield. He didn't understand what was going on, and he had never felt such a silent world, and his brain was also dizzy.

He saw a colleague who was shouting something at him, and subconsciously asked the other person to be louder. When the other party was sticking to his ear and roaring, but still no sound was heard, he realized that he might be This is deaf.

When he coughed and stood up, the roars of the soldiers suddenly sounded around him. Unfortunately, he didn't hear anything. The smoke and dust rushing from behind blocked his vision. Although he could see the people next to him, he couldn't find any what's the situation.

The panic-stricken soldiers pushed me and started to flee together. Baker was also involved in the crowd. However... before Baker could react, the flames broke apart and the smoke and dust splashed down from the sky, like water that was half washed. their whole bodies.

The scorching flames broke Baker's heart defense for the first time, causing him to drop the rifle in his hand and roll on the ground, trying to extinguish the flames on his body.

But... this action has no way to achieve any effect. The flame is like napalm, and it can't be extinguished at all. He rolled on the ground, but it only burned the ground that was already burning, and burned him along the way.

"Don't! Stop, stop ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh?"

After hearing, Baker lost his eyesight due to the fire, and could only roll and scream on the ground, feeling the insane, hell-like burning pain, and finally lost his voice in the pain.

The rest of the soldiers with flames threw down their weapons and ran for their lives in a hurry. They ran around the coalition without a moment's pause, rushing around with flames all over their bodies, letting the flames spread like a virus, but unfortunately it didn't take long. The army in the back row was killed.

Chapter 48: The Surrender of the Night Raid and the General Offensive of the Allied Forces

Needless to say, the fire that fell from the sky was created by Rubigand, who was recruited by Porus from purgatory, and was sprayed at an elevation angle.

The flames like Greek fire crossed the traps and barbed wire, and splashed directly on the soldiers on the opposite side, bringing them a brutal baptism. Incidentally, they burned the corpses that were piled up by the cannon fodder before, avoiding too many accumulations to form bunkers, and Also creates a new flame barrier in front of the trench during the burning process.

Of course... Porus is only one person, so a wave of incendiary bombs was arranged in the rest of the place, which turned the battlefield into a sea of ​​fire in an instant, completely restraining the coalition's crowd tactics and stopping them before the sea of ​​fire.

It's a pity that incendiary bombs are difficult to spread in this enemy formation, because the Imperial Army will kill those cannon fodder soldiers very decisively, while the Imperial Army itself mostly hides behind.

On the chaotic battlefield, the front lines have been completely covered by flames many times. Although they are far apart, the black smoke and burning ash particles that rise from the eye still give the illusion that they will run in and choke their throats. The sun and moon that glowed above his head were covered by the smoke and dust and disappeared.