Chapter 678 07.677: “The enemy attacks! The enemy attacks!”

Before the shells landed on him, Horatio hurriedly hid in a quick-concrete front-line command post in the battle trench. The flying shrapnel hit the steel door, making a clanging sound.

In the command post, several officers who were promoted and selected from veterans straightened up immediately when they saw him come in, and quickly reported the situation of each company to Horatio.

From this, he learned that he had 10 complete supplementary companies under his command. Although the strength was only one-third of the full strength, it was a great improvement compared to the previous assault platoon with only 93 people left.

And that platoon of 93 people has now been reorganized by him into a guard company directly under the regiment headquarters, and the leader is the taciturn grenadier.

Most of the soldiers were guarding around the regimental headquarters in the rear, while the grenadier personally led a squad to closely guard Horatio’s safety.

call out! puff!
call out! puff!
The shrieking sound was getting closer and closer, and the sound of the flying shells seemed to carry some kind of malice from the abyss, torturing the human eardrums with the devil’s mockery and evil laughter.

The nearest shell landed in the trench to the right and in front of Horatio’s position.

With a loud bang, a big hole was blown out on the ground. The wooden boards that were originally on the ground were blown into pieces and flew into the sky. The underground drainage ditch was instantly blown into a deep well.

The Krieg sentry standing at that position turned into a cloud of steaming blood mist in an instant. Blood splattered everywhere, staining the broken logs inside the trench red.

If the others had not hidden in the cat ear holes in time, this shell would have instantly evaporated at least forty people, and the two rows of soldiers in the front shooting position and the rear standby position would probably have been unsuccessful.

After a while, the fierce shelling gradually became sparse.

Horatio pricked up his ears, listening carefully to the noise outside, and whispered to himself, “The bombardment has become sparse. Is the enemy about to attack?”

The staff officer did not respond hastily. He walked steadily out of the quick-concrete command post and came to the lookout that was somewhat tilted by the explosion. He reached out to straighten the trench periscope, ready to observe the situation in the trench on the opposite side.

Jiongjiong! Jiongjiong!
The Krieg sentries who stayed in the trenches to observe the enemy situation had already started shooting, and the heavy logging rifles in the bunkers on the ground also made rapid strafing sounds.

Before the staff officer’s sight was fully focused on the opposite trench, he had already caught a glimpse of the hideous blue human skin gas mask.

An engineering unit of the Chaos Rebels, under cover of artillery fire, quietly crept into the no-man’s land and tried to cut through the intricate barbed wire.

However, the Kriegs showed no fear of the suppressive fire.

If it weren’t for the need to reduce casualties and prepare for the next enemy attack on the front line, they would not even retreat to the cat ear cave.

The sentries remaining in the trenches in each row did not retreat in the face of flying artillery fire and shrapnel, and had no intention of shrinking into the bunkers to hide.

After seeing the rebel engineering troops crawling across the no-man’s land, they opened fire without hesitation despite the artillery fire, pinning the enemy in the mud and blocking their advance.

The enemy’s light artillery then launched artillery attacks on these scattered Krieg firing points, trying to eliminate them so that the engineering troops could successfully approach the front line guarded by the 1313th Infantry Regiment.

These rapid-fire guns fired shells with a caliber of approximately 75 mm to 88 mm at the firing holes in the quick-concrete bunkers on the surface. Although they could not penetrate the thick quick-concrete, the shrapnel still posed a great threat to the combatants behind the firing holes.

At this moment, the Krieg’s heavy artillery designed specifically for counter-battery fire roared, and a round of precise shooting suppressed the light artillery closer to the front line, making it impossible for them to aim and fire normally.

This kind of offensive and defensive battle has long been the norm on the front line. Both sides use their own methods to fight against the enemy and block the water.

“Take up your positions! Take up your positions! Stand by!” Although the shelling was still going on, the enemy had already sent out engineers to cut the barbed wire, which clearly indicated that the infantry attack had already begun.

The Kriegs were sent into the cat-ear caves earlier in order to avoid unnecessary casualties in the bombardment that would last for an unknown period of time.

But once the enemy’s attack begins, they must take their positions, leaving their lives and deaths entirely to fate. Relying on well-built trenches and the emperor’s blessing, they must do their best to block the enemy’s advance even under artillery fire.

Bright and clear!
The Kriegs rushed to the fighting position and fired fiercely at the rebel engineers who had advanced ahead.

“Ah!” The laser beam hit the engineers who were crawling forward. They curled up in the mud in pain, like maggots burned by cigarette butts. The blue feathers on their bodies that grew due to corruption were blown away.

call out! puff!
call out! puff!
As soon as the Kriegs took up their positions, the enemy’s large-caliber artillery launched a more intensive artillery salvo on the positions of the 1313th Infantry Regiment.

Every time a heavy bullet landed, it stirred up mud dozens of meters high, carrying with it the broken limbs and bones that were stuck in the mud.

The ground beneath Horatio’s feet was shaking violently. He lay beside the firing hole in the command trench, looking at the enemy position with the help of the trench periscope.

Suddenly, he vaguely heard a sharp whistle coming from the enemy position.

“The enemy is attacking!!!” He shouted at the top of his lungs. Thanks to the loud voice training he received at Abridar Zhongzi Academy, his powerful voice instantly spread throughout the entire battle line. On the way, Officer Krieg conveyed the commander’s orders to the surrounding soldiers through walkie-talkies and sound arrays.

From the heavy firepower guns of the bunker, there were sounds of heavy lumberjacks and heavy bolters being loaded.

Phew!!! Phew!!! Phew!!!
The whistles from the enemy’s direction became louder and louder, and there was a burst of gunfire from the Krieg’s position.

Countless Chaos rebel soldiers, wearing blue human skin gas masks and holding a variety of miscellaneous firearms, climbed the ladders in the trenches and rushed towards the Krieg positions.

They were like a surging blue ocean, shouting “The right path to salvation!” “The power of wisdom!” and other mottos full of mysterious and powerful meanings, and rushed forward recklessly.

Boom! (Heavy bolter fire)

Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da! (Sound of logging guns firing)

Bullets and explosive arrows whizzed past and shot into human bodies, making dull “puff puff puff puff” sounds.

Many rebel soldiers rushed out of the trenches, but before they could take two steps, they fell headfirst into the mud.

The more unfortunate traitors were shot down and fell back into the trench just as they climbed out of the ladder.

In the no-man’s land in front of the key firing point, a thick layer of stinking corpses had already piled up.

The rebels who were charging in the new round were shot and fell on the rotting corpses, squeezing the juices inside the corpses and making them splash.

Large maggots, full of blood, crawled out of the empty eye sockets of the dead and couldn’t wait to squeeze into the mouths and ears of the newly arrived fresh corpses to suck new blood.

But these Tzeentch rebel soldiers were not without strategy. After rushing into the no-man’s land, they quickly jumped into the bomb craters on the battlefield.

The artillery fire support of the 1313 Infantry Regiment was ready. The muzzle of the earth-shaking cannon was further raised, and the slender gun barrel pointed straight to the sky, like a steel jungle.

Boom! Boom!
The iron war machine roared like thunder.

Whoosh~
The shells streaked across the sky, making a long, sharp whistling sound.

Seeing this, the rebel soldiers charging in the mud began to dodge in panic and jumped into the bomb craters.

Boom! ! !

Under the bombardment of 280mm heavy shells, those who were standing on the ground in the no-man’s land and charging with their backs bent, and those who were closer to the explosion point were instantly shattered into pieces and blood mist by the shells.

Some unlucky guys who had just climbed out of the bomb craters were blown back into the craters by the steaming air waves. The splashing mud was like a raging tsunami, directly burying the rebels in the nearby bomb craters alive in the mud pit.

Immediately afterwards, a huge hole appeared on the black ground, adding another scar to the devastated battlefield.

The Tzeentch rebel soldiers kept jumping into one bomb crater after another, then rushed out of the bomb craters and jumped to the next bomb crater in front.

Using bomb craters, ruins and piles of corpses on the battlefield as cover, these soldiers, blessed by the strange evil god and extremely agile, gradually approached the Krieg trenches.

“Ah!” “Ahh!” Several rebel soldiers who rushed to the barbed wire fell to the ground under the volley of laser guns.

Their bodies weighed down the barbed wire, leaving a gap in it.

At this moment, the Tzeentch rebel engineers who had set out the earliest and had been lying on the battlefield pretending to be dead after being suppressed by the sentries, quietly crawled to the barbed wire in the mud and water and began to cut off the barbed wire.

At the same time, Staff Officer Clausewitz deployed the reconnaissance balloon – an anti-aircraft balloon hanging from the stern of the Chimera armored vehicle (it cuts off the wings of the enemy’s homemade reconnaissance aircraft through ropes, preventing the reconnaissance aircraft from flying over the position to conduct reconnaissance in the rear), but it has an additional basket.

Two brave Krieg sentinels walked into the basket with binoculars.

As the balloon slowly rose into the air, their view gradually widened, illuminating Horatio’s previously limited vision of the war sandbox.

Almost immediately he saw the rebel engineers cutting the barbed wire in the position.

(End of this chapter)