"Hold on, artillery support from the base will arrive soon."
In the communication room inside Cave No. 2, the Marine Corps staff officer looked extremely ugly and spoke a few quick words of comfort into the microphone.
As soon as he hung up the communication between the two parties, the harsh ringtone rang again.
There was a bit of anxiety in his eyes, but he gritted his teeth but reached out to pick up the communication microphone again.
The same urgent reporting voice came from it as before, which also made the look between his eyebrows become more and more gloomy.
Several emergency calls in a row left him almost at a loss.
Faced with the intense reporting content and requests for fire support, he had no authority to make any decisions on his own.
The staff officer casually gave a few instructions to the five correspondents next to him who had solemn expressions and were still on the emergency call.
Then he turned around and quickly walked out of the communications room.
He came to the central command room next door and looked at the person lying on the ground.
Karl, who still looked solemn at the table and was still studying the military map, couldn't help but report urgently: "The Soviets have launched a full-scale attack on us.
The peripheral defense bunkers can no longer achieve fire suppression.
Please provide us with artillery support."
Karl was still lying on the huge wooden table, with only solemnity and solemnity on his expressionless face.
The pencil in his hand was quickly writing and drawing on the map, marking the battle situation information that was coming from all times, and he quickly He gave orders to another staff officer next to him and issued them quickly through the communication in the command room.
Although a series of orders were issued, his expression still did not improve at all.
He turned his head and glanced at the staff officer who was looking at him, and said in a somewhat anxious voice: "Our artillery support frequency has reached the limit, and it is impossible to continue to provide more More fire support” "A total of five bunkers in the west, north, and south were fully attacked by the enemy.
Due to the strong density of enemy firepower, the offensive formations were widely dispersed and they could not quickly defeat their attack."
The staff officer's expression became even more ugly.
He quickly came to Karl's side and looked at the military map that had been marked with various military symbols.
His expression was as gloomy as the dark clouds in the Rocky Mountains in winter.
Gritting his teeth tightly, he opened his mouth but clenched his fists, and quickly reported to Karl: "Six people were killed in the western forward defense bunker, four people were killed in the southwest and northwest bunkers, and one person was killed in the southern bunker.
Although we have added troops, But that group of Soviets is about to break through our bunker defense positions.
Without effective artillery support, our western bunker will be abandoned."
"But even so, we still don't have more artillery support.
Now all our Marine Corps boys can do is grit their teeth and use their bravery to withstand the attack of the Soviets."
Slapping his palms heavily on the table, Karl's voice sounded like a roar from a beast that was forced into a dead end.
He raised his head and glanced at the two staff officers in front of him.
There was extreme depression in his bloodshot eyes, but he He also focused his attention on the map in front of him again, pointing to the three directions of west, south, and north with his hands, and his voice also changed because of his He became slightly hoarse at the words: "We only have six artillery pieces.
Facing the Soviets' full-line attack, the support we can provide is extremely scattered, and we have to focus on taking care of the forward defense bunkers in the west.
Otherwise, we will have to Abandon the bunker that contained most of the Soviets, and directly use Cave No. 5 as the frontline battlefield."
None of them expected that the Soviets were going crazy and actually launched a full-scale general attack in the face of their well-defended bunker group.
Even though they suffered heavy casualties during the attack, the Soviets seemed to be madmen who were not afraid of death.
They shouted, held their weapons, and attacked the west and south sides again and again in a scattered attack method. , advancing from three directions on the north side, and that attack sequence was like a wave, leaving them no chance to breathe.
A standard infantry regiment consists of two thousand elite Soviet infantrymen.
Moreover, they all have quite a lot of actual combat experience.
It would be no exaggeration to say that they are all veterans who have often fought and fought on the battlefield. 55 tank gun support, they directly advanced to within a hundred meters of the defensive bunker, an extremely dangerous distance.
Not only are these elite Soviet infantrymen facing triple fire suppression from the inside of the defensive bunker, light and heavy machine guns and 4a1 assault rifles, because relatively speaking, even the Marines inside the defensive bunker will be attacked every time they pass through That long and narrow shooting hole control When they fired their weapons outwards, they had to face the firepower of the AK assault rifles in the hands of the Soviet elites.
However, the distance between the two sides was only a hundred meters away.
Ranged fire suppression.
Close range fire training is a tactical action that any recruit must learn during training.
For these Soviet elites, it was as simple as daily training.
If it weren't for the still long and narrow shooting holes, which were only a dozen centimeters high, and the fierce combination of light and heavy firepower on the upper and lower floors, it is estimated that the Marines in the defensive bunker would have been beaten by this group of elite Soviet veterans who had experienced countless actual combats. , one by one, the bunker was completely emptied.
But for these Soviet elites, pushing against the intensive firepower of five defensive bunkers to a distance of less than 100 meters also reached a limit.
Looking at the corpses appearing on almost every meter of the hillside behind them from top to bottom, you can tell what kind of horrific firepower they encountered during their advance.
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If it were an ordinary infantry regiment, I am afraid that after they had killed so many comrades in a short period of time, they would have been on the verge of collapse and would no longer have the morale to continue fighting.
"Tong Tong Tong Tong Tong Tong Tong Tong Tong" The 2 Browning heavy machine guns in the defensive bunker were still spitting out muzzle flames, and the dull sound still echoed in the space.
A large number of metal bullet casings had filled the main shooter's feet, and piles of empty bullet casings were piled up. .
But on the ground next to it, there are already nearly three spare barrels placed there for cooling, but now the barrel that is still mounted on the heavy machine gun is also emitting slightly hot air, indicating that it has been continuously following the The shooting became more and more intense.
The expressions on the faces of the Marine Corps soldiers inside have changed from excitement to fear now, especially the main shooter who is responsible for controlling the 2 Browning heavy machine guns.
He fires towards the outside almost every time.
When suppressing, there is a certain despair in his expression.
This is the outermost bunker on the west side, and it is also the bunker directly facing Soviet firepower.
It is also the place with the highest death rate among many bunkers.
On the third floor of the defensive bunker, where the Marines were supposed to rest or avoid fierce attacks, it was already occupied by six corpses of Marines with their faces covered.
This fierce exchange of fire also caused huge casualties to them in the defensive bunker.
Not only the elite Soviet infantry who were already close to a hundred meters away, but also the rifled guns of the T55 tanks a thousand meters away were facing them.
It is a huge threat that can kill them in an instant.
The T55 tank gun is originally a 100-rifled gun.
Based on tank hit rate and accuracy, today's tank guns are not considered at all.
They usually use smoothbore guns with stronger armor-piercing capabilities.
In such a complex mountainous environment, high-precision rifled guns pose a huge threat to the defensive bunker.
As long as one shell hits the outer wall of the defensive bunker, the violent vibration will cause the two Browning heavy machine guns to lose their power.
Accurately, the Soviet elite infantry took advantage of these short seconds to rush forward a few meters like a gallop, shortening the distance between the two sides.
Even when the tank gun's shell directly hit the shooting hole, even though the narrow shooting hole of more than ten centimeters was not enough for the entire shell to penetrate, the terrifying force instantly cracked the concrete in the shooting hole, and the resulting concrete fragments were scattered in the shell.
The instantaneous inertia formed by squeezing is not much more powerful than the bullet.
The Marines who died in the battle suffered tragedy precisely because they collided head-on with these concrete fragments that instantly collapsed and flew directly through their vital points.
The two Marines at the bottom also drilled out of the connecting tunnel, pushing a scooter with six boxes of heavy machine gun bullets piled on it.
They quickly unloaded it and placed it on the pulley hook next to it, and then were Pull up the pulley inside the defensive bunker, quickly open the wooden box with a crowbar, grab the yellow-orange heavy machine gun ammunition chain inside, and go to the 2 Browning heavy machine guns that are still shooting, supplementing the already Nearly exhausted ammunition.
Their ammunition consumption is extremely high.
The ammunition consumption of two 2 Browning heavy machine guns and three 249 light machine guns per minute, even with economical control, has reached 3,000 rounds per minute.
After all, there are too many Soviets outside.
And they are getting closer and closer to their defensive bunker.
Once they come to the close range of the defensive bunker, they only need to throw two grenades in, and they must quickly abandon all heavy weapons and retreat to the safety area on the third level. go.
Because their ammunition consumption rate could no longer keep up with the supplies at the cave base in the rear, and the density of the Soviet attacks in front of them was also increasing, posing an increasingly terrifying threat to them.
Even as time passed, they themselves felt that if there was no more support, the Soviets in front of them might really get close to the defensive bunkers, forcing them to all evacuate the third floor.
The outermost defensive position of the cave base was also completely lost: