Chapter 465: General Attack

Chapter 459 – General Attack
The logistics of the Border City Alliance spent a huge amount of money to send a huge amount of military supplies to the front line, in addition to daily supplies, a large amount of ammunition as a war reserve, as well as a bunch of alchemists sacrificing their hair to get five hundred machine guns and ten steam tanks, a huge, huge, making Cross who had heard of the news to reveal a rare smile.

This period of time he was under great pressure, because he not only mobilized soldiers, but also used the main force regiment to carry out a few exploratory attacks, but all to no avail, especially the other side of the arrangement of cross machine gun points and the precision of small caliber artillery, for the charging infantry with the same as the scythe of the harvest of life, even if there is artillery support can not be, firstly, the hitting rate of artillery is too low, and the other side of the perfect fortification so that artillery threat is greatly reduced. The threat of artillery is greatly reduced, so he urgently needs a weapon that can suppress the firepower of the other side.

As long as the firepower of the other side is suppressed, so that the soldiers can charge up, with the numerical advantage, it is completely possible to achieve an overwhelming victory, so he has been looking forward to the machine gun for a long time.

However, Cross was a bit strange about the appearance of this machine gun, he had seen the machine gun of the Glory Union from afar, it was very simple, and there was only one barrel, the magazine was also on top, while the machine gun in front of him, not to mention the two barrels were in parallel, but also inserted a curved magazine like wings on the left and the right, and the magazine was still hollow, and the bullets and the thick springs could be seen inside.

The alchemist who came with the army was very proud to introduce this machine gun to Admiral Cross, which they had worked so hard to build.

The machine gun can be hand rubbed, but not the bullets, with the current situation of the Border City Alliance, it is not realistic to design a bullet specifically for the machine gun, so in order to effectively suppress the opponent’s machine gun fire, in the case of the rate of fire and power is difficult to increase, they have the novelty of fixing the two machine guns together, respectively, by the two sides of the curved magazines that can be loaded with thirty rounds of bullets to supply the ammunition, so that the firepower is doubled, and lasts for a longer time. The firepower was doubled and the duration was longer.

Sounds good, but the machine gun, named the Wings of Steel, was difficult for one person to move because it weighed more than fifty pounds, not to mention the ammunition, and it was no easier than acrobatics for one person to continually load the magazines from side to side while firing, so in addition to a main shooter, there had to be two ammo men who were responsible for carrying the ammo as well as loading it.

In addition, because the two machine guns were merged together, the throwing port could only be designed at the top, resulting in a fountain of shell casings when firing, blocking the line of sight not to mention, but also easy to burn the shooter, the soldier who was responsible for testing the machine gun has become a pockmarked, so in order to solve this problem, the main shooter will be equipped with a mask.

Cross listened and nodded repeatedly, not realizing that there was any problem, so he let the soldiers familiarize themselves with it, and then prepared to launch a general attack to catch the other side off guard, and this was also the reason why he requested more ammunition from the Alliance.

This war has already dragged on for too long, if it drags on any longer, not to mention whether the fragile material reserves of the Border City Alliance can continue to support the expeditionary force, just the two million population of the occupied area can drag down the entire alliance, after all, from the occupation until now, all he has brought about is destruction, and once the plundered materials are depleted, the population of these enslaved occupied areas will inevitably rebel.

Fortunately, the mobilized soldiers forcibly recruited after many battles and integration, has formed the scale of 300,000, with the increase to 150,000 regular army and 150,000 reserve corps, holding 600,000 troops of Cross has enough backing to launch a general attack.

After some mobilization, 100,000 mobilized soldiers took the lead to launch the attack, to which the Glory Union side didn’t care, because similar scenes had already happened many times in the previous period.

No wonder the soldiers on the Glory Union side were careless, mainly because of the lack of weapons, the vast majority of the mobilized soldiers were still using old-fashioned muskets, and a few of them equipped with singles or supervisors, which resulted in the mobilized soldiers having almost no firepower advantage, and even lacked artillery support, as the soldiers on the border city felt that the mobilized soldiers’ lives were not worth the waste of their precious artillery shells.

Under these circumstances, trying to break through the well-established fortifications defended by a large number of soldiers by virtue of their numerical superiority was almost like a dream, and they really thought that the machine gun forts and fast mortars all over the defense line were fake. The machine guns and mortars could turn any enemy who dared to gather and charge into corpses, and they were made very quickly, plus the soldiers who were getting better and better at shooting, so it was not that easy to break through the defense line.

It is because of this scene, obviously holding a large army, but Cross did not dare to attack, after all, the other side of the force is also quite a lot, but also occupy the defense and firepower advantage, really hard to fight, even if you win how many soldiers and horses can be left, is completely an unknown.

Now there are enough cards, Cross is ready to launch a general attack, to completely solve this war that has lasted for a long time.

After an unknown number of charges, the mobilized soldiers who are still alive have long since learned to charge in a loose formation and know how to lie down when they hear machine gun fire, run desperately while there is a gap in the artillery fire, etc.

But they never broke through the enemy’s positions, because the accurate shooting, the sweeping machine guns, the deadly artillery fire, and the continuous grenades turned anyone who tried to break through into a field of corpses.

With this level of casualties, it was useless even if there was a supervisory unit behind them, as there was no shortage of mobilized soldiers who were cornered and chose to die with the supervisory unit, so both sides maintained a certain tacit understanding that they would be able to retreat when the deaths and injuries reached a certain level.

Only this time is different, 300,000 mobilized soldiers from morning to night a moment did not stop, the death and injury has long exceeded the previous ceiling, but still did not stop, the supervision team has killed red-eye, under the strict orders of General Cross, the Border City Alliance supervision team forced the mobilized soldiers of the supervision team, mobilized soldiers of the supervision team can only be placed on the mobilized soldiers of the pressure on the mobilized soldiers, in order to break the tacit understanding of the past.

Some mobilized regiments could not bear the brutal deaths and injuries and shot at the supervisory team, but this time there was no compromise, the Border City Union supervisory team set up machine guns, and shot all of them together with the mobilized soldier supervisory team, without mercy.

The brutal massacre had already shown that the Border City Alliance was for real this time, even if the mobilized soldiers were stirring inside, for the sake of a glimmer of life, and the doomed impossible promise of the Border City Alliance, the huge number of mobilized soldiers risked huge attrition time and time again and stormed the battle line on the side of the Glory Alliance.

On the other hand, the trench on the side of the Glory Union was strewn with shell casings that almost covered the surface of the feet, and the barrels of the machine guns were all red, and both sides started a fierce physical battle at the most dangerous time, if it wasn’t for the fact that the defenders of the second line of defense were able to come forward at any time to support them, and that the mortars and infantry cannons were on full blast, perhaps the first line of defense would have already failed to be defended.

With the completion of the mobilization of troops, has come to the front line of Howard keenly aware of the difference in this battle, know that he waited for the opportunity to come.

(End of chapter)