“Charge forward!”
Following the commander's shout and the piercing whistle, the soldiers ran wildly on the battlefield, braving the hail of bullets and climbing the hill. After breaking through the outer positions at the foot of the mountain, the attacking soldiers launched a fierce face-to-face hand-to-hand combat on a narrow platform on the mountainside, with bullets flying through the crowd.
The bayonets flashed with cold light in front of the eyes of the soldiers of the two countries who were fighting like wild beasts. Every collision burst out with a deafening roar. The soldiers holding submachine guns kept shooting at groups of enemy troops with their submachine guns.
And more often than not, the hand-to-hand combat was carried out in the most naked way. A soldier grabbed an American soldier who was slightly taller than him and started fighting. No one knew where the guns in their hands were thrown away. They fought with the most primitive flesh-on-flesh way. He even rode on the American soldier. When the two sides clamped each other, he suddenly opened his mouth and bit the neck of the American soldier under him fiercely. He bit so hard that he only felt a fishy smell in his mouth. Soon the American soldier who was struggling desperately stopped struggling. The American soldier whose neck artery was bitten off twitched from time to time, and his arms that were desperately resisting became weak and fell down.
An American soldier with a bayonet rushed over from the other side, and at this time the soldier with blood all over his face climbed up. The American soldier with the bayonet saw this soldier with blood all over his face, who looked like a devil from hell, and was so frightened. While he was stunned, the soldier pulled out a pistol from the holster at his waist, fired several shots at him, and knocked the American soldier to the ground.
Just as the soldiers were fighting desperately, the smoke had been dispersed, and the American soldiers on the nearby high ground artillery positions were finally able to see the situation of "Eagle's Hole Fort" clearly. At the beginning, when they looked in the direction of "Eagle's Hole Fort", the entire mountain was covered with dust and smoke from the artillery shells.
Although they were also bombarded, the intensity was far lower than that of the Eagle's Hole Fort. The gunners rushed to the gun positions protected by concrete vaults or mountains and immediately joined the battle.
The ammunition pusher pushed a ten-inch shell to the muzzle of the cannon on the ammunition cart. After the ammunition pusher loaded the propellant into the gun support, he lifted the shell with a pulley and loaded the shell weighing several hundred kilograms into the barrel. He then began to aim at the target, preparing to deal a fatal blow to the Ming devils.
What appeared before them at this time was the "Eagle Cave Fort" shrouded in thick smoke. Because of this, they could not see the situation on the battlefield clearly. When the Ming army attacked, they could only shoot according to the calls of the "Eagle Cave Fort" observers and their guidance, but their accuracy was very average.
Although the accuracy of the artillery fire was affected by the smoke, their artillery fire still had a great impact on the attacking forces. A heavy artillery shell would always cause certain casualties to the attacking forces.
Finally, as the smoke cleared, the artillery observer was finally able to see the attacking Ming devils.
"Target: Eagle Cave Castle! Location..."
As the officer shouted, a fierce artillery sounded from halfway up the mountain. At the same time as a huge cloud of smoke poured out from the mountain, a shell weighing hundreds of kilograms whizzed out.
"boom!"
The millimeter shells that landed on the mountainside instantly devoured everything around them. Dozens of attacking imperial soldiers lost their lives in the violent explosion. Then more dense shells fell, and in the smoke, there were shattered limbs everywhere. They were lifted into the air and then fell heavily.
The sudden artillery fire paused the assault force's offensive. As the soldiers lay down one after another, the siege guns in the rear increased their bombardment of the US artillery positions. However, a considerable number of US artillery positions were deep in the mountains. The thick mountains blocked the heavy shells of the siege guns. Although the heavy siege artillery continued to blast out black "giant trees" on the mountain, the US artillery bombardment did not stop.
Similarly, the imperial soldiers' attack did not stop. The US military's counterattack artillery fire did not stop the assault troops' attack, and the attacking troops continued to attack tenaciously and desperately.
By almost noon, the assault troops had finally arrived at a position less than 200 meters away from the fortress on the top of the mountain. Although the "Eagle's Nest Fort" fortress had been reduced to ruins under the bombardment of siege artillery, the US troops in the fortress still relied on machine gun fortifications and shooting bunkers to use machine guns and rifles to stop the attacking empire and legion.
The higher they went up the mountain, the more dangerous it became, and the more difficult it was to attack. As Li Guoquan and his comrades tried their best to advance little by little and kept getting closer, the American soldiers behind the trench, their bodies dyed black by gunpowder, stared at the approaching Ming devils, and they shouted to take out their "Thor's Hammer".
"Blow them up, blow those Ming devils up..."
"Thor's Hammer" weighing 2 kilograms or even 3 kilograms was thrown out one by one. On flat ground, such heavy grenades could only be thrown a dozen meters away, but when thrown down from a high place, the result was completely different.
"Ding, ding."
With bullets flying overhead and shells falling all around, the officers and soldiers of the assault force who were attacking on a hillside with an angle of more than 60 degrees suddenly heard the sound of metal collision coming from above their heads. Dozens or even hundreds of "Thor's Hammers" were thrown down like that, some directly smashed down from a great height, and some rolled down from the hillside.
“Boom! Boom!”
The explosion of these heavy grenades was almost as powerful as that of heavy artillery. In the continuous explosions, the mountains seemed to be shaken, and the black smoke rising into the sky enveloped the attacking troops.
Many soldiers who were attacking fell directly in a pool of blood. Li Guoquan, who was hiding behind a huge rock, even saw the body of a comrade being blown into pieces not far away, and the flying flesh and blood even splattered all over him.
"Damn it, these bastards..."
Cursing, Li Guoquan saw some figures moving through the smoke. As they advanced towards the top of the mountain, despite the hail of bullets and grenades falling overhead, nothing could stop the soldiers' attack.
"You bastard..."
There was a hint of determination in Li Guoquan's eyes, and he rushed out. Around him, the soldiers were still rushing towards the ruined fortress on the top of the mountain.
The attack lasted from early morning until dusk, and from dusk to late night. The fierce attack never stopped. At 10 o'clock that evening, a sun and moon flag finally rose on the top of the smoke-filled mountain.
At this time, the fortress was still filled with the sound of gunfire and explosions. It was not until about nine o'clock the next morning that the gunfire gradually subsided.
When the troops attacked the Eagle Cave Fort, Peng Guoliang was always on the front line, directly observing the situation on the battlefield.
"Sir, congratulations, sir, we have now won the first battle."
"What's there to be happy about?"
Peng Guoliang shook his head and talked to himself.
"I wonder how many more soldiers will die because of this tough problem..."
While talking to himself, Peng Guoliang looked up at the sky with a frown, and then asked again.
"How can we completely gain air superiority?"
The reason why he asked this was that only after gaining air superiority could he use the "big killer" in his hand.
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