Chapter 615 Battle (Part 2)

Fortress, the first line of defense.

This forward defense line, one kilometer away from the fortress and 30 kilometers long, is the longest and most extensive defensive line of defense for the coalition forces on the battlefield.

It consists of a large number of machine gun fortifications and forward field artillery, connected to the rear through a large number of staggered communication trenches, and a 25-kilometer-long double-layer barbed wire fence is deployed to intercept charging enemy troops.

It was this double-layered barbed wire fence that declared the first wave of the Holy See troops' attack a failure, turning their death charge that had been repeated tens of millions of times into a real 'death charge'.

Barbed wire, a common and extremely effective defense, is a barbed wire fence made of long, thin barbed wire.

Barbed wire alone is not even like a mine, causing serious damage to infantry.

It never hides its traces, it is clearly there, and everyone who sets foot on the battlefield can clearly see its existence.

As long as there is enough time, the soldiers can even slowly cut off the barbed wire fence and pull up the wooden stakes holding the barbed wire fence from the ground.

The purpose of facilities such as barbed wire is not to directly cause casualties to the infantry, but to buy time and opportunities for the defenders.

A barbed wire fence that seems easy to cross will turn into a death barrier for stagnant infantry during combat. Even a thin layer of temporary barbed wire that seems non-threatening will become an insurmountable barrier for soldiers.

So much so that later infantrymen distributed specialized barrier-breaking blasting tubes on a large scale to deal with these cheap and deadly fortifications... and cement bunkers.

The same goes for Tiejuma, concrete interception piles, and interception pits, but they are dedicated to stopping the movement of larger armored units.

Stop and wait to die.

When the target is forced to stop moving, it becomes the best target for shooters.

The coalition soldiers all put on disposable gas masks, carried quicklime powder transported from the rear, and set foot on the battlefield again that was filled with the smell of blood.

"How much ammo are left?"

Gao Yu passed through the defense line and knocked on the door of the first line of defense headquarters.

As one of the few reserve support troops in the fortress, even if he did not receive an action order, he felt that it would be better for him to take a look at the battle situation on the front line.

There is no telling when they will fill in this trench line as a reserve force.

"The first line of defense is out of ammunition, the second line only has about 10% of the ammunition reserves left, and the third line has 50% of the ammunition left."

A coalition officer wears a military rank that belongs exclusively to a lord, indicating that he is a lord and not a unit under a certain lord. He is not a heroic unit or an ordinary unit.

He commanded the soldiers to dump quicklime on the battlefield, cover and bury the corpses of the Holy See soldiers.

He took out a box of cigarettes from his arms, took one out and handed it to Gao Yu. When the latter waved his hand and declined, he took it in his mouth.

"If the Holy See's next attack is of this magnitude, our current ammunition reserves will not be able to stop their attack."

In other words, they can only be forced to abandon the first line of defense and retreat to the safer second line of defense.

Bullets, shells, explosives.

The prerequisite for sufficient firepower is sufficient supplies.

Compared with spellcasters and magical civilizations that rely on energy, technological civilization can pour out huge firepower in a very short time, but at the cost of absolutely sufficient supplies.

(Shaoyigu, Gerasimov!)

"Our reserve team still has ammunition... I can go back and hold a meeting to discuss it with other reserve teams..." Gao Yu hesitated. As a reserve team, they were able to free up a lot of ammunition for the front line.

But, it's not that standard.

"No, your ammunition belongs to you. I don't want to find out that there is not enough ammunition when you come to fill in the line." The coalition lord officer shook his head: "We have already applied to the headquarters for ammunition supplies... and the soldiers are all first The first time I used an automatic weapon, I didn’t even know how to save ammunition..."

Rifle rounds and medium-caliber artillery shells are fine, but machine gun rounds have bottomed out.

There will never be enough ammunition at this rate.

"Damn it, are those people crazy? They just pulled ten divisions to attack the defense line." The leading officer of the coalition forces cursed: "If it weren't for automatic weapons, we really wouldn't be able to withstand the charge of these madmen."

Gao Yu was noncommittal, but he did not receive an order for the reserve troops to move.

There is a large radio base station in the fortress. The high command should have received the battle report from the front line immediately, but the reply to the coalition forces was still to continue the defense according to the original plan.

Everything went according to plan.

His eyes drifted to the barbed wire area where white mist was rising not far away. There was no barbed wire there anymore, only corpses scattered on the ground and a few lonely pillars that were not sure to be flagpoles or wooden stakes.

The coalition soldiers were holding torches, pouring quicklime on these corpses, and using high temperature and alkaline substances to treat the germs that may be carried in the organisms.

"The quicklime transported from the cement factory makes this damn place look a little cleaner." The coalition officer lit the cigarette in his mouth: "It was originally used to build fortifications. I saw there was more, so I gave it to Do some disinfection on the front lines.”

Although they can be resurrected, if a plague really breaks out at such a close distance, they will have to walk around without food.

They couldn't stand just the smell of decaying corpses.

If you want to use a fire to burn it all... the smell will probably smoke out all the garrison troops on the first line of defense.

Quicklime is the best solution they can find right now.

"Okay, stop looking at it. This place is just so-so." The Allied Lord officer waved his hand and asked Gao Yu to go back and prepare: "We may need your reserve support at any time. The artillery sent by Standard Mining said that their support will arrive soon, and we don't know when it will arrive."

It is better to look forward to the troops of the Ring Island Alliance. At least the arcane technology tree they use does not rely so much on logistics.

It is also more suitable for this kind of long-term tug-of-war.

Although the output damage per unit time of spell equipment is low, it can be slowly cooled and charged, and a component can be replaced to cast hundreds of spells.

Even the arcane artillery that fires ion fireballs, the war mage used is itself a kind of "rechargeable battery", and the human body battery can continue to be used after it is fully charged.

Bullets and shells are good, but they are really one less shot.

Humans always have an inexplicable pursuit of long endurance.