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Volume 2, Standard Guard, Chapter 32, Battle of Santa Elva Part 6, Shield

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    After the routine pre-war mobilization was over, the Battle of Santa Elba, considered by later historians to be one of the "three major battles" that determined the future of Emera, was about to begin.  However, "opening the curtain" does not mean "beginning of fighting" - even though the colonial regiment has a numerical advantage, for them, the current defensive position is not bad: fighting on the hillside is better than rushing down and facing down.  Attacking is much better.

    The Marquis of Wellington¡¯s calculation was: Since it was the Republican Army that first proposed the battle, and it proposed the battle under such a disparity, it was enough to prove that the Republican Army was at the end of its rope and had no choice.  Then even if they don't attack, the Republican Army will take the initiative to attack.  Instead of going all out, it would be better to fight with ease.  What's more, according to the current position, the sunlight will turn to the direction of the Republican Army's eyes in a few hours. If they want to take the initiative to attack, it will be at that time.

    "What an old fox - even if you are like this, you still don't take the initiative to attack." Jiang Yucheng glanced at the Imperial Army's motionless formation with a telescope, "Then let's go first - move forward!"

    After giving the order, the long line of the Republican Army began to squirm: first the central part of Jiang Yucheng's voice was heard, and then it spread to the left and right like a wave.  From the perspective of the Imperial Army, it looked like a colorful rattlesnake crawling on the sand dunes.

    It has to be said that even though the morale has been improved a lot by Jiang Yucheng's speech, the combat effectiveness of the Republican Army has not improved at all.  Although the soldiers were moving forward slowly, they were not walking in unison.  Therefore, the battle lines that were barely maintained were leaning forward and backward, and were full of loopholes.  If they formed such a formation to attack the Imperial Army, they would be beaten to pieces with a single volley of guns. Of course, the reason why Jiang Yucheng allowed them to lose their composure was that the Imperial Army was still waiting on the opposite mountain.

    In contrast, the officers and soldiers of the National Guard are not so free: they carry heavy machine guns, tripods and grenade launchers, plus personal equipment. In the eyes of others, they are just a bunch of hard labor carrying luggage.  They don't look like elite troops at all.  Even so, they still have to rush towards the trenches at impact speed under the leadership of Hughes - the guard flag team must deploy heavy firepower before engaging the imperial army.

    "Hurry! Hurry!" Hughes, who was leading the troops and rushing down, carried a heavy machine gun shield on his back and shouted with a box of bullets in his hand.  In modern warfare.  Infantrymen rarely install protective shields on machine guns anymore (it makes sense for tank machine gun shooters to install protective shields), but adding a thin steel plate to resist flintlock projectiles should still be enough.

    "Everyone get into the trenches! Set up all the machine guns for me! Everyone is ready for battle. No firing is allowed without orders!!"

    While other units of the Republican Army were still dawdling on the mountainside, the soldiers of the infantry platoon of the Guards had already jumped into the trenches and started firing their guns.

    Jiang Yucheng¡¯s arrangement is that the second platoon will be reserved as a reserve team, while Elf Girl and Team Qian will stay in the truck and wait.  As for Onion Lady's adjutant, she stayed in the tank and waited - Jiang Yucheng had authorized her to spend energy points to replenish the tank with shells when necessary.

    The engineers had dug machine gun bunkers in the trenches in advance, so now, the guard flag team only needs to place the qjy-88 general-purpose machine gun, qjz-89 12.7mm heavy machine gun and qlz-87 automatic grenade launcher in the already designated areas.  Just sit in the designated position.

    23 general-purpose machine guns, 15 heavy machine guns, and 10 automatic grenade launchers - for an infantry platoon, this firepower configuration is already seriously exceeded.  Now, all the soldiers in the infantry platoon of the Guards in the trenches were either heavy weapons shooters or deputy shooters, and not even a rifleman could be found.

    But even so, it failed to achieve Jiang Yucheng¡¯s expected effect: at first, he planned to deploy the AFT-9 anti-tank missile launch system equipped with the "Red Arrow-9" heavy anti-tank missile directly on the position.  It was just that the price of the entire laser-guided anti-tank missile launch system was too expensive, and the time was too tight to deploy it, so in the end I had to give up.

    Two or three Scythian horse archers whistled when they saw this, and then rushed towards the trenches down the mountain. Hughes thought they were going to launch an attack, but obviously, these horse archers knew how much they weighed and did not take the initiative.  Looking for trouble.  They just investigated from a distance and then ran back to report:

    "My Lord Marquis, the enemy's main force has come down from the mountain, and the skirmishers have entered the ditch at the foot of the mountain - they didn't find any cavalry. There are some large vehicles parked on the mountain, which seem to be pulling supplies."

    "Have the Republican bandit monsters reported before appeared?" This is the only one that worries the Marquis.

    "It also stopped on the mountain. It didn't seem to be moving, and I couldn't see it breathing."

    "Really? I thought the Republican Army would definitely let the Warcraft take the lead, but this timeBehind me - what's going on?  "

    The Marquis of Wellington was a little surprised, but then he was relieved: things like Warcraft are inherently moody. Maybe today it is unhappy and disobedient, and even the owner cannot defeat him.  In other words, it is unknown whether this monster is suffering from indigestion or not willing to eat humans in recent days.  All in all, since the monsters are not out, the Republican Army has nothing to fear.

    Then, the Marquis of Wellington shouted loudly:

    "Send the order, the entire army attacks!"

    "Your Majesty the Marquis has an order, the whole army is to attack!" the ordering soldier shouted loudly.

    After hearing the order, the company commanders of each company immediately issued advance entry orders to their soldiers.  The drummer of the Imperial Army played the slow drum beat: "Da, da, da dong - da da. Da, da, da dong - da da" The bagpiper of the Imperial Army played a dignified and solemn tune.  Marching music, the music is so penetrating that it can even be heard on the ridge of the Republican Army opposite.

    "Be careful, sir!" Hearing the sound, Hughes shouted, "They are about to attack!"

    In this era, the military commanders of the empire used military bands to strengthen their control over the infantry in battle and remind them of the current status of the infantry.  Whether attacking, pursuing, or retreating, there is corresponding musical accompaniment.  The pace of the troops' advance is controlled by the drums in the military band

    "Oh my god you actually rely on music to command the troops" Jiang Yucheng couldn't help but think of the PSP game "War Drums Bang Bang" he played in his previous life, "So, the people being commanded are all a bunch of sesame cakes"  ¡¤¡±

    In this game, players can command some magical races called "Pa-Ta-Peng" by beating Taiko drums and issuing correct instructions according to the rhythm.  Because this creature looks like a biscuit with arms and legs, it is also nicknamed the "shaobing clan" by players

    Following the rhythm of the drums, the battle infantrymen of the Colonial Corps lined up in a tight square, marching in neat steps toward the ridge occupied by the Republican Army.

    In the eyes of modern people like Jiang Yucheng, this kind of action that is only used in military parades is really not suitable for use on the battlefield intact.  However, the Republican Army has seen a lot about this, so there is nothing surprising about it.

    What surprised them was why Jiang Yucheng ordered the guard flag troops to get into a ditch: wouldn't that only hit the enemy's feet?  Wouldn't that make it appear that the enemy is much taller than us?  As for the opposite side, it's similar: no one in the entire Imperial Legion, including the Duke of Wellington, knows what a field fortification is

    "Ta, da, da dong - da da. Da, da, da dong - da da"

    The Imperial Army¡¯s battle infantry marched towards the opposite ridge in thousands, beating the drums.  Through the infrared night vision device, Jiang Yucheng observed that there was an extremely high energy heat source in front of the imperial soldiers - this was the legendary array magic shield.

    At present, the information Jiang Yucheng has about this kind of shield is limited to two points - first, it can withstand flintlock bullets; second, it must be based on the neat and tight formation of the battle infantry.  Only in this way can it be effective.  In addition, Jiang Yucheng basically knew nothing about the nature, working principle and actual effect of this shield.

    Therefore, Jiang Yucheng decided to do an experiment first before calculating, to "measure" the various properties of this shield through actual combat, and then formulate tactics that can easily break the shield - once the shield is broken,  Then these battle infantry will naturally be beaten into pieces by the assault rifles and machine guns of the guard flag.

    "Blade, this is the Overlord," Jiang Yucheng called Hughes via the radio, "Let a platoon fire and attack."

    "The blade is received."

    "Attention all machine gun fire units!" Hughes shouted, "Concentrate fire in 15 seconds! Prepare - fire!"

    ¡°Da da da da da da da da da!!!!!¡±

    When Hughes formally issued the order to fire, the Imperial Army's battle line had just advanced to a place 600 meters away from the Republican Army's forward defense line.  More than a dozen machine guns roared violently together - to the Imperial soldiers, the sound of the machine guns sounded like a dense drum beat, causing the orderly pace of the battle infantry to be disrupted for a moment.  The bullets were like hailstones, hitting the Imperial soldiers head-to-head.

    Theoretically speaking, the machine guns spitting out flames at this time should harvest the lives of the Imperial Army like wheat.  However, the actual situation is far from that simple - there seems to be an invisible wall in front of the imperial army's array.

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????The amount of ammunition fired is completely disproportionate to the amount of ammunition used to defeat the enemy.  As for the wonderful sight of machine gun bullets penetrating the dense phalanx, it seems that the killing effect of the machine gun is limited to the first row.  It was not possible to penetrate the military formation.

    To the comrades who fell to the ground beside them, the infantrymen in the battle line behaved extremely calmly: it was no longer unusual for bullets to fly over and hit the shield with a clang.  The difference may be that the bullets that landed at their feet before were broken lead, but this time they were shiny brass slugs.

    Every time a person falls in the first row, there will immediately be soldiers from behind to take over. As for whether the fallen man is dead or alive, no one takes a look - there are advantages to using scum as soldiers, scum is scum.  , no one (including other scum) will care about you even if you die.
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