Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 1859-1860 Crawling Forward

Broken bricks and tiles filled the original streets, broken steel bars protruded from the concrete slabs like the fangs of wild beasts, and the air was filled with choking smoke and dust.

Several Lions soldiers crawled forward in the ruins with difficulty, holding their weapons tightly and burying their heads deep in the rubble, fearing that they would become victims of the horror legend if they were not careful.

The legendary Tang Dynasty sniper, like a ghost, wandered in the ruins, harvesting every soul that dared to show itself. No one knew where he was hiding, and no one had ever seen his true appearance. All they knew was that everyone who looked into his eyes had already met the god of death.

Fear spread among the soldiers like a plague. They didn't even dare to breathe loudly, and could only communicate through gestures and eye contact. Their mission was to support the building next to the barricade, the building with all its windows shattered and its walls riddled with holes.

From a distance, it looks like a monster with bared fangs and claws, exuding a creepy breath of death under the gloomy sky.

"Damn, is that guy still there..." A young soldier cursed under his breath as he struggled to crawl behind a pile of collapsed sandbags. He felt his heart was about to jump out of his throat.

Crawling forward with rifles in hand is not an easy task in itself. They also have to carry three people's worth of grenades and more than 600 rounds of bullets... Every movement is not easy.

Originally, such supplies should have been handled by special personnel, but the blockade of the Tang army was too strict, and the supply personnel had no way to carry a large amount of ammunition to a location so close to the front line.

There was no other way. The losses were simply too great, so we could only rely on the soldiers who reinforced the front lines to carry the supplies on their shoulders or in their hands. As for the quantity, it was really pitifully small.

In fact, in most cases, a soldier who supports the front line can only bring one more person's load in addition to his own ammunition. If he is a little more extreme, he may be able to bring a little more.

For example, now each of them carries two or three extra grenades, which is the limit of what they can carry while crawling.

The good news is that the bullets they carry are not many rifle bullets, most of them are pistol bullets, which are the most used in street fighting. These bullets are certainly not prepared for pistols, but for the increasing number of submachine gunners on the front line.

Submachine guns are still very effective weapons in close combat situations. Although they are not as effective as assault rifles in extreme situations, they are cheap and less sophisticated, making them one of the most popular weapons for infantry.

Of course, such weapons are generally not issued to new soldiers, because new soldiers tend to hold the trigger tightly and quickly use up all the bullets in the magazine. So in order not to waste ammunition, submachine guns are first issued to experienced veterans.

However...it was hard to say how much combat experience the veterans of the coalition forces had on the cruel battlefield. Although some veterans had participated in several battles, they had only witnessed the Tang army's overwhelming artillery fire and some strange and bizarre killing weapons.

As for the experience of confronting Tang soldiers face to face... In fact, all the coalition soldiers had very little experience. Even if a close-range battle broke out between the two sides, the Tang army would quickly resolve it with rifle grenades and snipers, leaving the coalition soldiers no chance to fight back.

In fact, in close combat, the bulletproof plates equipped by the Tang army also greatly reduced the power of submachine guns, and pistol bullets did seem powerless when facing Kevlar armor. "I really can't climb anymore..." Carrying so much ammunition, this soldier of the Lions Empire was not a veteran who had been in the battlefield for a long time. He had only been in the army for less than half a year.

During the past six months, he spent most of his time serving in a new barracks, and then was transferred to another barracks for training... In short, he looked more like an actor who was just making up the numbers.

Yes, an actor. In fact, many soldiers like him have similar energy. They serve in a unit for about two or three months, and then the main force of the unit is withdrawn, and the remaining people are assigned to other new units to continue training.

As a result, they were transferred out like this and became the so-called backbone, the so-called veterans... Because they had been in the barracks the longest, everyone regarded them as pillars that they could rely on.

The problem is, they themselves know what kind of people they are. They don't even participate much in proper shooting training due to the shortage of supplies, let alone compare themselves with their predecessors who had already been sent to the front line to fight.

In fact, the combat effectiveness of all coalition forces is on the decline, and the total strength of all regular troops is decreasing again and again.

Originally, almost all countries followed the Tang army's organizational structure, with a battalion having more than 500 officers and soldiers. A regiment had three or even four battalions. However, as the war progressed, these coalition forces generally began to reduce their numbers to maintain the number of organizations.

Some newly formed troops even had only two battalions in a regiment, and each battalion had only 400 people. Some troops still maintained the structure of three battalions, but each battalion had only people.

In short, they played some word games, changing an infantry division with three regiments into one with two regiments and an independent battalion, or changing an army with three divisions into one with two divisions and two regiments...

In the end, an infantry division that was supposed to have more than 1 people actually had only or even or people. Only God knows how much combat effectiveness such a force can have.

In fact, there is some truth in such a downsizing, because there are practical difficulties in strictly maintaining the organization: as the war continues, the coalition forces' heavy weapons production has obviously not kept up with the rate of consumption.

Before, the five empires of the entire East Continent united, and their energy and resources could still compete with the Tang Empire. But now, after losing the Ice Empire, Yangmu Empire, and Susas Empire in succession, the coalition only has "half of the country" left.

Under such circumstances, the production capacity of heavy weapons and equipment such as artillery, tanks, armored vehicles, and anti-aircraft guns has been seriously insufficient, and the replenishment speed has dropped to a terrible level.

Without these heavy weapons and equipment, it would be ridiculous for the troops to continue to maintain a similar structure. It is impossible for a unit to maintain an anti-tank artillery company for nothing without being equipped with a single anti-tank gun, right?

(End of this chapter)