artillery arc

Chapter 360: Raid in the Fog
The machine gun platoon leader asked in confusion: "What's wrong?"

Corporal: "The artillery preparation just now swept away all the barbed wire in front of our position. We won't repair it until daybreak. If the enemy wants to attack in the fog, they will directly cross those obstacles."

Andreas: "This kind of fog attack?"

"What? Do you think the little fog demon will kill the Ants?" Corporal Kosrek had just finished speaking when he heard a word "Akutum" floating in the fog in the distance, followed by crackling sounds.

Then someone shouted, "Sun color, they beat Hank to death!"

Then the explosion drowned out the curses.

Corporal Kosrek opened fire, shouting as he did so: "The little fog monsters can't drop bombs! The Ants are coming up!"

The design of this machine gun position is to completely abandon aiming. The machine gunner only needs to fire irregularly and shake the handle casually.

Andreas lay beside the corporal, holding the belt of ammunition in his hand.

The MG34 can also be fired without an assistant gunner holding a belt, but the failure rate will be slightly higher.

When the main shooter is killed, the secondary shooter will have to fire alone.

Andreas' heart was pounding as if it would jump out of his throat at any moment. He was extremely nervous, but the only thing he could do was to hold the belt.

He could neither see the enemy nor the faces of his comrades, only the muzzle of the machine gun constantly spewing flames.

Corporal Koslake yelled, "Reload!"

Andreas' body moved on its own. Long-term training made him like an automatic machine. He cooperated seamlessly with the main shooter Koslake and completed the bullet replacement quickly.

The shooting continued, and Andreas felt as if the world had been swallowed up by the fog, leaving only the isolated island beneath his body.

Suddenly, a grenade was thrown out of the fog and fell into the room where the machine gun was located.

Andreas was stunned, staring blankly at the grenade and its smoking fuse.

Corporal Koslake pushed him aside and said, "Roll over!"

Andreas' body moved on its own, rolling away from the grenade.

Corporal Koslake followed.

The sound of the explosion was much smaller than Andreas had imagined, but the debris that kept falling on him proved the power of the grenade.

Everything Ant has is very powerful.

Corporal Koslake immediately returned to the machine gun. As soon as he picked up the grip of the machine gun, an Ante rushed in from the firing port with a weapon with a barrel as thick as a water jacket in his hand.

Corporal Koslake opened fire, and Soldier Ant was immediately hit, his chest was instantly smashed to pieces.

But his eyes were wide open, staring at the machine gun, and for a moment Andreas felt that he had to keep fighting.

In the end, the Ant soldier did not continue fighting. He fell backwards and used his huge body to block the hole that the machine gun was firing outward.

Andreas was about to go forward and push him away, but Corporal Kosrek shouted: "Retreat! One infantryman means there is a second one, and our covering force is finished!"

The corporal picked up the submachine gun, grabbed Andreas and started running.

"Machine gun!" the recruit shouted.

"Never mind the machine guns!"

The next moment, another grenade was thrown in from the gap next to the body of the Ant warrior.

This time, the grenade was obviously held in Ant's hand for a while, and it exploded the moment it came in.

The fog engulfed Andreas's vision, and he suddenly remembered that there seemed to be more than just the two of them at this machine gun position when the enemy arrived.

"Where's the platoon leader?" Andreas asked.

"How should I know!" the corporal shouted, "Can you walk by yourself? If you can, don't let me drag you, follow me!"

With that, the corporal let go of Andreas' arm, held the submachine gun in both hands, and fired into the fog.

The angry curses of the Ants came from the fog.

Corporal Koslake rolled to the side and hid behind a low wall to reload his bullets. At the same time, something hit the spot where the corporal had just stood, making a crackling sound.

"No gunshots!" Andreas shouted.

"Shh!" said the corporal as he pulled him to the ground, and bullets immediately swept over him.

Kosrek whispered in a very low voice: "Haven't you figured it out yet? The enemy will fire at anything that makes a sound. Their weapons fire without sound or light, so as long as there's a gunshot, it's the enemy."

Andreas: "We should have picked up the enemy's weapons just now."

"If you pick it up, you'll die. Shut up and follow me. We'll also go towards the sound of machine gunfire and we'll find the rest of our platoon."

The corporal had already led Andreas to familiarize himself with the transfer route many times and had visited all three backup machine gun positions. Even though there was heavy fog now, the two of them could find the way.

Suddenly, there was a loud noise nearby, followed by the sound of something collapsing.

Andreas shrank back in fear.

Corporal Koslake: "The enemy is using explosives to demolish the courtyard wall, so they can bypass our fire blockade on the main road. We have to move quickly before the enemy bypasses other machine gun groups!"

After saying that, the corporal took the lead and went into the fog. Andreas hurried to follow, but was tripped by something. He turned around and saw the platoon leader lying on the ground with his left shoulder broken - it didn't look like a bullet, but more like some blunt object had shattered his shoulder completely.

Andreas suddenly felt that he couldn't breathe. He took deep breaths but felt like he was drowning and his chest became more and more stuffy.

He suddenly remembered the legend of the little fog monster, which would come with the fog and strangle people's necks.

Just at this moment, someone tapped his shoulder. Andreas screamed, but someone covered his mouth: "You want to die!"

It was the corporal, and he was running, dragging him along, while silent bullets struck the wall behind Andreas.

After pulling Andreas back, the corporal slapped him in the face and shouted angrily, "Wake up! Stupid people will lose their lives!"

Andreas responded subconsciously: "That's how my father beat me."

"Fuck you, keep up, I'm never coming back."

The corporal jumped up like a cat and dived into the thick fog.

Andreas stumbled to catch up, and the burning pain in his cheek made him sober up a lot.

The two of them ran all the way, and in front of them was the light of fire from the second machine gun group.

Andreas felt that the fire was like the light of a lighthouse seen by a ship trapped in the fog.

The ship was heading for the lighthouse when suddenly another explosion occurred nearby. The blast caught up with Andreas from behind and knocked him to the ground.

Andreas's head was buzzing, but the voice of Ant behind him woke him up.

He stood up and continued to run towards the "lighthouse" ahead.

Relying on his muscle memory, he rushed into the bunker and saw that the corporal had arrived there first.

He slumped down next to the corporal, leaning against the wall and breathing heavily.

The corporal patted him on the shoulder and said, "Good job, I didn't let the little fog monster catch you."

"I saw the platoon leader," Andreas said. "He was dead. His shoulder looked like it had been smashed with a sledgehammer. His collarbone was broken."

Corporal Koslake: "He was lucky, he died immediately, it wasn't particularly painful."

"Lucky?" Andreas said. "He's dead!"

"Yes, I was lucky. If I were unlucky, my spine would be broken and I would be completely unable to move. I would just lie there and watch my life slip away bit by bit. I would not be discovered until the battle was over and the battlefield was cleaned up.

"The pain hasn't gone away during this process. It's excruciating, but you can't even twitch a muscle in your face."

Andreas shut his mouth.

At this time, he heard the voice of Ant language speaking next to him.

The corporal yelled, "Grenade!"

Before he could finish his words, a grenade was thrown in and landed at the feet of the two men.

The corporal grabbed the grenade and threw it out of the bunker, then said to Andreas: "It's not safe here anymore, the Ants are coming around! Go!"

He turned and shouted to the machine gun crew: "Hurry up! Go to the next position!"

The machine gun crew immediately began to dismantle the machine gun on the tripod.

The corporal hesitated to speak, and pulled Andreas to start moving ahead, and the two rushed into the fog.

"Damn it, what's going on with this fog?" he cursed as he ran forward.

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"Damn it, what's going on with this fog?" Major General Witte cursed.

Because of the heavy fog, the Plosson Army was in chaos after being attacked in the fog. The staff officers were all crazy, holding the microphone and shouting: "Hey! Speak louder!"

"What was breached?"

"What the hell is that little fog monster? Shoot at it! You can hand over the body to the Imperial Academy of Sciences!"

Major General Witte looked at the busy staff and suddenly said, "My experienced chief of staff is not here at this time because he and my best staff were blown up by friendly forces!"

Colonel Busey, who was also holding the phone, twitched his cheek.

He stood up: "I'll go find out what happened and stabilize the chaotic troops."

"You'd better go," said Major General Witte.

The colonel saluted, turned around, picked up his hat from the table, put it on and walked away.

At this time, the acting chief of staff came to Major General Witte and said, "Let me summarize the current situation. The enemy took advantage of the fog to attack us."

"I know that too! Just listen to the gunfire outside and you'll know!" Major General Witte cursed, "Say it's useful!"

"The enemy used silent weapons, so they have a great advantage in the fog. In addition, the soldiers from Styria said they were attacked by a small fog monster. This seems to be a monster in their folklore."

Major General Witte: "Then shoot it and give the body to the Imperial Academy of Sciences. The Empire will reward the finder."

The acting chief of staff continued, "In addition, the telephone has been unable to contact the outer positions in the southeast and northeast directions of Yeisk. It is speculated that the positions have been lost."

Major General Witte paced back and forth in the room. Suddenly, he said, "Let the armored troops leave the city. They have radios to each other and armor protection, so they can stay calm. After leaving the city, they can form a defensive formation on the grassland outside the city. The armored grenadiers who can be fully organized should also follow the tanks out. Don't leave the half-track on the way out of the city."

Major General Witte paused, then added: "I will go with the armored forces as well. Let the tank platoon assigned to the division headquarters get ready."

Acting Chief of Staff: "Colonel Busey also..."

Major General Witte: "Let him gather the chaotic troops and lead the troops that are not yet in chaos out of this quagmire first!"

(End of this chapter)