Alien Arms Empire

Chapter 1859 1860 crawling forward

Broken bricks and tiles filled the original streets, broken steel bars pierced through the cement slabs like the fangs of beasts, and the air was filled with choking smoke and dust.

Several Lions soldiers were crawling forward in the ruins. They held their weapons tightly and buried their heads deep in the rubble, fearing that they would become victims of the horrific legend if they were not careful.

The legendary Tang Dynasty sniper was like a ghost, wandering in the ruins, harvesting every soul that dared to be exposed. No one knows where he is hiding, and no one has seen his true appearance. They only know that everyone who looks at him has already gone to see the God of Death.

Fear spread like a plague among the soldiers. They did not even dare to breathe loudly and could only communicate with gestures and eyes. Their mission was to support the building next to the barricade, which had all its windows blown out and its walls riddled with holes.

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

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

Climbing forward with a rifle 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 ammunition... Every move is not easy.

Originally, specialized personnel should be responsible for such supplies, but the Tang Army's blockade was too strict, and the supply personnel simply could not carry a large amount of ammunition to a position so close to the front line.

There was no way, the losses were too much, so we could only rely on the reinforcements on the front lines to carry the troops on their shoulders for transport. As for the quantity, it was really pitiful.

In fact, in most cases, a soldier who supports the front line can only carry one more person besides the ammunition he carries. If the limit is a little higher, maybe you can bring a little more.

For example, now, each of them carries two or three more grenades, which is the limit of what they can carry on their backs.

The good news is that among the bullets they carry, there are actually not many rifle bullets. Most of them are handgun bullets that are most commonly used in street fighting. Of course, these bullets are not prepared for pistols, but for the increasing number of submachine gunners on the front line.

In close combat situations, submachine guns are still very effective weapons. While no match for assault rifles in extreme situations, they are cheaper and less sophisticated, making them one of the most popular weapons for infantrymen.

Of course, such weapons are generally not issued to recruits, because when recruits are nervous, they will often hold the trigger and not let go, and they will soon run out of bullets in the magazine. Therefore, in order not to waste ammunition, submachine guns are given priority to experienced veterans.

It's just that... on the cruel battlefield, it's really hard to say how much combat experience the veterans of the coalition forces have. Although some veterans had participated in several battles, they had only seen the overwhelming artillery fire of the Tang army, as well as some strange murderous weapons.

As for the experience of confronting Tang Army soldiers face to face... in fact, all coalition soldiers are pitiful. Even if a close combat broke out between the two sides, the Tang army would quickly resolve it with rifle grenades and snipers, without giving the coalition soldiers a chance to fight back.

In fact, in close combat, the bulletproof inserts equipped by the Tang Army also greatly reduced the power of submachine guns. 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 battle-hardened veteran. He had only been in the army for less than half a year.

During the past six months, most of the time he just served in a new military camp, and then was transferred to another military camp for training... In short, it seemed that he was more like an actor who was just trying to make ends meet.

That's right, it's an actor. In fact many soldiers like him had similar energy. After serving in a unit for about two or three months, the main force of the unit is transferred away, and the remaining people are assigned to other new units to continue completing training.

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

The problem is that they themselves know what kind of virtue they are. They don't even participate in serious shooting training because of the shortage of supplies, let alone compare with their predecessors who have been sent to the front line to fight long ago.

In fact, the combat effectiveness of all coalition forces is declining, and the total strength of all organized forces has also dropped 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 has three or even four battalions. But as the war continued to progress, these coalition forces generally began to reduce their numbers to maintain their organizational numbers.

Some of the newly formed troops even had only two battalions per regiment, and one battalion even had only 400 men. Some troops still maintain the organization of three battalions, but each battalion only has 300 people.

In short, they are just playing some word games, changing an infantry division with three regiments into two regiments and an independent battalion, or changing a corps with three divisions into two divisions and two group…

In the end, an infantry division that was supposed to have more than 10,000 troops actually had only 8,000 or even only 5,000 to 6,000 troops. Only God knows how much combat effectiveness such a force can have.

In fact, there is some truth to such downsizing, because there are practical difficulties in strictly preserving the establishment: as the war continues, the production of heavy weapons by the coalition forces has obviously been unable to keep up with the rate of consumption.

Previously, the five empires in the entire Eastern Continent united, and they could compete with the Tang Empire in terms of energy and resources. But now, after losing the Ice Empire, Poplar Empire, and Susas Empire in succession, the coalition forces only have "half of the country" left.

Under such a premise, the production capacity of heavy weapons and equipment such as artillery, tanks, armored vehicles, and anti-aircraft guns has been severely insufficient, and the replenishment rate has also dropped to an appalling level.

Without these heavy weapons and equipment, it would be a bit ridiculous for the army to continue to maintain a similar organization. You can't let a army maintain an anti-tank gun company in vain, but end up not equipped with an anti-tank gun, right?

(End of chapter)