With the arrival of darkness, the gunshots on the battlefield became much thinner.

The night of the enemy and me was unable to distinguish the enemy and me gave the two sides a short rest. During the day, the bloody battle between you and me was actually exhausted. The battlefield suddenly became fierce when dusk was approaching, but the exhausted soldiers vented their last wave of madness before dark.

Not only the soldiers of the Kingdom suffered the pain of losing their comrades, but the Black Hawk Empire were the same. They also found it difficult for them to accept the return of the country with their comrades hanging around their necks.

But as night fell, the faces of the enemy on the other side became blurry until they disappeared, and the combat motivation, which had been supporting hatred and anger, was slowly disappearing. The commanders of both sides had a tacit understanding and each sent out signal flares, allowing the soldiers to retreat to the area they were completely controlled by.

Apart from unwilling to give in, he used an hour-long bombardment of 75-caliber mountain cannons hundreds of meters outside his control area to express his depression, the Black Hawk Army did not make any big moves. It seemed that he knew that it was just futile.

The heavy artillery above 100 caliber is just the ears of a deaf person for the current staggered battlefield - it is a decoration. The bounce error of more than 300 meters can send both parties to the sky at the same time, unless the commander of the Black Hawk Army has enough courage to evacuate all of them and fight a block that was occupied during the day.

But that was as cruel as Ding Beiwei was unwilling to do it. During the whole day, he paid half of the casualties of the infantry corps in the east and south to occupy such a small area. Does it mean that he would spend so many casualties and injuries to take them back again? Can the Sixth Division withstand such several tosses?

However, the Black Hawks did not rest much in the first half of the night, but instead busy laying barbed wire and barricades in the blocks they controlled. Last night, the kingdoms gathered a short-range firearm, which was far beyond their imagination. Their heart-wrenching lessons were not far away.

People cannot fall in the same place, and the commander of the Black Hawk Army is not so stupid.

The kingdom defenders did not make any major moves. The chief officers of the infantry companies in each defense zone took advantage of the night to take advantage of the temporary quit between the two sides, not to know how many people have died, but to know how many people are still alive or how many people can still fight.

After most of the bloody and cruel battles during the day, when death becomes a normal state and living becomes a luxury, everyone understands that sadness can no longer save themselves, and the only one who can save themselves is still alive comrades.

As long as you are still alive, you can shoot bullets at the enemy, even if it is just one!

The infantry commanders looked at the casualties summoned to him with dark faces, and almost all gritted their teeth and clenched their fists.

The casualties were too great, far beyond their imagination.

I thought that I was more familiar with this city than the Black Hawk Army, and I had prepared various firepower points in advance, and there was an underground tunnel that the Black Hawk Army did not know as an auxiliary, which could not only transport materials and troops, but also carry out troops that the Black Hawk Army could not imagine. I think it would take a lot of advantage in this battle that weakened the Black Hawk Army's heavy firepower to the extreme!

However, the bloody battle of more than seven hours actually reduced the number of troops by more than one-third, and later, the number of victims far exceeded that of the wounded. As the battle progressed, the battlefields of both sides were already intertwined. You were me and I was you, and stretcher soldiers could not enter the battlefield at all. Many seriously injured had no chance to wait for treatment and swallowed their last breath in the ruins. The light wounded did not fail to take off the line of fire according to the combat regulations, but the situation on the battlefield forced everyone to continue fighting, even if there was only one arm left, as long as he could still shoot until he died in the battle.

In fact, the number of infantry company commanders who had the opportunity to summarize the battle reports to their battalion commanders was only half of the number before the war. Many were represented by deputy company commanders or platoon commanders, and some infantry companies were even the third acting company commanders.

As the grassroots commanders, they are not qualified to sit in the rear to play platoons and formations. They not only have to force the infantry squad or the infantry platoon to conduct an almost "meaningless" attributable war with the Black Hawk Imperial Army around a building. A five-man team will kill one infantry squad, and an infantry squad will not work, and they will also have to lead the way with submachine guns or pistols to fight on the front line.

The general is the courage of the soldiers. The morale of the front-line soldiers often depends on the grassroots commander. If they are cowardly, they will be cowardly. If they are brave, they will be fearless.

This is helpless, but it is a fact that commanders at all levels cannot change. Many battlefield defeats are often not because the battalion commander takes the lead in running away, but starts from the company commander.

The same is true for the Black Hawk Army. An infantry squadron commander is exhausted, which often leads to a squadron losing all courage. Therefore, the Black Hawk Army has very high requirements for officers of this level and is very strict. At the least, it can make you punish meritoriously, and at the worst, it can be ordered to cut off your caesarean section and apologize to the emperor. This is also one of the reasons why the Black Hawk Army's squadron commander is hard and hard. Even if you stay on the battlefield and die in battle, it is much stronger than going back to scratch your diarrhea with a knife, right? That hurts so much! Usually, you have to have an intestine flow all over the ground, and you will be finished after hours. If you have a strong vitality, you can even last for two or three hours.

For such an extremely cruel battlefield, human nerves are like strings that are stretched by a piano. When the pressure exceeds the pressure value it bears, there will always be a day when it is broken. The kingdom army on the battlefield not only makes mistakes continuously, causing the losses to increase, but also can't resist the fierce offensive of the Black Hawk Army and the defenders withdraw from their positions in a panic.

Xie Yunsheng, who left the command center and went to the front line to supervise the battle, was carrying a pistol in the afternoon to recuse him, a lieutenant company commander who retreated from the front line with only 40 remaining soldiers.

The lieutenant company commander with an arm hanging on his head was crying bitterly. The reason why he retreated was not to save his life, but to suffer too much loss.

In the block defended by the infantry company he led, the Black Hawk Army actually gathered an infantry squadron, three tanks, two infantry artillery and a 37mm rapid-fire cannon. In 3 hours, a 130-person infantry company he had just completed before the war, but in the end he could not even get a single infantry platoon. If he continued to fight, the entire company would have to explain where it would be.

But in Xie Yunsheng's opinion, this is not the reason why the infantry company lost its position before receiving the retreat order. From the perspective of him, the highest commander on the front line, if everyone can voluntarily evacuate the position due to heavy losses from their troops, then he, the regiment commander, can also withdraw to the division headquarters and military headquarters. After two or three days of bloody battle with the Black Hawk Army, his 48th Regiment with a total of more than 1,500 people has been replenished twice, and his troops are still sharply reduced to less than 1,000.

The will of a more solid steel is the time when the battle is in a stalemate. The soldiers on both sides need the most from commanders to soldiers. Soldiers need to face death tenaciously. Even if the comrades beside them fall one by one, they must stick to their own battle positions and shoot bullets in their gun chambers at the enemy, and even if they fall next second, they will fall next to the fallen comrades. The commander may be under greater psychological pressure. What he sees is not the death of one soldier after another, but hundreds, and he still needs to harden his heart to send teams of soldiers to the battlefield to welcome death.

No one dared to plead for the crying infantry company commander. Losing his position without retreat orders is a death sentence on the battlefield. Fortunately, the infantry company commander was smart enough.

"The commander of the regiment, I know that it is a death sentence for not having a withdrawal order, but I ask the regiment commander not to waste bullets. Even if I want to die, I should die on the battlefield and consume the ammunition of the Black Hawk Empire. I ask the commander to give him the military for many years and give him another chance." The lieutenant infantry company commander used the arm that could only use force to hold Xie Yunsheng's pistol, begging him to talk about the last conversation he had with Xie Yunsheng in his life.

Speaking, he turned around and left, and returned to the battlefield with more than 40 remaining soldiers he had just brought back from the battlefield. The infantry company recaptured the block with reinforcements from another infantry company and five mortars. When night fell, there were only 8 remaining people in the infantry company, and the highest rank was the deputy squad leader of the sergeant.

The infantry company, from the lieutenant company commander to the lieutenant platoon leader and then to the sergeant squad leader, all died in the line of duty, becoming the most severe infantry company in the entire 48th Regiment during this day.

Almost no one noticed Xie Yunsheng holding a pistol and staring at the lieutenant's infantry company commander's figure, with tears flashing quietly in his eyes.

That was his clan brother. When he wanted to execute him on the spot with military law, he did not call out the clan brother. A clan brother who was asked by his father to take good care of him was driven to the battlefield by him with a gun. Moreover, Xie Yunsheng knew that he could not come back alive, and only life could wash away the shame of his retreat without military orders.

The defenders of the 43rd Army participated in this battle undoubtedly made various mistakes on the battlefield, but because of the firm will of commanders at all levels, the morale of the soldiers was extremely high, even if more than one-third of their comrades fell in the ruins during this day.

Even at night, the kingdom soldiers hidden in the darkness in the block reached one-quarter of the force, and the rest of them were basically retreated to underground tunnels for repair.

Fighting is a long process, and it is actually not a good idea to keep soldiers sleeplessly on the battlefield.
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