This was Jon Warren's first battle and the first time he fought such a fierce battle. The machine gun point on the left front of their defense line almost stopped except when the air was stored. The sound of the machine gun was like fried beans, stabilizing the morale of the Elena soldiers. The enemy's steam cannons were much lower and thick. After destroying the iron shield chest wall defense line behind Jon Warren, the shells they shot began to turn to those machine gun fire points. Even smoothbore cannons, under the dense enemy's shells, some shells would always hit the target. Therefore, although the progress was very slow, the enemy was indeed destroying Elena's machine gun fire points.

"vomit--"

Jon Warren's subordinate, the soldier named Hande Warren, was retching. Next to him was a corpse that had been smashed by a shell that had been smashed to pieces. Blood, internal organs and meat were sprayed everywhere. Even Jon Warren's body had a lot of face. Hande, who was closer to the soldier, was covered in red meat. Has this young man ever seen such a scene, and how could he be mentally prepared to deal with such a cruel war? After the person next to him was broken by the shell, he was stunned for two seconds and began to vomit violently. For him, this seemed to be his only way to deal with the corpse.

"Continue shooting! Keep shooting! Don't stop!!!"

Jon Warren tried to command, but found that his voice was difficult to reach far. Many soldiers who had previously been responsible for defending the iron shield defense line were squeezed into the trench, which was not enough to get out of their feet. Many soldiers could not even find space to load guns. At the same time, the soldiers who were originally responsible for guarding the trench were still firing intermittently in order of odd and even numbers. Those who fired, loaded bullets, tried to move forward and backward, and those who were killed by the enemy from time to time, were in chaos in the trench.

"The whole team! The whole team!! The fuck it for me!!!"

Jon Warren didn't know much about the overall situation of this battle. However, he had a intuition that the situation in the trench could never continue like this, otherwise there would be problems. Jon Warren, who had always had a very good temper, rarely lost his temper, and his company began to gradually restore order because of his orders. As the grassroots commanders of other troops began to increase efforts to maintain order, the soldiers who later joined the trench gradually calmed down.

"Line up and shoot at intervals! Follow the drums in command, don't shoot randomly!"

Jon issued a new order. Although the soldiers were a little dissatisfied with the man's inexplicable anger, they gradually began to follow the orders. For a moment, the bullets fired from the trench became much more neat. Just as Jon Warren breathed a sigh of relief, he was disrupted by a shell that shot again. The shell smashed the two soldiers standing together when everyone was not paying attention, rolled on the ground of the trench twice, and stopped. The soldiers who had just calmed down became panic again. Jon Warren continued to shout at the top of his throat, finally comforting everyone again, but the sound of cannons came from the front position.

And this time, almost all the soldiers, including Jon Warren, retracted themselves back into the trench. After the sound of guns, they poked their heads out and continued to shoot. In front of them, the enemy's infantry phalanx was still advancing according to the rhythm of guns.

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"Commander, the enemy's defense line is stronger than we imagined. The 19th Army, which was responsible for the main attack, suffered a lot of casualties. Four regiments have been destroyed in an organized manner. More than twenty infantry phalanxes have been sent, but the progress is still not obvious."

At the command of the Negro Republic Army, Stefan Schgwa, chief of staff of the Eastern Front Command, was reporting progress to Taiga Bush.

"Thinking about the setbacks the Western Military Region encountered here, it's already good that we can beat this way." Tai's Bush was not shocked by the casualties. "How is the steam cannon, how broken?"

"So far, there have been three blown up in total, and we still have forty-two cannons to be used. Because of the terrain of Luoshan Road Intersection, these cannons are still effective in such a small area."

"Can the enemy's machine gun position be destroyed?"

"Yes", speaking of this, Stefan Schgwa clearly felt energetic. "The direct bombardment effect of using cannons is good. Although the accuracy of the shells is limited, all the enemy soldiers are in the trench, so we can only shoot in the trench. From the beginning to now, we have successfully destroyed the two enemy machine gun points."

"Only two?" The Tai family frowned. Before he decided to attack Elena, he was surprised by the energy of this small land and conducted in-depth research. He even carefully read Gastens's articles on guerrilla warfare written by Gastens in "Fluorite" to figure out Gastens's thoughts. It is precisely because of this that he was able to cross the sky and use the broken steam cannon to drag all the elite troops of Gastens outside. Now the soldiers and generals who defend Elena are newcomers, which is much worse than the well-trained soldiers under his command. Therefore, the Tai family has always believed that themselves and their soldiers can win this battle against Elena.

"Well, thick mounds of soil have been built in front and side of the enemy's machine gun points, and it is difficult for our shells to hit directly. If they occasionally hit, they may not hit the target. So far, what we can confirm is that the information returned by the front-line soldiers has indeed destroyed only two machine gun points."

"Just two places, pass my orders and continue attacking. Today's mission is to destroy half of the enemy's machine gun points. If you don't meet the mission, you will never stop!"

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"The situation is not good now." On the command tower of Elena, Caribbean Warren and Garron Warren were not very good. "The enemy's steam cannons are too deterrent. Now the soldiers in the trench fired guns and were afraid of being hit. This affected our shooting density to a certain extent. Moreover, the enemy's steam cannons are still continuing to destroy our machine gun points. Five of our machine gun points have been destroyed. Machine guns are the key to our current position defense war. If we give up the machine gun, this battle will be even more difficult."

"Can we destroy the enemy's steam cannon?" Daisy asked tentatively. She knew that she did not understand military affairs and would not take the initiative to make suggestions when necessary. However, according to the rules of procedure of the Communist Party, as a party member, she has the obligation and responsibility to put forward her own ideas in this battle that concerns Ailena's life and death.

"You can try it," Kareib's tone was not very certain. "I remember when the first time the Republic of Negru used steam cannons, the Western Theater Command used a combat unit composed of our Brave Rifles. The combat unit seemed to have successfully broken through the enemy's protection and seized and destroyed Negru's steam cannons."

"But our advanced weapons forces were taken out by Gastens..."

Garron Warren knew the cards in his hand, "The first and second militia divisions we can mobilize now are because of the relatively complex members and the limited production capacity of the factory. They are still using the Elliott rifles and Honor rifles that we had previously accumulated. This weapon must be used in conjunction with the platoon tactics. In the current battlefield environment, it is impossible for us to leave the trenches and form a formation to fight back with the enemy's attack. Moreover, the enemy's steam cannons are a killer weapon for the queuing and shooting formations. Even if we successfully arrange the array, it will be difficult for us to break through the enemy's defense several times that of our defense."

"Then I can only fight like this?" Daisy walked to the command tower and looked at the battle situation ahead. The enemy's phalanx seemed endless. One was destroyed by a machine gun, and another one came out. They advanced tenaciously, and slowly and firmly approached Elena's trench defense line.

"There is no better way at the moment. Any way to get out of the trench will lead to more, bigger, casualties that we can't afford." Carriber Warren walked to Daisy and looked at the battlefield ahead together, "This is war, without sacrifice, there is no victory."

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The attack of the Tai family troops lasted for more than four hours. From morning to noon, the two sides lost more than 10,000 bodies in the small area of ​​Luoshan Road intersection. Most of them were from the Republic of Niglu, but many were wearing Elena's gray military uniform.

Judging from the results of the battle, the Tai family's troops lost five steam cannons, destroyed 10 machine gun firepower points of Ailena, and destroyed the enemy's iron shield chest wall defense line. As for Ailena, they withstood the pressure from the enemy and guarded the defense line at the Luoshan intersection at a heavy price.

Jon Warren sat down on the edge of the trench with his own sausage, drooping his legs in the trench, looking at the battlefield ahead. The afternoon sun shone on the land full of corpses, dyeing everything, whether it was blood, flesh, weapons or armor, with a layer of gold.

After a morning of roaring guns, the Luoshan Road intersection was particularly quiet after the truce.

"Head", a familiar voice sounded beside Jon, which was Hande Warren, a young man who had been on the battlefield for the first time. He was chewing the sausage in his mouth and sat next to Jon Warren.

"Boss, do you think our battle has been won today?"

"Of course, Jon didn't think about it, "What is our mission? Have we kept the intersection of Luoshan Mountain? Keep it. This is the winner. Even if the enemy has steam cannons, it will not be helpless to us?"

"But, seven people died in the company." Hande Warren swallowed the meat sausage in a few mouthfuls. "If we continue to fight at this speed, we will have no soldiers to use it within ten days."

"You're still worried a lot." Jon Warren was amused by Hande's thoughts. He thought about it and answered the question.

"You forgot what we are? Militia, militia. Ailena is not short of people now. But I heard that the Third Militia Division has begun to recruit troops, and the leader and Daisy will not let us have no soldiers."

"That's good," Hande bit two bites of the earthen potato and asked again, "The enemy's steam cannon seems to be very useful. What does the head say? Is this weapon really not easy to use?"

"The head said that steam cannons are not the direction of weapons development..."

Jon tried hard to recall what he heard from a third party and said, but could not imagine what the development direction of the weapon should be. If this could suppress the steam cannon that Elena fired was not the development direction of the weapon, then what would be the development direction of the weapon?

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Two hours later, the Republic of Neglu launched another attack. The defenders of Elena resisted tightly. Perhaps with the experience in the morning, the accuracy of the gunners operating the steam cannons in the afternoon was improved, and 11 steam guns on the defense line of Elena were destroyed. The enemy's steam cannons also exploded 6 pieces due to excessive use and unqualified quality. The two sides seemed to have little difference in combat losses of key weapons. However, the army of the Republic of Neglu came from afar, and the defenders of Gastens relied on factories. At this rate, the Republic of Neglu would lose all its own steam cannons first.

"Don't worry about this." At the night meeting after a day of battle, the Tai family calmed down the morale of the army. Although the daytime battle had achieved certain success, the price was not small. Nearly 10,000 soldiers from the Republic of Niglu were buried in this land. Their sacrifice was only a trivial advantage at the tactical level. "The new steam cannons behind us have been set off for half a month and should arrive soon. When those steam cannons arrived, we had sufficient weapons to attack. Moreover, according to the people of the institute, there were more firecrackers in the early stage because many firecrackers had no experience in the production process. The steam cannons produced now have improved, and the number of firecrackers will become smaller and smaller."

"If we can get fewer and fewer, our chances of victory are still quite high," said Levi Slattery, the commander of the 19th Army, who is responsible for the main attack today, and "the enemy has no way to take our cannons. If they want to break through or seize, they must rush to the death. Moreover, the intelligence shows that the enemy's advanced weapons army, which was led out by Gastenth to attack our 17th and 18th Army, are still dragged behind and cannot come back. The opposite side is responsible for the defense of two newly-organized militia divisions, using the same front-mounted steam rifles as ours. In terms of weapon level, we are not much different. Our numbers have a huge advantage. As long as we continue to fight at this speed today, we will definitely win!"

"Don't underestimate the enemy." Tai'e Bush held his chin with one hand, and his face was not relaxed. "Don't underestimate Gastenth. Although his power is weak, this person has always been a man who can create miracles and must not give him a chance to turn over. Tell John Clemonds and Alan Cavallo that they will drag Gastenth and his troops out of Elena at all costs!"

"clear!"

Chief of Staff Stefan Schgva nodded and turned around to issue orders. Tai'e Bush looked at the sand table in front of him and fell silent again.
Chapter completed!