Chapter 55 Siege (25)
[trench]
The smoke filled the trench, making people unable to open their eyes.
Tamas covered his mouth and nose with a damp cloth, but every breath still felt a sense of burning.
The enemy launched attacks from multiple directions at the same time, and gunfire and harsh metal sounds came from both the front and the back.
The demon fire cut the long snake-like trench into several pieces, and fighting was taking place in each of the snake's "trunks". In order to fight for one foot, killing each other at an inch.
Tamas led Peter Bunier and other subordinates to advance southward.
The trenches dug by the Unionists were very cramped, as if they were deliberately unable to spread their arms. Both of them had to squeeze them sideways when they passed by, so Tamas blocked the passage tightly.
He held a shield tied with wooden boards and slabs in his left hand, which were removed from ammunition barrels, and slabs were removed from the corpse of the Unionist.
Yes, the Unionists are wearing armor.
When the soldiers of the company swam, most of them only brought their own weapons.
In the trench where it is difficult to turn around, the advantages of "iron-packed meat" are self-evident.
When Tamas thought of this, he felt as uncomfortable as a knife.
This mental pain tormented him more intensely than physical pain.
When he was rushing to the beach, he didn't know what he stepped on with his left foot, and he was cut with a big hole, but he didn't realize it at all.
He didn't notice until Peter Bunier exclaimed.
But his subordinates, those who entrusted his life to him and trusted him without reservation, were bleeding and sacrificing. What was this injury?
So he scolded Peter Bunier, who wanted him to stay behind, but when he saw the aggrieved expression of a company commander, he couldn't help feeling guilty.
Fortunately, these unnecessary emotions only occupied his heart for a short time. When he entered the battle, he immediately threw away all distracting thoughts and led his subordinates to clean up the trench with all his concentration.
Tamas walked in front of the team with a simple shield and a short knife.
Peter Bunier, carrying a bag full of grenades, followed him one step further behind him.
Behind are other warriors.
No one dared to look up and bent down as much as possible, almost to the point where he was squatting and walking.
Because both sides of the left and right were firing at them, there was no safe "back slope" in the trench. Leads were "swooshing" overhead, and some of them fell directly into the trench, hitting the wall, splashing a bunch of earth waves.
To the north, the Unionist cannons were also firing, but they didn't know where they were shooting.
Everyone can only lower their heads and leave everything to luck.
The trench dug by the Union Provincial People will have a corner every twenty steps away.
Depending on the difference in terrain, an additional space will be expanded on the inner or outer side of the corner to store supplies or guard troops.
Tamas knew the arrangement of the UNITED, because the centurion had taught him these things.
Therefore, during the advancement, he would take care of every time he approached the corner at the end of the passage.
When the corner was only one step away, Tamas inserted his short knife into the wall of the passage and asked in a deep voice: "Is there anyone in [Palatu dialect]?"
No one responded in the alcove at the corner.
Tamas stretched out his hand to the company leader behind him without looking back.
Peter Bunier behind him immediately put a heavy, cold goose egg-like iron lump in his hand.
Then, Tamas heard the sound of the scythe struck the flint.
Immediately afterwards, Peter Bunier, who was behind him, slapped him on the back quickly.
Tamas did not hesitate to stuff the iron lumps in his hand into the alcove at the corner.
The two cooperated tacitly and did not require any extra words.
Almost at the same time that Tamas withdrew his hand, the iron lump exploded in the alcove.
The air waves suddenly surged out of the alcove, hitting the corner of the passage, and then pouring to both sides.
The alchemy smoke deposited in the trench was briefly pushed away, and the more suffocating smoke and dust instantly filled the trench.
Tamas pulled his knife from the wall and rushed into the alcove, only finding the body of a broken United Provincial soldier inside.
Tamas didn't know if the other party was blown up after he died or if he died after he was blown up after he died.
Nothing is important. What matters is that the other party was planning to kill him and his subordinates, but now that the other party is dead, he can no longer cause any harm to his people.
Tamas left several soldiers to garrison the alcove and continued to move forward.
Outside the next alcove, when he asked in Paratu dialect, a faint, trance-like voice came from the alcove:
"battalion commander?"
Tamas rushed into the alcove and saw a soldier sitting tilted on the ground leaning against the mud wall of the trench, covering his stomach.
"Gosha!" Tamas directly shouted out the warrior's name, and then squatted down next to the warrior.
Gosha was only fifteen years old and fought in Tamas's squad before the Battle of Blood Mud. His real name was Igor, but everyone loved this child, so they all used their nicknames to him.
However, at this moment, Gosha's face was no longer angry. He leaned his head back hard, staring away from him, and looked at Tamas hard. His lips, which had only a little fluff, fluttered weakly, without any blood.
In Tamas's eyes, Gosha looked much thinner and his face, which had already been slimming, became even sharper.
As he got closer, he realized that a huge hole had been cut open in Gesha's belly, and his intestines slid out between Gesha's palms and fell to the ground.
Peter Bunier, who followed Tamas into the alcove, whispered.
"I thought... it was me... I heard it wrong..." Gosha didn't shed a tear. He was still trying hard to explain to Tamas, "I... I want to stuff it back... but... I can't stuff it in..."
"It's okay," Tamas pierced his heart like an arrow, "I'm here."
"It's so good... I... I thought... I was going to die here alone..." Gosha's throat whimpered, "United Province...United Province...United Province...Go to the south...many people...many people...many people..."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Tamas shook Gosha's hand. He could not deceive Gosha with gentle lies, nor could he face the death of this child.
"Sorry," Tamas whispered, "Gosha."
Gosha could no longer speak, and he shook his head with the last strength.
Tamas handed Gosha to other subordinates, lifted his shield, and walked out of the alcove without looking back.
Infinite anger surged in his heart, tearing his chest and burning his internal organs.
All other thoughts disappeared. He just wanted to hurt the Unionists in the cruelest way, kill the Unionists, and to tear the Unionists into pieces of minced meat... No, even if all the Unionists on the island were torn to pieces, he could not calm his hatred.
The next section of the trench, no one.
In the next section of the trench, there were only three corpses, two of which were from the Union Province and one of Tamas' subordinates.
After another trench, two Union soldiers stayed in the alcove. When they heard the sound of the scythe, they wanted to rush out, but Peter Bunier left the lead very short, so the ponytail grenade exploded halfway, breaking the legs of the two Union soldiers.
Tamas defeated two United Provincial soldiers and continued to clean up south.
The more you go forward, the clearer the shouting sounds, but the back is always quiet.
Tamas gradually realized that the real main attack direction of the United Provincial People was not the landing field, but the fortifications at the southern end of Magit Island.
After understanding this, Tamas led his subordinates to advance south quickly.
After entering the open space at the southern end of Magit Island, the trench is no longer a straightforward one, but is divided into three passages.
Not far away, on the flat river beach, there is a small building that corresponds to the Bishops' Fortress at the northernmost end of Jiangxin Island, which is the core fortification of the United Provincial People's positions at the southernmost end of the island.
At the small fortification, the two sides are at war.
Although the smoke was everywhere, Tamas couldn't see who was attacking and who was defending.
But after discovering the true intentions of the Unionists, he was confident of making a judgment - it was the Unionists who were attacking and the soldiers who landed on the island were defending. The Unionists had just walked the way he walked, so he only found his dying and dead subordinates along the way, because the soldiers who could still move retreated to the small building at the southernmost end.
The gunfire sounded loudly on the high slope, and the United Provincial People's Mine Rope was pouring fire to the subordinates of Tamas in the fortification.
Fires were lit up on the river beach, and the commandos of the United Provincial People were throwing alchemy liquid into small barriers.
Tamas had a strong impulse, and he wanted to rush forward without hesitation and die with the people of the Union.
But he still had more than twenty soldiers around him, and he could not bring these people to death.
Weighing the pros and cons, Tamas did not immediately order the raid.
Chapter completed!