Vault 32

Chapter 214 Dilemma
"Hold on, the artillery support in the base will arrive soon!"

In the communication room inside the No. [-] karst cave, the staff officer of the Marine Corps had an extremely ugly expression on his face. He quickly spoke a few words of comfort into the microphone, and just after hanging up the communication between the two parties, the harsh bell rang again.There was also a bit of anxiety in his eyes, but he gritted his teeth and reached out to pick up the communication microphone again. There was also a hasty report voice coming from it as before, which made the expression between his brows even more gloomy.

Several emergency calls in a row left him almost at a loss. Faced with the intense reporting content and requests for fire support, he had no authority to make any decisions on his own.The staff officer casually gave a few instructions to the five correspondents next to him who had solemn expressions and were still on the emergency call. Then he turned around and quickly walked out of the communication room, went to the central command room next door, and looked at the person lying on the ground. Karl, who still looked solemn at the table and was still studying the military map, couldn't help but report urgently: "The Soviets have launched a full-scale attack on us. The peripheral defense bunkers can no longer achieve fire suppression. We are requesting our artillery support."

Karl was still lying on the huge wooden table, his expressionless face was only solemn and dignified, and the pencil in his hand quickly wrote and drew on the map, marking the battle information that came from time to time, and he also quickly He gave orders to another staff officer next to him, and quickly issued them through the communication in the command room.Although a series of orders were issued, his face still did not improve at all. He turned his head and glanced at the staff officer who was looking at him, and said in a somewhat anxious voice: "Our artillery support frequency has reached the limit, and it is impossible to continue to provide more More fire support!"

"The five blockhouses on the west, north, and south sides are fully attacked by the enemy, and because the enemy's firepower density is strong, the attack formation is scattered, and their attack cannot be defeated quickly!"

And the face of the staff officer was even more ugly, he walked quickly to Karl, his eyes looked at the military map that had been marked with various military symbols, his face was as gloomy as the dark clouds of the Rocky Mountains in winter.He gritted his teeth tightly, opened his mouth or clenched his fists, and quickly reported to Carl: "Six people were killed in the western frontier defense bunker, four people were killed in the southwest bunker and northwest bunker, and one person was killed in the southern bunker. Although we have added troops, But the group of Soviets is about to break through our bunker defensive position, and if we don’t provide effective artillery support, then our western bunker will be abandoned!”

"Even so, we still don't have any more artillery support. All our Marine boys can do now is to grit their teeth and use their bravery to withstand the attack of the Soviets!"

He slapped his palm heavily on the table, and Carl's voice sounded like a roar of a beast driven to a dead end. He raised his head and glanced at the two staff officers in front of him, his bloodshot eyes were filled with extreme depression, but he He also put his eyes on the map in front of him again, and pointed to the three directions of west, south, and north with his fingers, and his voice became slightly hoarse because of his words: "We only have six artillery pieces, facing the entire line of the Soviets. Offensive, the support we can provide is extremely scattered, and we must also focus on taking care of the forward defensive bunker to the west, otherwise we will abandon the bunker that restrained most of the Soviets now, and directly use the No. [-] cave as the front line Battlefield!"

None of them thought that the group of Soviets would go crazy and launch a full-scale offensive directly against their well-defended bunker group.Even if they suffered heavy casualties during the attack, the group of Soviets seemed to be lunatics who were not afraid of death, shouting and holding their weapons, and moved towards the west and south sides again and again in a scattered attack method. Advance in three directions, the north side, and the waves of offensive sequences, like waves, left them no chance to breathe!

A standard infantry regiment has a full 55 elite Soviet infantry.Moreover, they all have quite a lot of actual combat experience, and it is almost no exaggeration to say that they are veterans who have often fought on the battlefield.Especially when they stopped worrying about casualties, they cooperated with each other to advance forward. With the AKM automatic rifle in their hands, heavy machine guns, light machine guns, and T[-] tank guns were supported. They directly advanced to within [-] meters of the defensive bunker. Dangerous distance.

This is not only the group of Soviet elite infantry who are faced with the triple fire suppression of the interior of the defensive bunker, light and heavy machine guns, and M4A1 assault rifles, because relatively speaking, even the marines inside the defensive bunker, every time through When the narrow and long shooting holes manipulated their weapons to shoot outwards, they had to face the firepower of the AKM assault rifles in the hands of the Soviet elites. However, at a distance of [-] meters, the range of firefighting between the two sides was already a close-range firefight, and it was no longer Then rely on heavy machine guns for long-range fire suppression.

Close-range fire training is a tactical action that must be learned during training for any recruit.And for these Soviet elites, it was as simple as daily training.If it wasn't for the still long and narrow shooting holes only a dozen centimeters high, and the fierce combination of light and heavy firepower on the upper and lower floors, it is estimated that the marines in the defensive bunker would have already been defeated by this group of Soviet veterans who have experienced many actual battles. , One by one, the bunker was completely emptied.

But for these Soviet elites, with the intensive firepower of five defensive bunkers, advancing to a distance of less than [-] meters has also reached a limit.Looking at the corpses that appeared almost every meter on the hillside behind them from top to bottom, you can tell what kind of terrifying firepower they encountered during their advance.If it was an ordinary infantry regiment, I am afraid that after so many casualties in a short period of time, they would have already been on the verge of collapse, and they would no longer have the morale to continue fighting.

"Tong Tong Tong Tong Tong Tong Tong Tong -"

The M2 Browning heavy machine gun in the defensive bunker was still breathing muzzle flames, and the dull sound still echoed in this space. A large number of metal bullet casings had already filled the feet of the main shooter, piled up into pieces of empty bullet casings .But on the ground next to it, there are already nearly three spare barrels placed there to cool down, but now the barrel that is still attached to the heavy machine gun has also emitted a slight heat, which shows that it has been following the uninterrupted The shooting became more and more hot.

The expressions on the faces of the Marines inside have changed from excitement to fear now, especially the main shooter who is responsible for controlling the M2 Browning heavy machine gun. He fires towards the outside almost every time. When suppressing, there is a certain despair in his expression.This is the outermost bunker on the west side, and it is also the bunker directly facing Soviet firepower. It is also the place with the highest death rate among many bunkers!

On the third floor of the defensive bunker, where the marines were supposed to rest or escape the onslaught, it had been occupied by six corpses of marines with their faces covered.This fierce exchange of fire also caused huge casualties to them in the defensive bunker, not only the elite Soviet infantry who had approached a hundred meters away, even the rifled guns of the T55 tanks thousands of meters away Is a huge threat that can kill them in an instant.

The T55 tank gun is originally a 100mm rifled gun. Based on tank hit rate and accuracy, today's tank guns are not considered at all. They usually use smoothbore guns with stronger armor-piercing capabilities.In such a complex mountainous environment, high-precision rifled guns pose a huge threat to the defensive bunker. As long as a shell hits the outer wall of the defensive bunker, the violent vibration will cause the M2 Browning heavy machine gun to lose its power. Accurate head, so that the Soviet elite infantry took advantage of this short few seconds to gallop forward a few meters, narrowing the distance between the two sides more and more.

Even when the tank gun's shell directly hit the shooting hole, even though the narrow shooting hole of more than ten centimeters was not enough for the entire shell to penetrate, the terrifying force instantly cracked the concrete in the shooting hole, and the resulting concrete fragments were scattered in the shell. The instantaneous inertia formed by the squeezing was no match for the power of the bullet.The Marines who died in the battle suffered tragedy precisely because they collided head-on with these concrete fragments that instantly collapsed and flew directly through their vital points.

The two Marines at the bottom also drilled out of the connecting tunnel, pushing a scooter with six boxes of heavy machine gun bullets piled on it. They quickly unloaded it and placed it on the pulley hook next to it, and then were Pull up the pulley inside the defensive bunker, quickly open the wooden box with a crowbar, grab the yellow-orange heavy machine gun ammunition chain inside, and come to the M2 Browning heavy machine gun that is still shooting, supplementing the already Nearly exhausted ammunition.

Their ammunition consumption is extremely high. The ammunition consumption of two M2 Browning heavy machine guns and three M249 light machine guns per minute has reached [-] rounds per minute. After all, there are too many Soviets on the periphery. And they are getting closer and closer to their defensive bunker. Once they come to the close range of the defensive bunker, they only need to throw in two grenades, and they must quickly abandon all heavy weapons and retreat to the safe area on the third floor. go.

Because their ammunition consumption speed can no longer keep up with the supply of the cave base in the rear, and the attack density of the Soviets in front of them is also increasing, and the threat they pose is becoming more and more terrifying.Even as time passed, they themselves felt that if there was no more support, the Soviets in front of them would really have to get close to the defensive bunkers, forcing them to evacuate from the third floor. It also completely lost the outermost defensive position of the cave base!
(End of this chapter)