Chapter 434: , Heavy fog

But at this time, the military dogs arranged by the British came into play. They barked.
"All units are on guard! All units are on guard! Prepare for anti-infantry directional mines! Prepare your artillery with shotguns!" As soon as Battalion Richard heard the barking of military dogs, he immediately picked up a microphone and shouted After speaking, Colonel Edward Stamford, who was about to leave, also stopped.
"They're here!" Colonel Edward Stamford said as he opened his eyes wide, trying to see the situation behind the fog through the thick fog. Of course, before the thick fog has dissipated, he can vaguely see the distance of 20 or 30 meters ahead.
After the dog bark sounded, the Irish naturally knew that the British had already prepared themselves. But they still spread out in a loose formation, holding the dynamite bag, holding the blasting tube and moving on.
The visibility is only more than 20 meters, and the maximum is 30 meters. A dash can rush up. In this era, there is no such big killer as a machine gun, and only anti-infantry directional mines like shotgun cannons and broadswords can play an alternative role.
The fire density of these two things is of course very sufficient, but the firepower continuity is much worse. If the enemy rushes up to a large group of people at once, then these things are no worse than machine guns. But if there are not many people coming up in the first wave of the enemy, and the second wave comes up immediately after the first round, then the firepower continuity of this configuration is very problematic.
More importantly, the barbed wire is 40 to 50 meters away from the fortress. This is a very suitable distance in normal times. At this distance, rifles, directional mines, and artillery shots all have a good hit rate.
But at this moment, the barbed wire was hidden in the mist, completely invisible.
The British hang a lot of bells on the barbed wire, as long as the bell rings, it means that someone is making the barbed wire. But this design is aimed at night situations. When the movement is heard at night, the searchlight will shine through, and the rifle, artillery shotgun, and directional mine can fire as needed. But at this time, it was shrouded in dense fog, and the searchlight was useless at this time.
The Irishman soon came to the barbed wire. They took out the wire cutters from their backpacks, first carefully removed the bell from the wire mesh, and then used the wire cutters to break the wire mesh and cut out a gap in the wire mesh.
Of course, in this, someone rang the bell.
"Sir? What should I do?" Captain Richard asked.
"Shoot and let the soldiers shoot at the place where the bell rings! But keep the directional mines and artillery right!" Colonel Edward Stamford said.
So the British began to shoot cracklingly. Just because they couldn't see the target, these blind shots did not bring too much obstacle to the soldiers of the Irish Independence Army.
"Jerry, don't worry, the British are just emboldening themselves." A little behind, Matra, the independent platoon leader holding a blaster, whispered to him, holding a handful in his hand. Said the soldier with the bayonet rifle.
"I know, I'm not nervous." The soldier replied, his hand gripping the rifle tightly, his knuckles were a little white because of too much force.
Matra chuckled, did not say anything, but turned his gaze to the expanding barbed wire gap.
"Let the soldiers mount the bayonet." Colonel Edward Stamford said, "the enemy is about to rush up! We will probably fight with the bayonet!"
The order was passed on, and the British soldiers began to mount bayonets and were ready to rush out of the trenches and engage in bayonet battles with the Irish rebels.
"Our bayonet warfare is not comparable to that of the rebels. We must be able to win the bayonet warfare." Colonel Edward Stamford said to his subordinates. But at the same time he scolded the weather in his heart. Because he knew that training was important in bayonet battles, but morale was even more important. Judging from his experience in dealing with the Irish, the training level of the Irish is indeed not as good as the British army, even if it is the "main force" in Ireland; but their morale is surprisingly high, even the bandits. in this way.
If a team has high enough morale, then he can bear greater casualties in hand-to-hand combat. But in hand-to-hand combat, as long as there is no morale collapse of one party and then chased by others, the exchange ratio will not be much bigger anyway. Colonel Edward Stamford is indeed sure that the exchange ratio will prevail in a hand-to-hand battle of considerable numbers. However, there are only a few people here, and there are tens of thousands of people who are traitors! If you lose a lot in a hand-to-hand battle, General Wilson, the commander of the city defense, will definitely find his own trouble...
At this time, some faint figures have appeared in the sight of the British army. These sparse figures rushed towards the British army position, and at the same time threw grenades towards the British army.
The British army fired at these people or threw grenades at them. Many Irish people were knocked to the ground, but because the distance between the two sides was too close, some Irish people still rushed up with explosive packs and blasting tubes. Then, with a loud explosion, some bunkers and the British soldiers in the bunkers flew into the sky in the explosion.
At this time, more figures appeared in the fog!
"Fire, fire! Use directional mines!" Captain Richard shouted.
The artillery placed further back rang, the shotgun knocked some Irishmen to the ground, and some directional thunders rang. But because the wave of explosives and blasting tubes of the Irish in front also destroyed a lot of directional mines, this round of volleys caused considerable losses to the Irish, but it did not stop them from moving forward. Rush. At this time, the British artillery and directional mines were too late to fight the second round.
In fact, even the number of Irish people who rushed in the second round was not particularly large. Just because of the occlusion of thick fog and the influence of nervous mood, British talents will make the illusion that there are many people rushing up this round. But in this round of shelling and directed lightning bombardment, the number of Irish people who died was not as many as the British thought.
"Get bayonet! Counter-attack! The artillery fired at the No. 2 target area!" Colonel Edward Stamford ordered as he watched the Irish who charged up again.
If the Irish were allowed to rush up again and have an explosive package, the loss would be really too great. Therefore, Colonel Edward Stamford decided to immediately counterattack the Irishman with his bayonet.
Now, under the influence of the degenerate French, the originally abundant military ethics of the European army has gradually degenerated, and even things such as fighting the bayonet are beginning to become unbearable.
In the old days of "a bullet is an idiot, a bayonet is a hero", when there is plenty of military virtue, everyone honestly speaks with a bayonet. That's pure man, true man! But now, the rules have been broken by the French. They invented the awkward tactics of mixing bayonet and shotgun during bayonet battles, using the bayonet to control the distance, and then spraying people with spray to make the current fight. The bayonet is also called a bayonet in name, but it has become a bayonet in essence. This is really unbearable for Fira, unbearable for Fira!
Now the whole of Europe, including Britain and Ireland, has been affected by the French's unbearable tactics. Therefore, their bayonet-fighting teams are similar in configuration, basically two rifles with bayonet and one. Move the pump to the shotgun. So there was a thump of shotguns on the battlefield.
At the same time, the British artillery continued to bombard the passages through which the Irish might reinforce them with grenade shells. To say this, completely blind artillery is of course not efficient, but it still caused certain difficulties for the Irish follow-up troops. Therefore, the British reluctantly repelled the Irish rebels by bayonet warfare and kept the first place. Line of defense.
After repelling the Irish's first round of offense, Colonel Edward Stamford saw that the fog gradually dispersed, and then left the front and returned to his regiment. As soon as he entered the regiment headquarters, someone told him: "Regiment commander, General Wilson wants you to go to the headquarters immediately."
Colonel Edward Stamford immediately rushed to the headquarters of General Wilson.
At this time, the other group leaders had also arrived. Seeing that Colonel Edward Stamford was also here, General Wilson said: "Since everyone is here now, let's talk about the situation in our defense."
As a result, except for the Grave regiment as the general reserve team, the other regiments began to introduce their attacks and their current losses. Basically speaking, either the ammunition is huge, or the personnel loss is huge. Individual troops even lost their positions.
"You have noticed ~EbookFREE.me~ because of the influence of the weather, there are now some unexpected conditions." General Wilson said, "It is difficult to say whether the fog will continue to appear tomorrow. If a few days later, In such a ghostly weather, our situation will be very dangerous with today’s casualties and ammunition consumption rate. Do you have any suggestions for this?"
"I suggest that we should immediately report to Dublin and Galway to request reinforcements. Otherwise, if the fog continues to occur, our defense is likely to have serious problems." Colonel Edward Stamford spoke immediately.
"However, the task given to us above is to hold here for at least one month so that domestic reinforcements can arrive, and then..." said another regiment.
"Today, my regiment did not lose its position and killed a lot of rebels, but my regiment alone killed almost seventy people in this morning. In addition, they were injured and at least temporarily lost their combat effectiveness. , There are about a hundred people. If there are a few more times of this kind of fog, my entire regiment will lose its combat effectiveness. I heard the results reported by you just now, and the loss is not smaller than mine. According to me in Ireland for so many years The experience of this season is that heavy fog is common in this season. So it is entirely possible that fog will appear for several days in a row. Once such a situation occurs, it is not impossible to fall. Is it necessary for us to do such a gamble? "
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