Arc of Gunfire

The machine gun platoon leader asked doubtfully: "What's wrong?"

Corporal: "The artillery fire has just been prepared and the barbed wire fence in front of our position has been rolled up. We will not repair it until dawn. If the enemy wants to take advantage of the fog to attack, they will directly cross those obstacles."

Andreas: "This fog attack?"

"What? Do you think the little fog demon will kill the Ant people?" Corporal Kosrek had just finished speaking when he heard the words "A pain" floating in the fog in the distance, followed by a crackling sound.

Then someone shouted: "Taiwan, they killed Hank!"

Then the explosion drowned out the yelling.

Corporal Kosrek opened fire, shouting as he fired: "The little fog monster can't throw bombs! The Ants are coming up!"

The design of this machine gun position is to completely abandon aiming. The machine gunner only needs to fire irregularly and shake the handle at will.

Andreas lay beside the corporal, holding the ammunition belt in his hand.

The MG34 can shoot without the need for a secondary shooter to support the ammunition belt, but the failure rate will be slightly higher.

When the primary shooter dies, the secondary shooter has to fire alone.

Andreas's heart was pounding, as if it would burst out of his throat at the next moment. He was extremely nervous, but the only thing he could do was hold the ammunition belt.

He could see neither the enemy nor the faces of his comrades, only the muzzle of the machine gun was constantly spraying flames.

Corporal Kosrek shouted: "Reload!"

Andreas's body moved on its own, and long-term training made him like an automatic machine. He cooperated seamlessly with the main shooter Kosrek and quickly completed the reload.

The shooting continued, and Andreas felt as if the world had been swallowed by the fog, and all that was left in the world was the island beneath his body.

Suddenly, a grenade was thrown from the fog and fell into the room where the machine gun was.

Andreas was stunned, staring blankly at the grenade and its smoking fuse.

Corporal Kosrek pushed him aside: "Roll!"

Andreas' body moved on its own, rolling away from the grenade.

Corporal Koslake followed suit.

The sound of the explosion was much smaller than Andreas expected, but the debris that kept falling on him proved the power of the grenade.

Ant's stuff is powerful no matter what it is.

Corporal Kosrek immediately returned to the machine gun. As soon as he picked up the handle of the machine gun, an Ant rushed in from the firing port, holding a weapon with a barrel as thick as a water jacket.

Corporal Kosrek opened fire, and the Ant soldier was immediately shot, and his chest was instantly beaten to pieces.

But he glared at the machine gun, and for a moment Andreas thought he was going to keep fighting.

After all, Ant soldier did not continue fighting. He fell backward and blocked the opening of the machine gun with his huge body.

Andreas was about to step forward and push him away, but Corporal Kosrek shouted: "Quickly retreat! One infantryman means there is a second one, and our covering force is finished!"

The corporal picked up the submachine gun, pulled Andreas and started running wildly.

"Machine gun!" the recruit yelled.

"Never mind the machine guns!"

The next moment another grenade was thrown in from the gap next to the body of the Ant soldier.

This time the grenade obviously held in Ant's hand for a while and exploded the moment it came in.

Clouds and fog engulfed Andreas' vision, and he suddenly remembered that it seemed that when the enemy came, there were more than two of them in the machine gun position.

"Where's the platoon leader?" Andreas asked.

"How did I know!" the corporal yelled, "Can you walk on your own? If you can, don't let me drag you. Follow me!"

With that said, the corporal let go of Andreas' arm, held the submachine gun in both hands, and fired into the fog.

The angry curses of the Ant people came from the fog.

Corporal Kosrek rolled to the side and hid behind the low wall to change bullets. At the same time, something hit the place where the corporal had been standing, making a crackling sound.

"No gunfire!" Andreas shouted.

"Hush!" the corporal said as he pulled him to the ground, where the bullets immediately came over him.

Kosrek whispered in a very low voice: "Haven't you noticed yet? The enemy will fire at anything that makes a sound. Their weapons fire without sound or light, so as long as there is gunfire, they are the enemy."

Andreas: "We were supposed to pick up the enemy's weapons just now."

"If you pick it up, you will die. Shut up and follow me. We will also move towards the sound of machine guns. We can find the rest of our platoon."

The corporal had already led Andreas to familiarize himself with the transfer route many times, and had also seen all three backup machine gun positions. Even if the fog was thick now, the two of them could still find the way.

Suddenly, there was a loud noise next to it, and then the sound of something collapsing.

Andreas shrank his neck in fright.

Corporal Kosrek: "The enemy is using explosives to demolish the courtyard wall so that they can bypass the fire blockade on our road. Let's go quickly before the enemy bypasses other machine gun groups!"

After saying that, the corporal jumped into the fog first. Andreas hurried to follow, but tripped over something. When he turned around, he saw the platoon leader lying on the ground, his left shoulder had been smashed - it didn't look like it was The bullet hit, more like some kind of blunt instrument that completely shattered his shoulder.

Andreas suddenly felt out of breath. He breathed heavily, but it felt like he was drowning, and his chest became more and more stuffy.

He suddenly remembered the legend of the little fog monster. This kind of monster would come with the fog and get stuck in people's necks——

Just then someone tapped him on the shoulder.

Andreas screamed strangely, but someone covered his mouth: "You don't want your life!"

It was the corporal, and the corporal dragged him away while silent bullets hit the wall behind Andreas.

After dragging Andreas back, the corporal slapped him in the face and shouted in an angry voice: "Wake up, stupid people will lose their lives!"

Andreas replied subconsciously: "That's how my father beat me."

"Fuck you, follow me, I'm never coming back."

The corporal jumped up like a cat and dove into the fog.

Andreas stumbled to follow, and the burning pain on his cheek made him sober.

The two of them ran like this, and in front of them was the fire of the second machine gun group.

Andreas felt that the fire was like a ship trapped in the fog seeing the light of a lighthouse.

The ship was heading towards the lighthouse when another explosion suddenly occurred next to it. The air wave caught up with Andreas from behind and knocked him to the ground.

Andreas's head was buzzing, but the Ant language coming from behind made him wake up.

He stood up and continued running towards the "lighthouse" ahead.

Relying on his body's muscle memory, he rushed into the bunker and saw that the corporal was already one step ahead.

He collapsed directly next to the corporal, leaning against the wall, gasping for air.

The corporal patted him on the shoulder: "Good, I didn't let the little mist demon catch you."

"I saw the platoon leader," Andreas said. "The platoon leader was dead. His shoulder looked like it had been smashed with a sledgehammer. The collarbone was broken."

Corporal Kosrek: "Then he was lucky. He died directly and it was not particularly painful."

"Lucky?" Andreas, "He's dead!"

"Yes, I'm lucky. If it's unfortunate, my spine will be broken and I can't move at all. I'll just be paralyzed there, watching my life go by. I won't be discovered until the battle is over when the battlefield is being cleaned."

"The pain has not disappeared during this process. The severe pain tortures you, but you can't even twitch your facial muscles."

Andreas shut his mouth.

At this time, he heard a voice speaking in Ant language next to him.

The corporal shouted, "Grenade!"

Before he finished speaking, the grenade was thrown in and landed at the feet of the two of them.

The corporal picked up the grenade, threw it out of the bunker with his backhand, and then said to Andreas: "It's not safe here anymore. The Anters have come around! Let's go!"

He turned to the machine gun team and shouted: "Go quickly! Go to the next position!"

The machine gun crew immediately began to remove the machine gun from the tripod.

The corporal hesitated to speak, and pulled Andreas to start the transfer in advance, and the two rushed into the heavy fog.

"Damn it, what's going on with this fog?" he cursed as he ran forward.

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"Damn it, what's going on with this fog?" Major General Witte cursed.

Because of the heavy fog, the Prosen army that was attacked in the fog was in chaos. The staff officers went crazy and shouted with a microphone: "Hey! Please be louder!"

"Where was the breakthrough?"

"What the hell is the little mist demon? Fire at it! The body can be handed over to the Imperial Academy of Sciences!"

Major General Witte looked at the busy staff and suddenly said: "It just so happens that at this time, my experienced chief of staff is not here because he and my best staff were blown up into the sky by friendly forces!"

Colonel Busey, who was also holding the phone, twitched his cheeks.

He stood up: "I'm going to find out what happened and stabilize the chaotic troops."

"You'd better go," Major General Witte said.

The colonel saluted, turned around, picked up the hat on the table, put it on and left.

At this time, the acting chief of staff came to Major General Witte: "After summarizing the current situation, the enemy took advantage of the heavy fog to surprise us."

"I know this too! Just listen to the gunshots outside!" Major General Witte scolded, "Say it's useful!"

"The enemy used silent weapons, so they had a great advantage in the fog. In addition, the soldiers from Styria said they encountered a small fog demon. This seemed to be a monster in their folklore."

Major General Witte: "Then shoot it and give the body to the Imperial Academy of Sciences. The Empire will reward the discoverer."

The acting chief of staff continued: "In addition, the phone can no longer contact the outer positions in the southeast and northeast of Yeisk. It is speculated that the positions have been lost."

Major General Witte paced back and forth in the room. Suddenly, he said: "Let the armored troops leave the city. They have radios for each other and armor protection, so they can maintain calm. After leaving the city, they can form a defensive formation on the grassland outside the city. They can pull up The fully formed Panzergrenadiers also follow the tanks out, and do not leave the half-tracks on the way out of the city."

Major General Witte paused and then said: "I will also go with the armored troops to prepare the tank platoon attached to the division headquarters."

Acting Chief of Staff: "Colonel Busey also..."

Major General Witte: "Let him collect the chaotic troops, and first take the troops that are not in chaos out of this quagmire!"