Struggle in Russia

That night, Dmitri realized the danger Li Xiao mentioned. It only took one day for the rebels, who kept digging forward, to reach a position more than 100 meters in front of his position.

This distance is really nothing. Even the most useless soldier holding a gun and sprinting will not take half a minute.

Even those with quick legs and feet could reach them in the blink of an eye. Such a short sprint distance greatly shortened the exposure time. Even if the defenders' artillery fire was powerful, they would not be able to kill the rebels on a large scale.

In fact, after Li Xiao issued the reminder, Dmitry ordered front-line troops and soldiers to focus on attacking the rebel soldiers doing excavations, but with little effect.

At first, the tunnels dug by these inexperienced rebels were not deep enough and the Russian army could still hit them. After paying a certain amount of casualties, they consciously dug deeper without Odonrich's reminder. No one could be seen from the outside, and the Russian rifles basically couldn't hit them.

As for mortars, they can pose a major threat, but only if they can hit the tunnel directly. It's just that the accuracy of the newly formed mortar is really limited, and it is difficult to achieve such an effect.

Even if you get lucky once or twice, it is completely acceptable to the rebels. Isn't it just dragging the corpses away and digging out another batch? For the rebels, it is difficult to find soldiers who can shoot, but there are as many mud-legged soldiers who can dig in the ground. Before the rebellion, they almost all did this. There is no technical difficulty in returning to the old business!

And Odonrich's move really works. They don't have to charge with their lives, and the casualties are visibly reduced. The guys are getting more and more energetic and their fighting spirit is rising!

If it weren't for the fact that the soil was frozen hard in winter and it was difficult to dig, with their morale they would have been able to reach the Russian position in one morning in just one morning.

At this time, the problem turned to Dmitry. He had to find a way to attack the tunnel as soon as possible. Otherwise, if the rebels launched a sneak attack after dark, the night would be busy.

After discovering that neither rifle fire nor mortar bombardment could effectively attack the tunnels, Dmitri also began to think of a solution. He first ordered soldiers with better marksmanship to attack the rebels in the tunnels from a high position.

It worked a little at first, but under the condescending blows of Russian snipers, the rebels were really overwhelmed and fell into passivity.

But before Dmitri could be happy for two seconds, Odonrich ordered his artillery to focus on the commanding heights of the Russian position, and drove away the Russian snipers with fierce artillery fire.

After the Russian snipers subsided, he immediately ordered the excavation work to continue, with a posture of going all the way to darkness.

Dmitry had no choice but to order the sniper to come out again, shoot and change places, but Odonrich also had a way to deal with it. He immediately ordered to dismantle many door panels and then spread a large amount of fine soil and wet them. The quilt was sent to the excavation team and put on their heads. As a result, the Russian snipers were helpless. What could they do if they strengthened their defenses and couldn't penetrate them at all?

What's more, their cannons are not idle either. They fire a few shots at them whenever they get a chance, so that they can't aim and shoot properly, and the efficiency is naturally extremely low.

"Is this okay?"

After witnessing Odonrich's countermeasures, Dmitri was a little dumbfounded, because this crude method really blocked his soldiers. Seeing them calmly working under the protection of the "armored door panels", he was shocked. Is it okay to be angry?

However, Dmitri did not admit defeat. He immediately ordered a counterattack and simply drove away these annoying diggers.

But Li Xiao reminded him with a smile: "Then you must ask the attacking troops to be careful. After all, the enemies on the opposite side also have guns and cannons, and they will not just watch them charge. In addition, even if these diggers can be eliminated, the big deal is Just send another batch after a while, you can't just use counter-charge to solve the problem every time, right?"

In fact, Li Xiao still has something to say, that is, I am afraid that Odonrich will be happier if he does this, because this will be a different offensive and defensive situation, and they will attack Odonrich's defense. No matter what, the defense will take advantage. , you will definitely suffer a loss if you fight like this!

Dmitri frowned. He also discovered this problem. If he wanted to ensure that the opponent would not continue to dig tunnels, he could only order counterattack troops to occupy these tunnels and hold them. But isn’t this nonsense!

If we don't hold the tunnel, then Odonrich will send people over to resume his old business after a while. So what's the point of counterattack?

Dmitri's head hurt. It was the first time he discovered that such a useless tactic could be such a headache when used well. This Odonrich was like a toad, just lying there without doing anything. They're all disgusting!

But he couldn't ignore the desperate digging, so he had no choice but to order a countercharge to see how Odonrich would respond.

The first wave of counterattacks really caught Odonrich off guard. The Russian army eliminated the diggers without paying too many casualties, but Odonrich immediately got stuck in like an invincible little strongman.

Sure enough, they organized new diggers in minutes, and this time the diggers were followed by soldiers with guns and live ammunition. They were obviously ready for a good encounter with the Russian counterattack troops.

What else can Dmitry do? Just keep fighting. However, this time the counterattack troops suffered heavy losses. On one side, the rebel diggers no longer only had shovels and shovels in their hands. On the other side, Odonrich also strengthened provided fire support.

But as soon as Dmitri's troops rushed out of the trenches and the rebel positions, fierce gunfire broke out. Bullets and artillery shells were greeted as if they were free. By the time they rushed in front of the diggers, more than half of them were dead or injured.

In the end, the diggers and the rebel soldiers behind the diggers joined forces to fight several times, and almost all of the counterattack troops were killed.

Now Dmitri also knew that he was in trouble. There was no point in continuing to rush out and give away people's heads in vain. Could he just watch others poach him?

He turned to Li Xiao: "You must have a way, right?"

Li Xiao shrugged his shoulders and said: "Sorry, there is really no good way. Facing this kind of play, the brave can only win in a narrow road, otherwise you must have sufficient direct firepower to suppress the excavation work. But I think the latter is of little significance. That’s it…”

Indeed, as long as Odonrich is determined to dig over, he will simply turn to underground operations if digging trenches on the surface fails. At worst, it will be the same as digging an underground passage to kill him. It will just waste a little time.

As for him, he really doesn't worry about time. He doesn't have much else, but he has enough time, so he can spend it slowly with the Russian army...