At 3 AM, most people would easily start falling asleep. However, Zhang Xiaoman did not think the enemy would be sleeping at this time. It was easier to breach the enemy's machine gun positions under the cover of night.
Zhang Xiaoman quietly led the Razor Sharp Company forward. They could not rashly approach Shichuan Village because there were sure to be machine guns waiting in the windows.
The effective range of heavy machine guns tended to usually be between 1,000 and 2,000 meters. Some machine guns could even reach a range of 3,000 meters or 5,000 meters. However, once the range exceeded 500 meters, most shots from a machine gun would lose accuracy. Whether or not they could hit someone purely depended on luck.
Meanwhile, Zhang Xiaoman had set up some mortar positions 2.9 kilometers away from Shichuan Village, the maximum range at which they were effective. He was planning to destroy the buildings on the periphery of the village first.
