In the combat command room in Uzunkprü, Kemal walked restlessly going back and forth. His right wing had two crises under the fierce attack of the other side. Fortunately, Ollie left a combatable aircraft to support the right wing. However, the pressure on my side is not small. Although the opponent's attack on the frontal field position of Uzunkpulu in the morning was repelled, the fortifications there were already choking, and the minefields and barbed wire fences were basically cleared by the opponent. Even the trenches were filled in several sections, and he was about to let the troops retreat into the city for defense. The city of Uzunkpulu has a population of about 200,000. The urban area is large, with houses and streets criss-crossed. It is very suitable for street fighting. Kemal began to let the troops build three barricades in the city two days ago.
The unfavorable left-wing offensive irritated Marshal Carter, the commander-in-chief of the Turkish government forces, but he expected that another offensive from his side would be able to take down the ground outside the city that had been ravaged by artillery fire. Although he is also a fanatical supporter of this single-wing oppressive tactic, he proposed a direct full-scale attack from the beginning when the strength of the enemy and ours is very different. It is just that Tate Wanshuai and several other staff members insisted on using the Ankara victory. He did not strongly object to the successful tactics. Now he felt that it was totally unnecessary. Once he succeeded in breaking through the mid lane, his opponent would only be defeated even if he did not surrender.
"Staff, inform the artillery to carry out another ten minutes of shelling, and then the cavalry will charge first!" After Marshal Carter gave the order, he raised his binoculars and looked at the distant position, where the trenches and trenches could no longer stop the impact of his cavalry.
"Tell Tate Wanshuai that we are about to break through the line of defense and rush into the city. It doesn't matter if he can't move forward. We will meet him in the city!"
A quarter of an hour later, Carter saw his cavalry rush through the empty defensive position, and rushed directly into the city under the leadership of the cavalry commander, but after that, the cavalry seemed to disappear, even one horse. The horse never appeared again.
"The infantry should not enter the city for the time being. The artillery position moved forward half a mile and bombarded the city!" Carter had already guessed the fate of the cavalry unit in his heart, so he ordered the infantry to march into the city after the artillery.
At this time, the city of Uzunkpru was quiet, and on the east side streets were thousands of Turkish cavalry and their horses, and only a few unowned horses stood quietly by the roadside.
Sergeant Michael Rudra sits under an east-facing window on the third floor of a house, wiping his baby rifle, which is an improved Mauser 1898 rifle, caliber 7.92 mm, gun length 1.255 meters, gun weight 4.08 kg, the magazine can hold 5 rounds, and a 4x scope is added. He is a soldier belonging to the sniper force of the East Prussian Regiment of the German Empire. A month ago he and 19 other companions were sent to Turkey. Now 20 snipers including him have been scattered to Uzunkpullu Everywhere in the city.
He hadn't fired a shot in the hunt for the Turkish cavalry just now. Those people were completely exposed on the street, and the fire spots on both sides of the window and roof easily tore them to pieces. For him, only those valuable goals are attractive. When the cannons outside the city sounded, Rudra left the east-facing room like the other soldiers in the city. He found a bed in the room west of the house and went to sleep under the bed.
Half an hour later, the sound of the artillery ceased, and Rudra suddenly opened his eyes in his sleep, instantly transformed into a messenger of hell, and began to stalk the lives of the people he saw. Half of the wall of the east-facing room was ripped apart by cannonballs, but the ruin-like scene suits his appetite. He took out his rifle and observed the situation in the distance with a scope. Turkish government soldiers were entering the city, so he put it down. The rifle took a small sip from the water bottle, then pulled the gun to look at the bullets in the magazine. There were 5 full rounds, which meant that 5 Turks' lives would go with them.
When Rudra raised the rifle again, the government soldiers had already come to the street where the cavalry had been slaughtered just now. They seemed to be stunned and afraid to advance. Suddenly a lieutenant officer said something loudly, and the soldiers around him started Disperse to both sides of the street.
"Well, it's you!" Rudra's lips moved lightly, and a hole suddenly appeared on the forehead of the officer in the scope, and then he fell straight back.
As the soldiers on the street were looking around, many black-hole muzzles appeared from the windows facing the street, and the sound of machine guns and rifles firing instantly filled the city. Government soldiers who had no concealment on the street were shot and fell. The remaining soldiers followed their usual style of retreating quickly and quickly retreated a few blocks away.
Rudra looked at the situation on the street from the sight. Within a few minutes, blood had already flooded the street, and the wounded soldier was lying on the ground convulsing painfully. Such a bloody scene made him lose his appetite for dinner tomorrow. Just now he had nothing to gain except for hitting the lieutenant officer with one shot. The other two Maxims and more than 30 rifles on this street did not leave him any chance. He began to search farther away. The range of this sniper rifle allowed him to reach targets two blocks away, but the longer the distance, the lower the hit rate.
The government soldiers in the street in the distance were searching house by house, but Kemal's troops seemed to start the defense from this street, and the block behind this block was their first road. Barricade. In the next few minutes, Rudra hit a signal soldier and a hapless second lieutenant officer on the other side of the street. The signal soldier was killed on the spot, and the second lieutenant seemed to have better luck. Carrying him away, it seems that he might be able to find a small life.
Rudra put away his rifle, leaned against the corner and closed his eyes and rested for a while. From time to time there were fierce gunshots in the distance. It seemed that the government soldiers on that street had suffered.
Boom! There was an explosion not far away, and Rudra was about to hide in the room just now, but he didn't seem to hear the sound of the shells passing through the air just now. So he carefully observed the situation outside. A house not far in front was emitting black smoke, but it seemed that it was not caused by the large-caliber artillery shells.
Boom! The second floor of another house also came out of black smoke. This time he found the "murderer"-an infantry gun suddenly appeared at the end of the street in the distance, and it was fired continuously at this side just now. Two shells were shot. Rudra took a look with a scope. The distance of the infantry gun was about 750 meters. The cannon was swayed at the entrance of the street. Several soldiers around were busy stuffing shells into the barrel. He aimed at one of them gently. Squeezed the trigger. The artillery soldiers around the infantry gun were all smiling and preparing to hear the sound, but they saw the guy pulling the gun rope suddenly clutching his chest and fell to the ground. They ran over to see what happened. A bunch of blood spattered on the back of a guy fell to the ground, scared the artillery group fled, hiding under the corners on both sides of the street. Rudra smiled and flashed under the window, pulling the gun and tethering it into the gun case to press the bullet. The next 5 rounds were reimbursed for 3 gunners. The other two unlucky guys were shot in the arm. It is estimated that the arm was reimbursed here, and the other was probably from the ancestor Jade, but was shot in the thigh. , But the infantry gun was basically paralyzed there.
Marshal Carter outside the city was very upset at this time. After his infantry entered the city, he first discovered that all the cavalry that had rushed into the city had indeed been killed. Then, after the infantry troops occupied the outermost streets, they also began to be stubbornly blocked. In an hour, nearly a thousand people were injured or killed, but they were unable to move. Under such circumstances, they would not even want to occupy the city until dark.
"What a bunch of idiots! Order the troops entering the city to retreat to me, and I will bombard them to death!" Carter shouted through gritted teeth.