Anti-War Game: Starting from Normandy Campaign-Chapter 493 - 236: [End of the Battle at Jipyeongri, Shifting Frontlines]
The flare arced into the sky, leaving both sides exposed, with no escape.
Suddenly, the battlefield erupted, turning instantly into a meat grinder.
At close range, facing the United States’ machine gun fire, the Volunteer Army soldiers threw grenades, attempting to break through the United States’ circular fortifications.
But just as they released the grenades, they were cut down by bullets.
The outermost circle of the United States’ side was filled with oil tanks and armored defenses, and the explosions of the grenades that landed nearby couldn’t even breach the armor’s exterior.
Countless Volunteer Army soldiers fell on their way, desperately hurling grenades.
The rear Volunteer Army provided covering fire.
But without artillery support, even when the machine gun bullets hit the United States’ armor and tanks, they merely sparked.
The Volunteer Army soldiers at the forefront tried to forge a path with their lives.
Grenade after grenade flew toward the United States’ positions.
Explosions echoed continuously, but despairingly, they still couldn’t penetrate the United States’ armored tanks; the grenades were too weak, only a few landing slightly further.
They slipped into the gaps between tanks and armor but didn’t detonate the tanks.
The only effect were a few cries of agony from United States soldiers; nothing more.
The effect of the flare lasted just 30 seconds.
But in those 30 seconds, most of the attacking Volunteer Army soldiers were killed or wounded.
With the flare’s extinguishment.
The Volunteer Army soldiers sighed in relief, using the cover of the dark night to swiftly advance towards the United States’ nearly breached fortifications.
But only moments later.
Whoosh—
Another flare rose into the sky.
The battlefield was lit as bright as day.
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The battle at Dipiing was harsh, beyond the imagination of Blue Star’s netizens.
Including the soldiers of the Great Xia Federation’s Seventh Special Operations Brigade.
Even though Commander Qu Guang had spoken of Dipiing’s importance, the unpredictability of the United States not retreating could potentially become the ’Fourth Battle’s’ pivotal point.
No one expected the fighting to be so fierce.
Because the artillery regiment was bombed by the United States, forcing the Volunteer Army soldiers to launch a desperate charge at the mere 2.3 km basin.
But the United States condensed all its armor and tanks into a steel base, not easily breached.
Completely sacrificing lives.
And when the Volunteer Army got desperately close.
Boom—!
Mine after mine was triggered.
Raising the difficulty of breakthrough to another level.
After a night of intense fighting.
The Volunteer Army suffered great casualties, yet only breached one United States position.
As daylight arrived.
Hundreds of bombers swarmed in to bomb the surrounding mountains of Dipiing.
The Volunteer Army was forced into defensive concealment.
And the breached position was quickly reclaimed by the United States.
Not just that.
The United States forces at Dipiing’s center, with their core howitzer groups, began their assault, showering shells on the surrounding mountains from dawn.
Shelled until night fell.
Blue Star players tallied that the howitzer groups alone fired over 15,000 shells during the day.
And that’s just from part of the perspectives.
With a full view, the numbers could be even higher.
However.
The battle at Dipiing was just beginning.
The first night, due to a rushed attack, only two regiments reached the designated positions to attack. With the arrival of the second night, six Volunteer Army regiments gathered around Dipiing.
An even fiercer battle for positions commenced.
The United States launched flare after flare, turning the Volunteer Army’s night ambushes into daylight assaults. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺
Six regiment assault.
Still unable to break through the mere 1.6 km position at Dipiing’s center.
At that moment.
Blue Star’s players truly felt the disparity brought by superior firepower.
There’s no way around it.
This is the reality.
The factor affecting the battle was merely an artillery regiment.
If the Volunteer Army had maintained a complete artillery regiment, to bombard the basin center.
The battle wouldn’t be this hard.
But, unfortunately, the Volunteer Army’s artillery regiment was bombed by the United States, leaving only an infantry attack option.
And it was the first time the United States regained its confidence in firepower.
The United States never stopped launching flares every five minutes.
Another night of gruesome fighting.
And by daybreak.
It was the United States’ showtime again.
Waves of bombers flew over to bomb, not only those from the peninsula side; the United States also redeployed planes from their bases in Japan.
Even those who experienced the [Battle of Britain] among Blue Star’s players had never witnessed such a scene.
Hundreds of aircraft.
Focusing on the mountains surrounding Dipiing, with a density far beyond imagination.
Not just that.
The battle at Dipiing also informed other United States units of the situation.
Just as Qu Guang analyzed earlier.
If the Volunteer Army was blocked or failed to storm Dipiing, then surrounding United States forces would be informed and have time to adjust.
Just like now.
Two days of fierce attacks failed to capture Dipiing, so the United States sent 30 tanks as reinforcements.
And reinforcements from the South-puppet 6th Division, from Lizhou, and the British Federation’s 27th Brigade, also approached Dipiing.
The Volunteer Army was besieged.
Not just that.
Blue Star netizens realized an even grimmer situation when watching the Volunteer Army’s stream.
After fierce fighting in the Hengcheng counterattack, the eight Volunteer Army regiments hastening to Dipiing, after two days and nights of fighting, were completely out of ammo and food.
