Chapter 1573

Originally, the attacking soldiers discovered that their charge hadn't encountered any resistance. They thought that the enemy must have been beaten to a pulp by the repeated bombardment and couldn't possibly launch any effective resistance.

Therefore, they all relaxed their vigilance, only thinking about charging up in one go and then ending Hamid's nest with one charge.

But who would have thought that just when they thought this battle was a sure win, tongues of machine gun fire suddenly erupted from the cracks in the rocks on many parts of the mountain!

The ubiquitous sound of gunfire quickly covered the entire hillside, and the soldiers charging at the front fell down row after row like cut wheat.

The soldiers behind were all stunned!

They hurriedly raised their guns to fight back, but where could they see the shadow of even half an enemy!

The only thing they could see were the tongues of fire erupting from the cracks in the rocks everywhere.

And every time they saw the tongues of fire erupt, a batch of people would be hit and fall to the ground along with the eruption of the tongues of fire.

In less than a minute, the attacking side lost at least five or six hundred soldiers.

Some soldiers subconsciously fought back in the direction where the tongues of fire erupted, but their weapons simply couldn't play any actual role against Hamid's permanent fortifications.

At this time, the frontline commander shouted loudly, letting the soldiers find cover to hide as soon as possible.

But the most damaging thing was that Hamid had long ago had people deal with all the places on the front slope of the mountain where one could hide. The previous depressions were filled, and the previous boulders were directly blasted into fragments.

In short, these thousands of people now on the hillside simply couldn't find any cover to hide from bullets!

And Hamid's troops were still inside the permanent fortifications, fighting back crazily!

His troops were heavily equipped with Russian-made weapons. Inside every permanent fortification, they were equipped with multiple 7.62mm caliber, air-cooled Russian PK general-purpose machine guns, and a small amount of 12.7mm anti-aircraft heavy machine guns.

The former had a fast rate of fire and a wide firepower coverage. After multiple angles and multiple machine guns formed a cross-fire network, the lethality to ordinary soldiers was very strong;

While the latter had a slow rate of fire, it had huge power. Basically, if you touched it, you died. What was even more ruthless was that when there were many people, this thing's penetration ability was far beyond ordinary machine guns. One shot could penetrate the bodies of several soldiers.

These two types of weapons matched each other, and in this kind of high-ground battle, it could already be called invincible. Plus, the enemy had nowhere to hide, so it was completely a matter of being passively beaten.

These enemies, because they had to launch a charge and had the previous mistake of underestimating the enemy, didn't carry any heavy equipment at all. At this time, just the firepower alone was worlds apart from the other side.

And the bigger disparity lay in the fact that the attacking army simply had no danger to defend, completely using their bodies to resist bullets.

While Hamid's soldiers were different. They were all hiding inside permanent fortifications built of rocks and concrete, and the front was also reinforced with steel plates, while a layer of soil was covered on the outside. Bullets hitting it were like mosquitoes biting an elephant, simply having no lethality to speak of.

Their frontline commander, seeing more and more soldiers falling around him, realized that the other side had been prepared long ago. It was simply impossible to take down this kind of strong attack, so he immediately shouted: "Retreat! Retreat all behind the armored vehicles!"

Therefore, the remaining three or four thousand soldiers began to flee crazily.

With this retreat, the soldiers who were originally charging at the front exposed their backs completely to the firing range of Hamid's soldiers, so they lost several hundred more people during the retreat.

All the soldiers retreated behind the armored vehicles, and the frontline commander immediately began to count the number of people.

Soon, the casualty situation was reported from every company. Five thousand people launched a charge, and in one encounter, thirteen hundred people died.

And among them, there were more than five hundred mercenaries from the Cataclysmic Front.

This time, the Cataclysmic Front sent ten thousand mercenaries to Syria.

In principle, these people had to obey the command of the Syrian government forces and cooperate with them to wipe out the anti-government armed forces.

The Syrian government forces split these ten thousand Cataclysmic Front mercenaries into four equal parts, cooperating with the four divisions of the government forces to bloom in multiple directions.

And in the army that came to punish Hamid this time, there were two thousand five hundred mercenaries from the Cataclysmic Front.

Originally, the officers of the Cataclysmic Front and the commanders of the government forces were all a bit underestimating the enemy.

They felt that they had already seen the level of the Syrian anti-government armed forces, and wiping them out was simply easy.

So they didn't do enough preparatory work at all, only thinking about helping the government solve the heart-troubling problem as soon as possible, and then immediately establishing their own mercenary base in Syria to further enhance their influence in the Middle East.

But they didn't expect that this time, because of underestimating the enemy, they encountered an unprecedented blow.

More than five hundred fresh lives were directly thrown on the front slope of Hamid's base.

The commander of these Cataclysmic Front mercenaries was a yellow-skinned man in his thirties.

His name was Lu Zhanjun, a five-star battle general of the Cataclysmic Front, and could be considered one of the core backbones.

In the Cataclysmic Front, besides one War God and four great Battle Kings, there were nearly a hundred battle generals below.

And the star level of the battle generals was determined by their ability, resume, and military exploits.

The star level of battle generals went from one star to five stars. Five-star battle generals were naturally the highest among battle generals. There were only twenty or thirty people who could reach this level.

Adding the War God and the four great Battle Kings, Lu Zhanjun's ranking in the Cataclysmic Front was at least in the top forty.

This time, he followed the first Battle King of the Cataclysmic Front, Chen Zhulei, to conquer Syria. Before, it had always been like a hot knife through butter, and there were few casualties under his command.

But he didn't expect that today, just as the battle started, so many people died!

Seeing his team suffer heavy losses, he immediately found the highest commander of the government forces who came with him and scolded angrily in Chinese: "Your pre-war intelligence work is simply a pile of dog shit! Hamid built so many hidden permanent fortifications, why didn't you ever tell us this intelligence?"

The highest commander who was questioned was also very annoyed and responded in not-so-proficient Chinese: "You damn ask all nonsense. If I knew he had built permanent fortifications, I would definitely have told you this intelligence. But the problem is I didn't know either!"

The commander of the Cataclysmic Front was so angry that his face turned blue, and he said angrily: "Pre-war intelligence collection work is the top priority for any army. Why didn't you do it? It's too unprofessional!"

The government forces' commander asked him back: "We are unprofessional, but since you Cataclysmic Front are so professional, why didn't you do the pre-war intelligence collection either? Could it be that after coming to Syria, the combat level of the dignified Cataclysmic Front soldiers has fallen to the same level as ours?"

"Damn!" Lu Zhanjun cursed angrily and gritted his teeth: "Do you damn think fighting a war is a shrew scolding on the street?! I don't have time to talk nonsense here. You must give me an explanation for the five hundred-plus brothers I lost!"

The government forces' commander said coldly: "Don't give me that! It's normal to have personnel loss in war. You ask me to give you an explanation, I lost nearly a thousand people here, who gives me an explanation? Now the most important thing is to hurry up and end Hamid's base! Catch Hamid and behead him! Only in this way can we comfort the dead soldiers!"

As he spoke, the other side stared coldly at Lu Zhanjun and reminded: "More importantly, only in this way can we each avoid punishment from our superiors! If so many people were lost and Hamid still wasn't taken down, my superior won't spare me, but I believe your superior won't spare you either!"

Lu Zhanjun was speechless for a moment.

The other side was indeed right.

It's not scary to suffer losses in war, but what's most scary is not being able to win after suffering losses.

If Hamid really couldn't be taken down, he would definitely become a laughingstock in the Cataclysmic Front! Even his future would be ruined!

Therefore, he looked at the government forces' commander and said coldly: "Your artillery bombarded so many rounds just now, and the other side still had such strong firepower. This proves that their permanent fortifications are quite solid. If this battle turns into a hard attack, and it's still attacking from bottom to top, I'm afraid it won't be easy to fight!"

The government forces' commander gritted his teeth: "Then I'll let the artillery bombard a few more rounds!"

"Useless!" Lu Zhanjun said: "There was no effect after so many rounds just now. Bombarding again is probably useless!"

He paused slightly, thought for a moment, and said: "How about this, you send your soldiers to carry heavy weapons and continue to launch a feint attack on his front, and I will lead our Cataclysmic Front brothers to detour from the side mountain, sneak up to the high ground, and then directly bypass to their side to surround them!"