Chapter 1583

Ten minutes later, the shelling against Hamid's position stopped right on time.

On the frontal battlefield, three thousand soldiers carrying hundreds of RPG rockets launched another charge toward Hamid's position.

This group of people had already been beaten back once just now and knew that the enemy's firepower was very intense, so for this second attack, every one of them was extremely nervous, fearing that one careless mistake would cost them their lives.

However, with military orders at the forefront, even though they were afraid, they had no choice but to bite the bullet and charge forward.

Soon, they entered the firing range of Hamid's defensive fortifications again.

For this kind of "leek" delivered to his doorstep, Hamid naturally showed no mercy, immediately ordering his men to open fire and inflict as many casualties on the enemy as possible.

The second round of fire between the two sides was ready to erupt at any moment!

The attacking soldiers were organized into five-man squads; one person used a shoulder-fired RPG rocket to bombard the fortifications, while the remaining four used machine guns and assault rifles to provide covering fire for him, ensuring that the RPG rocket could hit the opponent's fortifications.

This was also the only tactic the army had taught them that could play even a tiny role in a siege battle.

Originally, the government army commander felt that as long as they brought the RPG rockets up, even if they couldn't destroy all of Hamid's fortifications, they would at least blow up three or five of them and make him nervous.

Once he became nervous, he would naturally commit more troops and energy to the front, which would greatly increase the success rate of the flanking maneuver.

But what he didn't expect was that Hamid's fortifications were built in a very "sneaky" way.

The front of every fortification had been reinforced and camouflaged layer by layer along the positive slope of the mountain itself.

Under these circumstances, the attacking side carrying RPGs and firing from the bottom of the mountain upward had a trajectory almost parallel to the mountain's positive slope, making it very difficult to hit the fortifications.

So, because of this, the rockets either grazed right past the positive slope of the fortifications or could only barely hit a tiny bit at an extremely small angle.

For this type of rocket to truly exert its power, it must hit the target's front at a ninety-degree angle; otherwise, if it explodes while grazing the edge, it is basically no different from a tickle.

Moreover, even if it hits at such a small angle, there is a high probability that the rocket will be deflected directly away. Not only does it fail to destroy the enemy, but the deflected rocket ends up flying around wildly, accidentally injuring many of their own men.

Meanwhile, Lu Zhanjun and his subordinates were still desperately recording the location of every one of Hamid's fortifications through binoculars.

As Lu Zhanjun observed, he instructed: "When we launch the sneak attack in a moment, we must use the fastest time to take out all these fortifications. Once these fortifications are dealt with, Hamid's base will have no defenses to rely on! We will naturally be able to win easily!"

The commanders of various levels beside him immediately patted their chests and guaranteed that they would definitely wipe out all these known firing points.

However, they had no idea that right in front of them, on the seemingly undefended west wing, there were actually over thirty of Hamid's firing points.

Long before Lu Zhanjun led his team to sneak over, three hundred of Hamid's soldiers had already taken a step ahead and laid an ambush inside.

Originally, according to the plan Ye Chen had formulated for Hamid, the interiors of these firing points were all supposed to be completely connected by tunnels.

Furthermore, the tunnels were to be built with multiple firewalls; once an enemy entered the passage from a certain point, they could immediately use the firewalls to isolate the enemy within a very small area, thereby avoiding internal infiltration by the enemy.

This design was like the interior of a ship, which must have multiple watertight doors.

The function of watertight doors is that if one location ruptures and seawater pours in, all the watertight doors in that area are immediately sealed to prevent seawater from flooding other cabins, thereby ensuring the safety of the ship to the maximum extent.

Unfortunately, this wave of government army offensives came too quickly, and Hamid simply did not have time to complete such a large-scale project, so he could only build some independent hidden firing points first.

In order to ambush Lu Zhanjun's troops, after Hamid's three hundred soldiers entered the thirty-plus firing points, they immediately sealed the entrance of each firing point from the inside.

In this way, each firing point became an independent bunker, and the soldiers inside had no retreat whatsoever.

Although this method had many drawbacks, it did have one advantage: the soldiers inside were essentially "breaking the cauldrons and sinking the boats," forced to live or die with the bunker, so their fighting will was extremely high.

Depending on the size of the area and the quality of the design angle, each firing point was configured with five to ten men.

The firepower configuration inside included light and heavy machine guns and RPG rocket launchers.

In addition to this, there were very sufficient ammunition reserves, as well as enough food and drinking water to last for more than a month.

From this point alone, it was enough to see how strong Hamid's strategic reserve awareness was now.

He even planned to spend a few years carving out a strategic base with a space of hundreds of thousands of cubic meters inside the surrounding mountains.

By then, massive storage could be achieved for everything, including weapons, ammunition, food, medicine, fuel, and supplies.

Even more ruthless was his plan to dig several equipment depots at the foot of the mountain.

By then, armored vehicles and armed helicopters would all be stored inside; even if the government army bombed them continuously for a month, they would be unable to cause him any substantial damage.

At this time, the feigned attack on the frontal battlefield had been going on for five minutes.

Originally, there were still five minutes left until the attack time set by Lu Zhanjun.

However, seeing the friendly forces suffering heavy casualties, Lu Zhanjun was terrified that this group of guys would be beaten back before they could even last ten minutes.

Once the opponent's feigned attack was beaten back, he would no longer be able to flank from the side and catch the opponent off guard.

Therefore, after roughly confirming the locations of Hamid's firing points, Lu Zhanjun said to his one thousand elites: "Brothers, we won't wait anymore! Everyone, follow me to avenge our fallen brothers! We must take Hamid's head to pay tribute to the brothers who sacrificed just now!"

Upon hearing this, the crowd immediately shouted slogans swearing to take Hamid's head!

Seeing everyone's morale high, Lu Zhanjun nodded with satisfaction and continued: "Once we engage the enemy head-on, no one is allowed to be soft-hearted or hesitant! As long as they are the enemy, regardless of gender or age, you must kill them on the spot; strive for a headshot! Do you all understand?!"

The crowd nodded firmly, the murderous look overflowing from their expressions.

"Good!" Lu Zhanjun felt a surge of hot blood, and he immediately shouted: "Charge for me!"

Just as the one thousand soldiers of the Cataclysmic Front were charging up with Lu Zhanjun in high spirits, at least half of Hamid's three hundred soldiers were already able to observe Lu Zhanjun's troops directly through the gaps in their hidden firing ports.

Yet they did not return fire; instead, they all held their breath, fearing that making any noise would lead to their discovery by the enemy.

The reason they had not returned fire yet was that Lu Zhanjun and the soldiers of the Cataclysmic Front had not yet entered the very center of their firepower coverage net.

Since it was an ambush, one naturally had to wait until the enemy reached the middle of the ambush circle before opening fire.

Only in this way could they strike the enemy from all directions while cutting off all their retreat routes, leaving them with nowhere to hide.

And indeed, nowhere to retreat!