Chapter 488: Chapter 488
In fact, it was just as Qu Guang had roughly deduced.
The ’west hold east release’ tactics of the Volunteer Army hadn’t been noticed by the Federation yet.
As time slowly passed.
Two days had passed in reality on Blue Star.
After several days of fighting, the Volunteer Army on the Western Front stubbornly resisted the attacks from the US 1st and US 9th Armies, reducing the enemy’s advance rate from 10 to 20 kilometers a day.
Forcing it down to just 1 kilometer a day.
Sometimes, they even pushed back half a kilometer by counterattacking at night after a kilometer’s gain during the day.
Despite the onslaught from the Federation, no matter what means the Volunteer Army tried, they couldn’t bridge the firepower gap, and the overall front line was slowly moving backward.
Celestial Shark Live.
In the live broadcast room of host Ma Yong, which had been randomly assigned as a Volunteer Army identity room.
It attracted quite a bit of attention from Blue Star netizens.
The main forces of the Volunteer Army’s 38th Army on the Western Front had already crossed the river, taking over the 50th Army’s defensive area to stop the enemy.
An ear-piercing whistling sound came from the sky.
The Volunteer Army troops on the position, hearing the noise, quickly took cover in the trenches.
Boom boom boom boom——!
Deafening artillery blasts exploded around.
Ma Yong, hiding in the trench, shook the dirt off his head and couldn’t help but curse:
"Damn, when will this bombardment ever end!"
It was the third day of becoming a randomly assigned Volunteer Army identity, yet for more than half of these three days, the shelling from the Federation had been relentless.
Even now, if you just pick any random Volunteer Army live broadcast room.
There wasn’t one that wasn’t being bombarded by the Federation, the whole front line was under fire.
The Volunteer Army soldier beside him looked at Ma Yong’s cursing and chuckled, covering his ears and shouting:
"It’s the New Year! Just think of it as firecrackers!!!"
"You gotta admit, the Federation’s stuff is really powerful! Way louder than the firecrackers back home!!!"
Ma Yong was momentarily taken aback, looking at the Volunteer Army soldier and shouting:
He was aware of the unique traditions of the Republic.
However, on Blue Star, there was no such thing as a New Year, only various celebrations for surviving the yearly meteor shower.
Amidst the thunderous artillery fire, the Volunteer Army soldier shouted:
"It’s already the 7th, the second day of the New Year!"
"I only remembered it this morning!"
"Unfortunately, no dumplings to eat!"
A shell exploded nearby, showering the two of them with dirt, Ma Yong shook his head and shouted:
"Then eat to your heart’s content after the fight!!!"
The Volunteer Army soldier smiled, looked up at the sky, and then shouted:
This sentence hit Ma Yong’s chest like a heavy hammer.
It also struck the hearts of Blue Star viewers in the live room, leaving them feeling blocked in their chest, not knowing what to say.
There’s no such thing as peaceful times....
While the families at home in the Republic were celebrating the arrival of the New Year, the Volunteer Army soldiers on the peninsula were fighting against the Federation’s invasion in a foreign land with their blood and flesh.
They even knew themselves.... that they couldn’t go back.
Even knowing this was just a plot, Ma Yong still couldn’t suppress the tightness in his throat, pondered for a moment, and then said:
"Where is your home!"
The Volunteer Army soldier patted the dirt off his head:
Ma Yong paused and shouted:
Before he could finish speaking.
The platoon leader suddenly shouted loudly from afar:
"Prepare for battle!"
"Demolition team, take your positions!!!"
The Volunteer Army soldiers on the position quickly rose to their feet, looking at the advancing Federation tanks in the distance.
The living soldiers in the trenches quickly took their shooting positions, while the demolition team held their makeshift explosive devices, waiting for the Federation tanks to get closer.
Both the Volunteer Army soldier and Ma Yong were members of the demolition team, and without any hesitation, they all picked up explosive packs.
The so-called demolition team was actually a suicide squad.
With the Volunteer Army’s crude conditions, the so-called demolition equipment was just explosive packs and cluster grenades.
Facing the full-on assault from the Federation.
The Volunteer Army was forced to use a ’light in front, heavy in the back’ strategy for personnel, and ’heavy in front, light in the back’ for firearms.
The so-called ’light in front, heavy in the back’ personnel strategy.
In reality, it was confronting the Federation’s tank armor groups by sending in squad after squad, the entire army becoming a suicide squad.
Just like Ma Yong’s demolition team.
This was the only way to inflict casualties on the Federation’s armored tanks.
And for firearms ’heavy in front, light in the back’.
It concentrated all firepower on the front-line troops to maximize lethal effects, when a heavy weapon was assigned to a company, platoon, or squad.
It means the units ahead with such heavy weapons had already been wiped out.
Now it was their turn.
As the distant tank group got closer and closer.
Before the Volunteer Army could fire back.
Federation tank shells rained down first.
And when the enemy tanks were only 500 meters... 400 meters... 200 meters away... until within rifle range, upon the platoon leader’s command.
The Volunteer Army unleashed full firepower, with bullets flying forward.
The sole machine gun allocated to the entire platoon fired without reserve, spraying fire at the Federation troops on the other side.
The fight on the Western Front was exceptionally difficult.
The Eastern Front wasn’t much easier either, as the various units of the Volunteer Army urgently maneuvered to encircle Hengcheng.
In the live broadcast room of streamer Jin Bin, randomly assigned to the southern puppet army.