Chapter: 3273

So, the attackers initially thought that their charge had met with no resistance at all, and they assumed that the enemy was already exhausted from relentless bombardment. As a result, they relaxed their vigilance, one by one, thinking about how to make a single push and then wipe out Hamid's base in one fell swoop.

But who could have predicted that just as they thought they were sure to win, stones suddenly burst forth with large amounts of machine gun fire from the crevices on the mountain slope!

The gunfire quickly covered the entire hillside, and the soldiers leading the charge fell like wheat, row after row. The soldiers behind them were completely stunned!

They hastily raised their guns to counterattack, but there was nowhere to be seen even half an enemy soldier's shadow! The only thing they could see was the fire tongues bursting forth from various stone crevices.

Every time they saw the fire tongues burst forth, a batch of troops accompanying the fire would suddenly be struck down. In less than a minute, the attacking side had lost at least five or six hundred soldiers.

Some soldiers unconsciously fired at the direction where the fire tongues were bursting forth, but their weapons had no actual effect against Hamid's permanent fortifications whatsoever.

At this time, the frontline commander shouted loudly to have the soldiers quickly find cover and avoid.

But worst of all, Hamid had long since had people process every spot on the hillside that could be used as cover. Old holes were filled in, and previous large rocks were directly blown up into fragments.

In short, thousands of people are now on the hillside, unable to find any place to hide from bullets!

Hamid's troops are still crazily firing away inside their permanent fortifications!

His troops are heavily equipped with Russian-made weapons. Each permanent fortification has multiple 7.62mm-caliber wind-cooled PK general-purpose machine guns and a small number of 12.7mm high-powered anti-aircraft machine guns.

The former has fast fire rates, wide coverage, and multiple angles, forming a crossfire net that is extremely deadly to ordinary soldiers;

The latter may have slow fire rates, but its power is immense. It can basically be fatal, and when there are many people, this thing's penetrating ability far exceeds that of ordinary machine guns, with one shot capable of piercing the bodies of several soldiers.

These two types of weapons combined in high-altitude warfare would already be invincible again.

With the enemy having nowhere to hide, it is now just a matter of being passively pummeled.

These enemies, due to wanting to launch a charge and also with the previous error of underestimating their opponents, had not brought any heavy equipment. At this moment, firepower alone is utterly different from that of their opponents.

While the disparity lies in that the attacking side's army has no fortifications to defend, it's a completely physical confrontation against bullets.

Hamed's soldiers are different from theirs; they all hide in rock and concrete-built permanent structures, with steel plates added to the front for reinforcement, and covered with a layer of soil on the outside. When bullets hit them, it's like mosquitoes biting an elephant - there is no killing force whatsoever.

Their frontline commander sees more and more soldiers falling around him, realizes that the enemy had prepared beforehand, and thus thinks that such a strong attack cannot take down the enemy. Therefore, he immediately bellows, "Retreat! Everyone retreat to behind the armored vehicles!"

As a result, the remaining three to four thousand soldiers start frantically fleeing.

This retreat exposes their rear backs completely within the range of Hamed's soldiers' fire, so they lose several hundred people during the retreat.

All soldiers retreated to behind the armored vehicles, and the frontline commander immediately starts counting the personnel.

Soon, the casualty situation is reported from each battalion - five thousand people launch a charge, but one glance and 1,300 people die.

Among them, there are over five hundred mercenary soldiers of the Wándrón Diàn.

This time, Wándrón Diàn sent over ten thousand mercenaries to Syria. JrNovels.com