But at this time, the military dogs arranged by the British took effect. They barked wildly.

"All units should be alert! All units should be alert! Anti-infantry directional thunder are ready! Artillery is loaded with shotguns!" As soon as Battalion Commander Richard heard the barking of the military dogs, he immediately picked up a microphone and shouted, and Colonel Edward Stamford, who was originally preparing to leave, also stopped.

"They are here!" Colonel Edward Stamford said, opening his eyes widened and trying to see the situation behind the fog through the thick fog. Of course, before the thick fog had dissipated, he could vaguely see the distance of twenty or thirty meters ahead.

After the dog barking sounded, the Irish naturally knew that the British were already prepared at this time. But they still unfolded their loose formations, holding the explosive bag and holding the blasting tube and continuing to move forward.

The visibility is only more than twenty meters, and at most thirty meters. One rushes hard and you can rush up. There are no killing weapons like machine guns in this era. The only ones that can play a substitute are cannons that fire shotguns and anti-infantry directed thunders such as broadswords.

The fire density of these two things is of course very sufficient, but the firepower sustainability is much worse. If the enemy rushed up a large group of people at once, the effect of these things is not worse than that of machine guns. However, if there are not many people coming up in the first wave of the enemy, and after a round of fighting, the second wave will immediately come up, then the firepower sustainability of this configuration will be a problem.

More importantly, the barbed wire is 40 or 50 meters away from the fortress. This is a very suitable distance at normal times. At this distance, rifles, directional thunder, and cannons and shotguns all have a very good hit rate.

But at this time, the barbed wire was hidden in the fog and completely invisible.

The British hung a lot of bells on the barbed wire mesh. As soon as the bell rings, it means that someone is making barbed wire mesh. However, this design is aimed at night. When you hear the movement at night, the searchlight shines, and then the rifle, cannon shotgun, and directional thunder can fire as needed. However, at this time, it is covered with thick fog, and the searchlight is useless at this time.

The Irish soon arrived next to the barbed wire. They took out wire cutters from their backpacks, carefully removed the bell from the barbed wire, and then used wire cutters to destroy the barbed wire and cut out gaps on the barbed wire.

Of course, some people still ring the bell during this.

"Sir? What should I do?" asked Battalion Commander Richard.

"Fire the gun and let the soldiers shoot at the place where the bells ring! But don't move directional thunder and artillery for now!" said Colonel Edward Stamford.

So the British began to shoot. It was just because they could not see the target, so these blind shots did not bring too many obstacles to the soldiers of the Irish Independence Army.

"Jerry, don't worry, the British are just giving themselves courage." Matra, the platoon leader of the independent army, who was holding a blasting tube, whispered to the warrior next to him, holding a bayonet rifle in his hand.

"I know, I'm not nervous." The soldier replied, holding the rifle tightly with his hands tightly. Because he tried too hard, his finger joints were a little white.

Matra smiled and said nothing, but turned her eyes to the widening gap in the wire.

"Let the soldiers get bayonets," said Colonel Edward Stamford. "The enemy is about to rush up! We may have to fight with bayonets!"

The order was conveyed, and the British soldiers began to get on bayonets and were ready to rush out of the trenches and fight the Irish rebels.

"Our bayonet level is not comparable to that of rebels. We will definitely win by bayonet." Colonel Edward Stamford cheered his subordinates and said. But he also scolded the damn weather in his heart. Because he knew that training in bayonet is important, morale is even more important. Judging from his experience in dealing with the Irish, the Irish training level is indeed not as good as the British army, even the "main force" of Ireland; but their morale is surprisingly high, even those native rebels.

If a team has high morale enough, he can withstand greater casualties in hand-to-hand combat. As long as there is no morale collapse in one party and then being chased and cut by others, the exchange ratio is not much greater than that. Colonel Edward Stamford is indeed sure that in hand-to-hand combat with a considerable number of people, the exchange ratio has the upper hand-to-hand combat. However, he has only a few more people here, and there are tens of thousands of rebels! If the losses in hand-to-hand combat are great, General Wilson, the commander of the city defense, will definitely cause trouble for himself...

At this time, some vague figures had appeared in the British army's sight. These sparse figures rushed towards the British position and threw grenades at the British army.

The British army shot at these people, or threw grenades at them. Many Irishmen were knocked to the ground, but because the distance between the two sides was too close, some Irish people still rushed up with explosive packs and blasting tubes. Then, with the explosions, some bunkers and British troops in the bunker flew into the sky in the explosion.

At this time, more figures were revealed in the fog!

"Fire the gun, fire the gun! Use directional thunder!" Battalion Commander Richard shouted.

The artillery arranged further backwards sounded, and the shotgun knocked some Irishmen to the ground, and some directional thunders also sounded. However, because the Irishmen's wave of explosives and blasting barrels in front also destroyed a lot of directional thunders. Although this round of volleys caused considerable losses to the Irishmen, it did not stop them from continuing to rush forward. At this time, the British artillery and directional thunders had no time to fight the second round.

In fact, even the number of Irish people who rushed up in the second round was actually not particularly large. It was just because of the fog and the influence of nervous mood that the British would make the illusion that many people who rushed up in the round were many. However, in this round of shelling and directional thunder bombardment, the dead Irish people were actually not as many as the British imagined.

"Battle! Counterattack! Artillery covers and shoots the area of ​​the second target!" Looking at the Irishman who rushed up again, Colonel Edward Stamford ordered.

If the Irish rushed up again and had a dynamite bag, the loss would be too great. So Colonel Edward Stamford decided to immediately use a bayonet to counterattack the Irish.

Now that the influence of the depraved French people, the originally abundant martial ethics of the European army have gradually degenerated. Even things like fighting for bayonets have become unbearable.

In the days when "bullets are fools, bayonets are heroes" were full of martial ethics, everyone honestly spoke with bayonets. That was a pure man, a real man! But now, the rules have been broken by the French. They invented the bayonets and shotguns in bayonets, and the bayonets control the distance, and then used trolls to spray people with a vulgar tactic, which made the bayonets fight now, called bayonets, but in fact they have become trolls. This is really unbearable, Fira!

Nowadays, the entire Europe, including the United Kingdom and Ireland, has been influenced by the French's unbearable tactics, so the configuration of their bayonet teams is similar, basically two bayonet rifles with a pump-moving shotgun. So a shotgun bang sounded suddenly on the battlefield.

At the same time, the British artillery continued to bombard the Irishes with shovels. To be honest, completely blind shelling was of course not efficient, but it still caused certain difficulties for the attack of the Irish follow-up troops. Therefore, the British still barely forced the Irish rebels to retreat through bayonet battles and defended the first line of defense.

After repelling the Irish first round of attack, Colonel Edward Stamford saw that the fog gradually dissipated, and left the frontier and returned to his regiment headquarters. As soon as he entered the regiment headquarters, someone told him: "Captain, General Wilson asked you to go to the command center immediately."

Colonel Edward Stamford immediately rushed to General Wilson's command.

At this time, several other regiment commanders had arrived. Seeing that Colonel Edward Stamford had also arrived, General Wilson said, "Since everyone is here now, let's talk about the situation on their defense."

So, except for the Grave regiment, which is the general reserve team, the other regiments began to introduce the attacks they were exposed and the current losses. Basically, either the ammunition consumption is huge, or the personnel losses are large. Some troops even lost positions.

"You have noticed that due to the influence of the weather, some unexpected situations are happening now." General Wilson said, "It is hard to say whether such heavy fog will continue to occur tomorrow. If there are still such ghost weather in the next few days, with today's casualties and ammunition consumption rate, our situation will be very dangerous. Do you have any suggestions for this?"

"I suggest that we send a report to Dublin and Galway immediately to request reinforcements. Otherwise, if heavy fog continues, our defense will likely have serious problems." Colonel Edward Stamford spoke immediately.

"However, the task given to us is to stay here for at least a month so that reinforcements from the country can arrive, and then..." said another regiment commander.

"Today, my regiment did not lose its position, and many rebels killed, but my regiment alone killed almost seventy people in one morning. In addition, they were injured and at least temporarily lost their combat effectiveness, and there were about one hundred people. If there were such heavy fog a few more times, my entire regiment would lose its combat effectiveness. I just heard the results reported by you, and the losses were not smaller than mine. According to my years of experience in Ireland, it is common for heavy fog to occur in this season. Therefore, it is completely possible to have heavy fog for several days in a row. Once such a situation occurs, it is not impossible to lose. Do we need to gamble like this?"
Chapter completed!