"Simonov's battalion has gone up, and no news has been sent back so far. It is probably completely finished." A bearded officer with a disheveled face and scabbed blood on his face reported to his superiors in a crater more than one person deep.&1t;/p>

"We have destroyed all the bunkers we can find, but whenever we want to break through here, there are always people who can attack in a position you can't imagine. There is a secret passage under us! And there is more than one layer! Otherwise, the place would have been isolated long ago!" said a thin officer next to him.&1t;/p>

When they arrived at the basement area, both sides tacitly stopped using heavy artillery bombardment. Most of the Russians could not reach the heavy artillery, and the Austro-Hungarian army was unnecessary. In this complicated home court, machine guns, mortars and flamethrowers could do well.&1t;/p>

Until now, the Russians still looked depressed. The current situation gives them the feeling of an invisible enemy. According to their original understanding, will they fight fortresses? After directly cleaning up the support points with artillery and engineers, and then using infantry to clear the trenches one by one? The idea is very simple! But the reason why the fortress area is a fortress area means that it must not be used as an ordinary front line! Otherwise, what will the countries do if they are so powerful to repair the fortress area?!&1t;/p>

Even in a reckless army, they will never charge in this unrecognizable place that has been bombed by artillery fire. They are like snails, pressing against the ground, moving forward little by little, and searching for the opponent like cheetahs. However, in such places where the enemy is open and dark, the attacking party is always at a disadvantage, especially the attacking party with no experience!&1t;/p>

A Russian soldier secretly raised his head and tried to record the terrain in front. The open area was about fifteen meters, and behind it was a broken barbed wire mesh. There should be no minefield behind the barbed wire mesh. The bunker on the side had been half collapsed. There was a trumpet on the right. "We can arrange two machine guns to suppress it, and then use smoke bombs to cover the engineers to get up and explode it at close range..." The soldier thought in his mind. When he saw it almost and was about to evacuate, an 8mm bullet easily penetrated his head.&1t;/p>

"Our scout seems to be finished again?" Simonov sighed after glanced at the pocket watch in his hand. It had been 20 minutes, but the person in charge of the scout still had not come back, which means he would never come back.&1t;/p>

"Let's go, summarize the news we have received now, and let the brothers prepare. We will advance at least 150 meters today!" said Battalion Commander Simonov. With the order issued, the Russians began to prepare. The grenadiers threw a grenade out. The smoke screen generated by the explosion obscured the Austrians' vision. Then the machine gun team acted and advanced towards the predetermined position under the cover of the infantry. Several people behind them set up a mortar brought from the front and then debugged. A battle is about to begin!&1t;/p>

A few minutes later, when the machine gun sounded, Russian soldiers in gray uniforms began to pass through the ruins under fire protection, and the engineers at the front brought explosive bags to the front. The Austrians' machine guns began to shoot, but the suppression was not good due to the angle and vision problems. The Russians were progressing very smoothly. If nothing unexpected happened, in a few minutes, they could put the explosive bags next to the bunker and blow it up!&1t;/p>

Pupp, a series of dense and dull sounds sounded from one side of the front line. "It's the Austrian stormtrooper!" Simonov's heart tightened. These guys equipped with submachine guns were the least willing to meet in melee battles. The first one was a machine gun team. There were 11 people in this machine gun team, 7 of which were responsible for carrying machine guns and ammunition, and the remaining 4 were responsible for covering. After a gunshot, the machine gun team was silent. When friendly troops arrived, they only saw shells everywhere that could be killed without preparation.&1t;/p>

"Damn it, it's those ground mice again." Following the traces left by the other party, the Russians came to the entrance of an underground passage. There was nothing in the dark passage. Looking at the passage in front of them like a giant monster mouth, the Russians shook their heads helplessly. It was not that they dared not go down, but they could not go down. The underground was equivalent to a huge maze. After entering, they could not distinguish between the east, south, west and north, and there were more than one layer. Not to mention that they were less than one battalion's troops now and could not draw enough personnel. Even if all the battalions were down, it would probably take a long time to clear them.&1t;/p>

Not that no one has tried to take shortcuts through these tunnels. After entering, the two sides had a fierce battle. Moreover, the Austrians seemed to have designed certain traps. When the troops entered certain areas, the other party would use flamethrowers or other weapons with extremely lethality in the tunnel. The Russians did not expect that this would happen. Not to mention the necessary equipment for tunnel battles such as flamethrowers, there were not even many basic submachine guns!&1t;/p>

The ubiquitous snipers in this fortified city also brought huge damage to the Russians. This damage is not only physical, but more psychological. No one can bear the feeling that life will be taken away by the gods at any time!&1t;/p>

This time, what Simonov encountered was obviously not the opponent's sneak attack or the sniper's attack. He was in big trouble! Behind them, a area that had been classified as a safe zone by the Russians, a floor was slowly pushed open by a jack, and several Austro-Hungarian soldiers rushed out of the secret passage after confirming the safety around them. Then, a whole company of troops rushed out of the secret passage, and almost at the same time, several other troops also came out of the ruins, from some bushes, and from a manhole cover through the passage left in advance. Without the Russians' awareness, sharp swords were pressed on the Russians' back!&1t;/p>

More than ten minutes later, when the Russians reached a critical moment, bullets behind him, like heavy rain, instantly flooded the last mortar position and command post. The Russian battalion commander and his staff, who had just entered the battlefield for two days, were hit by dense bullets in less than ten minutes of firefighting! And when the unified command system was killed, the result of the Russian soldiers in this battalion was destined. In a strange environment, under the elusive attack of the superior enemy, the battalion was finally wiped out bit by bit.&1t;/p>

The same drama is being staged throughout the fortress area, and the Russian troops sent in by the Allies rushed towards death one after another under a bait called victory!&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!