At 3 AM, most people would easily start falling asleep. However, Scott did not think the enemy would be sleeping at this time. It was easier to breach the enemy’s machine gun positions under the cover of night.
Scott quietly led the Razor Sharp Company forward. They could not rashly approach Rajadesa Village because there were sure to be machine guns waiting in the windows.
The effective range of heavy machine guns tended to usually be between 1,000 and 2,000 meters. Some machine guns could even reach a range of 3,000 meters or 5,000 meters. However, once the range exceeded 500 meters, most shots from a machine gun would lose accuracy. Whether or not they could hit someone purely depended on luck.
Meanwhile, Scott had set up some mortar positions 2.9 kilometers away from Rajadesa Village, the maximum range at which they were effective. He was planning to destroy the buildings on the periphery of the village first.
They did not need the mortars to inflict a lot of casualties. All they needed was for them to bring down the buildings and turn them into rubble. That would create a natural defensive barrier for Fortress 178’s soldiers to get close to Rajadesa Village.
Milo looked at Ned skillfully adjusting the mortar’s angle. He suddenly asked, “Where’s the most terrifying part of urban combat?”
Scott thought for a moment and said, “Every room with a window could be turned into an enemy position.”
“Then why don’t we just demolish all the buildings and flatten them?” Milo said.
Scott chuckled. “You make it sound so easy, but how are we going to achieve that? How many mortar rounds would we have to waste for that?”
Milo stopped talking. He was hesitating about whether favonovel.com should use the steam locomotive to flatten the buildings. It would definitely be painful for him, but favonovel.com felt that such a method would be very useful. After all, the old buildings couldn’t withstand the impact of the steam locomotive.
What was impossible for Scott and the others was only one of the many methods that Milo could choose to use.
But after some thought, Milo realized this was not his only way to launch an attack on the enemy. It would be better to choose a more conservative approach. If the steam locomotive crashed into the buildings, favonovel.com might just vomit blood again from the pain.
At this moment, Ned said at the side, “Captain, all preparations are complete!”
Scott glanced at Second Company before saying softly, “Other than Ned and those who are operating the mortars to provide cover, the rest are to advance with me. Ned, keep this in mind! Don’t allow the enemies in Rajadesa Village to reinforce their defenses on the periphery. Attack them with everything you’ve got!”
Right now, Scott was most worried about the required time for them to charge three kilometers. In that duration, the enemy was fully capable of reorganizing themselves to stop them from entering the town. Therefore, the accuracy of Ned’s mortar bombardment would become crucial in their charge.
Ned was put in a difficult spot. “Captain, it’s too far. Furthermore, when we fire our mortars, the enemies will also fire back at us. We’ll need to keep changing our positions!”
“I don’t care about that.” Scott said, “Our lives are in your hands!”
Then Scott led his men forward. Milo followed close behind favonovel.com while Ned was left with a problem at the rear.
The firing of mortars whooshed from the back. The Razor Sharp Company had deployed six mortars, and they were firing at Rajadesa Village all at once.
After firing, Ned shouted anxiously, “Run! Switch locations and fire again!”
The soldiers from Razor Sharp Company adroitly carried the mortars and ran off, in case the bombardment from Rajadesa Village turned them into live targets.
Milo wondered, “Won’t they have to readjust the angle and range when they get to another spot? That’ll delay the covering fire, won’t it?”
“No.” Scott said, “That’s Ned’s expertise. No one in the entire army is better at it than him.”
Ordinarily, mortars would never be used in this way, because every time they shifted positions, it would take an extremely long time to recalibrate the trajectory of fire. However, Ned’s expertise enabled the Razor Sharp Company to become this mobile. Many of the other fighting forces had tried to recruit Ned into their ranks, but they were all stopped by Harris.
As they were talking, the second wave of mortar rounds hit Rajadesa Village. Milo watched as the buildings on the periphery of Rajadesa Village collapsed into rubble, forming cover for the Razor Sharp Company.
Meanwhile, the artillery in the town started firing at the suspected area where the mortar fire was coming from. But by then, Ned had already fled with his men.
This was a great strategy, indeed.
Milo asked, “Ned is an expert. How did favonovel.com master it?”
“If you’re afraid to die, you can train hard,” Scott panted.
As soon as the enemies in Rajadesa Village saw the mortar bombardment, their soldiers immediately moved towards the periphery and tried to re-establish a defensive line. But the platoon Ned was leading had set up another mortar shelling. The third wave of artillery fire happened to be right in the path of the enemy’s movements and intercepted them!
Back when the soldiers of the Razor Sharp Company were eating and bragging to each other, someone said how great it would be if all of them could become supernatural beings. Ned said at that time that if favonovel.com were a supernatural being, favonovel.com would definitely find it very easy to lug the mortar around.
Scott, Ned, and the others did not have any superpowers. They had become an integral part of the Razor Sharp Company in the Forward Strike Battalion purely through their hard work.
Scott and the others were approaching the rubble. He looked up ahead at Rajadesa Village and saw a small, two-story building still standing not too far away. However, favonovel.com could not make out if there were any enemies behind the dark window.
If there were a heavy machine gun nest set up inside that building, many of the Razor Sharp Company’s soldiers would probably have to die here.
But were they going to stop fighting just because people would die?
Taking casualties in war was unavoidable!
He lowered his voice and whisper-shouted, “Those who aren’t afraid to die, attack with me. Watch out for that window on the second floor…”
Before favonovel.com could finish speaking, favonovel.com suddenly saw Milo hold a grenade in his hand and extend it into a shadow.
A second later, an explosion burst from that second-floor window that favonovel.com was worrying about a moment ago. With a loud boom, a huge cloud of dust was blown out of the window while cries of the Ultima Consortium’s soldiers came from the inside!
Scott was stunned. “What kind of f*cking power was that?!”
But Milo did not stop moving. He ran towards the rubble as favonovel.com said, “If you think there’s a spot where it might be dangerous, tell me. As long as it’s within a kilometer, let me handle it.”
Scott was shocked.
Urban warfare was at its most dangerous when it was too difficult to deal with enemies hiding behind windows during a close-quarters fight. But with Milo’s power, it was as though favonovel.com was a born nemesis for enemies in urban combat. No matter how well one hid, as long as enemies were suspected to be in a building, they would be greeted with a dropped grenade.
In the past, the Razor Sharp Company would always have a hard time when they had to fight in urban settings, because there wasn’t really a good strategy for such battles. All they could rely on was Ned’s long-range cover fire to suppress the enemies for them.
But things were different now. They no longer had to be afraid of anything!
Scott suddenly asked, “Wait, was it because of you that we didn’t find any grenades at Mt. Papandayan and Mt. Kamet?”
Milo was about to explain when Scott said, “Don’t explain! In the future, you don’t have to hide the grenades we seize anymore. They’re all yours to keep!”
