The sky had only just begun to lighten, but the battlefield that had gone without sleep all night had grown even livelier. The sky was filled with aircraft.
Everywhere on the battlefield, tongues of flame spat and flickered. Shells shrieked through the air before plunging down hard, sending clouds of dust billowing up!
Blood became the only conspicuous color on the battlefield, but it remained conspicuous for only a few seconds before turning dark! War, death, gunfire!
The soldiers had already grown numb. They numbly pulled their triggers and numbly hid behind the fortifications—
Over the course of the night, the Gefra soldiers had taken advantage of the reduced intensity of the firefights in the second half of the night to rapidly pile up some fortifications. They had also dug quite a few single- or two-man trenches that could barely hide someone! Even some of the Gefrans had grown numb.
Death and fear seemed to have vanished completely from their bodies. They kept repeating the simplest actions.
A little after eight o'clock, a vast cloud of dust suddenly rose from the Peng Joe battlefield. It was an artillery barrage! The frontline soldiers turned back toward the endless mountains in surprise and delight. Artillery meant that the guns had reached firing range, and they were one step closer to evacuation.
At the same time, the artillery support boosted their morale. With artillery support, the enemy could not keep advancing recklessly. They also had to consider whether they could withstand the shells.
Walking through the impact zone of an artillery barrage was terrifying. That pressure, both physical and psychological, could make even the strongest soldier tense up!
The roar of the artillery temporarily halted the Peng Joe People's attack, but that did not mean they could rely on artillery to fight the