Ten minutes later, the shelling against Hamid's position stopped on time.
On the front battlefield, three thousand soldiers carrying hundreds of RPG rockets charged once again towards Hamid's position.
The men had already been beaten back once and knew that the enemy firepower was heavy, so the second time they attacked, each of them was nervous, fearing that they might accidentally get killed.
But the army's orders were in front of them, and although they were afraid, they had no choice but to press on.
Soon they were once again in range of fire from Hamid's fortifications.
Naturally, Hamid showed no mercy to the leeks that came to his door, immediately ordering him to open fire and to kill as many of the enemy as possible.
A second round of fire was exchanged between the two sides, and it was immediate!
The attacking soldiers worked in teams of five, one of whom bombarded the fortifications with shoulder-launched RPGs, while the remaining four all covered his fire with machine guns and assault rifles to ensure that the RPGs hit the other side's fortifications.
This was the only tactic the army had taught them that could be of any use in an offensive.
Originally, the government commanders thought that if they brought up the RPGs, they could take out all of Hamid's fortifications, but they could at least take out three or five of his fortifications and make him nervous.
Once he was nervous, he would naturally devote more troops and energy to the front, which greatly increased the chances of success of the flanking strategy.
What he didn't expect was the obscene construction of Hamid's fortifications.
The front of each fortification was reinforced and camouflaged in layers along the positive slope of the mountain itself.
Under such circumstances, the attacker carrying an RPG from the bottom to the top of the hill would hit the fortifications with a trajectory almost parallel to the positive slope of the hill, making it difficult to hit them.
As a result, the rocket would either graze the sloping side of the fortification, or it would barely hit it at a tiny angle.
The real power of such rockets must be concentrated at an angle of ninety degrees to the front of the target, otherwise, once it grazes the edge and explodes, it is basically no different from scratching an itch.
Moreover, even if they hit at such a small angle, the chances are that the rockets would be refracted and not only would they fail to destroy the enemy, but the refracted rockets would instead scatter around and injure many of their own men by accident.
Lu and his men were still looking through their binoculars, desperately trying to record the position of each of Hamid's fortifications.
As he watched, Lu ordered, "We'll launch a sneak attack later, and we must take out all these fortifications as quickly as possible. We will be able to win easily!"
The commanders of all ranks around them immediately patted their chests and promised that they would remove all these known fire points.
However, they had no idea that right in front of them, on the seemingly undefended western flank, there were over thirty Hamid fire points.
Long before Lu Zhanjun led his team to feel their way over, Hamid's three hundred soldiers had already ambushed in one step ahead.
Originally, according to the plan Ye Chen had made for Hamid, the interiors of these fire points were to be completely opened up with pits.
Moreover, there were to be multiple firewalls built inside the pits, so that once the enemy entered the passage from a certain point, they could immediately use the firewalls to isolate the enemy within a very small area, thus avoiding being infiltrated by the enemy from within.