After the earlier skirmish, they clearly also realized that the people who parachuted from the sky, although each one had good marksmanship and high tactical literacy, had limited ammunition, insufficient firepower, and no heavy weapons at all!
So.
What is there to fear?
Hundreds of people stormed over from multiple directions.
Even with the most primitive, the dumbest human wave tactics, they intended to drown the mere twenty-some individuals.
Thus, the battle suddenly entered an intense phase.
All those who had just endured three rounds of shelling immediately crawled out from their cover, took up various weapons, and fired continuously.
From all sides, hundreds of militants charged relentlessly.
They ran in an S-shape while firing their guns, sometimes advancing with alternating cover.
Compared to their initial 'reckless charging' style of attack, they had completely changed, as if they had become a different unit.