The fighting at the front grew fiercer and fiercer.
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仗火 is dialectal/literary, mostly seen in older fiction and revolutionary-era writing. The standard modern word for combat is 战斗; 打仗 is the everyday verb 'to fight a war'.
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仗 = 'battle' (as in 打仗 'to wage war'); 火 here doesn't mean literal 'fire' but is metonymy for gunfire / battle, the same 火 found in 火力 ('firepower') and 战火 ('flames of war'). Together they reinforce 'battle'.
