Chapter 58: The Law of the Battlefield
Returning to Lorraine was an important achievement for General Punk, even if the road ahead was bumpy and full of thorns, and in Weiss's eyes, it was not only a head-scratching adventure, but also a test of will, courage, ability, and even luck. When he made up his mind to cooperate with General Punk to do this vote, he already had a plan in his heart about how to fight this guerrilla war. This kind of calculation is based on full practice, experience, lessons, and the essence of war from another time and space. From a certain point of view, combat is like cooking, and the combination of good dishes and good ingredients may not be a delicacy. Therefore, during his brief return to the Delefig Higher Staff Academy, he tried to demonstrate his guerrilla warfare strategy with the help of the brilliant minds of the instructors and cadets. Based on the fact that the federal army is not yet able to completely and continuously control air supremacy, this guerrilla strategy can not help but be a little cowardly, and can even be described as obscene, so 21 of the 23 people who have consulted have different opinions, and only two of them feel that this expedient measure is also a rational solution.
The opposition of the majority, which did not make Weiss give up his views, weakened his confidence to a certain extent, but in any case, the arrow was already on the string and had to be sent. Under the campaign of General Punk and his capable generals, it was not long before a partisan advance force of more than 2,000 people assembled in the small town of Fern in the southern part of the Union. According to the plan, before they leave for the battlefield, they will go through a two-week special training to get everyone used to this difficult combat mode as soon as possible.
The special training time is not long, but for this team, for Weiss, who is about to be ordered to go out, it is very important. Due to the special nature of the environment, guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines is very different from the frontal battlefield in terms of tactics and tactics, troop replenishment, and logistical support, and it is necessary to make as adequate preparations as possible in terms of personnel, materials, and even spiritual thinking. Of the more than 2,000 people, more than 90 percent were new to guerrilla warfare, and everything they knew came from hearing and teaching, and less than 10 percent, or about 200 people, had participated in guerrilla warfare, and among these people, only 20 were old acquaintances who had fought side by side with Weiss in Lorraine. In addition to Lorraine, in the federal states occupied by the Norman army, such as Clevaud, Neuchâtel, and Movallu, the federal military and civilians also launched tenacious guerrilla warfare, which lasted for a long time, and was large and small.
Today, guerrilla warfare in almost all regions has gone underground, and although the resistance has not stopped, compared with the vigorous atmosphere of the early stage, the influence of guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines among the people is much less than before, and the same is true in the eyes of the military and political leaders. As the commander of the guerrilla warfare command of the Federal Army, General Punk wanted to get out of this unappreciated predicament, which was simpler and more complicated, he wanted to find a way out of many difficulties. Not to mention his selfish intentions, there is indeed something worthy of respect for him who is willing to seek the near and far, and to sacrifice simplicity and complexity.
A few days later, a detachment sent by the Union special forces arrived in the small town of Fern, and the guerrilla advance team was fully assembled, and in addition to the neat lineup, Weiss also met an old man, more precisely, who had heard that he was here, so he made a special trip to talk about it in the name of tolerance.
During the war years, Weiss could only greet guests with ordinary aged tea, but the friendship accumulated in the flames of war could not be detained by ordinary things. Octavier Grumman, the former goddess of Baseton, and now the Red Rose of the Federal Army's special forces, sip tea while faintly feeling nostalgia for time and fate. The two of them chose to avoid the place where the task force was about to go and the foreseeable and unforeseeable difficulties in the future, but Octavier had both an objective understanding of guerrilla warfare and a unique insight and idea, and the exchange of time was not long enough to give Weiss the inspiration he had been so desperate for at the Deelefig High Staff Academy.
Before parting, Octavier gave Weiss a silver pistol. It was a trophy taken from the Normans, and judging by the material, workmanship, and purely decorative ornamentation, it is impossible to tell which general had a spear.
"Perhaps by the end of the war, the enemy officers who died at my hands will be like wild animals that have died at the hands of hunters." Octavier said proudly.
"Why are you so good!" Weiss exclaimed with heartfelt admiration.
Octavir didn't respond, and as she reached the door, she said, "After the Battle of Aocheng, I spent a lot of time and energy researching explosives, because precision blasting is more tactical than sniping and fighting, and even if the amount of explosives used is not large, it can be very effective. This time, there are two non-commissioned officers in the detachment we sent who are proficient in demolition technology, although they are not as good as our best demolition experts, and it is enough to carry out regular demolition tasks. ”
Weiss nodded hurriedly, indicating that he had written it down.
"This farewell, maybe there will be no chance to meet again, please cherish it!" In the last sentence, Octavier's eyes showed determination. Isn't this posture going to perform a mission that has no return?
Weiss opened his mouth, his emotions churning, but in the end he just gave a sentence of "how precious".
Octavir left, and a combat detachment of twenty men sent by the Special Forces, along with men and weapons, was incorporated into the guerrilla advance team. Weiss was no stranger to the Union Special Forces, from the Battle of Monamolin to the earth-shattering Battle of Aocheng, and then the Guerrilla War in Lorraine, he fought side by side with the officers and soldiers of the Special Forces many times, and knew their strong combat effectiveness and strong willpower. Compared with the field troops, the special service elites are better at fighting in special environments, and simply assuming that the more than 2,000 people sent to Lorraine have met their standards, this guerrilla war is naturally handy, but the reality is that except for the special service detachments and veterans who have participated in guerrilla warfare, most of the personnel of the advance team cannot even meet the conventional standards of the front-line field troops, and there is a gap between them and the special service units that are one in a hundred.
The gap in the quality of soldiers will not be able to be made up for a while, not to mention that real soldiers grow up in battle. Weiss resolutely started with the backbone of the team, conducted intensive training for officers and non-commissioned officers every night, instilled in their consciousness the concept and essentials of guerrilla warfare, and painstakingly organized two small-scale drills close to actual combat, so that they could really understand the difficulty of guerrilla warfare and also let them see the hope of breaking the situation.
At the beginning of the advance team's assembly, the soldiers were issued with conventional weapons of the Federal Army. Guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, solving the problem of ammunition supply is nothing more than three ways: supply, self-production, and capture. The federal army and the Norman army have their own mature military industrial system, take the most common standard rifle as an example, the structure, caliber, and performance have their own merits, if the Norman army bullet into the federal army rifle, or the federal army bullet into the Norman army rifle, the light is useless, the heavy is explosive.
In the original guerrilla warfare in Lorraine, the fighters used federal weapons. Disposition. Although the guerrilla forces have a certain amount of military production capacity, they still suffer from a shortage of ammunition for a long period of time. It was based on this consideration that, at Weiss's suggestion, General Punk managed to get a batch of weapons that met the requirements. The first is the "combination" of the Grumman rifle and the Norman rifle, that is, the Grumman-N rifle. This rifle is a special rifle developed according to the needs of guerrilla warfare, and its appearance is similar to the tandem double-barreled shotgun, this double-barrel configuration is not to enhance instantaneous firepower, but to deal with two different caliber ammunition of the federal army and the Norman army, at the expense of the combat rate of fire, to improve the adaptability to the complex battlefield environment. Second, it is based on the standard light machine gun of the Norman army, according to the federal military industry standards to convert the Grumman Z light machine gun, this weapon uses the federal army standard rifle cartridge, although it does not have dual-caliber versatility, but the ammunition is relatively easy to replenish, after the ammunition is exhausted, the use of captured Norman army equipment, the operation can be quickly adapted. Although this semi-automatic rifle has the problems of high recoil, poor burst accuracy, and high failure rate, compared with the small-caliber semi-automatic rifle with better evaluation, the versatility of the ammunition can greatly reduce the supply pressure, and the purpose of enhancing the firepower density of the basic combat unit has been achieved. Fourth, it was originally produced by the Clumberg-Haisen factory, because it worked very well in the Lorraine guerrilla battlefield, the federal army organized the rear factory to carry out mass production for other guerrilla units, and later the federal army front-line troops also had equipment, so that the frontal battlefield close fire support was enhanced, and then derived a lot of novel battlefield tactics.
Six Grumman-N rifles, 200 Grumman N-light machine guns, and 1,500 C-type semi-automatic rifles supported by the Grumman Group and two other military-industrial enterprises have been delivered to the federal officers and soldiers who are about to go to Lorraine. In addition, the Federal Forces allocated 2 million rounds of standard rifle ammunition, 100,000 spinach rounds, 60 mortars, and 30,000 mortar shells, which were carried directly by flying transport ships carrying out airborne missions behind enemy lines.
With 2,400 heavily armed combatants and thousands of boxes of ammunition, it is not practical to rely on transport planes to transport them. While making every effort to develop and produce combat aircraft, the federal army did not completely abandon the flying ships with Xingyuan Stone as the floating power, but used the existing resources to carry out strategic restructuring - the combat ships are mainly cruisers and corvettes to carry out patrol, alert and reconnaissance missions, and the auxiliary ships are mainly high-speed transport ships and integrated carriers to carry out battlefield support and rapid transportation tasks. It is worth mentioning that the integrated carrier usually carries a certain number of combat aircraft, which can be used for reconnaissance and attack, and interception and defense for retreat, while the large integrated carrier can carry dozens or even hundreds of fighters, playing the role of a mobile field airfield, and providing strong support for the ground and air combat operations of the federal army.