For the instructions of the regimental headquarters, the battalion commander, Major Hozersen, decided to carry them out unconditionally. He transferred two combat detachments from the 1st and 2nd companies to form a reconnaissance team of more than 100 people, and solemnly handed over the command of this reconnaissance team to Weiss, a newcomer who had joined the reconnaissance battalion for less than a day.

To be on the safe side, Major Hozersen assigned the second lieutenant officer of the 2nd Company, Ka Demis, to Weiss as his deputy, and the battalion inspector Dogmus also asked to accompany the team.

Major Hozersen's intentions, Weiss can guess most of them, and the distrust, uncertainty, and empathy can also be understood and accepted. After a short time, the assigned combatants were assembled, and after meeting with the leading non-commissioned officers of the detachments, Weiss quickly led the team out.

With force command, Weiss's special reconnaissance abilities were able to be used more fully, and the military skills he learned at the Barston Military Academy and the Delefig Higher Staff College also helped him to command operations with ease. Knowing the location of the nearest enemy unit, he did not lead his men and horses straight forward, but quietly touched forward, constantly observed their movement trend in the process of approaching the enemy, guessed the enemy's inevitable path, and then led the team to set up a temporary ambush position to grasp the best time to attack......

"Attention! The enemy is coming, listen to my orders...... Fire! ”

At Weiss's command, the well-trained Union soldiers immediately opened fire on the enemy in the dark. They were now in the middle of a field with no wide roads or pre-defined fortifications, only ridges and ditches for irrigating the fields. The Normans may have reconnoitred the area in advance and thought it would be safe to pass through, but when attacked, they flipped on their backs, killing and wounding in an instant.

Hit the enemy by surprise in the area under their control, and occupy the ambush momentum, Weiss is not in a hurry, but lowers his posture, steady and steady, after all, there are three or four hundred Normans in front of him, although more than half of the combat effectiveness is "low", it is only because they have just been rescued by their companions, in a hurry, many people are still bare-handed, once they get weapons and ammunition, their combat power can reach or close to the conventional level.

"Everyone, keep shooting, don't move...... Sergeant Haka, keep your detachment on the right flank, the enemy is likely to send small forces to make a detour from this side! Sergeant Legrout, advance fifty feet with your soldiers, and as soon as you are in position, throw the jackball forward, as many as you want, don't hesitate, as long as you catch the living Normans, all of them are back in place, we need to get their battle plan out of the enemy's mouth, understand? ”

As the battle progressed, Weiss continued to issue combat orders to the leaders of each detachment according to the movements of the enemy. In this large-scale counterattack operation, the federal forces did their best, and both the ground forces and the flying fleet had a clear advantage. Among other things, in the Battle of Hoffentis on the left, the Federation fleet firmly held the air supremacy on the battlefield. In tonight's battle, the Norman battleships were taken by surprise into the battlefield and successfully parachuted their marines behind the lines of the Union army, but they were quickly driven away by the Union fleet, a situation that the Normans would not have unexpected. For the marines who have parachuted behind enemy lines and the rescued prisoners of war, they should have been well positioned - either to find ways to get them out of the encirclement, or to let them conduct guerrilla warfare in areas controlled by the federal army. The two directions correspond to completely different strategies, and if the command of the federal army makes a wrong judgment, it will pay unnecessary losses and may even lead to catastrophic consequences.

From the perspective of the overall situation of the battlefield, it is obviously much more important to detect the enemy's intentions early than to ambush and annihilate an enemy army. This is the true positioning of the reconnaissance unit!

On the right flank, the advance defense of the Haka detachment made the Normans who tried to make a detour hit their heads and bleed, while on the left flank, the attack of the Legrout detachment, especially the ferocious wave of thunder, made the Normans unguardable. In Weiss's special vision, the red imaginary frame not only suffered serious attrition, but also panicked for a time, and his mental vitality generally dropped by more than a third.

A short time later, three Union soldiers escorted two Norman soldiers with their hands tied behind their backs to Weiss's side. Due to the light, Weiss did not see the faces of the two captives at first, only that they were both wounded. He asked a few questions in Norman to try to determine whether the two men had been parachuted in that night or had been captured as Norman prisoners of war, but they refused to cooperate.

Weiss pulled out his short saber and frightened: "Live or die, choose!" ”

At this moment, the light of the explosion made Weiss see the faces of the two Normans clearly, and he was immediately surprised: the face pointed by the tip of the knife turned out to be the commander of the "national character face", the Norman major who had let himself go in the Norman barracks.

It's a small world!

Weiss's face was full of surprise, and the Norman officer recognized him, his eyes wide.

Neither of them spoke.

After a moment of hesitation, Weiss called his temporary partner, the second lieutenant officer from the 2nd Company, Ka-Demis, and asked him to assign a competent non-commissioned officer to escort the two Norman soldiers to the battalion headquarters for interrogation, and asked Ka-Demis to tell the non-commissioned officer that he must remind Major Hozersen that the Normans' intention was not necessarily to simply rescue the prisoners of war and break out, and if they intended to carry out guerrilla warfare, then their next target was probably a supply warehouse of the Union Army, It could also be a military camp or fort.

After the order, Weiss turned around and returned to his command post, not thinking about the Norman major for the time being, nor speculating about the whereabouts of the "national character face". Yu Qing, they did let themselves go of a way out, which can be regarded as a life-saving grace, but Yu Li, both sides are their masters, and they are opponents on the battlefield, and they should not show mercy to their subordinates under any circumstances, commanding the troops to ambush the opponent and capture it, Weiss doesn't need to feel even a little guilty!

Looking at this small battlefield where only a few hundred people were involved for the time being, the Normans were unexpectedly ambushed by the Federation army in the process of rapid movement. Seeing that the situation was not good, the Normans quickly retreated with the intention of bypassing the Federalist blocking position, but their every move was firmly watched by Weiss.

"Sergeant Haka, move your detachment four hundred feet south, and then set up a defensive formation on the spot! Sergeant Pakasten, follow with your detachment. Sergeant Vador, come with me with your detachment! Sergeant Legrout, stay here with your men to feint and lure the enemy, and receive reinforcements by the way, understand? Weiss's mind raced, and he uttered one command after another. Although the situation of the night battle was not as clear as that of the day, the sergeants knew how the battle had just been fought, and they were at least convinced and admired the temporary commander, not to mention the five-body surrender. After receiving the new instructions, they did not say much and put them into action. It was with this efficient response that the main force of the Klemberg-Heyssen reconnaissance team took up a good position again before the Normans, and under the command of Acting Captain Clumber-Haisen, they waited patiently for the enemy to approach, and then fired a volley of bullets and grenades, and once again beat the enemy to the point of whining.

Having learned from the previous experience, the Normans were able to retreat this time, and they decisively left behind dozens of their dead and seriously wounded companions and ran in the other direction without looking back.

Intimidated by the changing tactical style of the Normans, and the fact that his improvised team was tasked with "reconnaissance" rather than "fighting", Weiss did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but asked the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, give field medical treatment to the wounded Norman soldiers who were alive, and then escort them back to the battalion headquarters. When the retreating Normans had gone away, Weiss led two detachments to reconnoiter and advance along their tracks.

The group of Normans who were beaten twice on the ground, despite the loss of nearly half of their troops, still tried to go north, it seemed that they wanted to cross the battle line and return to their own control area, but their combat intentions were not equal to the overall plan of the Norman army, Weiss felt that this was a suspicious army that ran counter to the "theme", and he always felt that the Normans would not risk a large-scale airborne operation simply to rescue prisoners of war and lose air supremacy. If he had been the commander of the Norman army at the Battle of Hofentis, he would have tried to weaken his opponent by night and guerrilla warfare, otherwise he would have lost a passive defense against a Union army that had the advantage in both air and ground.

The Norman defeated army, which Weiss was targeting, walked and stopped under the cover of night, and actually passed in front of the positions of the Union troops on two occasions without being detected. Through observation, Weiss noticed that there were several fast-moving outposts in front of their team, which were close to the Federalist positions from time to time, and they did not know what "stealth" they used to be able to walk freely under the noses of the Union soldiers. Their existence is like allowing the commander of the Norman army to use night vision devices, so that they can see the deployment of the federal army at night, so as to avoid the real and make the false, and win more with less......

As they walked, Weiss led the group to a village. Sergeant Vador carefully examined the surrounding terrain against the map, and then reported to Weiss: "Sir, ahead is the defense area of the 793rd Garrison Regiment, and their main task is to guard Arsenal 5. ”

As soon as he heard the arsenal, Weston heard the mouse bark like a cat, and his eyes lit up, and he immediately asked the veteran sergeant about the situation of the No. 5 armory, and learned that it was one of the six baggage hoarding and transfer stations set up by the 9th Corps in the combat area, although it only hoarded one-sixth of the front-line combat materials, but the 9th Corps currently has six whole divisions and a number of regiment-level troops, with a combat strength of more than 100,000 men, and the consumption required to maintain the operation is measured in hundreds of tons per day, which is also a considerable amount.