It was nothing to launch a sweep during the busy farming season to destroy agricultural production—to be precise, it was nothing new in Joseph's view. In another time and space, the Japanese locust army liked to play this hand. But this hand was still completely broken by the heroes of the revolution. And the combat ideas of these people's heroes to crack this lack of morality are also expressed in many old anti-Japanese war movies that Joseph has watched (note, not those later anti-Japanese dramas).

This tactic was called the "flanging tactic" at the time. What it means is that when the enemy "encroaches" and "sweeps" us, it is necessary to come up with a "flanging tactic" militarily, that is, when the enemy enters us, we will fight back to the enemy. (Decentralized Guerrilla Warfare and Political Offensives Against the Enemy)

Of course, Joseph, who was blind in history in his previous life, did not read this kind of professional literature, but it doesn't matter, because Joseph has seen a lot of relatively reliable anti-Japanese war films in his last life, and even anti-Japanese war films directly called "science and education films". In these films, he can often see such bridges.

The head of the large army, holding the hand of the old district chief, said to him: "The devils are sweeping again, and we are now going to jump to the outside line to fight the enemy, protect the masses, and delay the task of the devils, and leave it to you." ”

The old district chief replied firmly: "Please rest assured, the chief, we will definitely complete the task!" ”

The so-called "jumping to the outside line" here is the "enemy enters and I advance" in the "flanging tactics". That is, the main force of our army, taking advantage of the gap between the enemy forces, penetrates directly into the rear of the enemy army. At this time, the enemy's rear happened to be very empty, and the enemy's army was very dependent on the supply of materials from behind.

Of course, this mode of warfare has extremely high requirements for the organization of the army that executes him. It requires this army to be able to break up into pieces, and it can be broken up at any time. Otherwise, when the army takes advantage of the gap between the enemy troops, it will be easy to be caught by the enemy, resulting in serious losses. Today, there is no army in the world that is so organized, including the Irish partisans. So it was actually quite difficult to get the Irish to carry out such a difficult tactic.

But the terrain of Ireland was a great help to the Irish, making it much easier for them to get through the British encirclement. That's the swamps that can be found everywhere on the plains of Ireland.

These swamps are vast and full of dangers, and even locals are afraid to step into them. But with the prepared guerrillas, these swamps became the best areas of concealment and access. After the first sweep of the British army, the Confederacy put the construction of marsh shelters in particular importance by nailing wooden stakes into the swamps and then laying planks on the stakes to create safe roads. And when necessary, remove the planks on it, or even pull out the stakes with ropes, and the original path becomes a deadly trap.

It is impossible for the British to surround these swamps, they do not have so many troops, and doing so will only lead to excessive dispersion of forces, and most of them will be able to concentrate their superior forces and annihilate the enemy. Their main force could only cross these swamps and attack the hinterland of the base area. But in this way, the main force of the guerrillas could also pass through these swamp passages, bypassing the British army and striking targets in the British hinterland.

So, when Joseph mentioned such a tactic in a letter to the leaders of the United Irish Union, almost all of them were blinded.

"Really...... I really didn't expect that there would be such an operation! Hahaha, they come to us to sweep, and we go to them. Tear down the military stations they have spent a lot of effort to build near the cities, move the things they put in the military station, and kill the people they left in the military station to look after their families - in short, we also give them a three-light! "Joyce, the commander of the rebel army, who had served as a platoon commander in Napoleon's Italian legions, and later received special military training in Toulon, was now the commander of the 1st Division of the Independent Army, formed by the Union.

The division of the Federation is actually more similar to the division of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation in later generations, rather than the division of the 18th Group Army. In other words, there are actually less than 1,000 people in one division. But on the side of the Irish Independence Army, this is already the main force. Now under the command of the Federation, there are only two divisions.

"Our strategic goal is to mobilize the enemy, prevent the enemy from destroying the base areas, and not to fall into unnecessary revenge, let alone let emotions affect the work." President Russell said to him very seriously.

"I understand, President. I'm just talking about it casually. It will not affect the work. Joyce said quickly.

"Don't say such things casually in front of wartime. If we want to publicize it, we must go from the perspective of helping our compatriots and brothers in the base areas. ”

"Understood."

"That's good. Then let's all hurry up and work. ”

The preparation of the work is hectic. Especially after making up your mind to fight on the side. All kinds of information will not be gathered to the headquarters, and the various configurations of the enemy army will gradually become clear......

A small mining village is a small village located between a "quasi-security zone" and a "non-security zone". Many years ago, there used to be a small copper mine in the vicinity, hence the name of the village. Today, the copper mines near the village have long since been abandoned because the ore has been mined, and the miners have moved away, and the rest of the people have become potato farmers.

After the last sweep, the village was completely dead, but the village was not abandoned, and the peasants who had escaped from the British-controlled areas became the new villagers of the small mining village.

The news that the British army was coming to sweep again had already been notified to every household by the militia of the district squad. They also specifically mentioned: "We must follow our usual training, and after receiving the notice, we must take refuge in the swamp next to it in an organized manner, and do not hide in the mine." During the last sweep, the villagers hid in the mines, but the British smoked and the whole village died! ”

In fact, everyone in the village already knows this story, and even the village already has all kinds of terrifying legends about the mine. But everyone still expressed their gratitude to the comrades of the district team.

At noon that day, everyone was still busy on the field, but they heard someone blowing a whistle.

Everyone hurriedly looked up at the top of the hill over there, and sure enough, they saw that the news tree had fallen.

"Follow me, everyone, and go to the shelter immediately!" Village Chief Sean shouted.

"Village chief, my wife is still in the village." Someone shouted.

"It's okay, there are people in the village. You just follow me straight to the shelter. The village chief said.

The village chief led the men all the way to the edge of the swamp, and at the intersection into the swamp, a member of the district squad was guarding with a rifle captured from the black dog. Behind him, a plank-paved road stretched dozens of meters ahead.

"Edgar, have all the people who stayed in the village gone in?" The village chief asked.

"They all went in, and the animals brought in whatever they wanted." Edgar replied.

The village chief waved his hand at everyone and shouted, "Okay, everyone hurry in!" ”

One by one, everyone stepped onto the boardwalk. Seeing that everyone had walked down the road, Chief Sean and Edgar began to walk inside, and everyone walked all the way, putting away the planks all the way, and then laying them in front, and using ropes to pull up the stakes that supported the planks behind them, or pull them crookedly. So the place they walked was restored to a swamp overgrown with all kinds of aquatic plants.

"Look, village chief, there's smoke over there!" Someone shouted.

"Looks like it's in the direction of our village!"

"The British are really coming, do you think they dare to chase in?"

"I'm afraid they won't come in. These bad things dare to come in, how many comes, how many Lao Tzu kills them. Edgar scolded as he grabbed the gun in his hand.

After a while, a group of British troops and a group of "black dogs" came to the edge of the swamp.

"Report sir. Looking at the traces, those villagers should have entered the swamp. A black dog officer said to another British officer on a horse.

The villagers brought some livestock, which left footprints and droppings when they moved, so the British and the black dogs chased them all the way here.

"Well, that's good." The British officer first raised his binoculars and looked into the swamp. The swamp is full of tall and low reeds and other aquatic plants, and occasionally a few waterfowl can be seen flying by. As for the rest, nothing can be seen.

"Good." The British officer nodded again, and then said to the "vigilante" officer standing in front of his horse, "Take your men and go ahead to find the way." ”

The officer of the "security army" trembled with fright, and almost knelt down: "Sir, this kind of swamp can't be entered, you see that the water is not very deep, but, but the mud below does not know how deep it is, maybe, if you step on it, the whole person will sink!" You can't get in! ”

"Can't get in? So how did those rebels get in? ”

"Sir, they're locals, so they might know how to get there. We are outsiders, and we don't know where it's deep or shallow, so if we go in like this, we're going to die. ”

"Dead people? Captain, we're at war! Afraid of the dead, what kind of battle are you fighting? You Irish, all of you are only going to be cheating and tricky...... How? Do you want to disobey military orders? ”

Seeing that the British officer seemed to be already reaching for his pistol, the captain of the "security army" didn't dare to say anything more, and quickly nodded: "What the commander said is that we are ordered to ......"

Then he came to his team, grabbed a few people out at random, brandished a pistol and said: "You give Lao Tzu to the front to explore the way, whoever dares not to go, Lao Tzu will kill him......"