Chapter 64: The enemy retreats, and I advance

After deciding on the operational strategy of using the guerrilla advance force to raid the mountain city of Slien, Weiss arranged for the participants to conduct targeted drills, and at the same time seized the time to reconnoiter and analyze the deployment of the Norman army, and passed on the rough combat plan and support requirements to the federal army through intelligence channels. On the outskirts of Slyen, almost under the noses of the enemy, they waited patiently for more than a week, waiting for the battle deployment to be perfected, and also waiting for the "time of day", to be precise, for a morning fog.

At dusk, the next day, the harbingers of fog appeared, and after nightfall, more than 2,000 officers and men of the guerrilla advance detachment were divided into 16 combat detachments and quietly approached the standby position outside the city of Slane from the concealed area. In order to prevent their whereabouts from being leaked, they still only asked the local resistance group to send 5 reliable backbones, plus 5 intelligence officers lurking here, to guide the various combat detachments. As dawn approached and the fog began to rise, the 10 combat detachments in front of the assault advanced from their standby positions to their intended attack points, which were either the homes of Resistance members, or the outdoor bushes and ditches, each of which Weiss had visited and manually measured. These attack points, with mortars, could be used to shell the outer anti-aircraft positions of the Normans, and at the same time, they were also the starting points for the attack, from which the fighters of the advance party would advance after the battle began.

Thick fog, even though it was still dark, Weiss ordered the advance team to break the radio silence and use the radio to continuously send the "attack day" code signal to the Federal Army flying units. As he had expected, the Normans quickly detected the anomalous radio signal, and although they did not know the actual meaning of the code, they were able to quickly determine the station's position by conventional technical means. About twenty minutes after the telegram was sent, a convoy of armored fighting vehicles rushed out of the city of Slane, and rushed to the location of the task force's radio station, but there was no siren in the city, and most of the Norman soldiers were still sleeping soundly in their respective barracks.

On the way from Slien to the task force's radio position, Weiss set up an ambush in advance, and when the Norman convoy passed, the ambush began, and the battle for the assault on Slien sounded......

Taking the lead is Weiss's usual fighting style, and the more difficult and dangerous it is, the more you have to be above and below - this is a bit high-sounding to say, but the truth is true. After the overall deployment was in place, he handed over the command of the immediate response to the second commander of the advance team, Major Di Maleka, and followed the first combat detachment into battle.

The first 10 detachments, each corresponding to a target, the mortar group is responsible for suppressing the fire, the combatants launch a surprise attack, and the rear 6 detachments are mainly responsible for covering and responding, and when the front detachment is blocked in a certain position, they will follow up and support.

In the climate of the Lorraine Mountains, it is not surprising that this morning fog lasts at least three or five hours, and it does not dissipate until noon, which may seem like a long time, but by the standards of a fortified battle, it seems very cramped, and it is necessary to maximize the effectiveness of the battle—Weiss knew this very well, and he did not hesitate to risk being killed by stray bullets at any time, and led the first detachment through the enemy's minefields and barbed wire, over the trenches on the periphery of the position, and inexorably rushed to the first enemy field position. In order to grab as much time as possible!

The position was located outside the Norman-constructed "moat" and was deployed around a small hill. On the hill are observation/guidance posts, under the hill the inner ring are artillery bunkers, and in the outer ring are infantry defensive positions. In addition to air defense, it also has a ground defense function. On the way from the attack point to the enemy position, Weiss constantly used his special skills to observe the situation of the opponent. Normally, this position was garrisoned by four or five hundred men, more than half of whom were gunners and the rest were combatants. At night, they did not sleep in the trenches, but in the barracks next to the positions. From the barracks to the gun position, the nearest three to five hundred feet, the distance is about a thousand feet, and it takes a maximum of one or two minutes to run over. The 10 combat detachments that took the lead, each armed with three mortars, were not particularly precise in their suppression of the shelling, but the effect of the surprise attack was fully evident in the continuous explosions, the Normans woke up from their sleep and ran out of the barracks with rolling and crawling, some were killed by mortar shells, and some were accidentally trampled by their companions, and the scene was very chaotic.

Weiss's "human radar" skill is equivalent to opening the fog of war, he ran with all his strength without scruples, and the soldiers of the first detachment followed him all the way, when they rushed into this field position of the Normans, the Norman sentries on duty here did not blow up the mortar into slag, but the mortar shells were so frightened that they hid in the trenches and fired indiscriminately. Weiss was not polite to them, and it was a hard work when he went up with two guns. When he was done, he turned around and directed his soldiers to rely on the trenches and use rifles and spinball rounds to stop the enemy coming from the barracks. On one side were the highly concentrated warriors who had already entered the battle state in advance, and on the other side were the panicked Norman soldiers, mostly empty-handed, and despite the darkness of night and morning fog, it still evolved into a completely one-sided battle.

Seeing that the position had been stabilized, Weiss ordered the orderly to fire a green flare into the air to convey the good news to all the participants. Immediately afterwards, he asked the two special service soldiers who came with him to take charge of the largest caliber artillery on the position, and the ordinary soldiers who led the advance team used these guns to shoot at the enemy's field positions within the "moat" that were not included in the first wave of attack targets - this strategy of "subduing the enemy with the enemy", supplemented by Weiss's "human radar", seemed to solve all problems once and for all. In fact, the anti-aircraft artillery here is a ballistic cannon, which basically does not have the ability to warp fire, and the Norman positions are usually separated by hills, houses and other obstacles between the positions, even if the artillery in control of a position cannot attack targets within the theoretical range at will, and in the end it can only solve part of the problem......

Through the night and morning fog, Weiss saw that nine other detachments were also methodically encroaching on the enemy's positions as planned. The Normans had more than thirty anti-aircraft positions in Slyen, but some of them were located in the city, others in the east and southeast, near the Norman military airport, and had to pass through the city to reach them, and these positions were not within the reach of the partisan advance force and were not considered in Weiss's plan. It is really apportioned, the 10 combat detachments in front of the assault, each team only needs to remove two places, and the expected combat objectives can be achieved - it seems very simple to say, the real sword and real guns are fighting, and the difficulty of the "first kill" is relatively smaller, and when the "re-kill" is made, the enemy's preparation is relatively sufficient, and the reinforcements in the city have also acted, and the difficulty will increase a lot.

In the mist, Weiss shouted: "One group stays, pay attention to concealment, and guard against enemy shelling!" Group two, follow me! Two groups! All come with me! ”

After a while, half of the combatants of the combat detachment followed the sound and converged in front of Weiss, just when the mortar group that had followed the green flare also arrived. Weiss weighed the situation, left two mortar crews, and asked them to bombard the "moat" blockade in front of them with a third of their ammunition, and then set out with the fighters and a mortar group, and after a fatal rush, successfully passed through the "moat" blockade opened by their own artillery fire, and went straight to another enemy position at the end of the fire.

This position, however, is a fixed position with permanent fortifications, and more than half of the artillery is placed in reinforced concrete fortifications, which is not the most fatal, and the only way to the position is blocked by machine guns and machine guns, which are also deployed in strong fortifications, whether it is air bombardment or ground assault, it will cost a lot of money to capture it.

In view of the most optimistic situation in the first phase of the battle, Weiss took half of the combat detachment to challenge this difficult hard bone, which seemed to be out of his secret determination to "hold on and not float" before returning to Lorraine - if the enemy reacted quickly enough, he was likely to lose one step and implicate the whole situation, so when he made this choice, he was very struggling and apprehensive in his heart, but after making the choice, he rushed forward with his soldiers. The "moat" went inside, which basically belonged to the daily activity area of the garrison troops, and it was unnecessary and inconvenient to lay mines and build barbed wire belts. In his special vision, the position was full of running Normans, some of whom had already entered the fortifications, and it didn't take much time to get the machine guns ready for fire......

"Who are you?" Suddenly, a question shouted loudly.

Weiss was mentally prepared and replied in Norman: "Go and report that the airborne troops of the Federation Army have launched an attack on us!" ”

At this moment, the artillery fire was roaring everywhere, and the explosions were heard one after another, and the Normans in front only heard the other party reply in Norman, but they did not hear the content clearly, and asked loudly again with their guns, and this time, Weiss threw a pineapple bullet over in response.

"Enemy attack......" The man had barely uttered half a sentence when he was covered up by the explosion of the pineapple bullet. In order to deliberately confuse the enemy's hearing and hearing, Weiss shouted in Norman: "Enemy attack, fire quickly outside the city!" ”

The shouting bought the raiders a precious moment, and they soon came to the location of the detonation of the spinach shell, and the Norman soldier, who was already aware, was killed outside the bunker. Weiss rushed into the bunker with two guns, and there were two Norman soldiers who were stunned by the bombing, and they were stunned to reload the machine guns, but they didn't even see what the other party looked like, so they were shot twice and reimbursed on the spot.

The fixed positions of the Normans, fortifications and fortifications were connected to each other, although they were not necessarily connected internally, and most of them were connected by trenches or side roads. With the combat experience he had gained in Aocheng and Lorraine, Weiss decisively led the soldiers to start the fortification sweeping mode of slamming and striking, and fearless of death......