Chapter 86: Tough Enemy

Although the Norman army in front of them was caught off guard by Weiss's perverse inverted "eight" ambush formation, and lost about a third of its men and horses in just two minutes, they did not collapse - the survivors were neither scattered in all directions, nor lying on their stomachs waiting for death, but showed strong tenacity and combat organization, and in extremely passive situations, they alternately covered the retreat towards the foot of the slope, quickly forming an irregular temporary defensive line, those rearguard troops that were still on the hill before, He also quickly climbed the hill and entered the battle. For Weiss and his soldiers, the battle was like a knife cutting butter, and it went so smoothly that it seemed that it would take a few minutes to wipe out all the enemies, but instead of making them all the end, the "butter" hardened up, and with the same or even more effort, they could only cut down a little......

Ambushing an enemy army three times its size with less than 300 troops is a game of "snake swallowing elephants", and it is necessary not only to be bold, but also to be careful. As soon as he realized that something was wrong, Weiss quickly changed his strategy, and when he could not mobilize the two groups of fighters on the opposite side in time, he ordered the two groups of fighters on his side, some of them to concentrate machine gun and mortar fire to suppress the enemy on the hill, and some of them to throw spinach bullets at the enemy on the slope and below, regardless of the consumption, and personally operated a semi-automatic rifle to kill the enemy targets relatively far away from the slope one by one.

After firing a magazine, seeing someone at the bottom of the slope firing a red and yellow signal flare into the air, Weiss hurriedly turned his head to inspect the position of the Norman battleship - this guy who has always been lingering has heard the sound, and the signal flare that is rising into the air undoubtedly provides it with the best positioning reference.

Come on! I'm not afraid of your recklessness, I'm afraid of your cowardice! Come on!

Weiss roared in his heart. He ordered the gunners to stop dealing with the remnants of the enemy on the hill and prepare to deal with the enemy ships with all their might. On a rainy night, the Norman battleship with the searchlight on is a striking target in the night sky, even without his precise guidance, the gunners adjust while fighting, and the hit rate will not be too much of a problem, the key is that the guy suffered a big loss before, even if his ground forces are in a critical situation, he still maintains a thousand-foot altitude, mortar shells can't be touched at all, and the strategy of keeping a distance is a double-edged sword, the Norman crew can't distinguish friend or foe from those figures that look like mud figures, just through the fireworks signal, it is easy to be interfered with- After the Norman ships opened fire, the guerrilla task force fighters fired several flares at the top of the hill and several flares at the bottom of the slope, using the signal guns they had captured from the Norman prisoners of war.

Seeing that both sides of the war were firing flares to guide artillery fire on each other's side, the Normans flying in the sky also knew that there was something wrong with this, and only fired a few shots, and then hastily stopped firing. Next, they could only turn on their dazzling searchlights and circle around the chaotic battlefield.

Using a simple strategy to disrupt the enemy's air support, Weiss, a guerrilla colonel, immediately took the opportunity to lead his fighters to carry out an oppressive attack on the enemy troops at the foot of the slope. The ambush troops on the opposite side did not receive orders, and continued to maintain their original formation and tactics under the command of other officers, and invisibly became the tactical fulcrum of the guerrilla advance force on this battlefield...... In a short time, Weiss's men and horses pressed close to the enemy's flank, and another fierce attack was carried out without any attrition, and the soldiers gave the enemy almost all the spinach bullets they had brought here. They lightened their burdens, boosted their morale, and boiled their blood in battle, as long as Weiss gave an order, they would be like the tiger coming down the mountain, and they would rush into the enemy's battle line with hand-to-hand combat, but this kind of fighting style was extremely costly, unless the enemy quickly collapsed, disarmed and surrendered, otherwise, it was basically a thousand kills and eight hundred. Naturally, this method of attrition warfare should be avoided as much as possible in guerrilla warfare in enemy-occupied areas.

According to past experience, generally only when they reach one-third of the full value, they are in a state of losing the will to fight, and they will basically surrender as soon as they shout at them, while more than one-third and less than two-thirds are usually only disappointed, frustrated, and fearful, and it is easier to give up resistance in a desperate situation. So, after throwing a wave of thunder at the enemy, he beckoned his soldiers to shoot at the enemy on the spot—in the eyes of the Normans, the ambushers were attacking from far and near, left and right, as if they were everywhere, and that his ships were unable to provide effective support due to the poor and confused line of sight, and there was little hope of getting out of the predicament. Even so, they helped each other in this cold and frustrated rainy night, dragging their wounded companions even if they could be hit by bullets at any moment...... This kind of fighting quality, which used to appear more in the descriptions of the previous generation, seems to be only able to be achieved on the battlefield today.

Under the stubborn resistance of the Normans, Weiss and his warriors seized the initiative and killed and wounded a large number of enemy soldiers through a series of changes, but the battle remained stagnant as time went on. Seeing that the enemy at the foot of the slope has gathered his formation and retreated in an orderly manner, if this continues, they will soon be able to get out of the ambush circle and get rid of the dilemma of being attacked by the opponent from all sides, and when that time comes, the strength of this Norman force with large numbers, good training, and strong fighting spirit will keep the victory away from the guerrilla task force led by Weiss, and when they have to withdraw from the battle, the Normans are likely to change from passive to active, and try to bite the opponent or follow closely, as long as they are caught until dawn, the offensive and defensive momentum will be completely reversed......

Can't let this big fish with sharp teeth slip away! Weiss beckoned the herald to fire the Union's red flares, three in a row, indicating that all the participating units here would launch a general attack on the enemy—even if they did not have time to fully plan for the battle, the officers of the other guerrilla advance party knew what to do when they saw the signal.

The signal flares rose into the night sky one after another, and the first to react was not their own troops, but the Norman battleship like a hot pot ant, and I don't know if it received a telegram from the ground forces asking for help, or if it knew that the enemy's three signal flares meant the final attack, and at this time it no longer cared about the threat of the opponent's ground firepower, and reduced the flight altitude to two or three hundred feet at a speed that was discernible to the naked eye, which was within the range of the pistols of the ground personnel!

This Norman battleship is certainly a big fish that Weiss wants to clean up, but it came at a very bad time, and it can even be said that it has the opportunity to make Weiss the most uncomfortable. In this case, he had to have the herald fire two more green flares, so that all the mortar crews would shift the target to the enemy ship, so that the fire support of the pursuing enemy was suddenly drained.

The enemy ships came quickly, the mortar groups were scattered on both sides, and there was no way to organize a complete and fierce fire attack as before, especially on the side led by Weiss, the mortar group had already consumed most of the ammunition in the previous battle, and then when it came to the enemy, the most taboo hesitated and hesitated, Weiss decisively withdrew, and directly commanded the mortar group on his side to launch a quick attack on the enemy ship - dozens of mortar shells were thrown at the "wounded" Norman cruiser in just half a minute, The hit rate was much lower than the previous ambush in the woods, but the few hits were enough to make the hearts of the panicked enemies tremble! Immediately afterwards, the guerrilla advance team deployed on the other side also opened heavy fire on the enemy ships with mortar fire. In this fierce air-to-ground and ground-to-air fire, the Norman battleship fell into disadvantage from the beginning: blind shooting, slow movement, as if it was a lame archer on a camel, although the artillery fire from the ground was very weak, smashed several times in a row, and destroyed the few firepower points of the opponent in a few places, and the shells that hit the stern also made its previously damaged propulsion and steering devices "worse". If it was infinite ammo, it would have been a matter of minutes for the guy to be finished, but Weiss's gunner quickly reminded him that he was running out of ammunition.

At this moment, what else is there to say, do it to death!

Suddenly, the last mortar shell was fired, and the mortar fire on this side fell into complete silence, and the more than 30 gunners who had been freed up, under Weiss's command, immediately took up their weapons and threw themselves into the attack on the enemy marines. Weiss was not ambiguous, seeing that the enemy warship had only a few rapid-fire guns and machine guns still available, he drew his two guns, led the soldiers to step over the enemy corpses at the bottom of the slope, ignored the bullets that did not have long eyes and the bayonets hanging with water droplets and glowing cold light, and resolutely strangled the enemy rear guard troops, and the guerrilla advance fighters on the other side also killed here, and they joined forces to solve the enemy combat force behind the Fenyong Hall in three or two blows. At this time, they seemed to be only a stone's throw away from victory, but in Weiss's special vision, relying on the desperate delay of the rearguard troops, two or three hundred enemy officers and soldiers had already distanced themselves from the guerrilla advance team, their formation was relatively concentrated, and they still had guns and ammunition in their hands, and the remaining searchlights of the Norman battleship provided them with a faint and precious light, and Weiss's existing casualties not to mention, even if more than 200 people rushed hard, this distance would make them lose a lot, and they might even be repelled by the enemy.

Weiss judged the situation and ordered the soldiers not to pursue the retreating enemy, at this time more than half of the combatants involved in the ambush had already come to the bottom of the slope, he took advantage of the situation to gather troops in the opposite direction of the enemy, organized the battle line, and asked the heralds to rush to the opposite hillside to beckon the mortar crews that were still firing at the enemy ships to move with the team, and just as the heralds were trekking on the muddy hillside, the enemy ships in the air ate a few more mortar shells, and I don't know what the specific situation was, it suddenly rose up a large fireball and trembled for a few seconds. Like a wild dog that has been beaten, it fled the scene in a hurry, only to see it quickly climb upward, but only a few seconds later, the steel body suddenly lost its original ability to float, and fell straight down, falling for a distance, as if it was dragged by an invisible hand, and stopped the momentum of falling, when it was frozen at a height of less than two hundred feet above the ground, many objects, fragments and even things similar to bodies fell from the ship, and small explosions occurred on the side of the ship one after another...... In Weiss's eyes, this is already a wreck that cannot be protected by itself, and even if it can continue to float, it will be difficult to exert influence on the competition on the ground.