Chapter 88: Luring the Enemy with Your Body
31 vs. 33, with the ambush effect and fire control bonus, the fighters of the Federal Guerrilla Task Force turned a close encounter into a one-sided Rush. Within a quarter of an hour, the enemy had only six combatable soldiers, and the rest were either killed or wounded. At this point, this blocking battle basically played the effect of the war of annihilation, and Weiss adhered to the "dry" word formula, and decided to use a clean and neat slaughter battle to make the follow-up enemy feel mentally shocked and impacted, so that they would have palpitations and gradually become timid in the center of the battle in the back. Before pulling out his two guns and rushing out as usual, he activated his special vision as usual to observe the enemy situation in the distance, and at this look, his face suddenly became gloomy: the enemy ground troops appeared in the woods in the distance, and it would take more than ten minutes to get here, which was not a threat, the key was that an enemy ship suddenly appeared in the night sky!
The energy consumption was too great before, Weiss didn't use the special vision for a while, and in just a few minutes, this Norman battleship that appeared like a ghost came at a rapid speed, and it was less than forty miles away at this moment. At its current speed, it will be there in five or six minutes! What's worse is that it is a cruiser that cannot be dealt with by mortars - judging from the battle readings, it is likely to be the Norman light cruiser the day before yesterday, and compared with the situation of the previous day, there are at least two hundred additional carriers, which is most likely the Marine troops who came with the ship!
Having missed the opportunity to annihilate the enemy's reconnaissance detachment, Weiss was a little annoyed and frustrated, but his mood was generally calm. "The enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is stationed and I disturb, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I chase." This 16-character guerrilla policy was not only deeply engraved in his mind, but also integrated into his operational thinking. Seeing the enemy's reinforcements from afar, he put aside his luck and ordered a retreat without hesitation, and as always, he personally retreated.
The rainy night was cold and noisy, and the few remaining enemy soldiers were aware of the evacuation of the guerrilla advance fighters, but under Weiss's precise strikes, they were pressed down as soon as they emerged, so how could they have the courage to follow the pursuit? It wasn't until Weiss had also walked a long distance that someone hit a red signal band into the sky in the place where the enemy was blocked.
If you look closely, you can see that it is still the characteristic red and yellow flare of the Norman army.
A moment later, the Norman cruiser with four searchlights turned on jumped into the forest like a four-legged super beetle. Its armor emboldens its pilots to hover close to the ground, and in the shadows behind the searchlight beams, the guns are like a pair of fangs, with the terrifying power to destroy everything......
On the way to transfer, Weiss saw that the enemy cruiser did not first go to detect the forced landing of the corvette, nor did it meet with the main force of the ground forces, but went to the forefront of his own battle line - the position where the ground reconnaissance detachment was ambushed, and suddenly had a bad feeling: this Norman light cruiser returned here this time, not only with a strong purpose, but also received a clear combat order, which is not easy to deal with! If their first target is the combat strength of the enemy who has just ambushed the ground reconnaissance detachment, then they can take the soldiers to go around in circles with them, but if they think about it from another perspective, if the high-level commander who is in charge of this battle is a powerful character, he will definitely adopt the strategy of grasping the big and letting go of the small, and take the main force of the guerrilla advance force as the primary target.
Under the cover of the rearguard troops, the main force of the guerrilla advance force of more than 2,000 people should have reached dozens of miles away by now, and it would take a long time to pursue it on foot, but for the Norman cruisers, a mere hundred miles was a journey of more than twenty minutes. Judging from this, the most urgent goal of the Normans at present was to find out the traces of the main force of the guerrilla advance force in this vast mountain forest, and the most direct way to achieve this was to grab the opponent's tail, that is, to force out the whereabouts of the main force from the mouths of the officers and men of the rearguard troops.
Out of secrecy, Weiss personally agreed with Lieutenant Colonel Lear on the retreat route of the main force, and no one on the rearguard side knew this important information except Weiss. In the unfortunate event that Weiss is killed or unconscious, the rearguard will have to return to the secret camp and join the main force at their final destination. Judging from the course of the battle, this arrangement was undoubtedly correct, not only did they lose three fighters before the slope ambush battle, but the ambush battle ended in a hurry, and it was too late to clear the battlefield, and it was inevitable that there would be seriously wounded and unconscious companions missing, and they would most likely fall into the hands of the Normans and be interrogated by the enemy to extract confessions, and the enemy would not get key information from them no matter what means they used......
In the line of sight, the super big jumping insect suddenly changed from four-legged to eight-legged, and the bright searchlight beam was like a sharp spear, piercing holes one by one from the hazy curtain of the rainy night, the visual difference between large and small, light and dark, gave people a psychological shock, not to mention that this Norman cruiser really had the powerful strength of a salvo to knock down a hill!
Seeing the enemy ships flying close to the treetops, Weiss hurriedly beckoned his soldiers to hide under large trees large enough to hide their figures, or simply burrow into the low bushes. After they stepped into the role of the Tibetan Cat, the beam of the searchlight quickly swept over the area. Immediately afterward, a loud roar came from overhead, a chaotic stream of air beckoning cold raindrops into people's faces, and the noise of the machinery grew louder and louder, until the Norman battleship passed by, and all the noise and turbulence gradually subsided.
Is this over? Of course not! It's not that simple! After pursuing for a distance, no trace of the target was found, the super big jumping insect burst into anger, and the naval guns began to fire shells to the ground without warning and disorderly, the roar of the main guns was like thunder, and the shells were even more shaken when they fell, even if it was a first-class secondary gun, the power was comparable to the previous cruiser main gun, and there were more numbers, faster rate of fire, and more ammunition.
The enemy's artillery fire seemed to be aimless, but in fact it was bombarding any suspicious location, and as long as the pace and time were calculated, the logical area was delineated and ploughed up, and the little beasts hiding in the woods could always be blasted out. With this in mind, when the enemy ship's searchlight searched other areas, Weiss ordered the soldiers to move in a small area, scattering to find concealment with an anti-shelling effect. It didn't take long for the enemy ship's artillery fire to arrive as scheduled, and a large-caliber shell fell dozens of feet away, and the damage caused by the impact of this explosion alone exceeded the losses caused by the previous exchange of fire with the Norman reconnaissance detachment, and Weiskong had the technical superiority of "human radar" and the first-class guerrilla combat command ability, and at this time he could only lie down in the mud in the forest and resign himself to fate, which is the so-called "absolute power overriding all technical skills"!
Thankfully, Weiss had led his troops to move in time and had taken a broken line halfway, and their position at the moment was basically the edge of the enemy's demarcated artillery range, and they had not received much care, and they were not "trampled" by the enemy marines. Not only that, but the icy muddy water made Weiss analyze the battlefield situation here with great calmness, and came up with a bold and reasonable plan: to draw the attention of enemy ships and enemy soldiers to this area before dawn, and cover the main force of the guerrilla advance party to move to the secret camp.
The bombardment of the Norman cruiser lasted intermittently for more than an hour, and the Norman troops who followed up did not disperse to search around, but gathered into a group and advanced westward in a straight line from the previous ambush. Just after midnight, there were still many hours before dawn, and the rain did not stop, if Weiss did not take any action, the enemy was unlikely to find them, and it was completely possible to wait for the enemy to leave this area and calmly escape, but in order to contain the enemy, Weiss soon led the soldiers to launch a "kick the enemy's ass" operation, they left a small number of personnel to escort the wounded to evacuate, and the rest of the soldiers were lightly armed, moving in the direction of the battlefield where they had previously ambushed the enemy, shooting several enemy guard posts along the way. This lonely sound of gunfire constantly stimulates the nerves of the enemy, but it also makes it impossible for them to determine their position.
Before dawn, the rain subsided slightly, but the mountains and forests were already full of mud, and even the sentinels on duty were reluctant to move around. Weiss and his more than 100 warriors were not only soaked from head to toe, from the outside to the inside, but they were all rolled into clay figures, with only a pair of eyes shining with a clear sheen. Like a pack of hungry beasts, they stared at their prey in front of them...... The Norman battleship, which had been shot down by mortar, was lying quietly in the woodland at the moment. Despite the bruises, there are still sporadic lights on the ship, but this does not mean that it can still fly, not to mention the twisted and deformed bow that crashed into the forced landing, the hull full of holes, and the broken propellers and rudder propellers.
Despite being a non-flying battleship, it was an ideal target for Weiss and his warriors. After careful reconnaissance and surveying, he temporarily divided the fighters into three groups and launched a surprise attack from the bow, stern, and port side. Receiving the attack signal, the soldiers followed the route and strategy explained by Weiss, and easily cleaned up the enemy's sentinels deployed on the periphery like a rabbit, and Weiss directly penetrated the enemy's two-layer alert, directly from the bulkhead hole, and launched an attack on the side side where the open gun emplacement could climb directly - this drum seized the breach for personnel to enter and exit, and then seized a side hatch from the ship, opened it, and allowed more heavily armed fighters to enter the battleship.
After breaking through the enemy's defenses, Weiss immediately led his troops to sweep the various compartments of the ship, although the combat operation was very smooth, he did not intend to use the Norman battleship for his own use, his purpose was very clear, that is, to obtain combat supplies from the Norman battleship that had landed in a forced landing, and then give it to the enemy's cruisers and ground troops to bring back.