Two hundred and thirty-one super firepower
Yan Zhi and Winters decided to use the fire of 100 machine guns to attack frontally, and then, from both sides of the German infantry battalion, look for opportunities to carry out a surprise attack.
The total number of people in the two companies was 107, and Yan Zhi asked Fang You and Xu Zheyou to bring 10 people each, each with as many grenades and machine gun bullets as possible, and hid them on both sides of the German infantry battalion.
Winters asked the remaining eighty men of the two companies to put everything down and take only weapons, bullets and grenades.
He told all the soldiers that it was a quick frontal attack, that all of them were using machine guns, that they were suppressing the German infantry battalion from the front, forcing them to concentrate all their forces on the front, and that the best time to carry out the assault was when their ribs were exposed.
Winters divided the more than eighty soldiers who attacked head-on into three echelons, and when the attack began, each team was to fire in turns without reserving ammunition, using absolute force to suppress and advance into the enemy's trenches.
The soldiers accepted the task and crawled on the ground to reach the enemy's position.
There is a lot of vegetation on the seaside, and there are also a lot of bushes and thorn bushes, which can be seen everywhere, and the sea breeze is constantly blowing and swaying the vegetation, so it is difficult for the soldiers to be spotted when they are crawling forward in the bushes and thorns.
When Sobel was still in E Company, he was determined to make E Company the best company in the regiment.
For this reason, Sobel was more demanding of the soldiers.
On last year's Thanksgiving Day, in order to make everyone impress this Thanksgiving, Sobel set up additional training challenges.
Sobel ordered a man to lay a layer of barbed wire on a field, 18 inches above the ground, and spread a layer of newly killed pigs' internal organs, heart, lungs, liver, intestines, etc. on the ground under the net, and then ordered the machine guns to strafe the upper edge of the barbed wire, and let the soldiers lie on the pigs' internal organs and crawl forward, in order to practice that the soldiers should not refuse to crawl forward because of the harsh environment under any circumstances.
The soldiers were crawling forward at the bottom of the net, and Sobel lectured the soldiers at the edge of the net, and he told the soldiers loudly that now you are crawling on pig intestines, pig liver, pig blood, and pig feces, and you are not in danger of life, and when you go to the battlefield, you may one day crawl on human intestines, human blood, stumps and broken arms, and corpses.
At that time, smelling the stench of pig feces and disgusting pig blood and pig entrails, the soldiers might have killed Sobel if they had a gun at that time.
And at this time, all the soldiers of Company E remembered Sobel.
At that moment, at this moment, Sobel was not wrong.
Although Sobel is so strict that it is disgusting, it is because of his strictness that all the soldiers of Company E have become so good.
It's just that when Sobel deserves the respect of all the brothers in the company, he chooses to disgust his brothers.
This is like a teacher with very good teaching quality, and the students brought out have very good grades, but because the teacher is too harsh, the students are regarded as learning machines, and they are not looked at by others, and in the end, every student has achieved something, but few people respect their teachers.
When the Allied soldiers began to slowly approach the German infantry battalion, the Germans were completely unaware. Because their two sentries were still standing on the watchtower, with their backs to them, constantly watching for the direction in which the enemy might come, whenever an enemy appeared, the two sentries would go down to the bottom of the tower and, together with the other two soldiers, blow up the entire watchtower with explosives packs.
At a distance of 300 meters from the German position, the Allied soldiers could hear bursts of laughter from the German trenches, indicating that the Germans were completely unaware of their arrival.
The soldiers climbed forward for more than ten meters, and suddenly a German soldier got up from the trench and stood directly on the top of the trench to urinate, and just when he condescended to find the Allied soldiers lying on their stomachs at 300 meters, and wanted to scream with horror on their faces, Winters picked up his M1 rifle and fired two shots at the German, one bullet in his chest and the other in the abdomen.
When the German devil fell on his back, the German devils in the trenches panicked, and they hurriedly emerged from the trenches, at this time, the machine guns of the first group of Allied soldiers rang out at the right time.
For a time, more than 30 machine guns, like a storm, poured bullets on the German position, just a dozen seconds, the powerful attack force, all the camouflage on the Germans' most forward positions, even the trenches on their positions, were bombarded by the ferocious machine gun fire at least ten inches, more than a dozen German soldiers who had just emerged were half killed by a row of bullets, one of the German devils was shot and lay directly on the trench, and was bombarded by brutal bullets as if lying on the trench and dancing, His helmet was beaten into a beecomb by machine gun bullets, white, red, and black liquids poured out of the honeycomb helmet, and the military uniform on his body was flocculent by the bullets, fluttering with the sea breeze.
When the first group of Allied machine guns rang out, the soldiers of the other two groups, rising from the ground, bent on their waists, lowered their bodies to a minimum, carried machine guns, and rushed towards the German positions.
"Da-da, da-da, da-da......"
After a period of panic, the Germans began to organize an orderly counterattack, and their machine guns began to fire, just aimlessly, with two machine guns, shooting directly into the sky.
The Allied firepower was too strong and preemptive, so the Germans could only shrink their heads in the trenches, mount their machine guns, and fire continuously in front of them, hoping to suppress the Allied firepower, and then take the opportunity to build a defensive position.
During World War II, a German infantry battalion had about 30 machine guns, three or four grenadiers, and three mortars, and its strength was also very strong.
At this time, the Germans of this infantry battalion were not in an ideal position, and they could only distribute twenty of their thirty machine guns on the left, right and front of the position, and the remaining ten machine guns remained at the battalion headquarters as mobile combat readiness support.
The eight machine guns on the German frontal position, under the attack of the Allied thirty machine guns firing first, were suppressed and could not form an effective counterattack, and those German soldiers with rifles in their hands could not raise their heads at all.
The first group of Allied machine guns had just finished firing, and only four or five seconds after the second group of machine guns had already fired, and this was just when the Germans emerged from the trenches, and they thought that the first wave of Allied attacks was over.
The attack of the 30 machine guns of the second group of the Allied forces was still extremely brutal, and the German soldiers who had just exposed their heads to the trenches were killed and wounded by the bombardment of bullets that came from the storm, and the rest quickly retracted their heads into the trenches, blindly throwing a few grenades outside, exploding, without the slightest threat.
As soon as the second group of Allied machine guns rang out, the soldiers of the first group quickly got up, bent on their waists, and quickly reloaded while advancing forward, and the soldiers of the third group had already selected the best attack position in front, set up the machine guns, and quietly waited for the second group of machine guns to finish firing.
Listening to the machine-gun fire of the Allied troops, the battle-hardened Germans could judge from the firepower that the Allied forces attacking them were definitely more than one regiment.