Zhao Wen is not a person who can't listen to advice, just began to hear Wang Sanpang reprimand himself so mercilessly, Zhao Wen is indeed a little unacceptable, but when Zheng Duo spread out the matter and explained everything, Zhao Wen suddenly realized that the reason why Wang Sanpang was so angry was just because he was embarrassed to ask other people to treat the lives of soldiers in the army, if anyone else was angry, if Zhao Wen was Wang Sanpang, Zhao Wen might have the heart to be shot on the spot, After thinking about this, Zhao Wen felt even more ashamed.

"Lao Zhao, Battalion Commander Zhao, you are the battalion commander of our Marine Corps, so you must let go of those scruples in your heart, there is still a long time before this exercise will start, I will tell the truth, if our Marine Corps can have a brilliant performance in this exercise, then our Marine Corps will get a very good opportunity for development, but if we lose this exercise very badly, and even in the face of the 190th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, there is no resistance power, The chief above will definitely not support the continued rapid development of our Marine Corps, because we are not ready, these you, as an old man of the Marine Corps, should know which is more important, right? ”

Zheng Duo's last sentence is the last straw that will overwhelm Zhao Wen, Zhao Wen is the word from entering the army, from the soldier to the current position of the battalion commander, Zhao Wen has spent his hard work on the Marine Corps, if the Marine Corps can develop, even if it is to make Zhao Wen sacrifice greatly, Zhao Wen is willing, so when Zheng Duo said that this exercise is related to whether the Marine Corps can have a good development in the future, Zhao Wen immediately realized the mistake he had made before, Therefore, Zhao Wen promised in front of Zheng Duo that he would definitely train the third battalion in the next preparation time, and would never let the third battalion lose to any other unit of the First Brigade of the Marine Corps!

After seeing Zhao Wen rekindle his confidence and make such a promise to himself, Zheng Duo finally left the third camp with satisfaction.

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For this street fighting confrontation exercise, not only the soldiers of the Marine Corps are actively preparing for the battle, but even Wang Sanpang and they are thinking day and night about how they should command the battle when the exercise begins.

In December 1943, in the Italian port city of Ortona, a fierce battle broke out between the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade and a German airborne battalion on the defensive, which was the first time that the Allies tasted the power of street fighting in World War II.

The debris piles were imposing on Canadian tanks and infantry due to the German engineers' prior blasting of the city's buildings, and attempting to climb these barricades exposed themselves to German machine-gun fire on the 3rd or 4th floors, and the ruins could also contain German firepower.

The Canadians even found that the Germans had gone to great lengths to carry 88-mm anti-aircraft guns upstairs for anti-tank operations. The German 88 gun was originally an anti-aircraft weapon, but when used with armor-piercing shells, it could penetrate 86 mm homogeneous armor at a 60-degree angle at a distance of 1,830 meters.

At the same time, tank guns in street battles can only shoot at a distance greater than 3 times the height of the target's position due to the pitch angle. In other words, if the German 88 gun was located on the 16-meter-high 4th floor, then the Canadian M3 tank could only fight back 50 meters from the target. But the problem is that more than 90% of the targets in street battles are within 50 meters, and the poor 40 mm armor of the M3 tank can only be scrapped one by one at such a close distance. At the same time as the tanks were brutalized, the Canadian soldiers were also hit by the German MG34 machine guns and suffered heavy losses.

However, the Canadians were fairly well trained, and they quickly reacted and began to quickly climb over low walls in a low position to avoid becoming targets for enemy fire. When passing around a corner, first lie down and observe to make sure that there is no danger before quickly getting up and passing. Canadian soldiers, with an average height of more than 1.77 meters, struggled to crawl through the window to ensure that they were not detected by the Germans hiding behind the window, and if it was through the basement window, they jumped straight over.

When passing through the streets, the Canadian troops divided into two groups, one group searched on the ground, and the other group alternately covered the advance on the upper floors of the building. When breaking into the building, one soldier throws a grenade into the house against the wall and guards the door, while the rest of the men quickly rush in and sweep away the remnants of the enemy within 2 seconds of the explosion. While searching up the stairs, the Canadian soldiers used the stairs as a cover to drop bombs around corners, and after the explosion, they used the smoke cover to attack upwards. After occupying the enemy's position, the Canadian army will quickly deploy troops and repair fortifications as a basis for the next offensive and defense.

These tactical tactics greatly reduced casualties, but the Canadian army still lost 2,339 men, which shows the brutality of street fighting, and the Battle of Ortona is also known in the West as the "Little Stalingrad Battle" in history. It is also enough to see the cruelty of this battle from the title.

Modern urban street fighting has changed dramatically, since 2004, when Army M launched a large-scale offensive against Fallujah, where anti-M forces led by Zarqawi were entrenched.

The battle cost more than 300 Marines and 1,200 Iraqi fighters killed and captured. This was the first large-scale urban street battle of the M Army in the 21 st century, and this battle also highlighted many new characteristics of the M Army's urban warfare under the conditions of informationization.

You must know that modern cities are very different from those of the Second World War era, modern cities are densely populated, and the carpet bombing used in traditional siege will bring many problems to post-war reconstruction work. In the Battle of Fallujah, Army M achieved the greatest result with minor casualties, eliminating the anti-M forces while preserving the city's buildings in a largely intact manner, and did not harm innocent civilians too much.

If the concept of urban street warfare has not been improved, then Wang Sanpang will be struggling in this street fighting confrontation exercise, fortunately, when Wang Sanpang was in the army, he had deeply studied how to carry out urban street warfare in modern warfare, so as to get the maximum result at the minimum cost.

Although this time he led the Marine Corps to conduct a confrontation exercise, the Marine Corps still lacked a certain amount of experience in street fighting, but Wang Sanpang was also confident that even in the face of the 190th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, the Marine Corps would also be able to play a beautiful urban street fighting confrontation exercise.

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