Chapter 337: Fight with your brains

Adrian jumped into the trench with his team of five, and it seemed that only the five German soldiers were still alive in the trench, except for a few Belgian corpses with bloody faces.

Suddenly, Adrian noticed a bloodied Belgian soldier convulsing, presumably a wounded soldier who had been hit by the explosion but had no voice.

"Suddenly! Suddenly! Suddenly! Without hesitation, Adrian swept a bullet at the Belgian soldier, ending his life.

After all, Adrian: They are also airborne troops deep behind enemy lines. Unless the target position is completely captured, they also have no way to leave prisoners. Because, there is really no surplus manpower to guard the prisoners.

This is war, for those who will drag down their side, even if they are incapacitated, sometimes for special reasons they cannot be taken prisoner. To put it nicely is to give them a relief, and to put it mildly, it is to wipe out the lives of these people.

"Squad leader?" A soldier looked at Adrian, who was stunned by the corpse of the Belgian soldier, and asked, "What's wrong, is there something wrong?" ”

After being stunned for about a few seconds, Adrian quickly came back to his senses, waved his hand and said, "It's nothing, let's go." ”

Taking a machine-gun position doesn't mean Adrian and they're done. Only the complete capture of the Belgian positions behind the target bridge can be considered to have achieved the goal. So, Adrian, they have to keep going.

"Squad leader! Did you get it done over there? Soon, Adrian's squad Luke joined them: "Looks like you've got it done." Of course, we've got it done there. Together, we should have eliminated the positions of the two platoons of the Belgians. ”

"It should be so," Adrian nodded and thought about it, and then said, "Looking at the distribution of this position, the Belgians should have arranged an inverted triangle position group." They set up a blocking position behind the bridge, and then left two more second-line positions in depth behind the blocking position. ”

Because they were directly airborne behind enemy lines, Adrian and the others directly bypassed the first line of positions of the Belgian army and appeared behind the second-line positions, disrupting the defensive deployment arrangements of the Belgian army. And now they are about to continue their advance and launch an offensive against the Belgian units, which were placed in the first line positions.

"The defenders left behind this bridge by the Belgians were about a company." Based on the density of Belgian firepower observed at the time of landing, Adrian speculated: "They left two platoons in the rear, so their company headquarters and the remaining platoon should be in one of the remaining positions." ”

Adrian pointed to a machine gun discarded by the Belgian deserters he had just captured this position: "You send a few people to bring this machine gun with you, and it should be used in the next attack." This is the last and most important offensive of this airborne operation, and we must bring out the strongest forces. ”

After a few more discussions, Adrian and his party converged with their platoon commander. Among the people brought by the platoon commander were 12 more soldiers than before, and this was another squad that had just arrived at the front line.

The next nine members were all fully equipped, with four G43 semi-automatic rifles, two MP40 submachine guns, and six combat pistols. With them joining, the next battle will be more certain.

"Adrian!" The platoon leader arranged in a loud voice: "You still take the group of people before you and sneak along the path on the left." The rest, together with me, attacked from the right flank. ”

got the task, Adrian didn't hesitate, and took Luke and 9 others and set off along a small road. Because there were a little fewer of them, they left the captured machine guns for the platoon commander and advanced lightly. And with relatively weak firepower, they don't have to take on the task of attacking strongly, they only need to secretly attack from the other side when the platoon commander leads a large force to attack.

"Boom!" An hour later, a grenade was fired with a 40-mm grenade in the platoon commander's hand. The captured Belgian Maxim heavy machine gun and the German army's own MG42 general-purpose machine gun also released firepower.

The Belgian troops in the positions behind the bridge immediately panicked in the face of a sudden blow on the right flank. They had seen hundreds of parachutes dropped behind their rear, and they knew that it was the German paratroopers attacking.

However, due to the fact that the German paratroopers made the airborne landing in the early hours of the morning, the line of sight was poor, and the gap between the empty point and the Belgian position was a certain distance, the Belgian garrison on the position mistakenly thought that all the parachutes were under the presence of a German soldier, thus exaggerating the size of the German air force.

In fact, there were a lot of airdropped parachutes that were strapped to supply boxes, supply bags, and not German soldiers. If you don't know about paratroopers, and don't know about the Belgian army, which is accustomed to separating people and materials during the German airdrop, you foolishly guess that a parachute represents a German soldier.

Because of their ignorance, they mistakenly magnified their enemies many times over. And this second-rate unit of the Belgian Army, which originally belonged to the Belgian 13th Division, was even less courageous to compete with the German army.

When the sudden firing of the Maxim heavy machine gun and the screeching sound of the MG42 tearing linen were heard from the right flank of the position, the Belgian defenders of the bridge quickly panicked.

In a panic, the company commander of this Belgian garrison sent all his personnel to the right flank to resist without thinking. In his opinion, if this is not the case, it is not at all possible to stop the wolf-like German offensive. After all, the presence of the Germans here means that they have completely broken through the two second-line positions in the rear.

It is certainly not easy for this German paratrooper unit to take two positions in a row where each platoon is stationed, even if it goes all out, it may not be able to stop it, let alone leave anything behind. Unfortunately, it was this kind of thinking that made the Belgian company commander ignore the safety of the left flank and drain all his forces to deal with the German army on the right, whose strength was unknown.

"Squad leader, no one?!" Rook looked at Adrian with a puzzled expression.

They snuck down the path to the left flank of the position behind the bridge, and were not detected all the way. When they arrived at their destination, all they saw were five Belgian soldiers swaggering against sandbags and chatting. And these 5 slack soldiers are the entire Belgian force on the left flank.

Five soldiers, what's the difference between this and no one?! In Adrian's opinion, this group of Belgians simply did not know how to fight at all. Even if he, a non-commissioned officer of the German army, commanded the battle, he would never put only 5 people to guard such an important flank!

"It seems that the Belgians feel that if there is our man on the right, there will be no one on the left." Adrian chuckled playfully, "Their commander is a single-minded idiot. This kind of person can actually mix in the position of commander, and I finally know why the Belgians have been beaten so badly by us all the way. ”

If it weren't for the fact that he would have to sneak up on these 5 hapless Belgians later, Adrian would have wanted to laugh out loud right now, laugh at the stupidity of his enemies, and celebrate his good fortune.

"Let's go!" Adrian raised the MP40 submachine gun in his hand and said in a low voice: "Let's go teach the Belgian soldiers a lesson and teach them the truth that they can't fight without brains." ”