In mid-July, on the banks of the Rhine, the weather is getting hotter, and it has been half a month since Lyon came to the Krupp Arms Company on the Rhine.

This half month was an ordeal for all the soldiers of the 27 regiment. It's not that the work is tiring, but that the soldiers' work is so simple that they only need to supervise their work every day with their rifles in front of their compatriots. But for the soldiers, the most humiliating thing is to turn their guns on their compatriots and then let them destroy the industrial potential of their country little by little, which is better for them than to participate in the Battle of the Somme again.

But the time is fair, the most difficult half a month has finally passed, and now the soldiers will leave here with the workers, because the entire Ruhr industrial area is owned by the French.

The train slowly slid into the platform, and the soldiers lined up neatly under the leadership of the commander, and then entered the train carriage in an orderly manner.

"Grant, I heard we're not going back to Hamburg this time." An ordinary soldier whispered to his comrade next to him.

"It seems that yes, William, I heard that we were going to Nuremberg to fight an exercise with the 3rd Infantry Regiment stationed there." The soldier named Grant also whispered to his companion.

"Hah, dignified Nuremberg, there is only one infantry regiment stationed?" William shook his head helplessly.

"So what's the solution? The old army has been completely withdrawn, and our 100,000 new Wehrmacht troops have to defend the border and garrison the cities, and it is good to have a regiment in Nuremberg. Grant said.

"Yes gentlemen, there is chaos in some parts of the country right now, the army is undernumbered, and the police are powerless. But it's going to get better anyway, isn't it? A voice came from behind the two of them.

"Hello company commander!" The two looked back and saw that it was their company commander, and hurriedly stood up and saluted.

The person who came was Leon, who was inspecting the carriage, and he heard the conversation between the two and couldn't help but come up and say something.

Leon waved his hand to signal that he didn't need to salute, and then said to the two: "Hey, guys, the situation in the country is going to get better and better, but now in front of us is the 3rd Regiment, yes, we are going to Nuremberg to participate in the exercises."

"Sir, what's the content of the exercise?" William, who was in a hurry, couldn't help but ask.

"I heard that it was the exercise order issued by the chief of operations, Lieutenant General Strauss, the content of which is offensive and defensive warfare, do you remember what I taught you?" Leon asked with a smile.

Grant was the first to reply: "I remember, a squad was divided into three combat groups, each combat group had three people, and the three men covered each other's assault." Then he hesitated for a while and asked, "But company commander, does this tactic really work?" Isn't war supposed to be a group charge? With such a dispersed density, isn't it easy to be broken by the enemy army one by one? ”

Leon smiled and said, "Won't you know if it's useful?" I thought: In the previous life, the Chinese army used this tactic as the basic tactic of the class to teach the invincible United Nations army a lesson in the Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the current German army is not very similar to the Chinese army at that time, and both countries have no heavy firepower. The three-three tactic was invented specifically for offensive operations in units lacking heavy firepower, and if this could not teach the army that this combat idea was still limited to the era of trench warfare, then someone who invented this tactic in the previous life would have found a piece of tofu and killed him.

Soon the train arrived at Nuremberg railway station, and all the soldiers quickly left the carriage and lined up outside. The commander of the 27th Regiment, Wehrmacht Lieutenant Colonel Gust, walked to the front of the team and said to everyone: "Maybe some of you already know the purpose of our coming to Nuremberg, that's right, the War Department arranged for us and the 3rd Regiment to have an offensive and defensive exercise, and their regiment commander John relied on himself to fight the defense, and just told me that he was going to kick our ass hard in this exercise, can you agree?!"

"Three bastards, it's us going to kick their ass!" "Brothers, let's teach them to fight!" When the soldiers below heard this, they were like being beaten with chicken blood, and they couldn't wait to teach the people of the third regiment a lesson now.

"Very good, now turn left, run to the intended attack position, and the battle begins!" After speaking, Gust took the lead and ran outside the station.

The location of the exercise was several successive hills, and the defenders dug two trenches along the slopes of the hills, and also simulated weapons such as heavy machine guns and mortars. And the attacking side did not even have heavy machine guns, only light machine guns.

The exercise soon began, with the 27th Regiment harassing the enemy line with small units to reconnoiter the distribution of enemy fire, then using the second battalion of Lyon's second battalion to feint on the high-density area, and then using the remaining two infantry battalions to storm the other areas by charging in a skirmish line.

The exercise was arranged by the head of the Wehrmacht, Lieutenant General Strauss, the head of the War Department, who was sitting on the rostrum and observing the battle situation.

Soon Strauss understood the intention of the attacking commander, he frowned, the attacking commander had a good idea, but he ignored one point - heavy machine guns may not be easy to move, but mortars can move quickly.

Sure enough, the two infantry battalions that charged in a dense formation in the direction of the main attack were attacked smoothly at the beginning due to the lack of heavy firepower of the defenders, and when they were about to break through the first line of defense, the troops in the dense formation were hit by the mortar groups that quickly moved their positions, and all of a sudden the two infantry battalions were judged to be "killed" by two infantry companies, and the troops that lost nearly a third of their vital strength at once could only withdraw to the position where the attack began.

Just when everyone thought that the situation of the exercise was clear, in another direction of feint, an infantry company violated the "normal state of war" and scattered its troops, taking small groups as units, alternately covering the attack and advancing, maintaining a considerable density of firepower during the attack, and minimizing the role that the defender's heavy machine guns could play, and quickly tore through the enemy's defensive line, and the two infantry companies that followed up in the rear quickly reacted, seized the enemy's trench, widened the gap in the defensive line, and defended on the spot to prevent the enemy from launching a countercharge.

The battle situation, which had been clear, seemed confusing again. This infantry company was the one led by Leon, and the three-three tactics he arranged worked wonders.

"What's the name of the commander of that unit?" Lieutenant General Strauss asked the adjutant next to him with his eyes shining.

The adjutant hurriedly opened the roster, checked it for a while, and said: "Leon, Leon Andrés, sir!"

Lieutenant General Strauss lowered his head and thought for a moment, then continued to ask: "Lyon?" Is it the very incendiary Lyon that speech mentioned in the last report submitted by the 27th regiment? ”

The adjutant immediately replied, "Yes, sir, he impresses me."

"Hehe, do you think he can win this exercise?" The lieutenant general asked the adjutant with a smile.

The adjutant pondered carefully, and then replied affirmatively: "Impossible, they can't stop the counterattack of the 3rd Regiment, the second line of defense of the 3rd Regiment is higher than the first line of defense they occupied, and in this direction the reserves of the 3rd Regiment alone are more than the remaining numbers of this infantry battalion, and the 27th Regiment lacks heavy firepower, how can it be possible to block the impact from above with hundreds of rifles."

The lieutenant general smiled and said: "A good commander will make the impossible possible, and a commander who can come up with such offensive tactics is undoubtedly excellent." He's not going to be stuck in a rigid trench defense, and I'm getting more and more interested in him. ”