Less than 50 kilometers from Dunkirk, the German assault team led by Captain Kuhn also launched an attack on a small grove where the British were stationed.

With the guard battalion sent by the divisional headquarters, Kuhn did not stupidly throw his tired infantry battalion into the woods. Woodland warfare is not the strength of conventional troops in the first place.

Not to mention a unit that is extremely tired of physical strength and energy, even if a new army is pulled into the woods where there are enemy ambushes, it will inevitably suffer great losses.

In the mountains and forests, the terrain is undulating, the roads are scarce, the trees are luxuriant, and the thorns are overgrown. The enemy is easy to hold on to when defending, and conceal the ambush, even the British army, which is now very weak in the will to fight, can cause a lot of trouble to the German attacking troops with the bonus of this terrain.

On the other hand, Captain Kuhn, who was the attacker, was not only inconvenient in command, observation, coordination, and maneuvering, but also prone to problems in communication and liaison between the front and rear units, and the various units were prone to lose their way and affect their combat operations.

In addition, Kuhn had already made up his mind, and sent the guard battalion sent by the division headquarters to the front, separated his tired battalion from the guard company of the regiment headquarters and followed closely behind the guard battalion, and slowly advanced. In this way, communication between the various forces will be more difficult.

It was not that Kuhn was unwilling to bring his troops together and avoid the inconvenience of communication and coordination by fighting together. Rather, it was the fighting between the mountains and woodlands that required the troops to have the ability to fight independently and the positive spirit of active cooperation, which his tired soldiers were no longer able to do.

In other words, sending tired soldiers to the front line will not do as well as they should, but will only increase casualties. Rather than letting such mentally tense soldiers run to the forefront in a drowsy state, it is better to leave them in the rear as support troops, and occupy the commanding heights and dense forest areas along the way, so as to prevent the enemy from sending attack troops to copy their own rear roads.

Although most of the British would not have the brains and courage to send people to attack the rear of the German army, it is also a good choice to use tired troops that are already not strong in attack to guard against the possibility of such a danger, and by the way, let them take the opportunity to recover some strength while they stay behind.

"From the guard battalion sent by the division headquarters and the guard company sent by the regiment headquarters, 30 precision shooters were put together." Kuhn held the binoculars and observed the not too big woods in front of him, and said: "This kind of terrain, there are too many obstacles, and the firing range is seriously blocked, so it is only suitable for troops with good marksmanship. ”

Concentrating on the precision shooters, spotting the British soldiers as early as possible at a distance before making contact with the enemy, and then shooting them from a distance with the precision shooters' G43 rifles equipped with 3x lenses was the best way Kuhn could think of now.

If you let the large army rush directly into the establishment and attack all the way, I am afraid that the British army, which has been ambushed for a long time, will pick up a big advantage. Despite the superiority of the forces, Kuhn did not want to inflict excessive casualties.

Fortunately, Kuhn brought 30 sets of green, brown, black, and gray jungle combat camouflage uniforms from the division headquarters this time. Having 30 precision shooters walk in front in camouflage uniforms can also improve their hiding abilities.

Speaking of which, camouflage-colored uniforms were first used by the British army in World War I. At that time, the British put a coat decorated with many ropes and strips made of cloth and sacks on the outside for camouflage. Because this was proposed by a Scottish soldier named Geely, the British also liked to call the camouflage suit Geely.

However, fortunately, the British troops stationed in the woods in front of Kuhn did not bring their gilly suits. And even if you search for the entire 3rd Division of the British Army under Montgomery, you can't find a set of auspicious clothes. Because the expeditionary force did not expect that they would need to rely on the woodland for defense at first, they did not specially prepare auspicious clothes to take across the English Channel.

However, the German army has long begun to equip itself with camouflage uniforms that are more advanced than the original British gilly uniforms, and ensure that each division is equipped with at least dozens or even hundreds of camouflage uniforms, and the mountain division has an even greater number.

In the camouflage uniforms of woodland warfare, the Germans were actually ahead of the British.

So, when the German precision shooters saw a group of expeditionary soldiers in brass combat uniforms lying on the far side of the wooded wide ground, building sandbags to build a blocking position, they were surprised that they could not even speak.

Obviously fighting in woodland, but leaving the troops in the wide, the German precision shooters did not know what the British thought.

Montgomery's selection of a blocking position in this woods was originally quite a high-level hand, and if the grassroots troops were properly commanded, they could have stopped the German army for a long time.

However, the commanders of the lower-level units did not grasp the intention of the division commander, and concentrated the soldiers who should have been scattered in the dense forest on the rare open ground, and deliberately cut down a few small trees that blocked the shooting area.

Now, his shooting range is wider. At the same time, the number of natural bunkers that could function was reduced, and the German firing range was also widened.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang...... "In the woodland, which was out of sight of the British soldiers, German precision shooters fired one after another.

"Oh God! We can't see where the enemy is?! Bullets are coming out everywhere! A British second lieutenant was clutched in horror and clung to a sandbag. Around him, the Heavy who had been chatting with him had turned into a corpse. A large, ugly hole of blood, remaining in the Heavy's neck, continued to flow bright red blood.

"Where's the company commander?! Hurry up and contact our company commander! The second lieutenant held the peep with one hand, got up slightly and looked back: "Let the company commander give the order to retreat!" The soldiers are now dying in vain! ”

"Pong!" A bullet struck the outcropping officer's steel helmet. Blood poured out of his pierced steel helmet and slipped all over his face. After a few seconds, the second lieutenant, who was shouting for retreat, was silent and slipped into the trench with a thud.

"The platoon commander was hit! Now who's going to tell us what to do?! A soldier crouched in a trench with his head in his hands cranked.

Fleeing all the way here, the soldiers have long lost their fighting spirit. The fact that the invisible German sharpshooters were constantly sending deadly bullets from the woods was even more desperate. The soldiers don't understand why they are still here, does all this really work?

Their company commanders also did not communicate this point at night, so the white flag was soon erected on this British position, which became another achievement of the German army.

At that time, the blocking line outside Dunkirk had been interrupted by the division of the German 13th Motorized Infantry Division. The remaining three uncaptured blocking points were no longer able to stop the Germans from heading towards Dunkirk.

It has been less than 10 hours since the 13th Motorized Infantry Division launched its offensive.......