"General!" De Guengang reported to Montgomery: "We suffered more than three hundred soldiers killed and wounded last night!" ”

"What?" Hearing this, Montgomery couldn't help but be stunned: "The German sniper did it? ”

"No, General!" Degan replied: "They sent out assault teams at night, attacking with mortars and grenades!" ”

Montgomery frowned.

He was really reluctant to face these details, but he had to face them, because these details seem to be tactical, but when they are scaled up, they become a matter of strategy......

If 500 people are lost every day, even if the British army is prepared to break more than 200 people in half, it will be more than 2,000 people in ten days, and this is an astronomical amount that cannot be borne for a long time.

More importantly, the Germans' tactics gave the British a sense of powerlessness...... Tanks can't get into their own minefields, and the damage rate of artillery carpet bombing is too low, and the planes can't do much of a difference.

The taboo on the battlefield is that in the face of the enemy's tactics, the enemy has no choice but to be beaten passively, because this will make the whole army in a kind of "the German army cannot defeat its own side will be defeated", which simply means that it will affect morale.

In fact, there is really no good way to deal with this tactic, just like during the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, the volunteers used the tunnel to shoot cold guns during the day, and crawled out of the tunnel at night to sneak attack the US troops, making the US troops uneasy.

It's like touching each other's holes and blowing up trenches when fighting Vietnam...... This can already be said to be a special operation.

If there is any countermeasure, it is to "treat others the way they do...... The best way to deal with special operations is special operations.

Montgomery was a great player, and he quickly thought about it and said, "Why can't we do the same?" ”

"What?" Degan's eyes widened: "But, general, this requires soldiers to be able to lurk all day during the day, and we don't have such soldiers!" ”

"Then hurry up and train!" Montgomery said with some anger: "If the Germans can do it, why can't our soldiers do it?!" ”

Montgomery's words proved to be wrong, and the British army could not necessarily do what the Germans could do......

De Gangang released the training plan to the next level, and the British officers and soldiers were terrified:

"I don't think it makes any sense, General!"

"This is simply sending those soldiers to die, and Congress will not agree to such inhumane practices!"

"Just because the Germans are crazy doesn't mean we're crazy like them!"

……

In the end, Montgomery had no choice but to compromise, because it was indeed a bit "inhumane", and the news of the matter back to England would inevitably cause an uproar, and Montgomery might be questioned like Churchill.

Naturally, the task fell to the Australian and New Zealand military.

Australia and New Zealand are actually the easiest to be used as cannon fodder, because their status is not up or down, and it is just right......

The British were superior people, and of course it was impossible for them to undertake such arduous and dangerous tasks.

Colonial armies such as Africa and India were inferior people, and although they could do it, they couldn't do it because of their culture, quality, and will...... The Afrika Army even wanted to teach them how difficult it was to line up in order, let alone disguise themselves and lie motionless on the battlefield all day.

Indian soldiers may have been able to do so, but the endurance of many is unimaginable under the influence of the idea of "suffering in this world and happiness in the next". The problem is that there is an element of everything in their minds.

This is also related to their religion, Hinduism preaches that people are born into three, six, nine and so on, and that the higher caste is destined to be the higher caste, and the lower caste is born with the lower caste, and everything is predestined.

So since everything is predestined, why restrain yourself?

So you can do whatever you want, say whatever you want, and don't think too much about things like animals...... This is one of the reasons for the bad habits of Indians such as laziness, making excuses, lying, arrogance, unpunctuality, etc.

This casual personality is reflected in the military, that is, they have very poor marksmanship, because they have a kind of thinking similar to the belief of Africans in witch doctors, believing that whether they can hit the target or whether they can survive on the battlefield is predestined, rather than relying on hard work in peacetime to fight for it.

Of course, in addition, it has something to do with their low level of education, they don't calculate things like wind deviation and advance measurement.

Therefore, the only people who can take on this "heavy duty" are the soldiers of Australia and New Zealand.

As second-class citizens, the Australian and New Zealand armies gladly accepted this task in order to show their loyalty to their masters, and even regarded it as a kind of honor: looking at the whole army, only the Australian and New Zealand armies can do it, how valuable it is!

In fact, two words should be added before this value...... "utilization".

Of course, the snipers trained by the Australian and New Zealand armies are not of the same level as the German snipers on the battlefield, on the one hand, because the German K98K has better accuracy and is more suitable for sniping, and on the other hand, because the German army has received more professional and comprehensive training.

In addition, the Australian and New Zealand armies were still in a hurry, so the two armies made almost all the mistakes made by German snipers during exercises and training, and they were often pressed and beaten by the Germans on the battlefield.

However, objectively speaking, this approach is still effective...... Snipers are a bit like mines, no matter how bad the quality of the mines is buried on the ground, the situation of Australian and New Zealand snipers is the same, although their quality is not as good as the German army, but as long as they are camouflaged and hidden in the position, the German snipers can not fight with confidence.

But the German strategy was not so simple.

Just when Montgomery was secretly relieved that the situation at the front had improved, De Guengang sent another telegram, saying: "General, last night one of our warehouses was attacked and all the supplies were looted! ”

"How did they get so much out of our noses?" Montgomery asked.

"They didn't move out!" Degan replied: "These supplies have been distributed to the local people!" ”

Montgomery couldn't help but be stunned and asked, "And then?" ”

He knew there was something to come, and if that was all there was to it, the question wasn't worth mentioning.

"The guerrillas are becoming more and more active!" De Guengang said: "The railroads were bombed frequently, small units were often attacked, and soldiers were assassinated in order to rise in progression...... Originally, we thought that this was nothing more than an Egyptian underground organization taking fire and looting, but this sneak attack on the warehouse was very professional, and we have reason to believe that they were trained and supported by the Germans! ”

So Montgomery understood that the problems he had to face were not just on the battlefield.