Chapter 13 Tactical Moves
Hitler and Jonas returned to the front-line army, and as for letting the army purchase bicycles, Hitler asked Bock for a letter of recommendation, and the rest was handed over to Ginter and Dembucci, both of whom were professionals, and it was also relieved to hand it over to them to do Hitler.
The front line is still in such a stalemate, neither side has launched an offensive, only watching each other.
"The food is terrible!"
The brute muttered, and Hitler also looked at the bread with the mud in his hand, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
After the Christmas truce, the days became boring, dealing with rats and lice every day, the clothes on my body were stained with mud in the trenches, and I could only go down to the front line to the third line of defense for two days in two weeks, which meant that I had to take a shower and change my clothes once every two weeks.
As for the food, it's even more difficult to swallow, with beef full of tendons, rock-hard bread dough cakes, and tasteless coffee beer. Since food trucks were often attacked by enemy artillery fire on the road, bread fell into the mud, and coffee and soup were spilled on the floor, so it was normal to eat food with mud.
"Don't complain, this food is also grown by our people." Hitler said, patting some of the dirt off the bread and eating it in one bite.
Hitler decided to teach his class some basic tactics, such as the tactical actions of individual soldiers using different terrains such as ridges, pits, trenches, mounds, trees, highlands, grasslands, jungles, etc., as well as the construction of cat's ear holes for air defense and anti-artillery, because it is now trench warfare, and focused on the construction of curved trenches, inverted firing points, forward firing points, circular fortifications, and the construction of anti-cline positions.
Most of these veterans know the basic tactical movements of the infantry, but not everyone can understand these tactics in the latter part, and Hitler explained them one by one.
Mike Jr. asked: "I understand the construction of curved trenches, which can reduce the casualties of shelling, but what is an anticline position?" ”
Hitler said in a warm voice: "We can understand it this way, if we hold on to a mountain, then the enemy attacking us must bombard our frontal position with heavy artillery fire, in this case we had better not hold on to the frontal position, leave a few people down to monitor the enemy in the frontal position, and the rest of the soldiers run to the back of the hill to hide, and when the enemy charges, the soldiers behind the hill will run to the frontal battlefield to block the enemy, so do you say that our casualties are much less?" ”
"This is a good idea!" Weikrich exclaimed: "The use of the cover of the ridge limits the damage of the enemy's artillery to the greatest extent. ”
Hitler took a sip of water and said: "The anticline position needs to be well built and extended in all directions, so that we can quickly retreat and enter the frontal position, otherwise it will be uncomfortable for the enemy to rush up the hill before we have returned to the frontal battlefield." ”
After letting everyone digest these, Hitler explained to everyone that the group alternately advances, the level of breakthrough, and the cooperation of cover, he said: "A person's line of sight is only so wide, especially in a combat situation, the range of sight observed by a person under tension is shorter, so I emphasize that a group of three to cooperate in combat, one person to observe the front, the other two to observe the sides, cover each other." ”
"None of these military schools teach, but it's very practical." Wei Krich took out his notebook and wrote it down.
"Well, let's absorb these tactics first, and we'll talk about the rest later." Hitler said.
In the following days, Hitler explained tactics to everyone on the position, anyway, there was nothing to do, he avoided these three conveniences and three don't avoid these, and then even talked about advanced tactics such as the theory of superior firepower, the theory of superior forces, joint tactics, pincer offensive, infiltration tactics and so on.
"I don't understand the infiltration tactics." Said a man named Gaskier.
Hitler explained: "In layman's terms, infiltration tactics refer to the suppression of the enemy by short and heavy artillery fire, and the elite units of our army attack the enemy's weak points in the artillery fire of Xu Jin, and then advance to destroy the enemy's artillery units and headquarters. ”
Gaskill nodded suddenly: "This tactic requires a lot of professional skills from artillerymen, and if the artillery accidentally hits the wrong position, it is easy to hurt their own people." ”
"Yes, so the elite soldiers of the assault need to be equipped with radios or telephones to coordinate with the artillery units with infantry artillery." Hitler patiently explained.
Time passed little by little, and in the front-line trenches, every day of the soldiers in the harsh conditions was numb, and even Hitler did not know how long he had been in the front-line trenches.
A month after Fuisa went to the United States, she returned to the field hospital and occasionally contacted Hitler by letter, Hitler remembered that Fuisa said that he liked to play the piano, so he usually had nothing to do and humbly learned piano from little Mike.
Ginter wrote to Hitler that the German army had purchased 20,000 Hilmen bicycles at once, and that Jonas's family had received a lot of goods, and that Hitler owned five percent of the shares of Hilemmay bicycles, and that he was now a small rich, but unfortunately he could not get the money for the time being. As for Chanel No. 5, the first batch of 10,000 bottles was quickly sold out under Ginter's advertising campaign, making all Germans rush to it.
Hitler wrote to Ginter to invest part of the money and convert the other part into dollars, because he knew that Germany would be defeated, and that the mark after the defeat would be depreciated, and that one million marks yesterday might be able to buy several villas, and tomorrow it might only be a pig.
In February 1916, on this day, while Hitler was still explaining the six tactical principles, the company commander Spudanton suddenly ordered everyone to assemble.
"Everyone, be quiet, don't make trouble!" Stephenton ordered his company to gather behind three lines of trench lines, and this gathering was unusual because Hitler saw that the rear was densely packed with people.
"There must be some kind of military action!"
This was everyone's idea, all the people who were assembled and loaded onto the train, which drove for about a day to reach its destination.
"In two days, take Mount Mortom!"
As soon as the train company commander ordered, they left the train station and followed the company commander, and it was not long before they heard thunderous artillery fire and the faint sound of machine guns and rifles. They were ordered to rush up a hill.
The mountain in front of them, standing abruptly on the plain, in the afterglow of the evening, like an ancient wild beast, devouring passers-by from the north and south, Hitler They are like ants, as if the mountain in front of them is not a mountain, but a huge cake, devouring it!
"Around me, threesomes!" Hitler shouted loudly to his 5th class, and the usual training was evident at this time, with three men covering each other, each group advancing alternately, charging forward on the plains and crawling up the hill.
"You see, that's Hitler, and he's doing a good job, isn't he?" In the rear trenches, Bock talked with two other soldiers.
"Threesomes? Cover each other? That's a good idea. ”
A soldier with a dignified face was very optimistic about Hitler, in fact, the identities of these two people are not simple, one is called Halder, Halder is the chief of the general staff of Germany in World War II, shrewd and capable, good at thinking and analyzing, and has advised Germany in all battles. The other is called Brauchitsch, the second marshal of Germany in World War II, born in the Grosslichfeld Military Academy, his father was a cavalry general, Brauchitsch was selected into the palace when he was a child, and joined the squire when he grew up, he was heroic and martial, excellent military quality, and talented, quick reaction, and level-headed, and everyone who had a deep friendship with him expressed his admiration for him, when he blitzked Poland in 1939, he was the supreme commander of the blitzkrieg Poland, and destroyed Poland in 36 days, showing his strong leadership and command skills.
Halder and Brauchitsch, who were working in the German General Staff at this time, had previously been members of the Army Patriotic Union, and had known and become friends because of the Army Patriotic Union.
Hitler at the front did not know that he had won the praise of the future field marshal, with a rain of bullets and artillery fire, and people falling at any moment and at any moment.
"Little Mike!" Hitler's heart tightened, and a bullet slashed through Hitler's cheek, rushing to the side to cover for him, and little Mike was immediately punched with a bullet hole in his helmet and fell to the ground and died.
"Let's go ......" Hitler soothes little Mike's eyelids, war is so cruel, little Mike was still teaching him to play the piano a few days ago, and he was still a living person before he died.
Hitler did not grieve, did not have time to grieve, and the Mauser sniper rifle in his hand kept firing, creating a great threat to the enemy. Hitler's sniper rifle was equipped with an eight-fold scope produced by Zeiss, and with such a scope, Hitler was even more powerful, and the results were very high.
Looking at Mount Mortom at least a kilometer away, Hitler couldn't help but be a little depressed, just within this kilometer, there were three tight trench lines, and a line at the foot of the mountain, in addition to the line at the foot of the mountain, there was also the last line of defense, and the most difficult line of defense was on Mount Mortom, these five lines of defense were like iron walls, the German army did not say that there were five lines of defense, even if the first line of defense could be overcome, it was a problem.
"Rush!"
The screeches of German artillery fire rang out, covering the French positions with artillery fire, and all the German soldiers who were crawling in front of the French positions charged together.
Heavy machine gun bullets rained down, and the soldiers at the front all fell.
"There are too many dead and wounded!" Even Hitler was grazed by a bullet, his abdomen was bleeding, fortunately a skin wound. Their squad plus little Mike has already killed three people, and if three more people die, the entire squad can withdraw from the battle.
Hitler's squad was well-trained and relatively good, and the rest of the troops, even a company, had only five or six men left.
"Charge!"
The commander screamed in the back, like a duck being choked by the neck and lifted in the air, unpleasantly harsh. More troops were thrown in, and the soldiers rushed forward desperately.
The French no longer had to aim when they fired, because there were too many German soldiers and they were so dense that they could hit the enemy if they fired indiscriminately.
Finally, the German soldiers rushed to the first line of defense of the French army, and after the French threw grenades, the two armies began to fight in a white-knuckle battle.
"Kill!" Hitler seems to be thin and weak, but in fact he is not small, he sees all directions, listens to all directions, and every knife is fast and accurate, and he can often harvest the lives of the enemy, and on the battlefield, he is like a bloody devil.
In the distance, the French observation balloon was raised, and Hitler knew that the French were about to start shelling again.
Sure enough, before they cleared the enemy on the first line of defense, the French artillery fire hit the front of the first line of defense fiercely, the German reinforcements suffered heavy casualties, the reinforcements were reduced, and the French second line of defense took advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack.
"Hold your ground!" Many officers gave orders, but the French counterattack was too fierce, and all the German troops on the position were forced to retreat.
"Let's go!"
Hitler stabbed a French soldier to death with a bayonet, and the German soldiers on the entire front began to run, and if they did not run, they would have to remain as prisoners.
This was the end of the German attack, and all the commanders gathered their troops to prepare for the next attack, and also recuperated and licked their wounds by the way.
There were only six people left in Hitler's squad plus him, and four people died, and he was chatting with his subordinates to cheer him up, when the brute bull came over with a sad face: "Hitler, there are only four people left in our squad, and even the squad leader is dead." ”
Hitler said calmly: "Soldiers should have been cut off from the battlefield and regarded death as their home, they died for their country and died as they deserved." ”
"The day before yesterday, I had a drink with them, and I agreed to go to their hometown after the war." Manniu, a good man with iron bones, almost cried.
Hitler silently wiped the rifle, this is the fate of soldiers during the war years, and perhaps one day, he will be no exception, becoming a dry skeleton in the blue sky and the earth.
Qingshan buries the bones of the faithful everywhere, why should the horse leather shroud be returned.