Strong repression is necessary in the military to bring majesty and drive the leader to accept the leadership, and Li Qi's approach is not the only one, and more officers will use more brutal methods to force the soldiers under the formation to accept the command.

Of course, "Key Points of Battlefield Infiltration" and "Special Operations Tactics" are only two booklets, and even if Li Qi has enough knowledge, he does not have time, and it is difficult for him to complete the two books in less than half a month, so he can only be some suggestions and reminders, so he calls them booklets instead of books.

Whether it was the Third German Reich or the Second German Reich now, they all came from the same nation, and with this common denominator, the characteristic of the German nation was that it was accustomed to obeying authority. Actually, it's okay now, if in the era of the Third Reich, there was no doctor in the name of the emperor who was really embarrassed to claim authority. And now, Richie is quite emboldened just because the army distributes two pamphlets to the necessary troops.

World War I was a static war dominated by trench machine guns, and both warring sides struggled to break through the trench defenses. Later, the British invented new weapons and tanks, while the Germans relied on combining traditional arms and forming elite commandos called "Sturmtrup" in order to achieve a breakthrough. A typical commando battalion consisted of infantry, combat engineers, accompanying infantry guns, trench mortars, and so on, and each German army group on the Western Front at that time had at least one battalion of commandos.

With the permission of the command of the group army, Li Qi was going to carry out a special task, and the human or material resources of the assault battalion would inevitably be skewed.

In fact, the report that Li Qi sent to the group army command was really too tempting, and after receiving the report, the group army command held talks and had a little dispute. The so-called dispute is not that the report sent by Richie is not feasible, but that the action in the report is extremely feasible, and the dispute arises about whether to let a lieutenant lead the operation, obviously the operation cannot be led by a lieutenant, and should be at least a general, but the general does not directly command, so it is inevitable that Richie will be promoted in the rank.

Commandos were dispatched to attack the generals of the Entente in a planned and premeditated manner. The success of the operation would be a great morale booster and perhaps disrupt the steps of the Entente's impending campaign on this side of the Somme. The failure of the operation is, at worst, the price of a commando. Do you need to think about it more?

"I don't even know how to describe what happened to you." Kurt. Zeitzler had an undisguised envy on his face, and his eyes were on the rank of captain on Richie's shoulder.

Yes, just this morning came three sections of people, they were a lieutenant colonel from the regimental headquarters, a colonel from the division headquarters, a major general from the staff of the army group group. They brought with them the paperwork of Rich's promotion, and at the same time, the general personally wore the captain's badge and epaulettes for Rich, which meant that Richie became an honorable captain in the Second German Reich.

"yes, it's really hard to describe what happened like this." Li Qi is actually more bitter in his heart.

The order for promotion was issued directly from the command of the group army, which was equivalent to the intervention of the command of the group army at the two levels of the regiment headquarters and the division headquarters, and the bitterness in Li Qi's heart also came from this. In fact, his merits were long enough to qualify for the promotion to captain, but the army of the Second German Reich, like many armies, was not only based on merit, but also required a certain amount of seniority.

Richie's promotion permission is Otto. Feng. Bello directly agreed, and to put it nicely, it was Otto. Feng. Bello was full of expectations for Richie's unlaunched military operation, and it was not an unimaginable pressure on Richie. If Li Qi didn't achieve his expectations this time, he might still get some glory if he died in battle, and if he didn't die in battle and didn't succeed, it would have been a series of nightmares.

"We were given almost all the resources we could." Richie made himself smile with a sunny smile, so that he could appear confident about the action that was about to begin. "A submachine gun that has been ordered but not fitted (i.e. the MP18 submachine gun), a modified and reduced 60mm mortar, various types of grenades and, of course, a flamethrower," he said. ”

I have to say that the mortar, this kind of artillery is a kind of projectile cannon in trench warfare in order to kill and injure the enemy, because of its high ballistic arc, usually falling from the sky to the ground, so it is very popular and hated on the battlefield where trench warfare is rampant. Welcome is the one who launches, and hates the one who is bombed.

In terms of grenades, both the Allies and the Entente have successively developed various types, including all-metal grenades and wooden-handled grenades, and there are many types of grenades that are carefully distinguished, such as different types of fragmentation shells, special-purpose gas shells, defensive grenades, and high-destruction cluster grenades......

Richie's assault team gathered forty-six men, including a lieutenant and two ensigns of the group leader, and of course himself, the whole assault team was exactly fifty men.

The 50 men will be divided into four teams, each of which will be rigidly divided into equipment because of the different tasks to be performed.

"We will conduct a simulation of actual combat in the early morning of the 21st, and I ask you to strictly implement the orders of each team leader, which is not only related to whether the simulation can be successful, because there is no imaginary enemy in the exercise, and your opponent is the real Allied soldiers, so it is also about your life!"

"Understood, sir!"

"Excellent! Then the captains of the groups remained, and the rest were disbanded. ”

"Yes, sir!"

In the end, there were three people left, and they were Kurt. Lieutenant Zeitzler, Hans. Second Lieutenant Cambrai, Hans. Second Lieutenant Perona.

Hans is a very common name in Germany, like George in England, Ivan in Russia, and Dogan in China......

"There is no such thing as a real-world simulation." Li Qi's first sentence made the three lieutenants open their mouths wide and their faces full of astonishment. "We have no extra time to waste, we can only spend two days getting acquainted with each other, and there is no way to conduct exercises in an imaginary enemy situation," he said. There is accurate information that the Allies will make a major move by June 23 at the latest, and the Allies positions at that time will become extremely difficult to penetrate. ”

In fact, Leach was not talking nonsense, the Allies planned to launch the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916, which would be preceded by a week of intensive artillery bombardment. And now it is June 19, 1916, according to the past military common sense, the Entente is the busiest time to prepare for a round of offensive, according to the judgment of Richie, and also the information provided by the command of the group army, it is now the Entente's "relatively chaotic slack interval time in tension".

"Sir, we've just assembled as a team, and we haven't run in......"

"Yes, yes, so I grouped you guys. The members of each group are veterans of two years of fighting, and will perform what they are best at. ”

"If the commander insists, I will strictly follow your orders, but reserve the right to appeal to the battalion headquarters."