Chapter 269: Participating in German Exercises (2)
In order to prevent the attacker from attacking from the flank and going up the hill, the defender had to draw limited forces from the front to participate in the defense of the flank, thus weakening the defensive firepower of the front, which greatly reduced the casualties of the soldiers attacking from the front, and the heavy machine guns behind the frontal attacker suppressed the strong firepower, and the lethality of the frontal defense force on the head to the attacking troops was extremely limited.
The defender could not support it, after being dispersed and knocked out of the heavy machine gun, the attacker was completely suppressed by the attacker's heavy machine gun, and the attacker took the opportunity to quickly attack the mountain, and rushed into the opponent's trench to start the final white-edged battle, you can imagine the result of the battle, due to the huge gap in strength, the defender was completely annihilated in the white-knuckle battle.
In the command post, Xiao Zhenlei put down the binoculars with a smile and said with a smile: "Hey, sir, the battle is over, it seems that my attacker has completely annihilated the defender!" ”
Although the others in the command post did not go up the hill to check the specific situation, Jarvis and Mulder both saw the situation on the battlefield with their binoculars, and they both put down their binoculars and were stunned.
Mulder muttered to himself, "How can this be? ”
"Report!" The correspondent shouted at the door.
"Come in!"
The correspondent walked in and reported: "Report to the sir, our army has completely annihilated the defenders on the mountain, captured 14 people, successfully occupied the high ground, our army has lost 24 killed and 12 wounded, and the report is complete."
Xiao Zhenlei said: "Half of the casualties, this battle was fought a little badly, mainly because the open area for the frontal attack is too narrow, if it is more open or the attack is not a bare piece on the way, the casualties can be reduced!" So what, Captain Mulder, are you supposed to keep your promise? ”
"Huh?" Mulder was extremely embarrassed, but he was a man who was willing to gamble and lose, so he called the orderlies to his dormitory and brought a Luger P08 pistol with a holster.
Xiao Zhenlei couldn't put it down with this Luger pistol, and kept playing with it, and Jarvis next to him had just recovered from the shock, Xiao Zhenlei's command just now was too shocking for him, it turned out that the heavy machine gun could still be used like this, it turned out that it could also use sharpshooters to deal with the heavy fire on the enemy's position, and it turned out that it could also penetrate from the weak flank of the enemy's position.
Jarvis, who came back to his senses, immediately took Mudra aside and whispered: "I ask you to arrange another drill, Xiao's tactics are really gorgeous, varied and extremely practical, I think this is a rare learning opportunity for us, if Xiao is given a fully equipped German division, I am sure he can sweep any country's army division!" ”
Although Mulder felt a little embarrassed, he also had to admit that Xiao Zhenlei was indeed much better than him in this regard, and he asked, "It's okay to arrange another exercise, but, Colonel, what do you want to do this time?" ”
Jarvis smiled: "Let him defend this time, you command your troops to attack as he commanded just now, this time I will see how he defends!" ”
"Oh, Colonel, you are so cunning!" Mulder's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he immediately praised.
Jarvis's face turned pale: "How do you speak?" Be smart! What are you still doing? Why don't you get ready? I'll go tell him to command the defenders, and go! ”
"Yes, sir!"
After Mulder went out, Jarvis walked up to Xiao Zhenlei and said, "Xiao, since you have already commanded an attack, why don't you command the defense again?" ”
Xiao Zhenlei, who was holding Luger's pistol, looked up at Jarvis when he heard this, and found that he had an extremely eager expression on his face, and immediately understood what this guy's idea was, wanting to steal the teacher? You'll have to pay some tuition, too!
After a little thought in his mind, Xiao Zhenlei smiled and said, "It's okay to let me command a defensive operation, but what's the benefit for me?" ”
"Huh?" Jarvis was stunned, he didn't expect Xiao Zhenlei to be so realistic, this is completely different from the Chinese he has seen, what is going on?
After hesitating for a moment, Jarvis said: "Xiao, you know that my power is limited, I can give you, I guess you have everything, so let's do it, I can send a note to your country's War Department in the name of the Ministry of Defense, saying that you are a rare military talent, with your talent is enough to command the strength of an army, I believe that your country's War Department will definitely look at you differently!" ”
Why, if you want to climb up, you Germans still need to recommend it? Didn't you make it clear that those people in our War Department were blind? After that, those bastards still don't wear small shoes?
Xiao Zhenlei hurriedly shook his head: "No, no, no, I don't rare this, well, if you can give me a quota of thirty international students every Chinese New Year's Eve, and I have to pay free tuition, and I have to choose what university to enter, so I am willing to be the commander of the defending side once!" ”
Jarvis frowned when he heard this, it's not that Xiao Zhenlei wants a quota for international students to make him embarrassed, in fact, he still has a little power as a senior officer at the level of a colonel in the Ministry of National Defense, and it's no problem to ask for a few international student quotas, other countries in the world send people to study in Germany every year, even the United Kingdom, France and the United States, his headache is that Xiao Zhenlei wants too much, thirty places, and the tuition is free, if those international students want to enter a military school, the problem is not big, anyway, the military school includes room and board, tuition is also free, generally can not go out of school, but if international students want to enter other universities, the tuition required by thirty international students every Chinese New Year's Eve is not a small amount, those schools cannot give tuition free because he is the Ministry of Defense, the first few years are fine, four years later he will have to bear the cost of 120 international students every year!
After thinking about it, Jarvis still felt that this deal was too risky, and Xiao Zhenlei wanted too many places, so he shook his head and said: "Xiao, it's not that I can't give up a few free international student places, it's really that you want too many free places, I can only give you up to six places, if you want a place at your own expense, I can arrange it, thirty is not a problem, but all of them are free, I really don't have such a big power!" ”
Xiao Zhenlei began to bargain with Jarvis, and finally the two sides reached an agreement, Jarvis gave him ten free study abroad places and ten self-funded study abroad places every year.
After reaching an agreement, Mulder's side was also ready, and under the guidance of the orderly soldiers arranged by Mulder, Xiao Zhenlei immediately went to the top of the mountain to prepare for this defensive operation.
The platoon commander of the third platoon in charge of defense on the mountain saw that the company commander's orderly had attracted an officer wearing the uniforms of other countries, and when he saw Xiao Zhenlei's face in the east, he knew that this was the Chinese officer who had just commanded the attacking troops to annihilate his defensive troops.
"Third platoon commander, the company commander has arranged for this Chinese colonel to be responsible for commanding this defensive operation, you have to obey his command!" After speaking, the orderly said to Xiao Zhenlei: "Sir, if there is nothing else, I will go down first!" ”
Xiao Zhenlei nodded, and after the orderly left, he looked at the first three platoon leaders, this was a German man, very burly, and asked, "You are the third platoon leader?" ”
"Hello sir, yes, sir!"
"What do you think of the offensive operation I just commanded?"
The third platoon commander was completely convinced in the battle just now, and hurriedly said: "Sir, I never knew that there were so many tricks in offensive tactics, and I was confused at the beginning of this battle just now, and the heavy machine gun shooter was * off so that we lost our firepower, and you arranged heavy machine guns to suppress the firepower of our army, and also divided my troops to disperse my frontal defense forces, which really opened my eyes!" Sir, you say, how will we fight the defensive battle this time? ”
Xiao Zhenlei smiled, took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it over: "Do you smoke?" ”
"Oh, thanks, it's best to have one before the war!"
"Then give one to every soldier who can smoke! Call all the soldiers over".
"Okay!"
There were only more than 40 people in a platoon, less than 50 people, Xiao Zhenlei asked everyone to get together, and while smoking, he explained the defensive tactics to all the soldiers.
"First of all, I need two soldiers with the best marksmanship, is there any? Good! Xiao Zhenlei saw the two soldiers raise their hands, pointed at them and said: "Just the two of you, the initial task of the two of you is not to stare at the opponent's sharpshooter, but to conceal it, one person is responsible for observing the opponent's heavy machine gun, once the opponent's heavy machine gun provides fire support for their attacking troops, immediately shoot it out, and the other person is responsible for covering for this person and protecting him from being killed by the sharpshooters of the attacking troops, do you understand?" ”
"Understood!"
"Good!" Xiao Zhenlei took a puff of cigarette and said, "Who are the heavy machine gun crew?" Oh, it's you? Okay, the defensive position of your heavy machine guns should be changed, you can no longer stay in the middle of the trench, but on the left and right flanks, no matter which side you are on, you must set up three or four machine gun positions, the machine gun positions must be set up to protect the safety of the shooter as much as possible, and fire for a maximum of two minutes to change a machine gun position as quickly as possible, just now the attacking side has been familiar with my tactics, your heavy machine gun team is likely to become the first thing the other side to kill, without my order, you can't fire, you can't expose your position, Do you understand? ”
Several members of the machine gun crew nodded: "Understood, sir!" ”
"Also, three platoon commanders, we have grenades, I want you to prepare five grenades for each soldier, each soldier puts the grenades on the sandbags for me to prepare, hear me shout grenades for the right time, except for the heavy machine guns, the soldiers must start twisting the grenade handle cap, and pull off the lead, count down to five at the same time in their hearts, and then throw the grenade into the enemy crowd, understand?"
"Understood!"
Xiao Zhenlei's tactics such as knocking out the attacker's heavy machine guns, concealing heavy machine gun firepower, and throwing grenades en masse are all unavailable in this era, so you can imagine how many casualties it will bring to the attacker. R1152