Xiao Zhenlei, Jiang Fangzhen, Zhang Xiaozhun and others chatted in the hotel room with a few plates of snacks and a few bottles of wine until dawn, and the three of them were still in good spirits, but the sky was already bright, and everyone still had their own affairs, so they could no longer talk about it, so they could only make another appointment.

Before leaving, Jiang Fangzhen said that he would be able to end his internship in the German army and return to China in the near future, and asked Xiao Zhenlei when he would return to China, if the time came up, it would be better for everyone to take the train to return to China by train.

Xiao Zhenlei was not sure about the specific date of his departure from Germany, and he was still planning to go to the United States, so he couldn't go back with Jiang Fangzhen, only saying that he couldn't go back in the near future, but he didn't say anything to death.

After Jiang Fangzhen and Zhang Xiaozhun went back, Xiao Zhenlei did not rest, he washed his face and changed into a clean military uniform and drove to the German Ministry of Defense.

In the afternoon, Xiao Zhenlei asked if he could go to a nearby German army unit to observe and study, and Jarvis generously agreed, and got into Xiao Zhenlei's car and took a soldier to visit a subordinate company of the Berlin garrison in the suburbs.

Since the company had received a telephone call in advance, after Xiao Zhenlei, Jarvis, and others arrived, the company specially conducted a small-scale military exercise, and the company was divided into two parts, one of which platoons occupied a small height for defense, while the other two platoons launched an attack on a small high ground as an offensive direction.

Because this small-scale military exercise was carried out in a hurry, both the defender and the attacker were not very well prepared, on a small hill, the defender dug only a small section of the trench, which was directly facing the front position of the attacker, in addition, the defender arranged some soldiers in front of the trench to use the mountain and rock bunkers for defense, which is actually equivalent to the role of the paratrooper pit, and this is a sloping terrain, and the soldiers in front of the trench who use the bunker to defend will not block the shooting sight of the soldiers in the trench, These soldiers who were placed in front of the trench with bunkers spread out in the shape of the bell mouths on both sides, and it can indeed be seen that the officers who arranged this defensive position still have a high tactical literacy, and the defender has a heavy machine gun arranged in the middle of the trench, which can overlook the entire battlefield.

As the attacker's side, the strength of this side is twice that of the defender, which is also normal, the world's military development to the present point, almost everyone thinks that the defender has an advantage in the war, this is because the emergence of barbed wire, trench warfare, and heavy machine guns has provided excellent cover for the defender, and the attacker is exposed to the muzzle of the gun under the defender's strong firepower, and the losses are much greater than that of the defender, so there is no more than twice the strength of the defender, basically don't want to attack.

In addition to having twice the strength of the attacker, the weapon also has a heavy machine gun, whether the attacker or the defender, the soldier has a Mauser G98 rifle in his hand, and a number of grenades, each soldier is equipped with a base number of bullets, because it is only a company-level unit, so there is no artillery to use, so this exercise can only be carried out without artillery.

Xiao Zhenlei, Jarvis, and others watched the exercise in the command post of the attacking side, and after the exercise began, the offensive began to organize troops to attack the mountain.

Xiao Zhenlei frowned and asked: "Colonel, why is there no artillery, neither the defending side nor the attacking side has a single artillery, it's a pity that we can't see the German army's infantry and artillery coordination tactics drill!" ”

Jarvis shrugged and said, "Dear Xiao, I'm really sorry, because your request to visit the show was made too suddenly, which left us with no time to prepare, and you know that I am only a small colonel, and it is not enough to decide on a large-scale exercise!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei couldn't help but be speechless for a while when he heard this, no wonder Jarvis, if he was a colonel with actual military power, at least a regimental commander, if it was a regiment-level exercise, there would inevitably be artillery, but this guy was only an officer of the Ministry of National Defense, not a regimental-level commander of the army below, and this exercise was reluctantly organized by others in the face of him being an officer of the Ministry of Defense.

In the command post, Xiao Zhenlei observed with a telescope that the attacker did not use the only heavy machine gun, but let the heavy machine gun idle, and the commander of the attacker, Captain Mulder, ordered the entire attacking force to press up, which made Xiao Zhenlei feel that the German army's individual soldiers were really strong, and every German soldier on the battlefield strictly abided by the principles of the battlefield.

The tactics of launching an attack in several neat rows and columns were gone, and the attackers all spread out in a straggler formation, and the soldiers all attacked the mountain with their guns in their hands and cats bent on their waists, and some soldiers crouched down and shot at the defenders on the mountain after a few steps forward.

In the Russo-Japanese War of 1904, both sides almost still let the attacking troops line up in a neat line to collectively charge, the German army now adopts the offensive tactics of the skirmish formation may be that the Germans found that heavy machine guns will cause great casualties when attacking the neat formation, so they changed the previous offensive tactics, but in Xiao Zhenlei's view, these attacking German straggler formations are not scattered enough, If the defenders had a few more machine guns, the attacking Germans would have run out in a very short time!

After the attacker launched the attack, the defender began to shoot, due to the favorable terrain, the defender's soldiers were well covered, and after the attacker launched the attack, they were completely exposed to the open ground in front of the defender's position, the defender had cleared the hillside beforehand, even the slightly larger stones were cleared, the attacker climbed the hill without any cover to dodge, directly exposed to the defender's gun, plus the defender's heavy machine gun in the middle of the trench continued fire, The attackers suffered heavy casualties and were pinned down on the hillside and could not move.

An hour later, the attacker suffered more than half of the casualties and had to withdraw, and the exercise was considered to be over, ending with the defeat of the attacker.

Xiao Zhenlei put down the binoculars and shook his head and said: "The attacker's attack is too passive and conservative, if it is this kind of attack, even if there are twice as many people, it will not be able to attack the mountain!" ”

The attacking commander in the command post, Mulder, had not left at this time, and when he heard Xiao Zhenlei's words, he was immediately unhappy, he turned around and said, "Passive and conservative? Are you, an officer from that backward country in China, qualified to say that my command is passive and conservative? Well, in that case, then you can command an attack, I don't believe you can attack the mountain with the same number of troops! ”

Xiao Zhenlei was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Can I?" ”

Mu Dedao said fiercely: "As long as you want, I am the company commander here, I can arrange another attack, you take my place, if you can't command the same number of troops to attack the mountain, you must apologize to me!" ”

Hearing this, Xiao Zhenlei turned his head to look at Jarvis beside him, and Jarvis shrugged and said, "I have no opinion, but if you lose, don't think about it!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei smiled and asked, "What if I succeed?" ”

"Impossible!" Mulder shouted.

Xiao Zhenlei said: "There is nothing impossible in this world, miracles always happen!" ”

Mulder thought for a moment and gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, if you succeed, then I'll give you a Luger P08 pistol that I treasured!" ”

The Luger P08 pistol is a standard pistol that the German army began to equip with the army only two years ago, but not all officers have it, and many grassroots officers are still equipped with Mauser military pistols, which is what we call box guns, so Luger P08 pistols are still rare in the hands of grassroots officers.

Xiao Zhenlei was about to get a Luger pistol to play with, and hurriedly said: "Then it's decided, Colonel Jarvis, as a witness, is not allowed to deny if he loses!" ”

After the two sides agreed, Mulder immediately walked out of the command post to rearrange an attack, and the defenders who had just prepared to descend the mountain were ordered to go back to continue the defense, and the attacking soldiers on the lower side of the mountain were also reorganized.

"Hey, man, you know what? I heard that the officer who commanded us this time was an officer from China! The first platoon leader said to the second platoon leader.

The second platoon commander shook his head and smiled when he heard this: "I don't know what the company commander thinks, he will let a Chinese command us to attack, I see that this time it is still the same, in vain, without artillery assistance, it is basically impossible to attack the mountain with twice the force!" ”

The long line said: "No way, let's do it again again, let's play with that Chinese once!" ”

On the mountain, when the third platoon commander heard that the person in charge of the attack this time was a Chinese, he laughed and said: "It's really ridiculous, isn't it a joke?" Does a Chinese have the ability to change the pattern of the battlefield? Well, now that it's settled, let's do it again, this time to make them lose faster, guys, cheer me up and get ready! ”

After Mudder arranged the outside affairs, he walked into the command post and said to Xiao Zhenlei: "Xiao, it's okay, you can now give the order to start the attack."

Xiao Zhenlei waved his hand and smiled: "Don't worry, please ask Captain Mulder to call the two platoon commanders over, I have something to say to them!" ”

Although Mudder was very confused, he still asked the correspondent to call the first platoon leader and the second platoon leader over, "Sir, we are here to report!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei shouted: "Lizheng, take a break!" ”

When the first platoon commander and the second platoon commander rested for a while, Xiao Zhenlei said: "The next battle will be commanded by me, I have decided to divide the troops into two parts, the first platoon leader, you take the first platoon and the second platoon and one squad to attack from the front, and the second platoon commander, you take the second platoon, the second squad and the third squad to outflank the enemy from the flank, so as to achieve the purpose of dispersing the enemy's firepower, no matter which part of you, when attacking, I require the distance between the soldiers to reach more than five meters, and try not to have multiple people in the same straight line, Can every soldier in the course of the act move horizontally from time to time, and not always move in a straight line? ”

The first platoon leader and the second platoon leader glanced at each other when they heard this, and nodded at the same time: "Yes!" ”

"Good!" Xiao Zhen was very satisfied, and said: "In addition, I will leave a soldier who can operate a heavy machine gun, a shooter, a bomb supplier and a soldier who carries an ammunition box, all three of them must be able to operate heavy machine guns, and find two people with the most accurate marksmanship among all of them, is there a problem?" ”

The two platoon commanders didn't know the purpose of Xiao Zhenlei so unknowingly, although they didn't understand, they still agreed: "Okay, sir, we will do what you ask!" ”

Half an hour later, the correspondent came to report that he was ready to attack.

Xiao Zhenlei immediately ordered the first platoon commander to lead the first platoon and the second platoon to take the lead in the attack, due to Xiao Zhenlei's prior arrangement and arrangement, the German soldiers who attacked head-on this time were far apart, and the probability of being hit by a bullet began to decrease significantly.

At this time, the heavy machine gun on the mountain began to sound, and the powerful firepower immediately increased the casualties of the attacking soldiers, Xiao Zhenlei saw it from the telescope and immediately ordered: "Herald, order two soldiers with good marksmanship to give me seconds The shooter of the heavy machine gun on the opposite mountain, kill him, tell the two of them, their task is to keep an eye on the shooter of this heavy machine gun, as long as someone operates it, they will fire and kill its owner, understand?"

"Understood!"

Xiao Zhenlei said again: "Also, order the heavy machine gun team to follow behind the frontal attacking troops, fire at the defensive positions on the mountain, suppress the enemy's firepower, and cover the frontal attacking troops, go!" ”。

"Yes, Your Excellency, Commander!"

After the order was issued, the effect of such a command came out, although the two soldiers in charge of firing were not sharpshooters, but after firing a few more times, they killed the heavy machine gunner on the hill, and the opponent's firepower suddenly weakened, and then two more soldiers went to operate the heavy machine gun, but they were both killed one after another, and no one paid attention to the heavy machine gun immediately.

On the contrary, due to the strong fire cover of heavy machine guns on the attacker's side, the defenders on the hill were almost suppressed to the point that they could not raise their heads, and the attackers' soldiers rushed to the halfway point of the mountain with very few casualties, but at this time the opponent began to throw grenades down the mountain, and the explosions came and went, and the casualties of the attacker began to increase, but because the attacker had heavy machine gun cover, the casualties of the defenders on the opposite side were not small.

Seeing this, Xiao Zhenlei immediately ordered: "Order the second platoon commander to attack from the flank with the second and third squads!" ”R1152