This operation by the Canadian Defence Force is known as Operation Downpercut. The downpercut, also known as a spade punch, is characterized by sinking the body, taking the opportunity to dodge the opponent's punch to the head, and then standing up violently, punching out from below, using all the muscle strength of the waist, abdomen, legs, and arms. Since the attack is launched from below, it is difficult to defend. In close combat, the lethality of spade boxing is extremely huge, and the famous stunt of Chinese movie star Jackie Chan is spade boxing. The downpercut represents the general's determination to engage the enemy in a close-quarter, lethal battle. The main purpose of this operation is obvious, one is to rescue the soldiers who were captured before, and the other is to make the other side have no strength to fight again.

Taking the 501 Battalion as an example, it has three motorized infantry companies and one anti-tank support company, carrying more than 60 anti-tank guns and self-propelled anti-tank guns; the motorized infantry company has three infantry platoons and one fire support platoon; the infantry platoon is divided into three infantry squads and one automobile squad; and the fire support platoon is equipped with large-caliber machine guns, automatic grenade launchers, and 60mm mortars. Counting the auxiliary forces of the battalion, a battalion has a combat strength of more than 500 people, and if it breaks out in the short term, it can exert an attack power of 1.5 on the international average.

After 3 days of assembling on the front at the foot of the mountain, the troops received an order to attack. The division's reconnaissance company first seized several commanding heights in the mountains, and then notified the 501st and 502nd battalions to go forward to establish positions, and the Daifei battalion carried a large amount of artillery and ammunition to advance with the horse convoy. Since the assembly point had penetrated deep into the place where the car could not start, all the equipment and supplies would be transported by horse-drawn carts, and the soldiers spontaneously brought bicycles, tricycles, and other equipment. Two divisional engineering companies worked hard to pave the road, and without the help of large machinery, the narrow-gauge railway became the most convenient means of transportation.

It should be out of the military leadership's religious beliefs, and the message that the opponent is an undead is not conveyed to the front-line combatants, but stops at the fingers, just emphasizing to the combat troops that the opponent is a very strong humanoid monster, and it is very likely that it will not be able to kill with one shot, and even concentrate on firepower and continue to shoot.

With the help of bicycles, the soldiers of the 501st Battalion advanced much faster. It took only one day for the reconnaissance team to reach the grove and hill about 160 kilometers from the entrance of the cave, where the I and C teams were attacked and captured. After confirming that there was no problem, the reconnaissance team sent two people back on bicycles to report the situation. There was no electric light to illuminate the road, but it was a glow stick that emitted bright light, so the time to go back was only extended by 4 hours. By daylight, the two scouts had already reported the news to the battalion headquarters.

If there is a C4ISR, these situations can be obtained in real time by the general at the division headquarters, but now the transmission of information from the front line to the rear can only be reported by soldiers on bicycles, and the timeliness of information cannot be guaranteed at all.

"Your Excellency, I want some sailors. Colonel Johnson, the commander of the 501st Battalion, made a special trip back and reported to the general: "If there are sailors, I am confident that I can increase the efficiency of information transmission by three times." "Because the Canadian National Guard is not in the official combat sequence, the number of soldiers is small, and the proportion of officers is unremarkably high, a colonel can only hold the position of battalion commander in the National Guard. As for the lieutenant colonel, at most it is the rank of deputy battalion.

"What do you think?!" the general asked with a smile, "Haha, can sailors fly?"

"I only have one request – to be able to play the flag and the light signal. Johnson said, staring into the general's eyes.

The general laughed and said, "Your method will not work, I heard that the cave is not far away, and the electrical appliances cannot be used." He pretended to be mysterious and said in a playful tone: "I heard that it includes electric lights." ”

"But, Your Excellency, there is a glow stick that emits a strong light closer to the point of failure of the electrical appliance, and it is quite stable. We can use this feature to make signal lights. ”

"It doesn't use electricity?" the general asked.

"It's chemiluminescent and doesn't require electricity. Johnson replied, "Of course, there is electricity, but it is ...... bright."

"Then it's decided," the general interrupted Johnson, and seeing that things were feasible, he resumed his serious appearance, "I'll go to the Navy to find someone, and at the same time let the logistics department supply this glow stick, your people will definitely get this thing tomorrow." ”

By the afternoon of the next day, dozens of truckloads of glow sticks were sent into the cave, along with 60 sailors who could waive flags and understand light signals. There they dispersed to liaison stations on a dozen commanding heights of 100 kilometers, and the rules of communication were simple: if it was daytime, they would use flags to communicate, and if it was night, they would use glowsticks. They agreed to contact each other every 1 hour, and if there was an emergency, they could fire a warning shot, and all the contact stations would look at the place where the gun was fired after hearing the gunshot, so as to ensure that their signal could be seen in time.

With the transmission of signals layer by layer, the battalion commander has the corresponding command ability. Johnson was pleased to see that the communications officers of the companies and platoons were able to grasp the common flag language and light signals after simple training, so he was relieved to let the companies carry out the booking plan.

The Scouts first spotted the Undead camp 40 kilometers ahead of the Grove Battlefield, but it appeared that only a small number of infantry in leather armor were guarding the doorway. To avoid losses, the scouts called for artillery fire. The 105mm relocation-oriented howitzer of the Daifei battalion roared 10 kilometers away, but the landing point of the first test shell was unexpectedly two kilometers off.

Seeing the message from the flag in front of him, Zhang Johnson of the 501st Battalion was furious, "Damn! Without ballistic computers, you won't be able to shoot?"

"What's going on?!" Colonel Barnett, the battalion commander of the Princess Diana battalion, couldn't sit still, yelled at his subordinates, and then turned to Johnson and said, "I don't know if you studied the history of war in the military academy, and it was normal for the first test shot to deviate a little in the European war without a missile computer. "The war in Europe he refers to is the First World War, when school guns were test-fired. There was once a classic case that the French army destroyed the German ammunition depot with a missed shell during the test of artillery, so that the German artillery was useless for a period of time and became the target of the French army.

The corrected second shot was much better, a high-explosive bomb exploded at the barracks gate, and the two guards of the Undead Army were swept into the air by the shock wave, and after falling to the ground, they were buried in the dirt again. The scouts saw some soldiers in tattered leather armor and swords and broadswords coming out of the barracks slowly, and they were slow, but they walked resolutely towards the camp gate, wanting to line up there.

After being confirmed by the artillery observers, all the artillery members adjusted the Zhuyuan according to this result, and a round of three rapid shots was fired. Dozens of high-explosive bombs exploded in the undead barracks, turning the barracks thousands of square meters upside down, and when the smoke and dust cleared, there was no longer anything more than 10 cm above the ground in the barracks.

The 3rd Platoon of Company R of the 501st Battalion was closest to the target location and was ordered to clear the remnants of the enemy. The soldiers mounted their platoon general-purpose machine guns on tricycles, the liners hung directly in front of their bicycles, and they could shoot when they stopped, and a large number of rickshaws clanged along the mountain road towards the undead barracks.

Maybe the artillery fire was too well prepared, or maybe the undead army was too ineffective, and the 3rd platoon of R Company did not encounter any resistance, and not even a single movable enemy was found.

"Build supply depots, build staging areas. When the general received this news, his spirits perked up, "Continue to search ahead tomorrow, this is not the main force of the enemy, it must not be." ”

"Yes!" the adjutant replied, and went down to give the order. When he returned, there was an extra man behind him, and he kept shouting loudly, "I have authorization, I can ask to see the general at any time of the day!"

"Your Excellency, General. When the man saw that the general was indeed here, he did not hide the smugness on his face, "We have a new result, that is, the loss of energy is related to its structure." We have devised a formula, the field strength formula, which can calculate where our cannon will not fire. ”

"Let him come. The general commanded, and he knew the man, Malcom, one of the scientists sent by a consortium to support the military's research, and the chief biologist of the project team.

Malcolm straightened his collar and snorted at the two guards before he came over and said, "Your Excellency, can I use your map?"

The general made a gesture of invitation, and said with a hesitant face: "It's best that you can say something real and useful this time, otherwise, you won't be able to come here next time, and I will ask the military to send another scientist who is capable of conducting research." ”

Malcolm smirked and said, "You'd better take a look, Your Excellency. What we've come up with this time is quite significant. He picked up a pen and drew a line on the electronic sand table, saying, "This is the failure point of our electrical appliances," and drew another line, "This is the point where the car turns off......

The general lost patience, and these so-called scientists all came here to cheat and cheat and drink? Although their salaries are not borne by the military, the military is responsible for all food and lodging, and it took more than half a month to talk about what the soldiers had already reported half a month ago. He frowned and whispered, "Get out!"

Malcolm looked up and said dissatisfiedly, "You can't interrupt me like that, what I'm talking about is important. ”

The general ignored him, raised his voice and said, "Please go out!"

Malcom explained: "Yes...... But I'm not done yet. ”

The general was furious and shouted, "Get out of here, or I'll let the guards throw you out." ”

Malcolm also said angrily: "I'll draw another stroke, and then get out of here!" said as he drew a line on the sand table, marked the words "gun failure zone", threw down the pen and turned to leave.

The general suddenly remembered that when this guy came over just now, he said that they had calculated that the cannon would not fire.

"Come back!" he whispered. Malcolm ignored him and continued to walk out, and the general had to raise the volume and say, "Please come back!" Malcolm still ignored him, but his pace was much slower. The general's tongue burst into thunder and shouted: "Guards! ”

Malcolm hurriedly said, "Don't catch it, I'll come back by myself." After that, he turned around and ran back, and complained embarrassedly: "How can you have such a temper, Your Excellency General, you can't call the guards at every turn." ”

What will Malcolm say to the general? Where has the army of the undead gone?