Germany's methods of dealing with the Soviet partisans were not sophisticated, and could even be said to be somewhat primitive. They moved villages deep into the mountains on a large scale, and gathered everyone to guard them in places where they could be supervised. Then they began to comb through the deep forests with helicopters, armored vehicles and mountain infantry, and fire at all the targets they saw.

This method was inefficient and time-consuming, but the Germans really had no better way to deal with these difficult partisans. They were much more flexible than the Germans, with the exception of a few mountain divisions and special forces, and it was difficult for the Germans to find units in the sequence that could target these scattered enemies.

Even decades later, the United States was tortured to death by the North Vietnamese guerrillas on the battlefield in Vietnam, and eventually the world's largest power had to leave the battlefield full of mountains and jungles with its tail between its legs. Also in Afghanistan, the mighty Soviet Union was devastated by local guerrillas, which ultimately indirectly accelerated the collapse of the Soviet Union.

However, the German army is indeed inferior to the United States during the Gulf War in terms of equipment, and the current technological means do not allow the German army to use asymmetric warfare to torture and kill those difficult small guerrillas. Because until the era of Accardo's crossing, there were still no very good military means to deal with the activities of the partisans in the world, so the German army at this moment could only cross the river by feeling the stones on its own.

Fortunately, Germany has now entered into a wartime system in all aspects, and the national mobilization is relatively thorough, which gives the German army more room to endure casualties and large-scale troop movements, so for the time being, it can cope with the partisan activities that seem to be tolerable for the time being.

Of course, the Germans were very creative in developing a set of effective tactics for the widespread extermination of guerrillas, which was very close to the helicopter tactics used by the United States in the Vietnam War. That is, to use troops to break through the encirclement and suppression, and when the guerrillas are sticked, mobilize helicopters with strong mobility to transport more troops to help in the battle, until they kill all the enemies who encircle and annihilate them.

This set of tactics helped the German army achieve good anti-partisan results in Poland and Ukraine, and now it seems that there is no big problem in dealing with the partisans in the Caucasus. In half a month, the Germans lost a total of 24 helicopters and about 300 soldiers. However, they succeeded in annihilating dozens of guerrilla forces, and the total number of enemy troops annihilated exceeded 4,000.

At the same time, the Germans sent 80,000 men of all kinds to concentration camps in Ukraine and Poland, who became the lowest level of exploitation by the labor system in the concentration camps. They had to endure the exploitation of the Germans, and at the same time the oppression of the Ukrainians and Russians in the concentration camps.

Of course, on the entire battlefield, the fighting continued, and the three flames of Field Marshal Manstein's new appointment were far from over, at least the strength of the German army in encircling and suppressing the guerrillas in the occupied areas had increased from 140,000 to 210,000 in half a month. The number of partisan attacks on German convoys in the same area has dropped to only two or three times a week because of intensive encirclement and suppression work.

Of course, at the end of June, the traffic environment of the German troops in the Caucasus suddenly improved, on the one hand, because of the extraordinary results of Field Marshal Manstein's operation to clear the occupied areas, and on the other hand, the main reason was that the railway line between the Baku oil fields and St. Rudolph was repaired, and the main transportation tasks of the German army were concentrated on the relatively well-managed coastal plain railway.

On the other hand, the Americans' life was not very comfortable, because in the Pacific theater, there was a situation of large-scale Japanese suicide aircraft attacking American warships. This caused a certain amount of panic in the US Navy, after all, if this was a tactic in which the Japanese began to deploy on a large scale, it would undoubtedly increase the casualties of the US Navy.

Although the effect of this suicide plane attack on a warship is not very good, it can make the soldiers of the American army fall into fear. The scene of the other party driving the plane to the battleship with an indomitable momentum, and then the plane exploding into a ball of flames is indeed shocking and terrifying enough.

Therefore, the Americans began to nervously deploy countermeasures against this suicide plane, hoping to make the soldiers more courageous in the face of this deadly attack. For a time, there was a lot of noise in the entire Pacific theater, and the US Navy fleet was completely destroyed by these planes that were constantly dispatched to crash into US warships.

An American heavy cruiser equipped with a new radar was put under total martial law because it spotted the patrol planes returning from the American aircraft carrier, and all its anti-aircraft weapons were aimed at several distant planes of the US military's own people, and if they had not received a call from these planes at the last moment, a farce of their own people attacking their own people would have been staged.

Such a frantic move by the Japanese army did relieve the offensive pressure of the US military to a certain extent, and the commander-in-chief of the US Navy, General Nimitz, was forced to abandon part of the offensive plan because of this attack, and he felt that he should wait for more US aircraft carriers to attack the islands occupied by the Japanese army in a safer way.

Even so, the battle for the island, which has already begun, still has to continue. For example, on the island where Taro Takemoto is located, the offensive of the US Marine Corps has become more fierce for these reasons. The second line of defense, which the Japanese army desperately defended, began to collapse little by little under the frantic attack of American soldiers, because of the lack of ammunition and supplies, the Japanese counterattack and resistance became more and more weak.

In the past few days, Taro Takemoto has seen more and more wounded and scattered troops arrive at the port where he is stationed, which has been destroyed by blasting. Some of these soldiers were still soldiers of the Nakamura Brigade who had been stationed in the port, but when these people came back in frustration, they were no longer as heroic as when they left, but in a broken army.

"Hey, I said, that's how the Nakamura brigade is finished?" Taro Takemoto asked, holding his rifle, as he watched a soldier being assigned to the foxhole he was in. He wanted to know the battle situation on the front line, and there was no other way, so he could only ask the soldiers who had just returned from the breakdown, but he would often be scolded by the other party when he asked this question.

However, the soldier who was asked seemed to have a very weak personality, and he did not have such a strong idea of defending his troops, he just leaned against the wall of the foxhole, and replied calmly: "More than 400 people gathered to charge at night, and as a result, less than one-tenth of the American crowd rushed in, I was in charge of covering, and I received an order to retreat after running out of bullets, and I learned at dawn that the captain and more than 400 people, only 28 of us came back alive." ”

Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, Taro Takemoto could only comfort himself in a voice that he couldn't even hear clearly: "Uh...... You fought valiantly, and we have all reported your results here. It's a pleasure to meet you, my name is Taro Takemoto, please take care of me in the future. ”

"My name is Jiro Kimura, so please take care of me. The other party was also very polite, and it could be seen that he should also be a recruit who had just joined the army. The two of them got together as if they were fateful, and quietly began to talk about the current war on the island.

It turned out that when the Nakamura Brigade began to counterattack, the second line of defense of the Japanese army was already crumbling, and the American army broke through the Japanese defense line in many sections, and the entire Japanese army fell to the point of collapse, and the Nakamura Brigade was ordered to launch a counterattack, and it took a full 700 men to push the American Marines back from the defense line.

But these tired Japanese soldiers really had no ability to expand their success, so the battle line was once again stalemate, and some trenches were still in the hands of the Americans, but the Americans did not know for a while how many reserves the Japanese defenders still had, and they did not dare to attack rashly.

"Soldiers of the 3rd Squadron! Soldiers of the 3rd Squadron assembled!" shouted an officer in the distance, who had been unlucky enough to draw the next lottery, so he could only take his troops to the front line and continue to fight the Americans. Some soldiers stood up sparsely, and at this time no one would come back to protect them, and even report deserters who could not stand, after all, everyone wanted others to go to the front line and stay in a safer place.

Dozens of soldiers, carrying their Type 38 rifles, stood up listlessly in a row, as if it were a matter of routine, and they began to be ordered to ask for ammunition from the soldiers around them, after all, in such a moment when there is no effective supply, ammunition also needs to be collected on their own.

"No! really no! I only have these few bullets in my rifle!" a soldier waved his hand to his comrades who were still sitting together just now, these routs who retreated to the port had been scraped several times, and there was really not much ammunition left, after all, everyone still gave it the first few times, but then saw that more and more troops were being transferred back to the front line, and everyone was unwilling to contribute their bullets anymore.

After all, there is no guarantee that they will not be drawn back to the front line in the next second, so everyone is trying to save their ammunition just in case. Taro Takemoto himself kept about 20 rounds of ammunition, which he had collected from the corpses of some sappers, and it turned out that he had more than 50 rounds in total, and after several scraps, he was reluctant to hand over any of them.

"I just came back from the front...... Not a single bullet was left on his body. The soldier, Kimura, dug out his pocket and showed the other party who was begging for bullets: "If we still have bullets, they won't let us come back......"

The other party's expression looked a little unnatural, and after distorting it for a long time, he nodded and ended the conversation, turned around and walked towards another foxhole.

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