When drawing up a battle plan, it is necessary to take into account various possibilities, including the worst-case scenario, and prepare various contingency plans according to one's own conditions. Even if we can't formulate a first-good countermeasure, we must at least prepare a second-good positive countermeasure.

Li Lin did this, the General Staff of the Defense Force did this, and Roland did the same.

As early as the moment when he predicted the true strategic intentions of the defense forces, Roland was preparing for the delayed operation in the Ardennes area, in addition to mobilizing the only elite forces he had at hand to deal with many transportation hubs and roads at the same time, he also prepared the 5th Hussar Division after the failure of the delayed operation.

To be honest, Roland himself didn't like this backhand, because it was in serious conflict with his personal philosophy. Whether it is a soldier who ignores military discipline and acts without authorization, or uses other people's lives as numbers and cannon fodder, this is difficult for him to accept and strongly opposes. But there are only so many resources at his disposal, and the other party's timetable will not give him more time to increase the chips in his hand. Secondly......

By now, he had decided that he would move on even if he got his hands dirty, even if it was something that he couldn't accept anyway and had to accept.

After all, there is no such thing as a clean war. The so-called war, the so-called general war, is originally a mud pit that will draw everyone into it, filling it with flesh and feces. Even if you can't accept it, how many people can you be satisfied if you don't get involved? 100,000 people, 10,000 people, 1,000 people, 100 people, or not a single one?

If that were the case, there should be no war at all.

The reality is that war has always existed, and the original workers, peasants, shoemakers, civil servants, hotel hostesses, gangsters, school teachers...... They were drafted in a steady stream, put on uniforms, took up arms, and were sent to the front to burn towns and villages, killing the same workers, peasants, petty townspeople, civil servants, and mass-producing widows and orphans. As a reward, they put on beautiful uniforms, the stars and bars on their shoulders were increasing, and they wore shining medals on their chests and necklines. And then continue the same thing until one day death......

The army, the 901 Anti-Tank Hunter Battalion and the 902 Ranger Battalion are neither partners in justice nor heroes in the story. Faced with an irreversible fate, they can only do their best to die.

However, this wave of dying struggles is still a threat to Army Group B, which is racing against time.

"Report OB, Big Meow 1 received. Repeated, Big Meow No. 1 received. Complete. ”

As the electromechanical officer turned off the special frequency of the army group headquarters, a wry smile rose on Nona's lips.

The undisguised actions of the 5th Light Cavalry Division were easily noticed by the Wehrmacht Air Force, and it was difficult for the cavalry swaggering along the road not to be discovered. But they can't do that.

"Naval artillery fire destroys important highways, and MDS teams and attack aircraft have other priority targets. ”

"Did the enemy begin to send reinforcements and destroy roads?"

The staff officer's voice came through the headset, and Nona, who was standing on the conning tower, shrugged.

"There are no signs of further movement of the enemy forces yet, but there are some anomalies on the railway line, and they have to deal with the problem on the other side first. ”

Colonel Lazarene was brave but not unscrupulous, and it would be too much to underestimate this rare talent in the army of King Charlemagne's family who would only "cut down the chariots of the ghost animals with a big sword".

The colonel knew very well that once the cavalry began to assemble and operate, the most immediate threat would come from the air, and the enemy troops who had mastered air supremacy would swarm like vultures that had found a feast, and it would not take three or two strokes for the two thousand or so men under his command to be wiped out, and there would be no scum left.

Even if they break through the encirclement and interception of the air force, they will have to face terrifying artillery fire afterwards - according to intelligence, the enemy forces that attacked the Ardennes this time are equipped with a large number of self-propelled guns, and as long as the eyes of the air continue to provide them with parameters, those artillery can easily create a barrage that can blow up the entire cavalry division into the sky.

It is necessary to create a situation in which the opponent cannot shoot freely, take the opportunity to close the distance with the enemy, and then use the familiarity of the terrain and environment to ambush the enemy's armored column, as long as even a few combat vehicles, blow up a section of railroad tracks or a few bridges will slow the opponent's forward pace and buy time for the rear to adjust the deployment - this is the task that Roland gave the 5th Hussar Division.

In order to achieve this situation, Roland also prepared for Colonel Lazareth a large-scale killing weapon that had just been developed and had not yet had time to be officially assembled and distributed - the railway torpedo "Icarus".

Well, the so-called railway torpedo is actually a modified locomotive, not only a large number of explosives are stacked in the front and coal tanks, but also installed at the head of the locomotive the standard anti-tank weapon developed by the army, "Piercing Thunder" (the thunder body and the thunder rod are composed of two parts, the thunder rod is a wooden stick, the shell of the thunder body is a cone made of cement, and the inside is nitrocellulose filled in the form of a hollow shaped charge, the top of the cone is connected with the thunder rod, and the bottom is equipped with three nails. Similar to a bayonet, remove the safety pin from the top of the lightning rod and insert it firmly into the vehicle, so that the user and the vehicle will be blown apart. In order to ensure the effect, it is generally started from the side and back)", one is three. In order to prevent premature detonation by enemy fire, armor was also added to the front and top of the locomotive, which, in theory, would travel along the railway until it ran out of fuel or ran headlong into some hapless man, unless it was hit directly by medium and large caliber guns.

It is difficult to say whether this kind of head-slapping invention is practical or not, but it is indeed a trouble that is difficult to ignore for Army Group B. Rail transport is much more efficient than road transport, and is not affected by weather and terrain, as long as a complete rail system is obtained, the current road congestion of Army Group B can be greatly reduced, which is one of the reasons why they are so eager to seize Bastogne.

With this level of consideration, the command will inevitably have some stingers. It was obviously impossible to let those mobile bombs go unchecked, but if they exploded, they would destroy important railway facilities, and although they were prepared in advance to deal with the destruction of the railway, the command still wanted to get the railroad intact at the slightest chance. They've lost a lot of time, and every second counts now.

After some debate, the command of Army Group finally decided that the air force should continue to carry out battlefield shelter and reconnaissance missions, and that a group of elite engineers and assault teams would be dispatched to cooperate with the MDS unit to deal with the locomotives laden with explosives, and to eliminate enemy engineers along the line to prevent them from blasting railways and bridges.

As for the cavalry unit, it was handed over to the Balk battle group.

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