Chapter 86 The Tough Enemy
Although the Norman army in front of us was caught off guard by Weiss's counter-reasoned "eight" ambush formation, which lost about one-third of its troops in just two minutes, they did not collapse. The survivors were neither scattered nor lying on their backs to die, but showed strong tenacity and combat organization. In extremely passive circumstances, they alternately covered their retreat to the slope and quickly formed an irregular temporary defense line. The defenders who were previously on the top of the mountain also quickly climbed up the top of the mountain to join the battle. For Weiss and his soldiers, this battle was like cutting butter with a knife, and it was progressing very smoothly. It seemed that they could wipe out these enemies in a few minutes. However, the "butter" did not make them everything to the end, but became harder, spending the same or even greater strength, and could only cut a little down a little...
Ambushing the enemy with less than 300 troops is a game of "snake swallowing elephant" that is not only bold, but also careful. Once it was discovered that something was wrong, Weiss quickly changed his strategy. Without being able to mobilize the two groups of soldiers on the opposite side in time, he ordered the two groups of soldiers on his side to concentrate machine guns and mortar fire to suppress the enemies on the hill, and some of them smashed pineapple bullets at the slope and under the slope regardless of consumption, and personally took a semi-automatic rifle to kill enemy targets with relatively far distances down the slope one by one.
After finishing a magazine, someone below the slope shot a red and yellow signal flare into the air. Weiss quickly turned to see the location of the Norman warship - this guy who had been wandering all the time had already heard the sound, and the rising signal flare undoubtedly provided it with the best positioning reference.
Come on! I’m not afraid of you being reckless, I’m afraid of you being cowardly! Come on!
Weiss roared in his heart. He ordered the gunners to stop dealing with the remaining enemies on the hill and prepare to fight the enemy ships with all their strength. On rainy nights, the Norman warship with searchlights was a target target in the night sky. Even without his precise guidance, the gunners would not have a big hit rate. The key is that the guy suffered a great loss before. Even if his ground troops were in a critical situation, they still maintained a height of thousands of feet, and the mortar shells could not be held at all. The strategy of keeping distance was a double-edged sword. Norman crews could not distinguish the enemy from those figures that looked like clay men. They were easily disturbed by fireworks. After the Norman warship opened fire, the guerrilla task force soldiers used the signal guns they had previously seized from Norman prisoners of war to fire several signal flares at the top and slopes, causing the Norman soldiers to get fire.
Seeing that both sides were shooting signal flares to each other to guide the fire, the Normans who were flying in the sky also knew that there was something wrong with it. After only a few shots, they hurriedly paused their shooting. Next, they could only turn on the dazzling searchlights and roamed a large circle over the chaotic battlefield.
Using simple strategies to disrupt the enemy's air support, Weiss, the guerrilla colonel, made a quick decision and led the soldiers on his side to carry out an oppressive attack on the enemy at the foot of the slope. The ambush troops on the opposite side did not receive the order, and continued to maintain their original formation and tactics under the command of other officers, and invisibly became the tactical fulcrum of the guerrilla advance team on this battlefield. The two combat forces echoed each other, like a rotating gate, sweeping hard at the enemy troops who fell into the trap... After a while, Weiss's troops approached the enemy's flanks, and they ignored them.
The fierce raid of consumption, the soldiers almost rewarded all the pineapple bombs carried here to the enemy. They reduced their burdens, boosted their morale, and boiled their blood in the battle. As long as Weiss gave the order, they would like the tiger descending the mountain, rushing into the enemy's front line like a fierce tiger, and use close combat to disrupt the enemy's army. However, this kind of life-threatening fighting style is extremely depleted. Unless the enemy collapses quickly and surrenders, it will basically kill one thousand enemies and lose eight hundred themselves. In the enemy-occupied area, this kind of consumption strategy must naturally be avoided as much as possible.
Through a special vision, Weiss found that most of the enemy soldiers in front of him had only slightly decreased their mental energy, and there were very few cases of half. According to past experience, only one-third of the full value would be lost in combat. Basically, they would surrender when they shouted at them, while more than one-third, less than two-thirds were usually disappointed, frustrated, and fearful, and it was easier to give up resistance in desperate situations. Therefore, after throwing a wave of lightning at the enemy, he called the soldiers to shoot at the enemy on the spot.
—In the eyes of those Normans, the ambushers' attacks are sometimes far and sometimes near, sometimes left and right, as if they are everywhere. Their own warships are controlled by bad things, their chaotic vision cannot provide effective support, and the hope of getting out of trouble is very slim. Even so, they still help each other in this cold and frustrated rainy night, even if they may be hit by bullets at any time, they will drag their injured companions... This combat quality has appeared more in the descriptions of the previous generation in the past. On the battlefield today, it seems that only the most elite troops can do it.
Under the stubborn resistance of the Normans, although Weiss and his soldiers took the initiative and killed and injured enemy soldiers through successive moves, the battle situation was still stagnant. Seeing that the enemy at the foot of the slope had closed its formation and retreated in an orderly manner, as this continued, they would soon be able to escape from the ambush circle and get rid of the dilemma of being attacked by the opponents from multiple sides. By that time, the strengths of this Norman army with a large number of people, good training and strong fighting spirit would make victory far away from the guerrilla task force led by Weiss. When they had to withdraw from the battle, the Normans would probably turn passive to active, try every means to bite the opponent or follow closely. As long as it was dawn, the offensive and defensive momentum would be completely reversed...
We cannot let this big fish with sharp teeth slip away! Weiss called the messenger to fire out the Federal Army's red signal flare, which was three consecutive shots, which meant that all the participating troops here launched a total attack on the enemy - even if they didn't have time to make a sufficient battle plan, the officers of another guerrilla advance team knew what they should do when they saw this signal.
The signal flares rose into the night sky one after another. The first one to react was not the one on their own, but the Norman warship, which was like a hot pan ants. I don’t know if it received a telegram from the ground troops for help, or if it knew that the enemy’s three signal flares meant the final attack. At this moment, it no longer cared about the opponent’s ground fire threat, and reduced the flight altitude to two or three hundred feet at a speed that could be distinguished by the naked eye. This entered the range of the pistols of the ground personnel!
Although this Norman warship was a big fish that Weis wanted to deal with, it came at a very abnormal time. It can even be said that it had the opportunity to make Weis most uncomfortable. In this case, he had to let the messenger fire two more green signal flares, allowing all mortar groups to transfer the attack target to the enemy ship, so that the fire support for chasing and annihilation of the enemy was immediately taken away.
The enemy ships came very quickly, and each mortar group was scattered on both sides, and could not organize a complete and fierce fire attack like before. Especially on this side of Weiss, the mortar group had consumed most of the ammunition in the previous battle. However, when fighting against the enemy, it was the most taboo to hesitate and hesitate. Weiss decisively retreated and directly commanded the mortar group on his side to launch a quick attack on the enemy ships - dozens of mortar shells were thrown at the "injured" Norman patrol ship in just half a minute. The hit rate was much lower than the previous forest ambush battle, but the only few hits were enough to make the anxious enemy frightened! Immediately afterwards, it was deployed on the other side
The guerrilla advance team also launched fierce fire on the enemy ships with mortar fire. In this fierce air-to-ground, ground-to-air attack, the Norman warship was at a disadvantage from the beginning: blind shooting and slow movement, as if it was a crappy archer riding a camel. Although the artillery fire from the ground was very weak, it smashed several shots in a row, and the shells hit the stern of the ship also made its previously damaged propulsion and steering device "injured" in a few minutes. However, Weiss' gunner quickly reminded him that there was not much ammunition left.
At such a moment of just one step, what else can I say? Do it to death!
In a moment, the last mortar shell was fired, and the mortar firepower on this side fell into a complete silence. More than 30 gunners who were freed up immediately took up weapons and threw them into the attack on the enemy's marines under Weis' command. Weis was not vague. Seeing that only a few rapid-fire cannons and machine guns from the enemy warships could still be used, he drew out his double guns and led the soldiers to pass the enemy's corpses at the bottom of the slope, ignoring the blind bullets and the bayonets with water droplets and cold light, he resolutely strangled with the enemy's rear guards, and the guerrilla advance team soldiers on the other side also killed.
At this point, they joined forces and eliminated the enemy's combat power behind the Palace of Fengyong in just a few seconds. At this time, they seemed to be only a short distance from victory, but in Weiss' special vision, relying on the desperate delay of the defenders, two or three hundred enemy officers and soldiers had already set a distance from the guerrilla advance team. Their formation was relatively concentrated, and they had guns and ammunition in their hands. The searchlight of the Norman warship still provided them with weak and precious light. Not to mention the existing casualties on Weiss' side, even if more than 200 people rushed forward, this distance would cause them a lot of losses, and they might even be repelled by the enemy.
Weiss judged the situation and ordered the soldiers not to pursue the retreating enemy anymore. At this time, most of the combatants involved in the ambush had already arrived at the bottom of the slope. He took the opportunity to gather teams in the opposite direction to the enemy, organized the front line, and asked the messengers to rush to the opposite hillside to greet the mortar teams that were still shooting at the enemy ships to move with the team. Just as the messengers were trekking on the muddy hillside, the enemy ships in the air ate several more mortar shells. I don’t know what the specific situation was. A large ball of fire suddenly rose up in its territory, trembling for a few seconds, like a wild dog that had been beaten, and fled away in a hurry.
Chapter completed!