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Just as Alsim expected.

During the time they briefly left the ground, the brutal attack on the core position continued. The Germans did not give up their last resistance and were still fighting to the death with their unrealistic hopes that may not have existed from the beginning. Generally speaking, even if the whole high ground is destroyed, the leader will still fight to the death.

"These bastards are determined to fight us to the end. It seems they have to continue working."

The company officer on the side weighed the AK in his hand and prepared to fire it. Alsim took off the butt of the cigarette in his mouth after taking the last puff of the cigarette. He flicked the butt of the cigarette away between his thumb and middle finger and then said.

"There are only a few hours left before dark, hurry up! Let's go!"

"Follow me, hurry up!"

Alsim's company was broken up into multiple combat groups and assigned to multiple combat teams in the same direction to increase their strength and then go into battle. Therefore, the only troops Alsim had on hand at any time were the only people in front of him.

The order to disperse the combat engineers during the offensive was issued by Malashenko. It was also the final decision made after careful consideration and repeated weighing, combined with the summary of past combat experience.

In past battles, there was actually no shortage of examples of combat engineer units being used intensively, with entire companies or even entire battalions being put into battle at once.

Although it can indeed have a very good combat effect, the concentrated use of combat engineer troops can often have a qualitative change effect when the situation is most critical. They can stabilize the position and defend the front line or penetrate the enemy's defense in one go and repel the reinforcements. enemy reinforcements.

But in contrast, combat engineering troops will also pay a price, and it is a price that is relatively unacceptable.

Specifically speaking, it is the number of casualties written on the casualty report that is enough to make Malashenko frown.

After all, when such a large group of armored men with fierce combat power and full battlefield recognition collectively enter the battlefield, they burst out with super powerful combat power that attracts attention. As long as the German guys on the opposite side are not blind and stupid, they must know how serious this group of people is, and they also know that they must concentrate their firepower to deal with these people first. Otherwise, they may wave goodbye to Shengli completely.

This resulted in the combat engineering unit being fully integrated into the battlefield at one time. The results were great, but the casualties caused by excessive hatred were also considerable.

After experiencing several such battles and repeatedly replenishing the combat engineer force, Malashenko finally realized that he could not continue like this.

Combat engineers are elite heavy infantry who are used by themselves to put out fires and make key breakthroughs. These people should be limited to a casualty rate that is relatively lower than that of conventional infantry units. It is difficult to repeatedly replenish troops that are like running around and not stopping. If you can't maintain your inherent combat effectiveness, how can you continue to improve it if you can't even maintain what you have now?

Starting from the most basic combat formation method, Malashenko compiled and revised the combat textbook for combat engineers and convened his own division leadership team to discuss it.

The final version of the second revision of the Combat Engineer Combat Textbook has canceled the content of using the entire organization as a unit and fully entering the battlefield. Instead, combat engineers are broken up into company and platoon-level forms, which can be used in wartime situations when necessary. Decentralized investment into each main attack force for decentralization.

This not only enhances the combat strength of the main offensive force and improves combat effectiveness, but also avoids the problems of being easily targeted by concentrated fire and causing excessive casualties when the combat engineer force is put into the battlefield as an integrated unit.

To put it simply, the combat engineer troops are no longer used as pure infantry, but are broken up and filled into synthetic combat formations as new members.

There is no longer a single battlefield command system for combat engineers. Just like large cells swallowing small cells and integrating into a whole, combat engineers in the future will also become a member of the synthetic combat team and obey the orders of the synthetic command system. , instead of another independent system for operations and command.

On the surface, there is no fatal problem, but it is difficult for Malashenko to predict whether this will be an addition or a subtraction of combat power. After all, when combat engineers are used intensively as a single unit independent of the synthetic system, the effect is indeed obvious. Now it is difficult to draw conclusions about the effect of being dispersed and sent to synthetic combat groups, and the Battle of Zero Highlands was the implementation The first battle after such an adaptation.

Although Alsim, who was illiterate, had to have help reading letters home and writing replies, he understood what he should do after being taught by Malashenko himself, and he also understood Malashenko’s adaptation. What is the meaning and purpose of .

Although there are obviously fewer available soldiers under his command, Alsim does not think this is a bad thing, because from a practical perspective, the Germans do seem to be paying less attention to themselves.

The Germans could no longer mobilize their elite forces as before to seize the combat direction of the combat engineers and carry out highly targeted head-on confrontations. The current combat engineer troops are like countless pointed needles, piercing the flesh and blood of the Germans from all directions.

When you are bitten by a big bug, you can slap the bug hard, but it is not easy when there are little ants biting you all over your body. The Germans, who had too many targets to concentrate their superior forces to deal with them, now faced a situation where they were bitten all over their bodies and hurt everywhere, but they were helpless and could not find a single main target.

There are combat engineers in every main attack force, and there are combat engineers in every combined combat group.

The Germans, who had been beaten so hard that they were tired of dealing with it, had no other choice but to treat the combat engineers as ordinary mechanized infantry. It was really impossible to mobilize more specialized forces to deal with these decentralized forces. Elite combat team.

But once the Germans treated everyone equally, Malashenko's biggest goal was achieved.

You Germans can't even deal with ordinary mechanized infantry, and you still want to use the same force to deal with combat engineer assaults? You didn't wake up last night and you were still dreaming, right?

Alsim, who could personally feel the benefits of doing so, was still on a killing spree, leading his dozens of brothers to shuttle between trenches and foxholes, maneuvering around, catching those who were terrified. , the German guy who didn't know that death was coming, just shot and beat him randomly.

But what Alsim, who had already led his team back to the battlefield and continued to advance, didn't know was that there was still the ultimate challenge waiting for him in a group of German fortifications not far ahead. That would be It was one of the most difficult situations he had encountered in the Highland Battle so far.