Hardcore ruthless starts in the Pacific

A total of 13 people were killed and 33 were injured, of which 10 were killed because they served as vanguards, and 25 of the wounded were also vanguards.By the way, two-thirds of the minor injuries are minor injuries, the kind that can return to the team after a few days of recovery.

【以协助者的身份干掉了日军少尉*1、曹长*2、军曹*4、伍长*8、士兵*95】

The battle results shown by the data alone are actually not that brilliant compared to the materials consumed, but this is definitely the first solid victory after the First Marine Division landed on Peleliu Island... From another angle Departure—Anyway, the U.S. military’s movement is an astronomical amount of dollars, and the amount of materials consumed by K Company today is the same.

But behind this victory is an extremely cruel reality-accounting for about 60% of the casualties are from friendly fire and manslaughter.

Every Ma Run who witnessed the ascension of Japanese bunkers on the front line knew this very well. However, whenever volunteers were needed to supplement the vanguard team, even Ma Run, whose job was transportation and odd jobs, was eager to try.

Don't they fear death?Don't you think it is a very aggrieved thing to be killed by one of your own?

Of course, Yankees are arrogant, but they are also human.

Generally speaking, when 50% of the casualties come from your own people, the morale of this company will not only collapse but also mutiny-I am desperate in the front, and you are shooting black guns in the back?Fuck your ancestors!

However, from September 9, when it landed on Ngesebus Island, to the present after the attack on Amiangal Mountain, the morale of Company K not only did not decrease, but reached an unprecedented height.

Ivan remembers that the morale of the Maruns of K Company after passing through the airport from the day of landing to the next day was quite low, fearful, fearful...even the company commander had a pessimistic attitude, even if they were evacuated on September 9 During the rest period, the country bumpkin, the leader of the weapon platoon, also looked resentful, completely disappointed with the war.

The reason for such a huge contrast lies in the most fundamental point - it doesn't matter if it's tragic, it doesn't matter if the casualties are huge, as long as the victory has a certain meaning... Shit!

It is true that the headquarters defined the first day and the second day as winning the battle, but why can't the Ma Runs be happy?

They were beaten for two days and one night, the Japanese army did not lose many people at all, and the occupied area was continuously attacked by firepower from the commanding heights. Is this special called victory?

At that time, the situation of Company K generally appeared in other companies-no joke that the low morale of the Ma Runs perfectly verified the saying "the eyes of the masses are discerning".

What is victory?Victory?Fight big wins?

It will be counted from September 9 to the present!

There is no doubt about the courage and spirit of sacrifice possessed by the majority of Ma Run during World War II.

Just like Haldane mobilized before the war, the marines who came to this ghost place are not for salary, nor are they listening to the false victory and spiritual victory claimed by the command, but for being able to kill Devil, win the battle.

It's a pity that the little devils here don't play their cards according to the routine, and use the natural terrain advantage to offset the firepower advantage of the US military. The beasts themselves caused huge losses to the US military without much loss. It seems that they are constantly pushing the front line forward. In fact, Too many senseless casualties.

With Ivan's modification of the combat plan, Company K cleared the Japanese fortress little by little on the actual battlefield and won one victory after another, which naturally inspired people's hearts and morale.

- we can!

- We can win, we can win!

- We can crush them!

——Even if there are comrades sacrificed, it will be full of meaning, because the wise commander will not let every sacrificed person die in vain!

To be honest, if the accidental injury did not achieve such a brilliant victory in 60% of the cases, Ivan had no doubt that his former comrades in arms would swallow him alive, at least wrap him in a sack and beat him up.

It's just that when he was about to propose a modification plan, he had already made up his mind, and he showed it to win the approval and approval of the backbone of K Company, the cannon king, the hillbilly, and the sergeant major.

"If I fail, I don't need you to help me

To control their resentment, punish them as you want——As a soldier, every spittle and a nail, what I spit out is not ordinary iron, but steel that has been tempered and tempered. I don’t choose other paths except breaking. Let the remaining half be nailed to the ground so that anyone and everyone can step on me. "

Ngesebus Island was successful, and Amiangal Mountain was also successful. The next thing to meet Ivan is the hell-level Five Sisters Mountain.

Success or failure was like what he said to K Company's core command.

41. They are proud of their participation in the victory

In the early morning of October 10, the K connection, which was supposed to continue to clean up, received an order to return to the airport, including the entire 2th Marine Regiment, but the superior requested that K company be the first to return to the airport.

Ivan’s premonition was correct. Although the 5th Marine Regiment launched an attack on the west side of Mount Amiangal yesterday and spent more than ten hours joining the army in the east, it was considered to have penetrated the Japanese defense line in that area, but it did not wipe out every enemy. In the corner, there must be remnants of the Japanese army relying on various fortifications to resist stubbornly... The hasty transfer back to the airport could only be to replace the 1st Marine Regiment, which suffered heavy casualties.

As for where Company K should go, the stage was prepared very early on—a Marine Company also called Company K and belonging to the 1st Marine Regiment lost only 6 of them. Your 5th Marine Regiment K Company will give They avenge their shame.

Five Sisters Mountain, as the commanding heights of the entire Peleliu Island, so far only Blood Nose Ridge has been controlled by Ma Run, and the remaining 4 commanding heights are still within the control of the Japanese army.

Yiwen knew very well that the same tactics might not be effective in the Five Sisters Mountain, but as the former enemy commander, he could continue to fine-tune it until it became more suitable for the more complicated terrain, more complicated environment, and more complicated enemy situation of Umurbrogol Mountain.

Some people may think that after this battle, the infantry tactics of the U.S. military will make a qualitative leap. In this reincarnation, the Korean War will also happen after the end of World War II. For the volunteers, such a U.S. military is terrible, but Ivan, who is now in the U.S. camp You can pat your chest to assure - the current evolution is just appearance.

Not to mention the large number of low-level non-commissioned officers, military officers, and veterans who retired after the end of World War II. They were just picking and choosing among the 1000 million U.S. troops. There are very few captains like Captain Haldane who have full authority from the bottom and lead all logistics work arrangements in the rear, let alone assistants. A group of excellent lieutenants of this wise company commander.

The most important point is that Ivan is a former enemy commander who cannot be replicated in the U.S. military. He has a lot of cheats and a chance to avoid death. After three reincarnations, he needs tactics, adaptability, and subjective initiative. He has played to the limit, and at the same time has a fairly stable will, mentality, and spirit... Now he is not qualified to compete with those gods of war, but the subjective initiative shown is a must for grassroots officers in the volunteer army thing.

There is no need to worry that a little sergeant Ivan will affect the infantry tactics of the US military - to be honest, the tactics used by Ivan are clearly written in the infantry textbooks of the US military. He just reduced the number of non-technical arms and the number of technical arms increase.

Before the attack yesterday morning, the technical units of the entire 3rd Marine Battalion received a standby mission from the battalion headquarters. What they needed to do was to wait for the order of Captain Haldane, the commander of Company K. It was not that difficult for the Japanese army that came out to achieve such a big victory.

As for what Ivan thinks about the command's hasty transfer of the 5th Marine Regiment back from the north...he doesn't think there is any problem with the consideration of the generals-the Japanese defense system shrunk in Amiangal Mountain has been decisively attacked. Destruction, even if there is a tunnel system that can quickly send soldiers into the bunker that has been cleared, it will not work, because no matter where Ivan goes, as long as he thinks that the hole will come out of the Japanese army, the engineers will blow it up or N times .

Often while blowing up, I still complain: "Why are the 'ammunition' of the engineers used up so quickly?"

After knowing the specific data later, I was taken aback. It was 10 tons of TNT!On average, each infantryman belonging to Company K carried at least 50 kilograms of TNT in the mountains and delivered it to the engineering squad.

It's just that the benefits of doing this are obvious-there must be some little devil commanders sending reserve teams to try to go around the buttocks of K Company, but because the engineers encountered caves collapsed and saw the tunnels exploded or buried, they would still pass by. Blowing up both the dark fort and the bright fort into ruins, the Japanese army's series of roundabout tactics underground often only saw one dead end after another.

Don't give a chance, can't give a chance.

As long as the little devils are given the slightest chance, they will cause many meaningless casualties to the large troops behind Company K. They are a group of Ma Run who can deliver supplies to the front line like crazy.

The tense situation was already caused by the huge consumption. It is not as simple as reducing the number of dead or injured by 5% or 10%. Temporarily put down the busy work in hand, and nearly 10 people were unable to deliver supplies to the front line at once, let alone a 20-minute stoppage, and because there was more or less wasted time in each link, the supplies delivered by this group of people would be delayed. Arrive at the front line at least 30 minutes late.

This triggered a chain reaction—the position of the vanguard soldiers was bound to be very bad. When the rear was delayed for 10 minutes, the front was half an hour due to the lack of various types of light fire ammunition. The embarrassing situation of being unable to withdraw and rushing forward continued to increase losses and casualties.

Of course, these things are not a big deal on flat ground. The most important thing for the US military is trucks of various types.

In the case of mountains that can only be transported by manpower, adding more logistics personnel will definitely be effective, but the test for coordinating the commanders of various departments is too harsh. Yesterday afternoon, the cannon king had already shown that his spirit was overly squeezed. The whole person arrived I became groggy in the evening, and I no longer had the super high efficiency of doing things in the morning.

Ivan admired Captain Haldane from the bottom of his heart, because this kind of coordination work is really not something ordinary people can do.

'Let him increase the horsepower and eat sugar, it should solve some problems. '

Aside from some things that Ivan could imagine, Captain Haldane did a lot of extra things, such as encouraging the exhausted infantry every moment-you are the cornerstone of victory!

Just to let them send a little more, and send a little more. Every extra kilogram of supplies can make victory come earlier.

Today's victory is not only the victory of Yigao people's courage and sacrifice, but also the vital logistics force. Without them tirelessly carrying supplies like iron men and sprinting to the front line, Ivan really can only Fighting for a while and waiting for a while, how could such brilliant results be achieved?

So on the way back, every soldier in Company K held his head high, proud of himself for having participated in this victory.

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As soon as they returned to the airport, Ma Run and the others saw the very important No. [-] figure in the First Marine Division.

"Teacher!?"

"It's really him!?"

"Major General Rupertus!"

"It's hard to imagine that he will appear—!"

42. Ivan’s tactics are exactly the same as Cuikov’s street fighting tactics

The full name of the current Commander of the First Marine Division is Major General William Henry Ruperts. During the Battle of Guadalcanal, he was Major General Vandergrift's deputy. His position at the time was Deputy Commander, and Responsible for the command of many battles... Yes, the [-]st Marine Division in the Battle of Guadalcanal was not in charge of commanding the operations, but Major General Ruperts was not Major General Vandergrift.

In fact, this is not only a phenomenon unique to the US military.

What military officers in many armies need to do is not to be in charge of command and micro-management, but to customize an offensive or defensive framework based on the established strategy, and use various intelligence as a basis to make decisions and judgments— -Think about what your opponent is thinking and how he will act.

In addition, you have to ask about logistics, reply to your immediate boss's own situation, and toss your boss through various communication tools if you have nothing to do-supplies!Supplies!Supplies!troops!troops!Can't ship it?Send me a C47!Do you know how terribly the boys fought! ?

Of course, I won’t forget to turn my head and curse at the allied forces—fuck it, bring the ship over here!Carrier-based aircraft, our carrier-based aircraft! ?The main guns of your battleships must bombard Lao Tzu for 12 hours!

Therefore, a battle is often in charge of the specific command by the adjutant and chief of staff of the military chief.

This has to mention the limitations that often appear when a general who was born as a staff officer becomes a military chief... It is undeniable that Paulus’s 6th Army fought very well in the blue plan, the staff He was born with the ability to customize an efficient offensive/defensive plan under a large framework, and command the various departments below in real time, resulting in the 6th Army being pushed to the west bank of the Volga River to cut off the north-south connection between the Soviet Army even though it was short of supplies and troops. contact.

When you admire his command level, you can also find that this guy is full of limitations-he lacks the courage to make decisions on major issues.

The most taboo thing for a military commander is often to obey unreasonable micromanagement orders.

The guy who stayed behind and studied the map all day, even if you told him the real situation over and over again, he would be ignored, and he would only believe in his own judgment based on the map thousands of miles away from the battlefield.

However, Paulus believed in the mustache who single-handedly promoted him. It's not that the commander of the army group didn't think about what kind of decision he should make at the moment from the perspective of the actual situation on the battlefield, but that he was used to being a staff officer and had engraved it in his bones. The words 'obey orders'.

In the limited time, he tried to do some things, such as sending telegrams to apply for retreat over and over again, but the understatement of "not allowed" by the mustache inspired the "obedience order" in his bones, and... this The guy seems to have no doubts about the big pie drawn by his boss at all, and he doesn't doubt the things that the military commander should be most suspicious of—does Meyer promise very few things?Did he do it!How many transport planes did the German army have?What is the capacity?Are there enough escort planes, pilots, and ground staff?There is a limit to the battery life of the transport aircraft, and most of the materials have to be transported to the airport by railways, roads, or even special mules and horses to replace them with transport aircraft, and then my 6th Army needs materials on the entire front?Can the guerrillas in the occupied area transport supplies safely and securely?He just promised that your old man will not ask anything?

——Don't panic, Göring will guarantee your supplies; don't be afraid, everything will be fine after Manstein launches an attack; I've already sent you the Marshal's scepter, and you shouldn't let me down.

The result of believing and expecting is to be directly abandoned. At the moment of surrender, the heart of Marshal Paulus may be no different from death.

His opponent, Cuikov, cannot be said to be a counterexample, but a senior military general who almost completely destroyed Paulus.

The latter is not like Zhukov's grumpy temper, who would throw his face away when he said he was a pick for his loving father. He has a very high emotional intelligence, even in the era of Emperor Xunzong, he was very successful and was reused.

He fought bravely and unambiguously, and when formulating offensive plans, he took the casualties of soldiers into consideration. Among the Soviet generals during the Great Patriotic War, Rokossovsky was the only one who cherished the lives of soldiers.

Chuikov has always given priority to achieving the greatest results with the smallest casualties when customizing the plan. The lives of soldiers are very important to him... It is this feature that allows him to lead the 62nd Army in Stalingrad Keeping on the defensive, if he continues to organize troops to carry out mass counterattacks like the previous generals, how can he be able to defend, not to mention that the 62nd Army can launch small-scale counterattacks in the middle and late stages.

Chuikov is very good at using artillery observers and snipers efficiently. Regardless of the commanding heights such as Mamayev Hill, which has no choice but to pay a heavy price, he tries to disperse the infantry and prevent too many troops from concentrating in certain places. And dispatch a lot of communication soldiers to continuously set up telephone lines or send communication tools to areas guarded by their own soldiers, and try to ensure that the infantry in the building can call the artillery on the east bank of the Volga River at any time.

In this way, the infantry who were desperately resisting in Stalingrad had communication tools, and immediately became the eyes of the artillery on the east bank.Although the efficient use of artillery observers has always been a tactic that the German army is proud of, there is no such thing as Cuikov, which can be described as frenzied.

When it was necessary to launch a counterattack, Cuikov would not let the soldiers rush upwards without using their brains. Instead, he built a set of infantry tactics that had repeatedly caused the Germans to suffer—abandoning battalion-level counterattacks and lowering the number of troops in the plan to launch counterattacks. To customize the capture target, form an assault team of about 24 to 48 people, divided into assault group, support group, and reserve group.

The assault team usually consists of 6~8 soldiers equipped with submachine guns, approach the building where the enemy is located under the cover of night or firepower, and then quickly throw grenades into the room, use the explosion effect to cover and break into the room, and use the submachine gun to quickly attack the enemy in the room. Finish cleaning.

The support team usually consists of 10 to 25 soldiers, including riflemen, snipers, machine gunners, mortars, anti-tank players, and sometimes a small number of tanks.Its main task is to surround the enemy's buildings and control the surrounding area after the battle begins. In addition to providing fire cover for the attack group, it is also responsible for blocking enemy reinforcements.

When the assault team enters the room, the support team should also quickly approach the building to occupy a favorable position and cooperate with the assault team to clean up the remnants of the enemy. After capturing the building, turn to the defensive state on the spot, and quickly build a defense system to deal with the upcoming enemy counterattack.

The last reserve group literally means that the task itself is determined according to the actual combat situation. It can be put into battle when the attack is not going well, it can build a defense system on the spot when the attack is going well, and it can even arrive first when the enemy's reinforcements arrive first when the attack is stalemate. Time to scatter around like throwing nails, trying every means to delay the pace of enemy reinforcements.

This tactic works especially well when the attack target is reduced to a single building.

Ivan's fighting style in the mountainous area north of Peleliu Island was not much different from it. Although it was an infantry company with more than 200 people, only a dozen or so people actually participated in the attack, and the rest were fired by firepower and reserve teams.

The difference is that Captain Haldane continuously transported the materials that are consumed very quickly by manpower, while the ammunition and shells of the Soviet Army's assault team in Stalingrad only had the ones they carried, and the follow-up supplies were not so K Not even that easy.

Of course, mentioning that Chuikov and Rokossovsky are among the few Soviet generals who cherished the lives of soldiers is not because He Zhukov and other generals ignored the lives of soldiers. casualties.

This theory is different from the "blitzkrieg" that the German army was constantly modifying and upgrading based on the storm assault tactics. The infantry division takes the lead and breaks through the enemy's first line of defense under the cover of aviation and artillery. After opening the breakthrough, the tank division, motorized infantry division, and mechanized infantry division cooperate with airborne paratroopers to rush towards the enemy's depth.

In order to concentrate superior forces on the breakthrough point, an infantry division of seven to eight thousand people is often allowed to occupy a width of only 8000 to 4 kilometers on the battlefield. The German army has no way to crack this tactic, but it does not mean that they will only be passively beaten, so as to open the gap infantry will suffer heavy losses in the first phase of the campaign.

This is also one of the reasons why after the turning point of the war on the Eastern Front passed, when the casualties were counted after the large-scale battle between the Soviet Union and Germany, the Soviet army often suffered more losses than the German army-if you only focus on the two sides involved in the war In terms of casualties, the German army did not lose a few games from Barbarossa to the Battle of Berlin.

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Generally speaking, the senior commanders of the U.S. military are not promoted as everyone thinks that the military chief will be promoted, and the adjutant will be promoted and take over the duties of the boss. They often need to be recommended by the military chief.

After all, there are very few mid-to-high-ranking generals in the U.S. military who are not related.

Vandergrift was very relieved to hand over the [-]st Marine Division to Ruperts, so while the Ma Runs were evacuating Guadalcanal, Vandergrift was promoted due to his outstanding achievements, and then immediately Adjutant Ruperts was recommended to take over as the commander of the First Marine Division.

Like Major General Vandergrift, he was welcomed by the Ma Runs. The "Rifleman's Creed" written during the Guadalcanal Island period was quite famous. Ma Run of the First Marine Division had a copy, and later it was developed to the entire navy. The team has become a code that every marine must recite and follow.

The content described is related to weapons.

Believe in the weapon in your hand, love the weapon in your hand, and maintain the weapon in your hand - on the battlefield, there are only two things that are most trustworthy. The first is the weapon in your hand, and the second is to give your back to your comrades in arms.

Ivan knows the character of Major General Vandergrift, and he still remembers that unrestrained and unrestrained appearance. As long as Ruperts can stay in that office like a chicken coop and work with him, if two people can't pee in the same pot , he must not believe it.

The very obvious proof is the battalion commander, deputy battalion commander, and an army captain in the last reincarnation. They all kept exquisite and clean during the war. Those who didn't know thought they were on vacation.

When Ivan saw Major General Ruperts in Guadalcanal Island, he immediately felt that he had the same temperament as Major General Vandergrift... Yes, that’s right, he also has the same temperament. A stench, the kind of smell commonly found on frontline Ma Run.

Now it is even more stinky, and it can be smelled a few meters away!

The smell of sweat, smoke, alcohol, and the inexplicable smell of food accidentally spilled on the combat uniform that has not been changed for a long time can make a person who is not used to it faint.

Not only that, the teacher's eyes were bloodshot, and his mental state was very poor. He was almost ten years older than when he saw him on Guadalcanal Island.

He can't be regarded as the person who makes decisions at the headquarters. After all, he is the commander of the [-]st Marine Division, with a commander of the amphibious army on top, and the commander of the navy, the commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet, and Pearl Harbor.

To put it more bluntly, Major General Ruperts stood on Ma Run's side and must have raised it—since the Palau Islands have lost their value, why should our boys bleed and die here?

Colonel Puller was the cause of over [-] casualties in the First Marine Division?On Major General Ruperts?Isn't it because the muscles grow in the headquarters of the brain?

However, such a clear stream will never be able to fight against the political vortex. In history, this major general was kicked out to become the principal of the Marine Corps Military Academy after the end of the Battle of Peleliu Island. During the war, an active division-level military officer finished a difficult battle. Afterwards, not only was he not promoted, he was also dismissed in disguise.

Ivan really wanted to fight against him, but he didn't have a chance.

If I remember correctly, he died of a heart attack 4 months after he went back to be the principal - Peleliu Island squeezed out his spirit and heart.