Hardcore ruthless starts in the Pacific

"Sir, why do we cooperate with these idiots?" Bud couldn't help asking, "If they want to die, let them die. We don't need to get involved."

Just like a stress response, the Screaming Eagles' mood swings were extremely severe. Ivan didn't rush to explain the reason, but only asked a few key questions.

"Do we have enough food reserves?"

No one answered, and the paratroopers knew well that three or four days with just that little ration was considered a high-spirited experience.

"Can we be self-sufficient without the masses here?"

Obviously this kind of thinking is dreaming.

"So, can we leave Hansen and Warner alone?"

"no--!"

Medical soldier Whiteman immediately looked at the Screaming Eagle and said, "You must never abandon the wounded. If you abandon it once, there will be a second time. Who can guarantee that you will not be injured!?"

"We want to wait here until the large forces advance. Is the only way out to rely on the French in this area?"

The answer is obvious and opinionated, but there will always be someone who suddenly understands it.

"Sir, you didn't mention Botta at all... you only mentioned the French here..." Ronald said, watching Ivan with a smile on his face.

"Your guess is correct. What we should cherish is not Botta, the guerrilla captain, but the people here who support us in the war against the Germans. I have seen and learned everything. There are many worthy comrades in that army. People, we have to provide flanking cover for them, of course...the real core goal is not as simple as I said."

Ivan lit a cigarette, "The core contradiction is Bota. As long as he is dead, everything will be on track. We can survive here for a long time, or we can stir up the Germans here, let the superiors notice us, and then provide More support."

The Screaming Eagles who heard this sentence revealed horror in their eyes, and they never expected that Second Lieutenant Yiwen's idea was so tricky and innovative.

"Some things shouldn't be said, but I don't think I can hide from you—"

Ivan said, "At that time, if I fail, you should remember to replenish your guns as quickly as possible. You must not let Botha and his cronies survive."

"Yes, sir!"

After arranging the details of the "attack" on the small town of Savigny, the sky was already very dark, and when Ivan was about to take a good night's sleep, Ronald found him and asked a question.

"According to your description, Botha seems to be quite prestigious in the team. Will killing him directly cause mutiny in the army?"

Among the Screaming Eagles, he was the only one who thought this far, and Ivan felt a little emotional in his heart...Although this guy messed up when he took command for the first time and caused the death of two Screaming Eagles, he was not really decadent and discouraged. , always kept a thinking mind, and pointed out a very critical issue now.

"They are not monolithic internally, and some people think that Bota's reckless behavior will not bring good results. I have already made arrangements... After Botta's death, his letters with the German army will be exposed. Consistent with his previous behavior, ironclad evidence."

"..."

Rao Ronald thought of some methods to ensure justice and purity, and he was not as crazy as Ivan... He wanted Botha to negate his personality—if he succeeded, this man who gathered more than 300 people The human "battalion commander" will be infamous for thousands of years, and the oppressed French will definitely not let him go, and at least he must be engraved on the pillar of shame.

"Go to rest early." Ivan patted his shoulder and said, "Replenish your energy, and after tomorrow, we will officially start our war here."

"Okay, sir."

With the passage of time, Operation Overlord ushered in the bright sunshine of the second day, and the guerrilla battalion was ready early, and almost all of them were dispatched.

At 5 o'clock in the morning, Ivan woke up the Screaming Eagles, and took them to the nearby town of Savigny to set up a spot in advance.

From the naked eye, this small town is quite neglected. Compared with the small town Ivan saw in Huaxia, looking at the two streets of 700 meters in the past, and the three rows of buildings that are not very high, there are two north and south The east-west highway passes through the town.

The German camp was set up in the outer area of ​​Savigny. There were no trenches and barbed wire fences, and only a few machine gun positions were piled up with sandbags. From a professional military point of view, those machine gun positions were too amateurish—there were no Infantry trenches cover, and there are no minefields or fire suppression areas based on machine gun shooting ranges, but any mortar can be scrapped.

It's a pity that neither the Screaming Eagle nor the Frenchman has a sharp weapon to destroy the machine gun positions, so the best solution is to send some people to attract firepower from the front, and then use small groups of troops to penetrate to the flanks and use grenades to deal with the machine guns.

It is a pity that Botha did not give a similar tactical plan.

Of course, he didn't say that there was no plan at all. Simply put, it was machine gun cover and infantry charging.

Botha divided the team into three waves. The first echelon is centered on submachine guns. The remaining seven or 80 people have more than 20 guns. Take the detonator and go up to blast it while picking up the gun from the German guy's body.

In fact, to put it bluntly, the unarmed Frenchmen in the first echelon were cannon fodder used to consume German ammunition.

The second echelon was centered on machine guns, and the remaining riflemen of the battalion gathered among the hundreds of people. They still charged a certain distance, looked for cover to suppress fire, and killed anyone who dared to retreat.

At this time, the third echelon will all press on, tearing apart the German positions with courage and courage.

Not to mention Ivan, even the Screaming Eagle under his command felt that Botta was not stupid but bad after listening to it. It was hard not to guess that this guy was definitely a spy of the German army, and more than 300 people would completely become the meritorious service of the German army after the war started. .

14. Botha was shot in the head, it was...

The attack time was set at 7:15 a.m., which was based on Huang Jiu's inquiring information, because most of the German army was having breakfast at this time, and it was easy to be caught off guard.

Moreover, these beasts are used to being domineering in this area, so there is almost no vigilance, so when the real battle started, everything went as Botha expected-the guy with the Sten submachine gun took the lead in charging, and there was no vigilance Before the German machine gun team could react, they were hit by a round of bullets. The submachine gunner rushed over and rolled into the bunker at the fastest speed, and then suppressed fire on another machine gun bunker.

This kind of technical and tactical level has either been rigorously trained by the Soviets, or it has crawled out of the dead.

Yiwen has a heart of love for talents, that kind of bravery is quite rare, no worse than Ma Run or Screaming Eagle, and he doesn't want this guy to die in this meaningless war at all.

After seeing the brave man seize the machine gun positions as if they were in no one's land, the Frenchmen in the first echelon were motivated and shouted loudly, swarming like wolves seeing fresh meat, that is a machine gun... ..enough to provide long-term fire suppression and increase the possibility of capturing a small town.

Taking down the town, there is wine, meat, and women... Yes, that's right, many of these guerrillas were thinking about getting rid of the Germans, and there were many more careful thoughts in it— —I bleed and sacrifice my life in exchange for victory. You gangsters were so happy to serve NAZI before, but now it’s okay to serve me instead, right?

But the problem is that although the German army here is not in the top ranks, they are not the kind of rabble who are about to collapse at the first touch. Anyway, they have been collecting taxes and encircling guerrillas in France for many years. Behind their buttocks is the battalion. To be shot on the spot by some officers to stabilize the morale of the army.

Although another machine gun at the entrance reacted, it couldn't tell the winner from the submachine gunner in a short time.

Both sides are constantly firing to suppress, one side hopes to keep the Frenchman from approaching, and the other side hopes that the French will go up and kill the German guy.

However, a submachine gun is a submachine gun after all, and changing bullets will never be as fast as a sub-shooter-assisted light machine gun.

It's just that there is still an uncertain factor on the submachine gun side - when the captured FM-24/29 light machine gun was controlled by the Frenchman and fired indiscriminately, the Germans, who were clearly understrength, began to decline, and they hid their bodies. Behind the solid sandbags, he didn't need to support the butt of the gun with his shoulders, and he almost raised his head to fire at places where the French might approach.

At this moment, it was definitely the time when the advantage of the Frenchmen's numbers was most evident. The submachine gunner yelled in French that Ivan could not understand, and many Frenchmen with detonators stood up and charged, trying to completely eliminate the German army in the bunker.

However, the German army is not as stupid as Ivan seems on the surface. They have been able to dominate this area for a few years because they have two brushes. The Germans will set up machine gun fire points on the top floors of buildings.

It was an MG42 that Ivan had seen on the battlefield for the first time in his life. It was condescending and could shoot at the entire entrance area to the west of the town, including the machine gun bunker that the German guy himself had set up.

For many old German deep-fried dough stick machine gunners, MG42 is not as comfortable to use as MG34. They will replace the barrel after emptying two boxes of 50 rounds of ammunition because of the too fast rate of fire, and often finish a box of bullets because of hatred. He was called out by enemy mortar fire.

But in this combat environment, it is invincible.

In the few seconds after firing, the French guys fell down in pieces, and the form was almost reversed by the Germans in an instant.

When Ivan asked the machine gun squad to carry out an attack on the German army on the roof,

When the firepower counter-suppressed, the Frenchmen in the first echelon had already suffered more than half of the casualties.

To deal with this kind of dense crowd attack, the advantages of MG42 are infinitely magnified and its shortcomings are completely covered up.

Fortunately, the BAR team on Ivan's side provided firepower for counter-suppression. The main shooter Ackerman used short bursts to prevent the MG42 machine gunner on the roof from shooting multiple short bursts as he wished, ensuring that every time the trigger was pulled, it would be able to attack the guerrillas. The team caused huge casualties.

It's just that so many people were killed and injured suddenly, the fighting will of the Frenchmen in the first echelon collapsed, and they began to run away desperately.

This caused another machine gun bunker that had not yet been taken down to get a chance to breathe. The brave submachine gunner just happened to have no bullets. Where to go, it can't pose the slightest threat.

In the end, two machine guns, one high and the other low, formed a quite terrifying firepower net.

Whether you run or not, it's hard to avoid death, but Botha is still acting as a demon at the end.

"No retreat—!"

"The supervising team opened fire—!"

Can't hit the Germans on the top of the building, can't hit the Germans in the machine gun bunker, can't they hit their own people who are fleeing?

"Bang bang bang-!"

With a few shots from his own men and two machine guns from the Germans, the first echelon can basically declare the entire army wiped out. Botha also forced the second echelon to continue to attack and must capture another machine gun.

"The Screaming Eagle has helped us suppress the machine guns on the roof, rushing up is victory, for the freedom of France—!"

The slogans were loudly shouted, but at this time, Botha was needed to take the lead in the charge, but he didn't seem to have any intention of moving.

Seeing the miserable death of the first echelon, the French in the second echelon didn't dare to move even a group of Botta loyalists inside, but they didn't dare to turn around and run away.

As a result, the battle situation was stalemate for several minutes, and Frenchmen would fall into a pool of blood every second. Most of them had no professional training at all, and they were ordinary people who were summoned temporarily. Just pull it directly to the battlefield, where have you seen such a bloody and tragic scene.

"Ahhhhhhh, it hurts me to death!"

"It hurts me to death, it hurts me to death, help me—!"

"Mom, mom, mom...help me—!"

Wailing all over the field is a further blow to morale. The most terrifying thing is that none of the more than 300 people can serve as medical soldiers to rescue the wounded, which means that injury is equivalent to death.

"If you can take the lead in the charge while riding a horse, I think you are just stupid..." Ivan, who was staying on the flank, couldn't help cursing.

This kind of battle, which is similar to a sneak attack, can really decide too many things in a few minutes, and any procrastinating behavior cannot be allowed. Ivan has an infantry platoon of Screaming Eagles paired with the firepower of 2 mortars. The first wave of sneak attacks can make the German army dizzy. It is not a problem to hit the town and directly defeat it.

Unfortunately, that's what if.

The status quo is that there are bursts of military whistles in the small town of Savigny, which are the horns for the Germans to gather and counterattack.

In fact, compared with the elite German army on the Eastern Front, the speed is not slow at all. The reason is that the German army knows how heavy the enemy is.

Although they are the third-line tax-taxing German army, they are not the existence that your guerrillas can mess with.It has been dominating here for several years, but the guerrillas still don't know who is the master?How many cats and dogs with broken guns are cats and dogs after all, dare to challenge us?I can't beat you to death!

In fact, at this time, it is already possible to declare the operation failed, withdraw from the battle immediately, and use the nearby bushes as a cover to escape from the small town of Savigny, but Bota is a very tough guy. He has no casualties in his eyes, only the machine gun.

Subconsciously, he thought that as long as he took down the machine gun, he would still be able to fight.

Naturally yelling, "Bring that machine gun back, go up—!"

When there were only 2 machine guns before, the Frenchmen of the second echelon and the third echelon were lying on the spot and did not dare to move. Now the German army keeps pouring out of the town, everyone is equipped with a rifle, and at the same time Find a place to set up a machine gun, and the firepower instantly exceeded the range that the guerrillas could bear.

Wouldn't it be death to ask them to rush forward?

People can be bad and stupid, but they are more sober than anyone else in the face of death - their own body fell down like a piece of wheat being harvested, completely powerless to resist, and the German army was still moving forward with every shot The way to shorten the distance towards his own side, and after a while the captured machine gun returned to its original owner.

The submachine gunner found an opportunity to retreat to a relatively safe place as early as after emptying the bullet, and then ran to Ivan's side in a hurry... It is quite doubtful that this Frenchman named Dennis, who can speak English, received a letter from the Soviets beforehand. What kind of tricks did he get? In addition to bringing Sten with no bullets, he also pulled 2 M24 wooden handle grenades and 1 Luger P08 pistol from the German guy.

Before Ivan had time to greet him properly, he heard Botha's distraught voice not far away.

"Damn it, shit—!"

Botha was so angry that he took out his pistol and put it against the head of his cronies beside him, forcing his subordinates to retrieve the machine gun, and then continued to exchange fire with the German army here.

Seeing that his subordinates did not move, Botta's anger went straight to his brain, and then he stood up on the battlefield. Ivan stared at this guy for a long time, and the Sten in his hand was replaced by the M1 Garand with higher accuracy. , successfully blasted the guy's head with a .30-06 rifle bullet.

The moment he died, his cronies were relieved and immediately shouted at the top of their voices.

Botha is not dead, and his cronies are weak and unable to charge, but his legs will not be weak after he is dead, because they can retreat.

"Bota is dead, retreat quickly!"

"Bota is dead, retreat quickly!"

"retreat--!"

Of course, what they don't know is that the three riflemen in the Screaming Eagle have been staring at these soft bastards for a long time, and the moment they got up to run away, bullets flew over-there were German soldiers and American soldiers, and neither side wanted to let them go. The company platoon leaders withdrew safely.

Originally, this kind of command system composed of obedient commanders who could be company commanders and platoon leaders was a joke. After the Germans used mortars, the French guerrillas began to run away like bereaved dogs.

Of course, there are still some French people who are pale but still not frightened. It is obvious that they are soldiers trained by the two Soviets, and they have been very careful to ensure their safety and find a good way out from the beginning of the battle.

Dennis went directly to Screaming Eagle, while the others went to Andre and Igor, and retreated in an orderly manner after they were almost gathered.

As for the rest of the French who didn't participate in the intensive training, we can only hope that they are lucky enough. Neither Ivan nor the two Soviets can spend their elites on saving them.

At this moment, the situation on the battlefield has a bipolar reversal in a special sense... At first, the French were like wolves pounced on seeing the meat, but now the Germans are like wolves.

I don't know why the posture and momentum of the charge are much more fierce than the Germans on the Eastern Front that Ivan saw in the materials, and it made him feel a little dazed—is this the Germans?The appearance of the intensive charge is probably not the Japanese army in German uniforms.

Normally, the BAR on Screaming Eagle's side had previously suppressed the MG42 machine gun that the Germans placed on the roof, so they would send a troop to take care of it.

But the actual situation made Ivan dumbfounded—it seemed that no one cared about the Screaming Eagle here, and they were all taking prisoners in the western area of ​​the town.

If the previous combat operations could still show some shadows of the elite of the Eastern Front, now they have completely collapsed... The third front is the third front, and they can show off their might in front of the guerrillas.

Just as Ivan was about to lead the team to evacuate, Ronald, who was serving as a guard, returned and said, "The German guy is here."

He pointed to a German squad detoured from the southwest, "about the strength of a squad."

They were supposed to come to outflank the Frenchman's rear, but unexpectedly, they fled at an alarming speed after Botha's death.

Is this a coincidence?No chance to catch the Frenchman, isn't there another wave of guerrillas with machine guns?Troops that place machine guns on the flanks to cover the frontal attack are considered to be of a good level, but they are also guerrillas.

All in all, catch it back and claim the bounty money!

Of course, this group of German troops didn't know that the target they were looking for was not the French guy who could rub it at will, but the airborne troops of the 101st Division. Their combat will and combat ability were by no means at the same level. Decided to eat these German troops.

Outside the small town of Savigny, where the German army was stationed, they ate up a whole German infantry squad, and Ivan brought only seven of his own. How could he be so bold?

The reason is quite simple - because this German infantry squad is very courageous and underestimates the enemy. Instead of launching an attack on the Screaming Eagles in a skirmish line, it rushed over like a cafeteria meal at noon, fearing that it would not be able to eat a hot bite.

Isn't this horse riding a gift for nothing?

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