Lieutenant Frank did not know that the Belgian troops he fought against in the large village of Salz were the last Belgian troops still fighting. As for the other Belgian troops, they had already broken away from the German army early.
In fact, Frank's military rank was the lowest among graduates of the Berlin Military Academy in the same period.
The reason is very simple, because Frank is not interested in traditional large-scale combat. His interest lies in studying special operations!
This is an emerging military discipline. Although it was not taken seriously by all the participating parties in World War I, by the 1930s, some ideas about special operations were emerging in the military academies of various military powers.
Interested soldier.
Their theoretical basis is: on the premise of acknowledging that great men create history, they must not ignore the possibility of small people creating history. For example, the Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince Ferdinand was killed by a Serbian little man in Serrajevo, which triggered the Second World War.
In World War I, can you say that small people cannot create history? Since when the balance is in equilibrium, the weight of an ant can cause the balance to tilt, then on the strategic balance, a team that has received special training and is well-equipped will
A surprise attack by a small force with extremely high combat qualities at a critical moment will definitely tip the strategic balance!
No wonder Frank couldn't be promoted to a general officer like his classmates. The subject he studied was too biased.
But he never regretted it. The world war provided a broad stage for activities. The British special forces had already taken shape in the last world war. Even their Asian and Chinese counterparts (Qingyang gave China's first special forces if they had the opportunity)
(Write an extra) is already showing off its skills. How can the history of special operations of the German army be blank?
On the European battlefield, Germany's individual weapons have begun to be dominated by automatic firearms, and the firepower of heavy weapons has been further improved after capturing a large number of Polish cannons. (Most of the German self-made artillery are self-propelled guns with high mobility.
artillery, reducing its caliber performance. Some of the Polish army's artillery, especially the large-caliber artillery purchased from France, slightly made up for some of the shortcomings of the German army)
If the strength of a conventional army should mainly be reflected in its firepower, then special operations rely on the strength of its firepower, the psychological quality of its team members, and the ability and skills of individual soldiers to win.
Speaking of fire suppression, Frank will never forget a battle he witnessed in the Far East Military Observer Corps in 1939, the Battle of Nomonkan!
It was a battle of flesh and blood between steel, large-scale industrial production and will.
According to the information obtained later, General Zhukov, the commander of the Soviet First Army in the Far East at the time, concentrated four tank brigades, 300 aircraft and 250 artillery pieces, allowing the always arrogant Japanese Army to realize what modernization means.
war.
Frank, who was in the Soviet camp, witnessed with his own eyes the scene in which aircraft fleets roared in the sky, artillery roared on the ground, and large-caliber artillery shells exploded the Japanese positions into a sea of flames. This intensity of firepower was unprecedented for Japanese soldiers.
It was something Frank had never seen before.
In that battle, Frank witnessed deep in the unobstructed Gobi, on a wide front of more than ten kilometers, flying dust swept across the earth, thousands of Soviet tanks came overwhelmingly, and the tracks of the tanks crushed them mercilessly.
It shattered the spirit and will of the Japanese soldiers, burying Japan's stupid empire's arrogant ambition to advance northward in the windy and sandy Mongolian Gobi. According to official Soviet statistics obtained by Germany, more than 50,000 Japanese soldiers died in this battle, while the Soviet casualties were only
There are less than three thousand people.
However, after experiencing the Battle of France, Frank also witnessed the terrifying firepower of the German army, as well as the joint land and air strikes that were even more powerful than the Soviet army.
In conventional warfare, the Third Reich has reached its pinnacle. In special operations, it has yet to become widespread.
However, Frank has always been very ambitious. Although he commanded conventional troops, he has never forgotten the special operations theory he studied back then.
So, today he organized a death squad full of non-commissioned officers and a small number of officers. Everyone in the team was equipped with an MP40 submachine gun and 300 rounds of submachine gun bullets. Of course, everyone also had a Mauser combat pistol at his waist.
And a German Munich standard saber. In addition, Frank also ordered that all the flares and 40mm grenade generators in the entire company be concentrated in this assault team. Of course, no one yet knows what the grenade launcher can do besides launching flares.
Function, because their grenades have been used up before and have not been replenished, which means there are no grenades to shoot.
Soon, the battle at the east entrance of Salz Village began. In an instant, the few remaining MP40 submachine guns of the German army, a large number of G43 semi-automatic rifles, and Mauser pistols rang out. In an instant, the gunfire sprayed out from the muzzle.
The tongues of flames seemed to be burying the Belgian army, spreading out one after another.
The task given to the German eastern feint attack force was to create a huge noise at the east entrance of the village at all costs and attract all the main Belgian troops there, so they were fighting very hard now.
However, a bluff is a bluff. Even if you try a thousand times harder, your number will only be the same as a company, and your firepower will still be the firepower of a company.
Major Bauer of the Belgian Reinforcement Battalion was not fooled. He judged from the density of gunfire that the German army had at most two companies of troops, so he only sent two companies to fight, leaving two companies to guard.
Next to the headquarters in the west of the village.
It has to be said that, being able to lead the battle alone, with the only rearguard unit of the Belgian 13th Division remaining behind the village of Salz, Major Bauer is not an idiot, after all, he has some brains.
However, Bauer's judgment was based on his knowledge of the firepower configuration of the Belgian army. If he knew that the German army that fired such firepower to the east was not two companies, but one with a large number of submachine guns deployed, which was less than a full company.
, I guess he won’t be as calm as he is now.
At the same time, Frank, the German lieutenant, soon realized that the situation was not good after discovering this situation. The firepower of the Belgian army in the east was obviously much less than what he had predicted before, indicating that the opponent was not completely fooled.
But the battle had already started and there was no way to stop it. If they could not get rid of the Belgian army headquarters in a short time, they would only face heavy losses.
All hopes were pinned on the 30-man German "officer and non-commissioned officer special force" he personally led.
At the critical moment, Frank, who had many years of special operations experience, immediately stood up and once again drew up a new combat plan at an alarming speed. This time he divided the small unit into two parts, leaving ten people at the west entrance of the village, and equipped them with
With all the flares in hand, the remaining twenty people used ropes to climb up the cliff from the north entrance of the village, bypassing the Belgian defense and delivering a devastating blow to their headquarters.
Frank set the time at 22:00 in half an hour, and the "officer and non-commissioned officer special forces" would launch an attack on the village west headquarters on time. There was not much time left for them, and every minute wasted meant that the brothers in the east of the village were
Get hit by one more point.
The time came to 21:59, "Ten seconds left! 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, fire!" Runek, the leader of the ten-man team at the west entrance of the village, looked at
Counting down with a watch.
They opened fire and attracted all the remaining two companies guarding the enemy's headquarters. Just like when they implemented the sickle harvest plan, Frank used a second raid to attract the Belgian's reserved troops. After the ambush, he also
There may be an ambush, but the Belgians still have no memory after being attacked by the Ardennes Forest.
For a moment, lightning-like muzzles sprayed flames and fired at this group of Belgians who had no long memory. If they hadn't completely lost their minds and found bunkers in advance, they would have been wiped out by this powerful firepower.
, disappeared from this world in an instant.
"Brothers, take out the flares!" Runek roared, "Concentrate them and fire them at the faces of these Belgian idiots! Quick!"
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa..." In one moment, 10 rounds of illumination bombs were fired straight at the Belgian army into the crowd.
The Belgian soldiers were stunned by the sudden flare and could not react for a moment. They all stared at the flare and the dazzling light it emitted. Then, they covered their eyes one by one and fell to the ground screaming in pain.
on the ground.
"Ah, ah, my eyes, my eyes can't see!" the Belgian soldiers wailed one by one.
Seeing the situation in front of him, Runek smiled proudly. He smiled because of the success of his tactics, because he bought time for Commander Frank, and at the same time, he also smiled because of Commander Frank's intelligence.
The use of concentrated illumination bombs is a newly invented tactical method that Lieutenant Frank has thought of before, which he calls "flash bomb tactics".
At the same time, Frank and his men had successfully climbed the cliff, bypassed the defending Belgian army, and reached their headquarters.
At the entrance of the command post, the Belgian sentry standing here suddenly felt a white light flashing in front of his eyes without realizing it. Several of them fell down before they had time to shout. The German noncommissioned officer who made the sneak attack was indeed a master. He threw
The saber he drew inserted into the sentry's neck with great accuracy, causing the severed carotid arteries of several Belgians to spurt out a stream of blood instantly. Once the move was successful, the team members jumped up under the leadership of Frank and quickly
Stormed into the headquarters of Major Bauer in Belgium.
"Don't move!" Frank, the leader, shouted and quickly raised the MP40 submachine gun in his hand.
Bauer saw the situation and knew that the situation was not good. He sighed heavily and raised his hands helplessly.
"Surrender." Bauer shook his head and said to several staff officers in a deep voice: "We lost."
