China's three-three system tactics

On the banks of the Rhine in mid-July, the weather is getting hotter and it has been half a month since Lyon arrived at Krupp on the Rhine.

　　This half a month was an ordeal for all the soldiers of the 27th Regiment. It's not how tiring the work is, but the soldiers' work is so simple that they only need to supervise their work every day with their own rifles to their compatriots. But for the soldiers, nothing humiliated them more than to turn their guns on their compatriots and then let them destroy the industrial potential of their country little by little, it is better for them to participate in another battle of the Somme.

　　But time is fair, the most difficult half a month has finally passed, and now the soldiers will leave here with the workers, because the entire Ruhr industrial area is owned by the French.

　　The train slowly slid into the platform, and the soldiers lined up neatly under the leadership of the commander, and then entered the train car in an orderly manner.

　　"Grant, I heard we're not going back to Hamburg this time." An ordinary soldier whispered to his comrades beside him

"It seems that it is William, I heard that we are going to Nuremberg and the 3rd Infantry Regiment stationed there for an exercise." The soldier named Grant also whispered to his companion.

　　"Ha, in Nuremberg, there is only one infantry regiment stationed?" William shook his head helplessly.

　　"Then what's the solution? The old army has been completely withdrawn, and as far as our 100,000 new Wehrmacht has to defend the border and garrison the cities, it is already good that Nuremberg can have a regiment, and I heard that in some cities without garrisons, the police alone cannot suppress the riots. Grant said.

　　"Yes gentlemen, now some cities in the country are in chaos, the army is insufficient, and the police are inadequate. But it's going to get better and better, isn't it? A voice came from behind the two.

　　"Good company commander!" The two looked back and saw that it was their company commander, and hurriedly stood up and saluted.

　　The person who came was Leon, who was inspecting the carriage, and he heard the conversation between the two and couldn't help but come up and say a word.

　　Leon waved his hand to signal that there was no need to salute, and then said to the two: "Hey, guys, the situation in the country will always get better and better, but now in front of us is the 3rd Regiment, yes, we went to Nuremberg to participate in the exercise.

　　"Sir, what is the content of the exercise?" William, who was more anxious, couldn't help but ask.

　　"I heard that it was the commander of operations, Lieutenant General Strauss, who gave the order for the exercise, which was about offensive and defensive warfare, do you remember what I taught you?" Leon asked with a smile.

　　Grant was the first to answer: "I remember, a squad was divided into three combat groups, each with three people, and three people covered each other for assault." Then he hesitated for a moment and asked, "But company commander, is this tactic really useful?" Isn't war supposed to charge en masse? Such a dispersion of density, is it not easy to be broken by the enemy army one by one? "

　　Leon smiled and said, "Is there any use that you won't know then?" I thought: The Chinese volunteers in the previous life used this tactic as the basic tactic of the class to teach the incomparable joint ** in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the current German ** team is not very similar to China at that time, and the two countries did not have heavy firepower. The three-three tactic was invented specifically for offensive operations that lacked heavy firepower, and if this could not teach this combat idea to the army of the era when trench warfare was still limited, then someone who invented this tactic in the previous life would have found a piece of tofu and crashed to death.

Soon the train arrived at Nuremberg railway station, and all the soldiers quickly left the carriage and lined up outside. The commander of the 27th Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Gust of the Wehrmacht, walked to the front of the team and said to everyone: "Maybe some of you already know the purpose of our coming to Nuremberg, yes, the War Department arranged for us to have an offensive and defensive exercise with the 3rd Regiment, and their regiment commander John the Elder fought on his own defensive side, and just told me that he would kick our ass fiercely in this exercise, can you agree?!"

　　"Three regiments of bastards, it's us who are going to kick their ass!" "Brothers, let's teach them to fight!" When the soldiers below heard this, they were like fighting chicken blood, and they couldn't wait to teach the people of the third regiment a lesson now.

　　"Very well, now turn left, run and set off to the predetermined attack position, the battle begins!" Gust said and took the lead to run outside the station.

　　The exercise took place on several consecutive hills, along which the defenders dug two trench lines and simulated heavy machine guns and mortars. And the attacking side does not even have heavy machine guns, only light ones.

The exercise soon began, with the 27th Regiment first harassing enemy lines with small units to reconnoiter the distribution of enemy fire, then using Lyon's 2nd Battalion to feign high fire density areas, and then using the remaining two infantry battalions to storm other areas in a skirmish line charge.

　　The exercise was arranged by Lieutenant General Strauss, the head of the Operations Department of the Wehrmacht, who was sitting on the rostrum observing the battle situation.

　　Soon Strauss understood the intention of the attacking commander, he frowned, the attacking commander had a good idea, but he ignored one thing - heavy machine guns may not be easy to move, but mortars can move quickly.

　　Sure enough, due to the lack of heavy firepower on the defensive side, the two infantry battalions charging in dense formations in the direction of the main attack were successful at the beginning, and when they were about to break through the first line of defense, the units in dense formation were hit by mortar groups that quickly shifted positions, and at once two infantry battalions were judged to have "killed" 2 infantry companies, and at once lost nearly one-third of their effective forces and could only withdraw to the position of the beginning of the attack.

Just when everyone thought that the situation of the exercise was clear, in another direction of feigned attack, an infantry company dispersed its troops in violation of the "normal state of war", and as a unit, alternately covered the attack forward, maintained a considerable density of fire during the attack, and minimized the role that the defender's heavy machine guns could play, quickly tore through the enemy's defense line, and the two infantry companies following in the rear quickly reacted, seized the enemy's trenches, widened the gap in the defense line, defended on the spot, and prevented the enemy from launching a countercharge.

　　The originally clear battle situation seemed confusing again. This infantry company was the company led by Lyon, and the three-three tactics he laid out worked wonders.

　　"What's the name of the commander of that unit?" Lieutenant General Strauss asked the adjutant next to him with his eyes shining.

　　The adjutant hurriedly opened the roster, checked it for a while and said: "Leon, Leon Andrés, sir!"

　　Lieutenant General Strauss lowered his head and thought for a while, then continued to ask: "Leon?" Is it the very provocative Lyon mentioned in the last report submitted by the 27th Regiment? "

　　The adjutant immediately replied, "Yes sir, he impressed me."

　　"Hehe, do you think he can win this exercise?" The lieutenant general asked the adjutant with a smile.

The adjutant carefully considered it, and then replied in the affirmative: "It is impossible, they cannot block the counterattack of the 3rd Regiment, the second line of defense of the 3rd Regiment is higher in altitude than the first line of defense they occupy, and in this direction, the reserves of the 3rd Regiment alone are larger than the remaining number of this infantry battalion, and the 27th Regiment lacks heavy firepower, how can it be able to block the attack from top to bottom with hundreds of rifles."

　　The lieutenant general smiled and said, "A good commander will turn the impossible into a possibility, and a commander who can come up with such offensive tactics is undoubtedly excellent." He won't be stuck in rigid trench defenses, and I'm getting more and more interested in him. "