Chapter 179: , Flanging (1)

It’s nothing new to launch a large-scale raid during the busy farming season to destroy agricultural production—to be precise, in Joseph’s view, this is nothing new. In another time and space, the Japanese Locust Army likes to play this hand. But this hand was still completely broken by the revolutionary heroes. And these people's heroes cracked this kind of wicked means of combat thinking, in many old anti-Japanese movies (note, not the later anti-Japanese dramas) that Joseph saw had many manifestations.
　　 This tactic was called "flanging tactics" at the time. What it means is: when the enemy "cannibalize" and "sweep" me, it is necessary to propose "flanging tactics" in the military, that is, when the enemy enters me, I fight back to the enemy. ("Decentralized Guerrilla Warfare and Political Offensive Against the Enemy")
　　His past life, historically blind Joseph, of course, did not read this kind of professional literature, but it does not matter, because Joseph has seen many relatively reliable anti-Japanese films in his previous life, even directly called "science and education films". In these movies, he can often see such bridges.
　　 The head of the large army, holding the old district chief’s hand, said to him: "The devil is here to sweep again. Now we have to jump to the outside line to fight the enemy, protect the masses, and hold the devil. The task is left to you."
　　 The old district head replied firmly: "Please rest assured, the head, we will complete the task!"
　　 The so-called "jump to the outside" here is the "enemy advances, we advance" in the "flanging tactics". That is, the main force of our army, using the gap between the enemy forces, directly penetrates the enemy's rear. At this time, the enemy’s rear is very empty, and the enemy’s army operations are very dependent on the supplies behind. Once the empty rear is hit, the enemy will have to call back the army. In this way, the raid on the base area will naturally end without disease. Up.
　　 Of course, this method of combat has extremely high requirements for the organization of the army that executes him. It requires this army to be able to be broken into pieces, and it can be broken into pieces at any time. Otherwise, when the army makes use of the gaps between the enemy forces, it is easy to be caught by the enemy and cause serious losses. Today, including the Irish guerrillas, there is no such organization in the world. So it was actually quite difficult for the Irish to perform such a difficult tactic.
　　 But the terrain of Ireland has given the Irish a great help, making it relatively easy for them to cross the British surroundings. That's the swamps everywhere on the Irish plains.
　　 These swamps are vast and full of dangers, even locals dare not walk in. But with the prepared guerrillas, these swamps have become the best hidden areas and passages. After the British Army’s first major raid, the Federation put the construction of swamp shelters in a particularly important position when summing up the experience and lessons. They nailed wooden stakes in the swamp and then laid them on the stakes. Planks form a safe road. When necessary, remove the wooden planks above, and even pull out the stakes with ropes, and the original road becomes a deadly trap.
　　 It is impossible for the British army to encircle these big swamp regiments. They don't have so many troops, and doing so will only lead to excessive dispersion of their forces. Most of them will also be used to concentrate their superior forces to live out the flowers of annihilating the enemy. Their main force can only cross these swamps and attack the hinterland of the base area. But in this way, the main force of the guerrillas can pass through these swamp passages, bypass the British army, and strike targets in the British hinterland.
　　 So, when Joseph mentioned such a tactic in his letter to the leaders of the United Irish Federation, almost everyone's eyes were bright.
"Really... I didn't expect that there could be such an operation! Hahaha, they came to us to clean up, we went to them to clean up. Demolition of the military depots that they have spent a lot of time building near which cities, Remove the things they put in the barracks, and kill the people who keep them in the barracks. In short, we will give them three lights!
Rebel Commander Joyce, he was in Napoleon. Served as a platoon leader in the Italian Legion, and later received special military training in Toulon, and is now the commander of the First Division of the Independent Army organized by the Federation.
The divisions of the 　　 Federation were actually more similar to the divisions of the Northeast Anti-Federation of later generations, rather than the divisions of the Eighteenth Army. In other words, a teacher actually has less than a thousand people. But on the Irish Independence Army, this is already the main force. Now, under the command of the Federation, there are only two divisions.
　　 "Our strategic goal is to mobilize the enemy, prevent the enemy from destroying the base area, not to fall into unnecessary revenge, and not to let the emotion affect the work." President Russell said to him very seriously.
　　 "I understand, President. I just talk casually. It won't affect my work." Joyce said quickly.
　　 "In front of wartimes, don't say such things casually. To propagate, you must be from the perspective of helping the brothers in the base area."
　　 "Understand."
　　 "That's good. Then let's hurry up and work."
　　 The preparation for work is busy. Especially after making up such a determination to turn the sides. All kinds of information will not be aggregated to the headquarters, and the enemy's various configurations have gradually become clear...
　　 Xiaokuang Village is a small village located between a "quasi-police zone" and a "non-police zone". Many years ago, there used to be a small copper mine nearby, so this village had such a name. Today, the copper mine near the village has long been abandoned because the ore has been mined, and all the miners in the past have moved away, and the rest have become potato farmers.
　　 After the last large-scale raid, the people in this village died completely, but the village did not go to waste. Under the arrangement of the Federation, the farmers who escaped from the British controlled area became the new villagers of the small mining village.
　　 The news that the British army is coming to sweep up again has long been notified by the militia of the district team to every household. They also specifically mentioned: "We must follow our usual training. After receiving the notice, we must organize to take refuge in the marshland next to us. Never hide in the mine. During the last sweep, The people in the village hid in the mine, but they were smoked by the British and the whole village died!"
　　 This story is actually known to everyone in the village, and even the village already has various terrifying legends about the mine. But everyone still expressed gratitude to the comrades of the district team.
　　 At noon that day, everyone was still busy on the ground, but they heard someone blowing a whistle.
　　 Everyone hurriedly looked up at the top of the hill over there, and saw that the message tree had fallen down.
　　 "Everyone follow me and go to the shelter immediately!" the village chief Xiao En shouted.
　　 "The village chief, my wife is still in the village." someone shouted.
　　 "It's okay, there are people in the village. You just follow me to the shelter." The village chief said.
　　 The village chief took people all the way to the edge of the swamp. At the entrance to the swamp, a member of the district team was standing there holding a rifle seized from the black dog. Behind him, a road paved with wooden planks extended dozens of meters to the front.
　　 "Edgar, are all the people in the village going in?" the village chief asked.
　　 "Everything went in, and everything the animals wanted was brought in." Edgar replied.
　　 The village chief waved to everyone and shouted: "Okay, everyone, hurry in!"
　　 Everyone stepped on this boardwalk one by one. Seeing everyone walking down this road, Village Chief Sean and Edgar also started walking inside. Everyone walked all the way, putting away the paved wooden boards and laying them to the front. The stakes behind the planks were pulled up, or pulled away. So the place they walked was restored to a swamp full of various water plants.
　　 "Look, village chief, there is smoke over there!" someone shouted.
　　 "It seems to be the direction of our village!"
　　 "The British are really here, do you dare to chase in?"
　　 "I'm afraid they won't come in. These bad things dare to come in, how many come, I will kill them." Edgar held the gun in his hand and cursed.
　　 After a while, a team of British troops and a team of "black dogs" came to the edge of the swamp.
　　 "Report to the chief. Looking at the traces, those villagers should have entered the swamp." A black dog officer said to another British officer who was riding on a horse.
　　 The villagers brought some animals, and these animals left footprints and feces when they were transferred, so the British and Heigouzi chased them all the way here.
　　 "Well~EbookFREE.me~ very good." The British officer first raised his binoculars and looked into the swamp. The swamp is full of tall and short reeds, or other water plants, and occasionally a few water birds can be seen flying by. As for the others, I can't see anything.
　　 "Very good." The British officer nodded again, and then said to the "security army" officer who was standing in front of his horse, "You take your man and explore the way ahead."
The officer of the "Security Army" was so scared that he almost knelt down: "Sir, this kind of swamp is not allowed. You don't see how deep the water is, but, but I don't know how deep the mud below is, maybe , Step on it, the whole person sinks! This can't enter!"
　　 "Can't get in? How did those rebels get in?"
　　 "Sir, they are locals, maybe they know how to get there. We are outsiders. We don't know where it is deep and where it is shallow, but we don't know at all. Just going in like this is killing people."
　　 "Dead people? Captain, we are at war! What kind of battles are you going to fight if you are afraid of the dead? You Irish people, all of you can only sneak and rape...Why? Do you want to disobey the military order?"
　　 Seeing that the British officer seemed to have reached out to touch the pistol, the captain of the "security army" did not dare to say anything, and quickly nodded and said: "What the sir said is that we are ordered..."
　　 Then he came to his team, grabbed a few people at random, and waved his pistols and said: "You guys will find the way ahead for Lao Tzu, who dare not go, Lao Tzu killed him..."
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