Octopus hates those elite old ghosts. As long as there are elite old ghosts, it means that no matter how perfect the combat plan is, there will be shocking casualties. Octopus once suffered this loss in Grozny.

Many of his comrades died there, and that huge sacrifice forced the emperor to begin to pay attention to European and American special combat modes. Although they won, if both sides were supporting equality, the octopus himself would not dare to imagine what they would face.

It is clearly an area that is flattened by artillery fire and missiles, as long as they dare to step in, they will inevitably be attacked by RPGs and snipers. It seems that they are flattened by the place where they are flattened, and there are some cockroach-like guys who survive and can also cause damage to them.

In the end, the octopus and the others were already nervous. As long as they suspected that someone might be hiding, they would be a blast. Whether it was artillery fire or a rocket launcher, they would first blast. Even if there was no one after the bombardment, they thought it was not a waste.

This is the experience summarized by hundreds of lives before. They are like cockroaches and can really survive in artillery fire in ways you don’t know and launch a counterattack on you. What the octopus doesn’t know is that this is what the Americans learned from the battlefield of resisting U.S. aggressing Korea.

During that time, the Volunteers' War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, the Volunteers impressed Europe and the United States too deeply. The excellent tunnel battles were repeatedly bombarded by the US military and repeated artillery bombardment. This surprised them extremely, and at the same time, they increased their research on the trench tactics of the Volunteers after the war.

The reason why the US military was extremely surprised by the Volunteer Army's trench tactics was that it originated from a failed military operation. That operation was called "whip".

At 3 a.m. on January 12, 1953, a reinforced company of the 31st Regiment of the 7th Infantry Division of the US Army, guided by four tanks, launched an attack on the 205 Highland on the south side of Zhishan Cave. Because the height was shaped like the English letter "T", the heightland was made by the attacking US troops.

At that time, on the T Highland, there were only one platoon of troops from the 3rd platoon of the 1st Company of the 67th Division of the 23rd Army of the Volunteer Army, defending. Four tanks and a reinforced company fought for one morning and launched four attacks. More than 50 casualties were casualties, but they did not set up positions. According to intelligence after the war, one person was killed in the Volunteer Army and six were injured. The US army was defeated.

This major failure, on the one hand, hit the morale of the US military and made many people in the US military feel dissatisfied. They think this is a problem of insufficient preparation and there is no possibility of advanced equipment. After just experiencing World War II, they failed with an absolute advantage at their peak.

The representative figure among these people was General Van Ferrit, the commander of the Eighth Army of the US Army at that time. He believed that this failure was extremely unscientific. After repeated discussions and research and summary, he believed that the reason for the failure was that the preparations were not done well, so he decided to personally direct the platoon-level position war.

His superior General Clark expressed support for this and personally named the operation "Air and Ground Coordinated Operation Experiment", which was code-named "Fighting". On the one hand, this was to restore morale, but on the other hand, they were indeed dissatisfied. They believed that this failure was extremely low-level.

When the operation was confirmed, the US military began to prepare in advance. First, Clark and Van Furrit repeatedly deduced and verified in the General Staff. They continued to confirm that their combat plan would definitely be able to take over the T Highland. Then, they invited the commander of the 1st US Army, the commander of the 5th Air Force, the commander of the Far East Air Force, and other generals to come and observe. They even invited a number of war correspondents to the scene.

Every observer was confidently presented a well-made and exquisitely-skined combat manual by them. In fact, this was also the first time they conducted a practical exercise for ground-to-air coordinated combat. In this exercise, Clark also called it the "air-ground coordinated combat experiment."

The operation is scheduled to be launched on the 25th, but since the last failure was believed in the deduction, it is believed that the last failure was due to insufficient preparation. This time, it is naturally necessary to lay enough preparatory preparations in the early stage. From the 20th, the US Far East Air Force dispatched more than 40 combat bombers to throw and napalm bombs every day for four consecutive days. At the same time, nearly 100 artillery guns of more than 105 mm were also carried out uninterrupted destructive shootings in five artillery battalions.

On the 24th day before the attack, the Air Force alone dropped 136,000 pounds and 14 boxes of solidified incendiary bombs on this small high ground! The entire T-high ground was blown up in a mess. From 8:00 to 12:00 on the 25th, when the official attack was launched, the Far East Air Force dispatched a total of 196 F-84s, 8 each batch, repeatedly bombarded the T-zi Mountain. At the same time, nearly 100 artillery pieces were fired together, bombarding for nearly 4 hours. Under the cover of artillery fire, the US military completed the assembly at the foot of the mountain.

At that time, the US was responsible for the attacking force of the 31st Regiment. The defense was still the 1st Company of the 201st Regiment, the 67th Division of the 23rd Army. However, the third row was replaced with a row. The result of the battle was the reason why the US military attached great importance to trench tactics after the war:

The battle started at 8:00 a.m. on the 25th and ended at 15:30 p.m. Ellaud Moses, the commander of the 31st Regiment, had to order the offensive troops to retreat. After nearly a day of fighting, the three US platoons paid 77 casualties. The position was still not taken down. Because their opponents were only 11 casualties...

Regarding this battle, American historian John Tolan recorded that 224,000 pounds, 8 boxes of napalm bullets were thrown, supported cannons, tanks, heavy mortars and machine guns were fired, and rifles also fired 150,000 shells and bullets. The US military consumed 225,000 rounds of machine gun bullets alone.

Then, they failed gorgeously. The casualties were higher than their opponents. As Normandy, the first to land on the beach, he won three bronze cross heroic medals in one day and later received another British medal, and still failed.

This has explained a lot of problems. This basin of cold water has caused Americans to start carefully studying their own opponents. What is particularly focused on is their trench tactics.

Those studies made the octopus suffer a great loss. You should know that Americans not only studied but also continued to experiment on various battlefields to summarize combat experience. After years of research, they have formed their own system. This system contains more about how to survive the shelling.
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