"Lieutenant Colonel Garski, Lieutenant Colonel Kaucheller has made decisive progress from the warehouse area! The defenders there have been basically eliminated!" The news that Lieutenant Colonel Kaucheller had captured the warehouse area was immediately conveyed. Major Frotschel, commander of the fifth company, suggested to Lieutenant Colonel Garski, "In order to clear out the remaining enemies here as soon as possible and control the port, can we ask Lieutenant Colonel Kauchler's Grossdeutschland 1st Battalion to come over and help?" ?”
Lieutenant Colonel Garski, who was still paying attention to the battle ahead with furrowed brows, heard Major Frotschel's suggestion, his hands shook slightly, he thought for a moment, and said sadly, "Let's generate electricity, let Lieutenant Colonel Kauchler Come here!" The biggest difference between Lieutenant Colonel Garski and his opponent is that he is thoughtful and doesn't talk much. Lieutenant Colonel Garski will also fully listen to the opinions of his subordinates. When the opinions of his subordinates are beneficial to the battle, Lieutenant Colonel Garski will adopt them without hesitation. Therefore, Major Frotscher clearly knows that Garski The current relationship between the Lieutenant Colonel and Lieutenant Colonel Kauchler is still making proposals to Lieutenant Colonel Garski.
Major Frotschel's purpose was achieved. After careful consideration, Lieutenant Colonel Garski finally agreed to Major Frotschel's suggestion. Requesting support from Lieutenant Colonel Kauchler, to be honest Lieutenant Colonel Garski was very reluctant to do so, but the situation was very unfavorable to him, forcing Lieutenant Colonel Garski to take such action.
Because fighting in residential areas has the following two weaknesses.
First, the enemy and the enemy are in close combat, hand-to-hand combat, which is extremely cruel. Since the battles are almost all based on infantry light fire assaults, and are all conducted within visual range, the terrain is complex and unpredictable, so heavy weapons have no place in street fighting. There are dense buildings and high-rise buildings in the city. Tanks and armored vehicles that provide main fire support cannot lift their gun barrels to a sufficient height due to their structural limitations, so they cannot effectively shoot at high targets. Narrow streets also prevent large tanks and other large combat vehicles from turning around, making their sides and tails extremely vulnerable to attacks. In street fighting, the mobility of the troops is severely restricted; the limited field of vision makes observation, shooting, and coordination very inconvenient. In many cases, the battle formation of the troops is separated and has to be dispersed into individual units to fight independently.
Second, the enemy and ourselves are mixed and intertwined, which is highly dangerous. Since there is no clear front line, the enemy and the enemy are mixed together, and the enemy and the civilians are mixed together, forming a stalemate in which you are surrounded by me, and you are surrounded by me. The attacking side is in the open and the resisting side is hiding in the dark, which adds to the complexity of street fighting. the difficulty and risks associated with such military operations. Tall buildings and underground bunkers are good places to hide snipers. "You don't know who the enemy is until someone shoots at you," and where the bullets come from. Unexpected ambushes and unpredictable snipers often make attackers tremble with fear and fall into the shadow of panic and fear from which they cannot extricate themselves.
Although heavy weapons are still useful in street fighting, especially when covering the charge of troops, tanks can get close to shoot machine gun bunkers and other fortifications, clear barbed wire roadblocks and other large-caliber artillery, and laser-guided shells can be used to accurately cover and shoot small-caliber artillery at long distances. Artillery, recoilless rifles, etc. are essential for the cover of the infantry detachment, but now the 2nd Infantry Battalion of Grossdeutschland does not have all of them, so we can only hope for the support of the 1st Infantry Battalion of Grossdeutschland.
Because of this, Lieutenant Colonel Garski agreed with his subordinates' opinions. Agree with Lieutenant Colonel Kauchler's 1st Battalion of the Grossdeutschland Infantry Regiment to support his operations.
Because since then, Lieutenant Colonel Garski had to rely on Lieutenant Colonel Kauchler's First Battalion to end the battle as soon as possible. But Lieutenant Colonel Garski had no regrets. Because in the eyes of Lieutenant Colonel Garski. There is nothing more important than completing your mission. Most of the soldiers in his 2nd Infantry Battalion of Grossdeutschland were newcomers transferred from various military regions after the establishment of the Grossdeutschland Infantry Regiment, so it was impossible to compete with the old men of Lieutenant Colonel Kauchler's 1st Battalion. Therefore, from the beginning of this battle, Lieutenant Colonel Garski had no intention of competing with Lieutenant Colonel Kauchler; Lieutenant Colonel Garski put the competition for a later time. So asking for help from Lieutenant Colonel Kauchler was not a big deal.
Lieutenant Colonel Garski invested a considerable amount of snipers in the battle of Abbeville this time. They planned to divide Abbeville into several areas, and then send a sniper team of two to four people in each area, while ordinary Marines They conducted house-to-house searches, drove the resisters out of their hiding places, and handed them over to snipers hidden in their positions to shoot them one by one.
However, the snipers sent by Lieutenant Colonel Garski were obviously not as many as the snipers previously in the low wall area. The 2nd Battalion of the American German Infantry Regiment, which was responsible for the main attack mission, was the first to adopt this model. To put it bluntly, it mixed snipers with ordinary German infantry.
This model actually originated from the Battle of Madrid commanded by Lin Wei in Spain. Before the Spanish Civil War, German Chancellor Hitler? ? Le immediately ordered the army to improve its anti-guerrilla warfare capabilities, but * turned a deaf ear to it and suffered a lot in Spain. Only then did the German Condor Legion come up with the most effective strategy to deal with the Spanish Republican government, which was to send a dozen German officers in exchange for soldiers into the Spanish armed forces or a certain village to encourage them to participate, while Germany provided artillery fire. and fighter support. As a result, the number of deserters from the Spanish Republican government was reduced, and the effectiveness of urban warfare and anti-guerrilla warfare was greatly increased. Until the Battle of Madrid started, the ability to fight in urban streets was greatly improved. Germany proudly attributed this tactic to "the combination of a strong dragon and a local snake".
At the same time, Lieutenant Colonel Garski also attached great importance to tactics in street fighting and summed up several experiences.
The first is to know yourself and the enemy - observe around the corner. The biggest difference between street fighting and field fighting is that the battlefield is divided by countless buildings arranged according to certain rules. Any tactical unit is in a relatively closed and narrow scene, which gives the side observation and firepower. The application has brought limitations. At the same time, for your enemies, this problem also exists, but they are more familiar with the structure of the scene and are on the defensive. All of this makes the alley tactics the most complex infantry tactics. The walls on both sides of the street It blocks the enemy's line of sight and protects our own tactical units from direct fire. Therefore, in a sense, street fighting tactics are tactics developed around walls. This is directly reflected in the use of various corners - whether it is observation Whether it is offense or defense, it is all achieved through corners.
Observing corners in an area where the enemy's situation is unknown is undoubtedly a double test of the courage and wisdom of the executor. In special environments where the battle situation is complex and changeable, a delay of one second will often bring devastating consequences to one's own team. How to clearly observe the enemy's situation while effectively protecting oneself during this dangerous action requires It depends on whether you are proficient in using corner observation tactics.
However, with the French garrison holding on, all these measures were of no avail. For now, he could only ask his mortal enemy, Lieutenant Colonel Heller's First Battalion of Grossdeutschland, to help him. Lieutenant Colonel Garski had no good solution for this.
This situation is generally due to the lack of weapons in the German squad. MP38 is only available to assaulters (schutzen), while other soldiers can only serve as riflemen (fusilier). Street fighting requires intensive individual firepower, but MP and Mauser cannot provide continuous firepower in a small space, and there is no alternative automatic firearm. It’s hard to make a meal without rice, and there is ammunition. The PPSH41 can have a 75-round drum magazine, but the MP does not have a drum magazine. During street fighting, the magazine is suddenly changed, but the enemy is still suppressing Dada’s firepower - it’s very embarrassing to think about it. Horrible things. The German army was not prepared for street fighting at all, and this was still the case until the street fighting in Berlin.
After hearing the news, the First Battalion of the Grossdeutschland Infantry Regiment of Lieutenant Colonel Kauchler rushed over immediately. After all, although there was some grudge between the two, they were all German soldiers and it was impossible to work at their own expense.
The first and second battalions of Grossdeutschland joined forces, which immediately weakened the already stretched defenders of the northeastern residential areas. under various advantages. The 1st and 2nd Battalions of Grossdeutschland quickly made progress.
As the Grossdeutschland Infantry Regiment pressed forward step by step, the French garrison guarding the port of Abbeville was compressed into an increasingly smaller area. Although they were still resisting tenaciously, by this time, the Grossdeutschland Infantry Regiment, which had already taken the initiative, had already secured victory.
After a fierce battle, the French defenders who occupied only a few residential buildings finally surrendered under the siege of the Grossdeutschland Infantry Regiment, which was superior in all aspects. Because in this case, no matter how hard the French army resisted, it could no longer change the outcome. So we can only surrender. This also marked that Guderian's 19th Armored Corps had initially completed its planned plan. Start moving towards the goal of capturing all the ports in the English Channel.
After a long battle, the desperate French army finally surrendered. Guderian also finally secured the first French port on the English Channel. The British and French forces that withdrew from Belgium were also compressed into a small area. This also means that if nothing unexpected happens, the British and French coalition forces that Belgium withdrew from have escaped from the trap.
At this time, about 400,000 British and French allied forces retreated to a small triangular area in Dunkirk and were trapped in a tight siege. In front of them was the rough sea, and behind them were tiger-like and wolf-like pursuit troops. The Allied forces lost their armor and were defeated.