Chapter 1074 Night Owl
Chapter 1074 Night Owl
"Shouldn't we build an electronic interference force? We can try it out." The prince then ordered. In fact, although communications during World War I mainly relied on human or animal transmission and field telephone communications, radio communications had become popular at the division level or higher. Especially in chaotic mobile warfare situations, when both physical transmission and field phone calls are in danger of being cut off, the proportion of radio communications will increase.
War is always at the forefront of gathering human science and technology. In fact, as early as 1905, the U.S. Navy had already conducted the first radio interference test, and the effect was said to be pretty good. The prince will naturally not lag behind. As early as 1908, Bavaria had established a special electronic jamming laboratory and corresponding combat troops, but this unit has not yet been used. This time the prince planned to pull it out and try.
"By the way, there are also our night owls, how are they doing now?" The prince remembered something very important. In addition to the Mackensen army on the front, the prince also had a hidden arrow that he didn't use!
"Are you talking about the Night Owls? They have detached themselves deep into the Russian rear. Judging from the Russian telegrams intercepted so far and the prisoners captured, they have begun to destroy the Russian rear and have achieved some results." Lieutenant General Caliput said.
"That's good. We can cause some more chaos to the Russians as appropriate, and let Mackensen wait for a few days. We can wait until the Night Owls have achieved greater results before launching an attack!" the prince said.
Special forces, or troops that perform special tasks, are the favorites of time travellers, and are frequent visitors in urban novels. They are said to be able to turn the tide of a war with just a few people, and are invincible beings who can win a battle with more than a dozen people, or even a retired or reincarnated person. , Anyone who travels to another world can easily beat up the rich second generation and marry Bai Fumei, eh. very good, very powerful.
Naturally, most of the stories about King of Soldiers and Special Forces in online novels are nonsense. But it is undeniable that the original special mission troops did have some role on the battlefield. Of course, the definition of this special force is very vague, and it is definitely different from that of later generations, but there was no shortage of such troops in World War 1 and World War 2, and they wrote their own splendid chapter in the war scroll of history.
Could you say Storm Troopers are a special mission force? Of course this is possible. And it was the only reasonably effective means for the German Army to break through the trenches in the middle and late stages of World War I. In World War II, the British performed very well as the Red Devils galloped across the deserts of North Africa. The British commandos' blowing up the German heavy water factory in Norway was also a masterstroke. And what about the Germans? Whether it was the airborne troops who began to raid the Fortress of the Sun in World War II, or the German squads that went deep into the Allied enemy lines to carry out sabotage activities in the final years of the Third Reich after Normandy, they all had commendable records.
Therefore, this kind of temporary special forces also played a certain role in the war. It is definitely not as nonsense as in later online articles.
But it still has some effects. Based on the principle that all bargaining chips should be used in war, the prince formed such a force called Night Owls.
"I need a force composed of elite officers and veterans. They must be proficient in Russian, have a deep understanding of Russian customs and living habits, be proficient in using various weapons, and be proficient in blasting and assassination. I need They can hide behind the Russians like ghosts, stabbing them at key locations such as military depots, bridges, railway hubs, etc., and can incite local people to resist Russia. They will be our hidden sharp blades, the Russians A lingering nightmare!" This is how the prince originally defined this army.
And is it difficult to plan such an army? The answer is that it's really not that difficult. At least it was not difficult in the original Polish area! Whether it is Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire or Russia, they all have a group of Poles under their command. In terms of nationality and living habits, it is not too easy to recruit a group of people who are the same as the opposite! There are also many mixed Germans in Poland, and their living habits and languages are very similar to each other. At least most people cannot tell the difference between Allied Poles and Russian Poles after casual contact.
Secondly, don’t forget that Bavaria was once one of the largest suppliers of army weapons to Russia. Many Bavarian regiments have stayed in Russia for a long time and used this time to travel around and know a lot about Russia. At least it's not difficult to fool your opponent.
From an internal reason, it was because of the brutal rule of the Russians over the Russian-owned Poland. (For example, forced immigration and the food quota system) caused dissatisfaction among a considerable number of Poles, and the Allied intelligence agencies used these dissatisfaction to establish some organizations to serve the Allies. And they will also become the internal agents of the Night Owl troops.
As a force that performs infiltration and sabotage missions behind enemy lines, when you can perfectly blend into the background, half of the mission is actually completed! All that's left is to skillfully use the weapons in your hands to harvest the opponent's life, and then pick up the opponent's weapons to prepare for the next battle.
These commandos vary in size. Some have more than a dozen people, some have dozens of people, and some may have hundreds of people. What? you do not believe? No way, if you plan to pretend to be a Russian transport company, then a company-level horse-drawn carriage team without hundreds of people is impossible. Therefore, when necessary, having more people makes it less likely to expose oneself.
Of course, it would be very difficult for you to pass through when the two sides are confronting each other. Therefore, all this penetration began after the Russians launched their attack. While the Russian Seventh Army broke into Austria-Hungary in batches, it also allowed There were loopholes in the original tight defense system, and when the Bavarian Legion launched a counterattack, the Russian position was even beaten into a sieve, which provided great benefits for the Night Owls' penetration. Of course, the role of the air force must also be explained in this operation. It is precisely because the air force bombed the railway hub that the carriage transportation volume increased significantly. This made it easier for the Night Owls to sneak in, and the action team codenamed Cougar took 7 four-wheeled carriages, more than 120 people, and hundreds of kilograms of explosives to the rear of the Russian army's position openly... ..
Occasionally, large-scale action teams successfully entered the rear with the support of Polish internal intelligence, but more often they were squad-level teams. They either rode bicycles or walked, joining the endless flow of people on the vast Pod Plain. , moving towards your goals.
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