Chapter 319 Sniper Company

Although there are amphibious landing ships, there is still a lot of uncertainty in Charles's combat plan to penetrate from the flank.

Charles pointed to the sea in the east and said, "Once the enemy finds our amphibious landing ships in time, they may use machine guns and artillery fire to suppress them in all directions, which is devastating to the amphibious landing ships."

Tijani nodded in agreement: "There are also machine guns deployed by the enemy on the defense line, both sides of the defense line, which will form a two-sided attack on our offensive forces."

If the frontal attack is defeated by the enemy, the penetration troops will die even if they penetrate in place.

"So." Charles pointed to the middle of the defense line and said, "We should let the enemy think that we are going to launch a counterattack in the middle section and divert their attention!"

"But..." Tijani looked at Charles in confusion: "How can we let them know?"

Charles smiled and said nothing. Leave this to him. He has channels.

...

Sanders is very satisfied with the situation on the battlefield, at least for now.

The Australians attacked fiercely. With the help of mortars and grenades, they rushed into the trenches of the Ottoman army several times to engage in hand-to-hand combat, but were eventually pushed back by Sanders with artillery and reinforcements.

The artillery attack on their reinforcements made the enemy unable to continue, but the Ottoman reinforcements continued to reinforce like a tide. It is obvious that victory will definitely belong to the Ottoman army in such a battle.

At this time, staff officer Quinn hurried out of the command center and reported to Sanders: "General, the enemy launched an attack from the flank."

Sanders said "um". He took it for granted that the enemy's attack on the flank was to disperse the limited firepower of the Ottoman army to make it easier for the Australian army to break through.

However, Quinn added: "They are about to collapse, request reinforcements!"

"What?" Sanders turned his head and looked at Quinn with a look of astonishment.

They just started fighting, why are they about to collapse?

And the flank is not the enemy's main attack direction...

"General!" Quinn handed several telegrams to Sanders, his face pale and his voice hurried: "I believe that the flank is the enemy's main attack direction."

Sanders took the telegram and exclaimed: "Amphibious landing ship? They use amphibious landing ships to intersperse on the flank?"

"Yes!" Quinn replied: "Maybe at the moment when our artillery bombarded the enemy, they launched an attack on the flank at the same time!"

Sanders understood that he had fallen into the enemy's "feint to the east and attack in the west" strategy. The enemy took advantage of his attention being attracted by the large-scale attack in the center and launched a real "attack" on the flank.

Sanders quickly put away his telescope and walked towards the headquarters. Soon he ran into the headquarters and asked breathlessly: "What's the situation?"

The staff reported one after another:

"The enemy's amphibious landing ship has successfully penetrated the rear of our 3rd Militia Regiment and is attacking it."

"The enemy's two lines of defense also launched an attack at the same time."

"Their artillery fire is very fierce, it is mortars, at least dozens of them are concentrated on the flanks, and the shells continue to bombard our positions, causing heavy casualties to our army."

...

Those must be the mortars and shells that the enemy replenished last night, Sanders thought, and regretted it secretly. He should have blocked the enemy's supply, but gave up because he was reluctant to give up the shells.

"Machine guns!" Sanders ordered loudly: "Replenish the machine guns immediately, and the artillery will shift the direction of attack to suppress the enemy on the flank!"

"Yes!" The staff responded.

Sanders' response tactics are correct. Long-range artillery suppresses the enemy's mortars, and machine guns can play a role.

In this case, machine guns must be the king. They can attack the enemy's two lines of defense at the same time. As long as the machine gun firepower is output normally, the safety of the flank can be guaranteed, and the Ottoman army can regain the initiative.

However, Sanders underestimated Charles.

At this time, Charles had organized a special force specifically for machine guns: the First Sniper Company, with Shen Bili as the company commander.

Unlike a company of more than 200 people at this time, the sniper company has only more than 100 people, and all the members are soldiers with good marksmanship selected from the troops.

Charles called Shen Bili to him, and at this time he had learned to call Colonel in French.

"Your primary target is the enemy machine gun." Charles said: "Once the battle starts, I hope that no machine gun in the defense zone you are responsible for can fire bullets!"

"Understood!" Shen Bili responded confidently.

"You don't ask about other situations?" Charles was a little confused: "For example, how big is your defense zone, how many enemies and how many machine guns are there?"

"No, Colonel." Shen Billy replied: "I believe the task you assigned to me is reasonable, I don't need to worry about this."

Smart guy, Charles thought.

Shen Billy must have realized that this was a decisive battle, and Charles couldn't joke with everyone's lives, so he couldn't assign tasks beyond his ability.

However, even if he was a smart man, even if he had such ability, he still had no way out under "universal discrimination" in history.

"In addition." Charles said: "You should develop the habit of cooperating with others, second lieutenant!"

"What?" Shen Billy was stunned. He looked at the rank on his military uniform and looked at the translator in confusion: "But I am a corporal. And I never cooperate with others..."

He thought the translator had translated it wrong.

Charles interrupted him and raised his head towards a set of equipment piled in the corner of the tunnel: "You are a second lieutenant now. I have sent two sets of French military uniforms. If you are willing..."

"Of course, Colonel." Billy Shen replied excitedly: "Of course I will."

God, I've just joined the French army and I'm already a second lieutenant. I can wear this uniform and show off in front of people who looked down on me before.

The important thing is that this is the French army, a French army that is higher than the Australian army!

"As for cooperating with others." Charles stared at Billy Shen: "There is no need to discuss, you must learn to cooperate!"

"Why, why?" Shen Billy's eyes were filled with confusion and a little unwillingness.

"Two people cooperate, one is the gunner, and the other is the observer." Charles' explanation was simple and clear: "The gunman squinted his eyes to observe the enemy through the crosshair, striving for accuracy, but his field of vision was small, and it was difficult to find valuable information in a large area in a short time. target. The observer is equipped with a telescope to find targets for the gunner.”

Billy Shen said "Oh": "In this way, the efficiency of the two of them will be much higher than the simple superposition of two rifles?"

"Yes." Charles nodded: "The gunner can always keep aiming and sniping the enemy without wasting time and being distracted by searching. Do you have any opinions?"

"No objection!" Billy Shen stepped forward and replied.

But there was doubt on his face, could this method work?

What if the cooperation is not good?