Chapter 2504 Deep Synthesis

Just as Alsim expected.

During the time they left the ground for a short time, the brutal battle for the core position continued. The Germans did not give up the last resistance, and still held on to their unrealistic hope that may not have existed from the beginning. They fought to the death with the leader division even if they destroyed all the high ground.

"These bastards are determined to fight us to the end. It seems that we have to continue working."

The deputy company commander weighed the AK in his hand and prepared to fight. Alsim took the last puff of the cigarette and took off the cigarette butt in his mouth. He flicked the cigarette butt with his thumb and middle finger and said immediately.

"There are only a few hours left before dark. Hurry up! Let's go!"

"Follow us, hurry up!"

Alsim's company was broken up into multiple combat teams, which were assigned to multiple combat teams in the same direction to strengthen their strength and then put into battle. Therefore, the only troops Alsim had at hand at any time were the people in front of him.

The order to disperse the combat engineers in the offensive was issued by Malashenko, and it was also the final decision made after careful consideration and repeated weighing, combined with the experience of the past few battles.

In the past battles, there was actually no shortage of examples of concentrated use of combat engineer units, with the entire company or even the entire battalion being concentrated in one battle.

Although that can indeed have a very good combat effect, the concentrated use of combat engineer units can often have a qualitative effect at the most critical moment of the situation, stabilizing the position and defending the front line or piercing through the enemy's defense in one go, and repelling the enemy reinforcements coming to support.

But in contrast, the combat engineer units will also pay a price, and it is a price that is more difficult to accept.

Specifically, it is the casualty figures written in the casualty report that are enough to make Malashenko frown.

After all, when such a large group of armored men with strong combat power and full battlefield recognition are collectively deployed on the battlefield, they burst out with super combat power that attracts a lot of attention. As long as the Germans on the opposite side are not blind and stupid, they must know how complicated these people are, and they know that they should concentrate their firepower to deal with them first. Otherwise, they will say goodbye to victory.

This leads to great results when the combat engineer unit is put into the battlefield as a whole, but the casualties caused by excessive hatred are also not small.

After experiencing several such battles and repeatedly replenishing the combat engineer unit, Malashenko finally realized that he could not continue like this.

Combat engineers are elite heavy infantrymen who are used to put out fires and make key breakthroughs. These people should be limited to a relatively lower casualty rate than conventional infantry units. It is difficult to maintain the inherent combat effectiveness of the troops that are repeatedly replenished like a horse-watching. How can we continue to improve if we can't even maintain the existing ones?

Starting from the most basic combat formation method, Malashenko compiled and revised the combat teaching materials of combat engineers for the second time, and convened his own divisional leadership team to discuss it together.

The second revised version of the combat engineering textbook cancelled the content of being fully deployed on the battlefield as a whole unit. Instead, the combat engineers were broken up into company and platoon levels, and deployed to various main attacking forces when needed during wartime.

This not only enhanced the combat strength of the main attacking forces and improved their combat effectiveness, but also avoided the problem of being easily targeted by concentrated fire and causing excessive casualties when the combat engineering units were deployed on the battlefield as a whole unit.

In simple terms, the combat engineering units are no longer used as pure infantry, but are disassembled and broken up and filled into the synthetic combat formation as a new member.

There is no longer a single combat engineering battlefield command system. Just like a large cell swallowing a small cell and merging into a whole, the combat engineers in the future will also become a member of the synthetic combat group, obeying the synthetic command system, rather than fighting and commanding independently of another separate system.

On the surface, there is no fatal problem, but Malashenko is not sure whether this will add or subtract combat power. After all, when combat engineers were used as a single type of military force independent of the synthetic system, the effect was indeed obvious. It is difficult to draw conclusions about the effect of disbanding them and assigning them to the synthetic combat group. The battle of Zelo Heights was the first battle after this kind of adaptation.

Although Alsim, who could not read a few words, had to ask others to read his family letters and write his replies, he understood what he should do after being taught by Malashenko himself, and understood the significance and purpose of Malashenko's adaptation.

Although there were obviously fewer soldiers available, Alsim did not think it was a bad thing, because from a practical perspective, the Germans' attention to him seemed to have greatly decreased.

The Germans could no longer specially draw elite forces as before, and catch the combat direction of the combat engineers to fight head-on with strong targeting. The current combat engineer troops are like countless sharp needles, piercing the flesh and blood of the Germans from all directions.

When a big bug bites you, you can slap it hard, but when there are little ants biting you all over your body, it’s not easy to deal with it. The Germans, who are unable to concentrate their superior forces to deal with the too many targets, are now facing a situation where they are bitten all over and hurt everywhere, but they are helpless and can’t find a single main target.

There are combat engineers in every main attack force, and there are combat engineers in every combined combat group.

The Germans, who were already exhausted from being beaten up, had no choice but to treat combat engineers as ordinary mechanized infantry. They really couldn’t draw out more special forces to deal with these decentralized elite combat teams.

But when the Germans did this “equally”, Malashenko’s biggest goal was achieved.

You Germans, you have a hard time dealing with ordinary mechanized infantry, and you want to use the same force to deal with the assault of combat engineers? Are you still dreaming last night?

Alsim, who could personally feel the benefits of doing so, was still killing people. He led his dozens of brothers to shuttle between trenches and foxholes, moving around and shooting at the terrified Germans who didn't know that death was coming.

But Alsim, who had led his team back to the battlefield and continued to advance, didn't know that there was an ultimate challenge waiting for him in a group of German fortifications not far ahead. It would be the most difficult battle he had encountered in the Battle of the Highlands so far.