The two rebels planned to launch a surprise attack on the German army at night when the German army was unprepared, but they ignored the militiamen hiding around them!
When the rebels began to move out, the militiamen discovered their movements as soon as possible and reported them immediately!
The news was quickly delivered to the German headquarters via telegram. When Mainz received the telegram, the rebels had just left the camp less than five minutes ago!
"Are you losing your temper now?"
Seeing that the rebels actually planned to launch a surprise attack at night, Mainz felt funny and angry!
Of course, it is not impossible to fight at night, but what is the purpose of fighting at night?
Is it not for suddenness and using night cover to achieve unexpected effects ? But the actions of these two rebels were obviously not sudden!
Their actions fell into the eyes of the German army from the beginning, and were clearly seen by the militiamen deployed by the German army. The enemy's night attack attempt has long been bankrupt, and the advantage that night has brought to the enemy naturally no longer exists. Obviously, the German army, which has the initiative in information, can use night to make some fuss at this time!
"Pass my order, dispatch the troops, form small formations with the militiamen, disperse, harass them along the way, and try to delay them as much as possible!"
The order was quickly issued. According to the drills of the past few days, 35,000 German troops joined tens of thousands of militiamen gathered from various places and immediately began to attack the rebels.
For a time, wherever the rebels went, The sound of gunfire was like firecrackers on New Year's Eve!
The militia's attack caused a lot of disruption to the rebels' actions!
With a bang, several rebel soldiers were blown into the sky. A big crater appeared under their feet, and a landmine planted by the militiamen sent them to see God!
Bang bang bang!
While the rebels' attention was attracted by the explosion, the militiamen used the explosion to send out The fire started to attack the rebels on the road!
A burst of gunfire sounded, and several screams suddenly broke out among the rebels!
"Enemy attack, get down quickly!"
The low-level rebel commanders hurried to the ground while giving frightened orders to their subordinates. When the other soldiers heard the whistling of bullets above their heads, they almost all fell to the ground immediately without any warning!
The militiamen Seeing these guys lying there, they gave up their plan to continue the attack and quickly moved to the next intersection. They followed the same pattern and arranged it again. Some hunters even prepared some traps that they usually use for hunting, intending to use these traps. The trap was given as a meeting gift to these"friends" from different countries!
After the rebels lay down, they hurriedly set up their machine guns and fired back in the direction they had fired at them. However, none of the bullets they fired were fatal. Yes, the militiamen who had attacked them had already left!
So, after not hearing any movement from the militiamen for a long time, the rebels finally stood up and bravely sent out a few soldiers. The soldiers checked around and made sure that the enemy was really gone before they dared to move forward!
But they didn't go far. Boom!
The explosion sounded again, and several unlucky soldiers were blown into the sky. Gunfire rang out in the surrounding jungle again, and there were even the sounds of several mortars!
Boom, boom, boom!
The rebels were just about to follow the same example and lay down on the ground to avoid the bullets. As soon as they lay down, they were attacked from the sky. The cannon exploded and sent rats running!
The same thing happened in the same way in the sixteen-kilometer mountainous area. The two rebels were violently attacked.
They planned to use the cover of night to attack others, but they didn't know it. How terrifying these poorly equipped militiamen were at night!
During the day, because the weapons in the hands of the militiamen were relatively crude, they could only harass the rebels from a distance, but they could not effectively attack them at night. , the fall of night greatly affected the vision of the rebels, and they were not very familiar with the local terrain, which restricted their actions.
On the other hand, these militiamen composed of locals, they. There is no such problem at all. They are natives here and are very familiar with every plant and tree here, so they know how to use the terrain here to ambush and attack the enemy!
Moreover, after being mixed with the German army, the German army became more powerful! Their combat experience and standard weapons provided them with extremely considerable firepower. The grassroots commanders of the German army had rich combat experience and knew when to fight. After the fight, they also knew when to withdraw. They were absolutely not procrastinating and were absolutely not fond of fighting.!
This tactic of retreating when the enemy advances, attacking when the enemy is stationed, harassing the enemy when they are stationed, and attacking when the enemy is tired is completely a classic guerrilla warfare tactic of later generations. This tactic was very useful to this rebel army at this time in the First World War. , this is completely a fairy tactic they have never seen before, and they can't find any way to counter this tactic.
So, throughout the night, the 80,000 rebels only advanced less than 15 kilometers, but they paid a whopping 30,000! The cost of human casualties, in contrast, in last night's battle, the casualties of the militiamen were very small. The total casualties of the militiamen were less than 2,000. The casualties between the two sides were 15:1.
If it were during the day! Otherwise, the rebels would never have suffered such heavy casualties, but if they themselves came out at night to attack at night, who could blame them?
In the final analysis, they are just creating their own cocoon!
After a night of fighting, whether it was the militia, the German army, or the rebels who were beaten hard,���I feel very tired all the time!
The situation on the German side was relatively good. After all, they had the upper hand. The soldiers had high morale and high morale. Although they felt physically tired, their spirits were very high.
On the other hand, the rebels had been attacked all night and had been in fear all night, so each of them now had panda eyes, and each one of them wished they could fall to the ground and start sleeping!
Boom boom boom!
Colonel Mainz would not give them a chance to breathe. At the moment the sun rose, with the sound of artillery shells piercing the sky, the German general offensive was launched!
On October 12, 1919, after four days of suppression, the last rebel army was annihilated. At this point, all the rebels in Odili had been eliminated!
Their only enemies left were the Italians and the Romanians!
At this time, the 50,000 Romanian army had arrived at the border of Odili, and the war was not over yet!