"During that charge just now, many of you only focused on blindly rushing forward. You completely failed to maintain formation as we trained. Did you eat everything I taught you? Are you all tired of living?"
After capturing the gate and surrounding area, Su Deben did not rush to lead his men inside for a direct assault. Instead, he first called over several company and platoon commanders and gave them a thorough dressing-down.
If this had been the age of cold weapons, the charge just now would indeed have been orderly and imposing.
But in the age of thermal weapons, attacking without formation or mutual cover was no different from throwing away lives.
If they had not made thorough preparations based on their earlier intelligence, an enemy counterattack during that assault would have caused at least one-third of their forces to be killed or wounded.
After Su Deben's fierce lecture, everyone whose blood had been running hot finally calmed down.
Seeing Su Deben leave with a grim expression, someone hurriedly came out of the crowd and followed him.
It was Bai Jingrang, the strongest among the volunteer veterans and the man currently appointed as the regiment commander in overall charge.
"Commander, the brothers haven't been on a battlefield in a long time. We got a little overexcited just now, so please bear with us."
The street battles they had fought before had never been as thrilling as that. The emotions stirred up by several thousand people charging together were especially intense.
Moreover, compared with the small-scale skirmishes they had fought in Qinggang City, the scale of this battle had expanded several times over.
"How could I not know that? You're still a little green."
Su Deben sighed inwardly.
It was at least fifteen hundred meters from their hiding place to