Sentence examples for attacking infantry from inspiring English sources

Each main line of trenches was fronted by fields of barbed wire intended to slow down and entangle attacking infantry.

Instead, Bruchmüller advocated combined operations in which intense bombardments, lasting only a few hours, would stun the defenders just before attacking infantry could reach them.

As balloons and aircraft surveyed the entire complex, it was almost impossible to mount a surprise attack, and railways could shuttle in reinforcements faster than attacking infantry could pick their way forwards.

In the trenches, the Corps' guns were deployed with an interlocking field of fire and proved to be a devastating defensive weapon against attacking infantry.

Baskeyfield allowed the armour to come within 100 yards of his positions before ordering his crews to fire, while paratroopers of the 11th Battalion in nearby houses dealt with attacking infantry.

Three field companies of engineers with a pioneer battalion were kept in reserve, to follow up the attacking infantry and rebuild roads and work on defensive positions as ground was consolidated.

"To fight an agile infantry unit, we must locate and attack infantry before soldiers can leave their trucks" was the first and most basic.

Instead, the cavalrymen carrying them were trained to attack infantry formations by approaching them in serried ranks, firing at point-blank range, and withdrawing in turn a maneuver resembling the orderly moves of a ballroom dance and known as the caracole.

Caught between the 35th Infantry on its hill positions along the river and the attacking 27th Infantry units, large numbers of North Koreans were killed.

Apart from predicaments when it had to form squares in order to confront attacking cavalry, infantry now fought in very long, thin formations.

He planned to engage Caesar's infantry in the center, use his 7,000 cavalry to sweep aside Caesar's few horsemen, then veer the cavalry around to attack the infantry in the rear.