掃そう討とう作さく戦せん

noun

mopping-up operation; search-and-destroy operation

Military term for an operation to clear remaining enemy forces from an area, often involving systematic searching and elimination.

• 部ぶ隊たいは掃そう討とう作さく戦せんを開かい始しした。

  The unit began a mopping-up operation.

• 掃そう討とう作さく戦せんで残ざん敵てきを一いっ掃そうした。

  They wiped out the remaining enemy forces in a search-and-destroy operation.