"I don't know how, General!" Major General Allen shook his head a little frustrated and said: "This is different from what we trained, in our exercises, they should be blown up by shells and bombs at this time and have little combat effectiveness, but ......"

"It's not just about us, Alan!" General Patton said: "General Eisenhower has warned us that the Germans will build tunnels in the mountains to cover themselves, so even if we bombard this high ground ten more times with artillery fire, we are afraid that they will still come out of the ground!" ”

Hearing this, Major General Allen couldn't help but be stunned.

"Trust me!" General Patton said, "They will be much more troublesome than you think!" ”

General Patton then looked at the corpses that had been carried down from the nearby high ground and asked, "Have you placed fire on this high ground?" ”

"Yes, General!" Major General Allen replied: "But it didn't help, and the Germans we were dealing with were obviously veterans, and they suppressed our fire with snipers." ”

After a pause, Major General Allen added, "I've thought about using snipers to cover them as well...... But you know, our snipers are inexperienced, our rifles are not as accurate as the Mauser rifles of the Germans, especially since we are still in low places! ”

General Patton nodded.

Major General Allen's analysis is reasonable, the rate of fire of the M1 rifle has indeed increased a lot, and the accuracy is not bad, but there is still a distance compared with the pull-bolt rifle.

In fact, what is more important is combat experience, the German snipers are experienced in a hundred battles, while the American GIs are stunned, it is difficult to imagine that they can win in sniper battles.

"I think you're actually building a road here!" Barton raised his head toward the heights.

"We've done it!" Alan replied.

"But it's not enough!" Barton said.

Alan asked suspiciously, "What kind of road do you think we need to build, General?" ”

"A way to get a tank to drive up!" General Patton said, "Then give them a little bit of power!" ”

Major General Allen couldn't help but suddenly realize.

Then, as soon as he turned around, he ordered: "Call the sappers here!" ”

"How many, sir?"

"All!" Major General Allen shouted: "Let them bring the bulldozers!" ”

"Yes, sir!"

The U.S. military is relatively well-equipped, and when sappers in other countries still commonly use axes, U.S. sappers have begun to use bulldozers...... At this time, the "Sherman" had just been produced, and it had not yet been converted into an armored bulldozer, and the sappers were still using the Caterpillar D4 bulldozer.

This kind of bulldozer is a kind of light bulldozer, it is a tractor when it is not equipped with a bulldozer blade, it can be installed in a glider to carry out airborne, and it becomes a bulldozer when it is equipped with a bulldozer.

In a short time the engineer battalion came up, and of course a couple of bulldozers were driving.

"I need you to widen and strengthen this road!" Rear Admiral Allen said: "The final requirement is that the tank can be driven!" ”

"M4 tank?" The commander of the engineer battalion asked.

(Note: At this time, the U.S. military was not used to using the nickname "Sherman" given by the British)

"Yes, that's it!" Alan raised his head at the two "Shermans" not far away, and then asked, "How long will it take?" ”

"It will take a day, General!"

"You only have five hours!" Barton looked at his watch and said, "Time it out now!" ”

"Yes, General!" The engineer battalion commander could only grit his teeth and respond.

As a result, the engineer battalion commander really did it...... The commander of the engineer battalion divided the sappers into three parts, one from the top of the mountain, one from the middle, and one from the bottom of the mountain up, and the three parts were constructed at the same time, so the time was shortened a lot.

The sappers even built several tank forts for the tanks at the top of the hill.

General Patton was pleased with the work of the sappers and, after complimenting them, ordered three tanks to drive up the hill.

When the three tanks successfully drove up to the hilltop position, all the American troops cheered.

Because even if they all know a little, the "Sherman" tank is basically invincible in North Africa...... The enemy has almost no equipment capable of penetrating the tank's armor from a distance, which means that these three tanks can provide very effective fire cover for the American charge from the hilltop position without any scruples.

These U.S. military forces are indeed right.

If there was any equipment in the hands of the Germans that could destroy the "Sherman", it was only the bazooka.

But the range of the bazooka is only 160 meters, and between the two heights is at least more than five hundred meters.

In fact, even if there is only 160 meters between the two high grounds, it will not help, because the wind is strong at the top of the mountain, and the rocket is greatly affected by the wind, so there is no range of 160 meters when launched on the top of the mountain, and it is good to be able to have accuracy within 60 meters.

However, the American soldiers rejoiced too soon......

Then there was another burst of artillery fire.

However, this time the Americans seemed to have confidence in the three tanks on the top of the hill, so the artillery preparation was only a short ten minutes.

First of all, the tank is ready, the shells are loaded, and the bullets are pressed...... However, tank guns are useless, after all, tank guns are direct-fire guns, and the rate of fire is slow, so it is difficult to pose a threat to the position on the top of Onna Mountain, which is located on a high place. At this time, the machine gun is more useful, and the tank armor can provide good cover for the US army.

Then, a battalion of American troops shouted and rushed towards Onna Heights.

These American GIs were so impatient that they had forgotten all about covering each other.

Sure enough, this time no Germans dared to emerge from the hilltop position again...... Wherever there was any movement, the machine guns of several tanks would rush at each other, and the mortarsmen hiding behind them would throw rows of shells behind the inclined plane.

Still, the American GIs slowed down as they rushed to the distance where the grenades were thrown.

They feared that the other end would throw out another row of smoke-emitting grenades, as they had done before.

Although this is true, because throwing a grenade does not need to be raised.

But if the hilltop position is completely suppressed by enemy fire, there will be a problem...... The Germans simply did not know when to throw grenades.

And this was not necessary, the German soldiers had all withdrawn to the anti-slope positions.

The U.S. troops, of course, did not know this, so they cautiously divided into a small group to approach, then threw out a row of grenades and waited for them to explode on the other side, and then shouted and rushed forward with bayonets.

This time the American soldiers apparently succeeded, and they took the hilltop position.

However, before the Americans could cheer, the gunshots rang out again, and one by one the American GIs fell in pools of blood and rolled down the slope like stakes.