"The target has entered the ambush zone, there are 3 light tanks in front, and the guns on them should be of the 50mm level. Well, there are also several armored vehicles in the middle, on which there are only machine guns. There should be some mortars in the back, and maybe some flat-fire guns, but they are too far away for me to see clearly. The Germans learned wisely, they should have brought some sappers, and the bombs that we had placed in some of the buildings were not detonated. The opposing infantry was large, with almost 2 reinforced companies. "In the ruins of a collapsed attic, an American soldier reported the enemy situation to the commander in the rear on the radio.

After two days of tentative offensive, the Germans also grew up in battle, and in the face of the intricate terrain and elusive enemy, the German Army resolutely broke the original establishment and formed a battle group composed of various arms in order to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops in dealing with various emergencies. Didn't you plant bombs in your houses and lay mines on the side of the road? So easy to do, the former is handed over to the sappers to deal with, and the latter is directly pressed all the way with the tank with the crushing minesweeping equipment...... It doesn't matter if you are an anti-infantry mine or a jumping mine, and you will detonate it directly. At the same time, these tanks were equipped with skirt plates, and tracks and sandbags were added to the front of the hull to provide auxiliary defense. The tracks are generally made of high manganese steel, which has a good defensive effect, and some car groups even hang a few load-bearing wheels on the front of the body! …。

The most important use of these vehicles equipped with machine gun turrets is to suppress the machine gun fire points that may appear at any time in the buildings on both sides, while the main purpose of equipping a certain number of mortars and flat guns is to provide fire support. After all, in urban warfare, the defenders will always set up some bunkers or something. And the opponent will generally put the tank over and hit the infantry behind. In order to allow the entire marching troops to obtain sufficient flat-fire firepower, the Germans also prepared some 37mm flat-firing guns in the rear.

After the redeployment, the combat effectiveness and resilience of the German offensive forces increased considerably. Then in the actual battle. What exactly were these measures of the Germans? Let's wait and see, because the Entente* team defending Pescara is ready to take this force!

"I can guarantee that I am definitely the most efficient demolition worker in the world!" After seeing the last German soldiers enter the ambush zone, an American sapper hiding in a pile of rubble decisively pressed the detonation switch. A few seconds later, a violent explosion was heard in a small three-story building more than 100 meters away, and then the entire building collapsed like a downed tree. The entire building landed precisely in the middle of the road, completely blocking the retreat of the German troops. The sound of violent explosions and the collapse of buildings caused some confusion in the German troops, whose nerves had always been high. As the officers tried to suppress the chaos and restore order, several snipers hiding in the nearby rubble slowly stretched out their rifles covered with camouflage nets to prevent the dust kicked up by the rifles when they fired. These camouflage nets are still soaked in water. The front end of the rifle was also equipped with a silencer ..........

Just before the dust of the building collapsed had cleared. Several German non-commissioned officers who were maintaining order suddenly had convulsions, and a bloody flower suddenly erupted from the chest of a German sergeant, which hit the artery, and under the action of the strong heart muscle, a stream of red blood spurted out more than 2 feet long. "Stealth, sniper!" The German infantrymen, who had been ill for a long time, immediately looked for cover in the vicinity, and they either hid behind armored vehicles, lay behind the ruins, or entered houses. The machine gunners, with the help of the deputy shooter and the ammunition man, began to assume the machine gun, and they knew it well. This time the other party is definitely not piecemeal, and a vicious battle is coming.

The sound of the sniper rifle was like the horn of a general attack, almost simultaneously. A series of shrill noises rang out in the air in the distance. "Mortar! Be careful, everyone! "Because of the obscuration, the Germans could not see the enemy's shelling positions at all, and the defenders, because the city had been demarcated in advance, covered the first wave of German troops in the ambush area according to the pre-set coordinates. …。

The first priority of the shelling is to project as many shells as possible in the first wave of the attack, and the results of the first wave of the shelling are the greatest in the shelling, when the enemy is not prepared. So the duration of this round of shelling was not very long. But all mortars hit the highest rate of fire! Shells fell to the ground and exploded in clouds of smoke, and countless shrapnel and fragments covered the surrounding targets indiscriminately under the action of high-energy explosives. The terrain is narrow. Moreover, the next house will cause additional damage after being hit, and for a time the entire ambush area will be shrouded in smoke and flames after the explosion.........

"Enemy attack, 10 o'clock direction! They're coming up! A German non-commissioned officer immediately led a machine gun crew to shoot at a target that appeared in the distance, and almost at the same time, the other German combat groups also spotted the opposing attacking force, the Germans reacted quickly, and the MG machine gun was also easy to set up, and before the smoke of gunpowder dispersed, the Germans had already established a temporary position, and after vacating the road, the German tanks that opened the road also began to turn their turrets to attack distant targets.

"Rush forward...... The back road is already blocked, forward! "The German tanks tried to fight their way out for the encircled troops, and the three tanks pushed through the barricades in front and tried to advance, but when the barbed wire and sandbags were pushed away, no one expected that there would be an anti-tank vertebrae behind! The tracks of the tank are stuck on the concrete pillars, and no matter how the tank moves, the tank that is stuck will not be able to get out of this trap!

"Stupid bear, die!" In one of the bunkers on the side, a 40mm anti-tank gun was aimed at the side of the tank less than 300 meters away! A two-pound armor-piercing shell successfully pierced the side of the turret, and a puff of smoke poured out of the breach, and the barrel of the tank drooped. After solving the first target, the gun crew and a 57mm anti-tank gun on the other side successfully destroyed two other tanks, one of which hit the ammunition rack of one tank, and with a loud bang, the multi-ton turret was shaken out of the gun circle and flipped to the side ..........

Soon the sound of dense firefights resounded throughout the battlefield. Although the two sides fought fiercely, after destroying the pillar of fire of the German army, the other side was not in a hurry to eat this force, so it was only oppression. The encircled German troops began to call for help, but in the face of complex terrain, it was difficult for howitzers and heavy mortars located outside the city to hit the enemy hiding in the city, and the direct exchange of fire between the two sides was too close, and the probability of a shell hitting one's own people was about the same as hitting the other party!

"Call for attack aircraft support." Since long-range firepower is not effective, the only way to clear the infantry hidden between buildings and rubble is to use the 20mm cannon and small anti-infantry bombs on attack aircraft. Half an hour later, several biplane attack planes flew over the battlefield, and the 20mm machine guns in the bow and two 13mm machine guns under the wings began to strafe, breaking several American soldiers who could not dodge into a ball of flesh, and then dropped 30kg of anti-infantry bombs on two mortar positions that had not had time to move. Several attack aircraft, taking advantage of their good low-altitude maneuverability, repeatedly swept the area. The Entente's offensive was completely suppressed.

But air support, like artillery bombardment, can play a role when the opponent is caught off guard, but when the other side hides, the effect of the air attack is greatly reduced, and several planes hover over the city like hungry vultures looking for the next victim, but the hunters underground are also ready for an ambush. When they spotted a small group of American soldiers approaching the battlefield along the street corner, the German attack planes, which were still in desperation, lowered their altitude again and prepared to strafe targets on the ground. At this time, the large-caliber machine guns hidden in several high-rise buildings next to them spewed out a deadly tongue of fire, one of the biplanes was cut off by several large-caliber machine gun bullets in the process of dodging the attack, and if the height was enough, the plane still had a chance to hold on, but the altitude was too low, and the incident happened suddenly, and finally the plane fell crookedly to the ground. Several other planes also chose to evacuate after this wave of counterattacks, and the position chosen by the other side was very good, with several anti-aircraft machine guns covering each other, and the lethality of low-altitude targets was very strong. …………。

It was not that the Germans did not have the firepower to completely wipe out the city, but the problem was that if it was wiped out today, it would have to be rebuilt tomorrow with a loan from the Allies. The Germans were well aware that during this time Tycho could completely empty the Italian treasury! Neither gold, silver, nor all sorts of securities and foreign exchange will be left to the Germans! Even if he wins, Mussolini can only accept an empty shell. Of course, the more direct reason is that this was originally the springboard chosen by the German Army, if it really blew up into ruins...... Not to mention anything else, there is not even a temporary place for the troops to live!

Although the German Army tried to provide reinforcements several times, the poor roads and the ubiquity of snipers and raid squads greatly slowed the pace of the reinforcements. Even more tanks and armored vehicles would not have much effect, as these large guys were not suitable for walking the narrow streets of Italy. One vehicle essentially fills the trail, so much so that, if destroyed, it becomes a new roadblock, hindering the movement of subsequent vehicles, and the other side seems intent on keeping the besieged troops from being destroyed. Attracting more and more German troops to the battlefield, the other side calmly used the urban sewer pipes to ambush and ......... on the other side's path.

At this time, the city of Pescara was stuck in the throat of the Germans like a fish's bone. I can't swallow it, and I can't spit it it out. It is necessary to occupy this base if you want to attack further into the interior of Italy, but there is a lot that can be done in a short period of time if you want to occupy this base as much as possible. The German Army also considered going directly around the city, but soon it became clear that rapid forces of armored vehicles on the outskirts of the city always threatened the logistical lines of the attacking forces. So the city became a situation where it was not to fight and not to fight, which made the Germans feel quite entangled.

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