Chapter 1071: Fierce Battle
"The opponent is on the defensive, although they don't have strong cover, but they have houses in the manor that can provide all kinds of cover, and if we rush to launch a frontal attack, we may be ambushed by the opponent's anti-armor fire, so I decided to let the infantry deploy from the side first, and then the armored vehicles will use the 30mm machine gun to cover the infantry from a distance to launch a tentative attack. Howitzers and mortars carry out suppressive fire and attack the exposed heavy fire points of the opposing side at any time. When the enemy's defenses have dropped, we will launch a general attack, and considering the possible fire countermeasures of the enemy, the howitzer and mortar detachments should be careful to move at any time," Adam ordered.
"It's not enough to rely on battlefield firepower, we don't need to attack too fast, if we can get the 30mm cannon to shoot at close range, we will have an advantage. We have specially equipped these weapons with a 250kg jeep, which can be pressed on them. A platoon commander added.
"Of course, but remember not to get too close...... These vehicles have decent mobility, but there is almost no armor protection. "Adam is naturally very clear about the advantages of this army in his hands, the mobility is excellent, the firepower is good, but the defense is too poor, this is a thin sword, the power is there, but it is easy to break. In particular, when fighting this kind of tough battle, we must not fight hard, let alone cut through the opponent's defense line with armored spearheads like heavy troops, and the correct way to use it is to expose the opponent's heavy firepower points through continuous pressure, and then use superior firepower to pull out the threatening firepower points one by one..........
Soon, the order was conveyed, and the infantry, who were responsible for suppressing the flanks, quickly formed formation. "They were very dispersed, and a squad was divided into about three combat groups, which were scattered in an inverted zigzag pattern, and one of them was a machine-gun group responsible for providing fire cover in the rear. The remaining two groups alternated under the leadership of the non-commissioned officer to cover the advance. The other side is not moving fast. Under the cover of smoke grenades began to approach our positions. And in order to defend against the suppression of the opponent's fire, most of our fire points did not shoot. They were very open, and their attacking line was so close that it was only about 400 metres away from us. A German company commander wrote in the report.
This distance is already enough to launch a charge. Unable to keep the Germans waiting, a small number of machine guns began to suppress the advancing Italian troops. Long burst fire accurately locked the Italian squad mortars hiding in depressions or behind bunkers, and also began to attack things that were difficult to reach with direct fire. "Come on, thug, taste this." An Italian soldier took out a grenadier from behind him, then loaded his fanny pack and a special grenade, pulled the firing strip, and with a bang, a grenade made a graceful arc in the air and flew .........towards a German machine gun a few hundred meters away.
A few seconds later. With an explosion. A MG machine gun was tilted to the side, and the shooter was beaten into a sieve by the flying shrapnel, and then, many assault teams took out grenadiers from their backpacks and began to fire at distant fire points, this simple to use, convenient and concealed small projectile weapons in the hands of skilled veterans is huge, many machine gun fire points were dumbed, and the remaining machine gun teams also had to run out of a chain of bullets and quickly shift positions. The originally intensive counterattack quickly became sparse, and took advantage of this opportunity. Under the cover of smoke bombs, the Italians went further, and the distance of engagement between the two sides had been reduced to the effective range of their rifles.
Soon. The riflemen on both sides began to fire at each other, but the rate of fire of the Mauser rifle could not keep up with the rate of fire of the Chinese-made semi-automatic rifle (a replica of the historical Garand rifle). In addition, the heavy machine gun fire was suppressed, and the support artillery did not dare to fire easily, so the Germans were very passive, but fortunately, the number of light machine guns under Spudent was relatively large, and relying on the advantage of light machine guns, the two sides could still confront each other. …。
But soon, a series of muffled sounds like piledrivers completely broke the balance of power on the battlefield! Behind the Italian attacking troops, a dense rain of bullets from a stubby 30mm machine gun instantly covered the German defensive position. Bursts of bang rang out one after another, and scattered shrapnel and blasters wantonly tore at the Germans and their weapons on the positions. Powerful assault fire instantly penetrated the German Army's defensive line! "Is this the wail of death?" A panicked German soldier trembled as he looked at the shells falling from the sky, and said..........
This weapon, which is lighter than the 37mm gun, makes up for the lack of machine gun fire and mortar fire. It can be both flat and trade-off, and at the same time very lightweight. The power of ammunition is also great. When he first entered the battlefield, he played a heavy role. Suppressed by overwhelmingly superior fire, the Italian assault detachments began to drive wedges into the positions, after which Adam, seeing an opportunity, ordered howitzers and heavy mortars deployed in the rear to begin rapid-fire...... Blocking the attempts of the Germans to close the breach. And when the armored vehicles armed with machine guns and large-caliber machine guns began to attack in close proximity, the already overwhelmed defense line suddenly became precarious.
"When did the Italians have so many tricks?" Spudent muttered to himself impatiently, although the situation was critical, it was far from irreparable. The trump card in the hands of Spudent will definitely surprise the Italians. When the Italians successfully broke through the first line of defense and rushed to the second line of defense under the cover of various light and heavy firepower, the tongues of fire that suddenly erupted from the hidden fire points caught the opponent off guard! "They actually have medium-caliber flat-firing guns?!" The heavy fire instantly inflicted huge casualties on the Italian troops that were breaking through, and even a few 30mm short machine guns that were relatively far forward and were being supported by flat fire were destroyed by flying shells. The armored vehicles in the rear quickly aimed at the suddenly exposed point of fire, but were quickly beaten into a burning tin box .........by the second wave of bullets.
The heavy fire of the recoilless guns and 50mm light anti-tank guns of the Germans was absolutely fatal for the Italian light armored units, which lacked heavy units, especially in such a situation of surprise. Although the Italians knew that the United States was once armed with recoilless guns, they did not expect that they would encounter such a thing in their own country! After containing the Italian offensive, the light howitzers and mortars under Student also began to rain bullets on the Italian artillery positions in the distance.
However, this time, Student missed a move, and the speed at which the artillery with the chassis of a wheeled armored vehicle moved to position was very fast, and Adam suffered because he did not expect the opponent to have a large number of recoilless guns. But after anticipating that the other side might have light howitzers that could find him, he and his men coped very well, and when they tilted half a base of ammunition with the fastest rate of fire, they fled and moved to a new position, and just as the Italians re-entered the position, the Germans' counterattack fire was belated, and craters were punched in the open ground! By the time the Germans' counter-shelling was not over, Adam's howitzers had already begun firing at the exposed German artillery positions! …。
The dense rain of bullets quickly destroyed most of the German artillery that could not be quickly transferred, and the two sides almost fought to a draw, the Germans crushed the Italian attack with strong flat fire, while their own support fire was wiped out by the opponent's highly mobile artillery. Both sides were somewhat lacking, and the Italians had the advantage in supporting firepower, but they were small. The Germans and the Italian Blackshirts stranded on the estates, although they may have been outnumbered, lacked long-range firepower. Many vehicles were also injured by flying shrapnel. …。
Time passed minute by minute, both sides were very anxious, the reinforcements that Petain wanted had not arrived for a long time, not because the Italian blackshirts were high in combat effectiveness, but because the other side had not yet been concentrated, and they were very scattered, which brought great trouble to the clearance operation. And the other reason is because Badoglio, who is in charge of the front command, hesitated after receiving Adam's report, if you want to say that the Black Shirts really have such strong combat effectiveness, they would have seized power a long time ago, this must be a certain foreign * team, and according to intelligence, ten * are Germans! Considering the chaotic political environment in Italy right now, it's hard to clean up if it's really a big mess...... So after asking Tycho, Tycho said that he could let the other party go after giving him a "sufficient" lesson! …。
"What do you mean by enough lessons?" Badoglio looked at the telegram and said a little depressed. But for the latter sentence, he understood. Adam didn't come to get the reinforcements he needed, but he did, "with the option to evacuate on his own, depending on the ammunition and losses." "I don't want to fight anymore, and Adam doesn't need to continue to gnaw on a hard bone. In the ensuing period, Adam only continued to harass the opponent with artillery, and did not continue to send infantry to attack, and when night fell, Adam chose to withdraw from the battlefield, on the one hand, to guard against a possible night attack by the opponent, and on the other hand, to adhere to the above meaning.
"The Italians are evacuated, and we can use the time of the evening to transfer." Looking at the Italian troops who had withdrawn from the battlefield in the evening, Studenko ordered. He seemed to have known the other party's thoughts, and if the other party wanted to fight, then more than 6 hours would be enough time to send reinforcements to surround him. Then the other side has been delayed in coming to reinforcements. And the reason for taking the initiative to evacuate can only be that I don't want to continue to entangle with myself. The two sides fought against each other for a day, and neither took advantage of anything. And Student didn't want his soldiers to shed their blood for that stupid Italian careerist, so he began to evacuate after making some arrangements. Of course, there are many weapons and ammunition that cannot be taken away, and after destroying documents or weapons that may reveal their identity, the rest of them will be thrown away if they can't be taken away, and the blackshirts will let them take them if they want to.........
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