Chapter 718: The Last Fifteen Kilometers (End)

After communication, Captain Schwarzenegger and his men changed the order of operations and returned to the formation of the Italian 186th Paratrooper Regiment, which was operating in the residential area.

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, the sound of gunfire explosions in the residential area became more and more sparse, and Captain Schwarzenegger led his men through the houses occupied by the Italian paratroopers after hard fighting, and arrived safely north of Cape Florent.

On the second floor of a church, Captain Schwarzenegger found the commander of the 186th Paratrooper Regiment, Colonel Tantillo.

After the pleasantries, Colonel Tantillo pointed to the south of Cape Florente through a window without a frame, and said: "The Russians are hiding underground, and there are two paralyzed twin turrets on the ground, and some fire points made of reinforced concrete. As you can see, the terrain is very open, and there are no buildings or vegetation for us to cover.

We are all light infantry lacking heavy weapons, and we are afraid that we will suffer heavy casualties in attacking such fortified areas in this kind of terrain. Even if we were able to get past those open areas, it would be difficult to enter and destroy the Russians hiding underground. Fortunately, the area of this area is not large, otherwise I would have refused this task and asked my superiors for reinforcements. ”

Captain Schwarzenegger said: "Mr. Colonel, this task is indeed a bit tricky, I thought I could use the smoke as a cover, but the wind is not in our favor. The only thing we can use is those craters on the ground. ”

"Yes, it's a sea breeze here during the day, and if you use a smoke bomb, the smoke will be blown back by the sea breeze and obscure our vision."

"The only chance is the reef zone on both sides of the coast, where there are reefs, and the terrain is undulating, and it is the most marginal part of the battlefield, which should be able to avoid Russian fire," said Captain Schwarzenegger. It's just that after we get close to the point of fire of the Russians, how to destroy them is a difficult problem······ I need the support of combat sappers, a lot of explosives, and flamethrowers. ”

"You're going to get this, we're running out of time, at least to control the surface part before dark," said Colonel Tantillo.

After nearly an hour of preparation, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the attack on Cape Florent began on time.

Some Italian paratroopers took advantage of the undulating terrain and craters on the ground to launch a feint attack from due north, using the undulating terrain and craters as cover, and launched a feint attack to attract the defenders' firepower.

The main attacking force was placed on both flanks of the battlefield, adjacent to the reef area on the sea.

Captain Schwarzenegger led the company and two platoon scouts, as well as combat engineers seconded from Italian paratroopers, to attack the right flank.

Taking advantage of the grey reef and the sloping terrain of the reef area to the sea, Captain Schwarzenegger and his men managed to evade the defenders' fire and make a detour back to the defenders' left flank.

The battlefield is not large, equivalent to an inverted equilateral triangle with a side length of about 500 meters.

The first target Captain Schwarzenegger set his sights on was a half-buried machine-gun fire point, nearly a hundred meters away from the reef area where they were hiding.

Confirming that there were no nearby firepower points to provide cover for the target fire, Captain Schwarzenegger waved his hand, and three scouts covered two combat engineers to pounce on the target fire point from the side.

The five men rushed until they were within range of the flamethrower, and the battle engineer threw himself on the ground and aimed the flamethrower at the firing hole of the target's fire.

The blazing flames erupted with a pungent smell of fuel, covering the firing holes at the firing point and the walls on either side, and lasted for nearly ten seconds before dissipating.

Before the heat in the air had dissipated, the three scouts jumped to their feet and rushed to the wall of the firing point with one dash, and the three stood close to the wall, casually shoving the M24 grenade into the hole.

Waves of air and thunder rang from the shooting holes, and the Italian paratroopers who had been suppressed in front of the firing point regained their freedom of movement.

Captain Schwarzenegger carefully went around to the back of the fire point and did not find the entrance or exit of the fire point.

The entrances and exits of these firepower points are indeed all underground, and in order to enter, you must find the gate of the underground fortress.

Captain Schwarzenegger led his men to continue to remove the defenders' exposed fire points while searching for the fortress gates.

As the firing points were removed one by one, more and more Italian paratroopers regained their freedom of movement, and the gates to and from the fortress were quickly found on the open surface.

The sappers then planted explosives on the steel gates, and with a loud bang, the passage to the underground fortress opened.

A flame was the first to enter the fortress, followed by the cautious Italian paratroopers.

Captain Schwarzenegger did not lead his men into the interior of the fortress, nor did he intend to do so, but instead set his sights on the two twin turrets that had been destroyed by heavy fire.

"I bet the caliber of these four guns should be 152 mm." Captain Schwarzenegger said after making a half-circle around a turret.

The twin 152-mm gun appeared to have been hit on the left side by a heavy aerial bomb, and the connection between the turret and the ground detached from the ground, and a crack appeared, the widest part of which was more than a dozen centimeters.

Pulling out a tactical flashlight from his satchel, Captain Schwarzenegger clinged to the steel plate on the side of the turret, turned on the flashlight and shone it into the crack, then squinted inside.

As the light of the flashlight turned, the captain could faintly see the structure inside the turret.

What is that? Bomb delivery device? That's ······ Cannonball?

It's shells, and there are a lot of them.

Captain Schwarzenegger put away his flashlight, brushed the mustache above his lips, and after a few turns of his eyes, he summoned the company's communications soldiers.

By connecting the Siemens cordless telephone, the captain established contact with the rear.

After a shout, the captain put down the cordless phone, and then summoned an Italian engineer lieutenant, and after the two exchanged ears, the engineer lieutenant turned and left.

About half an hour later, two FI-382 Black Hawk helicopters landed next to the turret at Cape Florent.

The Scouts unloaded forty fifteen-gallon drums of gasoline from the cabins of the two helicopters, and after the helicopters departed, the Scouts filled the turrets with a bucket of gasoline along the gap next to the turret.

Forty barrels of 600 gallons of gasoline poured into the turret, and the faint smell of gasoline floated around the turret, and Captain Schwarzenegger had already taken refuge at a safe distance, and the nearby Italian paratroopers were also alerted by the German scouts to stay away from the turret.

A scout with a flare gun in his right hand cautiously approaches the side of the turret, shoves the muzzle of the flare gun into the turret crack, and pulls the trigger.

Seeing a glimmer of fire inside the turret through the crack, the scout in charge of the arson turned around and ran, fleeing the scene of the tragedy at a speed comparable to that of an Olympic champion in the 100-meter race.

Captain Schwarzenegger hid in the reef area, stared at the turret with a telescope, and clearly saw puffs of black smoke coming from the side of the turret.

Large-caliber artillery is divided into ammunition, and the warhead and propellant are separated, and they should be easily detonated at the high temperature of gasoline combustion.

In anticipation of the Italian paratroopers and German scouts, puffs of black smoke erupted from the cracks and swirled in the air around the turret.

"Rumbling ······" Violent explosions resounded across the battlefield, and the ground shook with it, and a violent wave of air rose into the sky, rushing out the turrets that had been clasped upside down on the ground.

Billowing black smoke and countless shards of steel flew out, and Captain Schwarzenegger watched all the scenes, about to cheer for the big scene in front of him.

A black shadow fell from the sky and smashed to the ground less than a meter away in front of him, and the splattered dust slapped into his face, stifling his cheers.

"Puff puff ·····"

After spitting the dust off his mouth, Schwarzenegger looked down at the ground in front of him, his eyes almost cross-eyed, and the warhead of a 152-mm shell was lying horizontally on the ground in front of him.

"Dangerous ·····"

"Hidden ·····"

"Spread out ······"

Sirens sounded from the scouts, and a group of arsonists, led by Captain Schwarzenegger, scattered in all directions to escape·····

The detonated ammunition flew the turret, opening another path to the fortress below, allowing the Italian paratroopers to enter the underground fortress.

When the fire subsided, Captain Schwarzenegger rushed back to the battlefield and turned his attention to another twin 152mm turret.

Under his command, the Italian sappers piled explosives on the sides of the turret, blasting the turret into a crack with pure violence.

The arsonists followed, pouring a second batch of gasoline from the helicopter into the turret and subsequently firing a flare······