After a brief stay in the safe zone, Captain Schwarzenegger gathered his company members and returned to unnamed heights in a Black Hawk helicopter to land in a safe area controlled by Italian paratroopers.

Jumping off the plane, Captain Schwarzenegger led his men to find the main force of the company, while five helicopters loaded with the wounded of the Italian paratroopers set sail again and transported them to the field hospital under the nameless heights.

After finding the main force of the company, Captain Schwarzenegger shouted: "Quick, put the machine gun up, heavy machine gun form." ”

The company commanded by the captain had four squads per platoon, three of which were storm assault squads, all of which were equipped with STG 42 assault rifles, and the fourth was a machine gun squad, armed with two MG42 general-purpose machine guns, and one spare.

Unlike the MG 42 machine gun, which is equipped with a normal infantry squad, the MG42 machine gun equipped by a regular infantry squad is a simple version, with only two tripods under the barrel near the muzzle, and is usually used as a light machine gun.

The MG42 machine gun equipped in the machine gun squad is a full-mounted version, allowing the MG 42 machine gun to switch between light and heavy machine guns at will.

Hearing the order of Captain Schwarzenegger, the members of the machine gun squad got busy, and the tripod was first placed on the ground, and then the MG42 machine gun was fixed to the tripod.

The shooter took out the scope from the marching bag he carried with him and attached it to the machine gun, allowing the MG42 machine gun to complete the transformation from a light machine gun to a heavy machine gun.

With the unnamed heights as the dividing line, on the south and west sides of the heights, the 186th Regiment of Italian Paratroopers was facing residential areas, and on the ground were densely populated houses.

To the east of the heights, the 187th Regiment of the Italian Paratroopers had a field of operations with four villages dotted with arable land.

Everywhere in the villages, between villages, there are soldiers in battle.

Two of the four villages were within the range of machine guns, and the remaining two were not within range of machine guns, but were within the range of mortars.

The machine gunners lowered their muzzles and fired machine gun bullets at the Soviet troops who were exposed in the wilderness.

The mortars roared, smashing shells on the heads of the Soviets one after another.

Relying on the terrain, vegetation and village buildings as cover, the Soviet troops confronted the Italian paratroopers and were attacked by a sudden blow from the flank, and could no longer support them.

First, the exposed Soviet army collapsed, the Italian paratroopers made progress, and then outflanked the Soviet troops in the villages, capturing four villages one by one.

Captain Schwarzenegger stood on the unnamed heights and watched through his telescope the progress of the battle under the heights.

Soon, his gaze turned to the east.

The capture of the Nameless Heights is not the ultimate goal, the real purpose is to find opportunities to promote the progress of the entire battle through the Unknown Heights as the commanding heights of the battlefield.

After a lap around the nameless heights, Captain Schwarzenegger took in the terrain of the area around the heights.

The battlefield continued to advance eastward, and in front of the Italian paratroopers were three large residential areas.

The captain named the southernmost residential area No. 1, which was the area where the 186th Regiment of the Italian Paratroopers operated, and was the largest of the three.

To the northeast of Residential Area 1 is Residential Area 2, and to the north of Residential Area 2 is Residential Area 3.

The Italian 187th Regiment of the Paratroopers will continue its eastward offensive head-on, heading into Housing Areas 2 and 3, with the right flank coming into contact with the northernmost part of Housing Area 1.

After pondering for a few minutes, Captain Schwarzenegger's gaze fell on the smallest residential area, No. 2.

Residential Area 2 is northeast of Residential Area 1, and if captured there, it would cut off the connection between Residential Area 1 and the rear to the south, and threaten the left flank of Residential Area 3 to the north.

The Italian paratroopers have not yet entered there, it is completely controlled by the Russians, and there will be no problem in flattening it.

Looking up at the slanting sunset, it should still be some time before it gets dark, starting from the highlands, detouring past, it is only two or three kilometers away from the No. 2 residential area, and it should be in time.

At this time, the artillery observation posts from the fleet had already gone up the hill with scissor binoculars and rangefinders, communicated with one of the naval majors who led the team, expressed their thoughts, and determined for the major that the next bombing target was residential area No. 2, and after Captain Schwarzenegger led his troops again and entered the combat area of the 187th Regiment of the Italian Paratroopers.

Safely entering the easternmost of the four villages captured by the Italian paratroopers, Schwarzenegger soon found Major Ross, the commander of the 9th Parachute Battalion of the 187th Italian Paratrooper Regiment, to the east of the village.

Major Ross, dusty and stubble on his lips, was scanning the movement of Residential Complex No. 2 to the east with a telescope, and it was clear that he had some idea of Residential Complex No. 2.

Major Ross gave a warm welcome to the arrival of the scouts led by Captain Schwarzenegger.

After hearing Captain Schwarzenegger's battle plan, Major Ross said happily: "Colonel Camoso of the regimental headquarters has the same idea as you, the second battalion of our regiment is on the left flank, and the fourth battalion is on the right flank, and they will launch an attack on the enemy in those two residential areas, occupy part of the dwellings, and attract the enemy's attention, so that when we attack, we can avoid the enemy's flank fire from both flanks." ”

"When are we leaving?" Captain Schwarzenegger asked.

"Wait another half an hour for the offensive of the two flanks to make progress." Major Ross said.

After half an hour of waiting, the diversionary battle on the left and right flanks was the first to start, successfully attracting the attention of the enemy forces on both flanks.

Under the guidance of Captain Schwarzenegger, the artillery observation posts on the unnamed heights covered the No. 2 residential area as promised.

With the Italian paratroopers in front and the German scouts behind, the two units rushed out of the assembly area, smoothly through an open field of less than five hundred meters, and into the woodland on the northwest side of Residential Area No. 2.

Almost all of the less than 100 houses in Residential Area 2 were razed to the ground during the shelling, and taking advantage of the favorable opportunity of the enemy being suppressed by artillery fire in the residential area, the paratroopers bent down to reach out of the woodland and approached the residential area as close as possible.

Behind them, machine gunners and mortars were on standby, ready to provide fire support at any time.

After ten rounds of rapid fire from the fleet, the smoke had not yet cleared, and the Italian paratroopers lurking outside the No. 2 residential area swarmed up and plunged headlong into the smoke that filled the battlefield.

Hearing the sparse gunfire in the residential area, Captain Schwarzenegger judged quite empirically that the enemy's defenses were weak and the offensive was proceeding well.

However, a sudden cannon shot caught his attention.

The sound was like the sound of a 76.2 mm gun firing, and there were enemy artillery in the residential area, but in this situation, the artillery did not play a role.

However, the captain quickly reversed his judgment as he heard a series of shelling.

Soon, news came from the front that the Russians' tank was found in the residential area, it was KV-1.

KV-1 type tank! Damn, how can there be such a thing here?