There is a law in warfare: when a battle starts, half of the original battle plan is nullified.

As a veteran of war, Captain Schwarzenegger deeply understands this truth, especially the Blackwater Special Reconnaissance Team to which he belongs, the purpose of which is to roam the battlefield in small detachment mode, looking for valuable enemy targets, or taking it personally, or summoning long-range firepower to eliminate them, and strive to leverage the development of the entire battle situation with the least force.

Like the street battle that the Italian paratroopers in front of them are fighting, in the eyes of Captain Schwarzenegger, it is obvious that it is not a battle of great significance, and this kind of low-tech combat mission should be left to the Italians.

So, where is the worthwhile target?

With the sound of gunfire as a stimulant, Captain Schwarzenegger's mind was running at high speed, and he quickly found the answer, and then turned his gaze to the north.

To the north, through the gap between the houses and trees in the residential area, Captain Schwarzenegger clearly saw a raised height.

In fact, one of his tasks was to secure the fleet's artillery observation posts and then send them to the heights, provided that the Italian paratroopers succeeded in capturing the unnamed heights.

The Italian 185th Lightning Paratrooper Division had two paratrooper regiments, the 186th and 187th Regiments.

The 186th Regiment advanced along the coastline on the right flank, and the 187th Regiment on the left flank.

The 186th Regiment had three three-battalion battalions, while the 187th Regiment had four battalions, so the 185th Lightning Paratrooper Division entrusted the task of capturing the unnamed heights to the 187th Paratrooper Regiment, which had more troops.

Now, the troops' offensive was thwarted, and the Italian paratroopers were bogged down in street fighting, as their view was disturbed by numerous houses and vegetation, and the battle lines of the two warring sides were intertwined and mixed.

In order to avoid accidental damage, the naval guns and air power of the Axis forces, which were overwhelmingly superior, were useless.

At this time, this nameless height, which was still firmly controlled by the Soviet army, stood out in the eyes of Captain Schwarzenegger.

Captain Schwarzenegger immediately made the decision to lead his men to assist the Italians in taking the unnamed heights and see what impact they could have on the battlefield.

Through the introduction and assistance of the commander of the 186th Regiment, Captain Schwarzenegger led his subordinates to cover the artillery observation posts all the way north, and advanced nearly 500 meters in the safe zone controlled by the Italian paratroopers, and successfully reached the northwest corner of the unnamed heights.

In a humble field hospital in a house converted into a north-west corner, Captain Schwarzenegger approached Captain Caruno, commander of the 187th Paratrooper Battalion, a 10th paratrooper battalion.

When Captain Schwarzenegger found Captain Caruno, who was also young, the knife-faced, bronzed-skinned officer was lying on a long brown dining table, his trouser leg pulled up to the knee, exposing his right foot and calf.

A medic tweezers pulled a bullet embedded in the flesh from his calf, and after the bullet was removed, the medic shook the tweezers in his hand in front of Captain Caruno's eyes.

"Captain, the bullet is deformed, it looks like a ricochet, you are very lucky, if you are hit directly, I am afraid that this leg of yours will not be saved."

Captain Caruno grinned, grinning his teeth and smiling a little distorted by pain: "This shows that Lady Luck is on my side." ”

While the military doctor was medicating and bandaging Captain Caruno's wound, a captain's staff officer from the regimental headquarters of the 187th Parachute Regiment next to Captain Schwarzenegger walked up to him and pointed to Captain Schwarzenegger to explain a few words to Captain Caruno.

"A company of Germans came to my aid in the capture of the nameless heights, of course it is a good thing, but in the battle, am I in command or he in command of me?" Captain Caruno asked a crucial question.

Time is of the essence on the battlefield, and Captain Schwarzenegger did not want to waste time on such a thing, so he said decisively: "My task is to fight with you." ”

"That's good, our battalion has been reinforced by a mortar company directly under the division headquarters, and just now launched a tentative attack. But the Russians on the high ground were under fire, and they had the advantage of the terrain, and we were driven down. How many of you are there? ”

"I have a company of troops·····" Captain Schwarzenegger said.

"I'm afraid one company is not enough, you know, in order to launch an attack, the attacker must have three times the strength of the defender, this is still the general positional warfare mode. To attack such high ground, we need five times as many troops, otherwise we will only increase casualties in vain. Captain Caruno said worriedly.

"I'm not done yet, Mr. Captain, we have only one company of troops, but we have the artillery support of an artillery corps behind us." Captain Schwarzenegger said.

Captain Caruno, who stammered, thinking he was hallucinating, raised an eyebrow and asked, "Huh······ Mr. Schwarzenegger, are you sure you're talking about an artillery corps? ”

"Yes, with a lot of super-large caliber guns over 200 mm." Captain Schwarzenegger said.

Confirming that what Captain Schwarzenegger said was true, and not a slip of the tongue due to not learning Italian well, Captain Carunoy jumped off the table in excitement.

"So what are we waiting for? With such a strong firepower, we can seize this high ground with a single charge, and it is only less than 500 meters away. ”

After a few minutes of discussion, Captain Caruno limped out of the hospital with Captain Schwarzenegger.

The 10th Parachute Battalion and Captain Schwarzenegger's troops converged, reorganized into four echelons.

Captain Caruno and his paratroopers served as the first echelon, Captain Schwarzenegger and a company under his command were the second echelon, the artillery battery directly under the headquarters of the 185th Lightning Paratrooper Division was the third echelon, and the artillery observation posts from the combined German-Italian fleet were at the end, forming the fourth echelon with the fleet cruising at sea.

At the call of the artillery observation posts, the fourth echelon was the first to enter the battle.

Shells rained down, and the northwest corner of the Nameless Heights was instantly enveloped in black gunsmoke, which quickly spread and expanded in all directions, enveloping the entire Nameless Heights.

Captain Caruno and his paratroopers were dumbfounded, it was the first time they had seen an artillery corps' fire show so closely, and the entire nameless heights disappeared from their sight.

"I doubt our firepower will be able to flatten this height." Captain Caruno said.

There was no time to watch the artillerymen's performance, Captain Caruno hurriedly began his operation, taking advantage of the precious opportunity when the enemy troops on the northwest side of the unnamed heights were suppressed by artillery fire, and led his men to rush out of the bunkers and approach the nameless heights all the way to a warning distance close to the nameless heights without being accidentally injured by friendly artillery fire.

The charge of the paratroopers was unimpeded, and the smoke of gunpowder blocked the view of the enemy troops on the top of the mountain, providing the paratroopers with the best protection.

Captain Schwarzenegger watched the paratroopers rush towards the nameless heights, then turned his gaze to the sky, and soon saw a group of planes appear in the sky, and the cordless phones produced by Siemens for use by the company-level troops carried by the communications corps around him also heard the sound of calls.

"Black Dog One, this is Falcon One, we have arrived over the battlefield, please indicate the target·····"

After the sound was repeated three times, next to Captain Schwarzenegger, two GR34 81mm mortars opened fire almost simultaneously, firing four smoke grenades at the very top of the nameless heights.

The green smoke spreads at the top of the hill, and it looks particularly dazzling against the black smoke on the hillside.

Summoned by the green smoke, the naval aviation bombers hovering in the sky were like vultures that had spotted their prey, launching dives one after another, heading straight to the top of the unnamed high ground.

Eight dive bombers dropped bombs one after another, dropping eight FAE-500 aerial bombs.

FAE stands for Cloud Burst Bomb and 500 stands for 500 kg.

Eight 500-kilogram cloudburst bombs exploded one after another, and the bright flames and symbiotic black smoke formed a pot lid, quickly engulfing no more than ten buildings on the high ground.

Seeing the success of the air raid, Captain Schwarzenegger immediately contacted the artillery observation post via a cordless phone, stopped the fleet's shelling, and then put a gas mask on his face and led his men to rush to the hillside.

As soon as the shelling stopped, Captain Caruno and his paratroopers also wore gas masks and plunged headlong into the smoke that had not yet dispersed.

In front were Italian paratroopers, in the back were scouts from Germany, and two echelons ran on the slopes one after the other.

Captain Schwarzenegger looked at the Italian paratroopers in front of him, but never saw them, indicating that the offensive was going well.

I don't know how long I ran, but the smoke could no longer block my vision, and Schwarzenegger finally saw the vigorous figures of the paratroopers in front of him.

Passing over the craters, there were also Soviet corpses that appeared from time to time, and the few Soviet soldiers who survived the shelling either surrendered or died under the guns and bayonets of the Italian paratroopers, and there was no decent defense at all.

As Captain Caruno said before, two echelons rushed to the commanding heights of the nameless heights with one charge.

Captain Schwarzenegger led his men to the high ground smoothly, the top of the high ground is very small, less than 300 meters long, at most 100 meters wide, very flat, there is no vegetation, only a few less than ten buildings.

Arriving at the top of the heights, Captain Schwarzenegger heard a strange whistling sound before he could find Captain Carunor in the paratrooper group.

Is it a mortar····· Captain Schwarzenegger threw himself on the ground, and a series of explosions echoed at the top of the hill.

As soon as the shelling ended, Captain Schwarzenegger ran to the corner of a small two-story building, and then looked northeast to see a group of figures in yellow-green and black uniforms.

Damn, these guys must have been hiding on the antislope to avoid artillery fire and air strikes, Captain Schwarzenegger quickly judged.

The attackers from the northwest and the defenders hiding on the anticline to the southeast rushed to the nameless heights, and without saying a word, the two sides immediately fought.