The attack on the defense line of the 3rd Company was also seen by the commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 322nd Regiment, and through the observation of the telescope, it seemed too difficult for a company of the 1st Battalion to block the attack of a battalion.

"Let all the machine guns of the 4th company be transferred to the left to provide fire support to the 3rd company, the artillery of the whole battalion will be aimed at the woods to cut off their attack, and the mortar group will be transferred to the left side to suppress the opponent in the open field." The commander of the second battalion did not worry about his own defensive line, and decisively let his troops support the first battalion, after all, if the 3rd company was repulsed, the flank of the second battalion would be finished.

Without waiting for the artillery of the second battalion to be adjusted, the artillery of the first battalion had already begun to roar, this is the newly equipped LSF105 artillery, each battalion has 4 such light guns.

The headquarters of the first battalion was not far behind the Italian artillery bombardment, and some shells had already reached here, and fragments were scattered all over the place.

Calvin patted the mud off his body and stood up. "All 2 logistics classes! The 120MM mortar squad of the battalion headquarters supported the 3 company defense line, and the 4 heavy machine gun groups were transferred to the right flank of the 2 company to support.! ”

On the 3rd Company's defensive line, Vader was lying on the ground and moving along the bushes with the communications corps, and in order to ensure sufficient firepower, he needed to make the best arrangements for the company's 180 men in the right area.

"1 row! Retreat! Vader patted the leg of the platoon leader and pointed to the clearing behind him. This place has been used as a firing point, it is too dangerous, retreat to the back to reorganize the defense, the machine gun squad stays, and the riflemen go first! "Due to the fact that there were 3 MG20 light machine guns in the 1st platoon and 3 light machine gun groups provided in the 2nd platoon, the firepower here was too strong, and it became the key care unit of the Italian army, which was constantly pressed and could not raise its head, and the number of casualties began to increase.

As soon as Vader wanted to speak, he was hit by a series of bullets and couldn't raise his head, and even his ears were hit by splinters and bled out, and the platoon commander suddenly became nervous, afraid that the company commander Vida would be finished if he died, and now was the time when the company commander was needed to command.

"Are you alright?" Koehler rolled down and looked.

"What did you say?" Vader roared.

"I said you're okay, you're bleeding, here." Koehler pointed to his ear.

"I can't hear you, you be louder." Vader could only hear a buzzing sound, which he couldn't hear at all.

Köhler had no choice but to think of asking Gruen, the adjutant of the 3rd Company, to replace Vader, and then crawled in the direction of Vader, and photographed the signal soldier who was still lying motionless on the ground.

"Hey! Soldiers, get up. No matter how Renkle knocked this communication soldier, there seemed to be no response.

Koehler had to ask the others around him to help turn the messenger over, only to see a small hole in his helmet, and the soldier's face was covered with a pile of red and white objects.

"Damn it!" Koehler is now annoyed, the company commander is deaf in his ears, and the communications corps is hanging.

Koehler had no choice but to say to one of the soldiers beside him. "You've come to Ensign Gruen! Fast! ”

Koehler, who picked up the radio, hurriedly dialed the special line of the battalion headquarters, but fortunately this line had already been set.

Snort - "Inazuma 3 calls Thunder 1!" Koehler tried to make the loudest noise so that the other party could hear it.

Sneer-"Thunder 1 received!" Inazuma 3, please speak! ”

Sneering - "There are too many enemies, request to retreat!" ”

A few seconds later.

Sneering - "Request rejection, repeat, request rejection, don't stick to it!" ”

"Damn it!" Koehler smashed the microphone to the ground to vent his anger.

At this moment, Gruen had already arrived, and asked the orderlies to take Gruen away from the front line.

Then I saw a scene of Koehler talking to the battalion headquarters.

"You are also a pig brain, we retreated, what about the 2nd and 4th companies?" Gruen took off the binoculars from his neck and looked at several Italian machine gunners who were constantly spitting from the forest.

"Where did this force come from? How come I never heard of such a force before, which can fight us like this! Not to mention that Köhler wanted to retreat, Gruen was a little puzzled as to how the army in front of him was so strong, which was completely inconsistent with the public's evaluation of Italy's combat effectiveness.

"Fukker (you know, that doesn't seem to work), I know a." Koehler came with an international swear word.

"You go and inform the 4th Company and tell their mortars to focus on those machine guns in the forest." Gruen's 3rd company had only 2 60mm mortars and could not take care of it all.

As soon as the order was delivered, several explosions were seen exploding in the forest opposite, and Gruen took the binoculars and looked behind him to stop the heralds.

"No, they've noticed." Gruen couldn't help but admire the high tactical level of the people in the second battalion, and suddenly saw the problem.

"Hold on!" Gruen slapped Vida, "Their offense won't be long, you look in the other direction. ”

As Gruen pointed, Koehler also found that their 3rd Company was under attack.

"It should be a tentative attack."

"I heard Lieutenant Calvin say that Captain Drasy has returned to the regimental headquarters, and support should arrive soon." After speaking, Gruen laboriously transferred the radio to himself, the heavy radio weighed 30 kilograms, from the neck to the hips, the size of the entire back, equivalent to a person's body, Gruen just climbed back one by one, not daring to show his head at all.

At 6:15, the attack of the Italian 59th Division stopped, and everyone retreated deep into the woods to find it.

Vida, who had simply bandaged the bleeding area, returned again, and counted the casualties and bullet consumption of the company's defense line.

"2 people were killed in 1 platoon, 14 people were wounded and needed to retreat. Machine gun bullets and submachine gun bullets need to be replenished. ”

"2 platoons killed 7 people and 11 wounded." After the 2nd platoon commander finished speaking, he threw the magazine of MBZ20 in his hand to the ground and said. "This damn gun doesn't work at all, I'm asking for an MP16, now, right away."

Vader listened and nodded, from the battle just now, the role of the MBZ20 is very small, and it is not as big as the role of the submachine gun like the MP16, and the recoil is large when the fire continues, and the muzzle cannot be suppressed.

"What about row 3?" Vader asked.

"Seven people were slightly injured. It's just that the bullets are consumed too much, and the MBZ20 in our platoon doesn't need to be replaced, it's okay to use. ”

The 3rd platoon is different from the 2nd platoon, due to the key help of the friendly 4th company, the 3rd platoon suffered the same fire suppression time as the 2nd platoon, and it is not so concentrated, and there is still a chance to shoot with its head out, and the accuracy of the MBZ20 reflects its value at this time.

"The machine guns on the opposite side are too fierce, if we attack next time, we must focus on taking care of them, otherwise the casualty rate will always be so high." The 2nd Platoon, because it was located in the middle of the defensive line, became a key target of care, and hated the enemy's machine-gun fire.

"I'll let the observers get your stats and give them some shooting dollars when the time comes." After a brief count, Vader and Gruen got on the jeep and rushed back to the company headquarters, while Captain Drassey had already arrived at the front.

"What about the casualties?" Drassy continued, "This time you played well, I will apply for the Iron Cross in my report." ”

"The 2nd platoon suffered more casualties, 7 people, 11 wounded, 1st platoon 2 killed, 14 wounded, 3rd platoon had the help of 4 companies, and 7 were slightly wounded." Vida reported the data again.

"The ammunition was brought to you." Drassie gestured to the dozen jeeps behind him.

"There is no way, the only path has been blown up, the truck can't pass, the jeep is small, and a temporary path can still get in."

"Captain, I want to give up the defensive bushes and move the line back two hundred meters." Gruen had already consulted with Vader. While the bushes were indeed natural bunkers, they also affected the general sight of the troops.

"There is no need to think about shifting the defensive line, the whole battalion rests for 20 minutes, hurry up and eat something, and prepare for a counterattack." Drassy returned from the regimental headquarters with new instructions.

"On the opposite side is the Italian 59th Infantry Division." Drassie pulled out a pack of cigarettes and said. "It is one of the few Italian troops that can fight a hard battle, and it was they who blocked the 501st Tank Battalion in a small town for a day."