Compared with the prosperity of Robin's side, the "Italian men's group" led by the regiment commander on the other side fought extremely hard, except for the surprise attack at the beginning of the French by surprise, completely annihilating the two infantry companies of the French army stationed at the front of the camp, there was no formation to eliminate the French units.

This was an extremely unsuccessful surprise attack, especially in relation to the performance of the German troops in the Polish blitzkrieg.

And the reason for this can only be said that the Italians fought the war worse than the Germans.

"Captain! Our attack on the left was blocked, the French reacted quickly, they were already holding their ground on the left! The commander of one battalion huddled behind a bunker, holding the walkie-talkie in the face of heavy gunfire and shouting to the other end, "We have been repulsed three times, the troops have suffered heavy casualties, ask for reinforcements!" ”

"Damn! How did you guys fight?! Gasparé replied angrily, "A group of second-rate armies that have been beaten first can stop your offensive momentum?!" If you can't hit the small plateau on the left in half an hour, then you won't be outside with the 73rd Mountain Infantry Regiment of the Royal Italian Army! Shame on me! ”

"Yes!" The commander of the first battalion had to yell when he heard this, and then put on a steel helmet, shouldered a submachine gun, and personally led the troops to attack again.

Just after Gasparé had finished reprimanding the commander of a battalion, another attack was blocked.

"Captain! The French have anti-aircraft artillery on the right! We can't beat it! "The commander of the fourth battalion was beaten by the anti-aircraft artillery loaded with high-explosive grenades, and he cried.

"What? War defense artillery? The regiment commander was stunned, if the French mountain infantry was equipped with field artillery, then forget it, "How can they be equipped with battle defense artillery?" Where are the tanks in this mountain for them to fight? ”

"I don't know, Captain!" The commander of the fourth battalion was equally puzzled, and could not understand how a French second-rate mountain infantry regiment that was blocking in front of him could be equipped with battle defense artillery.

In fact, I have to say that they are more unlucky, this French mountain infantry unit is a second-rate unit, but according to the plan of the French War Department, they will be transferred from the Hautes Alpes to Mordana in Savoie in the near future with two other nearby mountain infantry regiments, in order to replace the French 17th Mountain Infantry Division that is about to leave for the German-French front to garrison Modana, and because Modana has a high-level road that is large enough to connect France and Italy through heavy tank units, Therefore, France temporarily equipped these three mountain infantry regiments with the Hatch Chase 25mm battle defense gun eliminated from the front line, this gun has a very short range, only 1000 meters (half of the range of the German main general-purpose machine gun MG42, which means that as long as this broken gun is discovered, the Germans can beat him with MG42 in a place where he can't reach him), and the caliber is extremely small and only 25mm, and it can only be heard on the front armor of the German No. 4 tank.

Yes, the cannon could not penetrate the 76mm equivalent thickness of the main armor of the 4th tank no matter how it was - even if it was attached to the face of the 4th tank, and the only way for the gun to take out the 4th was to attack the back of the 4th tank.

However, the German tank crews were not stupid, how could they put an anti-tank gun behind themselves under normal circumstances?

Therefore, in the face of the ferocious German armored forces, the French Army had no choice but to eliminate these anti-tank guns and replace them with SA37 47mm anti-tank guns that were more powerful enough to penetrate the frontal armor of Tank No. 4 at 800m.

Except for a part of the reloaded guns that were sold to Middle Eastern countries and China (Japanese tanks were not as high-quality as those on the European battlefield, and the 25mm guns were enough to beat Japan's main tanks in the early stages of World War II), the rest were modified and distributed to mountain troops.

The regiment that Gaspar is facing now receives the first batch of 4 anti-tank guns exactly two days ago.

Facts have proved that although this broken cannon can't hit tanks, and ordinary grenades also have the problem of insufficient charge to cause little lethality (the power is about the same as a grenade), but thanks to its extremely light weight, four people can push it around, and even if it encounters a roadless place, it can be disassembled into parts and carried away, so it is surprisingly useful to allocate mountain troops who cannot be equipped with field guns because of terrain restrictions to fight infantry without armor or permanent bunkers - especially when hiding in a board house like now, Infantry relying on light bunkers, such as sandbags and behind trees, are simply sharp weapons.

"You resist, I'll let the regimental artillery go over to help you!" Gasparé put down his walkie-talkie as he spoke, and turned back to the signal soldier and shouted, "Signal soldier! Signal Soldiers! Go tell the artillery company commander in the back and let them go to the right to help the poor fourth battalion, they are now pressed by the French behind the bunker and can't move! ”

"Got it!" The communications soldier answered with his helmet in his hand, and then ran to the artillery company that was on standby behind.

The artillery company, having received the order, quickly ran with all its artillery to the position attacked by the fourth battalion on the right.

When the soldiers of the fourth battalion saw the arrival of the artillery company directly under the regiment headquarters, it was like seeing their relatives, and they cheered happily, and then they couldn't wait to tell the soldiers of the artillery company the location of the guns that had bullied them before.

"You guys are finally here, God forbid!" A disgraced Italian captain said to the commander of the artillery company, apparently he was the battalion commander, "The commander on the opposite side is very powerful, their artillery is in an excellent position, not only occupies a small high ground, but also is about 700 meters away from the camp where our troops are hiding, and the middle is almost all open land - this makes the nine Brixia M35 45MM mortars (with a maximum range of 545 meters) of the battalion's artillery platoon completely furnished - We won't even be able to get close to the houses on the edge of the camp until we get rid of those four damn anti-aircraft guns, because if they see them, they'll be hit by the anti-aircraft guns, and these slab houses can't hold off the direct fire of their guns. ”

"Sir, where are they? Can you point me a.m.? The artillery company commander sighed, rubbed his hands and asked.

"Follow me." As he spoke, the battalion commander turned and walked towards a taller house, and after climbing to the roof with the artillery company commander, he pointed to a small piece of high ground in the northwest and said, "It's in that area, hidden by branches." ”

When the artillery company commander heard this, he took out his binoculars and looked in the direction pointed by the battalion commander.

Sure enough, he saw four low-profile, small-caliber guns wrapped in white cloth and stuck in branches.

"I found them." The company commander noted down the direction, put away the binoculars and said.

"Then I'll bother you." Camp Commander rejoices.

"Sir is gracious!" The company commander saluted and said, "I'll let the French know that the mortar is the most suitable king of war in the jungle compared to the anti-aircraft artillery!" ”