Faced with the application of the A124, Montofel actually wanted to refuse, but the reality was that if no one left behind, the rear of the entire blocking force would have to be handed over to the enemy.

Montofel swallowed his saliva and opened with difficulty, "After the A124 left the pad, the rest of the troops lined up in column, and the destination was Rovereto. ”

Just as the German tanks began to retreat, the Italian 305-mm howitzers also stopped firing, the mortars also stopped, and the Italian troops who were leaning on the dirt slopes began to climb the muddy dirt slopes with difficulty.

Da - A few Italian soldiers who crawled out of the breakthrough first were hit into a hornet's nest by machine guns, and the other soldiers quickly rolled over.

The Italians, who had climbed the hill, thought that the Germans were gone, and Marvin's tank was like a guy who shouldn't have existed.

"Haha, Sergeant, those guys seem to be completely stupid." Machine gunner Hans Ryan fired a barrage of fire from his machine gun, and the Italians fell to the ground in silence wherever they went.

The Italians, who were blinded by the sudden fire of the A124, retreated again, and then reorganized and carried out several more attacks, still being pressed by the machine guns and not daring to raise their heads.

It's just that before Hans could be happy, the Italian mortars opened fire again, and this time the scale was still the same, but the target was much clearer.

Shells exploded around the tank, and the sound of sand and stones hitting the tank body and explosions spread through the vehicle.

Hans Ryan still laughed, but everyone could hear the helplessness and fear in that voice.

While Marvin was looking for a self-destruct explosive pack, the Italians retreated instead of charging again. Then there was a low sound that hit their hearts uncomfortably.

There was a sudden silence in the car, and the gunfire was still there, but it seemed that the tank had become another world.

Everyone closed their eyes and waited for death to come.

A series of explosions were carefully watched in the telescope of the Italian commander, and the shelling of the Italian 305-mm howitzer made the location of the A124 seem to be lifted, and when the dust cleared, the Italian commander saw the overturned German tank through the telescope, and no one climbed out for a long time, and then began to let the army continue to attack.

German United Front Work Department, Trento.

Hoffman, who had finished talking about his intentions, was waiting for everyone's advice.

"It's going to take a lot of planes, Chief of Staff, and you mean that you want me to empty the planes that are going to bomb the Italian Navy?"

Toth tapped on the table. "It's not that it can't be done, it's just that in this way, the time for bombing will have to be delayed, and when there are no fighters, it will be troublesome, and the opportunity is just like this."

Hoffmann drew a baton from Modena to Treviso and said: "The air force is returning directly from Modena to Treviso, I have ordered people to start transferring all the necessary ammunition and supplies there, and the airfield is already arranged, if all goes well, you can directly attack the Italian navy in Chiogia from Treviso after you have replenished from Treviso." ”

William Loeb, as the commander of this airborne operation, did not think about the airdrop, he only cared about the target. "If the Italian army does not return and continues to attack, everything will be easy, except that if the other side returns to Bologna and Parma, our airdrop troops will be a turtle in an urn."

William Loeb was telling the truth, Modena was a front-line material hoarding place for Italy, and in the rear of the entire front, the nearest 23rd Army was also sixty kilometers away, and if it did not break through before the Italian encirclement, the airdropped troops would be alone, and it would be a lone army deep behind enemy lines, and it would be too risky.

Hoffman straightened his hat and said: "The reason why I called General Tall here is to prevent this from happening, and the 1st Mixed Field Army, which has just been assembled, will go to Treviso with supplies and supplies to provide mobile support for the needs of the airdropped troops at any time. He looked at William Loeb and said, "So your first priority is to take the airport in Modena and defend it, and after bombing the Italian Navy, the airdrop planes will send more ground troops to Modena under the cover of the air force." ”

After finishing Hoffman also continued: "This idea was thought of by the president, and I thought it was very difficult at the time, but then I thought about the comparison of our air forces, and the success of this plan is very high, and if it can be achieved, the war with Italy will end within a month." ”

After thinking about it for a while, Toth continued: "If Modena is successful in defense, we can jump to Siena again, and there will be a threat to Rome, and if we can do it, we won't need to do it for a month." ”

Hoffman curled the corners of his mouth and smiled: "The president is really a blockbuster if he doesn't make a sound." ”

William Loeb was a little puzzled and said: "Didn't you make a splash on the Eastern Front in the first place?" ”

Hoffman was a little speechless for a moment, he couldn't tell the big guy that he planned the plan in the first place, right? Isn't that a slap in the face of the president?

"Okay, if you understand it, let's go and prepare, start the action at 3 o'clock in the morning tomorrow, it is expected that it will be dawn when it arrives at 4 o'clock, and the pilot plane will find someone familiar with the terrain, and the airdrop will start as soon as it dawns."

William Loeb, who returned to the camp after the meeting, summoned the officers to assign specific tasks, and when they heard that there would be combat missions, everyone was mixed and worried about the next tasks while gaining approval.

"We've never been at night, and it's hard to find our way in the dark." Witzleb connected the skydive site with the starting point and drew a circle around the destination, which is the range I could guess, and it would take a day to assemble such a large area.

"The task has been issued, and it was deployed by the president himself, so I can't refuse, so find a way to achieve it, fortunately, the enemy doesn't know that we will have such a force, and he can be caught off guard." Wilhelm Loeb was thinking about how to do it successfully, and this personality was a little different from Witzleb's forward-looking and backward thinking.

"Codenamed 'Dark Clouds' and 'Lightning', we will convey it before getting on the plane, everyone is ready now, because it takes 5 consecutive parachute jumps, so the first wave of people will be the key, teach the battalion to jump the first wave, Battalion A and Battalion B go forward, and then come in order, occupy or destroy the enemy's supplies in Modena, and at the same time send people to reconnoiter around the airport, if you can take it, don't hesitate, take the airport directly and send it back to the headquarters." William Loeb conveyed the details of the operation to several commanders present.

"Finally, I emphasize that the Airborne Forces were created from the hands of the president, and the first operation was also given by the president, and if it is screwed, whoever has to bear the blame for the whole fault." Loeb attached great importance to this operation, which could determine the status of the entire Airborne Forces in Germany.

The entire Airborne Forces, including the assistance of the Logistics Department, were all reequipped with MP16 submachine guns, discarded all unnecessary heavy supplies, 15 transport planes were also lined up in three groups at the airport, and the aircraft selected to escort were all 12 fighter groups of the Air Force with a total of 144 fighters, using Fokker D8 fighters, improved from the D-VII designed in 1918, the Fokker fighter, 260 horsepower, increased the maximum speed to 245 kilometers per hour, and the range was 590 kilometers, It was more than enough to cope with the entire German-Italian war, but the production of such aircraft was low, and Eric did not have much affection for this slim monoplane.

"Report to the Commander, it's already 3 o'clock." An adjutant reported the time to Hoffman at the United Front.