It is often said that the most dangerous part of airborne combat is the stage when you are hanging under a parachute and drifting in the wind, but some people feel that on the contrary, the real danger is just beginning when you put your feet on enemy soil......

No sooner had he unbuckled his parachute harness than Horvat heard a companion shouting in Irish: "Attention! The enemy is coming! Defend in place! ”

When they landed, some people couldn't tell the difference between north and south, but more paratroopers were able to quickly untie their parachute bags, take out their firearms, and then move closer to familiar people. Once the temporary combat position was determined, they opened fire without hesitation, and the crisp sound of gunfire filled their ears in an instant.>

In his own paratrooper combat platoon, Horvath was an experienced squad leader with a 5.6 mm caliber STG-45 assault rifle as his main weapon. Holding this reliable and powerful weapon, he quickly lowered his posture, loaded his gun, and knelt down on one knee to briefly observe the situation: the sound of wearing an Italian steel helmet and gray-green uniform kept appearing in his sight, and there were also shaking figures falling. Machine guns rattled in the distance, and a dense array of machine gun bullets could kill a living soldier in an instant......

Aiming at an Italian soldier who was bowing forward, Holt decisively pulled the trigger, but the first shot after landing was obviously not in a state of state, and he saw that the figure he was aiming at did not fall, but ran a few steps and crouched down, the weapon in his hand jumping out of the deadly bullet in a row. In the midst of the crackling, rattling of gunfire, the bullets of the Italian soldiers came with a whirl.

Horvath hurriedly bent down to hide, set his assault rifle on a protruding rock, took a slight aim, and fired continuously at a laterally moving sound......

Syllable! Syllable! Syllable!

The butt of the gun gently pushed his shoulder, his left eye was always closed, and in the sight of his right eye, the figure under the crosshair immediately fell unnaturally.

Instead of coveting this kind of long-range shooting, Horvat paid attention to beckoning his subordinates who had landed around him to assemble and fight. As the number of Allied paratroopers that landed increased rapidly, the Italian garrisons scattered around the airfield gradually lost the upper hand, and they quickly gave up their attempts to divide and kill the opponent while they were still on the ground, and retreated to the fortifications built on the hangars and the airstrip.

The landed coalition paratroopers approached the airfield at will, and the Italian fighters stuck on the runway and hangar had been reduced to piles of black, indistinguishable scrap metal from the previous bombardment.

By the time the battle had progressed, the allied paratroopers had realized that the Italian troops they were facing were by no means the elite of the first line, but the alert garrison of the second and third lines, with outdated equipment, old-fashioned tactics, and little morale at all. Nevertheless, in the battle for the defense of the airfield, the Italians showed admirable courage. By the end of the battle, there was not much left of the barbed wire fence around the airfield, and aerial bombs, artillery shells from all directions, paratroopers' grenades, and other weapons combined to cause damage; The Italian defensive positions were littered with broken limbs, bloodstained wreckage, and twisted parts of anti-aircraft guns, as well as many empty ammunition boxes and shell casings scattered near the gun emplacements, indicating that the Italian soldiers had put up stubborn resistance before they were killed; And the closer you get to the hangar, the more bodies are wearing paratrooper combat uniforms, and most of the brave paratroopers are killed by direct bullets.

"Attention! The chariots of the Italians! ”

After the capture of the airport, the paratroopers had not rested for half an hour, and a panicked voice instantly aroused the worry in people's hearts. Soon, the rumbling of cannon came from the east. Although the coalition forces were also equipped with heavy gliders that could carry combat vehicles, given the complexity of airborne behind enemy lines, they were not dispersed to various battlefields, but concentrated on the two most difficult battlefields.

If all goes well, the armored units advancing from the ground will also come to join the airborne troops in about 48 hours.

The sound of artillery was far away, and the sound of explosions was very close, which also confirmed the fears of the paratroopers. After a while, the sound of machine guns was heard, and an officer shouted as he ran: "The anti-tank personnel are all going to the east, the Italian tanks are coming!" ”

Such shouts, together with the figures of the soldiers hurrying away with their weapons on their shoulders, made those who remained a little glad in panic: at least they did not need to engage the Italian tanks head-on, and if the troops from the east could not resist, then quickly retreat in the opposite direction.

In a short time, the roar of the chariots came from the silent wilderness, and from a long distance, the Italian charioteers could not wait to use the cannons, and the 75mm guns of the P-43 medium tanks had a long enough range, but in the absence of flare guidance, their long-range artillery fire deterrence was greater than the actual damage.

Coalition anti-war motorists deployed east of the airfield lay in ambush on the side of the road with their individual bazookas, waiting for their opponents to come into range. It was a dozen olive-green Italian chariots and hundreds of Italian infantry arriving on motorbikes and trucks, who formed the first wave of the offensive towards the airfield.

Such a force is already an overwhelming advantage for an ordinary paratrooper unit, but the coalition paratroopers who landed at this airfield amounted to more than 4,000 people, and in addition to the combat losses, there was also the size of a reinforced regiment. When the Italian army, spearheaded by chariots, broke through to the vicinity of the airfield, the paratroopers annihilated it in one fell swoop with their tactics......

At the same time, on the Italian side of the Italian-Austrian border, the allied planes and artillery bombarded the positions and firing points of the Italian army for more than four hours, with a total of more than 2,500 combat vehicles, self-propelled guns and mechanized troops fighting in armored vehicles, trucks, and motorcycles rushing out of the woods and artificially sheltered assembly areas, and inexorably breaking into the Italian defense line. Caused the Italian command and communication to fail.

By early afternoon, coalition ground forces were closing in on the city of Belluno on the east bank of the Piave River. On the Italian positions outside the city, blackened craters could be seen everywhere in front and behind the trenches, and countless yellow and clear bullet casings rolled off the edges and bottoms of the trenches, especially those machine gun fire points that had been blown up and piled up, piled up and exploded, and the bullet casings left by continuous shooting were mixed with the soil to accumulate a thick layer. In front of the trench, there were only a few soldiers left in charge of the guard, and there were several Italian-made individual anti-tank rocket launchers that were not much different from those of the Germans.

The Italian officers and soldiers on the front-line positions retreated along the communication trenches to reserve positions and special anti-shelling bunkers as usual, a traditional method of warfare that minimized the casualties of the soldiers in the shelling, while the soldiers who remained in the forward positions for vigilance and observation often had to pray for God's favor.

With the continuous development of artillery and gunpowder technology, a large-caliber artillery shell can directly kill lives within tens or even hundreds of meters, although a strong fortress can greatly absorb shocks and impacts, but in the case of a close landing point or direct fire, the internal personnel are still facing a deadly threat. Heavy artillery fire continued to pound the ground, and the wrath of the former king of war could still be clearly felt from miles away.

In the clear sky, warplanes flew high in the sky from time to time, but it was difficult to find the ubiquitous Mustang, Spitfire, and meteors. Accustomed to a smooth attack, the Italian officers and soldiers in a defensive situation had to bear tremendous psychological pressure, and after the continuous shelling, there were always some weak-willed guys on the long front who fell into a state of collapse, and many more died quietly in the shelling: some of them were unfortunately hit by shells or shrapnel, and some were violently killed by the rupture of internal organs in the violent impact.

By contrast, those buried in the dirt kicked up by the artillery fire were far luckier, and when the officers whistled sharply to urge the soldiers to return to the front line, countless people would get up with the dust on their heads and bodies, grab their weapons and follow the crowd to the other end of the trench. At this time, the artillery fire of the coalition forces was still extending into the depth of the battle line, but due to the limitation of the range of the artillery, they were not yet able to invade the assembly area of the artillery and armored forces - in order to avoid suffering losses in the exchange of artillery fire, the artillery has always placed their positions in the depth, and its range is just enough to intercept the fire in front of the front-line positions of the side.

"All units strictly hold their positions, and the anti-tank personnel enter the front line!"

Alerted by the loud reminders of the officers, the machine gunners began to repair the bunkers destroyed by artillery fire, and the riflemen were not idle, using their sapper shovels to shovel up the mud and sand that had fallen at the bottom of the trenches and reinforce them to the outer edge of the trenches. The fierce coalition attacking forces did not give the Italians much time to prepare, and the rumbling machinery rattled and soon converged into patches, filling the woods and valleys ahead......

In the two world wars, the strong fighting power of the Irish left a deep impression on the world, and when the Italians really played against the new United Kings with the Irish as the team, they soon found that they were terrifying - powerful armored clusters came in the dust, they had a double advantage in quantity and quality, those "Irish Tigers" and "Irish Leopards" were able to scrap most of the active combat vehicles and armored vehicles in Italy from a long distance, and they moved much faster than expected, Moreover, the strong armor protection ability made the various anti-defense guns in the hands of the Italian infantry helpless.

In the midst of this torrent of steel, there are large numbers of well-equipped and experienced mechanized infantry, and they ride in tracked and semi-tracked combat vehicles with good battlefield survivability and rapid maneuverability. As soon as they approached the Italian lines, these mechanized infantry would evade the defenders' guns and artillery fire with skill and agility, and charge with courage and composure, and the army, armed with STG-45 assault rifles, was able to organize fierce front-field fire, and once they rushed into the defenders' trenches, it would be difficult for the Italians to expel them......