As soon as 8 o'clock arrived, the artillery fire of the rebels began to threaten, and the artillery fire of the Condor Legion began to shoot fiercely at the trenches outside Santander arranged by the government army, because the government army did not have many troops, so they only set up a trench outside Santander, and the number of defensive troops was not much, which was almost equivalent to the role of a guard post.

On the side of Li Mo's company is a tank company, a total of twelve tanks, the company commander is Otto, this world is so small, the last time Otto and Li Mo went together to attack the Blue Bridge and capture hundreds of government soldiers, so that Otto also made a great contribution, he was originally a second lieutenant, at this time, like Li Mo, became a lieutenant, and his position became a company commander.

The task of Reimer and Otto was to conquer the two semi-crypt bunkers of reinforced concrete that were stuck in the road into the city, these two bunkers were not high, and the part exposed to the ground was at most one meter, and at the same time, these two bunkers were only 500 meters from Santander, and there were two deep trenches connected to the city, and the most important thing was that these two semi-crypt bunkers were equipped with two 37-mm anti-tank guns.

Because the 37mm anti-tank gun is very light, it can turn the muzzle of the gun inside the pillbox at will, which is very lethal for the tank company cooperating with Limer, the 37mm tank gun of the No. 2 tank cannot destroy such reinforced concrete fortifications at all, and the No. 2 tank can only be the target of these two anti-tank guns.

The German artillery also concentrated on the photo area to carry out a fierce bombardment, earth-shattering explosions sounded around the pillboxes, the explosion kicked up the earth like a storm to spill down from the air, occasionally a few shells fell on the pillbox, but also only a small crater, completely destroyed such a strong permanent fortifications.

Li Mo and Otto squatted on the edge of the bushes, carefully observing the effect of the shelling with the binoculars in their hands, the accuracy of the German artillery was still very high, but unfortunately it could not shake these two large semi-crypt pillboxes at all, in response to this situation, Li Mo and Otto began to discuss in a whisper:

"Lieutenant Otto, I think it's better for your tanks not to appear now, I will lead the infantry to advance two hundred meters under the cover of artillery fire, and then attack the pillbox on the left from the direction of nine o'clock, I can call ten MG34 machine guns here to block a few eye-catching pillboxes on the left, as long as our machine guns successfully suppress the machine gunners in the pillbox, the two flamethrowers of our company can quietly approach the vicinity of the pillbox, this flamethrower burning the pillbox is a good thing, what is your plan?"

Otto also used a telescope to observe these two pillboxes, the muzzle of the 37 anti-tank guns inside is clearly visible, the tank soldiers love their tanks very much, like this kind of intelligent passive battlefield, Otto is not willing to let his tanks go to death in vain, and now Ondet, the infantry company commander who cooperates with himself, is willing to take the infantry to pull out the two pillboxes first, Otto of course can't ask for it.

"Thank you very much, my brother Lieutenant Ondet, I agree with you, but let us charge in the front line when we fight in the streets!!"

"It's a deal!"

Li Mo and Otto agreed to return to their own troops, now the shelling is still continuing, the government army pillbox is full of gunsmoke, Li Mo just took advantage of this time to lead people quietly to the government army pillbox.

"Everyone, follow me, a ridge 300 meters from the pillbox on the left side of the target government army."

This ridge is also the only place where the government army can hide in front of the bunker, and the government army has long cleared all obstacles to shooting in its own bunker. The area around the pillbox was basically bare, and even the land was leveled by what they thought was level, and if it weren't for the German shelling, which made large and small craters around the pillbox, it can be said that a machine gun blockade, no one would have been able to get close to the pillbox.

In addition to the German artillery bombardment, which created some cover for Li Mo and them, the other thing was that they could use the crater to cover themselves, and then keep leaping forward and approaching the blockhouse.

After Li Mo gave orders to several platoon commanders, he took the lead in leaning his body and touching a ridge two hundred meters away, and the other soldiers saw that their company commanders were personally in the vanguard, and they dared to slack off, and hurriedly followed Li Mo to run towards the ridge. The German artillery bombardment not far away continued, but there was no spare money to be fierce, but if any shell deviated from the landing point, it would also cause casualties to Li Mo's company, and everything must have advantages and disadvantages, such as advancing under artillery fire, which is an obvious example.

"Boom...... Boom ......"

The earth was still shaking under the shelling, and countless mud and sand were sprinkled on Li Mo and them, everyone trotted while observing the movement of the bunker in front, because of the cover of the shelling and gunsmoke, the bunker was unaware of Li Mo and his party, maybe the soldiers of the Laxi government army were trembling in the bunker!

Since the government soldiers didn't notice it, Li Mo accelerated the speed of his advance, and the distance of two hundred meters was only two or three minutes, Li Mo on the runway ridge hurriedly lay down on the ridge, and took out a telescope to carefully observe the situation of the government bunker, at this time, there was still no tongue of fire in the hole above the government bunker, it seems that Li Mo's choice is still very correct.

"Boom ......"

Suddenly, a large artillery shell fell not far from the ridge, and the flying shrapnel took the lives of two soldiers in an instant, which is also a very helpless thing, war is like this, no one can predict what will happen to them in the next second.

The German shelling soon stopped, and Li Mo said to Vincent beside him:

"Vincent, your first platoon goes first, and the other two platoons cover you, how to fight you can arrange it yourself!"

Li Mo began to cultivate the ability of his subordinates to fight alone as a small company commander, Li Mo knew that he would definitely not be just a small company commander, Li Mo wanted to change the fate of his family and change the outcome of Germany's defeat, he must be good at using all the resources of his family, and make himself a senior general, or even a marshal in the German army, otherwise everything would be impossible to talk about. Therefore, Li Mo began to pay attention to cultivating his subordinates now, and he would be able to take charge of himself in the future.

"Thank you, company commander, I'll arrange it."

After Vincent happily accepted the offensive mission arranged by Li Mo, he returned to his unit with his body on his back to discuss tactics with several squad leaders.

Vincent divided his three squads into three combat groups, each group attacked in one direction, respectively front, left and right, Mai Xi was a squad leader under Vincent, he attacked the front of the bunker, this side had to face the three bunkers independently, Mai Xi's MG34 machine gun was of course not enough to suppress the eye-catching of the bunker, of course, Li Mo's machine gun team could still support, including the sniper.

After Vincent assigned the task, he immediately launched an attack, and at this time, a large part of the gunpowder smoke around the pillbox began to be blown away by the breeze, and the government bunker three hundred meters away was clearly visible.