Chapter 17: Straight to the Blue Bridge

In a company of government soldiers, at least more than 70 or 80 government soldiers were killed in a short exchange of fire, and the few light and heavy machine guns they had arranged on the slopes on both sides of the hill were all turned into scrap metal.

The remaining government soldiers fled, and Li Mo immediately ordered to stop shooting, knowing that although Li Mo had enough ammunition, there was no supply line, so he could only rely on the ammunition he had hoarded in the early stage to support, and saving ammunition was a must be done.

"Leave the observers, and the rest go into the defensive artillery holes to rest, and I estimate that the government forces will soon return the reincarnation shelling."

This time Vincent did not chirp crookedly in Li Mo's ears, and hurriedly led people into the anti-artillery hole to treat the casualties of his comrades, this time the government army's attack, Li Mo's troops also had casualties, after preliminary statistics, three people were killed, seven wounded people who could not participate in the battle, and more than 10 lightly wounded people who could continue to participate, and a tentative attack by the government army made Li Mo reduce his personnel by 10 people, which made Li Mo extremely sad.

The casualties are mainly those men and horsemen, their bravery is not lacking, but there is too much lack of combat experience, and they will mature after a few battles, but how many battles can they hold on? Li Mo was not sure.

Li Mo just returned to the command post, in fact, this command post is next to the 88 gun, and it is also a relatively large artillery hole, there is a radio station and radio in it, and the other places are the same as the anti-artillery holes of ordinary soldiers, Li Mo is not a person who likes to engage in special things.

"Platoon commander, take a sip of boiling water!"

The herald is now also Li Mo's orderly, Li Mo took the kettle from the herald's hand, raised his head and drank two sips, the war is the most dry of the population, and Li Mo who drank the water was a little disgusted, because these waters are filled with gasoline barrels, although the gasoline barrels are cleaned cleanly, but the strong gasoline smell is still very pungent, although these waters have the smell of gasoline, and now they are still rationed, each person can only receive one military kettle of water per day, Li Mo can support fifteen days of use in front of the storage:

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

The government troops under the mountain really began to retaliate by shelling, but they did no harm to the German troops on the mountain, everyone was in the anti-artillery hole, the government troops were armed to swim over, and their ammunition supply was not very convenient, and after a few minutes of retaliatory shooting, they stopped this waste of ammunition.

In the afternoon of the same day, the government army suddenly died down, did not launch any attack, the whole battlefield was unusually calm, there must be demons in the abnormal, Li Mo in the evening, went to inspect the defense situation of each section, did not find any defensive omissions, which enemy will move in the next time to attack or cross the river, especially their armored troops, this is what they want to achieve the most.

After the inspection, Li Mo carefully analyzed in his heart, "pontoon bridge, bridge repair" can transport the tanks of the government army to the other side of the Hota River, which way will the enemy choose?

Build a pontoon bridge overnight? Or the overnight restoration of the Bru Bridge? Li Mo really didn't know which way the enemy would choose, the Blue Bridge himself could also shell it every once in a while, and there was no shortage of flares or anything here, it was basically impossible for the enemy to use the night to repair the Blue Bridge, and the only way out for the enemy to transport the tanks over was to build a large pontoon bridge.

It is indeed a good idea to build a pontoon bridge at night, what kind of planes does the Condor Legion have, Li Mo is not very clear, they should now have the BF110 that only flew for the first time in 1936, the BF110 is a heavy fighter, and at the same time has the ability to fight at night. Li Mo immediately reported the situation here to the air force, and asked them to send planes to search the Hota River at night, and the search range was a hundred kilometers around the Ebulu Bridge.

Even if the government army wants to use the night general pontoon bridge, it is impossible to run too far, and the amount of materials consumed by a heavy tank division to move is sky-high, and at the same time, the movement is not small.

As soon as it was dark, there was an unusual situation at the head of the Bru Bridge, and about a company of government soldiers made a loud noise, using all kinds of livestock and all kinds of steel to advance towards the Bru Bridge, and these people recklessly carried lanterns and torches, and began to clear the ruins on the Blue Bridge.

This situation is a bit abnormal, and after Li Mo found out about this situation, he carefully observed it for a while. These government soldiers were indeed here to build the bridge, and all tools and equipment were prepared.

"Destroy them."

Of course, it was impossible for Li Mo to let these government soldiers repair the Bru Bridge, these government soldiers had just walked on the Bru Bridge, and the powerful 88 mm air-throwing shells fell on their side, and those who did not die hurriedly lay down, and these government soldiers crawled in place like this, they seemed to have been strictly ordered, and none of the soldiers escaped under the shelling.

Although the power of the 88 gun was good, the effect on the lying soldiers was not very ideal, and Li Mo immediately gave up this waste of ammunition and ordered to stop the shelling. As soon as the German artillery bombardment stopped, those government soldiers continued to clean up the wreckage on the Blue Bridge, and as soon as the German shelling stopped, they hurriedly lay down, and the soldiers killed by the German bombing would soon be carried down, and new additional troops would come up to support.

In this way back and forth five or six times, Li Mo's 88 guns had fired nearly 100 shells, and the government soldiers had killed dozens of them, but this did not organize the government soldiers to continue to advance to the broken bridge of the Blue Bridge.

The government soldiers are so persistent in repairing the Blue Bridge, it is definitely not simple, Li Mo is a traverser, the tactics of the government army, our ancestors have already played "Ming Xiu plank road, dark Chen Cang." "The government forces repaired the Bru Bridge as a fake, their purpose was to draw the attention of the Germans on the other side to the Bru Bridge, and then to make it easy for them to build a large pontoon bridge that could pass through tanks at night.

"Platoon commander, what should I do?"

88 Gun Commander Karl asked Li Mo while looking at the Blue Bridge in the night with a viewing glass:

"Fire a flare every ten minutes, and if the enemy builds a bridge, use 88 to shoot directly at the bridge that breaks the bridge."

"Shooting bridges?"

Karl was puzzled, the platoon commander actually wanted to use the precious 88 shells to shoot the bridge that had been blown up, isn't this a serious waste?

Karna didn't understand the power of the 88 gun, but Li Mo was like a treasure, the penetration of the 88 mm anti-aircraft gun was quite impressive, even with ordinary anti-aircraft shells, it could penetrate more than 80 mm of steel plates within a kilometer, if armor-piercing shells were used, by the end of World War II, an allied tank could resist the 88 guns head-on within 500 meters. Germany's artillery technology is leading the world, there is no doubt about this, even if the bridge of the Blue Bridge is made of steel, its thickness is absolutely no gem millimeters, it is impossible to block 88 mm of direct fire, and it is certain that it is not broken and broken.