On the night of January 7, the port area of Salerno, which is not weak in throughput, was brightly lit, and countless Ming officers and soldiers came and went in this dock area. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoOne after another, the Ming army transport ships docked at the dock and sent a large number of personnel and materials ashore.

The Ming intelligence service had already informed the front command of the landing force that the German armored forces moving south from Naples were massively massing. An attack is expected tomorrow morning on the Zionz Pass, which is crucial to the 18th Highway Guard.

Once the German armoured forces broke through the Zionz Pass, their armored torrent would rush all the way down Route 18 into the city. This is not good news for the Ming army, where most of the heavy equipment has not yet landed.

And not just the German armored forces. The Daming Radio monitoring department has sent reports of a massive increase in telecommunications in various parts of Italy. In particular, the telecommunications at the various airports were very dense, and it was to be expected that Germany and Italy were massively mobilizing their air forces to prepare for an attack on the landing force.

Although it was difficult for Germany and other allies to provide substantial support to the troops stationed in Italy in a short period of time. However, the Allied troops stationed in Italy alone were enough to give the Ming army a headache. After all, they are landing operations, and there is a lot of pressure on logistics and supplies in the early stage.

Fortunately, the Ming army captured the Salerno port area almost intact, thus giving the Ming army a very good buffer. Otherwise, there was no large port to unload supplies, and the heavy equipment of the Ming army would not have been able to go ashore in a short time.

In fact, the Italian troops guarding the port area of Salerno had already received orders to blow up the port before the Ming army stormed the city of Salerno. However, at that time, the port area was quietly infiltrated by an elite Ming army, and after a fierce battle, the defenders stationed here were routed, thus providing a solid guarantee for the success of the landing campaign. This unit is the Call of Duty Force that was airlifted all the way from Imperial Capital to Sicily not long ago.

In order to give those who oppose him a chance to take the initiative to jump out, Zhang Cheng was able to justifiably take advantage of the great opportunity of the war to clean up many stubborn diseases that had accumulated for hundreds of years at once. The notorious Call of Duty special operations forces were deliberately transferred to the Southern European theater where a major war broke out.

The biggest symbol of the special forces is the elite. The best soldiers are selected from among the elite of the army, and each of them is the king of soldiers. They are proficient in all kinds of tactics and armaments, and are brave and fearless. Coupled with long-term training and tacit cooperation, its combat capability far exceeds that of other ordinary troops.

The Call of Duty force, which is feared by the Ming Dynasty and the allies, is actually not a lot of troops, after all, even the world-leading Ming army cannot carefully select too many super soldier kings.

The total strength of the entire Call of Duty force, including logistics support and intelligence forces, is only about 800 people, the size of an infantry battalion. The reason why such a powerful light infantry unit is feared by all countries is that its combat effectiveness is extremely strong.

Under normal circumstances, it is difficult for light infantry to resist when encountering armored units. Because the light infantry did not have any weapons that could effectively deal with armored units. However, as a visitor to the plane who came here unexpectedly from modern time and space, how could Zhang Cheng forget those famous individual anti-armor weapons?

There was no large-scale application in the Ming army before, except for the need to improve the technology and do a good job in the large-scale popularization of reserves and production capacity laying. Another important reason is that Zhang Cheng does not want the concept of these individual weapons and light infantry anti-armor weapons to be exposed early.

In this era, the scientific and technological level of the Ming Dynasty is undoubtedly the highest. In addition to having a large number of colleges, many elite international students from various countries also choose to stay in Daming to live. The implementation of universal education has laid a solid scientific and technological foundation for the improvement of the level of science and technology.

In addition, in order to continue to seize more benefits, the previous family alliance also invested a lot in scientific research, which is an important reason why Daming's scientific and technological level can lead the world. Of course, Zhang Cheng will not be grateful for the investment of those family consortia.

In addition to Daming, other countries are not idle. In this era, facing the threat of the Ming Dynasty, no country can sleep peacefully.

In order to counter the Ming Dynasty, which is almost a demand for the whole world, countries around the world have invariably provided a large amount of funds for scientific and technological research and development in the era of scientific and technological explosion. Although it still cannot be compared with the Ming Dynasty, the gap between the powerful countries has not reached the point of generation difference.

Different from the modern time and space where Zhang Cheng was born, the scientific and technological level of this era is still in a relatively low state. It is also an era in which it is possible to make technological breakthroughs as long as you have a good education. It is common for one person to lead the advancement of technology in this day and age. It's like Einstein, Edison.

In the past, the idea of individual anti-armor weapons of various countries has been limited to large-caliber anti-tank guns and various mine explosives. Once Zhang Cheng released such things as recoilless artillery and anti-tank rocket launchers, it would not be long before military experts from various countries who only needed to break the design inspiration would be able to come up with similar products. And now it is the Ming armored forces that have the advantage of armor on the battlefield.

However, Zhang Cheng learned from Xiao Hongbao that the Allies had begun to study similar individual anti-armor weapons, so the full popularization of the Ming army's equipment with recoilless guns and anti-tank rocket launchers has also been put on the agenda. Until then, though, only elite units like Call of Duty can be equipped with these advanced weapons.

Wang Dexiang didn't know what Zhang Cheng was thinking, and after receiving the order for the Call of Duty Force to transfer to his own jurisdiction, Wang Dexiang immediately arranged a combat mission for them, and went to raid the port area of Salerno when launching a landing operation against Salerno.

Call of Duty forces, who are well-versed in a variety of tactics, rushed into the port area in specially built high-speed landing craft shortly after the start of the landing operation. Defeat the defenders with accurate shooting and tacit tactical coordination.

The defenders at that time had several armored vehicles in the port area, but they quickly turned into flaming flares under the blows of recoilless artillery and anti-tank rocket launchers. The defenders, having lost their heavy weapons, were simply powerless to resist the Ming attack.

In fact, the technology of anti-tank rocket launchers is not difficult, and the technical level of various powers can do it. It didn't appear before, but it was just because the shooting idea didn't move closer to this side.

The Daming special operations forces are equipped with the most advanced weapons and equipment. Everything from non-reflective steel helmets to original versions of body armor. Combined with the individual abilities of the good soldiers, their casualty figures were small.

After the almost complete seizure of the port area of Salerno, large ships drove directly into the port and began to quickly unload people and cargo. Although a few shells would come from inexplicable corners from time to time, they did not have much impact on the unloading work.

"Unload the tank units as soon as possible." The front-line commander of the Battle of Salerno came to the port of Salerno and looked at the chaos of the scene, frowned and shouted orders.

No matter how elite and well-trained the army is, there will be chaos when the scale of the operation is very large, and the Ming army is no exception.

Especially since it was still night, and there were still small groups of scattered German and Italian troops hiding around Salerno, occasionally firing a few mortar shells near the port.

Because the transports are trying to unload as soon as possible, there are a lot of jokes when you fight for me. Needless to say, ships colliding with each other and some ships loaded with tents, military uniforms, or canned oil rushed to the docks, which were not much, to unload their cargo. It was clear that these things did not have much effect in the initial period of the landing, especially in the event that the German armored forces were about to launch a counterattack.

"How does the Liaison Department do it?" The commander of the landing front was very angry, looking at the mountains of various materials in front of him. Especially when he looked at the pile of boxes in front of him, which were full of cans, tents, etc., his head was about to explode: "Send a telegram to the fleet and tell all the ships to retreat!" Priority to unload the tank units of the 2nd Panzer Division! ”

A ship on the ocean is not as easy to operate as a vehicle on the road. Especially now that many ships are crowded inside the port.

It took a lot of effort and more than an hour of tossing and turning before the ships loaded with the tank units of the 2nd Panzer Division approached the cargo dock. At this time, it was already more than one o'clock in the morning on January 8th.

When selecting a landing target before the start of the campaign, a very important intelligence requirement was that the port area of the landing target should have equipment capable of unloading heavy equipment on a large scale. Salerno is one of the ports that can meet the conditions.

Although the Ming Dynasty has built specialized tank vehicle carriers that can directly carry tanks and can open hatches to transport tanks. But even with the industrial capacity of the Ming Dynasty, it was impossible to build such time-consuming and dock-intensive specialized ships in large quantities in a way that was almost endless in all respects. As a result, ports with large unloading equipment became a necessity for large-scale operations.

"It's kind of on land." At the temporary station of the heavy tank battalion of the Second Armored Division, which had just driven to the port, Lin Shuo, who was pale, jumped off his tank, and his body was a little fluttering and stepped on the concrete floor in the port a few times. sighed helplessly, "I've been dangling on the boat for so long, and the bile is about to be shaken out." ”

People who are not professional boaters are afraid of the sea. The raging waves relentlessly lifted the ship, and even a giant made of tens of thousands of tons of steel was just a slightly larger toy in front of the sea.

If a person who has lived on land for a long time is bumpy at sea, it is absolutely incomprehensible to those who have not experienced that feeling. (To be continued.) )