231 Berbera Landing 4
The black units led by Major General Flaso of the Italian army have already arrived on the battlefield.
Colonel Bellini hated the itching teeth, a yellow troops, which turned out to inflict heavy losses on the noble Italians. Enraged, Bellini, with a wave of his hand, sent a black regiment, and more than a thousand people launched the first wave of attacks.
Bellini followed the Italian general Duke Aosta, known as the butcher, for many years. He has a deep understanding of black troops, and he also has his own set of commanding methods.
In World War II, black units organized throughout Africa were used as cannon fodder by the Allies and the Axis powers. The blacks of this era have no culture and no scientific knowledge. And what is even more tragic is that because of the long rule of the white colonizers, they obeyed the white people, without any resistance and no opinion of their own. There is a phenomenon that may seem like a joke to modern people, but it is real in this era: in the consciousness of most black Africans, white people are god-like beings. Throughout World War II, it is impossible to know how many blacks were pushed into the battlefield as cannon fodder for the Axis and the Allies. Even after the end of World War II, no European or American country gave black soldiers the glory they deserved.
These black soldiers were issued a gun by the white colonizers, some were only issued with a steel knife, and many of the troops did not even have to take care of food. Just like that, blacks were sent to war. But the black troops also made a distinction, and the Italians also figured out a pattern. In East Africa, from north to south, black people have become more violent and bloodthirsty from meekness. For example, the blacks in Libya are the most docile, the Sudanese blacks in the south are a little irritable, in Eritrea, the blacks are quite aggressive, the blacks in Ethiopia are already full of resistance, and the blacks in Somalia are simply violent and bloodthirsty. Colonel Bellini commanded a force made up of black Somalis.
After a few minutes, Bai Chongfu's eyes widened. He had never known that there was such a fighting pattern, a group of black and oppressive black men, dressed in messy costumes, dancing, brandishing knives and guns, and screaming and attacking.
After a short period of fighting in Africa, the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army have learned that these black people are also human beings, flesh and blood like them, but with different skin colors, and have basically eliminated the fear of the unknown.
But in the face of such an "army", Bai Chongfu trembled a little.
This is a living person.
Don't they know that flesh and blood are hard to fight against machine gun bullets? Instead of even aiming with their guns, these blacks wielded rifles, or old-fashioned powder guns.
War has its own laws, cruel and simple. Either you die or I die. At a distance of two hundred meters, Bai Chongfu gave the order to open fire.
As the machine gun erupted tongues of fire, rifles fired bullets one after another, mortar shells exploded one after another, and clouds of blood mist erupted in the black troops. Bai Chongfu estimated that more than 200 blacks were killed and injured in just one minute.
The blacks did not shoot during the attack, and rushed up after a jumbled shout. The blacks were running so fast that the dense bullets could not stop their charge. The slaughter-like battle made these first-time soldiers pale and disgusted and wanted to vomit.
It wasn't until the blacks rushed a hundred meters into the line of defense that they fired a wave of gunfire. However, this wave of shooting was inaccurate, and the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army suffered little losses in this wave of blows.
But the crisis on the battlefield did not come from their own losses, but from the blacks taking advantage of the suppression of this wave of bullets to accelerate their charge. The black man's attack was fast and terrifying, and people kept falling, but the black man behind didn't care about death and continued to rush forward.
Bai Chongfu didn't expect it, and neither did the soldiers, that there would be flesh and blood rushing to a position less than ten meters in front of the stone wall under the fire of machine guns.
Bai Chongfu yelled: "Grenades, grenades." ”
The fighters, in a panic, swung grenades one after another. The timely explosion of this wave of grenades bought Bai Chongfu a little time, and the continuous firepower finally repelled the attack of the black man. It is not very accurate to say that it was repulsed, in fact, most of the blacks have died on the battlefield.
Bai Chongfu was so shocked that his head was covered in cold sweat, the crowd tactics were too terrifying. His carelessness, two hundred meters before he ordered the troops to open fire, actually caused such a terrible crisis. If the blacks rushed into the position, the white-knuckle battle would be extremely disadvantageous to the naval resistance army, which was at a disadvantage.
In just a few minutes, nearly a thousand black soldiers lost their lives. In addition to the escape of more than a dozen Italian officers, few blacks survived.
Before he had time to wipe his sweat, Bai Chongfu picked up his rifle again. Colonel Bellini did not regard the negroes as human beings at all, and the two thousand negroes were once again driven into battle by him like two thousand pigs.
It is clear that Bellini is taking the lives of black people to consume the bullets of the Navy. This time, Bai Chongfu did not dare to open fire at two hundred meters, and with five or six hundred meters left, light and heavy machine gun mortars began to suppress the enemy.
Bai Chongfu believed that with psychological preparation, it would be difficult for these black troops to rush to the front line of the Naval Resistance Army again.
But the battlefield is never one side that has the final say, and the Italian army on the battlefield is not all idiots, and Colonel Bellini still knows that artillery fire suppresses. The Italian support artillery was ready at this moment, and the artillery began to fire. Dense shells exploded on the battlefield.
Bai Chongfu now has less than 100 people, eight light machine guns and only two heavy machine guns. Although the fighters continued to fight under artillery fire, the casualties were increasing.
THE ITALIANS USED AT LEAST SIX 75MM GUNS, FIRING ONE OR TWO DOZEN SHELLS PER MINUTE. The explosion of the shells destroyed the houses and knocked down the stone walls. The Italian soldiers may not have been brave enough, but the artillery was quite good. After several rounds of shelling, almost every round of shells exploded inside the aquatic product processing plant.
If Bai Chongfu had not occupied this aquatic product processing plant in advance, and if the troops had already been covered many times on the unsheltered Gobi, it was uncertain whether they would have been able to withstand these shellings.
The battle in front lasted for an hour, and Bai Chongfu's subordinates suffered no more than 20 casualties, but in just a few minutes, there were more than 20 casualties, and the strength of the force was sharply reduced to less than 70 people, and the density of firepower was rapidly weakened.
The charge of the blacks was as frantic as it had just been. Under artillery fire, the fighters did not have time to hide, so they could only open fire fiercely in the rain of bullets. As a soldier in the first battle, he can continue to fight in this kind of shelling environment, and this performance is not inferior to that of a veteran of a hundred battles.
The caliber of the artillery of the Italian army is not large, and it is estimated that they are all 75-mm howitzers. However, this aquatic product processing plant is not large, and the stone wall guarded by the Maritime Resistance Army is only more than 100 meters long. The crumbling stone walls may be able to withstand rifle bullets, but it is absolutely difficult to protect against the bombardment of artillery shells, and in a short time they are already full of ruins.
Recruits, all recruits. Bai Chongfu has very few veterans with battlefield experience, and it can be said that they are all new soldiers. The two platoons led by Bai Chongfu did not carry much weapons and ammunition, the mortars had completely run out of shells, and the heavy machine guns had run out of ammunition after a short battle.
This situation was not foreseen during the exercise. Especially now that the reinforcements have not been able to keep up. You know, an hour is enough time for the landing craft to run back and forth. Bai Chongfu lost the radio station and didn't know what happened at all.
He had to die here.
As soon as the Italian artillery stopped, the blacks screamed and rushed closer and closer, and many fighters were trembling with their hands pulling the trigger. In the last wave of fighting, the fighters were fighting in a tense mood, and not many people realized that it was killing. But in the interval of the battle, everyone saw the tragic scene on the battlefield, countless people fell there under the pressure of black, and the groans of the black men who did not die filled the battlefield, and the hellish scene hit the hearts of the soldiers. The fighters of the amphibious company actually played a serious abnormality in this wave of battles, most of them were just shooting mechanically, and some people did not even dare to aim, but were indiscriminately placing their guns.
Bai Chongfu saw the problem, and he scurried back and forth behind the stone wall, encouraging the soldiers: "Aim, aim, and shoot." ”
Under tremendous pressure, it was difficult for the soldiers to give full play to their training results. Bai Chongfu's company is actually considered an elite in the Naval Resistance Army, and its technical and tactical level is definitely no worse than that of the field battalion, and the passing line for riflemen is 200 meters of shooting, and the gun hits the target.
But the battlefield is not training, and young soldiers face the swarming black soldiers, not to mention one enemy with one shot, and one magazine may not destroy one.
There are two young people in the team, and they behave unusually, looking at these two boys, they almost bite the flesh. Bai Chongfu quickly noticed, he ran over and encouraged: "Good fight, you brothers compare, who has more results after the war, who will be the squad leader." ”
For these two boys, Bai Chongfu even used the temptation. He must stabilize the morale of the army and let the soldiers play their level, otherwise he is afraid that he will not be able to withstand this round of attacks.
These two teenagers, one is called Li Changjiang and the other is Li Dahai. It was in the battle of Shixiang Island in March last year that the two teenagers who survived the No. 20 fishing boat, among which Li Dahai took a Chinese name. The two lost their relatives in that disaster, and since then both brothers have joined the Navy. And Li Dahai was the first foreign soldier in the Maritime Resistance Army.
A hundred meters, the enemy is a hundred meters away. I saw the black soldiers raise their guns, and after a messy burst of gunfire, they began to accelerate their charge.
Zheng Xuechang was also anxious at this time, and the second wave of reinforcements from the Maritime Resistance Army was now blocked outside the port and could not enter the port. The Italian army arranged six torpedo launchers on the coast, and when Bai Chongfu's troops attacked, the Italian army was still asleep, but when the second wave of reinforcements entered the port, the Italian army actually fired torpedoes.
Now Bai Chongfu's second platoon is attacking the Italian torpedo firing positions with all its might.
The Italian torpedo firing positions were quite cleverly set up, blocked by a small hill, and the naval guns were unexpectedly difficult to destroy.
The entrance to the harbor is wide, but when it comes to entering the wharf, the waterway is extremely narrow. The surface of the water, which is less than 500 meters wide, under the blockade of torpedoes, it is difficult for a landing craft to pass through it compared to reaching the sky.
The water reconnaissance plane of the Maritime Resistance Force has already landed, but the hanging bombs and loading of bullets on the water reconnaissance planes are even more troublesome than those of fighter planes. It must be hoisted onto the ship by a seaplane carrier, and it is difficult to load an aircraft in 20 minutes. Although the two seaplane carriers had four cranes, by this time, none of the aircraft had been able to eject back into the air.
Seeing that Bai Chongfu's troops were about to be wiped out, Zheng Xuechang couldn't calm down. Naval artillery support was immediately ordered.
Naval artillery support is easy to say, but the difficulty is not something that outsiders can understand. At a distance of more than 10 kilometers, the slight deviation of the naval guns is hundreds of meters. It is not impossible to hit one's own head, coupled with the huge power of naval artillery shells, it is not uncommon to accidentally injure one's own people.
As Zheng Xuechang's order was issued, the naval gun commander checked the parameters twice before carefully issuing the artillery order.
There was a loud bang from the main gun in front of the Atlantic, spewing out flames more than ten meters long, and a huge cannonball flew into the distance with a whistle.
In the dawn sky, Zheng Xuechang could even see the dark red trajectory of the cannonballs. He watched the battlefield nervously, for fear that the shells would hit his own heads.
The cannonball flew in the air for more than ten seconds, and with an earth-shattering explosion, a column of smoke soared into the air. Zheng Xuechang breathed a sigh of relief. The place where the shells landed, although not ideal, was a little farther away. And the point of impact of this shell was in the rear of the Italian troops. Anyway, it didn't blow up its own people.
Zheng Xuechang believes that this shell did not cause much damage to the Italian army. But Bai Chongfu's feeling was completely different, and with this explosion, the black people immediately began to flee in all directions. Quite a few blacks actually knelt on the ground on the battlefield and prayed strangely.
A huge bullet is devastating for the psychological blow of the Italian army. Not only the blacks, but even the Italian army black shirts began to scatter and flee.
At the beginning, Li Guang had seen the power of the Pacific naval guns on Shixiang Island, and that kind of power was indeed terrifying. Now, the Italian army, which has no fortifications, has a more direct perception of such a shell, and also feels more terrifying.
Zheng Xuechang didn't see anyone at the place where the shells landed, but in fact there were hundreds of black soldiers gathering. Two or three hundred meters around the landing point of the shell, as long as it was a person, it turned out that the light one was dizzy, and the heavy one died. Some of the Italian troops were blown into the sky like leaves by the frenzied shock wave, and they flipped a few times before they landed.
When the smoke cleared, it was difficult to see even the stumps and severed arms within 100 meters of the center of the explosion, and only a few rags were burning. The Italian army, both white and black, has evaporated from the human base in the center. Hundreds of people were killed in this shot alone.
After this blow, the Italian army suffered heavy losses, and the last bit of fighting spirit was completely lost.
No matter how wildly Colonel Bellini screamed, his pistol could no longer stop the soldiers from dispersing, and the Italian army had completely collapsed in two or three minutes.
By noon, the entire army had landed and occupied Berbera without encountering any resistance.
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