The defensive position set up by the Italians on the periphery of the Billy Vico Fortress was very familiar to Bao Gang, who had more than ten years of battlefield experience, and even Li Guang, a rookie who had never fought in a land battle, was familiar with it.

The defensive position of the Italians is like a textbook, it is the U-shaped position invented by the Germans during World War I.

This position is characterized by the fact that the trenches are extended, and the forward ends of the U-shape are heavy machine-gun positions. A small position may have a simple U-shape, but a large-scale defense has a series of U-shapes.

You must know that Bao Gang was the German armorer of the Chinese army at the beginning, and the German armorer not only used German weapons, but also inherited tactics from the Germans.

How to crack this tactic is not difficult for Bao Gang and Li Guang. It is not that Li Guang has a high level, but that this tactic is the most impressive of the Chinese army. The Chinese army used this trick to be frontally pinned down by the Japanese devils, and the tactics of the two wings were so miserable. It can be said that the number of times the Chinese army suffered losses under this tactic on the battlefield was the largest in the entire period of the War of Resistance Against Japan.

Even these officers in the Naval Resistance Army have a deep understanding of this. Xu Zhan even wrote a booklet specifically for this situation, in case the Naval Resistance Army suffered a loss when it encountered this style of play by the Japanese devils.

To be honest, Li Guang faced the famous "Noodle Army", although he won a small victory, he actually did not relax in his heart. Legends are legends after all, and war is a deadly thing. Fighting with the attitude of listening to legends is definitely looking for death, and I have never heard of a lion fighting a rabbit with all his might.

What's more, Li Guang is not sure whether he is a lion or not, and whether the Italian is a rabbit or not. In the first battle in Africa, Li Guang didn't want to make a horse stumble.

Although Li Guang did not want to fight with the Italians, it was very important for the Naval Resistance Army to seize the pass in front of him. With this pass of the Billy Vico fortress, the Naval Resistance Army can be attacked, retreated, and defended.

There are many means to deal with the U-shaped position, such as the frontal containment of the Japanese army, and the attack on both flanks is quite threatening. This kind of tactic has been thoroughly studied by the Maritime Resistance Force. The core point is to find a way to take out the salients on both flanks of the opponent, and then it will be much easier to deal with the defenders of the trenches without depth. The key point of the battle is whether or not the opponent's two flanks can be eliminated, and generally speaking, it is to use artillery fire to intercept the opponent's reinforcements on the two flank salients, so as to destroy the enemy on the salient.

To break the defense of the Italians, Li Guang adopted a tactic that neither the Chinese army nor the Japanese army was in a position to implement - "brute force cracking".

The first blow to the Italians was not artillery fire from the ground, nor a surprise attack by an armored company, and even more so an attack by infantry, but an air strike.

Twelve fighters and eight transport planes flew over the battlefield, and without saying a word, there was a fierce bombardment of the Italian positions. In particular, eight transport planes dropped sixteen or seventeen tons of mortar shells, which blew up the entire Italian army position in a dusty and hellish place.

Although the Somali Peninsula is not entirely desert, the slopes of the mountains where the Italian army is stationed are also semi-desert Gobi. Under the intensive bombardment, gravel and sand flew together, and the sky over the battlefield seemed to wear a yellow hat, and after a wave of bombing, smoke and dust billowed on the Italian position. And the two most important salients, twelve warplanes also bombed and strafed many times, and I don't know if there are any living people in the mess.

Bao Gang wanted to attack after the air raid ended, Li Guang stretched out his hand and grabbed Bao Gang, and said, "Don't worry, there is still another round of air raids." ”

It was not until four o'clock in the afternoon, when the soldiers had been recuperating for several hours, and three rounds of air raids had been carried out, that Bao Gang's No. 1 Field Battalion came in handy.

The outlying positions of the Italian army were extremely easy for the naval resistance army to take. What a bullshit U-shaped position, after being bombarded with fifty or sixty tons of shells, not to mention the heavy machine-gun position, even the trenches behind it were empty.

After the first round of air raids by the Navy, Colonel Bianchi sent reinforcements to the salient like a textbook. After the second round of air raids, Colonel Bianchi found that his orders were not working, and his soldiers refused the order for reinforcements.

No matter how coerced Colonel Bianchi, even the court-martial, no Italian soldier was willing to die in the salient.

After the third round of strikes by the Naval Resistance Army, not only were there no Italian soldiers in the salient, but even the Italian soldiers in the trenches had fled.

Bao Gang almost took the first line of positions of the Italian army like a leisurely stroll. After taking the position, Major Bianchi was still on the phone giving orders that no one could understand.

The effect of the air raid was so good, it was a little beyond Li Guang's expectations. You must know that most of the air raids of the Naval Resistance Force use mortar shells, which are not weak for the enemy on the surface, but for the opponent in the bunker, it is actually greater psychological pressure. In the face of this intensity of bombardment, the Italian soldiers easily surrendered their positions, which shows that their will to fight is not tenacious.

It is easy to take the first line of positions of the Italian army, but it does not mean that the future battles will be so easy. You know, the next thing to face is the main position of the Italian army.

Bao Gang can be said to have experienced a hundred battles, but he has never experienced such a battle scene. On the domestic battlefield, the opposing sides relied on small arms during the civil war, and if there were a few cannons, it was considered a high-intensity war. In the war against Japan, although the Japanese army's fighters and artillery far surpassed the Chinese army, it had never had such extravagant aerial bombardment. To put it bluntly, it is a company-scale battle, using 20 bombers and fighters, and the devils are not rich enough to this extent.

What Bao Gang despised the most was the Italian army's will to fight, these Italian foreign devils not only did not rescue the dead corpses, but even the wounded soldiers were all thrown into the hidden department. In this situation, not to mention the elite of the Chinese army, even the miscellaneous army in the Chinese army is inferior.

If you want to talk about Li Guang's military thinking, if anything, it can be expressed in one word -- high technology. War is a contest between iron and blood, that is, material and courage. Having been cultivated in modern society for a long time, Li Guang paid more attention to steel-material in his military thinking in his heart.

It's not that Li Guang doesn't pay attention to courage, but as a young man living in a modern era of peace, Li Guang has been in contact with soldiers for a long time, and he feels that any soldier is brave enough. War has been hovering in the land of China for too long, and people or soldiers are disregarding the lives of others as well as their own lives.

The Chinese soldiers are the best soldiers in the world, they are tenacious and brave, and they obey orders. They don't ask for much, it's just their own food and clothing or their family's food and clothing. Li Guang did this very well, and in the eyes of the soldiers, Li Guang was already considered an excellent commander. Although the training was a little hard, whether it was their own food and clothing, their family's food and clothing, and even the hope of their children and grandchildren, they were guaranteed in the Naval Resistance Army.

"It's worth selling this life to Chief Li." This is the voice of the majority of officers and men of the Maritime Resistance Army.

Although Li Guang is not pedantic, the influence of the supremacy of life in later generations is deeply ingrained in him. As long as there are conditions, he will definitely not be reluctant to give up supplies and ammunition, and exchange the lives of soldiers for victory. Now that the British are supplying ammunition, Li Guang's choice is naturally to win with high technology.

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