Although the first field battalion was only an occupation mission in the first wave of battles, the first field battalion would come in handy in the subsequent battles. The Italian positions in front of them were no longer a few trenches and bunkers on the hillside. Rather, it is a permanent fortification built on the hill - the Bilvik Fortress.

Li Guang did not rush to launch an attack on the main position of the Italian army. In accordance with Li Guang's instructions, Bao Gang sent a company to start fire reconnaissance before the battle. That night, the sound of gunfire was heard throughout the mountainous area, and Colonel Bianchi was also uneasy after losing two battles in a row. Colonel Bianchi, who had stayed up all night, barely fell asleep in the early hours of the morning.

In the night of fighting, although the Naval Resistance Army did not achieve many results, the Italian army could not bear it, and the firepower was gradually exposed in front of the Naval Resistance Army.

On the morning of the 29th, the improvised sand table was already clearly marked with the Italian army's defense.

Li Guang looked at the Italian position in front of him, and his brows were twisted. The Italians were really tortoises, and the layout of the positions was quite perfect, with pillboxes, bunkers, and trenches almost as complete as textbooks.

If this is the whole of the Italian defense, it is hard enough. What's more, the fire reconnaissance of the naval resistance army could not make all the defensive means of the Italian army visible, and the Italian army definitely had hidden bunkers.

The main position of the Italian army was a hill with an altitude of three or four hundred meters facing the sea, and it was guarding a road by the sea. On its northern flank, there was a hillside, which was also fortified by the Italians. As for the hills along the road, whether the Italian army has built more defensive positions, it is still difficult for the naval resistance forces to be sure, and it is difficult for infantry reconnaissance to penetrate deep into those areas for the time being, which requires uninterrupted reconnaissance by water reconnaissance aircraft.

Li Guang missed the battleship Pacific a little, and if the battleship Pacific was intact, it would not have been too difficult to take the main position of the Italian army with the support of naval guns. The fortifications of the Italian army, although strong, were not strong enough to survive under the guns of the ships.

Li Guang really didn't want to fight a tough battle, and this kind of loss was really a bit unaffordable for the naval resistance army. However, the battle situation did not allow Li Guang to plan slowly, and in the early morning, the reconnaissance plane reported that a unit of the Italian army had begun to move in the direction of Borasso from Erigabo. It takes up to two days to reach the battlefield.

On the Somali Peninsula, the layout of the Italian army can be said to be mainly concentrated in three cities. All three cities are located on the Gulf of Aden. Gandala was not a big deal, and there was only one infantry company as a symbolic military presence in peacetime. But to the west along Gandala there are the port cities of Poseço and Erigabo and Berbera.

Among them, Erigabo is the military center of the Italian army in the Somali Peninsula, which is not a seaport, and is protected by an east-west mountain range, and the warships in the Gulf of Aden cannot directly attack it. Geographically, it was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Italian army had a large number of troops stationed here. And the more than 1,000 troops led by Colonel Bianchi were actually the main force of the Italian army stationed in Poseiso. In other words, the Naval Resistance Army took the pass in front of them, and the Posese Institute was the next target.

To deal with the reinforcements of the Italian army, Li Guang had already made a plan. The air force was dispatched to bomb and disrupt the reinforcements of the Italian army. But air strikes are not a panacea, it's okay to talk during the day, and it's tied up at night. Li Guang likes to use the Air Force, but he does not expect the Air Force to completely destroy his opponents. It is estimated that even if there is an air force attack, the advance of the Italian reinforcements will arrive within two days, and the whole army will be in place within four days.

In other words, ideally, the Naval Resistance Army should take the pass in front of them within two days, and no more than four days at the latest, otherwise it will be difficult to obtain favorable terrain.

At the military meeting, Bao Gang put forward a proposal -- to contain the Italian army in the main position, and first make every effort to take the flank position of the Italian army. For Li Guang, a commander who has only read military books, there is only one choice. However, Li Guang decided to win in terms of combat skills.

To be honest, Li Guang prefers the unlimited ammunition bombing of the Americans for this kind of tough battle, but the British Empire will not agree to that kind of extravagant fighting at all, you must know that the British Empire lost hundreds of thousands of tons of weapons and equipment in Dunkirk, although there is the support of the Americans, but the army weapons and ammunition are not so sufficient for a while. Li Guangwei gave this battle a very vivid code name "scalpel".

For this kind of fortified position, the Naval Resistance Force has three special medicines. The first, dive bombing by fighters. Six tank destroyers (88mm anti-aircraft guns) and 122mm assault guns of the second armored company. THE THIRD IMITATION JAPANESE 70MM INFANTRY GUN.

As soon as the battle began, the scalpel tactics of the Naval Resistance Army showed great power.

Three companies of infantry in one platoon, platoon commander Fu Xianyu began the attack with the soldiers. His offensive was conservative, just to attract the bunker fire of the Italian army.

When the shots rang out, Colonel Bianchi woke up from his sleep, rubbed his red eyes, made an exception and did not enjoy the Italian food prepared for him by the orderlies, hurriedly drank a cup of coffee, and began to direct the battle.

Last night's attack by the Naval Resistance Army was not pressure for Bianchi, but he found confidence in it. It was so strange that Colonel Bianchi's mental activity was simply impossible to grasp. Yesterday he suffered two defeats in a row, and the Italian army suffered nearly 300 casualties, but after a night of fighting, he regained his confidence. This is also unconscionable.

It turned out that Colonel Bianchi also used his brains, he thought that the Naval Resistance Army had attacked all night, and the Italian army did not lose even a bunker or a machine-gun position. This shows that the Naval Resistance Army lacks the means to attack fortified positions. As a commander, Bianchi couldn't even see the feint attack and fire reconnaissance, which really made Li Guang a little speechless.

Colonel Bianchi gained confidence, the Italian soldiers also had fighting spirit, and at the beginning of the battle, the heavy machine gun called a joyful one.

Soon, the infantry of the Naval Resistance Army was pressed against the Gobi and could not raise their heads at all, and they had no power to fight back. Bianchi thought he had a plan, and he kept calling the command headquarters with complacency, and he even knew how to inspire the army.

Bianchi's excitement didn't last long, and soon a new situation arose on the battlefield. With the sound of the rumbling engine, the Italian army was stunned. The steel monster that appeared in front of him was a big guy that the Italian army had never seen before, and the thick and long barrel pointed straight at him. The bullets from the heavy machine guns clanged against the steel armor, and there was no damage.

This is not a tank. Italian soldiers were easy to tell. Because this steel monster doesn't have a turret at all.

Before the Italian soldiers could distinguish further, the steel monster's cannon barrel erupted in flames. At the same time as the flames were spewed, one of the Italian bunkers was destroyed, and all the soldiers were killed.

Qin Zhan laughed happily.

In yesterday's battle, the armored company was not able to come in handy, and only the own armored platoon of the 1st Field Battalion completely defeated the Italian army. According to the task assigned by Li Guang, the armored company only had a chance to go into battle today. Qin Zhan has not been able to go to the battlefield for more than a year, and the armored troops of the Naval Resistance Army have really appeared on the battlefield for the first time today.

QIN ZHAN PERSONALLY COMMANDED AN 88MM TANK DESTROYER TO RUSH TO THE FRONT, AND IMMEDIATELY OPENED FIRE AFTER THE ITALIAN BUNKER WAS EXPOSED. He really didn't expect that the first shot could be so accurate. AT A DISTANCE OF MORE THAN 400 METERS, THE 88MM GUN WAS ABLE TO SHOOT DIRECTLY INTO THE INTERIOR OF THE ITALIAN BUNKER THROUGH THE FIRING HOLE.

THE BUNKER IN FRONT OF HIM HAD AN OUTER DIAMETER OF FIVE OR SIX METERS, AND THE INTERNAL SPACE WAS ONLY THREE OR FOUR METERS, AND THE HUGE POWER OF THE 88MM SHELLS IMMEDIATELY KILLED ALL THE ITALIAN SOLDIERS IN THE BUNKER.

In the ensuing time, the battlefield set up a stage for the performance of armored companies. This scene was constantly played out everywhere on the battlefield, and the Soviet-made 122mm howitzer was more terrifying than the 88mm anti-aircraft gun, often passing by with a single shot, and the bunker was blown into ruins. Less than ten o'clock. The Naval Resistance Army had already destroyed no less than twenty Italian fortifications.

The start was good, and the Naval Resistance Army wiped out more than 100 Italian troops in two hours, and only a dozen of them were wounded, and no one was killed. Li Guangxi was shocked.

The pace of the battle doesn't seem to be tense, but the pace of progress is not slow at all. Against the Italian fortress halfway up the mountainside, the armored company was useless, and two fighter squads were used.

Although Liu Gensheng and Tu Yuanchao, the two fighter squadrons of the Air Force, used only 12 fighters, the results could not be ignored.

The bunker complex of the Italian army on the hillside is quite solid. Because the outer diameter of a single bunker is only five or six meters, and the large one is only about ten meters. The difficulty of the dive bombing of fighters is still quite high.

This kind of bombing difficulty, if put into the air forces of other countries, I am afraid that it will be a difficult task to complete. But for the naval resistance air force, which has a fresh move, it cannot be regarded as impossible.

Although the target is small, it is a fixed target on the ground after all, and the difficulty is really not high compared to a warship moving at high speed on the sea.

The battle of twelve fighters, as if in training, took turns attacking the Italian bunkers. The bombing of the fighters lasted five hours, three full waves. According to later statistics, in this battle between fighters and bunkers, the hit rate of the fighter squad reached an astonishing 20 percent. By three o'clock in the afternoon, the Italian bunkers on the hillside had been destroyed. Leaving a few bunkers behind, due to the angle relationship, the bombing of the fighters was really ineffective.

Li Guang was in the command headquarters and said to Bao Gang: "The rest of the bones are up to you." ”

Subsequently, the attack of the field battalion commanded by Bao Gang on the bunker of the Italian army was truly a classic of infantry attack. With the squad as a unit, the machine gun rifle was responsible for sealing (blocking the firing holes of the Italian army), the mortar bombardment continued to obscure the view with smoke and dust, and the imitation Japanese infantry gun was moved by the artillery group to a distance of less than 200 meters from the bunker.

Then it was simple, the imitation Japanese infantry gun, weighing only 200 kilograms, and the height was only 60 centimeters, which was not too big compared to a heavy machine gun. THIS SMALL CANNON WITH A CALIBER OF 70MM AND A BODY TUBE RATIO OF ONLY EIGHT TIMES EXERTED ITS TERRIFYING POWER AND STAGED A GOOD SHOW OF BAYONETS ON A SMALL CANNON. The Italian bunkers were strong, but the infantry guns were terrifying.

The infantry was not in a hurry, and the infantry guns continued to fire, and maybe any one could be shot through the shooting hole, and immediately the stump and arm were broken. Although the power of this small cannon cannot be compared with the 88mm gun or the 122 howitzer, it is much more flexible. Often, if you change two positions, adjust the angle, and shoot twenty or thirty shots, one or two shells will be fired into the shooting hole, and after a violent explosion, an Italian bunker will become a grave.

The progress of the Shanghai Anti-Japanese Army on the battlefield was very smooth, Li Guang actually had doubts, the Italian army was different from the legendary Noodle Army, and it fought to the death for a day and did not retreat. With just a few remnant bunkers, no matter how slow the naval resistance army is, it won't take long to definitely take it. Could it be that the Italian commander couldn't even see this?

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