My Italian

On January 7th, the sky was clear, and the early morning sun could not make the earth dry and hot. At this moment, Admiral Bartlett looked at his pocket watch, and the pointer was exactly pointing to 9 o'clock.

"fire!"

An order from the headquarters ordered more than 200 artillery pieces deployed on various artillery positions to fire violently at distant enemies.

The fierce artillery fire destroyed everything on the ground, whether it was barbed wire or bunkers, they were all destroyed by dense artillery. At this time, the officers and soldiers of the 37th Division and Regiment of the British Indian Army who were hiding in the trenches outside the border town of Salum had never seen such a scene.

The constant explosions on the ground indicate that these Indian soldiers who are not trained enough, the soldiers of the 37th Division of the British Indian Army are mainly Bangladeshis. This race is not as brave and good at fighting as the Sikhs (compared to other ethnic groups in India).

Therefore, the morale of these Bengali soldiers continued to decline under artillery fire. Especially the screams of the wounded soldiers made these soldiers look ashen. Even if the British military officers who lead the team are constantly motivating them, it is difficult to keep their morale. There were even people who were dominated by the fear of shelling and fled in fear of not obeying the officers' orders.

Fortunately, these people are very few. And what a stupid thing it is to run in the sky full of gunfire. Either he was hit by shelling or the military law was enforced by the officer, and a fresh life was lost in this way.

The shelling lasted from nine o'clock until eleven o'clock.

During the two-hour bombardment, the positions arranged by the 37th Division were bombed and riddled with holes. Sections of the barbed wire were blown up, and most of the positions and bunkers were incomplete.

Similarly, the attack of more than 200 artillery pieces terrified the officers and soldiers of the 37th Division of the British and Indian Army, because they had never had any energy. In addition, their division was only formed in June last year. In half a year, it is necessary to complete various trainings for officers and soldiers and transport them to the front line in Egypt. How is this possible.

The basic training of a soldier alone takes three months. Even if London does not treat these Indian soldiers as human beings, it still needs two months of basic training. Then there is the tactical training of squads, platoons, and companies, and other trainings. Normally, it takes barely a year, and abnormally, it takes at least ten months.

It took half a year to go to the battlefield, and it was only a problem for these soldiers not to panic.

Lieutenant General Capello, the commander of the Fourth Army who was in charge of commanding the battle, keenly saw the panic of the enemy, and immediately ordered. "Let the 4th Division launch an attack, and order the 16th Division to contain from the flank."

Under Lieutenant General Capello's order, the two divisions sent troops to attack the enemy's positions outside Salum from the southwest, and the 4th and 16th divisions simultaneously sent a regiment to attack the enemy's positions.

"attack!"

Under the leadership of the officer, the soldiers rushed towards the enemy's position with a cat on their backs.

Although this doesn't look very good-looking, it is the best way to reduce the casualties of the charge.

This is indeed the case. Straightening your waist increases the size of your upper body, which also increases the chance of being hit. As for crawling forward, this speed is not only slow but also exhausting. It can only be used for the last distance before charging.

At this time, facing the attack of the Italian army, the British and Indian soldiers on the ground also raised their rifles and fired at the enemy amidst the officer's order.

The marksmanship of these Indian soldiers who lack sufficient training is a bit hard to describe, and the continuous shooting rate is very low.

If you want to rely on these soldiers to attack and retreat the enemy, you can only rely on God's help. Those British officers can't do anything, even if they are whipping desperately with a whip.

Fortunately, Colonel Rodney of the 37th Division did not have this idea. He trusted the power of the Vickers heavy machine gun and the Lewis light machine gun even more.

I saw that when the Italian officers and soldiers attacked to a distance of 500 meters, the machine guns behind the position opened fire. The rain of bullets from nearly a hundred machine guns hindered the attack, and the soldiers couldn't hold their heads up.

In the face of the enemy's intensive machine gun fire, the offensive troops also have ways.

"Mortar, knock out the enemy's machine gun fire for me."

An officer saw that his soldiers were immobilized by the enemy's machine gun fire, and immediately ordered the mortar to hit the enemy's machine gun.

At this time, a 60 mortar team had completed the construction of the position in a bomb crater. After carefully identifying the position of the enemy's machine gun, the observer immediately opened his mouth. "Shoot the elements, the azimuth angle is 21, and the shooting angle is 63!"

With a bang, a 60mm fragmentation bomb hit three meters to the left of the machine gun position, which startled the cheerful British and Indian soldiers.

"Move quickly."

The experienced British team leader of the machine gun team immediately shouted loudly, and the members of the machine gun team immediately prepared to transfer the machine gun to the next position. However, the hot machine gun was not easy to transfer. While the machine gun team was still preparing, the Italian mortar fired again.

At this time, the deep voice was getting closer.

"Lie down!"

The group leader yelled and immediately fell to the ground with his head in his arms. The clever team members also learned from the team leader to lie on the enemy, but they were stupid and didn't know what was going on.

But no matter whether they were lying on the ground or standing in place, they saw a 60mm mortar shell directly and accurately landed in their machine gun position.

"Boom!" An explosion sounded in the machine gun position, scattered shrapnel penetrated the figure standing in the position, and some shrapnel hit the unlucky guy lying on the ground.

For a while, the machine gun position turned into a Shura field. At this time, the team leader and a lucky guy stood up coughing. The barrel of the Vickers heavy machine gun they used had been bent, and it could no longer be used. .

This situation can be seen everywhere in the entire defense line. In addition to the 60mm mortars, the 82mm mortars belonging to the battalion and the 120mm mortars belonging to the regiment were all firing.

But for the front-line infantry, the most important thing is the company's 60mm mortar. The gun does not need to wait, and the weight of 19.3KG can follow the soldiers to attack together. The rate of fire is extremely fast, the accuracy is not bad, it is really the highest quality artillery.

Regarding the role of mortars, Britain and France have the most say. After it suffered a lot, Britain, France and Russia did not hesitate to seize it and start imitating it.

At present, mortars from the Allied countries have appeared on the east and west fronts. I believe that it will not be long before both sides have a large number of mortars.

Let's stop talking about mortars, and let's turn our attention back to the battlefield.

Under the suppression of various firepower of the Italian army, the attacking troops were already close to the enemy's trenches.

"Rush in."

With shouts, Italian troops rushed into the trenches.

Hand-to-hand combat broke out, but compared with the brave Italian soldiers, the Indian soldiers of the British and Indian Army were much worse. The cooperation was not tacit enough, the assassination movements were not standardized enough, and the Italian soldiers had trench cleaners such as submachine guns and shotguns, the UU Reading www.uukanshu.com hand-to-hand combat ended within a quarter of an hour.

The defenders fled to Salum in the rear at a speed that only hated their parents for losing two legs.

At this moment, Admiral Bartlett, who had watched the whole process of the attack, spoke to Lieutenant General Capello beside him. "The battle of British colonists is really bad. I'm going to sleep in Salum at night."

"Obey!"

For Lieutenant General Capello, he does not think the general's request is too much. Judging from the peripheral battle that just ended, the opponent couldn't handle it in two hours, which fully explained many problems.

He was confident that he could capture Sallum before dark, so after the general left, he issued an order "Order the 4th Division and the 16th Division to prepare for battle. I will have dinner in Sallum."

Following Lieutenant General Capello's order, the war in Sallum broke out again, and the shelling had just stopped for two hours, and this time it opened fire on the city of Sallum.

(end of this chapter)

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