My Italian: Chapter 676 Battle of Nice 5

The capture of the Corin Bridge was bad news for the French army.

First of all, the two divisions at Bro Pass had no retreat, and secondly, without the strength of these two divisions, there was a shortage of French troops on the northern front.

Facing the crisis on the northern front of Nice, Admiral Ebert, who is the Sixth Army, certainly paid attention to it. He first sent a message to Lieutenant General Giovanni, the commander of the Nice area, asking him to send at least one division of troops to reinforce his northern line. line, and he would supplement him with troops from Toulon and Marseilles.

Obviously, Admiral Ebert discovered the danger on the northern front, and only by adding a division can the northern front be prevented from being penetrated.

Of course, the increase in troops does not mean that the French army has given up the troops at the Bro Pass, so it is also very important to recapture the west side of the Colin Bridge.

On the west side of the Collin Bridge is a hill that stretches to Les Calanes, and the road goes along the hills all the way through Les Callains to other places.

At this time, on a hill two kilometers west of the Kelin Bridge, a fierce battle is going on on a hill.

Seeing that the enemy was only 20 meters away from him, the defending officer immediately shouted: "Grenade! Still grenade!"

Following the officer's shout, a piece of wooden handle grenade flew out of the position, and a piece of egg grenade also flew towards the position.

Then two dense explosions sounded, accompanied by various screams. However, amidst the explosions, the attacking French army suffered even greater losses.

After all, they have no cover to avoid and can only resist (this is the last distance of the charge), while the Italian army has fortifications that can avoid most of the damage from shrapnel.

But at this time, the Italian officers and soldiers in the position had no time to rejoice, and they were ready to fight hand-to-hand. At this time, every soldier pulled out the bayonet and stuck it on the gun.

Each of them has studied and trained to fight with bayonets, and they also know the importance of courage in hand-to-hand combat. It can be said that they are clear about the theory and operation of hand-to-hand combat, but the only shortcoming is that there is no actual combat. As for the effect of hand-to-hand combat, you will only know after you have fought it.

At this time, as the French army rushed into the position, the hand-to-hand combat officially began.

"Ah!"

An Italian soldier roared and took a big step, raised his rifle with a bayonet and stabbed it in the chest of a French soldier who was about to jump into the trench. Then the French soldier dropped the rifle in his hand and tried to grab the enemy's rifle, but the opponent pulled back and kicked it. At this time, he found his next enemy, and ignored the French soldier who was stabbed by him.

At this time, the French soldier curled up and coughed constantly. The bayonet pierced his body, causing major damage to his lungs, and a large amount of blood flowed into the lung cavity, which also caused the French soldier to cough continuously. In addition, it also affected the damaged lungs, so the pain made it curl up its body. If no effective treatment is received within ten minutes, his life will also end. Obviously this was impossible in the heat of battle, so his fate was sealed.

And he is not the only one who has the same fate on the battlefield. French soldiers in dark blue and red trousers, Italian soldiers in gray-green uniforms.

I want to complain about the military uniforms of the French army here. He is still wearing blue clothes and red trousers for fear that others will not see him. Even the top British lobster soldiers were educated in the Boer War. It is not so conspicuous for the generals in European countries to change their uniforms, but the French army does not change their life and death. He doesn’t know if he doesn’t teach him a painful lesson. turn the corner.

But in general, there are more French soldiers wearing dark blue clothes and red trousers. More than 70% of those who fell on the ground are French corpses, while only 20-30% of Italian soldiers are dead.

There are two main reasons for this result.

On the one hand, under the guidance of someone, the Italian soldiers were proficient in bayonet fighting tactics, and they would use coordination to fight bayonets in groups of three. Although Italy is not as tall as the French, but with the cooperation, it is enough to deal with the French soldiers fighting alone.

The second is weapons. In addition to bayonets, the Italian army also has pistols, engineer shovels, and submachine guns as melee weapons. If you are in a hurry, you can also use light machine guns to shoot.

Compared with the French army, the firepower of the defenders is much stronger. If you want to capture this position, you need to spend your life.

Here we need a grand introduction, the Italian submachine gun, the M1913 submachine gun. The gun was designed by Ville Palosa, a firearms expert at the Arsenal of Turin.

The whole length of the gun: 796mm

Barrel Length: 348 mm

The weight of the whole gun: 3.922 kg

Caliber 9mm, using 9x19mm pistol ammunition

Feeding method: 20/30 rounds magazine

Rate of fire: 380 rounds/min

Initial velocity 370m/s

Range 140 meters

Visually, this gun looks a bit like the MP18, as they both have a left side magazine socket. And in addition to this, they also wrap the sleeve on the barrel.

In terms of performance, this submachine gun can be described as very good. As the world's first submachine gun to achieve such a level, there must be someone behind it. As for who it is, it needs to be kept secret.

When the position entered hand-to-hand combat, the artillery of the defenders, who had not fired, opened fire at this time.

The 75mm mountain artillery, 105mm mountain artillery, and 82mm mortar fired continuously. They formed a barrage in front of the formation to prevent reinforcements from the enemy troops.

Facing that his reinforcements were blocked, the French commander was furious, and immediately under his order, he began to counterattack the defenders' artillery.

The rumbling cannons blasted towards the defenders' artillery positions, and the sound of explosions sounded beside the artillery positions.

The artillery of the defenders immediately transferred the artillery in the face of the enemy's artillery counterattack. The carriage waiting aside quickly mounted the artillery and moved to the next position.

But despite this, there were still losses of two artillery pieces and more than 30 artillery pieces.

The artillery opponent has an absolute advantage and can only choose to fight guerrilla.

However, the artillery of the French army is not at ease. Although the number of artillery artillery of the defenders is very small compared with the offensive troops that cannot be strengthened by the artillery of the division, the sky is ruled by Italy.

At this time, several dark shadows appeared in the sky, and the observing French soldiers immediately sounded the air defense alarm.

At this time, the officers and men of the 37mm anti-aircraft artillery crew immediately raised their vigilance. Although they also know that this anti-aircraft gun has low attack ability against aircraft, but this is their only professional anti-aircraft weapon, it is better than not letting the enemy aircraft be unscrupulous.

At this time, when the French army was on the verge of an enemy, six DF-3 aircraft descended on them.

"shooting!"

37mm anti-aircraft guns, occasional cameo machine guns, and even rifles bang and bang at the officer's orders.

In front of the enemy's anti-aircraft firepower, the two planes rushed down at this time, and they focused on an unconcealed artillery position.

At this time, under the rain of various bullets, the two planes descended like two nimble dragonflies, passing through the rain of bullets and rushing directly towards the artillery position. At this time, under the plane, a 30 kg bomb was about to be tested.

puff puff

boom boom...

Both bombs were pinpointed below the target. One of them was extremely lucky and hit the ammunition box, so the successive explosions turned this place into a **** on earth, and the officers and soldiers in the artillery position suffered heavy casualties.

This side of the position is not peaceful, and the attack is also not going well. At this time, the French troops who entered the position climbed out of the trenches and ran to the rear.

In the hand-to-hand combat, the French officers and soldiers were educated by the Italian army, and the Italian soldiers who were not as tall as them taught them a good lesson in skills and firepower.

The submachine guns spraying bullets in the trenches and the bayonet fighting tactics of the three of them made the French man unable to stand up.

The failure of the attack with huge casualties also made this army need to take a break. When they regrouped, they would inevitably launch a wave of more violent offensives.

The French attack on the Colin Bridge was blocked. This is not the only bad news. The bigger bad news comes from the Bro Pass.

At this time in Xifeng, UU reading www.uukanshu. Com The officers and soldiers of the French army fled one after another. Under the all-out general attack of the 11th Army, the Xifeng defenders could not hold back the enemy's superior firepower and troops. A rout is like a **** breaking, as long as there is one place, it will spread very quickly.

Whether it is the French army's supervisory team or the patriotic enthusiasm that is constantly being promoted, it cannot withstand the blow of most of the casualties at this time. In addition, with the help of the Italian army, they also got the news that the Colin Bridge had been captured. Being able to persist for so long under such circumstances is already a super-level performance.

At this time, seeing his soldiers attacking the top of Xifeng Mountain, Lieutenant General Kavilia finally let go of half of his worries, and then asked his soldiers to chase the enemy all the way to the Kelin Bridge.

"Give an order to the 24th Infantry Division and ask Major General Odorovan to lead the 24th Division to chase me all the way to the Kelin Bridge. I will wipe out the Buro defenders."

"Obey!"

Under the order of Lieutenant General Cavillia, the 24th Division that did not participate in today's battle immediately followed the enemy and rushed towards the Kelin Bridge.

There was a breaking point in the Battle of Nice.