The decisive battle against the Third Reich

"I don't know how to do it, General!" Major General Allen shook his head in frustration and said, "This is different from what we trained. In our exercises, they should have been blown away by artillery shells and bombs at this time and had little combat effectiveness. but……"

"This is not just happening to us, Allen!" General Patton said: "General Eisenhower has already reminded us that the Germans will build tunnels in the mountains to protect themselves, so even if we use artillery fire to bombard this high ground, I'm afraid they will come out of the ground again!"

Major General Allen was stunned upon hearing this.

"Believe me!" General Patton said: "They will be in much more trouble than you think!"

Then, General Patton looked at several corpses being carried down from the high ground next to him and asked, "Have you deployed firepower on this high ground?"

"Yes, General!" Major General Allen replied: "But it didn't work. The Germans we faced were obviously veterans. They used snipers to suppress our firepower."

After a pause, Major General Allen added: "I have thought about using snipers to cover them... But you know, our snipers are inexperienced, and our rifles are not as accurate as the German Mauser rifles, especially ours. Still in a low place!”

General Patton nodded.

Major General Allen's analysis is reasonable. The rate of fire of the M1 rifle has indeed increased a lot, and the accuracy is not bad, but it is still far behind compared with the bolt-action rifle.

In fact, what is more important is combat experience. The German snipers are experienced in many battles, but the American soldiers are young. It is difficult to imagine that they can win in a sniper battle.

"I think you are actually building a road here!" Barton raised his head towards the high ground.

"We've already done that!" Alan replied.

"But it's not enough!" Barton said.

Allen asked doubtfully: "What kind of road do you think we need to build, General?"

"A road that tanks can drive up!" General Patton said: "Then show them how powerful they are!"

Major General Allen couldn't help but suddenly realized.

Then he turned around and ordered: "Call the engineers over here!"

"How many people are needed, sir?"

"All of them!" Major General Allen shouted: "Let them bring the bulldozers!"

"Yes, sir!"

The U.S. Army has relatively complete equipment. When engineers in other countries still commonly used axes, American engineers had already begun to use bulldozers... At this time, the "Sherman" had just been produced and had not yet been converted into an armored bulldozer. Engineers Caterpillar D4 bulldozers are still used.

This kind of bulldozer is a light bulldozer. When it is not equipped with a dozer blade, it becomes a tractor. It can be installed in a glider for airborne landing, and when it is equipped with a dozer blade, it becomes a bulldozer.

Soon the engineer battalion came up, with several bulldozers of course.

"I need you to widen and reinforce this road!" Major General Allen said, "The final requirement is that tanks can drive up it!"

"M4 tank?" asked the engineer battalion commander.

(Note: At this time, the US military was not yet accustomed to using the nickname "Sherman" given by the British)

"Yes, that's it!" Allen raised his head towards the two "Shermans" not far away, and then asked: "How long will it take?"

"It will take a day, General!"

"You only have five hours!" Barton looked at his watch and said, "Start counting now!"

"Yes, General!" The engineer battalion commander could only grit his teeth and respond.

In the end, the engineer battalion commander really did it... The engineer battalion commander divided the engineers into three parts, one from the top of the mountain, one from the middle, and one from the bottom of the mountain. The three parts were constructed at the same time. , thus shortening a lot of time.

The engineers even built several tank forts for tanks on the top of the mountain.

General Patton was very satisfied with the work of the engineers. After praising them, he ordered the three tanks to drive up the mountain.

When the three tanks successfully drove to the top of the mountain, all the US troops cheered.

Because even if they all know one thing, the "Sherman" tank is basically invincible in North Africa... The enemy has almost no equipment that can penetrate the armor of this tank from a long distance, which means that these three tanks can have no scruples. The mountaintop position provided very powerful fire cover for the US military's charge.

What these US troops thought was indeed right.

If there is any equipment in the hands of the German army that can destroy the "Sherman", it is only a rocket launcher.

But the range of the rocket launcher is only 160 meters, and there is at least more than 500 meters between the two highlands.

In fact, even if there is only 160 meters between the two highlands, it will not help. Because the wind on the top of the mountain is strong, and the rocket is greatly affected by the wind, so the range of launching from the top of the mountain is not 160 meters at all. It can still be accurate within 60 meters. Even that’s good.

However, the American soldiers were still too happy...

Another burst of artillery fire followed.

However, this time the US military seemed to have confidence in the three tanks on the top of the mountain, so the artillery preparations only took ten minutes.

First, the tank was ready, loaded with shells and pressed the bullets... But the tank gun was useless. After all, the tank gun was a direct-fire gun, and its rate of fire was slow, so it was difficult to pose a threat to the position on the top of the mountain on Onna. At this time, the machine gun is more useful, and the tank armor can provide good cover for the US military.

Then, a battalion of American troops shouted and rushed towards Enna Heights.

These American soldiers were so impatient that they had completely forgotten how to protect each other.

Sure enough, this time no German army dared to emerge from the hilltop position again... No matter where there was a disturbance, the parallel machine guns of several tanks would rush there and hit them randomly, and the mortar crews hiding behind them would shoot at them. Smashing rows of cannonballs behind the slope.

However, the American soldiers slowed down as they rushed into grenade-throwing distance.

They were worried that the other end would throw out another row of smoking grenades as before.

Although this is indeed possible, since you don't need to show up to throw the grenade.

But if the hilltop position is completely suppressed by enemy fire, there will be a problem... The Germans simply don't know when to throw grenades.

And this is unnecessary. All German soldiers have withdrawn to the anti-slope position.

Of course the US military didn't know this. They carefully separated into a small group and approached, then threw out a row of grenades and waited for them to explode on the other side, then shouted and charged forward with bayonets drawn.

This time the American soldiers apparently succeeded, and they occupied the position on the top of the mountain.

However, before the U.S. troops could cheer, gunshots rang out again. The U.S. soldiers fell into a pool of blood one after another and rolled down the slope like wooden piles.