The Third Reich: The Return of the King

On 2 October, the Italians began their offensive against the Germans on the front line in Villach, which was the crossroads of the Vijena-Weynes and Belgrade-Saalburg railways, and was of great strategic importance.

Villach is a slightly lower gap in the eastern Alps, where the Carinthia valley crosses the mountains, and where the Italians are focused!

When they felt the battlefield, they saw that the German defenses were not very tight, although some fortresses and fortresses were built on the valley, but it did not seem that there were many troops, and the German troops on the frontal defense line were about 1,500 people.

This discovery made the Itali people very happy, because under this kind of terrain, if the enemy planted a heavy army here, then they would have to pay a lot of money to take this place!

I can't imagine that the enemy has only placed 1,500 people here, which is really underestimating them!

Seeing this, the Italian general did not even hesitate at all, and directly ordered the attack.

A brigade of Italian troops took the lead and, under the cover of a large number of artillery, they began to attack the positions of the German leaders.

Moder lay nervously in a valley fortress, using his binoculars to observe the Italian attack up close.

Although Italy was not the most important country in World War I, the soldiers of this country had fought the battlefield and fought against the Austro-Pleno army in the Alps for a long time, so they should have accumulated a lot of experience in mountain warfare!

The Germans obviously didn't have this experience, so Moder was more worried that if the Italian were stronger than the Germans, then it would be difficult for his tactics to be effective!

If Moder had had been the elite of the German army that had been left after disarmament, he would not have had such worries, and although the German army in 1919 was much smaller than a year earlier, it was far more elite than before.

If Moder had been a regular German soldier at this time, he would not have had any worries or worries at all, and he would not have risked his life to be sent to the forward positions to inspect!

Boom –

Although Italy is not an industrial power, it still has a certain industrial base, so at the beginning of the war, the artillery fire of the Italy people was very fierce!

The sound of explosions continued to sound on the German positions, but because the terrain was relatively steep, the German positions were generally built to prevent shelling, and some fortresses were also built in very clever positions, and it was difficult for the artillery on the ground to shoot at an angle, unless the cannon was pulled up the hill and aimed at direct fire, otherwise it was impossible to destroy these bunkers and fortresses!

The Itali apparently did not realize this, and after they bombarded the valley full of gunpowder smoke and the snowflakes in the sky with the explosion raging, the Yiduli were generally satisfied with the effect of the shelling, and then they did not even carry out fire reconnaissance, and directly began to send a large number of infantry to the field

Modell's worries disappeared after the bombardment began, and when he saw the Idulians directly sending infantry to the field, he was relieved and relieved!

"With such a narrow pass, isn't sending infantry to attack looking for death?"

The staff officer next to him said what Moder thought, and he also felt that these guys were sending them to death!

"Send the order, tell everyone not to fire at will, listen to my orders before firing!"

Although the enemy behaved poorly, Moder himself did not take it lightly, he immediately gave the order, and then began to wait quietly for the enemy to arrive.

The Italian soldiers did seem to have experience in fighting on the snowy mountains, they were all wrapped in thick cotton clothes, dressed like a ball, and looked very clumsy, and the wind on this side of the valley was very strong, the soldiers wore too much, the body was too big, and when they were blown by the wind, they staggered when they walked, and it was easy to lose their balance.

Moder himself saw several Italian soldiers fall off the cliff without waiting for the Germans to open fire.

And the Idly officers and even the other soldiers, after seeing their companions stumble and fall off the cliff, were not moved at all, this calmness made Moder feel very surprised, it seems that this kind of thing has happened to them more than once or twice, so the Idly have long been accustomed to this situation!

The performance of the Italians reminded Moder that fighting in the snowy mountains requires not only the threat posed by the enemy, but also the great threat posed by the climate and the natural environment, and he decided to make some improvements when he returned, so that the soldiers should pay attention to anti-skid and warmth, and reduce non-combat attrition!

The Italian soldiers walked for about fifteen minutes as if they were on a tour, and the vanguard approached the German line.

And once approaching the German defense line, whether you see anyone or not, the reaction of the Italian soldier is the same, that is, pick up the gun in your hand, regardless of three, seven, twenty-one, and shoot in the direction of the enemy first!

Perhaps, in their opinion, the sound of gunfire can scare away the enemies hiding in the fortress?

Because of the important strategic value of Villach, before Moder led the army to arrive here, the Odilli army built a lot of fortresses and fortifications here, which saved Moder a lot of time and saved them the trouble of building their own fortifications, of course, in order to improve the defense system of the defense line as much as possible, Moder himself also replanned and built some fortifications, which made the German defense line more solid!

Bang bang bang!

As the Italian army approached slowly, they fired indiscriminately, and their nonchalant appearance did not tell that they were actually fighting.

Ignoring the poor performance of the Yiduli people, Moder calculated the distance in his mind, and only after the other party approached a distance of fifty meters did he give the order to open fire!

"Hit! Hit hard!"

With Moder's order, the German position, which had been silent for a long time, was like a dragon awakening, and in an instant, it erupted extremely fierce tongues of fire, completely drowning the enemy approaching their position!_

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