The Third Reich: The Return of the King

The Italian people never thought that the German army's firepower was so fierce, obviously looking at the number of people so small, only 1,500 people, and their artillery fire was so fierce before, the other party was at least half killed!

The remaining half of the people actually have such powerful firepower, which is something that the Italian people did not expect at all!

The Italian soldiers of the brigade in charge of the attack soon suffered heavy casualties, and after leaving behind a corpse, they began to retreat in a panic!

It's just that it's easy when you come, but it's not so simple when you retreat!

Seeing that the other side was beginning to retreat, Moder immediately ordered a pursuit, although he did not have tanks, armored vehicles, and motorized infantry at this time, but he still did not give up the idea of taking the initiative in flexible defense.

It stands to reason that the Germans rushed out of their fortifications and bunkers, which should be a good thing for the Italians, because then they would be able to meet the enemy head-on with superior forces and firepower!

However, at this time, the Italian soldiers were already frightened by the fierce fire of the German army just now, and when they were retreating, they heard the gunfire behind them, and everyone thought that instead of resisting on the spot and covering the retreat alternately, they began to flee in a swarm!

In this way, the Italians immediately handed over their backs to the Germans, and in the face of the helpless Yidurian soldiers, the Germans were naturally unceremonious, and they rushed and struck, not only driving all the Itali down, but also almost disrupting the main force of the Itali people under the mountain.

If it weren't for the fact that the commander of Italy had found that the rout of his troops had formed an avalanche effect and ordered the shooting in time, perhaps the Germans would have succeeded!

However, even if they did not succeed, the German army was very successful, and after the post-battle count, they killed and wounded more than 3,400 Italian soldiers, captured more than 600 people, and captured more than 2,000 rifles, more than 120 heavy machine guns, 80 mortars and a large number of bullets and shells.

In addition to these weapons and ammunition. The Germans also collected large quantities of canned goods, cigarettes, matches, and chocolates from the Italians.

These supplies were very important to the German army, and with this batch of supplies, Moder felt that their logistical pressure was suddenly reduced by more than half!

In fact, in addition to these results that have been counted, there are also a large number of Yiduli soldiers who fell into the mountain stream and died are not included in the statistics.

As soon as the two sides went to war, the Germans taught the Italians a profound lesson, letting them know that the enemy on the opposite side was not an existence to be messed with!

In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, they did not dare to attack at will, so they launched an indiscriminate bombardment of the German positions, trying to destroy the German defenses with artillery fire!

This tactic is of great significance to the German army that has been prepared for a long time, although the artillery fire of the Italian people is very fierce, but the German fortifications are all built along the mountain, and some are even built directly in the mountain, and the fortifications have a strong resistance to artillery fire, so it is impossible to destroy their fortifications unless they are directly hit!

After the Italian army bombarded indiscriminately, they plucked up the courage and re-engaged their troops to attack.

This time, the Italians learned to be obedient, and they sent a brigade of troops on the frontal battlefield, and at the same time sent two regiments of troops on the flanks to work together to cover the frontal attacking troops to complete the attack.

This tactic might have worked if it had been on the plains, because the Germans had few troops and it was difficult to divide their forces.

But this kind of attack is of little use in this narrow pass, and no matter how many troops there are, it will not be able to be used at all!

As a result, this attack of the Italians failed again, and this time the casualties were even heavier than the last, and Moder threw five thousand men into a counterattack, chasing the three Italian armies all the way, and although all three armies finally withdrew, they were all crippled without exception.

In one day, the Italian army suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, and such heavy losses made the commander's face begin to appear haze!

On the German side, after seeing the poor fighting ability of the Italians, Moder's heart was relieved.

"The situation here has basically stabilized, and the next thing is to see the battle in other directions!"

He was confident in the defense of this mountain pass, so he planned to turn his attention to other battlefields!

One of the main points of flexible defense is to launch a counterattack, launch a surprise attack in the weak area of the enemy's defense, completely disrupt the enemy's deployment, and inflict maximum losses on the enemy!

On October 4, a German force of 3,000 men set out from Hermagor and advanced south along the Karnik Mountains, and on October 7 they crossed the Alps and reached the small town of Tormezzo on the north bank of the Tagliamento River!

Tormezo's defenses were so empty that they didn't even expect to be attacked by the enemy, who was supposed to fight their main forces in the north.

Why did you suddenly come here?

Tormezo's Italian army had only one company of strength, and it was not a first-line combat unit, but a second-line army, and in the face of the tiger and wolf division of the 3,000 German troops, this Italian army symbolically resisted for a while, and was completely annihilated before it could even hold out for half an hour!

Immediately after taking it, the Germans gathered ships and sailed down the river by land and water, arriving in Karnia on the evening of October 7th!

Karnia is the logistics base of the Italian army, which is responsible for transporting the combat and living materials of 100,000 people on the front line, so there are a large number of warehouses outside the city.

The Italian army stationed here was only one battalion, and they did not have many troops, and like Tormezo's Italian army, they did not expect to be attacked by the enemy, and the enemy was still coming from the south, so they were not at all defenseless!

The Germans easily dealt with the defenders here, and then burned a large number of supplies to the Italian army with a single fire!

After the news of the ineffective operation on the front line and the attack on the rear reached the Italian army headquarters, the faces of the people in the headquarters became very ugly!

Because they found a terrible situation: they seemed to be surrounded!

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