My Italian

Teleesa is a village west of Alamein, seven kilometers away from Alamein.

This is also a key point of Alamein's first line of defense. Two divisions of the British and Indian troops are stationed here to defend. Although these two divisions are British and Indian troops, their soldiers are all elite Sikhs, so their combat effectiveness is very good.

Of course, apart from the good soldiers, the equipment of these two divisions is considered top-notch in the British and Indian Army. These two divisions have an artillery regiment composed of 36 artillery pieces, coupled with factors such as other weapons and hard training, the combat effectiveness of these two divisions is not inferior to the South African troops.

And these two divisions did not live up to expectations. They built a large number of civil engineering works in Teleaisa. Like the previous permanent fortifications built with cement and steel bars, they firmly controlled the village of Teleaisa. in hand.

For the Italian army, the capture of Teleessa became their first goal.

"Target azimuth angle 17, shooting angle 39, fire!"

"Boom!"

A 150mm cannon shell flew out of the barrel, and the thrust of the propellant was sufficient to allow it to climb rapidly. As the thrust was gradually consumed, gravity gradually gained the upper hand, and the shell began to fall towards the ground, and finally landed on a British door. Next to the army's 18-pounder gun.

The huge explosion directly gasified the soldiers next to the artillery, and the explosion caused the shells piled up to explode. Although these shells have not yet been fuzed, this shell is so powerful that it directly detonates the explosives in the shell. So a series of explosions sounded in this artillery position.

Three of the four guns were lost in this outbreak, and only the 18-pound gun in the lower right corner was lucky enough not to be hit.

And this is just a corner of the battlefield. With the advantages of quantity, power and range, the artillery units of the Fourth Army firmly control the advantages of the battlefield.

Of course, in addition to the strong and elite artillery of our own artillery, there is also a lot of help from the sky. Airships and hot air balloons in the sky provided artillery with the enemy's bearings, and fighter jets and bombers attacked the enemy from the air.

bomber?

That's right, the bomber. As a ground attack bomber, how can someone forget that as early as the second year of fighter research, the secret project of bomber research also began.

For a decade, Italian aircraft designers contributed to the development of the bomber. After four consecutive bombers were not approved by the military, in 1912, the Z-7 prototype finally satisfied the military. The reason for its satisfaction is still because of its performance.

The aircraft is 11.9 meters long, with a wingspan of 23.9 meters, a height of 4.3 meters and a wing area of ​​89.9 square meters. Equipped with two 260-horsepower radial engines, the maximum flight speed is 135 kilometers, the maximum combat distance is 600 kilometers, and the ceiling is 6,000 meters. It can carry a 500kg aerial bomb, or two 250kg bombs, and can be replaced with five 100kg bombs. The self-defense weapons are three Maxim aviation machine guns (two in the front and one in the back).

In the end, the Italian military named the aircraft the AC10 bomber, and asked the Siegel Aircraft Factory to produce 80 of the aircraft in half a year. After the aircraft was delivered to the troops, it was praised by the Land and Sea Air Force. Its long range and high enough load capacity allow the aircraft to have many uses.

In addition, at the beginning of the war, the demand for bomber fighters ranked last among various aircraft. Because the bomb load is not as good as that of the airship, the time spent in the air is even more unpredictable. The airship does not need a venue, just a large enough flat land. The ac10 bomber was once forced to perform reconnaissance missions, forcing an excellent bomber into a reconnaissance aircraft. One can imagine how great the advantage of the airship is in the absence of anti-aircraft firepower.

However, with the appearance of the air defense weapons of the alliance, the chances of airships to perform combat missions have decreased rapidly. The originally mighty and huge body has become the favorite target of air defense weapons.

Ever since, the ac10 bomber has been valued again, and its small size and low cost are its advantages (compared with the airship whose cost is comparable to that of a destroyer).

After the bomber carried out several bombing missions with very low losses, the military picked up this bomber again and asked the aircraft manufacturer to deliver 300 within half a year and 800 within a year. received attention.

In order to ensure the smooth operation of the Egyptian campaign, a total of 112 bomber brigades were assigned to Prince Philippe.

At this time, under the joint ground-air strike, the artillery of the Teleesa defenders lost quickly. Two hours later, there were only 27 guns left in its artillery, and the battle could no longer be fought, and then only the sound of Italian artillery fire could be heard on the battlefield.

Subsequently, Teleesa's position was bombarded more violently, and the continuous intensive attack caused the defenders to suffer a lot of losses. After the shelling ended, a large number of fortifications were destroyed.

At this time, the British and Indian soldiers who were avoiding the shelling poured out of the artillery hole under the order of the officer, preparing to meet the enemy's attack.

Suddenly the roar of the machine sounded, and dozens of planes appeared in the sky.

"Watch out for air strikes, anti-aircraft fire ready."

Amidst the shouts of the officers, the machine guns and anti-aircraft guns on the position were aimed at the sky, waiting for the attack of enemy planes. They have encountered several air raids and have figured out how to deal with the aircraft. Although it is not very good, it is better than not being prepared.

However, this time the plane did not attack at a low altitude, but hovered continuously in the air, and the roaring noise disturbed the officers and soldiers of the British and Indian troops.

"No, why is the plane so loud?"

At this time, a British officer felt that something was wrong. He was familiar with the noise of the plane, and it had never been so loud.

"what is that?"

At this time, a sharp-eyed soldier looked at the **** shadow on the ground in the distance and shouted loudly.

"What is this."

An officer stares at a gigantic machine through binoculars, bewildered. Let’s call it a tractor, but it’s nothing like it. Let's say it is an armored vehicle, but it is also different, because the difference is a bit big or the crawler is used to move forward.

"Fire, machine gun fire."

At this time, an officer commanded a machine gun to attack it. Although he didn't know what it was, it must be a weapon of the enemy by its appearance.

"Da da da~"

The bullets fired by the machine gun seemed to have no effect on them, because the opponent didn't stop at all, and kept moving towards them.

"Why so many?"

As this strange machine gradually approached, the officers and soldiers on the ground saw that there were a lot of them, probably hundreds of them. And there is a huge bundle of wood behind these strange machines, which is too strange.

"There are people behind this machine, and the Italians behind it,"

At this time, someone saw the enemy behind this strange machine, and hurriedly reminded him loudly.

"Fire, all fire, fire on the enemy."

The officer's order was carried out, and the machine guns and rifles on the position continued to fire at the enemy.

But most of the bullets hit these strange machines, and only a few lucky ones hit Italian soldiers who didn't hide.

Although the defenders kept firing, their morale was gradually decreasing in the face of the immobile enemy's strange machines. Even though these Sikhs are brave and good at fighting, they are more fearful than the officers in the face of unknown things.

These strange machines kept approaching them. Obstacles such as mud pits, wooden piles, barbed wire, and soil slopes had no effect on them at all, and there was no obstacle at all.

Then these strange machines kept approaching, and when they got close to a distance of about 100 meters from the position, these machines stopped. Then it opened fire, and the roar of machine guns and artillery at a very close distance of 100 meters caused confusion among the officers and soldiers of the British and Indian troops on the ground.

This distance is too short, and the continuous firepower from this strange machine of the enemy directly hits them so hard that they can't even raise their heads. Especially machine guns, one shot at a time, there is no room for survival at all.

At this time, a large number of Italian troops jumped out of the starting position and attacked the suppressed defender's position.

Being suppressed by this strange machine all the time made the defenders on the ground feel more and more panicked and frightened. Some soldiers had already sneaked away from the traffic trench while the officers were not paying attention.

It's not that no one wants it, it's whether the explosive package can handle this strange machine, but the soldiers who have been following the tank will not let it do so. The dense ammunition of the submachine gun can solve any position that the tank does not pay attention to.

And when the reinforcements from the Italian army arrived, UU Reading www.uukanshu. Under the cover of the tanks, the soldiers directly drove the enemy out of the position.

The first appearance of the tank was much more than that, and then the tank continued to attack, and in a day's time, it directly captured the frontier point of Teleesa.

The first appearance of the tank achieved perfect results, which made the campaign commander Prince Filiberto very happy. Although during this day, half of the tanks were malfunctioning and unable to be used during the battle, but this still couldn't stop their sharp breakthrough attributes, which was too important to him now.

As for the British army, the news of the enemy's machine monsters that bullets could not penetrate, soon followed the defeated soldiers all over the place. As the supreme commander of the campaign, Admiral Murray, knew it earlier than others. For this reason, he also summoned several retreating officers and soldiers overnight, and got the fighting situation of this monster machine from their mouths.

At this time, he immediately reported the situation to London, and at the same time, he was still thinking about how to use what he had in hand to restrain this kind of fighting machine that could move across the battlefield.

(end of this chapter)