 The infantry scrambled to their feet and rushed forward while the sappers hurried to break down the sides of the antitank ditch with picks and shovels . They advanced on a series of posts held by the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the Italian 115th Infantry Regiment . Posts 49 and 47 were rapidly overrun , as was Post 46 in the second line beyond . Within half an hour Post 48 had also fallen and another company had taken Posts 45 and 44 . The two remaining companies now advanced beyond these positions towards a low stone wall as artillery fire began to fall along the broken wire . The Italians fought from behind the wall until the Australians were inside it , attacking with hand grenades and bayonets . The two companies succeeded in taking 400 prisoners . 
