A German soldier kicked the door behind the machine gun bunker and was ready to throw two or three grenades into the bunker, and then exploded. air billow spewed out of the gun hole of the bunker, accompanied by the screams of British soldiers inside, which was a deafening explosion.
More German soldiers flocked to the beach to meet them, not cheering by their comrades and the joy of victory, but bright red sea water, broken limbs and arms, piles of corpses, bodies pushed into a straight line by the waves, bodies extending all the way to barbed wire in the distance, and bodies beside trenches in the distance … Bodies, bodies are everywhere.
It makes people suffocate and vomit violently, and the bloody smell makes people breathless and suppress the atmosphere. In just over ten minutes, the German landing troops lost more than two elite soldiers to the beach less than 100 meters.
A soldier whose arm was broken by a bullet is looking for him at the beach. Several medics are helping a wounded soldier who has no leg to stop bleeding. Not far away, engineers are setting up a pontoon pier to load and unload the materials coming from behind.
Further away, several landing ships are unloading the No.3 tank. Engineers are helping the tank to find a way to muddy and soft beaches. There are no palms or laughter. Some priests in white smocks are holding crosses, and they are constantly drawing sacred crosses at the soulless bodies. This is the ceremony to welcome the follow-up army department.
"Oh, my God," a German soldier holding a rifle on the beach accidentally stumbled over a corpse and said to himself in horror, "What on earth have they experienced?"
An old soldier followed him and watched the pink sea water pour into his boots. As he walked along, he whispered, "Son, this is just the beginning of the future war!"
British artillery shells still hit the beach from time to time, forcing the German landing troops to lie down to avoid the continuous gun battle on the British garrison line not far away, and there is no sign of stopping. Obviously, the British also know that if the Germans gain a foothold on the beach, Britain will almost lose everything.
Chapter 412 412 That beach
"bang!" Lift yourself up, Lee? Enfield rifle A British soldier hit a German soldier not far away who was carrying a g43 and kept shooting. He crouched in the trench, pulled the bolt, pulled out a shell casing and then pushed the bolt again. There were not many veterans in this coastal garrison camp-he envied the Germans for holding that kind of non-ceasefire rifle, but he had other Li? Enfield rifle
Picking up the rifle, he took two deep breaths against the trench wall, adjusted his breathing, stood up again and aimed at a running German soldier, knocking the trigger again.
"bang!" Once again, the gun rang, and the soldier carrying p44 assault rifle fell down. The German machine gun was unique. He heard of the horror in Dunkirk. It rang and hit the cement works not far away, splashing a piece of white smoke.
He saw with his own eyes that three British soldiers were hit by bullets and fell down in pain. The Germans had an obvious advantage in firepower. This was the only experience he gained after fighting between Belgium and the German team.
He pulled the bolt, let the chamber go again, and then adjusted his breath. Once again, he got up and aimed at a German soldier, but this time he couldn’t pull his trigger, because a bullet flew in the distance, which went through his cheek, entered his cheekbone and flew away from him with half a face and ears.
His head hit the trench wall on the other side of the trench. The British veteran didn’t give up immediately. He looked at the blue sky and white clouds in the sky and remembered the distant Dunkirk himself. The company commander wanted to shout, but he could blow out blood and bubbles. He wanted to find someone to help, but he couldn’t sit up. People around him looked at him and struggled. His eyes were full of panic.
Not far away, a German sniper put away his special rifle with a sight and followed a dozen grenadiers to jump out of the trench and move forward. They were dozens of meters away from the British garrison trench. After a short charge, they jumped into the trench where the British army was stationed.
Inside, British soldiers tried to take up arms to fight back, but they were screened by experienced German grenadiers p44 assault rifles and g43 automatic rifles. A British machine gun bunker not far away was burned into an oven by a German flame thrower, and the British soldiers screamed like pigs, but then there was no sound.
This is the last line of defense on the British coastline. Obviously, the German landing forces have penetrated the British garrison line, and there are still some British troops in the remaining strongholds.
Let the landing troops see through the autumn water. German naval airmen also joined the battle circle. Stuka roared and blew several bunkers that were not covered with the German flag to pieces. The British resistance became weak. One by one, German soldiers wiped out the remaining shelters.
Military Stuka 2 attack planes flew over the coastline, and they were ordered to destroy the British artillery positions in the rear. With the bombing accuracy and the increasing number of German planes, the British long-range firepower also collapsed and suffered heavy losses. After that, Germany finally stabilized its foothold on the coastline.
I really don’t blame the German army and the German naval airmen for being late, because the Royal Army took unprecedented courage to cover its beach defense forces this morning and paid a price that was almost wiped out.
17 p36 fighters in the nearby airport, they nest, regardless of the loss of German naval airmen, and 4 fw19d fighters showed a fierce battle. The first batch of fighter jets that took off from the German aircraft carrier were forced to run out of ammunition by British fighter pilots and were forced to return.
It was not until the second wave of fw19d fighters flew into the battlefield that the Royal British Army was completely expelled from the landing area-to be honest, it was not appropriate to be expelled, because almost 17 British fighters were shot down and the British army in the vicinity made up all its personnel and equipment.
British anti-aircraft gun positions are also uncharacteristically desperate to fight back, and they do not maintain their strength as before. This has also caused unprecedented trouble to the German army. Seventeen Stuka and three Stuka 2 planes were shot down, five fw19d fighters were shot down, and the nearby anti-aircraft gun positions were all a mess, and 17 were lost.
At last, there was a No.3 tank on the beach, which covered the infantry and rushed to a small road, where an anti-aircraft gun was destroyed and the cannon overturned the British machine gun bunker not far away.
With the cover of tanks, the German grenadiers found themselves and felt that the attack was smoother and faster. At 1 o’clock, they had firmly controlled the beach and organized troops to attack deep areas. About 20,000 elite German soldiers boarded the British coastline and headed for their intended goal, namely Norich.
The second tank and the third tank were slowly transported to land by the German 5 th Light Armored Division. With the 7 th Army sweeping through Belgium and northern France, the car groups were not famous because of Rommel’s fame. However, German commanders all know that this armored division, which was almost the earliest established in Germany, can definitely be called a hundred battles.
Far away from Norich, the commander of the 4th Army of the British Army, General Powell, commander-in-chief of the 2nd British Regiment near Renoridge, is talking to General Montgomery. Last night, his troops were badly beaten by German paratroopers, and now he knows the news of the 5th Army of the Beach Garrison.
"yes! General Montgomery, if our troops now support the beachhead and launch a counterattack against Buckton, I am worried that our troops will meet the South German landing forces halfway … "This general Powell is famous for his good defense and stability. He feels that he should not rush to counterattack before he knows the scale of the German landing forces and landing in the specific location.
In fact, although Buckton is not far from the landing site, the defenders there have not reported that they were attacked except for a large number of German planes, which makes cautious Powell confused the specific attack direction of the Germans. He speculated that the German attack site should be closer to Daya Bay, the Netherlands and Belgium.
"I suggest that the 4th Division in my hand should be sent to the east to reinforce the 14th Division in Daya Bay to the north to help Buckton," he said to Montgomery. "The 9th armored division, the only independent armored unit nearby, is now attacking the beachhead to dry the Germans."
Montgomery certainly didn’t know that there were large-scale German paratroopers in the north and east of Norich, and he didn’t know whether Powell’s strength could dry up the German landing troops, but he still made his deputy Powell reach a counterattack order. He knew that if the Germans didn’t lose the landing site immediately, the German troops on the subsequent shore would definitely not be able to deal with the British recruits.
The airport near Norich has been destroyed by German bombers, and the remaining few have become furnishings because there are no fighters. The British army has been ordered to rush to Norich from all sides in the hope of regaining the important battlefield system, but it has been hit hard by more German fighters.
By 11: 00 p.m., the British army Norich had lost 29 fighter planes, nearly half of the total number of British troops in southern England, but the German army still firmly controlled the system and defended its hegemony in Europe to the death.
At 11: 05, the third large-scale attack of the German army came to Norich. On a clear day, there were 17 butcher strategic bombers, 12 d217 and 7 Stuka. These planes bombed Norich, Buckton, Daya Bay and Los tofte roads and railways, and bombed the crowded roads of the British Fourth Army.
In fact, the fourth British army is not far from the German landing area, which can be said to be close at hand. However, due to the fierce sniper of German paratroopers and the collapse of roads and bridges, most of the troops have not been able to reach the vicinity of their departure place in two hours. At this time, the German landing troops have completely stabilized their foothold on the beach
Powell asked for reinforcements from nearby troops, but Churchill still didn’t dare to give up Dover and the defense line near Brighton easily. He was afraid that the Germans would attack the West and choose Dover for the second batch of landings. This was also a trick carefully arranged by arcado. After landing in Germany, he sent a code to Mussolini in Rome, claiming that Germany would land the Dover regional exhibition for the second time, which was almost equal to London, England.
This is a hollow trick. It depends on whether Churchill believes it or not. Churchill and Montgomery finally came up with a compromise plan, that is, moving Montgomery’s only armored army north to cooperate with the fourth army to defend Norich and drive the Germans to the sea
Montgomery agreed to this plan for a very simple reason. Now it is not a question of how many troops to send to contain the Germans, but how many troops the German superior army can get to the war zone when attacking. There are too many people but not many places. Instead, he sent many targets to the German army. He agreed to Churchill’s practice of dispersing troops and led his armored forces to fight against Gu Bei.
At the same time, the 5th Armored Division of the 5th Armored Army of Germany has landed on the British beach, and more than 30,000 German soldiers have landed on the SS arcado Youth League, and soldiers stormed their right side of Buckton, while the 1st Marine Division of the Navy was attacking the 4th Division of the 4th Army of the German British Army near the main road in Norich.
Chapter 413 413 Valentine’s Day
Bourroul took control of the 1 ST Battalion of Bitter, then Bitter set up its own headquarters, and then Borrell was ordered to take people in the opposite direction to land the Germans on the side of the beach and destroy the British artillery positions there
Although the large-scale artillery positions were killed by German planes on July 7th, there were still some stars that were well hidden, and the British artillery positions still fired at the beach. These shelling seriously slowed down the shore speed of the German landing troops, and the paratroopers were ordered to clear these landing troops, which could not solve the trouble for a while.
After breakfast, the paratrooper company commander Borrell set off with his soldiers. They passed through the woodland composed of bushes and some small trees and appeared behind the British coastline defenders.
Even behind the line of defense, in order to prevent being attacked by Dutch paratroopers, the British coastline positions have been set up as circular defensive positions. At this moment, the beach is playing in full swing, and this side is more deserted.
Because of the unexpected surprise attack by German paratroopers from behind, the British coastline defenders were short of troops, and finally most of the defense forces were transferred away. Most of them are recruits with no combat experience and several machine gun positions.
German paratroopers have had a lot of experience in dealing with this ridiculous means of defense. Several machine gun positions were planted not far from the cannon. This kind of pediatrics continued from the Netherlands to France and Britain, which made Bourroul feel a little annoyed. It is still the result of machine gun fire suppression, bypass and attack.
When Borrell and his men rushed into the British trench, there were already more than a dozen steaming bodies left there. The British artillery position at the bottom of more than a dozen hidden trees was equipped with two field howitzers, about 55-inch large-caliber howitzers, which looked very powerful.
In World War II, the caliber of British artillery was designed and manufactured according to inches, which made people feel very strange. For example, the real caliber of this 55-inch artillery should be 14 mm, and its performance is worse than that of German 15 mm artillery at the same time, but its range has certain advantages.
This is also different from the design requirements of the artillery of both sides. The tactical basis of the rapid advance of German armored forces is that the range of artillery is not so important. arcado and his generals prefer artillery that can be accompanied by the rapid advance of tank troops, so they prefer lightweight artillery, while the British pay more attention to the range of artillery and can manufacture artillery with a longer range without too much requirements on data such as artillery weight.
It won’t make it impossible for these artillery paratroopers to leave the artillery to the British. After the explosives destroyed the two cannons, Borl and his soldiers continued to move sideways along the trenches and cement fortifications. When they met the British, they destroyed two British machine gun bunkers from behind.
"Set up machine guns here! Cover us to attack the highlands over there! " Bourroul said, pointing to an opponent in the highlands of a British machine gun bunker in the distance, "No ceasefire! Disrupt their rhythm! "
With the sound of that unique machine gun, the German paratroopers quickly rushed to their third goal. The British seemed to be in a state of confusion. They didn’t expect the Germans to rush along the trench and intercept the German paratroopers’ attacks. Most of them were Li? Enfield rifle star shooting is not a threat.
Borol leaned against the trench wall and dragged p44 assault rifles at distant targets. The muskets shook one by one with the ejection chamber, and the British soldiers not far away were knocked down by bullets.
"One! Two! Three! " Bourroul kept saying that he still kept pulling the trigger. He covered two soldiers and approached their target. He took out a Grenade and threw it into the British trench in the distance.
"boom! Boom! " Two grenades British soldiers controlled the explosion in the trench, which caused a cloud of dust and smoke. Gravel and shrapnel scattered and flew into the sky with British soldiers’ weapons and arms.
With the two explosions, German paratroopers with rifles bent over and rushed to a place where there was no trench. When German paratroopers were hit by stray bullets, they just jumped up and shook, but more German paratroopers rushed to the position.