Chapter 006: Operation Light Bulb
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Nor was the victorious army immune to casualties. -- Inscription
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It is known that in order to save the British Expeditionary Force, Britain sent a large number of warships to carry out Operation Dynamo.
The more than 300,000 British soldiers who rescued their homeland lost most of their equipment, but they did not lose their skills. For a period of time, the British People's Army assumed the task of defending the homeland, and the regular army finally carried out dozens of large and small, some of which survived in history, and some disappeared landing battles and airborne paratrooper raids in 1943~1944 after the replacement of equipment.
Letting go of these expeditionary forces was also one of Hitler's mistakes, and if they were captured, perhaps the Third Reich would have been extended for at least another two years.
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Only ten days later, the lightning-fast black army had advanced along the Seine, and Paris was surrounded.
Soon after, the mayor of Paris surrendered to the Germans at the behest of France, intending to preserve the monuments. But in fact, historical relics such as the Louvre can be moved a long time ago, and I don't know where to go. However, for now, it is more likely to be moved to the UK, because the UK is the closest to France.
What was left of the French resistance was divided into small pieces and eventually squeezed. But most of the British expeditionary force and nearly 100,000 French troops retreated to Dunkirk, ready to be picked up by the British navy to return to Britain. But the Luftwaffe harassed for several days, and the pace of retreat was much slower.
Ji Feng signed the "Operation Light Bulb", the goal of which was to completely disrupt the retreat of the British and French forces, make them headless flies, and then capture most of the soldiers who were preparing to retreat. The task was given to the Director of the Airborne Forces, Lieutenant General Student, who had the 7th Airborne Division and the 22nd Airborne Division. Out of a total of more than 31,000 people, it was easy to select 40 English-speaking soldiers for the mission. The main strategy this time was to impersonate the Anglo-French forces to assassinate Lord Gott, the commander of the dynamo operation.
The main means of transport this time were two assault gliders and two Ju-52 "Aunt Junkers" transport aircraft as towing aircraft.
The mission began at 2:10 a.m. on May 25.
The commander of the commando was Lieutenant Colonel Hans, a young man from Bavaria.
His soldiers were the elite of the 1st Airborne Corps (only two divisions in total, and the Germans did just that), and his mission was not only to win the mission, but also to preserve his strength.
One of the two gliders was forced to return to the sea due to a towing rope failure en route, leaving the lieutenant colonel and his 19 men.
The glider quickly fell to the surface of the sea due to its own gravity after breaking away from the tractor. And the pilot's operation made the entire glider intact and broken on the surface of the sea. The commandos lowered their two inflatable rubber boats and rowed towards a large transport ship in the distance. Halfway through, Hans also had his soldiers throw away something that could disrupt the appearance of the army, and then the whole assault team was like someone who had survived a sunken ship. A kind transport ship picked them up on board, but it was undoubtedly an act of luring the wolf into the house.
Lieutenant Colonel Hans commanded his assault team to skillfully capture the entire transport ship, and then kill all the prisoners, because this is an offensive battle, no prisoners can be left, and leaving one prisoner may expose the entire assault team, so that the entire assault team will be annihilated by the enemy.
Hans found the ship's sea valve, but the sea valve didn't rust for a long time, and then Hans found all the weapons and ammunition he was wearing, and then formed a hill next to the sea valve. Take out a bomb and place it on the sea valve, the length of the lead is about 5 minutes.
Then they retreated frantically, lowering their lifeboats and rowing towards the shore, this time also dressed as soldiers who had fallen overboard.
Before they could get ashore, a major swam over and asked when the next boat would come and how many people it could hold. Hans said in English: "The next ship is there." Pointing to the burning ship, the major was deflated and swam toward the shore.
After the small lifeboat docked, Hans abandoned the ship and left, and the coalition soldiers next to him looked at Hans and his commando team as if they were monsters. Because this little lifeboat doesn't look very good, and it can't be rowed back to the UK, but it's a good thing, and it can get on and off the boat faster and greatly increase the chances of survival.
But Hans didn't have to run away at all, so what more lifeboats did they need? Hans led the men towards the main goal of the mission, a villa that looked very grand.
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Fight! It was a brawl of a very bad nature!
The two sides of the brawl: one each of the 1st and 2nd Assault Brigades of the "Black Storm" flag team, about 900 people; The 21st Infantry Division of the Anglo-French Army, with about 2,200 men.
Reason for the fight: It is said that both sides wanted to go to the other side's defense line to investigate, but they encountered it on the way, so they fought a lot.
Brawl process:
1. The soldiers of the "Black Storm" flag team noticed that another group of people was moving quickly in the night, so they went to check. But it turned out that this was a commando of the Anglo-French army. Then, in order not to alarm the people in the enemy position, both sides put on their bayonets and prepared for hand-to-hand combat.
2. Because the black soldiers of the "Black Storm" were very athletic and had long hands and feet. In this way, the Mauser Kar.98K rifle was about the same length after the bayonet on the Lee Enfield series rifles, but because the arms were longer, I suddenly found that my advantage was really great.
3. When both sides were forced to throw down their rifles and go into battle shirtless, the soldiers of "Black Storm" used their fists the size of a sand bowl to make the British and French troops understand what it means to "why the flowers bloom so red". And then let them understand what the consequences of the invasion of Africa were.
4. In the end, 300 soldiers of the Anglo-French army retreated with 200 wounded, and the rest were either killed or wounded. The black soldiers of the "Black Storm" suffered about 170 casualties. An important reason for this was that the black soldiers had the advantage in the night.
Evaluation of the brawl (to be objective and fair): Although this brawl caused the German "Black Storm" flag team to lose nearly 200 elite soldiers, it completely wiped out the resistance consciousness of the entire British and French forces. The Anglo-French forces realized that their invasion of Africa was very wrong, and now they themselves were strongly retaliated against by African German soldiers. This brawl established the victory in the Battle of Dunkirk, leaving the British with no more troops capable of withstanding the German attack, and hastening the German victory.
Impact: The Afrika Army, which the Anglo-French forces have said they are going to prosecute the Germans before the International Tribunal, is crazy and has broken the rules of the war. Marx, the commander of the German army, severely criticized the black soldiers for not playing the German spirit, the friendship, and the Olympic spirit. The black soldiers agreed, and said they would work to improve their business. Seeing that his soldiers were very good, Marx nodded with satisfaction.
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When Hans came out of the Lord's castle, everyone's hearts were very heavy—Lord Gort, they had done what many soldiers could not do: not fear death. After fighting to the last moment, they fought hard with the German commandos with knives and something they could use, and in this operation the German commandos lost 11 men, and now there are 9 men left with Hans.
It is impossible to get rid of death in war, and only the dead can see the end of the war (Plato). War and death seem to have formed a dialectical relationship, but in fact war has existed since the formation of slavery and cannot be avoided. Victorious armies are not immune to casualties.
The German offensive on all fronts began punctually at 7 o'clock, with the forces of Rommel, Heinrich and Marx taking the lead. Tanks 35(t), 38(t), No. 3 and No. 4 were lined up, most notably the No. 4 F2 operated by the soldiers of the "Black Storm", a tank armed with a 75 mm KWK.38L\48 main gun, which beat the remaining tanks of the British and French forces into meat sauce like tofu. Just like in the Soviet-Japanese War, Japan's Type 95 light tanks were beaten into tofu by the Soviet Army's BT-7 and T-26. In addition to the construction of warships, all the steel produced in Japan is built into bean chariots, but Ji Feng firmly believes that Japan's "bean chariots" should be "teasing chariots".
The Germans lost 2,352 men, fired more than 1,500 tons of ammunition (mostly taken up by aircraft bombs), and consumed about 200 tons of fuel of all kinds. But the significance of this operation was also very great - not only did it kill more than 50 people from Lord Gott's rank and below, but it also captured all the more than 400,000 people who had not yet been able to withdraw from Dunkirk by the British and French forces. After this, Britain had no regular army to compete with Germany, and Britain's defeat was a foregone conclusion.
Himmler saw the strength of the "Black Storm", and then hoped to get some black soldiers, Ji Feng said: "I can let you go to Africa to engage in a black man in the integrated division, and then I will give you some capable black soldiers to serve as non-commissioned officers to support the shelf of this division." I'm giving you the number of the 2nd 'Black Hurricane' Panzergrenadier Division of the Crotch Guards. They will be a symbol of our friendship with the peoples of Africa. ”