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When nearly 100 British bombers arrived, the sky just shone brighter. The anti-aircraft guns of General Goering's regiment were spraying a barrage of death at the British bombers, and a cloud of bullets enveloped the British bombers. There was even an 88-mm anti-aircraft gun shell that hit a Manchester plane directly into the nose, and then the entire front half of the plane disappeared in disbelief through everyone's eyes. The 500-pound aerial bomb in the magazine was detonated by the tremendous force of the impact.

The powerful explosion completely tore the plane to pieces, and the fragments of the entire plane flew towards the planes next to it, and even the bombs in some of the plane's magazines exploded due to the shock. Fragments from these aircraft further damaged the engines, cabs and other parts of other aircraft. Fortunately, the other planes spread out in formation at the right time, so they were not hit. But in the process of coming and going, their formation became a pile of loose sand, and they flew past the place where they dropped their bombs.

Only three of the hundreds of bombs from more than 100 aircraft landed at the airfield, destroying a Ju-52 transport plane with a serious landing gear problem and damaging two BF-109 fighters. But the RAF paid for it with more than a hundred aircraft and hundreds of pilots.

The British Air Force was so demoralized that it was unable to launch a large-scale bombing campaign for a year. A year later, there were not even German cities in the combat radius of the longest-range bombers of the British ** team.

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In order to regain some ground, the declining British Empire sent a number of destroyers, minesweepers, and submarine hunters patrolling the English Channel to reinforce some merchant ships carrying Britain's only armored division to the port of the Isle of Wight.

This tank division was called the 1st Panzer Division, but it was not fully manned. Because the expeditionary force was all captured, the British did not have enough soldiers now, and even this armored division was formed from the wounded soldiers who had been transported to the mainland by the expeditionary force. Now there are only about 5,000 men and less than 200 tanks.

But they were escorted by several of the Royal Navy's newest destroyers. Less than three years after launch, these destroyers are fast, have 127mm single-mount main guns capable of offshore fire support, and a number of V\W-class destroyers are still in service with the Royal Navy (most of the British destroyers encountered in SH3 are Tidal-class or V\W-class). These ships were to serve as fire support when necessary, and although their guns were not of large caliber, the German tanks loaded with armor-piercing shells could not stop them, and the grenade infantry flew away.

But they didn't think that if they wanted to cover the whole island with firepower, the battleships would have to be very close to the port.

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A wing of dive bombers and a wing of fighter planes from mainland China had arrived, and two wings of transport planes (the Germans called them Special Bombing Wings, like the ones that dropped atomic bombs) were constantly supplying the 20,000 soldiers on the Isle of Wight by air.

The heavy weapons that the Germans now needed were finally present in the steady stream of supplies, and although there were no tanks yet, when the landing fleet arrived, the British defenses would be a thing of the past.

Colonel Hans sent a paratrooper battalion to capture the East Port, which was relatively weak in defence and was out of range of the British mainland's coastal guns. This was necessary for the weak German Navy, which was now short of steel and oil (I am reminded of what our geography teacher said, "Coal, iron, and oil are three fossil fuels. Why do I always feel that something is wrong? It is not possible to carry out the shipbuilding program. Even if Ji Feng has the "Shuttle", he can't always rely on it to build ships, once the German Navy develops dependence, the German Navy will lose hope of revival in the future.

The German navy was much shabby in comparison. Ten Z-class destroyers, one P-class heavy cruiser and a dozen one-third full cargo ships, that's all the ships of the German naval fleet of more than 1,000 tons. There were also more than a dozen torpedo boats escorting the ship, which were not suitable for long voyages because most of them had a displacement of less than 200 tons. For a green-water fleet (a fleet operating near the sea), this is a suitable ship to launch a suicide lightning strike. But for the quasi-blue-water fleet of the German Navy, the task of these small torpedo boats was generally to cruise the coastal waters or defend their own ports.

Thanks to the diesel engines of the equipped man, the small torpedo boats were able to reach a maximum speed of even 55 knots per hour. This is also fast for ships close to 200 tons, and most torpedo boats have a top speed of around 50 knots. Moreover, the German Navy has always paid attention to protection, and even torpedo boats, which cannot be equipped with additional protection, are equipped with armor that can withstand the enemy's large-caliber machine guns to protect their crews.

The freeboard of less than half a meter made it easy for these torpedo boats to sink, but despite this, the German Navy inside accepted the mission without hesitation. For them, their fate was like that of the pilots who flew the "Douglas" TBD "Saboteur" torpedo bomber in the initial period of the Pacific War. The common denominator for them is that their weapons are not at all suitable for the battles they will face, but they all participate in the battles they face.

This also has to remind people of "Operation Rainbow". The operation was carried out entirely by the German sailors themselves, because they had heard that the captured warships would be used to attack the German mainland. The unsinkable ship "Setritz" and other warships of the German High Seas Fleet sank themselves at sea after giving the "rainbow" signal.

After the end of World War II, many warship (submarine) commanders sank themselves on the high seas after sending "rainbows" to the mainland after exhausting the last ammunition. Its main purpose is also to prevent the enemy from salvaging the wreckage of the battleship and repairing it for later use. As stupid as this may seem, the German Navy did it.

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Dive bomber wings, escorted by a group of fighters, bombed the nearest British air bases, carrying 125 kilograms of anti-runway bombs capable of blasting ordinary airstrips to the surface of the moon and preventing enemy aircraft from taking off from airfields. This tactic is also a very effective method.

But now facing the 10,000 soldiers who have landed on the Isle of Wight is the counterattack of the British Army. Despite losing most of the experienced soldiers, the counterattack will still be very powerful. And for the German paratroopers, there was a lack of tanks, and even ammunition relied on the delivery of transport aircraft. This also severely limited the volume of anti-tank weapons transported.

The 37-mm anti-tank gun could be disassembled and transported in a transport aircraft capable of carrying dozens of shells. But the depth of penetration of these guns is really not flattering. Unless it hits the butt of the Matilda infantry tank from a few tens of meters away, it will only be able to leave a small shallow pit in the opponent's armor.

In the early days of the Blitzkrieg, the German army did not pay enough attention to these problems because of its strong air support, but when Germany launched the "Barbarossa Plan", when facing the Soviet Union's T series, KV series and even IS series, even the 75mm PAK40 was a little difficult, not to mention those small stepping stones.

Now for the paratroopers, the only thing left to attack the enemy's tanks from a distance is this small stepping stone. But Colonel Hans apparently forgot about his homeland and allocated a squadron of Ju-87G, which had been converted to carry two 37mm anti-tank guns and a total of 36 shells. Although the depth of penetration of these anti-tank guns on land was not enough to penetrate the enemy's armor head-on, the shells fired from the air were themselves attacking the relatively weak tops of the armor, and the gravitational pull of the British astronomer, mathematician, and physicist Newton's shoes gave these small shells considerable kinetic energy. This powerful kinetic energy will make the top armor of these tanks tremble under the kinetic energy.

Seeing that Colonel Hans forgot about the support of the Air Force, Bello, as the Air Force Adjutant, coughed awkwardly and reminded Colonel Hans: "Colonel, we still have the support of the Air Force, and those new Ju-87s will allow the British tanks to experience the power of the can opener." ”

Hans recalculated, and it was still a significant casualty figure. Ji Feng reminded him coldly beside him: "Don't treat the British Royal Navy as air, their naval guns will make it impossible for us to carry out any action." ”

Colonel Hans was completely disappointed at this moment, but Ji Feng's words made him have confidence again: "Our battlecruiser Count Speey will arrive soon, and their shipboard firepower is not weak. ”

Hans suddenly seemed to have found confidence, and then he actively devoted himself to commanding.

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Tom Iver was the commander of the 1st Armored Battalion of the 1st Armored Regiment of the newly formed 1st Armored Division, and his vehicle was a Matilda infantry tank. For some of the crews in the battalion, his tank was like a treasure for the modified four-like tanks.

But for the other armored vehicles and tanks in the battalion, they were modified with larger caliber main guns, and in the event of an exchange of fire with the Germans, they were disposable consumables, like kamikaze. However, Tom was annoyed that the armor-piercing shells fired from his tank's 2-pounder anti-tank gun could not penetrate the Germans' armor at an equal distance. But what he didn't know was that the Germans now did not even have a single armored vehicle on the Isle of Wight, except for a captured "Vickers 3-ton" tank.

Even if there were anti-aircraft guns capable of leveling, there were no more than 50 guns of more than 10 mm caliber. Tom's fears seemed completely unnecessary, but the Royal Navy had apparently forgotten that the Germans also had a fleet, all the way to the Blue Water Fleet. This fleet also had battlecruisers, heavy cruisers, and so on. Despite the fact that the battle cruisers were very backward (the Baltic Fleet's Shiyi Suleg, etc., and even the level of the First World War), it was enough to deal with the British destroyers.

The heavy cruiser Count Speese is one of the most advanced heavy cruisers in the German Navy so far. The reason why it is said to be more advanced is that she is still a cut away from her opponent, the British Royal Navy's proud battlecruiser "Hood". But for the Germans, who were striving for excellence, reliability and gunpowder mastery could make up for this small gap. As the pride of the British Royal Navy and even the British navy, the "Hood" was sunk by the German naval pride "Bismarck" in the real historical time and space.

For the current British Navy, it is really a fire in the back garden: the only warships in Britain within a twelve hours' voyage from the Isle of Wight are destroyers and light auxiliary ships, and the main force of the fleet is in the North Sea or the Mediterranean. Now the British lacked battleships capable of "extinguishing fires". But this does not mean that the British will give in. The British warships will arrive in a dozen hours, and then it will be up to them to see if the submarine forces have the strength to attack.

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Tom led his armoured battalion to the West Harbor on the Isle of Wight, where cranes were able to lift more tanks in a much faster time. But German paratroopers peeked less than a kilometer outside the eastern port.

The greatest psychological consolation for these paratroopers was the Vickers tank, which was converted by the air defense forces with a 37mm gun and a side-by-side light machine gun, which could be used as a "slow light 38(t)".

The tank, operated by a half-trailer crew, entered a covert ambush position about 800 meters outside the eastern harbor. There is a country road directly in front of them 400 meters, which is also the way that the reinforcements of the British ** team must take to get to the airport. Since the Germans now controlled the southeast and southwest of the Isle of Wight, a fort in the center of the island still belonged to the British. It's just that the castle is still in the midst of fierce battles, and the castle is now completely surrounded, and the 100-meter radius of the castle is the southernmost point of the British Empire mainland (the Normandy Islands near France are not counted).

The battle of the fort, the attack on the east port and the defense of the west port - the airport will be carried out at the same time, which is a test of the ability of people to command.

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The 1st Panzer Regiment in West Harbor had been assembled and began to advance in the direction of the airfield. I have to admit that the British are very gentlemanly - the tanks are completely on the road during the advance, which also gives the Germans a greater chance of ambush.

Forty meters on both sides of the road, there were iron-fisted paratroopers waiting for the British tanks in most of the low bushes. Each of them carried two or more iron fists and individual weapons, and the troops in the jungle behind would protect their flanks.

On the battlefield, there is often an emotion called siblings, which can only be experienced by soldiers who have experienced war, and it is an emotion that is beyond the emotions of civilians. This emotion often arises from two people fighting back-to-back on the battlefield.

Due to the lack of troops, Ji Feng and Bowman went into battle with a bunch of anti-tank bazookas. At first, Colonel Hans still wanted to organize the Führer, but when Bowman returned Hans to his post with "state secrets", Ji Feng still successfully "escaped".

Ji Feng took a small sapper shovel and dug two half-meter-deep foxholes in less than three minutes. In order for Bowman to be able to drill into the foxhole, Ji Feng also specially expanded the hole of the foxhole for Bowman.

Bowman looked at the Führer who had dug two pits in front of him and didn't even take a breath of air, and said with emotion: "The Führer is the Führer, it's amazing!" ”

Ji Feng said lightly: "I think I experienced the taste of trench warfare when I was a herald in World War I, and the master in Vienna just asked me to dig a pit, digging a one-meter cube-shaped pit, you don't know, at that time, I had to dig more than ten big pits of that specification a day, and not a millimeter was bad." The master said it was to connect with my arm strength and my mastery of various things. (It is said that soon after the resumption of the college entrance examination in the United States in the last century, it was discovered that there was a strange army in China—about two or three million people, which appeared in major cities every September, and mysteriously disappeared a month later.) At that time, American satellites were not able to see more. So the Americans spent billions of dollars on research. In the end, I didn't figure out what it was, and when I asked the second chief, I learned that it was the legendary freshman military training...... ）

Just as Ji Feng was about to say another talk, the British tank came.

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Lieutenant Allen, the commander of one of the tanks at the beginning of the platoon, was cursing the "tank" that logistics had given him. This is the US military's "Lend-Lease Act" to the British M3 half-track armored personnel carrier, the surrounding armor was reinforced, then covered with armor plates, and finally installed a 57 mm turret of a Crusader cruiser tank produced by an unknown military factory, and then became a "tank". With more than 100 rounds of ammunition, Allen, who had not yet gotten the car, was happy for a while, but when he saw the real thing, he was immediately speechless.

He and his armored platoon are not like this kind of four. Because Ji Feng was in the direction closest to the airfield in the ambush position, this tank became Ji Feng's number one target, and it would be pierced by a scorching iron fist grenade.

Alan heard what seemed to be a rustling sound outside, opened the hatch, and as soon as he leaned his body out of the hatch, Ji Feng opened fire.

The 120 mm armor-piercing warhead slammed into the tank's hull, melting the entire steel plate due to the cavity effect and spraying it into the interior of the tank. Due to the high temperature, the shells and gasoline on the tank exploded instantaneously. Since Lieutenant Allen opened the hatch, the impact was slightly released. The top cover of the entire tank was overturned, and it was turned to the opposite side of Ji Feng. Despite the distance (40 meters), Ji Feng still felt the suffocation caused by the heat wave and carbon dioxide in his face.

After a burst of fire, the top half of Lieutenant Allen's charred body fell from the sky to Bowman's side.

Bowman heard the sound of something heavy falling next to him, so he looked back and almost threw up. But the screams drew fire from the British infantry on the tanks behind. Ji Feng pressed Bowman's head into the foxhole, and then hid himself. At the moment when Bowman hid his head, three 7.7mm bullets flew past Bowman's scalp, breaking several hairs.

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The first wave of British attacks was blocked, but they would have a second and third attack.

Now the German Navy has been able to increase its forces to the Isle of Wight, and now the British and Germans are competing for speed, the speed of delivery of equipment!