This striking unit came from the 39th Division. About a regiment of troops, under the direct command of its division commander Mizik, broke through the enemy's defenses and entered the city.

"Commander Kirkel, immediately let your men attack to the left and right, expand the breakthrough, and cooperate with the offensive of the other troops. Move quickly and not give the enemy a chance to react. ”

"Yes, General."

With the command of Mizik. The troops that entered the city immediately divided one battalion to the left and right flanks. And the commander of the regiment took the lead and went down to the second battalion (MMP, I can't hide if I can't provoke it).

In fact, how could Mizik not know about Captain Kirkel's thoughts, but this time he had to do it as a last resort in order to make meritorious contributions. Because the 39th Division performed well in the Greek campaign, they were transferred to the second batch of reinforcements to attack Crete. Two regiments of the 39th Division, which had only come ashore last night, were assigned the task of attacking the left flank today.

And Mizik concentrated most of the equipment of the two regiments to the first regiment and personally led the battle. And his luck was good, the defenders defending this section had previously been hit by key blows from the sea and air, and the equipment losses were heavy.

Mizik, who found that the defenders did not have enough firepower, rarely adopted a strong offensive tactic, and after paying a certain amount of casualties, he successfully captured this position.

Now that he has made a breakthrough, he naturally needs to help more people complete the task.

After learning that the position had not broken through for a while, the defenders in the city also sent troops to recapture the battlefield as soon as possible. As a result, they encountered the 2nd Battalion, which was attacking in depth.

"Open fire and repel them!"

"Fire, destroy them!"

On one street, the troops of both sides encountered, and the commanders of both sides made the same choice for the first time.

"呲、呲、呲~"

This is the Romanian G42 machine gun firing, leaning on the height of the house, pouring bullets at the British soldiers in the street.

"Da, da, da~"

It was a British cloth-wheeled machine gun firing, and this Czech similar machine gun also inherited its characteristics, and now it was also firing heavily at the Romanian soldiers.

The soldiers on both sides, who were now suppressed by the opposing machine guns, could only get out of the street as much as possible and think of other ways. And the alley has become the focus of contention between the two parties.

At this time, the G33 semi-automatic rifle used by Romania demonstrated the power of its continuous firepower. It often only takes two or three men to block an alley, making it impossible for the attacking British soldiers to attack it.

It's just that Commander Kirkel, as the commander, did know that this was only temporary, and although he blocked the enemy's offensive with firepower, according to the size of the opponent, it was at least the strength of a regiment.

"Report immediately to the division commander that we have encountered a counterattack by the defenders of a regiment and need reinforcements."

In fact, without his report, Mizik had already seen that his troops in the depth of the assault were blocked. So it was impossible for him to do nothing, and immediately let the follow-up troops reinforce him.

With the breakthrough of the 39th Division, the defenders on the periphery chose to retreat back when they saw that the situation was not good. Because it is useless to continue to stay, you can only retreat to the city to fight in the streets.

The Romanian army, having achieved the first stage of victory, immediately threw itself into a new battle for the city after a short rest.

As for the attack of the Romanian army, the Anglo-Greek army will not sit idly by, and now for the three commanders, they can no longer care about the landing of Rethymnon, if they cannot hold Heraklion, then the battle will also enter the countdown.

Therefore, the Greek Cointreau also sent only two divisions to reinforce Heraklion, but their reinforcements were somewhat difficult.

"Watch out for shelling, lie down!"

With the shouts of the officers, all the running soldiers quickly fell to their stomachs. Everyone fell to the ground meticulously, and at the same time opened their mouths wide, even if it would cause the mud to get into their mouths. This is all a lesson in blood, and those who have not done anything have already been killed or injured.

Only a "woo" was heard, and a large-caliber shell from the sea smashed into the side of the team.

"Boom!"

After the explosion, the leading officer shouted again. "Get up and move forward!"

Once again, the team is on its way to reinforcements.

Of course, not every team is so lucky, and some are very unlucky. A reinforcement was hit by naval guns. Of the more than 400 people, only more than 100 people made it alive in the end, and this was the result of a shell hitting them in the side as a dud. At that time, the officer leading the team was ready to see God, but he didn't expect to survive.

And in the face of such a bad situation, the three commanders can only hard-top, as for how long they can hold on, everything depends on God's will.

Heraklion can rely on human life, but Rethymnon can't go down. On the 12-kilometre stretch of beach in Rethymnon, boats come and go, and equipment and soldiers disembark from them.

"Gather here for Erlian!"

A company commander with the rank of lieutenant greeted his soldiers loudly.

"Okay, that's it, it's ready to be opened."

A carrier landing ship is taking an R10 tank under command from the ship.

As for the city of Rethymnon, farther away, there was still smoke of gunfire, and the guns of the battle were heard one after another. However, the situation of the battle was very bad for the Greek defenders, who were almost driven out of the city.

The Greek 29th Division, which had only been formed for a long time, was a completely new unit, and the quality of its officers and men was relatively low in the Greek army, so it was assigned to Rethymnon, which was considered to be the least attacked.

However, the Greek army completely underestimated the determination of the Romanian army to attack Crete, and Romania prepared 7 divisions of 150,000 men for this landing operation, which was higher than the estimate of the Greek defenders in all respects.

Moreover, against the long beach line of Rethymnon, the landing force did not make a move, and as soon as it struck, it was a brigade of Marine officers and men. This is also the reason why the 2nd Regiment of the 29th Division of the Greek Army, which was defending the beach, was difficult to hold and was routed in two hours.

And now that the battle in Rethymnon is coming to an end, Romanian heavy equipment will be able to come ashore, which will be even more uncomfortable for the defenders.

It didn't take long for a cheer to be heard from inside the city of Rethymnon, and a large number of defenders surrendered with white flags and weapons. There was no way, the new troops were hit hard, and surrender was also an inevitable choice when there was no reinforcement and the difference in strength between the two sides was too great.

However, the surrender of the defenders of Rethymnon killed Heraklion. They were entangled with the Romanian army in the city, and it was impossible to get out.

Eventually, before the Romanian army that landed in Rethymnon could surround them, the three survived with more than 15,000 Greek-British troops who had forcibly retreated, and retreated into the Cretan Mountains.

The retreat was not smooth, as they were attacked by the Romanian Air Force, and then many in the army were dissatisfied with this and mutinied. By the time the three of them had brought their troops to the central mountains, there were only more than 4,000 people left. Later, they were surrounded and suppressed by Romanian mountain troops, and by December 30, the three men surrendered to the defenders with the remaining 800 officers and soldiers.

Although the end of the Cretan campaign was delayed until 30 December, it took only seven days to capture all the towns on the island in Romania, and only about 10 days with the three days of the landing operation.

In this landing battle, more than 4,000 Romanian officers and soldiers were killed or missing, and more than 8,000 were wounded, totaling about 13,000 people. As for the 100,000 defenders, they were basically wiped out.

With Crete occupied by Romania and the fat Middle East finally exposed to Romania, are Britain and France ready?