Two hundred and twenty-seven reversals
After the assault of the independent company and the Allied soldiers, the German anti-aircraft artillery fire became thinner and thinner.
There were many German devils with machine guns in their arms, and when they saw the Allied paratroopers, they landed in the bloody corridor held up by the demonic major, so they sprayed machine gun fire into the air near the bloody corridor, but they had already lost sight of the other, and when their machine gun fire could not cover the sky above their heads, there would be Allied soldiers landing beside them, so in less than a minute, the entire German artillery position began to loosen, and then there were signs of crumbling.
A regiment of German soldiers was crammed into a small space in order to be able to concentrate all their firepower and completely cover this area of the air.
At that moment, the anti-aircraft fortress that they had just been impregnable began to collapse under the strong impact of the independent company, and only a few minutes later.
The German anti-aircraft artillery almost stopped firing into the air, and they were entangled in more and more paratroopers paratroopers, and they were forced to engage in brutal hand-to-hand combat with each other in this square area. The artillery and machine guns they had relied on to kill all sides had become useless and a burden.
The sudden reversal of events caught the Germans off guard, and their mentality changed instantly.
This artillery position was littered with the corpses of soldiers on both sides.
The mutilated corpses were all Allied airborne troops, they were all strangled by the German machine guns when they were in the air, and while they were killed by the German machine guns, most of the parachutes carrying them down were also pierced by bullets, and they fell from the air with their corpses, smashed to the ground, and became a mess of flesh and blood.
The bodies with fatal knife wounds were almost all German soldiers.
In order to protect the skies over Omaha Beach, the German soldiers of this regiment used as many anti-aircraft heavy weapons as they could, and they never dreamed that they would engage the Allies in a hand-to-hand battle with the Allies in their artillery positions, all of them without a dagger, let alone a bayonet.
In order to cover the sky above this beach, the German artillery of this regiment, except for the firing and operation personnel of each cannon, the rest of the soldiers used machine guns with extremely fast fire rates to strangle the Allied paratroopers who landed from the air.
When they were forced to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Allies, their cannons and machine guns instantly became cumbersome, but if they threw away the machine guns, they had no weapons in their hands, so they could only pick up the clumsy and heavy machine guns and start a white-knuckle battle with the Allies.
Fortunately, a German regiment of nearly 1,000 people had a numerical advantage in hand-to-hand combat with less than 200 paratroopers, which greatly made up for their disadvantage of not having bayonets.
But Allied paratroopers were massing into the area, leaving the Germans to either break out or surrender, or be annihilated.
But in this small place, the German devils who were entangled by the Allies wanted to break through, it was not easy, they could only temporarily rely on the numerical superiority to fight to the death with the paratroopers of the Allies, they wanted to quickly destroy the less than 200 Allied soldiers, and then organize an effective machine-gun defense position.
Naturally, the Allies also knew the intentions of the Germans, and they relied on their superiority in weapons to fight the Germans to the death. They knew that their own airborne troops were constantly joining, and it would not take long for the Germans in this regiment to be completely surrounded, so the soldiers became more and more courageous the more they fought.
For a time, the ground of this artillery position was full of blood, there were stumps and broken arms everywhere, there were trampled inhuman-shaped corpses everywhere, and there were white parachutes everywhere, and these parachutes tripped the soldiers on both sides from time to time and fell to the ground, so the ground was also full of soldiers on both sides who were rolling and hand-to-hand combat, and the intensity was quite bloody and tragic.
More and more soldiers of the independent company converged in this direction, this beach was originally their main battlefield, and their task was to destroy this artillery position, but at this time, many Allied paratroopers were forced to parachute and joined the war group by mistake.
When there was no longer heavy German artillery fire in the air above Omaha Beach, Allied planes whizzed over above.
Suddenly, above Omaha Beach, a unit belonging to the 101 Airborne Division began to land, they were none other than the 502 battalion of the 3 regiment.
When Allied planes came under heavy German fire as they passed through Omaha Beach, Major General William C. Leigh, commander of the 101st Airborne Division, realized that the information they had received was incorrect, so he immediately ordered Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cole to lead the 3rd Battalion to support the independent company.
Although the entire Allied army knew the courage and good fighting of the Chinese Independent Company, it was a bit fantastical to let more than 100 men of the Independent Company capture the position of 1,000 German artillery of a regiment, and the military position of Omaha Beach was very important, so after receiving the battle situation, Major General William C. Leigh, commander of the 101st Airborne Division, immediately ordered the 3rd Battalion, which was flying elsewhere in Normandy, to parachute on Omaha Beach to assist the Chinese Independent Company in capturing Omaha Beach.
When the Allied headquarters learned that their intelligence was wrong and that the Germans had placed an artillery regiment on Omaha Beach instead of an artillery battery, Eisenhower was shocked to know how much damage a regiment's German artillery positions would inflict on Allied C-47 transport planes flying densely over Omaha Beach.
None of the Allied generals could have imagined that the German Field Marshal Rommel would deploy a regiment of anti-aircraft fire on a position where only one artillery company could be placed, and they never imagined that not far from this artillery regiment, the Germans would also have a company of anti-aircraft guns.
Everyone knows that the damage inflicted on the Allies by a company of anti-aircraft guns of the German army is not much less than that of an artillery regiment.
As the Germans had muted their artillery fire, a battalion of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cole was able to parachute in, calmly land around the German artillery position, and then quickly load their M1 rifles with bayonets and join the battle group, and the situation on the battlefield was suddenly reversed.
The Germans, without bayonets, could only be beaten, their machine guns and artillery were long gone, they still had the advantage in numbers, but in white-knuckle battles, the lack of bayonets became a trench that they could not bypass.
When Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cole led the entire 3rd Battalion of soldiers into the battlefield, some German soldiers began to surrender, so the entire German artillery regiment was like dominoes that had been toppled, and within two or three minutes, the soldiers raised their machine guns above their heads and knelt on the ground to surrender.
But Winters once said that E-Lian never took prisoners.
So when the German soldiers surrendered on their knees, the soldiers of E Company did not stop the CD in their hands.
The same did not stop the CD in his hand, and there was also an independent company......
All of a sudden, there was a bloody storm on Omaha Beach, and it wasn't until Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cole couldn't stand it anymore and stepped in to stop it, that E Company and Independence Company put down their C knives.
Within five minutes of the surrender of all the German soldiers to Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cole's intervention, there were more than 200 German soldiers, Si under the CD of E Company and Separate Company.
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CD – Bayonet (worried about the claws of river crabs)