The firepower of the offensive airspace of the anti-aircraft artillery on the artillery position is super strong, it is the nightmare of C-47, as long as it is a transport plane hit by a shell, it is basically not spared from exploding and disintegrating in the air, but for the airborne troops descending from the air, the role of the artillery is basically the cannon to fight mosquitoes, the effect is not great, once the airborne troops descend to the artillery position, it will form an absolute advantage over the artillery, so it is very important to arrange the infantry to defend the artillery position and the surrounding area.

Infantry is placed on artillery positions, which can attack paratroopers who are forced to parachute from the air.

The paratroopers who parachuted from the air were not able to fight back at all under the attack of the infantry on the ground, so the airborne troops who descended on the artillery positions often suffered heavy casualties under the blows of the enemy infantry on the ground.

Clearly, the Allied intelligence services were incorrectly informed, and the information they received in the first place greatly underestimated the German air defense capabilities on Omaha Beach.

Now, Yan Zhi knew that the commander of the 101st Airborne Division, General William C. Leigh, had deployed too few troops on Omaha Beach, and it was simply difficult to count on the more than 200 men of E Company and Independent Company to complete the removal of anti-aircraft artillery fire from the entire Omaha Beach.

Because judging from the sound of G43 rifles and G43 rifle gunfire, at least one infantry regiment of the German army was also stationed on Omaha Beach.

And the C-47 group was already flying towards this side in a steady stream at this time, and if the German anti-aircraft artillery positions could not be cleared in a short time, the losses of the Allies would be catastrophic.

Now, due to the fact that the C47 of the independent company and the E company were scattered by the German artillery fire, the personnel of the two companies were completely dispersed, forming a small situation of fighting separately, and it was difficult to bring a substantial impact to the German army, which had a huge advantage in numbers.

Now that Yan Zhi has only a dozen people around him, and there are no heavy weapons, it is almost an impossible task to destroy the artillery position from the hands of a regiment of German infantry in a short period of time.

At this time, the battlefield was already chaotic, a large number of soldiers were parachuting, and the Allied escort fighters had no way to participate in the attack on the German artillery positions.

At this moment, more than a dozen soldiers were parachuted into the safety of the area, and there was a steady stream of soldiers, most of them soldiers of the independent company, but also paratroopers from other Allied powers.

C-47 transport planes roared low overhead, German shells were chasing them, the night sky was densely packed with American paratroopers, and the blurred figures on the ground gradually increased, some crawling forward, some people were moving rapidly, and some people were hiding in the shadows to seek more partners to come to support.

Many of the planes passing through the air were hit, and the paratroopers had no choice but to make a forced landing, including soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division, paratroopers from the British Lion Royal Airborne Regiment, and paratroopers from the Netherlands.

The soldiers of the separate company were already aware from the air that there was no anti-aircraft fire and controlled their parachutes to land in this area.

But most of the Allied soldiers who parachuted at low altitude fell around the German artillery positions, and many were shot before they could hit the ground.

Yan Zhixiang looked around.

About 200 meters from this area, there is a watchtower.

Yan Zhi instructed Fan Xiaosi and the others to collect all the machine guns, grenades and grenades on the anti-aircraft machine gun positions of these German devils, let every soldier put on bayonets, defend the surroundings, and let the paratroopers land safely in this place, and then he ran directly to the watchtower.

Climbing the high watchtower, everything on the ground nearby was visible, and 500 meters away, there was a German anti-aircraft artillery position.

This should be the artillery position of a regiment, with more than 60 88-mm anti-aircraft guns, constantly erupting tongues of fire into the air, huge recoil, shaking the earth, almost tearing this beach to pieces.

The power of the 88-mm anti-aircraft heavy gun is far greater than that of the 20-mm Type 38 anti-aircraft machine gun, and the power of each of its shells makes the C-47 in the air terrified.

Probably because of the small size of the place, the distance between the more than 60 88-mm anti-aircraft heavy guns has been compressed to a minimum.

Looking from the watchtower, this artillery defensive array looked very crowded, and the nearly 2,000 officers and soldiers of this regiment were also crowded in this position and around the position, so this position was densely packed with artillery and soldiers.

Since most of the allied airborne troops carried light weapons this time, they could not cause a large-scale lethality, otherwise, with only a few dozen shells, this artillery position would be smashed to pieces.

More than 60 anti-aircraft artillery pieces almost covered the sky in this area, and every shell rushed into the sky, like a fire dragon, with teeth and claws, clumsy C-47 transport planes flying densely in the air.

The cannon rumbled, the shaking earth kept shaking, Yan Zhi stood on the watchtower, feeling that this watchtower had been shaking, and it might collapse at any time.

Probably because the Germans knew in advance that the Allies would log in from here, and provided this artillery regiment with a large number of machine guns in advance, so many soldiers of this artillery regiment held light machine guns in their hands and fired at the Allied paratroopers in the air, so that it was convenient to concentrate dense firepower and weave a spider's web of fire against the paratroopers falling from the sky.

From the current point of view, this tactic is very effective, 88 mm anti-aircraft heavy guns and Type 38 double-barreled quadruple 20 mm anti-aircraft machine guns are mainly used against C-47 transport aircraft, which fly relatively slowly, while the soldiers of this regiment are mostly armed with machine guns, causing great damage to soldiers falling in the air.

The tactics of the Germans were that their artillery positions would be relatively safe as long as they strangled the paratroopers jumping from the air with intensive machine-gun fire.

The Allied fighters, which could only escort the C-47 transport planes at high altitudes from being attacked by the German Air Force fighters, were no longer able or able to fly at low altitudes to strike at this artillery position.

Yan Zhi's thinking turned quickly and agilely, at this time, if there was a shootout with a regiment of enemies, and he would send his own people over, it would undoubtedly not be enough to even stuff people's teeth.

The task was not to destroy the enemy's infantry, but to find a way to destroy the German artillery positions, if not to blow them all up quickly, then to disrupt their anti-aircraft fire.

By what means to take out this artillery regiment?

This artillery platform of the German devils was set up on an open ground, surrounded by potholed bushes.

Yan Zhi decided that in the face of this anti-aircraft artillery regiment of the Germans, he could only use a rapid attack method to insert himself into the middle of the regiment, and then take advantage of their weak point of dense troops, afraid of hurting his own people, and not daring to use machine gun strafing, to blossom from among them to all sides, and when necessary, start a white-knuckle battle with them, disrupting their rhythm of loading shells for 88mm anti-aircraft guns.

At present, this is the only way to do this.

When Yan Zhi came back, there were more than a dozen independent companies and E companies that landed safely, so he ordered everyone, with bayonets on their rifles, to prepare to storm the artillery positions of the Germans and start a white-knuckle battle!!

Because what the German artillery lacked the most was knives, and what they were not good at was white-knuckle combat.

And what Band of Brothers is best at is white-knuckle combat.