Last night, General Omar Erbradley, who commanded the First Army, ordered the 101st Airborne Division and the 3rd Brigade of the 29th Airborne Division to launch an attack on the Germans on the opposite bank at 3 a.m., because more and more Allied troops had landed in Omaha, and if the 101st Airborne Division and the 3rd Airborne Brigade could not quickly break through the positions defended by the German 702nd Infantry Division, it would be a disastrous consequence for the Allies to launch an air attack on Omaha Beach once the Germans had recovered their strength.

However, due to the heavy fog at 3 o'clock in the morning, it was easy to injure his own people by mistake, so General William C. Leigh withstood the pressure and postponed the attack until dawn, and the entire 101st Airborne Division and the 3rd Airborne Brigade were ready with all offensive weapons and offensive plans.

But no one expected that the Germans, without warning, launched a surprise blow to the positions of the 101 Airborne Division.

The German 702nd Infantry Division, which was almost defeated, received the order of Field Marshal Rommel to defend it, and all the trenches and foxholes on their positions were for defensive purposes.

This caught the 101st Airborne Division a little off guard, and they repeatedly staged how to attack, but never thought that the German 702nd Infantry Division, which was disabled and had only 3,000 men left, would take the initiative to attack.

Major General William C. Leigh heard Brigadier General Mariano Rivera La Paz complaining outside the door, and shouted that the Chinese army had lost its chain and disappeared at the critical moment, so he could only pretend that he had not heard anything and went into the war room, and ordered the sappers to build an improvised bridge with all their might, and all troops to be ready to attack the German positions at any time.

Now, General William C. Leigh also wondered why two or three hours had passed, and the Independent Company and Company E led by Yan Zhi had successfully crossed the river, but there had been no news until now.

According to the previous plan, they were supposed to pull out several commanding heights on the German forward positions before dawn.

Now that the Germans had tanks to help them attack the Allies, General William C. Leigh did not have time to argue with Brigadier General Mariano Rivera La Paz.

Now is not the time for bickering, let alone vindictiveness.

The Germans had tanks, which no one had predicted, and if they did not attack now, the entire army would be hit by a fierce, all-round blow from German tanks.

And if you want to cross the river to attack, you must first build a bridge over the river.

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The whistling shells of the German Tiger and Leopard tanks roared one after another on the Allied positions, setting off a cloud of heat, many soldiers were killed in their sleep, and some soldiers were trapped in the burning room.

Even such a thick fog turned into hot water vapor under the blazing fire of many small buildings, and in the process of diverging into the air, it dispersed the fog from the high places, turning it into a drizzle, which sprinkled from the air and aroused the smell of blood again.

At first, the Allies were a little stunned by the sudden shelling, but years of training allowed them to establish an effective defense and counterattack after a moment of panic.

The signal corps of the division headquarters shuttled back and forth amid artillery fire, conveying the combat orders of the division headquarters to the regiments and battalions.

The division headquarters ordered, build bridges, and launch an attack on the German positions.

More than 100 light and heavy machine guns of the Allies launched a stormy strafing attack on the improvised bunkers of the German troops on the opposite riverbank, blocking three barrage blocking areas and covering the sappers to build bridges.

The bullets fired by more than 100 machine guns, like golden raindrops, formed a fan-shaped attack barrage in the fog, weaving into a large net, just a moment, the fog on the river surface was thinned by the heat energy emitted by the golden fire-colored bullets, and the steaming heat came out, which was very spectacular!

The sound of artillery, machine guns, rifles, grenade explosions thrown by soldiers on both sides of the river, and the screams of wounded soldiers instantly rendered the cruelty of war to the fullest, and the smell of blood spread in the smoke of gunpowder, like an invisible devil, taking away one young and energetic life after another.

In these three fan-shaped barrage blocking areas, all the German troops were so pressed by the heavy fire that they could not raise their heads, and the machine gunners could only hide under the bunkers and did not dare to raise their heads.

Just now, a few machine gunners tried to disturb the barrage blocking area, and as soon as they looked up, the steel helmet was blasted into a hornet's nest by the brutal bullets, and the skull was overturned and fell to the side, and the blood stained the skull, white and red, shocking, and the whole face was pockmarked and unrecognizable, and he didn't even have time to let out a scream.

The Allied sappers carried all the materials that could be used to build the bridge, such as wooden floor slabs and door panels, and bags filled with sand, gravel and earth, and under the cover of machine guns, they bent down and ran towards the river.

The river is not wide, the flow is slow, but the water is very deep, which is why the Allies built bridges. There are many soldiers born in the north, who can't swim, and will definitely die if they enter the deep water, and the cold weather makes the soldiers jump into the cold water, and it is estimated that some of them will be frozen and cramped by the biting river before they can swim to the other side, and sink to the bottom.

The sappers carried bags full of sand and threw them into the river, which had been selected in advance, in order to build an improvised bridge over the rapid river for the troops to pass quickly.

As long as a part of the Allied forces crossed the river first and dragged the enemy fire across the river, the Allies could build more improvised earthen bridges over the river.

"Da Da Da ......"

Suddenly, at a commanding heights of fire slightly behind the German forward positions, more than a dozen MG42 general-purpose heavy machine guns rang out, firing wildly at the Allied machine gun positions.

MG42 general heavy machine gun is the nightmare of many Allied soldiers, they are the demons on the battlefield, they are the butchers in the offensive and defensive battles, positional warfare, killing people like hemp, as long as the people hit by it, they will immediately lose their combat effectiveness, its rate of fire is amazing, it is the spiritual pillar of the German army on the battlefield, whenever they hear the MG42 sound, the German devils are immediately in high spirits, they feel that with such a powerful weapon as a backing, they can occupy the advantage of firepower.

The last thing the Allied veterans wanted to hear was this MG42 diabolical voice, for them, it was the voice of the devil, the voice that came out of hell.

"All the ......"

Immediately afterwards, the brutality of more than a dozen MG08 Maxims, like the roar of small cannons, launched an overwhelming attack on the Allied machine-gun positions.

The Germans knew that the barrage was very bad, so they opened full fire from the commanding heights to break the barrage that the Allies had set up.

MG08 Maxim is world-famous for its brutality, which once shot and killed 10,000 British soldiers in a single day of battle, leaving a notorious reputation as a "tyrant".

Since the commanding heights occupied by the Germans were made of boulders by the sea, it was a natural barrier in front of the Germans, and the Germans were lying in it and shooting outwards without worrying about being hit by bullets on the opposite shore.

Compared to the German army, which had huge stones as a barrier, the Allied machine gunners were almost exposed, and suffered heavy losses under the frantic strafing fire of the German MG08 and MG42.

Suddenly, the barrage blocked by the Allies with more than 100 machine guns was broken by the machine guns on the commanding heights of the German army.

All the Allied sappers who built the bridge lost the protection of the barrage blocking zone.

A few seconds later, the German machine gunners placed by the river emerged from their trenches and fired wildly at the Allied sappers.

These Allied sappers who built bridges by the river, in order to quickly build the bridge, they carried almost no weapons on their bodies, and after suddenly losing the protection of the barrage blocking area from several sides, they became lambs killed by the German devils at will.

For a time, the Allied sappers who built improvised bridges on the banks of the river suffered numerous casualties.