After the adjustments, Hanster's platoon was quickly on the outskirts of Portsmouth.

But what didn't make them think was that the battle for Portsmouth wasn't over as they thought. On the contrary, the fighting here is unusually fierce.

Because the total number of British regular troops in the vicinity of Portsmouth barely reached the size of a regiment, Churchill deployed a large number of nearly 40,000 National Guard troops here while withdrawing the regular army.

And these cannon fodder called the National Guard, although the combat level is not very good, but they rushed to die one after another, and it did delay a lot of time.

Just as the British National Guard could not drive the elite German landing force back to the sea on the coast, the German army could not annihilate the huge number of National Guard troops in an instant.

Thus, although the situation was one-sided, the Battle of Portsmouth was never over.

"Rush, rush!" A German Captain named D'Antoni shouted loudly to his men with an MG42 general-purpose machine gun known as "Reinhardt's Saw".

In fact, in this case, the captain himself didn't know who he was ordering now, and it was not so much an order as a casual vent, and he exploded all his emotions.

An infantry company led by him also entered a state of madness, facing the British who were inferior to them in strength and quality, and they used their bodies and strength superiority to launch round after round of crazy massacres against the British National Guard.

Although the combat quality of the British is not high, but thanks to Churchill's propaganda work in place, these militias are also determined to die and resist the Germans, there are constantly cannon fodder troops in front of the fall, but there are constantly new cannon fodder to fill the vacancy, in the dense rain of German bullets, the British have miraculously not lost the central position of Portsmouth.

However, after a period of time, the firepower of the British defense forces inevitably weakened.

Having participated in the Battle of Dunkirk, the experienced Captain D'Antoni was overjoyed.

It seems that the vanguard of his own troops has already attacked the positions of the British!

"All platoons and squads, all charging in this direction!" , D'Antoni keenly captured the fighter's path.

Based on the experience gained from Dunkirk's battle with the British, he understood that as long as there was a breakthrough in the British position, it would be necessary to intensify the impact in that direction, and then it would be very likely to cause the British position to collapse from here!

Due to the fierce attack of the German army, the British positions in front have indeed been captured by the German army.

The soldiers of the German 48th Infantry Division, who finally broke through here, have entered the central position of the British, and are fighting bravely and tenaciously with the British!

Because the defending British army was originally an inaccessible National Guard, the combat effectiveness was low, and they fought for a whole day, the British side has always been weak, so soon their position was completely occupied by the German group of professional soldiers.

And this victory also completely aroused the fighting spirit of the German army, and they once again attacked one British town after another like the devil.

The most terrifying thing is that this group of German soldiers with extremely high combat effectiveness still has a huge numerical advantage in the Portsmouth direction!

The German army's attack on various defensive positions in the Portsmouth area was very simple and crude, basically the tanks opened the way, the infantry coordinated, a soldier fell, and the people behind immediately picked up, and it could even be said that he stepped on the corpses of the German soldiers in front and continued to attack!

It is also strange to say that these British National Guards, who used to have very low combat effectiveness, have become unusually brave, perhaps behind them are their families and hometowns, or perhaps Churchill has worked propaganda and agitation and successfully brainwashed these.

On this basis, each of them dared to go head-to-head with the Germans and dared to pay with their lives to delay the German offensive.

The firepower of the MG42 machine gun is very powerful, and their bullets can sweep down one British after another, but the bullets on the machine gun bullet chain are constantly running out, and when the machine gun bullets are running out and reloading, those British cannon fodder will rush up frantically and use their lives to regain a short distance!

On the battlefield, there was a mess, and the corpses of British and German soldiers were lying on all sides. Of course, because of the gap in combat effectiveness and the level of coordination, most of the corpses of the British are here, and only scattered German corpses are scattered among them.

However, this was enough to surprise the Germans.

Above the position under his feet, the originally black ground had long been stained red with blood. This was the first decent landing battle experienced by the Third Reich's own troops since they landed in Britain, and they used their own blood to write their loyalty to Germany and the Führer in Portsmouth, England.

"If this continues, when our army attacks London, it is estimated that our soldiers will suffer a lot of casualties." Looking at the sea of blood, Captain D'Antoni said to himself.

"yes, we have to find a way, the cost of attacking us is too great." A lieutenant platoon commander under him chimed in.

In fact, what Captain D'Antoni and the lieutenant platoon commander could think of, as could Colonel-General Ernst Busch of the Sixteenth Army.

Ernst was an elite soldier who would never allow himself to be worn out by a group of British militia. Just now, the second batch of submersible tanks No. 3 has been unloaded from the transport ship!

The tank, with its heavy armor, became a natural weapon against infantry. This is especially true of this group of British militiamen, who lack training, lack heavy weapons, and have limited means to deal with tanks.

On the sub-position on Captain D'Antoni's side, although only two unloaded No. 3 tanks were allocated, these two were enough for 1

By this time, the engine of Tank No. 3 had rumbled, and after crossing its own line of control, it stabbed into the British soldiers on the opposite position.

On the turret of tank No. 3, in the front of the hull, two machine guns were firing fiercely.

After the second modification, the No. 3 submersible tank firepower was even more ferocious, even above the turret, the top hatch was equipped with a machine gun at zero hour, and the loader in the tank, also leaned out of the hatch halfway out, and opened fire on the British with the Mauser combat pistol in his hand.

The engine of the tank is roaring, the tracks are spinning wildly, and every moment will bring endless casualties, when the body of the car hit the British soldier fiercely, the British soldier almost just let out a scream, and then the whole body was crushed by the tracks, turning into a bloody corpse.

2 machine guns and 1 pistol, a total of 3 guns, were also constantly spitting out tongues of fire, shooting British soldiers, and for a moment, they seemed to be invincible.

And these British National Guards, in the absence of heavy weapons, they have nothing to do with these German tanks. But tanks without infantry protection are quite dangerous, and in addition, they are only amateur soldiers.

The same happens again and again in the area around Portsmouth.