While Chen Yanlong rushed to those Chinese girl bands, the battle in Sicily was still going on. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The 1st Canadian Division, the 5th, 50th and 51st British Divisions were also conducting landing operations on the beaches east and north of Sicily, and their first troops to land were to have their commandos take the lead in the beach, and with the assistance of those paratroopers who had already successfully parachuted, they crossed the beach and seized a small part of the beachhead received by the Italian garrison.

"Lower the hatch! Taking advantage of the fact that our vanguard troops have driven the Italian army out of the first line of defense, we will hurry up the time to land on the beach! ”

An officer named Oakley in the 50th Division roared at the soldiers beside him.

With his loud roar, the British soldiers in the landing craft he was in immediately nervously lowered the hatch and, fully armed and cautious, rushed out of the landing craft and rushed towards the beach that their troops had occupied.

It's just that on the beaches and sands where the waves are raging, these British troops who are carrying out landing operations are not easy at all.

In the midst of the dense gunfire of the Italian army, many landing craft of the British army were also sunk or sunk by the waves.

The British soldiers who sat in the landing craft were either shot or drowned in the bottom of the sea.

Moreover, these beaches also hide a lot of mines and minefields, and the slightest mistake can kill and injure them.

Therefore, in the landing battle that had just begun, more than 200 British troops died in the sea or in the minefields of the beach.

However, in the face of such a terrible landing operation, the cruisers behind these British landing craft immediately used those large-caliber guns and fired shells frantically at the beach where the Italian troops were stationed.

and the first white phosphorus bombs fired by the destroyer to coordinate the attack, so it didn't take long to destroy the pillboxes and batteries set up by the Italian army on the beach; Smoke billowed from the air, and many Italian soldiers who had been burned by white phosphorus bombs were howling in agony on the beach; and gradually burned into a burning man, and finally became a black, hideous-looking corpse.

"All minesweepers hurry up and get rid of all the mines on the beach where we landed!"

"Sappers! You also speed up the clearing of minefields on the beach so that our troops can land as soon as possible! Fast! Otherwise, we will lose to the landing speed of the US army! We must be the first force to capture Sicily! ”

As they watched their fleet flourish, all the British officers who were directing the soldiers to land immediately shouted loudly and gave orders.

And at this time, those who were being bombarded by British naval guns and white phosphorus bombs, or howled to the sky and burned out; The positions of the devastated Italian army were also changing more and more chaotic, and suffered heavy casualties.

"The British naval guns are very powerful! What do we do now? If we continue to fight like this, I'm afraid we will all be wiped out here! ”

"Then withdraw! I don't want to be burned to ashes by those new British shells! ”

"I can't quit! My left leg was blown off by their naval guns! ”

"Help me! Help me! I don't want to die like this! I was set on fire by those strange bombs! Can't extinguish it! ”

"Go away! Don't run around! Your fire will ignite us together, and it will not be extinguished! ”

"Retreat! Anglo-American aviation forces are coming! ”

"Oh my God! With so many planes, how can we fight! I surrender! ”

"I surrender too! I don't want to fight this battle at all! It's all the scourge of Mussolini and Hitler's murderers! We're dead this time! ”

"I'm gone! I don't want to surrender and I don't want to die here! ”

In the face of the increasing strength of the British army, the ferocious naval artillery attack, and the launch of white phosphorus bombs, the Italian soldiers who had lost all will to fight were shouted in panic.

Especially when they saw the sudden and dense flow of British and American air units, these Italian soldiers were even more frightened and bloodless, and shouted in horror.

The British troops, who were then engaged in the landing operation, soon saw that the Italian soldiers who had not yet died either immediately surrendered to them, or chose to flee desperately; Escape the chaotic hellish battlefield as soon as possible.

At this moment, the commander of the Italian 6th Army, General Guzzoni, was listening anxiously and dejectedly as his operational staff officers reported on the landing operations of the British and American troops on the various beaches.

But the more he listened, the more frightened and terrified he became.

"What to do! What to do! How could this be, how could those bastard troops of Britain and the United States choose such bad weather for a landing operation! Moreover, such a large-scale land, sea and air force was dispatched at one time to carry out landing operations! Are they trying to wipe out my troops here? ”

When he heard that Sicily, whether it was east, south, or west, had been successfully landed by British and American troops, he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave, and he paced and muttered to himself.

"Commander! What do we do now? Is it evacuation? Or to inform the Germans to assist in the operation? ”

Looking at Admiral Guzoni, who was a little lost and depressed with a worried look on his face, the combat staff officer Gahia was also worried.

"Do you know how many troops the British and American troops have deployed for landing operations this time?"

When the operational staff officer Gahia asked several times in a row, Admiral Guzoni tried his best to restrain his emotions, calmed down for a while, and then asked anxiously.

"The U.S. Army has the 7th Army under the command of Patton: that is, the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 9th Infantry Divisions, the 1st Armored Division, and the 82nd Airborne Division; As for the British forces, there was the 8th Army under the command of Montgomery: the 44th, 50th, and 51st Infantry Divisions, the 1st, 7th, and 10th Armored Divisions, the 1st Airborne Division, the 9th Australian Infantry Division, the 2nd New Zealand Infantry Division, and the 1st South African Infantry Division. ”

"Their total strength exceeds more than 470,000 people, and they also have a large number of ships to carry out naval and air support operations with aviation units!"

Hearing this, the combat staff officer Gahia replied truthfully.

"What! How did the British and American troops send so many troops over to land, and why didn't I receive any news at all! So how are we going to fight them now! The number of troops I have at hand is only 8 Italian coastal divisions, 4 Italian mechanized divisions, and 2 German armored divisions, which add up to barely more than 360,000 people, and 40,000 German troops! ”

"But I know the strength of these troops, and they are simply war-weary fellows who can easily be defeated and surrendered! In addition to those tens of thousands of German troops, they are simply vulnerable troops! ”

"Is this the rhythm of sending me to death? How else to fight! Get all the troops out of here! ”

As soon as you hear the number of troops of the other side and the strength of the navy and air force; Alfredo? Admiral Guzoni suddenly fell into despair and shouted in frustration.

"But if we evacuate like this now, then how can we explain to Prime Minister Mussolini and Führer Hitler! And the gap between our strength and the British and American forces is not very big! ”

Seeing General Guzoni, who immediately ordered the troops to evacuate without thinking about it, Combat Staff Officer Gahia hurriedly said worriedly.

"Alright! Then I'll call Prime Minister Mussolini and Hitler first! ”

"You should go and inform the two German armourers now, and immediately rush over to stop the British and American troops who are landing and fighting, hoping to resist their advance!"

After hearing this, Admiral Guzoni suddenly remembered the risk of evacuation and the seriousness of the consequences, and then he was silent for a while, and then after thinking for a while, he gave the order.

"Hmmm! I agree with that! Now I can only rely on the resistance of these two German mechanics! ”

Combat staff officer Gahia also nodded very approvingly.

In fact, the reason why they were so frightened when they heard that the British and American troops were carrying out a landing operation was because Chen Yanlong did not tell them, as well as all the Italian officers and Italian soldiers, that the German army had secretly dispatched a large number of elite SS troops, hidden on the Sicilian islands, and was waiting for the successful landing of these British and American troops in Guderian's dispatch and preparing to counterattack......