The battle took place very suddenly, and neither side expected that the first meeting would be in this way, and the German infantry entered the city less than 500 meters, and the vanguard had just turned a street corner and was met by a group of British infantry.

The British were dumbfounded on the spot, they never dreamed that they would meet the Germans here. Although they have always seen the image of German GIs in newspapers and news movies, and they have always been arrogant and patting their chests and saying how much they can kill, when the living German devils stand in front of them, the soldiers have no idea what to do.

It was a British infantry squad with seven infantry officers under the command of a non-commissioned officer, and this squad was attached to the division's logistics unit, and the task of staying in the city was to transfer the collected supplies. Eight British soldiers, armed with only three Lee Enfeld rifles and an additional officer's revolver, drove a four-wheeled wagon filled with military supplies salvaged from the rubble of the station.

The first to react were the German soldiers, who, like the British, were taken aback by the unforeseen encounter, but after all, they were well-trained veterans of the battlefield, and the infantry in the vanguard immediately raised their weapons and fired at the British.

The two sides were so close that there was no need to aim, and the British soldiers had barely had time to raise their guns when they were knocked over by a barrage of bullets on the gravel streets. The battle was short and bloody, and within seconds, eight British soldiers were shot one after the other, and the battle was closer to execution than the battle, and the Germans were so fierce that the two horses pulling the cart were not spared. Corporal Kundel drew his pistol and relieved the two poor animals of their mortal wounds.

The sound of gunfire alarmed the nearby British troops, and the German infantry soon engaged in a fierce shootout with the British in the streets. Maybe it's because of the relationship of mutual non-domination. The British troops in the city showed no signs of gathering, but according to the original squad units, they were successively engaged in the battle against the German army.

The British still did not believe that the Germans had landed, believing that they had encountered glider airborne infantry dropped by the Germans, and that the number of such airborne troops must not be too large, and the officers of the remaining units in the city thought that they should have a numerical advantage and only need to intercept and entangle these German soldiers. By the time the large forces stationed outside the city arrived, they would be able to surround and annihilate these hateful invaders.

The British did not know at this time that their so-called large army had long been wiped out, and their two division commanders were working hard to break the marathon record in the army. In this case. The townspeople were also organized to join the fight, and as the masters of the city, it was their duty to defend their homes.

The highest-ranking officer in the British army remaining in the city at this time was a medical major, a middle-aged officer of a standard gentleman. But he had no experience in combat and command. However, out of the maintenance of the army's class system, he resolutely assumed the nominal command responsibility and assumed the role of a bridge between the various units.

Folkestone originally built some street fortifications, but there was a lack of systematic planning, and it was in the form of piecemeal fighting, and many of them were brain-beating projects carried out by each community itself. It's just this kind of messy barricades. It caused a lot of trouble to the German army.

The Germans had never encountered such irrational resistance in a European theater, and the fighting enthusiasm of the British amazed the German infantry. Nishizawa platoon was after eliminating that British logistics squad. Immediately attacked, they were attacked by a platoon of British infantry, who were clearly not trained in street fighting, and they were lying on the sidewalks and apartment steps and firing a salvo at the Germans, only to be named by the German machine gunners from left to right.

After four or five casualties, the British line collapsed, and they retreated to the end of the street screaming, and the officers ran ahead of everyone with their revolvers. To the surprise of the German soldiers, none of these enemies, who had been bravely shooting at them a moment ago, were willing to stay behind to cover the retreat of their comrades.

The German infantry immediately rushed out of their hiding places and fired in horizontal rows at the fleeing enemy with their backs to them, as if they were playing a game of target shooting in a playground, and the Germans happily knocked these defenseless targets to the ground one by one. In the end, most of the more than 30 British soldiers died on the way to escape, and only three or four lucky ones with fast legs escaped the range of the German army.

Nishizawa's platoon was not as excited as his subordinates at this time, and he already vaguely felt the pressure of the battlefield, because their platoon needed to be responsible for the occupation of the two theaters, so half of their troops had already been divided. At this time, Nishizawa felt remorseful for his trust, and he should have gathered the entire platoon together.

The current situation was that he now had only three squads of men, one of which was only half of the machine gun squad, and from the communication in the walkie-talkie, he learned that almost all the German troops entering the city had encountered enemy resistance. It seems that the British side has a steady stream of troops, and no matter how they kill, they can't kill them all.

Nishizawa believes that this is not a good sign, and that delaying it will definitely lead to serious consequences, and that the German troops are rapidly depleting both ammunition and soldiers' physical strength, and if they are not prepared to deal with it immediately, they may run out of ammunition and be broken by the enemy forces.

Nishizawa's mechanized infantry battalion was specially trained in street warfare, and each platoon commander received a pamphlet compiled by the High Command called "Town Combat Guide," which specifically mentioned what to do in the current situation.

Nishizawa began to call out to the other half of his platoon, it was obvious that they were in the heat of battle, and there was a ping-pong exchange of fire on the walkie-talkie, and Nishizawa ordered the two infantry squads to immediately disengage from the battle, withdraw from the town by the same route, and then join the platoon headquarters with special equipment and supplementary ammunition.

He then made his suggestion to the infantry battalion command that it was no longer possible to conserve troops, and that it was necessary to concentrate all forces and completely crush the enemy's resistance at once. The attempts of the British, who were clearly prepared to drag the Germans into a war of attrition, must not be allowed to succeed. The Germans were not afraid of attrition, but the most important thing at the moment was time, and the order given to them by the command of the landing cluster was. The occupation of the city and the port area must be completed within the predetermined time, and this is related to the implementation of the follow-up battle plan of the high command, and if there is a problem in this link and it affects the plan of the Führer, no one can assume this responsibility.

The commander of the mechanized infantry battalion agreed with Nishizawa and cautioned Nishizawa not to overestimate the resistance of the British, as the available information showed. What exists in the city are only some logistics and second-line combat units, and more ordinary citizens who have been armed.

The battalion commander stated that the tactical movement of the Nishizawa platoon was completely free for the platoon commander. The battalion will not interfere, reinforcements are being formed, and the battalion will send reserves and some armored vehicles to support. At the same time, he ordered Nishizawa to continue to maintain the intensity and speed of his attacks, and never to stand still. Give the British a respite. He believed that the British did not have the same strong will to resist as Nishizawa thought, and that reality would sober them up when their losses reached a certain amount.

It turned out that part of the words of the battalion commander was true, and the British troops who remained in the city were not the main combat units. Most of them were attached logistics units of the two infantry divisions, which were responsible for the cleaning and collection of logistics supplies, as well as some medical units, although the field hospital was burned. But doctors and paramedics survived, using medicines that had been left behind at the local hospital in Folkestone. The wounded of the army and civilians were rescued from the rubble, as well as a group of ordnance officers from the British Ordnance Department, who were responsible for cleaning and repairing undestroyed ordnance, disposing of unexploded ordnance, and collecting weapons and equipment scattered in the streets.

However, contrary to what the battalion commander said, these soldiers did not become easier to deal with because they were second-line troops, and in fact some of them behaved as tenaciously as front-line combatants as long as they had weapons in their hands. They may not be very skilled in tactics, but the complex environment of the town more than compensates for this, and they simply hide in buildings or existing bunkers and fire at all the grey uniforms on the streets.

Unable to disobey the battalion commander's orders, the Nishizawa platoon could only continue to advance deeper into the city, encountering four or five ambushes by British troops and armed civilians in succession.

These Englishmen were very brave, but also very laymen, and many of them never seemed to think about retreating, and not only that, but they even closed their own retreat, and ended up being killed by the Germans at their combat posts like rats in a hole. In this mode of combat, grenades prove to be the most effective weapon, whether used to kill or intimidate, they can achieve very desirable results.

Along the way, the Nishizawa Platoon had a brilliant record, with at least fifty or sixty British soldiers and armed civilians killed at their hands, and the battle seemed to be going well, but the Germans were really starting to get tired of the frequent fighting.

The physical strength and energy of the German soldiers are declining rapidly, and the continuous high-intensity combat has made the soldiers' perception begin to become numb, and their reactions have also begun to become dull, so casualties are inevitable.

The Nishizawa platoon encountered a makeshift barricade that looked like a pile of construction debris, and the German infantrymen followed the previous combat procedures by first bombarding a shot with a 50-mm mortar, and the machine gun crew rushed across the street and began to suppress the fire on the outcropping British target from the other side, while a squad of infantry lined up in a column and quickly advanced towards the target along the street buildings.

As a result, when the mortar shell smashed on the top of the bunker, but there was a crunch of metal impact, Nishizawa knew he was in trouble.

This is a simple appearance, but in fact it is a real material of regular barricades, the construction waste piled up on the outside is only an additional means of protection in the later stage, this barricade is completely constructed of steel plate welding, with a steel roof, and there is also a machine gun battle station inside, and a Vickers water-cooled machine gun is placed.

The shelling did not have any effect on disturbing the enemy, and the German infantry, who did not expect this to happen, was immediately strafed by the British machine guns, and finally the craftsmanship of the machine gunners on the other side was a little rough, and finally most of the German soldiers withdrew to the corner along the same road, two soldiers fell on the way to charge, and one soldier was wounded by a bullet in the chest, and was quickly dragged back by his comrades, that is, the lucky one who was now lying at Nishizawa's feet. (To be continued......)