191 Crossing the sea

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At one o'clock in the afternoon, the sound of the whistle resounded over the entire strait, and the German navy, which had been preparing for the harbor for a long time, finally received orders from the high command and sailed to the other side of the strait. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The 1st Landing Echelon consisted of two armored divisions and six infantry divisions, all of which departed from the port of Calais, and the landing point was on the line from Kingsdowne to Folkestone, of which the port of Dover in the middle was the main point of attack.

The second echelon set off from Boulogne, Gravolina, and Dunkirk an hour after the departure of the first landing echelon, and went straight to the entire line from Cape Dungenes to Kingsdown.

This section of the Channel is the narrowest stretch of the English Channel, and the distance from Calais to Dover is only 50 kilometers in a straight line, which can be said to be very close.

When the fleet left the port of Calais, it was calm, but when the fleet had been out for 20 minutes and was getting closer to the center of the strait, the sea was not so calm, and huge waves more than two meters high could be seen everywhere.

The German navy has sailed the oceans a lot, so it is natural to be accustomed to life in such huge waves, but this does not mean that the army can adapt to it.

Even the soldiers of the Huaxia First Division after Li Ling's almost inhumane anti-vertigo training had already had serious seasickness reactions, and they were dizzy one by one in the small space of the landing craft.

"You go to the navigation room and tell the people in the Navy to inform them that all the men of the 1st Tank Brigade are coming out of the tanks, and no one is to stay in the tanks until they approach the beachhead!"

Kirsch clung to a railing, his body was completely disobedient as if he was drunk, and the space of the landing craft was relatively confined to the ground, but because the waves were too big, there was constant seawater pouring in into the tank compartment of the landing craft, and the salty smell of the seawater coupled with the violent shaking of the landing craft made Kirsch, a person who thought he would never get seasick, also had symptoms of wanting to vomit.

He had to give an order to get all the people out of the tank, some people thought that hiding in the tank would be much less shaky, but in fact, hiding in it was more likely to cause seasickness due to the serious lack of air circulation, and once they vomited in the tank, well, if they landed, until they stopped to rest after the battle, the whole person had to follow their vomit together, and it was disgusting to think about it.

"Chief of Staff, I can't bear it, I see that our people will collapse before they can get to the shore."

A division staff officer staggered up to Kirsch, and immediately covered his mouth after speaking, he couldn't bear it anymore, and then ran to the bulkhead and squatted down and vomited wildly.

"Wait slowly, I can't help it, the devil knows why the waves are so big, depending on the time, we still have to have a while before we can start the landing operation, and we can only stay up like this during this time."

In fact, the situation on the side of the 1st Tank Brigade is much better than that of other units, because the landing craft has to be loaded with tanks, so there are no other people in the tank cabin except for the personnel of each vehicle crew, but those infantry divisions are really miserable.

They are usually dozens or even hundreds of people crowded side by side in the small cabin, and there is no room to even squat down, and in such a crowded and shaking environment, they have long since vomited.

The officers of the infantry company asked the landing craft to open the lid of the cabin, but they were rejected one by one.

After these soldiers got off the ship, they vomited badly, and in the end, they still had to clean up by themselves?

Opening the large hatch cover can indeed promote air circulation, thereby alleviating the symptoms of seasickness, but if the large hatch cover is opened, in such a monstrous wave, the sea water will instantly fill the entire large cabin, which will have a serious impact on navigation.

Compared with the soldiers sitting in the landing craft, the soldiers on those battleships are much better, after all, the ship is much stronger to resist wind and waves, and the shaking is not so serious, but it is not easy to get anywhere.

Finally, after more than an hour of sailing in a difficult way, the monstrous waves disappeared and the fleet was approaching the shoreline.

"Tell the troops to get ready for landing, we're about to land!"

Glancing at the pale von Bock, Li Ling stood on the bridge of the Bismarck and decisively gave the order to prepare for the landing, von Bock looked very bad, he did not conduct assault training like Li Ling, nor was he like the navy people who were at sea all day long, von Bock was an out-and-out army, and this voyage was as uncomfortable as the end of the world for him.

The port of Dover was already close at hand, but there was no movement of the British defenders from the harbor, and perhaps they would never have a chance to make any more moves.

The smoke was billowing and the bombers were still bombing Dover, and the entire port of Dover, except for a section of the beach that was relatively quiet, had been reduced to rubble.

That beach happened to be the original main landing ground for the troops!

"Drop the landing craft and start the landing of the troops!"

With Li Ling's order, except for the landing craft loaded with tanks that directly followed the formation, all warships began to continuously lower the simple small landing craft from the side of the two ships, and they were only three nautical miles away from the coast at this time, and this kind of small landing craft could only be launched in such a place.

The large landing ships also stopped moving forward, opened their hatches one after another, and various small landing craft also rushed out of the landing ships and headed straight for the port of Dover.

"The formation turned ninety degrees to the left, the ship's guns were facing starboard, and each ship carried out fire strikes on shore and beach targets on its own."

The landing force had been dispatched, and the navy had begun to stop to support the landing force, but their support did not seem to be necessary, for the port of Dover had so far not found a single trace of the British.

"It's strange, why didn't they organize a defense, and just watched us rush over with such a swagger?"

Li Ling stared at the port city in front of him, and always felt that something was wrong.

"What's so strange about this, look at what it looks like it's all blown up, it is estimated that people have already been blown up, and even if there are alive, they have already run away, who do you think will squat in this kind of place to defend?"

Von Bock finally recovered his spirits, he felt a little unimpressed by Li Ling's worries, the Luftwaffe had almost razed all of Dover except for the port area, where could anyone hide?

"I hope so, but I always feel that something is wrong."

Li Ling still had some doubts in his heart, it was an indescribable feeling, as if a voice was telling him that this place was definitely not as safe as it seemed......

(To be continued.) )