After the start of the raid, the German offensive hardly stalled. Every time a position is captured, the assault troops do not stop at all, but only take a short rest, replenish their ammunition and leave the wounded, and immediately plunge into the next battle. The remaining sweeping work was handed over to the follow-up service and reserve troops, and these troops who were placed in the second line were left in the rear line by the headquarters not because of poor combat effectiveness, but mainly because of poor luck.

In order to be able to keep up with the mechanized and armored troops, all the logistics transport teams abandoned mule and horse vehicles, and in addition to a number of military trucks, such as Opel and Mercedes, they were also equipped with a large number of tracked transport vehicles. In the past, there were no transport vehicles of this type in the German army, and the Germans all went to build large tanks, so all this type of vehicles came from captured equipment. The most common equipment was the tracked transports captured by the French and British armies, such as the Carden-Royd and Vickers general purpose transporters, as well as the French Lorraine and Renault tracked transporters, which were captured by the Germans during the French campaign.

According to the original history, most of these things were assigned to infantry divisions or artillery units, and were used as tractors and transporters. The German infantry and artillery actually liked these small but versatile small armored vehicles, but due to the difficulty of refueling and maintenance and repair problems, these British and French vehicles in the German army slowly ran out as the reserve parts were cut off.

Now, taking into account the actual needs of the landing force and the traffic and road conditions in Britain, the High Command considers it very necessary to equip the landing force with these tracked transport vehicles. In particular, those British tracked transporters, which were originally designed to maneuver in the UK, both in size and weight, are fully adapted to the bridges, streets and wild terrain of the UK, and are supported by these vehicles. The German offensive efficiency will be multiplied, and the dependence on roads will be greatly reduced.

The blockade of roads and bridges was the most important part of Britain's home defense strategy, and once the British destroyed roads and railways, off-road marching was an inevitable option. The German army's transport trucks generally lacked cross-country ability, and the number of half-track transport vehicles was originally insufficient, making it difficult to undertake heavy baggage transportation tasks.

These logistics vehicles stood out during the Battle of Dover Periphery, not only being able to follow the infantry units in their off-road maneuvers, but also replenish the ammunition they had expended at any time. And it can also quickly and safely evacuate the wounded, if it weren't for the fact that the armor of these vehicles is really weak, and it is easy to be confused with the enemy's similar equipment when put into front-line combat, and the German army even wants to put them into offensive operations, because this kind of oil-like car is so easy to use that it can be plugged in anywhere.

Logistics units and reserves took on the task of clearing the battlefield, the British did not leave much for the Germans, the German offensive was too fierce, in pursuit of the speed of the offensive. Most of the ammunition and supplies that could have been captured were blown up by the attacking forces, leaving only wreckage and bloody corpses.

The original base of the British defensive forces was not large, and they were scattered into more than a dozen defensive positions, and their numbers were difficult to even connect the positions in a line. Under the attack of the Germans, who had the superior forces. The positions crumbled like sand castles under the tidal waves, and the trenches were filled with British soldiers fighting to the death, and German medics searched the piles of corpses for the surviving wounded, but anyone who still had a breath. Both the British and the Germans were rescued.

On the first line of defense, the British lost more than 800 officers and men, and more than 500 were captured. The wounded only accounted for a very small part of the prisoners, and the German assault troops were very dark, and once they were caught in the fire, they hardly survived, and those prisoners also raised their hands and surrendered in time to save their lives.

Similarly, more than two hundred German soldiers fell on British positions, most of them from enemy machine guns and tank artillery. On the contrary, not too many German soldiers died in hand-to-hand combat, but many were wounded. The British soldiers' bayonet skills were a rare military skill, and in the days when there were no bullets, they could only use wooden guns to train in queues and fight stabs. The problem is that these rookies have never experienced real hand-to-hand combat, and some will even habitually avoid the vital points of the human body during assassination, so many German soldiers are attacked in the arms and thighs, but as long as the aorta is not injured, it is only a matter of recuperation for a few months.

Some of the British positions resisted very fiercely, and not all British soldiers were rookies, among them were some veterans who had fought in the Norwegian and French battles, and these elite soldiers who were lucky enough to avoid the Battle of Dunkirk for various reasons, but this time they could not escape the German attack, most of them died on the spot, and a small part led the rookies to break through from the front line and escape to the second line of defense.

After midnight, the first line of defense was broken through by the Germans, and at the same time the German attack on the second line of British defense also began. Some of the German assault troops were red-eyed, and they rushed to the British second-line positions almost closely following in the footsteps of the retreating British soldiers.

At this time, the battle had already lost its suddenness, and the British troops on the second line of defense had long been prepared for battle, so the German attacking troops were stubbornly blocked, because the attacking German troops were mixed with the fleeing British soldiers, resulting in the defenders having some stunts, and did not have the heart to carry out indiscriminate strikes, so when the German attack was frustrated and began to retreat, the personnel losses were not very serious. But this could not hide the humiliation of being beaten back by the enemy, and the embarrassed Germans, after a short rest, immediately began a second round of attacks.

In fact, the number of British troops on the second-line positions at this time was not much, even less than fifty percent of the first-line positions, but the quality was far more than the first-line British troops, because these positions were close to the city of Dover, and were part of the city's defensive circle.

If, according to the original history, the German infantry company could not break through this type of position with firepower, it was necessary to mobilize infantry artillery or anti-tank artillery support at the battalion or regimental level. But now the situation is different from history, and the German infantry has very fierce anti-fortification weapons.

The German infantry first used machine guns and rifles to suppress the enemy's machine gun fire from a distance, and at the same time attacked the enemy position diagonally from the flank, which looked very dangerous. However, it is a very effective way to avoid bullets, and it is difficult for infantry to aim at targets that are constantly changing at such a distance and azimuth, which requires professional training.

Although the machine guns can threaten the actions of the German assault squad, but they are also suppressed and interfered by the fire of the German side, the number of German machine guns is not less than that of the British troops in the defensive position, and more mobile and flexible, these general-purpose machine guns with an amazing rate of fire only need to change the gun carriage to change the function at will, light weight can be transferred at any time.

In addition, the Germans also had an absolute advantage in artillery, and the shortcomings of the British army were exposed here, and they lacked any kind of heavy firepower weapons. The only artillery weapons that could be fully equipped in the troops were mortars belonging to the companies and platoons, but there was a lack of ammunition, and the German shelling and bombardment destroyed most of the ammunition depots of the garrison, and now these defenders had only half of the base number that had been left in the logistics ammunition reserves of the companies, and finally distributed to the teams only a pitiful ten rounds, half of which were useless smoke grenades.

The German army's accurate small-caliber mortars also played very well at night, although the power was not great, but the amount of ammunition in a short period of time was extremely large, and the density was like raindrops. But it was not far from reality, and the actual casualties caused by this small warhead with a power similar to that of a grenade were not much, but it caused great psychological pressure on the defenders, and the British could only constantly transfer the exposed machine-gun positions. The British machine gun crew, carrying a heavy water-cooled machine gun, was exhausted from the situation in the position.

The German assault squad often broke through to a distance of more than ten meters from the target in the gap where the British were briefly suppressed, and at this time they were threatened not only by the opponent's bullets, but also by the grenades thrown by the British army. British soldiers did not need to see the target, they just had to follow the officer's command. Just take the grenade and throw it out. Although the distance of the throw varies, it can cause a dense barrage of anti-personnel barrage, enough to stop most assault infantry in their tracks. Even the elite German army. In the face of this situation, you can only lie down and dodge.

However, this situation could not last, as the Germans were given a chance to breathe and they could immediately launch a counterattack. The so-called steel prefabricated machine gun fort is just a fixed target in front of the iron fist, and the flares illuminate the entire battlefield, there is no obstruction of vision at all, and the soldiers can operate this anti-armor weapon as if it were daytime. However, in order to get a better hit rate, they often rush to within 50 meters, and even directly attack within 10 meters. Don't underestimate the individual quality of the German infantry, they did not do anything about a frontal breakthrough and bombing a bunker with shaped explosives in the French campaign. At this distance, Iron Fist was simply a face-to-face attack, and the British machine-gun forts and bunkers were torn apart with a loud bang. German soldiers would sometimes use grenades to make up for enemy positions, but in most cases no one thought anyone would survive such an attack.

The Germans also made extensive use of portable flamethrowers, which caused far more fear to the enemy than they demonstrated. Wherever this weapon of terror appears, which is contrary to humanism, it becomes a burning hell on earth. In the past, the British army could also specifically attack soldiers with flamethrowers to stop them, but now this portable weapon is not large, very suitable for concealment, and does not affect the carrier to use the original weapon, so before the attack, it is difficult to find out which German soldier is carrying this weapon, but by the time it is too late, you can only watch the burning fire dragon rushing towards you.

The second line of defense of the British army did not hold out longer than the first, falling apart in a cloud of fire and explosions. The German assault group marched forward without stopping, and launched a general attack directly towards the third and last line of defense on the British perimeter.

The third line of defense was also stronger than the second, with several permanent pillboxes and batteries, but this line was even more disappointing than the first two, and the rout of the British soldiers brought terrifying news and the new German weapons made people shudder.

The troops on this line of defense were originally insufficient, and although they had heavy artillery that was the envy of the officers and soldiers on the front line, when the battle broke out, they found that reality and imagination were completely different things. The core of the defensive line is an ancient fort built in the 17th century, which has been remodeled for several generations and has stood motionless on the outskirts of Dover for hundreds of years, with more than a dozen guns of various calibers, plus a battalion of elite infantry to defend it, it is impregnable, it has survived several German bombardments, and has almost become a symbol of Dover's invincibility.

As a result, the fort was attacked by the German infantry and could not hold out for even twenty minutes, in addition to being interfered with by the German heavy infantry guns, the German infantry's iron fist and flamethrower played a key role in it, when the German infantry braved the rain of bullets to break under the fort wall, the battle was actually over, the German infantry used the iron fist to blow open the iron-clad wooden door on the side of the drawbridge, and sprayed flames on the aisle of the inner wall, and then saw someone on the top of the fort began to wave white flags.

When the first light of dawn dawned, the three lines of defense on the outskirts of the British army had all been occupied by the Germans, and the city of Dover was fully exposed to the German landing group. (To be continued......)