478 landing
The darkness before dawn is always so long, and it is always so dark. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe German paratroopers went on a rampage in the night, and it was only after encountering the British 1st and 2nd Panzer Divisions that they were barely stopped.
As it stands, the forces on both sides are like a large sandwich biscuit, with the British counter-attacking armoured forces to the north, then the German paratroopers blocking them, the British garrison on the coastline below, and the German landing force crossing the Channel to the southeast.
After dawn, the British garrison, which was guarding the coastline and now on its back, found itself obscured by a cloud of smoke before their eyes.
"The Germans are starting to land!" Putting down the binoculars, a British battalion commander guarding the coastal position said to the officer beside him: "Give the order to fire, no matter what you see, as long as you can move, shoot and kill!" ”
Because of the distance, I can't hear the sound of the sea. A German assault boat had already reached the shore, and German soldiers had come ashore in the cold water, bending over to wait for the baptism of enemy bullets.
Soon, another ship came ashore in the smoke, they lowered the gangplank, and one by one the soldiers, armed with weapons, rushed from the gangplank to the beach.
"Suddenly! Dodo! "As if seeing the shadow of a German landing ship on the beach, a British machine-gun bunker suddenly opened fire.
Although its bullets were not very accurate, it still strafed a German soldier who had just jumped out of the boat.
Soon, a second British machine gun opened fire, and the bullets on the beach became more and more dense.
Quite a few German soldiers were hit by bullets, some fell in the sea, some fell on the beach. Someone cried and screamed, attracting a denser barrage of enemy bullets.
"Watch your step! Don't fall! The front is protected by steel plates! Follow the first platoon of soldiers! Gentlemen! For the Führer! On the special landing vessel, a German officer repeated aloud the words that had been repeated countless times before.
The smoke bombs on the beach have begun to fade away, and the strafing rate of British bunkers has begun to skyrocket. Many of the soldiers on the German assault boat were killed, leaving the lonely boat on the beach, overwhelmed.
And when the large special landing craft appeared in front of the machine gun bunkers of the British defenders, the British soldiers subconsciously aimed their guns at this larger and more standardized guy.
Then, the hatch in front of the German landing craft was lowered like a springboard, and the German soldiers inside appeared in front of the British soldiers.
"Fire!" At the sound of an order, tracer bullets fired by British machine guns rushed towards the German soldiers, and the first row of German soldiers in the landing craft, carrying the side skirts of tank No. 3, rushed out step by step.
The bullet hit the steel plate, leaving deep marks. Some of the steel plates were punctured, the soldiers behind fell down at once, many more were hit by bullets, and blood flowed everywhere in the landing craft.
"Holy! They even used shields? The British machine gunner complained to the officer behind him while waiting for the secondary shooter to reload his ammunition.
Who would have thought that the Germans would use medieval weapons to fight a war in the twentieth century? Judging from the results alone, it seems that this kind of crossing plot is really useful.
Although many steel plates were pierced, a large number of German soldiers were also killed. But more soldiers were covered and scattered, reducing a lot of casualties.
At this moment, while the British defenders were stunned, a barge pushed a German tank strapped full of buoyancy boxes and rushed onto the beach.
In the midst of the rain of bullets, the German soldiers carrying steel plates gathered around the tank, and then hung the steel plates in their hands as if they were hanging armor around the tank......
"That's really...... Who would have thought of it? "From his own telescope, the commander of the British defenders saw this incredible picture and could not believe his eyes.
The other party actually used the most barbaric method to transport a tank to the beach in the first time! The script doesn't seem to be the same as they thought, or it's completely different!
"Hurry up and send a telegram! The tanks of the Germans have already come ashore! Are you kidding? Why didn't the artillery positions open fire? It took a few seconds for the British regimental commander to come back to his senses and question the officer behind him loudly.
"The telephone lines have already been cut, and the artillery positions are not responding...... The tanks of the Germans have already come ashore? Did I hear me right? The officer beside him was busy, and when he heard the words of the regiment commander, he was so frightened that his speech was a little confused.
"Yes, you heard it right! The tanks of the Germans went ashore, and our anti-tank guns seemed to be arranged too far back. The head of the regiment said depressedly.
Not realizing that the German tanks would come ashore so quickly, the heavy firepower of the British coastal line was clearly behind, so there seemed to be nothing on the beach that could stop the German tanks from raging.
The same thing was happening over and over again along the long route of the German landing. Adolph? The tanks of the Panzer Division of Hitler's Guard Banner are coming ashore one after another.
In this way, the German soldiers quickly gained a foothold on their respective beaches. The British army was still condescending, and the chalk cliffs were their natural walls.
Unfortunately, this huge wall, more than 30 kilometers long, is not a complete barrier, at least in the vicinity of Dover, this section of the wall is notched.
The British deployed anti-tank guns near the breach, and installed a large number of reinforced concrete permanent fortifications there.
Moreover, there were some heavy artillery positions there that were not killed by the German paratroopers, and the whole fortification was very well-built.
In the face of such a defense, the German landing force also paid a heavy price. Just outside Dover, on the beach where this gap was attacked, the corpses of German soldiers were already piled up on the sand.
At least 300 people died in this area, but even the three barbed wire fences of the British position were not torn. Anti-tank barriers were also laid here, which needed to be cleared by sappers little by little in order to barely pass.
In order to clear these barbed wire fences and obstacles, the German soldiers were exhausted here one by one, and the commander of the 112th Division, Hermann, personally supervised the battle, but it had no effect.
"If you can't open the gap, something will really happen...... It was already dawn, the follow-up troops could not go ashore, and our landing was about to fail. Looking at the eastern sky, the sun had risen, Herman said to his chief of staff depressedly.
Now he was less than 500 meters away from the gap, surrounded by a No. 3 tank that had been scrapped by a cannon hit.
Just now, another No. 3 tank that tried to hit the gap was blocked by an obstacle and easily penetrated by an anti-tank gun.
The opponent's anti-tank guns are all mounted in reinforced concrete fortifications, and the firing range is very wide and the accuracy is very good.
Because of the narrow place and obstacles, the German tanks could not advance at all, but suffered a lot of losses. Counting the tank that had just been destroyed, there were already 4 wreckage of tank No. 3 on the battlefield.
"Let's try it out with the troops...... That's not the way to go. The chief of staff put down the telescope in his hand and suggested to Herman.
"Then let the 1st Battalion of the 1st Regiment go up and try it! Fight for cover as much as possible......" Herman thought for a moment, gave up waiting, and decided to let the infantry go up and attack first.
Soon, a new round of fighting began, and without the cover of tanks, the German soldiers advanced little by little, covering each other and coming to the vicinity of the anti-tank cement pile.
Here, using cement piles as cover, they quickly set up covering machine-gun positions and, covering the infantry, continued to attack.
Soon, the British thick reinforced concrete fortification group began a counterattack, a machine-gun pillbox deployed at the forefront, two machine guns fired alternately, and at once suppressed the attacking 1 battalion troops.
"Here we go again...... It wasn't this bunker that just fired! Watching his troops languish in the field of tracer bullets, Herman grumbled.
The British had deployed too many pillboxes in the vicinity, and the Stuka bombers had hit and dive-bombed the area, but the effect did not seem to be obvious.
At this time, the two Stuka dive bombers hovering in the sky seemed to see the target, and they swooped down in the gray sky with an unhesitating momentum.
The long, heart-rending sound once again evoked nightmarish memories of Dunkirk among British veterans. This voice represents death, a terrible destruction.
Sure enough, the machine-gun bunker, which had just opened fire, was accurately hit by an aerial bomb. Then, in the midst of a cloud of smoke, the German soldiers, armed with their weapons, launched a tidal attack.
Before Commander Hermann could shout out that hello to his brave and fearless troops, a bunker that had been hidden on the side suddenly opened fire, knocking out a dozen German soldiers at once.
After advancing less than ten meters, the attacking Germans were once again pinned down and had to wait for a new dive attack from Stuka.
"Same as before...... If we hit the top of the cliff at this rate of loss, our division would almost be able to eliminate the sequence. Herman put down the telescope in his hand and said with a sigh.
Just now, he thought that his troops could rush forward and kill the enemy on the opposite side in one go! But now, the reality cruelly told him that the smooth landing just now was just an illusion.
The brutal battle was not made easy by the many whimsical tricks of Germany. At least for now, the Germans are still too far away from a successful landing.
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