The methods of operation after the successful landing of the Brandenburg Special Division were similar to those adopted by the Marine Corps of the US Army.

Because they are all old and backbone marines, to lead those new recruits who have no actual combat experience to fight.

Especially when encountering the strong defensive positions set up by the British army on the Channel Islands, and the defensive areas with strong firepower; They will all carry out brave and resourceful interspersions; Outflank the rear of the British army, or leave it to the follow-up tank units and heavily armed units to deal with it.

Therefore, the Brandenburg Special Division, with sufficient ammunition and strong heavy weaponry, their march was also proceeding rapidly.

After the German First Airborne Division successfully landed in the vanguard, the follow-up airborne troops also carried out airborne operations one after another with the consent of Field Marshal Rommel.

1st Airborne Machine Gun Battalion, Commander Major Werner Schmitt; The 1st Airborne Armored Destroyer Battalion, commanded by Major Gerhard Brückner, the 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Battalion, the 1st Airborne Engineer Battalion, the 1st, 3rd, and 4th Airborne Assault Regiments, commanded by Colonel Heilmann, Colonel Erich, respectively......

In addition, there was the 1st Artillery Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Schramm, the 1st Communications Battalion, the commander of Captain Graf, the 1st Medical Battalion, the commander of Dr. Adolf Eben, and finally the divisional supply battalion, the commander Captain Bose, and the 1st Field Training Supplementary Battalion, which was also commanded by Captain Hoffman, including the commander of the 1st Airborne Division, Richard Heydrich, who also personally flew the unit in a helicopter and carried out the successful airborne landing.

Then, under the personal command of division commander Richard Heydrich, the German 1st Airborne Division also quickly launched landing operations.

At this time, the British army was defeated and retreated by the rapid landing operations of the German army, and the strength of the army was constantly decreasing, including their weapons and equipment and ammunition.

But even so, the British defense forces, which were not killed or wounded in the German air raids and bombings, were still unable to resist the German army's fierce landing operation.

In particular, the large-caliber shells of the German naval guns, which were so powerful, often whistled and bombarded the British defensive positions and fortifications, causing the ground to shake and the sound of explosions around these defensive positions and fortifications.

"What do we do now? There are more and more landing forces and airborne troops of the Germans! ”

"If we don't have reinforcements to support us, our whole regiment will die here!"

"Damn the Germans, I hate them to death!"

A British company commander huddled in the corner of the smoke-filled defensive position with his Lee Enfild rifle weapon in his arms, and said in horror to the Harman battalion commander beside him.

In later generations, it was often commented on the Internet that the Lee Enfild rifle could sweep the German 98K rifle, the Spitfire disgraced the Luftwaffe throughout World War II, and the British radar allowed all German scientists to commit suicide! The Stern submachine gun was originally designed to make up for the lack of weapons in the British army......

But now the British troops stationed in the English Channel are fighting in the face of the more advanced weapons and equipment that Chen Yanlong exchanged for the German army.

The British soldiers who were killed were full of mourning, suffered heavy casualties, lost their armor, and lost all confidence.

In particular, the approaching guns of the German army were about to make these British soldiers who were stubbornly resisting almost lose all will to fight.

A few days ago, they were full of fighting spirit, ready to fight the Germans and defend the English Channel to the death, and even the recruits who were later added were not even familiar with their weapons, and had not even fired a single shot, so confident and full of fighting spirit.

But in the face of the German bombardment of the sea and air, which they had never dreamed of, as well as the extremely well-armed amphibious landing force and the attack of the airborne troops, they completely changed their original thinking and were terrified.

So when the battalion commander Harman looked at the company commander next to him, Wankel, so timid and afraid, and said to him, he didn't know how to deal with him for a while.

Because at this moment, he is also very afraid.

Because the German artillery cover was so fierce that it was as if they didn't need money, they desperately bombarded the stubborn defensive positions of the British until they were about to bomb it into ruins.

But their commander, Smith, gave the order to fight to the death until reinforcements arrived.

Commander Smith was acting on an urgent order of action from Chief of Staff John that the 1st Battalion of the regiment was fending off the Germans from the north, and was using the bunker positions built there to counterattack; Who knew that the Germans directly used Scud missiles and air battles to blow up more than half, leaving the entire first battalion dead with less than a platoon of troops.

As for the defensive positions of the 2nd Battalion to the south, there was a fierce battle with the vanguard of the German 1st Airborne Division.

It's just that they didn't expect that the German helicopter group was so large and powerful, and their airborne troops were not paratroopers at all, but airborne special forces equipped with new weapons and equipment, so for a time the entire second battalion was half disabled.

As for the 3rd Battalion and the 4th Battalion, which was to remain in the rear as a reserve, they were all besieged by the Brandenburg Special Division, which had been interspersed, and were fighting to the death, waiting for support.

The original commander of the 3rd Regiment led by Smith was the most experienced command level, and many officers and men were from the Royal Army, as well as those who participated in the North African Campaign, the Battle of El Alamein, and the Battle of Tunis.

Moreover, the 3rd Regiment is still a full regiment, with a total of 16 companies, of which 3 infantry battalions have 4 companies each, including 3 infantry companies and 1 heavy equipment company.

Each infantry company is armed with 20 machine guns and 4 100-mm mortars; The heavy equipment companies were equipped with 16 heavy machine guns, 5 120-mm mortars and 4 infantry guns, and each company also had anti-tank rocket launchers in varying quantities.

The regimental headquarters directly administers one heavy equipment company, one anti-tank company and one engineer company, of which the equipment company is equipped with nine 120-mm mortars and eight heavy machine guns, and the anti-tank company has four 75-cm anti-tank guns, 34 "tank killer" anti-tank rocket launchers and six heavy machine guns, and two 80-mm mortars and six light machine guns......

In short, this British army can be said to be the most powerful and well-armed regimental headquarters in the entire English Channel, and it is also the unit on which the chief of staff John and Viscount Goth have the highest hopes.

It is a pity that the German army is very vulnerable in the large-scale bombing, landing operations, and airborne warfare.

In less than three hours of fighting, half of the troops had already been crippled and annihilated.