At 1 a.m., it was dark, and the wind weakened to level 4 as predicted by the bureau, and the waves dropped to about 7 meters. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

But such storms and waves still pose a considerable risk to the landing force, especially at night when the five fingers are not visible and the sky is still raining lightly.

Cook stood on the side of the ship and looked at the 20 small landing shock craft hanging from the side of the transport, which were filled with soldiers of the Zoaf Corps in their parapets waiting to land, the small boats were high above the water, constantly swaying in the air with the wind and waves...... Cook was worried that his soldiers would fall off the ship.

Cook looked at the other side of the pitch black, and although he couldn't see anything, he knew that ten kilometers away was the Omaha Beachhead, where he was going to land.

Suddenly, the ship's loudspeaker kept broadcasting: "Release the boat!" ”

"Release the boat!"

……

The davit winch creaked, and the dinghy began to wobbly and let go.

The dinghy was getting closer and closer to the sea, and after a while the waves hit the boat, and the soldiers sitting on the boat could feel the sound of the waves hitting the bottom of the boat, and the dinghy shook violently.

"Wow......" One of the soldiers finally couldn't hold back and spit out, but he could only spit on himself, which was taught to them during training, because their hands had to hold on to the grip ring next to them, otherwise they would be thrown out of the dinghy.

"Take it easy!" Xu Yun confessed: "This is not the first battle we have fought, you are all veterans, you can deal with it!" ”

Xu Yun is the advisor commander of the 1st Division of the 1st Army of the Zoaf Corps, and he will cooperate with the division commander Hamur in attacking the Omaha beachhead...... According to the documents, the topography of the Omaha beachhead is the most unsuitable for landing, because it has a 30-meter-high cliff on each side, and the pillbox fortifications built by the Germans on the cliff overlook the entire 6.4-kilometer-wide beach.

With only 6.4 km, the Germans' machine guns and mortars could form crossfire that covered the entire beach without dead ends.

To make matters worse, the beach is a long stretch of pebbly shore.

Xu Yun, who came from the battlefield, knew what it meant...... Pebbles, as long as a shell or mine explodes, those hard pebbles will become shrapnel that can kill people instantly.

However, Xu Yun was relieved that according to the information obtained by the British, the German troops stationed on the Omaha beachhead were the 716th Division of Haiphong, which had very poor combat effectiveness.

At this time, the Germans had reached a point of severe shortage of soldiers, so they searched the soil for anyone who could participate in the battle, and the standard of conscription medical examinations was lowered again and again, and patients with severe stomach ulcers or lung aspiration diseases were sent to the front in military uniforms.

The 716th Division of Haiphong is such a unit, the average age of the division is 36 years old (the average age of the US military in the same period is 25.5 years old), and they have not undergone much training, let alone fight, and more seriously, they are "immobile" divisions without car transport, so they can only stay on one shore and become "coastal defense divisions".

This was not surprising at all, because the Germans had always believed that the main direction of the Allied attack was Calais, so they transferred all the best soldiers to Calais, leaving only the old and weak in Normandy.

With the sound of "tent", just when Xu Yun was thinking about the enemy's situation, the boat finally fell to the sea.

At this time, Xu Yun realized that he was wrong, he originally thought that the dinghy would be more stable when it fell to the sea, but he didn't expect that as soon as the dinghy got out of the shackles of the sling, it followed the waves like a wild horse that had escaped, and from time to time there was a salty and astringent sea water slamming on his face.

"Let's go!" Xu Yun ordered.

The signalman soon used his flashlight to draw a circle around, and with the sound of a motor "suddenly", the dinghy soon rode the wind and waves in the direction of Normandy.

The Allies had made very detailed preparations before this, for example, the Zoaf Corps at this time should have faced a big problem: how to advance towards the target in the dark? They didn't even dare to turn on the lights, for fear that they would attract the attention of the Germans...... While the Germans would certainly have lowered their vigilance because of the storm, it would have been too obvious in the dark of night if the sea was full of sporadic lights.

What's more, the Germans also laid mines on the shore.

But this problem is well solved...... The mines were cleared by the frogmen beforehand, and they opened a safe passage in the minefield, and then a row of special lights was placed on both sides of the passage.

These "special lights" are actually very simple, that is, they are covered with an opaque metal cylinder, leaving only one hole on the side of the Zoaf Corps.

The inspiration apparently came from the practice of Africans such as Desoya using gasoline canisters as torches in the desert as beacons, so that the Zoaf Corps could clearly see a passage of lights on the surface of the sea that stretched off the coast of Normandy, while the Germans could see nothing.

Of course, the Zoaf Corps did not dare to drive the landing craft directly onto the beaches of Normandy...... This was tempting, as it would bring more supplies to the landing force, but at the same time it would increase the chance of operational exposure: the sound of the motor aside, the Germans would simply fire a flare at the beach and they would spot landing craft on the beach.

Therefore, when the landing craft approached the beachhead for a thousand meters, Xu Yun used a special signal light to signal and ordered everyone to turn off the engine and use the oars to move forward...... The sound of wind and waves and the sound of the sea crashing against the reef can be a good way to drown out the sound of paddling.

When they were about 200 meters close to the target, there was a risk that even the oars would be discovered, so as soon as Xu Yun gave the order, the soldiers of the Zoaf Corps turned over into the sea one by one and swam towards the target with bags of supplies...... The British poncho played a role again here, it has a good seal, and there is no need to worry about moisture when you load supplies and ammunition in it, and if you fill it with some air, you can use it as a floating tool.

After waiting for a while, Xu Yun also turned over and went into the sea to follow the soldiers of the Zoaf Corps, while the dinghy turned around and walked back, and they had to make three trips back and forth to transport all the troops of the First Division.

The first thing Xu Yun did after going ashore was to use the light to send a signal of "smooth landing" to the rear...... He did not dare to transmit the message by radio or radio, as this would likely be detected by the Germans.

The signal was transmitted to the Allied ships more than ten kilometers away like the beacon fire of the Great Wall, and the warships relayed the signals to the headquarters.

So Zhang Chi and Eisenhower, who were anxiously waiting, received the first piece of information.