While Li Le and officials discussed German military manufacturing and plans for a German invasion of the Soviet Union, fighting was still going on on on the island of Crete. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As the head of Germany, when Li Le was preparing to design a different road and create a different Barbarossa plan, the German Army borrowed a large number of Greek and Italian fishing boats to carry out landing exercises in the Mediterranean.

"Hell! You're throwing up on me! Holding the weapon in his hand, a German soldier looked at his pale-faced comrade next to him with an unhappy face.

"Right...... I'm sorry...... Vomit! "The poor comrade-in-arms had been seasick since he left the Greek port, and by this time he was almost vomiting his stomach.

On the cramped deck, many German soldiers were not used to the bumps of the sea. They can roam the land, but they can't stand the pain of being adrift at sea.

"Is the Führer trying to kill us? Without training, without preparing anything, they sent us to this hellish place. Although he didn't vomit, the smell of digestive juices wafting from the ship made the soldiers, who had nothing to do, begin to regulate.

It's a huge fleet, so large that it consists of hundreds of ships. These include Greek civilian ships that were requisitioned, as well as those drawn from Italy.

The smallest ship had only 20 heavily armed German soldiers on board. The largest Italian transport ship carried more than 1,100 people.

An infantry division, a fully reorganized German infantry division, was in such a mess that it sailed by ship to a place close to Crete.

"Boom!" The sound of a huge cannon roared by, as if to shatter people's eardrums. The sound of the air tearing through the air made the hairs stand on end, and the icy sea water hitting the face was a constant reminder that they were not on land.

"Bastard! Does the Italian Navy have brains? While rubbing his ears, there were loud complaints from the soldiers.

The main guns of the battleship Cavour were fiercely attacking the enemy positions on the shore. But the other side was as if all of them were killed, and no one fought back at all.

"There is nothing on the enemy's sand...... They did not fire from the shore defense guns, nor did they respond in any way...... "Lowering the binoculars, the Italian captain of the battleship Cavour opened his mouth to explain the situation to the German division commander who had just boarded the ship.

Since yesterday, two battleships of the Cavour-class have been shelling various areas of Crete. But the other party just didn't fire and fired back, which made him feel bottomless.

The face of the German division commander was not good-looking, and the feeling of drifting on the sea was not a thing to be happy about for him.

If he hadn't been on the biggest ship all the way, he might have been vomiting on the side of the ship by now, like most of his soldiers.

"My troops were still fighting on the shore the day before yesterday, and even half of them couldn't find lifebuoys, isn't the Supreme Command playing with the lives of soldiers when they make this kind of plan?" The German division commander covered his mouth with a handkerchief and complained to his men indistinctly.

He did not dare to question the Führer's orders, so he had no choice but to use the Supreme Command as a target for his own mouth. It's a pity that complaining is complaining, and he can only come here with troops.

"The first batch of landing troops is being transferred to small boats...... Is it going to use smoke bombs? The chief of staff frowned and asked his division commander.

Of course, in fact, the smoke bombs wanted the Italian Navy to hit the shore, so these few words were actually asked to the commanders of the Italian Navy.

"Let the cruisers and destroyers open fire! Shoot smoke grenades and cover the beach! The Italian naval officer still had some real skills, and when he heard the needs of the German friendly forces, he immediately gave the order.

"Boom! Boom! With the addition of small-caliber artillery, the beach suddenly became lively, all kinds of smoke began to spread, and the Germans replaced their landing ships with pale faces amid the deafening sound of artillery.

Large boats can't get close to the beach, so if you want to land on the beach, you have to change to a small boat. Before the invention of amphibious landing ships and specialized beach-grabbing landing ships, transfer was the most annoying troublesome link for the landing force.

"The order of the division commander has arrived! Attention to all! Start transferring! "Countless ships laden with German troops, large and small, repeated orders over and over again on the loudspeakers, and huge rope ladders in the shape of fishing nets were pushed down the side of the ship by the seamen, tumbling and falling down the side of the ship to the surface of the sea.

"Hold on to the rope! Climb aboard the dinghy! Fast! On a long, narrow fishing boat, the German company commander pressed his weapons and loudly warned his soldiers to be safe, and the soldiers crowded the deck, and the uneasy atmosphere made everyone feel depressed.

More than two-thirds of the people here have not practiced this kind of boat transfer, and half of the remaining third have only seen but not tried it themselves.

In the end, less than one-sixth of the total number of soldiers remained, and they were sent to the Cretan front after climbing the rope ladder only once.

Climbing over the railings of the ship's safeguards, the infantrymen carried their weapons and bags on their backs, and little by little, carefully climbed down the rope ladder. For a time, the Germans on the rope ladder were densely packed, like ants hugging each other.

Watching the last soldier under his command roll over the railing on the side of the ship and climb onto the rope ladder, the company commander and other officers also climbed over the railing and climbed along the rope ladder towards the boat.

"Everybody listen to the command! Go up the rope ladder! "The same thing is happening on another small boat in the distance. Despite the chaos and inefficiency, it is undeniable that the German soldiers were still very disciplined and did as much as their commanders commanded.

"Ahh......h Yes! "On the rope ladder in the form of a net, a German soldier carrying a heavy backpack lost his center of gravity and fell into the sea.

Because he was carrying a weapon and all kinds of things, this unlucky guy fell into the sea and didn't show his face again.

Only someone shouted and then heard the sound of falling water. The soldiers around them all stopped their steps and looked in the direction in which the sound came from.

"Watch out for the strength of your hands! And watch out for your feet! Don't look anywhere else! Idiot! If you fall, you're dead! A German officer shouted loudly, pulling everyone back to reality.

German soldiers who could not swim, carrying heavy backpacks, would not have survived at all. Before the enemy could fire a single shot, someone on his side fell into the water and died, and the atmosphere of the entire landing force suddenly became oppressive.

"Keep moving! Gentlemen! Don't mess around! Note! Don't fall down! If you fall too, you will die too! While urging his soldiers, the German officer carefully grasped the rope ladder and shouted loudly.

"What? Before the landing, 17 people fell into the water and died? Hearing the report of his subordinates, the German division commander's face turned from white to black, and he asked rhetorically in an unkind tone.

After receiving the order, it has only been 4 days until now. As a preparation, the entire infantry division simply counted the soldiers who could swim, distributed some extra food, and gave the soldiers a day off.

Only a small part of the troops underwent simple training for the landing - running from the sea to the beach...... Don't doubt it, it's just that simple!

In such a situation, for the troops to really find the feeling of landing, that is a real fool's dream. So this landing, from the very beginning, was doomed to be a tragedy.

"Let the troops attack! It is estimated that we will leave 2,000 corpses on the beachhead......" The German division commander complained to the chief of staff next to him with a bitter face.

His eyes were resentful, as if he were an angry little daughter-in-law: "I will definitely be famous, my unit may be the one with the greatest losses in the German offensive in history." ”

The division commander on this side was complaining helplessly, and the Germans on the other side had already spread out quite a lot of troops on the sea - the first group of soldiers to attack one regiment was actually not very many.

Counting the miscellaneous reinforcements given to this landing infantry regiment, the total number of German troops attacked in the first wave was only more than 2,300 people, which was actually not much.

As the German soldiers grumbled, rowing their oars in desperation, slowly approaching the sandy beaches of Crete, everyone prayed that they would not be hit by a sudden bullet and fall into the bottomless water.

For the heavy burden of traditional infantry, especially landlubbers who have no landing experience and do not know how to deal with falling into the water, it is enough to drown them in a depth of 70 centimeters.

"Dismount! Disembarked! We're going back to pick up the other guy. The rowing Italian sailors lowered their voices and ordered the Germans to disembark.

Although most of it was Italian that the Germans did not understand, the word disembarkation was actually spoken in German, so the German soldiers had to jump off the boat with their weapons and ammunition.

The slightly icy sea water soaked the German soldier's pants and shoes at once. Some people couldn't stand the temperature and let out a low snort.

More soldiers, accompanied by the distant sound of artillery, dripping with uncomfortable water, under the cover of smoke bombs, touched the sands of Crete little by little.

The large-scale landing operation of the German army, which has never been seen in history, with a scale of more than one infantry division, made a brilliant appearance in the history rewritten by Li Le.

Although the enemy did not return fire, during the landing, more than 50 soldiers and two officers were lost.

Some of these people fell into the sea while changing trains and drowned, while others tripped and drowned in the deep sea when they tripped on the shore......

And on the beach, the boots of the first batch of German soldiers have already stepped on the beach, and most of their hanging hearts have been put down at this moment!

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