There were no decent supplies for 4 days in a row, and the British mainland was gloomy. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info The German Navy's broken engagement began to take effect, and the British Navy could only cope with it.

Jersey was the closest large British island to the French coastline, and since the French surrendered and handed over the west coast to the Germans, it has become a frontier defensive position.

The British stationed about 2,000 troops on the islands, which was not a small number, but this was all the troops that the British Army could draw on now.

It turned out that despite the frequent German attacks on the British mainland, few planes came here to drop bombs. Because there aren't many targets worth bombing here, just a small town called St. Helier.

Destroying this place doesn't change anything, and the British Navy maintains sea supremacy, so the supplies transported here are enough to consume everyone on the island.

However, the latest transport ships seem to have forgotten the important base of the Channel Islands, and for half a month, the British transport ships have not replenished food and various supplies here.

Putting down the binoculars in his hand, a British Army soldier who was in charge of observing the sea sighed and looked at his companion who was standing listlessly beside him.

They were ordered here to meet any invading enemy, but the enemy did not come, and the Motherland seemed to have forgotten their existence. As if they had been banished, they became forgotten minor characters in the war.

"I heard that the food reserves need to be saved, so that they can survive until the middle of this month." When a few British soldiers stood guard, the most they did was small talk.

No one is going to stand there dry, and observing the surface of the sea is definitely a boring job. So everyone will find an opportunity to pass the time, at least to deal with the long ordeal of standing guard.

A soldier subconsciously touched his jacket pocket, only to find that he had no cigarettes left in his pocket. The last time the ship came, there was supposed to be a ration of cigarettes, but the people above informed them that the rations of cigarettes and alcohol had been cancelled.

Even, there are no more items such as milk and candy, they only have flour in reserve, and they have to save money and persist until they don't know the Year of the Monkey.

Although the Germans did not blockade the island, the British transports did not come on their own. So the effect is exactly the same as being blocked.

Embarrassed, he put down his hand to take out a cigarette, and the British soldier sighed again: "Hell, who still has cigarettes, mine is gone." ”

His companion looked at him like a fool: "What do you think? You tell me whose cigarettes will last until this time? ”

Yes, everyone is an old smoker, and after the cigarettes are in hand, they can support a week at most, and they will be wiped out.

Snorting and adjusting to the cold sea breeze blowing in front of him, the British veteran suddenly saw what seemed to be something on the sea in the distance.

So he picked up the binoculars he had hung around his neck and looked into the distance. Then he saw a mast, and a huge bridge below that was already above sea level.

"Virtue ...... Battleships of the Germans! He subconsciously shouted loudly, so frightened that his companion almost dropped the rifle he was carrying to the ground.

The bunker of the two of them is used to observe the sea surface on weekdays, not to mention that it is very solid, and the position of vision is also excellent.

Now, both men saw the German battleship in the distance. I couldn't tell what it was, but it was definitely a warship, not a civilian merchant ship or something.

"Hello? Feed? Command? This is the J observation post! This is the J observation post! Can you hear me? The British soldiers who had already called the command headquarters with the telephone behind him hurriedly called the telephone microphone again and again.

Soon, without any surprises, the call was already being called. He pinched the receiver and reminded loudly to the other side of the phone: "The battleships of the Germans! Right in front of the J observation post! …… Right! They're rushing at us! ”

"Perhaps...... It's not just rushing at us......" muttered the commander of the J observation post with a telescope, who had just been called up and rushed to his position.

In the field of view of his telescope, above the head of the German battleship, planes like locusts were rushing in their direction.

"Don't hesitate! Sound the battle alarm! We're running out of time! The officer lowered his binoculars and yelled at his men.

After about two seconds of his shouting, his men finally came to their senses, rushed to the siren with an arrow, and reached down and smashed the door with one hand.

"Woo...... Woo-woo......" The long, shrill sirens began to echo throughout the British positions, and the British soldiers, who were washing in the barracks, immediately became busy.

It was just a quiet morning like no other, but everything seemed to have been ruined by the sudden appearance of German troops.

Not long before the sirens went off, the first Stuka dive bomber was howling down from the clouds, aiming its nose at a reinforced concrete machine-gun bunker.

On the ground, tracer bullets were fired head-after at the plane, grazing the skin, and the Stuka was not idle, the guns on the wings spewting tongues of fire.

The tracer bullets fired from the cannon also rushed to the ground, and then drowning a British anti-aircraft machine gun position in front of the nose of the Stuka bomber.

Very close to the ground, the Stuka bomber pulled up the bomb and dropped a heavy aerial bomb on the target - the bomb penetrated the roof of the concrete fortifications and then exploded inside.

The massive explosion swept away the surrounding concrete walls, tearing the people inside to shreds in an instant. The British soldiers around them fell to the ground, and it took a long time for someone to struggle to their feet.

On the morning of 8 December, without a hint of conscription, the German army ventured to land on Jersey, the largest island in the Channel Islands, and fighting broke out at breakfast that day.

"What about the warships of the Royal Navy? What exactly are they doing? "The British Supreme Commander on the island, a major general, who had just gotten up, looked at the map and asked his staff officer.

"They're still preparing...... But they can't be counted on until it gets dark. The planes of the Germans would have sunk expensive battleships, and they would not have risked it. The staff officer said helplessly to his commander.

After habitually asking such a question, the major general realized that he could not get support for the whole day today.

Everything depended on himself, and the less than 2,000 defenders in his hands. He looked at the map, then pressed his hand on the J observation post: "The Germans must be landing here, and the focus of their attack seems to be here." ”

"Sir...... We have basically no reserves. When the staff officer mentioned this matter, he was also left with a depressed mood.

With 2,000 men to defend such an island, it is not enough to arrange some defensive lines around the island, let alone leave some reserves.

There are no decent heavy weapons on the islands, and the batteries do, but unfortunately the cannons on them are clearly not adapted to modern warfare.

If it is barely used, it can be used - but the artillery should be careful not to let these guns blow up.

Just as these British soldiers were in positions close to the coastline and found their place to be stationed, the sea was already densely packed with all kinds of strange transport ships.

The most classic landing operations of World War II must be familiar to friends who love military affairs, some people admire Operation Overlord, and some people love Okinawa and Saipan in the Pacific.

However, no matter which landing, the footage in the movie or documentary is a blockbuster of American landing craft, bravely rushing to the shore in the face of the waves.

However, it is a pity that Germany could not muster and could not build so many landing craft, so this landing, no matter how carefully planned, was also a civilian landing operation.

There is no way to compare with the local tyrants, and the landing battle in Germany looks a little bitter. Some shoal boats can be driven to the shore, but the gangplank can only be lowered at the bow to let people wash up on the beach.

Other German soldiers, on the other hand, landed in assault boats that were used to cross the river. There were also soldiers whose boats had to stop a dozen meters from the shore, and then the soldiers had to wade ashore.

In cold weather, British soldiers wore overcoats, while German soldiers, in order to be as flexible as possible, overcoats were on the transport ships in the back.

In this way, in the stunned eyes of the British soldiers, the thick planks of a shoal boat were pushed out, and then fell to the sand by gravity, becoming a huge gentle slope.

Immediately afterward, the German soldiers jumped from the deck to the planks one by one and rushed to the beach in dense formation.

"Suddenly! Sudden Sudden Rush! Without the slightest politeness, the machine guns of the British coastal guards roared, and tracer bullets rained down on the gangplanks of the German ships facing them, beating the Germans on them into a sieve.

Blood splattered everywhere, and soon a blood mist formed. One by one, the German soldiers fell, and then one after the other rushed to the gangplank.

For the first time, the German soldiers, who had been tempered by the exercises, faced the real landing battlefield. Although they thought they were ready, when they saw what was in front of them, they realized that they hadn't.

One by one, the German soldiers who waded ashore fell into the water, some struggling to get up, others being swallowed up.

As soon as they landed on the shore, before they could rush to the place where they changed clothes like the exercise, they were dizzy from the bullets flying from the opposite side and turned to crying dad and mother.