What Chentian adopted this time was a method that the Chinese used to confuse the enemy a long time ago, so they set up a suspicious formation and attacked the east and the west!

The "landing fleet" that the British saw on Brighton Beach was actually just more than 400 freighters, fishing boats, and even small sampans departing from Calais Harbor, plus more than 100 destroyers, patrol boats, submarines, and mine-striking ships responsible for blocking the English Channel.

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Looking at the flares rising diagonally from Brighton Beach, Prince Heydrich stood very calmly in the command room of the "Frederick the Great", this novel deception tactic did not surprise him too much, and after getting along with Chentian for a long time, he would naturally gradually accept his seemingly strange but always very practical tactics. Heydrich felt that if he were the commander of the British army, he would probably find it difficult to see through this simple trick.

Soon after, the German front headquarters received a telegram from the "British Sleepers" organization, and the British army units in southern England began to move, and at least 10 infantry divisions and tens of thousands of cavalry units were gathering in the direction of Brighton Beach.

For Chen Tian and his landing force, the battle had not yet officially begun, and they had a tactical advantage.

At 4:30 a.m., the heavy shelling of the Scheer Battlefleet began again, and the heavy high-explosive shells began to fall behind the beach, and this shelling would continue until the landing attack began, and in the midst of this loud roar, no one slept tonight, whether it was the British soldiers near the beach or the German soldiers waiting for the attack on the landing ships.

Woodtown, England, at 5:15 a.m., 1 hour and 45 minutes before the first German airborne troops landed, and 20 minutes before the last German airborne troops left Woodtown.

When a small group of British patrols on bicycles approached the English town from the east, everyone was stunned by the sight before them, the town was surrounded by discarded white parachutes, the snow was covered with footprints, and the brightly lit town was deadly silent.

The patrolmen cautiously walked into the town with trepidation, and the scene here made them speechless for a long time, as if the town had been sacked by a group of extremely fierce bandits, the garrison and militia were all slaughtered, and the remaining hundred or so residents were locked in their basements, and everyone looked horrified as if they had seen the devil.

"This ...... What's going on here? The commander of the patrol shook the shoulders of one of the surviving men vigorously.

After a long while, the man said three words in a daze, "Angel!" Devil! German! ”

"How many?"

The commander soon realized that this was a very serious matter, and he also knew that a person could land safely from an airplane or airship with the help of a parachute, but that was only a means for the pilot to escape, and he never imagined that humans could carry out such a large-scale airborne landing, and it was for the purpose of ground combat.

"Countless, like snowflakes falling from the sky!" The Englishman's eyes were glazed, apparently greatly stimulated, and in fact he was one of the few Englishmen who had the privilege of witnessing the German airborne process.

"Oh God!" The commander was stunned for a moment, and then called his subordinates, "Sergeant, you take a few people to count how many parachutes there are outside the town!" I'm going back and report to my superiors! ”

His soldier was obviously stunned, "There are so many parachutes, how long will we count!" ”

The commander sighed deeply, the task of counting parachutes was naturally difficult, but he had to ride back to the post several miles away to contact his superiors, and the only telephone in Woodtown had already been smashed by the Germans, and the telephone line was probably cut.

"No matter what, we have to do our best!" The commander also wanted to ask the inhabitants if they knew which direction the Germans were going, but seeing their blank eyes, he knew that these people would not know the answer.

Soon, the British patrols began to manually count the scattered parachutes, and their commander took the Discovery of the Century to the nearest outpost, while Garris and his 1st Airborne Regiment were heading to Fortin, north of Woodtown, a town named after the bridge, where the largest stone bridge over the Fording River had been built long ago, and the British had built the largest steel bridge over the river by far next to the old bridge in the industrial age. It is also the only railway bridge near Bonemouth. The River Fortin is about 100 miles long, from north to south and finally flows into the sea in Bonemouth, and the train from London and Southampton to Bonemouth must pass through this Fortin Bridge, which is also the only way to Bonemouth from Bristol, an important town in southeastern England.

The British are also very clear about the important strategic location of the Fording Bridge, so the British army deployed an infantry battalion and a cavalry company of about 1,000 soldiers here, and prepared a large number of zha medicine to blow up the railway bridge when the German army approached, but at this time the British did not load the zha medicine directly on the key part of the bridge, because no one thought that the German army could bypass the tight beach defense line and go straight to the inland area, In this case, it is not too late to wait until the beach is lost to start deploying the bombing of the bridge, otherwise if the ZHA medicine installed on the bridge is detonated by German spies or German planes in advance, the British army's own support for the beach and the retreat from the beach will be seriously affected. Especially after the robbery of the vaults by the commandos, the British generals had already put the German pilots, especially the aircraft carrier-based pilots, spies, and Prince. William was listed as the least popular figure in all of Britain, but now the vegetative man would not come back to England, and the German commander Gigi, who commanded the first wave of landing forces, was not going to come back to England. Willian has shown signs of being selected as a substitute.

The 2nd and 3rd Airborne Regiments, which were then airborne, were advancing to Bonemouth Beach, a dozen miles away, and their task was to attack the British artillery and reserves deployed deep in the line from the north when the landing force attacked. In addition to this, the two regiments were constantly prepared for encounters with the British reinforcements in Bonemouth, whose cavalry units were the greatest threat to them.

"The order goes down, everyone moves along both sides of the railway, no one is allowed to make a loud noise, and if you find any movement around, report it at any time! The engineer company began to bury ZHA medicine under the railway, every 500 meters, and the timers were all set for 1 hour! ”

After Garris had asked his staff officer to convey the order, he took out his binoculars and looked around, the stars in the sky had begun to call it a day, the sight on the snow was barely enough, the Fording River was less than 500 meters west of the railway, and the wide river was already covered with a thin layer of ice, and it was impossible for a man to swim across the river at this season, except perhaps Superman. After the addition of the three assault teams, Garris's force had reached more than 2,700 men, and they were silently advancing on both sides of the railway in two columns, and it would take at least half an hour to reach the Fortin's Bridge, when the landing fleet was about to march towards the beach.

After the passage of the large army, the soldiers of the engineer company began to busily bury the ZHA medicine under the railroad tracks, because the starboard side of the ZHA medicine carried by the airborne regiment, so there are not many ZHA drugs buried at each blasting point, just enough to blow up a small section of the tracks, these ZHA drugs are also connected to an alarm clock-like timer, although the accuracy of this timer is not high, but it is not a problem to detonate the ZHA medicine in about 1 hour.

Lieutenant Colonel Garris looked along the railway line, and there were several British sentry posts in front of him, the nearest one was about 4 or 500 meters away from Garris, and two sentries with rifles could be faintly seen in the dim light of the post. When the vanguard of the 1st Airborne Regiment was about 200 meters away from the first outpost, Garris signaled his troops to stop, and he called Cullen and Second Lieutenant Helim to discuss in a whisper, after which Helen took out a strange-looking pistol and handed it to Helim, who then disappeared into the darkness with a dozen agile commandos.

"Shelling again, these Germans are so arrogant! Germans, why are they Germans again! When our navy was at its strongest, the Germans never dared to speak out loud in front of us! But judging from the current situation, I think the Germans are about to start landing, let's fight, let's fight, and go home early after the fight! In the dim light of the checkpoint, a sentry said indignantly as he dug into his pocket.

"Yes! Pity the brothers who are guarding the beach! The overwhelming airships and planes over there before were even more terrifying, I don't know which city has suffered again, at least there are hundreds of airships and planes, tsk! The other sentinel seemed to be a cynic as well, but when he saw his companion pull out a pack of cigarettes, he turned to expectation.

"Pump me again! Where's your bag? The tall sentry who pulled out the cigarette gave the drooler a blank look, but he pulled out one of his own and handed the cigarette case to the man.

"My box was taken away by Sergeant Green, and this smoker never paid for cigarettes himself!" After getting a cigarette from the tall man, the short sentry hurriedly pulled out a box of matches, and the tall man hung the cigarette in his mouth and waited for his companion to light it for him, and the two of them did not notice that a pair of indifferent eyes were staring at them ten meters away from the sentry.

Hylim lifted the pistol that Cullen had given him, and when the short sentry held the lit match in both hands, the tall sentry suddenly shook his whole body and fell to the ground crookedly. Before the short man could react, another bullet silently burrowed into his body.

Haylim was both surprised and amazed by the pistol, which only had a short range and low sound when fired, and in fact only a spy could use this short-range, low-sound silencer pistol. Probably due to the cold weather, the door to the checkpoint was tightly closed, and the other sentries inside were unaware of the movement outside. After making sure that there were no other sentries around the outpost, Halim kicked open the gate and rushed into the outpost with a few commandos, inside four British sentries who were sleeping soundly, and before they could see who the other side was, they accompanied their outside companions to report to Heaven.

The 1st Airborne Regiment had to clear only a few small posts along the railway, while the 2nd and 3rd Airborne Regiments were faced with barracks and patrols, and it was clear that the British had deployed the reserves defending Bournemouth Beach about 8 miles from the beach, and the large size of the German battleships and the draft of 8 meters made it impossible for them to sail very close to the beach, where the British did not have to worry about the bombardment of German guns, and they also built many camouflaged barracks in this hilly area. Despite the current severe lack of resources for the British, wood, mud and snow were readily available, and wooden barracks covered with mud and snow were not easily spotted from the air.

"Good boy, there are at least two divisions here! I can't even tell which ones are hills and which ones are barracks! The British were so cunning that they made the barracks look like the surrounding hills! If it weren't for the ground, we wouldn't have found them! ”

Captain Xie Ding, who led the way for the 2nd Airborne Regiment, lay on the snow half a mile away from the British and sighed, the German reconnaissance airship had not reported that there were a large number of British troops in this area, and it seemed that the British had even avoided lighting fire for the sake of secrecy, and from the point of view of a spy, the British camouflage was still very successful. At this time, Captain Xie Ding's impression of the British generals finally changed a little, before the commandos in England turned the world upside down, but the British army has always had no way to deal with them, and the British generals have naturally become synonymous with incompetence.

The commander of the 2nd Airborne Regiment is the 39-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Nicklaus, a traditional East Prussian officer who has accepted the advanced airborne tactical ideas, in the G-1 Airborne Division, most of the officers and soldiers are from the East Prussian Corps, of course, most of them are also East Prussians, so sometimes people also refer to the G-1 Airborne Division as the East Prussian Airborne Division, which is naturally the Prince of East Prussia and the current Acting Crown Prince of Germany. One of William's descendants.

After carefully observing the situation ahead, Nicklaus called his communications corps and "reported to the command that we had found the British reserve north of Bonemouth Beach, ...... away."

"Based on when we left Wood Town and how fast we were traveling, it was about 5 miles from Wood Town and 8 miles from Bonemouth Beach, a place out of the reach of naval guns!" Captain Xie Ding reminded him that his usual status was a dentist, so not many people cared about his hair.

"Well, 8 miles north of Bonemouth Beach! The British here have at least 2 divisions, and considering that they will be rushing directly to the beach after our landing attack, I decided to launch a surprise attack on them! Nicklaus glanced at Captain Xie Ding, he had no objection, and there was no pity to die in battle by this time.

At this time, on the 30 airfields of Cherbourg, German military planes painted in blue-gray livery and Iron Cross and Thomas Post Office civilian planes painted in green were whizzing past one after another, and the ground crews on the ground were no longer as happy as when the first plane returned, and when the planes gradually lowered their altitude and finally made contact with the ground, they had to guide these airborne heroes to their respective parking spots, where there were lights and pilot lights, and the suburbs of Cherbourg were noisy, and the silence of the night was nowhere to be seen.

At 5:23 a.m., the last transport plane slowly landed on Cherbourg No. 25 airfield, at this time, 860 planes of all kinds of 43 squadrons carrying out airborne and cover missions except for 3 of which were forced to land in the English Channel due to mechanical failure on the way back, 1 crashed due to light and other reasons during landing, and 2 were damaged by sliding off the runway, the remaining 854 planes all landed safely, which is even lower than the loss rate during ordinary training and exercises. Pilots with a high degree of mental concentration and conscientious ground crew should be the first to take credit.

All the pilots who finally landed on the surface of the sea were rescued by German destroyers and patrol boats shortly after, and the pilots on the damaged planes during the landing were also treated in time, and only one pilot was killed due to the crash of the plane in the entire airborne operation, and none of the planes and pilots on the airborne mission were lost due to the enemy's artillery fire. In the world's first large-scale airborne combat operation, the attacking Luftwaffe could get full marks, the poor British ate duck eggs because they were completely unprepared, and George V and his generals were still fixing their eyes on a wrong beach.

When the propeller of the last transport plane stopped turning, all 30 airfields near Cherbourg fell silent, but this did not mean that the combat operations of the air force in the landing offensive ended there. The pilots seized the time to rest and eat, while the ground crews were busy overhauling and refueling the aircraft, and since the landing force would launch an attack after dawn, all the fighter-bombers and bombers here would load bombs to bomb the British, the transport planes would carry out the airborne missions with the airships returning later, and the air patrols and combat missions near the landing area would be mainly handed over to the carrier-based aircraft of the aircraft carriers.

At 6 a.m. on December 27, 1914, the moment of anticipation finally arrived. The landing ships began to move along the rising tide towards Bonemouth Beach, and the Scheer Shelling Fleet, which had extended its artillery fire to the farthest range, refocused its guns on the beach where the soldiers were about to rush to land.

When the darkness of the night is slowly lifted by time, the British will find themselves in a very stupid night. At the cost of less than a hundred soldiers, Lieutenant Colonel Garris and his 1st Airborne Regiment had completely occupied the bridge over the Fording River, and in the makeshift arsenal near the bridge, there was a neat pile of zha medicine that could blow the railway bridge into the sky.