Caen, also known as the city of Okana, is a strategically important city in northern France...... However, most of this important strategic importance was brought about by the Allied landings in Normandy, and Caen's location was just south of Normandy, at the confluence of the Orne and Odong rivers, and at the same time it was the center of many railways and roads. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Originally, for such an important city, the Germans should not have relaxed its defenses, but the problem was that Rommel focused too much attention on the offensive at the front.

It should be said that Rommel was right in doing this, because as Rommel said, the most important thing in this battle is the first day of the war...... The Germans had already lost this "first day", and the Germans had no chance, but the weather, as well as the diving tanks, created another opportunity.

Now, of course, Rommel had to do his best to seize this opportunity, that is, to concentrate all his forces on the beach of "Omaha" and drive the Allies into the sea while the weather was still on the side of the Germans.

On the other hand, there were not many troops at Rommel at his disposal...... This was because of Hitler's previous orders, and Berlin still believed that the target of the Allied offensive was Calais and not Normandy.

As a result, Rommel sent almost all his troops to the front, as many German officers said: "There are only two kinds of troops in this area, one is in Normandy, and the other is rushing to Normandy!" ”

This inevitably caused the Germans to ignore the defense of Caen, and Zhang Chi learned from intelligence that the Germans stationed here only had one regiment of troops, and most of the rest were police forces with little combat effectiveness and even many of them were composed of French.

Zhang Chi put down the binoculars in the rainy night, Caen was not far ahead, although it was three o'clock in the morning, and the sky was still raining, Caen was still brightly lit and full of people, and even a few gunshots were heard from time to time.

Zhang Chi was not surprised by this, Caen was an important front-line supply base for the German army, and this should be its busiest time, as all the French would be mobilized to transport supplies or carry supplies for the German army overnight.

As for the gunshot, Zhang Chi believed that it should be the German army arresting members of the French underground organization.

Zhang Chi was wrong about this, and the gunfire was actually the Germans slaughtering prisoners of war...... The prisoners of war were captured by the Germans in Normandy and then transported back in empty transports.

The German colonel Erhard was unhappy with this.

"What are you bringing these prisoners of war back for!" Erhard said: "They will only consume our rations, please tell those who are fighting on the front line not to take prisoners in the future!" ”

Then the massacre began, and the captives were taken out of the stables where they were held one by one, and the captives, realizing what was waiting for them, shook hands with their comrades and said goodbye, and were then taken to a garden by the Germans, where they were ordered to dig a pit for themselves...... Kneeling at the end of the pit, the German soldiers with rifles lined up in a skirmisher line and pulled the trigger at the sound of an order.

This practice of the Germans was soon spread by the surviving captives to the Allies, which soon drew retaliation from the Allies, after which the Allies even ordered the soldiers: "No prisoners below the rank of major shall be kept!" ”

An American officer said: "From now on, the Germans will have to have great courage to surrender to us, because we will pull the trigger on them, even though they have their hands held high...... I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing! ”

Saying that this is a good thing, this hatred can inspire the pathos of the troops and make them fight bravely on the battlefield.

Say it's a bad thing...... This is obviously a kind of human annihilation, human sorrow, and at the same time, the German army tends to resist to the end.

This is war, and in the end, there will be no cruelty or cruelty, and anything can happen.

The Chinese soldiers took advantage of the darkness to silently surround Caen from three directions, and the lights of Caen became their best guide.

Soon, Zhang Chi's walkie-talkie heard the reports of various troops.

"A battalion is in place!"

"The second battalion is in place!"

……

Zhang Chi didn't think much about it, and immediately ordered: "Attack!" ”

Shots were soon fired, and the first to fall were the German soldiers standing guard by the side of the road...... Zhang Chi thought that at this time there was no need to do any covert attack, a regiment attacking the enemy's regiment, and it was a populous town, it was inevitable to be discovered, and the best way was to take advantage of the enemy's defenselessness to cut through the chaos quickly.

The soldiers of the expeditionary force jumped out of their hiding places and rushed into the city with a shout, and almost at the same time, a convoy of jeeps with machine guns in all directions drove along the road to the center of the town as fast as they could......

Compared to armored vehicles, jeeps can be described as "vulnerable", so the jeep convoy is almost suicidal in doing so.

But even so, their role is indispensable.

Zhang Chi's tactic of taking Caen was to fight fast and slow, hoping to disrupt and disperse the Germans before they successfully organized their defenses...... Jeep convoys can create confusion within enemy forces and delay the organization of their defenses.

The jeep convoy lived up to expectations, and the unsuspecting Germans and the high speed of the jeeps made them almost no-man's land all the way into the city...... As soon as they saw someone in German uniform, they fired a single bullet, plus a few grenades.

Then they rushed around the city, scurrying wherever there was a road, and with no regularity...... As a result, the Germans sent people everywhere to chase and intercept without success, and more importantly, these jeeps were running around the city for a while, so that the Germans did not know which direction the enemy was in.

There were gunshots everywhere in the city and outside the city, and when they heard the gunfire, they thought that the enemy was in the east, and when they rushed to the east, a jeep sprang out from behind them, and they were killed and wounded by a bullet.

Of course, due to the lack of jeep defense, many jeeps were destroyed and wounded by the Germans, and the surviving soldiers immediately got out of the car and continued to fight in the city...... The Germans were so confused that the officers didn't even know which direction to send reinforcements.

And at this moment, the main force of the expeditionary force poured into Caen like a tide.

What awaited the German troops in Caen was doomed to a rout, not only because they were defenseless, but also because their opponents were Chinese troops.