Tanks and armoured vehicles were parked on a small flat plot four miles north of Bonemouth Beach, refueled by logistics trucks carrying fuel, and tankers carrying 37-millimeter shells and machine-gun belts into the tanks. To the surprise of the soldiers in charge of logistics, these tanks were far from running out of fuel and ammunition since landing, but they had to be replenished here in advance. Other soldiers were loading boxes of bullets, grenades, mortar shells, and some food onto armored vehicles, as if they were going on a long journey.

Next to these tanks and armored vehicles stood a very young tank colonel, his keen eyes watching the busy scene.

Seven Stone II tanks, five Broadsword wheeled armored combat vehicles, 12 Trojan wheeled armored personnel carriers and four battlefield maintenance armored vehicles, this is the armored commando organized by Guderian. This special unit is reminiscent of the armored reconnaissance squads on the French battlefield, and they carry out the same very dangerous mission, except that this time the armored commandos are bound to face a large number of enemy forces.

"Colonel, a telegram has been sent from the command of the army group, agreeing that you will act according to plan No. 3!"

Guderian took the telegram and read it briefly, then called the commander of the assault team to give him a few words. After a while, the infantry boarded their armored vehicles, and with the roar of engines, these tanks and armored vehicles silently set off on their journey. No one expected that they would encounter the secret weapons of the British army, and an epoch-making battle would begin.

By this time, the sun had crept up to the top of the land.

Fortin, United Kingdom.

With his long combat experience, Ensign Halim jerked his body to the floor, and a large bullet passed through the ledge where he had just been, leaving a large series of bullet holes in the wall of the room, and a glass-encrusted picture frame fell to the ground with a clatter, and countless glass shards suddenly increased to the floor.

Helim finally regretted that he didn't wear a steel helmet at this time, and the British infantry and machine guns that advanced to the entrance of the town were desperately shooting at the town, and some British soldiers with more accurate marksmanship posed a big threat to the German paratroopers who were hiding on the windowsill and shooting, and the German side began to suffer casualties.

"The 435th!"

Now with every target hit, Hildeland is breaking the world sniper record (the number one sniper in history is Finn Simon. Haye, who had sniped a total of 542 Soviet soldiers by 1940). This time, as soon as he confirmed that his target had been killed, a few rifle bullets were fired towards the attic where he was, and the rifle bullets fired from medium range easily pierced the thin wooden wall panels, and although the British did not hurt the German ace sniper, Hildeland knew that the British had noticed this place, and he had to change places now.

Carrying the scoped Mauser 1898, Hildeland quickly climbed down the ladder to the attic with his collar, and on the first floor of the house, two paratroopers and a "Firebird" were still trying to hold back the advancing British troops, the machine guns were rushing at this time, and the co-machine gunners wore thick gloves ready to change the barrel of the machine gun.

The second wave of British troops soon joined up with the remnants of the previous attack force in the western part of the town, and large numbers of British and Canadian infantry rushed into the town under the cover of their own machine guns, and some of the streets were soon covered with corpses, which soon began to overlap.

Bang......

At the door of a house facing the street, a large Canadian soldier kicked the door open, but before he could take the first step into the house, two 9mm Luger pistol bullets entered his body with two bangs, and the Canadian fell straight backwards without even having time to look at the blood on his chest. Several other Canadian soldiers stood outside the door and shot desperately with their rifles, and the last guy threw a Hale grenade into the room. After a loud bang, the whole room was filled with smoke, and the people in the corners of the room kept coughing. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Canadian soldiers all rushed in at once, and they soon found two German paratroopers behind a sofa, and the muzzles of the black holes were all aimed at the Germans for a while.

"Don't move! Hands up! ”

The Canadian soldiers shouted as if the two Germans in front of them were heinous devils. Before the Canadians rushed over, the machine gun in the window of the room had shot dozens of British and Canadian soldiers, to say the least. Although I couldn't understand what the Canadians were saying, it was already clear that it was not a shame to be captured in the heat of the battle, and one of the blackened German paratroopers stood up with his hands raised, while the other was confined to the ground because he was wounded.

After a careful search of the two captured paratroopers, the leading Canadian sergeant and another corporal were satisfied with the two Luger pistols they carried, the Luger 08 was considered a superb gun at that time, and due to the cumbersome craftsmanship, the production of this pistol was not large, in order to equip each soldier of the G-1 Airborne Division with a Luger 08, the German logistics department spent a lot of effort in terms of financial, human and material resources.

The English soldiers who tried to storm into a nearby house were not as lucky as these Canadians, as soon as they kicked open the door, two wooden-handled grenades flew out of it, and more than a dozen soldiers at the door were killed and wounded, and then the British soldiers outside and the German paratroopers inside were fired at each other across a room, and the two sides used Luger 08 pistols, Lee. Enfield rifles, Wilbury revolvers, Hale grenades, and wooden-handled grenades. The room facing the street of this house was completely abandoned, and after the battle was over, there was nothing intact in the room, not to mention the broken glass all over the floor, and even all the tables, chairs, and cabinets were blown up. It was not until the British brought in a Vickers machine gun and fired extremely violently into it that the British overwhelmingly forced the German paratroopers inside to abandon the battle.

"Don't shoot!"

After three Mauser rifles and three Luger pistols were thrown out of the room in the back, the Vickers machine gun outside stopped firing, the rate of fire and power of this heavy machine gun were amazing when fired at close range, and it was fortunate that the German soldiers inside did not hit the bullets through the wall. After a small group of British infantry armed with rifles and bayonets rushed into the back room, three embarrassed German paratroopers walked out helplessly, one of them had lost his steel helmet, his brown hair was covered with a thin layer of dust, and the other two were covered with stains. After searching for their bayonets and ammunition, two British soldiers picked up rifles and pistols on the ground, which had claimed the lives of no less than 30 British or Canadians in previous battles.

As the first paratrooper was escorted through the door, a British soldier angrily rushed up and punched him hard, and the eyes of the other soldiers gathered around the door were basically on fire, and many of the dozen corpses at the door were their close associates. At this time, the British army had to pay a considerable price for every step forward.

Under the ferocious offensive, more and more British infantry entered the town, and they began to clear the German paratroopers hiding in the houses from house to house. Soon after, the westernmost two streets fell into the hands of the British. Major Shields and the reinforcements he had brought with him had joined the battle, and they were to join the rest of the German soldiers in the town to continue to hold back the advancing British and Canadian infantry with the remaining four streets and more than a hundred houses.

Lieutenant Colonel Garris, who was standing on the bridge over the Fording River, looked worriedly at the town, which was shrouded in gunfire and explosions, and the British offensive was somewhat unexpected, and although the paratroopers' defenses there had not yet collapsed all at once, what disturbed Garris was that the remaining British troops to the west and all the artillery they could use were also advancing towards the town.

"Send a report to the command that the 2 British infantry divisions we are facing are attacking our lines with all their might, requesting air support from naval aviation! Due to the ferocity of the British offensive, we could blow up the bridge at any time just to be on the safe side! ”

Garris's emergency telegram was soon transmitted to the German fleet off the coast of Bonemouth through the radio waves, and the signal corps immediately wrote down the meaning of the radio signal on paper, and the telegram was transmitted by the staff officer of the group army and the chief of the general staff and finally came to Chentian.

Every time I think of this airborne force and their mission, Chen Tian always can't help but think of some bridge-related movies, when the US troops landed in Normandy in World War II, they also sent airborne troops to occupy some bridges to cut off the German army's traffic, but Normandy can be used for landing on many more beaches than in South England on the north shore of the English Channel, due to the narrow beaches and the limited number of landing ships, the landing progress here in Chentian is as slow as expected. Several trestle bridges stretching from Bonemouth Beach into the sea have been erected, and the whole beach is also a busy scene, with landing ships carrying infantry and tanks onto the beach, and small freighters leaning on the trestle and the small pier at the western end of the beach to unload troops and houses. By 12 noon, more than half of François's 1st Infantry Corps had landed on the beach, and Olge's vanguard had begun an offensive operation towards Landing Zone B on the east side of Bonemouth.

Throughout the morning of the 27th, the crew and pilots of the aircraft carrier formation were the busiest in the whole army, and planes took off and landed on the deck of the aircraft carrier almost every minute, and from time to time on the sea, you could see the flight formations flying inland to provide support and returning home after the attack. After the end of the Great Air Battle, the first task of the Navy's carrier-based aircraft unit was to assist Guderian's mixed panzer division in the complete annihilation of the remnants of the beach defenses.

Although Guderian's unit was called a mixed armored division, this unit, like other tank divisions, armored divisions and mechanized divisions, was far from meeting the requirements of the legendary "blitzkrieg". The limited number of armored personnel carriers, trucks, and motorcycles in the armoured and mechanized divisions of the divisions is not yet possible to allow the entire division to march mechanized, and the main role of the trucks is to tow artillery, carry supplies, and rotate for the infantry.

Chen Tian was also a little at a loss about the current situation, after all, this was the first large-scale landing actual combat in which he and all German officers and soldiers participated, and the rapidly changing battlefield could not be simulated by the exercise, and history could not provide a very detailed reference. Although compared with the Normandy landing, the German landing offensive was only adjusted in direction, but the landing conditions and process were very different.

"How long will it take for the mixed armor division to settle the battle?" For the process of landing, Chen Tian is quite satisfied, the plan to unload all the personnel and supplies at midnight can basically be completed on time, there is no specific plan time for when to annihilate the defenders of Bonemouth, the movement of the British defenders during the shelling will be directly related to the course of the battle, if most of the British army died under the fire of the German battlefleet, the battle will naturally end soon, like today, a small half of the beach, most of the rear situation, not the best result, but not too bad.

"Your Highness, after getting most of the vehicles and artillery, Colonel Guderian is progressing well, but the British army still has about 15,000 people resisting, so it is optimistically estimated that it will take at least 1 hour!" In Hoffman's view, Guderian started with one division against two and a half divisions of the British army, and most of the morning has been fighting to such an extent that it is very powerful now. As François's infantry joined the battle, the Germans gradually caught up with and outnumbered the British defenders.

"1 hour ......"

For Guderian, Chen Tian is also blameless, even if it is the armored assault team that has just set off, it will be 2 hours before it arrives at the Fording River Bridge. That is, the 5,000 paratroopers holding the bridge still had to face a large number of British troops in a short time. The British wanted to recapture the bridge not only to cross the river, but also to connect their battle lines from Dorchester to Southampton via the railway bridge. If the airborne troops blew up the bridge, the British could still ensure the movement of troops between the battle lines by building pontoon bridges, but the movement of troops on pontoon bridges was slower and less conducive to transporting heavy equipment than by transporting troops through bridges and railways. Therefore, as long as the bridge remained intact, the British would do their best to retake it, and the later the bridge was blown up, the more it would delay the effective deployment of the British army.

"How many carrier-based aircraft can we make sorties now?"

"Uh...... Now there are no aircraft on the decks of the aircraft carriers that can take off immediately, except for a squadron of fighters! The fastest words...... It's the 2nd Bomber Squadron, which is expected to complete the replenishment of fuel and ammunition in 15 minutes! ”

Hoffman's ability to quickly report the numbers does not mean that he has superpowers, and the staff committee of more than 50 people in the group army headquarters is not only responsible for gathering the situation of various combat units on the battlefield and conveying orders from superiors, but also needs to pay close attention to and coordinate the fire support of the navy and air force on the battlefield.

"Got it! The next wave of bombers was transferred to the Fording River Bridge for support, and Lieutenant Colonel Garris was reminded to indicate the bombing target for the bomber formation in time! "How much Chen Tian hopes that he has dozens of aircraft carriers and thousands of carrier-based aircraft in his hands at this time, so that the German ground forces can take a considerable advantage whether they are attacking or defending, and this is the role of air supremacy. It is a pity that the international environment before the war did not allow him and the German Navy to build a large number of aircraft carriers, otherwise it would inevitably attract great attention from various countries, coupled with the high cost of ordinary aircraft carriers, the long construction period, and the need for a lot of time for crew and pilots to train, only by secretly building two aircraft carriers in an inconspicuous small harbor like Königsberg could the air raid on the British naval base have enough suddenness.

As for the way in which the ground forces guide their fighters to strike at the enemy's ground targets at this time, it is also very simple; since most of the attack planes and bombers use low-altitude horizontal bombing and strafing, the soldiers only need to launch signal fireworks to the target location, or use fireworks and flags and other pre-agreed markers to form an arrow indicating the direction.

"Yes! Plus, the airship formations back in Cherbourg will ask you what to do next! Hoffman's meaning is simple, this time let the airship carry the paratroopers or the bombs.

"Let them be bombed and bombed at targets in the depths of the British army!"

Chentian's order also meant the end of the airborne operation in this landing operation, and if nothing else, all the remaining 10,000 airborne troops would be allocated to cooperate with the landing operation launched by the Hindenburg 5th Army two days later.

In the years when there were no long-range bombers, airships were supposed to be the best tool for conducting primitive strategic bombing.

After a while, the alarm bell on the battleship sounded for firing, and Chen Tian and the other generals had to leave the bridge and return to the command room. At this time, the main guns of the battleships were all pointing to the west, where the planned landing zone C was planned, and the battlefleet was to bombard the harbor town called Svenge, and the minesweepers began to clear the mines that the British had deployed near this small civilian port. After the end of the shelling and mine-clearing operations, Chentian's 3rd Infantry Corps will land there, and the German landing operation will be in full swing at the 3 landing sites.

In the town on the west side of the Fording River Bridge, as the British army continued to advance, the attention of both the attacking and defending sides was focused on the first crossroads west of the town. There are no zebra crossings or traffic lights at the intersections, and the roads here are no wider than elsewhere, and when there are more and more British corpses at the intersections, no one comes out to sweep up the garbage. The German bullets fired from the houses in the northeast and southeast formed a dense network of fire, suppressing the swarming British soldiers to the west of the crossroads.

The steel bridge over the Fording River was so close to the British officers and soldiers at this time, but this junction was like a bottleneck, and although a large number of British troops had completely surrounded the town on the west side of the bridge, they could only continue to approach the bridge if they rushed through it.

"Push the cannon over!" A British second lieutenant asked the soldiers in the back to push the rapid-fire guns that had just arrived at the entrance of the town for fire support, and small-caliber guns often played a very important role in street fighting.

As soon as the second lieutenant finished speaking, a bullet from a distance popped into his body, and the guy who was shot in the lungs was immediately dragged down by the soldiers next to him for first aid.

Hildeland, 500 meters away, sent the next bullet into the chamber with a blank face, and the British wanted to fire at the corner of the street, so they had to ask him about the rifle in his hand.