Chapter 919: Airborne (3)

As soon as the green light came on, the fighters jumped from the rickety transport plane one after another. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhang Chi had just jumped out of the transport plane when he felt a loud noise and a wave of heat coming from behind...... The transport plane he was on had already been hit by a shell and caught fire, but fortunately it hadn't exploded yet, otherwise it was unknown how many pieces of debris would have been fired at Zhang Chi.

However, this was only one of the transport planes, and it was not long before Zhang Chi found that his head and feet were ...... There was a black mist blasted by anti-aircraft guns everywhere, and the air was full of transport planes that had been hit and fell downward, with black smoke emitting from their tails and their engines making a piercing and unpleasant roar, like the last cry of despair from a dying monster, and then falling headlong to the ground and turning into a fireball.

And this is not the most terrifying, after all, the target of the anti-aircraft guns is still the transport aircraft.

What's worse are the anti-aircraft machine guns, the lines of bullets with light and water vapor are like the scythes wielded by death, easily taking the lives of soldiers everywhere they go, and the soldiers hanging on the parachute line are not even able to fight back, so they can only continue to slowly descend with the parachute...... Until you get your feet on the ground.

Of course, Zhang Chi can understand this mood, because at this time, he is hanging on the parachute line, and the bullet is flying by him.

At this time, Zhang Chi even had the urge to cut the parachute rope and jump down, because he thought that these bullets and the pressure of being beaten into a sieve at any time were more frightening than jumping.

But fortunately, the bullet only made a few holes in the parachute...... Zhang Chi could feel the force of the bullet penetrating the parachute from the parachute line, and then the speed of descent quickly increased due to the uneven force and damage of the parachute.

From this point of view, Zhang Chi has achieved his wish. Moreover, the increased speed allowed him to dodge more bullets.

The disadvantage is that if there is ground below, then Zhang Chi is likely to suffer too much momentum and even die due to the damage of the parachute.

However, Zhang Chi was lucky, it was not the ground but the "floodplain" below, so with a "plop", Zhang Chi fell into the seawater......

The water in the "floodplain" was several meters deep, which apparently saved Zhang Chi's life.

The first thing Zhang Chi did was to take out the military thorn on his waist to cut the parachute rope, and after climbing up a few times, he came out and took a big breath of fresh air...... He wasn't ready just now, and suddenly he fell into the water, which really made him choke a few times.

At the same time, Zhang Chi looked around...... He had to make the most of any bit of time, as it would determine the fate of the new 1st Division and the Zoaf Corps.

The battle situation was as he thought, the German army did not have much firepower in the "floodplain", otherwise, the soldiers who fell from the sky into the water one by one were afraid that they would continue the dilemma in the air just now.

"General!" After a while, Zhang Qingqi and several other guards gathered around Zhang Chi.

"Go ashore first!" Zhang Chi ordered.

"Yes!"

The guards answered and swam towards the side shore with Zhang Chi.

It should be said that at this time the new 1st Division was actually in a state of loss of command, mainly because there was a process of parachuting and swimming ashore, and there were several levels of wind at this time, which could easily blow officers away from their units.

If it is a conventional parachute operation, there should be a process of assembling and rebuilding. But this parachute operation was extraordinary, and they began to fight almost as soon as they landed on the ground...... In fact, the airborne landing point is the battlefield, and the battle has already begun before they have even landed on the ground.

This made it impossible for the soldiers of the expeditionary force to assemble, so a considerable part of the troops could not find officers, and the soldiers could not find officers.

But even so, the soldiers of the expeditionary force spontaneously organized the battle.

It doesn't matter if the soldier can't find the officer, it depends on the military rank, and whoever has a higher rank nearby will obey the command.

If the officer can't find soldiers, it doesn't matter, the people around him who are lower in rank than him are all his own soldiers.

The expeditionary force quickly organized an orderly attack, as Zhang Chi had hoped, with the troops swimming up to both sides of the "floodplain" and then attacking the German line along the shore.

This is the so-called "up and down concentric", if Zhang Chi does not have such a force in his hands, no matter how good his tactics or plans are, I am afraid that he will not be able to implement them easily.

The first thing Zhang Chi did after going ashore was to find a safe place to set up a radio station, and at this time, the command of the troops was far more important than going to the battlefield to fight.

"How's it going?" After connecting with his fellow villagers, Zhang Chi asked.

"All the best!" The townsman replied: "The enemy's firepower is not strong, perhaps because he is unprepared, ask for instructions!" ”

"Break through quickly!" Zhang Chi ordered.

Zhang Chi would never wait for the Germans to react and turn the muzzle, so this was the time to launch a "blitzkrieg".

"Yes!" Fellow villagers responded.

Then there was a burst of gunfire, and the two expeditionary forces pounced on the two beaches of Normandy like tigers from the mountains.

The German troops at the two beachheads, "Utah" and "Golden Beach", did not expect the enemy to parachute into the "floodplain...... They had indeed seen a group of enemy transport planes coming, and they knew that they were airborne troops, and they all thought that these airborne troops should have landed 20 kilometers away from the rear, because there was no place to "settle" near the beach, and they were very confident in this, so they were not prepared at all.

It wasn't until piles of dandelion-like parachutes opened in the sky that the Germans exclaimed: "God, they actually landed right behind us!" ”

Coming to their senses, they hurriedly dispatched personnel to defend the rear.

But at this time, it is also more than enough to do it...... Because at the same time, the Zoaf corps launched a fierce assault in front of them.

Although the firepower of the Zoaf Corps was not very good, they were all armed with scimitars, and once they were allowed to rush into the formation, they would slash and kill the Germans, causing great casualties and confusion among the Germans, and even then the Germans were still fighting with those "barbarians...... The Germans called the Zoaf soldiers "barbarians".

In this case, they can only reluctantly draw a small part of their forces to turn back and intercept it.

"Utah" Beach was transferred two companies in time, while "Golden Beach" only had time to transfer one platoon......

The reason why "Golden Beach" drew only such a small number of troops was that the soldiers of the Zoaf Corps even stormed the German headquarters...... German officers often went to the front line to command, and the Zoaf Corps was lurking in front of the defensive line, and the commander of the "Golden Beach", Major General Wagner, was only 50 meters away from the Zoaf Corps.

As a result, the Zoaf Corps charged, and Major General Wagner was cut off one of his arms and left in a coma.