The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and this sentence could not be more apt for the more than 20,000 officers and men of the 12th Corps of the British Army. The pen, fun, and pavilion www.biquge.info changed from the besieged to the surrounded, and the huge contrast took only two or three hours. As the coalition forces that landed at Portkelen in the early morning broke through the British line and advanced to the north of Abersoch like a devastating and devastating force, the coalition forces trapped in Abersoch launched a fierce counterattack, and the two torrents soon converged, and the British troops deployed west of Abersoch suddenly became someone else's dumpling filling!

To take the initiative to break through or to stick to the position, the difficult choice was placed in front of the British commander. Theoretically, his troops could retreat from the south of the Coen Peninsula to the west, but that would be a pointless end.

Soon, the influx of Allied armoured forces relieved the British commanders of their troubles: with no air supremacy, no artillery support, and only a handful of cavalry and chariots to provide support, it was like suicide to break out from under the noses of the enemy armoured forces.

So, in the field fortifications built by the British army to besiege and attack the enemy, the British soldiers wearing flat-topped and wide-brimmed steel helmets and khaki field uniforms waited solemnly for the opening of the prelude to the enemy's attack.

Since the end of the last war, the Germans have enjoyed the spiritual glory and practical harvest of the victors, the multiplied territory has contributed to another leap forward in the industrial economy, and the research and development of new equipment for the army has been able to maintain the momentum of simultaneous development on the sea, land and air fronts. In addition to the introduction of new vehicles and artillery, semi-automatic rifles and light machine guns with excellent performance gradually replaced the old guns as the standard weapons of the German infantry units, and to this day, most British soldiers still use the Lee Enfield MKII manual rifle and the Vickers-Maxim water-cooled heavy machine gun.

Suddenly, with a short screech, a lone shell burst through the air and landed in an uninhabited position at the front of the British position. Although the shell posed no threat to the British soldiers in the trenches, almost all of them immediately buried their heads, knowing that this must be a call-up for the beginning of the enemy's shelling.

In the next two minutes, scattered artillery fire followed, mostly from conventional field artillery, but there were also two more powerful explosions, suspected to be heavy howitzers or medium-caliber naval guns. Ordinary soldiers could only endure silently with prayers, but the officers and non-commissioned officers with technical vision, as well as the veteran artillerymen, fell into deep worry: the shells were clearly not coming from one direction, which meant that the coalition forces were likely to attack from several directions at once. The British army occupied this place for less than a day, and the main position was built around the landing ground of the Allied troops in Abersoch, where the terrain was dominated by open and flat grassland, with only a few farms and a small amount of vegetation, and the largest woods were only 200 meters long and wide, and had been under the heavy care of the Allied fighters, and could not become a natural shelter for heavy troop hoarding, but fortunately, the special topography here provided convenience for defense - the comprehensive interlaced ravines divided the field into irregular blocks, Most of these ravines are naturally formed, not as wide and straight as the river channels, many of them are connected by large and small pits like strings of sugar gourds, some are impounded, and most of them are completely dry, like ideal anti-shelling bunkers.

Like the rhythm of a heavy rain, the shells that fell on the main position of the British army suddenly became dense. In order to minimize the losses caused by the enemy's artillery bombardment, some British soldiers withdrew from their forward positions and retreated along the ravines to the second line positions or further back ditches, but the depth of less than three kilometers was like a narrow riverbed, not enough to contain the raging water in the event of a flash flood. Artillery fire from several directions quickly turned the British front into a burning purgatory, and as the shelling continued, the acrid smoke covered the entire area like a thick morning fog.

There will be a moment when the long ordeal will come to an end, but what the British officers and men are waiting for is not relief, but a new one. The continuous shelling left countless craters around the position, many of the pre-stacked bunkers were destroyed, the heavy machine guns and machine guns deployed in the bunkers were still vulnerable to the power of the explosion, the artificially dug field fortifications were not much better, many unreinforced trenches were directly collapsed, and the approach of the enemy's attacking forces made the British soldiers have no time to repair the fortifications.

Sticking their heads out of the trenches, many British officers and men were stunned by the sight before them: the enemy tanks and armored vehicles were attacking in a sea of waves, and at a cursory glance there were as many as four or five hundred, as if this place was not on the British mainland, but on the European continent, otherwise how could the enemy transport so much heavy equipment ashore on a few beachheads?

As proponents of armored tactics boasted before the war, mechanized units could attack much faster than traditional infantry units. As soon as the shelling ended, the allied armored detachment carrying out fire reconnaissance had already approached the British position, and the light tanks and armored reconnaissance vehicles moved away from the edge of the machine-gun range to open fire, shelling the British positions with tank guns and heavy mortars. The British anti-aircraft guns and machine guns deployed at the front of the position were cautiously engaged in the battle, and the sound of thumping was incessant. Judging from the previous battles, the 37-mm machine guns equipped by the British army were very difficult to deal with the German heavy tanks, but they were still easy to deal with light tanks and armored vehicles. After a while, several burning wreckage of chariots appeared in front of the position, but the crew of the coalition chariot that died on the spot was not many, and the survivors were all evacuated by the chariots of their comrades.

Repelling the enemy's tentative onslaught, a few British soldiers were in rejoicing, while most still felt that the prospect of the battle was bleak. As the pessimists feared, the Coalition forces did not waste their costly air supremacy on the battlefield, and hordes of warplanes flew in from the west, drowning out the few British fighters who were stubbornly attacking, and then swooped down on the ground with impunity.

The British infantry had no choice but to show 200 percent courage to resist the Allied bombardment.

In the past two years, feeling that the threat of war is approaching, the British army has carried out large-scale emergency repairs to its own shortcomings. Due to the limited number of weapons produced by local factories and Commonwealth countries, they imported large quantities of weapons and equipment from American allies and neutral countries such as Sweden and Switzerland, and thousands of anti-aircraft guns were distributed to all front-line infantry divisions. As anti-aircraft guns from various countries, calibers and mechanical methods neighed, the British positions were bustling with activity, and strings of bullets rose into the air, creating a spectacular reverse rain of bullets in the airspace below a kilometer, but this momentum was not enough to drive away the equally courageous Allied pilots. I saw one fighter plane after another swooping down in the face of British anti-aircraft fire, and every successful bomb drop or strafing could inflict a double blow on the British officers and men on the position, both physically and mentally, but there were also various types of allied fighters constantly being shot down -- in such battles, the allied pilots whose planes were shot down had little chance of surviving, because many British soldiers fired at the white parachutes to vent their anger!

Compared with the bombardment of field artillery, the bombing and strafing of allied fighters undoubtedly dealt a greater blow to the British troops. By the time the air raid was over, the British officers and men were shocked to find that the massive coalition armoured forces had entered their combat range.

Suddenly, a strong aura of death came to his face. Despite the battle the night before, many British officers and men were still terrified. Because the British field artillery had lost its "right to speak" under the repeated bombardment of the coalition forces, and the tank units were regarded as valuable tactical reserves, the British soldiers could only rely on the battle defense guns, pre-planted mines, and infantry anti-tank weapons at close combat distances to resist the ferocious onslaught of the coalition armored clusters. The anti-tank guns hidden in the bunkers play a sniper-like role, they continue to be powerful with an amazing hit rate, destroying many coalition vehicles and armored vehicles, but the German "Teutonic Knights" on the top line are defensive comparable to the existence of "Kitchener", small-caliber anti-aircraft guns are difficult to penetrate their frontal armor even if they fire in a face-to-face position, and the mine protection design at the bottom effectively ensures the survival rate of the crew in the vehicle when the mine is triggered. On the other hand, the 75-mm guns of the later models of the "Teutonic Knights" were superior to most models of British anti-aircraft guns in terms of range and power. After ten minutes of fierce fighting, as the "Teutonic Knights" ran over the British positions one after another, the British had few anti-aircraft guns left, and the infantry in the trenches had to resist the enemy tanks with grenades, incendiary bombs, explosives packets, and their flesh and blood, just like the Allied soldiers the night before.

The trained British soldiers, whose fighting will was no less than that of the German and Irish soldiers, would undoubtedly burst out with the potential to fight on their backs if there was no way back, but the natural ditches here facilitated their retreat and shelter, and most believed that as long as it was dark, the outnumbered British army, which was fighting at home, would defeat the Allied landing force as it had done last night, and the predicament in which they would have been in would cease to exist.

More and more coalition tanks and coalition infantry in armoured personnel carriers poured into the positions, and after a thrilling bloody battle, the British troops holding the frontline began to retreat. Under these circumstances, most of the survivors were able to withdraw from the forward positions, but the ravines were not endless, two or three kilometers to the west was pure open terrain, and five kilometers to the west was the destroyed coastal fortress of Aberdalen, where there was really no retreat.

At every critical juncture on the verge of collapse, heroes often come forward to turn the tide, and this time, the heavy responsibility fell on the officers and men of the 3rd Royal Chariot Regiment of the 2nd British Armoured Division. After the fierce battle the night before and this morning, the regiment's available "Kitchener" heavy tanks have been reduced from 136 to 44, and they will face the "Greater Germany" tank unit, which is known for its elite, and the Irish armored unit, which is equally excellent.

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