In the early morning of May 20, on Heights 64 in the north of the Cohen Peninsula, 29 Luftwaffe Focker-XI planes broke into the battlefield with a night low-altitude bombardment, which greatly surprised the British officers and soldiers. Regardless of www.biquge.info accuracy of the bombing, the roar of fighter planes in the night sky alone is enough to hit the morale of the opponent and boost the morale of the enemy.

Before the Fokker G-51 came into existence, the Fokker-XI was the main fighter model of the Luftwaffe, and it played an important role in various military parades, and it can be seen in many wars in the mid-to-late 20s. Before the Fokker-G51 was mass-produced and put into service, the Fokker-XI was not for sale in the German military industry, so it was always shrouded in a veil of mystery. Later, some of them were exported to the member states of the Allied camp and some neutral countries with better relations, and the outside world learned more about their performance.

After being squeezed out of the top spot by latecomers, the Focker-XI remained the most equipped model in the Luftwaffe for a long time, and in addition to continuing to carry out conventional air combat missions, they also took up part-time ground attack aircraft, this change has never been deliberately kept secret, but many people in the outside world are not optimistic about its cross-line prospects, thinking that this is a naked waste. After all, with the performance of Fokker-XI and its proven stability on the battlefield, any country other than Germany can serve as the main force in air combat on the front line.

In the first two days of the war, hordes of Focker-XI took off from northern France with bombs and bombed important targets such as ports, airports, and transportation hubs in southern Britain in a low-altitude raid......

The aviation units of the Second German Reich usually adopted the three-three system, that is, each wing has three brigades, each squadron includes three squadrons, each fighter squadron is equipped with 16-20 fighters, and each bomber squadron is equipped with 8-12 fighters. The 11th Air Wing was not among the top ten ace air wings of the Luftwaffe, so it still had only one brigade equipped with Fokker G-51s, and the remaining two groups were still dominated by Fokker-XI, with a small number of He-23/25 combat reconnaissance aircraft in service at the same time.

When it is necessary to carry out ground attack missions, each Fokker-XI can carry eight fragmentation bombs weighing 10 kg each or one high-explosive bomb weighing 100 kg, and the usual practice is to carry a mixture, that is, some fighters have four light aerial bombs under each wing on each side, and some fighters have one heavy aerial bomb under the belly. If it is a daytime bombing, most pilots will take advantage of the situation to kill a horse gun after dropping the bomb, and use the powerful airborne fire to strafe at low altitudes, but considering that the difficulty coefficient of night flight is much higher, it is already very good to be able to drop the bomb on the enemy's head at one time, and the strafing link is naturally skipped by the pilots.

On Heights 64, the pilots of the 11th Air Wing dropped some bombs on the western slope of Heights 64, that is, on the side where the coalition forces were attacking at the moment, and as a result, many coalition officers and men were accidentally injured, and many bombs crossed the top of the hill and landed on the eastern slope, and some even deviated from the target area by three to four hundred meters.

Their own fighters helped overnight, and the coalition officers and soldiers who had been blocked several times were really excited, and they followed the few remaining combat vehicles to desperately attack upward, and rushed through the bloody forbidden area at the front of the British position at a bloody price, and the battle situation was finally reversed. Although the remnants of the British troops on the top of the hill were still unusually stubborn, they could not bear the morale of the Allied officers and men, and the combination of bayonets and machine guns could not play the "golden partner" of submachine guns and grenades.

By 3 a.m., Heights 64 was finally back in the hands of the coalition forces.

While the main force of the German 55th Infantry Division and the Irish Army stormed Heights 64, the German 3rd Marine Division also engaged in a fierce battle with the British troops entrenched in the town of Nafe under the guidance of the headquarters of the 55th Infantry Division. As a number of British ships were still hovering offshore, the commander of the 3rd Marine Division asked his troops to adopt a strategy of charging and striking from the beginning, and the two sides soon engaged in a melee at the town of Nafe.

There was still more than an hour before dawn, and the British Home Army, which had already paid heavy casualties, did not make a desperate and furious attack as it had done at dawn the day before. With the loss of Heights 64 and the town of Nafe, they realized that tonight's efforts would be in vain, so they gradually stopped their offensive and retreated one after another, as if the tide was ebb. When the dawn of dawn illuminated the land, there were no more British soldiers moving in the fields.

After another thrilling night, the coalition officers and soldiers who landed on the Cohen Peninsula were relieved, looking at the battlefield strewn with corpses, people's tired faces rarely smiled victoriously, a cigarette, a sip of water, and a greeting were the best consolation. The medics were busy treating the wounded, the corpse collection team began to clean up the bodies of the dead, the officers patrolled the positions back and forth, and from time to time captured British soldiers walked by, all of them dejected and listless, with no hatred in their eyes and more fear of the brutal war.

The surviving coalition soldiers were equally in awe of the bloody battlefield. The price they paid to hold off an enemy attack two or three times their size was very heavy, especially around midnight, when the enemy's powerful long-range heavy artillery inflicted devastating damage on some defensive positions, almost blasting open the coalition lines. In many defensive areas, the coalition forces sent all their reserves, and some of the newly landed troops rushed to the front line without being well formed...... The battlefield is like a meat grinder, crushing countless fresh lives, bloody, bleak, and ruthless, but this is the survival of the fittest in nature, and only the survival of the fittest can stimulate the unlimited potential of human civilization.

After two consecutive nights of bloody battles, countless manpower and material resources were consumed, and the results were defeated, and the rulers of the Kingdom of Great Britain had to greet the sunrise of the new day with an extremely bitter heart, and the front-line soldiers and the people in the rear seemed to be in a fog, unable to find a way out of the predicament. The Allies won two disastrous victories on the Cohen Peninsula, and some were proud and some were disappointed, and the German Admiral Wilhelm Mashal was among the latter, whose retreat saved the support fleet led by the "De Fllinger" and "Lützov" from doom, but ceded the left flank of the landing force to the British Navy. As a result, the coalition front almost collapsed, and the troops originally stationed at Nafi and Heights 64 were completely lost, and they paid a high price to recapture them, which were directly related to Machar's decision. In order to stabilize the morale of the army, the German General Staff did not make any public comments or personnel punishments on this matter, but on private occasions, the voices of reprimand and ridicule abounded, and German Admiral Hipper, in a telegram sent to Mashal in his private name, bluntly stated that "the glorious tradition of the German Navy has disappeared this night," which shows how angry and disappointed he was.

William Martial was not a reckless man, and he did not return to the Naffee Sea in a state of great pressure, and it was not until dawn that he returned to the Naffee Sea with a fully reinforced coalition fleet. The British navy, of course, did not give him a chance to regain his name, and all British ships withdrew into the Strait of Manai before dawn, or hid in the hidden harbor fjords, or returned to the heavily fortified port of Liverpool.

As predicted by the Irish Meteorological Service, the British Isles have another sunny day. Amid the incessant roar, thousands of coalition fighters flew into British airspace in a way that covered the sky and the sun, and bombs rained down on military installations along the coast of Britain and strategic targets in the inland areas. Without the effective support of the Air Force, the British Army and Home Fleet were completely on the passive, and the Coalition was able to deploy additional troops to the Isle of Man and the Coen Peninsula with minimal resistance.

With the phased success of the landing operations on the Isle of Man and the Coen Peninsula, the coalition forces quickly rolled out their plans, and the 4th Marine Regiment, commanded by Irish native General Eric Maguire, landed on the islands of Haly and Anglesey, across the sea from the Coen Peninsula.

Geographically, Hawley and Anglesey were more ideal offensive springboards than the Coen Peninsula, where British forces had long been deployed. According to the information obtained by the spies, by the time of the outbreak of the war, the British army had deployed more than 30,000 troops on Hawley Island and Anglesey Island, each beach was equipped with anti-landing obstacles, a guard position was built near the beachhead, the towns and ports were mobilized for defense, and even two powerful chariot troops were deployed.

The successful landing of coalition forces on the Coen Peninsula significantly weakened the strategic position of Hawley and Anglesey. Judging from the aerial reconnaissance, the British army has successively transferred a lot of troops from these two islands in the past two days to rush to the front line on the Cohen Peninsula, and the remaining troops are estimated to be less than 20,000, while the 4th Marine Group of the Allied Forces is equipped with more than 40,000 Irish soldiers and more than 20,000 German soldiers. With the direct support of superior naval and air forces, the headquarters of the 3rd Airborne Battalion, the 4th Marine Regiment and the 5th Infantry Brigade fought fiercely for an early morning, establishing a landing ground at Lanversley Beach in the northwest of Anglesey Island with less than 2,000 casualties, and then steadily advancing inland. Due to repeated bombardment by Allied fighters, the British defenders took the initiative to retreat from the open area to the port towns, which were relatively densely built, and it was appropriate to hold or retreat.

(End of chapter)