Georgetown, Guyana. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

August 18, 3:50 a.m.

Snow-white searchlights, piercing the night, illuminate a small harbor facing the Atlantic Ocean - a port with a long history, a stronghold of Western colonists in the Americas from the late 15th century, fought over by Spain, the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom, occupied by the Dutch in the 17th century, and transferred to the British Empire in 1814. But this is what was once a sweet port, but by the 20th century it was inevitable that it would decline.

Georgetown's harbor is small and rudimentary, with low-rise shanty houses inhabited by Indians and blacks, and few beautiful European-style buildings to be seen. No one could have imagined that the Europeans arrived here before they arrived in New York.

When a T-1 landing ship with a full load displacement of 3,750 tons approached a simple and somewhat irresponsible dock, all the buildings in the port area were closed doors and windows, and there were no civilians in sight on the empty streets, and there was no solemn scene of sentry posts. It's as if it's an abandoned and empty port.

But Rudolph, who had just come down from the Soviet-German battlefield. Feng. Major Ribbentrop was still able to use his extremely sharp battlefield instincts to find anti-aircraft gun emplacements covered with camouflage nets from the almost airfront port area of Georgetown, but no other defensive facilities were found.

"Comrade Major, is this the American continent?"

A volunteer from the Kingdom of Little Russia (Ukraine) surnamed Tymoshenko (also known as Timoshenko) followed Ribbentrop to the deck, looked at the small and dilapidated port and city in front of him, and asked with great disappointment.

"Peter, this is the American continent, not as prosperous as you think, right?" Little Ribbentrop looked back at this burly, golden-bearded little Russian - the little Russian volunteers who could join the advance force of the European Community Expeditionary Force were not newcomers to the battlefield, they were all veterans of the two-year Soviet-German war!

And this Peter. Nikolaevich. Sergeant Major Tymoshenko is a Ukrainian volunteer of the SS and has participated in no less than 100 battles in more than 2 years of war, and is a true battlefield veteran.

Of course, little Ribbentrop himself was no worse. He fought in the World War for more than four years since he first entered the French campaign, during which he also participated in officer training and was promoted from a private soldier to an SS major.

After coming down from the Soviet-German battlefield, he was appointed commander of the 5th Panzergrenadier Brigade (Panzer Battalion) of the 5th SS "Queen Kira" (Crown Princess of the German Empire, Crown Prince of the Russian Empire, Queen of Little Russia) because he could speak some Russian.

Several men in dark green short-sleeved military uniforms seemed to be waiting on the docks, and little Ribbentrop saw an SS colonel in his thirties, with a tall figure and a handsome face, the brim of his military hat pressed low, and an unstoppable warrior momentum all over his body, jumped up the gangway and walked quickly to the deck of the T-1 landing ship.

Ribbentrop Jr. knew this man, he was the famous "Panzer Meyer", the former acting commander of the 12th SS "Hitler Youth" division - the 34-year-old division commander was a legend even in the SS army, where promotion was relatively easy!

However, the acting division commander of "Panzer Meyer" did not work long before being demoted - in fact, his appointment as division commander was also due to accidents, because his superior, the former division commander, Colonel Werther, was killed by Soviet partisans during a front-line inspection on the edge of the Caucasus Mountains, and as the highest-ranking officer in the 12th SS Division, Meyer, who was still a lieutenant colonel at the time, acted as division commander and commanded the troops to fight for several weeks until the official armistice between Soviet Russia and Russia.

Subsequently, the German troops on the Soviet-German front began to move to rest. Some of the better units and officers were drawn in the first batch to form small but very elite brigades, which were sent to the Americas as the advance force of the EC expeditionary force.

And "Panzer Meyer" was given the same opportunity and was sent to the Americas as the commander of the newly formed 5th SS Panzergrenadier Brigade "Queen Kira".

"Rudolph, welcome to Georgetown Island."

After saluting each other, Meyer and Ribbentrop the Younger said to him half-jokingly: "This is actually an island on the South American continent." ”

"This is an island?"

Ribbentrop Jr. was stunned for a moment, "From the map, the northwest side of Georgetown faces the Atlantic Ocean, and the other two sides are fairly flat land. ”

"It's land." Meyer nodded, "But unlike the European landmass, British Guiana (which is actually part of the Republic of Guyana) has about 215,000 square kilometers, which is larger than the Kingdom of Poland, but has a population of less than 200,000, and most of them are concentrated in the coastal areas near Georgetown, where they are engaged in fishing and agriculture. A 10-kilometre walk inland from Georgetown's coastline is an endless stretch of primeval forest. There are no roads, no inhabitants, just a sea of forests. So Georgetown is actually an island...... We actually came to the American continent to defend the island. ”

"But...... I didn't find any defenses. Ribbentrop Jr. frowned, "No defenses were found except for a few anti-aircraft gun emplacements. And along the coastline there are shantytowns, doesn't this seriously affect our sight of shooting? ”

"Yes, I really deserve to be a veteran of the four-year world war." Meyer turned his head, raised his hand and pointed to the southwest, and smiled, "Walking 40 kilometers inland along the Demerala River is the 'Georgetown Island' that we will hold." Since 1942, our men have been building there, building docks, large airfields, barracks, anti-artillery bunkers, artillery positions, anti-aircraft positions and improvised roads, as well as stockpiling supplies. We went there on a landing ship after dawn and waited for the Americans to come and die! ”

The plan for the defense of British Guiana was developed by General Falkenhorst when he was the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force in Guyana. The principle of "fortress defense" was followed, and the forces were concentrated and armed. Moreover, the strategy of "defending the inland but not the coast" was adopted in order to avoid putting the defenders under the threat of heavy artillery from US surface ships.

So the real "Georgetown Island" is not by the sea, but inland, 40 kilometers from the coastline (a distance sufficient to avoid the bombardment of the main guns of the American battleships of the "Iowa") and surrounded by boundless rainforest, and can only be connected to the outside world by the narrow Demerala River, very hidden airfields built into the rainforest, and impassable forest paths.

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By the time it was daylight, Ribbentrop Jr. and "Panzer Meyer" were already on their way to "Georgetown Island", still on the landing ship with a full load displacement of more than 4,000 tons.

The landing ship slowly moved in the river and went upstream. Ribbentrop Jr. and Meyer both stood on the deck "looking at the scenery", in fact, familiarizing themselves with the terrain.

"Is there no way to go?" Ribbentrop the Younger noticed the emergence of large areas of primeval forest on both sides of the river - it is hard to imagine that Europeans arrived here more than 400 years ago!

"There's no road 10 to 15 kilometres from the coastline," says Meyer, "and it's all by water." Although we Europeans have been operating here for 400 years, it is clear that we have not seriously developed it. This is a good thing for us, as long as the Demerala River is blocked with mines in wartime, the Americans will have to fight a jungle war with us. ”

"Colonel, what kind of ship is that?" Little Ribbentrop's eyes were sharp, and he saw a blue-and-gray camouflage dinghy on the water beside the river.

"It's an S-boat!" Meyer glanced at the boat, "It's an S100 torpedo boat, belonging to Colonel Johansen's 5th torpedo boat detachment. Colonel Johansen was also the chief naval commander on Georgetown Island. ”

The S100 torpedo boat is the largest torpedo boat owned by the German Navy, with a displacement of 117 tons, three Daimler-Benz MB511 supercharged diesel engines, and its speed can reach 42 knots.

In addition to its large tonnage and fast speed, the S100 boat also has solid armor and strong firepower, equipped with one 20mm cannon, one 40mm anti-aircraft gun and two 533mm torpedo tubes, and is also equipped with mine grass skiing at the stern, which can be used to lay various types of mines.

In addition, the endurance of the S100 boat is also very impressive, reaching about 700 nautical miles, which is about 1,300 kilometers. Enough fuel to rely on its own carrying, starting from the port of Georgetown, going around the American-controlled island of Trinidad (about 500 kilometers away) and back, the combat efficiency can be compared to that of a destroyer.

It was precisely because of the large range, high speed and strong firepower of the S100 boats that the German Navy deployed the 5th Torpedo Boat Detachment, which had 16 S100 boats, to Georgetown.

In the more than two years since 1942, the 5th Torpedo Boat Detachment has used Georgetown as its base to make frequent sorties, cooperating with the "Beast" class mine-striking ships and destroyers with larger tonnage to attack American ships near Trinidad, sinking a total of 30 or 40 ships of various kinds.

In addition, the S100 boat can also be used for mine laying. The S100 boat, which was now discovered by Major Ribbentrop, was in a hurry to lay mines at the mouth of the Demerala River.