The road was crowded with all sorts of British transport vehicles, and the black smoke from the wrecked vehicles could be seen from a long distance. The British Cromwell tanks tried to turn around to attack the Germans, but these tanks were quickly destroyed by the Germans, others crashed into anti-tank mines, the Germans used Leopard tanks and assault guns to bombard vehicles on the road, the Allies suffered heavy losses, and the Germans also lost some tanks, mainly due to the Allied aerial bombardment, and at the same time, they were also under pressure from several directions to counterattack, and the Germans finally retreated.

In fact, the Allies didn't know, in fact, this was all the order of the commander-in-chief of the German army on the Western Front, Li Mo, that is, to resist step by step, retreat step by step, and lure the enemy deeper, and the Allies were also very cooperative, fighting and rushing all the way.

The British continued their offensive from Edthofen, and at twelve o'clock in the afternoon, after losing more than 1,500 men, the Germans finally retreated. But the battle lasted five hours, during which time the vehicles on the road were huddled together and could not move.

The rest of the equipment of the 107th Division was finally unloaded that morning, and the whole division assembled at Nunan. At this time, the Allies attacked Nuenen from several directions, and it was obvious that all the attacks had failed, and the "Sherman" tanks were destroyed one by one by the German artillery fire, and the Germans turned Nuenen into a strong fortification and prepared to hold on, but the British Eighth Army was now making progress east of Edthofen, and its 11th Tank Division arrived

The first line, ready to attack the 107th Division from behind.

On 21 September, Dutch civilians told the Allies that the Germans had left Nuenen and were headed for Helmond. 10:30 a.m. Nuenen and the surrounding area were liberated, the tanks of the hussars did not find any resistance, the Germans had already withdrawn, why did the Germans retreat? The answer could not be answered, and even Montgomery, the commander who commanded the Allied left flank, did not understand why the Germans always retreated as soon as they fought.

At this time, even if Montgomery wants to retreat, it is too late for the pocket array arranged by Li Mo to enter the final start time, no matter how effective Li Mo does not know, the nearly 500,000 allied troops on the left flank of the Allied army commanded by Montgomery have penetrated deep into Belgium. They are destined to be inescapable. Returning the allies of the Maginot Line, Li Mo did not dare to say such a big thing now.

Fihau, fourteen kilometers south of the city of Sang, was the narrowest part of the entire corridor, and it was here that Marshal Moder ordered a counterattack. The core of the German counterattack force, the Walther battle group, was the 107th Division. There was also a battalion of the 180th Infantry Division.

On 22 September, British reconnaissance vehicles spotted four Leopard tanks heading towards Phihou. At twelve o'clock the German tanks reached the corridor northeast of Philaughau, which, as expected, was easily cut off. Allied reinforcements soon arrived, however, to begin the attack on the Germans, and at 12:15 the 506th Regiment of the 101st Division arrived at Phihaud, while the 327th Regiment, armed with heavy anti-tank guns, also arrived. The tanks of the 107th Division were in high spirits to destroy anything they saw on the road, but a six-pounder anti-tank shell destroyed the tracks of a tank, and the German tanks were careful the next day.

The whole situation was still very dangerous for the Allies, and the Germans attacked a second time, they tried to break through from the east of Phihau under the cover of tanks, but in the end they were unsuccessful, and they lost a Leopard, in short, the Germans used all means to delay the Allies desperately, and they did it very successfully. On September 23, the Germans attacked again and engaged in a fierce battle with the 2nd Battalion of the 501st Regiment of the 101st Division.

German tanks destroyed several Shermans and a Firefly, a Leopard tank was also destroyed from behind, and in the fierce battle, the commander of the German Panzer Reserve Group, Lieutenant Dick, was killed, and eventually the Germans temporarily retreated.

Fubei arrived with another German paratrooper regiment, and they had four Cheetahs from the 559th Panzer Reserve Group! The offensive would begin on September 24 to the west of Fihau, a crucial day for the Allies, the situation in Anheng was on the verge of spiraling out of control, the Battle of the "Market Garden" would turn into a catastrophe, and the Germans knew equally well that they would have to cut off the corridor.

So they attacked again, and Major Fubei's paratrooper regiment rushed into the Allied 501st Regiment defensive line, where the two sides were in close hands, and the British came to reinforce with the "Sherman", but soon three tanks were destroyed by 88mm guns, and the remaining tanks and artillery were forced to withdraw from the battlefield.

The American paratroopers fought back, but were unable to repel the German paratroopers, and the nearby Allied forces were soon cleared. Then Fube played their last card, and he commanded a battalion of paratroopers to launch a new attack from the south under the cover of four Cheetahs, and they captured a small village, where the German paratroopers cut the corridor at seventeen! The British sent a number of "Sherman" tanks to counterattack, and the Cheetah quickly destroyed three "Shermans" and repelled the British troops.

The 506th Parachute Regiment of the U.S. Army launched a counterattack with the support of the "Sherman" tanks, they hoped to drive away the Germans in order to restore the corridor, the Germans used Cheetahs, assault guns and two captured "Sherman" tanks to beat the Americans, and the Allies were not able to recover the corridor in the end, and it was another whole day! Fortunately, the Germans retreated in the evening, and the inexplicable retreat made everyone feel happy, and the Allies found out on the morning of September 26 that the Germans had gone.

In any case, the corridor was clear again, but it was too late for the Battle of the "Market Garden", and the attack of the Fighauer army on September 24 meant a complete defeat of the campaign, and the reinforcements and supplies needed by Anheng and Nimegen paratroopers were blocked in Edthofen, and the "Market Garden" operation in Montgomery failed.

Although he claims that 90% of the campaign is successful, the remaining 10% is fatal! So he was a 100% failure. In total, the Allies lost 17,000 men, more than 100 tanks, 260 aircraft were destroyed, and another 1,400 aircraft were seriously damaged. The Germans lost 9,000 men and 100 vehicles of all types [including tanks].

The Walter battle group [including the 107th Division] was ordered to move to the northeastern Netherlands in order to establish a defensive line. It was the wet and muddy part of the Peel area, where the Allies did not have a clear understanding of the danger of the area, they underestimated the Germans and they would soon regret it, and the Germans would once again show their will to fight tenaciously in the face of extreme difficulties and harsh conditions.

The task of these German troops who had established a defensive line in the eastern part of the Netherlands was to prevent the Allied forces from entering Germany, and the Allied offensive would soon collapse with the full launch of the "Trojan Plan", and the German troops entering Belgium and the Netherlands would be shut down and beaten without even the slightest chance of escape. (To be continued......)