After that, the Germans made full use of every transport plane and did everything they could to strengthen the forces that occupied Trondheim. In order to transport reinforcements and equipment, the Junkers-52 transport aircraft re-landed on the frozen lake. By 18 April, 3,500 German troops had been concentrated in the port city. This action forced the British to rescind their plan to land the 147th Brigade at Trondheim on the 22nd. Considering that the Germans had already established a defense, the British decided to abandon the frontal offensive and throw their troops into Namsos, 160 km north of the city, and Andalsnes, 128 km south of the city.

On 16 April, the British 146th Brigade, under the command of Brigadier General Phillips, with two battalions of troops, entered Namssos at night and moved south through Gelon towards Steinchel. On the night of the same day, more than 600 British marines landed at Andalsnes and advanced to the Dangbosch railway junction in an attempt to cut the railway line from Oslo to Trondheim and divide the German army. Two days later, the 148th Brigade of the British Army also landed in Andalsnes.

Li Mo, of course, understood the importance of being Bosch, and immediately drew out a paratrooper battalion to seize the railway junction. At 5 p.m. on 15 April, 600 paratroopers of the battalion flew to Dangbos on a Junker-52 transport aircraft. Thirty-six aircraft climbed through dense clouds and exited the clouds at an altitude of 900 metres, flying without navigation equipment.

The pilot, by estimating time and distance, used the navigation equipment when approaching Dangbosch. The Germans, preparing for the landing of Bosch, were under heavy fire from Norwegian anti-aircraft artillery and had to look for new airborne areas. The company commander, Lieutenant Schmid, found a good landing ground 6 km to the south, and the paratroopers parachuted in the area.

The paratroopers were fired upon by ground fire from the Norwegian army during the airborne landing. Paratroopers and dropbags landed in snow-covered fields and forest areas. The paratroopers were extremely dispersed, and by evening only two officers and 161 soldiers had been assembled.

The next morning, this small force cut the railway line south of Dangbos and set up defensive positions, hoping to hold out until reinforcements arrived. But there were 3,500 Norwegians besieging them. Due to the disparity in strength and the inability to receive supplies, the Germans were driven out of their positions on the 17th and retreated to an estate. They held out between the stone buildings until the 19th, and when only 34 soldiers remained, Schmid decided to hold on.

Although the British army achieved some victories at sea and in the port of Narvik. But due to bad weather and sluggish movements of the landing force. Failure to expand the results in time. At the same time, the Germans controlled central and southern Norway and were already capable of capturing the north. By September 14, a large number of German armored units had landed. Considerable progress has been made in the attack on Norway. The number of German troops landing in Norway increased to 80,000 people. to fight against 17,000 Norwegian troops and 45,000 British and allied troops.

On 15 November, the Germans continued to send paratroopers and airborne troops to Narvik, bringing the strength of the defensive position to 10 battalions. The Germans in central Norway also advanced more than 300 kilometers north along the coast towards the city of Narvik. Having captured the ports of Moshon and Makuichi, and advancing towards Hakata, the British and Norwegian armies were unable to stop the German steel torrent......

At the same time, the Germans often used paratrooper units and a small number of landing troops at sea to bypass the British positions and enter the rear area. Whenever this happened, the British were forced to retreat quickly, or they were cut off and surrendered. From April to 27, the Allies began to withdraw after their last resistance in northern Norway, and the Germans occupied all of Norway.

The German airborne assaults on Denmark and Norway were the first successful airborne operations and airlift supplies in the history of warfare. As many as 900 transport planes have built the world's first 'air bridge', and the "Condor Falling from the Sky" is also a pioneering achievement. Although the Germans lost 170 transport planes and more than 1,000 airborne troops suffered casualties due to bad weather and poor airport conditions, the entire campaign was successful. This airborne assault provided experience for later airborne operations in various countries, and countries even regarded it as a model.

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Germany's early military victory was brilliant and earth-shattering, directly scorching the world, looking at the Germans with trepidation, for fear that he would accidentally provoke this demon, so when Germany occupied Denmark and Norway in a very short period of time, all the countries in the world chose to be silent, and no country said a word for Denmark and Norway.

Britain and France have chosen to remain silent, and other small countries will not jump out to provoke the Germans, as long as the Germans do not come to "blitz" themselves, thank God, there dare to do justice. The world of World War II was a world of the jungle, and beating and being beaten depended on the strength of one's own country.

In the former enemy headquarters of the "Wiesel Exercise", Li Mo was discussing with Rommel, a battlefield fox and political idiot, how to dig a foot in the wall from the high command. Now there are 70,000 paratroopers in Germany in the world, a total of 7 paratrooper divisions, and the three paratrooper divisions borrowed by Li Mo after actual combat training, since these three divisions are lent to Li Mo, will Li Mo return them to the command?

Who is still a stupid pig, Li Mo doesn't want to be a stupid pig, it is more than 30,000 elite paratroopers who have undergone actual combat, that is the type of troop that Li Mo has dreamed of, the training of this paratrooper requires a long process, Li Mo has no time to train his own paratroopers, how can these three parachute divisions in hand, Li Mo will not return them to the command anyway.

The current Seventh Group Army is an armored army and a paratrooper army, and if those people in the headquarters see the great power of the paratroopers and want to transfer Li Mo's paratroopers away and replace them with other troops, Li Mo will definitely not do it.

This time, the merits of Limer and Rommel in Denmark and Norway were enough for the two of them to be promoted, and Limer and Rommel discussed and planned to ask Hitler to expand the Seventh Panzer Army into a formal army group, which means that Limer will have three armies to command in the future.

In this way, Li Mo can have the organization to place the three paratrooper divisions. The armored armies equipped with paratroopers are even more powerful when they launch a blitzkrieg. Li Mo has been constantly improving Germany's "blitzkrieg", Li Mo has taken great pains, from the configuration of troops, the selection of weapons are working hard to improve the "blitzkrieg", even the research and development of helicopters, the research and development of the leopard, are all to achieve Li Mo's goal.

Li Mo directly left the paratroopers directly under the control of the Command, and the Command's grandsons would definitely not do it, unless Li Mo came up with enough benefits, it was possible for the Command to agree to transfer the paratrooper division to Li Mo's hands, did Li Mo have such "benefits" in his hands to the Nationalguard's grandsons? Of course, Denmark and Norway are the generous gifts that Li Mo gave to the Wehrmacht, and Li Mo already has Warsaw, Poland, which is enough for the development of the Seventh Panzer Army, and if Denmark and Norway are forcibly included in the bag of the Seventh Panzer Army, it will inevitably cause a fierce backlash from the High Command.

Eating alone will always be your own death, and Li Moke knows the stakes well.

…… (To be continued......)