In the face of the German elite ground-air joint attack, the British troops in Cape Portland were simply difficult to parry, because they did not expect the German army to land in this direction, so the fortifications built were not strong, plus more and more German troops landed, finally, the British defense line collapsed. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

By 1 p.m., the Germans were in essentially complete control of Cape Portland.

Before the Germans took control of Cape Portland, there were also fierce battles at several landing sites such as Portsmouth and Exeter, and the defending British troops knew that once the Germans gained a foothold and entered the hinterland of the British Isles, their homeland, the British Empire, would be in danger. Therefore, it was impossible for the British army to resist fiercely.

However, due to the misjudgment of the highest level, the focus of the Allied defense was not at all in these directions, and it was far from here, so the difference in strength between the defenders here and the Germans was very large.

The Allied High Command also knew that with the defensive strength of several German landing sites, it would be difficult to stop the German army. Therefore, after knowing this emergency, the High Command also tried every means to send all kinds of reinforcements.

However, the main forces were too far from the landing site to be reached in a moment, and the transport hub was mostly destroyed by the Luftwaffe, which further delayed the operation. The small reinforcements sent were stopped by the German airborne troops halfway, and there were very few troops that could really be reinforced in time.

Before dark, the main landing sites of the German army were basically controlled, and the vanguard of 180,000 troops successfully crossed the English Channel and landed on the British mainland.

The German army, which had successfully landed, did not quickly expand the results of the battle, but strengthened the defense of the landing site to ensure that the follow-up troops could land continuously.

The huge fleet of the German army, while transporting soldiers, will quickly transport materials ashore and accumulate them, as the so-called soldiers and horses have not moved, grain and grass first.

These landing sites, due to the arrival of the German troops, became very busy, full of accumulated supplies and dense busy personnel.

Immediately after, the powerful armored forces of the German army also began to be transported ashore step by step, and when the two armored divisions were brought ashore, the Germans quickly turned on the blitzkrieg mode and began to attack the British hinterland from the landing site.

The Allies already knew that they could not drive the Germans into the sea, so they quickly changed their plans and began to transfer a large number of troops to the vicinity of London, preparing to hold on to London, because they knew that the first goal of the German landing would definitely be to attack London.

In less than 20 days, more than 1 million troops and supplies landed on the shore, and gradually occupied the southwestern part of Britain, one of the reasons for which the Allied defense in this area was not strong.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill kept calling on Britain to do everything possible to resist the German invasion, and his attitude remained tough. However, Britain's national strength is a little inadequate, and the U.S. military seems to have some scruples, and the landing of German troops in Britain means that Britain is already very unsafe.

Britain is an island country, and if the U.S. military reinforces a large number of materials and personnel into the British mainland, once defeated, it may not be so easy to withdraw its troops. Thinking that Dunkelke was so close to the British mainland at the beginning, but it ended in failure, it was even more difficult for the US military to think about withdrawing to the mainland thousands of miles away.

As a result, the US military was divided into two factions because of this, and the two factions had the same viewpoint, but also had different differences.

They all shared the view that they agreed to continue to support the British.

However, the different viewpoint is that one of them said that they would only give material help, and would no longer send reinforcements to the US military, and that they would not consume the vital forces of the US military abroad, and that they would prepare for the defense of their homeland.

The other faction emphasized the need to send troops and increase the investment of troops, so that the war could continue to move away from the United States, and at the same time, it could also enhance the British resistance confidence to a greater extent, and also deplete the strength of the German army. They felt that the depletion of German forces in Britain was actually the defense of the United States.

Churchill seemed to think that the U.S. military might back down, so he communicated with Roosevelt in time. In fact, Roosevelt also agreed to increase support for Britain in all aspects and turn Britain into a battlefield, but in fact there was no harm to the United States, and the longer Britain held out, the more beneficial it would be to the United States.

In the end, Roosevelt persuaded Congress, but in order to maximize the safety of the troops sent, the U.S. military also prepared for the worst, prepared a large number of ships in advance, and was ready to withdraw the troops from the British mainland as soon as possible in the event of a bad war, so as not to be destroyed with the British Isles.

By the time the Americans finally decided to continue sending reinforcements to the British, the Germans were already attacking London. The 1.1 million German troops, with six panzer divisions as the vanguard troops, and several thousand planes cooperating in the air, advanced rapidly, and the air-ground combination was like a bamboo.

In the past, they had only seen the amazing results of the German army's use of lightning fields in other battlefields, but at this time, after directly facing the power of the German blitzkrieg, both the British and American armies really felt the terrifying power of this method of warfare. The British army was better, and many of the American troops who had just arrived at Chadao were directly stunned, and the entire division was annihilated.

The three lines of defense garrisoned by the US army in London were broken through by the Germans in just three days, and the US troops also suffered heavy casualties, which can be regarded as the tuition fees they paid, and the model of World War II has completely subverted the traditional tactics of the First World War and taught them a deep lesson.

In accordance with the tactics of attacking Moscow, Stalingrad and other large cities, the German army still concentrated its firepower and forces to break through the enemy's defense line first, and then penetrated deep into the city, and then gradually used superior armored forces to clear out the enemy who relied on the defense of urban buildings.

The Germans concentrated their superior forces and firepower to break through, and the Allies could not stop it at all, and on January 1, at the beginning of the new year, they broke through the Allied defense line and entered the city of London.

In desperation, the Allies had no choice but to abandon their positions on the outskirts of London and shrink into London. Immediately, the two sides entered street fighting, and in order to cooperate with the operation on the ground, this time the Germans were equipped with more helicopter gunships, which exceeded 1,000.

The German helicopter group mainly had two purposes: one was reconnaissance, which was responsible for finding out some powerful points of fire of the Allied forces, and then directing the bombers to bomb; The second task is to cooperate with the direct attack operations of the ground forces, and the targets that are difficult for the ground forces to attack are solved by helicopters.

Although the helicopters developed by the German army are several grades inferior to modern helicopters, they are also equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns and rockets. Some helicopters carry several additional people, equipped with heavy machine guns or rocket launchers.

These German helicopter gunships were very effective against enemy armored targets and stubborn fortifications.

Often, in order to reduce the losses of armored forces, the Germans recruited helicopter gunships to solve the problem after discovering the enemy's armored targets, and when they encountered some strong fortifications, they used armored forces to solve them.

After all, the armored forces are not outstanding in air defense capabilities, and even if some are equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns, they cannot easily pose a fatal threat to targets such as armed aircraft lifts.

In this way, the Allies suffered very heavy losses under the effective blows of the German air-ground combination, and everywhere they had destroyed their armor and destroyed fortifications.

London, step by step, was encroached upon by the Germans.