While Colonel Winck personally led the lead force on the train to Dublin, Major Wiecschy and Lieutenant Skorzny were also on their way to Dublin. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info because they were defeated by the British...... They were caught by surprise by the cavalry regiments (mechanized infantry regiments) of the 29th Armored Brigade and the 3rd Infantry Division of the British Army.

On the one hand, the British attacked and crossed from the front with the main force, attracting the pitiful strength of Major Witzhi and Lieutenant Skorzny, and at the same time organized assault teams to force the crossing from the lower reaches of the Boyne River near the mouth of the sea. The water was relatively wide, and there was no ready-made ferry wharf, which was not suitable for army troops to cross the river.

Montgomery, however, brought in several multipty-ton landing ships into the estuary, using them as ferries, and crossed a dozen Crusader tanks and more than a thousand soldiers to the south bank of the Boyne River. Let the carefully laid out line of defense by Major Witzhi and Lieutenant Skorzny completely useless.

Britain has ruled Ireland for hundreds of years, and compared with the Germans, they are really familiar with Ireland!

However, the Irish sided with the German Nazis, and received help from many Irish on the way back to Major Witzhi and Lieutenant Skorzny.

Moreover, the partisans of the Irish Republican Army had been rapidly organized - the Irish had originally used guerrilla warfare to fight the British, and they were vulnerable to regular warfare, but they still had the ability to fight guerrilla warfare.

During the retreat, Major Wiecshey and Lieutenant Skorzny encountered at least 1,000 armed civilians, and many of the Irish soldiers who had retreated with the Germans also took off their uniforms to fight guerrillas. Major Witsey and Lieutenant Skorzny had their men leave the grenades, mines, and iron-fist anti-tank grenade launchers they were carrying to the partisans.

It is not known whether the Irish guerrilla warfare delayed the British troops, and the evacuation of Major Witzhi and Lieutenant Skorzny was considered to have gone smoothly. Retreating to Dublin around 5 a.m. on 4 May, they saw many men and women working the outskirts of Dublin city - digging trenches and anti-trenches. There are also many men in civilian clothes who carry old rifles on their backs and set up barricades on the highways.

It is clear that the Irish are determined to defend their capital, Dublin!

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"Comrade Golikov, we have just won two very important battles, repelling the German offensive in Northern Ireland, but also Dundalk and Drocheda in the Irish Free State. Now the vanguard of the 12th Army has approached Dublin, the capital of the Irish Free State. ”

Stalin's Red Army Observer Group arrived in London on the morning of May 4, accompanied by Cyclops General Wavell, who had spent two years in Russia studying Russian before World War I and was later an intelligence officer in the Russian Division of the British War Office, who also served in Russia during the First World War until May 1917, when the revolution broke out. Therefore, he could communicate directly in Russian with Lieutenant General Golikov, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Red Army and Head of the Main Intelligence Service.

The British side also knew Golikov's intentions and knew that he had come to inspect the Irish battlefield. So as soon as Golikov arrived in London, Admiral Wavell immediately accompanied him to the Irish front.

In fact, it was a good time to visit the Irish front, as the British were fighting relatively well in Ireland. The Germans were temporarily at a disadvantage because they arrived in too few numbers and were not heavy troops. So the Soviets will see the defeat of the German army and the victory of the British army.

"So soon to Dublin?" Sitting on a C-47 transport plane bound for Belfast, Golikov was so surprised by the speed with which the British army was advancing that he asked bluntly: "Could it be that the Germans have very few troops in Ireland?" ”

According to the intelligence provided by the British, about 150,000 German troops have now arrived in Ireland! Golikov felt that if the Germans had really arrived so much, the British army would never have been able to make the current progress.

"Of course not," said Admiral Wavell, shaking his head, "they have parachuted two divisions in Dublin at once, and at least 120,000 more have arrived in Cork Harbour. Their total strength on the island of Ireland is estimated to be close to 150,000. However, their 150,000 men have not yet been deployed, and many heavy equipment are still waiting to be unloaded at the port, and the air force has not had time to deploy them. Now they are fighting an island landing operation, this is not a blitzkrieg on the plains. The landing was something the Germans were not good at, so we were caught off guard......"

Admiral Wavell's expression suddenly became very solemn, "But the Germans have now established themselves in Ireland, and even if we can occupy Dublin, we can't beat Cork Bay." And as long as Cork Bay was in the hands of the Germans, they would be able to continue to increase their forces in Ireland by virtue of their superiority at sea. So it will be very difficult to hold Ireland in the end! ”

The admiral's words are half-truths and half-truths, and they are very deceptive. Although Golikov does not believe it all, he also believes that there is a certain reference value.

"But we will fight to the best of our ability," Wavell added, "because if we are defeated in Ireland, then the whole mainland will be completely blocked." At that time, the government and the king could only withdraw to Canada...... It will be very difficult to counterattack in the future. ”

The old admiral looked at Golikov with his only remaining right eye and said: "At that time, you, the Soviet Union, will be the only country in the whole of Europe that has resisted the tyranny of the Nazis!" ”

The USSR would have become the only country in Europe that did not obey Germany...... Golikov knew that this was what Stalin feared the most. In Stalin's view, Germany would inevitably launch an invasion of the Soviet Union after conquering all of Europe except the Soviet Union, so the Soviet Union had to start before Germany could complete its conquest of Britain itself.

But Stalin was a more cautious leader, he wanted to go to war but was afraid of losing. Knowing that a ruler who had lost a foreign war would have a hard time surviving in Russia, Stalin had chosen to attack a weaker enemy for the past three years, achieving several relatively small victories. Right-bank Ukraine, Western Belarus, Karelia and Afghanistan were taken.

Of course, Afghanistan has not yet been finally settled, and there are still many remnants of feudalism who are stubbornly resisting with the support of imperialism, especially the Churchill suicide bomb vests provided by British imperialism, which have caused considerable losses to the Red Army soldiers and the progressive forces of Afghanistan. Stalin was furious about this several times, and he also put down cruel words - sooner or later Churchill himself must wear this suicide vest!

However, when it came to the point where the fat man couldn't stand it, Stalin was reluctant to let Churchill and the British Empire perish together.

Golikov, who was well aware of Stalin's ambivalent minds, now genuinely wanted to see a turning point in the world war in Ireland.

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The so-called turning point may indeed be coming, as the ground forces of the invincible Wehrmacht seem to be about to suffer their first campaign-level defeat since the beginning of the World War.

When Major Witzhi and Lieutenant Skorzny arrived in Dublin with the rest of their men, they knew that Dublin could not be held.

Because Dublin's defense system, which was about to be attacked by the superior forces of the British army, could not be regarded as existential in the eyes of a military expert. The improvised trenches are shallow and short, and they simply cannot resist shelling, the so-called anti-tank trenches cannot counter the tanks at all, and the so-called roadblocks set up on the highway look a bit like a check war, and it may be possible to catch a bad guy, and it is completely whimsical to use them against the attacks of the regular army.

And what left them speechless the most was that the street fighting in Dublin City was also very poorly prepared. Most of the fortified buildings in the city were not deployed for street fighting, the main roads were not effectively blocked, and the barricades were built to meet the requirements of street fighting in the mechanized era.

It is clear that the Irish government was plunged into a certain amount of confusion immediately after declaring independence and resisting the British invasion, and they certainly did not seriously consider resisting the British invasion before the arrival of the German army.

However, the enthusiasm of the citizens of Dublin seemed to be quite high, and after entering the city, Major Wiecschy and Lieutenant Skorzny saw a long line in front of all the recruiting points on their way to the Allied Headquarters in Phoenix Park. And in every street you can see old people, women and children building barricades out of old furniture and sandbags - barricades that might have worked in the European Revolution of 1848 or the uprising of the Paris Commune of 1871, but are now completely useless.

The German officers in Volkswagen W82 barrel cars (the equivalent of jeeps) were very friendly, and along the way, citizens stopped and saluted Wenk's motorcade.

"If there is enough time, maybe a few Waffen-SS divisions can be recruited in Ireland and trained and equipped, so that they will become elite." Lieutenant Skorzny looked at the Irishmen who were in high spirits but were about to suffer, and felt very sorry and helpless.

Major Witzschy and Lieutenant Skorzny met Lieutenant General Sussman, who looked a little sad, in an adjutant building in the Irish presidential palace, and Major Witsch reported to him: "Commander, the British are coming more violently than expected, and their methods and equipment have improved, and just like us, we have encountered a mechanized force at Dundalk and Drogheda, which is simply unstoppable. ”

Lieutenant General Sussman did not blame his subordinates for the defeat, but smiled slightly and said to them in a comforting tone: "I know, it doesn't matter, our reinforcements will arrive soon." The 1st Marine Division sent 4 tank companies, 1 assault gun battalion and 1 anti-tank gun battalion. So we're going to strike back, just this morning. (To be continued.) )