Harold instructed the people in the plane to drop the weapon cartridges first, everyone had trained more than ten times, although they were nervous, but they did not panic, everything was carried out in an orderly manner.

After the supply canister was airdropped, it was the personnel who parachuted, and Harold was the first to jump out of the cabin. (At the beginning of World War II, paratroopers basically parachuted separately with people and weapons)

As soon as Harold jumped out of the cabin, the sky was already covered with white parachutes, Harold and their group were not the earliest to parachute, Harold hurriedly controlled the direction of the parachute with his hands.

In fact, this control is complicated and simple, and it is of course very difficult to land on a one-meter square position, but it is still very easy to land in a large circle with a diameter of two hundred meters.

Harold looked at the direction in which his canisters landed, and each canister used a parachute with a huge red number on it, so that all paratroopers could clearly see it, so that everyone could control their parachute to land in the direction of the canister.

Countless parachutes bloomed in the air, fluttering in the air, and the ground was relatively flat, and Harold landed safely in a few minutes.

There were no bullets fired into the air on the ground, and it seemed that there was indeed no ambush by the British army, and the command reported that the British army had retreated to the city of Valletta.

It took Harold about fifteen minutes to assemble a battalion of troops, and Harold and his part of the airborne force were tasked with capturing a civilian airfield in the southern part of the island of Malta.

Although the airfield was blown up by the British themselves, and the defending British troops almost retreated, the civilian airfield still had to be captured. Because that's how the battle plan was made. Harold before receiving an order to stop the attack. He must be faithful to his mission.

"Puff ......"

Harold's feet touched the ground, and the inertia made Harold run forward a few steps before he stabilized his body, and at this time there was no time to pack the parachute, so he quickly unbuttoned the parachute iron button on his body.

Then quickly ran to the B012's weapon cartridge, this supply canister was not Harold's crew, but the battlefield was full of paratroopers, and everyone followed the habit of picking up weapons nearby.

Even if there were no British troops to attack them at this time. But Harold for their tactical maneuvers, it was necessary to arrange for the paratroopers to carry out the operational manual, and the German old-fashioned and stubborn were like that.

Isn't this stubbornness, rigor, rigidity, and discipline of the Germans bad? We will not comment on the rights and wrongs of this national character, but will talk about the various self-righteous cleverness of our nation.

Then compare the current situation of science and technology and society in China and Germany, and everyone should feel something! There are no advantages and disadvantages, but each has its own characteristics.

This was followed by a second wave of airdrops, a second civilian airfield occupied by the Germans, and three airfields on the island of Malta that were completely destroyed and absolutely impossible to repair and use by paratroopers alone, and finally Rommel terminated the pointless parachute operation.

Now the British army has shrunk into the city of Valletta. Only paratroopers with small arms, even in the elite. To attack the city and fight street battles, the casualties were absolutely very heavy, and Rommel was certainly reluctant to spend his precious paratroopers in street fighting.

By ten o'clock in the morning, the landing fleet had reached the north-west of the island of Malta, a gentle stretch of sand, which could easily be washed up by assault boats with men, without the need to build a temporary harbor.

There is also a disadvantage to landing on this beach, that is, the tank must be hoisted from the transport ship to the landing craft, fortunately, the waves are not high at this time, and the difficulty of this hoisting is not great, that is, the landing cannot be fast.

There were more than 300 transport ships in the entire landing fleet, hundreds of assault boats carrying infantry, and only eight landing craft capable of carrying tank No. 4.

The British army on the island of Malta was severely undermanned and had no air supremacy, so this section of the beach was not defended by British troops at all.

Rommel's landing projection force is really too bad, which is a small child compared to the historical Allied landing in Normandy.

There was no landing harassed by the British, and even if the speed was turtle speed, there was always a moment when the landing was completed, and the Germans began to carry out the landing operation in a slow and methodical manner in the northwest of Malta.

The fact that the British army did not deploy troops in this generation does not mean that the British army did not arrange observation posts in this area.

As soon as the German landing fleet appeared in this area, the British observation posts discovered the German intentions, and the news of the imminent German landing in the northwest of Malta was immediately transmitted to Brian.

Brian was already like a red-eyed gambler at this time, he had fallen into a state of hysterical madness, and Brian gave an unbelievable order:

"The whole army will attack and give the landing Germans a head-on blow."

At this time, all the German planes had returned, and at this time troops were sent to attack, so that there was no threat from the German air force.

Brian knew that Valletta would never be able to hold it, so it was better to take advantage of the German army to land on the beach now, and inflict heavy casualties on the German troops who landed, even if he was defeated and surrendered in the future, he would be a hero in British history.

More than 9,000 British troops in Valletta poured out of their nests and swooped down on the probe position more than 30 kilometers away.

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Luxemburg was the commander-in-chief of this landing, commanding from the front, which was the glorious tradition of the Seventh Panzer Army, and even Rommel often went to the front line.

The first to land was about one infantry battalion, along with eight tank No. 4s, and one landing lasted about half an hour.

This landing speed can only be said to be turtle speed, if there are enough defenders on Malta Island, such a landing operation can only be sent to death.

Luxembourg landed on the beach of Malta in an assault boat, and the infantry landed on the beach with great ease, but the No. 4 tanks were brought to the beach by the landing craft and got stuck on the beach.

Tank No. 4 was able to drive on the beach, but the speed was faster than the speed of a turtle, and the eight No. 4 tanks that landed first roared, and puffs of black oil smoke came out of the chimneys.

The fluffy sea sand was thrown from behind by the tank's tracks, and the tank was just moving forward little by little, and the speed was painful.

"Quick, go cut down the bushes."

"Report to the division commander, we didn't bring knives."

"Then blow it up with a grenade, it's really an elm head."

"You go up there and set up a guard."

Although Luxemburg was commanding the landing for the first time, he still knew the most basic tactics, and he sent a company of troops to guard and set up defenses, and the infantry of the remaining two companies became all lumberjacks.

The effect of laying branches under the tank is really good, and the speed of the fourth tank stuck in the beach can already reach the speed of walking.

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…… (To be continued.) )