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Eisenhower wanted to completely blow up some of the airfields built by Germany in the border areas first, and many of the fields built by Rommel were field airfields, but they could not withstand the bombing, but the number of field airfields built by Rommel was very large, and the total number of field airfields was no less than 500.

Rommel did not want to fight a large-scale air battle with the Anglo-American coalition forces for the time being, but the Anglo-American coalition forces did not give up, and the two sides began a ubiquitous aerial strangulation over the Maginot Line, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

According to Eisenhower's meaning, uncle, I have planes, consume a batch, and immediately transport a batch from the United States, Eisenhower's idea is good, but Rommel has asked the commander-in-chief of the Navy Dönitz to secretly mobilize more than fifty U2 submarines from Germany to your Norwegian Sea.

Of course, the routes of the Anglo-American convoy are highly secretive, but there are only a few routes from the United States to the United Kingdom and the United States, and the main route is along the Russian coast to the Norwegian Sea, and finally to the United Kingdom, and the Norwegian Sea is not boundlessly wide.

From Norway to Iceland, it is only more than 1,500 nautical miles wide, and as long as Germany arranges hundreds of spy ships and fishing boats, the Anglo-American fleet will definitely be discovered.

In fact, the British and American forces were not afraid of the German army discovering that as long as the fleet was not within the attack range of German planes and was escorted by the US Third Fleet, the safety of the fleet could be guaranteed.

What kind of result the US Third Fleet and Dönitz's wolf pack will do in the Norwegian Sea is not known now.

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The SS2 Panzer Division was a very effective unit that had always been very combative, and Rommel placed them in Army Group B with the task of blocking the Anglo-American forces.

At this time, more than a million German troops had come out of the Ardennes Forest to attack the British and American forces of Belgium and the Netherlands, even if Eisenhower was stupid, he knew that there could not be many German troops in the Ardennes Forest.

Then the German army will definitely use the Ardennes Forest as a logistics supply base, which is densely forested, and the German army's logistics and material base must not be found from the air, and Eisenhower wants to destroy the German army's logistics supply base, so he can only attack the Ardennes Forest from the ground.

Eisenhower's move was right, there were indeed only 600,000 German troops here, 300,000 were here to block them, and the other 300,000 were the reserve forces of the whole army, and Rommel would not use them easily.

SS2 (i.e., the Imperial Division), which had just arrived from the Ardennes Forest, immediately reacted to the Anglo-American attack by attacking the Anglo-American left flank from near Sethern. The Leopard tanks of the 2nd Panzer Regiment of the 4th Panzer Regiment rushed to the front.

SS Commando Team Leader Ernst Buckman nervously looked out from his Leopard 324 tank, and soon the Anglo-American armored forces exchanged fire with them, and Buckman was the first to destroy 1 Sherman.

The other brothers in the company also gave a harsh lesson to the arrogant Americans, and the defeated Anglo-American troops immediately called for artillery support, and the attacking ranks of the 4th Panzer Company were immediately covered by dense artillery and were forced to retreat after suffering losses.

The next day, the 4th Panzer Company engaged the British and American forces again, and Buckman destroyed two British and American tanks and paralyzed the other.

As soon as the battle on the outskirts of the village of Pokaki ended, an infantry report was received that the Anglo-American column was heading here, and that there were anti-tank guns hanging behind the half-tracks.

Considering that the retreating Anglo-American forces would certainly inform friendly forces of the location of their companies, Backman decided to use his tanks to actively search for the enemy around the assembly area.

The Leopard tank encountered the vanguard of the Anglo-American coalition in the woods, and the American gunners had already set up an anti-tank gun, and an armor-piercing shell flew past the Leopard turret, but the Leopard tank destroyed it at once.

Almost at the same time, a British and American 88mm artillery shell "boom" happened to hit a few centimeters under the Leopard shield lookout, the shell bounced into the car, the tank burned, under the order of Buckman, several crew members hurriedly fled the tank, Buckman found that the gunner Bergdorff was missing, so he ran back to the tank and dragged the stunned gunner out.

Unexpectedly, the Anglo-American coalition army was filled with tiger and leopard phobia and retreated. The ammunition in the car did not detonate, so the tankmen extinguished the fire and drove the tank back to the repair company.

The next day, the Anglo-American offensive codenamed "Cobra" kicked off with a large-scale Anglo-American air raid, and the British and American armored forces attacked Avranche after the air raid.

The overwhelming number of planes circled over the German positions, dived and dropped bombs, and the German planes also came to help in the battle in a very short period of time, and from time to time planes fell in the sky, including British and American allied forces and German troops.

Even if there are German anti-aircraft guns on the ground and German planes in the sky, the British and American forces are still desperate to bomb the German positions, and it seems that Eisenhower is in a hurry.

The armored instructors in the front of the German defense had already been bombed and lost most of their combat effectiveness, and the SS2 2nd Panzer Regiment was forced to retreat to fill the defensive gap left by the armored instructors, and the British and American air forces immediately launched an air attack on the SS2 Imperial Division for 2 days and 2 nights.

The SS2 Panzer Division was covered by the air force, but not by the Allied forces, which was bombed endlessly. German vehicles were only able to maneuver to avoid air raids, and during one march, the carburetor of the No. 324 Leopard tank failed, and in order to save time, the maintenance crew carried out repairs on the spot without taking any concealment measures.

Four Allied attack planes spotted the Leopard lying on the ground, and heavy strafing ensued, the tank's radiator hose and oil cooler were punctured, and the engine caught fire.

After the Allied planes flew away, the German tank crews immediately got out from under the tanks to extinguish the fire, and after the maintenance crews worked hard all night, the tanks were finally repaired in the afternoon, and the Buckman crew drove the tanks to chase the evacuated company.

As Buckman reached the entrance to the small town of Leloré, a group of infantry and logisticians surrounded him as if they had seen a lifesaver and told them that a large number of American tanks were heading for Liberla!

There is no doubt that the Germans also retreated to Liberla at this time, and if the Allies were allowed to seize the city, the consequences would be unimaginable, and the roar of Allied tanks became louder and louder.

After telling the infantry to evacuate quickly, Buckman rode to the entrance of the village of Lelore to set up an ambush, deciding to sacrifice himself in exchange for the safety of the large army.

Buckman drove his tank to the intersection of the Libra-Saint-Lô national road and the Lelore sidewalk, and parked the tank on a trail about 100 meters behind the intersection under the cover of woods. At this time, the Allied tank column rumbled along the road.

…… (To be continued.) )