On 22 September, British reconnaissance vehicles spotted four Leopard tanks heading for Phihou, and at 12 o'clock the German tanks reached the corridor northeast of Phihou, and as expected, the passage was easily cut off, but British and American reinforcements soon arrived and began to attack the Germans. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At 12:15 p.m., the 506th Regiment of the 101st Division rushed to Phihao to participate in the battle, while the 327th Regiment, armed with heavy anti-tank guns, also arrived.

The tanks of the 107th Division were in high spirits to destroy anything they saw on the road, but a six-pounder anti-tank shell destroyed the tracks of a tank, and the German tanks were careful the next day.

The whole situation was still very dangerous for the Anglo-American forces, and the Germans launched a second attack, trying to break through from the east of Fichau under the cover of tanks, but in the end they were unsuccessful, and they also lost a Leopard.

In short, the Germans used all methods to delay the Anglo-American forces desperately, and they did it successfully. On September 23, the Germans attacked again and engaged in a fierce battle with the 2nd Battalion of the 501st Regiment of the 101st Division.

German tanks destroyed several Shermans and a Firefly, a Leopard tank was also destroyed from behind, and in the fierce battle, the commander of the German Panzer Reserve Group, Lieutenant Dick, was killed, and eventually the Germans temporarily retreated.

Fubei arrived with another German paratrooper regiment, and they had four Cheetahs from the 559th Panzer Reserve Group!

The offensive was to begin on September 24 to the west of Phihaus, a crucial day for the Anglo-American forces, the situation in Anheng was on the verge of spiraling out of control, the Battle of the "Market Garden" would turn into a disaster, and the Germans knew equally that they would have to cut off the corridor.

So they attacked again, and Major Fubei's paratrooper regiment rushed into the defensive line of the 501st Regiment of the British and American forces, and the two sides were close to each other on that sandy field, and the British army drove "Sherman" to reinforce but soon three tanks were destroyed by 88mm guns, and the remaining tanks and artillery were forced to withdraw from the battlefield.

The American paratroopers fought back, but were unable to repel the German paratroopers, and the nearby Anglo-American forces were soon wiped out.

Then Fube played their last card, and he commanded a battalion of paratroopers to launch a new attack from the south under the cover of four Cheetahs, and they captured a small village, where the German paratroopers cut the corridor at seventeen!

The British sent a number of "Sherman" tanks to counterattack, and the Cheetah quickly destroyed three "Shermans" and repelled the British troops.

The 506th Parachute Regiment of the U.S. Army launched a counterattack with the support of the "Sherman" tanks, they hoped to drive away the Germans in order to restore the corridor, the Germans used Cheetahs, assault guns and two captured "Sherman" tanks to attack the U.S. troops, and the Anglo-American coalition finally failed to recover the corridor, and it was another whole day!

Fortunately, the Germans retreated in the evening, and the inexplicable retreat made everyone feel very happy, and the Anglo-American forces found out on the morning of September 26 that the Germans had gone.

In any case, the corridor was clear again, but it was too late for the Battle of the "Market Garden", and the attack of the Fighauer army on September 24 meant a complete defeat of the campaign, and the reinforcements and supplies needed by Anheng and Nimegen paratroopers were blocked in Edthofen, and the "Market Garden" operation in Montgomery failed.

In total, the Anglo-American forces lost 17,000 men, more than 100 tanks and 260 aircraft were destroyed, and another 1,400 aircraft were seriously damaged. The Germans lost 9,000 men and 100 vehicles of all types [including tanks].

The Walter battle group [including the 107th Division] was ordered to move to the northeastern Netherlands in order to establish a defensive line.

This was the damp and muddy part of the Peel area, where the Anglo-American forces were not aware of the danger of the area, they underestimated the Germans and they would soon regret it, and the Germans would once again show their will to fight tenaciously in the face of extreme difficulties and harsh conditions.

The task of these German troops who had established a defensive line in the eastern part of the Netherlands was to prevent the Anglo-American forces from entering Germany, and the Anglo-American offensive would soon collapse with the full launch of the "Trojan Plan," and the German troops entering Belgium and the Netherlands would be shut down and beaten without even the slightest chance of escape.

In the general headquarters of the Anglo-American forces in London, Eisenhower received a telegram about the failure of the "Operation Market Garden", and his face immediately became gloomy, and Montgomery once again completely buried the elite paratroopers of the Anglo-American coalition army, which had been reorganized with great difficulty.

The last time the British and American paratroopers were almost wiped out in Normandy, Eisenhower used almost all the paratrooper reserves to rebuild the British and American paratrooper corps, these are good, these rebuilt paratroopers were buried by Montgomery, it seems that paratroopers are not a fun branch of the army, without superb command art, they can't play at all.

In order to break the deadlock in Germany's defense of the Maginot Line and the Siegfried Line, Eisenhower immediately convened a meeting of senior commanders to prepare to study the specific operational strategy for the next step.

Rommel, the commander of the German Western Front, was also holding an emergency meeting, because the pressure from Germany was increasing, countless German people were full of pessimism about the situation on the Western Front, and some anti-war people were more active.

Rommel could not bear this, so he gave Himmler the harshest orders several times in a row, that internal stability in Germany must be maintained, and that all troublemakers should be arrested immediately.

Originally, Rommel planned to force Eisenhower to attack the Maginot Line and the Siegfried Line, and then consume a large amount of ammunition and vital forces of the British and American forces on these two lines, but now because of the situation in Germany, it is no longer possible to use this tactic, but now Rommel can only go head-to-head with the more than two million British and American troops who have landed in France.

This will undoubtedly bring more unknown factors to Rommel's strategy of encirclement, and even if the war can be won, it will deplete all the materials that Germany has saved in the near future, and at the same time, it will also seriously weaken Germany's future strategic offensive capability.

The "Trojan" plan was implemented ahead of schedule, and Rommel was also extremely helpless, Germany spent huge forces on the Eastern Front, the Soviet battlefield, to annihilate about half of the Soviet troops in Moscow, and the Soviet troops in Stalingrad and Leningrad broke through.

Then Stalin in order to cooperate with the offensive of the British and American forces, and began a large-scale counterattack, and the German Eastern Front and the Soviet Union began a new round of strangulation.

Can people in Germany who don't know about Rommel's plan not be in a hurry? Of course, they were in a hurry, and now even the Western Front is losing one after another, and the German army has retreated to the German-French border area, so it is no wonder that the situation in Germany is not turbulent.

…… (To be continued.) )