There were eight companies of rangers on Omaha Beach, as well as armored troops, infantry, and engineer units of the 29th Division of the Army.

When Chen Zikun jumped out of the lifeboat, he asked the four sailors to row back to the destroyer, but the sailors said that they would fight with the general, and seeing their young and resolute faces, Chen Zikun was greatly moved and nodded: "OK." ”

The beach was full of dead people, and there were corpses floating in the water, and from time to time they would step on something, it was a soldier who drowned with forty kilograms of equipment on his back, Chen Zikun went ashore with one shallow foot, Jimmy followed closely behind him, and the four sailors were very clever and each picked up weapons and ammunition from the corpse, and arched around the general.

Chen Zikun saw a communications soldier lying on the beach, holding an SCR-536 walkie-talkie in his hand and seemed to be talking about something, so he stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder: "Young man, help me contact ......."

The head of the communications soldier was tilted, revealing the bullet hole in his neck, which had long since died, and his eyes were still staring blankly at the sky.

Chen Zikun stroked his eyelids, took off the walkie-talkie and threw it to Jimmy: "Help me contact the commander on the beach." ”

Jimmy began to babble while holding the walkie-talkie, and Chan crouched behind a railroad railroad barricade, carefully observing the shore fortifications.

There are countless obstacles on the beach, railroad tracks and concrete piers, which are barricades to prevent tanks from landing, behind is a barbed wire, presumably there are not a few mines under the beach, light infantry is blocked by barbed wire, will be suppressed by machine gun fire, and then there is an insurmountable barrier, concrete poured machine gun bunkers, fire points, trenches, are constantly spraying fire snakes, the Germans have been operating for many years, ammunition reserves are abundant, and it is not effective to rely on human lives to fill up.

At present, the landing force is pressed on the beach, almost exposed to firepower, to be slaughtered, Chen Zikun is anxious, suddenly saw a Sherman tank in front of the side, the track was broken, the muzzle of the gun was weakly lowered, the hatch was opened, and then looked at the side, several soldiers in armored jackets fell to the ground, already killed.

Chen Zikun pointed at the tank, jumped out with an arrow, Jimmy followed, the beach was full of stumps and broken bodies, blood everywhere, Jimmy, who had never fought, was so frightened that his little face turned white, Chen Zikun, who had experienced the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Beitai, was not afraid at all, but adrenaline rose, his spirit was highly concentrated, and his tactical movements were standard and neat, and he did not look like a general, but an elite infantryman.

"Hey, look, it's a general."

A sergeant lying on the beach patted his companion's steel helmet and pointed at Chen Zikun, this group of soldiers had been suppressed here by machine guns for an hour, and they had not advanced an inch, and at this moment, seeing a general on the front line, the soldiers suddenly became excited.

Chen Zikun wore a steel helmet embellished with stars, a pilot's A2 leather jacket, paratrooper leather boots, and charged forward with a rifle, and the German machine guns kicked up a string of smoke and dust around him, but he couldn't hit anyone, and the American GIs screamed and screamed, spontaneously raising their guns to cover the general, and seven or eight heroic soldiers followed the general and rushed towards the tank.

When Chen Zikun was seen into the Sherman tank, cheers and whistles rang out in the corner of the beach that had been silent for a long time.

The Germans focused their fire on the paralyzed Sherman, the machine gun bullets clanged the armor plates, like a tin roof under a rainstorm, and the 37mm anti-tank guns also began to bombard, but the shells of this caliber were okay against the armored vehicles, but they could not penetrate the Sherman's steel plates.

CHEN TSZ-KUN ONCE PILOTED THE U.S.-MADE CHRISTI FAST TANK, AND HE WAS FAMILIAR WITH THE ARMORED TROOPS, AND HE MASTERED THE OPERATION OF THE 75MM TANK GUN AFTER SOME FUMBLING, WHEN A SAILOR CLIMBED INTO THE TANK AND SAID: "GENERAL, MY NAME IS TOMMY, I AM A GUNNER ON THE DESTROYER, I WILL HELP YOU LOAD THE AMMUNITION." ”

An armor-piercing shell filled the chamber of the gun, Chen Zikun looked at it for a while, and fired decisively, and the fire point of the MG42 machine gun, which had been roaring, suddenly became dumb, and another shot, an anti-tank gun was also destroyed.

However, Chen Zikun's good fortune also came to an end, and larger caliber cannons joined in the encirclement and suppression of him, and these cannons were installed in extremely strong concrete fortifications, and the tank guns could not do anything at all.

At the critical moment, a rain of bullets struck, and the enemy artillery suddenly fell silent, Chen Zikun had palpitations and hurriedly climbed out of the tank, but saw smoke curling from the guns of the destroyer Frankfurt on the sea in the distance.

The fire resistance of the shore was greatly reduced, and the landing force took the opportunity to charge, and after paying a certain amount of casualties, it rushed to the enemy's firepower corner, and finally could breathe a sigh of relief.

As the paramedics were busy injecting the wounded with morphine and dressing their wounds, and the chaplain prayed to the seriously wounded before dying, Chan asked Jimmy, "Are you connected?" ”

Jimmy said, "Yes, General, you have the highest rank on Omaha Beach, and these troops are now under your command." ”

Looking around, I don't know when a group of officers have gathered, some rangers, some from the 29th Division, most of them young lieutenants, waiting for their orders.

This made Chen Zikun a little surprised, if it was in the Chinese army, a foreign commander wanted to order the local army is tantamount to a fool's dream, most of the troops are generals, and they are still in the nature of the army in the feudal period, and the US army is who has the highest rank.

Chen Zikun is tall and straight, and the bridge of his nose is completely different from the Chinese in the inherent thinking of Westerners, coupled with his proficiency in English, leading the way and the rank of brigadier general, he naturally won everyone's respect and obedience.

"Okay, everyone follow my command, collect weapons and ammunition and some useful things, do you have sappers, I need a lot of blasters and explosives fuse detonators and stuff like that, and smoke grenades." Chen Zikun pointed to the crack at the bottom of the concrete fortifications that had been bombarded by naval artillery in the distance, "Blasting there can open a breakthrough." ”

Several smoke bombs exploded, the smoke covered the vision, a sapper dragged a blaster connected together and rushed to the fortifications, suddenly a gust of wind blew away the smoke, more than ten meters high fortifications on the top of the machine gun rang out, the sapper shook and fell to the ground.

Chen Zikun picked up the Garand rifle, and with a bang, the machine gunner planted it, and taking advantage of this opportunity, another sapper rushed forward, moving the blaster forward a few meters, and was killed by the grenade dropped from above.

In a short distance, it took five lives to put the blaster in place, and more than a dozen packs of TNT explosives were stuffed into the gap, the wires were dragged over, and a captain delivered the detonator to Chen Zikun: "General. ”

Chen Zikun understood, suddenly pressed the detonator, the violent explosion shook the earth, the soldiers squatted on the ground to cover their ears and opened their mouths wide, the gravel smashed on the steel helmet as a chaotic sound, the dust has not yet dissipated, Chen Zikun stood up and shouted: "Rush." ”

A flood of soldiers poured into the breach, and the Germans' machine guns were still firing wildly, but to no avail, and the Americans rushed into the line and began to slaughter the defenders, sweeping the pillboxes with grenades, submachine guns, and flamethrowers.

This time, Chen Zikun did not take the lead, he is now a front-line commander, accompanied by a group of officers and signal soldiers, the wireless telephone board was handed over, and the communication soldier said respectfully: "General, General Eisenhower wants to talk to you." ”

"Ike, we've opened the gap." Chen Zikun held the microphone, full of spirit.

Eisenhower congratulated him and suggested that he stay where he was and that a division commander of the U.S. Army take over the command.

After all, the Yue Dynasty could not be in charge for long, and Chen Zikun readily agreed, but still took his temporary command team to the German defense line to see the results of the battle.

It is said that the designer of the Atlantic barrier is Rommel, this line of defense is really amazing, it consumes countless cement and steel, hides a large number of machine gun artillery bunkers, and even has a 305 caliber giant artillery fortress, which is simply an impregnable wall, thanks to the Americans to attack, change to another house, and it will not be able to be defeated for a hundred years.

Chen Zikun sighed infinitely that if China had such a strong material resource to build a defensive line during the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese would definitely have met and bled and returned in vain, but on second thought, with the command ability of the national army, the strength of the defensive line would be greatly reduced, and in the end I am afraid that the Japanese would be cheaper, just like the Lushunkou base at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Just as he was thinking about it, suddenly a bullet hit, and he felt that his head was hit by a train, and suddenly the world was spinning, and he didn't know anything.

The officers panicked and took off his steel helmet, Chen Zikun's head was dripping with blood and he was unconscious.

"Medic!" Hoarse shouts echoed across Omaha Beach.

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When Chen Zikun woke up, he was already lying on the hospital bed, Jimmy was waiting by his side, he stood up, picked up his steel helmet, and saw a hole in it, and if the angle was a little off, the skull would turn into a rotten watermelon.

"How long have I been lying down?" Chan asked, touching his head, which was wrapped in a bandage, but it was fine.

"Hmm...... In less than an hour, the military doctor said that it was a minor trauma plus a concussion. Jimmy looked at his watch.

Chen Zikun immediately got out of bed and went to the deck, the battle was still going on, the smoke was billowing from the distant coastline, the fighter jets were whistling overhead, the battleships on the sea roared every few minutes, and countless transport ships and landing craft were pouring into Normandy like crucians crossing the river.

"This is the real war." Chen Zikun lamented that hundreds of thousands of people went to the battlefield together, and the scale of this landing battle can be described as unprecedented, but it may not be the end, but I am afraid that the scene of human war will be even more spectacular in the future.

The Normandy landing lasted for three days, and finally the German defense line was fully conquered, the beachhead was established, and the armored troops advanced into the interior of France, but Chen Zikun did not have the opportunity to appreciate the French style, and he received an order from Washington to hurry back to China to do an important business.

The Americans finally decided to send a delegation to Yan'an officially.