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Zhang Cheng had already approved the operational plan for the landing of the British, and dozens of airfields in northern France were filled with more than 60,000 elite paratroopers from the five Ming paratrooper divisions, and after they had sorted out their bags, they began to board thousands of transport planes that had been waiting for a long time according to different formations.

After the order to set off, the elite paratroopers began to sort out each other's suits and umbrellas, and painted camouflage for their comrades. At 6:20 p.m., 60,000 paratroopers officially began boarding, after the commanders at all levels distributed airsickness medicine.

In the beginning, there were quite a few front-line commanders who opposed sending paratroopers to conduct large-scale airborne operations before landing. Because these commanders believed that the British defense was still relatively strong, and that there were many armored units deployed in the southern part of England, a large number of lightly armed paratroopers could lead to huge casualties.

However, Zhang Cheng finally ordered the paratroopers to attack and fight. The army should not abandon the battle for fear of casualties, and then the original purpose of forming an army would be lost. And the paratroopers were originally meant to be elite troops fighting in the encirclement.

Although the British were strong in defense, they were not yet invincible. After the paratroopers were airdropped to the rear of the battlefield, it was of great significance for the breakthrough of the frontal beach.

At half past seven in the evening, the pilot plane took off, and thirty minutes later, thousands of transport planes took off from dozens of airports. After marshalling in the air, it flew towards the English Channel. They will conduct large-scale airborne operations behind the front line from Dover to Portsmouth, in conjunction with landing operations on the frontal battlefield.

At 9:40 p.m., the group began to fly over the strait. The remnants of the British's radar spotted these massive fleets. Soon, the blaring sirens sounded throughout the southern part of England.

At this time, the heavy weapons of the British army had already suffered heavy losses under the continuous blows of the Ming army aviation. They did not have many anti-aircraft guns for aerial fire. Moreover, the fighters of the Ming army have always been known for their sturdiness, even if they are transport aircraft. As a result, the ground air defense forces of the British did not achieve much success. Thousands of sorties of transport aircraft were shot down less than a hundred.

But the real test was after the paratroopers landed.

After discovering that the Ming army had begun to carry out large-scale parachutes, the British defense forces immediately began to mobilize garrisons everywhere to strangle the paratroopers. They even dispatched a large number of armored forces. The war has been fought for so long, and the powerful paratroopers of the Ming Dynasty have brought a profound image to the allies. After repeated rejects of peace, the British authorities had already made up their minds to stick to their homeland. An attempt was made to exchange for peace by mass-killing the living forces of the Ming army on the beachhead and repelling the landing operations of the Ming army.

The paratroopers were lightweight, because they needed to carry out airborne operations. It is difficult to resist effectively in the face of a counterattack by the defenders' armored forces. Because of the heavy equipment that is too heavy to carry out parachuting. However, this time the Ming paratroopers made full preparations.

In addition to the massive airdrop of weapons packs, which contain heavy machine guns and anti-tank rocket launchers. The Ming paratroopers also sent a large number of large ****** into battle. These ****** were loaded with recoilless artillery and other heavy weapons and ammunition, which prevented the Ming paratroopers from being defenseless against enemy armoured forces after landing.

The vast majority of the tens of thousands of paratroopers landed safely. However, a small number of paratroopers landed in enemy positions, towns, woods, ponds and other unfavorable areas, causing considerable casualties.

Soon after landing, the paratroopers began to converge with each other through code words and communication signals, and searched for the numerous weapons packs that had been scattered. In order to improve the survivability of paratroopers, the Ming army threw weapons umbrella packs on a large scale. Although this will inevitably cause many weapons to fall into the hands of the defenders, it greatly enhances the survivability of the Ming army.

In Denton, a small village behind Dover, about two platoons of more than forty paratroopers gathered here. They collected several parachute packs from the vicinity of the landing site, and were provided with six MG42 general-purpose machine guns and four anti-tank rocket launchers, as well as a large amount of ammunition. After capturing the small village, which consisted of just over a hundred villagers, a British search party consisting of four tanks and four armored vehicles and more than two hundred soldiers soon rushed into the village along the road.

Because it was nighttime and there was no electricity to light the poor English village, the whole village was very dark. It was only that the British troops, who knew that there were Ming paratroopers hiding in this village, rushed straight into the village, but instead exposed themselves to the streets that traversed the entire village, that is, exposed to the attack range of the well-trained paratroopers.

While the British armored vehicles and tanks were still shaking their turrets and machine guns in search of targets, several rockets flew out of the houses on either side. Two of them destroyed the tank that hit the head, and the other two destroyed a truck behind the temple. More than a dozen British infantrymen were blown to pieces.

Subsequently, the Ming paratroopers swept at the British infantry who hurriedly jumped out of the truck with a dense rain of bullets, knocking down rows of infantry in pools of blood. By the time the British tanks and armored vehicles began to turn around and fire at the sides, the Ming army had already begun to shift their positions.

It didn't take long for several rockets to fly out of hiding again. It slammed into the bodies of the two British tanks, instantly turning them into burning scrap metal. The British were unable to exert the strength of their armoured forces, and were pierced by beaten rats in the narrow villages.

Due to their limited national strength, the British could not maintain a strong army while devoting themselves to the navy. Their only elite troops, who had been trained for a long time, fled back to their homeland in disarray after being beaten by the Ming army on the Russian battlefield.

Most of the officers and soldiers who fled back to Britain became officers after the massive expansion of the British army, but the British mobilized soldiers lacked the training and necessary qualifications, and there were no real elite combat units after the only capable combat unit was scattered everywhere. Their qualities are completely incomparable with the Ming army, let alone elite paratroopers.

Just like these British armourers who drove the Sherman tanks supported by the Americans, because of the lack of fuel and necessary spare parts, these armourers were basically not trained too much, and were only able to drive the tank and then be able to fire.

In the ever-changing battlefield, these untrained British armourers simply did not have the speed to react in the true sense of the word. The Ming army's bazookas and heavy machine guns changed places as soon as they hit them, but the British tanks and armored vehicles could only follow the footsteps of the Ming army and shoot at the firepower points that no one had.

In less than ten minutes, this armored unit of the British was completely annihilated. All but 30 or so infantrymen who were prisoners of war were lost. The casualties on the side of the Ming army were less than double digits, and only one bazooka and one machine gun were lost. The well-trained Ming army was very good at hiding itself, and was not at all stupid to stand in the open area and charge or run around like the British army.

This skirmish attracted nearby Ming paratroopers to rush over and converge, and when another British unit of more than 300 infantry came to the small village more than half an hour later, the number of Ming paratroopers gathered here was close to 500.

This is how the Ming paratroopers continued to gather to defeat the British encirclement, cut off wires and communications, capture several important bridges and deal a heavy blow to the British army.

The British were not good at land warfare and did not have much combat experience. Because they were defeated by the Ming Dynasty early, the British had hardly participated in the war for hundreds of years, and their understanding of the battlefield was very poor. Originally, the British high-level thought that with millions of troops and a large number of weapons and equipment, as well as a strong Royal Navy, it would be enough to stop the Ming army's attack on the British mainland, so as to wait for the Americans' secret weapon to come out.

But the cruel reality gave them a few resounding slaps. It was just a group of paratroopers, but it could not be wiped out for a long time, but there were constant reports of losses and large numbers of troops lost everywhere. This makes the British completely confused, what is wrong with the world? Isn't it said that the armored forces are the nemesis of light paratroopers? Why can't their own armored forces defeat those lightly armed paratroopers? Could it be that those Ming paratroopers also dropped tanks and artillery?

The British did not understand that it was people who could really decide the fate of the war. It's like the group of rich people in modern time and space who made their fortune selling oil, driving the world's most advanced weapons and equipment, but they can't defeat a group of guerrillas carrying bazookas. People can't do it, and it doesn't make a difference to have more and better equipment.

Because the British mobilized soldiers were to defend their homeland, their will to fight was still good. But their level of training was so bad that most of the British army was at the level of the guerrillas. This level of training collided with the elite Ming army paratroopers, and the result was naturally self-evident.

London was not subjected to a massive air raid, and many British civilians took refuge in the city to escape the fighting. The originally bustling South End leasehold has long since lost its former bustle, and the British have looted almost everything here after declaring war on the Ming Dynasty.

Everything in the leased area was removed except for the buildings. Everything that Daming spent hundreds of years accumulating here took the British to clean up in just ten days. The people who were originally here have also fallen from the top to the bottom of society.

However, with the return of the Ming soldiers to the continent of Europa, everything here is also quietly changing. (To be continued.) )