The situation of the 23rd Airborne Division of the Guards in the town of Yeovil is no better.

Although the position was not lost, after a day and night of frantic and bloody fighting, nearly 2,000 paratroopers lost their combat effectiveness.

Before dawn, more than 1,000 of the thousands of paratroopers who had been deflected by the monsoon gathered together, and under the command of a lieutenant colonel, broke through the British blockade and returned to the town of Jovey.

This is the only good news for Major General Zhao Mingcheng, commander of the 23rd Division. The paratroopers who did not return for more than 24 hours were captured at best. Even if some small groups were still fighting, they would not be able to pass through the British blockade outside the town of Yeovil.

Fortunately, the area of less than five kilometers between the iron bridge and the 19th Division was still in the hands of the paratroopers. If necessary, only one of the towns of Yeovil and the Iron Bridge could be abandoned, and the two divisions held a position together.

The closest to Yeovil City was the 10th and 11th armies of the South Seas that landed on the Jurassic coast, but they were entangled in the street fighting in Devon by the British army, and it was difficult to get out quickly.

At Axminster, the Allied landings were more efficient. Nearly 200,000 Yanzhou troops and Spanish troops successfully advanced more than ten kilometers to the land, approaching Honiton, one of the important fulcrums of the British army's railway defense line. However, Britain, which resisted desperately, broke out with extremely strong combat effectiveness, and a small piece of the battle often changed hands and fought over repeatedly.

Coupled with the fact that the British had been saving for the defense of Britain for a long time and had sufficient ammunition, the Allies showed no signs of breaking through the railway defense line in a short time.

In the Allied General Headquarters in A Coruña, Jiang Yunzhi had already picked up the phone several times and put it down heavily. After the war for air supremacy over the English Channel began, it never stopped. The Americans went crazy and threw batch after batch of fighters into battle, and the pilots of the "Raptor" fighter squadron that continuously engaged the enemy were so tired that they couldn't even get off the planes when they were busy on the ground, so they just sat in the cockpit and took a nap for a while, and then after being woken up by the ground crew, they immediately took off again to fight.

According to the statistics uploaded back by the AWACS aircraft, more than 100 fighters of various types have been shot down by the Allied forces, but the losses of the US military will at least double again.

Eisenhower seems to have sent all of his air forces with the sole purpose of containing the Allied air forces and preventing them from continuing to drop troops into the British and carry out large-scale bombing.

"This product is this 'gauze', doesn't he know that if we continue to fight like this, even if we suffer heavy losses, the air force of the US military in Europe will be exhausted sooner or later? Without an air force, would he be able to hold on to his army, even if he could enter London first? ”

Admiral Xiao Guoxing was very disdainful of the Americans' desperate efforts, and in his opinion, fighting bayonets with the Royal Air Force was undoubtedly a very "gauze" behavior.

"Fight for aircraft production? Or fight for the number of pilots? Lao/Chiang, do you say that Eisenhower, this kid, wants to go to our South China after the war? Admiral Xiao's words caused a burst of laughter in the conference room.

However, Jiang Yunzhi, the commander-in-chief of the campaign, was obviously not so optimistic and could not continue to be airborne, which meant that the first two paratrooper divisions that were airdropped in Yeovil could not get any support, just like two small waves in the ocean, how long could they toss? And once their positions are lost, it means that the Allies will have to reopen the passage to the north.

It was a chain reaction that resulted in a stress-free entry of U.S. troops into London and the Allied blockade on the Conhull Peninsula. In that case, Operation Overlord would be a complete failure, and although the Allies were able to achieve the fulcrum of landing on the British Isles, the campaign to liberate Britain would also be protracted.

Of course, such an outcome was not what the Allies expected, and Chiang Shuai had made a military order in the Weiqing Pavilion: Britain must be settled before the New Year of 1944.

The Grand Duke of Windsor once said: As long as Churchill is eliminated and London is not damaged too much, my niece will be a member of Weiyang Palace.

……

Jiang Yunzhi suddenly realized that he had caught something.

The Duke of Windsor's words were of course a joke, or that he was currying favor with His Majesty in order to restore the country, but ...... "London will not be damaged too much", Jiang Shuai suddenly slammed his fist on the table, "I understand!" ”

There was a "thump" at the conference table, startling everyone else in the room.

Jiang Shuai strode to the map, pointed to the position of the small value of Yoville, and said to Xiao Guoxing and the others who surrounded him: "You can't lose it here." Not only to rescue our two paratrooper divisions, but also because we had to protect this northbound transportation artery. We have to get into London before the American troops, or the battle to liberate Britain risks turning into a quagmire, well! The quagmire that plunged us deeply! ”

That's right, Eisenhower's strategy was to lose the car and protect the coach. Even if all the air forces of the multinational forces in Europe were sacrificed, the Allies would be held back and the armored forces of the American army would enter London first. Because the Grand Duke of Windsor and other members of the British royal family who cooperated with the Han State would certainly not allow the Allies to wreak havoc on London. As long as the U.S. military can occupy London, the Allies cannot act rashly. What about losing air supremacy? Could it be that the air force of the Han Kingdom could still bomb Buckingham Palace? Will there be another "Tokyo fire"?

Hearing Jiang Yunzhi point out this, the bigwigs in the command headquarters, who were all very happy just now, realized that the battle situation was not as optimistic as they imagined. Although the Allies broke through the British coastal defense on the day of landing, they gained the initiative in the campaign. But the decisive moment between the two sides did not come, and the direction of the Battle of Britain actually depended on the small town of Yeovil.

Like Montgomery, Xiao Guoxing and several others couldn't help but be amazed by Jiang Shuai's strategic foresight. Seeing everyone's gaze, Jiang Yunzhi smiled bitterly, "Nima, Lao Tzu is not an immortal, I just want to airdrop a force behind the enemy and disrupt the British reinforcement deployment!" ”

"I understand, Your Majesty said that low-key people can live long!" Xiao Guoxing said twice, "Don't talk nonsense, let's study, how to increase troops to Yeovil, you don't all expect Li Longdi and Zhao Mingcheng to really hold for a few days surrounded by more than 100,000 British troops, right?" ”

Surprisingly, everyone who had looked at the map for a long time actually nodded. Is there any way to reinforce it? The U.S. Air Force keeps pounced like a mad dog, and now let the transport plane take off, isn't that a meat bun beating a dog?

"Damn, our guards are not immortals! Lao/Jiang, tell me, what should I do, you are the old commander of the Guards, these boys don't feel sorry for you, right? "Admiral Xiao Guoxing is the current commander of the Guards Legion, and Jiang Yunzhi is the predecessor.

But this time, Jiang Shuai didn't reply for a long time, and the telephone was about to be broken by him, but as everyone said, at this time, if the airdrop plan continues to be carried out, how many bulky military transport planes can escape the blow of the US military's "Sidewinder" missiles when the sky over the English Channel is still fiercely contested? Moreover, the area around the city of Yeovil has been surrounded by British troops on three sides, and at the time of the first airdrop, many soldiers landed far away from the predetermined position due to the strong Atlantic monsoon, which not only extended the assembly time, but also nearly a brigade and a half of paratroopers did not return in the end.

Such non-combat attrition is extremely rare in the several large-scale operations experienced by the Guards Paratrooper Unit since its formation.

With Yeovil already surrounded, how many paratroopers would fall into the enemy's ranks, even without taking into account British anti-aircraft fire, monsoon alone?

Not feasible, the opportunity to continue the airborne landing has been lost. It was necessary to find another way to reinforce the 19th and 23rd Divisions.