The participation of four guided missile frigates of the "Zhiqiu" class quickly changed the situation of the battle on Cretaceous Beach.

According to the coordinates transmitted by the troops on the beach, the Fjord Penguin-4 ship-to-ground missiles were used to carry out precision strikes on the British cliff fortifications. The three pillboxes built in the valley escaped the low-altitude attack of the "Brute Dragon" attack plane, but they could not escape the vertical attack of ship-to-ground missiles. The Fjord Penguin-4 missile, with a warhead of more than 500 kilograms of high explosives, was used to blow up the bunker, which was indeed a bit of a "loser" in luxury.

But as Guan Canghai said, the lives of soldiers are the most precious. What can be solved with missiles, is that still a problem?

At 10 a.m., the beach, codenamed "Cretaceous", was broken through by the Marines on all fronts. Carrier-based aircraft carried out several rounds of interdiction bombardment behind the beach fortifications and blew up most of the roads and bridges leading to the sea.

This allowed the Allied landing grounds to be rapidly consolidated and expanded. By 15 p.m., the Cretaceous beach landing site had been expanded to six kilometres wide and two kilometres behind the cliffs. In addition to the 1st and 3rd Marine Divisions, which were the first to land in charge of assault missions, the 10th and 11th armies of the 4th Army Corps in Nanyang also landed successfully and began to attack the British positions on both sides of the landing site.

At the landing ground on the Bay of Axminster, dozens of kilometers away, St. Mark's division washed away the shame of repeated defeats of the Italian army after the start of the war.

Although it is paid, it is the same price of blood.

The Spanish amphibious division of the Housean Division made a feint on the flank, covering the landing of St. Mark's division in the middle of the bay. Here, the preparation of artillery fire before the landing was much more effective, and the obstacles in the shallow water were thoroughly plowed under the carpet bombardment of the naval guns.

As with the "Cretaceous" beach, the Han marines suffered the same armored forces of the Italians on the sea, and the British anti-tank guns were also destroyed on the sea, and not even a single tank was able to successfully land in the water.

The tanks of St. Mark's division were not specialized amphibious tanks, but were converted from miniature tanks smaller than jeeps, which were unique to the Italian army, and became "amphibious tanks" that could swim across the water.

However, in the land battle, the miniature tanks that were once called "spaghetti" weighed only three tons, and the "noodles" were still not tough against the more ferocious British coastal defense line, and the British army's 6-pounder anti-tank guns almost pierced through the "pasta" and beat the "noodles" into "macaroni".

And the shells fired by the 55-mm guns of Xiaodouding fell on the concrete fortifications nearly half a meter thick, and their power was equivalent to helping the British army clean up the dust, without any threat.

The Italians simply abandoned the tactics of armoured cover in favor of the trench tunneling tactic, which was most famous in Europe. The Han-style sapper shovel is simply an artifact of excavation on the soft sand.

When the zigzag-shaped trenches were excavated to a height of more than ten meters on the cliff face, antique bundled explosives were used in conjunction with the latest Chinese-style ball grenades, and the assault troops of St. Mark's division blasted the British pillboxes one after another in the oldest way. Its battle scene is directly in line with the tragedy of the "Tu Eighth Road" against the Japanese army during the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

One demolition team was shot and fell to the ground, and two or three more would rush out at once, and the Italians, who liked elegance or cowardice, showed the world with the heroic performance of their most elite St. Mark's division in the Bay of Axminster: Italians can also be iron-blooded.

The division was fully manned with 11,000 and 24 men, and on the first day after Operation Overlord began, the casualties of St. Mark's division reached 6,312, of which 2,046 were killed.

This casualty count is not unique to St. Mark's division, and in other landing sites, the casualty reports of the 1st Royal Marine Division of the Han Dynasty are much more shocking than this. Even on the afternoon of the landing day, when a large number of troops began to extend the attack after landing, the Yanzhou Regiment fought an encounter with the British dragoon troops reinforced by Wellington when attacking in the direction of Exeter, where the British headquarters was located, and a whole division of Yanzhou soldiers was routed, and the Churchill heavy tanks of the dragoon troops mercilessly hunted this infantry division.

The carrier-based aircraft of the Zijing aircraft carrier formation took off overnight and carried out indiscriminate bombing of the combat area without navigation. Although the British armored brigade composed of three dragoon regiments was repulsed, it also caused a large number of accidental injuries, and many of the scattered Yanzhou soldiers did not die under the British tanks, but were injured by their own aerial bombardment.

In the following battle, the regrouped division only collected less than 2,000 soldiers, and the remaining nearly 8,000 men were all missing. On British soil, the disappearance of Han Chinese soldiers almost meant ...... Fall.

This incident even alarmed the Han Emperor who was far away in Chang'an. As to whether the Navy's carrier-based aircraft accidentally bombed the Yanzhou Army, the Military Intelligence Bureau also sent a special investigation team to go deep into the British battlefield to collect evidence.

Of course, everything was done in secret, the fighting continued, and the influence of events was limited to the upper echelons of the Allied forces. Even one of the parties involved, General Guan Canghai, commander-in-chief of the Allied maritime forces, did not pay much attention to the investigation of the special team of the Military Intelligence Agency.

Winning the battle and forcing Britain to surrender was the only thing they had on their minds now. Jiang Yunzhi personally sent a telegram to His Majesty, "I am fully responsible for all accidents and losses on the battlefield in Britain. ”

His Majesty's reply was: It's useless to talk less, give me the focus on catching the donkey and killing the fat man.

Jiang Shuai, who was at the Allied headquarters in A Coruña, received a telegram from His Majesty, and hurriedly burned the telegram. Telegraphs of this tone are called ciphers. And the only ones who asked His Majesty to call back in such a tone were these high-ranking generals from the Red Police Legion, who could be counted on one hand.

"Mengqiang donkey? Your Majesty, this is a heart of love. Another British Field Marshal Brooke was a distinguished professor at the Royal Military College, on par with the director of the Royal Military College, who had the rank of lieutenant general. It seems that as long as the Battle of Britain can be won, the Royal Academy will have another British Field Marshal professor.

-- After becoming commander-in-chief of the British Army, Montgomery was awarded the rank of Field Marshal by the Cabinet, the first field marshal in the history of the British Army not to be awarded the title of British Prince.

June 22, landing day. In many film and television works in later generations, they prefer to call this day "the longest day" or "glory day".

The former is from Emperor Zhongyi of the Han Dynasty, while the latter is just quoting the other founder of fascism, Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini.

St. Mark's division fought in England for 57 days and did not return to Naples for repair until the end of the Battle of Britain. At the celebration ceremony, Mussolini raised his goblet and shouted: "The Marines have inherited the spirit of the warriors of the Roman Empire, and are the glory of the Italian army." ”

The victory, of course, was worth celebrating, but on the bloody, brutal and long day of landing, the Allies suffered more than 116,000 casualties and 35,235 killed on the beaches of Lime Bay.

The Jurassic Coast, Axminster Bay, and the Portland Peninsula have all shed the blood of too many Allied soldiers.

And this does not include the paratroopers of the 19th and 23rd Airborne Divisions of the Han Guards Regiment who had to fight alone in Yeovil because of the US Air Force's participation in the war.

The British coastal line at Lyme Bay was broken by the Allies, but Montgomery quickly organized a second line of defense inland. With Exeter, Hornyton and Yeovil as the fulcrum, relying on the railway line to stubbornly block the Allied advance.

The node of the battle has not changed much, is it the American troops who are rapidly moving south to enter London first? It was the Allies who first crossed the Thames and captured the Palace of Westminster (the British Parliament building), which became a key point in the campaign of both sides.

The variable is how long Britain can hold off the Allies. If Montgomery's inland defensive line could not last more than five days, the high mobility of the Allied armored forces would definitely guarantee access to London before the American army.

If the British could keep the Allies out of Greater London for more than a week, then the multinational force could calmly join the fighting in the south, fighting alongside the British and keeping the fighting out of London.

However, the town of Yeovil, a railway hub that was an important fulcrum in Montgomery's inland defenses, fell to the Han airborne troops at the beginning of the campaign.

Montgomery was caught off guard by the breach of the coastal line on the day of landing, and he didn't even have time to make a targeted deployment of the Allied paratroopers in Yeovil, but only ordered nearby troops to organize a counterattack and recapture the Iron Bridge.

When both sides set their sights on Yeovil, a small town in southern England that had been unknown before the war, Montgomery couldn't help but sigh that the Allied command had really made a better move.

Even if Jiang Yunzhi made good use of paratroopers, it was undoubtedly a considerable mistake that the British army did not increase the garrison in the Yeovil area before the campaign was launched.

On the contrary, the Allied side saw the importance of Yeovil before landing, which was like a game of chess, where one side only considered the situation after two or three moves, while the master would lay out the situation in advance and inadvertently take the lead.

But Montgomery was not without remedies, the Allied airborne operation was halted halfway, Yeovil had only two paratrooper divisions with not very strong firepower, and within a radius of a hundred kilometers around Yeovil, there were at least 100,000 British troops, including even the 11th Panzer Brigade in Dorchester.

On Montgomery's orders, the British army quickly rushed to the town of Yeovil. On the afternoon of the day of landing, several infantry divisions had already launched an attack on the Iron Bridge and the small town of Yeovil. Allied carrier-based aircraft and Air Force fighters taking off in Spain desperately bombed the British march routes and provided timely fire support to the paratroopers. However, after flying over the Bay of Biscay and the English Channel, the Air Force's planes could not stay in the skies over Britain for too long, and coupled with the blockade of the US Air Force, Germany's disadvantage of not allowing the Allies to use the French bases was exposed, which was equivalent to greatly weakening the combat effectiveness of the Allied Air Force.

After holding out in the Tieqiao area for a day and night, in the early morning of June 23, Major General Li Longdi, commander of the 19th Airborne Division of the Guards, found that the British offensive was too fierce, and the paratroopers on his side had already lost a lot of strength when they were assembled. The Allied General Command gave him an order to hold the bridge for forty-eight hours.

"Damn, it's only half the time, and there are still 24 hours left, this is the rhythm of our 19th Division!"

"Yes, Commander! When we landed in the air, we lost a lot of heavy weapons, and the remaining few tanks were used as batteries, and there were almost no shells! With the rifles in everyone's hands alone, the next day is really enough for us to survive! ”