On June 6, 1944, the 37th day that Hu Bin and others entered the mission world, the Allies launched a fierce attack on the German-occupied Eastern European coastal defense. Soon after this, the landing force at sea also launched a fierce attack on the German defense line from several directions at the same time, and the focus of the landing plan was chosen to be on the beaches of Normandy, which were neglected by the Germans. This most tragic landing operation in history wiped out the Eastern European coastal defense line that the German army had painstakingly managed, and put the German army in an embarrassing situation of fighting on two fronts.

Late at night on June 5th, Hu Bin was awakened by the terrible sound of air defense sirens, and at the same time woke up with all the soldiers under his command, although Hu Bin has made an emergency assembly at least once every night these days, but he has not done these things again in the past few days near the D day, but the soldiers in the company have been somewhat accustomed to such an emergency assembly, and soon everyone entered their respective posts.

Several large searchlights shot a dazzling pillar of light into the inky night sky, and under these swaying pillars of light, Hu Bin saw a faint trace of several transport planes in the clouds. The two guns on the empty gun position had already fired, and the chain of two drag bullets continued to sweep through the sky, but the effect was not obvious. Empty artillery fire that was still in other positions also began to work, allowing a dense barrage to cover the direction of the transport aircraft.

With the help of Eagle Eye, Hu Bin saw that the left engine of a transport plane was hit and caught fire, and the paratroopers on the transport plane immediately began to parachute urgently, but the transport plane could not escape the fate of being shot down after all, dragging the black smoke and slowly falling into the distance. However, the scale of this Allied airborne operation was beyond the imagination of the German army, and many transport planes were intercepted by anti-aircraft artillery fire and German fighter planes, and a large number of paratroopers were forced to throw a large number of paratroopers into the rear occupation zone.

Hu Bin felt that the situation was terrible, the area where his company was stationed was no more than an inconsequential town, and at most there were two empty cannons nearby, but the chaotic umbrella flowers were falling like snowflakes, and the Allies had dropped at least two companies of troops in this area.

"You send two squads to escort the brothers who have emptied the cannon positions back to the town safely. Others hold on to the buildings, and we may be attacked by the enemy. Hu Bin ordered to the platoon leader, and then picked up the microphone of the communication radio, wanting to report the situation here to the headquarters and ask for support, but the headquarters' phone had been blown up, and Hu Bin's communication could not be connected for a long time. Hu Bin reluctantly put down the microphone and continued to contact the nearby armored division, expecting them to give him a little support. Unfortunately, the division had moved to other positions with the artillery yesterday morning, leaving only one truck with a faulty engine and five crew members behind.

Hu Bin heard the panic of the crew members in the microphone. He began to wonder if he would rescue the occupants. In the end, Hu Bin still told the occupants to pay attention to safety. I will send someone to meet them. Hu Bin, who put down the microphone, immediately summoned all the soldiers in the second platoon, handed over the command of the town to the sergeant platoon commander of the third platoon, which had the highest rank, and personally led the remaining twenty soldiers of the platoon to the original station of the armored division.

Because of the urgency of time, Hu Bin did not let his subordinates bring the only remaining heavy firepower in the company. Most of the enemies they might encounter along the way were paratroopers armed with small arms, and it was not worth using them against them. There is a squad machine gun in the squad, and there are two medical soldiers, and the machine gun ammunition carried is relatively small, but the bad news is that there is no sniper, but fortunately, Hu Bin himself is a sniper. But this made Hu Bin have to personally serve as a humanoid radar and use his high perception to detect the enemy situation on the road. Unfortunately, not long after Hu Bin led the team to set off, they encountered a group of paratroopers.

Directly in front of Hu Bin is a windmill. There was a parachute hanging on the swing arm above, and the enemy below was nowhere to be found, most of them had entered the windmill to dodge, and the number of enemy troops in the windmill was still unknown, just blocking the direction of Hu Bin and others. Hu Bin stopped the troops. The M1 semi-automatic rifles and Thomson submachine guns carried by the American paratroopers were quite threatening, and Hu Bin, who was unwilling to lose manpower, still wanted to bypass these enemies, but after thinking about it, he would have to pass through here after receiving those members, so he simply took advantage of the fact that he was the first to discover the enemy's situation, and directly pulled out these enemies and regarded them as his maiden battle.

Hu Bin pulled up the sniper rifle and observed the window of the windmill with a scope, and found that a small section of the barrel of a gun peeked out from the gap in the window on the second floor, and the sentry on the second floor shattered Hu Bin's idea of a frontal assault, but the window on the second floor of the windmill was not large, and he might be able to avoid the sight from the side.

"Byrne, you take people to outflank from the side, machine gunners stand on the front, and once you are spotted, start suppressing the fire." The combat mission was quickly issued, and the platoon leader Byrne led the people to quickly start moving, and his own side was full of twenty people and a machine gun, no matter how you look at it, you can't beat a few American paratroopers.

The night improved the survival rate of the Allied paratroopers, but it also provided a lot of convenience for Byrne's group, and a dozen fighters soon approached the mill, and they prostrate on the ground and pointed all their guns at the windows and doorways where the enemy might outcrop, while the sentries on the second floor did not notice it at all.

The two soldiers quickly approached the windmill in the darkness of the night and successfully approached it, and the two ran under the two windows of the mill, smashed the windows with the grenades in their hands and flew in. The sound of the windows breaking was especially loud in the quiet of the night, and the enemy on the first floor of the windmill was caught off guard and was directly blown over by two grenades. Taking advantage of the smoke and dust from the grenades, two German soldiers quickly fired a barrage of bullets at the façade of the building with their submachine guns through the window.

Seeing the success of the operation, Byrne immediately led people to charge the windmill, and the sentry on the second floor was also shot through the bridge of his nose by a bullet from Hu Bin.

The operation was quite successful, with a total of six American paratroopers killed on the spot, and Hu Bin paid the price of only two grenades, which were then replenished on the corpses of the enemy.

The great American emperor really has a lot of money, and these American paratroopers have a lot of good things on their bodies, and they are not afraid of falling to their deaths when they are overweight when they parachute. A dozen not-so-sumptuous field rations were divided among the soldiers involved in the operation, and the two daring German soldiers obtained all the cigarettes, chocolates, and sugar seized from the enemy's corpse, and Byrne found a windproof lighter from the sentry on the roof of the building, and brought it to Hu Bin, who had killed him.

There were no officers among the six American paratroopers, which frustrated Hu Bin's idea of finding some follow-up plans for D-Day, and the group quickly headed south while the night had not yet dissipated, and finally arrived at their destination.

Hu Bin and his entourage, who entered the original armored division station, did not hide their traces, and five nervous crew members discovered them. Hu Bin, who was greeted into the station, found the broken down truck, and after comparing it with the kit he was carrying for a while, the truck's engine failure was successfully repaired.

"I don't have to walk back on my feet now." Looking at the truck that had resumed its roar, Byrne said with satisfaction, he didn't expect his commander to have such a unique skill. Twenty-six people in a truck were obviously a bit crowded, not to mention that there was some extra fuel to be loaded into the car, but the soldiers did not complain about this, and even loaded the American military-standard firearms and ammunition left there when passing the windmill. Along the way, the truck was not attacked and returned to the town without any problems.

The successful completion of the response operation greatly boosted the morale of the German soldiers in the town, and Hu Bin also initially accumulated some prestige in the hearts of the soldiers. Hu Bin, who returned to the town, found signs of a firefight. I found out when I asked a soldier. After Hu Bin left. Several paratroopers drifted into the town and were killed by the soldiers who stayed behind, including a lieutenant officer. Knowing that there were no casualties, the two empty cannons were withdrawn to the town. Hu Bin also lamented that his luck during this period was indeed good.

With two flat-firing anti-aircraft cannons, the town's defensive firepower was strengthened considerably, but Hu Bin's company still faced a dilemma. First of all, there is a shortage of food, the nearly 200 mouths in the company need to consume food in a day is not a small number, although the food unloaded from the supply truck the day before yesterday can last a few days, but this is not a long-term solution. Ammunition is also a big problem, many soldiers have less than even a base amount of ammunition, and the number of machine-gun bullets cannot support continuous fire for too long. With the remaining ammunition, the company would be fine if it fought a local battle. But the Allied landing plan was clearly a protracted offensive operation, leaving little time for the Germans to react.

The sky gradually brightened, and the sound of artillery fire from the defense line on the coast had not stopped since the early hours of the morning, and I don't know how many waves of paratrooper transport planes roared over the town, but the town's two empty machine guns died down because of the lack of ammunition. The supply trucks that were supposed to come today looked hopeless. Even if he came, the food and ammunition left over from the coastal defense line were not enough to support it for too long, Hu Bin did not think about leaving this town and retreating westward, but the act of leaving the defense area without an order was a serious crime, and Hu Bin, who did not want to sit idly by, could only use the radio to constantly contact the command.

Fortunately, the communication from the headquarters was finally connected, and Hu Bin hurriedly reported the number of his company, explained the basic situation of the troops, and at the same time mentioned the embarrassment of lack of ammunition supply and asked for support. The liaison officer of the headquarters didn't seem to expect that there was still a company of troops in the town where Hu Bin was stationed, and he didn't reply for a while. But Hu Bin didn't wait too long, and a majestic voice came out of the microphone.

"Ensign Reed, you're doing a good job, but I'm sorry to say that not only do you have no supplies and support, but I have a difficult task for you to ......." What Hu Bin didn't know was that there was a general-level German officer standing opposite the microphone, holding the latest enemy troop deployment map in the other hand, and there was a red dot not too far from Hu Bin's town.

Hu Bin put down the microphone with a solemn face, and immediately ordered the three platoon commanders to be summoned for a meeting. He needs to march south from the town with his troops, reunite the forces there, regroup, and join the battle to retake a small city. That small city was probably the focus of the Allied Airborne Division's attack, with at least three hundred paratroopers entrenched there, and the bridge in the city was an important transportation hub connecting the east and west coasts, and the command ordered to retake it at all costs.

The command's order was quickly informed to all the soldiers, and they quickly scavenged every piece of supplies that could be taken from the town despite their exhaustion, and in order to ensure sufficient supplies, Hu Bin even ordered some food to be forcibly requisitioned from the French inhabitants of the town, which would be occupied by the Allies in the next few days, and it was better to keep the food for himself than to let the inhabitants take it out to finance the enemy.

The truck brought back before helped Hu Bin a lot, a large amount of food, ammunition and gasoline were loaded onto the carriage, which greatly reduced the burden on the soldiers, but the hook at the back of the carriage could only accommodate an anti-aircraft cannon. Hu Bin had to ruthlessly destroy a cannon and load all the remaining ammunition into the truck and take it away.

The company left the town in a hurry, and many of the soldiers couldn't help but look back at the place where they had been stationed, knowing that the comfortable life spent there would gradually become a memory, and a brutal battle awaited them in the near future.

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At 12 o'clock in the afternoon of this day, Hu Bin arrived at the designated place to join the other troops, but the semi-mechanized battalion in the order did not appear here as agreed. In desperation, Hu Bin could only order to rest on the spot, and by the way, let the soldiers settle breakfast and lunch together. The rapid march of the morning was a bit overwhelming for the recruits. As soon as you hear it, you can rest. Immediately erupted in cheers. The situation of the German army here is getting worse and worse, but this is only known to officers of Hu Bin's rank, and ordinary soldiers have not yet realized the predicament they will face.

Hu Bin, who contacted the headquarters again, got bad news that the semi-mechanized battalion that had come here to join him had been broken up. The remnants of the army still put up a stubborn resistance on the other side of the target town. To make matters worse, the number of Allied troops in the small town was not 300 before, but almost 600. Two Allied companies of paratroopers were accurately placed near the town, not only successfully converging the forces in the city, but also flanking and killing most of the German troops who were preparing to retake the town.

Only Hu Bin's unit remained intact in the German army in this area, and neither the troops at the coastal defense line nor the support troops from the rear could rush here in a short time. After receiving the command command's order to continue the attack, Hu Bin hesitated, and attacked the city with less than 200 troops stationed with 600 people.

"Give the order. Sir! "Byrne knew that the military was full of orders, and they had no choice but to attack hard.

"After an hour's rest, we will set off, at least let the soldiers have a full meal." Hu Bin directly lifted the order to restrict rations, maybe after today, many young faces in the company will not need the next meal.

1:20 p.m. Hu Bin led a company of German soldiers to attack the town, the fire network built by eight machine guns made the paratroopers in the city only rifles and submachine guns unable to raise their heads, after paying the sacrifice of ten soldiers, Hu Bin's company successfully captured several buildings on the outskirts of the city, and continued the attack into the depths of the city based on this.

But the next situation made the German offensive almost collapsed, the Allied paratroopers hidden in the building continued to use the window to condescendingly sneak attack the German army advancing on the street, Hu Bin's company even had to pay the price of a soldier every few steps forward, half an hour of fierce fighting, the German army under Hu Bin only advanced less than 30 meters, but paid a huge price of 50 killed. Enemies from other directions in the city also knew of Hu Bin's arrival, and were constantly moving closer to this place, trying to annihilate their little force here. Seeing that he had become a defender instead of an attacker, Hu Bin breathed a sigh of relief, put down the idea of attacking, and concentrated on building a defensive line.

The defensive task was handed over by Hu Bin to the three platoon commanders under him, and the overall planning work was taken over by Byrne, who had stronger command ability than Hu Bin, a half-hung commander. All the machine guns were placed in key positions to form crossfire, and the anti-aircraft cannon was pulled nearby by the truck, and pushed to the intersection by more than a dozen soldier guards, this weapon of mass destruction would deal a heavy blow to the enemy who dared to attack in front of it. All the ammunition has been distributed, and everyone knows that now is not the time to save, and if they don't do their best, the semi-automated battalion that was broken up before will be a lesson from the past.

Hu Bin himself carried a sniper rifle to the commanding heights on the roof of the building, and cautiously poked his head out to search for traces of the enemy.

The machine guns downstairs began to roar, other small arms such as rifles and submachine guns began to join the symphony, and the Allied expulsion began, with paratroopers entering the opposite building and firing fiercely from the windows and the Germans on the other side of the street. Although the Germans had suppressed fire from machine guns, they still fell into a disadvantage in counter-fire, and the difference in numbers could not be made up by a few machine guns. But with the sound of anti-aircraft cannons, the disadvantage was reversed in an instant.

Large-caliber armor-piercing shells swept through the windows of buildings and pierced walls, tearing the enemy hidden behind them to shreds.

The rhythmic "dong dong" sound of the machine gun set off a round of counterattacks by the German soldiers**, and even repelled the enemy in the opposite building for a time, but with a crisp gunshot, the machine gun instantly muted fire.

"Sniper!" The loader of the cannon lay behind the shutter and hissed loudly, while another slightly different shot answered him.

Hu Bin coldly pulled the bolt of the gun, and the bullet casing faded out of the chamber, and just now, a brilliant blood flower burst out on the head of the sniper who had just fired on the opposite side, and the other paratroopers who tried to take advantage of the dumb fire of the machine gun all shrank their necks, and this time it was their turn to shout "sniper".