81_81266 In fact, landing in the UK is an unprecedented challenge for the German ** team. This challenge stretched to every corner, making the huge fighter of the German ** team feel a slight discomfort.

The first to feel the pressure was the German Navy's logistics and transportation department, which had been busy since the end of January in order to accumulate fuel and strategic supplies needed for the landing operation, and had been preparing until February 12 to barely meet the minimum required standards.

Thousands of tons of supplies were transported to the British landing grounds, and then hurried back to the sea in order to rush back to the sea, just to have time to send some more supplies that day.

Even so, the German transport and supply fleet still felt the embarrassment of being overstretched, and finally realized how difficult and difficult it was for Britain to maintain such a large sea fleet as a huge overlord empire. Of course, the construction was not easy to destroy, but it was simple, and it took the German Navy only a month to inflict heavy losses on the huge British naval fleet.

The difficulties in logistical supply are also invisible and intangible, and compared with the difficulties encountered by the front-line troops, they seem to be less conspicuous.

It was only in this landing operation that the German infantry truly saw the cruelty of war, and the previous race and crushing operations between the armored forces and the air force to open the way became a repeated struggle for inch by inch of land, and the rapid advance of a thousand miles a day turned into a tragic battle of several kilometers or even several hundred meters a day.

For example, in the battle that took place on the landing beach, the Germans lost thousands of men in the first ten minutes, and the soldiers endured the biting cold water and braved the enemy's machine guns to attack.

The battle for Kromer made the German soldiers realize the cruelty of street fighting, and even the most elite Acardor Youth Regiment suffered heavy losses. The night engagements, armored advances, and extensive detours that the German soldiers excelled at seemed to be a rare occurrence in the Battle of England, replaced by small town after town, one British defensive stronghold after another.

The British were constantly learning and improving, and they learned how to fight from German soldiers. They paid with their blood and lives, and tried their best to grow up and become true warriors who could defend their homeland.

The Germans are also constantly learning and improving, they learn to fight in smarter ways, they learn to calmly face the street battles with huge sacrifices, and they learn to use this and that weapon in their hands to play a pleasing rhythm of slaughter in the city alleys.

The sappers managed to weld together six iron fist bazookas and even wheels to form a new weapon that could be controlled with wires and detonators. This weapon can fire 6 rockets at a target in a row until it reduces the opposite target to rubble.

This weapon is often used with two scrapped tank tracks, digging a hole under one wheel, and then using the scrapped tank track to jam the wheel on the other side, and the Iron Fist rocket will twist and shake when fired, causing the terrible dispersion effect of short-range rockets. German soldiers easily destroyed buildings garrisoned by British troops with this improvised weapon, which was also called the "Building Terminator" by soldiers.

During the street battle in Norwich, a German soldier shook his head, shook off the dust from his steel helmet, and looked at the building in the distance that had been completely destroyed by this "building terminator". Satisfied, he gave a thumbs up behind him: "Clear!"

The soldiers behind him heard his shouts and quickly grabbed their weapons and bent down to rush to the collapsed building. They must occupy it as best they can, or in half an hour the British will be on the ruins again, holding on to the territory beneath the garbage.

On the other side of the small square, a German soldier with an assault rifle approached the door of the building little by little, signaling his comrades behind him to come and help, two soldiers stood at the door with grenades, he kicked open the locked door, and the two soldiers behind him threw the grenade into it at the same time.

Two huge explosions sent off huge waves of air that shattered the glass and swayed the door panels. The German soldiers, armed with their weapons, rushed into the smoke-filled houses, followed by a dense burst of gunfire, and it was not known which side won the victory.

In the square west of the city, three Leopard tanks were parked next to the central pool, and an 88-mm anti-aircraft cannon was pointed at the sky, and the German armored units were forced to take a cameo role in covering the infantry in the city, because the British soldiers did not have many anti-tank weapons in their hands, so the losses of the German armored forces were not yet unbearable.

In the early morning, a concealed British anti-tank gun on a street corner destroyed a tank No. 3 of the 5th Light Panzer Division, and in the afternoon two Leopard tanks were destroyed while covering the infantry attack. Three hours after the Battle of Norwich, the Germans had lost as many as nine tanks.

At 2:26 p.m. on 17 February, Norwich was still under the control of the British defenders, except that a third of the area was occupied by German soldiers. The Germans knew that the British would surely counterattack at night and achieve some success, so after a day's onslaught, in fact the Germans achieved very little.

"My troops are not good at this kind of warfare. Or rather, Germany's elite troops should not be engaged in such operations. Rundstedt wrote in his diary: "If we lose 300 people and take the block, the other side will fight 500 people and retake it, and we will have to pay 200 or more people if we take it back." ”

"It's a huge waste of resources. He concluded: "I'd rather go out into the field and fight a battle of 200,000 men than waste our time and energy in these cities." ”

His complaints were answered. At 4 o'clock, a large number of napalm bombs were used for the German strategic bombing of the Norwich area, and the whole city became a sea of fire, and the losses caused by the German bombers to the British made the next Norwich offensive and defensive battle develop in the direction of the German army, but it was still full of blood and cruelty, and it still made people sigh helplessly.

In order to reduce losses, Rundstedt mobilized special forces to begin to clear the British soldiers in the city, with obvious results but still heavy losses. After inflicting 1,000 casualties on the British, the special forces were forced to withdraw from the offensive because of the heavy losses. Of the 180 special forces soldiers involved in the operation, 97 were killed, more than half.

Thankfully, the Germans opened the door with losses, and the grenadiers of the 1st Infantry Division approached the government building in the center of the city after losing 35 men in an attack, but were unable to move further because of the desperate counterattack of the British.

Both sides are tormented by Norwich, which has long been in ruins. As in the Battle of Verdun in the First World War, soldiers lost their lives every minute of the battle of Norwich - either British or German. However, both sides involved in the war have made up their minds to fight to the death, and they are also ready to defeat their opponents' self-confidence here.

The sorrow of a soldier is that just a word from the generals above is enough to throw you to a place worse than hell to enjoy the helplessness and bitterness of war. The 200 German grenadiers who had just arrived at the outskirts of Norwich rested for a while, and were sent by the commanders to the city that was still burning and exploding, and these 200 men would be reduced to 100 in less than half an hour from the time they entered the front line......

The British on the other side naturally did not give up this important city lightly, and they sent troops to fill in the big hole of Norwich with all the troops they could find, and the city is now like a monster with a bloody mouth, devouring the lives of soldiers on both sides. By 4:30 p.m., the Germans had lost 3,900 men near Norwich, and the British were even worse, with 7,400 killed and missing.

Night began to fall, and the British ushered in the fourth night after the Germans landed, and the longed-for bad weather still did not come, and God was still on the side of the Germans. However, the British held their positions with stubborn will, and the flag of the British Empire still flew in the center of Norwich. Montgomery bought Britain another day, but no one knew what kind of turn this day would bring to the stormy British Empire.

That night, for the first time, British bombers visited the German positions, not too many, but they caused a lot of trouble for the Germans. These bombers raided several small docks controlled by the Germans and destroyed some of the pontoon piers erected by the Germans. However, these aircraft were also fiercely returned fire by German anti-aircraft artillery units, and about 20 British aircraft were shot down by high-performance 88 mm anti-aircraft guns.

The British launched a frantic counterattack in the city of Norwich, and the German infantry changed from the attacking side to the defensive side. These German grenadiers proved to the British that whoever faced a well-organized urban street battle defense would pay a heavy price when attacking. The British, having paid 2,000 casualties among their soldiers, were not able to recapture even a single block.

That night, the German bomber forces continued to bomb the British defenders' occupied areas, and the British ground forces, accustomed to being devastated by the Luftwaffe, did not suffer much loss, and they carefully dispersed their forces, hiding tanks and artillery, just as skillful as the Germans in July 1944 in another time and space