81_81266When Baru led people to the suspected British garrison barracks, he found that the owner had changed. The 3rd Company had occupied almost empty barracks, with hundreds of tents, trenches and dug toilets. Unfortunately, according to information from a British prisoner, the British battalion commander left with about 30 British soldiers half an hour ago, and I heard that he was going to the small town of Bit.

The good news was that the location of the 2nd and 3rd companies was found, and the battalion commander was found - the entire paratrooper battalion did not suffer as heavy losses as during the exercise, about 100 people were killed and missing, and the entire parachute area was already under control.

By the time Borol arrived at the battalion headquarters, his company was almost reorganized. 95 soldiers found their units, and in terms of the proportion of paratrooper losses, this was already a very successful airborne operation.

"Borol, your target should be here 2 kilometers away, this town is roughly estimated to be at least 60 British soldiers, and you know that the British battalion commander is in the town. The battalion commander pointed to the map and said, "It's 3:25, and you have less than 2 hours to occupy there, is there a problem?"

"I said that if there is a problem, you will not give me more troops, there seems to be no difference between having a problem and not having a problem. Borol smiled and replied: "So I don't think there's a problem." ”

"You see, it's a pleasure to be on a mission with a subordinate like you. Get out of here and get to work!Or I'll kick you in the ass!" the battalion commander smiled and threw a pack of British's cigarettes to Borol: "At 5:30, the landing force will move, move quickly!"

"No problem. Borol smiled and nodded, then put his cigarette in his pocket and left the battalion commander's headquarters with his weapon on his back. He gathered his soldiers and led the 95 paratroopers along a path towards their goal.

Soon they found that the road had been blown off, and there was a large crater on the ground with a diameter of more than 15 meters, apparently the masterpiece left by German bombers earlier, and they also found the bodies of a dozen British soldiers next to the crater, as well as a large-caliber anti-aircraft gun.

"These Air Force guys are really accurate. A paratrooper with a G43 rifle on his back stood next to the corpse and sighed. The hapless British soldiers were so close to the crater that shrapnel had smashed them into a sieve and distorted some parts of the cannon.

"If they had been a little more accurate, we wouldn't have been tortured by such intense artillery fire when we jumped down just now. Balu snorted and pouted. People are like that, they always like to complain, but after complaining, the days will continue, the war will continue, and the breathing will continue.

Soon, the outline of a small town appeared in front of everyone's eyes. Borol signaled for his troops to take cover, and then assigned the offensive task with several officers including Baloo.

"Baru, you take the 1st platoon of troops to attack head-on, and if the opponent has machine gun fire, knock it out with an iron fist. The second platoon is advancing in parallel here, and we don't need to wipe them out, it's easier to drive them out of town and then take them out in the open space behind. The third row followed me and entered from here, and everyone leaned against the wall!Try not to cross the street!" Borol said, pointing to the map.

Then he glanced at a few snipers: "You choose your own sniper location, but I want you to be able to provide cover for the infantry in front of you as soon as possible." "In fact, snipers at night don't have much range advantage, they can only aim and shoot according to the muzzle fire after the opponent fires, and it is good to have half the accuracy of the day.

Immediately afterward, he looked at several machine gunners: "I need you to organize fire here, here, and here, and here to suppress the enemy forces that can be seen!"

When all the tasks were arranged, he checked his ammunition, then bowed to his own position, waved to Balu not far away, and motioned for them to move forward together, for fear that it would be dark and affect his vision, he also shouted in a suppressed voice: "Attack!"

The German soldiers followed the order over the fence and bushes around the town, stooped over the grass, and slowly advanced towards the buildings not far away.

"Suddenly, suddenly!" It seems that the defenders of the town have spotted the German soldiers, and a British machine-gun position has opened fire, and a German soldier has been shot in the chest and falls to the ground with a scream.

Soon the covering machine guns behind the German troops also began to roar, and the distinctive sound of tearing linen began to spread, and the bullets rained down on the British machine gun positions placed on high places, where there was no sound at all.

The German paratroopers got up and continued to advance, accompanied by sporadic gunfire, and it was clear that the ubiquitous phenomenon of the Airborne Forces had made the British a little disorganized on defense. They didn't know which direction the attack would take place, so they had to spread their forces around and set up a circular defensive line, which obviously wasted their already small number of troops.

In the direction of the attack of the German paratroopers, the British had only a pitiful dozen people, and since most of them were still using bolt rifles, the density of fire was even more pitiful. The British soldiers' counterattack became even more sparse as several shots from German snipers rang out, and the German paratroopers rushed into the town with two men killed.

"Clear a qiē obstacle!Fire before you confirm the target!" Borol commanded loudly. Before he set out, he was told a caveat: the British had given grenades to every family as a weapon to die with, so they should not be soft on civilians.

He rushed into a courtyard with two men, kicked open the door, and pulled the trigger at the British civilians huddled inside. Soon the room was bleeding, and one British soldier and a family of six were killed, and the room became a safe place.

The British finally cowered in the town's government office building and resisted, and the Germans were not polite, killing the British machine gun positions with iron fist bazookas, and then rushing in with guns to kill the remaining British troops and civilians who had taken refuge in the ground.

In fact, the German intelligence services made a bit of a fuss. Although the British distributed grenades and other weapons to civilian families in areas such as London and Brighton Dover, they were not able to reach Norwich due to limited quantities. And even if it were distributed to the Norwich area, it would not immediately spread to a small town like Bit, and it is clear that the German paratroopers had unknowingly started a massacre.

Because of this, a third of the town with a population of about 3,000 people died overnight, and if it weren't for the courage of the few remaining citizen representatives to run to negotiate with Borol for a long time, the loss figure might have been even higher. Knowing that the town was not distributing grenades, Borol also gave the order to stop shooting civilians.

By 5 o'clock, it was already gray. Except for two British soldiers who surrendered, the rest had already been killed by German paratroopers. After resisting for about 40 minutes, the 67 British soldiers in the small town of Bit completed their mission of loyalty to the British Empire with the end of the total annihilation.

"Take this and spread all the flags you can find on the roof!" Borol looked at the dial on his wrist and ordered loudly: "Use that special fireworks stick, if it doesn't work, find something to burn a big swastika out!"

At 5:15, it was the scheduled time for the second Luftwaffe air raid on the Norwich area, and the German paratroopers had just fought a tough battle, and before they had time to catch their breath, they had to get busy again, and it would be too unjust to be killed by their own bombs.

Baloo led the men up to the roof and hurriedly spread a huge German flag on the roof of one of the tallest buildings in the town, and the others began to unfurl the flag nearby, but the individual flag was significantly smaller.

After everyone put together the cars they had found into a huge swastika, the German bomber group in the sky also arrived in a huge way. This time, the bomber fleet consisted of hundreds of bombed Stukas and hundreds of Do-217 medium bombers, which generally flew low to distinguish between the dog-toothed German paratroopers.

Soon the German planes dropped their bombs, destroying a number of targets that they were able to find. The British artillery positions placed near the beach became the main targets of the bombardment. And the railroad and towns near Norwich were also blown up into a sieve.

Originally, the British air defense forces near Norwich were not as many as near London, and after two large-scale bombardments and the destruction of paratroopers, there was not much left, although the poor British troops knew the news of the large-scale German airborne paratroopers in the Norwich area, but until now they have not been able to gather forces to launch a counterattack against the German airborne troops in this area.

Fifty Crusader helicopters from naval aircraft carriers were followed by rockets and machine guns, as well as improvised bulletproof steel plates, which were used as helicopter gunships over the British coastline and appeared above the heads of German paratroopers.

This appearance was a bit bloody, two helicopters were shot down by British anti-aircraft fire, resulting in the tragic end of the plane crash and death, this kind of weapons and equipment that is obviously not suitable for appearing on the frontal battlefield is only a temporary "cameo", and it pays the price for its own transgression.

At 5:21 a.m., Montgomery, who had stood still, finally received the call he had been waiting for, and in the Norwich area, he found the huge German landing fleet that had disappeared