The Allied forces on Crete were in a very bad situation, and the officers who had insisted on commanding here stubbornly believed that the German airborne troops would not be able to use the airfield to transport more soldiers to Crete. So the three airfields on the island were not destroyed in advance, but after a day of fierce fighting, the Allies discovered that the Germans had taken control of two of the three airfields, and that the dense German planes were using these two airfields to land on the island of Crete.

Another tragic thing is that the weapons of the Allied guards on the island are really a headache

The soldiers of the Greek army were armed with a wide range of rifles, including 6. The 5 mm Manlisha Schönauel M1903 rifle and the Austrian-made 8 mm Lee Enfield M1895 rifle were used by about 1,000 Greek soldiers, most of whom were from the First World War era.

The Greek defenders put their best weapons into the defense of their homeland, and they ran out of their advanced equipment in Athens, but the losses on their homeland made their weapons in defending Crete even more pitiful, and now they had only 12 discarded St. Etienne M1907 LMGs and 40 other LMG of various models.

To the despair of the Greek soldiers, many of them were equipped with less than 30 rounds of ammunition, and the disorganized calibre of their weapons prevented them from receiving ammunition from the British, who had a different caliber of ammunition than the British (in fact, only one New Zealand infantry battalion) had a different bullet calibre than them, which severely affected the role that Greek soldiers could play in the campaign.

To add insult to the New Zealand commanders, the Greeks had concentrated their already small arsenal in an arsenal east of Crete, because they did not expect the Germans to attack it – and the ammunition depot now belonged to the German paratroopers.

However, the Greek defenders of Crete, who were short of ammunition, showed admirable courage and counterattacked the Germans with what they could find, causing all kinds of problems for the German paratroopers. The German soldiers described the Greek soldiers as "fighting with courage and perseverance." ”

One of the most elite New Zealand battalions fighting on the island at the same time was also very valiant, and they had now lost about 110 men, and still did not surrender to the Germans on the opposite side, and they guarded the port on Crete, preventing the Germans from using the port to bring more soldiers ashore.

Heights 107 was strategically located to hold the only remaining Allied airfield, and Greek troops were ordered to defend this position to the death. The German paratroopers were also ordered to take the fortified core as soon as possible.

With the sound of a "Bah!", another German attack was pushed back, and the Greek defenders' positions were riddled with craters and unquenched flames. The Germans had already left 71 corpses in front of this position, and if you count the number of corpses in the vicinity, the Germans have already lost 130 soldiers in the vicinity. However, the position remained in the hands of the Greek soldiers and was never changed.

A Greek soldier looked at his rifle with no expression on his muddy face. He had used his last bullet in the battle, and now the only weapon he could use to fight was the bayonet stuck under the muzzle of his rifle. Around him, everyone was in the same situation, some had a few bullets left, some had a grenade left.

The Heavy had been killed a few hours earlier, his machine gun had run out of bullets first, and then the old machine gun was useless. As the battle progressed, the Germans attacked with a variety of weapons, including flamethrowers and 75mm recoilless guns.

However, although the Greek soldiers were killed three times as many as the Germans, they still did not give up their positions, they were ordered to hold on, so they really gritted their teeth here. Germany is not the only country with loyal soldiers, in fact any country can have such a group of people, who are stubborn to the point of endearing, stubborn to the point of tear-jerking.

"Everybody get bayonets! Fight with the Germans!" A Greek battalion commander who was standing here with a bandage on his head looked at his men calmly, and while inserting his bayonet into his rifle, he said: "When they come up, we will show them the real Greek warriors!"

Everyone was silent, and they clenched the steel spears in their hands tightly, as if to instill their last will into their weapons. They knew that after this battle, their homeland might no longer have zài, so they decided to stick here, even if it was good to let the country of Greece save zài for one more second.

The battered Greek flag on the position was still fluttering gently in the wind, looking at this flag, everyone seemed to be surging with infinite strength, these soldiers leaned in the trenches and waited for the Germans, and the German paratroopers on the opposite side did not make these Greeks wait too long.

With the rumbling sound, four German paratrooper assault vehicles appeared on the position in front of the Greek soldiers, it seems that the Germans did not have the consciousness to let the last warriors of Greece burst out of their glory, they had no intention of fighting with the Greeks with bayonets, these battle-hardened German soldiers planned to use their weapons to crush the recalcitrant opponent to death.

The front of the German paratrooper tank had a lot of cloth pockets, which were airdropped to Crete with the paratrooper tank. The paratroopers filled their pockets with sand and mud and fastened them to the front armor of the paratrooper fighting vehicle - a way to increase protection, and most importantly, the weight could be taken locally, without taking away from the aircraft's valuable carrying capacity.

The tracks of the paratrooper chariots rolled forward little by little, bringing up the dirt and falling aside, and there was a machine gun in front of these paratrooper chariots, which was easy to deal with the Greek soldiers, and several Greek soldiers jumped out of the trenches to get close to the advancing German paratrooper chariots, only to be quickly hit by bullets and fall into the dirt they were guarding.

"Phew!" said a Greek soldier with only one bullet left in the chamber of his gun and pulled the trigger on the paratrooper tank, which hit the sandbag and splattered a cloud of black dirt, but the paratrooper was still moving forward, so it was clear that his bullet had not penetrated the opponent's front armor.

A large group of German soldiers followed behind the paratrooper tanks, carrying their MP-44 assault rifles and G43 semi-automatic rifles, and slowly followed the ruts of the tanks. They knew that there was also a group of ruthless people on the other side, so they approached their targets more cautiously.

"Don't show your head! wait for their tanks to drive over!" the Greek battalion commander admonished his soldiers. However, before he could finish shouting, the Germans, because they were close enough, actually crossed their paratrooper tanks and threw a volley of grenades by projectile. Suddenly, there was an explosion on the positions of the Greek defenders, kicking up countless dust.

With the dust kicked up by these grenades, the German grenadiers rushed out of the flanks of the tanks, and they used superior firepower to fire wildly at the Greek defenders inside the trenches, preventing the other side from rushing out of the trenches and engaging in a white-knuckle battle with them.

German bullets swept through the position like a dense storm, and one Greek soldier after another was hit and fell in their trenches, and some rushed out of the trenches before falling a few paces away from the Germans. The Germans were not without casualties, after all, some Greek soldiers still had residual bullets, so there were also Germans who fell in pools of blood with the sound of gunfire, and both sides had no intention of retreating, and the final battle was held here.

When the battalion commander of the Greek defenders rushed out of the trench with his rifle, there happened to be a German soldier in front of him, and he rushed towards the enemy without the slightest hesitation, and the enemy on the opposite side did not raise his rifle in the slightest. It was as if there was a battle of aggression against China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and in the end the person who fired the gun was victorious, and the person with the bayonet could only fall in grief.

The heaviest fighting on Crete began and ended on Heights 107, where the Germans lost 143 soldiers and the Greek defenders wiped out battalion after company of soldiers, leaving behind 670 cold corpses.

The German soldiers had no joy of victory, for they had already spent too much time and too many troops here, and when they reached the top of the high ground, they saw that a fire had already broken out on the airfield on the other side, which had been set on fire by the retreating Greeks, and what little aviation fuel was left to blow up.

However, the German offensive did not stop, and after a few hours, the airfield was still in the possession of the Germans. The Germans raised a flag here, proving that there was once a fierce battle for it. Soon after, however, the good news came that a battalion of soldiers had routed the New Zealand forces and rushed through the line to break through the front into the harbor, and the encircled British New Zealand forces finally surrendered, and the Germans captured the vital port.

After the defenders lost all their airfields and important ports, the situation deteriorated dramatically, and a German infantry regiment landed in the harbor, and the German understrength on Crete was quickly compensated. A few hours later, the defenders of Crete were divided and surrounded by German troops, and the resistance, although still ongoing, had lost its effective organization and movement.

On September 1, Germany officially declared its permanent occupation of Crete, and Accardo solemnly informed the world in his statement: "Crete has become the sacred territory of the Third Reich, Germany will have permanent power to build pipelines for the transportation of goods in the Balkans, and Turkey and Italy in the Balkans must provide the necessary facilities." ”

Amid the applause of the representatives of Italy and Turkey, the official battle in the Balkans ended, the Germans turned their attention to distant North Africa, and Rommel once again became the center of the world's attention.