It was already the first weekend of July, and in these three days, the Allies had completely controlled the Normandy area and were in full swing to transport large forces to France. They repaired the docks at breakneck speed, with huge transport ships lining up into the devastated harbor to unload countless supplies, equipment, and personnel. Many American soldiers were setting foot on European soil for the first time in their lives, and were gazing with curiosity at the sights of France. In just three days, the Allied air force drove the Luftwaffe out of the skies over Normandy with all its might, successfully covering the safety of the transport fleet, and in three days, the Allied army in France also rapidly swelled to more than 500,000, and now the Allied forces are attacking Calais and Cherbourg with all their might, trying to occupy these two important port cities as soon as possible, and prepare for the arrival of a large force in Europe. But it was in these two places that the Allies first ran into the iron plate.

Allied tanks have been generally equipped with M4A3E8 Sherman as the basic armored unit, and a large number of M26 equipped with 90mm guns as the backbone of the tank force, the British have enlarged the turret of the M4 tank, equipped with a 17-pounder gun called "Firefly" as their tank backbone, in terms of quantity, thanks to the strong production capacity of the Americans, the number far exceeds the German army in front.

On July 6, the Allies had occupied Normandy for a week, and the number of Allied troops landing had approached 800,000, the number of tanks had exceeded 3,000, and more than 4,000 artillery pieces were being mobilized. The number of German troops in front of them was less than 200,000, with only more than 700 tanks and assault guns, less than 1,000 artillery pieces, and the gap in the number of aircraft was also very large.

The British tank units were the first to encounter the iron plates, and they were mixed with the Canadian troops on the outskirts of Calais and met tanks that they had never seen before - tanks that were a little shorter than the Panthers, fast and indestructible in the front, and the British M4 and the Canadian M4 were destroyed by shells from 2,000 meters away before they could react. By the time the British and Canadians finally spotted the German tanks in the distance, a quarter of the entire force had been paralyzed. The British and Canadians were also quite brave, they opened the battle line to outflank the German tank group, but sadly found that the German tanks were faster than them and could shoot on the move. The guns on the German tanks were powerful and fast, and the 76mm guns on their vehicles could not penetrate the German tanks anyway. Finally, when an M4 approached only 100 meters from the German tank, the fired shells were still flying by the frontal armor of the German tank, and the Allies completely collapsed after the turret was lifted off by a shell......... The British and Canadians scattered and fled, and those who had no time to run had to raise the white flag and surrender. In just half an hour, the two armored divisions of the Allied British and Canadian forces were crushed, and more than 270 of the 350 tanks in both divisions were destroyed, and no German losses were recorded - it was only recorded after the war, and the Germans dispatched a battle group composed of a mixture of armored training units and the 17th Panzer Division, with a total of only 17 E50 and 25 Panthers, 28 Type 4G tanks, and only 4 Panthers and 7 No. 4 No. 4 tanks, all of which could be repaired.........

"Huh? It's unexpectedly easy to fight....... the British and Canadians can't fight so much? Fafnir lamented that he was in the midst of this battle group. He now wears a knight's cross with oak leaves on his neck, a gold chariot assault medal in recognition of his 200th tank victory, a testament to his status as the No. 1 tank ace of the Wehrmacht of the Third Reich.

After breaking through the tank group of the Allied British and Canadian forces on July 6, they immediately turned a little south, and after joining the rest of the teaching regiment that arrived later, they directly attacked the flank of the US 2nd Panzer Division with a total of 35 E50 "Lynx", 11 "Elephant", 25 Panthers and 5 "Strong Tiger" 178mm self-propelled guns in the whole battle group, which was already the essence of the German armored forces that could be drawn from the northern part of France.

On the morning of July 17, they began their attack. The U.S. 2nd Armored Division has more than 1,300 tanks and self-propelled artillery armored vehicles, which is the strongest Allied armored force after the entire Normandy landing, although it lost some tanks during the landing and in the subsequent battles, but now it still has about 1,000 armored forces, and they are still covered by the British 7th Armored Division and the Canadian Second Armored Army at any time, the target of the entire Second Armored Division is Cherbourg, and Faveniel's battle group is trying to penetrate the flank of the American Second Armored Division, so as to defeat him as much as possible and lift the encirclement of Cherbourg。

The battle began unexpectedly well, and the Americans were completely stunned by the spearhead of the cutting-edge E50 "Lynx". At a distance of 3000 meters, the "Lynx" began to fire, and with the use of a new type of high-low stabilizer, the shooting turned out to be very accurate. Beat the Shermans into piles of torches, and the Shermans were completely helpless against the German tanks at this distance - not to mention the E50, even the No. 4 tank could easily bounce the Yankee's 76mm shells away at this distance.

The Yankees had a lot of money and began to use shelled tungsten core armor-piercing shells to shoot, and at the same time took advantage of their numerical superiority to begin to surround the German assault group, and the American attack planes in the sky also began to dive and attack. E50 is not afraid of tungsten core armor-piercing shells 2000 meters away, and is not afraid of the bombardment of the American 155 heavy artillery by using the speed advantage, but there is no way to deal with the A-1 attack aircraft in the sky, and several No. 4 "Whirlwind" self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and No. 5 "Flying Leopard" self-propelled anti-aircraft guns in the assault group are desperately firing, and they are also unable to block the attack of A1.......... Fortunately, in the first round of attacks, only 4 Panthers were destroyed under the resistance of ground anti-aircraft fire, but if this attack did not stop, it seemed that this assault group would be sent to hell one by one by A1 attack aircraft.

At this time, several German planes appeared in the sky, and as soon as they arrived, they caused confusion in the group of American attack aircraft. Favenier looked up and saw not many German planes flying over, and what he could see was 4~5 planes, but one of the ME262 with the head was painted with a black petal on the nose, and there was a peach heart on the side of the fuselage, which was painted with a small spade logo, while the other TA183 had a yellow nose and a yellow fuselage number "14", and the tail was painted with white bars. The two planes each carried a wingman of the same type and marched in unison to disrupt the American attack aircraft group.

The ME262's attack was simple and effective, using its speed advantage to climb and then swoop and fire at the swarms of attack aircraft, each dive capable of shooting down multiple enemy aircraft, as did the wingman, following the long plane and picking up leaks.

The TA183's attack is very ornamental, this aircraft uses dazzling maneuvering flight to impact the attack group, and every time it fires, it seems to be aimed at the air, but Favnier is keenly aware that every time a bullet flies out, there will always be an enemy plane flying right on the trajectory of this bullet, "What a great ability to predict deviation shooting!"

The only use of the TA183's wingman was to follow the long plane to look behind him, occasionally picking up leaks and shooting down American attack planes that flew in front of him in a panic.

The counterattack of the US attack planes and a small number of fighters was weak and weak, and they completely failed to hit these four German jet fighters, especially the two leading planes, which were simply in a no-man's land and frequently shot down their own planes. Soon, the American pilots lost the courage to fight - no one wanted to bear the one-sided massacre, and the remaining planes desperately fled and scattered. The four German planes also seemed to have run out of shells, and they shook their wings at the German tanks below and turned back.

Fafnier was secretly surprised by the high efficiency of these two planes: "In 17 minutes, the two long planes shot down more than 25 American planes in total, and there were only 50 American planes on them?

It wasn't until the distance was shortened to within 1000 meters that the Americans' hit rate increased, and the E50 at the head was more or less subjected to a few shells, thanks to the good ricochet shape, none of the Americans' tungsten core armor-piercing shells penetrated the "Lynx", but the Panthers behind had some losses - 5 Panthers were damaged and had to be repaired before they could continue fighting, and the Elephant assault gun benefited from the heavy frontal armor unscathed.

Within 500 meters, the E50 continued to exert its might, and the 88L71 gun took away most of the American tanks with each shot, and the tungsten core armor-piercing shells of the American tanks were still difficult to bring much damage to the "Lynx", and when the Americans finally destroyed several "Lynxes" with tungsten core shells, they themselves retreated......... The losses were so severe that the entire battlefield was shrouded in smoke, and it was impossible to observe their results in detail - thinking that the "lynx" was still indestructible............

Finally, in the evening, after a bitter battle, the battle group finally broke through the entire line of the 2nd American Armored Division and the British 7th Armored Division, and the queue with a depth of more than 40 kilometers was cut off, and the Americans and British were instead put into a pocket to cut off the logistics. The Allied losses were huge throughout the day, more than 150 tanks were destroyed during the German battle group assault, most of the remaining tanks were trapped on the front line of Cherbourg and could not move, the logistics route was cut off, although there were still more than 900 armored vehicles, but the morale was greatly damaged, and the ammunition was insufficient. The whole situation was now very unfavorable to the Allies, although in the end they could certainly capture Cherbourg and Calais by virtue of their overall superiority............