In view of the various situations that could be "foreseen", Li Junhao first revised the establishment of the previously planned artillery support fleet, and among the artillery support fleets originally assigned to Omaha Beach, there was only one American New York-class battleship "Texas" as the main firepower ship, and this battleship had a full load displacement of 31,000 tons and five twin turrets with a total of ten 14-inch (356mm) guns, which was not enough to suppress the German coastal defense batteries!

He arranged for the "Texas" to deal with underwater obstacles and pillboxes in the coastal defense line, and insisted on removing a British Nelson-class battleship "Rodney" from the Eastern Task Force to join the artillery formation and take on the task of suppressing the German coastal defense artillery - this is a super capital ship with a full load displacement of 38,000 tons, with three triple assembly and a total of nine 16-inch (406mm) guns!

To this end, he specially transferred the latest MK-8 armor-piercing projectiles from the United States, each projectile weighs up to 1225 kg, contains 180 kg of explosives, has a muzzle velocity of 762 m/s, and has a maximum range of 42-45 km, which can penetrate 9-meter-thick concrete walls or 486 mm thick vertical armor to ensure the effective destruction of German batteries.

Second, he equipped the helicopter group accompanying the attack with 70mm rocket nests, rockets equipped with white phosphorus warheads, and 12.7mm aviation machine guns to deal with German defensive pillboxes and trenches from the air;

In addition, while equipping the landing force with amphibious tanks and armored vehicles, he also came up with a new type of high-speed beach vehicle -- an armored chassis ATV equipped with a high exhaust pipe, wading to a depth of 1.2 meters, which can be directly dropped into the shallow water area of the beach; a crew of two to three people, the front part is equipped with 14mm armor, which can defend against 12.7mm heavy machine gun bullets, and is equipped with 75mm direct-aim recoilless guns, second-generation Bazooka rocket launchers, 40mm automatic grenade launchers, 20mm machine guns and other heavy weapons. 200 m range blasting rope thrower (for mine clearance......

Individual soldiers are equipped with the latest thickened steel helmets and body armor, all using automatic weapons - M2L carbines and lightweight M1918A5 automatic rifles.

In order to reduce the weight of the soldiers, the soldiers who washed up on the beach in the infantry mode carried only one base number of ammunition and gas masks, and the subsequent ammunition required was specially arranged for helicopters to be airdropped......

It can be said that Li Junhao has used all the equipment and tactics that can be thought of and used!

What he didn't know was that under this operation, the top brass of the Allied Expeditionary Force were a little dumbfounded, because this configuration was too grandiose and would definitely be useful, but ...... It's too expensive! Not only the current British can't afford it, but even the generals of the US Army are envious!

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Under Li Junhao's strong operation, the Normandy landing battle in this world has achieved a different result!

After the start of the D-Day landing battle, Omaha Beach, which was originally considered the most difficult to capture by the Allies, became the first place to end the fighting, and in only five hours, the 11th and 12th Brigades of the 1st Army as the main attack basically succeeded in occupying the German coastal defenses, and then the 13th Brigade landed and began to assault forward......

Immediately after coming ashore were two lightly armored regiments of the 1st Infantry Division of the US Army, which immediately followed up on the road opened by the 13th Brigade of the Coastal Army; Then, an American engineer regiment landed, and immediately erected a steel trestle over the beach......

At 14 o'clock in the afternoon, the first trestle was erected!

At 16 o'clock, two regiments of the 24th Infantry Division of the US Army landed, taking over from the 12th Brigade of the 1st Army of the Navy and Army, guarding the beachhead landing site.

At 18 o'clock, the 1st Infantry Division of the US Army landed and immediately went out, changing back to the 11th and 13th Naval and Land Brigades in front of the breakthrough, and joined up with their own light armored regiments...... By 21 o'clock in the evening, the 1st Infantry Division had advanced another 35 kilometers in depth.

At 20 o'clock that night, the other naval and land units participating in the battle also successfully completed their tasks, taking four other beachheads and opening up enough landing grounds to move forward......

At this point, the first wave of landing operations was successfully concluded, and the naval and land units began to count casualties and retreat to rest.

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The General Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force and the US-British Joint Chiefs of Staff at their higher level, were all surprised that the beach-rushing landing operation went so smoothly, and the operational plan that was personally revised and finalized by General Pan Sen, the commander-in-chief of the landing, was taken out of the "Overlord" plan separately and was studied by the high-level leaders of the two countries and the two armies!

The news spread, and the US Marines became famous in World War I!

In the Pacific Theater before, the sea and land fought very well in the Battle of the Mariana Islands, but it was only a solo operation of the US military, and its reputation did not radiate to the allies.

Thus, the youngest general in the United States and the first in the history of the Navy and Land, Ognyan J. Lee Panson's name quickly spread throughout Europe.

At this time, Li Junhao did not accept everyone's congratulations at the headquarters, but personally led the guard battalion to collect the remains of the dead officers and soldiers on land and sea on five beachheads......

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In this battle, although the preparations were extremely adequate in advance, casualties could not be completely avoided, and 377 officers and men of the navy and land were killed and 1,241 wounded!

Among the 46 officers who died, the highest rank and position was a major battalion commander of the 32nd Brigade of the Third Army.

Of the five beachheads, the biggest casualties were not Omaha as expected, but Sward Beach in the east, which accounted for nearly half of the total casualties! For this reason, the commander of the Fifth Army, Major General Harry Schmidt, specifically approached Li Junhao to admit his mistake.

Li Junhao did not blame Schmidt, because he had already learned about the battle situation for the first time, and the matter was caused by the mistake of the British army, the support fire of one of its destroyers deviated from the target, and 12 8-inch (203mm) shells fired in a salvo directly reimbursed half of the 51st Brigade of the Fifth Army!

Rear Admiral Schmidt, who was on the support ship at the time, was desperately trying to find the cruiser captain with his guard company, but was stopped by other officers, and now the captain has been retired and sent away by the British Royal Navy ahead of schedule.

In Li Junhao's heart, this matter couldn't be passed, so he went directly to the British naval commander Ramsay and asked him to hand over the British captain! Of course, the other party disagreed, and said that it had already been punished internally......

Li Junhao looked at the other party coldly, and said in his mouth: "Nick, send a telegram back to China to convey my order, and the Navy and Land Command Guards will be dispatched to seize and confiscate 10 military aid warships for the British as their price for compensating our army for the wrongly killed officers and soldiers!" ”

“NO！ You can't do this! Ramsey was immediately in a hurry!

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