Think about it, it’s enough for them to have a headache and insert their wings. They have gained a strong deep assault ability, but the British don’t want to fill every field and grass in the rear with "Churchill asparagus"!
"When we successfully complete this operation, we will have a classic special war in Northern Ireland. I believe that if our soldiers set foot on that island, the Irish will never sit still again and they will be truly liberated, right, Hans!" The veteran’s gentle tone is the same as when he was in the field hospital on the German-French border, but he is facing a young man who has been thoroughly remoulded through constant tempering.
"It is true liberation!"
The young general’s tone is somewhat respectful to the old company. The heavy and steady is an extra gift from the god of death. The paratroopers have unique feelings for the descending troops. Looking at those planes taxiing and taking off in front of them, I can’t help but miss the eventful years. Unfortunately, the higher the position, the farther away from the front line. Can you squat in the trenches with your brothers in the future?
Optimism Studente seems to have recovered from a serious injury. Surprisingly, the bullet almost killed him, but there was no sequela after his recovery. He was not old enough to stop him from staying away from parachutes and gliders!
"Hey Hans, you may not know that more than a month ago, I tried my best to get you to be my deputy commander. I didn’t expect that it would be a very good opportunity for you." Now it’s time to call you Minister of War! Ha ha! By the way, I heard that Yuan Duijun’s performance in the past two weeks was quite satisfactory! We don’t think too much about the lack of commander-in-chief in the military command, but I think the position of chief of staff will be more suitable for a thoughtful and far-sighted young officer like you "
"It’s not that I can control things. I generally don’t think much about the high-level military candidates. The high command will be safe! Right, general! " Logan turned around and looked at Studente a little. His love for dropping soldiers should have no ambition to show it to the military headquarters. Studente gave him a smile. "Can you fight for it or should you try to fight for it?" The higher the position, the greater the swing, isn’t it? "
"Maybe!" Breathe in and breathe out. Logan spy on that shining marshal, but the turbulent reality made him decide to curb his sharpness.
Goering’s death has involved many senior military officials. Yu Zaiyuan instructed the Gestapo to investigate this, and the former army was never harassed by this organization!
Sensitive topic The two men didn’t go further. Studente turned his attention back to those transport planes that took off in turn. "The words have gone a little far! Hans, according to our current progress, we can see the ruins of Hadrian’s Great Wall (the fortifications built during the Roman Empire are located at the boundary between England and Scotland) at Christmas! Will the British surrender? "
Logan put his hands in his relatively warm pockets and replied slowly, "Who knows? Now Britain is like a scaffold eroded by termites, and the corner house is on the verge of collapse. What we have to do is to continue to encircle London without fighting. Every extra day is an extra suffering for the British. We want them to fold in despair. We want Germany to get a valuable Britain instead of a few ruined islands! After seeing aerial photos of ports in Scotland, I am more convinced that this strategy is wise! Liverpool could have made some gains in Liverpool if it hadn’t bombed us before! "
"Hey, better not surrender so soon!" Studente seems to have ulterior motives, but in fact, he hopes that the newly formed First Paratrooper Division and the planned drop-in instructors will be able to withstand the influence of the battlefield, and it is obviously difficult for the weak British 6 th Army to cause too much terrorist damage to these elite German paratroopers!
If others listen to the conversation between the two generals, I’m afraid they are still very puzzled about where these groups of flying transport planes and gliders are going to send elite German paratroopers and airborne troops. The actual answer is not the only one. Aberystwyth, Barmouth, Terry Ford, England, Bohan, Kaoyi, are different, but the farthest drop point is Chester, which is just a kilometer away from Liverpool.
The name of the model battalion descending in the vanguard echelon scheduled to carry out parachuting and airborne landing near Chester was suddenly listed. It was forged in Leipei, Isle of Wight. This battalion has become a star unit of the German first descending army. When Hans Logan was the battalion commander of this unit, he didn’t say for a long time that he didn’t leave a deep personal mark, which really made this battalion a Chinese eagle, and the six tigers were excellent soldiers. Adequate support should give priority to advanced weapons. It can be said that a qualified national defense force and these conditions will be admired by friendly forces. The enemy’s awe-inspiring forces have been lost and replenished in fierce battles, and now the model battalion still adopts six companies (more cattle than the British infantry battalion). The average age of officers and men is four years old. Three original paratroopers are veterans with experience in parachuting and ground warfare. One extended machine gun reconnaissance company joined the motorcycle scout and the iron fist anti-tank combat group. Finally, two fighter-dropping heavy combat companies were equipped with tanks No.3, No.4, armored vehicles and modified combat barrels after owning the "Giant" glider.
With the second battalion commander, Lent Stephenberg, transferred to the Military War Department, the commander of the battalion is a knife-year-old military commander, gerhardt Schermei, the winner of the double sword silver oak knight iron cross medal and the first paratrooper company commander of the battalion. Because of his heavier burden, he can no longer be a free dandelion as before, but land with his battalion on a lighter assault glider.
Yo, at noon on the first day of the month, the paratroopers even took the lead in jumping out of the cabin door in the diving posture (which made the anal fast umbrella’s unique posture be to disperse the impact force when the umbrella was launched). At that time, the flying height of "Auntie" was that after the German fighter plane and bomber cleared the field in advance, there were no noisy "black cotton candy" of British fighter planes, and there were also a few flowers blooming luxuriantly everywhere in the buzz, and the paratroopers’ transport planes climbed away cautiously and twenty.
As German paratroopers and airborne infantry fell, new battles followed.
"Throw your parachutes and find your ammunition squad unit to land in the glider area as soon as possible!" Despite rubbing his chest when landing, the junior officers repeatedly repeated the same password and watched the situation around the landing with extra fear. As a result, less than an old minute after the first German paratrooper landed, a platoon of British militiamen arrived on horseback with their horses and rifles in their hands, which was very fatal to those paratroopers who were blown to a little distance by the wind, but there was no threat to the paratroopers who were tied up.
A number of paratroopers from the model paratroopers’ battalion, under the command of a second lieutenant who was only a year old, easily beat back these paratroopers, who were far behind the cavalry of the times and deployed an ambush on one side of the highway. A quarter of an hour later, the British militia arrived along the road by car and were beaten up by this group of German paratroopers. At this time, the last umbrella flower had fallen off and the paratroopers moved to that side in an orderly manner.
With the support of tanks and armored vehicles, it is absolutely a headache for the defenders who have lost control to drop troops in the rear far from the front line!
When Schmeiwei gathered up 10% of his troops and came from Chester City, more than three British soldiers became the best battle for this elite unit to sacrifice the flag. The tanks roared and rumbled, and these Englishmen dressed in regular military system were beaten to death and fled for their lives. Instead, they attacked the Chester train-the railway hub in northwest England. At one time, German paratroopers were armed with burning bottles, simple flamethrowers, Soil bombs, all kinds of rifles, British militia stopped these irregular armed forces after months of practice, and they did not care about the German secret fire. Blind courage also made them achieve some unexpected results and burned a German tank No.4, An armored vehicle repelled the first German attack by relying on the buildings around the train. However, with the deepening of the battle, the two sides showed great differences in equipment and combat quality. The German paratroopers made use of their squad fighting teams, which were good at assault infiltration tactics. Tanks and armored vehicles also pulled away fire support grenades, anti-tank rockets and tank shells exploded one after another. Every time, explosive weapons were used to chisel holes on the outer wall or front of the building. The experienced German paratroopers first served with grenades and then rushed in with witches to sweep them.
The battle from building to building seems arduous and remarkable, but it makes all kinds of crude weapons, regardless of fighting capacity or willpower, equal to the Soviet soldiers in the north. The battle lasted less than half an hour. The Chester train changed hands and broke into the city from both sides of the northeast. German paratroopers cleaned every street. In the eyes of German commanders, this small town was just a temporary knot and a rest. The real goal was to move the warships under construction by slipway of the famous shipyard in birkenhead!
Chapter 2 slipway beast
On one side of the railway line, Schmeiwei fell to the ground behind the ravine, and once again raised his hand anxiously to look at the front of the watch. It is a dump yard covering several square kilometers, but there is no figure to prevent the German troops from continuing to advance eastward along the railway line. It is not this yard but the British artillery position arranged behind it. Judging from the frequency and power of shells falling, there is at least one field artillery company, which mainly makes pound wild guns. Ordinary artillery can’t stop the impact of German tanks, but two German armored vehicles have been abandoned in sight. There are more than 30 bodies wearing short-edged paratroopers’ helmets and gray war in the surrounding fields.
These are the results of the British quick shelling!
Without the support of infantry, the model campers withdrew angrily. As early as in the battle around Cardiff, they had witnessed the terrible damage of British incendiary bombs and simple flamethrowers to armored vehicles. Who knows if there are a large number of British infantry armed with English Molotov cocktails lurking behind that factory?
As far as the tactics of ground warfare are concerned, it is the most basic choice to detour from the two wings for 20 minutes, and Schmeier did send a mobile unit composed of motorcycles and combat barrels to the rear of the British position, but they were severely pushed back by the British machine guns and anti-tank rifles lying in the field.
Shi Ermei, who joined the army for ten years, also asked for support directly. When he looked at his watch for the first time, the horizon finally came to hum for a long time.
The planes coming from the south are divided into two teams, four for cover and one for concave fighter plane, and six for bombers with multiple nicknames such as "medium assault gun, black death". Considering the linear distance from Cardiff to Chester, the efficiency of Reed National War Command is still very good! When I saw the support in the middle, the soldiers of Schmeier shot a red signal flare into the middle, and circled the swastika flag on the red background and the red smoke line to guide the bombing target.
Seeing that the old German planes uniformly climbed to a higher area, the fighters seized the altitude to guard against the enemy’s attack, and the bombers climbed, which achieved a more accurate dive bombing effect.
Listening to Stuka screaming, a big stone finally fell to the ground in Schmeier’s heart. In the explosion that shook the earth, several black smoke columns rose from the back of the freight yard one after another. These dive bombers attacked three times in a team, and the bombs fell almost vertically every four minutes. It was extremely lethal to the targets in the trenches and bunkers. The compact and oppressive attack made the British soldiers bear a heavy psychological burden.
While our plane has not returned, the paratroopers quickly attacked with a wave of their hands!
In order to adapt to the fall, the No.3 and No.4 tanks were slightly modified, and they ran over the solid rails. They lay on the cold ground for a long time. German paratroopers also followed the tanks one by one with guns and cats around their waists. Two barrel trucks and two semi-tracked armored vehicles flew into the open field. They avoided the craters made by British artillery and arrived in front of the freight yard. Then the paratroopers in the semi-tracked armored vehicles were armed with machine guns and adjusted. They carried Tian mm heavy mortars directly from the open car to the British positions. There was resentment and hatred.
One weapon is not enough to change the outcome of a war, but it can influence the course of a battle. After Stuka’s oppression and mortar ravages, the guns in the British position have lost their previous prestige, and when the German tanks appear on the flank of the position, they can see the big butts of the British soldiers from a distance!
As far as the war effect is concerned, panic in) defeated) repelled and let go most of the British soldiers. Captain Schmeiweier was a little disappointed, but crossing the freight yard and continuing northward, birkenhead was already in sight, and then the old train was temporarily named "Pailin Express" by German paratroopers. The British army probably didn’t expect the Germans to get the train at all, and it didn’t destroy the rails all the way. Although the train picked up from the garbage can’t charge, it can take two paratroopers. The German officers and men crowded into the carriage with smiles, which made people look from a distance.
If a British plane appeared in the sky, these people would have to leave the carriage in two minutes to hide. Even so, at 2 o’clock, many Germans were persuaded to drop their troops and their combat vehicles to the Ebington area in the south of birkenhead, which was an hour earlier than expected by the German War Department!
After the paratroopers were unloaded, the "Pailin Express" helped the birkenhead peripheral railway hub to complete the "reversing" car and return to Chester. At this time, a battalion of the 7 th Parachute Division should have landed near Chester with the help of the previous troops.
For the Germans coming along the railway line,
Our paratroopers’ battalion and its headquarters are deployed around birkenhead. A British anti-aircraft gun was set up at four o’clock to form an anti-aircraft machine gun company, which would be completely depressed. If the Germans dare to drop these anti-aircraft guns and machine guns near birkenhead and Liverpool, most German paratroopers will be directly reimbursed in the process. However, in order to strengthen the firepower density, these anti-aircraft weapons are arranged in four directions and several positions to organize German paratroopers’ ground assault!
Without the large-scale interception of British troops, German scouts on motorcycles and armed barrels quickly carried out infiltration reconnaissance in the urban area. Later, Commander Schmeiwei organized the first paratroopers company to mount a quick and decisive attack on the scenic Brotherton Park. The first place in Britain was the National Anti-aircraft Gun Company, which had American anti-aircraft guns and seven large-caliber machine guns. However, when the net saw that German tanks were wearing helmets and civilians, the British gunners almost lost their anti-aircraft guns as quickly as possible.
Although it is a technical weapon in wartime, it is better to capture several British gunners on the spot and organize them to explain them. The generalists quickly mastered these artillery bases and rearranged their artillery positions under the command of officers with artillery experience, thus turning this beautiful park into a position that can prevent and resist ground attacks.
If you simply defend more than half of the model camp and these captured equipment, you can persist until the follow-up troops arrive, but the biggest difference between Schrmer and his former captain Lent Stephenberg is that he is bold. He will be able to manipulate these American anti-aircraft guns and machine guns, and the soldiers will be temporarily deployed to form five defensive platoons, four of which are responsible for one side of the park. The fifth platoon acts as a reserve, and the rest is to persuade a number of soldiers and a combat vehicle to make a big fist, which is when he personally commands and continues to push north for 5 kilometers. Campbell Ryder Shipyard was born there. There are countless British warships, such as the revenge battleship Ramilis, the Nelson battleship Rodney and the famous aircraft carrier Royal Ark. In addition, there are leander-class cruisers such as Achilles. Carriden-class cruiser "Carriden" and other light combat vessels’s former cutting-edge George V-class battleship "Prince of Wales" was also built in this shipyard. When the Germans landed in Britain, it was already in the stage of habitat installation. According to the plan, it will be completed in the spring of the year of the mountain. However, with the fall of Liverpool, the focus of indiscriminate bombing by the German army is close at hand, and birkenhead is doomed to avoid the dilemma that the warship was bombed before it was completed. The British people moved it overnight and finally berthed it in Belfast, Northern Ireland for post-assembly. This kind of tossing period naturally delayed
No matter whether the power system is installed or not, the water warships can still try their best to move, but those ships that still stay on the slipway can avoid the enemy’s attack in this way. In recent days, the aerial photos of the German army can recognize that there are two autumn multi-stage light anti-cruisers ("Yaergu Mariner" in the second batch and "Kalubudis" in the third batch). In order to protect these warships as much as possible, three destroyers of different types and four small auxiliary ships form a circular defense area with birkenhead defense artillery and Liverpool defense forces on the other side. The port and shipyard are located in the center of this area, and German bombers who try to approach and drop bombs will be stubbornly countered. In addition, in order to prevent German ships and ships from invading the Royal Navy from the sea, a mine array has been laid in Liverpool Bay in recent two months, and only naval ships know where the safe passage is.
Although the German fighter planes flying from Cardiff were dispersed by the secret fire from the British anti-aircraft gun position before they approached the shipyard, the glorious German paratroopers bravely walked through the strange city.
At 2 o’clock in the afternoon, the No.4 tank was sprayed with the military eagle emblem on the right corner of the turret, and it was one step away from the shipyard. The second-line militia of the British regular army, shipbuilders and the outer buildings relied on it to build a barricade defense line, but it was not their tenacious will that really stopped the German attack, but those four-inch (mm) naval guns that were directly dragged from the warehouse to temporarily serve as gunners. Although it was unprofessional, the technicians turned a German No.3 tank to the ground with their shells so hard and fast a few hundred meters away!
The street fighting is in a temporary stalemate. Schmeiwei climbed to the top of a three-story building. From here, you can just see two bare black hulls on the waterfront. They are two stories high and fall about meters in front of ordinary buildings and vehicles. However, if the Germans come earlier, they can still see the battleship "Prince of Wales" under construction here!
Chapter 21 War is unbearable fanaticism
Weeping dry in the middle of Inge, Bohan is the second largest London cave in Britain. "The world’s largest metal processing area, the British manufacturing center, has black metallurgy, non-ferrous metallurgy, machine tools, airplanes, chemistry, The military industrial city is shrouded in smoke almost all the year round, but it helps to interfere with the bombing of the German army. Since the end of the old month, except for about half of the rainy days, German bombers frequently visit this place, and the Royal British Army also tries its best to protect this beating "heart". In just two months, the two sides have exhibited more than ten fierce battles around Bohan, five of which are over 100, and many aircraft wrecks are scattered in the fields around the city, and the number of German troops lost in this battle is second only to Liverpool!
Yo, four days before Christmas, the German troops in the south of England suddenly launched a fierce attack, and the seemingly solid British frontier was quickly broken through. The German main force bypassed the fortifications, such as the London defense circle, and the armored forces stormed into the battle on the English roads and fields. At about 4 o’clock in the afternoon, they left Cardiff, and the vanguard reconnaissance battalion of the Yuan Guard Brigade appeared on the periphery of Cahill, a small town in the southwest of Bohan, which is only five kilometers away from downtown Bohan!
"Emperor, the Germans are advancing too fast! Don’t they ever worry about running out of oil? "
George Maxi of Yingmu 6 Military Academy, the church bell tower, clung to the telescope. In the line of sight, several German armored vehicles were hovering on the edge of the grove out of range. Although a large group of German armored forces had not yet appeared, his hands wearing black leather gloves were already shaking slightly.
In terms of strength, the "Royal Irish Regiment" is not inferior to the best mechanized infantry regiment of the German wehrmacht, and has been stationed here for four weeks to build a well-established position around the town. They also have an independent artillery battalion for fire support, but they have no confidence in stopping the impact of the German armored group. These soldiers recruited in Northern Ireland will not have much determination to defend a city in England!
"From Cardiff or Bristol, it’s almost a kilometer from here. It’s almost time to stop and refuel! Maybe "we can take this opportunity to move a counterattack? The tall officer with golden blue eyes wears the rank of major in the British Sixth Army. His cheekbones are high and his eyes are sharp, giving people a feeling of being brave and ruthless.
"Lor’s bold attack must be based on a correct judgment of the situation. If our armored forces leave the town and travel in the wilderness, I guarantee that at most one-third of tanks and armored vehicles can move before dark! Stuka, Germany, occupies the sky like a crow of death. We must stay here until dark before we have a chance to fight back, "said the school telescope."
"But at that time, the Germans had already refilled their tanks and armored vehicles with oil and ammunition!" The major sounded very anxious.
"Weigh the pros and cons, Lor!" The school earnestly warned