The third chapter the longest day (3)
What Chen Tian adopted this time is a way for China people to confuse the enemy long ago, so they spread doubts and divert attention from the East!
In Brighton Beach, the "Boarding 6 Fleet" that the British saw was actually more than 400 freighters and fishing boats from Calais Port. More than 100 destroyers, patrol boats, submarines and lightning ships were responsible for blocking the English Channel. There were several lights on the surface of both the big ship and the small boat, and the ships were far apart. In the dim night, the task force fleet, which was 6 or 7 miles away from the beach, looked extraordinarily large.
Before …
Watching the flare rising obliquely from Brighton Beach, Prince heydrich was very calm. This novel deception tactic in the command room of "Fiedler the Great" didn’t surprise him too much. After getting along with Chentian for a long time, he would gradually accept his seemingly weird but always very practical methods. heydrich felt that if he was a British commander, it would be difficult to see through this simple trick.
Soon after, the German front headquarters was rewarded by the "British The Infiltrator" organization. At least 10 infantry divisions and 10,000 cavalry units were mobilized in the southern England and were heading for Brighton Beach.
For Chen Tianhe and his 6 th Army, the battle has not yet officially started, and they have the tactical advantage.
At 4: 3o in the morning, the huge shelling of the Schell Battleship started again, and the heavy high-explosive shells landed at the back of the beach. This shelling will continue until the attack on the 6 th. In this huge roar, both British soldiers near the beach and German soldiers waiting to attack the 6 th ship are asleep tonight.
At 5: 15 a.m. in Woodtown, England, it was 61 hours and 45 minutes from the first German troop drop, and 20 minutes from the last German troop drop.
When a small group of British patrol on bicycles approached the small English town from the east, everyone was stunned by the scene. The town was surrounded by abandoned white parachutes, and the snow was covered with footprints. Lights lit up the town, but it was silent.
The patrolmen walked into the town carefully with uneasy feelings, and the sight here made them speechless for a long time. Woodtown seemed to have been looted by a group of extremely tough bandits. The general garrison and militia department were slaughtered, and only a hundred residents were locked in their rooms. Everyone’s eyes were frightened as if they had seen the devil.
"This … what happened here?" The patrol commander shook the shoulder of one of the lucky men.
After a long time, that person just said three words "Angel! Devil! Germans! "
"How many?"
The commander soon realized that this was a very serious matter, and he also knew that people could land safely from airplanes or airships with parachutes, but that was a way for pilots to escape. He never thought that humans could make such a large-scale descent and it was a ground battle.
"Countless is like snowflakes falling from the sky!" The British man’s glassy eyes are obviously greatly stimulated. In fact, he is not one of the few British people who have the honor to witness the German health process.
"God!" The commander paused for a long time before calling him "sergeant, take a few people to count how many parachutes there are outside the town!" I’ll report back to the next level! "
His soldiers were obviously stunned. "There are so many parachutes. When are we going to count?"
The commander sighed deeply and counted that parachutes were naturally difficult, but he had to ride back to the post several miles away to cascade. The only speech in Woodtown had already been smashed by Germany, and the line was probably cut.
"We must do our best anyway!" The commander also wants to ask the residents here if they know which direction the Germans are going, but he knows that these people will not know the answer when he sees their blank eyes.
Soon, the British patrol manually counted the parachutes scattered all over the place, and their commanders raced to the nearest post with the great show of the century. At this time, garis and his first descending regiment were heading to Fo Ding Qiao, a town named after the bridge, where the largest stone bridge of the Fuding River was built a long time ago. After entering the industrial age, the British built the largest steel bridge to stop the river so far next to the ancient bridge, which is also the only railway bridge near Bomouth. The Fuding River is about a hundred miles long from the north. Going south and finally merging into the sea at Bomouth, taking a train from London and Southampton to Bomouth must pass through this Fuding Bridge, which is also the only way for Bristol, an important town in southeast England, to reach Bomouth, occupying Ding Qiao and cutting off the railway access to Bomouth.
The British are also very clear about the important strategic position of Ding Qiao, so the British have deployed an infantry battalion and a cavalry company with about 1,000 soldiers here, and prepared a lot of zha medicine to blow up the railway bridge when the Germans approached. However, at this time, the British did not directly load zha medicine into the key parts of the bridge, because no one thought that the German army could bypass the strict beach defense line and go straight into Area 6, so it would not be too late to deploy bridge bombers when the beach fell, otherwise it would be installed on Bridge Z. Once the ha drug was detonated by a German spy or a German plane, the British army’s own support for the beach and retreat from the beach would be seriously affected, especially after the commandos robbed the vault. British generals have listed German pilots, especially aircraft carrier pilots, spies and Prince William, as the most unpopular people in Britain, but at least now the vegetable will not come to Britain again, and the German commander Gigi William, who commanded the first Borden 6 troops, shows signs of being selected as a substitute.
Then, the 2nd and 3rd regiments descended by plane, and they were heading for Bomouth Beach more than ten miles away. They attacked the British artillery and reserve troops deployed in the depth of the defense line from the north when the 6th troops attacked. In addition, the two regiments should be ready to reinforce the British soldiers in Bomouth at any time, and the British cavalry troops in the encounter were the biggest threat to them.
"Let everyone go along the two sides of the railway. People must not make a hullabaloo about. Please report any movement around them at any time! The engineer company buried zha medicine on the railway surface, and set a timer for 1 hour every 5oo meters! "
After garis asked his staff to reach an order, he took out his telescope and observed the stars all over the sky. The sight of the snow was barely enough. The Fuding River was less than 5oo meters west of the railway. A thin layer of ice had formed on the wide river. In this season, people swam across the river with the exception of maybe people. After the three commandos joined, garis troops had reached more than 27oo. They were divided into two columns and silently advanced to reach Fuding Ding Qiao. At that time, it would take less than half an hour to board the six fleets and enter the beach.
After the large army passed, the soldiers of the engineering company were busy burying zha medicine on the rail surface. Because the descending regiment carried zha medicine with it, there were not many zha medicines buried at each blasting point on the starboard side, which could just blow off a short section of the rail. These zha medicines were also connected with an alarm clock timer. Although the accuracy of this timer is not high, it is not a problem to detonate zha medicine in about one hour.
Lieutenant Colonel garis looked along the railway line and there were several British sentries ahead. The nearest one was about 400-500 meters from garis. Two sentries with rifles were faintly visible in the dim light. When the vanguard of the 1st regiment was about 200 meters away from the first sentry, garis motioned for the troops to stop. He called Lieutenant Karen Heim to discuss it for a while. After a while, Helen took out a pistol with a strange appearance and handed it to the sea. Mhairi Mu immediately disappeared into the darkness with a dozen agile commandos.
"It’s too arrogant to bombard these Germans again! Germans? What are Germans? When our navy was the strongest, the Germans never dared to talk in front of us! However, from the current situation, I think the Germans are going to board the 6 th. Fight, fight and go home early! " A sentry fumed angrily as he fished out his pocket.
"Yes! It’s pity for those brothers who are on the beach! The overwhelming airships and planes over there are even more terrible. I don’t know which city has suffered again. At least there are hundreds of airships and planes! " Another sentry seems to be a cynical guy, but when he saw his partner pull out a pack of cigarettes, he turned to look forward to it.
"Smoke me again! What about your bag? " The tall sentry took out a cigarette and gave the drooler a white look, but he pulled out one himself and handed the cigarette box to the man.
"My box has long been taken away by Greenspan. This smoker never pays for cigarettes himself!" After getting a cigarette from the tall man, the short sentry quickly took out a box of matches, and the tall man hung the cigarette in his mouth and waited for his companion to light it for him. The two of them didn’t notice that a pair of indifferent eyes were staring at them more than ten meters away from the sentry.
Heim lifted Karen to give him the pistol. When the short sentry lit a match with his hands together and sent it to the other side, the tall sentry suddenly shook and fell to the ground. Before the short man could react, another bullet quietly got into his body.
Heim was both surprised and amazed at this pistol, which will make a slight sound when it is fired. Actually, there are spies who can extinguish this pistol with a short range and a small sound. Probably because of the cold weather, the other sentries inside were very aware of the movement outside. After confirming that there were no other sentries around the checkpoint, Heim kicked the door and rushed into the checkpoint with several commandos. Four British sentries were fast asleep. Before they came to see each other, they accompanied their companions outside to report to heaven.
The first drop regiment is to clear some small guard posts along the railway, while the second and third drop regiments are faced with pieces of barracks and patrols. Obviously, the British army will deploy the reserve team at Bomouth Beach about miles away from the beach. The huge size of the German battleships and the draught of meters make them sail to a place close to the beach. In this place, the British are not worried about the bombardment of German naval guns. They have also built many disguised barracks in this hilly area. Although the British are seriously short of resources at present, wood, mud and snow are still available everywhere. The wooden barracks covered with mud and snow are not easy to be easily covered.
"Darling there are at least two divisions! I can’t tell which hills are and which barracks are! The British are so cunning that they make the barracks look like the surrounding hills! If it weren’t for the ground, we wouldn’t be able to see them! "
The second regiment led Xie Dingwei to lie on the snow half a mile away from the British army and sighed that the former German reconnaissance airship did not report that there were a large number of British troops in this area. It seems that the British kept secrets and even made a fire. From a spy’s point of view, the British camouflage was still very successful. At this time, Xie Dingwei’s impression of the British generals finally changed a little. The former commandos finally turned the British army upside down in England, but they could not help it. Naturally, the British generals became synonymous.
The commander of the second regiment was Lieutenant Colonel nicklaus, now 39 years old, an officer of the Eastern Prussia who accepted the idea of advanced tactics. In the g1 division, most of the officers and soldiers came from the Eastern Prussian Corps, and of course, most of them were also from the Eastern Prussia. At all times, people also reduced the g1 to the Eastern Prussia division, which was naturally the first division of the Prince of Eastern Prussia and now the German acting emperor Gigi William.
After carefully observing the situation in front, nicklaus called his signalman "to report to the headquarters that we have found the distance of the British reserve station in the north of Beaumouth Beach …"
"According to our time and progress from Woodtown, it’s about five miles from Woodtown and miles from Beaumouth Beach, where a naval gun can’t reach!" Xie Dingwei showed that he is a dentist at ordinary times, so not many people care about his head.
"Well, miles north of Beaumouth Beach! There are at least two divisions of the British army here. Considering that after our army launched the 6 th attack, they will directly help the beach. I decided to make a surprise attack on them! " At Xie Dingwei, nicklaus said, "He has no objection. By this time, even if he dies, there is nothing to be ashamed of.
At this time, 30 airports in Cherbourg were painted with blue-gray paint and iron cross German military planes were painted with green paint. Thomas Post Office civil planes roared past the ground one after another, and the ground crew was no longer as excited and cheering as when the first plane returned. When the planes gradually lowered their altitude and finally touched the ground, they had to guide these fallen heroes to their respective parking places. Lights and pilot lights were everywhere, and the suburbs of Cherbourg were noisy and quiet.
At 5: 23 in the morning, the last transport plane landed slowly at Cherbourg Airport No.25, and at this time, 43 squadrons were covered. Except for three planes that were forced to land in the English Channel due to mechanical failure on the way back, one plane crashed due to light and other reasons when landing, and two planes skidded off the runway and were damaged, the rest 54 planes were safe. This is much lower than the loss rate during the usual training and exercise. Pilots and conscientious ground crew at the mental height should take credit.
The pilot who finally landed on the sea was rescued by German destroyers and patrol boats shortly after landing, and the damaged pilot also had to be treated at the same time. During the whole descent operation, one pilot was killed because of the plane crash, and neither the plane nor the pilot was lost because of the gunfire of the other side. In the world’s first large-scale descent operation, the attacking German army got full marks, while the poor British ate duck eggs because they were unprepared. At this time, George V and his generals also fixed their eyes on a wrong beach.
When the propeller of the last transport plane stopped rotating, the whole 30 airports near Cherbourg were quiet. However, this does not mean that the military troops stopped fighting in the attack of boarding 6, and the pilots were busy taking a rest and eating, while the ground crew was busy overhauling and refueling the plane. As the boarding 6 troops will attack after dawn, all the fighter-bombers and bombers here will bomb the British army. The transport plane will return later and the airship will carry out the patrol and fighting near the area of boarding 6, while the aircraft carrier, ship and plane will be mainly handed over.
At 6 o’clock in the morning of December 27, 1914, the moment of attention finally arrived. The ship boarded the 6 th beach along the rising tide, and it had extended its artillery fire to the farthest range. The Scheer shelling fleet re-positioned the muzzle to the soldiers, and it was about to seize the beach and board the 6 th Na Pianhai Beach.
When the dark night is slowly pulled away, the British will spend an extremely stupid night by themselves. After paying the price of less than 100 soldiers, Lieutenant Colonel garis and his 1 ST regiment have completely occupied the Fuding River Bridge. In the temporary arsenal near the bridge, there are neatly enough medicines to blow up the railway bridge.
The fourth chapter the longest day (4)
When hundreds of ships on board 6 passed by the battleships in the command room, Chen Tian, Scheer and other six naval generals were all in a state of language, and even the most calm person would become emotional in front of this magnificent real historical picture.
At this time, the English Channel has spent an extremely long night, and the hazy dawn has made the world gray. The visibility of the sea has increased compared with an hour ago, and the British coastline has gradually become clearer in front of many German generals and soldiers.
The German airship on the beach gradually revealed their gray coats from the darkness, and the huge white iron crosses in the airship department made the British soldiers tremble at Beaumouth Beach.
Seeing this symbol reminds me of the German people’s fighting spirit and tenacious national character. Behind it, the huge empire is in its golden age. Among them, the representatives of Erpitz, Falkenhayn, heydrich, Scheer, Hippel and Hindenburg are senior naval generals who are 50 years old, experienced and wily. These people are also the soul figures of the German Empire’s military forces. Ludendorff, seeckt, Hoffman, Ollie, Olger and Matthew, who are energetic, have high quality and experience and have accepted new tactics and new weapons, are the backbone of the Imperial 6 Navy. Deng Nici, guderian, Manstein and Rommel, middle-ranking officers under 30 years old, are the new forces with the most potential and future, and their tactical talent, strategic and political abilities are in a strong period of improvement. There are many well-trained, well-equipped and high morale 6 naval officers and men. This reasonable structure and single-minded combination make the German military force unprecedented in hundreds of years. At the bottom of this huge war machine are the workers and peasants mining industry, energetic citizens, efficient government agencies and dedicated ministers and officials, and a large number of colonies with good strength and geographical location.
"If such a great empire can’t climb the world in our hands, I think people and gods will be angry together!"
Chen Tianqi Feng said, but there is only one regret in his mind about this empire, that is, it is now the real master of 56-year-old William II. Although this man is at the best age of a king, his left hand has been accidentally disabled to a great extent since the day he was born. He often gets the loyalty of ministers and generals to the country rather than the recognition of his personal leadership. Arrogance and arrogance make Germany always make enemies on all sides. Without Chen Tianqi, the most powerful navy in German history will hide in the harbor and rust. Without Chen Tian’s first-class combat effectiveness, the 6 th German Army will rush to the east and west lines and finally fall into the quagmire of trench warfare; If there is no day hanging on the face of the German people, it will not be a smile of victory, but a tear of betrayal in the face of failure.