Volume 5: Battle of Britain Chapter 104: D-Day (10)
Under the hot fire snake, a heart-wrenching howl came from the bunker. The heavy machine gun, which poses a great threat to the left side of the beach, was then silenced. Maximilian below had not stopped spitting out the fire snake. He aimed the launch port at the British army with a rifle, and was extremely brave. However, it can be imagined that under the brave surface, there was definitely a fearful heart.
In fact, who is not afraid of being in such a harsh battlefield? Even veterans who have experienced bloody battles many times will inevitably be in fear every time they go to the battlefield. After all, soldiers are humans, not machines, and are also people with emotions and thoughts, but they are just good at hiding their fears.
A gap was opened in the ring fortifications in the beachhead position, and the threat of the entire fortification suddenly decreased a lot. Of course, the British army also discovered this fatal disadvantage. Some remaining officers were already organizing people to re-deploy the crossing firepower points.
Losing an important firepower output point, the British army poured bullets into the beachhead positions greatly reduced, which was fatal to the British army, which originally had few firepower points. When the British officers rushed to the gap with the few infantry, they happened to meet the German army that had difficulty climbing up, and the two sides immediately launched a bloody battle in the narrow trenches.
Due to different combat theories, the German army had basically eliminated bayonets. They were shocked when they suddenly saw the British army coming out because of the night. At that time, both sides were almost stunned when they saw each other. When they were about to pick up the gun and fire, they were already intertwined. At this time, the shooting would inevitably cause accidental injuries. After about two seconds, all soldiers from different camps roared. The British army was in a hurry to install bayonets, but the German soldiers picked up the engineer shovel and rushed on them. The soldiers on both sides who were not mentally prepared in advance were mixed together for a short time.
In this special situation of close combat, the proportion of casualties is enough to show that the engineer's shovel is more powerful than the rifle bayonet. Sometimes the lethality of the rifle bayonet is not even as good as the wooden handle grenade. The German soldiers who wield the engineer's shovel almost ravaged the British army they met. Before they could catch their breath, the officer began to urge him to advance along the trenches. He must quickly clear the British firepower points and free the brothers trapped in the beach.
Night color is the best protection color for the attacking party. Marines in camouflage uniforms used their strengths to continuously clear the British troops along the way. Although casualties were not avoided on the way, they quickly approached the British bunker that was still spitting out flames.
"Grenade!"
Several wooden grenades that were urgently tied up formed a cluster bomb. When the soldier holding it was about to throw it in sideways, a figure suddenly appeared. At this time, a sound of Ruger's pistol sounded, and blood spilled the unresponsive soldier's face.
"Drop it!"
"Oh? Oh! OK...sir!"
Waiting for the guy to react, he had not thrown the cluster bomb in his hand, but he first threw a pineapple-shaped grenade inside. The soldier reacted quickly. He quickly rushed over and picked up the pineapple grenade and threw it into the British bunker. He threw the cluster grenade that had not started the fuse. Before he could find a place to hide, a blast sound made a loud noise. The air waves sprayed out of the steel and concrete bunker lifted the unlucky guy up and hit the soil next to him against the wall and fell to the wall.
A series of hysterical English shouts roared out of the bunker. The German soldiers who didn't understand English had no idea what the British were shouting. They threw in a wooden grenade and another "boom". Then the two soldiers closest to the door rushed in. After a burst of mp-38 gunshots, the soldiers who rushed in came out. One of them was holding a cluster bomb that was not exploded.
"Meier, you stupid, are you bombs thrown in..." The soldier who was about to laugh at saw his comrades lying on the ground not turning over for a long time and stopped talking. He walked over and turned Meier over. Under the faint light, he kept bleeding from Meier's nose: "Wake up, guy! Where was he shot?"
Meel was not shot at all. He was too close to him and was shocked by the explosion. When he was thrown out, he hit the wall again. The continuous damage caused a brief shock.
"I'm still angry..." Qiao Sen relaxed and asked Sergeant Kelly next to him: "What should I do?"
What else can I do? The ambulance soldiers knew where they were in the chaotic attack. Even if they wanted to pull out their men and sent Meel off the line of fire, there was no place to go. At least the beach location was much more dangerous than the trenches.
Finally, Sergeant Kelly suggested that Meel be temporarily placed next to the cleared bunker, and he said: "Put it in a dead position, we will clear the other four enemy fire points as soon as possible and then rush back to send this unlucky guy back to the beach. I hope that the navy's boats had arrived at that time, and there were too many wounded soldiers on the beachfront position..."
During the war, many things were forced. The so-called not giving up the robe is just a slogan promoted by the army. It is difficult to truly not give up every soldier. At some point, such as the situation encountered by Meer, when they were injured and urgently needed assistance, they could not send them off the line of fire. Then what was waiting for them was to die in a coma due to various kinds, usually excessive blood loss.
After the Navy, which had paid the heavy casualties, cleared the three British firepower points, the comrades at the beach immediately felt much less pressure. They had to be glad that the beachhead had been cleared by naval guns, otherwise they would not have to use the obstacles that blocked the landing tools, and the wide spread barbed wire mesh would make them feel helpless.
From the early morning of the morning, the gap in the first beachhead was opened, and the whole process lasted more than 4 hours. During these 4 hours, the naval fleet sent two regiments of troops to the beach. The British army only had six heavy machine guns, a few light machine guns, mortars, and of course, there were almost two companies of infantry, causing a large number of casualties to the German army.
After the beachhead position was completely taken down, according to statistics, the two regiments of the Marine Corps were basically disabled, with 553 people directly killed in battle, and more than 1,800 soldiers were seriously injured. At least some of them lost the opportunity to fight again.
When the sun slowly rose from the coastline, after the bloody battle, the soldiers sitting or lying on the battlefield, they looked at the battlefield that was being cleared on the beach, and suddenly felt a sense of rebirth. With the sunshine, they were able to take a good look at the place where the bloody battle last night. The entire beach was filled with the bodies of the dead and the wounded. Some of the bodies were swaying back and forth in the waves, and there were a large number of fish that were killed by the bomb.
"Where are battleships and battle patrols? How can you only see destroyers and frigates?"
"Not surprising. Look, there are only air defense balloons in the sky, and large warships and air force will probably not appear in a short period of time."
"I don't know how the battle situation is in other areas? We fought...it's really tragic."
"Hope it goes well!"
The breather was full of fishy air, and Sergeant Kelly's face was filled with sadness. Last night, Meel, who was placed on the battlefield by them, was dead for a long time when this unlucky guy waited for his comrades to find him. The reality is often cruel. People must die in war. Kelly's platoon was still in full last night. After the war was over, there were only 10 people left. The casualties within 4 hours were actually one-third.
No one can deny that compared to the war that was called "fever" Polish and France, the war that just started was more tragic than any other.
On the first day of the start of the Battle of Britain, the Third German Empire lost more than three soldiers forever during the landing process alone, and the losses of other auxiliary equipment were countless.
This data is extremely terrifying for many people! After receiving the casualties statistics sent back from the front line, many generals from the base camp of the Third Reich were stunned for a long time...
Although they were fully prepared when launching the "Login Day" combat plan, they were still worried about the casualties data. The consumption of a combat in less than a day was greater than that of twenty Polish battles and ten French battles! This was simply unimaginable. They could imagine that as the landing was successful and the troops continued to advance, the British resistance would not decrease but would be more serious.
Yes, the base camp and the staff must have relevant psychological preparations and response measures to face a more difficult battle than any other battle.
The sudden rise of war smoke, the British side, whose attitude was so tough that it was difficult to understand. Most generals roared, "We must fight the Germans to the death with the army transferred back to the colonies! Let the soldiers who climbed up to Britain become corpses!" The government officials also reacted after suffering from the early at a loss. Their attitude was even much more intense than the military. The parliament had already discussed urgently and agreed to the bill they had opposed earlier.
The arrogant British people decided to quickly arrange defense chains in their homeland, and immediately further improve the arrangements, recruiting all local men and even women who can fight. At the same time, they gave up the interests of some colonies and urgently transported overseas troops back as much as possible. The most important thing was to cut out Denmark Iceland and affiliated islands that had surrendered to the Third Reich of Germany and exchange war materials for the United States.
Prime Minister Churchill, who had been proven to be correct before, was a fat man who was almost crazy by a series of bad news. He decided to contact any potential allies regardless of the consequences. Even if the British Isles were occupied, they would be in the colony with the German barbarians!
On the day when the German Third Reich and other Axis landed on the British Isles, the countries that received the news were surprised. Among them, the Soviet republics felt relieved when they learned the news. This country that was in chaos due to the bloody purge, she had reason to believe that the German Third Reich had previous friction with her to confuse Britain. She had no idea that the armed SS stationed in the Polish Governor's Office was also preparing for war...
Chapter completed!