Chapter 9
"This is a full counterattack by the German army, with all the troops on the coast and the navy on the sea on the sea."
Faced with the "fog of war" deployed by the Germans near the coast that affected the infrared system, the entire Ming army took action. At this moment, whether it was the direction the French and the British Mediterranean Fleet were responsible for, or the direction the Allies were responsible for, they had established ground positions of 10 kilometers in depth. This was something that had been planned before the war. After the successful beach grabbing, a strong coastal defense position should be established.
In fact, this front also consists of a large number of "fast fronts". Unfortunately, their construction progress is much slower than the progress in the landing plan. If the plan was followed in advance, the Allies should have broken through the entire "Atlantic Barrier" defense line, and then conducted multiple assaults inland and reached a depth of 70 to 100 kilometers. However, the first "Atlantic Barrier" defense line made them pay too much, and it also affected the progress of the entire battle.
Therefore, when the Germans attacked, the Allies could only rely on the immediate defense line to cover the entire beach. However, it should be noted that the Allies' strength was very strong. Just five days after landing, the Allied engineers completed a solid coastal defense line. Although they were not as powerful as the "Atlantic Barrier", they could deal with any attack with the support of naval guns.
The Allies did not have the opportunity to dig underground passages, so the defense line they built was to cover the bunkers with sandbags, and a temporary defense line on the ground was like the Great Wall. A square of 500 meters x 500 meters formed a resistance hub. Each resistance hub was the same distance and the same resistance hub. All resistance hubs were arranged in the shape of a "quality".
Those bunkers were equipped with high-level dual-purpose 55mm cannons, and some bunkers were equipped with dual-mounted 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns. In addition, there were enough shooting holes on the bunkers, and there were also attack holes for ordinary infantry on the pathways on the ground. Mortar troops were also deployed in the entire square base. In addition, the Allies also equipped the soldiers with many rocket launchers and recoil-free cannons.
Basically, a base is stationed by a battalion of infantry, and also includes a heavy mortar company, which is equipped with 210 mm mortars. In order to supplement the ammunition of all troops, the base is also built with the only underground bunker, which is actually an ammunition depot. Moreover, because the Allies enjoy complete air superiority, they do not care much about bombing. If the opponent's artillery does not have enough information, they will not be able to conduct relatively accurate attacks.
These are the equipment prepared by the Allies for the arrival of the German army. As for the soldiers stationed, they were South American infantry divisions who had not experienced war. They were stationed in these bunkers in battalions. Compared with attack tasks, these tasks were much simpler. They were stationed on this 10-kilometer-thick defense line that stretched to the beach. In front of them were some Allied armored troops. If the Germans were not counterattacking, they would continue to attack at dawn tomorrow.
But now the Germans counterattacked, and the entire area within 30 kilometers near the coast was completely covered by the smoke spread by the Germans. This made the Allies lose their reconnaissance capabilities, and the sky was no longer a peaceful sky. Both sides dispatched combat attack aircraft and launched fierce attacks on the opponent's military targets. On the German side, under the light curtain formed by the bright searchlight, the strong light made the infrared night vision lose its effect, and the pilots of the Allied fighter jets were disturbed by the dazzling light. On the contrary, the German fighter jets hidden behind the air lights rushed out like some bats.
Perhaps Germany had planned this attack long ago because those German fighter jets had black bodies. If they could still see clearly in the light, then when they arrived at a place where the light could not see, they would be like some ghosts hidden in the shadows. They were hidden behind the lights. The German army in the low altitude below deliberately used the "clouds" formed by smoke, which was bathed in the bright and almost full of "sunlight".
However, such "sunlight" is one-way. The pilots of the Allied Fighters flying towards them are only facing the kind of light that is almost blind. Perhaps they never thought that one day they would not like "light". Especially because of the strong radio interference, people have almost no way to communicate when entering the battlefield. Dog-fighting air combat requires everyone's skills.
The sharp sound of the engine sounded in the air. The piston fighters in Germany, which were once pressed by Allied jet fighters, also played their combat advantage at this time. However, the Allied jet fighters became a kind of equipment similar to a useless one in such occasions. They could climb into the sky and dive down to attack, but this did not pose much threat to those piston fighters with a very small turning radius compared to the jet fighters.
On the contrary, because of the unevenness of the "clouds" below, the pilots of the jet fighter who are too fast can make the judgment of the jet fighter who are too fast. More importantly, after attacking, the speed cannot be too fast, because no one can tell what is under the clouds below.
In fact, there was nothing else. Instead, a large number of 25mm anti-aircraft guns that had just shot down the Allied "Amina Gunboat". All the pilots of German fighter jets knew that they did not penetrate the thin layer of smoke, and below were the defense zones of anti-aircraft guns. They fought with Allied programmed fighters in the sky. Occasionally, Allied fighters broke through the "clouds", and they immediately became targets of anti-aircraft guns to gather fire.
For the Allies, the entire battle situation was reversed due to the influence of air force. However, although their ground defense line was not very strong, with the help of naval guns, they would probably still produce deadly phonemes to the German armored forces.
The heavy artillery of the battleship flickered on the dark sea surface of the English Channel, but neither the calibrated aircraft nor the "sentinel" of air reconnaissance - reconnaissance/command/electronic warfare airships, could provide it with accurate target information. One was infrared interference, and the other was "tanks" all over the ground. Allied reconnaissance aircraft knew that many of them were fake, but they could not identify the things that used recorders and infrared light bulbs. And at night, the sky was full of German fighters, and it was certain that the Germans had deployed all their air power.
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Then the Germans launched an attack with as many as 5 armored divisions and 8 armored infantry, a complete armored cluster. In the early days of the European War, the troops formed in this way, supported by air warships and superior air force, once suffered a major blow to the British and American troops on the battlefield. The expeditionary force led by Lieutenant General Omar Nelson Bradley suffered considerable losses.
Although the situation has changed a little now, there is no German air fleet in the sky. That is because on the Eastern Front, the battles of the Allied Air Force and the Soviet army made them unable to escape. The German army did not build a new and updated air fleet. First, it was insufficient financial resources and insufficient raw materials. Of course, the most important reason behind this is that Heinrich Himmler defeated the "Demon 2" because of his personal desire for rights, and ended the secret arms assistance of the Chinese Federation to Germany.
This is the first reason why the German generals don't like him. The second reason is that the Army Marshal Steiner had left the German General Staff at this time and said that His Majesty the German Emperor William III was not willing to deal with Heinrich Himmler, a person who lacked loyalty. Also with his departure, the support of the German Royal Yulin Army for Germany was also abolished. Many officers from the German Royal Yulin Army in the army resigned at the same time.
This was the second blow to the German army, but the head of state Heinrich Himmler hoped that this counterattack would drive the re-alliance out of the sea. So for him, this would be a way to revitalize the reputation of the German army. However, just as the ground forces of both sides were about to come into contact, Lieutenant General Albert Kesselin in the "Atlantic Barrier Command" was drinking alone.
"Oh, that fool, if it weren't for him... but that was the politician's business. But now we have a few days to expect the weather. If it were to launch an attack now, it would probably destroy the opportunities we have been working hard to create. If that were the case, the destruction of the German army would be inevitable!"
Although he thought so in his heart, he still hoped that the battle would have a victorious ending after dawn. Although after dawn, the Allied air and naval advantages will be fully utilized.
Chapter completed!