When the battle broke out in the port, a combined fleet consisting of five battleships, three aircraft carriers, seven tank landing ships, six amphibious combat ships, 21 cruisers, and 85 destroyers arrived at the sea about 25 kilometers south of Toulon superior.

Going forward, it will enter the shooting range of the 340mm naval gun. The commander-in-chief of the fleet, Mike Tolan, is cautious. Allied fighter jets can easily attack the German army at this distance.

At six o'clock sharp, the first wave of troops participating in the attack boarded the landing craft and launched an attack on the preset landing field.

All the landing craft in the "Dragon Cavalry" operation were provided by Southern Africa. The largest landing craft can accommodate two tanks, and its strong power can make the landing craft rush directly to the beach.

Of course, if it rushed to the beach, without the help of large machinery, the landing craft would not be able to leave the beach by its own ability. It seemed like a waste, but compared to the efficiency, everything was worth it.

"You were never so generous in Normandy—" Admiral Henry Wilson from the United Kingdom was sour. The British army did not send troops to participate in the "Dragon Cavalry" operation, but there were still observers.

When de Gaulle proposed the "Dragon Cavalry" plan, it was strongly opposed by Winston. Winston even declared that the "Dragoon Cavalry" plan was a "hopeless and ineffective" landing operation.

At the same time Winston stated that it was unacceptable to transfer British troops from Italy and North Africa to France.

De Gaulle and Patton didn't expect much from the British, and even if the Americans didn't participate in the "Dragon Cavalry" operation, it wouldn't have much impact.

"It can't be our fault. We offered to provide all the landing craft, which you don't need." Mike Tolan was not nervous, and he was still in the mood to settle accounts with Henry Wilson.

"That's because your asking price is too high!" Henry Wilson was angry. The British also knew that the landing craft in southern Africa were easy to use, but unfortunately they couldn't afford them.

Don't underestimate a small landing craft, its technical content is not low at all, the landing craft specially transporting infantry is even powered by electricity, and its performance is perfect, even the Americans are coveted.

Not to mention the UK.

Speaking of the navy, the British Empire used to be the most powerful in the world. It has only been so many years since the British Royal Navy can't even build a landing craft. Who is to blame?

Anyway, Southern Africa cannot be blamed.

"The Germans have deployed mines on the coastline, and it just so happens that we have a secret weapon to deal with mines!" Alexander Patch, the commander of the US Seventh Army, was full of confidence. He sent an unmanned landing craft that could carry four tons of explosives, and It can still be controlled by remote control. In Patch's words, this kind of landing craft can blast the passage for landing troops.

"Heh, why didn't you take out your unmanned landing craft when you were in Normandy?" Wilson doubled his anger, who is this.

No matter how loud the newspapers are, they cannot conceal the fact that the Normandy landings have been progressing slowly until now.

Now to the "Dragoons", both southern Africa and the United States have come up with secret weapons, which is simply a humiliation to the British Empire.

"At that time, our unmanned landing craft hadn't been built yet—" Patch looked up at the sky, squinting at 45 degrees.

This reason is too perfunctory. "D" day has only passed in less than ten days. How can Americans' technology improve so fast in ten days?
It will take more than ten days to make it from the mainland of the United States and then transport it to the Mediterranean Sea.

"Is this thing reliable?" Mike Tolan hesitated. In the previous training, the Americans never took out the unmanned landing craft, and the secrecy was done too well.

"It's absolutely reliable. We have successfully developed this thing in the last century. Those tourist submarines you made in Lake Nyasa are all leftovers from our play—" Patch was triumphant, and Tolan's expression was as dark as pot bottom.

Listen to this meaning, this unmanned submarine that can be controlled by remote control is still the one that Nikola Tesla publicly displayed in the lake in Central Park, New York.

This is indeed true. It happened in 1898 at the end of the last century, more than 40 years ago.

Nikola Tesla has a high status in southern Africa, and he can be called Taishan Beidou in the world of science and technology. His incident in the United States and his grievances with Edison have long been known in southern Africa.

In recent years, the technology in southern Africa, especially electronics, has advanced by leaps and bounds. We must thank Nikola Tesla for his contribution, and the southern African navy has also benefited a lot.

Among other things, the various electronic devices currently used by the Southern African Navy are deeply involved in the Tesla Research Institute, and many projects are even completed independently by the Tesla Research Institute.

"Yes, yes, you are very powerful. Even the amphibious tank has the performance of a submarine, and it will sink directly to the bottom of the sea when it hits the water." Wilson turned into a mouthful, full of resentment.

Now it was Patch's turn to turn black.

Wilson was satirizing the U.S. Army's landing in Normandy, where 32 of the 27 amphibious tanks sank as soon as they were launched because of too much wind and waves.

These sunken amphibious tanks are still at the bottom of the water. The tank crews were all killed because they couldn’t open the hatches. The US military announced that they sank because they hit a German mine by mistake.

"This guy's mouth is too stinky, let's tie him up and throw him into the sea!" Lieutenant General Devers, commander of the US 6th Army, and Lieutenant General Leclerc of the Free French whispered.

"Wow, you're the next one—" Leclerc was taken aback. Two lieutenant generals conspired to tie up an admiral and throw him into the sea. It was simply appalling.

"This thing hasn't been technically verified yet, can it be used directly in combat?" Oscar, the chief of staff responsible for formulating the action plan, questioned, and didn't believe in the American wireless remote control technology at all.

What about American wireless remote control technology——

If the Americans really valued Nikola Tesla's technology back then, Nikola Tesla would never have had the opportunity to go to southern Africa.

The remote-controlled submarine that Nikola Tesla publicly demonstrated was actually a small toy, and its technical content is really low. It does not need to be compared with the military submarines in southern Africa, even compared with the tourist submarines in Lake Nyasa. , the gap is roughly equivalent to the first aircraft produced by the Wright Brothers, compared with the Super Sky Fortress in southern Africa.

Last year the Germans blew up the Italians' Roma with remote-controlled bombs, and then the Americans experimented with their pure azimuths.

The result was equally touching, and since then Pure Azimuth has never appeared on the battlefield again.

It is said that the U.S. War Department has now axed this project and turned its goal to trying to obtain related technologies from Germany, or southern Africa.

Now that the Americans took out their secret weapon once, Oscar's first reaction was that the Americans were playing tricks again.

"We have experimented many times, the success rate is extremely high, and the effect is very good." Patch swore, he seemed to have forgotten, and just said that it was just created.

Mike Toland was silent, his heart was at war with heaven and man.

Don't let it be used.

It is too depressing to the enthusiasm of Americans.

let's use it-

This thing sounds unreliable.

After Nikola Tesla arrived in southern Africa, the first project was the bomber program related to unmanned control.

This plan has now become the most famous zombie project in southern Africa, because the results of this plan are countless, and the plan itself is far from success.

A god as big as Tesla has spent decades and billions of dollars on remote control technology, but he has not succeeded yet.

The Americans have now come up with something that can be fought.

Fine.

Mike Tolan was still curious.

"Then try it—" Mike Tolan gave Oscar a look while speaking.

Oscar understood, and turned around to make arrangements.

It has to be said that the Americans are really uncreative. No one remotely controls such a tall Zenith star technology, but it is a black and impenetrable iron bump, which looks like a large torpedo.

Seeing that the unmanned landing craft was launched smoothly and galloped towards the coast with all its strength, with a long waterline behind it, responsible for dealing with possible German submarines, the destroyer squadron commander Mir Dreiser, who was protecting the fleet, was extremely nervous.

"Send a signal to all the destroyers, and now focus on these big torpedoes, I hope this thing can be more reliable." Mill observed closely with a telescope.

"The speed is okay—" Deputy Commander Schmidt was also nervous.

"The angle is okay—" John Christian, the captain of the destroyer "Calm" where Mir was located, breathed a sigh of relief.

Without taking a breath, the unmanned landing craft that had just run out for less than a nautical mile, made a detour on the sea surface, and suddenly rushed straight towards the fleet.

"What the hell is going on?" Mike Tolan cursed.

Patch was dumbfounded. The fleet was full of battleships and aircraft carriers, and they were quite densely arranged. There were four tons of explosives on the unmanned landing craft.

"You are an undercover agent sent by the Germans!" Wilson also cursed, "undercover" is an adjective in southern Africa, and the British are accustomed to using "mole".

"Fire, fire the destroyer, sink it—cruiser, all ships pay attention—" Oscar didn't care about cursing, and the chief of staff was responsible for wiping his ass.

To deal with this kind of iron bastard sticking to the sea, destroyers are really easy to use. Other warships do not have many weapons that can deal with small water targets because their sides are too high.

The performance of the southern African destroyer is still very reliable. To deal with small surface targets, naval guns are all cannons to fight mosquitoes. The best one is the super Gatling modified near-defense gun.

Like Maxim, Gatlin is also ill-fated, and super-era weapons are generally like this, and the supporting facilities cannot keep up with it, so it is impossible to exert its full strength.

Southern African engineers installed a power supply system for Gatling, which was installed on helicopters and destroyers, and it worked extremely well against small targets.

Thanks to the well-trained southern African gunners, the out-of-control unmanned landing craft was quickly sunk, and it did not cause more serious consequences except to startle the marines who had just boarded the landing craft.

Now Mike Tolan is extremely convinced that the solution to the problem still depends on the Marines, as well as the airborne troops who have parachuted into the Toulon area.

The paratroopers were not so lucky.

Although there was no storm in Toulon, there was thick fog. The fog had not cleared at [-] o'clock in the morning. The transport plane pilots relied on their superb skills to safely send the paratroopers to the Toulon area.

Although the dense fog caused inconvenience to the airborne troops, it also had a serious impact on the German army in Toulon. The sight of the shooters of the German ground anti-aircraft fire was blocked, which provided the best cover for the airborne troops.

Of course there are disadvantages. The paratroopers found out that there was still a strong wind after jumping out of the cabin. Some unlucky paratroopers were blown more than ten kilometers away from the target by the strong wind. Many paratroopers fell into the vineyards on the outskirts of Toulon, and some fell onto the roof. Fortunately, the German army's weak defense in this area did not cause more losses.

During the entire airborne process, two paratrooper regiments and an infantry regiment riding a glider had only 230 casualties. This battle of Sicily is insignificant compared with Normandy.

Captain Jack of the 401st Parachute Regiment fired a signal bomb and a green smoke bomb after landing. After seeing the signal bomb, nearby paratroopers would gather at the position of the green smoke bomb.

Jack was unlucky, and landed by a small river, and the equipment bag fell into the river. It was not the paratroopers who first found Jack, but the local guerrillas in Toulon.

Jack was taken aback when the guerrilla appeared.

The guerrilla was actually of African descent. He was wearing a pair of slippers, a dirty white striped robe, a pair of boots around his neck, and an old Martini Henry rifle on his shoulder. Leading a mule, he suddenly appeared in front of Jack.

"South African? American?" the guerrillas stammered in English.

"It doesn't matter which country I am, as long as you are not German, we are friends." Jack said in French, holding the handle of the pistol at his waist. If the guerrillas in front of him wanted to take a gun, Jack was confident that he would kill them instantly.

The power of the southern African military pistol is still good, and it can kill lions at close range.

Of course you have to shoot a lot of shots.

"Great, you are finally here, God bless—" the guerrillas cried with joy, and then the scene was slightly awkward.

When the guerrillas showed up, Jack was lying on his stomach by the river, pouting his hips and using a branch to fish for his equipment bag.

This pose is really not decent.

"Let me help you—" The guerrilla jumped into the river quickly without taking off his clothes, and fished out Jack's equipment bag.

"Thank you—" Jack was in a mixed mood when he took it. The paratroopers claimed to go to heaven and earth, and a small river can't do anything, which shows that there is specialization in the art industry.

"You're welcome, we should be thanking you, without your help we couldn't have driven the Germans out, the damned Germans took our property, our women, even our cattle— —” The guerrillas talked a little too much, and Jack’s mood was more complicated.

Even if the Germans don't come, real French women will not choose African-Americans as their partners.

There is no such thing as political correctness at this time.

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