The Red War God of Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 379 The sun never sets on the sinking of the empire 6

The whims of the Portsmouth attack group to "occupy" the Isle of Wight were initially successful.After more than 40 German frogmen climbed out of the torpedo tubes to control the forward position, the British did not respond. In the next half an hour, a battalion-sized German army, under the sound of aircraft and battleship motors, Under cover, they boarded the beach on the Isle of Wight in the dark.

The frogman unit with super combat power is in front of the army and continues to expand the results of the battle.

At this time, Major General Bullard, the commander of the British 17th Infantry Division stationed on the Isle of Wight, had learned that the Germans were bombing Portsmouth and Havant indiscriminately.

The first ray of dawn appeared in the eastern sky. For the British Empire, it was a bloody dawn.

Because, at this time, Major General Bullard had learned that the Germans were not only bombing Portsmouth, but also that the German army had landed on the southern part of the Isle of Wight.

Thinking that he might be sent to a court-martial, Major General Brad immediately sent a telegram to the Headquarters of the Southern Army of the British Empire to report the situation and request support.

"Oops, the Germans have landed on the Isle of Wight!" Brigadier General Liddell, the chief of staff of the British Southern Army, screamed after seeing the telegram.

"What did Brad do!" Lieutenant General Harold Alexander, commander of the British Southern Army, flicked the telegram, "Immediately order Harold to take back the forward position!"

Alexander thought for a while, and then said to Brigadier General Liddell, "Chief of Staff, do you have any good suggestions?"

"Your Excellency, the current situation of the battle is not clear. I suggest to observe for a while, and it is estimated that the Germans have other actions." Liddell said.In the view of the chief of staff, the High Command, the Navy and the Air Force have carried out long-term repeated deduction and arrangements for the possible German attack. Could the temporary adjustments made at this time be better than the results of long-term thinking?Therefore, Liddell advocates "response to all changes with the same" in his heart.

"Oh, that's fine. Ask Brad to report the situation at any time." Harold Alexander thought for a while, and felt that Liddell's idea made sense.

Liddell's idea is not just reasonable, but very reasonable.

Major General Bullard, the commander of the 17th Division of the British Army, saw that the Southern Army Command would not send reinforcements for the time being, so he had to organize the only mobile regiment of the 17th Division except the garrison troops, and took a truck along the road that had already been bombed beyond recognition. , went to the southern tip of the Isle of Wight, and recaptured the position.

However, since the Germans landed on the island secretly, why did they have no follow-up means.After discovering hundreds of trucks, the Luftwaffe reconnaissance plane quickly reported the German Portsmouth attack group. So, only 10 minutes later, 120 "Fire Dragon 1" ground attack aircraft and 120 "Xiaolong 1" dive bombers Beginning to appear over British truck ranks.

Although the British were also intercepted by anti-aircraft artillery along the way, and although the British quickly hid in the houses and dense forests beside the road, in the face of the intensive bombing of the Germans and the power of incendiary bombs, a regiment of the British Army was killed in just half an hour. The bombing lost the integrity of the establishment.

"Oren, good job. The battle is over, I want to take credit for you!" In the German headquarters near Casle, France, the commander of the Portsmouth Attack Group, Admiral Elwald von Kleist, heard The landing force has firmly controlled the southern part of the Isle of Wight. When a German light infantry division of a division is continuously landing, they are in a good mood and pat the colonel's staff who proposed the "landing on the Isle of Wight" proposal.

"General, it is my long-cherished wish to conquer Britain!" Colonel Oren said modestly.

"Okay, okay. I know that you have been in China for more than a year and have learned a lot of tricks. In the future, if you have any good suggestions, you can come to me directly." Admiral Kleist said.

Kleist is right. Oren has indeed stayed in China for more than a year. As a representative of the German Military Observer Group in China, he studied almost all the combat cases of the Chinese National Defense Forces while in China. discussed extensively.In Oren's opinion, what he has gained in more than one year in China is far better than what he gained in 20 years in the army in Germany.

The landing on the Isle of Wight was an idea proposed by the Chinese counterparts during discussions with Oren.Oren remembers very clearly that at that time, the Chinese colleagues said that the landing on Wight Island could have two tactics: real landing and false landing.A real landing may be attacked by the British with all its strength, and the landing troops must be prepared to make great sacrifices. Moreover, the real landing may not be able to cross the Solent Strait; the purpose is not to occupy the British mainland, but to annihilate the British "False landing" for the purpose of living force is very feasible, because as long as there are German troops on the Isle of Wight, the British will definitely counterattack violently, and Germany can attack the British troops who have walked out of the permanent fortifications.

At 7 a.m. GMT, the German radio station broadcast to the world in German and English: "The German army has successfully landed on the Isle of Wight and is conducting landing operations in Portsmouth and Bristol Bay. Occupy the British mainland, today! "

The broadcast of the Germans suddenly attracted the attention of the world to the English Channel, including the Americans, the hard-core allies of the United Kingdom, who raised a big question: Is it true that the British are dying?

"Let the British Broadcasting Corporation quickly dispel the rumors, saying that the Germans only had dozens of frogmen on the beach on the Isle of Wight, and they have all been wiped out by the 17th Division of our army stationed on the island." British Prime Minister Churchill originally did not want to comment on this , because he feels that even if the Germans occupy the Isle of Wight, it is not necessarily a bad thing, at most it will change the location of the decisive battle between Britain and Germany to Isle of Wight.

The area of ​​the Isle of Wight is only 381 square kilometers. The Germans have no strategic space at all on the island, and the fortifications were also built by the British. It is very easy for the British to destroy it.

In other words, if the Germans concentrated their army on the Isle of Wight, and the decisive battle between Britain and Germany was chosen on the Isle of Wight, Churchill would be happy to see it.

However, the German broadcasts disrupted Churchill's thinking.He had to change his plan and asked the commander of the Southern Army, Admiral Harold Alexander, to immediately send troops to cooperate with Major General Brad of the 17th Infantry Division to drive the Germans into the sea!

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the Germans finally laughed when they learned that the British had begun to increase their troops to the Isle of Wight in large numbers.When the war came to this point, the British army usually concealed very well, and the bombing effect of the air force became weaker and weaker. Once the British army came out of the hiding place, it naturally became the target of the Luftwaffe.Secondly, Portsmouth's feint attack attracted a large number of British mobile troops, which reduced the burden on Newcastle's main attack direction.

At 12:12 noon, 10 aircraft carriers and 15 battleships of the main fleet of the German Navy sailed to the sea about 4 nautical miles away from Newcastle. In the first wave, 120 carrier-based aircraft on the 120 aircraft carriers began to bomb the coastal fortifications of Newcastle; An hour later, the second wave of [-] carrier-based fighters began to take off and relay, and half an hour later was the third wave of bombing.

The German battleship continued to move forward, and its guns fired at a distance of about 5 nautical miles from the coast, forming a confrontation with the British shore artillery.

In the past, warships and shore artillery were at a disadvantage, but after the era of dreadnoughts, especially after the appearance of battleships, the advantages of shore artillery caliber and range became weaker and weaker. In addition, ships can move at sea. The shore artillery can only be in a fixed position, and the two are almost evenly matched; however, when the attacking side adds the bombing of the aircraft, the passive defense method of the shore artillery finally comes to an end.

Thus, the German attack lasted only two hours before the British defensive firepower began to weaken.The German troop carriers also began to move forward.

"Ready to land!" The German Army put down the landing craft and began to attack the shore in squads and platoons.

"Tom tom tom..." The British small-caliber artillery position hidden on the shore began to fire violently at the landing craft!

Although the small-caliber artillery of the British caused some damage to the landing craft, the artillery with a caliber above 88mm of the German Navy destroyer responsible for protecting the safety of the transport ship happened to be the nemesis of the British artillery.

This is the inevitability of landing operations.What kind of countermeasures the defender may have, the attacker must have a corresponding plan. If there is no countermeasure, then what is the landing, the ship may be beaten to pieces at sea.

In fact, when the German transport ship entered the landing craft, the British did not think that continuing Castle would be the main direction of the Germans' attack.Similarly, continuing Castle has never been the main defensive direction of the British.If Newcastle is also the main direction of defense, then the UK needs to defend everywhere. Does the UK have so many soldiers?

Because of this, after the British confronted the German army for a while, and the German army paid the lives of at least one battalion of soldiers, a landing craft finally rowed to the shore, and the German army jumped into the sea and rushed to the beach.

For the landing operation, the Germans had planned a long time ago. A platoon of soldiers climbed onto the beach and did not attack the inland depths like a death squad. Instead, they tightly controlled the beach tens of meters wide, picked up the engineering shovel and started Simple beach fortifications were built.

Although these temporary fortifications built with sand can only prevent the heavy machine guns of the British at most, it is this kind of fortification that puts the greatest psychological pressure on the British.

Because of this kind of fortification, it has the meaning of an advanced base, and it also means that the Germans have officially set foot on the British mainland.

The simple fortifications have not yet been built, and another German landing craft rowed to the shore under the fire of the British.The British defenses were in danger of collapsing.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, on the beach along the coast of Newcastle, the Germans had seized a landing field about 3 kilometers long and 250 meters wide, and a regiment of the German Wehrmacht had already obtained its own light artillery and machine guns.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, 4 German tanks drove onto the beach of Newcastle, which surprised the British army in charge of defense: it turned out that Newcastle was the main direction of German attack!

However, when the British understood the main direction of the Germans' attack, it was too late.Because the nearest mobile unit is 15 kilometers away from the German tank landing site, and it is only the size of a battalion.When they rushed to the scene, the Germans had successfully landed 36 tanks, and a standard tank regiment was ready to attack the British mainland in depth!