Chapter 422

In fact, landing in England is an unprecedented challenge for Germany. This challenge extends to every corner, making the German * team, a huge war machine, feel a weak maladjustment.

The first one to feel the pressure was the logistics and Transportation Department of the German Navy. In order to accumulate the fuel and strategic materials needed for the landing operation, they started to work hard from the end of January and barely met the minimum requirements until February 12.

Thousands of tons of goods and materials were transported to the British landing site, and then in order to be in a hurry or even thrown directly into the nearby sea water, they hurried back, just to seize the time to send some more goods and materials in the same day.

Even so, the German transport supply fleet still felt the embarrassment of being stretched, and finally realized how difficult and difficult it was for Britain to maintain such a huge maritime fleet as a huge hegemonic empire. Of course - construction is not easy to destroy, but simple, the German Navy only took a month to let the huge British Maritime fleet suffered heavy losses.

However, the logistics supply is not easy and hard to see. Compared with the difficulties encountered by the front-line forces, it seems to be less conspicuous.

In this landing operation, the German infantry really saw the cruelty of the war. In the past, the armored forces and the air force opened the way to fight for each inch of land, and the rapid advance became the fierce fighting of several kilometers or even hundreds of meters every day.

For example, in the battle of landing on the beach, the German army lost thousands of people in the first ten minutes. The soldiers endured the icy sea water and braved the enemy's machine gun to attack. If it were not for the limited strength of the British coast guards, Germany would be driven back to its hometown if it could not even go to the beach.

Cromer's struggle made the German soldiers realize the cruelty of street fighting, and even the most elite akado Youth League suffered heavy losses. German soldiers are good at night fighting, armored propulsion, large-scale alternation and detour, which seems to be rare in the British war. Instead, they are one after another towns, one after another British defensive strongholds.

The British are constantly learning and making progress. They learn how to fight from the German soldiers. They pay the tuition with their blood and life, and try every means to make themselves grow up as soon as possible and become real soldiers who can guard their homes.

The Germans are also constantly learning and making progress. They learn to fight in a smarter way, to face the huge sacrifice of street fighting calmly, and to play a pleasing rhythm of slaughter in urban alleys with weapons in their hands.

Engineers tried to weld six iron fisted rocket launchers and wheels together to form a new weapon that can be controlled by wires and detonators. The weapon can fire six rockets at a target in a row until the opposite target is in ruins.

This kind of weapon is often used together with two scrapped tank tracks, digging a hole under one wheel, and then using the scrapped tank track to block the wheel on the other side. When the iron fist rocket is launched, it will shake wildly, causing the terrible dispersion effect of short-range rockets. The German soldiers easily destroyed the British garrison building with this simple weapon, which was also called "building terminator" by the soldiers.

In the street battle in Norwich, a German soldier shakes his head, throws the dust off his helmet and looks at the building completely destroyed by this "building terminator" in the distance. Satisfied to stretch out a thumb behind: "clear!"

The soldiers behind him heard his cry, picked up their weapons and rushed to the collapsed building. They must occupy it as soon as possible, or in half an hour, the British will appear on the ruins and stick to the territory under the rubbish.

On the other side of the small square, a German soldier with an assault rifle approached the door of the building little by little and motioned his comrades behind him to come and help. Two soldiers stood at the door holding grenades. He kicked open the locked door, and the two soldiers behind him threw grenades in at the same time.

Two huge explosions set off a huge wave of air, shattering the glass and shaking the door. The German soldiers rushed into the house full of smoke with weapons, and then there was a lot of gunfire inside. They didn't know which side won the final victory.

On the square in the west of the city, three leopard tanks stopped near the central pool, and an 88mm anti-aircraft gun pointed to the sky. The German armored forces were forced to take part in the task of covering the infantry in the city. Because the British soldiers did not have many anti tank weapons, the losses of the German armored forces were not unbearable.

But the damage was still there. In the early morning, a hidden British anti tank gun on the corner destroyed a tank 3 of the 5th light armored division. In the afternoon, two leopard tanks were destroyed in the process of covering the infantry attack. Three hours after Norwich's offensive and defensive battle, German tanks have lost as many as nine.

At 2:26 p.m. on February 17, Norwich was still under the control of the British garrison, but a third of the area was occupied by German soldiers. The British will certainly counterattack at night and achieve some results, which the Germans know very well, so after a day of fierce attack, in fact, the German achieved very little.

"My troops are not good at this kind of fighting. In other words, German elite troops should not be involved in such operations. " Lundstedt wrote in his diary: "we lost 300 people and took the block. The other side took 500 people and took it back. If we took it back, we would have to pay 200 or more people."“ This is a great waste of resources. " He concluded: "I'd rather go to the wild to fight a battle of 200000 people than spend our time and energy in these cities." His complaint was answered. At 4:00, the German strategic bombing in Norwich used a lot of napalm bombs, and the whole city turned into a sea of fire. The losses caused by the German bombers to the British made the next Norwich offensive and defensive war develop in the direction of the German army. However, it was still full of blood and cruelty, which still made people sigh helplessly. In order to reduce the loss, lundstedt used special forces to begin to eliminate the British soldiers in the city, the effect is obvious, but the loss is still heavy. After the loss of 1000 British soldiers, the special forces were forced to withdraw from the attack because of the heavy losses. The 180 special forces soldiers involved in the operation killed 97 people, more than half of them. Fortunately, the Germans opened up the situation with losses. The grenadiers of the 1st Infantry Division approached the government building in the middle of the city after losing 35 people in an attack, but they could not go any further because of the British's desperate counterattack. Both sides are worrying about Norwich, who has long been in ruins. Like the battle of Verdun in the first World War, every second of Norwich's offensive and defensive war, soldiers lost their lives - either British or German. However, both sides of the war have made up their mind to fight to the death, and they are also ready to defeat their opponents' confidence here. The sorrow of the soldiers is that as long as the words of the generals above are enough to throw you to a place more miserable than hell and enjoy the helplessness and bitterness of the war. The 200 German grenadiers who had just arrived at the outer position of Norwich had a little rest, and they were sent to the city which was still burning and exploding with a stroke of pen by the commanders. However, from the beginning of entering the front line, there would be only 100 left in less than half an hour... Naturally, the British on the other side would not easily give up this important city, They deployed all the troops they could find to fill the pit of Norwich. The city is now like a monster with a bloody mouth, devouring the lives of soldiers on both sides. By 4:30 p.m. that day, the German army had lost 3900 soldiers near Norwich, and the British were even worse, with 7400 of them dead and missing. Night began to fall, the British ushered in the fourth night after the German landing, the bad weather still did not come, God is still on the German side. But the British held their position with indomitable will, and the flag of the British Empire was still flying in the center of Norwich. Montgomery bought another day for Britain, but no one knows what kind of turn this day will bring to the precarious British Empire. That night, the British bombers visited the German positions for the first time. The number was not too much, but it caused a lot of trouble to the German. The bombers raided several small German controlled docks and destroyed some German built pontoon docks. However, these planes were also heavily attacked by German anti-aircraft artillery forces, and about 20 British planes were shot down by the excellent 88 mm caliber anti-aircraft guns. The British launched a crazy counterattack in downtown Norwich, while the German infantry turned from the attacking side to the defending side. These German grenadiers proved a truth to the British: no matter who faces the well-organized urban street battle defense, the attack will pay a heavy price. The British did not even get a block back after paying for the loss of 2000 soldiers. That night, the German bombers continued to bomb the areas controlled by the British garrison. The British ground troops, who had been used to being destroyed by the German air force, did not lose much. They carefully dispersed their troops and hid tanks and artillery, just like the German troops in July 1944 in another time and space.