The nights in June are not long, and the dawn comes extremely early. This short night was not peaceful. In the first half of the night alone, there were four exchanges of fire between German engineers and U.S. military detachments. The U.S. military appeared here

There were more than 20 casualties, and the situation of the Germans was unclear. However, after these four exchanges of fire, the German night minelaying operations completely stopped. From this perspective, the German losses are not estimated to be very small.

As the storm gradually faded away, the weather began to gradually improve. For example, today, there was not as much fog as yesterday, so the attack time was greatly advanced. By 5:30 in the morning, the sun had already illuminated the ground very well.

It turned on, and around 6 o'clock, American bombers began routine bombings. Compared with yesterday, the number of dispatched bombers was reduced to 300, which was a decrease of 200 compared to yesterday, and the number of bombs dropped was 200.

It dropped by two-thirds compared to yesterday.

But this does not mean that the intensity of the strike has decreased. The decrease in the number of bombs is certainly due to the decrease in the number of bombers, but also because the Army Aviation changed the ratio of bombs based on what the ground forces learned during yesterday's attack, increasing the number of bombs being used.

It is just the number of heavy aerial bombs that are believed to be more effective in destroying reinforced concrete fortifications. These bombs are much heavier than ordinary 250-pound or 500-pound bombs, so the amount carried by each aircraft will of course be reduced a lot.

Compared with yesterday, the area that needs to be attacked now has also been greatly reduced. The area of ​​the fortification area still under the control of the Germans is only one-third of yesterday. Therefore, the attack intensity of the Army Aviation has not only not decreased, but has even

It has also increased significantly.

After the bomber bombing, there was a naval bombardment as usual, and the one-hour artillery preparation time was the same as yesterday. However, because the bombardment area was reduced, the density of the bombardment was greatly increased compared to yesterday.

At 8:30 in the morning, the ground troops' attack began again. Compared with yesterday, the German resistance was further weakened today. The ground troops found that the number of apk-43s firing at them today was significantly reduced. While they were advancing

On the way, anti-tank gun bunkers that were destroyed by heavy aerial bombs or battleship main guns were constantly discovered. It seemed that the increased density of firepower preparations just now played a big role.

In addition, the soldiers of the 7th Army also discovered that there were many machine gun bunkers and anti-tank gun bunkers equipped with Pak-40 anti-tank guns, but there were no defense troops. This also seemed to indicate that the German army's human resources were close to

dried up.

This guess was quickly confirmed. By 11 a.m., a unit of the 7th Army penetrated the German defense zone, successfully broke into the city of Cherbourg, and cut the German defenses into two

Part. Just when the US military was planning to completely eliminate the German army in one go, the Germans sent envoys flying white flags.

Yesterday, the German troops who were still shouting that they would fight to the last man announced their surrender. This was a bit beyond the expectations of the Americans, but when they saw the German troops who supported each other and came out to surrender, they felt that this was

This is really a normal thing. According to previous intelligence, the defenders of Cherbourg were only more than 4,000 people. Now there are only more than 1,000 German troops who can walk out of the fortifications and surrender. And among these more than 1,000 people, there are

Nearly half of the people were wounded. According to the surrendered German troops, there were still nearly a thousand seriously injured people in the hospital who were unable to move.

"With the fighting like this, it is normal for them to surrender." General Collins said to Ron, "I thought that after the Germans and the Japanese formed an alliance, they were infected with the madness of the Japanese."

"Well, if they were Japanese, they would have rushed out shouting 'Long Live' last night and died in front of our position." Ron also thought of his days on Guadalcanal.

"If that's the case, that would be great." General Collins laughed, "Then we can enter Cherbourg early this morning."

"Actually, it's not too late now. We still captured Cherbourg before the expected time, right? At least it's better than the British. They are still in a stalemate with the Germans near Caen." Ron said. Because he knew it in his previous life.

Ron's impression of the British was not very good due to things like selling teammates in Myanmar.

"But if it weren't for those British guys holding back the Germans in Caen, we might not have been able to achieve such success. Although these arrogant British guys are sometimes annoying, I have to say that in Caen, they are

It played a key role. There are several German ace divisions in front of them, and coupled with the current decline in shipping capacity, it will not be so easy for them to capture Caen. Oh, I heard that they were in Boca a few days ago

Key was ambushed by the German 1st Division of the SS and lost 25 tanks and 28 other vehicles within five minutes. I estimate that the British will have to postpone their capture of Caen."

"These Germans are so difficult to deal with! I was waiting at the airport in Caen until all the flowers withered!" Ron said.

"Wait until the flowers have withered? It's really a metaphor full of artistic sense. But this is not something we guys who are fighting can say... Well, I heard someone said that your girlfriend is an artist, this should be said

Isn't that what people said to you when you were late for a date?" Collins laughed.

"Nothing! I have always been an artist. People say I am a fighter Karajan."

After laughing for a while, Ron added: "Actually, it's a good thing that the British have been holding back the Germans in Caen. We have now solved Cherbourg, and the entire Seventh Army is free. Maybe, we can

Send your troops eastward, attack from the side, and engage in a large-scale annihilation battle. Think about it, if you kill the standard guard, the Reich, and other guys, the collapse of the Germans on the Western Front will be inevitable. We

Then we can march forward with great enthusiasm and occupy Berlin before the Russians!"

General Collins thought for a while and said: "This is a good idea. However, it requires a lot of supplies, which puts a lot of pressure on logistics. Whether it can succeed depends on how much supplies we can transport ashore... According to previous investigations, Se

The fort was severely damaged, and I don’t know how long it will take to restore sufficient transportation capacity.”

"How about we go to the city to see it together." Ron said.

"General Ron, do you know anything about port engineering?" Collins asked.

"I don't know." Ron replied.

"I don't understand either, I don't understand it at all," Collins said, "So, we can't see anything if we go to see it... But after the battle is over, we have to go and have a look. After the situation is under control,

Let’s go take a look with the port experts.”

…

Although the Germans surrendered at 11 o'clock in the morning, there were still some Germans who were either separated and did not receive the order to surrender or were brainwashed by the Nazis and were unwilling to surrender and were still fighting.

At this time, even General Collins's subordinates missed those "cute" Japanese devils.

"It's better to be Japanese! If they don't surrender, they will rush out and die. But once they surrender, they will be extremely honest. How are they like these Germans, who neither surrender nor come out to charge. They are just like mice.

Hiding in a room next to the street and shooting black guns like that!" A sergeant with a scar on his face, holding his M1 semi-automatic rifle in his hand, hid in a street corner, turned his head and said to another soldier.

There was a 4-story building opposite them, facing the street. On the street, there was an American soldier lying there, groaning loudly. His legs were broken by bullets, but he was not dead yet.

Obviously, the Germans used him as a bait. Anyone who dared to rescue him would become a target of German shooting.

The soldier following the sergeant was loading grenades into his M1 semi-automatic rifle. He answered without raising his head: "Have you observed the position of the Germans clearly?"

"It was the third window on the second floor just now. As for now..." the sergeant said as he stretched out a branch with a mirror tied to it from the corner. On the other side, another soldier also used a branch to pick out the window.

Wearing a steel helmet, half of it was deliberately exposed from the corner of the wall.

With a "ding" sound, the helmet flew straight out, spun around in the air, and was hit by two bullets, flying more than ten meters away.

"Fourth door on the second floor!" the sergeant shouted. At the same time, the soldier with a grenade on his gun jumped out from the corner and fired a grenade at the target. Then he jumped out at the speed of

It rolled on the street and rolled directly to the other corner.

"Bah, bang, bang," a string of bullets landed behind him, causing dust to rise.

At this time, the rifle grenade fired by the soldier also accurately hit the fourth window on the second floor. Through the mirror, the sergeant saw an explosion in the window. A machine gun was blown out of the window and flipped several times in the air.

It rolled and fell to the ground.

The machine gun was knocked out, and several American soldiers immediately emerged from the street corner and fired wildly at the building with their M1 semi-automatic rifles and Browning automatic rifles. And a soldier rushed up and grabbed the building.

He quickly dragged the wounded man's clothes back to the corner of the street.

"Medic! Medic!" the sergeant yelled.

In fact, without him calling, the medical soldiers had already rushed to him. He opened the medicine box and bandaged the wounded soldier in a hurry.

…

After a day of fighting, the remaining soldiers who refused to surrender were eliminated, except Trabi. Trabi was an armed SS sniper. On the Eastern Front, he killed no less than 40 people.

A Russian guy. But later, he was hit in the chest by a bullet fired by a Soviet sniper. If his heart was not in the same position as a normal person, he would have been dead. So he was able to leave the Eastern Front and come to France.

He recovered from his injuries and then started fighting with the Americans again.

In the battle just now, several of his comrades died. But he successfully escaped and hid in another building.

From a curtained room on the sixth floor of the building, Trabi opened the curtains a crack and looked out through Zeiss military binoculars. He saw a group of US military vehicles about 800 meters away.

A collapsed gantry crane stopped outside, and several officers and a group of people who looked like technicians walked down.
Chapter completed!