It was already past midnight, and the port of Tols, the capital of the Faroe Islands, was brightly lit. The fully armed German naval infantry were boarding protective cruisers and large 1898-grade torpedo boats docked at various quays. These old-fashioned ships built at the turn of the century used old coal-fired boilers and reciprocating steam engines. The furnace drivers had already burned enough steam. The gunners removed the gun jackets early and moved the spare ammunition from the ammunition depot in the ship to the vicinity of the gun position. Because it can be foreseen this was a unilateral amphibious landing attack, the possibility of encountering British warships in battle was minimal, and the crew's mood was generally relaxed, while those naval infantry wearing new steel helmets and life jackets on the outside of winter clothes were relatively serious. After all, with the fierce battle on Vog Island, no one dared to underestimate the combat effectiveness of the British Marine Forces.

At this time, on the sea outside the port, large torpedo boats with simple appearance and light body were swimming back and forth with vigilance. All German submarines had sailed out of this area to avoid interfering with the warning judgment of their own light ships. The British submarines took advantage of the loopholes. Two powerful battlecruisers, "Deferringer" and "Sedlitz", had already carried combat command personnel to the waters of Soud Island a few hours ago.

On Xiaodimen Island, more than 20 kilometers away, the German naval commando, which quietly landed on the island, successfully seized the commanding heights on the island. In the short battle, they did not fire a single shot or an ammunition, and used daggers and bayonets to kill 9 British soldiers, captured 6 people, and several others escaped in the chaos. According to the confession of the captured British army, 26 people were originally deployed on the island. In order to prevent the German army from landing on the island, patrol teams were arranged day and night. That is to say, a total of 11 people were missing, but they

Without additional communication equipment, if you want to leave the island, you can only use a small motor boat parked on the beach in the southwest corner. Although this is an island with relatively simple terrain, it is still a difficult and dangerous task to search the entire island at night with the German commando forces. The commando commander made a quick decision, sending half of the combat forces to the beach where the motor boats are parked, while asking the communications officers to use arc lights to send signals in the agreed direction.

When the commandos who rushed to the northwest corner of the shore, the remaining British troops on the island had already evacuated on motor boats, but the severe overload made their motor boats very slow. As a result, they were caught by the German submarine transporting German commandos to the island. The Germans were caught without even using artillery. They directly knocked over the British motor boats with submarines, and then captured these unlucky British soldiers.

On Xiaodimen Island, the German naval commandos successfully annihilated the British troops stationed on the island, and they were always in a surprisingly "silent state" throughout the process. However, the abnormal lights they used to contact submarines still attracted the attention of the British sentries on Sud. The British army then sent a light signal to inquire. The German commandos forced the captured British soldiers to provide the contact light code. Unexpectedly, these guys with low fighting spirit had the courage to stumble and deliberately gave it to the

With the German light signal with a hint, the British troops on Soud Island immediately realized that Little Dimen Island had been occupied by the German army. Although the British commander did not judge that the German army was about to launch a landing attack on Soud Island, the location of Little Dimen Island had important tactical value for the defense of Soud Island. He immediately issued combat orders to some battalions stationed in Sandevich, requiring soldiers camping in the rear to assemble to the port.

At this time, the German task force who disguised himself as British Marines to land on the island had already touched his head again, and some people took the collected military intelligence to the landing site along the original route, met with their own submarines at the agreed time, and used radio to send these important information to their combat command. The rest were divided into two, and some people continued to stay in Sandwich, waiting for an opportunity to destroy the British defense after the landing and attack began. The other people went to the British heavy artillery position. When the German plane came to bomb, they used a smoke signal stick to indicate the target to their planes.

When the German naval commando captured Xiaodimen Island, on Dadimen Island, located between Soud Island and San Island, the German night raid was stubbornly resisted by the British army. The area of ​​Dadimen Island is nearly three times that of Xiaodimen Island. There are two peaks on the island with an altitude of more than 300 meters. The terrain is relatively complex and there are beaches for small ships to dock. It has a more important strategic location than Xiaodimen Island. The British army deployed nearly 100 soldiers here and established observation observations.

In order to capture the island, the German army used three large 1906-grade torpedo boats to transport more than 200 naval infantry. In addition to conventional combat equipment and engineer equipment, these naval infantry also carried arc lights and transmitters. During the battle, they contacted their own ships cruising on the nearby sea several times, and with the direct support of naval guns, they seized the commanding heights on the island. The remnants of the British army retreated to the northern end of the island to resist the German attack based on the terrain.

In the north, the daylight is particularly short. At 5 a.m., the sea is still dark. Hippel's flagship "Deflinger", the combat armed ship "Sedlitz" and a light cruiser, and seven large torpedo boats arrived at the northeast of Xiaodimen Island. With the invasion fleet in place, the landing ships also sailed out of the Stremer-Nor waterway under the protection of combat ships. They deliberately avoided Sand Island and several surrounding islands controlled by British troops, so it took an hour and a half to sail to reach the waters of Soud Island.

In the officers' conference room of the "Deflinger", Xia Shu and the senior officers of the Marine Force have devoted themselves to the upcoming amphibious landing operation, and all pre-war deployments are being carried out step by step. In the eyes of ordinary people, an amphibious landing operation that requires a large number of officers and soldiers needs to be fully and thoroughly deployed. Preparations alone take a lot of time. However, the situation on the battlefield is not static. It has been less than half a month since the outbreak of the Battle of the Faroe Islands. Although the ships and troops participating in the war have been adjusted due to casualties, they are on the front line, and most of them are mentally and physically suitable for re-entering the battle.

Now the British navy has suffered consecutive defeats in the Faroe Islands, but as long as it can defend Soud Island, there is still a chance to form a strategic restraint on Germany's military forces in the north. Therefore, the British either completely abandon Soud Island and give up the northern front, or actively mobilize existing forces to invest in Soud Island, trying every means to stop the landing attack that the German army must launch. Judging from the busy night routes between Soud Island and the British mainland and the increasing scale of garrisons on the island, the British senior management is still unwilling to bow to the Germans.

As time went by, the guns and cannons on Dadimen Island gradually subsided, and the chaotic gunshots suddenly came from the direction of Xiaodimen Island, and the fire of artillery could be vaguely seen on the island and on the nearby sea. The German fleet soon received a radio report from the German army on the island: several British gunboats opened fire on the nearby sea surface, covering soldiers landing on the west side of the island. At present, the German army was condescending, with sufficient personnel and ammunition, so there should be no problem to resist the British attack.

The German army easily seized Xiaodimen Island, and the British army quickly launched a counterattack. Such scripts did not exceed Xia Shu's expectations. However, from the current situation, the battle on the island can certainly restrain and disperse the British troops, but also allowed the British troops stationed on Sudou Island to enter a state of alert in advance. This seemed a bit unworthy of the loss, but Xia Shu did not understand it so much. In terms of objective conditions, both the offensive and defensive sides were not prepared for the most. The German army took the initiative and could relax their mentality. However, the British officers and soldiers stationed on Sudou Island were basically in a situation of fighting against the water. From officers to soldiers, they knew that this fierce battle would come sooner or later, so they were ready to go. Whether the battle started during the day or at night, they could be in the shortest time.

There is no big difference between entering the combat position and whether to be alert in advance. Even if the German army's actions to occupy Xiaodimen Island, the opponent's landing location was Sandevich, but Soud Island is not large in size, the terrain is very complicated, and the transportation is very inconvenient. If you want to temporarily adjust the defense deployment, the soldiers have to leave the trenches and cross mountains to rush to a new position. The wise commander would not take such a risk. Furthermore, all German ships anchored in Thors Port have left the port, and such a large-scale military mobilization is difficult to hide from the British submarines deployed near the Stremer-Nor Waterway. Since the British are likely to be on guard, they should simply "arson" more to confuse their sight and make them confused how the German team will fight this battle.

According to the original combat plan, the German army increased combat power to Dimen Island, and blocked the nearby waters with light cruisers and large torpedo boats. On Damen Island, German warships were attacked by multiple British high-speed torpedo boats, but this time there were no British battleships to support them from behind. The searchlights and flares of the German ships dazzled the British crew, and the torpedo attack naturally ended in failure. On Xiaomen Island, two large torpedo boats loaded with naval infantry transported more than 160 naval infantry. The other two large torpedo boats responsible for cover discovered several armed speedboats in the direction of Soud Island, and then they were beaten to flee.

With more than an hour left before the scheduled landing time, the sky gradually turned white, and new ship shadows appeared on the sea northeast of Xiaodimen Island. One large warship, one medium warship, more than ten light warships, and many other transport ships.

In the officers' conference room of the "Deflinger", Xia Shu and a group of officers looked at the sea through the porthole. The fleet gradually approaching was responsible for transporting a new batch of combat troops and equipment and supplies. It was just because of the flagship and the big figures riding on the flagship that made people look extra expectant.

"Have you arrived? It's really punctual!" Xia Shu murmured. Although the British army had a defense force of up to one or two thousand people in Sandevich, and the German naval infantry who were preparing to attack were less than 10,000. Compared with the battle of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people fighting on the European continent, it would seem to be worth mentioning, but it will become an amphibious landing war in the history of modern warfare. Because before that, whether it was the Qing-Japanese War, the Spanish-American War, the Russo-Japanese War or the Italian-Turkey War, there was no fierce beachhead battle in which the landing troops were basically in the
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