Finally, slightly sparse and scattered artillery fire shot out from behind Bonesmouth Beach. After a brief flight of shells made by British arsenals, they fell into the sea about 3,000 yards from the beach, and water columns, large or small, immediately rose on the sea. The artillery skills of the British Navy and Army were recognized as second-rate in the world, but at this time the German landing ships had already covered almost the entire nearshore area. Any British shells that did not shoot in the wrong direction had the chance to become the heroes of the invaders.

After seeing the British army's large, medium and small caliber artillery fire together, the naval officers and soldiers in the nearshore and main artillery fleet, commanders of the mixed armored division, and generals of the 8th Army were mostly worried about the landing ships and the landing soldiers inside. In such a dense landing formation, each ship had almost no chance to escape. The only hope of survival is that the British artillery fire should not hit themselves.

At this time, Chen Tian, ​​who was standing on the "Border Governor", was surprisingly calm. It was normal for the British army to start counterattacking. If the German soldiers climbed the beach without any blockade, he would feel that there was a huge conspiracy hidden there, perhaps countless poisonous gas bombs, or perhaps a terrible trap, but the British artillery fire turned these worst speculations into untrue assumptions.

"There are about 10 heavy howitzers above 203 mm, the medium howitzers of 120 mm to 155 mm are about 20, and the rapid-fire guns below 100 mm are between 30 and 40, which basically meet the ratio of British heavy artillery to light artillery! "

General François was still staring at the telescope when he spoke. The generals around him looked surprised and admired, and Chen Tian nodded with satisfaction. As the saying goes, a treasure is not as good as an old man. François, 58, and Markenson, 65, are the two treasures of the East Prussian Legion. They are both traditional Prussian soldiers and have excellent command capabilities in cannons and infantry tactics. They can play a good complementary role with the new generation of generals who emphasize military maneuver and assault capabilities.

"There are less than 100 artillery pieces, which is incredible! The British deployed so little firepower on such an important beach. Did they all transfer the artillery to Brighton and Dover?" Orger did not doubt François's judgment. The falling shells were the best proof, but he felt that if he was the British commander, he would have deployed hundreds of artillery pieces in such a place where he could land.

"General, don't forget that our fleet has been shelling here for 4 hours. More than 10,000 high-explosive shells are 1.2 times the regular ammunition of our fleet. If it weren't for the timely replenishment of some ammunition from the supply ship during the shelling gap, our ship's inventory would have been exhausted! I can be sure that when our infantry boarded the beach, the soil there had not completely cooled down!" Scher, who was standing beside him, said, and before Orger could say anything, the latest round of volleys of the battleship began again. For this landing, the landing was carried out.

In operation, the Navy and the High Seas Fleet have invested a lot. In early December, each battleship returned to the port to replace the new main gun barrel. Even after the landing war, the lifespan of these gun barrels was basically over. The Navy's demand for large-caliber naval guns reached an unprecedented level, which naturally made Krupp and other arms dealers laughed from ear to ear. Their shell workshops were also running at full capacity, and a large number of qualified shells were continuously transported to the naval warehouses and then sent to the battleships and supply ships.

The two British George V-class battleships, which have been renamed "Prince of Prussia" and "Tirpitz", performed extremely hard in today's shelling. Their 10 13.5-inch (343 mm) main guns on their ships had stronger firepower than any German battleship. In the continuous shelling, they fired more than 3,000 high-explosive shells at the British who built them. When they were captured, they had already returned all the ammunition they carried with the ship to the British. Now they are using shells specially made by German military factories. It is not difficult for Germany, a first-class artillery powerhouse, to build a new-class German battleship under construction, and the powerful main guns will be equipped on the new-class German battleships.

According to the instructions of German airships over the beach, a large row of shells fired by the artillery fleet this time flew accurately around the British artillery positions. The already thin artillery fire of the British army suddenly became weak.

"A war without sea power and air power is terrible!" Chen Tian couldn't help but sigh.

At this time, on the three aircraft carriers in the fleet, the crew and pilots were making the final preparations before takeoff. The flat and wide wooden deck, the neatly arranged carrier-based aircraft that were about to fly, the high-speed rotating propellers and the engine that roared out of the blue smoke. Everything here was the most feared and hated by the British.

A new round of red sun has not yet risen from the sea. When the hazy veil covering the world has gradually disappeared. When the brightness of the sea is enough to fly, the first "Sea Eagle II" fighter slid toward the end of the deck fearlessly. When the blue sea is right in front of you, Lieutenant Colonel Madoni successfully pulled up his warhawk. This is his 99th official flight as a carrier-based pilot. Today is a memorable day for him. If nothing unexpected happens, he will become the first German navy to take off and land more than a hundred times from the aircraft carrier deck.

Pilot. His pilot career has witnessed every important battle of the rise of the German Navy. The 39th flight was the raid of Pascal Flo, the 49th bombing Newcastle, the 55th bombing targeted London, the 56th attacked British destroyers and lightning strike ships that fell into mines, and then attacked major seaports and shipyards on the eastern and southern coasts of Britain. This time, he will lead his attack aircraft formation to provide close support to the landing troops and ensure that the landing ships and soldiers are not attacked by British aircraft.

After flying off the deck, Lieutenant Colonel Madoni and his "Seahawk II" marked L-01 began to hover over the aircraft carrier. In the fight against Pascal Flo, it was this aircraft that dropped the first bomb to the British fleet. From then on, the British Navy began to fall into the abyss of failure. From the air, the sky in the east had begun to turn red. At this time, in addition to the artillery shells that kept passing by at low altitudes, the air was very calm, and even the hardworking seabirds were away from this place of trouble. The attack planes and bombers on the aircraft carrier were sliding off the runway in turn. As fewer aircraft on the deck were left, the huge white iron cross painted on the deck of the three aircraft carriers gradually appeared. Every time I saw this eye-catching sign, Madoni would remind himself to defend the honor of the empire to the death. For most pilots, this sign was also the driving force for their battle.

As more and more German war eagles gathered over the aircraft carrier formation, the British beaches were within reach for the first batch of landing ships. The soldiers stayed in the cabin could only see the artillery shells that were constantly passing by and the water columns rising nearby. The landing ships were shaking violently under the impact of the waves and the British shell explosion, and splashes of water kept falling. The soldiers of the vanguard of the mixed armored division no longer cared about so many. According to what they did in training and exercises, ordinary soldiers picked up their rifles, and the people in charge of mortars and machine guns carried their weapons on their shoulders. Everyone was silently waiting for the moment when the steel landing ladder plate of the bow was lowered.

A sharp whistle finally sounded on the beach in Bonesmouth. The sporadic rifle sounds first proved that there was an undead Indian young hero in the beach defense line. Then the British Maxim heavy machine gun began to shoot at the German landing ships less than a thousand meters away from the beach. The thick steel plate in front of the German soldiers gradually made a sound of being hit by bullets. The heavy machine guns on the landing ship fought back without showing any weakness. This battle was finally no longer monotonous because of the addition of machine guns and rifles.

On the German destroyer "Champion", Guderi was concentrating on looking at the beach with a telescope. After the continuous heavy artillery bombardment, there seemed to be no life on the flat beach. Most of the bullets are now shot out from the breakwater, and the head wrapped in a big turban was swaying faintly. Many Indian soldiers also tried to move along some of the remaining trenches to the front of the beach.

The nearshore artillery fleet where Guderian was located had moved to a place only 4 nautical miles (about 7,000 yards) from the beach. The shells flying from behind the beach often landed very close to the warships, but the naval officers and soldiers here were not afraid at all. In the semi-closed gun position, the gunners were busy stuffing 120mm or 150mm high-explosive shells into the barrel. The sound of these single-packed ship guns was far less shocking than that of the battleship guns. The white smoke gushing out from the muzzle was quickly blown away by the sea breeze. Because the gun position was very close to the command room, Guderian could even clearly hear the crisp clanging sound of the retracted shell falling on the deck.

"Oh God!" The destroyer captain next to Guderian, a young naval captain, screamed out. In his sight, a 1914A landing ship was directly hit by a small-caliber shell. In the flames and smoke of the explosion, there were limbs flying everywhere, damaged clothes and weapon parts. The landing ship carrying about 50 soldiers suddenly became a hell on earth. Although the entire ship was not divided, it quickly stalled and began to sink. It was rare for a shell below 100 mm to cause such damage in battle. The British King should indeed award medals to the lucky British gunners.

After a while, a heavy shell landed a few meters away from the head of the "Champion". The water column had not yet fallen completely. Several sailors on the deck fell into a pool of blood. Unfortunately, they happened one after another. Guderian, with a firm expression, showed a hint of sadness in his eyes. This was the first batch of soldiers who died in the army and navy that he knew after the landing operation began. As the battle proceeded, there would only be more and more casualties, and this was the price of victory.

The landing ship had not completely sunk, and more ships passed by it without fear. The momentum of thousands of sails passing by on the side of the sunken boat is the best manifestation of the strong vitality of the German landing forces. On the front deck of the "Champion", the sailors quickly carried the dead and injured back to the cabin. The front main gun of the destroyer was still shooting at the beach with all his might. The traces left by British artillery shells were the blood on the deck and several shattered portholes.

Brighton Beach, South England.

British Privateville was stunned. His boss, the sergeant who had fallen on his butt, was stunned. Lieutenant General Bita, commander-in-chief of the Brighton line of defense, was stunned. The Scottish cavalry who had just arrived from the two major armies of London and Reading were stunned. The infantry and artillery who were racing by train were also stunned.

Outside Brighton, hundreds of cargo ships with no shipments of ships and supplies from the waterline were satisfied to drag a larger number of small fishing boats and small sampans on their way home. Even the German battleship fleet and small hulls were too lazy to waste one more shell here. The sharp bow of the warships drew a huge V-shaped character on the water surface and turned back, as if even the military flags on their masts were mocking these stupid British people.

“Destroyed…”

There were many British people who fell on the ground because of their inability to lose their minds. Lieutenant General Bita, the first person to discover that the German landing fleet had become a British sinner. The sergeant who reported this "important intelligence" to his superiors could not escape the relationship. He hurriedly reported the German landing trends to Hegel and vowed to turn Brighton Beach into a graveyard of the German landing force. Lieutenant General Bita, who had no idea how to explain to Hegel.

When the news of the Brighton scam and the Germans launching landing operations in Bonesmouth reached General Hegel's British local defense command one after another, the future of this cavalry general, who was once the youngest general of the British army, was basically overwhelmed. If the British king was tolerant, he could still command a cavalry unit to serve the country, but if the British local defense war failed, he would be the number one sinner who made the wrong judgment.

However, before the German army stabilized its position, Heg felt that he still had a chance to make up for his achievements.

"Transfer to my order, all the garrisons in the south will immediately move towards Bonesmouth, and drive every landing German soldier off the coast at all speed!"

After giving this somewhat desperate order, Hegel began to think about how to let King Ying give him more time, even in one day, he could turn from a sinner into a hero.

"Lieutenant General Bita, I'm sorry!" Hege sighed. Sometimes people really can't help themselves. If they don't do this, they will have no chance to turn over.

In a phone call with King George V of England, Heg put the main responsibility for wrongly judging the German landing location to the poor Brighton Line Commander Lieutenant General Bita. In addition to suggesting to replace Bita with Alanby, who is also a cavalry commander, Heg also assured the British King that everything was under his control. Before the sun rose on December 28, he would use his superior forces to flatten the German landing troops in the Bones Beach area. George V, who was already at a loss, actually promised, and also approved Hag to mobilize all British fighter jets.

After that, Heg's general command showed amazing efficiency. The 1.42 million British troops stationed in southern England received orders at the first time. Except for leaving a small number of guards, all troops must assemble to Bonesmouth as quickly as possible. Heg optimistically estimated that at least one million troops could be concentrated on the periphery of Bonesmouth before dark. According to previous estimates of the German naval capacity, he knew that the German landing troops would not exceed 300,000, and there would be no heavy artillery support except naval guns.

忙于弥补这个大漏子的黑格却不知道自己在这个早晨做的越多错的越多,他不可原谅的轻视了博内茅斯驻军预备队遭到从背后而来的德军袭击这一情况,并将驻守在多弗尔要塞和防线周围的英军抽走了近一半,在兴登堡第5集团军进攻之前那里只剩下8万守军,要知道多弗尔的防守区域可比博内茅斯大得多.

"The fighter force attacked with all his might, driving away all the German airships and planes near Bonemouth, and forcing the German fleet to stay away from the beach!"

黑格终于将英军所有家当都推上这个赌桌,之前无论德国飞艇和飞机如何嚣张都隐忍不发的百余架英国战斗机终于要用在刀刃上了,而上次那好宣称要打下二十架德国飞机和十艘德国飞艇的英国飞行员也有了实现梦想的机会.在这132架英国战斗机中,有82架是正面装备了三挺刘易斯轻机枪的“雕”式战斗机,如果不是德国突击队的破坏和德国海军的封锁,这一数字还会更多.

The "Eagle" fighter jets are stronger than any previous British and French military aircraft, and their speed and firepower are higher than those of German bombers, torpedoes and most reconnaissance aircraft, and their performance is similar to that of the German "Seahawk II" carrier-based aircraft. In addition, those British pilots are elites selected from the British army, and Hegel has no doubt about the combat effectiveness they can achieve.

"Attention..."

位于登陆舰后部操纵区的舰员大声喊道,仅仅过了几秒,在噗的一声闷响之后,卡尔特瓦瑟所在的登陆舰顿时停了下来.幸好登陆舰本来的速度就不快,士兵们并没有因为不大的惯性而摔倒,随着舰体晃动了几下之后,卡尔特瓦瑟和他的同伴们屏住呼吸看着舰首的登陆梯板猛然向前倒下,博内茅斯海滩在如此近的距离完整而清晰的呈现在众人面前.

零星的火堆,冒烟的弹壳,残缺不全的防波堤,月球表面般坑洼的泥石海滩,那些刺耳的汽笛声是不断坠入海滩后方的炮弹所发出的,声音稍轻一些的则来自于从海滩后面飞出的炮弹,登陆舰艇上发射的一串串机枪子弹咻咻的从头顶飞过,海滩上飞来的机枪和步枪子弹声音由远及近,并且会在海水中溅起一排排,一朵朵十几厘米高,笔杆般粗的水花,或是在登陆舰船的舰体上砸出火星和叮当脆响.

It turned out that this was the landing operation. Many German soldiers, including Carter Wasser, had no time to think about it. A shout echoed through the sky broke out from the crowd on the landing ship:

"Run!"

Stepping through the landing pedal that was in contact with the water at the front, Carter Wasser strode into the sea. Whether the sea water was biting cold and whether the beach was soft by the tide, he had no feeling at all; the helmet on his head was no longer heavy at this time, he held the Mauser rifle tightly in front of his chest, with only the firm back of his companions in front and the beach less than ten meters away from him.
Chapter completed!