The three regiments under Li Qiwei, who are under the Murghan Li, have basically lost their true nature since the beginning of the battle. As the US military staff officers always like to say, tasks are tasks, plans are plans, and execution is carried out. The mixed three unrelated things will be disasters.

The Spinning Group of the Cylinder Airborne Division was commanded by Colonel William Ekman, and planned to 6 on the east bank of the Metler River, and three paratrooper battalions captured Lafiteer, Novell Opland, and St. Maune Igris. Because the plane deviated from the route and was extremely scattered during the airborne, the battalion commander of the 6th battalion only gathered a very small number of people. While advancing towards Lafiteer, he was blocked by the German army. The battalion commander and acting battalion commander were killed one after another and failed to complete the scheduled mission to occupy Lafiteer.

The 2nd Battalion was at the 6th place at the scheduled location. Lieutenant Colonel Van Divot broke his ankle at 6 o'clock. He asked the soldiers to push him with a cart to insist on command, gathering half of them to complete the attack on Norwire Oprah. Just as they were about to attack, they received an emergency order from the regiment commander. Since there was no news from the 3rd Battalion, in order to ensure that the regiment's main task was completed, the 2nd Battalion changed its original mission and replaced the 3rd Battalion to seize this important goal.

Van forced Woth to leave Lieutenant Turner to lead the seduce to monitor the enemy of Norville Oprah, and he led the rest to attack Saint-Main Igris south. Turner's squad later fought tenaciously for eight hours and repelled the German counterattack on Saint-Main Igris' north wing, but ultimately failed to hold on to the key Saint-Main Igris. The loss of Saint-Main Igris caused the supposedly connected Airborne Division, the Central Airborne Division and the First Special Operations Cluster of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, which were completely divided.

The 3rd Battalion of Lituan was located at the 6th place. The battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Klaus gathered the young people and, under the guidance of the local French guide, used the cover of night to capture Saint-Main Igris with sneak attacks. However, due to the interruption of communication, it was unable to report to the regiment in time. Then, with the 2nd Battalion that arrived, organized defenses, repelled the Germans' multiple counterattacks, and temporarily controlled this important transportation hub.

The carp regiment was commanded by Colonel George Millis. Jizai took 6 people on the west bank of the Metler River, captured Bervans and controlled the road leading from the northwest to the Metler River. Because the guidance team was eliminated by the German army, there was no sign of the airborne field. Most of the airborne troops were accidentally landed in the swamp. The battalion only gathered four people to attack Rafiel. The battalion commander of the 2nd Battalion Lieutenant Colonel Tims gathered to attack Endyreville, but because of too few troops, he was forced to fail in the attack due to his defeat in the attack.

On the spot, they moved into defense. The 6th of the 3rd Battalion was extremely scattered and could not move into an organized attack at all. Although the regiment commander was captured the next day after the 6th, the remaining personnel of the regiment were concentrated near Lafiteer by the battalion commander Tims, and tried their best to seize the bridge on the Metler River. After several hours of fierce fighting, the regiment failed to complete the scheduled mission, but the regiment still captured several important high grounds, restrained the German troops, and destroyed the stability of the German defense.

The nephew's regiment was commanded by Colonel Linbenster and planned to occupy Banglapet north of the Duver River, controlling the ferry on the Duver River, and the 3rd Battalion was used as a reserve for the division. Because the transport plane was fired by German air defense fire during airborne, it had to drop paratroopers at high altitude, causing the airborne troops to be scattered. The troops were divided and surrounded by the fast team of the 21st Armored Division of the German Army.

The division commander Li Qiwei had to say self-deprecatingly: "I have never seen so many officers leading so few soldiers to fight."

At this time, Li Qiwei, the commander of the Airborne Parachute Division, was not even sure who his left and right wings were? Are there friendly forces? Or enemies! Can his troops be cooperated by friendly forces? Nothing is known to Li Qiwei. Whenever he attempts to ask his subordinate officers, he will have frightened and nervous faces.

The commander of the nephew regiment, Taylor and a few of them, descended near Lafel, and were then finely transferred by the division commander Liech to the nearby ferry to participate in the battle. Most of the battalion and the 2nd Battalion landed in a solid fortification area of ​​the German army, with heavy casualties. The battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Bachele was killed, and the battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Charlie led the remnants of the two battalions to fight bloody battles. However, because the landing area belongs to the plains and lacks anti-tank weapons, Lieutenant Colonel Charlie eventually led the remnants of the name and the wounded to surrender.

The disaster was not over. The German troops deployed in Normandy had major adjustments when the war was implemented. The German 2nd Paratrooper Army entered the front line of Normandy. Historically, this unit was formed in France in Barn and was adapted from the former Air Force headquarters where Mandel was responsible for training the Air Force Field Division. At the beginning, the 3rd and Paratrooper Divisions were formed and trained. The army belonged to the 7th Army and the commander was Mandel.

The Hitler Guard Armored Division, known as the black lightning, also entered Normandy in advance. The arrival of the Hitler Guard Armored Division caused the 21st Armored Division, which was supposed to be in Caen, to move the base to the coastal defense line, and it was also the airborne location scheduled by the Allies. The French underground resistance organization had no time to send the news out.

The German troops that had not arrived after the success of Normandy 6 in history have entered Normandy, and the German combat troops that should not have appeared in Normandy in history have also appeared. Song Yuhang knew very well. This is because the German army's troops are relatively abundant. The large number of new weapons have significantly improved the combat effectiveness of the German army compared with history.

The Second SS Division, which had fought fiercely with the Allies near Caen and Sanlo, was the Imperial Division known as the Flower of the Empire.

Imperial No. 4. The most outstanding mutual card unit of the armed SS in World War II was the SS unit that was hit by the guards. It became a division-level SS unit. The division logo is the wolf hook in the ancient Nordic text, and it is said that it can give the holder a mysterious power to scare away wolves in the wilderness. The Imperial Division is composed of three most basic regiment flag teams. The German flag team, the German regiment, evolved from a purely Aryan-era SS. The German flag team consists of the SS in Hamburg. The Yuan regiment flag team was formed in Vienna. The captain of the second-level commando team Felix Steiner was a key figure who made the Imperial Division into an ace force.

During the Battle of Normandy in history, such a powerful brigade was equipped with Tianyu tanks and multiple assault guns. However, the imperial divisions that appeared in front of the Allies can be said to have reached the teeth. Not only did they have three battalions of Tiger-style three-type tanks and a large number of leopards, but they also received a certain degree of air support.

Song Yuhang stood in front of the map and silently, with busy figures everywhere in the command center. Eisenhower stood haggardly in the corner and was smoking alone. At this time, no one dared to disturb the supreme commander and reverse the current passive situation? Eisenhower had no choice but to operate the 6th. Operation Ding6 was still fully launched. In a few hours, the first batch of beach robbers were about to launch an attack.

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Everyone understands this simple truth, but it may take a certain amount of courage and luck to face it. Eisenhower knows that once the Ding 6 operation fails, it will not only be a complete failure of his military command career, but also makes the Allies lose the opportunity to regain strategic initiative and completely fall into unprecedented passiveness in the European battlefield.

The paratroopers obviously couldn't count on them anymore, and it seemed that everything was placed on the 6th unit!

Hitler boasted that his Flying Mile-long "Atlantic Barrier" defense system was impregnable. However, the sudden attack of the Allied forces caught the Germans off guard. Although the German army was much stronger than history, the number of German troops in the Normandy area increased and caused difficulties in airborne and beach hunting, all of this was relatively in comparison. Overall, the Allied forces still caught the Germans off guard.

From February to April every year, the English Channel is always strong and violent, and the waves are coming to the sky, and the ships are struggling to travel. Most of the German generals on the Western Front believed that in this harsh climate, the Allies would not attack until April.

The sunrise is around the point. The German General Command stationed in Paris received a report that there were US-British airborne divisions, which seemed like a "massive operation", but Commander-in-Chief Longdestedt believed that this was the Allied attacking the east and did not care. Then, the German naval forces on the western front reported to the General Command that according to the coastal radar report, there were a large number of black spots on the fluorescent screen. A huge fleet was advancing towards the Normandy coast.

But the chief of staff on the Western Front of Germany replied: "What? In such weather? It must be your technician who made a mistake! Maybe it was a group of seagulls?"

When the German army realized that such a large-scale airborne would definitely not be a feint attack, and asked Hitler to dispatch two armored divisions to deal with the Allied Airborne Division, Hitler forbidden his strategic reserve team. Hitler still insisted that this was just a restrained feint, believing that the Allied forces would definitely land in the Calais area. The Armored Division and the Twenty-first Armored Division of the Adolf Hitler Guard, which were stationed in Normandy, could annihilate the Allied paratroopers and cooperate with the Normandy defenders to drive the Allied into the sea.

The German armored troops on the Western Front had a total of 0 armored divisions and 3 heavy tank battalions. Six of them were commanded by Hitler himself, and the German Command believed that tanks were not suitable for use on the beach, so the 21st armored division deployed in the area near the beach had only 4-type tanks and 44-type self-propelled tank assault guns. Even so, the German quick response had caused the Allied paratroopers to completely lose their effect.

The German defenders in Normandy were six low and three regiments under the 7th Army. They had a coastal defense division with weak combat power, two infantry divisions and armored divisions with slightly stronger combat power. The Bamboo regiment was two independent infantry regiments and a paratrooper regiment with a total force of about 10,000 people. The fortifications were also relatively weak, and only a few independent support points for reinforced concrete were built. Most of the fortifications were field fortifications, and only a small number of anti-aircraft obstacles were set up in depth.

As early as March of the year, the German army deployed in France had only one full armored division, namely the Armored Division. Hitler judged in April of the year that Normandy would be the Allied Arrival and asked to send more troops. According to this instruction, Rommel transferred the Dixuan Infantry Division, who was formerly stationed in Saint-Lo, to Normandy together with the Armored Division and the Imperial Division of the Adolf Hitler Guard who were resting in France.

In history, it was this newly transferred elite infantry division that brought disaster to the US military at the beachhead of "Omaha".

On February 2019, in the early morning, the Allied large fleet of landing 6 arrived at the transfer area from the sea. The soldiers went down the rope net on the transport ship to landing 6 boats, and then formed a boat wave, cutting the waves and impacting the 6 beach head. The specific time of landing 6 is different due to the tides at each beach head. The earliest one was 6:30 on the beach head of Utah, and the latest one was 8:00 on the beach head of Juno.

Almost all Allied officers and soldiers were rubbing Bian in Mozhou. Song Yuhang knew very well that the battle on the beach at Utah was not very fox, so he was slightly relieved. After all, the Fifth Light Division of the Second Mechanized Army is a powerful brigade with rich combat experience in landing on the 6th. Whether it is Saipan or Iwo Jima, or even in landing on the 6th, there are the Second Mechanized Army. They are the powerful brigade of the war of a hundred battles.

The fire preparations before the 6th were started from midnight on February. The first batch of bombers dropped bombs at the German communication hub, command center, coastal artillery positions and other targets. The second batch of bombs dropped bombs at 5:00 on February 2018 at the German defensive positions on various beachheads. The two aviation fire preparations dispatched a total of 10,000 aircraft blades, dropped 6 tons of bombs, and dropped about 1,000 tons per kilometer on the front of the 6th. The third batch was mainly used to directly cover the 6th boats to grab the beach with low altitude strafing.

The Allied air support was almost impeccable. According to Suo Yuhang's requirements, some special incendiary bombs were used on the beach of Utah. Song Yuhang hoped to destroy the Germans' permanent fortifications. However, according to the German character, as long as conditions permit, they would definitely not build simple fortifications like the Japanese, so the bombing effect of the special incendiary bombs could only be waited for the beach rushing troops to inspect.

Utah Beach is a long and kilometer-long beach from south of Benneville to north of the Carontan River estuary on the eastern shore of the Cottonin Peninsula. It is a sand slope with a small slope. The Germans set up several obstacles on the sand slope, and behind the sand slope was a dry beach. Then there are nazhi, a sand dune that is small in width. The Germans built concrete forts on the sand dunes. Behind the beach is a swamp ranging from 3 kilometers wide, with only a few accesses available.

According to the previous plan, the U.S. Airborne Division must seize four to six trenches. The German army deployed a flying gun company in depth, 8 of which were hidden in the fortifications, with a total of artillery. The largest caliber in the cannon was octave 0 mm.

But the U.S. Airborne Division, which had already been too busy to take care of itself, could it be possible to assault Utah Beach and destroy those giant cannons with Omm caliber.

Oh February 2019, when the sun rose high from one end of the horizon, the 15th Regiment, the 16th Regiment, the 17th Regiment, and the 1st Combat Brigade of the Mountain Infantry, which was strengthened to be assigned to them, had completed boarding, and about a battalion of Allied Sherman tanks would be responsible for the fire cover of the beach.

The sword edge of the Chinese Expeditionary Force has pointed directly at the beach in Utah!

As the deputy of the First Battalion of the 15th Regiment, Major Huibo also served as the regiment's flag-holder; Fan Bo, who applied to return from the Nanjing regiment stationed in Japan to Europe to participate in the war, was already very upset that he had lost the opportunity to fight in the Far East. Many of his same group of officers have now worked as the regiment deputy, and he is still a major who enjoys his happiness in Japan. Several major operations in Tokyo have already released the resentment in his heart.

Now Fan Bo has realized that the biggest enemy of the soldier is not death, but peace! He can't stand it for a minute and a second in a peaceful environment. He really can't imagine what he will do once the war is really over?

The 6th boat was moving forward through the waves, and Fan Bo's heart was also undulating with the 6th boat. The waves on the sea were obviously too large. He is now very worried about the Sherman amphibious tanks, because the underwater propeller of the amphibious tank is very unreliable. Once the big waves cross the waveboard to submerge the motivation, it will be an unprecedented disaster.

The beach head of Utah was already covered by rolling smoke. Fan Bo wanted to look at the beach head with a telescope several times in a row, but was knocked back by the big waves. He was soaked all over and checked the military flag still intact before he breathed a sigh of relief. It was obvious that the Allied bombs were thrown into the right place.

The rolling smoke made all the officers and soldiers of the 15th Regiment feel full of confidence. The Japanese devils are no match for them, so how powerful can the German devils be? After the fight, the German devils went back to their hometown to buy some land. The beautiful vision of their wives and children on the warm kang made the Chinese soldiers very eager.

Boom! Boom! As the German artillery fire began to bombard, Fan Bo realized that the previous large bombings had basically been superficial. Thunder and raindrops were small!

With a huge explosion, the nearby quotation mark 6 boat was directly hit by a large-caliber grenade. With the violent explosion, the quotation mark 6 boat sank before the greedy wave could scream, and only some debris floated on the sea.

Fan Bofeizhuo knew that Chuang Gangzi carried a whole platoon of famous officers and soldiers on the 6th boat, and all of them disappeared in an instant! As the 6th boat was approaching, the German artillery fire became extremely fierce. Allied Mustang fighters circled back and forth and fired rockets to try to suppress the German shore firepower, but the results were very little.

The battle patrol firepower of the German army's large-caliber artillery was also constantly bounced and caught fire, and the pick-up personnel on the ship were running to put out the fire.

Only then did Fan Bo truly feel that the Germans and the Japanese were not the same country at the same strategic level, and the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army was not the same as that of the German army. Here, the firepower advantage that the Chinese Expeditionary Force is proud of seems to have become a disadvantage?
Chapter completed!