However, the attentive Panzer III tank drivers also discovered that not far from them, the simulated British defenders had set up three firepower points on the left and right sides, and these three firepower points played a very good role in blocking this only
The role of exports.
Even if the defensive force participating in the exercise on this beach is only one regiment, and this is a simulated force after the extreme amplification of difficulty. However, in war, it is not useless if there are few people. At least the commander of the defensive side is fully exercised.
The regiment was dispersed and deployed very well.
If the landing party does not observe carefully and accidentally falls into their fire strike range, then what awaits the landing force will be a "massacre".
Fortunately, they discovered this problem in time and reported it to the landing party headquarters.
Soon, the command headquarters mobilized air troops for support. After the participating bombers flew a few times in the sky, the three firepower points were soon announced by the exercise referee that two of them had been completely destroyed, and the remaining two were completely destroyed.
One firepower point is also in a semi-disabled state.
After clearing the obstacles, the remaining 18 No. 3 submersible tank troops faced an uphill climb. When going uphill, the speed of the tanks was very slow, which made people have to be on guard. Everyone prayed for the defense at this time.
The party will not suddenly launch an attack on them.
Of course, this worry is unnecessary. After all, the defenders are seriously short of troops. In fact, the British troops are even scarcer. Therefore, as long as the landing force performs normally, the defenders will not have extra troops to counterattack.
Suddenly, a second lieutenant who was following the tank with his infantry exclaimed: "What is that in the sky?"
It must be said that this exclamation really frightened the comrades around the soldier. But fortunately, there was no practice of a sudden attack by the defenders, but a bunch of balloons in the distance were pulled up.
The Army didn't know, but the related Air Force had already heard the names of these balloons from Reinhardt.
Although during the exercise, these balloons were connected with ordinary coarse cloth strips, in fact, these cloth strips would be replaced with extraordinary iron chains, that is, multiple strands of steel wires connected together. After the British Air Force failed to resist, the British
Undoubtedly, a large number of such air-proof balloons will be launched into the air to play a limited obstructive role.
These air defense balloons naturally have no effect in the eyes of the Army, but for the Air Force, especially the German Air Force, which likes to use dive bombers, they are a fatal threat!
In real life, this kind of thing is similar to a mine. There are steel cables between the air defense balloons to prevent enemy fighters from diving and dropping bombs. The famous Stuka dive bomber cannot dive bomb under the influence of air defense balloons, and it will become
Gain nothing.
As for the German high-altitude horizontal bombing, it can basically be ignored because the accuracy is too low.
Of course, this kind of air defense balloon also has advantages and disadvantages for the British, because it limits German bombers and also limits the British's own bombers. However, the British army cannot actually show the location where the German troops landed.
It only matters how many fighter planes come to resist.
Of course, this is an exercise after all, and Reinhardt will definitely not actually build a bunch of steel cables. Therefore, the air defense balloons in the exercise are just a group of guys tied with thick cloth strips.
The remaining 18 surviving No. 3 submersible tanks finally encountered no new round of resistance and successfully captured the beachhead.
After solving all the obstacles on the beach, they then came to the construction area of the seaside town close to the beach. Only by capturing this place can the landing force establish the next relatively solid landing site.
After that, what caught the eyes of the landing troops were the low white buildings in the town. In front of the buildings, large and small "defensive bunkers" were built. These bunkers had a very good view of the beach.
A bunker has good shooting range and layout.
Also, the forts near the defensive buildings on the beach are really speechless. Look at the trench infantry here relying on the buildings, forts, trenches and other defenses to fight against each other. They knew what was waiting for the German infantry.
A bloody baptism.
Although the bunkers and forts were all wooden models with labels hung on them, they did let the landing party understand why the referee announced that the landing party had suffered such heavy losses during the previous landing.
As for the internal terrain of the town, it is even more complicated. Every street is connected to various bunkers and fortresses as well as every fort here, and fatal bullets may be fired from every building here.
With the "fierce attack" of the landing force during the exercise, they were able to "break through" every building, every bunker and every fort after a few hours, and then occupied the entire town.
After that, a landing site was set up on the west side of the town to prepare for the use of the second batch of landing troops.
Early the next morning, the British support troops simulated in the exercise arrived and retook the high ground on the west side of the landing site. The garrison troops surrounding the landing site were ordered to clear out the enemies on the high ground on the west side of the landing site.
However, the defenders were at the end of their strength at this time, and soon the high ground on the west side of the landing field was successfully captured by the attackers.
In fact, after the beachhead was captured, the outcome of this exercise was already determined. The reason why the British reinforcements were arranged to counterattack was just to simulate the subsequent battle, not to test the development of the battle situation.
However, in the previous landing exercises, although the participating troops still achieved victory on the basis of strengthening the simulated British garrison, the excessive casualty rate also made Reinhardt feel distressed.
Compared with the Army, which has acquired new equipment such as diving tanks but lacks landing experience, the airborne paratroopers who have been simulating combat have performed very well.
As a member of the visiting delegation sent by the 3rd Parachute Division, a captain who had served in the SS and was later transferred to the 3rd Parachute Division smiled and said to a young man next to him with an informal expression: "Lei
Well, did you see that? So we paratroopers don’t need to do pre-war exercises. After all, our training results are already much higher than theirs. Hahaha..."
After hearing this, the young paratrooper squad leader named Renn looked at his unlucky leader with a worried expression.
"Captain, it's better to say this in private. It wouldn't be good for the commander of the exercise to hear." Ren advised in a low voice.
"What's wrong with this?" the captain waved his hand indifferently: "Speaking of which, we paratroopers will have to set off before them. By then we will all be on British soil. If something goes wrong with them, it will be bad luck.
It’s not us.”
"Just smile at them." The captain smiled and patted Ren on the shoulder: "When I was in the SS, let alone pointing fingers at the people of the Wehrmacht. Even if I was grabbing trophies from the Wehrmacht,
It’s also commonplace.”
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore." The captain put away his smile and said to Ren in a mysterious and low voice: "My old superior in the SS sent me a message and asked me to send a squad to help them carry out an honorable mission.
mission.”
Glorious mission?!
Ren swallowed his saliva. It was unlucky to hear these words coming from his captain.
Sure enough, Renne was not kept waiting for too long. The captain spoke to him: "When I heard that the SS was organizing elites to go to the UK to rob prisons, the first thing I thought of was you."