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A National Guard soldier who was trying to cross the path and rush to the opposite side was hit by a bullet. He trembled and fell to the side of the sandbags. The young man, who looked to be 20 years old at most, was twitching there.
After two strokes, he stopped moving.
Not far away from him, two German soldiers were holding rifles and shooting fiercely at their targets. They were attacking a position stationed by a British Army regular company, which was a five-story residential building.
In fact, the original effective position of the British army was not only this five-story building, but also several low-rise residential buildings around it. However, the five-story building with the highest tactical value had only one left due to the deployment of the British 11th Division.
More than seventy soldiers from the infantry company continued to stand firm on the position.
The National Guardsmen in the small houses around them had long since died, fled, and dispersed like birds and beasts.
"Machine gun team! Set it up upstairs here! Shoot on the fifth floor over there and cover the second row of infantry approaching there!" A German infantry platoon leader leaned against the wall of a two-story building and faced
The soldiers behind ordered loudly.
To be honest, this was the easiest battle he had ever fought. The German army responsible for the cross-river attack was the second army that attacked all the way from Portsmouth, not the general of the German, French and Norwegian Allied Forces, Stuart.
of paratroopers.
The German soldiers who had now crossed the Thames were surprised to find that the forced crossing was so easy.
It was different from the time when they landed in Portsmouth. At that time, although the British National Guard coastal defense troops stationed there were useless, they still resisted for a while. After the position was irreversibly broken through, they fled or fled again.
surrender.
But this time, the National Guard on the north bank of the Thames almost collapsed on its own before the German army could complete the crossing.
It's no wonder that the National Guard is no longer able to fight with the same courage as it did at first.
After all, at the beginning, the British mainland had not been successfully invaded by outsiders for hundreds of years. At that time, their psychological defense line existed, and the situation had not completely collapsed.
But later on, the Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms were gaining momentum all the way, and every single one of the British troops was taught how to behave.
Not to mention the temporarily recruited National Guard militiamen, not even the British army officers and soldiers could withstand this kind of pressure.
The troops at Dunkirk were considered elite. As a result, 200,000 people surrendered en masse. By the way, they also gave away all the best weapons and equipment in the British army.
Today, many of the Norwegian troops fighting the British army in the UK use British Expeditionary Force equipment that the Germans resold to them at low prices.
Speaking of which, Germany gained substantial benefits from its previous wars with Britain and France.
Not to mention anything else, when the British-French-Norwegian Expeditionary Force surrendered, when the British Expeditionary Force surrendered, and when France surrendered as a whole, the equipment captured by the German army was enough to equip an army of millions.
Among these weapons, the German army kept the best part for its own use. These included French artillery, British and French armored vehicles, transport vehicles, and a lot of guns and ammunition, which were packed and reserved for the SS when they expanded the second-line remaining troops.
equipment.
The remaining weapons that the German army looked down upon, or that were not easy to implement logistically, were resold by Reinhardt at low prices to countries such as Norway, Romania, and Finland that were expanding their armies in large numbers and were in the same camp as Germany.
However, the British have no chance to regret and feel resentful. Because the Thames River defense line they rely on to maintain their positions in northern London is collapsing across the board.
In the area where the British 11th Division is stationed, the National Guard's supporting defense forces here have basically disappeared. The remaining regular officers and soldiers of the British Army are also struggling to support the final bottom line and fulfill their last responsibilities for the capital.
A German mg42 machine gun was quickly set up under the busy work of the machine gun team. On the second floor of a building whose roof had been torn off by previous bombings, leaving only a broken wall, the muzzle of the gun was stretched out of the window and aimed at
Arriving at the British building position a little further away, they were waiting for the order from the platoon leader downstairs. They only waited for the opportunity to open fire and suppress the commanding heights of the British army on the opposite side.
Downstairs, the bullets fired by the British army from a five-story height splashed up a cloud of smoke mixed with stone particles at the feet of the German platoon leader. The platoon leader was not timid at all and was very skillful in confirming the machine gun position.
After finishing, he shouted to the anti-tank team behind him: "Anti-tank team, come to me and bring your iron fists!"
Immediately afterwards, he squatted down against the wall, waiting for the rocket launcher team to run up, then patted their shoulders, put his face next to their ears, put his hand in front of the other person's eyes and pointed: "Do you see the building over there?
The French defenders there are resisting stubbornly. If we defeat them, the British troops in this area will have no firepower worth mentioning!"
The soldier carrying the Iron Fist III rocket launcher nodded, indicating that he had heard the order clearly, then changed positions with the platoon leader, stood at the corner of the wall, and stuffed a rocket into the barrel of the rocket launcher.
When the platoon leader saw that the Iron Fist team was ready, he immediately gave a loud order: "Three, two, one, fire! Machine gun fire cover!"
After saying that, he took a step forward, picked up the G43 semi-automatic rifle in his hand, and fired all the bullets in his magazine at the window on the fifth floor of the building that was constantly spraying flames.
The mg42 machine gun that had been ambushed on the second floor above his head also roared, spraying flames and tracer bullets towards the British five-story position that was higher than their position, emitting a cloud of smoke and instantly tilting the maximum firepower.
The soldiers of an infantry squad on the other side of the first floor also picked up their weapons and fired fiercely at the target opposite them. The bullets hit the building where the British infantry company, which was not fully staffed, was holding on.
The advantage of the German army's dense firepower was fully exploited to the extreme at this moment.
Of course, the firing positions of the German units were all lower than the British positions. If they continued to fight, they would still suffer a geographical disadvantage.
The reason why they launched such a sudden attack was not just to rely on their stronger firepower and ignore the geographical disadvantages. On the contrary, the German platoon leader ordered this attack precisely to solve this disadvantage.
Intensive attack speed.
His purpose is to cover the most critical Iron Fist rocket launcher from hitting the solid high-rise building and completely solve the problem!
The anti-tank man carrying the Panzerfaust anti-tank rocket launcher didn't waste any time. He slid forward, half-knelt on the ground, leaned against the wall and took aim at his target.
"Boom!" A thick smoke sprayed out from the tail of the rocket launcher, and an improved rocket with a large amount of reduced air resistance quickly flew towards its target, followed by a violent explosion.
The active British army position suddenly went silent!
