Volume Five: The Battle of Britain Chapter 103: The Day of the Landing (9)
The irregular sound of gunfire never stopped. Even in the night, the beachhead where the bullets were raining, you could see corpses in a row through the faint moonlight. The dead were scattered between obstacles on the beachhead positions. They charged together during their lifetime, and after their death, they lie together. The rifle that was wiped smoothly and brightly was still with them.
The British occupied the high ground and continued to rush toward the low beach positions. The shooting trajectory containing light bullets, and life-threatening bullets were fired out of every bunker. The British soldiers were vaguely heard hysterically shouting slogans in the gunshots, and the eyes of the humans turned red like beasts. The busy soldiers, their ears were bleeding without any exception, and they could know that this was the effect of the giant cannon that was shocked by the naval guns.
The beachhead position that has been blown up so badly, even though many bunkers and bunkers have been destroyed, its circular blocking fortifications still have strong defensive effects. The only remaining six fire points, the narrow shooting ports never stop protruding the flame tongue, and the crisp "da da" sound of the "da da da da" occasionally pauses to change the links, and soon starts to chant the melody of the god of death again.
Private George, a recruit who has been recruited for less than three months, operates a water-cooled heavy machine gun. This ancient monster has not lost its power with time. In fact, it has never been ignored.
The machine gun invented by Maxim. Maxim conducted a principle test in 1883. The first truly successful automatic weapon with gunpowder gas as the energy source. Its caliber is 43 mm, the gun weighs 27.2 kg, and the barrel is short and the rear seat is 9 mm) automatic, and the water-cooled barrel is used. It uses a canvas ammunition belt with a capacity of 333 rounds and a 6.4-meter-long canvas ammunition belt. The ammunition belt can be connected, and the theoretical rate of fire can be fired per minute, which can be single and continuous. It can also be adjusted to a slow rate of fire/min through the rate of fire adjuster. The Maxim machine gun has a complex structure and is relatively bulky in water-cooled barrel. The reliability of the canvas ammunition belt becomes worse after being damp, but it is still one of the most popular heavy machine guns at present.
The terrifying rate of fire per minute and simple operation and use function, even George, a new recruit who had just served, could operate it to continuously shoot at the beach. From being attacked to entering the blocking position, the lonely George had been in this bunker for half an hour without a comrade. In the short half an hour, the bullets fired out in half an hour were calculated according to a link of bullets. He used 13 German soldiers. There were definitely more than 50 German soldiers who fell into George's hands. Half an hour ago, he was a new man who could only use a rifle and had not touched the Maxim heavy machine gun.
In the battlefield where bullets fly, the German soldiers who were suppressed by heavy machine guns felt like they were in hell. They only advanced about five meters from robbing the beach to landing. This small result was a heavy price. The three companies that robbing the beach had more than 200 casualties in less than half an hour. However, only six heavy machine guns and a few infantrymen were killed or killed!
Although the staff of the former Marine Corps had made various assumptions, they were still hit by situations they had never encountered before when they were attacking.
Imagine the soldiers who had just trekked out of the sea and were wet all over. They were in an empty and uncovered position, with soft sandy beaches that were difficult to pass quickly, and in front of them were bullets that were constantly firing. These soldiers lost their ability to respond quickly due to their weight and tension. What would happen to them in the machine gun barrage?
On the observation boat in the original place, several school-level officers watched their troops being suppressed with a pale face. They even saw soldiers rushing up to the British bunker with the determination to die and project grenades at the British bunker, but they just emerged from their crawling posture and immediately turned into a corpse. These were not all. The projection of the death warriors failed. The engineers holding the blasting tubes were very clever to dig trenches and trenches. However, the wading of the beach made it difficult to form the trenches. When the heavy and clumsy engineers approached slightly, they were greeted by the grenades thrown by the British soldiers from a high place, which became corpses again.
"It's so scary! It's so scary. If you destroy it like this, you have such a strong blocking ability? The losses of this beachhead are enough to offset the casualties data of the ten Polish battles, and this is just the beginning..."
The German soldiers squeezed on the beachheads and had no way to retreat. Even if they wanted to make them tactical back, they could not help them to provide position marks to make it difficult to clear the British firepower points by naval guns.
"Where are those amphibious tanks!?"
"They were dragged behind by some strange thing from the bottom of the sea!"
Indeed, the British would not have allowed the German Third Reich to succeed so easily. Their preparations were not for decoration. In addition to the necessary beachheads, the British also set up difficult obstacles on the seabed and threw countless deep water mines. These mines may not threaten light beach grabbing tools, but they are still more than enough to deal with things below five meters of the water surface ruler. The deep water mines that were originally used to threaten submarines unexpectedly encountered amphibious tanks that they had not expected in advance.
The soldiers driving immature amphibious tanks were unable to see anything. They breathed the air provided by the oxygen cylinder in a narrow space and advanced hard on the direction indicated by the compass.
When the amphibious tank driver is upset to drive the big guy to climb before climbing at the speed of a turtle, perhaps the sound from the tank's engine will change in tune the next second, which is entangled by obstacles and cannot move forward.
When trying many times, they still couldn't move forward, they would first look at each other in shock, but shouted that they were unlucky. In the end, they chose to prepare to open the top cover and dive into the water as a soldier who had lost his combat tools.
Soldiers who are entangled by obstacles and lose their combat tools are not the most unlucky ones. They can at least see the sky on the sea.
Several sounds were like a dull sound like fried fish, and water columns soared into the sky. Soon after, bubbles continued to emerge on the water surface, and then some oil stains mixed with blood appeared in one go.
These amphibious tank drivers probably never imagined their own way of death until they died...
The armored equipment was unable to support it, and the soldiers who had already rushed to the beach had to lower their heads and move forward like caterpillars. Although they were very careful, they were still hit with heavy casualties. The condescending firepower point would not lose their shooting angle because of whether the enemy was lying down.
"Stand by! You must hold on!"
The second lieutenant with a silver star hanging on the collar seal covered his neck with both hands, which was constantly bleeding foaming. The soldiers under him wanted to say something but were blocked by blood and could only swallow "um-wow" and "wow".
It can be seen that the soldier who was shot on the neck was still very young. His eyes were filled with longing for survival when he was dying. Although the young soldier's neck was covered with wounds in a very scientific way, the blood was still astringent like a fountain of blood. It seemed that the blood was about to flow, and the blood foam gushed out of his mouth became less, and the painful throbbing sound turned into a subconscious murmur. The low voice repeated: "Mom...Mom..."
The second lieutenant could no longer feel the pulse of the robe in his hand. He showed a sad expression but his head was pushed by something. When he stabilized his body again, he took off his helmet and touched his head. When he touched the bullet hole in the helmet and found that he was not injured, the face that had just shown a relief expression frozen, and a blood hole was cut by a bullet on his forehead. The lost body fell down and covered the young soldier.
Some of the beach-grabbing tools that were blown up were just parked at the beach, and there were several burning corpses in the fierce flames.
After suffering unprecedented heavy losses, the German officers and soldiers kept asking: "Where are our tanks? Where are they!"
Well, the battles encountered by the German army in the past were too simple. They won one victory after another with the powerful armored force and the air force. For a while, there was no coordination between armored force and air force. These young men who had just been reorganized from various troops into Marines obviously had not adapted.
Maximilian, who rolled up his body to avoid bullets, could not deny that he was very scared now. He was like his comrades who participated in such an offensive method for the first time. Even if he was suppressed in this damn beachhead for more than fifteen minutes, he had not calmed down.
These officers and soldiers who could not advance would not know that due to Britain's rapid response and tough counterattack, the hidden Royal Air Force launched a full-scale attack. All the German air forces that were supposed to assist the landings in the area were transferred to fight. Otherwise, they should now quickly seize the beachhead under the British firepower point where Stuka blew up the beachhead, and then leave this damn place to advance until the remaining defenders were cleared and marched to other places to divide and encircle the British.
Of course, not every beach rushing force is in a tragic situation like the R3 area. Many friendly forces have successfully landed without any resistance. More landing troops have advanced to various British cities with the cooperation of some paratroopers. It is estimated that they can take all the important roads into their hands before noon.
"Stop sending soldiers to the beachheads and contact the Navy and let them cover and shoot at the targets sent back in front."
"We're there Marines..."
"I don't want to repeat the order!"
"Yes..., ah! Look, they finally went up!"
In the scattered flames, Maximilian cunned in a dead corner of British shooting, carrying a flame weapon picked up from the dead engineer. When he was waiting for him to use the short gap in the defenders' replacement of the chains to get up and roll into a crater under the bunker, the defenders above him resumed their shooting.
Maximilian, who was half lying, raised his ** tube tremblingly, and a flame tongue quickly aimed at the shooting mouth that was sucking the flame tongue and spit out: "Go to die, you damn British guys!
Chapter completed!