Imperial Overlord

The battle on Crete was still going on while Li Le and officials discussed German military manufacturing and German plans to invade the Soviet Union. . fastest update

As Germany's head of state, when Li Le planned to design a different road and create a different Barbarossa plan, the German Army borrowed a large number of Greek and Italian fishing boats to launch landing exercises on the Mediterranean Sea.

"Damn it! You vomited on me!" Holding the weapon in his hand, a German soldier looked at his pale comrades beside him with a displeased expression.

"Right... I'm sorry... vomit!" The poor comrade-in-arms had been seasick since he left the port in Greece, and by this time, he was about to vomit out his stomach.

On the narrow deck, many German soldiers were not used to the turbulence of the sea. They can gallop across the land, but cannot endure the pain of drifting at sea.

"Is the Führer trying to kill us? Without training or preparing anything, he sent us to this ghost place." Although there was no vomiting, the smell of digestive juice floating on the boat made it alright. The soldiers of the matter also began to feel nauseated.

This is a huge fleet, so large that it consists of hundreds of ships. Including the Greek civilian ships that were requisitioned, and those who were transferred from Italy.

The smallest ship contained only 20 heavily armed German soldiers. The largest Italian transport ship was loaded with more than 1,100 people.

An infantry division, a full-staffed German infantry division, was in such a mess, and drove to a place close to Crete by boat.

"Boom!" The huge cannon sound roared past, as if to shatter one's eardrums. The sound of the air being torn apart made the hair stand on end, and the icy sea water hitting the face always reminded the parties that they were not on land.

"Bastard! Does the Italian Navy have any brains?" While rubbing his ears, a soldier complained loudly.

The main guns equipped on the Italian battleship Cavour were violently attacking the enemy positions on the shore. But the other party seemed to be dead, and no one fought back.

"There is nothing on the beach of the enemy... They have no coastal defense guns firing, and they have not responded..." Putting down the telescope, the Italian captain of the battleship Cavour explained to the German division commander who had just boarded the ship. situation.

Since yesterday, the two Cavour-class battleships have been shelling various areas of Crete non-stop. But the other party just didn't fire back, which made him feel uncertain.

The German teacher's face is not good-looking, and the feeling of drifting on the sea is not a happy thing for him.

If he hadn't been on the biggest ship all the way, maybe he would be lying on the side of the ship and vomiting like most of his soldiers now.

"My troops were still fighting on the shore the day before yesterday, and even half of them couldn't find a lifebuoy. Isn't the Supreme Command playing with the lives of soldiers by making such a plan?" The German division commander covered his mouth with a handkerchief, confused. Indistinctly complained to his subordinates.

He didn't dare to question the Führer's order, so he had no choice but to take the High Command as his target. It's a pity that complaining is complaining, and he can only come here with the troops.

"The first batch of landing troops are changing to small boats... Are they going to use smoke bombs?" The chief of staff frowned and asked his division commander.

Of course, the smoke bombs actually asked the Italian navy to hit the shore, so these words are actually asking the commanders of the Italian navy.

"Let the cruisers and destroyers fire! Fire smoke bombs and cover the beach!" The Italian naval officer still had some real skills. Hearing the demand of German friendly forces, he immediately ordered.

"Boom! Boom!" With the addition of small-caliber artillery, the beach suddenly became lively, all kinds of smoke began to spread, and the German army changed their landing ships pale in the deafening sound of the artillery.

Big boats can't get close to the beach, so if you want to land on the beach, you can only change to small boats. Before the invention of amphibious landing ships and professional beach landing ships, transfer was the most annoying and troublesome part of landing troops.

"The commander's order has arrived! Everyone pays attention! Start the transfer!" On numerous large and small ships full of German troops, the order was repeated over and over from the broadcast speakers, and the huge fishing-net-shaped rope ladder was pushed from the side of the ship by the sailors. Going down, the roll and droop extended all the way to the sea along the side of the ship.

"Hold on to the rope! Board the boat! Quick!" On a long and narrow fishing boat, the German company commander pressed his weapon and loudly warned his soldiers to pay attention to safety. These soldiers were crowded on the deck, and the uneasy atmosphere made Everyone was depressed.

More than two-thirds of the people here have not practiced this kind of boat transfer, and half of the remaining one-third have only seen it but never tried it.

In the end, less than one-sixth of the total remaining soldiers climbed the rope ladder pitifully only once before being sent to the front line of Crete.

After turning over the safety rails, these infantrymen, carrying their weapons and luggage, carefully climbed down the rope ladder a little bit. For a while, the German troops on the rope ladder were densely packed, like ants hugging each other.

Watching the last soldier under his command turned over the railing on the side of the ship and climbed onto the rope ladder, the company commander and other officers also turned over the railing and climbed along the rope ladder to the boat.

"Everyone listens to the password! Go up the rope ladder!" The same thing happened on another boat in the distance. Although the scene was chaotic and inefficient, it was undeniable that the German soldiers were still very disciplined and acted as much as possible in accordance with the orders of their superiors.

"Ah, ah... ah!" On the netted rope ladder, a German soldier was carrying a heavy backpack, but he lost his center of gravity and fell into the sea.

Because there are all kinds of things on his back, the unlucky guy fell into the sea and didn't show his face again.

Only someone was heard shouting, and then there was a thumping sound of falling water. The surrounding soldiers stopped their footsteps and looked at the direction of the sound.

"Pay attention to the strength of your hands! And be careful of your feet! Don't look anywhere else! Stupid! If you fall, you will die!" A German officer shouted loudly, pulling everyone back to reality.

German soldiers who couldn't swim, with heavy backpacks on their backs, simply couldn't have survived. Before the enemy fired a shot, someone on his side fell into the water and died, and the atmosphere of the entire landing force suddenly became depressed.

"Keep going! Gentlemen! Don't mess up! Be careful! Don't fall! If you fall too, you are also dead!" While urging his soldiers, the German officer cautiously grabbed the rope ladder and shouted loudly .

"What? Before the landing began, 17 people fell into the water and died?" Hearing the report of his subordinates, the German division commander's face turned from white to black, and he asked in a bad tone.

It has only been 4 days since I received the order. The entire infantry division, as preparation, just counted the soldiers who could swim, distributed some extra food, and gave the soldiers a day off.

Only a small group of troops have gone through the simple training of landing to run from the sea to the beach... Don't doubt, it's so simple!

Under such circumstances, if the troops really want to find the feeling of landing, that is the real nonsense. So this landing, from the very beginning, was doomed to be a tragedy.

"Let the troops attack! It is estimated that we will drop 2,000 corpses on the beach..." The German division commander complained to the chief of staff beside him with a bitter expression.

His eyes were resentful, like a little daughter-in-law who was angry: "I will definitely become famous. My unit may be the one with the largest attack loss in the history of the German army."

On this side, the division commander was complaining helplessly, while on the other side, the German army had already spread out quite a number of troops at sea. The first batch of troops attacked a regiment of soldiers, but the number was actually not many.

Counting the miscellaneous reinforcements for this landing infantry regiment, the total number of the first wave attacking the German army was only more than 2,300, which was actually not much.

When these German soldiers complained, rowed their oars in desperation, and slowly approached the beach of Crete, everyone was praying that they would not be hit by a sudden bullet and fell into the depths. in the bottom of the sea.

For the heavy burdened traditional infantry, especially the landlubbers who have no experience in landing and do not know how to deal with falling water, only 70 cm of water is enough to drown them.

"Get off the boat! Get off the boat! We're going back to pick up someone else." The Italian naval sailor rowing lowered his voice and ordered the Germans to get off the boat.

Although most of them were in Italian that the Germans could not understand, the word disembarkation was actually spoken in German~www.wuxiaspot.com~ So the German soldiers could only jump off the ship with their weapons and ammunition.

The slightly icy sea water soaked the pants and shoes of the German soldiers. Some people couldn't stand the temperature and let out a low cry.

Accompanied by the distant sound of cannons, more soldiers were drowning in uncomfortable sea water, and under the cover of smoke bombs, they touched the beach of Crete little by little.

The large-scale landing operation of the German army with a scale of more than one infantry division, which has never occurred in history, made its debut in the history rewritten by Li Le.

Although the enemy did not fire back, more than 50 soldiers and two officers were lost during the landing.

Some of these people fell into the sea and drowned during the transfer, and some tripped and drowned in the deep sea on the shore...

And on the beach, the first batch of German boots had already stepped on the beach, and most of their hanging hearts had already dropped at this moment! ——

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