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If the Allied forces chose to cross the strait to land and fight on such a day, it must be that the waves were so big that Eisenhower's brain was filled with sea water.

This kind of information made Rommel, who commanded operations on the Western Front, return to Germany with peace of mind. He didn't care about the possibility of the Allied forces landing at all. He even went home to visit his family. Everything seemed quite peaceful.

Even though Rommel was so relieved, the generals stationed below were also much careless.

The Seventh Army in charge of garrisoning Normandy ordered the disarmament. They never dreamed that as soon as they relaxed their front feet, the forces of the Allied forces would burst in suddenly.

"Okay, stop talking about it!"

Sun Fumin waved his hand lightly, and got down to business, "The great historic moment is coming. Although the Allies will win this battle, we still need to make a complete plan, and we must minimize the casualties of the troops!"

Yan Chaoren nodded and smiled quickly: "The military seat is right. Let the 5th division take the lead. We promise to complete the task satisfactorily and never let the military seat down!"

Hearing this, Zhou Zhen immediately became unhappy, and stared at him and said, "Why, when did our 6th division ever counsel you, and when did we lose a battle?"

"Okay! Alright! This battle is a glorious mission for our entire army. Not only one division can eat alone, I guarantee that both of your divisions will have meat to eat. Let's go to the head office now!"

Seeing that the two men disagreed with each other, Sun Fumin was immediately amused and annoyed. These two favorite generals were also lieutenant generals, and their tempers were like children's.

However, Sun Fumin was very happy about this, because it meant that the morale of the troops was like a rainbow, and they had a high will to fight.

It is precisely because of the excellent strategic deception of the Allied forces that the Germans firmly believe that the Allied landing point is Calais, not Normandy.

The time soon came to June 1944, 6, which seemed to be an unusually peaceful day. The Allied forces preparing for the Normandy landing made their final preparations.

At one o'clock in the morning on June 6, the U.S. 6nd and 82st Airborne Divisions parachuted near the town of Notre Dame, occupying the road leading to the coast and preventing the enemy from strengthening coastal defenses.

That same night, the German army intercepted a coded telecommunication sent by the United Kingdom, but did not disclose the specific attack plan.

Under the influence of inertial thinking, the German army naturally believed that Calais was about to be attacked. However, they did not know that at the same time, the main force of the Allied forces was dispatched to the defenseless Normandy.

Even after the German defenders in Normandy noticed that the British and American air forces had landed and sounded the alarm, their superior officers did not think this was an operation worth paying attention to.

However, to the regret of the top German army, a few hours later, a large number of Allied bombers flew over the English Channel and appeared over Normandy to start their performance.

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Heavy aerial bombs fell from the sky with a sharp whistling sound, like a group of devils from hell tearing at the nerves of the German Normandy defenders.

Boom!Boom!Boom!

A moment later, these powerful and heavy aerial bombs let out an earth-shattering roar, splashing a burst of flames on the coastline of Normandy, illuminating the dimly lit coastline like daytime!

Chapter 1589

"Air attack! Enemy air attack, sound the alarm!"

"My God, with so many planes and such a large-scale bombing, is it possible that the Allied forces are about to land on the beach from us?"

"Damn it, isn't it the ghost weather you are talking about, the Allied forces will never land?"

"Shouldn't the Allied forces land in Calais?"

"Oh, God, help me! I don't want to die here!"

A large number of combat planes hovered overhead, and countless heavy aerial bombs rained down, blowing up the entire coastline of Normandy, as if the end of the world had come.

The German troops stationed along the coast were immediately under great pressure to survive, and they were in a mess for a while. They only felt that they had become a lone boat in the stormy waves, and if they were not careful, they would be smashed to pieces by the huge waves.

Not long after the large-scale air raid ended, the German defenders who had been devastated by the air raid had not recovered before they were shocked to find that a densely packed Allied fleet appeared on the sea in the distance.

As the Allied battleships, cruisers, destroyers and other main warships entered the effective range of the naval guns, the naval guns of various calibers on the ships began to fire one after another, and clusters of dazzling flames flashed on the warships.

Even tens of kilometers away, the German defenders could still feel the devastating power emanating from large-caliber naval guns.

Choo Choo Choo!

Just as they imagined, it didn't take long for extremely sharp screams to be transmitted from the distant sea, and they exploded in their ears with incomparable clarity.

Boom boom boom!

Immediately afterwards, as soon as a large-caliber naval gun was fired, it fell to the ground at no cost, and it fell to the coastline with waves of earth-shattering waves.

The huge explosion power made the entire coastline tremble. Even if the German defenders were hiding in extremely strong bunkers everywhere, they could still feel the obvious shock.

"How could a landing fleet of this size be just a feint?"

"No, the Allied forces are very likely to land in Normandy!"

"Quick, call Marshal Rommel immediately!"

At this time, if the German defenders in Normandy can't figure out what's going on, they might as well find a piece of tofu and kill them.

"Gentlemen, check the weapons and equipment, and prepare to land!"

"Gentlemen, the humiliation of the past must be washed away today!"

"Kill all the Germans who are standing still, without hesitation or mercy!"

"Brothers, get ready to fight. Our Huaxia Huben Army must not lose face in front of the Allies and the people of the world!"

"That's necessary. When did our Huaxia Huben Army fight or lose!"

"Damn, this scene is so beautiful. After we go back, we can brag about this bullshit for a lifetime."

Under the cover of the powerful artillery fire of the battleship, one after another the landing craft full of Allied soldiers and amphibious tanks rushed towards the coastline at an extremely fast speed like arrows leaving the string.

Although at this time, the weather in the sea area of ​​​​Normandy is very bad, the wind is strong, and the waves are higher than the waves, just at the time of high tide.

However, the Allied soldiers who were the first to attack were full of fighting spirit and fighting spirit, without any fear.

As the UK's natural barrier - the English Channel, the weather is very bad, [-] days a year experience strong winds and rainstorms.

The Normandy landing was an extremely complicated landing operation. Airborne troops, landing troops, covering fleets, and the air force had to cooperate closely. Bombers and warships needed to have a good line of sight to carry out precise strikes. Naturally, good weather was needed.

Otherwise, the entire landing operation will only get twice the result with half the effort, resulting in unbearable casualties.

This is a complex coordination issue. Each service has different requirements according to its own needs. The Army requires landing at high tide to reduce the time that troops are exposed to the beach.

The Navy requires landing at low tide to minimize damage to landing craft by obstacles.

The Air Force requires moonlight so that the airborne troops can identify ground targets.

Limited by the level of technology in the current era, the English Channel basically relies on the British meteorological team to make predictions. The accuracy is naturally very poor, and the predictions have been inaccurate several times.

This caused the Allied landings to be suspended several times, until the last successful prediction that bad weather would stop briefly on 6 June.

Finally, after serious consideration, scientifically formulate a plan suitable for each military service, and land between high tide and low tide. Since the tides of the five beaches are different, five different landing times are stipulated.

This made the Normandy landing operation finally successfully launched today.

"Brothers, go!"

"For justice and peace, charge!"

"Get rid of the Germans and fight back to China as soon as possible!"

"Kill!"

The expeditionary soldiers of the Huben Army took landing craft one after another, braved the wind and waves along the way, and finally washed up on the beach in the raging waves.

When the ship docked on the beach, the amphibious tank rushed down from the ship after preparing for a long time, splashing waves into the sky.

Immediately afterwards, the tank troops waded ashore at the fastest speed, and launched an attack towards the German bunkers that had begun to emit long tongues of flames.

The heavily armed infantrymen of the Huben Army did not show any weakness. They rushed from the hanging ladder of the ship into the knee-high sea water, and then followed the tank troops to the German beachhead amidst the constant beating of the turbulent waves.

In addition, there are a large number of combat aircraft cruising above the heads of the Allied forces, escorting the Allied landing forces.

"My God, the damn Orientals are rushing up!"

"Quick, fire and shoot!"

"It's over, their firepower is too fierce, our poor troops and fortifications can't stop it at all!"

The officers and soldiers of the Huben army rushed to the beach like tigers on the mountain, forming an extremely powerful attack formation in a short period of time, and continuously pulled down the fortifications one after another with a destructive force.

The few German defenders all became ashamed. They never dreamed that the Allied forces would land on the beach on a large scale today, and the opponent they encountered was the yellow-skinned and black-eyed Chinese army.

"Huh? Is this the Atlantic Barrier that the Germans have been touting for many years? Why is it just like paper?"

"Mother, isn't this too simple?"

"We haven't put in much effort yet, how did we succeed in breaking through all the way?"

"Yeah, it's like entering no one's land!"

On the other hand, the officers and soldiers of the Huben Army who had put in all their energy and thought that there would be a bloody and arduous battle were a little confused. For a while, they couldn't believe that success came so easily.

They put in all their strength and were mentally prepared for a bloody battle. As a result, they hardly encountered any decent resistance along the way. In less than an hour, the troops rushed several kilometers away and firmly occupied the deep enough ground. Beachhead.

"Okay, tell the front-line troops not to be cheap and be good-looking. Immediately wipe out the remnants of the enemy, expand the beachhead, and build defensive positions on the spot to prevent the Germans from counterattacking!"

After getting the relevant information, Sun Fumin breathed a sigh of relief. A smooth landing only means a good start, and the next step is the most dangerous.

Chapter 1590 Slaughterhouse

Due to the countless foreshadowing work done by the Allied forces before, Calais and Normandy were even bombed indiscriminately before landing, and the amount of bombs dropped on the Calais area exceeded three times that of the Normandy area.

These strategies and tactics succeeded in deceiving Nazi Germany into focusing their defense on Calais until now.

The completion of Normandy's coastal defenses was already insufficient, only 18% of the coastal engineering plan was completed, and the deployment of troops was also very weak.

This made the progress on almost all beaches go smoothly, and the Allied beachhead landing forces basically did not encounter too strong resistance, and easily occupied a sufficiently deep beachhead.

For example, the 4th Division of the U.S. Army lost more than 30 people just because of stepping on landmines during the landing, and the British Army encountered almost no resistance.

The only ones in trouble were the Canadians, the hapless Canadians were hit on 5 of 4 troop carriers in the first attack and most of the soldiers swam ashore.

However, with the support of the Cancer and Crocodile tanks of the 79th Division, they still won the beachhead without much effort.

Of course, there are exceptions to everything, and Omaha Beach is another story.

Allied amphibious tanks cannot withstand waves exceeding 1 meter in the worst case, and today's weather is extremely bad, especially the wind and waves in the Omaha waters exceed 2.4 meters.

Before landing, the U.S. military lost 10 landing craft and more than 300 officers and soldiers due to excessive wind and waves.Most of the officers and soldiers on the landing craft suffered from seasickness and humidity, and were basically exhausted before reaching the combat location.

Omaha Beach has a total length of 6.4 kilometers, and the coast is mostly cliffs with a height of more than 30 meters. The terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Due to erroneous intelligence, the Allied forces believed that the German garrison here was only as strong as one regiment, and most of them were reservists, without armored vehicles, and their combat effectiveness was very poor.

In fact, Rommel transferred all the elite 3nd Infantry Division of the German Army to Normandy in March, and one of the main regiments of the 352nd Division was stationed at Omaha Beach.It is a pity that the Allied intelligence agencies did not find out the whereabouts of the 352nd Division until after the landing force set off.

The attack on Omaha was designed in ten waves, and the wind and waves blew the troop carrier of the US 1st Division further south to the Utah Sea. When the landing ship returned to Omaha, it had already mixed with the second wave of soldiers.

Twenty of the first wave of 24 tanks of the U.S. First Division were overturned, and the crew and the tanks sank to the bottom of the sea, and most of them were drowned.

Without tank support, when the door of the infantry troop carrier was opened, the German machine gun bullets poured over, killing the American soldiers like cutting leeks, while the surviving soldiers could only jump out of the ship and hide in the waves.

Due to tidal influence and disordered order, many U.S. soldiers who landed were confused about the direction and assembly point, and a large number of soldiers huddled on the beach and let the German artillery attack.

For a full two hours, not a single U.S. soldier washed up on the beach in the western section, and only occupied a 9-meter-wide section of the beach in the eastern section. The landing operation almost completely failed.

The machine gun and artillery fortifications carefully constructed by the German army in Omaha made Omaha Beach a slaughterhouse for the US military.

For at least the first 6 hours, the U.S. military was pinned down on the beach.

Bradley, who saw the horrors on the beach from the command ship, sent a telegram to Eisenhower that the Omaha offensive had failed.

But because of communication problems, Eisenhower did not receive the telegram until several hours later, and the situation had changed by this time.

The German artillery shells began to be insufficient, and the firepower became sparse and the coordination was poor. More and more American soldiers crossed the beach and came to the relatively safe sea defense embankment.

At this time, the deputy commander of the US 1st Division landed ashore with a new wave of soldiers. He knew that what was needed here was not a general but a commander.

He scanned the beach. There were infantrymen, sappers, and Rangers.

He quickly assembled a company-sized army, and shouted at the beach: "There are only two kinds of people on the beach, one is dying, and the other is dying, come, drive the devil out of here! ".

Encouraged by the chief, more and more soldiers joined the charge, and soon the Germans were driven off the cliff.

At the same time, because there was no contact from the beach landing force for a long time, the US Navy commander realized that the situation on Omaha Beach might be extremely serious.

As a result, 17 destroyers of the U.S. Navy, regardless of the danger of being hit by mines, stranded, or blown up by 155mm coastal artillery, advanced to a distance of only 730 meters from the beach to provide fire support for the landing of the U.S. military at close range.

Later, under the guidance of the Air Force, the battleships and cruisers of the US Navy also began to shoot at the shore, and the German defense basically collapsed.

It was not until dark that the US military officially landed successfully.

According to post-war statistics, the casualties of the Allied forces in the Normandy landing battle on the beachhead were not high, with a total casualty number of about 1. Among them, the worst was the US 1st Division attacking the Omaha beachhead, which suffered more than 5 casualties, including 2500 casualties. About [-] people.

As we all know, the U.S. military is different from the Soviet army in that many institutions that have been disabled can continue to fight. The combat methods of the U.S. military are very different from the Soviet army.

The U.S. military attaches great importance to the casualties of soldiers, and their advanced weapons and equipment and combat qualities generally do not cause so many casualties. An infantry division with more than 2000 casualties is considered a major casualty.