The decisive battle against the Third Reich

This feeling of powerlessness on the battlefield is terrifying... It's like knowing your own death date but being unable to do anything about it.

Some "Sherman" tanks even gave up their escape and stopped to shoot at the enemy with their tank guns.

But this was obviously a useless effort. The artillery shells were bounced away by the "Tiger" armor without exception. Before they bounced off, a spark would flash out due to the violent collision with the armor.

Then, one after another, these "Sherman" tanks turned into a ball of fire.

Some of them were destroyed by Tigers from the front, and some were destroyed by other tanks approaching from the side, but no matter what destroyed them, the result was the same...death, fire, complete destruction.

Major General Jayton shouted into the walkie-talkie: "Requesting air cover, requesting air cover, we are under attack by enemy tanks!"

"Sorry, Major General!" The pilot's answer almost made Major General Jayton despair: "There is smoke everywhere and visibility is very poor, and tanks and personnel are mixed together, we can't distinguish ourselves from the enemy!"

If pilots cannot distinguish between ourselves and the enemy and carry out accurate attacks, then let alone warships that rise and fall with the waves in the sea...the shells they fire can deviate from the target by several kilometers at every turn, and they can only be effective when covering a large area with artillery fire. .

As a result, Major General Jayton could only watch helplessly as German tanks rushed into the crowd of American soldiers. Their directional machine guns and parallel machine guns fired everywhere, knocking down rows of hurriedly fleeing American soldiers to the ground.

Some U.S. soldiers are smarter and lie down immediately when the tank barrel turns towards them. The more experienced ones also know how to roll, crawl and then jump up to hide in the tank's blind spot... The U.S. 4th Infantry Division once participated in Africa Having fought against the German Afrika Korps, they can be regarded as experienced veteran troops.

But this still had no effect, because there were groups of German soldiers following the tanks in the rear to attack the US troops.

The US military in World War II can be regarded as the most powerful force, even the infantry. The reason is that they were equipped with M1 semi-automatic rifles in batches, and their rate of fire was several times that of bolt-action rifles.

But at this time, the German army was equipped with the STG44. Its rate of fire and firepower sustainability were not comparable to that of the M1. What's more, the US military's formation was scattered by tanks and it was difficult to see the head and tail.

As a result, even if they escaped the tanks in front, they became the target of the German soldiers in the rear. After a hail of bullets and the explosion of grenades, the American soldiers soon became corpses lying on the ground.

The fast-running American soldiers finally organized a defense on the "Atlantic Wall", but this defense could not withstand the footsteps of the German tanks, even for a moment.

The German tank group "rumbled" up, no matter what, it was just a burst of artillery fire, which exploded the defense line with smoke everywhere, and then covered the infantry to advance towards the defense line.

The American soldiers soon discovered that they had almost nothing in their hands that could withstand or stop the advance of the German tanks, so they finally collapsed at this moment, dropping their defenses one after another and fleeing toward the sea.

This approach is correct, because there is a beach in front of the "Atlantic Wall", which is a minefield and obstacle set by the Germans themselves... Although American engineers have opened several passages, and there are even paving tanks in some places. Covered with iron plates.

But such a passage is still not suitable for large numbers of tanks to advance.

In other words, German tanks will probably not be able to pursue them.

However, this approach is also incorrect, because the bunker fortifications of the Atlantic Wall are only 270 to 360 meters away from the sea. This distance is completely within the range of tanks and even the rifles of German soldiers.

In other words, the German army did not need to pursue them at all.

Major General Jayton knew this very well, so he kept giving orders on the walkie-talkie: "No, we cannot retreat! This is our last line of defense. I order you to come back..."

But this order has lost its effect.

No one paid attention to this order. As mentioned before... fear can make people lose their most basic judgment. Anyone who is still conscious knows that Major General Jetton is right. The "Atlantic Wall" is the U.S. military's The last line of defense cannot be given up no matter what. Otherwise, they have nothing but soft beaches and water that constantly laps toward the shore.

However, U.S. soldiers still poured toward the beach in large numbers, including many soldiers from the German Coast Defense Division.

The most embarrassing thing among them should be the soldiers of the German Coastal Defense Division... They had just surrendered their weapons to the US military and became prisoners of the US military, and they immediately had to raise their hands to the German army.

But things are not as simple as they thought.

The German tanks drove onto the "Atlantic Barrier" one by one, and it took them a while to adjust the angle of the car body... The "Atlantic Wall" is generally located on high ground, and tanks must tilt their car bodies down to shoot.

Then the machine guns and artillery spit out tongues of fire mercilessly on the beach. Both the German coastal defense division soldiers and the American soldiers were knocked down in pieces or blown up into the sky in panic.

Some tanks aimed at the landing craft that was receiving deserters. With a "boom", the landing craft filled with personnel exploded into a ball of fire. The landing craft immediately lost its balance, and then amid the screams and screams of the American soldiers Capsized by the waves.

Upon seeing this, other landing craft hurriedly started to try to evacuate in time, but more and more tanks appeared on the shore and blocked them with machine guns and artillery shells on the beach, unable to move.

To make matters worse...the infantry following the tanks entered the defensive position.

Since the German coastal defense division surrendered quickly and the US military did not have time to destroy it, most of the machine guns and artillery in the bunker fortifications were intact. When the German infantry came up, they aimed them at the US troops on the beach... The more violent rain of bullets was like A storm swept across the entire beach. Due to the impact of the waves, the dividing line between the beach and the sea was strewn with corpses of American soldiers, densely packed like timber that had been washed ashore and piled together.

"We were counterattacked by a German armored division and suffered heavy losses!"

"The 4th Infantry Division requests reinforcements!"

"The 1st Infantry Division is making slow progress, and the enemy's firepower is much stronger than imagined!"

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Eisenhower, who was in the headquarters, soon received the news. He looked at Halker with a pale face, and after a while he said: "Your Excellency, Director, it seems that this time we guessed wrong... we didn't The Germans were able to be deceived. To be precise, the Germans successfully deceived us!”

Halke could not deny this. He gritted his teeth and replied: "General, now is not the time to talk about this. We have to find a remedy!"