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Chapter 225 Prepare for hand-to-hand combat

The anti-aircraft artillery on the artillery position has super strong firepower in attacking the airspace, which is the nightmare of the C-47. As long as the transport plane is hit by the shell, basically it will explode and disintegrate in the air, but for the airborne troops descending from the air, The role of the cannon is basically to fight mosquitoes with the cannon, which has little effect. Once the airborne troops land on the artillery position, they will have an absolute advantage over the artillery. Therefore, it is very important to deploy defensive infantry around the artillery position and around it.

Infantry is placed on artillery positions, which can attack paratroopers who are forced to parachute from the air.

The paratroopers who parachute from the sky have no ability to fight back under the attack of ground infantry. Therefore, the paratroopers who descended from the artillery position often suffer heavy casualties under the attack of enemy infantry on the ground.

Obviously, the intelligence of the Allied intelligence agencies was wrong. The intelligence they received at the beginning greatly underestimated the air defense capabilities of the German army on Omaha Beach.

Only now did Yan Zhi realize that General William C. Lee, the commander of the 101st Airborne Division, deployed too few troops on Omaha Beach. He only relied on the more than 200 people from E Company and Independent Company to clear the entire Omaha Beach. Anti-aircraft artillery fire is simply as difficult as climbing the sky.

Because it can be judged from the G43 rifle and the G43 rifle gunfire that at least one infantry regiment of the German army was stationed on Omaha Beach.

At this time, the C-47 fleet has been flying here continuously. If the German anti-aircraft artillery positions cannot be cleared in a short time, the loss of the Allied forces will be catastrophic.

Now, due to the fact that the C47 of the independent company and the E company were scattered by the German artillery fire, the personnel of the two companies were completely dispersed, forming a small situation of fighting on their own. It is difficult to bring substantial benefits to the overwhelmingly superior German army shock.

Now there are only a dozen people around Yan Zhi, and there are no heavy weapons yet. It is almost impossible to destroy the artillery position from a regiment of German infantry in a short period of time.

At this time, the battlefield has become chaotic, a large number of soldiers are airborne, and the escort fighter planes of the Allied forces have no way to participate in the attack on the German artillery positions.

Just at this moment, more than a dozen soldiers from the air parachuted into this safe zone, and there was a steady stream of soldiers landing towards this area, most of them were soldiers from the independent company, and there were also paratroopers from other allied countries. .

The C-47 transport plane roared overhead and flew at low altitude. The German shells were chasing and intercepting them. In the night sky were densely packed American paratroopers. The blurred figures on the ground gradually increased. Moving quickly, there are still people hiding in the dark looking for more partners to come to support.

Many planes passing through the air were hit, but the paratroopers had to make an emergency landing. There were soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division, paratroopers from the British Lions Royal Airborne Regiment, and Dutch paratroopers. Some paratroopers who survived entered the ground. Under the leadership of the highest rank officer around him, there was a firefight with the Germans.

The soldiers of the independent company had already noticed that there was no anti-aircraft artillery fire in the air, so they controlled the parachute and landed towards this area.

However, most of the Allied soldiers who parachuted at low altitudes fell around the German artillery positions, and many were shot before landing.

Yan Zhi looked around.

About 200 meters away from this area, there is a lookout tower.

Yan Zhi ordered Fan Xiaosi and others to collect all the machine guns, grenades and grenades on the German devils' anti-aircraft machine gun positions, let each soldier mount a bayonet, defend the surrounding area, let the paratroopers land safely towards this place, and then he Run directly to the watchtower.

After climbing up the high watchtower, everything on the nearby ground is clear to the eyes. 500 meters away is a German anti-aircraft artillery position.

This should be the artillery position of a regiment. There are about 60 88mm heavy anti-aircraft artillery guns, which are constantly erupting flames into the air. The huge recoil force makes the ground tremble continuously, almost tearing this piece of beach to pieces. .

The power of the 88mm anti-aircraft heavy artillery is far greater than that of the 20mm Type 38 anti-aircraft machine gun. The power of each of its shells makes the C-47 in the air frightened.

Probably because the place is relatively small, the distance between the more than 60 88mm anti-aircraft artillery has been compressed to a minimum.

Looking from the watchtower, the artillery defense formation is very crowded. In addition, nearly 2000 officers and soldiers of this regiment are also crowded in this position and its surroundings, so this position is densely packed with cannons and soldiers.

Since most of the airborne troops of the Allied Forces carried light weapons this time, they could not cause large-scale damage. Otherwise, only a few dozen shells would be enough to smash this artillery position into pieces.

More than 60 anti-aircraft cannons almost covered the sky in this area, and each shell rushed into the sky like a fire dragon, baring its teeth and claws, aiming at the densely packed C-47 transport planes flying through the air.

The sound of the cannon was rumbling, and the ground shook unceasingly. Yan Zhi stood on the watchtower, feeling that the watchtower was shaking all the time, and it might collapse at any time.

Probably the Germans knew in advance that the Allied forces would log in from here, and provided the artillery regiment with a large number of machine guns in advance, so many soldiers of the artillery regiment held light machine guns in their hands and fired at the Allied paratroopers in the air. The dense firepower weaved a spider web of firepower against the paratroopers descending from the sky.

From the current point of view, this tactic is very effective. The 88mm anti-aircraft heavy artillery and the 38-type double-tube quadruple 20mm anti-aircraft machine gun mainly deal with the relatively slow-flying C-47 transport aircraft, and most of the soldiers in this regiment Armed with a machine gun, it can cause great damage to soldiers falling in the air.

The German tactic was that as long as the paratroopers jumping from the air were strangled with intensive machine gun fire, their artillery positions would be relatively safe.

The Allied fighter jets could only escort the C-47 transport plane at high altitude to avoid being attacked by the German Air Force fighter planes. They were already powerless and unable to fly at low altitude to attack this artillery position.

Yan Zhi's thoughts turned quickly and nimbly. If there was a gun battle with a regiment of enemies at this time, it would undoubtedly not be enough to send them over.

The most urgent task is not to destroy the enemy's infantry, but to find a way to kill the German artillery positions. Even if they can't blow up all these cannons quickly, they have to find a way to disrupt their anti-aircraft fire.

How to kill this artillery regiment?

The gun platform of the German devils was set on an open ground surrounded by rough bushes.

Yan Zhi decided that in the face of the German anti-aircraft artillery regiment, he could only use a quick and sudden attack to insert into the middle of the regiment, and then take advantage of their dense force, fear of hurting their own people, and dare not use machine guns to shoot from their weaknesses. Bloom in all directions, and when necessary, start hand-to-hand combat with them, disrupting their rhythm of loading shells for the 88mm anti-aircraft guns.

Currently, this is the only way to do it.

When Yan Zhi came back, more than a dozen independent companies and E companies landed safely, so he ordered everyone to put bayonets on their rifles and prepare to rush into the German artillery positions and start hand-to-hand combat!
Because what the German artillery lacks most is a knife, and what they are least good at is hand-to-hand combat.

Band of Brothers is best at hand-to-hand combat.

(End of this chapter)