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Chapter 232 Winters' Positional Battle

Just as the Allied and German artillery regiments were fighting fiercely on Omaha Beach, a German commander named Colonel Frederick von was inspecting his defense zone.

Since the generals are all fighting in the Rennes area and the Seine area, Colonel Frederick von is the highest German commander in this defense area.

He placed a battalion in and around Notre-Dame, a battalion at Sainte-Marie-de-Mont, and a battalion at Carentan as a reserve battalion.

When the Allied C-47 roared through the air, Colonel Frederick Feng knew that Omaha's own artillery position had been lost, and it would not be long before the Allies would attack his defense zone.

Colonel Frederick Feng personally came to St. Mary's Demont, climbed to the church tower 50 meters above the ground, and immediately had a panoramic view of the situation in Utah Beach.

In his binoculars, Utah Beach is covered with Allied soldiers landing, densely packed, like crabs on the beach.

When he came just now, the small villages around the church and the criss-crossing fields were still so peaceful and peaceful, in stark contrast to the noise of the Allied forces on Utah Beach.

Colonel Frederick von knew that the main battle was imminent, and he immediately returned from the tower to his Brecourt estate, where he had a battalion of artillery deployed, totaling 12 105 mm cannon.

After returning to the manor, the military department sent a telegram that the artillery position of a regiment on Omaha Beach was forced to have a tragic hand-to-hand battle with the Allies, and the entire artillery regiment was wiped out.

In order to prevent his artillery battalion from repeating the same mistakes, Colonel Frederick Feng also transferred the reserve battalion deployed in Carentan to assist in the defense.

At five o'clock in the morning, the soldiers of the independent company returned one after another. Except for a few seriously wounded who had to withdraw from the battlefield for treatment, and some soldiers who were airborne, they landed besides other Allied troops to act together. The independent company still has 86 people, more than 30 of them were wounded in the hand-to-hand fight on Omaha Beach.

E Company had a lot of soldiers who got separated during the jump, like Ensign Winters, who was supposed to land at St. Marie-de-Mont, but the German anti-aircraft guns hit their plane, forcing them to land on Omaha Beach.

At this time, there were about 50 soldiers from Company E with Winters.

The performance of the independent company is obvious to all. Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cole reported the record of the independent company to Major General William C. Lee, commander of the 101st Airborne Division.

Major General William C. Lee personally called Yan Zhi, praising the key role played by the Independent Company in the Omaha Beach landing battle, and he will report to the Allied High Command to award the Chinese Independent Company.

All the soldiers of the independent company have been greatly boosted in morale. It is the greatest honor in their life to be able to show their prowess on the foreign battlefield, and it will be recorded in the annals of history!
After a little breakfast, Second Lieutenant Winters was sitting with Yan Zhi and smoking a cigarette. After the military doctor treated the wounds of the lightly wounded and took some anti-inflammatory drugs, Winters would lead his soldiers to the headquarters of Company E. meet.

After a while, just as Winters was about to stand up and lead the soldiers away, a non-commissioned officer who was transferred from Company E to the battalion, who was serving as the personnel staff, came from the side of the road.

The person who came was George Lavinxun, a good friend of Winters. He told Yan Zhi and Winters that about seven kilometers away, there was a large French manor called Brecourt, and there was a German infantry in this manor. battalion stationed.

Opposite this manor is a German artillery battalion, with a total of 12 105mm cannons, which is bombarding Utah Beach five kilometers away, causing heavy casualties to the Allied offensive forces.

The result of the original intelligence investigation was a company of German artillery. It was not until not long ago that the previous intelligence was found to be wrong. The German army deployed an artillery battalion by the sea.

This artillery battalion is located in a semi-underground position in the bushes. Eight of the 105mm cannons are camouflaged with branches and leaves, and only four are exposed halfway, making investigators mistakenly think that there are only 4 cannons there.

The positions of the two battalions arranged by the German army are connected by ditches and trenches. That is to say, the soldiers of the artillery battalion can pass through the trenches at any time to come to support the infantry battalion.

Colonel Sink, who had no soldiers to send, ordered that the independent company closest to the Brecourt French estate and part of the E company join forces to deal with the German infantry battalion.

Colonel Xinke also said that in the future, he will try his best to send troops to support.

The independent company short of major generals and more than 50 soldiers of Winters together can barely make up a company, allowing them to attack an infantry battalion, and they are at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers.

But the troops that could be drawn out at this time were only some soldiers from the Independent Company and the E Company.

Because their mission has basically been completed, while most of the other allied forces are still in a bitter battle.

After George Lavensson left, Yan Zhi and Winters opened the map.

If you want to attack this artillery battalion of the German army, you must first conquer the German infantry battalion stationed at Brecourt.This infantry battalion is like a natural barrier, isolating their artillery battalion from the Allied offensive line.

Sure enough, it wasn't that his child didn't feel bad, Yan Zhi secretly sighed.

The Independent Company had been exhausted in the Battle of Omaha Beach, and before the wounded soldiers had time to rest, they were assigned to attack a more powerful enemy.

In the Battle of Omaha Beach, the Independent Company made another surprise attack on the opponent, caught the opponent by surprise, disrupted the opponent's deployment, and won the battle.

It is already daytime, and the German infantry battalion stationed at the French manor in Brecourt is waiting for work, and has already set up a defensive formation.

According to the map, it is not that there is no chance of a surprise attack, but it is already daytime and without the cover of night, it is very difficult for the independent company to make a surprise attack without anyone noticing.

Yan Zhi asked Second Lieutenant Winters to talk about his thoughts on the next tough battle.

Second Lieutenant Winters believed that this battle would be a quick frontal attack, and it was necessary to deploy more powerful firepower points as support as close as possible to the enemy artillery battalion, and all available machine gun firepower should be used.

On the front, he used machine gun fire to suppress the firepower of the enemy infantry battalion. When they were tired of defending, he and Yan Zhi each led a small unit to penetrate from both sides of the enemy and quickly disintegrate their defense from the inside of the Germans. front.

From the map, due to the irregular shape of the German positions, seven of the surrounding bushes presented sharp angles, which provided many opportunities for surprise attacks to the independent company.

Yan Zhi praised Winters for his accurate analysis, and he was indeed inferior to Winters in terms of positional warfare.

(End of this chapter)