Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

The bombardment by the German fleet continued for a whole day and night, and did not stop until early the next morning. And this is not good news for the US military on the island. The cessation of shelling means that the Germans are about to start landing!

Major General Wilson immediately picked up the phone and ordered the troops hiding in the bunker to enter their respective positions and start a counterattack according to the original counterattack plan.

But when these American soldiers returned to the ground, they saw that their previously carefully built defenses had been completely destroyed by German artillery fire. The entire position was as desolate as the surface of the moon, and there was no appearance of any position.

At this time, giant transport ships came one after another on the distant sea, and a formation of attack aircraft struck again in the sky, dropping dense bombs above their heads.

"hidden!"

The American soldiers didn't care about anything else and immediately rolled into the nearby bomb craters. Since their positions were gone, they could still fight by using these bomb craters as trenches!

Poof! Poof!

The bomb that fell on the ground did not explode, but began to emit thick white smoke. In an instant, the entire position was surrounded by thick smoke; German attack planes kept throwing smoke bombs downwards, and even the sea breeze failed to disperse them. Thick smoke.

The sight of the American soldiers was completely blocked, and the broad sea in front of them even disappeared. The entire beach was filled with thick smoke, like a white sandstorm rolling up.

After a while, they heard the roar of engines coming from the beach. It seemed that something terrible had come ashore!

"Thud! Thud!" A machine gun position near the beach finally opened fire. Although nothing could be seen in front of them, the sound was enough to prove that the German troops had rushed to the beach, and they could only fire. The bullets swept through the smoke blindly, not knowing what they hit. Occasionally, they heard screams from the other side.

Perhaps stimulated by this machine gun, or realizing that the situation did not seem to be favorable to them, the American soldiers began to shoot blindly with their own weapons. In order to make up for the gap in individual weapons with the German army as much as possible, the US military began to install a large number of M1 Garand automatic rifles. Although it has not yet reached the level of one per person, a squad has been equipped with five or six M1 Garand automatic rifles. Rand. The rest of the soldiers used submachine guns or carbines. After these efforts, the ammunition dumping ability of U.S. soldiers has also been greatly improved.

Although they couldn't see anything, these soldiers still pulled the triggers frantically, firing bullets one after another into the smoke. Only when the magazine popped out with a crisp click did they squat down and take it from their pockets. Take out the magazine full of bullets, bang it hard on the helmet twice, press it back into the magazine, and then continue to shoot again.

Finally, the smoke gradually dissipated, and the American soldiers were horrified to see German tanks roaring towards them, and the number was not one or two, but at least thirty.

"Oh God! Tank!!" The American soldiers were dumbfounded. Are the Germans doing magic? ! How did they get so many tanks ashore at the same time? ! And looking at the depth of the tracks sinking into the sand, it's not a light tank with thin skin and big stuffing. It's clearly the main tank of the German army!

Because of the smoke, they did not see the hovercrafts "floating" out of the giant German transport ships. Each hovercraft could carry a Jackal tank and two squads of soldiers. Thirty hovercrafts could carry thirty A tank and a battalion of soldiers.

The barbed wire fences of the minefields previously deployed by the US military on the beach had been blown away by the intensive German shelling, and the hovercraft directly transported the tanks to the depths of the beach.

Before the American soldiers had time to recover, these German tanks were not polite. The 75mm tank guns began to roar, blasting away fire points one after another; the machine guns on the tanks fired wildly, crossing the American position like the scythes of death. However, the suppressed US military could not hold its head up.

"Commander, our first line of defense has been breached by the Germans!" A staff officer hurried into the underground headquarters and reported the bad news to Major General Wilson.

"The German Marine Corps is so powerful?" Major General Wilson's face looked a little ugly. Although this was what he had expected, he was still unwilling to do so.

The other staff officer sighed. "It's their weapons that are much better than ours."

The German attack planes were firing back and forth almost above their heads, and their destroyers were approaching five kilometers away for precise shelling. The German tanks were invulnerable like indestructible monsters, and the weapons and equipment in the hands of the German soldiers were more advanced than them.

Among later generations of military fans, the U.S. Marine Corps was nicknamed the Fourth Class. The first class is the navy, the second class is the air force, and the third class is the army. Because the Marine Corps has much less funding than other arms, and its training is intensive, equipment replacement is slow, and it is always sent to the most dangerous battlefields, so it is natural that it is a fourth-class person.

For example, during World War II, the U.S. Army had basically replaced the M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle, and the Navy was still using the Springfield M1903 bolt-action rifle. It was really difficult to pay for someone to design the M1941 Jensen semi-automatic rifle. The equipment was old, but it was not easy to fight. They were transported to the Pacific islands to fight the Japanese army, so some people simply called them the "Death Brigade."

The U.S. Marine Corps has a long history. The earliest naval force can be traced back to 1755 (the United States was not yet established at that time). At that time, the Continental Congress decided to establish a military force that was "familiar with maritime affairs and capable of fighting at sea and on land"— —Continental Marines. Facts have also proved that this force did fight well, attacking many British merchant ships, and also harassed British colonies from a distance, making great contributions during the American Revolutionary War.

By 1834, Commander-in-Chief Archibald Henderson of the U.S. Marine Corps resisted U.S. President Andrew Jackson's plan to integrate the Marine Corps into the U.S. Army. He believed that the Marine Corps must be able to fight against ships at sea. , and must be able to land on beaches for ground operations. If it is merged into the Army, it will harm the amphibious combat capabilities of the United States.

In the end, after some debate, the U.S. Congress decided to merge the U.S. Marine Corps and the Navy into one department. This department is the Department of the Navy, but the Marine Corps remains an independent service.

This laid the foundation for the embarrassing position of the Navy and Army. The Navy and Army do not have their own service departments. The power to purchase equipment and allocate funds for the Navy and Army lies in the hands of the Navy Minister. During operations, the sea is subject to the navy, and on land it is controlled by the navy. To be dictated by the Army, some people joked that the Navy and Army are only truly independent the moment they "jump off the landing ship before they even touch the ground."

Due to this embarrassing position, the navy and army naturally play the role of a grandma and an uncle when it comes to allocating military expenditures and equipping equipment, and this is reflected in the war.

Under Yannick's care, the German Marine Corps, like the paratroopers, gave priority to equipping them with various advanced weapons.

For example, the firearms they use are Ishui's FAL gun series, not to mention the 98K, and even the G43 is nowhere to be seen.

FAL semi-automatic rifle, FAL squad machine gun (with heavy barrel, 30-round magazine, bipod, fixed stock), assault rifle using 7×43mm intermediate-power bullets (FAL prototype gun is designed using German StG44 92x33mm intermediate-power ammunition for assault rifles), sniper-type FAL rifles equipped with 4x scopes, etc.