However, the good times did not last long. When the Dutch realized that they had been invaded, they fought back violently. These German paratroopers were hidden behind the pier and in nearby houses, stubbornly blocking the Dutch attack. The Germans were few, but they were highly motivated and well equipped. They were vulnerable to cross-strait attacks. Few people were confused about whether they could persist.
Dutch defenders stormed German positions from all directions, but the Germans fought back with superior firepower. p44 assault rifles and g43 semi-automatic rifles were obviously more suitable for the present situation than Dutch defenders bolt rifles. Although three or four German soldiers were killed, the Dutch also lost more than 20 bodies.
Suddenly, a city rail car rang the bell and suddenly rushed to the south side of the bridge. The Dutchman was dumbfounded. From this rail car and the car followed by it, seven deputy armed German soldiers jumped. These soldiers were a company commanded by Lieutenant Kefen.
An English football field on the south bank of Kefen paratroopers was lowered to the ground. After landing, they occupied the surrounding buildings, and then forced the city rail car and several cars. They drove the stunned Dutch civilians out of the car and drove them straight to the bridge.
These German paratroopers who came to support occupied the southern end of the bridge, and others rushed across the bridge to support their comrades who were already in collapse. The Dutch rebels fired wildly and blocked the infantry battalion coming from Valhaven airport. They were suppressed by gunfire and the two sides of the road could not support the German paratroopers in the northern section of Williams Bridge as planned.
The Dutch didn’t sit at home and get beaten. On the contrary, they did not know how much better than the Polish army. All the weapons and equipment seemed to participate in the battle for Williams Bridge near Rotterdam. Soon a Dutch patrol boat and a torpedo boat arrived at the new Maas River boat. The Dutch small-caliber artillery bombarded the German bridgehead position and madly destroyed those planes that stopped water.
However, the two ships soon ran out of ammunition and were forced to leave the fierce exchange of fire area. Then the Dutch brought in a more ruthless role. A destroyer and two gunboats went to this narrow water from the Dutch headland. These warships were ordered to shell the Valhaven airport and attack the German field guns and large-caliber mortar troops that were landing there.
But this time, the German army appeared to save the troops that were about to fall into disaster-two Stuka dive bombers came to Rotterdam to cover German paratroopers and clean up the targets of the Dutch army around them. The Dutch naval destroyer was forced to leave because once the German army found the cannon destroyer, it would definitely sink it. The Dutch fleet didn’t want to fight the bombers in narrow waters, so it was able to escape in a hurry without a shot.
On that day, most of the Dutch resistance forces were in a panic. The German paratroopers seemed to be nowhere. They blocked roads, occupied forts, controlled bridges and railways, and were killed in unexpected places. It was said everywhere that German paratroopers dressed up as policemen, priests and even nuns. The Dutch defenders were confused by this information, and the whole Netherlands was burning. This kind of war puzzled the defensive side. They didn’t know how to defend effectively and fight back.
This is a trick of General Studente. He asked some transport planes to head fake paratroopers in Dutch villages and other places. These scarecrows wore paratroopers to replace them, and they were equipped with simple burning devices to ignite everywhere, causing chaos and making Dutch commanders overestimate the size of German troops.
After a few hours of fighting, the Dutch defenders finally found themselves a real threat in the evening, and cooperated with the British forces to defend and counterattack. They thought that they had to recapture the bridge in Rotterdam and Murdek Dordrecht fortress, and they made the craziest counterattack against the German paratroopers here.
Here, German paratroopers dropped two companies of troops. With favorable terrain and advanced weapons and equipment, they repelled the Dutch attacks again and again, but the price was almost unacceptable. A German company commander was killed and more than 30 German paratroopers were killed here.
Moreover, in the end, the Dutch regained a bridgehead by virtue of their own numerical superiority. They drove the Germans away from the railway bridge and occupied several simple positions. However, these Dutch attack force did not get the order to destroy the bridge and could risk maintaining this confrontation across the bridge.
The news reached Studente’s ears through the wire. He landed with the descending infantry and set up a headquarters for other battles in a nearby school. His podium was arranged one by one to gather up paratroopers everywhere-and other battle staff and officers sat around him on benches like a group of over-age students who failed to repeat classes.
"How many reserves do we have?" Studente stared at the map in his hand and asked the nearest commander, "Can you go to war now?"
"General, there is a battalion garrison near us, but if we make them, the airport defense can be completed by the remaining two companies-this is very dangerous," the officer immediately got up and replied back and forth.
Studente thought for a while with his hand over his mouth, and finally decided to gamble that "the war body is the greatest adventure, and there are not so many ways for us to choose between the two."
He glanced at the officer. "You immediately lead this battalion to Dordrecht! Hold on there until we get here! Take away! You can take away some ammunition! I don’t have any troops to reinforce you at the latest. "
"yes! General! Guaranteed completion! " The officer saluted at attention and left the headquarters with several of his men in a hurry.
This is really a gamble. Studente now counts himself as his own guard, and there are two companies of soldiers to defend the important Valhaven airport, which is the place where reinforcements and supplies landed the next day. The airport is ju52 and will not fly back to Germany? If anything goes wrong, the German army will suffer heavy losses.
In the dark, he ventured to send reinforcements to the Dordrecht area to regain his position. This news made Studente somewhat relieved of his nervousness. Now the only thing he needs to worry about is whether the Dutch defenders will attack his Valhaven airport. This night is doomed to sleep for the German paratroopers in the Netherlands.
And another person who fell asleep because of excessive tension method was far away from arcado in Shibao, Germany. He stared at the map of the war until dawn, and even Anna came in to persuade him that he didn’t say a word. This is a huge gamble, which is the fate of a country and a nation.
Chapter 244 244 Preparation
"So I’m now promoted to second lieutenant and in charge of this platoon?" Bourroul looked at the life sent by the battalion headquarters and the face of the file was not happy at all. He had been holding on here for a whole night. He should have gathered up three officers and soldiers and paratroopers, and there are 21 people now.
That is to say, the entire paratrooper platoon was killed and missing, with more than one-third of them, and there were two wounded people among the remaining 21 people. One was a broken foot due to a hole in the parachute caused by anti-aircraft guns. Although another person can fight, his face is wrapped like a mummy.
Now he is ordered to be in charge of the platoon leader’s command, and he is only two people. The defense is almost one kilometer wide and narrow. To tell the truth, he would rather give this job to someone else. After all, it is not a good job.
Congratulations to Zhong Borol for walking out of the house with a p44 assault rifle he picked from the corpse and a cigarette in his mouth. The good news is that he now has a Bofors 4 mm anti-aircraft gun in his hand, and an iron fist anti-tank team has been strengthened from the battalion. Now he can deploy troops. In fact, 22 people include a medic.
What will strengthen an anti-tank team for him? That’s very bad news. The German army investigated the southwest of the Netherlands in the early hours of the morning and confirmed a very bad news. The team is entering the Netherlands, and the armored forces are heading for the Valhaven area by road.
"The division ordered that a defensive position be set up here to stop the other troops from advancing for two hours" to make the officers follow Borrell out. "Then you can retreat to Williams Bridge and meet the paratroopers there to continue to organize defense."
"Two paratroopers? Stop a French armored division from advancing here? " Borrell glanced at the officer and smiled. "If you can help me find some support, I may try."
"Support? We can’t give you too much … but you can tell me about it. I’ll try my best to meet your requirements. "The officer said quickly after one leng.
"Help me find a tank, No.113, the third armored division of SS." Borrell took out a photo from his pocket, in which a big boy with freckles leaned against the No.113 tank and smiled shyly. "The captain’s name is Ryan."
The name to make paratroopers officer one leng and then hey hey smiled "line! I’ll go back and ask for you. If their tanks can fit into the plane, I’ll definitely let them come here to help. "
"Joke" Bourroul handed the officer a cigarette to help light the fire. "Playing armored division is not our strong point. I need more anti-tank firepower, the better. There is enough ammunition for us to break the ammunition with machine guns."
"This should be no problem." The officer patted Bourroul on the shoulder and nodded. "I’ll ask them to send some when I go back. If there are good things, I’ll try to get two for you."
With that, the officer rode a BMW motorcycle with goggles and caught fire along the highway in the direction of Valhaven.
"Bahru! Call the second monitor over for a while! Layout "Borornay shouted to the gunman who was cleaning in the distance" Let you check all the Dutch weapons with your hands. "
Balu was promoted to class 1 monitor, and the former vice monitor replaced the dead class 2 monitor and was appointed as the temporary commander of class 2. Now it seems that the command system of class 1 is the best, because one of his class 2 monitors was killed and the other vice monitor was killed.
At noon, he was eating hot soup and brown bread. Bourroul finally waited for his supplies. To be honest, he really didn’t expect to have so many supplies and weapons to supplement him.
An artillery squad arrived at the village with two Dutch cars and a 75mm light anti-tank gun. They brought two anti-tank mines, two infantry mines, seven rounds of ammunition, two boxes of grenades and, of course, canned lunch meat and hard brown bread.
"Lieutenant Bourroul?" The commander of the artillery squad is a scholar with a big beard. He doesn’t look young. "I was ordered to support you. Your face has changed. We have to stay here for at least three hours before we can retreat."
Bourroul touched his nose, and he knew that it was impossible to drop a pie. If he gave him supplies beyond his imagination, he would surely give him another more arduous one.
"Did you lose the lottery or did you beat your company?" Borrell took a drag on his cigarette and threw up a smoke turn with his head down. He asked in a funny way, "Was sent to carry out this kind of ghost?"
He turned around the light anti-tank gun for half a turn, stretched out his hand and patted the gun barrel. He accompanied the soldiers to fight behind enemy lines and tried every means to reduce the weight. Without the gun shield direction adjustment mechanism, it seems that some simple ornamental brackets must be dug with local materials or found stone mats to complete the fixation.
The design requirement of this artillery is that more than a dozen paratroopers can push this weapon and make anti-tank shell warfare, and at the same time, this artillery is allowed to launch grenades to support paratroopers’ warfare-obviously, so many requirements have created a nondescript monster. This variation of 75 mm caliber artillery has a general armor-piercing ability and makes the Grenade’s range very limited, as short as 5 kilometers
It is worth noting that this kind of artillery support was later replaced by a 12-mm caliber heavy mortar, because the latter was superior in size and practicality, and its anti-tank was also shared by a lighter iron fist rocket launcher. This is ironic for a weapon, but it still makes a supplementary firepower among paratroopers according to the principle of no waves.
"I slept with my wife," said Hu, who was obviously humorous and cracked his mouth. "Of course, his artillery was sent to the main defensive position in the west. I heard that their side was the main attack area of the other side."
"Do you think I should celebrate?" Bourroul smiled and pointed around the village. "You choose a place to arrange anti-tank gun positions. Try to hide it as well as possible. I will give you a Ma Keqin bomb, about one round. You can arrange it yourself."
"It seems that you have got a lot of good things." Hu nodded. "We will hide the cars behind the straw pile over there later. I hope they will be there when we need to retreat."
"Sniper team, find the best position by yourselves". Before the war, Bororda arranged that "the infantry each took a mine and entered the village road to set up a minefield".
"Balu led people to bury anti-tank mines in the front, and the first line of defense was arranged on both sides. After Ma Keqin polished the bullets, it was directly discarded." Bourroul pointed to the two wings and said, "Move the sandbags in the Dutch trenches to local houses to build bunkers. These houses are all wood and can’t resist bullets."
"Sir, if the other party has tanks, the building may be unsafe." Balu pointed to the houses and said, "It’s better to defend the trenches outside the village …"
"Don’t worry, we have to repel the French from the periphery. One attack of artillery fire will turn this place into ruins. Then we will have many places to find cover." Bourroul said with a smile, "Pay attention to saving our ammunition and fight an ambush first."
At this time, Dahu came running. "Lieutenant, we found an excellent location near a small warehouse near our village, where there is a pile of straw and our anti-tank guns can be arranged."
As he spoke, he pointed to the direction. "There is a drainage ditch at the main entrance of the small warehouse, which can just block both sides to make trenches. We can alert the whole village to a good view."
"Balu, you take two people to help transform a place" Bourroul nodded and said "Second squad leader, you take that Bofors to the other side to form a cross-defense fire. If a tank tries to get close to an anti-tank gun, then Bofors attacks their tail".
"Everyone as much as possible with ammunition! There’s nothing to add when it’s gone! Don’t even move the chain! Leave it to two g42 machine gun groups. "Bourroul pointed to the village behind him." Put away all the food you can find and divide the wine! "
German paratroopers immediately searched residents’ houses, chairs were carried into trenches, some furniture was piled up around the house, and the walls were thickened as much as possible. Wine and food were stuffed into pockets to prepare for picnics at the height of the fighting-if sometimes.
A French general put a telescope on the highway more than ten kilometers away, pointing to his troops and boasting to two British journalists behind him, "The Germans threw paratroopers in the Netherlands in an attempt to disrupt our army’s deployment, but they overestimated themselves. Our tank troops can sweep away those Germans with rifles and recapture important areas in the Netherlands at one breath."
"German paratroopers in Poland have achieved excellent results. I also heard that they have made a great trend in Holland. General, why are you so sure to deal with these elusive German paratroopers?" A reporter looked up and asked while recording.
"I have them without weapons. Isn’t that enough?" The French general shook his head and pointed to the tanks moving along the hillside road. "I have large-caliber artillery support and two tanks-how could they win me?"
Peng, another French journalist pressed the shutter in his hand, leaving this arrogant French general with a moment of pride.
Chapter 245 245 sniper
"This is not a win? At the same time, Borrell picked up a rifle from a French scout and fumbled in the pocket of the other hand.
Just now, a 7-member French reconnaissance unit arrived here in a daze and entered the village. German paratroopers led by Bourroul wrapped dumplings. The Germans fired from all sides and these French soldiers fell to the ground in a few seconds.
"It seems that the main force of the French team is not far away." Balu dug out some banknotes from the body of a French soldier and stuffed them into his pocket, and then dug out a box of French cigarettes from the other pocket.
Hu Hu came to carve up the war. He was obviously more interested in a French telescope, and he got a French pistol and looked in a good mood.
"It’s not far away," Bourroul nodded and said, "A tough battle is coming. Let’s see how we can hold on here for three hours."
A few hours later …
The rumble of artillery in the distance shows that the French army has carried out a surprise attack on the main defensive positions in Germany, while the village on the flank remains serene and quiet. The earth trembled slightly due to the explosion of artillery shells and the branches creaked by the cold wind.
A French b1 heavy tank slowly climbed the slope and appeared. Bourroul was stationed in front of this quiet Dutch village, followed by another b1 horizon showing his turret. These two tanks were followed by dozens of French soldiers with unique helmets.
This heavy b1 tank in France has a 47mm and 75mm gun, each with a front armor of 6mm, the combat weight is 3 tons, and the design is novel. After the main turret is closed, it still has a fairly good view. In addition, the moving system also has armor protection, which can be said to be the tank with the strongest fire protection besides the Soviet kv heavy tank in the early World War II. However, the mechanical performance of the Charles b1 tank is not stable and often breaks down. Moreover, it needs four crew members to give full play to the combat effectiveness. At that time, the French army was very short of such well-trained tank fighters, which caused the efficiency of this b1 tank battle to be very low.
If it was another time, the German infantry obviously used this French behemoth to penetrate this tank protective armor by their 37 mm caliber anti-tank gun root method, but now the German anti-tank gun has risen to 75 mm caliber, obviously it is still capable of dealing with this tank.
Bourroul put his telescope in his hand and bent down in the trench to run to a machine gun position. He pointed out to the shooter that the French tank was followed by the French infantry. "It’s not difficult to deal with the infantry directly without the infantry tanks."
The machine gunner nodded and pointed the muzzle of Maxim’s heavy machine gun through the grass at the front French soldier Borrell. He looked at Baru in the distance and found that Baru was also looking at him. He nodded his head at Baru and Baru nodded his head.
"Fire!" A German ambush position that was close enough caught fire. Bourroul had his own plan to put French troops at such close range. He had an anti-tank gun. He hoped that his infantry would fire first while the anti-tank gun hid in the corner to sneak attack, so that the French tanks could not figure out what weapon they were destroyed by.
"tu! Chug! " As a result, the machine gun positions on both sides of Germany were fired and flew to the French like locusts. Obviously, the firepower density of the weapons in the hands of the Germans was much higher than that of the French captain. The guns and short guns were fired together, and a dozen French soldiers were swept down with ordinary bullets.
The sudden attack of German paratroopers obviously scared the French. These French infantry retreated backward, and the two cars looked bigger than b1 tanks. The French tanks still moved forward in the middle of the road. Their heavy bodies were not fast, but the tall figure made the German paratroopers feel a little unsure. After all, these big guys looked very strong-of course, they were also very strong.