Chapter 487 Fishing

Just when Churchill issued the order to reinforce Plymouth, German bombers taking off from various airports in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, swarmed towards Norwich like a swarm of locusts; they plowed the coastal defense positions there over and over again.

The first wave of bombers dropped fuel-air bombs. For this landing operation, the German army moved out all the fuel-air bombs in stock. Fuel-air bombs were poured on the British positions like they were free of charge, and mushroom-shaped explosion clouds rose and fell one after another, which was very spectacular.

When the second wave of bombers dropped bombs, the sky gradually turned pale, and dense German surface ships appeared on the sea level in the distance. To be precise, it should be the "European Combined Fleet". Italy and Vichy France also participated in this landing battle.

After the third wave of bombers dropped ordinary aerial bombs and returned, there were few obstacles on the beach. Instead, countless large and small craters appeared, which became natural foxholes.

Countless landing craft approached the beach, and the leading ones were several dozen fully enclosed landing craft with strange appearances. Just as these landing craft were about to approach the beach, countless flames formed by tracer bullets swept over from the undestroyed bunkers, and many bullets hit the outer shell of the landing craft, making a clanging sound.

However, no one in the British defense line would guess that the landing craft named "Fishing" by Yannick was just a bait. Its armor was 150 mm thick, and with a good inclined bulletproof shape, not to mention heavy machine guns and 20 mm 30 mm machine guns, even the Germans' own 88 mm guns might not be able to penetrate it.

There were only a few people in each landing craft responsible for scouting the enemy's firepower deployment.

Seeing the colorful tracer bullets on the ground, the captain of the Stuka brigade hovering in the air showed a mocking smile. "Hunter Squadron, pay attention, the fox has revealed its tail, the hunt begins!"

Accompanied by the heart-wrenching beeping sound, one Stuka after another dived down, accurately dropping the heavy bombs on the belly of the aircraft on the exposed bunkers.

After destroying dozens of bunkers in one breath, until there was no movement on the British position, the "fishing" landing craft slowly retreated into the sea, slowly turned around and headed towards its own fleet.

Replacing them was the second batch of landing craft.

This batch of landing craft was very ordinary, they were all open, and you could see the densely packed helmets in the landing craft from a distance.

Bang!

The flat bottom of the landing craft hit the soft beach, and the iron baffle fell down, revealing the densely packed German soldiers ready to go inside.

Several tongues of fire appeared on the British defense line again, but much less than the last time. Many machine gun bullets accurately flew into the open landing craft hatch, wreaking havoc among the German soldiers.

But these German soldiers remained motionless, neither rushing down the landing craft nor lying down to avoid bullets.

They didn't even bleed? ?

"Hahaha!"

A hearty laugh broke out from the battleship's command tower in the distance, and the commander of the combined fleet, who was observing the British positions with a high-powered telescope, couldn't help laughing. "Are these stupid British guys going to be pissed off?" He didn't expect that so many intact bunkers and firepower points would survive such a fierce bombing. If they landed rashly, I don't know how many soldiers would fall under the firepower of these bunkers.

Now, under His Highness's little trick, the British didn't hurt even a single German soldier, but lost dozens of bunkers in vain.

The British were really about to explode. When they found that the German soldiers standing in the second batch of landing craft were all dummies, the carefully arranged bunkers and firepower points that were supposed to hit the German landing troops hard had been destroyed by the battleship's large-caliber main guns, leaving little behind.

Just as the commander of the British garrison cursed the Germans loudly for their cunning, the real German landing force finally stepped onto the beach.

They easily gained a foothold on the beach after only paying a hundred casualties, and then easily broke through the British army's first line of defense, which had already been in ruins, under the cover of gunboats of various calibers, and advanced towards the second line of defense, which was not solid at all.

The subsequent engineers began to build floating docks under the enemy's sporadic artillery attacks.

For beach landing, the previous beaching points were all near the enemy's ports, which was to ensure that the subsequent troops and materials were replenished in time to prevent the vanguard from being wiped out or driven into the sea by the enemy. But the enemy is not a fool, and of course they will deploy heavy troops to protect these strategic locations. In this way, even if the attacker pays an extremely tragic price, he may not be able to land successfully. Even if he succeeds by chance, the port may be completely destroyed by the enemy in advance and has no use value. This is also one of the reasons why Churchill sent troops to Plymouth. This is also the reason why the German high-ranking officers did not believe that the Allies would land in Normandy when the Allies launched the Normandy Landing in the original time and space. In their view, no matter how strong the Allied offensive in the Normandy region was, they would be driven into the sea by the German second-line troops after the supplies were exhausted.

They were worried that if they drew troops from other regions, they would be unable to cope with the so-called "second landing" operation of the Allies to seize the port. For the senior German commanders at the time, ordinary coastlines could be taken back no matter how much they lost, but important coastal cities such as ports could not be lost.

War is a catalyst for the development of science and technology. Churchill would never have dreamed that in the original World War II, the Allies racked their brains to launch a surprise attack on Normandy, which did not have a large port. In the end, they came up with a creative but technically difficult idea called "floating dock". Using a temporary dock like a floating bridge, a dock that can handle cargo was built in the Normandy region without a large port!

The "floating dock" can be said to have effectively solved the problem of landing point selection and provided great security for the replenishment of landing troops. When the German high-ranking officials in the original time and space finally realized that the Allied forces landing in Normandy did not seem to lack supplies, everything was too late. And now Churchill has also suffered the same technical loss that the Germans suffered back then, and seriously misjudged the material throughput capacity of the German landing troops!

It only takes a few hours for the simple floating dock to be built. Before tonight, the Germans can at least send an armored regiment ashore. By tomorrow morning, even if the British mobilize all their armored forces, it will be useless.

What's more, this time the Germans landed in three places at the same time, which was enough for the British to lose sight of one while focusing on another.