Chapter 0374: The End of the Market Garden (Part 2)(1/2)
The German attack on Wigheer continued until the morning of the next day. During this period, the German tank sea and aircraft fleet caused Wigheer's British and 506th Regiment to suffer, but by the morning of the next day, the Allied forces who could pull out their hands finally got angry!
The long-awaited planes flew here in groups, and the German air force was defeated neatly.
On the ground, the British and American troops also launched a counterattack. Under the cover of the air force, the British army launched a counterattack against the German army. The paratroopers of the 506th Regiment followed the British tank troops. After pursuing the German army, they entered Yu Deng, who was everywhere in ruins.
The 2nd and 3rd rows of E Company arrived at Yu Deng with a heavy heart. They wanted to pay homage to the sacrificed brothers in the next row and to pay homage to their respectable company commander. It is said that they had all thought about the words for the deceased brothers.
...
After the first Allied fleet appeared over Wighail, Yu Deng's paratroopers cheered, they knew that reinforcements were coming!
Then, there was a vast crowd of aircraft, and then endless tanks poured out from left and right and Wigheel. The paratroopers who had been tortured by artillery for 30 hours were hugged together excitedly.
They... survived!
In the damn German shelling, the continuous shelling, they survived!
Seeing the German army fleeing in a hurry under the attack of air and land, the paratroopers calmed down from ecstasy. Aliya looked at Weighail, who was also full of ruins like Yu Deng, and said sadly: "The casualties there must be very large..."
The paratroopers were silent.
Zheng Yingqi sat on the ground with melancholy, sighing in his heart, wondering what kind of casualties would be poured into his ears later.
A unit was heading towards Yudeng, and their roaring eagle armbands could be seen in the telescope, but no one thought about it in the direction of the 506th Regiment.
"Please cheer up. The German army has only fought for one day, and the casualties of our 506th Regiment will not be very high." Winters cheered a row: "Even if our brothers suffered heavy losses, our E Company will definitely not be able to defeat them!"
"After the friendly forces arrive, I will take you to Wighail to see where our brothers fought - we have to tell them that our E Company cannot be defeated!"
Everyone in Yu Deng believed that from yesterday to today, the 506th regiment stationed in Weighair suffered serious losses, after all, there were so many German attacks.
But after the troops heading to Yudeng entered Yudeng, the people in the first platoon were stunned.
It's actually...
506th group!
The others in the 506th Regiment were also dumbfounded. They thought Yu Deng was submerged in the sea of tanks, and Yu Deng's more than 100 people had long been ravaged by the German army into skeletons that could only be remembered, but they did not expect...
They are all here!
The guys in the 2nd and 3rd rows were so excited that the paratroopers in the first row looked at the 2nd and 3rd rows, which had little loss, were also excited and almost crazy. All kinds of excited curses wrapped the temporary station of the E Company in the following moments.
Wighair turned out to have received support from the British army. Not long after entering Wighair, more than 4,000 British troops arrived. The two sides worked together to fight the German attack, and then they could only survive the subsequent reinforcements.
The reason why Yu Deng was released by the German army was that Winters' empty city plan was unanimously praised.
In the Wigheel Battle, the E Company's 2nd and 3rd platoons suffered almost no losses because they were placed behind by the 2nd Battalion - and the 2nd Battalion Commander Streyer did this because he thought Winters and 1st platoons were finished. As an apology to the deceased, 2nd and 3rd platoons were placed behind.
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Section N: Enemies are narrow
The German plan to attack Yudeng and Wigherer failed, but they did not give up cutting the road - the Germans planned to take down the Allied troops north of Wigherer!
The Germans succeeded, and they attacked the Allied Hell Highway south and west of Wigher, and successfully advanced to a protrusion, cutting off the road again.
To the north of Wighail are two airborne divisions of the US 101 and 82, as well as the British First Airborne Division, the Polish First Paratrooper Brigade, the British Guard Armored Division, the British 43rd Wessex Division, and two British cavalry regiments.
The situation at that time was the key to strategy. The bridge in Arnhem was lost from the British paratroopers, and the entire Market Garden operation had been declared to be a failure - but the Allies could not allow the Germans to cut the road at will. Once the road was cut off, the Allies north of Wigheer could not get supplies and consumed the oil and supplies in their hands. It would be a collapsed end!
With so many troops lost, the victory laid down by Normandy will be overturned.
The 101st Division must reopen the highway and control the protrusion in its hands. If it cannot...
Then see the German prisoner-of-war camp.
The 506th Regiment was once again ordered. In the early morning of September 25, Sink ordered the entire regiment to prepare for the start of the destiny. At 2:38 am, the heavy rain began to pour down, but the heavy rain could not stop the 506th Regiment from the start of the destiny. At 4:45, the 506th Regiment left Yu Deng and marched south.
The raincoat worn on it cannot provide effective protection in heavy rain. After passing through the ruins of Vigheer, the entire 506th Regiment became the legendary chicken. Even if two eggs were soaked in the cold environment, the paratroopers still had to continue moving forward.
At 8:13 in the morning, the troops arrived at the protruding unit controlled by the German army. After 17 minutes, the 506th Regiment launched an attack on the protruding unit.
The offense was not going well, all three battalions were blocked, the second battalion commander Streyer placed his hopes on the E Company, and Winters placed his hopes on a row.
"The passage must be opened! You must enter! Wilsh, this is related to the lives of nearly 100,000 people!" Winters emphasized that when he ordered, he issued an order in front of the entire platoon, and many people in the platoon were thinking:
I'll go, will the lives of 100,000 people fall on our thin shoulders?
The first platoon launched an attack again. This time, the first platoon fought hard. The entire platoon took Zheng Yingqi as the striker and quickly made considerable progress. The first platoon followed Zheng Yingqi's pace and occupied a sudden position in the protruding part.
"The Sixth Paratrooper Regiment! These Biaozis are raised!"
Henry saw the German corpse on the ground wearing an edelixir flower. The flower grew up at an altitude of more than 1,700 meters in the Alps. Only elites of that height would wear this thing. Most of the members of the Sixth Paratroopers conquered the elites of that height.
"We can beat them to ashes in St. Marymond and Carlanton, here, as well..." After hearing Henry's curse, Wilsh began to boost morale, but before he could finish his words, the shells roared.
The paratroopers in a row are still palpitations at the shells. It is estimated that whoever trembled for 30 hours after the shelling was trembling. When the shelling made the paratroopers in a row subconsciously hide, a rumbling sound rang out.
"Grass. Tiger style!"
Zheng Yingqi cursed softly. He was very sensitive to the sound of the tiger-style rumbling forward. This feeling of earth shaking can only be caused by the tiger-style. Although he has the record of destroying the tiger-style, when facing the tiger-style, even if he has destroyed the tiger-style, he will not have the mentality of "I can do it".
A steel giant beast that looked like a prehistoric monster appeared. Unlike the familiar tiger style, this steel monster has a diamond-shaped body, and can even see the armor of each army to be tilted to a certain extent.
"It's the Tiger King! It's the Tiger King!"
Ali screamed, Tiger style 56 tons, Tiger King 68 tons - this is not just an extra 12 tons of weight, but an increase in combat power geometry, at least for infantry.
Facing the rumbling tiger king, Velsh could no longer say the domineering words, and he decisively ordered the retreat. With only two Bazukas, they faced this thing, they would either be bombed to death, beaten to death, or crushed to death, or they could have an extra option to scare to death, but there would definitely be no possibility of counterattack!
This was the killer weapon prepared by the striking defenders. They originally planned to make a fortune, but because of the bravery of a row, they had to send out the hidden artillery and the Tiger King in advance.
As soon as the Tiger King appeared, Sherman and Cromwell tanks who followed the 506th Regiment became grandsons. If the Tiger King hadn't fought steadily along the road, it would have probably been a thousand miles long. In terms of quickly leaving the battlefield, who else can Cromwell tanks besides me?
Zheng Yingqi, who had returned, spat and cursed: "What a fucking retribution!"
When I was in Normandy, the 101st Airborne Division bullied the German Sixth Paratrooper Regiment without heavy weapons and lacked ammunition supplies. Unexpectedly, when I turned around, it was now the Sixth Paratrooper Regiment that bullied them with insufficient heavy equipment!
To put it bluntly, although the first battle of the 101st Division of the "Screaming Eagle" took advantage of the Sixth Paratrooper Regiment, the Sixth Paratrooper Regiment, which was called a lion by the 101st Airborne Division, was generally not highly evaluated by the E Company, even if the Sixth Paratrooper Regiment lost a battalion because the 101st Airborne Division.
But this time, after the 506th Regiment's attack forced the Sixth Paratroopers to use their backs, Colonel Hait felt that his opponent's current situation was different.
"Compared to Normandy, the enemy in front of us is better at fighting!" Colonel Hatter sighed. What made him sigh the most was that the enemy was more good at fighting, but his people, because of their supplements, had a combat power of more than one level than before. If it were his previous subordinates, how could he... easily use his backhand?
The appearance of the Tiger King forced Colonel Sinke to order the vain attack to stop, and then retreated while building a position while thinking about ways to break the deadlock.
All the officers were thinking about ways to break the deadlock. At the meeting within the 2nd Battalion, Streyer asked the intelligence staff Nixon to go to the E Company and followed Winters to see if he could find a way to break the deadlock.
"It's better to bring a few guards." Nixon suggested before leaving.
"Let Jacob come alone. If there are too many people, it will be easy to find out." Winters subconsciously thought of Zheng Yingqi. Nixon nodded, but he didn't bring a single Zheng Yingqi to bring a few more people. Nixon was an officer who came out of the E Company. In fact, when there were few officers in the battalion, Strayer thought of the officers of the E Company just now, just as Winters subconsciously thought of Zheng Yingqi. It has to be said that the officers who came out of the E Company are always trustworthy, and they never let down their trust.
Zheng Yingqi, who was hiding in a digging cat's ear piercing, was called out like this and took on the role of guard with a sleepy look on his face.
Seeing Zheng Yingqi being called away with a tired look on his face and becoming a guard, Henry couldn't help but wonder: Isn't this person too outstanding? If he is too outstanding, all kinds of "beautiful and bad" will emerge one after another...
In a wooded forest, Winters discovered a dry and sturdy path.
"This road is good and can provide enough friction to the tank."
But Nixon said: "The end of the woods is about 350 meters away from the road. With such a long and wide area without a barrier, our people have to attack with the German firepower."
"Let machine guns and mortars provide cover at the end of the woods, and the assault here can be a critical hit - before that, we need to convince the Germans that we are fighting them head-on."
"It sounds like a good idea. If there is no other option, we may have to do this. I'll go back..." Before Nixon finished speaking, he fell to the ground with a crisp sound. Zheng Yingqi, who was standing beside him, subconsciously kicked Winters aside, and then searched for the enemy who shot in the rain curtain. The rain curtain made him see limited places, so this situation happened.
Another gunshot, this time Zheng Yingqi finally saw a figure. The other party hid on a back slope on the left and monitored the place through the gap between two stones.
Since the target has been found, the rest is something that a bullet can solve - if not, then another shot will happen.
Bang
As the M1 carbine sounded, a bloody color exploded in the rain curtain. Zheng Yingqi took the gun away and then tried to evacuate Nixon's body on his back, but to his surprise, Nixon was not dead, but stared at his helmet on the ground in a daze.
The bullet flew away against the right side of the helmet, leaving only a trace of almost piercing.
"I also have such a helmet - I think it's a lucky thing to pass on from generation to generation." Winters said to Nixon.
"Yes, it's time to collect it. This is my lucky baby." Nixon replied with palpitations.
Only Zheng Yingqi always feels it is strange - the officers of the E Company are prone to being shot in the steel helmet, while the soldiers of the E Company are prone to being shot in the butt. There are two in front of him who are shot in the steel helmet, and there are already four people who are shot in the butt, and there are also one magical gentleman with four holes in one shot...
After returning to the position, Nixon and Winters went to the battalion headquarters, while Zheng Yingqi retracted his cat's ear piercing. He had a bad premonition that the team that needed to achieve a "fatal blow" might have a place of his own.
This is almost certain. In more than half an hour, the combat plan of the woods attack was determined. In order to cover the side combat plan, the entire regiment will continue to attack in the rain from 4 pm. In the evening, the attacking squad will take action, set out from the woods, and stabbed the German army's chest from the side like a sharp knife.
This team naturally fell on the head of Company E, and Company E handed over the mission to the first platoon without any surprise and assigned three mortars to the first platoon.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the attack began, and some 81mm mortars and Wigheer's cannons from the regiment headquarters joined the cover sequence. After night, the battle became more intense. Wigheer's cannons seemed to have not stopped, but they became more careful because a small team was heading towards the German flank from the woods.
The 25 people in a row, three 60mm mortar teams, and two British Cromwell tanks are all the forces of this team. After continuous battles, these two are now left. During this period of battle, these British tanks have successfully destroyed German armored vehicles and German artillery, but have never killed a German tank.
"Guys, believe me, you can definitely kill the German tanks tonight. Maybe you will kill a tiger king - then you will be respectable tiger trainers!" Wersh cheered the British army in the two groups, and Zheng Yingqi smiled and said nothing, hoping that they could become tiger trainers.
The attack team passed through the woods and appeared 350 meters away from the highway. They would cross the 350 meters and then launch a fatal blow to the German army.
Everything was going on in an orderly manner, very smoothly. Halfway through, Zheng Yingqi suddenly felt a suffocating trembling, and he climbed down without thinking.
Bang bang bang
Gunshots rang out in succession, and almost all the teams in the first row followed Zheng Yingqi down. This round of attacks did not cause any losses, but a rumbling sound rang out. As the flares took off, the terrifying sound of the Tiger King appeared from behind the back slope.
"The German army is ready! Retreat! Retreat!" Velsh shouted loudly. The two Cromwell tanks stopped and retreated directly. Velsh saw it, cursed lowly and came up with a plan. He quickly pounced on the retreating tank, and said to the commander almost with a face facing face: "Go to the slope of the forest! You can hide yourself there and escape the shooting of the Tiger King! And you can also aim at it and fuck him!"
To be continued...