Chapter 422: Norwich offense and defense

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In fact, landing in the UK is an unprecedented challenge for the German team. This challenge stretched to every corner and made the German team's huge war machine feel weakly uncomfortable.
The first thing that felt the pressure was the logistics and transportation department of the German Navy. In order to accumulate the fuel and strategic materials needed for this landing operation, they began to rush around from the end of January, and they were prepared to barely complete the minimum until February 12. Requirements.
Thousands of tons of materials were transported to the British landing site, and then returned in a hurry in order to hurry up or even thrown directly into the nearby seawater, just to get some time on the day to send some more materials in the past.
Even so, the German transport supply fleet still felt stretched, and finally knew how difficult and difficult it was for the United Kingdom to maintain such a large maritime fleet as a huge overlord empire. Of course-the construction is not easy to destroy but simple. The German navy took a huge loss to the huge British naval fleet in only one month.
The logistics supply is not easy. It is also invisible and difficult to say. Compared with the difficulties encountered by frontline troops, it seems to be less conspicuous.
In this landing operation, the German infantry was truly aware of the cruelty of the war. In the past, the racing and rolling operations of the armored forces and the air force became a repeated battle for one inch of land, and the rapid advancement of a thousand miles became a daily. The tragic struggle of several kilometers or even hundreds of meters.
For example, in the battle that took place on the landing beach, the Germans lost thousands of people in the first ten minutes. The soldiers endured the icy cold water and braved the enemy ’s machine gun to attack. If not the British coastline guards Limited, Germany is likely to be rushed back to his hometown even without going to the beach.
Cromer's fight made the German soldiers realize the cruelty of street fighting, and even the most elite Akkado Youth League suffered heavy losses. German soldiers are good at night battles, armored propulsion, and large-scale intersperses and detours seem to seldom appear in the battle of Britain. Instead, they are one after another small towns, one after another British defensive strongholds.
The British are constantly learning and improving. They learn how to fight from German soldiers. They paid their tuition with blood and life, and tried their best to make themselves grow up as soon as possible and become real warriors who could defend their homes.
The Germans are constantly learning and progressing. They learn to fight in a smarter way, learn to face the huge street battles at their expense, and learn to use the weapons in their hands to fight the pleasing slaughter rhythm in the city alleys.
The engineers tried to weld the six iron fist rockets together with the two wheels to form a new weapon that could be controlled by wires and detonators. This weapon can fire 6 rockets at a target continuously until the opposite target is destroyed.
This weapon is often used with two scrapped tank tracks, digging a pit under one wheel, and then using the scrapped tank track to catch the wheels on the other side, the iron fist rocket will be swaying when it is launched, causing The terrifying effect of short-range rockets. German soldiers used this simple weapon to easily destroy the building where the British troops were stationed. This weapon was also called "building terminator" by soldiers.
During a street fight in Norwich, a German soldier shook his head, shattered the dust on his helmet, and looked to a building that was completely destroyed by this "building terminator" in the distance. Satisfied with a thumbs out: "Clear!"
The soldiers behind him heard his shouts, hurriedly picked up their arms and stooped towards the collapsed building. They must occupy it as soon as possible, otherwise the British will appear in the rubble after half an hour, and stick to the territory under the rubbish.
In the small square on the other side, a German soldier with an assault rifle approached the door of the building bit by bit, beckoning the comrades behind him to come to help, the two soldiers stood at the door with grenade, he kicked At the locked gate, the two soldiers behind threw grenades at the same time.
Two huge explosions set off huge waves, shattered the glass, and rattled the door panel. The German soldiers rushed into the house full of smoke with their weapons, and then there were dense gunshots, and it was not known which side finally won the victory.
On the square in the west of the city, three leopard tanks were parked next to the central pool, and an 88mm anti-aircraft artillery gun was pointed at the sky. There are not many weapons, so the loss of the German armored forces has not reached an unbearable point.
But the loss still exists. In the early morning, a British anti-tank gun hidden on the corner of the street destroyed a No. 3 tank of the 5th Light Armored Division. In the afternoon, two leopard tanks were destroyed during the cover of the infantry attack. . Three hours after the Norwich offensive and defensive battle started, the German tanks have lost as much as nine.
At 2:26 pm on February 17, Norwich was still under the control of the British defenders, but only one-third of the area was occupied by German soldiers. The British will definitely counterattack at night and obtain some results. This is what the Germans have in mind, so after a day of fierce attack, the Germans have achieved very few results.
"My troops are not good at this kind of warfare. Or elite German troops should not be put into this kind of warfare." Lundstedt wrote in the diary: "We killed 300 people in the block, the other fight If you lose 500 people and take it back, we will have to pay 200 or more people to get it back. "
"This is a great waste of resources." He concluded: "I would rather go to the field to fight a battle of 200,000 people than to consume our time and energy in these cities."
His complaint was answered. At 4 o'clock, the German strategic bombing of the Norwich region used a large number of napalm bombs, and the entire city became a sea of ​​fire. The loss caused by the German bombers to the British made the subsequent Norwich offensive and defensive battle in the direction of the Germans. Development, but still full of blood and cruelty, still makes people helpless to sigh.
In order to reduce the loss, Lundstedt used special forces to begin to clear the British soldiers in the city. The effect was obvious but the loss was still heavy. After causing 1,000 casualties to the British, the special forces were forced to withdraw from the attack because the losses were too heavy. Of the 180 special forces soldiers involved in the operation, 97 were killed, more than half of them.
Fortunately, the Germans opened the situation with losses. The grenadiers of the 1st Infantry Division approached the government building in the center of the city after losing an attack of 35 people. However, they could not continue because of the desperation of the British. further.
Both sides were terrified of Norwich, who had long been in ruins. Just like the battle of Verdun during World War I, every minute and every second of Norwich's offensive and defensive warfare lost soldiers' lives-either British soldiers or German soldiers died in this second. However, both parties involved in the battle have made up their minds to fight back, and they are also here to beat their opponents' confidence.
The sorrow of the soldiers is that as long as the above generals say, it is enough to throw you to a place worse than to enjoy the helplessness and bitterness of the war. The 200 German Grenadiers who had just arrived at the outskirts of Norwich took a short break, and they were swept by the commanders into the city that was still burning and exploding, and the 200 people began to enter the front line. There will be only 100 people left in an hour ...
The British on the other side will naturally not easily abandon this important city. They will send troops to fill the large pit of Norwich. The city is now like a big mouth with a mouth. Monsters, devouring the lives of soldiers on both sides. As of 4:30 that night, the Germans had lost 3,900 soldiers near Norwich, and the British were even more miserable, with 7,400 killed and missing.
The night began to fall, and the British ushered in the fourth night after the Germans landed. The bad weather that was desired still did not come, and God still stood on the German side. But the British guarded their positions with tenacious will, and the national flag of the British Empire was still flying in the center of Norwich. Montgomery has won another day for Britain, but no one knows how this day can bring a turning point to the stormy British Empire.
That night, the British bombers visited the German positions for the first time. The number was not too large, but it caused a lot of trouble for the Germans. These bombers raided several small docks controlled by the Germans and destroyed some pontoon docks erected by the Germans. However, these aircraft were also violently countered by the German anti-aircraft artillery unit. About 20 British aircraft were shot down by the 88-mm anti-aircraft artillery with excellent performance.
The British launched a crazy counterattack in downtown Norwich, and the German infantry changed from attacking to defensive. These German Grenadiers proved to the British that no matter who faced the tightly organized city street defense, they had to pay a heavy price when attacking. After paying 2,000 soldiers for casualties, the British failed to take back one block.
That night, the German bomber forces continued to bomb the area controlled by the British garrison. They were accustomed to the British ground forces destroyed by the German Air Force without much loss. They carefully deployed their forces and hid tanks and artillery, just like another time and space 1944 The Germans in July were as skilled.