The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 651

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On the 41st, after being bombed for three weeks, the German army finally launched a general offensive against the British Empire!

In the early morning of the 21st, the German army began to launch a landing operation.

When everyone thought that the German army might launch an attack from the direction of the Strait of Calais, the German army did the opposite. They set out from Normandy and landed in the attacked area of Bournemouth.

Bournemouth is located in the southwest of the foggy city. Although the entire south is an area that the British army focuses on guarding, their main focus is still on the southeast. The defense of the southwest, especially the area west of the Strait of Calais, is far less strict than that of the southeast.

In order to cover the landing troops from landing smoothly, the German army concentrated its forces on the 20th and launched a massive bombing of the British positions near the coastline!

However, the place where the German army focused its bombing was not Bournemouth where the German army landed, but Dover, where the British army guessed they were going to land!

The Dover area was originally an area of key vigilance for the British army.���There are a lot of troops here, and the coastline is full of anti-tank pestles and iron cross anti-tank chevaux de frise made of reinforced concrete.

A large number of mines are also buried on the beach, and many mines are floating on the seashore.

On the shore, the British army is high above and has built a large number of bunkers and shelters. There are at least three lines of defense in front and behind each beachhead, and there are hundreds of cross-fire points on each line of defense, which can cause great damage to the enemy’s landing troops!

Since the defeat in Europe last year, the British Army has been guarding against the landing of the German army. As the closest area to the European continent, the defense of the Dover area was planned and implemented first!

Because it is related to the life and death of the country, the British Army dare not be careless at all. They have seen the power of German tanks on the European battlefield, so they put a lot of energy into preventing the German landing.

Judging from the results alone, the defense facilities near the Dover Line are very reasonably matched, and the manpower is also extremely sufficient. Although the British army has been mobilized almost in recent months, most of them are recruits with no combat experience, but because this is a war related to the survival of the country, it is a war to defend the country at home, so these recruits are full of blood, courage and fighting spirit are very high! On the

20th, the German army dispatched thousands of bombers, including a large number of dive bombers, to bomb the Dover area, and the German navy also dispatched a fleet to attack the British beachhead from the sea!

This onslaught made the people of the Sun Never Set very uneasy. They realized that the German army might launch a landing war. Although they had already made a lot of preparations, when the German army put on a posture ready to land, the people of the Sun Never Set still felt frightened.

The German army’s reputation was too great for them. As the strongest army in Europe, the German army was stronger than them. Although the British army was not convinced, they admitted that the German army was better than them in terms of weapons and equipment, combat literacy, combat experience, and even combat will!

Moreover, the German army had air superiority, bombing their positions, suppressing or even destroying their firepower points, causing great interference to their troop mobilization and counterattack.

Therefore, the British army had no confidence in the security of multiple lines, and the German army’s indiscriminate bombing of the Dover area also destroyed a large number of facilities prepared by the British army in advance, and even the three lines of defense suffered heavy losses under the bombing of the German army.

Therefore, the British army almost didn’t think much about it, and immediately sent additional troops to the Dover area to strengthen the defense.

In their view, since the German army had bombed here and destroyed many defense facilities, the German army would definitely land here!

As a result, the facts slapped them in the face. The German army did not land in the Dover area!

Instead, they chose Bournemouth, which they had never thought of before, to land!

The reason why the British army was surprised by the German action was mainly because of the existence of the Dover position. The German navy could not obtain the sea control of the Strait of Never Set, and it was impossible to bypass Dover and enter the western region, so their landing range should only be the area north of Dover.

And there were no German garrisons in the Normandy region opposite Bournemouth, so they did not expect the Germans to land here!

However, the Germans were beyond their expectations. They did not send an escort fleet, but let the troops board the ship from other places, and then let the landing fleet go around the coastline of Gaul, and under the cover of the air force bombing, quietly slipped under the noses of the Never Set people!

As for where the Never Set people’s fleet went?

After the Battle of the North Sea, their navy lost about one-third of its combat effectiveness. Part of the remaining navy was attracted by German submarines in the southwest and went to the south to escort merchant ships.

Another part was attracted by the aircraft carrier battle group composed of two German aircraft carriers and ran to the northwest sea.

Most of the remaining navies are active in the North Sea to prevent the Germans from launching an attack from the North Sea.

As for the area around the British Strait, this is not Hans’s homeland, but the land of Gaul. In addition, there is no naval base of Hans here. If the Hans navy wants to arrive here, it must bypass the Strait of Calais, which will definitely be discovered by the British army, so the British people are relatively lax in their defense here.

However, the German army specially dispatched a naval bomber in April to bomb ships at sea.

The area of the British Strait is not large, and the waters are not wide. The German bombers can easily control it, so the British warships active here are either sunk or driven away. Even the ports in the south of the British Strait have become very dangerous. The German naval bombers can easily attack here. Even if they are parked in the port, they can’t escape the German bombing unless their warships can be invisible so that others can’t see them!

So, after more than half a month of bombing, the British fleet active in the British Strait area suffered heavy losses. Most of the warships were sunk by naval bombers. The rest did not dare to stay here and all ran away!

The navy of the British Empire withdrew from here, and the German army was naturally not polite and immediately sent a squadron to control this place.

Because the British Empire’s Strait is not very wide, and the British army has large-caliber coastal defense artillery on the coastline, the German army sent a fleet led by cruisers. The main force is some small ships such as destroyers. Large ships such as heavy cruisers and battleships almost never come here. After all, large warships are basically sitting ducks when they come here.

As for this landing fleet, it set off at night along the coastline of Gaul!