"Order the reserve team to leave the frontal battlefield regardless of the cost and rush to the east and west directions of the city with all their strength!" Colonel Meyer said fiercely through gritted teeth.
"But Colonel..."
A staff officer was about to stop him, but he only heard Meier yell loudly, and his eyes almost popped out of his sockets.
"Execute the order!" he shouted loudly.
"yes……"
"Take the confidential documents and destroy them, the headquarters... prepare to evacuate." Meier's momentum suddenly weakened, and he said in an extremely decadent manner.
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"Cai Fans, they seem to be running away!" Wang Jianguo said.
"Then it proves that our idea is right!" Qi Zhen threw out a bundle of grenades in her hand and said with some surprise, "Then we can't let them succeed!"
"Lin Zhuang, you and Mark are on the left, along with Liang Sicheng, Zhang Qi, Zhang Chi, Lao Wangtou, Zhaka, and the two girls. We are all on one side, trying every means possible to slow down the opponent's progress. Hold on for as long as you want, remember, life is most important, don’t overturn!”
Qi Zhen said something, then turned around and disappeared at the door of a house.
Following the urgency of the matter, Qi Zhen didn't think much about whether the distribution of the team at this time was reasonable. She just decided on this method of dividing the troops based on the general location of each person's hiding place.
Only in this way can we support the two battlefields as quickly as possible.
However, the discipline of the Germans far exceeded Qi Zhen's imagination.
When they just left the headquarters compound, the Germans adopted a coordinated advance method of infantry and tanks. They were probably preparing for the possibility of encountering an enemy ambush in the city.
But I don’t know where the Germans got four military vehicles. They completed the boarding work in just five minutes, and began to move in two directions in an orderly but extremely fast manner.
And the method they used to deal with the team's ambush also changed from trying to kill everyone in the team at a fixed point, to shooting at private houses around the streets and alleys from 360 degrees without blind spots!
It seemed that they were going to use all the bullets in their guns to suppress the squad with indiscriminate fire to cover their rapid retreat.
Just when the team had no good way to deal with the opponent's rapid advance, Qi Zhen and Lin Biao accurately judged through the enemy's movement route that the opponent might want to increase their troops to the east and west of the city.
Now that you know where the other party is going, it's easier to handle.
Neither tanks nor armored vehicles can move in narrow streets, which provides conditions for the team to take shortcuts.
What's the best way to stop the advance of tanks and military trucks?
Liang Sicheng and Xhaka gave the same answer.
"I'm done!"
"I'm fine now!"
Two people's voices sounded one after another.
At the same time as the two people's voices rang out, the roar of the engine and the heavy sound of crawlers rolling across the ground came from the corner of the street.
Just as the tanks and armored vehicles drove past the position where the two men were just now, a violent explosion sounded at the feet of the tank in front.
boom!
The black smoke of the explosion rose into the sky, and the tank instantly turned into a pile of scrap metal. The sound of the explosion was enough to wake up the residents of at least three nearby streets, and the windows facing the street were instantly shattered by the blast of air. !
The power of high-explosive mines was fully demonstrated at this time, and the huge explosion power instantly blocked the path of the German army.
"Detour! Back off, back off!"
Surprisingly, the Germans on both sides had no intention of proceeding after clearing the obstacles, but decisively chose to retreat and take a detour.
At almost the same time as the explosion, the two separate teams once again relied on the geographical location and began to attack the enemy from a high position.
Frontal combat is free, but they are very good at harassing!
Using the light of the street lamp, Liang Sicheng accurately shot out all the drivers on the armored vehicle one by one, once again delaying the enemy's advance.
Qi Zhen's side is similar. The slight difference is that Qi Zhen and Wang Jianguo don't have as good marksmanship as Liang Sicheng, but they choose another method, which is to use grenades in their hands to throw them at the opponent's convoy without distinction. .
After a period of exchange of fire between the two sides, the Germans finally relied on their absolute numerical superiority and headed in the other direction.
The team disappeared into the night again...
Meyer walked out of the headquarters building and looked back at this place that had been with him for a month but was extremely unforgettable to him. There was no boring sigh like "I will definitely come back."
Ever since the successful landing of the Allies in Normandy, the fall of Caen has been an inevitable event. However, the German army has not changed this trend in any way, whether on the Eastern Front battlefield or on the newly opened Western Front battlefield. Ability.
When did things change?
This was probably when the Americans declared war on Germany.
Damn Japanese, why bother provoking him for nothing!
Meier could already foresee his own defeat, which meant the complete defeat of the 12th Armored Division, the complete failure of the Western Front, and perhaps also meant Germany...
He no longer thought about it, got on the jeep and drove towards the south of the city without looking back.
The Allies probably would never have imagined that the enemy would actually have a reserve force of nearly a regiment, and they would have never imagined that this reserve force was only delayed in the streets of Caen by ten people in the city.
After a fierce battle in the middle of the night, the Allied forces surrounded the city of Caen from the east and west in a sweeping manner, and reached the designated position before dawn.
On the frontal battlefield in the north of the city, the 12th Armored Division was retreating steadily. This may be due to insufficient firepower and troops, but most likely it was because they had received an order to retreat.
You must know that these Germans are a group of desperadoes. If there is an order, they may really dare to fight to the last man.
The Allied forces rushed into the city of Caen for the first time and began a final decisive battle with the remaining defense forces in the city.
At this time, Qi Zhen and the two troops responsible for delaying the attack seemed to have received orders from the top and began to move towards the south of the city.
The oriental fish belly is white, the air is filled with a strong and pungent smell of burning gunpowder, and the entire city of Caen is devastated.
The pursuit in the city continued, and it was obvious that the German army's movement speed and retreat method were far more rapid and organized than the Allied commanders imagined.
They were dragged by the enemy's small force and successfully missed the evacuation route of the enemy's large force.
In one night, most of the German soldiers in the entire city of Caen withdrew outside the south of the city before the Allied attack.
Meier built a temporary defense line here and held the Allied forces that were outflanked from both sides in place.
It is essential for a strong man to cut off his arms. At this time, losing pawns to save the car is also a helpless choice.
Starting at six o'clock, the remaining German troops began to withdraw.
Twenty-five percent of the infantry suffered battle losses, and almost all of the mechanical units were scrapped. This made Meier's heart bleed after seeing the statistics.
Finally, the fire was reserved for the 12th Armored Division. He comforted himself by thinking this, looking at the numb expressions on the faces of the young soldiers, he sighed helplessly.
He picked up his pen and wrote in the pamphlet he carried with him: The soldiers of the 12th Armored Division have reached their physical limits. They fought on the front line for 4 weeks without receiving any reinforcements, and at the same time suffered huge losses in the battle... They went into battle with childish faces, but today they can only see the muddy helmets showing frustration. Black shadows are cast on their faces, and their eyes often stare blankly into the distance...
The exhausted 12th Armored Division finally retreated, abandoning the city of Caen that it had held for 33 days.
On the way back, they still could not escape the powerful firepower of the Allies. The Canadian troops broke through the defense line and advanced to the rear of Caen. They used every available weapon in their hands to fire fiercely at the Germans.
Panic is like a bereaved dog.
In the city, sporadic resistance continued, especially in the north and west, where the pawns who lost their pawns to save their carriages were making an almost tragic final resistance.
However, the outcome of the war was already determined.
Two days later, the final city defense battle slowly came to an end. Just in the fighting in the city during the retreat, Germany once again lost nearly 600 people. Rommel, the commander-in-chief of the west, was finally able to use the relatively elite 1st Armored Division. troops to remove the 12th Armored Division.
The 12th Armored Division was ordered to rest, but not long after, they would be filled again into the German defense line that was riddled with holes.
The strong defense of the 12th Armored Division for these thirty-three days was of great strategic significance. It not only prevented the Allied forces from occupying Caen, but also prevented the Allied forces from reaching Falaise as scheduled, thus delaying the Falaise encirclement. formation, preventing the two German armies from being completely annihilated.
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Before the Normandy landings, the population of Caen had dropped sharply to 60,000. After the Battle of Caen, this number dropped sharply to 17,000.
The streets were in ruins, and obstacles prevented ambulances from traveling, so the injured could not be taken to the hospital. The Saint-Sauveur Abbey in the city became a temporary medical station. The Abbey of Saint-Sauveur was damaged due to Allied air raids.
As for other buildings, various landmark buildings such as railway stations and churches were almost completely destroyed or severely damaged. After many buildings were burned down, molten lead dripped from the roofs.
The most regrettable thing is that the landmark building in the center of the city, the St. Pierre Campanile, was destroyed by a shell fired by the USS Rodney.
The Allies finally won the final victory in this battle.
The exhausted team members gathered in the "ruins" of the German headquarters. During the training session not long after Meier left, they lay sprawled on the carpet that was already as clean as new, watching the sun slowly shining outside the window. Rising up, I heard the friendly troops shouting in English in the yard, and finally a smile appeared in my tired eyes.
"I'm going to sleep for three days this time." Qi Zhen said.
"That bar owner even tricked you into giving you a bottle of wine." Liang Sicheng reminded with a smile.
"Yes, I have to ask him to spit out the money to me, and then I will sleep for three more days." Qi Zhen frowned and said seriously.
