The British sergeant was stunned and then seemed to have answers. "There will be one soon! I’ll draw one here for every German tank destroyed! When I help you drive away the Germans, this side will be full! "

The contemptuous elements in the expression of Greek youth’s pie mouth have not decreased.
On the one hand, it is awe of the enemy.
On the one hand, it is questioning allies.
Although the mood is generally low, the labor efficiency of the Greeks is still commendable. An arc-shaped defense line appeared in the dusty dust outside Greece. British soldiers pulled up barbed wire in front of the trench. Although these obstacles could not slow down the progress of German tanks, they could cause some trouble to German infantry. In some fields near the road, British soldiers also carefully laid mines.
"I heard that the German troops advancing to Gravia have not moved for half a day! They can’t cope with oil! " During the break, a British captain from Tsimba came to inspect with his regular soldiers and brought his colleagues the latest battle situation at the front.
For the captain’s schadenfreude tone and healthy body, the master obviously doesn’t agree with him. Contrary to his previous confident attitude in front of the Greeks, he said with anxiety that "the chief is fighting a defensive war in such a wide terrain", it is better to retreat to the city. After all, the Germans are in control! "
"This is not for you and me to decide!" Lieutenant Naidi smoked a cigarette and said in a low voice, "The Greeks would rather surrender to the Germans than suffer a little damage to the monuments in Athens!" These unfortunate people! Idiot! "
"I don’t understand!"
The sergeant looked angrily at the Greek soldiers and civilians not far away. When the British-Greek Coalition forces fought against the Italian army and won one after another, the officers and men on both sides were as close as brothers, but once the disaster struck, they were preoccupied with their own career.
Just as the two men were talking, the shrill attack alarm sounded again in the position. Passive beating has become a common practice in the case of losing control. It is also useless to see people running back to Athens, so that they can hide in the semi-finished array nearby and pray that the German bomb will not hit their heads so accurately.
Ten minutes later, the British anti-aircraft guns deployed around Athens roared desperately, and the brave and glorious Royal Army could not be seen in the sky. After several days of fierce suppression by the Germans, the British aviation troops suffered heavy losses, and even the Crete airport could not be guaranteed. Now the allied officers and men have to face the embarrassing situation of no protection in Greece!
A group of German bombers roared in the buzz of maggots. At the end of March, it never snowed in southern Europe, but the German fleet flew over and white "snowflakes" floated the day after tomorrow.
Chapter 14 The sudden fall of Athens
"Damn the Germans! Damn fascism! " Fanyi
British officers and men in the trenches, as always, sent their sincere curses to the German bombers who turned around and returned home. They still sneered at the orders falling from the sky after reading them, and these papers could barely roll cigarettes or wipe their bottoms.
By the end of the alarm attack, the position outside Athens became crowded again. However, the British soon became strange and turbulent like a plague, and many Greeks were seen together along the position, muttering that their faces and expressions were all strange and their emotions changed greatly compared with those in their previous lives. Soon after consulting with the Greek officers in the position, someone put tools away from the position and watched the number of people leaving the position increase like a snowball. Greek officers and soldiers turned a blind eye.
"Where are you going?" Seeing that the former Greek youth picked up the clothes next to the trench and was ready to follow his partner away from the British sergeant, he was puzzled and pulled his sleeve.
"This battle is left to you!" The young man pinched his hand. "Our government is negotiating a truce with Germany! The Germans said that if we continue to help the British team, not only will people be shot, but their families will be killed! But if we can stay at home honestly, we will get the most basic living guarantee! "
"This you will believe? God! This is the lowest and most superficial scam in the world! " The British sergeant lamented, but the Greek youth ignored him.
Not far away, an angry British officer is also questioning his allies. "You just let them leave?"
The Greek major looked at each other indifferently as if he didn’t know there was English in this world.
"Damn it!" Looking at the "unfinished project" outside Athens, the British petty officer and his colleagues were completely dumbfounded. If the Greek army soldiers also fled noisily, should they shoot from behind or continue to wait for the Germans here?
It is not only Athens that is still in the area of Greece controlled by the British and Greek allied forces at this time, but also the common people’s mood has become difficult to control, and a large number of deserters have appeared in the Greek army in the middle of the night. Although the Greek government insisted on the current plan to compromise with the German government through radio emergency rumors, the Greek civilians obviously "would rather believe it than believe it" about the German army.
In order to ensure the safety of Athens, the Greek military temporarily transferred two infantry regiments from the Peloponnesus to participate in the construction of the defense line. However, the progress of the project was greatly delayed due to such tossing, and the morale of the allied troops was seriously shaken!
In the southern Bulgarian city of Logan, ardino, 4 kilometers away from Athens, and other military staff officers are analyzing the newly released aerial photos. Greek troops deployed in the Peloponnesian Peninsula in Athens. They paid special attention to the Corinthian Bridge connecting the Peloponnesian Peninsula in Greece. According to the reconnaissance in the past few days, they have been able to confirm the withdrawal of the Greek-Turkish Coalition forces. One part is in the middle and south of Greece, and the other part has been withdrawn to the Peloponnesian Peninsula. Except for the artificial digging of the Corinthian Canal, it is almost a six-isolated island. However, when thinking about the experience of the Isle of Wight War, the British people should not have much confidence in holding such an island. However, if the peninsula has many harbors, if it
"We can’t expect the Italian navy to completely cut off the allied sea retreat. We must give full play to the advantage of flash warfare! On the 6 th Army, Lieutenant General Georg Stourm commanded the First Phantom Armored Corps, which has been resting in Gravia for an hour. Fuel and ammunition have been replenished and ready for attack! In addition, the Yuan Guard Flag Brigade is also advancing in the direction of Athens. Two hours ago, the road distance was kilometers! " Logan personally reviewed all aspects of the war information and then stood up straight. "You plan to follow the original plan." The prelude to Mercury will be implemented at 6 am. All transport echelons and descending troops are in place and the oil and equipment are sufficient! "
The subtle atmosphere of everyone’s meditation also reminds Logan of the nervous but irrepressible excitement of the German army’s front-line command when it was about to take off and land on the Isle of Wight. Sometimes it feels like poison!
"Marshal believes that this is a battle to win in danger. All fighters and bombing wings will cooperate!" The first to break the silence was Marshal Kesselring’s aide-de-camp Heilinger School.
Then Logan’s staff officer, Kailuo School, said, "We are sure that the Coalition forces are in a state of chaos."
Before the end of the French campaign, the German army carried out a limited landing operation in Champagne. The paratroopers not only did not encounter strong resistance, but also took advantage of the chaos to destroy roads and bridges to block a large number of French retreat and directly captured twice as many French prisoners of war!
There is a saying that the brave men were not brave enough to say that the French army, that is, a group of castrated cocks, had no fighting capacity. Logan, who also beat up the Italian army a while ago, dared not underestimate it too much.
He immediately turned his eyes to his big brother Studente.
"My only worry is that the hard land in southern Greece looks as flat as a runway, and the ground is likely to be covered with rubble! Even if the glider can be safely landed and damaged, it will be scrapped directly! " At that time, "Da Zong" spoke a quite professional technical question at ten o’clock. Although the output of German aircraft has increased in recent months, the output of transport aircraft and gliders is still lower than that of transport aircraft and gliders consumed by the German army in active service without war. In summer, it decreased during the war to move to Britain!
"This kind of method to avoid risks is hard to avoid in combat operations!" Logan looked at Studente and said, "That’s why I specially kept most of the gliders. Even if the warhead is damaged this time, it won’t seriously affect project mercury behind!"
Studen nodded his head. "Less sudden downhill at Athens airport will have a higher chance of life!" "Then," Logan looked around, "if everyone has no other opinions, we will officially start the war plan!"
Everyone should then deploy separately.
After joining the Axis camp, Bulgaria had to be nervous about the German army’s deployment of territory and military facilities. In the medium term, it hoped that Germany could guide this victory. Although the Bulgarian army cooperated, the southern part of the country was really hilly and mountainous. It was necessary to build a large-scale military detention field. This time, the German army will take part in the operation, including more than one Kesheng transport plane and a field glider, among which the blade frame can take down tanks. The "Giant" heavy glider is scattered in 16 temporary field airports in southern Bulgaria, which means that if the weather is bad, it may be ruined directly!
Fortunately, the sun rose normally the next day, and German fighter planes and bombers still flew to the roads and towns in central and southern Greece as usual to carry out fierce attacks on the withdrawal and deployment of defense. When the attention of the British army was distracted, a large number of German transport planes quickly took off from the runways at various airports. One advantage of the airport was that the time for peace and closure could be greatly shortened by 6 hours. The first batch of field transport planes completed their formation at the Bulgarian-Greek border and roared to Athens. In the next half hour, the second batch of transport planes continued to ascend, including the "giant" who set an example to lower the heavy equipment.
Since then, in order to make way for the returning fighters and bombers, the third batch of German drop planes didn’t take off until about now, and when they crossed the border of Bulgaria and Greece, the first batch of German transport planes carrying paratroopers just bypassed the position in northern Athens where a large number of anti-aircraft guns were deployed, and the terrain was relatively wide. The main breakthrough of this drop in the war was in the eastern suburbs of Athens!
When German paratroopers and gliders landed aboveboard, the British and Greek allied forces had more than 30,000 soldiers around Athens, but they were desperately short of tanks and heavy artillery, and they were still struggling on the highways in central Greece. More importantly, because the Germans had taken strict security measures, including the off-line way, they had information. The allied forces lacked material and psychological preparations for the sudden fall of the Germans, and a small number of warning troops were deployed in the eastern part of the city, which almost collapsed. More than 10% of the residents in the large urban area of Athens had evacuated the street fighting. Instead, they had the core of exemplary camp reduction. The German
When the massive war of surrender started, the German ground troops also quickly advanced along the highway to Athens. In just six hours, General Sturm’s Panzer Corps continuously conquered the Greek army and laid two defense lines along the way, and quickly advanced to Aliyar, less than kilometers away from Athens. The Greek front was crumbling and finally fell into an irreversible abyss! d
Chapter 15 Distant Bridge
The Yamagata Greeks don’t want to see all the tea from God destroyed by war. The Greek army was deeply influenced by pessimism, and when it saw that it was like an ancient giant bird, the German heavy glider landed, it had lost its pitiful courage. Maybe they were tricked by the German army, which had printed a list a month ago. After a short resistance of less than an hour, the Greek army put up a white flag and a Greek general went to the German paratroopers’ position to demand a ceasefire, deceiving the German battlefield commander, Brigadier General Alfred Shturm, who happily accepted their surrender and promised to protect the great city of Athens as much as possible within his ability.
After that, nearly 100 German soldiers in Litian, together with their flail tanks and armored vehicles, quickly entered the city and port of Athens and obtained a lot of artillery and machine guns from the Greek army. At this time, the Commonwealth troops stationed in the northern suburb of Athens tried to stop the Germans from occupying the city, especially trying to recapture the port that could be retreated. However, when German fighters and bombers violently attacked, they quickly chose to give up and then hastily retreated toward the Peloponnesus!
Xiaoxian County was sent to the Nord National Army Front Command in Aldis, southern Bulgaria in the shortest time. Officers are paying close attention to the fourth batch of transport aircraft troops preparing to land in Athens. The ugly light assault glider with a mouth-to-mouth ratio of 2 meters and the giant heavy glider have finished all the work planes before taking off, and Xiaolin, a German officer, was killed to land tanks and six armed barrels.
"Now it’s time to send them to a more important place!" Studente’s keen eyes searched for a map of Greece and the Corinthian Canal in the Peloponnesus. The fact that the canal is small and also known as the Corinthian isthmus seems to be a thin line deliberately drawn. It is more than 20 meters wide and barely a small river valley is quite deep, but it is unrealistic to wade through it even in the dry season. If you can’t control the Corinthian Bridge, the only bridge in this canal, you have to take a boat or build a new pontoon to cross it!
For lack of research on the details of military history, Logan didn’t know that there was a classic war reduction around this bridge in the original history. At the beginning of the year, the German troops descended and raided the bridgehead at both ends and cut the explosive line, but the bridge was later blown up. Although the German engineers set up the pontoon as quickly as possible, the Italian navy also helped to transport a German mechanized division to the northern port of the Peloponnesian Peninsula, but the Germans were finally a few hours late and watched the last batch of Greek and British teams flee to Crete and North Africa by boat!
I don’t know if Logan has looked at the war map over and over again when staring at the recent paragraph, and Studente has chosen the same focus point, the Corinthian Canal!
"There are still many British and Greek troops stranded on the north side of the canal." The canal is kilometers away from Athens, and it should take three to four hours for the British team to retreat from Greece because of the interference of our bombers. "Studente unhurriedly said his own calculated figures, although he did not directly say the conclusion, but it was already obvious.
"I agree! It seems very risky, but it’s still noon and we are firmly in control, "Logan said confidently." Let’s do it! "
After the adjustment, the war instructions were sent to sixteen airports in the south via Bulgarian telephone lines. At this time, some military airports in northern Greece have resumed their take-off and landing capabilities, but they are all filled with Marshal Kesselring’s direct command of fighters and dive bombers. As far as the voyage is concerned, "Aunt Ke still has a slight advantage!
In order to keep the line silent, the Germans at the airport had to send the latest instructions to the transport planes waiting around the runway one by one. The efficiency can be imagined. Because of the urgency, the last few "G-type motives" have been turned on, and the pilots have got their concubines. The paratroopers in the cabin have even received the verbal order to occupy the Corinthian bridge in ignorance. The officers are studying their battle maps in the shaking cabin through the porthole of the plane. Capturing the bridge and occupying the city one by one are two different things!
Fortunately, Studente and his staff team fully considered the complex situation of the Greek war when they were on standby in southern Romania, so they conducted in-depth and detailed research on the reduction of the war in cities, islands and transportation hubs. The officers of the companies and battalions of the drop divisions took turns to accept tactical training and control, and roads and bridges were one of them! It took an hour to fly from southern Bulgaria to Corinth, Athens. "The fourth wave of the Shanghai flight, the first echelon’s knife rest, passed the remote shark and looked at the famous artificial canal in the province. Before that, the Ministry of War had coordinated the South Line Army Command to bomb the allied fortifications around the Corinth Canal. Small bombs were hung in small depressions, and even some double bombers who were originally prepared to attack the Greek port were summoned. After a series of indiscriminate bombings, except for the steel-reinforced bridge, the surrounding villages remained untouched. Roads and areas suspected to be allied positions have been heavily bombed and strafed. It can even be said that some land has been plowed several times in a row and can be planted in spring after a little sorting!
The sudden increase of the German attack will inevitably alert the allied officers and men on the ground. However, there is a lack of concealment around the spectacular canal, and a large number of British troops have recently been stationed for several kilometers. In the fierce bombing of the Stuka fleet and the arrogant shooting of Messerschmidt fighters, the anti-aircraft gun position of the Commonwealth troops outside the bridge was suppressed to death.
When the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Parachute Regiment of the 7th Parachute Division of the German Army helped the rest of the officers and men to land with their fast round umbrellas, it seemed to be unpredictable luck to really stop them from seizing the bridge! Due to the lack of careful distribution in advance, the pilots of the fierce fighter plane chose to drop the plane on the north side of the bridge, and the paratroopers and ammunition boxes were put on the south side of the bridge at Tianmi height. Although this method of separating people from small guns has obvious defects, the short parachute drop process also makes the allied officers and men stationed here respond effectively!
In just a few minutes, more than 100 meters of German paratroopers angrily occupied the circular position on the north side of the bridge and the control room, with rich experience in warfare. Aunt Al, a petty officer with bomb disposal expertise, found and cut the detonating cord on this side, and took two paratroopers with him to the bridge deck to try to dismantle the bridge pier bomb. The rest of the paratroopers helped the allied forces to set up their defenses. At the same time, the south side of the bridge was tied up and more than a few German paratroopers boldly threw themselves into the attack. The momentum of the mountain tiger deterred the allied troops from fighting the bridge, and after a short period of fierce fighting, the blade Greek soldiers were caught captive and led an Australian. Considering that the defenders had barbed wire positions and machine gun fortresses, the German paratroopers’ victory on this side was really a
The control of the bridge changes hands quickly, and the battle can be considered as a battle. It’s just that the second echelon of German transport planes is about to enter the landing zone, and German fighters and bombers quickly give way to the battlefield. Taking advantage of this rather short gap, the British soldiers turned the small-caliber anti-aircraft guns in the muzzle to suppress the bridgehead positions. Many gunners of German paratroopers picked up rifles and followed their officers to fight back. They almost got in the way, but German paratroopers rarely saw these brave opponents in the trenches in hand-to-hand combat, and they paid a heavy price for themselves!
Familiar with the roar, the large white umbrella with flowers changed color. Previously, the fast umbrellas were assembled in batches, and they would not be sent back to the factory for re-dyeing. In the blue sky, the price-powered assault glider landed quietly, and the pilot accurately controlled it. Three of them actually stopped firmly at the bridge, and the other six chose to land far away from the British anti-aircraft gun position.
In one of these gliders, Lieutenant Colonel Eric Schwartz, who is famous for his tenacious fighting, took part in the Battle of the Isle of Wight, the landing in Cardiff and later the famous landing in Belfast. In the year of yo, On February 10, 2000, the burly Lieutenant Colonel was promoted. As soon as his feet set foot on the land in southern Greece, he immediately sent a paratrooper who was firmly attached to the bridge head to attack the position of the allied anti-aircraft guns not far away. It was a very unfavorable nail for the defense of the whole bridge. Then he sent a paratrooper who had just tied up to destroy the traffic facilities on the north side of the bridge and deploy warning positions along the way. When the first paratroopers attacked the position of the allied anti-aircraft guns, he personally took a knife and many paratroopers to reinforce. For a while, there were more than a dozen German paratroopers guarding the north side of the
As it turns out, Walter’s risky move was very unwise. After he captured the allied anti-aircraft gun position at the cost of people, the follow-up transport echelon would no longer be killed at close range. Moreover, the Lieutenant Colonel and his paratroopers also seized a millimeter Ericon gun with a single loading capacity and a millimeter small-caliber anti-aircraft gun, and quickly deployed them to the left and right sides of the bridgehead position! d
Chapter 16 Battle of Corinth
"There is no Tandong? Hey, then they are going to die this time! " "