There were eight companies of Rangers on Omaha Beach, as well as armored troops, infantry, engineers and other units of the Army's 29th Division.
When they rushed off the landing craft, the troops were greatly damaged by German shore defense firepower.
Many officers were killed on the spot.
The troops The organization was in chaos, and soldiers from various units were mixed together, lying on the beach and enduring the scorching rain of bullets flying overhead.
When Chen Zikun jumped out of the lifeboat, he asked the four sailors to row back to the destroyer, but the sailors expressed their intention to fight with the general.
Looking at their young and determined faces, Chen Zikun was greatly moved and nodded: "ok."
The beach was full of dead people, and there were corpses floating in the sea.
From time to time, they would step on things.
They were soldiers who drowned while carrying 40 kilograms of equipment on their backs.
Chen Zikun stepped ashore with one foot deep and one foot shallow, with Jimmy following closely behind him. , the four sailors cleverly picked up weapons and ammunition from the corpse, and guarded the general.
Chen Zikun saw a communications soldier lying on the beach, holding a scr536 walkie-talkie in his hand and seemed to be talking about something.
He stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder: "Young man, help me contact you."
The communications soldier tilted his head, revealing the bullet hole on his neck.
It turned out that he had died long ago, and his eyes were still staring blankly at the sky.
Chen Zikun gently stroked his eyelids, took off the walkie-talkie and threw it to Jimmy: "Help me contact the commander on the beach."
Jimmy held the walkie-talkie and started shouting.
Chen Zikun squatted behind a barricade made of welded rails and carefully observed the shore defenses.
There are numerous obstacles on the beach, including rails to block horses and cement blocks.
These are roadblocks that prevent tanks from landing.
Behind them is a barbed wire fence.
There must be many mines under the beach.
Light infantry blocked by barbed wire will be subject to machine gun fire.
The suppression is followed by an insurmountable barrier, filled with concrete machine gun bunkers, firepower points, and trenches, which are constantly spraying fire snakes.
The Germans have been operating for many years and have abundant ammunition reserves.
If they want to rely on human lives to fill the gap, I am afraid it will not work. .
At present, the landing troops were pressed on the beach, almost exposed to firepower, and were slaughtered.
Chen Zikun was anxious.
Suddenly he saw a Sherman tank in front of him.
The tracks were interrupted, the muzzle was weakly lowered, and the hatch was open. , and looking to the side, several soldiers wearing armored jackets fell to the ground, dead.
Chen Zikun pointed at the tank and jumped out, followed closely by Jimmy.
The beach was littered with broken limbs and blood everywhere.
Jimmy, who had never fought in a war, was so frightened that his face turned pale.
He had experienced the Battle of Songhu and Chen Zikun, who was fighting in the defense of Beitai, was not afraid at all.
Instead, his adrenaline was rising, he was highly concentrated, and his tactical movements were standard and neat.
He did not look like a general, but an elite infantryman.
"Hey, look, it's a general."
A sergeant lying on the beach patted his companion's helmet, pointed at Chen Zikun and said, "This group of soldiers has been suppressed here by machine guns for an hour, and they have not advanced an inch.
At this moment, seeing a general coming to the front line, the soldiers They suddenly became excited.
Chen Zikun was wearing a helmet embellished with general stars, a pilot A2 leather jacket, and paratrooper leather boots.
He charged forward with a rifle.
The German machine guns sent up strings of smoke around him, but they couldn't hit anyone.
The American soldiers were groaning and wondering.
Shouting, they spontaneously raised their guns to cover the general, and seven or eight brave soldiers followed the general and rushed towards the tank.
When I saw Chen Zikun getting into the Sherman tank, cheers and whistles rang out from a corner of the beach that had been silent for a long time.
The Germans' firepower was concentrated on the paralyzed Sherman.
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Machine gun bullets rattled the armor plate like an iron roof under heavy rain.
The 37mm anti-tank gun also began to bombard, but shells of this caliber were not effective against armored vehicles.
It's okay, but it can't penetrate Sherman's steel plate.
Chen Zikun once drove a US-made Christie fast tank and was familiar with the work of armored soldiers.
He mastered the operation of this 75 tank gun after some trial and error.
At this time, a sailor climbed into the tank and said: "General, my name is Tang Mi, I'm the gunner on the destroyer, I'll help you reload."
An armor-piercing bullet was loaded into the barrel of the gun.
Chen Zikun took aim for a while and then fired decisively.
The G42 machine gun that had been roaring suddenly became silent.
With another round, an anti-tank gun was also destroyed.
However, Chen Zikun's good luck also came to an end.
Larger-caliber cannons joined in the encirclement and suppression of him.
Moreover, these cannons were installed in extremely solid concrete fortifications.
Tank guns were completely powerless.
With one shot, Sher Shrapnel flew around Man, and if he hit, he would turn into a pile of meat.
At the critical moment, a hail of bullets hit, and the enemy guns suddenly went silent.
Chen Zikun was frightened and hurriedly climbed out of the tank, but saw smoke curling from the muzzle of the destroyer Frankfurt on the sea in the distance.
The shore defense firepower was greatly reduced, and the landing troops took the opportunity to charge.
After suffering a certain amount of casualties, they rushed into the enemy's blind spot and could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
The medical soldiers were busy injecting morphine into the wounded and bandaging their wounds.
The army chaplain performed the last prayers for the seriously wounded.
Chen Zikun asked Jimmy: "Have you contacted him yet?"
Jimmy said: "Yes, General, you have the highest military rank on Omaha Beach.
These troops are now under your command."
Looking around, I didn't know when a group of officers had gathered, including those from the Rangers and the 29th Division.
Most of them were young lieutenants, waiting for their orders.
This surprised Chen Zikun.
If it were in the Chinese army, a foreign commander who wanted to order the local army would be a fool's errand.
Most of the troops were composed of generals and were still in the feudal period.
In the US military, whoever has the highest rank listens. of.
Chen Zikun is tall and has a straight nose, which is completely different from the Chinese in Westerners' inherent thinking.
In addition, he is proficient in English, leads the army by example, and holds the rank of brigadier general, which naturally wins everyone's respect and obedience.
"Okay, everyone, follow my command and collect weapons, ammunition and some useful things.
Are there any engineers?
I need a lot of blasting tubes, explosives, fuse detonators and the like, as well as smoke bombs."
Chen Zikun pointed to the people in the distance.
The cracks at the bottom of the concrete fortifications bombarded by naval guns, "blasting there can open a breakthrough."
Several smoke bombs exploded, and the smoke filled the air and obscured the view.
An engineer dragged the connected blasting tubes and rushed towards the fortification.
Suddenly a gust of wind blew away the smoke, and a machine gun fired from the top of the fortification more than ten meters high.
The engineer staggered and fell to the ground. .
Chen Zikun picked up the Garand rifle and fired with a bang.
The machine gunner fell down.
Taking advantage of this gap, another engineer rushed up and moved the blasting tube forward a few meters.
He was killed by a grenade dropped from above.
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In just a short distance, it took five lives to put the blasting barrel in place.
More than a dozen packs of TNT explosives were stuffed into the gap.
The wires were dragged over.
A captain sent the detonator to Chen Zikun: "General."
Chen Zikun understood and suddenly pressed the detonator.
The violent explosion shook the earth and the earth.
The soldiers squatted on the ground and covered their ears with their mouths wide open.
The gravel hit the helmets with a loud clang.
Before the dust cleared, Chen Zikun stood up and shouted: "Come on."
A flood of soldiers poured into the gap, and the German machine guns were still firing wildly, but to no avail.
The U.S. military rushed into the defense line and began to massacre the defenders, clearing the bunkers one by one with grenades, submachine guns, and flamethrowers.
This time, Chen Zikun did not take the lead.
He was now a front-line commander, accompanied by a group of officers and communications soldiers.
The wireless phone was handed over, and the communications soldier said respectfully: "General, General Eisenhower wants to speak to you."
"Ike, we have opened a gap."
Chen Zikun held the microphone and was high-spirited.
Eisenhower congratulated him and suggested that he stay where he was and let a US division commander take over the command.
After all, you can't stay in power for too long.
Chen Zikun readily agreed, but still took his temporary command team to the German defense line to see the results of the battle.
It is said that the designer of the Atlantic Wall was Rommel.
This defense line is really amazing.
It consumes countless cement and steel materials, hides a large number of machine gun and artillery bunkers, and even has a 305-caliber cannon fortress.
It is simply an iron wall.
Fortunately, the Americans came to attack.
If it had been anyone else, they wouldn't have been able to conquer it in a hundred years.
Chen Zikun lamented that if China had such strong material resources and built a defense line during the Songhu Battle, the Japanese would have been defeated and defeated.
However, thinking about it again, with the command ability of the national army, the strength of the defense line was much greater.
If you discount, I am afraid that in the end it will be cheaper for the Japanese, just like the Lushunkou base in the late Qing Dynasty.
Just as he was thinking about it, a bullet suddenly hit him, and he felt as if his head had been hit by a train.
Suddenly, the world was spinning and he didn't know anything.
The officers panicked and took off his helmet.
Chen Zikun's head was dripping with blood and he was unconscious.
The hoarse shouts of "medic" echoed across Omaha Beach.
When Chen Zikun woke up, he was already lying on the hospital ship's bed, with Jimmy waiting by his side.
He stood up and picked up his helmet, only to see a hole in it.
If the angle was a little off, his skull would turn into a rotten watermelon.
"How long have I been lying there?"
Chen Zikun asked, touching his head.
It was wrapped in a bandage, but it was nothing serious.
"Well, in less than an hour, the military doctor said it was minor trauma and concussion."
Jimmy looked at his watch and said.
Chen Zikun immediately got out of bed and came to the deck.
The battle was still going on.
Thick smoke billowed on the distant coastline.
Fighters roared overhead.
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Battleships on the sea roared every few minutes.
Countless transport ships and landing craft passed by.
Like a river of crucian carp, it rushed towards Normandy.
"This is the real war."
Chen Zikun sighed.
Hundreds of thousands of people went to the battlefield with one heart and one mind.
The scale of this landing battle was unprecedented, but it may not be unprecedented.
I am afraid that the scenes of human wars will be even more spectacular in the future.
The Normandy landing battle lasted for three days, and finally the German defense lines were fully conquered, a beachhead was established, and the armored troops advanced into the French interior.
However, Chen Zikun did not have the opportunity to appreciate the French customs.
He received an order from Washington to rush back to China to handle a mission. an important thing.
The Americans finally decided to send a delegation to officially visit Yan'an
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