The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 744

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: 0.056s Scan: 0.023sIceland

, located in the northern part of the North Atlantic, is an island covered with ice and snow all year round and rarely visited by people.

The population of this island is very small, but its location is quite critical. Most of the ships departing from Europe to North America have to pass through or dock here. This is an important part of the maritime shipping between the two continents.

Moreover, Iceland is not far from Europe. They are located in the northwest of the mainland of the sun never sets, about 1,300 kilometers away from the north of the sun never sets.

If it is shipped by sea, it can be reached in about 2 days.

This island originally belonged to the fairy tale country. Although the fairy tale country is not strong now, it was still very strong at the beginning. More than a hundred years ago, even Norway was under the control of the fairy tale country.

Originally, the fairy tale country had already laid flat, completely defenseless against Hans, and completely in a non-resistance posture.

This non-resistance posture made the fairy tale country mainland quickly fall into Hans’ hands, but the ice country far overseas did not surrender with the surrender of the fairy tale country.

After the Fairy Tale Kingdom was laid flat, the British quickly sent troops to occupy the Ice Kingdom, and then relied on it as a naval supply base to intercept the German fleet, and regarded the Ice Kingdom as an important link in blocking the Hans sea exit.

At this time, the British had been defeated, but the British army that controlled the Ice Kingdom did not retreat. It was not known whether there were not enough ships to retreat or they were under the illusion that the Germans would not attack them.

However, no matter what they thought, this was a place that the Germans had to take, so in early July, a German fleet began to move north. The fleet, which was mainly composed of two battleships, an aircraft carrier, four heavy cruisers, and five dock landing ships, was loaded with 10,000 Marines and marched towards the Ice Kingdom.

The German navy took the lead in launching an attack on the British navy stationed in the Ice Country.

The British navy that stayed here originally had a squadron with six or seven large warships, which was the main force responsible for intercepting the German fleet and German submarines.

However, after the defeat of the British Empire, King George V issued an order to the British army here, requiring them to immediately go south and enter the Mediterranean to strengthen the British army in the Mediterranean.

As a result, the main force of the British army here immediately abandoned the Ice Country, bypassed the occupied British Empire, went south from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, and entered the Mediterranean after a long detour.

Most of the warships that were still here at this time were some warships that were damaged in the previous naval battle and were waiting for repairs. In addition, there were some backward old warships that were abandoned by the British army.

Seeing the German fleet rushing towards them with murderous intent, the British troops on the island were frightened out of their wits.

Some of the remaining warships wanted to escape, and some tried to resist, but were easily dealt with by the torpedo planes dispatched from the German aircraft carriers.

The rest all became obedient and honestly raised the white flag and surrendered to the Germans.

It seemed that they did not dare to continue resisting!

However, the British troops on the shore seemed to intend to resist to the end.

After seeing the British fleet in the port surrender, they not only did not give up resistance, but continued to fire.

The landing troops of the First Army bombarded the surrendered British fleet in the port.

It seemed that their firepower in shelling the surrendered British fleet was even more fierce. Compared with the enemy, everyone hated the traitors on their side more.

“The firepower of the British troops on the island is average, and it seems that there are not many troops!”

On the German landing ship, Steiner used a telescope to observe the firepower of the defenders and the size of the beachhead position, and judged that the defenders had limited manpower, and this battle should not last too long.

“Most of the British troops on the island should have retreated. After all, their homeland has fallen. If they continue to stay here, they will not even have supplies, and they will be attacked by us sooner or later. This is simply a dead end. Any normal person will choose to leave!”

The naval officer in charge of this operation also expressed his opinion. After seeing the main fleet of the British army fleeing the Ice Country, he judged that this battle should not be too intense, after all, the enemy’s main force had already escaped!

“Haha, then these British soldiers on this island are not normal people!”

“They were unwilling to leave and chose to fight to the end. It seemed that they were ready to die!”

“Then please ask the general to send them off!”

Steiner said to the naval commander with a smile.

The other party nodded, and soon, the main battleships in the German fleet began to adjust their gun barrels, aiming their main guns at the British positions on the shore, and began to use large-caliber naval guns to help the landing troops to clear the enemy’s fortifications and firepower points!

The British troops on the island were originally fighting against the German army with courage. Seeing the German soldiers approaching, they had already despaired in their hearts. Their fierce resistance was just to vent their inner despair, but at this time, under the intensive bombardment of the German fleet, this courage immediately collapsed and disappeared completely!

This… The disadvantage is that there is no control over the sea!

Once you lose control of the sea, it is very easy to be bombarded by enemy warships at sea when fighting in offshore areas!

Moreover, the caliber of the main guns of warships is usually very large, which makes the power of their shells far exceed that of the army’s heavy artillery. Generally speaking, the army’s heavy artillery is about 105mm, 120mm to 150mm!

In battle, artillery of this caliber is enough to scare the enemy.

However, for the navy, even 150mm heavy artillery is not worth mentioning at all. The caliber of their secondary guns can exceed this number, and the caliber of the main guns can exceed Three hundred millimeters or even four hundred millimeters.

Although there were no Bismarck-class battleships in the German fleet, the main gun caliber was only 305 millimeters, but even with a 305-millimeter naval gun, its explosive power was still beyond the British army’s ability to withstand!

When such a shell falls, soldiers within a hundred meters of the explosion range will suffer, and soldiers within thirty or forty meters around will be blown away by the shock wave!

The fortifications built by the British on the island are not perfect.

Because of the permafrost, the civil engineering work here is very difficult.

The frozen soil is extremely solid and hard like stone, and it is impossible to dig, so the British trenches are not It was very deep.

One shell flattened a large section of the trench.

The soldiers in the trench were either buried alive or blown away by the shock wave of the explosion like fallen leaves in the autumn wind!

After ten minutes of shelling, the entire British position was in a mess. There were not many British soldiers left alive on the position. The rest were frightened and dared not stay there, so they retreated.

Their retreat allowed the German Marines to land very smoothly!