General Patton and Shi Youzhi commanded five Allied Marine Divisions to land in the Calais area on March 11, and secured a stable landing site on March 12.

Soon after, two armored divisions sent by Rundstedt from the southern front also arrived in the Calais area. The German army's strength and firepower were strengthened, and the defense line became stronger.

Because Eisenhower, Montgomery and others underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Midsummer Marine Corps, they did not believe that General Patton's attempt would be successful. They believed that the troops would not be able to obtain a stable landing site and would soon be driven off the beach by the German army.

Therefore, after the landing operation began, the Allied High Command did not prepare sufficient follow-up forces in the direction of Calais. This resulted in the five previously landed Marine Divisions not being able to replenish their troops and equipment in a short period of time, and they were unable to advance in depth.

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Eisenhower hoped that General Patton's landing in Calais would contain some of the main forces of the German 15th Army and buy time for a breakthrough in Normandy.

When he learned that the landing operation was going very smoothly, Eisenhower ordered Chief of Staff Smith to quickly dispatch follow-up troops to Calais.

But due to lack of preparation, the process took a long time.

By the time the troops of the following three divisions arrived in Calais, it was already the afternoon of March 13th.

The German armored forces and coastal forces have completed their defenses, and the battle situation has once again reached a stalemate.

General Patton, who had already landed, complained excitedly to Shi Youzhi, including at least three curse words in one sentence, and kept greeting the Allied Supreme Command.

It was not until this moment that he realized that he had been deceived, and that Eisenhower did not take his request for combat seriously at all.

No matter how scolded, you still have to wait, after all, your own military strength is very limited.

The simultaneous fighting in Calais and Normandy did disperse the German forces on the Western Front, but it did not create the fighter aircraft that Eisenhower and Montgomery wanted.

On March 12, in order to implement Mustache's strategic thinking, Marshal Rundstedt, the commander-in-chief of the German Western Front, organized a large-scale counterattack, involving at least 300,000 troops and 1,000 tanks.

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The German army attacked from Caen and from the lower reaches of the Seine River, like sharp arrows that pierced the entire Normandy region.

The total number of Allied troops that landed in Normandy reached more than 500,000, but the Allies only allowed five landing sites to be connected into one area, and they only advanced less than 30 kilometers in depth, making the combat space very narrow.

When the German army came in force, Bradley, commander of the U.S. First Army, hurriedly reduced his troops, pulled back the airborne division that had been protruding outside, and put himself in a defensive posture.

The British and Canadian armies took similar actions.

It has been nearly 10 days since we landed on the Western European continent, but the morale of the troops has not increased as a result. Instead, it has continued to decline amid constant tug-of-war and stalemate.

Allied soldiers and officers realized that the German army's combat effectiveness was very powerful, almost comparable to that of the North African Campaign, and even worse than that of some SS units.

The Allies' previous greatest victories mainly included two, one was the North African campaign, and the other was the landing in Sicily.

The former was a very hard fight. If the German army had not been severely lacking in logistical supplies in North Africa, it would have been difficult to say whether the victory or defeat would have been achieved.

When they landed in Sicily, they mainly faced Italian troops. Compared with the elite German troops currently rushing over, the Italian troops were nothing to mention.

Before this, many people believed that the Third Reich was declining and its army must be in chaos and vulnerable.

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As soon as the brave Allied soldiers set foot on the soil of Western Europe, the cities will be liberated one after another, and those who will greet the soldiers will be enthusiastic European girls with open breasts.

However, the troops were trapped in the Normandy area for 10 days, unable to advance or retreat. They did not see the enthusiastic girl, their eyes were filled with swamps, and what they felt most was the cold.

After nightfall, German troops began to attack from all directions.

The shrubs and swamps that the Allied soldiers regarded as ferocious beasts were easily bypassed by the German troops, and the tanks' muzzles directly hit the trenches. The battle entered the most intense stage from the beginning.

In order to avoid Allied air fighters, Rundstedt organized counterattacks mainly at night.

In order to enable its own tanks to compete with Zhongxia's tanks as soon as possible, the German military industry department has made many improvements. Panther tanks, Tiger tanks, and even tank destroyers all have certain night combat capabilities.

Although these improvements are still unable to engage in a large-scale decisive battle with the Central Xia Armored Group Army on the Eastern Front battlefield, if the improved equipment is placed on the Western Front battlefield, the situation will be completely different.

The United States also knows that China's military equipment is developing rapidly and has advanced aircraft and tanks, but after all, they have not encountered these advanced weapons and equipment on the battlefield.

Although the military industry department has been improving and innovating as much as possible, the speed of improvement is far behind the Third Reich's military industry department, which was constantly attacked and oppressed by Zhongxia.

Therefore, when Rundstedt deployed all eight armored divisions serving as strategic reserve support forces into the counterattack in the Normandy area, the US First Army, which had already landed, deeply felt the terror of the elite German troops.

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Night fighting has become a nightmare for the soldiers, and dawn is everyone's savior.

The landing grounds in Normandy were crumbling. The Allied High Command in London was also in turmoil.

500,000 people were trapped in Normandy, and the troops could not be fully deployed.

Roosevelt repeatedly asked Eisenhower to cross the English Channel and take over the command of the landing force, but afterwards Eisenhower had no way to break the situation, so he continued to stay in London.

After the German troops on the Western Front launched a large-scale counterattack, Eisenhower suspended the transport of landing personnel and switched to transporting all kinds of heavy equipment, mainly tanks and artillery.

On the 12th and 13th, the Allied troops who landed were crushed by the German Army Group B. The morale of the troops plummeted, and they lost five or six kilometers in depth.

After the 13th, with the forward movement of armored forces, the Allied forces' retreat was stopped, and the battle became tense again.

Often the positions taken away by the Germans through night battles would be recaptured by the Allied forces during the day by taking advantage of the superiority of sea, land and air firepower that were not on the same level.

The battle was very fierce. On the dilapidated roads and beside the swamps full of craters, the burning remains of tanks from both sides could be seen everywhere.

Under the indiscriminate bombardment of aerial bombardment, naval gunfire and artillery fire, the Normandy area became unrecognizable. It was an extremely unfamiliar land to both the enemy and our personnel.

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Villages are gone, roads have been rerouted or disappeared, forests are no longer visible, hills have been flattened...

Corpses were strewn across the farmland, and blood flowed in the ditches.

The landscape and environment have undergone earth-shaking changes, and the map no longer plays any role.

The only thing that can indicate the target is the billowing smoke and the scattered corpses.

Even if it rains continuously, the attack between the two sides never stops.

The light rain in early spring was bone-chilling, and the surrounding land was muddy and smelled of blood. Soldiers on both sides lay prone in such an environment, with bullets and artillery shells whizzing past their heads.

It seems like we are back to the trench warfare in World War I. Although no one can do anything about anyone, casualties occur all the time.

The war situation was very tragic and cruel, but the mustache in Berlin still called three times a day, unwaveringly urging Rundstedt to launch an attack.

He even threatened that if Rundstedt did not accept the order of the Supreme Command, he would send someone else to take over the position of commander-in-chief of the Western Front.

The more critical the moment, the more critical the moment, the more prominent the bad habit of Mustache's stubbornness. He can hardly listen to other people's opinions and insists on going his own way.

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On the Allied side, Montgomery and Bradley were also under tremendous pressure. The combined number of battlefield casualties and sick soldiers had exceeded 80,000.

Such a significant reduction in personnel was almost beyond the tolerance of the Allied High Command.

When the time came to March 16, the fiercest confrontation came to an end for the time being.

The main reason for this situation is that the German armored forces suffered heavy losses in the attack, and there were fewer and fewer tanks that could be used for frontal impact.

After the German army stopped, Montgomery was naturally unwilling to take the initiative to provoke these lunatics. Everyone needed to take a breather.

The terrain in the center of the battle has long been changed beyond recognition, and no one has collected the remains of equipment and human corpses, emitting bursts of stench in the rain.

Montgomery only came to the front line once, and after smelling these nauseating odors, he never appeared again.

Bradley, commander of the U.S. First Army, looked heavy.

The 29th Infantry Division, which had suffered the most casualties previously, had been withdrawn from the front line, and was replaced by the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division, which had landed on Omaha Beach.

The combat effectiveness of the German army was so powerful that it exceeded everyone's expectations.

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After the weather cleared and the ground became slightly dry, the Allied forces dispatched fighter-bombers to drop a large number of incendiary bombs in the center of the battle, reducing the rotting and smelly corpses, flies and mosquitoes on the battlefield to ashes, thus blocking the spread of the plague.

The predicament in Normandy spread back to Washington, making the president uneasy when he was in talks with Koto.

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