After three hours of landing operations, most of the soldiers of Terry Allen's 1st Red Division, the 1st Division of the US Army, had already landed, and the soldiers who had not yet completed the landing continued to land and transport weapons and equipment ashore. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, the troops who had landed found that they had not even delivered a single anti-tank gun to the shore.

In particular, the tanks, automobiles, and heavy artillery weapons and equipment that Division Commander Terry Allen needed were still stacked in tank landing craft and other weapons and equipment transports.

And the worst thing is that these landing craft are still blocked by a lot of sand, rocks, and false beaches, swaying and floating.

Seeing this, the division commander Terry Allen instantly had a bad temper and ordered his troops to immediately erect pontoon docks, and send soldiers to find a way to drive those tank landing craft to a place where there was no sati, and carry out the landing to transport tanks, artillery and other heavy weapons and equipment ashore.

In addition to these operations, division commander Terry Allen sent a telegram to Eisenhower asking if he could send some reserves over to him.

The reason is that the places and areas where the paratroopers who have successfully landed in the airborne are too scattered to be connected; Especially now that the battle with the Italian army is still raging, the connection between them is even more difficult.

Moreover, the division commander Terry Allen also left the strength of a regiment as a reserve in case of emergency.

To put it simply, the 1st Division of the US Army, which successfully landed, had only one regiment of troops as a reserve; And now the number of Italian troops they are facing is still unknown, so the division commander Terry Allen feels that his reserves are very short.

If there is any unexpected battle on the battlefield, it will be a great threat and disaster for the 1st Division of the US Army, which has no follow-up troops to support it.

It was not clear that the entire 1st Division would be fully reimbursed in this foreign land in a minute, and the thought of such an unsettling thing immediately made the division commander Terry Allen deeply worried.

Therefore, as soon as he landed successfully, he sent a telegram to Eisenhower requesting that more reserves be sent to him for necessary purposes.

Eisenhower readily agreed to his request, and really tried to extract some troops from other troops that had not yet landed, and used to be used as a reserve by division commander Terry Allen.

The commander of these troops was President Roosevelt's son, Ted Roosevelt, and as soon as he received the order to be dispatched, he immediately led his troops, aboard the Barnett, and a number of transport landing craft, towards the beach where Division Commander Terry Allen was, and prepared to land as a reserve for the 1st Division.

Ted Roosevelt, bareheaded, without a steel helmet, with a crumpled uniform and no officer's tie, and a weathered expression on his face, stood on the bridge staring at the approaching beaches of Sicily.

Puerto Rico, a former banker, governor, and governor of the Philippines, was looking at the Sicilian sands mingling with the glow of the flares, searchlights, and gunners.

For the battlefield, his own inner thoughts are darkness, and the cruel war has destroyed all the beautiful homes and lives of mankind, but I love it.

His thoughts are very similar to Barton's, but Patton's reputation for combat performance is much more famous than his, and his personality is also much hotter.

"How's Allen's 1st Division going now?"

Ted Roosevelt, who was standing on the bridge, suddenly turned to Alpha, the intelligence officer beside him, and asked.

"Most of them have established themselves on the beachhead, but they are now fighting with the Italians for the city of Gela, a town, in order to capture the Falolet emergency airstrip near the city of Geira!"

Intelligence Officer Alpha replied.

"And what about the Italian army? Are they numerous? Is it well-armed? And what about their will to fight? ”

Ted Roosevelt thought for a moment and continued to ask.

"At the beginning, the resistance was relatively tenacious! It was only under the bombardment of our air force, and under the cover of naval artillery fire, that they began to suffer heavy casualties, and their will to fight gradually collapsed! Especially when our naval guns fired our new weapon, the White Phosphorus Bomb, and the Italians fled in fear! ”

"There were even a small number of people who ran out to surrender to us, but the signs of the rout were only chaotic for about 20 minutes before they suddenly stopped."

"And even the Italian troops in the town inside didn't know what was going on, and they gradually fell silent, and there was no panic shouting at all!"

Intelligence Officer Alpha continued to answer truthfully.

"Hmmm! So weird? Does Master Allen know about this? ”

Hearing this, Ted Roosevelt sensitively smelled of the abnormal battle situation and hurriedly asked.

"He got it! That's why I was in such a hurry to send a telegram to Commander Eisenhower, asking him to send you and a large number of reserves over to guard against the cunning of the Italian army and the unexpected conspiracy plan! ”

"But in fact, I don't feel that there is anything to worry about, the combat effectiveness of those Italian troops is not very terrible, and our fleet has been ordered by Commander Eisenhower to let them fully assist our army units in combat!"

"As soon as our army says where to fight, they will immediately help us fight where; Moreover, our army will start fighting whenever it wants to, and as far as the range of their naval guns can shoot, they will support us as far as they want, and it can even be said that they can fight wherever they want! Don't be obedient, don't! ”

Intelligence Officer Alpha replied without the slightest concern.

"I know, but the most important task of these fleets is to support our land forces, one of the powerful cards that will be used in future tank battles with the Italians and the Germans on the Jera Plains!"

Ted Roosevelt nodded in agreement.

"In fact, even without the artillery support of the fleet, don't we still have a large number of aviation units now, and the paratroopers are supporting and assisting in the operation? And our bomber group should also be about to arrive! At that time, those German and Italian troops will live well in our saturation bombing, and they will suffer heavy casualties! ”

Intelligence Officer Alpha smiled slightly and said excitedly.

"By the way, did you find any useful information about the German operations?"

Ted Roosevelt nodded and continued to ask.

"Yes! Sir! According to our inner line lurking in Sicily, the German armored units had just been spotted and had already set off from the towns of Fonte Olivo, Nishemie and Biscari. ”

"And they marched in the south, southwest, and west for a rapid march and advance! And each armored force is followed by at least one regiment of infantry to assist in the battle! ”

"And the 1st Division under the command of Allen wants to fight for the Gela area, all the way to the road to Fonte Olivo, there is a full number of armored regiments marching, and this is only the surface of the armored forces, as for the hidden armored forces, we have not collected any information for the time being! It is under investigation, and it will be reported as soon as it is found! ”

Intelligence Officer Alpha continued to answer without hesitation.

"With so many armored troops, it seems that Allen's 1st Division will have some trouble, let's rush over as soon as possible and prepare to support them in the battle!"

"Ahh By the way, what type of tank did you just mention about the German Panzer Regiment that appeared near the Jera area? Alpha! ”

Ted Roosevelt frowned and worried.

"It seems like it's all Leopard and Tiger tanks!"

Intelligence Officer Alpha said with a strange and embarrassed expression.

"What! It's all Panther and Tiger! These tanks are not easy to deal with! ”

After hearing this, Ted Roosevelt's whole body jumped up and exclaimed as if he had been suddenly shocked.

"Yes! Sir! ”

Intelligence Officer Alpha also twitched the corners of his mouth and said with a wry smile.

"Quick! Immediately send a telegram to Commander Eisenhower and ask him to send more tank troops to support Allen's 1st Division! There are no tanks, anti-tank guns and Bazooka rocket launchers, as well as anti-tank mines! ”

"It's better to be able to send the British anti-tank planes, the Hawker Hurricane fighter group to deal with these new German tank groups! Otherwise our Sherman tanks would not be their opponents at all! ”

"Of course, if the tank killer Hawker "Typhoon" attack aircraft is also dispatched, then it will be even better! ”

Ted Roosevelt, who came to his senses, gave the order without thinking.

"Yes! Sir! ”

Intelligence Officer Alpha also hurriedly responded.

Then he hurriedly followed Ted Roosevelt's order to send a telegram to Commander Eisenhower.

The Hawker "Typhoon" is a British single-seat attack aircraft, which entered service in 1941. It was intended by the British Army to replace the Hawker Hurricane fighter, a famous tank killer and one of the most successful attack aircraft of World War II.

It was this kind of aircraft that made the German armored forces suffer a lot on the battlefield of Normandy, suffered heavy losses, and terrified the German armored forces.

So Ted Roosevelt wanted to get these planes against the German tank forces, so that their Sherman tank groups would not be slaughtered and destroyed like pigs and dogs by the German Leopard and Tiger tanks.

It was precisely because of this that Intelligence Officer Alpha ran so fast and sent a telegram to Commander Eisenhower for help.