Major William was right, they were airborne troops.

The Airborne Forces differ from other units in that their tasks are one-way...... It's impossible to jump back into the plane when you jump out of the plane.

In other words, the Airborne Forces have only one way, complete the mission and wait to meet the friendly forces, otherwise they will only be surrounded or annihilated by the enemy.

In fact, the Airborne Forces were in the enemy's encirclement from the moment of landing, the problem was only that the Allied airborne forces were large and they believed that their forces were enough to crush the German forces in the Netherlands and occupy the main communication routes.

Of course, this is just "think".

Thinking of this, Major General Redrick ordered: "Act as planned!" ”

"Yes, sir!" Major William answered, and the order was relayed.

The 1st Paratrooper Brigade has three battalions, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Paratrooper Battalions.

Because it was the main offensive force, the 1st Parachute Brigade was also strengthened by one of the 11th Parachute Battalions...... The airborne battalion is also a glider airborne unit, because it is airborne, it can carry some jeeps, mortars and even howitzers and other equipment, which is definitely a heavy weapon for the paratrooper unit.

The British army took the 1st Parachute Battalion in front, the 2nd Battalion C and D companies on the left, A and B on the right, and the 3rd Parachute Battalion as the reserve, and the 11th Parachute Battalion in the order of the rear along the road to the Arnhem Bridge.

First of all was the 11th Airborne Battalion, which quickly set up mortars on a hill about two miles from the bridge, and then fired a barricade of shells at the Germans stationed at the bridgehead...... This can be regarded as artillery preparation or suppression, although there is a big gap compared with the usual artillery preparation of the Allied forces, but it is still a luxury for the airborne troops.

Then the 1st Parachute Battalion took the lead in attacking the bridgehead where the Germans were stationed.

The German fire was very fierce, and several times the charge of the 1st Parachute Battalion was repulsed, and the 1st Parachute Battalion suffered heavy casualties in just ten minutes of fighting.

However, this put Major General Redrick at ease...... The Germans did not have ambushes, otherwise they would have appeared at this time.

What Major General Redrick didn't expect was that on the south side of the Arnhem Bridge, Qin Chuan was in the jungle with a telescope to observe all this.

He could see from the battle sequence of the British army that the British army was ready to retreat at any time...... Only one paratrooper battalion was in the front of the main attack, and the other three paratrooper battalions were covering or following up in the rear.

This shows that the British commander was a cautious man, or that he saw something.

As a result, Qin Chuan immediately asked Eberhard to order the armored troops to stand still.

After a while, the British army was fooled.

Major General Redrick ordered loudly over the walkie-talkie: "The 2nd Parachute Battalion will follow up and quickly occupy the northern section of the bridge, and the 3rd Parachute Battalion will attack south through the bridge." Attention, the Germans must not be allowed to blow up the bridge! ”

"Yes, sir!"

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Several battalion commanders responded and immediately commanded their troops to launch a strong attack on the bridge.

As a surprise to Major General Redrick, the German troops in the northern section of the bridge quickly turned around and retreated due to the disparity in strength, and several pillboxes at the bridgehead were also destroyed by the British with "Bazooka" rocket launchers.

Just when Major General Redrick thought that the troops would soon be able to occupy the bridge, he suddenly heard the creepy sound of a motor behind him...... Rear Admiral Redrick was familiar with the sound, it was the tank that paratroopers feared most, and the low, powerful sound of the motor seemed to be a heavy tank.

"God!" Major General Redrick turned his head to look for the source of the motor's sound, but there was nothing but a few dilapidated houses that had been bombed to the ground.

But the sound of the motor is real, and it's getting louder and louder.

Then Major General Redrick understood...... This is indeed a trap.

At that moment, Major General Redrick only felt cold all over, his head was dizzy, and he almost collapsed on his command post.

But Major General Redrick knew that he couldn't fall, and the next second, he grabbed the microphone and yelled with all his strength: "Retreat, this is a trap...... Retreat now! ”

But it was already too late, and with a "rumble", five tanks sprang out of the broken wooden house.

Rear Admiral Redrick guessed correctly, they were indeed heavy tanks, and they were the "Tigers" that terrified the Allies.

One by one, the five tanks drove onto the road, pointed their pitch-black barrels at the stunned British soldiers of the 11th Airborne Battalion, and then "boomed" a burst of artillery that blew up the mortars, jeeps, and three howitzers of the 11th Airborne Battalion.

Then the machine gun soon rang out, it was a "Tiger" course machine gun, and a shuttle bullet flew towards the British soldiers with a whistling sound, beating them to the point that they were overturned on their backs.

The hiding of tanks was a big problem for the German army, because as mentioned before, the Netherlands is a country with a very low average altitude, and any pit dug is water, and tanks, especially "Tiger" tanks, can hardly be hidden by digging pits.

In this case, it can only be hidden with ground buildings.

But this will not be easy, because the British will definitely send scouts to reconnoitre, and they will not miss a few "Tiger" tanks in the building.

Unless...... The buildings were collapsed and they could not reconnoiter them.

As a result, Qin Chuan forged several buildings in the north of the bridge that had been bombed by Allied fighters and bombers.

In order to make them look more realistic, Qin Chuan even had some blood stains sprinkled around the building, making it look like the Germans were relying on the buildings to fight against Allied fighters, and were eventually bombed and destroyed.

Charcoal blackened, smoking wood, and remnants of the red wall...... Everything seemed so realistic that the British were completely deceived by the illusion.

As a result, five "Tigers" suddenly appeared around them.

In fact, it was actually six "Tigers", one of which had an engine failure and was crushed in it and could not move, and the tank crew could only stay in the tank and stare at it and could do nothing.

The captain stamped his feet in anger, and in his words, there was a lot of food in front of us, but we could only watch others eat it.

The commander even wanted to make the "Tiger" cannon turn a few times to break free from the camouflage pressed on top of the battle, but in the end he gave up ...... "Tiger" was expensive equipment, and he did not dare to risk this method, otherwise this might be the last time the commander commanded the "Tiger".

The situation was similar on the other side of the bridge, when the British were attacking the other side of the bridge with all their might, suddenly several tanks appeared in front of them with the sound of "clucking" tracks, and a large number of infantry were followed behind.