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Parachuting near the airfield of Ilak was the 1st parachute regiment of the "Lightning Division...... At this time, the "Lightning Division" was a two-regiment system, like the Italian Infantry Division, that is, two paratrooper regiments plus a parachute artillery regiment in the whole division. (Note: Incorporated into the 3rd Parachute Regiment in July 1942)

The three battalions of the 1st Parachute Regiment had a radius of 10 kilometers around the Irak airfield, and dispersed their parachutes to the surrounding areas to guard the main transportation routes, such as bridges, roads, railways, etc.

This approach is undoubtedly correct, the advantage of paratroopers is that they can be airborne to any point, and the disadvantage is that they lack mobility and do not have heavy equipment.

This doomed the paratroopers of this era to try to avoid being too concentrated in a tough battle with the enemy...... Another meaning of concentrating and fighting hard is that they are suppressed by the enemy's heavy equipment in minutes and suffer heavy casualties.

On the contrary, if it is broken up and scattered to all corners, and this high ground is platooned and that high ground is held by a company along the road, the enemy will have to clear one high ground after another before he can advance.

On the other hand, airborne divisions can also sneak attack everywhere, so that the enemy's regular army cannot grasp the key points and is exhausted.

So at the moment when the Italian "Lightning Division" landed on the ground, the external reinforcements from the Irac airfield were cut off or partially blocked.

In fact, all this was supposed to have been carried out at the moment of the battle, that is, the movement of the Italian "Lightning Division" was to be carried out at the same time as the parachute of the German 1st Infantry Battalion, so that the British transportation and reinforcements would be paralyzed at the first moment and the Irak airfield would be besieged.

Unfortunately, the number of Italian Caproni transport aircraft is insufficient, especially since each transport aircraft can only carry 18 paratroopers...... This forced the action that should have been synchronized into two batches.

However, this did not have much impact on the whole plan, because the German and Italian armies had basically achieved their strategic objectives so far...... The blockade of the Cretan airfield made it impossible for British air power to deal an effective blow to the German and Italian landing forces and subsequent airborne troops, and then reinforcements could be sent into the battlefield in batches.

In a burst of artillery fire, several more British warplanes tried to force their way down at the airfield...... This was the old routine of the British army, who would bombard the heights with artillery fire whenever they wanted the planes to land safely.

But this did not help, because the British could not see the Germans hiding on the high ground, while the condescending Germans had a clear idea of the situation at the airfield, and the Germans even had to arrange a few artillery observers in front and report the coordinates to the mortar gunners in the rear...... The actual blockade was simpler than that, because there were only five runways at Iraq Airport, and the mortars only had to lock on to these runways, and the British fighters could not escape the Germans.

"Yo ho!" Looking at the three warplanes that were blown up again, Werner couldn't help but cheer.

"I never thought being a paratrooper would be so enjoyable!" Werner said: "Not only do we have planes as a means of transport, but we can also take out enemy planes one by one!" ”

"Enjoyable?!" The baker objected: "Are you talking about when we are hanging on a parachute and being hit by the enemy, or are you here surrounded by the enemy and bombarded with artillery rounds?" ”

"Both!" Werner replied: "Don't you find it exciting? ”

"You madman!" Yakop replied loudly while lowering his body to avoid the sand kicked up by the shells: "We don't feel excited at all, we just want to save our lives!" ”

"Hey, brothers!" Werner said optimistically: "Now it is the British who need to save their lives even more!" ”

Werner was right, because the blockade of the Ilak airfield by German artillery had put the British in a dead end...... The fighters did not dare to reinforce Crete because there was no airfield to land, and this completely deprived the British army of air supremacy, so that the German and Italian airborne troops, supplies, and even landing troops could land on Crete one after another, and after a long time, the ratio of forces on Crete would be reversed...... The German and Italian forces used to attack Crete had a total of five divisions and an infantry regiment, with a total strength of more than 60,000 troops, which was not comparable to the 40,000 troops of the British and Greek forces.

So, almost every few minutes, Montgomery issued an order to Colonel Smith to attack Heights 3.

But Smith was helpless.

"We can't attack High Ground 3 with all our might, General!" Colonel Smith replied: "The Italians are parachuted around the airfield in large numbers, and we do not know how many troops they have...... But they are attacking us, and as soon as we move our forces to High Ground 3, they will break through our defenses and occupy the airfield! ”

Colonel Smith was not entirely false, for the airborne Italian "Lightning Division" did attack the airfield, and in three directions except to the south of the First Infantry Corps.

It's just that it was just a feint attack by a company, in order to share the pressure of the German First Infantry Corps.

But Montgomery didn't care about that, he yelled into the microphone, "I don't care what your reason is, you must take Heights 3, otherwise it's all over, understand?" ”

"Yes, General!" Colonel Smith replied.

But having said that, Colonel Smith was in a quandary as soon as he put down the phone.

Colonel Smith knew that Montgomery was right, that Heights 3 was the key, and that if Crete was not taken, it would soon fall.

The problem was that Colonel Smith had been beaten by the Germans...... Before, they were easily repelled by the Germans when they had such a big advantage, and now the Germans still have an advantage on the high ground, especially since they still have sharp weapons to deal with tanks, so Smith really doesn't know how to fight this battle, what he thinks in his mind is that no matter how many British troops rush up, it will only consume German ammunition.

If it was useful to consume German ammunition, Colonel Smith might have really gone out of his way to let the soldiers go, but the German transport planes had recently dropped a large amount of ammunition on Heights 3.

"Colonel!" The staff officer suggested: "Maybe we can get the militia to take Heights 3!" ”

"What can the militia do?" Colonel Smith replied impatiently, "Some of them don't even have rifles!" ”

"But they're familiar with the terrain, aren't they?" The staff officer pointed to the map and said: "We can let them attack the No. 3 heights from the mountains in the rear, so that at least there will be no dead ends in our attack on the Germans!" ”

Smith was right to think about it, and now he had no other way but to be a dead horse and a live horse doctor.

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