With the landing of the squadron in Sicily,.

The squadron completely took over the defense of the Italians, and both the Chinese and the Germans are now convinced that Italy as an ally is not trustworthy at all, and that having them will not only not help, but will do bad.

Far from being ashamed, the Italians breathed a long sigh of relief that it was a pretty good thing not to have to be on that terrible battlefield.

After the landing of the first team in Sicily, the Allies also felt a great panic. These squadrons, who never knew what defeat was, would inevitably show great combat effectiveness in Sicily.

The Allies quickly organized two major offensives in an attempt to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the squadron to solve this trouble in one fell swoop.

However, the elite squadron will obviously not give them this opportunity. They stubbornly repelled the enemy's attack and ensured that the war could go smoothly.

On August 20, Wang Mingzhang, the commander-in-chief of the Sicily squadron, arrived in Sicily and appointed Jia Haoyang, a third-class general of the Waffen-SS Army, as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy.

A counteroffensive codenamed "Meat Grinder" began

For this counteroffensive, the squadron mobilized a total of 8 divisions of the Waffen-SS as the main attack, while the Germans transferred 7 divisions to cooperate with the operation. As for the Italians? They may be more suited to the task of logistical supply.

On August 27, a large number of Chinese and German fighters appeared over the battlefield to compete with the Allies for air supremacy.

The air battle was fought extremely fiercely. A large number of planes were shot down on both sides, but neither was willing to give up the vital status of air supremacy.

Just as the battle was raging in the air, the attacking forces also quietly entered the attack position

On the 28th, after the heavy fighting of the previous day, and the numerous battles that had been fought before, the Allied air forces showed some fatigue. And those Chinese Air Force boys who have just joined the European battlefield have shown high morale. They took off one by one, strangled the enemy in the air one by one, and tried their best to control the blue sky.

This became known as the "Sicily Air Battle".

Those jet fighters of the Chinese Air Force showed their great power. In this area, China is far ahead of the Allied fighters.

While Europeans and Americans are still laughing at the fact that jet is a fantasy, the Chinese government has quietly recruited supporters and researchers of the jet idea from Europe and the United States; While Europeans and Americans were still dismissive of the idea of jets, a large number of geniuses in China, led by Wang Xi, had already begun to study jet aircraft. When Europe and the United States finally reached the great power of jet aircraft, the Chinese Air Force was already equipped with a large number of such advanced fighters.

This is a contest between two eras, between the most advanced aircraft and the planes that seem to be advanced and are actually far behind.

In fact, from the very beginning of the air battle, the top brass of China's air force knew that there was no longer much suspense

The Chinese Air Force gradually controlled its superiority in the air, and gradually demonstrated its unshakable supremacy in the air with a cost far less than the casualties of the Allies.

The German pilots looked with envy at the advanced fighter jets and bombers of their allies soaring through the air, and they could now be sure that they had China as an ally to be excited about.

From August 27 to September 3, the Allies lost a large number of aircraft in several days of air battles, and air supremacy gradually fell into the hands of the Chinese and German air forces.

Now the next stage of the operation "Meat Grinder" can begin

On September 4, Wang Mingzhang gave the order for a general attack. At 5:30 a.m. on the 4th, Jia Haoyang, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, grabbed the phone on his desk

Ten thousand cannons fired in unison, and the cannonballs roared overwhelmingly and swooped down on the Allied positions. The Americans, the British, the Canadians, and of course the Australians all had it, all caught up in the shell

This is the roar of the counterattack of the squadron, and this is also the roar of the counterattack of the Axis powers!

Operation Codename - Meat Grinder!

Artillery fire enveloped every corner of the battlefield, and the Allied soldiers cowered in their trenches, enduring endless artillery fire.

They have lost superiority at sea, they have lost air superiority, and now what?

Then, a large number of Chinese soldiers appeared on the battlefield, and on their flanks were German soldiers whose confidence had never been higher.

"Forward, soldiers!" Jia Haoyang gave the simplest order to his troops!

Onward, soldiers!

Countless Chinese and German soldiers jumped out of their positions, and then launched a tidal attack on the enemy's positions under the cover of artillery, aircraft, and tanks.

Those "Thunder", "Electric", "Tiger", and "Leopard" tanks appeared on the battlefield one by one, and the artillery on the tanks roared there, and the machine guns on the tanks roared in their tracks, ruthlessly crushing the position, mercilessly advancing towards a set goal.

No force can stop them, the only one who can stop them is themselves!

The Chinese and German infantry, accompanied by the left and right of the tanks, roared towards the enemy's positions, they crossed the trenches one after another, and then used their weapons to destroy the enemies in the trenches one by one.

Then, instead of staying for a second longer on the positions they have already captured, they move on to a new target.

In their eyes, there was no end to the battle, and only when the Allies were driven out of Sicily would they stop their advance

In the diary of a German officer, he wrote:

"I was blown away by the way our allies China had too many planes, too many tanks, too many artillery, too many soldiers, and their soldiers were so elite and so brave that they strictly followed." Infantry Combat Rules', they are like a well-tuned precision machine, meticulously completing the tasks they are supposed to accomplish without any deviation I was shocked at the same time, but I have to be glad that we have such allies, if the Chinese are now the hostile side, then there is no doubt that we will lose this war again. Fortunately such a terrible thing did not happen, and now I am sure that we will win this war, and there is no force that can stop our advance in Sicily, and the counterattack is just the beginning, and we will soon fight to London, to New York, to every city we want to enter, and of course, the premise is that the Chinese and German armies have always been fighting closely together."

This German officer's diary represents the voice of the majority of German officers and soldiers.

Now the battlefield is taken over by the Chinese and is fully controlled. The soldiers of the Chinese Waffen-SS wearing gray and black military uniforms and steel helmets were expressionless, cold and ruthless, and they faithfully completed every task assigned to them by their superiors, and never made any discounts. They tirelessly launched one attack after another, winning one victory after another. They made the whole battlefield tremble in front of them.

The scales of victory are rapidly tilting in favor of the Axis powers.

When the Counterattack was named "Meat Grinder", it seemed to mean something, yes, the entire battlefield has been turned into a giant meat grinder. The lives of countless Allied soldiers were lost in this huge meat grinder

The commander of the Allied forces, Alexander, was anxious, but he did not have any solution. You can imagine what he would feel like when he had to see with his own eyes a large number of reports of soldiers killed, captured, and missing.

He had mobilized as many troops as he could in his hands in an attempt to salvage the situation on the battlefield, but he could not do anything, and no matter how many troops he threw in, he would always be swallowed up by that terrible meat grinder.

Now Alexander had to think about the possible defeat to come

In order to seize the initiative on the battlefield, the Allies carried out the landing after careful preparations, and the landing did not go smoothly at the beginning, but fortunately, they still achieved the first and second phases of the combat objectives.

But just when the Allies were about to win, Sicily was about to be controlled by the Allies, and the war was about to end, those Chinese suddenly appeared!

Undoubtedly, this was the most frustrating time for the Allied officers

Even more worrying is the loss of the Battle of Midway by the U.S. Pacific Fleet, which is now in the hands of the Chinese, who are about to attack the Hawaiian Islands.

Even in the United States, the threat of war is now felt

On 5 September, the Sino-German forces completed the first phase of their mission, seizing all the positions they could and killing and capturing more than 28,000 Allied troops.

And the Sino-German coalition forces, which won the first stage of victory, did not stop their pace. On the 6th, a new offensive began.

"Attack, attack, attack!" For Jia Haoyang, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, this is the only order he can give to his soldiers!

Attack, attack, attack! This is also what Chinese soldiers ask of themselves!

They didn't care at all how many enemies were on their side, they didn't care at all how fierce the enemy's fire was, and in their minds the only thing a soldier should do was to complete the task.

Panic spread quickly among the Allied officers and soldiers.

It is completely conceivable that what is about to be won has turned into a defeat is frustrating.

What's even worse is that the squadron showed no signs of stopping the attack, and after winning the first stage, they quickly increased the intensity of their attack. Obviously, they will not rest until they drive all the Allies out into the sea

The Allies were also terrified by the threat from the air.

Those Chinese planes bombed the Allied positions again and again, and endless bombs rained down, blowing up the Allied positions to pieces.

Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower, the head of the Allied forces in the Mediterranean, was also troubled.

Judging from the current state of the war, if no effective measures are taken, the Allies will lose the war here. His army commander Alexander kept sending urgent telegrams to him, but Eisenhower could not solve it.

The sea is also controlled by the Chinese, and now replenishment of Sicily has become extremely difficult.

"We must retreat." In a telegram to U.S. President Pitt D. Eisenhower said, "Otherwise our troops will be completely buried here." ”

While the Allies were hesitating whether to retreat or continue the fighting, the Sino-German coalition made another major breakthrough, and the positions defended by the British were completely breached.

"Retreat!"

On September 9, in the midst of the chaos on the battlefield, the Allies finally received such an order.

The Great Retreat has begun! The chaos of the scene was embarrassing, countless Allied troops scrambled to withdraw from the battlefield, and those Chinese planes in the sky were relentlessly bombarding the Allied forces, which made the already chaotic Allied forces even more chaotic.

"We've won." In his own headquarters, Jia Haoyang said to Wang Mingzhang, who came to inspect.

"We won, but only in Sicily." Wang Mingzhang's face didn't show much excitement: "I have received orders from the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff, we will continue to maintain a strong attack and deterrence against the allied forces as the leading force." ”

He paused slightly, "But now our first thing to do is to annihilate the enemies here as much as possible, and let as few enemies escape here as possible." ”

"Yes." Jia Haoyang replied calmly but firmly.

Operation "Meat Grinder" began on September 4 and ended on September 11, 1943. In this counterattack, the Allies lost eighty-two thousand men!

As for the loss of materials, it is even more numerous.

80,000 people is a tiny fraction of World War I, but it sends a signal to the world:

Not only were the squadrons fully involved in the war in Europe, but they were well equipped to achieve victory. Neither the British nor the Americans could stop the pace of the squadron.

Now in Sicily, where will the next step be? In any case, it was the turn of the Allies to have a headache, and they could not capture the Chinese's next motive for fighting.

Over Sicily, stopped.

A brilliant rainbow appeared in the sky!