Romanian Eagle

This striking unit came from the 39th Division. About a regiment of troops under the direct leadership of its division commander Mizke broke through the enemy's line of defense and entered the city.

"Captain Kirkel, immediately let your men attack the left and right sides, expand the breakthrough, and cooperate with the offensive of other troops. Move quickly, and don't give the enemy a chance to react."

"As ordered, General."

Following Mizik's orders. The troops that entered the city immediately divided a battalion to each of the left and right flanks. And the head of the regiment took the lead and went down to the second battalion as a frontal attack (MMP, I can't hide if I can't be provoked).

In fact, how could Mizke not know about Captain Kirk's thoughts, but this time he had to do it for meritorious service. Because the 39th Division had done well in the Greek campaign, they were drawn into the second reinforcements for the attack on Crete. The two regiments of the 39th Division, which only went ashore last night, were assigned the task of attacking the left flank today.

And Mizke concentrated most of the equipment of the two regiments to the first regiment, and led the battle himself. And his luck is good. The defenders defending this section were attacked by the sea and the air before, and the equipment loss was heavy.

Mizik, who found that the defenders had insufficient firepower, adopted a rare attack tactic. After paying a certain amount of casualties, he successfully captured this position.

Now that I have made a breakthrough myself, I naturally need to help more people complete the task.

After learning that the position had not broken through for a while, the defenders in the city immediately dispatched troops to retake the battlefield. As a result, they encountered the second battalion, which was charging in depth.

"Fire and fight them back!"

"Fire and destroy them!"

On a street, the troops of the two sides met, and the commanders of both sides made the same choice for the first time.

"呲, 呲, 呲~"

This is Romanian G42 machine guns firing, and they rely on the height of the house to throw bullets at the British soldiers in the street.

"Da, da, da~"

This is a British cloth-wheeled machine gun firing. This machine gun similar to the Czech has inherited its characteristics and is now also firing violently at Romanian soldiers.

The soldiers on both sides, who are now being suppressed by the machine guns of the other side, can only try their best to leave the street and think of other ways. Among them, the alleys have become the focus of contention between the two parties.

At this time, the G33 semi-automatic rifle used in Romania showed the power of its continuous firepower. Often only two or three people can block an alley, so that the attacking British soldiers can't attack at all.

It's just that the commander, Captain Kirk, knows that this is only temporary. Although he blocked the enemy's offensive with firepower, according to the size of the opponent, it is at least a regiment's strength.

"Report to the division commander immediately that we encountered a counterattack from the defenders of a regiment and need reinforcements."

In fact, without his report, Mizik already saw that his deep assault troops were blocked. Therefore, it was impossible for him to do nothing, and immediately sent reinforcements to the follow-up troops.

With the breakthrough of the 39th Division, the outer defenders chose to retreat when the situation was not good. Because continuing to stay will not help, you can only return to the city to fight in the streets.

The Romanian army that achieved the results of the first stage, after a short rest, immediately headed into the new battle within the city.

As for the attack of the Romanian army, the British and Greek troops will not sit idly by. Now, for the three commanders, the issue of the landing of Rethymnon has been ignored. If Heraklion cannot be defended, then the battle will also be Enter the countdown.

So the Greek Cointreau also sent only two divisions to reinforce Heraklion, but their reinforcements were somewhat difficult.

"Be careful of the shelling, lie down!"

With the shouting of the officer, all the soldiers who were running quickly fell to the ground. Everyone fell to the ground meticulously, opening their mouths at the same time, even if it would cause the sand to get in their mouths, they didn't care. These are all lessons of blood. Those who did not do much have already been killed or injured.

Only the sound of "woo" was heard, and a large-caliber artillery shell from the sea smashed into the side of the team.

"boom!"

After the explosion, the leading officer vomited sand and shouted again. "Get up and move on!"

The team once again embarked on the road of reinforcements.

Of course not every team is so lucky, some are unlucky. A reinforcement force was hit by naval guns. There were more than 400 people, and only 100 people were able to reach them alive. This was still the result of a dud when a shell hit their side. At that time, the leading officer was ready to meet God, but he did not expect to survive.

And in the face of such a bad situation, the three commanders can only hold on, and as for how long they can hold on, it all depends on God's will.

Heraklion can be beaten by human life, but Rethymnon can't beat him. On the 12-kilometer-long beach in Rethymnon, boats come and go, and equipment and soldiers keep getting off the boats.

"Erlian gathers here!"

A company commander wearing the rank of lieutenant was loudly greeting his soldiers.

"Okay, that's it, you can drive out."

A vehicle landing ship is commanding an R10 tank from the ship.

As for them, the farther city of Rethymnon was still full of gunpowder smoke, and the guns and guns of the battle continued one after another. It's just that the war situation was very bad for the Greek defenders, and they were almost driven out of the city.

The newly formed Greek 29th Division is a completely new unit. The quality of its officers and soldiers is relatively low in the Greek army, so it will be assigned to Rethymnon, which is considered to be the least attacked.

It's just that the Greek army completely underestimated the determination of the Romanian army to attack Crete. This time, Romania prepared 7 divisions of 150,000 people for the landing operation, which was higher than the estimates of the Greek defenders in every aspect.

Moreover, for the long beach line of Rethymnon, the landing force would not make a move, and if it made a move, it would be a brigade of marines. This was also the reason why the 29th Division and 2nd Regiment of the Greek Army, which were defending the beach, were difficult to hold fast and were defeated in two hours.

And now the battle in Rethymnon City is about to end, and Romania's heavy equipment will be able to land at that time, which is even more uncomfortable for the defenders.

After waiting too long, there was a burst of cheers from the city of Rethymnon, and a large number of defending officers and soldiers surrendered with white flags and weapons. No way, the new troops were severely hit, and in the absence of a huge gap in strength between the two sides, surrender was an inevitable choice.

However, the surrender of the Rethymnon garrison killed Heraklion. They were entangled with the Romanian army in the city, and it was impossible to get out.

In the end, before the Romanian army who landed at Rethymnon surrounded them, the three broke their arms to survive, and withdrew into the Crete Mountains with more than 15,000 Greek-British coalition forces who had forcibly retreated.

The retreat of the troops was not smooth. They were first attacked by the Romanian air force, and then many people in the army were dissatisfied with this and a mutiny broke out. After the three brought the troops to the central mountainous area, there were only more than 4,000 people left. Later, they were besieged and suppressed by the Romanian mountain troops. On December 30, the three people who were unable to continue surrendered to the defenders with the remaining 800 officers and soldiers.

Although the end of the Battle of Crete was delayed until December 30, it took only 7 days to capture all the towns on the island in Romania, and 3 days for the landing operations, it was only about 10 days.

In this landing battle, more than 4,000 Romanian officers and soldiers were killed or missing, and more than 8,000 were injured, with a total of about 13,000 people. As for the 100,000 garrison troops, they were basically wiped out.

With Crete occupied by Romania, the fat Middle East is finally exposed to the Romanian army, are Britain and France ready?