Chapter 435 Operation Overlord
Also on February 23, Gregorian calendar, the Imperial Navy and the Elf Forest Navy launched a landing battle code-named Overlord at the same time, and the first wave of attack troops reached 120,000 (10,000 elf troops were surrendered by the elf fleet).
Various types of ships are close to 9,000, which are densely arranged on the boundless sea and appear in the eyes of the frightened Orc coastal defense forces.
According to the map of the Port Doyle Sea area surveyed earlier by the elves and humans, the entire landing fleet found its landing site very accurately, and then more than 300 naval warships began to clear the defensive positions of the orcs near the beach.
The shells poured down on the orc position like raindrops, and the large catapults were completely destroyed by the huge magic cannons on the naval cruiser. At this moment, the huge naval naval gun showed a very inspiring power and range advantage.
Subsequently, the marines of more than 40,000 began to board the unfolding landing craft and small boat, even temporary sampan, and began to approach the beach near Doyle City. The task was very simple. The task was to land on the beach, eliminate the orc defenders, besiege the port of Doyle, and occupy it.
The beaches that humans choose to land near Port Doyle are 11 kilometers long. The coast is mostly sandy, and some of them are cliffs a few meters high. The terrain is very open.
However, there is a 10,000-strong infantry team among the orc coastal defense forces stationed here. Most of these 10,000 troops are bear men, and they are also equipped with a small number of Bimeng giant beasts, which are very powerful. At the beginning of the human landing, this team of Bears kept causing trouble for Operation Overlord.
Although these bearers were initially beaten by Sean's naval cannons to give up some defensive positions, they soon reorganized and began a crazy counterattack.
The chaos made the humans who landed not take advantage of it at the beginning. Before landing, two elf troop carriers collided with each other and lost 134 soldiers due to the wind and waves. Then humans were also too anxious to operate and sank a small sump while hoisting the magic guide gun of the landing force. 17 soldiers were killed as a result.
Because they were in a hurry to transport other troops to the shore, many troops were thrown into the water about 1 meter deep. As a result, many soldiers were hit by bows and arrows or tripped over rocks and died in the water.
However, the performance of the orcs is remarkable at this time. They concentrated on attacking the struggling landing troops in the sea with bows and arrows, instead of attacking the human soldiers who had landed on the beach. At the same time, they used a small amount of Bimon to counterattack against these soldiers who had landed on the beach, causing a large number of casualties.
For a whole hour, the Marines of the Sword Empire did not have a soldier rushing to the beach in the north beach area, and the beach area in the south only occupied a section of beach more than 100 meters wide. The landing operation almost completely failed.
However, Sean's naval warship brought a turning point to the largest landing operation in the history of Yavia. As a tank equipped with a radio station landed on the coast and sent back valuable calls for help, the naval commanders realized that the situation on Doyle Beach might have been extremely serious, so the two destroyers, despite the danger of stranding, advanced to 300 meters from the beach and landed the navy at close range. Marines provide fire support.
Then most of the landing troops of the Sword Empire also climbed on the beach at this time, further compressing the defensive positions of the orcs on the beach. Although the counterattack of the orcs' bows and arrows have been ongoing, they can no longer attack the human forces struggling in the sea.
At this time, 11 bombers that took off from the Neil Harbor Airport, without being escorted by fighters, rushed over the landing site and launched the first ultra-long-range air support in the history of the world's aviation.
Because the orc air force has been completely attracted to the front battlefield to fight back against the "Thunder Action" of the human air force, there are no air defense measures in the long coastal areas. Therefore, these 11 aircraft communicated effectively with the ground troops and chose the target very calmly.
These bombers completely destroyed an Orphan giant catapult position deployed near the coast. This result made the navy worry-free and boldly approached the coast and began to cover the orcs with deep artillery fire.
Without worries, the Sean Navy unscrupulledly poured shells into the strongholds and positions of the orcs, and the Marines of the Holy Sword Empire, which had previously been blocked on the beach, also began to charge under the leadership of the 1st Marine Division of the elite force.
At 11:19 a.m., the second echelon of the landing force began to land early. Although 11 bombers returned because they ran out of ammunition, the navy provided greater fire support because of the disappearance of the threat. When the army's heavily equipped troops landed on the beach, the defense of the Orc Empire was finally overwhelmed and faced a complete collapse.
When the Marines of the Sword Empire landed on the beach and obtained a solid landing site, they began to besiege Port Doyle, which had been besieged on three sides as planned.
As the general headquarters of coastal defense, Port Doyle has always been the top priority of the Orc Empire's defense of the coast, where the Orcs have deployed about 50,000 orc infantry and more than 100 Bimon giant beasts.
However, now this force has been greatly weakened, because he does not know the scale of the landing of human troops and the pressure on the front line. The orc prince Berler, who is responsible for commanding the nearby defense, blindly assigned tasks to his troops.
One of them is to dispatch 20,000 soldiers to support the beach and immediately counterattack after consolidating the defense line and drive the human troops into the sea.
However, this unit was not as eye-catching as the 10,000 orc troops deployed here in advance. Unfortunately, this unit was fiercely attacked by Sean's navy when it launched a counterattack. Then after they finally approached the beach, they hit the Holy Sword Emperor who had just landed and was about to attack. One of the elites of the country, the new Devil's 3rd Division.
Of course, the fate of these two orcs can be imagined. They were easily defeated by the third division. More than 200 tanks of the first armored regiment of the first landing third division immediately launched a counterattack. Under the cover of more than 700 naval and army magic cannons, the brave and good third division besieged and annihilated this one with little effort. Orc counterattack troops
After sacrificing the flag with this orc force, the third division shot their intended target, Port of Doyle, without stopping. At this moment, human beings finally gained a foothold on the beach.