The defenses of the British and Greek troops on Crete soon reached a collapse stage, although the British and Greek troops tried hard to save the situation.

The Greek army's attempt was to attack the "Eight O'clock" highland with the National People's Liberation Army, but their attempts did not work at all.

Qin Chuan believes that this has a lot to do with the British's distribution of supplies.

Theoretically, even if the German army was well-trained and occupied the favorable terrain of the highlands, the British, Greek and militias were at least five times the total strength of the German army... More importantly, the German army was surrounded on a high ground and could not move, and all its supplies had to rely on airdrops for transport aircraft.

So this is actually very easy to solve, which is to try to compress the German army's space, so that it will be difficult for transport aircraft to drop supply airspace to the German-controlled area. Even if it is sent to the British, the Greek coalition can use firepower to block and directly blow it up.

The problem is that the British army held the most advanced equipment but did not have much fighting will, while the Greek army had the will to fight but did not have equipment. Among them, the Greek militia... The militia fought bravely, especially at night, and launched cluster charges on the high ground where the German army was stationed several times, but several times were suppressed by the powerful firepower of the German army. So that by dawn the next day, only more than 500 Greek militias were left with more than 1,000 Greek militias.

The corpses of Greek militia were everywhere on the slope of the high ground. What made the German army a little incredible was that many of the corpses were not guns, but spears and axes.

The German army even launched a counterattack against the militia... With the militia's firepower, it could not stop the German army's attack at all, so the German army easily obtained more space transport aircraft and dropped ammunition and supplies at this time.

This can also be said that the British army suffered its own consequences. In fact, the British army did not lack sufficient weapons and equipment for these Greek troops and Greek militias, but the British had their own little calculations... They wanted to control these troops, so they did not dare to equip these Greek troops with strong sense of independence, especially the National People's Liberation Army, otherwise the equipment of the National People's Liberation Army would not be so bad.

(Note: This is also related to ideology. The "Greek National Liberation Front" was established by the Greek Communist Party)

In other words, the British army, Greek government army and Greek militia actually had their own scheming and feared each other. Although they had to fight against the enemy because of the German and Italian airborne, they were in a state of disarray, which gave the German army a chance to defeat them.

The British army's efforts were to transfer the USS "Unforgive" aircraft carrier.

This approach is of course correct. The biggest problem for the British army on Crete is that the airport is blocked and cannot exert its air superiority. The aircraft carrier is equivalent to an active airport at sea. Montgomery tried to use this method to alleviate the crisis in Crete and turn the situation around.

The problem is that the aircraft carrier is just a small airport, or to be precise, a super small airport. It can only allow some short-range fighter jets to take off and land and must undergo professional training pilots.

This did not make the investment of the USS Unrequited aircraft carrier very effective: at this time, the British carrier-based aircraft were still relatively backward "Sea Fighters" and "Guannie Yan" fighter jets. These carrier-based aircraft were used to compete with Italy for air supremacy, and the sea supremacy was barely used. Faced with the German BF109, they could only be beaten, among which the "Sea Fighters" were even an old-fashioned biplane.

On the third day of the battle, another exciting and good news appeared on the German army: Malemai Airport has been put into use again under the control and emergency repairs of the German army.

Although it is just an airport, it has extraordinary significance for combat, because it means that the German fighter's combat operations can land and replenish supplies at Malemai Airport, and then you can fully grasp the air supremacy of Crete.

So Montgomery had to lower his head and said, "We lose, let's withdraw the command!"

It is indeed meaningless to fight without killing more people. The British have always valued interests and reality, so they immediately withdrew the 14th British Infantry Division and several important generals of the Greek Army and announced their surrender.

The Greek army also announced its surrender immediately afterwards.

Of course, the People's Liberation Army of the National People's Liberation Army will not surrender. They just chose to withdraw their troops quietly and then disperse and hide among the people.

There was another small episode during surrender:

The Italian army took the lead to the Irak Airport to receive surrender, but Colonel Smith refused the Italian army's surrender after discussing with the Greek army.

"Defeat our German army!" Colonel Smith said to the Italians: "So, we only surrender to the Germans!"

This made Colonel Ennio, the commander of the Italian First Paratrooper Corps, feel very angry, and a group of defeated generals are still showing off their power in front of the great "Lightning Division".

So they planned to break through with the order, but unexpectedly, the British's equipment at the airport was not comparable to that of the Italian army. They drove out several tanks with a "rumble".

Colonel Ennio was stunned when he saw this situation... Most of the paratroopers were light equipment, and they did not have "iron fists" in their hands, so they could not fight head-on with these rough and thick-skinned "Matilda" tanks.

At this time, the staff officer gave Colonel Ennio a step.

"Colin!" said the staff officer: "If the Germans were allowed to surrender, there would be no need for any more casualties..."

Colonel Ennio said "Oh" with a very ugly expression, and asked someone to inform the German army located on the high ground.

The German army did not dare to give up the "eight o'clock" highland easily because it was the main position to block the airport... They did not want the British or Greeks to seize the "eight o'clock" highland when they took the German army to surrender and lifted the airport blockade.

So in the end, the Italian army had to send an army to the "eight o'clock" high ground to replace the German army to surrender.

When the Italian soldiers walked up to the "eight o'clock" high ground, they all looked at the layers of overlapping craters on the high ground, as well as the bodies and broken limbs all over the ground. Because the island was heavily damp, some of them were even stinking and maggots.

"How did you do it?" an Italian captain asked the German soldiers with disgraceful uniforms: "You have persisted for three days in this situation?"

"Relax, Italian!" Alphredoda replied: "This is not the most harsh battle we have ever fought, and the battle is not as difficult as you think!"

Alphredo said the truth, because the enemy's qualities were uneven, the German soldiers believed that they could still deal with it.
Chapter completed!