Chapter 4 Operation Market Garden

In the following days, Shen Yi even settled down in the slums.

After selling Dracula's blood, there were 2239 blood points left on Shen Yi's body. After purchasing the necessities of life including sleeping bags, Shen Yi still had 2000 blood points left.

It was useless for Shen Yi to keep the Spike Ring, so he simply sold it to Hong Lang and got 300 blood points.

Spend 1300 blood points to add 5 points to his constitution and 8 points to his spirit. In this way, his attributes become strength 4, constitution 20, agility 7, spirit 30, and will 10. Basically, long-range attacks are the main battle Way. This is also the most practical choice for newcomers after entering the bloody city. Before their own abilities are greatly improved, they should rely on guns to complete tasks and increase their physique at the same time.

Shen Yi realized that he hadn't seen anything yet, and he only had 1000 blood points left.

For the next time, Shen Yi concentrated on shooting training. There is a low-level training ground in the slum area, where you can practice marksmanship and skills every day. There is no charge for the low-level training ground, and you can withstand any attack with damage below 80 points.

The benefits of infinite bullets are reflected here, not only useful in combat, but also useful in training.

In addition to practicing guns, the most important thing for Shen Yi is to use his mental power to practice spiritual exploration and medical skills in the training ground every day.

After nearly 30 days of practice and use, Shen Yi's marksmanship proficiency has greatly increased, but there is still a long way to go before becoming a master of advanced marksmanship. On the contrary, both the mental detection and despicable medical skills have been upgraded to one level.

After the despicable medical treatment is upgraded, the system prompts: Despicable medical treatment - skill level 2, consumes 2 points of mental power each time, effectively treats external injuries and bleeding injuries, restores 40 points of life each time, and is effective for piercing, tearing, Concussion and skill damage are moderately healed, and 24 points of life are restored each time. Weak treatment for incomplete and toxin damage, recovering 4 points each time, invalid for special attacks. Skill cooldown time is 60 seconds.

As for the spiritual detection skill, after upgrading, it only increased the skill effect priority, from the original 12 point effect priority to 14 point.

The so-called effect priority means that when two skills collide, if the effect of the skill is in a state of conflict, then the judgment will be based on the one with the higher skill priority. The greater the awareness of the skill priority, the better the effect will be.

The despicable healing technique has no effect priority, and the effect priority of spiritual exploration is relatively low. In contrast, the effect of the Vampire's Touch has a priority of 30 points. At the same level, there are almost no equipment and skills that can resist the special effects of this weapon. It can be seen that the value of this weapon is indeed not low. It's a pity that this is a difficult scene world dominated by gun battles, and it is difficult for Shen Yi to use it to its full potential.

At this time, he still has 1000 blood points left, which can be regarded as the bottom of the box, and he will make the final targeted supplement when the mission comes.

Thirty days of strict and self-disciplined training passed by, and the task reminder finally came.

TIP: Head to the teleportation zone immediately and get ready to enter the quest world.

Mission scenario: Operation Market Garden.

Prep time: one hour.

This mission is a cooperative attack mode. Killing one's own adventurer cannot inherit the opponent's property. When attacking one's own adventurers, the damage is reduced by 50%.

Operation Market Garden was an airborne combat operation in World War II, and it was also the largest airborne combat operation in the history of human warfare.

Operation Market Garden was proposed by Montgomery, the famous British commander at that time.

At this point, the Allied forces had completed the Normandy landings, and German troops began to retreat along the mainland to the Netherlands, Belgium and eastern France.

In order to strive for a complete end to the war in 1944, Montgomery proposed an extremely daring and adventurous plan-Operation Market Garden.

According to Montgomery's plan, after the British Second Army launched a ground attack on Antwerp, a total of 35,000 airborne troops from the US 101st Airborne Division, the 82nd Airborne Division, the British 1st Airborne Division and the Polish Parachute Brigade,

Using the "leapfrog" tactic to land in Eindhoven, Nijmegen, and Arnhem in the depth of the 63-mile battle, they captured the Rhine and a series of important bridges on the Waal River, so that the army could drive all the way in from the Netherlands Straight into the hinterland of Germany.

The operation is therefore actually divided into two parts.

One: Market action, that is, airborne troops.

Two: Operation Garden, that is, ground force operations.

The initial stage of this war can be said to be fairly smooth. On September 17, 1944, Operation Market Garden began. At 2:15 p.m., General Horrocks, commander of the 30th Army of the British Second Army, ordered the Irish Guards Armored Division to charge first. Move forward quickly. Half an hour earlier, the US 101st Airborne Division had already landed in Eindhoven. After a tough battle, they successfully captured the nearby South Williams Canal Bridge and captured Zongzhen.

On September 18, the 30th Army arrived in Eindhoven, joined the 101st Airborne Division, and passed the South Williams Canal Bridge.

On September 20, the 30th Army reached Nijmegen and joined the 82nd Airborne Division, which had captured the Waal Bridge.

The British 1st Airborne Division of Major General Uquet and the Polish Independent Parachute Brigade landed on the farthest north from the 30th Army, and it was also the terminal of the 30th Army's march-Anheng. The British 1st Airborne Division had to occupy the road bridge at Arnhem and the railway bridge at Usterbeek, which also included the later most famous Arnhem Bridge.

However, the 1st Airborne Division encountered the enemy's tenacious resistance. Not only did they fail to take the extremely important Arnhem Bridge, but they also suffered heavy casualties. Lost the last bridge of Anheng.

From September 27th to 29th, the British army advanced to the south bank of the Lower Rhine, but was forced to turn to defense and failed to win the landing field on the north bank. Until March 1945, the Rhine remained an impassable barrier between the Allies and the German mainland.

Operation Market Garden failed.

In all fairness, the British 1st Airborne Division had done quite well, holding on for longer than expected due to the slow progress of the ground forces. In this battle, the 1,000 officers and soldiers of the Polish Paratrooper Brigade suffered nearly 700 casualties. In this "market" operation, the 1st Airborne Division suffered nearly 7,000 casualties and captured personnel. In the end, less than 2,000 people broke out of the German encirclement. Facing the bridge at Arnhem, which they could never reach, a field commander of the division lamented: "That bridge is too far away for us!"

Since then, the Arnhem Bridge has been called "the bridge in the distance".

Due to the narrow ground and the retreating Germans crazily destroying bridges all the way, the ground advancement speed of the Second Army was greatly affected, which was an important reason for the failure of this combat plan. Route 69 from Falkenswald to Nijmegen was later called the "Hell Highway" by Americans.

But now, what Shen Yi entered was the scene world of Market Garden Operation.

"Wow, it's time to go to the days of war." Thinking of this battle, Shen Yi couldn't help but want to whistle.