69novels Chapter 658
Chapter 658
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: 0.066s Scan: 0.044sAfter the massacre at sea, the German landing fleet returned to the Normandy area. Another German army waiting here immediately boarded the ship and prepared to set off as the second landing force to support the German army that had already landed.
Goering’s air force was much faster than them. After dawn, the German air force was dispatched on a large scale and began to carry out targeted bombing on the British positions that blocked the German army!
In order to ensure the success of the landing operation, Mainz allocated most of the air force’s forces to the Benelux and northern Gaul regions. There were more than 2,000 fighters stationed at the airports in these areas, including 000 fighters, 500 dive bombers, 250 dive bombers and 300 ground attack/support aircraft!
The fierce bombing of the German army dealt a heavy blow to the exhausted British army after fighting all night. The British positions were bombed with artillery fire and bombs rained down like raindrops, causing heavy casualties to the British soldiers hiding in the trenches. Many firing points were blown away by the German bombs, and a large number of British soldiers were killed. The entire position was in chaos and the morale of the soldiers was on the verge of collapse.
“Where are the reinforcements? Where are our reinforcements? Why haven’t they sent us any reinforcements?”
Due to the lack of sufficient anti-aircraft equipment, the British army was almost unable to resist the German air raids and could only passively take the beating.
They had fought a fierce battle with the Germans all night last night, and the Germans broke through two lines of defense one after another. The 50,000-strong garrison had paid the price of more than 10,000 casualties, and the army had suffered heavy losses and could not bear to fight again.
In addition to their passion for defending their country, what supported them to persevere was the telegram sent to them from the capital, Fog City. The telegram from the capital told them that reinforcements were on the way and would arrive soon, asking them to hold on a little longer!
Knowing that their reinforcements were coming soon, the morale of the British army was boosted, and they repelled several fierce attacks by the Germans in the second half of the night. As a result, after dawn, they thought their reinforcements would arrive first, but unexpectedly, It turned out that the people who arrived were the German army, and they were the air force that they feared the most!
As for Hans’s air force, there was no one in the entire British Empire who did not hate them!
The German air force’s indiscriminate bombing of the British Empire caused extremely heavy losses to the British Empire. Not only did it cause millions of casualties, but it also turned the capital and a large industrial area nearby into ruins.
The British army’s original weapons and equipment were relatively tight. After the emergency expansion of 5 million troops, a large number of newly formed troops lacked weapons and equipment. They were queuing up and waiting for the equipment to be produced in their own factories and distributed to them. As a result, they did not get the equipment, but the bad news came!
The German army carried out indiscriminate bombing of the capital of the British Empire in the first week, and then carried out focused air strikes on their main industrial areas. The main It was time to attack by name. In order to completely destroy the military production of the British Army, the German Army bombed the factories on their key bombing list in the British mainland again and again! They would not stop until these factories were completely reduced to ruins!
The bombing lasted for half a month, causing a devastating blow to the British military industry. Hundreds of military factories and supporting factories across the country were now only one in ten. Even the few that remained were severely damaged, and production capacity dropped sharply!
Therefore, within just one month, the British mainland had lost the ability to manufacture weapons!
These troops stationed on the front line were still better off, because they were directly facing the threat of the German landing, so the British government at least gathered their weapons and equipment. Although these weapons were new weapons The number is very small, and a large number of equipment are inventory equipment from World War I or even earlier!
Relying on such weapons to fight against a powerful enemy like the German army, the British casualties are naturally high!
However, if the German army only dispatched the army, they would not be unable to resist despite heavy casualties.
But after the German Air Force was dispatched, the situation was completely different!
Because the British army was equipped with a large number of old equipment, even equipment from the First World War, and during the First World War, the British army did not face great air threats, so their air defense weapons were not only small in number, but also of poor quality.
They were generally small-caliber anti-aircraft guns of about 30-50 mm.
These anti-aircraft guns had a slow rate of fire and a short range, and posed limited threats to the flexible and maneuverable German aircraft.
For the B-29 that dropped bombs at high altitudes, there was almost no threat!
Therefore, as long as the German aircraft were seen, the British army could only pray for good luck, hurriedly look for shelters, get in, and then pray to God!
Although the British army built a lot of anti-artillery bunkers on the battlefield, the number and quality of the bunkers were actually very good. They were able to repel the German attack last night, mainly due to their relatively complete defense facilities, which could withstand the German bombardment. Otherwise, their positions would have been lost last night! However
, bombs falling vertically from the air are completely different from artillery shells.
Most of the German artillery shells are 75mm field guns, and the weight of the artillery shells is only about ten pounds.
The killing range of the explosion is limited.
In addition, the artillery shells are shot at an angle, and it is almost impossible to hit their anti-artillery bunkers vertically.
Therefore, when avoiding enemy artillery fire, as long as the quality of the anti-artillery bunkers is good and their own luck is not too bad, the probability of survival of the soldiers is still very high.
But bombs are different!
B-The weight of the bomb dropped by the 29th Army is generally around 500 kilograms. The power of this bomb is dozens of times that of a field artillery. When a bomb falls, it can blow a hole several meters deep. Moreover, the bomb is vertical.���Theoretically, there is no dead angle for shooting, so even the anti-artillery holes cannot completely resist the enemy’s air attack!
What’s more terrifying is that the Germans dropped not only ordinary aerial bombs, but also a lot of incendiary bombs and white phosphorus bombs. This weapon is even more deadly for the British soldiers hiding in the trenches, and it is almost their nightmare.
Therefore, in the areas bombed by the German Air Force, even if there are anti-artillery holes to hide, the British casualties are still heavy. More than half of the soldiers in the entire position were lost in the double blow of explosions and flames. The remaining soldiers can only watch the German planes swaggering away and grit their teeth! The
British commander in the Bournemouth area was worried. The reinforcements were delayed, and the German air raids were so fierce. It can be predicted that after the end of this air raid, the Germans will definitely launch another attack. The British army, which suffered serious losses in the air raid, may not be able to withstand this wave of attacks!