Chapter 2034: Judgment Comes Two
"Has the higher-ups made up their minds yet?" Foch asked.
"The conditions of the Germans are too harsh, but if the Germans can really hit the red line, Mr. President will still attack the British." Petain said.
"It's dawn, it's time for us to go!" At more than 80 military airfields on one side of the German front, the first wave of 2,100 aircraft of various types after the start of the battle has been ready to go, of which about 700 fighters are used for air control, and the other 1,400 bombers of various types are responsible for attacking military depots, logistics warehouses, and the opponent's long-range artillery positions that cannot be reached by artillery! As Petain expected, in today's air battle, the British performed very poorly!
The air shield formed by more than 400 German fighter jets successfully blocked the first round of British attacks, and under the cover of the remaining fighter jets, thousands of bombers loaded with more than 1,000 tons of bombs landed behind the French positions! From the point of view of the projected volume alone, the 1,000-ton bomb is only the projected volume of the German artillery group for no more than 5 minutes, but tactically, these bombs are more deadly, because they can hit places that the German artillery cannot reach!
At this time, more than 100 train guns of various calibers located behind the French army positions became the most conspicuous targets. The train guns with a total length of tens of meters and the huge circular rail mounts under the vehicles became the most easily recognizable targets! Squadrons of German bombers attacked these huge war machines, and to the surprise of the Germans, the anti-aircraft fire around these French guns was not strong.
"The French are exhausted, and they can't even equip key targets with anti-aircraft guns." A German bomber commander said, and then he commanded 18 K6 bombers to pounce on a "Ney" Train artillery positions!
The German attack was bold and deadly! The bomber flew through the air at an altitude of less than 150 meters so fast that the air pressure generated by the plane's flight blew off the Frenchman's hat. A round of high-explosive bombs weighing 800KG roared and landed on the heavy artillery that could not be transferred. With a loud noise, the cannon, which was more than ten meters long, was directly blown into two sections, and the first half section fell from the air, completely smashing the front car of the train cannon. The second half fell off the gun mount, and then hit a section of the carriage next to it.
Then there are the nearby bunkers, cranes, locomotives, and ammunition vehicles! The 1-ton armor-piercing bomb specially made by the Germans did not let go of the well-protected ammunition depot. A K6 bomber roared down at an angle of 35 degrees, and then dropped the bomb from 500 meters in the air. The huge bomb was like a spear. It went straight through the 1-meter-thick protective layer on the upper part of the bunker! Then, accompanied by a soaring flame, the entire ground shook like an earthquake, countless dust and debris flew into the air under the action of the huge shock wave, and then cooled to form a smoke column with a height of more than 100 meters! And the shock wave spreading around buried the entire artillery company in debris and dust. The 180 officers and soldiers of the French Army's 311 heavy artillery company were wiped out, and no one survived!
The French have never experienced such an intense bombing. The ultra-short distance makes the bomb load of the German bomber unusually large. The K6 bomber can load about 1200KG of bombs, and the K8 bomber can load more than 2.5 tons. ! Like the gods of death in the sky, they roamed within a range of only a few hundred square kilometers, spreading death wantonly. They turned French positions and expensive weapons into piles of burning ruins, watched the French flee in all directions, and then An easy dive sent a series of deadly bullets into the Frenchman's body!
boom! After a loud noise, Foch looked out from the underground bunker, and he could clearly see that the conference room he was in half an hour ago was directly leveled by a powerful bomb.
Now, apart from the strong and hidden underground bunkers, there is no safe place anymore.
"Except for our radio communication with other troops, the communication between us has been cut off. We all know that the Germans are about to attack, and their infantry and tanks will cross the blockade under the cover of artillery fire. However, our soldiers dare not go out at all. The traffic trenches of the trenches have been destroyed, and even many reinforced shelters have been blown up. Under hundreds of tons of soil and concrete fragments, dozens of soldiers Even the corpses of hundreds of Frenchmen."
"Every infantry division is separated by artillery fire, and the front and rear are cut by German bombers. All pedestrians, carriages and cars that appear on railways, roads, and even country roads will be mercilessly attacked by aerial bombers. The bullets they fired followed us closely like the scythe of death. Just one bullet could cut a strong soldier in half, and a truck with a load of 2.5 tons was nothing more than a few incendiary bombs. A bullet can easily ignite the wooden part of the car body, and it will turn into a mass of burning fragments in a few minutes." A French army officer in charge of logistics wrote in his diary.
After losing more than four figures of human eyes and hundreds of various vehicles, the connection between the French front and rear was basically cut off. The French have never encountered or even thought of today's situation. Within a range of 40 kilometers in front and 100 kilometers in depth, as long as you look up, you can see German bombers flying in the sky and machine guns all over the body. And bombs on pylons!
When the entire bombardment lasted about 4 hours, after hundreds of thousands of shells were baptized, the entire French army position was bombed like the surface of the moon. In some places, the hard concrete was blown into pieces. powder, and the soil layer on the position was blasted so soft in some places, there were tens of centimeters of floating soil layer mixed with minced meat and various debris, and a smell of blood and gunpowder smoke mixed together spread on the battlefield.
"It's fine now, it's up to us." A commander of the German Storm Commando crossed the no man's land of the position, and after carefully observing the opposite position, he sent a signal. Suddenly, he felt as if his hand had been pricked , he subconsciously grabbed a handful of dirt with his hands. "On the battlefield, if you grab a handful of soil, you can find several shrapnel." The officer said with emotion.
The German bombardment did not end. The Xu Jin barrage used to cover the assault of the troops was still rolling at a distance of about 200 meters in front of the Stormtroopers. More than 80% of the French artillery on the opposite side had been destroyed or suppressed. With the roar of the engine, assault guns and half-track tanks rushed out of the trenches under the cover of elite infantry, and the infantry offensive began!
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