"See the target, prepare to enter the bombing route." The B-24 heavy bomber began to prepare for the attack. At this moment, a cry in plain language suddenly came from the communication radio station: "Stop bombing! Wrong target! Stop bombing

!

"Commander, what should we do?" asked the bomber captain Tru.

"End the bombing! Turn back and ask to specify the target again." Although it was against the rules to send instructions in plain language, out of caution, the Army Aviation bombers decided to suspend the bombing and let the bomber group that had entered the bombing route withdraw.

The bombing route continues to hover over the target area.

In fact, this decision has certain risks. As a large group, the bomber group is not widely spaced to ensure the density of bombing. In order to avoid collision, the turning radius of the bomber group is always surprisingly large, especially at night.

That's it. In this way, the bomber group will definitely

They will enter the enemy-controlled area and be attacked by enemy anti-aircraft artillery. If it is a normal bombing operation, they only need to enter the anti-aircraft artillery threat area once, drop the bomb, and they can walk away. But now

, they must enter the enemy's anti-aircraft gun threat area twice.

Many beams of light suddenly appeared from the German side, which were German anti-aircraft searchlights. The beams of these searchlights were dangling in the air. A B-24 bomber was illuminated by the searchlight, and then another bomber

Appearing in the searchlight beam.

If it is a single bomber, it can completely avoid the searchlight beam by turning. However, when bombers fly in formation, American discipline has always been that no aircraft in the bomber group is allowed to change its flight at will.

Posture. This is done to ensure a tight formation and enhance self-defense capabilities against enemy fighters. Another purpose is to avoid collisions.

As the bomber group was illuminated by searchlights, the German anti-aircraft guns on the ground also began to fire. The shells fired by the 88mm anti-aircraft guns continued to explode in the bomber group. Looking from the ground, one could see continuous flashes in the sky.

There was a glow, and a few seconds later, the faint sound of cannons reached my ears.

However, from the perspective of the bomber, the explosion of these anti-aircraft gun shells is not like this. Whenever an 88mm anti-aircraft gun shell explodes, the explosion fire will illuminate the dark cockpit of the bomber. Then, the shells

The air wave from the explosion will hit you, causing the huge bomber to vibrate violently. The captain must hold the steering wheel firmly and be careful.

Sometimes, the location where the shell exploded was very close to the bomber. Then there would be a stronger shock wave and a large amount of flying shrapnel. Three bombers were hit by such close-range shells, and the engines ignited flames.

Such flames were extremely bright in the night sky. So several searchlights were directed at them, and the three planes were immediately illuminated.

This also caused more 88mm anti-aircraft guns to move into the siege of the three bombers. Before flying out of the attack range of the anti-aircraft guns, one bomber could no longer maintain its altitude and began to descend and break away from the formation, and the pilot also began to parachute. In addition,

Although the two bombers have not been shot down yet, they may not be able to fly back. In fact, there are still some bombers that, although they did not catch fire, have also suffered a lot of damage. After flying back, they will probably only be able to provide parts for other aircraft.

.

However, such a loss is completely acceptable for such a large group of hundreds of aircraft. In fact, although the German 88mm anti-aircraft gun is very famous, in terms of reputation alone, it can almost be regarded as the first anti-aircraft gun in history.

.But its fame is gained more by playing tanks rather than by playing airplanes. Relatively

Compared with the US military's 90mm or 127mm anti-aircraft guns, which have VT shells (radio-fuzed anti-aircraft shells), the German 88mm anti-aircraft guns have much worse air defense efficiency. If it was an American 90mm or 127mm anti-aircraft gun that just fired at the bomber group

Anti-aircraft artillery, the loss just now is definitely more than that.

The bomber group made a large circle and entered the bombing route again.

"Let those idiots on the ground indicate their targets more clearly this time!"

But this time, the ground troops did not make any more attempts. This time they got the right target, so the bombers, full of anger towards whom they did not know, blew up the German position into a sea of ​​flames again.

…

That night, it wasn't just the Americans who were busy, the German command post was also busy. A few days ago, an attempted assassination took place in Hitler's command center. An officer from the Afrika Korps——

Colonel Stauffenberg tried to kill Hitler with a time bomb inside a boiling water bottle

, he put the thermos bottle next to Hitler, and when the bomb was about to explode in two minutes, he left the conference room and went outside. But what he didn't expect was that as soon as he left, an officer who thought the thermos bottle was in the way took the thermos bottle away from him.

It was placed behind a large oak table. As a result, Hitler was blocked by the table and was not killed.

After Hitler escaped death, everyone involved in the incident naturally suffered a loss. Colonel Stauffenberg was shot, and 5,000 people related to the incident were executed. At this time, Hitler also got something

A piece of news. Just this spring, Stauffenberg met with his old superior, Marshal Rommel, and Marshal Rommel wished him all the best.

So just yesterday, Marshal Rommel was transferred back to Berlin by Hitler's order. But his successor has not arrived yet. So Marshal Kruger had to shoulder all the work of the two men by himself.

Facing the powerful offensive of the US military, Marshal Kruger fell into deep despair. The battle here was too different from that on the Eastern Front. The strength of Germany and its opponents was completely out of proportion. In Kruger's view, the Americans

In fact, the performance during the day is not good at all. The American infantry squad tactics are pretty good, and their infantry squads can suppress the German infantry squads most of the time. But that is completely

It is based on the firepower advantage of the M1 semi-automatic rifle. If the military uses semi-automatic rifles instead of bolt-action rifles such as Mauser 98k, the German army's squad tactics are definitely better than the US military. The Americans' air-ground coordination is also good, but that level

, Kruger felt that the level of cooperation between the German army and the Stuka was almost too much. As for the overall command level of the US military, the gap with the German army was even greater.

During the indiscriminate bombardment by the US military in the morning, the German defense line had almost completely collapsed, and at most there was only a little support left that had nothing to do with the overall situation. If he had been commanding the US military, or even a Russian, then the German army would have definitely collapsed by now.

Yes. Good, changed.

I will immediately put the tank troops in, bypass those support points, and attack the depth of the German army. With such air superiority and personnel and equipment advantages, there is no need to worry about the counterattack of the German armored forces.

Because the German armored forces

At most, they can only counterattack with companies and battalions as units. Any large-scale gathering will be destroyed by the enemy's air power. As for those small-scale armored ambushes or counter-assaults, even if they succeed, what impact will they have? They can only hit one or two at most.

A small victory that has no bearing on the overall situation

That's it. But the whole war situation is that the German army has completely collapsed. Yes! If the commander of the US military is a guy like me, then the thing that worries me now is not how to block the US military, but

I was worried about whether to break through or surrender.

However, although the Americans' squad tactics are not as good as those of the Germans, and although their higher-level command is even worse than his own, the enemy's power is too powerful. He now feels like a chess master, and the opponent

The one on the other side is an amateur at best. But from the beginning of the chess game, he only had a solitary king and a knight. But what about the other side? He was completely cheating. Except for the king, all the remaining 15 pieces were queens.

.Why is there any need to go?

He even thought that a few days ago, it would be great if Hitler had been killed in a bomb! Then Germany might be able to negotiate with the United States and Britain. The Americans and British must not want to see the Russians occupying half of Europe, and they might agree to a peace treaty.

The Germans wanted to make peace. Then the Germans would just have to resist Russia. As for making peace with the Russians, Kruger knew that it would be difficult. He had been on the Eastern Front, and he knew that the Germans did what they did in Russia.

What happened.

But it was useless to think about it now. In the end, Kruger could only move his only knight, withdraw his shaky left wing, and move some units of the 2nd and 116th Armored Divisions to weak positions.

Although this will also expose some flaws in some places. But what else can he do? Well, he can still do something, such as leaving a large minefield somewhere, and at most it will disgust the Americans.

things.

…

The next day, the U.S. armored forces were put into battle. On this day, their offensive was extremely smooth and could almost be called overwhelming. It was only in the afternoon that they were attacked by the German Second Armored Division of the SS Reich.

Some company and battalion-level counterattacks by the division. The Sherman tanks were defeated in the confrontation with the Tiger and Leopard. But not long after, the 21st Attack Aircraft Wing's P

The A-38 attack aircraft and the PA-47 attack aircraft regained their place and sought justice for them. By sunset, the US military's progress even exceeded the US military's original plan. Therefore, they were frightened by their own progress.

The jumping Americans were busy building fortifications all night, and General Bradley, who was in charge of this operation, once again called the relevant officers together to discuss the next move.

"Ron, LeMay, if it weren't for your system, I might not be able to come back to see you today." At the military meeting that evening, Lieutenant General Leslie James McNair attended the meeting.

Ron and Li Mei said with a smile, "Normally, the chance of being accidentally bombed is not that high, but yesterday, I was almost killed by my own bomber twice."

"I heard that there is something called a bomb magnet on the battlefield, which is particularly good at attracting bombs. Leslie, you seem to have such potential. So you'd better stay away from bombers in the future." Before Ron and Li Mei could answer, Bu

General Ledley came over and interrupted.

"Listening to what you said, well, it seems that I really have to keep a distance from the Army Air Forces bombers." General Leslie did not care about Bradley's ridicule, "But they are usually 'bomb magnets', no

Will there also be another attribute that can never be blown up?"
Chapter completed!