New World War II Eagle Strikes the Sky

"Seeing the target, prepare to enter the bombing route." The b-24 heavy bomber began to prepare for the attack.At this moment, a shout in plain language suddenly came from the communication station: "Stop the bombing! The target is wrong! Stop the bombing!

"Commander, what should we do?" Bomber Captain Trudeau asked.

"Stop the bombing! Turn back, and then ask to specify the target again." Although it is against the rules to send instructions in plain language, out of prudence, Army Aviation's bombers decided to suspend the bombing and let the bombers who had already entered the bombing route exit Bombing route, continue to circle over the target area.

In fact, this decision has certain risks.As a large group of bombers, in order to ensure the density of bombing, their spacing is not large.In order to avoid collisions, the turning radius of the bomber fleet has always been surprisingly large, especially at night.In this way, the bomber group will definitely enter the top of the enemy's control area and will 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, and after dropping the bomb, they can walk away.But now, they have to enter the enemy's anti-aircraft artillery threat zone twice.

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

If it is a single bomber, it can completely avoid the beam of searchlights by turning around.However, when the bombers fly in formation, the discipline of the Americans has always been that any plane in the bomber group is not allowed to change the flight attitude at will.The purpose of this is to ensure the strict formation and enhance the self-defense ability against enemy fighter jets, and the other purpose is to avoid collisions.

As the bomber fleet was illuminated by searchlights, the German anti-aircraft guns on the ground began to fire. The shells fired by the 88mm anti-aircraft guns continued to explode in the bomber fleet.Looking from the ground, one could see a continuous flash of light in the sky, and a few seconds later, the faint sound of artillery came into the ears.

But from the perspective of the bomber, the shells of these anti-aircraft guns exploded like this.Every time an 88mm anti-aircraft shell exploded, the flames of the explosion would illuminate the dark cockpit of the bomber.Then, the air wave from the explosion of the shell will hit, causing the huge bomber to vibrate violently.The captain must hold the steering wheel firmly and carefully maintain the course.Sometimes the shells exploded very close to the bombers.Then there will be a stronger shock wave and a large number of flying shrapnel.Three bombers were hit by shells at such close range that their engines burst into flames.Such flames are extraordinarily bright in the night sky.So several searchlights shone towards them, and the three planes were immediately illuminated brightly.

This also led to more 88mm anti-aircraft guns being transferred to the siege of the three bombers.Before flying out of the attack range of the anti-aircraft guns, one bomber could not continue to maintain altitude, began to descend and break away from the formation, and the pilot also began to parachute.Although the other two bombers were not shot down for the time being, they may not be able to fly back.In fact, there are still some bombers. Although they did not catch fire, they also suffered a lot of damage. After flying back, most of them can only provide parts for other aircraft.

However, such a loss is completely acceptable for such a large cluster of hundreds of aircraft.In fact, although the German 88mm anti-aircraft gun is very famous, in terms of fame alone, it can almost be regarded as the number one anti-aircraft gun in all ages.But it is more famous for fighting tanks than fighting planes.Compared with the 90mm or 127mm anti-aircraft guns of the US military with VT bombs (radio fuze anti-aircraft shells), the air defense efficiency of Germany's 88mm anti-aircraft guns is much worse.If it was an American 90mm or 127mm anti-aircraft gun that fired at the bomber group just now, the loss just now would definitely be more than that.

The bomber fleet made a big circle and entered the bombing route again.

"Let those idiots on the ground make the target clearer this time!"

But this time, the ground troops didn't make any mistakes. They got the target right this time, so the bombers, full of anger at whom they didn't know, blew up the German positions into a sea of ​​flames again.

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That night, it wasn't just the Americans who were busy, but the German headquarters was also busy.A few days earlier, there had been an attempted assassination attempt in Hitler's command center. Colonel Stauffenberg, an officer from the Afrika Korps, had tried to blow up Hitler with a time bomb in a bottle of boiling water. Putting the thermos next to Hitler, he left the conference room and went outside with 2 minutes before the bomb would go off.Unexpectedly, as soon as he left, an officer who thought the hot water bottle was in the way put the hot water bottle behind the big oak table.As a result, Hitler was blocked by the table and was not killed.

After Hitler escaped, all those involved in this matter naturally had no good fruit to eat.Colonel Stauffenberg was shot, along with 5000 others in connection with it.At this time, Hitler also got a message.Just this spring, Stauffenberg met his old superior, Field Marshal Rommel, who wished him all the best.

So just yesterday, Marshal Rommel was ordered by Hitler to return to Berlin.And his successor has yet to arrive.So Marshal Kruger had to carry all the work of the two of them alone.

Facing the powerful offensive of the US military, Marshal Kruger fell into deep despair.The difference between the fighting here and the Eastern Front is too great.The strength of Germany and the opponent is completely out of proportion.In Kruger's view, the Americans were not doing well at all during the day.The American infantry squad platoon tactics are not bad, and their infantry squad can suppress the German infantry squad most of the time.But that is entirely based on the firepower advantage of the m1 semi-automatic rifle.If the military uses semi-automatic instead of bolt-action rifles like the Mauser 98k, the German army's squad platoon tactics are definitely better than the US military's.The Americans' air-to-ground coordination is also good, but that level, Kruger feels, is too much on par with the level of cooperation between the German army and the Stukas.As for the overall command level of the US military, the gap with the German army is even greater.

During the indiscriminate bombing by the U.S. military in the morning, the German defense line has almost completely collapsed, and at most there are only a few support points that are irrelevant to the overall situation.If he was in command of the U.S. military, or even a Russian guy, then the German army must have collapsed by now.Yes, if I change myself, I will immediately put the tank troops in, bypass those support points, and go straight to the depths 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 at all, because the German armored forces can only counterattack in units of companies and battalions at most, and any large-scale assembly will be destroyed. Enemy air power to destroy.As for those small-scale armored ambushes or counter-assaults, even if they succeed, how much impact will they have?At most, they can play one or two small victories that have nothing to do with the overall situation.But the whole battle situation is that the German army has completely collapsed.Yes!If the commander of the U.S. military is a guy like myself, then the troublesome thing for me now is not how to block the U.S. military, but worrying about breaking out or surrendering.

However, although the tactical level of the Americans is not as good as that of Germany, and although their higher-level command is not as good as their own, the enemy's strength is really too strong.He now felt like a chess master, and the one opposite him was an amateur at best.But from the beginning of the chess game, he only has a lonely king and a knight, and what about the opposite?But it was completely cheating. Except for the king, the remaining 15 pieces were all queens.What is the need to go?

He even thought that a few days ago, it would be great if Hitler was killed!Then Germany may be able to negotiate with the United States and Britain.The Americans and the British would certainly not like to see the Russians take over half of Europe, and they might agree to make peace with the Germans.Then the Germans only need to stand up to Russia.As for making peace with the Russians, Kruger knew it would be difficult.He had been on the Eastern Front, and he knew what the Germans had done in Russia.

But it was useless to think about it now, and in the end, Kruger could only move his only knight, retreating his crumbling left flank, and moving some units of the 2nd and 116th Panzer Divisions to weak positions.Although doing so will expose flaws in some places.But what else could he do?Well, he can still do something, such as leaving a large minefield somewhere, and at most he can disgust the American affairs.

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The next day, the U.S. armored forces were put into battle. On this day, their offensive went extremely smoothly, and it could almost be called overwhelming.It was only in the afternoon that they were met with some company-level counterattacks from the Reich Division of the 21nd Panzer Division of the German Waffen-SS.The Sherman tank was defeated in the confrontation with the tiger and leopard.But it didn't take long for the PA-38 attack aircraft and PA-47 attack aircraft of the [-]st Attack Aircraft Wing to find a place for them and seek justice.By sunset, the U.S. military had even made progress beyond what the U.S. military had planned.As a result, the Yankee, who was taken aback by his progress, was 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 step. .

"Ron, Li Mei, if it weren't for your system, I might not be able to come back to see you today." At the military meeting that night, Lieutenant General Leslie? James? McNair told the participants Ron and Li Mei said with a smile, "The chance of being accidentally bombed should not be that high, but yesterday, I was almost killed by my own bomber twice."

"I heard that there is a kind of person on the battlefield called a bomb magnet, who can especially attract 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 and interjected.

"Hearing what you said, well, it seems that I really want to keep a distance from the bombers of the Army Aviation." General Leslie didn't care about Bradley's teasing, "But it's a 'bomb magnet', no At the same time, will there be another attribute that can never be killed by bombing?"

Seeing that everyone is here, General Bradley stopped talking and laughing with everyone, but officially announced the start of the meeting...