After the air threat disappeared, the attack aircraft group quickly resumed the attack. By this time, the enemy tanks had taken the opportunity to approach the defensive positions of the paratroopers, and the infantry had already disembarked from the armored vehicles and launched a foot attack; And those tanks and armored vehicles began to constantly support the actions of the infantry with direct fire from artillery and machine guns. Under the blows of their direct fire, especially from the tanks, white smoke rose one after another from the few anti-tank gun support points of the paratroopers - indicating that the director had determined that the anti-tank guns had been destroyed.

The machine-gun support points of the paratroopers were also precarious before the attack of the tanks. It is difficult to move, like the M-2 and other heavy machine guns, many of which have been destroyed, but fortunately, there are still a lot of Browning automatic rifles (in fact, a light machine gun) in the hands of the paratroopers, and these machine gun fire temporarily suppressed the infantry accompanying the tank, and without the support of the infantry, the tank rashly rushed into the position of others, and it would definitely be beaten to pieces by people with things like Bazooka. However, the situation of these machine guns is also not good, under the threat of tank guns, they do not even dare to shoot even a single magazine at a firing point, and often can only shoot three to five rounds in a hurry, so they have to move quickly, otherwise, they will be attacked by tank guns and judged out. If the situation is not reversed, the collapse of the defensive line is almost imminent.

"Freedom to attack! Prioritize attacking those who have stopped! "Major Drubby, who was in charge of the formation of three P-38 attack aircraft, gave such an order. Freedom to attack the **a**book** read. The novel YBDU means to disband the formation, which allows the pilot to focus all his attention on the ground attack, but it also increases the danger faced by the pilot, and the attack aircraft can easily suffer in the event of another enemy fighter group. However, considering that there are now 8 P-51s over the target area, such a decision is also quite reasonable.

As for the priority attack on the stopped tank, it is because, at the time of World War II, the tank did not yet have the ability to shoot accurately in motion. If they want to hit the target accurately, they must obviously stop the tank, otherwise the ups and downs of driving will reduce the accuracy of the tank shells to the point where the accuracy of the national football team's shooting is on par with the accuracy of the national football team. And stopping itself would also increase the danger of the tank itself, so most tanks at that time used a short stop firing mode. This mode is like this, the tank completes the action of loading at low speed, the turret turns to the target, etc., and then under the command of the commander, the driver brakes urgently, and after the tank stops, the gun commander quickly fires, and then the tank quickly starts and returns to the driving state. So, in battle, if a tank suddenly stops without being hit, there is no doubt that it is ready to fire. If he is not given priority, there will be paratroopers who will be unlucky.

Arthur saw an M5 braking in the distance, and he immediately kicked the rudder and slid sideways to aim the nose at the M5. The tank's field of vision is very poor, even if it is a target on the ground, it cannot be seen without a certain angle, and as for the view to the air, it is basically not at all. So the M5 didn't know at all that a P-38 attack aircraft was diving towards it. However, the crew driving it also knew that there were enemy planes above the tank group, and it was extremely dangerous to stop for a short time. So as soon as the tank stopped, it immediately fired a shot at a suspected machine-gun position, and then the driver immediately increased the throttle, and the tank engine roared and began to accelerate.

However, by this time it was too late to accelerate, and Arthur swooped down and fired two shots at it from behind. Ten seconds later, the tank crew received a frustrating notification from the director's department: "Your car has been destroyed!" ”

In just two minutes, eight more tanks and armored vehicles were judged to have been destroyed. But by this time, with the support of tanks and armored vehicles, the infantry had already torn through the defensive line, two M5 tanks in the head, several armored vehicles and a group of soldiers had already broken through to the town at the bridgehead. More enemy soldiers then rushed through the gap.

This is a typical European country town. There is a main road and a few small forks in the town. The streets are narrow, and the buildings next to them are not high. But the buildings are quite sturdy, they all have thick walls made of large stone slabs and blue bricks and small windows. These buildings, as well as some zero-hour fortifications on street corners, became the last line of defense for the resisters. Relying on a 57-mm gun hidden in a house on the corner of the street, the paratroopers took out the two tanks that had broken into the town, and several armored vehicles were quickly destroyed by the Bazooka group. But more enemy troops rushed into the town through the gap. The defenders were retreating under their attack, and if this situation could not be changed, it was only a matter of time before the town was lost.

The gap must be plugged! But if they can't stop the constant influx of enemy troops, the paratroopers' existing strength will not be able to plug the gap. So now, the attack aircraft swarm in the air must hold off the constant influx of enemy troops!

Now, the students also know that the time has come to decide the winner. The enemy's tank forces had already suffered heavy losses, and now if they could repel the enemy, it would be difficult for them to launch an attack of this magnitude again. Therefore, now all the planes in this airspace, including the P-51s of the air superiority model, have come to a low altitude to block the enemy's forces from entering the town.

Arthur now misses the P-38's original 6-barreled 20mm gun, which provides a much higher density of fire than the current 37 and two 20-rotors when attacking infantry. It can be used to suppress infantry is much more powerful than the current cannon combination. What's worse is that because the 37mm shells take up too much space, so that now this set of cannons with a combination of cannons is a lot less than the original, after the use of the previous paragraph, now there are no shells in his cannon, swooping over, diving over, more just to scare people. Later, he had to rely mainly on the self-defense machine gun of the rear-seat machine gunner to attack the enemy on the ground.

Fortunately, the 8 P-51s still had plenty of ammunition, and they were constantly rushing from side to side, from side to side, trying to prevent the enemy infantry from entering the town as much as possible. But as soon as the fighters rushed over, those cunning enemies immediately hid themselves by relying on the "wreckage" of the tank or something, and as soon as the fighters flew over, they immediately appeared again and continued to rush into the town.

"If only I had six more bombs! One can blow up a piece! Arthur couldn't help but miss the six bombs that he had dropped a long time ago.

More enemy soldiers poured into the town, and just when everyone was almost desperate, the roar of engines was heard in the sky - a full 12 P-47 Ground Attack modifications appeared in everyone's field of vision. The pylons on the wings of these aircraft were filled with rockets.

When the P-47 group set off, the task was to attack the enemy's armored forces, and to do this job, rockets were better used than aerial bombs, and at this time, tanks were no longer the main threat, but the P-47, which had already taken off, could not learn from Nagumo's good example, and then fly back to change the bombs. So, these P-47s still rushed over with anti-tank rockets.

The P-47 fleet of aircraft suddenly suppressed the momentum of the enemy's onslaught, and now, the enemy's attack on the town has slowed down greatly, and the paratroopers in the town have begun to work hard to regain the lost ground, and the situation has appeared a temporary balance.

Captain Knuss hovered over the town in his reconnaissance plane, constantly reporting the situation to the command center. At this time, he suddenly received an order: "Find out the enemy's artillery group immediately!" Our positions were heavily shelled by enemy troops! ”

Knus began to search for targets, the weather was good today, the atmospheric visibility was quite good, and soon he found the enemy artillery that was firing. So the newly arrived P-47s were transferred to the assault artillery group. Because if these cannons can't be suppressed, the paratroopers can't hold the town. In fact, in the shelling just now, the paratroopers who were trying to counterattack were judged to have suffered heavy losses, and now the momentum of their counteroffensive has been completely suppressed by artillery fire. On the contrary, with the support of artillery fire, the "enemy army" in the town has further expanded its territory, and now nearly half of the town is under their control.

But the departure of the P-47s, even for a short time, immediately created a big problem: the forces carrying out the interdiction mission were greatly reduced, and more enemy troops poured into the town......

After a few minutes, the shelling stopped, but in these few minutes the enemy troops were already less than a hundred meters from the bridge. There, the paratroopers relied on the last line of defense to hold them back, but if the enemy could still keep pouring in like this, God knows how long they could hold out?

In order to support them, Arthur, who had fired all the artillery shells, had even flown his P-38 attack plane up and down the streets over the town, relying on the tail self-defense machine gun to attack the enemy in the town. Although the buildings and other things caused him a lot of trouble, his attacks and dives intimidated the enemy a lot.

Arthur pulled up the plane, and the voice of the machine gunner came from the headphones: "I'm out of bullets!" ”

Arthur didn't speak, he just continued to pull up the plane. Completed a somersault and swooped down the street again.

"Even if you run out of ammo, rushing over it will always scare them and force them to find a place to hide." Arthur thought.

"Bombers! It's the B-25 bomber! The heavys shouted excitedly. Arthur didn't care about continuing to frighten the "enemy", he pulled up the plane, turned his head, and saw a large group, a full 24 B-25 bombers, flying in a dense formation, flying towards this side.

As the bombers approached, they divided into two groups, one group began to carry out tactical interdiction missions outside the town, relying on the bombs full of hanging bombs and 6 M-2 machine guns in the nose, they suppressed the enemy at once, and under their pressure, it was quite difficult for the enemy to enter the town.

Another group of B-25s, under the command of the ground, bombarded the "enemy forces" in the town at a very low altitude. And the paratroopers in the town also took the opportunity to launch a counteroffensive......