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

"Commander, what should I do?" Bomber Captain Tru asked.

"End the bombing! Turn back and ask again to indicate the target. Although it was not in accordance with the rules to send the order in plain language, out of prudence, the bombers of the Army Airlines decided to suspend the bombing and let the bomber group that had already entered the bombing route withdraw from the bombing route and continue to hover over the target area.

This decision is actually risky. The bomber group is a large group, and in order to ensure the density of bombing, they are not very spaced. In order to avoid collisions, the steering radius of the bomber group has always been surprisingly large, especially at night. As a result, the bomber group would certainly go above the enemy-controlled zone and would be attacked by enemy high-altitude artillery. If it were a normal bombing operation, they would only need to enter the anti-aircraft artillery threat zone once, drop the bombs, and they will be able to fly away. But now they will have to enter the enemy's high-shell artillery threat zone twice.

Suddenly many pillars of light appeared from the Germans, which were German anti-aircraft searchlights. The beams of these searchlights dangled in the air, and a B-24 bomber was illuminated by the searchlight, followed by another bomber in the searchlight.

If it were a single bomber, it could have dodged the beam of the searchlight with a single turn. However, when the bombers flew in formation, the discipline of the Americans has always been that no aircraft in the bomber group is allowed to change their flight attitude at will. This is done to ensure a tight formation and enhance self-defense against enemy fighters, and 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 from the 88-mm high shè guns were constantly exploding in the bomber group. From the ground, you can see a continuous flash of glow in the sky, and a few seconds later, the faint sound of cannon can be heard.

However, from the bombers, these high-flying shells exploded not like this. Every time an 88-mm shell exploded, the flames of the explosion illuminated the bomber's dark cockpit. Then, the blast of the shells will hit the air, causing the huge bomber to vibrate violently. The captain must hold the steering wheel firmly and carefully maintain the course. Sometimes, the location of the explosion of the shells was very close to the bomber. Then there will be a stronger shock wave of a large number of shrapnel flying shè. Three bombers were hit by shells at such close range, and the engines burst into flames. Such flames are exceptionally bright in the night sky. Several searchlights shone at them, and the three planes were immediately illuminated.

This also allowed more 88mm high shè guns to be transferred to the siege of these 3 bombers. Before flying out of the range of the high guns, already one of the bombers, unable to continue to maintain altitude, began to descend out of formation, and the pilots began to parachute. The other two bombers were not shot down for the time being, but they did not necessarily fly back. In fact, there are some bombers, although they did not catch fire, but they also suffered a lot of damage, and most of them can only provide parts for other aircraft after flying back.

However, such losses are quite acceptable for such a large cluster of hundreds of aircraft. In fact, although the Germans' 88-mm high shè gun is very famous, in terms of fame alone, it can almost be regarded as the first high shè gun in ancient times. But its fame was gained more by fighting tanks than by fighting planes. Compared to the 90 mm or 127 mm high shè guns of the US army, which had VT shells (radio fuse high shè shells), the German 88 mm high shè guns were much less effective in air defense. If it had been the Americans' 90-mm or 127-mm guns that had just fired at the bomber group, the losses just now would definitely be more than that.

The bomber group made a big turn and again entered the bombing route.

"Let those idiots on the ground point the target more clearly this time!"

This time, however, the ground forces did not come out of the basket again, and this time they got the target right, so the bombers, full of anger at who they did not know who they were aiming for, bombed the German position into a sea of fire again.

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That night, it was not only the Americans who were busy, but also the German command. A few days earlier, in an attempted assassination attempt in Hitler's command center, Colonel Stauffenberg, an officer from the Afrika Korps, had tried to kill Hitler with a time bomb in a boiling water bottle. Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked on his front foot, an officer on his back foot who thought the thermos was in the way put the thermos behind the large oak table. As a result, Hitler was blocked by the table and was not killed.

After Hitler escaped, the people involved in this matter naturally did not have any good fruit to eat. Colonel Stauffenberg was shot, and 5,000 people in connection with the incident were executed. And at this time, Hitler also got a piece of news. On Chūn Day this year, Stauffenberg met with his old superior, Field Marshal Rommel, who wished him all the best.

So just yesterday, Field Marshal Rommel was transferred back to Berlin by Hitler's orders. And his successor has not yet arrived. So Marshal Kruger had to carry all the work of two people by himself.

Faced with a powerful offensive by the American army, Marshal Kruger fell into deep despair. The difference between the battles here and the Eastern Front is too great. The forces of Germany and the adversary were completely disproportionate. In Kruger's opinion, the Americans' daytime performance is not really good at all. The infantry squad platoon tactics of the Americans were quite passable, and their infantry squad was able to suppress the German infantry squad most of the time. But that was all based on the superiority in firepower of the M1 semi-automatic rifle. If the military is also semi-automatic, instead of bolt-action rifles like the Mauser 98K, the squad and platoon tactics of the German army are definitely stronger than the American army. The Americans' air-ground coordination was also good, but that level, Kruger felt, was about the same level as the Germans and Stukka's. As for the overall command level of the US military, the gap with the German army is even greater.

In the morning under the indiscriminate bombardment of the US troops, the German defense line had almost completely collapsed, and at most there was only a little support point that had nothing to do with the overall situation. If it had been himself in command of the American army, or even a Russian Yankee, the German army would have collapsed by now. Yes, if you change yourself, you will immediately throw tank units into it, bypass those support points and go straight to the depth of the German army. With such air superiority and superiority in personnel and equipment, the root did not need to worry about the counteroffensive of the German armored forces, because the German armored forces could only counterattack in company battalions at most, and any large-scale build-up would be destroyed by the enemy's air power. As for those small-scale armored ambushes or counter-assaults, even if they succeed, how much impact can they have? At most, they hit one or two small victories that didn't matter the bigger picture. The whole situation of the war was that the German army had completely collapsed. Yes! If the commander of the U.S. military is a guy like himself, then the thing he is hurting now is not how to block the U.S. troops, but how to break through or surrender.

However, although the Americans were inferior to the Germans in the tactical level of their squads, and although their higher command was even less than their own, however, the enemy's forces were simply too strong. He now felt like a chess grandmaster, and the one across from him was an amateur at best. But from the very beginning of the chess game, he had only a lone king and a knight, and what about the opposite? But it's a complete cheat, he actually except for the king, the remaining 15 chess pieces are all queens. What's the need for this?

He even thought that a few days ago, it would have been nice if Hitler had been blown up! Then Germany might be able to negotiate with the United States and Britain. The Americans and the British must not want to see the Russians occupy half of Europe, and they may agree to make peace with the Germans. Then the Germans will only have to stand up to the Russians. 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 the knight he had alone, retreat his wobbly left flank, and transfer some units of the 2nd and 116th Panzer Divisions to weak positions. However, doing so will also expose some flaws in some places. But what else could he do? Well, he can still do something, like leave a large minefield or something somewhere, and at most disgust the Americans.

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The next day, the American armored units were thrown into battle, and on this day, their offensive went so smoothly that it could almost be called overwhelming. It was only in the afternoon that they were countered by some of the company-battalion level of the Reich Division of the 2nd Panzer Division of the German Waffen-SS. The Sherman tank was defeated in a confrontation with the tiger and leopard. However, it did not take long for the P/A-38 and P/A-47 attack planes of the 21st Attack Aircraft Wing to recover their ground and seek justice. By the time of the fall, the U.S. military's progress had even exceeded the U.S. military's original plan. The Yankees, startled by their own progress, were busy building fortifications all night, and General Bradley, who was in charge of the operation, once again brought the officers involved together to discuss the next move.

"Ron, Li Mei, if it weren't for your system, I probably wouldn't be able to come back to see you today." At this evening's military meeting, Leslie?? James?? Lieutenant General McNall smiled at Ron and Li May, who were in attendance, and said, "Supposedly, the chances of being bombed by mistake should not be that high, but yesterday day, I was almost killed by my own bomber twice." ”

"I've heard that there is a kind of person on the battlefield called a bomb magnet, which attracts bombs in particular. Leslie, you seem to have that potential. So you'd better stay away from the bombers later. Without waiting for Ron and Lee May to answer, General Bradley came over and interjected.

"Hearing you say that, well, I really look like I'm going to have to keep my distance from the Army bombers." General Leslie didn't care about Bradley's ridicule, "But if it's a 'bomb magnet', won't there be another genus that will never blow up?" ”

Seeing that everyone had arrived, General Bradley did not continue to talk and laugh with everyone, but officially announced the beginning of the meeting......