013-11-30

This air raid came so suddenly, in the past, the US air raid would always be launched more than two hours after the last air raid, that is, when the German repair work was almost completed. This time, less than twenty minutes after the air raid ended, the second air raid came immediately. This immediately caused the Germans on the bridge to be in a mess. All of them left what they had and ran towards both ends of the bridge.

This time, the planes of the Americans came especially quickly. When the air raid sounded, Funan had just boarded the bridgehead, and before he could run to the bomb shelter when he threw down the angle steel and ran to the bomb shelter, a group of P/A-38 attack planes appeared in his field of vision.

"How did the Americans come so quickly?" The thought crossed Fonan's mind, but he didn't have time to think about it now, as a P/A-38 attack plane was flying towards him.

"It's going to fire at me!" Vernan jumped to the side, and then rolled down a slope by the river!

It's actually very simple to talk about why the Americans came so quickly, so that as soon as the air defense jǐng newspaper sounded, these attack planes hit the bridgehead. Prior to this, American planes flew at an altitude of about 4000 meters. Anyway, the targets that you have to hit are those that can't run, and it's relatively safe to fly at this height. Of course, this would also allow the Germans to detect them earlier, which would give the Germans a longer time to prepare.

However, the goal of the P/A-38 attack aircraft group sent this time was to kill and injure the Germans who were building the bridge, so after approaching the position of the bridge, the attack aircraft group lowered the altitude to about 30 meters in one go. At such altitudes, the Germans were able to significantly reduce the distance at which these attack aircraft could be detected by the Germans by taking advantage of the cover of undulating terrain. So, this time, when the lookout post spotted the attack planes flying almost from the treetops and sent out a jǐng report, the time left for the Germans to evacuate was very short. So when Malone rushed over with this group of planes, the bridge was still full of Germans.

In the battle the day before yesterday, Malone's fighter plane was badly damaged, and his backseat machine gunner was shot and unconscious. It took a lot of effort for Malone to land the plane at the airport. However, the Heavy eventually died of his injuries. This incident filled Malone with a sense of humiliation, and this feeling made him even more eager to fight now.

When his plane made a leap and appeared near the target bridge, he saw a German standing in front of the plane, and he didn't even need to adjust his aiming, he only needed to fire directly, and he could beat him to pieces. However, the German's reaction was not bad, and he quickly jumped to the side and rolled down the slope, but the slope was so steep that the guy couldn't stop at all, and rolled straight into the river.

"It's just one person, just run away." Malone had no intention of continuing to chase him, because there were more targets on the bridge ahead.

Malone's P/A-38 attack aircraft did not carry aerial bombs, but was filled with rockets under the wings and belly. This weapon is more effective at striking exposed living targets. Malone aimed the nose of the plane at the bridge deck and pressed the button to fire the shè rocket. Suddenly, one after another fire snakes emerged from under the belly and wings of Marlon's P/A-38 and pounced on the Germans on the bridge, and in the blink of an eye, the German soldiers were engulfed in the flames and smoke of the rocket explosion.

The P/A-38s that followed Ma Long were naturally not polite, and they also fired wildly with rockets and aerial guns at their respective targets.

The Americans' attacks came and went as fast as they could, and in just a few minutes, Malone and the other pilots had all the rockets, and they drove the plane, circled around the bridge again, and to see that they couldn't seem to find any better target, so they pulled up the plane, climbed up, and began to return home. At this time, the low-hanging remnant sun was also reflecting the river water under the bridge in a blood-red color.

Just as the Americans' fleet was leaving, Vernan also struggled to climb up from the river. His water was not good, he fell into the river just now, and choked on saliva, plus the previous work consumed a lot of physical strength, and he almost drowned in the river. It was only after he had almost exhausted his strength that he came ashore, and he first lay on the shore to catch his breath and regain a little strength, and then stumbled up the slope.

As he walked, Vernan suddenly felt a sinking under his feet, as if he had stepped on something. At this time, Funan's mind was much clearer than before, and he immediately stopped, looked down, and this sight almost frightened him to death—his right foot was stepping on a pressure mine! Just now, when his mind was not very clear, he accidentally walked into the minefield. He knew that as long as he stepped on this kind of pressure mine, it would explode as soon as he lifted his foot. So Funan could only stand there motionless, and then shouted in a terrified voice, "Is there anyone?" Come and help me! I'm stepping on a mine! ”

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The night sè has covered the land, but the night has not quieted everything, at least, on the road, the night is more lively than the day. Countless people and vehicles are flocking along the highway towards Mar del Plata. Everyone knows that if you get there, you can escape.

The sound of propellers was heard again in the sky, it was the night bombers of the British. As before, these bombers will constantly drop flares on the main road in search of targets and bombing. So whenever an enemy bomber was spotted, the German convoy would drive down the road and stop to hide. And this also slowed down the retreat.

As before, the Allies would constantly drop time bombs on the road to disrupt the German march. It's just that the current German army also has the means of confrontation, they will directly attach a small bomb with a magnetic xìng to the time bomb, and then detonate those time bombs through it.

However, the Allies also made technical advances in night attacks. An aircraft developed specifically for night attacks on marching troops came in handy. This kind of aircraft is called a night search plane, and in fact it is nothing more than a temporary modification of a glider by the Americans. The Americans put engines, radios, and listeners on some gliders. Like gliders, these planes are towed and taken off by bombers, and then they can maintain a long flight with a low-power and low-noise engine, because they have a very good gliding ability, even if the engine is turned off, they can fly a long distance, and at this time, they are absolutely silent in the sky, and the Germans on the ground naturally cannot find its arrival by the sound of the engine. On the contrary, there are so many troops on the ground, especially the noise of armored vehicles in action, that pilots can hear clearly without the help of a listening device. As soon as they find a target, they will radio other bombers to strike at the target.

The use of such aircraft made it more and more difficult for the Germans to march at night, and many times, although the troops immediately took cover after hearing the sound of enemy bombers, the bombs still fell relatively accurately. Of course, the degree and effect of the Allied aircraft attack could not be compared to that of daytime. But such an attack still made the Germans move much slower than expected.

Such a pace of retreat also made Marshal Kruger anxious. At this rate, I am afraid that the vast majority of the troops will not be able to escape the situation of being surrounded and annihilated. During the day, the US military's repeated bombing of those key bridges has made these bridges still not have the ability to restore the passage of tanks, especially heavy tanks, although the engineers are rushing to repair them overnight, but these bridges will not be able to reluctantly open to traffic until at least the second half of the night, as for such a big thing as the Tiger tank, even if the US military does not destroy the bridges tomorrow, I am afraid that these bridges will not be able to pass through these bridges before the day after tomorrow.

In this case, Kruger simply sent the remaining tigers and leopards to the two flanks to support the troops who were struggling to withstand the attack of the American and British troops, so as to buy more time for the other troops to retreat.

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Throughout the first half of the night, Allied bombers were constantly causing trouble for the Germans. According to the Americans' estimates, the Germans should have had a pitiful number of people who escaped during the night. In this way, the Germans would have lost at least a few hundred thousand people in the encirclement. General Bradley felt like he had the win.

"Tomorrow, at most by noon tomorrow, our troops will be able to close the last exit and surround these hundreds of thousands of Germans. As a result, the entire defensive line of the Germans completely collapsed, and the Germans would definitely not be able to use so many troops to make up for the losses in a short time. Their entire line of defense would be untenable as a result. The doors to Berlin are open! General Bradley thought with a smile in the corner of his eye.

At this time, a staff officer pushed open the door and hurriedly walked in. He saluted General Bradley and handed him a document. General Bradley opened the file and looked at it, the smile on his lips disappeared, and his face became heavy.

"Notify the commander of the ground forces at or above the rank of corps, the commander of the wing commander of the aviation team at or above the level of the commander, and convene an emergency meeting!" General Bradley put the papers on the table and said to the staff officer who was still waiting next to him.

"Yes, General!" The staff officer saluted again, and then left Bradley's office.

"What a hell! At such an urgent juncture, there can be such a hellish thing! When the staff officer left the room, Bradley, who couldn't hold back any longer, slammed the pencil in his hand on the ground and scolded!