The document that made General Bradley so angry was actually a weather forecast. In this forecast, the meteorological experts of the allied countries informed General Bradley: From the second half of the night today until noon tomorrow, there will be heavy fog in France, and visibility is expected, well, it is not expected to exceed 100 meters. Such climatic conditions mean that from the second half of the night to this time, all air power will be useless. And not only will air power be useless, but even ground power will be affected. To attack with visibility of less than 100 meters is to fight a confused battle, and it is difficult for the soldiers to judge whether the target on the opposite side is German or American. If you don't get it right, maybe everyone crackles for most of the day, and when the fog clears, they find that the two sides of the battle are the U.S. Army and the Zìyou Law ** team. Maybe the Germans are willing to fight such a confused battle, anyway, they have no chance of winning, and the more chaotic the battlefield, the better it will be for them. But for Americans who have already won, it seems a bit uneconomical to risk being overturned in order to win more.

In fact, throughout World War II, the ground forces of the U.S. Army gave people the impression that they would only overwhelm people with force and not understand all tactics. The whole process of the operation is that the aircraft is bombed by artillery, the artillery is bombarded by tanks, the tanks are bombed by planes, and the planes are bombarded by artillery...... Forever all the way to the push, forever "believe it or not, a phone call can call 1,000 bombers". The battle was fought without skill and beauty. And what about the generals of the United States? It seems that there is nothing to turn the tide and change the entire battle situation at once. With the exception of Barton, the others seemed to be cowards who would never take a risk. They fight their own battles and stick to the rules, and they don't even allow others to play too out of line. So much so that later, when Patton ran faster with his Third Army, the U.S. Army actually had the same goal as the German Army: to stop that bastard!

In fact, there is really nothing wrong with the US military playing like this, it is like playing chess, in a situation where it is already a big advantage, the choice of any chess player will be to simplify the situation as soon as possible, and any means that may lead to complicating the situation should be avoided as much as possible. Therefore, the U.S. Army simply simplified the combat method to a line of horizontal pushing, anyway, the Germans absolutely had no way at all with this trick? None of them.

Now God has jumped out and artificially, oh no, God has created a complex change, what to do?

After urgent consultations, in the end, the Americans' solution was to simplify the situation and tentatively set up activities, first, in the face of God, no one could do anything, and second, even if the Germans could escape a little, the Americans would still win the battle. If you play something too risky and turn a win into a loser, it will be a big loss.

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Before dark, Ron sent the P/A-38, AC-47 and B-25 bombers, which had a relatively long range, to the airport in Prussia, where there was no fog, so that the planes could take off early without being affected by the fog the next day, and strike at the Germans as soon as the fog had cleared. As for those P/A-47 attack aircraft, because they did not have a long enough range, they continued to leave the Caen airfield. This also means that tomorrow they will have to wait until the fog clears before they can take off and attack.

It turned out that the level of meteorological experts on the side of the Allies was really good, and by about two o'clock in the second half of the night, the night fog really appeared. The fog is getting thicker and thicker, and combined with the influence of the night, it is almost impossible to see anything from ten meters away on Caen airport. If the Germans had sent a commando at this time, it would probably have thrown the airport into a mess.

All planes have been grounded. After a tiring day, the pilots got a rare rest. However, the security forces at the airport are going to suffer. After all, no one knows if the Germans will really send a commando team over.

In fact, when the fog appeared, Marshal Kruger really had such thoughts. But after thinking about it, I gave up, and if I dropped the commandos, the German airfields were also foggy, and the planes couldn't take off, and even if they flew, they couldn't find the Allied airfields covered by the fog. If you penetrate from the ground, let's not talk about the distance, can you guarantee that you won't get lost in such a fog?

However, this fog really helped Marshal Kruger, and now the retreat is much smoother. There were no more annoying night bombers in the air, although the lack of visibility also affected the Germans' night drive - there had been several vicious accidents on the way back, with tanks flattening their own infantry, and tanks accidentally breaking through guardrails and falling into the river while crossing the bridge. But in any case, compared to being bombed by the Allies all the way, such losses were almost negligible.

"Thank God!" Kruger said sincerely.

The thick fog did not begin to dissipate until half past nine the next morning. Reconnaissance planes taking off from British airfields reported that large German forces were rapidly retreating, and that tens of thousands of troops might have escaped the encirclement that had not yet had time to close. Almost at the same time as the reconnaissance planes sent back their reports, thousands of bombers were already flying over the strait.

Camacho was a machine gunner in a B-21 light bomber under the 25th Attack Aircraft Wing. Now, his bomber is on the same path as the other B-25 bombers are heading for their intended target, a key road. The bomb bay of the B-25 was full of cluster bombs designed to kill and injure light infantry.

These cluster bombs are a by-product of the bat bombs used in the air raids, each of which can throw more than 200 small bomblets at a large target area in one go, and each bomblet will explode more than 10 meters above the ground under the control of a timed fuse, and throw more than 200 steel balls around. With a radius of up to 30 meters, these balls could not be more convenient against unprotected light infantry.

Originally, when the Viper developed this weapon, it was intended to use radio VT fuses on the bomblets to ensure that the bomblets could explode at a suitable height. But the army, and especially the Army Air Corps, was very concerned that bombs with such fuses, if they did not detonate, could allow the Germans to obtain such a fuse and use it for air defense. Therefore, the use of such high-tech gadgets in bombs is strictly forbidden. As a result, the big viper had no choice but to use the timing fuse on the bomblet.

The fog gradually lifted, revealing the road. Camacho saw that the gray road was full of all kinds of vehicles and soldiers.

The Germans knew that if they continued to march on the road after the fog had lifted, they would definitely be bombed badly by Allied bombers, but the Allied ground forces on the northern and southern flanks were getting closer and closer, and the distance between them was already less than 10 kilometers. The Germans dragged all the remnants of the Tiger tanks, Leopard tanks and the like to the flanks, but they could not hold out for long under the Allied offensive. Perhaps by tonight, the Allies will be able to finally close this last escape route. Time is of the essence in the present. Therefore, the Germans can only retreat under the bombardment now.

"Prepare to attack!" The captain of the team gave the order.

So the group of B-25 bombers immediately formed a formation and formed a straight column, and pounced on the Germans who were fleeing on the road. When the German soldiers saw the bombers rushing at them, some of them hurriedly jumped into the drainage ditch on the side of the road, and some ran down the road, and then found a random place, or simply lay down on the spot.

Under normal circumstances, lying on the spot can greatly reduce the probability of being hit by shrapnel, because most of the shrapnel flies diagonally upward. However, when faced with an air-burst bomb, lying down will increase the probability of being shot. Because the steel balls from these empty bombs are mainly thrown downward and diagonally downward.

B-25 bombers dropped bombs along the road. When the bombs landed at an altitude of about 400 meters above the ground, they exploded with a "bang", throwing more than 200 small bombs onto the road. Each of these bombs can cover the area of several football fields, but in terms of the area of destruction of exposed targets, such bombs have even exceeded the area of fuel air bombs. It is precisely because this weapon is so brutal that in Ron's original time and space, many international organizations keep proposing to ban this weapon around the world, just like banning chemical weapons. However, this kind of motion has always been vetoed again and again by the five hooligans who uphold justice on behalf of the United Nations. Among them, the lighthouse, which is full of human rights, has the most vetoes. Don't talk about chemical weapons, this thing is really different from chemical weapons, chemical weapons are used by the poor and the rich and handsome hooligans, of course they should be banned; And the cluster bomb thing, since ancient times, has been used by rich and handsome hooligans to bully the poor, oh, no, it is a weapon used to maintain world peace and uphold justice for the poor people, how can it be banned?

The bomblets that were blown up were already activated by the timing fuse when they were dropped. So after a certain amount of time, when most of the small bombs fell to a height of more than ten meters above the ground, these small bombs exploded together, sending countless small steel balls to the ground.

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The B-25 bomber had already flown far before Senior Privates Cisfeld and Malaga got out from under a truck. When the B-25 bombers came just now, as truck drivers, they had to stop the car before they could run. This extra action naturally delayed their time to flee far away, and in desperation, they had to get under their own car.

No sooner had they gotten under the car than they heard a series of explosions in the air, followed by a crackling sound, like the sound of countless machine guns falling on the ground as they swept towards the ground at the same time. They also saw from under the car that something was raining down on the road, stirring up the old high smoke. Then there was a scream from outside.

After a long time, until the planes could no longer be heard, Sisfeld and Malaga got out from under the car. Sisfeld looked around and saw many of his comrades lying motionless on the ground. When I got closer, I saw that they all had several blood holes on their backs. In the distance, a few soldiers were moaning. They hurried over.

One of the soldiers was wounded only by shrapnel in the leg, while the others were much more seriously wounded. It is estimated that it is impossible to get out of the encirclement. Heathfield and Malaga bandaged them casually, and then helped the wounded leg to their car.

Sisfeld and Malaga hadn't looked at his Opel truck carefully, but now they were holding the wounded man and walking to the cab, where they noticed that the hood of their car was full of holes, and when they lifted the hood, Sisfeldri saw that all kinds of wiring inside were smashed, and on the piston cover of the engine, he also found a few steel balls embedded in it.

Obviously, the car is no longer ready to drive. Sisfeld and Malaga had no choice but to carry the wounded man on foot for a while. However, the speed of this walk is too slow, and not far away, the artillery sound of the US ground forces can already be clearly heard. All three understood that at this rate, they would not be able to get out of the encirclement anyway.

"Let's go first!" The wounded man said, "I can't go." Go on your own, or you won't be able to cross the bridge. Let me sit on the side of the road, and maybe I can catch a ride. ”

Both Heathfield and Malaga knew that what the wounded man said was true, and that now was not the time for his mother-in-law. So they thought about it, helped the wounded man to the side of the road and sat down, and asked; "Do you have anything to say to anyone?"

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Compared with the B-25's sweep, the AC-47's efficiency is much lower. They don't have a mad killing weapon like cluster bombs, but they do have their own advantage, which is that they are more powerful at armored targets. The 6-barreled 25mm Gatling gun on them can handle most armored vehicles, and even if you sometimes encounter something that a 25mm gun can't chew, that's okay, we still have a 40mm gun.

Coupled with the advantages of the AC-47's large ammunition and long duration of fire, this thing is really good for blocking roads and bridges. Now two AC-47s are going around the bridgehead of one of the bridges. With the raining fire of the 25mm Gatling, the Germans couldn't even lift their heads, let alone the bridge.

"What should I do?" Major Pat and his team hid in a wooded area by the bridge. Just now, these two guys, who looked like transport planes, attacked his convoy and destroyed all of their vehicles. Hundreds of soldiers were killed, and the rest of the men who were more alive fled into the woods to find the nearby bridge blocked by two AC-47 attack planes.

Major Pat couldn't come up with any workable solution.

"Are you going to a prisoner of war camp?" "If only that fog could last another two hours," he thought. Fog...... Fog...... There is no natural fog, and it would be nice if we could artificially create it. ”

He immediately turned around and said to the soldiers who were following him: "I have a way, we can use smoke bombs to interfere with their view and rush across the bridge." I needed a couple of volunteers to go back to the road with me, and in one of our overturned trucks there were a couple of mortars and boxes of smoke grenades. Who wants to go with me? ”

"Me!" An emphasis stood out.

"Well done!" Pat patted the sergeant on the shoulder as a sign of encouragement, then asked, "Anything else?" ”

"Me!"

"And me!"

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"Captain, look, there seem to be two people over there." On the AC-47, said the gunner Gru.

"It's so boring to fly over for two people. Besides, the Germans may be trying to turn the tiger away? We're going to get there, and the firepower of the remaining AC-47 alone may not be able to stop all the Germans hiding in the woods. Besides, anyway, the ground forces are about to complete the encirclement, and with Our Lady on top, we have killed enough people today. Why do you have to kill them again? Let them be prisoners of war. The captain replied that he didn't know if it was because there were so many Germans killed today, that this guy who had killed countless people actually began to become a virgin.

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