"Since the Americans and the British are so reluctant to take risks, perhaps we can take advantage of it. Let's think, my friend, what can we do to bluff and scare the Yankees? Marshal Moder said to his chief of staff.

"Marshal, this is difficult, we do not have troops in our hands that can be used to launch even a feint." The chief of staff replied.

"Yes, all of our soldiers are in the encirclement. Kruger was so weak that he actually followed the order to launch such a counterattack. This kind of thing, just arrange a division, no, just don't even go to the meaning. He's not even afraid to kill himself, so why should he listen to a layman, it's really bad. Moder actually wanted to scold his ex, but, considering that Kruger was dead, it seemed that it would be a bit bad to scold him again, so he quickly stopped after complaining.

"But you're wrong, we still have the power to use for feints, and that's our secret weapon. Of course, Goebbels still needs to cooperate in this matter.

Let's take a look at Kruger's retreat plan. Well, the steps are clear and well organized. It's a typical Kruger-esque plan. It can even be said that it is full of a kind of mathematical beauty. However, he still likes order too much, and he always wants to bring out the troops in formation. Well, although most of the time, order is more efficient than chaos. However, there are special times when chaos can be more efficient. You say, don't you? Modell looked at his chief of staff.

"I'm not sure about that, Your Excellency Marshal." The chief of staff replied politely.

"Ah, my friend, I know, actually you're trying to say 'I think you're,' right?" Seeing that the chief of staff seemed to want to justify, Moder shook his head and said, "Don't justify, I know that you and Kruger, and I, like all Germans, have a preference for order. But think about the most successful retreats over the years. ”

"The most successful retreat?" The chief of staff began to think back.

"Don't just think about the Eastern Front, this is the Western Front, and a few years ago our enemy had a great chaotic and efficient retreat." Moder said.

"You mean Dunkirk?"

"Well, in fact, that retreat of the British was quite successful, wasn't it? It's confusing though. ”

On May 21, 1940, the Germans approached the English Channel and besieged nearly 400,000 Anglo-French troops in a narrow strip of northern France, leaving only Dunkirk, a small port with only 10,000 inhabitants, as a sea retreat. The capacity of this small port was so limited that even the British themselves thought they could only evacuate 30,000 men. The Germans, on the other hand, believed that the destruction of the British and French armies was a foregone conclusion. But the spontaneous actions of the British people saved the troops. Countless Britons spontaneously stood up, from the boy scouts who were still in elementary and middle school to the gray-haired old sailors who had long since retired, and drove any ship they could find, from all kinds of steamships, to sports races, even small boats in the park, and even a large bathtub, and took the risk of crossing the Channel, braving the wind and waves and the German bombardment, and miraculously withdrew 338,000 people in one fell swoop.

Modell stood up and walked to the map, he looked at it seriously, and then he began to give orders:

"Command...... These troops must hold out until tomorrow afternoon. Then they can surrender to the enemy forces. Order the rest of the troops, allow to ditch anything that might slow down the march, including weapons, and collect anything that will help increase the speed of the march in favor of increasing the speed of the march. Regardless of the structure, they approached the gap at maximum speed, and ordered them to collect anything along the way that could be used to cross the river, so that they could swim across the river if they could not use the bridge. The order was to disperse the ranks during the march, and the troops on foot were not to take the road during the day, and the order ......" Moder gave a long list of orders in one breath.

……

"Carol, look below!" Two P/A-47 attack planes were flying in the encirclement, and the pilot, Captain Lucas, suddenly shouted.

Wingman Pilot Carol rolled the plane at an angle, craned his neck and looked down, below which a large field could be seen, and countless people could be seen moving like ants.

"Follow me, attack!" The command of the long machine came from his ears again. Carroll saw a 180-degree roll of the long plane and then the lever dived down, and he quickly followed suit.

As the plane swooped in, the crowd below immediately dispersed in both directions, like waves ploughed up by the bow of a ship. From above, the field was full of people, but after really diving to a low altitude, Lucas found that the density of the enemy ranks was quite low. The distance between them was quite large, which allowed them to occupy a very large area, which looked spectacular from higher up, but also made Lucas and Carol, who swooped down, realize that even with rockets, they could only form an effective strike against one target at a time. If you want to knock down a row of people with a shuttle, don't even think about it.

For the first time, Lux felt that the firepower configuration of the original P-47 was more effective. Yes, there are no hard targets such as tanks and armored vehicles that require 37 guns, and it feels a bit too powerful to fight these skirmishers with 20 guns. And the shells of the 20 guns were much smaller than the 37 guns. In this way, if it were still 6 20-mm guns like before, at least they would carry much more shells. What the? Rocket? If the enemy is concentrated enough, this thing is really not good, but now that the enemy is so scattered, considering the jīng degree of the rocket, a rocket may not be accurate to hit an enemy.

But since it swooped down, it was definitely going to attack. Lucas took a casual look and spotted an ox cart. Yes, it's an ox cart, pulled by a flower ox. A German guy was running along a path as hard as he could.

Lucas aimed at the ox cart and hit a long point shè with a 20mm cannon. Well, the ox cart immediately collapsed on the ground. Lucas pulled up the plane and shook his head boringly, one attack, actually hit an ox cart, killing a cow, as for the German, just before he opened fire, this guy suddenly jumped out of the car, he really didn't necessarily hit him.

Lucas understood that it would be difficult to interfere with so many Germans below with such two planes on his own. So he started calling to headquarters, calling for more planes to hit these targets.

However, to Lucas's surprise, almost all the planes from the headquarters were dispatched.

……

"Another group of German troops who did not march from the main road was found." A staff officer said to Ron.

"How many of these enemies have you found today?" Ron asked.

"It's too much, too many to count." Boeington replied next to him. Today he went out and flew five take-offs and landings and has just come back.

"Hell," Boington dropped his hat on the table, "I've flown five takeoffs and landings today, but the targets I killed aren't even as good as the one I took off and landed yesterday." Seriously, it is more convenient to deal with such a target, or a heavy bomber...... Ron, when will the bombers on their side be on their side? ”

"Don't think about it just yet." Ron said, "I was in touch with him just now, but you know, the heavy bomber force is very slow to react. Moreover, they have other tasks and cannot get out of it. ”

"What's the matter?" Boeing came interested.

"The Germans fired more than a thousand V1 missiles at London in one go, and in addition to an even more powerful and uninterceptable missile, the Germans called it the V2 on the radio. At noon today, one of these objects hit a double-decker bus on a London street, killing hundreds of people, and another hit a home just a block from 10 Downing Street, killing nearly 100 people. What's worse is that the arrival of this thing is unpredetermined. So, at the request of the British, most of the heavy bombers were now sent to attack the firing sites of those possible V1 and V2 missiles. They don't have time to worry about this for the time being. Ron explained.

"Hell, the Germans are clearly calculating. But why should they fall for this? "Hundreds of people were killed, and in the early years, they could withstand even a larger bombing, so why can't they withstand it now?" ”

Ron smiled, he knew that Boeington's words were definitely a statement that the butt decides the head. True, the influence of V1 and V2 militarily was rather limited. But what if Hitler loaded them with chemical weapons warheads? The Germans were very researched in chemical weapons, and they also stored large quantities of sarin gas. If it is used on a large scale, the harm caused is not ordinary.

Of course, the Germans will not do this as long as they have a little brain, as far as they throw poison gas bombs, although the Germans already had xìng can be better sarin gas at that time, but the production capacity and delivery capacity of the Allies have an overwhelming advantage over the Germans, even if the Germans use advanced sarin, or even a stronger Soman that has not yet been developed, and the Allies can only use old-fashioned mustard gas and Lewis gas, and it is definitely the Germans who suffer. Under normal circumstances, if Germany still wanted people to be able to speak German after the war, they would never dare to use chemical weapons.

However, there is always no shortage of madmen in the world, and Germany is especially not lacking now. For example, Goebbels threatened to use chemical weapons more than once. Hitler was even more of a madman. And he's a madman who has no one to pull him in. If he went mad all at once, and there was no one in Germany to stop him, who would be able to guarantee that he would not put sarin in the V2 warhead and send him to London. With victory in the war already decided, there is no need to take such a risk. So, Ron felt that the reaction of the British was actually quite reasonable. But in this way, I am afraid that more Germans will escape from the encirclement.