In the early morning of June 28, 1912, from Bruges in the north of Belgium to Mons in the center to Almont in the south, the new airport established by the Luftwaffe in Belgium was a busy scene, with more than 100,000 personnel and tens of thousands of vehicles busy for thousands of warhawks ready to fly. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Air Force has been the first force to be used when the campaign unfolds since the moment he was born, and they even rushed forward with heavy artillery and armored troops!

At the KG-05 airfield in Almont, the most elite KG-1 bomber group of the Bavarian Air Force is concentrated, with three squadrons and 65 bombers being refurbished on three tarmacs. Behind each helipad there is a semi-buried concrete bunker, from which from time to time carts loaded with bombs and oil drums enter and exit, and when each cart is outside, a special tractor is responsible for pulling it down the tarmac.

"I repeat the task of our squadron, we need to attack two train gun positions No. 4 and No. 6 in the Compiègne Forest, with 12 bombers assigned to each position, of which the first and second squads are responsible for attacking the artillery itself, and the remaining two squads are responsible for attacking the surrounding ammunition storage and personnel stations. Before bombing, all planes must fly in formation, even if the opponent hits you in a plane, never scatter, and other friendly planes can guarantee to take him down before they hit you! ”

"After the battle, the planes do not need to be reorganized into squadrons, they can return directly to the battlefield in small squadrons, all your planes are equipped with receivers, pay attention to receiving signals from ground radio stations, and determine your position through maps and ground coordinates, if you can't land because of waiting in line when you return to the airport, then you can go to other alternate airports."

Squadron Leader Raul once again repeated the mission and operational details. These have been learned from previous exercises, such as bomber huddles, which help improve survival rates. Having an experienced pilot guide the bombing first can improve the hit rate or something. Some have already been tested on the battlefield, while others are waiting to be tested .......

And just when the bomber unit was busy, the two fighter squadrons next door were ready to take off, and this time considering the long-term operation, all the Sparrowhawk fighters were attached with auxiliary fuel tanks, a mailbox that could hold 80kg of fuel, you read that right, 80kg! This weight alone makes the sparrowhawks a little overwhelmed!

When the sun jumped out of the horizon, countless black dots appeared in the sight of the French, and the first large-scale air battle of more than 1,000 planes in World War I finally began! The first target of the 700 bombers involved in the first round of bombing was the various artillery positions behind the positions of the Allied legions, and those railway guns and long-range guns of different lengths and calibers, but with surprisingly long ranges, would be the targets of the first round of elimination!

The bombers of this era generally did not carry much bombs, and Britain and France had a really solid foundation, so even if the size of the air force was much larger than that of the Eastern Front, the impact on the war situation was not as good as that of the Eastern Front. A large number of forward positions and artillery positions were not included in the strike sequence at all, not that they were not important, but because of the limited output, they were not ranked! But even so, after this round of strikes, the long-range artillery of the Entente still suffered large losses!

"Brothers, it's time to go to work today!" Captain Harris beckoned his men to get ready to get started, and he and his artillery company were in charge of operating a 12-inch L40 train gun called the Cape of Good Hope, this gun was said to have been removed from a former dreadnought, this gun had fired more than 300 shells in previous battles, if nothing else, it was time to replace the barrel, the new barrel had been shipped, and today, their task was to change the barrel.

All kinds of hoisting machinery were already in place, scaffolding was erected, and the first round of air raids by the Germans came when the previously high gun ports were leveled!

"I saw it, wow, this guy is so big!" Keitel, the leader of the team, looked at the huge train cannon printed in his eyes and let out a heartfelt admiration, although it was a hostile relationship, but I had to admit that this supreme product of human technology was still surprising.

A huge train gun was in the middle of the circular rails, the gun was carried by two 7-axle trailers, in addition to the gun itself, there was a large lifting equipment and small rails for transporting shells, and a shell weighing 386 kg was neatly placed on the trolley, lined up on the sides of the gun. But today, these powerful shells are afraid that they will not be able to be fired.

From the air, a group of people are like busy worker ants operating a huge crane to replace the front half of the artillery. The old barrels, which were several meters long, had been removed, and just as the new barrels were ready to be hoisted into place, the first round of bombs had already been dropped on the heads of the opposing side.

The three bombers went for a covering bombing, flying at low altitude in as tight formation as possible, and then six bombs fell in an inverted triangle. As the plane began to break away from the bombing course, a series of explosions were heard behind it. Two of the 250kg bombs successfully landed on the huge train gun, and one high-explosive bomb blew up the seven-axle trailer carried in the front of the gun! Another bomb destroyed the huge crane, and the tall crane boom swept across the entire working face like a big stick, and dozens of people were broken to the bones.

The remaining three squads then rushed to the ammunition depot, the train, and the barracks. The bombs that rained down exploded the entire target area into a sea of flames, and one of the incendiary bombs spilled over a pile of cartridges. Subsequently, the shock wave and flames generated by the detonation of a large number of ammunition not only swept the entire artillery position, but even affected the adjacent forest area, and the rows of trees were toppled down like dominoes, and from the air, the entire position became a charred black earth, which could be clearly seen even from a long distance. "Our mission seems to be accomplished." The captain in charge of the team leader said.

The same attacks also took place on other battlefields, in just one morning, more than 40 heavy artillery positions and railway stations and other transportation hubs in the entire Entente country were attacked, and from the German reconnaissance airships, columns of smoke and patches of fire would rise from time to time on the extended front, which were the targets of the first wave of German bomber attacks, perhaps the absolute damage was not large, but it had a profound impact on future battles.

The guns that were attacked may not be much in terms of numbers, but it is important to know that the guns that were attacked were all train guns and heavy howitzers or long-range cannon positions, and these guns were not the same as the 75 rapid-fire guns of the Rotten Street. The ratio to the latter is as high as a dozen to one, and it can be said that these artillery pieces supported the pillars of the Entente's front-line long-range suppression firepower.

However, in the middle of the morning, this pillar was weakened or suppressed, and perhaps they were not destroyed, or that repairs could have been improvised, but alas, they were obviously not likely to be used to defend against the first wave of the German Army's imminent attack.

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