At 17:30, an hour after the German attack group had retreated, the group of planes that had arrived from Prince Edward Island for reinforcements hurried over Newfoundland. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Since he couldn't find the enemy plane, he could only pounce and prepare to land, but he was beaten by the anti-aircraft fire below, and the nervous Canadian and American anti-aircraft gunners took them as German planes that came to attack again, and everyone was so angry that everyone was angry, fortunately, the accuracy of these shells was not very good, and they didn't shoot down a plane, otherwise the joke was really big, but Tony's face was very heavy, he was not annoyed by the mistake, but from this incident, it can be seen that the air defense here is not strong, or rather, The density of fire was sufficient, but the level of training of the anti-aircraft gunners was not good.

Due to the vast area of St. John's and the large number of airfields, although the Germans destroyed most of them, at least a few sections of the runway were able to provide a safe landing after simple emergency repairs, and under the light of fire and lights, Tony's group managed to land safely, and lost four planes, but fortunately, the pilots were lucky enough to escape all of them. But less than 40 minutes after they landed, Washington's new instructions came: let them move to Conabrook as soon as possible, along with the remaining planes on the airport, so angry that Tony kicked half of the wing fragments next to the runway away, and scolded Washington for being pigs.

Is Washington all pig brains? The problem depends on what angle you have to look at.

Lieutenant Admiral Ingram proposed the transfer of the army planes overnight, and he believed that although there was no conclusive information, it could be inferred from the report sent back by the downed reconnaissance plane today that the German battleship force was also in the vicinity of the aircraft carrier formation, and that the enemy might have withdrawn overnight, but it was possible to take advantage of the darkness of night to advance quickly and shell St. John's before dawn and completely destroy the supplies and ships assembled there. Both are probably possible, but Ingram insists that the Germans are likely to do so, otherwise they would have left Cape Verde unwanted to bomb Newfoundland once purely to keep it fed.

At first, everyone believed that the German fleet had been spotted by Bermuda reconnaissance planes and then turned to Newfoundland to touch it, and then sneaked away through the night, Ingram's inference provided another way of thinking, that is, the initial target of the German fleet was Newfoundland, and Bermuda was just a means for them to attack the west, in other words, the Germans did not withdraw so quickly.

Although Admiral King insisted that it would be better for the Germans not to withdraw, so that Admiral Cunningham would have more time to intercept the attack, most people frowned: everyone knows the situation in Newfoundland, and only cruiser-class escort warships have been killed, all of which are not the opponent of a Tirpitz, not to mention that the Germans have 5 battleships of this class, and with the broken body of the current Atlantic Fleet battleship force, if they are against the German battleship force, they can only escape far away, not to mention those escort warships.

"And the Germans might still land?" Eisenhower asked with a frown.

"Landing is better! There were 2 Canadian divisions on it, and the Germans couldn't eat and walked around. Arnold said viciously, "I'll send out the army to blow up these bastards early tomorrow morning." ”

In the end, the meeting reached a unanimous decision: the Canadian division was prepared to guard against the landing of German troops, all the planes temporarily went to Cornabrook to avoid the limelight, and then attacked again tomorrow morning, and strictly ordered the ships in the port to evacuate as soon as possible, wherever they went, in short, they could not be stupid to stay in the port and die.

Marshall added an explanation to the staff officers and told the 101st Airborne Division to prepare for the unfavorable situation in Newfoundland and to send Ridgway over again -- there was silence in the conference room.

At 18:27, the German aircraft carrier formation recovered all the planes, and all the returning pilots were excited, describing the results of today's sortie to the ground crew, full of optimism and high spirits. However, in the eyes of Martial and other high-level officials, the situation is not as optimistic as the pilots thought, and the number of planes, supplies, and ships on Newfoundland has greatly exceeded expectations. It is safest and safest for the fleet to retreat now, but the Führer has devoted great efforts to the Battle of Newfoundland, even at the expense of Cape Verde, can he easily fight and leave? If you don't sink or take away these more than 300 ships, you can still call the German Navy a professional break for 30 years? Mashal probably didn't have a face to see when he went back.

"Where is Vice Admiral Bey's shelling fleet?"

"The fleet is currently moving at a speed of 27 knots, almost 300 kilometers from the port, and the estimated arrival time remains unchanged......"

"The enemy's next step is to evacuate these freighters, and we can't simply sink them or let them go." Cranke frowned and said, "I intend to send 40-50 planes to form a night attack team, and cooperate with submarines to attack the freighters that escaped overnight, if we only attack those big guys who escaped, the rest of the ships should not dare to move, and more than 300 ships are not so quick and easy to transfer." ”

Ozawa nodded in agreement, and what made him even more satisfied was that Berlin agreed to the cross-platform combat strategy, which means that the planes lost in today's air raids (some were shot down by the US army, and some were lost in anti-aircraft guns) can be quickly replenished, 19 planes are trivial, each of these pilots has been trained after a lot of hard work, all of them are treasures, and the losses will be greater tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and he does not dare to take it lightly. Fortunately, the fleet still has a surplus crew of nearly 140 people, and the ground crew has used reserve aircraft to make up for the shortfall lost in the afternoon, and he breathes a sigh of relief.

After discussion, it was decided that 32 fighters and 36 HE-218s should be dispatched to cooperate with the submarines at night, focusing on the cargo ships that wanted to escape...... I'm sure there are so many people on those ships! ”

At 18:36, Cunningham, who led the American and British aircraft carrier squadrons to the north, received a detailed telegram that he had learned of the surprise attack on Newfoundland, and he smashed his fist on the wall with hatred - by all means, the Germans were still teased! Spruance silently checked the charts and told him that the distance between the two sides was more than 2,000 kilometers, and it would take at least two days and one night to arrive, which made Cunningham even more anxious.

At 18:47, Lord Thomas, who had worked hard to get to the docks, was gasped by the situation, the docks had been repaired by bombs, and the places that were fairly flat were crowded with people, and the few transport boats were struggling to put the sailors who had heard the news from all over the world, but everyone was in a hurry to board their ships, all of them were blushing and refusing to give in, and the noise was like a vegetable market, so they almost started fighting, and the scene was chaotic, and the port police were busy extinguishing the fires everywhere, There is simply no ability to maintain order. There were Canadian infantry in the distance, but they were too busy building fortifications to prevent the German landing.

"Silence, silence, everyone listen to the Lord's lecture......" the adjutant and the guards shouted through their throats, but the chaotic crowd could not listen at all, and they were all drowned in the noise.

The furious Lord Thomas snatched the Thomson submachine gun of the guards, and "suddenly" shot a shuttle into the sky, which frightened the crowd into chaos, and the crowd that was jubilant just now immediately turned into a group of frightened deer trying to run, and there were crying noises everywhere, but the attention was concentrated on this side, and by shocking the crowd, Thomas climbed to the top of the car with the help of the guards, and shouted condescendingly at the throat: "I am Thomas, the chairman of the Maritime Commission, and everyone now obeys my orders, Sailors who are parked on freighters on the periphery first board and leave the port, and leave as far away as possible! ”

After his exhortation and the pressure of the guards, everyone finally began to board the ship in order, and at about 8 o'clock, the outermost freighter sounded its whistle and began to slowly leave the port, one or two...... In the middle were Canadian and American frigates, who were also ordered to cover the ship's departure as much as possible.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, less than 1 hour, there was a buzz in the port, and before everyone could react at first, Thomas's face changed greatly, of course he knew that it was the sound of airplanes, and he also knew that all the surviving American planes had left the airport to "take refuge" in Cornabrook, and only German planes would come.

Hearing the sharp whistling sound getting closer and closer, he opened his mouth and shouted: "Lie down" and took the lead in lying on the ground, a circle of people around him followed him down, but more people were at a loss, at this time the volley of BF-219 had begun to strafe the ground, several machine guns, machine gun fire fell from the sky like a fire sickle, and all the people standing were all strafing targets, like rows of wheat were neatly cut down.

After the sound of "sudden", there were very few people on the dock who could still stand, and the crowd was either knocked down, or squeezed into the water by panicked others, or trampled on each other, and what made Thomas even more tearful was that more than ten seconds later, a German bomber roared down, "boom" a loud bang, a 250-kilogram bomb exploded in the crowd, shrapnel, air waves unscrupulously harvested the survivors, he felt that something flew up from a distance and smashed on his head, and then rolled off to the side, I opened my eyes and glanced at it secretly, almost not spitting out all the bitter water in my stomach - it was clearly a human arm.

At this time, the anti-aircraft fire of the port was shooting into the air like a dream, and a large number of people were crying loudly - what about our planes? There were mentally fragile sailors who could not stand this torture, and they screamed and got up from the ground to flee to a distance, but they did not go far before they were mercilessly knocked to the ground by air-fired fire......