Lieddale and Carroll couldn't figure out a proper way to deal with the current situation. Where to chase novels, go fast, and go fast

Tangled, incomparably tangled.

Send infantry out of the fortress to annihilate the German army on the top of the hill?

Don't make such a boring joke, who knows how many German troops have fallen from the sky and smuggled in from across the bay, and they have occupied most of the mountain surface and commanding heights of Mount Gibraltar, and at this time send the infantry out, and those Germans can use the captured British pillboxes and artillery positions to resist.

It is conceivable that the corpses of British infantry would cover every mountain road in the mountains of Gibraltar at that time, and the blood would flow into rivers.

Thinking of that tragic situation, Lieddale and Carol invariably dismissed the idea.

If they do not clear those German troops, they will take advantage of the blind spots of various firing points to continue to uproot the remaining firing points on the mountain, and if they are left alone, they will sooner or later eat away at all the British troops on the mountain of Gibraltar, even if they hide in the mountain tunnel, they will not escape the fate of being wiped out.

"Should we let the heavy artillery open fire, shell the possible German staging areas, and disrupt their deployment?" Lieddale suddenly said to Carol.

"I don't recommend this, one is that we don't know where they are grouped, we only know a few suspected targets. The second is that there are a large number of Spanish residential areas in both the north and the west, and if we open fire indiscriminately, we will definitely injure a large number of civilians by mistake, which will make us very passive in public opinion. Of course, it would be a different story if the Germans were hiding in residential areas. Carol tactfully dissuaded.

Lidedell snapped the pencil in his hand and threw it on the table, and said angrily: "It's so hateful, what kind of play are they?" There was no large-scale artillery preparation, no hordes of infantry charges, not even a single tank, we couldn't do anything about them. ”

Carroll glanced at Lieddale with a blank face, his top boss's mind was full of old-school tactics from more than twenty years ago, and he didn't know anything about modern warfare.

Among other things, the overwhelming mass bombing by the Germans alone is not something that could have been seen in the war of twenty years ago, and there is also the mysterious tactic of suddenly occupying the top of the Gibraltar hill.

Unless German artillery positions or infantry concentrations are found. Otherwise, you must not fire indiscriminately.

In the event of a large number of deaths among Spanish civilians and the enraging of the Spaniards, it would have been miserable if he had been captured, and Mr. Viceroy would not have escaped the Spaniards' revenge as the culprit.

To defend the glory of the British Army. not to receive bad reviews from executioners who massacre civilians;

In order to ensure that the governor and himself would not be retaliated against by the Spaniards and that they could live a peaceful life as prisoners of war after the end of this battle, which had no hope of victory, he had to leave a way back in advance anyway.

Li Dedale didn't feel Carol's meticulous care for him at all, and just kept asking the staff officers gathered around him. Trying to find the most appropriate solution

Night once again covered the Gibraltar peninsula, and the gunfire on the island gradually subsided.

Unlike the British command, which was at a loss, the German command had an unusually clear line of thought about the battle.

Under the cover of night, all kinds of motorboats, rubber boats and other means of sea transportation that the Germans could find were transported to and from the east and west sides of the fjord, and the Waffen-SS Viking Division's engineer battalion, Germania Infantry Regiment and 1st Mountain Division 1st Regiment landed on Mount Gibraltar, in addition to two combat engineer battalions reinforced to the Viking Division.

At 10:40 a.m. the next morning, at a corner of a mountain road in the southwest corner of Mount Gibraltar, a squad of British infantry, under the threat of flamethrowers, gave up resistance and walked out of the machine-gun bunker where they were hiding. It was declared that the surface of Mount Gibraltar was completely occupied by German troops.

The British defense of the Gibraltar Peninsula was left only by coastal batteries on the southern coast, heavy artillery at the foot of the hill to the east and British troops and heavy artillery hiding in mountain tunnels to the north.

The Viking Division's troops did not launch an attack on the coastal batteries at the foot of the eastern hills and on the southern coast, because they were blocked by the Gibraltar Mountains, and because the firing range was insufficient to threaten the general German attack, and the occupation of the Gibraltar Peninsula required the use of these batteries to block the shipping lanes of the Strait of Gibraltar.

The final blow fell on the northern part of Mount Gibraltar, and how to approach the thick steel gate of the mountain tunnel and destroy it, and enter the interior of the mountain was the focus of the battle.

As the battle progressed, the 101st Air Service Battalion and the Blackwater Reconnaissance Battalion captured more and more British defense maps. The defense of the Gibraltar Peninsula lay in front of the Germans like a defenseless corpse, facing the fate of being dissected by the Germans at any time.

The Blackwater Special Reconnaissance Battalion and the 5th Reconnaissance Battalion of the Viking Division were like two sharp scalpels, slicing at the British at Manstein's wielding.

There were three six-inch batteries in the north and northwest of Mount Gibraltar, and the task of the two reconnaissance battalions was to cooperate with the German railway artillery units to take out the two British six-inch batteries in the northwest. Those in the direction due north are reserved for mountain troops.

Following the location shown on the map, Major Hegel and his men found the heavy artillery position called Tovey without much difficulty.

Two 6-inch howitzers, two 75mm guns nearby, and six machine-gun pillboxes, this position belonged to the branch of the British mountain tunnel, and if you want to enter it, you can only take the gate of the mountain tunnel. Or climb into the firing holes of the artillery, which is completely different from the previous independent fire points.

Major Hegel soon radioed the position of the Tovey battery to the railway artillery units in the rear.

On the day of the general assault, as soon as it was dawn, the roar of aircraft engines was heard over the fjord, and two tadpole-shaped planes flew over the fjord over Mount Gibraltar.

Seeing the arrival of two FI-282 Hummingbird helicopters, Major Hegel immediately ordered his subordinates to fire the green smoke bombs that had been prepared for a long time, and then hurriedly led his subordinates away from the scene of the upcoming tragedy.

The small fuselage of a hummingbird helicopter deftly circled where the green smoke grenade had risen before hovering into the sky above the hillside.

Five minutes later, a thunderous bang sounded on the western outskirts of Algeciras Harbor on the western side of the fjord, and a large cloud of white smoke rose from it, covering the ground like a giant marshmallow.

Twenty-six shells of 210 mm, 280 mm, 320 mm and even 356 mm flew over the fjord in an instant, smashing into the Tovey battery with a fierce wind.

Major Hegel instantly felt the entire Mount of Gibraltar shake, and the area around Tovey's battery, the size of a football field, was instantly covered in flames.

An invisible wind swept across his face, causing a pain like a knife cutting flesh.

It was as if countless springs were installed under his feet, and his body shook and shook with the spring.

Countless pieces of rubble, equipment parts, and stumps flew up to a height of 1200 meters in the sky, and then fell to the ground like a torrential rain. Countless smoke and dust were raised on the ground.

The devastating shelling triggered a landslide, sending thousands of pieces of rubble of various sizes tumbling down the hillside, creating a rocky river on the hillside where it passed. The plants turned into a pile of debris and rushed down the river, and the mountain path was cut off in an instant.

The terrifying rocky river rushes down into the residential area below, and the countless building remains in the residential area are once again baptized by the god of destruction, and are instantly buried in the torrent of rubble.

As the white smoke covering the surface of the mountain cleared, Major Hegel hurriedly picked up his binoculars and looked at the position of the six-inch heavy artillery group on the hillside. Then he involuntarily opened his mouth wide.

The location of the heavy artillery group protruded out of the mountain, but now it turned into a huge crater sunken in the hillside, as if a person had been deflated by a heavy punch to the nose.

The railway artillery group plays the role of a heavy fist.

Fortunately, the Hummingbird helicopter had dodged far enough not to be affected by the devastating force of the shelling, and it ended its hovering, quickly circled around the shell landing site, checked the effect of the shelling, and left satisfied.

No one survived shelling on that scale, not even hiding behind thick granite.

Not to mention the powerful destructive power of concrete armor-piercing bullets, the power of the shock wave when it explodes alone is enough to stun the British troops inside.

The Tovey battery was destroyed. The nightmare of the Davis battery ensued.

Another gust of wind swept in from the west side of the fjord, and the second blow from the railroad guns slammed into the Davis battery.

With the trembling of the mountains of Gibraltar, the sand and rocks near the Davis battery suddenly flew away, the sun and the moon were gone, and the smoke of flames rose into the sky, and Major Hegel once again appeared in front of his eyes a purgatory-like scene.

By the time Major Hegel lowered his hands covering his ears, the smoke had already cleared. He saw another hummingbird helicopter also circling around the shell landing site, but instead of leaving immediately, it pulled away for some distance and lowered its altitude and hovered in the air again.

There was even another round of salvos, and the fort's was really unlucky! Major Hegel quickly figured out the intentions of the hummingbird helicopter.

Major Hegel experienced the third earthquake in the mountains of Gibraltar. After seeing the second hummingbird helicopter go away, he said to his subordinates with trepidation: "I want to see the power of the god of war up close, which of you is interested in going with me?" ”

A group of people then hobbled along the unrecognizable mountain road towards the scene of the atrocity

In the coastal fortress of the port of Algeciras, Chen Dao stood in front of the lookout hole. Holding the telescope, he shouted excitedly:

"It's so refreshing, it's so comfortable, this time it's really not in vain, to be able to see such a big scene, our big guys are really good."

The adjutant corps headed by Major Bach looked much the same, although it was nearly eight kilometers away. They were equally struck by the devastating power of the railway artillery swarms.

"Two 210-mm K12 railway guns, two 280-mm K5E railway guns, twenty French 320-mm railway guns, I remember there were also 240-mm and 370-mm railway guns, a total of fifty-two, what a big scene, absolutely big scene." Major Bach sighed.

"They should be glad that our Gustav 800mm cannon hasn't been built yet, otherwise one would have been enough." Captain Nobel said.

"It's not recorded, we're leaving." Chen Dao shouted to Major Lorenz, a part-time videographer beside him.

"It's been recorded."

"Let's go, let's go, it's going to be too late, the general offensive is about to begin." Chen Dao was the first to rush out of the coastal fortress, and the four lieutenants immediately left, leaving only a group of Spanish officers stunned by the power of the railway cannons.

The two sedans rushed into a fortress north of Gibraltar at a high speed, and Chen Dao jumped out of the car and ran into the fortress first.

"Great, just in time." Chen Dao stood side by side beside Manstein, picked up his binoculars and looked at the mountains of Gibraltar to the south.

"The battle hasn't started yet, the 1st Mountain Division is preparing." Manstein said with a smile.

"I seem to have seen someone on the other side, it should be mountain infantry, and the way they appeared would definitely surprise the British."

"I'm a firm believer in that, too." Manstein said.

In the mountains of Gibraltar, opposite Chen Dao and Manstein, Corporal Bill was standing at the window of gun emplacement-7 looking out over the complex to the north.

Gun emplacement No. 7 was located in the middle of the cliff, about 120 meters above the ground, and parallel to it were eight other gun emplacements, each with a gun of either 6 inches, or 75 mm, or a two-pounder anti-tank gun.

The cliffs were almost perpendicular to the ground at an angle of ninety degrees, and there was no fear that the Germans would climb up.

The steel gate of the mountain tunnel was located on the lower left side of the cliff, and the Germans had to cross the airfield in front of the cliff to enter through the front gate, where there was no place to hide except for the craters left by the Luftwaffe bombers.

Even if the German infantry was lying in the crater, they could see it clearly from a high position, and then they were called one by one with 75mm guns and machine guns.

Just as Corporal Bill was in the midst of his infinite lust, Private Taylor hurried up to him.

"The Tovey and Davis batteries are all over, and now we're left in the defensive tunnel."

Taylor's voice was filled with fear, and the confident look on Corporal Bill's face disappeared in an instant.

"What do you say? Tovey and Davis Batteries taken out? It's impossible, how did the Germans kill them through three meters of granite, you can't be dreaming, right? ”

"It's true, I just went to the hospital to get antidiarrheal medicine, and I saw a lot of wounded, their flesh and blood were blurred, and it gave me goosebumps when I looked at them, I asked a few comrades who sent the wounded, and they said that the Davis battery and the Tovey battery had been flattened by the heavy artillery of the Germans, and my news was true."

"The heavy artillery has flattened, could it be that the three earthquakes just now were caused by the heavy artillery of the Germans?" Corporal Bill instantly turned pale.

"It should be."

"Aren't we in danger right now? Since the Germans can bombard the Tovey and Davis batteries, they will be able to penetrate our gun emplacements. Corporal Bill suddenly felt a pang of bitterness in his mouth.

"We are different from those two batteries here, it is difficult to hit us directly with the trajectory of heavy artillery shells, they hey, that's a grenade, run!"

Taylor was horrified to see a long-handled grenade fly into the window of the gun emplacement, billowing into the window of the gun emplacement, dripping and rolling at the feet of him and Corporal Bill.

The two of them didn't have time to think about why there were grenades here, and immediately jumped up like a burning butt and ran towards the gate behind the gun emplacement.

Corporal Bill was the first to run out of the gate, and as soon as Taylor stepped out of the gate with his left foot, there was a roar behind him that had broken his eardrums, and he fell to the ground in a dog-eating position, and then heard the screams of his comrades behind him.

Taylor hurriedly stood up, clutching his bloodied mouth over two of his front teeth and hiding next to the doorframe, when another violent explosion sounded in his ears.

Damn, where the hell did the grenade come from? Taylor thought in horror. (To be continued.) )xh118