Chapter 174 Battle of Madagascar 15

Just as Ogden commanded his soldiers to quickly find cover, the bomber group of the African People's Liberation Army Air Force had already flown over them, and the dense bomber group seemed to cover the entire sky. As the bombers flew over them, the doors of the bombers' cabins were opened. Aerial bombs weighing several tons were dropped by bombers.

Soon the aerial bombs emitted a high-speed descent with a sharp whistling sound of air friction. The bombs swirled and rained towards the ground. The vicinity of the beachhead was immediately plunged into a sea of fire, and the platoon of seemingly well-built makeshift fortifications in front of Ogden was immediately blown into ruins, and many soldiers who had just woken up were blown up into the sky by the sudden bombs.

What Ogden saw now was that the bunkers and fortifications around him were thrown into the sky like children building small mud houses in front of these aerial bombs, and then a dense school of tuna landing craft appeared on the surface of the sea, and he knew that what he was afraid of had finally appeared. So he crawled to the phone, grabbed the microphone of the phone and shook the handle of the phone. Then he shouted with all his might: "Give me the Murondava Command, I am Ogden, the commander of the front-line beachhead command, and the landing force of those Africans has already begun to land." We are under fire and we are asking for artillery support, and we are asking for artillery support to deliver fire strikes on the intended targets. ”

Guarding the head of the beach along the beach were one infantry division of the French Army and two infantry divisions of the Servant Army. This area has more than 60 kilometers of coastline. The three divisions seemed quite scary when they heard it. In fact, after such rounds of bombing by the air force units of the African People's Liberation Army. The number of soldiers who were able to participate in the battle was more than 15,000. This force is really dwarfed. In particular, the artillery units suffered heavy losses under the blows of the Air Force. The remaining artillery was hidden by the French army in a forest less than ten kilometers from the Mourondawa position, when a group of vulture dive bombers hovered over the Mourondawa forward position, almost constantly dropping bombs on the French army's beachhead. Countless pieces of steel reaped the lives of the officers and men of the garrison army on the Murondawa coastline.

The French artillerymen in the woods behind the forward positions of the French troops lifted their artillery camouflage. This is the only seven French Schneider 1917 155mm howitzers left in the French army, the barrels of which emit a faint blue cold light under the sun's rays, "knock-knock-knock-knock" accompanied by a violent cannon sound, and the cannon body of the cannon trembled with the huge recoil generated when the gun fired. Then the scorching shell jumped out of the chamber with a clank as the bolt was pulled. Sharp shells pierced the air, making a piercing roar, drawing a graceful arc in the air and smashing towards the landing craft that marked the sea area.

The "boom, boom, boom" explosion set off a huge column of water in the ocean. A violent roar echoed through the sky. The landing craft driving here can be said to be densely packed. However, the density of the French artillery is really sparse and ordinary, but these landing craft are very dense due to the formation of the movement. There were still a couple of landing craft that were unlucky enough to get home and were hit by shells. The bombs that exploded inside the landing craft brought the power of the 155-caliber shells into full play, and in the sound of the explosion, dozens of marines of the entire landing craft were instantly torn apart by shrapnel flying everywhere and powerful explosions, and a cloud of blood mist was splashed.

"Hurry up and measure the artillery positions of the French army for me and suppress them with naval guns, quick!" On the sea four or five nautical miles behind the landing craft, a captain of a heavy cruiser standing in the control tower saw a few shells falling from time to time on the sea where the landing craft was advancing, and quickly picked up the communicator and ordered the combat fire control command of his warship:

"07, 07, I'm 01, I've discovered the position of the French army artillery position. The azimuth is 135, the distance is 9246, and the naval guns cover it in all directions. "A reconnaissance plane hurriedly reported the coordinates of the artillery positions of the French army to the Navy.

"07 understands, the naval guns are ready, and you keep an eye on the bullet points at all times."

Less than a few seconds after the topic of exchange between the two sides fell, the barrels of the heavy cruisers' guns began to slowly raise their muzzles, and the muzzles of the guns were also shaking slightly. More than a minute later, with nine earth-shattering loud bangs, the entire heavy cruiser also shook violently. One by one, the shells flew out and rushed towards the land at a speed that was imperceptible to the naked eye.

Tens of seconds later, nine loud noises like heavy thunder sounded in the distance, and a burst of smoke and dust soared into the sky, and the huge smoke obscured the reconnaissance plane's vision, and it was not until a few minutes later that the dust and fog slowly dissipated. What appeared in the telescope of the reconnaissance plane's lookout was a huge crater.

Although the pilots of reconnaissance planes as artillery observers can be regarded as battle-hardened. But this kind of thrilling naval artillery power is still rarely seen, the reconnaissance plane circled for a few minutes, found that the other side did not fire a single shell, and then sent a report to the navy: "07, the target has now been completely destroyed, and now it can continue to cover the advance of the landing craft." ”

"Okay, it's been received, please continue to observe the movements of the French army, and report as soon as there is a situation."

"Understood."

Then all the warships lined up, aiming the muzzles of their guns at the positions of the French troops, and huge shells continued to pour on the positions. Most of the fortifications and pillboxes on the beach were destroyed, and by the time the Marines landed on the beach in landing craft, there was already sporadic resistance.

At this moment, all the landing craft that landed on the shore opened their hatches one after another, and the soldiers in charge of fire cover constantly strafed the opponent's position with machine guns in their hands, providing the brothers in the warehouse with maximum fire assistance.

At this time, there were bursts of roaring sound in the sky, and one after another gliders appeared in front of people's eyes, and they ignored the battle situation below and rushed directly to the interior of Taiwan

As soon as Ogden saw that the other party had landed on land, he hurriedly shouted: "Oh no, the Africans have landed, immediately order the troops to push me back." Hurry, or we'll be in danger. ”

But the soldiers who had just received Ogden's orders were killed in their battle positions by the flying bullets as soon as they showed their heads. These French soldiers were suppressed and could not raise their heads directly.