Chapter 600: The bombing is complete and the airborne begins

"Boom! Rumble! Boom ......"

"Boom! Thundered! Rumble ......"

Before the frightened Spanish soldiers could react, one after another Do 217, He-177 heavy bombers, and B-52 bombers began to bomb indiscriminately.

In an instant, one after another, the deafening sound of explosions resounded throughout the port of Ceuta and shook the colonists of the entire port.

As for the hill bunkers on Jaco Mountain, where only two companies of troops were deployed for defense, they were bombed into ruins by heavy German bombardment groups.

As for the Spanish soldiers inside, they and their officers were blown up into corpses or scum without firing a single shot, and they didn't know how they died.

And for the German air force, which completed the combat mission so easily, they were also shocked.

Because they did not expect that there was no airfield in the entire port of Ceuta, and planes took off to resist their attack.

There are no advanced fighter planes and attack aircraft groups like Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union to intercept them.

Even the anti-aircraft guns were not deployed in the pillboxes, so the Luftwaffe was able to bomb the entire pillbox and the hills of Jaco several times in less than 20 minutes.

"Oh God! I'm not dazzled! We completed this bombing mission so easily, and these Spanish garrisons were so vulnerable? ”

A Lafarge pilot of the 52nd Fighter Wing, the most powerful of the German army, stared in disbelief at the hills and pillboxes of Jaco Hill beneath the plane, which had been bombed into ruins.

Although their 52nd Fighter Wing was the strongest and most successful of the entire German aviation unit, it was the first time that they had completed their raid mission so easily, and they had never tried it before.

"I didn't expect these Spanish troops to be so vulnerable, we just bombed them in a routine bombardment, and they were blown into ruins and tea dregs! It's too weak! ”

"It always feels like they are a little weaker than the Italian army, no wonder they have been reluctant to participate in World War II, it seems that their strength is so bad!"

Hearing this, another German pilot of the 52nd Fighter Wing also responded through the on-board radio.

"So what do we do next? We've cleared all the enemy forces here! ”

As soon as the words fell, Gogol, the pilot of the 3rd 52nd Fighter Wing, immediately said in a hurry.

"Wait for Marshal Rommel's orders! Or let's continue the bombing along this port of Ceuta first! Bomb all the equipment, positions, and personnel that resemble the enemy army into scum! This will also allow our Airborne Forces to make a helicopter landing! ”

Pilot Lafarge glanced at the group of transport planes and helicopters that were leading the air nearby, and said calmly.

"Alright! That's all there is to it, they have already begun to parachute! ”

Pilot Gogol replied with a slight nod of his head using the on-board radio.

Because at this moment he had seen groups of paratroopers parachuting out of the open door of the C-13O Hercules transport plane.

At the same time, the AH-1 Cobra, UH-1 Huey, and Fa-223 Dragon helicopters were also carrying commandos for landing operations.

Because of this raid on the port of Ceuta, Rommel and his team used all the methods of airborne transport and helicopter landing operations, rather than using the amphibious landing operation mode of the Marine Corps equipped with landing craft.

Therefore, in order to allow the C-13O Hercules transport plane and helicopter group to arrive in the area of Ceuta Port smoothly, Chen Yanlong not only equipped them with an aircraft carrier fleet and a fighter group to escort them, but also equipped a lot of tankers to refuel in the air.

Therefore, after the C-13O Hercules transport plane took off, it basically did not stop to rest and refuel at other airports.

As the airborne troops successively landed and used helicopter groups to clear the remnants of the enemy on the ground, and in addition to the aircraft landing, other bomber groups, such as the Do 217 and He-177 heavy bombers, also began to return to the aircraft carrier for rest, while the B-52 strategic bombers were too large to land on the aircraft carrier for rest, but had to find a landing place near the port of Ceuta or an airfield.

If the port of Ceuta is not available, you can only go to the nearby islands to look for it, or to the airfields around Morocco; The worst outcome would be to use tankers to fly back to other countries for landing, of course, Rommel had a group of fighters escort the Sea, and a small group of helicopters to follow, because he intended to have these B-52 strategic bombers airfield in other parts of Morocco.