At 3:55 a.m., eight British and American battleships, and eight cruisers, all at a distance of more than 10,000 meters in the Gulf of Salerno, used radar to control all naval guns to aim at the entire port city, and then launched a salvo.

Hundreds of shells flew in the night sky as if they had eyes, and they shot down the entire Gulf of Salerno with unmistakable accuracy.

Under the overwhelming artillery fire, the entire Salerno Bay was filled with earth-shattering loud sounds.

Soon all the cities and towns in the bay of Salerno were in flames, with smoke billowing and howling, screaming, and terrifying one after another.

But the shells of the British and American fleets continued to bombard every corner of the Salerno Bay like a raging storm, as if they were vowing to raze the entire Salerno Bay to the ground.

And the most shocking thing is that the shells fired by the British and American fleets are all 400 mm and 350 mm large-caliber shells, and those 150 to 200 mm shells are only fired a few thousand rounds before they stop.

"Hit! Hit me hard! All the German and Italian troops on the Salerno Bay must be annihilated and killed; So that our landing force will suffer fewer casualties, and it is better to land successfully unharmed! ”

Admiral Mark Wayne Clark, who was standing in the command room of the aircraft carrier, stared excitedly, stared at each other, and shouted happily.

Even when it comes to excitement, he waves his hands to vent his inner excitement. And Thompson, the combat staff officer, and Edward, the captain of the aircraft carrier, also echoed a few words from time to time.

And while they were intoxicated with the use of naval guns, bombarding the entire Gulf of Salerno with dense artillery fire; In Pompeii, these Lebervivre 6-barrel rocket launchers were available in 150, 180 and 210 mm calibers, and even 300 mm calibers.

With a range of 6,900 meters, these rockets are one of the most feared weapons and equipment of the British army, because 70 percent of the British army's troops are killed or injured by these rocket launchers.

In addition to these rocket artillery, Bee self-propelled guns, Hornet self-propelled guns, 105mm heavy guns, 150mm heavy guns, 100mm heavy guns; and 150mm infantry guns, 88mm anti-aircraft guns, and 37mm anti-aircraft guns and other types of artillery are also equipped.

However, in the artillery attack of the Pompeii counterattack this time, Chen Yanlong gave the most to the second-class general Wei Tingguov was the Lebervivre 6-barrel rocket launcher, with 10,000 pieces, and the ammunition was very sufficient.

The reason why Chen Yanlong did this was because the German army could not only develop and produce these Lebervivre 6-barrel rocket launchers by themselves, but also the energy points exchanged were still very cheap, so he planned to replace those weapons and equipment that were ahead of the times with quantity. Moreover, the shelling power of these Lebervivre 6-barrel rocket launchers is definitely not weak to heavy artillery, and they are in the original history, but in the Battle of Normandy, they were powerful and magnificent, and they beat the British and Americans to the desert, and gave this rocket launcher a name called 'Screaming Mini, and I believe very much that if the German army did not have this rocket artillery, they would have been crippled by the British and American troops in Normandy.

"Quick! Hurry up, everyone! The Anglo-American landing force has already launched a brutal naval bombardment in the Gulf of Salerno, and if we do not quickly deploy these artillery positions, we will not be able to take them by surprise and annihilate them by the time they reach us! ”

When Salerno Bay was bombarded by naval artillery like a storm, the artillery commander Rundmeier also urgently urged his subordinates to quickly complete the construction and construction of the artillery position.

Although they had already come here in advance according to Chen Yanlong's order, and carried out the construction of certain defensive positions and artillery positions and other fortifications, because Second Admiral Wei Tingguofu asked them to build more artillery positions and more concealed positions, they still had to continue to build these concealed artillery positions.

"That's right! Captain Karenel is right! Hurry up, everyone, in order to be able to avenge the common people who died in the Bay of Salerno, everyone move quickly! ”

As soon as the words of the artillery commander Rondemmel fell, his deputy Rogel also hurriedly echoed.

The artillery commander was very satisfied with this, so the two of them loudly urged the work of the German artillery, and at the same time personally checked the installation position of the Lebervivre 6-barrel rocket launchers, as well as the ammunition and whether they were sufficient.

At this time, in a secret airfield near the border between Italy and Germany, Marshal Kesselring was wearing an air marshal's uniform and standing on the airfield, accompanied by several air force combat staff officers.

In front of him were 200 Ar-234 jet bombers, and near these jet bombers were a large group of mechanics and logistics personnel checking the pre-war performance of each aircraft.

Of course, those German pilots were also carefully checking whether the equipment and fuel of the aircraft they were about to fly were qualified and safe.

"Your Excellency! The U.S. aircraft carrier fleet is starting shelling in the Gulf of Salerno, and now are we going to send a group of jet bombers over to deal with them? Or wait until they have completed the landing operation? ”

Air Force Operations Staff Officer Nikolai asked a little belligerently.

"Wait for the Führer's order!"

Kesselring replied nervously with satisfaction.

"Ahh No way! Wasn't the Führer in Sicily fighting with Marshal Dönitz's aircraft carrier fleet against the Anglo-American fleet? How did he know about the battle in the Gulf of Salerno? ”

Nikolai, an operations staff officer of the Air Force, was surprised when he heard this.

"Have you forgotten the intelligence capabilities of the Führer's newly created intelligence department? If the Führer did not know the movements of the British and American troops, then how could he have arranged in advance for our aviation units to be deployed here to wait for combat orders, and arranged for Second Class General Weitinggov to deploy a large number of troops and set up a large-scale ambush position in Pompeii, preparing to annihilate these invading British and American troops in one fell swoop! ”

Marshal Kesselring asked rhetorically with a slight smile.

"This ...... You're right! The intelligence department of the Führer is really powerful! ”

After hearing this, Nikolai, the combat staff officer of the Air Force, was also stunned in surprise. "So now we just have to prepare 400 jet bombers, and pilots, and quietly wait for the Führer's combat order! And even if the Führer forgot about the situation of the war here for some other reason for a while, he also gave me the power to take the opportunity to fight on my own when the war situation was urgent, and to mobilize troops and troops to fight in a flexible and flexible manner! ”

Kesselring added with a smile again. "The Führer is so clever! I'm ashamed that I'm so reckless about flying jets to bomb jets when I'm ready to get ready to go out all night! ”

Hearing this, Nikolai, the combat staff officer of the Air Force, blushed and said embarrassedly.

Kesselring just smiled and stopped talking, instead putting all his mind on the jet bombers. [.]