Chapter 59: Bombing

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"How is that possible!" Big Bear replied, "Our plane is still in Italy, and if it were, it would have been from the west, not from the east......"

Then Big Bear opened his mouth wide for a long time to speak, because by this time two bombers had already swooped down and dropped bombs on the British lines.

"What's going on?" Da Xiong was a little confused by the second monk.

Before Da Xiong's words fell, two bombs exploded in the British defense line, and the shock caused by the explosion could be felt even by Qin Chuan and the others who were a kilometer away.

It was a bomb dropped by the "Mosquito" bomber, and there were many modifications of the "Mosquito" aircraft, among which the more successful one was the light bomber...... As mentioned earlier, the speed of the "Mosquito" is faster than the most advanced British fighter jet, which is faster than the German fighter jet, so the "Mosquito" bomber does not need to be accompanied by fighters...... No fighter can catch up with it anyway, so it's safe.

Its disadvantage is that it only has a bomb magazine on the belly of the aircraft and the space is cramped...... and the wings of the "mosquito" wooden structure are not suitable for carrying bombs, which makes it only carry a bomb weighing 4,000 pounds, because this bomb is a long barrel like a packed tube of "biscuits", and the British soldiers called it "biscuits".

Obviously, the two "Mosquito" bombers just dropped "cookies" to indicate the bombing area for other bombers...... the "mosquito" bombers dropped bombs very accurately, the most classic example of which is the "Jericho operation": six "mosquitoes" bombed the Gestapo headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands, at a low altitude, the whole operation was very accurate, the first two bombs blew a hole in the building, and the last two accurately threw incendiary bombs into the hole, successfully burning a large number of archives and protecting the underground resistance group. This level of precision was only replicated decades later in the Gulf War.

Under the "instructions" of the "mosquito" bombers, a large number of medium and heavy bombers that followed quickly opened their magazines and dropped batches of bombs with whistling sounds...... It's no wonder that some would call it "carpet bombing".

In the smoke, you can occasionally see a lot of "mosquitoes" diving down and dropping bombs on the car, so the car was blown to pieces one after another.

The bombardment lasted ten minutes...... More than 100 British bombers came up in batches and dropped all the bombs they carried.

Qin Chuan thought that at this time, the British pilots were only afraid to cheer and celebrate in the air, but they didn't expect that the bombs dropped just now actually fell on their own people.

In fact, most German soldiers didn't expect that, just like the big bear, they were stunned by the scene in front of them...... After the British plane flew away, it took a while for him to look back at Qin Chuan and ask, "Sergeant, did you cast any magic on them?" ”

Without waiting for Qin Chuan to answer, he heard an order: "All attack!" ”

It's a good opportunity to attack...... Those aerial bombs had blown up the barbed wire, trenches, and mines on the British defensive line, and even many pillboxes were not spared.

Of course, not all bunkers were blown up. The British had fortified the bunkers and were scattered across the desert, so a considerable part of them survived the bombardment.

But here's the problem......

The smoke and dust from the bombardment had covered everything, like a sandstorm blowing on the battlefield, and the British soldiers in the pillboxes looked out through the holes, and could not see anything in the white expanse.

Extremely nervous, they could only pull the trigger and shoot out indiscriminately...... And that's exactly what they shouldn't do, because it will lead the German soldiers to the location of the bunker, and then grenades or explosive packs will be thrown through the holes......

Qin Chuan, who was following the team, only heard explosions coming from front of him, and sometimes a smoke like a mushroom cloud would explode in the dust...... It was the ammunition in the bunker that had exploded.

The bunker was an enclosed space, and an explosion inside meant that the British troops in it could not find even a piece of flesh.

The Germans were attacking in full swing, and they quickly broke through the red line and hit the blue line...... Most of the mines between the red and blue lines were detonated, some were directly detonated by aerial bombs, and more were detonated by the vibrations generated by aerial bombs, which made the Germans feel like no one was in a no-man's land all the way to the blue line.

If the British on the Blue Line had resisted, it would have been unclear who would have died in the end.

But as mentioned before, most of the British troops who remained in Tobruk were sappers who did not have much will and quality to fight, and they hardly dared to pull the trigger when they saw the tide of German troops rushing in, because they believed that the battle would be lost, and they would eventually become prisoners of the Germans, and pulling the trigger to kill the Germans would lead to German retaliation.

In fact, what is more important is ...... From Tengeten, Tugla and other places the news that "as long as you surrender, you can live" has reached Tobruk, plus the British army sappers are non-combat units, for the British, it is not a shame to choose to surrender when they think they cannot resist, so a large number of British troops gave up resistance.

When Qin Chuan rushed over with the team, all he saw was groups of British soldiers raising their hands, and German soldiers brandishing rifles and shouting at them, driving them out of the trenches, ordering them to pile their weapons together outside the trenches and then line up on the other side.

The British army was no less numerous than the Germans, and the exact total strength of the British army was several times that of the Germans, but they were routed on all fronts under the attack of the Germans.

What surprised Qin Chuan even more was that he then saw armored vehicles and tanks in the defense line......

Of course, it is possible that the British were caught off guard, they did not expect the Germans to break through the red line so quickly and hit the front. Or maybe the sappers are not trained and don't know how to use these tanks and armored vehicles.

But in any case, this is enough to say a point...... War is a combination of man and equipment, and both are indispensable.

"Look!" Werner, who rushed through the defense line first, spotted Qin Chuan in the crowd, and he couldn't help but exclaim excitedly: "Our heroic sergeant is here!" ”

Before Qin Chuan could react, he was surrounded and lifted up by a group of German soldiers, who threw Qin Chuan into the air again and again in cheers.

Qin Chuan could feel the excitement and joy of the German soldiers, it was the willows and flowers, it was a desperate situation, it was a Jedi counterattack......

But Qin Chuan felt that he couldn't afford this honor, because he knew that everything he did was just wanting to ...... Alive.