The news soon reached Montgomery's command.

Having lived in North Africa, Montcomary knew very well that this was what the Allies called a "self-detonating aircraft...... The Allies called it a "self-detonating aircraft" because ME163 did look like an airplane.

In fact, it was an airplane, but it was later converted to unmanned and then replaced with explosives...... At the same time, its liquid fuel is also explosive, which results in ME163 having the same amount of explosives, but in fact its lethality after hitting the target is different:

If the liquid fuel is consumed for too long in the air, the explosion will be less lethal. Otherwise, the lethality is greater.

This is also one of the reasons why some B17 bombers were injured and fell, while others were directly blown up and disintegrated in the air.

"What about our escort formation?" Montgomery asked, "Suppress the enemy's 'self-detonating planes'!" ”

Montgomery's identity and aura allowed him to know much more information than anyone else, even more than Eisenhower, so he was well aware of the weaknesses of this "self-detonating plane...... It takes time to reload, and it's not short, and the fuel explodes easily.

These characteristics also make "self-detonating aircraft" suppressible, especially when air supremacy is in the hands of the Allies.

In other words, the escort formation only needed to find the launch position of the Germans' "self-detonating aircraft" and shoot at it, whether it was a fighter or a bomber, they could easily destroy it.

But after a long time, Montgomery still did not get the good news from the front, and the bomber was in a hurry again and again.

"What's going on?" Montgomery asked Colonel Aubrey, commander of the escort formation, "Colonel, do you want to wait until our bombers are all destroyed before you do it?" ”

"But, sir!" Colonel Aubrey replied: "We couldn't find their launch vehicle!" ”

"It can't be!" Montgomery replied: "Don't these 'self-detonating planes' have a long wake?" Do you need me to teach you where the starting point of the trail is where the launch vehicle is? ”

"I know this, sir!" Colonel Aubrey responded: "But we just can't find their launch vehicles, they seem to have disappeared out of thin air, or rather...... They simply don't exist! ”

Colonel Aubrey was telling the truth, and every time, when the fighters and bombers followed the trail to the area in question, all they saw was an open field and nothing else.

They also tried to bomb the area, but apparently to no avail, because the "self-detonating planes" still flew into the sky one after another.

"Fuck it!" Montgomery couldn't help but curse: "Then I want to know, where did these 'self-detonating planes' come from......"

"I see it, sir!" Before Montgomery could finish speaking, Aubrey replied, "They were launched from a cave, or rather an underground well!" ”

Aubrey piloted the fighter plane right near a launch position, risking a crash and flying backwards at a low altitude before seeing the mouth of an underground well slowly closing in the smoke below.

"I'm sure, sir!" After straightening the fuselage, Aubrey continued to report: "There are indeed no launch vehicles, they hid the 'self-detonating aircraft' deep underground, and launched the 'self-destructing aircraft' from the ground through something similar to a pipe." Then, in just a dozen seconds, this pipe mouth will close, and we will not be able to suppress it at all, sir! ”

Hearing this, Montgomery's face turned red and white.

This is obviously a good way to hide the "self-detonating plane" underground, and in doing so, it avoids almost all of its weaknesses.

As a result, even if the Allies had air supremacy, they were still unable to prevent the launch of the "self-detonating planes...... Unless the pilot can destroy the "self-detonating plane" at the moment of its launch, which is almost impossible.

Subsequently, Montgomery quickly realized something.

He walked to the map, leaned down and looked at it for a while, and said to himself: "If they have such a deployment in the Dutch direction, does it mean that the entire 'Maginot Line' is ......?"

Thinking of this, Montgomery immediately called Eisenhower.

"How many more bombers do we have in Paris!" Montgomery asked.

"Monty!" Eisenhower replied: "Give up, we have already lost this battle, the Germans are well prepared......"

"No, Ike!" Montgomery interrupted Eisenhower: "That's not what I'm talking about, you should have gotten the information that our bombers were intercepted by their new equipment as they passed through the Netherlands!" ”

"Yes, I know!" Eisenhower replied, "That's what I'm talking about!" ”

"It's not just the defeat of this battle, Ike!" Montgomery said: "Do you know what would have happened if their 'self-detonating planes' had been deployed not just in one place in the Netherlands, but the entire Maginot Line, or even in northern Germany? ”

Eisenhower couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this.

Montgomery was right, the Germans perfectly solved the weakness of the "self-detonating aircraft", so that they could perfectly intercept American high-altitude bombers and even low-altitude bombers, that is, the Allies could not bomb the German mainland.

And until then, the Allies had always believed in ...... As long as France was occupied, then Germany's defeat was inevitable, because the Allies could use France as a base to bomb Germany in large quantities with take-off bombers.

In the absence of air supremacy, it was only a matter of time before Germany fell.

But now, Eisenhower suddenly realized that it was just wishful thinking.

"I see what you mean!" Eisenhower said: "I immediately ordered the bombers to take off from Paris and cross the 'Maginot Line' from several different directions!" ”

"Okay!" Montgomery said, "I'm waiting for your news!" ”

Unfortunately, Eisenhower and Montgomery were right.

Eisenhower sent thirty bombers, some of which did not even carry many bombs...... Supplies in France are still relatively scarce.

But it doesn't matter, they're not bombing, they're going to be tempted.

Then, as Montgomery said, there were "self-detonating planes" in each direction to intercept them.

Eisenhower hurriedly ordered the planes to return, but in the end half of the bombers were shot down in the operation.

"God!" Eisenhower said: "Their real line of defense is not the 'Atlantic ramparts, but the 'Maginot No.'!" ”