Chapter 751: Can't Let the Citizens Leave (Supplement 7)
In World War II, there were a lot of urban battles, but in general, urban battles were fought between soldiers.
Although the various buildings in the city are still there, the citizens in the city have long been evacuated, and fighting is a matter for warriors, and has nothing to do with ordinary civilians.
This was especially true when fighting the Soviet Union.
For example, when the German army was about to move to Moscow, Moscow began to evacuate, all kinds of industries, schools, government agencies, were relocated, women, children, old people, left the city, as for men, they were all integrated into the army and became soldiers.
In short, when the war came, almost all the street battles were between soldiers.
Exeter, on the other hand, did not have this step, because the German army attacked so quickly that almost after they learned that the Germans had landed, Exeter was surrounded, so that the inhabitants of the city, even if they wanted to retreat, were too late.
This was also the case when they fought France, but the French did not resist the city, and when they marched to Paris, the French directly declared Paris an undefended city and gave it to the Germans to occupy.
Exeter, on the other hand, did not directly retreat to Germany, and the troops who remained here resisted the German army in densely populated areas, although they achieved good results, but civilian casualties were still there.
These casualties, of course, must all be thrown on the heads of the Germans, it was the barbarism of the Germans that led to the casualties of British civilians! These hatreds all need to be written down by the British and continue to fight for the defeat of Germany.
But now, suddenly, the advantages that have been accumulated with great difficulty are gone.
The Germans actually played tricks to drive these citizens away, and once the citizens left, their army, like fish out of water, could not continue to survive.
Can't, can't let the citizens leave!
After figuring this out, Bernard had the intersection blocked, and he began to exhort, which he was not good at.
At this important intersection, Bernard stands on top of a truck, shouting to the citizens around him.
"If you go out now, you'll fall for the Germans' scheme, and the Germans will throw you all into the concentration camps!" Bernard shouted loudly: "Don't go out, or you'll be fooled!" ”
"Then if we don't go out, stay here and wait for death!" Someone shouted from below.
The Germans have already given an ultimatum, and at two o'clock they will demolish the city! It is conceivable that the Germans must have used some kind of powerful force to raze the whole city to the ground!
Although this kind of bomb has not yet appeared, since the beginning of the war, the weapons that the Germans have taken out one by one are unbelievable, and they are simply ahead of this era, so it is entirely possible if the Germans continue to come up with more terrible weapons.
Staying here is a dead end!
"Everybody listen to me!" Bernard shouted loudly: "We in Exeter, with a history of two thousand years, have experienced countless wars here, but we, the United Kingdom, have always been the final victors!" ”
"The blood of the forerunners inspires us, for the sake of victory, we don't care about bloodshed and sacrifice, and besides, the places of interest here, the various buildings here, can you bear to watch them destroyed?"
Bernard stretched out his hand and pointed to Exeter Cathedral, not far away: "The building there, built in 1050 to deal with the Vikings, moved the bishopric seat from a nearby town to Exeter, and the statue of our important theologian Richard Hooke (erected where our Bishop of Exeter is located. Can you bear to watch this kind of structure destroyed? ”
Demolishing an entire city? What a big breath for the Germans! Bernard looked at the people around him, and his emotions had gradually been mobilized: "As long as we are all in the city, the Germans will not dare to do anything to our city, as a nation that has stood on the European continent for more than 2,000 years, we must have the backbone of our nation." ”
At this moment, in the sky, there was the roar of the plane again, and when the sound in the sky was heard, in an instant, Bernard's efforts were all in vain.
"Run!"
"Run!"
"Get out of the city, it's safe outside the city, the Germans are going to bomb the city!"
No one can face it calmly in front of death, and anyone wants to live.
In the sky, it was not bombers that came.
Second Lieutenant Dlobinsky, piloting a clumsy fighter jet, flew here from a field airfield two hundred kilometers away.
He was accompanied by the entire 264 squadron, which was equipped with new British dreadnought fighters.
Second Lieutenant Delobinski, originally a Pole, came to England after Poland was destroyed, and went from being a homeless man receiving relief to a volunteer pilot of the British Air Force.
There is no need to say that the sadness in the middle is self-explanatory, and he himself has a strong sense of war, and in his eyes, the Germans are his mortal enemies.
It's a pity that his plane is not powerful.
Now, Britain is recognized as the best fighter jet, or the Spitfire, it can be seen from the bombing of the Germans, the factories that produce the Spitfire, and the factories that may produce the Spitfire, have been blown up by the Germans, which shows that the Germans are afraid of the Spitfire.
This also led to a serious shortage of Spitfire production, and now, volunteer pilots like Ensign Dlobinsky can't fly Spitfires at all, and it is said that it is good to be able to classify the current fighters, but unfortunately, no one likes them.
Aviation technology developed rapidly in the twenties and thirties, and the British Royal Air Force believed that the speed and firepower of heavy bombers with a multi-engine and multi-turret design could surpass those of fighters and intrude into enemy airspace to bomb on their own.
Therefore, they whimsically installed a "power turret" on the fighter to counteract. Dreadnought fighters were thus produced.
The Purton Paul Company won the bid, and in August 37, the first prototype was tested, and soon the official name of the Dreadnought fighter was finalized and put into production.
But then it was slow, for the simple reason that British military spending was tight. It wasn't until the beginning of the year that the Royal Air Force acquired only three Dreadnoughts into combat. It was only after the start of the war that such aircraft were mass-produced.
As for what this kind of aircraft is, just look at the nickname "Daffy" given to it by the British pilots, which means stupid and crazy.
However, Dlobinsky did not dislike it, and he was satisfied if he could fly into the sky and fight the Luftwaffe. 18310