Chapter 737: Germany's Main Direction of Attack
This Junkers-290 is only the first one, and behind it, a larger fleet of aircraft has flown one after another.
And in this case, the anti-aircraft artillery below is sparse.
The troops were transferred in large numbers, including anti-aircraft artillery, and a number of them were also transferred, and the remaining troops here were all temporarily recruited from the rear, because they were transferred in a hurry today, and many of them were not even assigned new posts!
A lot of anti-aircraft artillery positions were vacated in this way, and only the ships in the harbor began to rain bullets into the sky. Unfortunately, with limited shooting heights, they simply could not hit the Junkers-290 in the sky.
High-altitude bombing, the use of radio guidance to greatly improve the accuracy of hitting, to achieve the purpose of point attack, whether it is strategy, or specific tactics, Germany is at the forefront of the world!
Like now.
The BL9.2 233mm coastal artillery, the main cannon guarding Plymouth, was devastated!
The bombs flying in the sky, as if they had eyes, guarded the anti-aircraft artillery positions next to the coastal guns, originally intended to hit the bombers in the sky, but when the bombs flew, they immediately changed their muzzles and began to shoot at the flying bombs.
It's a pity that it is not easy to hit a bomb in free fall, especially with this kind of bomb, which can also change direction halfway!
"Boom!" The 233-mm coastal cannon burst out with a loud bang, shaking the heavens and the earth, and when the other people looked over there with frightened eyes, they saw that the hill where the coastal cannon was located had disappeared!
The bombs dropped by the Germans detonated the ammunition next to the coastal guns! It's the same as a battleship's turret blast! The entire mountain was cut down dozens of meters! The power makes people change color when they smell it!
"No, I don't want to die." A soldier with a gun, his body trembling, apparently frightened by the explosion over there, he actually stood up, shouted loudly, and then, throwing down the gun, he was about to run backwards.
"Come back!" The platoon leader shouted.
He didn't look back, apparently frightened.
"Bulging." The submachine gun in the platoon commander's hand fired, and this guy who wanted to flee for his life had more than a dozen holes behind him, his body fell forward, his head turned back, trying to see who was firing, his eyes were wide open, and he couldn't blink to death.
"Stay on your ground!" The platoon commander was a veteran who shot deserters from the battlefield without blinking, and without this method, the front would have collapsed long ago.
The first round of German bombers destroyed all the large-caliber coastal defense guns that were the main force here!
When the bombers arrived, Sir Nelty Ramsey was back at his headquarters and he immediately noticed that something was wrong.
Why did the Germans suddenly come to their own side and bomb them?
All along, the Germans flew directly from the direction of Calais to England, various bases in the south, as well as the capital London, and so on.
The Germans had no interest in Plymouth.
After all, there are not too many warships here, and the important warships of Britain are all in the bases on the west coast, and frigates of several thousand tons are better than nothing.
The shipyard here is indeed starting construction to build new warships, but many people's ideas are not optimistic, and it will take at least more than a year to build a new warship, and maybe in the end, the Germans will have to be cheaper, so the Germans will not bomb here, which is almost a foregone conclusion.
Especially now, when the German army has been fighting fiercely in Dover for more than ten hours, when a large number of warplanes are fighting over the Strait of Dover, the main direction of attack of the Germans has almost been determined.
Now, what are the Germans doing here? An ominous premonition hung over Ramsey, and he could not help but say: "Quick, report to London, the Germans may land in our Plymouth!" ”
When the emergency report from the Plymouth base was delivered to the Prime Minister's Office, Churchill had just gotten off the plane and returned to his Downing Street office, where the first report he received was actually from Plymouth!
"Sir Ramsey is really too careful, how could the Germans go to Plymouth and land in Plymouth, which is nearly four hundred kilometers away from London!" Churchill just shook his head.
"Sir Ramsey wants to send a large number of fighters, especially Spitfires, to the skies over Plymouth to help them repel the German bombers." The assistant said.
Originally, Plymouth belonged to Area 10, which was different from Area 11, to which the London area belonged, but the last night bombing by the Germans blew up the fighter units of Area 11, so under the intervention of Churchill, General Dowding had to transfer fighters from other areas to Area 11, where a major war was most likely to break out.
In this way, there are fewer fighters left in Area 10, especially the Spitfire with the best performance, there is only one squadron in Area 10, and because the Spitfire's factory was blown up, they will not be able to produce qualified Spitfire fighters within a few months.
Sir Ramsey wants London to move fighters, this is a joke, didn't you see the big battle over Dover?
"Tell Ramsey to let him hold Plymouth, this is the order, and at the same time, don't let him delusion about any reinforcements, the armed forces under his command are enough." Churchill said: "Bring me the report of Dover, why is it that until now it has not been able to wipe out all the German troops that have landed?" What are they doing? ”
Now, Churchill did not anticipate the severity of the situation at all, including all the senior commanders of the Reich present, did not expect that, after all, the Battle of Dover was at its most intense, and the two sides had used so many armed forces, the Germans must have been in a hurry and wanted to push forward.
And now, the Germans actually ran to bomb Plymouth? That must be to divert the tiger from the mountain, wanting to divide his own troops to support Plymouth and reduce the pressure on this side.
You won't be fooled!
After receiving Churchill's reprimand, Sir Ramsey looked nervously at the sky, hundreds of Junkers-88 dive bombers, as well as countless HS129 attack planes, were flying towards them!
"Tell London again that Plymouth is the main attack of the Germans, and we will fight to the last man!" Sir Ramsey's gaze was grim.
The plan of the Germans, he has seen through it, and attacks Dover with great fanfare, but the real target is his own here! The most regrettable thing is that until now, Churchill has not yet judged it.
That Ciric is really terrible, every time he uses soldiers, he is superb, and it is really a sadness to be his enemy.
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