"Bright Road", which is the operational code name formulated by the Supreme Staff of the Allied Forces for the landing on the Florida Peninsula, after the launch of the campaign, the elite troops of the Southern Wing Corps with the Bahamas and the island of Cuba as a springboard will set foot on the United States soil for the first time, for the ordinary people of the Confederate camp, this is only a feat dreamed of by the people in power and professional soldiers, and in the eyes of many investors and speculators, the United States is a magical land of abundant products and labor, to defeat the United States government, Perhaps it means that Europe is back to the age of the Great Gold Rush of discovering the New World - if you have the guts, you can get rich overnight and enjoy the bliss on earth!

Driven by interest groups, the propaganda media of the Allied camp went all out, preaching the extraordinary significance of landing in the United States and occupying North America, and trumpeting the achievements of the front-line troops, creating one national hero and war hero after another. www.biquge.info The 1st Guards Cavalry Division, the 9th Heavy Infantry Division of the German Army, the 1st Battleship Squadron and the 1st Marine Division of the Navy, the 12th Fighter Wing, the 21st Bomber Wing, the 1st Parachute Brigade of the Air Force, the 19th Chasseur Regiment, the 1st Tank Regiment, the 7th Bomber Wing of the Italian Army, the "Vienna" Heavy Artillery Division of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, etc., these well-known elite units have been prepared at the front for a long time, well-equipped and well-supplied, and the officers are full of ambition. The soldiers are high-spirited, and it can be said that everything is ready to wait for the east wind.

On the other hand, since the spring of 1934, the United States and Britain have been defeated on all fronts, and it has been a year and a half, and the death of King George V is undoubtedly a heavy blow to the British Commonwealth military and civilians, and there are also huge differences within the US Government on the issue of war and peace, but the terms of the armistice proposed by the Allied bloc led by Germany are too harsh, and once the armistice agreement is signed on the basis of these conditions, the US economy will be hit like never before, and even a "great loot without guns." Therefore, most of the plutocracy supports the US government to continue to fight the Allied forces and strive to reach an armistice in a more favorable situation. As a result of these complex factors, the U.S.-British alliance was already a segregious one, with the beleaguered Commonwealth forces still struggling to support themselves in eastern Canada, while the U.S. military built extensive fortifications along the eastern seaboard, trying to rely on towns, ports, and transportation hubs to resist the landing of Allied troops.

After the Allies successively seized the Bahamas and Cuba Islands, the Florida Peninsula naturally became a key defensive area, but this large peninsula that protrudes into the Gulf of Mexico has an area of 150,000 square kilometers and a coastline of 933 kilometers.

Compared with the American defenders who claimed to be one million, the Allied camp gathered a real 1.26 million troops in the Bahamas and Cuba, of which the Germans accounted for seventy percent, and the Italian, Austria-Hungary, Spanish, and Irish armies accounted for three percent. Out of the need for secrecy, a few hours before the start of the "Bright Road" landing operation, not only ordinary soldiers, but also commanders at the battalion and company level, did not know where their troops were going to land.

"Boys of the 11th Marine Regiment of Germany, the mystery that has been guessing you for a month will be revealed immediately, and the front ...... Homestead Harbour! ”

On a large amphibious landing ship, the commander's irrepressible exuberant voice came from the loudspeaker. Formed in 1915, this highly accomplished amphibious force had participated in early landings in the Baltic Sea, landing in Britain, Bermuda, and then in the Bahamas, whether it was Holmstead or elsewhere in southeastern Florida, which meant they were about to land on the mainland of the United States of America.

As the coastline in front became clearer, the landing ship slowed down. The U.S. military has set up a number of obstacles in the coastal waters, and the coastal artillery fire has not been completely cleared. In such a situation, large landing ships will not rush to the shore, but will drop small landing craft and amphibious combat vehicles several kilometers to more than ten kilometers offshore.

The battleships covering the landing began shelling the coast from the night before, and the direction of the coast was full of fire and smoke. Between the artillery fire, one could hear a loud roar overhead. After the capture of the Bahamas, the Allied forces were able to establish a strong strategic pedal, with land-based warplanes flying from various airfields attacking the southern United States day and night, minimizing the defenses of the defenders.

The amphibious landing ships built in wartime use convenient opening and closing bow movable doors, and soldiers board small landing craft or amphibious combat vehicles directly in the cabin, and then sail directly out of the movable doors, but the number of amphibious landing ships specially designed and built for beach landing is limited, and many soldiers, especially the army soldiers who serve as backup, still transfer to landing craft at sea through troop carriers, and the rough reminders of officers can always be heard on these troop carriers:

"Each company boarded the boat in turn, everyone brought their equipment, pay attention to the rope ladder, be careful of the waves, and wish everyone good luck!"

At the same time, at the Bahamas Vidin Airport, more than 240 kilometers away from Homestead, a neatly arranged group of warhawks was taking off in order.

"The 4th Squad of the 2nd Bomber Squadron was cleared to take off!"

When the magnetic voice of the communications officer of the airport control tower was heard in the headset, Luftwaffe Lieutenant Mark Valls looked up at the slowly rising morning sun and silently drew a cross on his chest with his right hand.

With a cough-like roar, the 1,250-horsepower engine of the Junkers Ju-33 was activated, and the three-blade hollow steel propeller began to produce a powerful thrust backwards at 2,400 rpm. When the navigator waved the signal stick in his hand, the crew quickly removed the safety grid under the front wheel of these latest vultures. Under the guidance of the navigator, one Ju-33 after another entered the take-off runway, accelerated to taxi until takeoff, and the land flew back quickly under the wings, and then soon the blue sea appeared.

Flying over the coastline, five vultures begin to climb, their favorite fresh air at an altitude of 3 kilometers, and diving on the battlefield filled with gunsmoke is their specialty.

"Each machine reports the situation!"

As always, Valls took care of his younger brothers with his slightly hoarse voice.

"Falcon 2 is normal!" Hearing this, Valls would have thought of a young and handsome young man sitting in the cockpit of the plane to his right, with blonde hair that claimed to reflect the sun's rays 100 percent, and although this was not scientific, he could indeed get a shampoo advertisement for his smooth hair without a trace of variegation.

"Falcon 3 is normal!" The shy voice came from one of Vals's least optimistic pilots, a 6-foot-tall young man who always spoke timidly, which made Vals always feel like a little girl among his men. However, despite his very introverted personality, he was much more fierce when flying this Junkers dive bomber, and his bomb throwing results in training and exercises were the best in the entire squad, if it weren't for this, the straight Vals would have recommended him to work in the battleship's sonar room, because people only need to be quiet when talking there.

"Falcon 4 is normal!" The bomber was piloted by a young and energetic young man born in Württemberg.

"Grey Falcon 5 is normal!" The last one, and the shortest time in this squad, he was born in 1915 and was only 20 years old, and there are usually only two situations to join the German Navy's carrier-based aircraft unit known as a trump card at this age and participate in actual combat, one is to go through the back door, and the other is to have considerable talent, and this young man is obviously the latter.

"Excellent! Our altitude is ...... now," Valls glanced at his altimeter, "2500 meters!" Keep climbing until you reach 3500 meters! Our target was Homestead, a harbor that had been razed to the ground by naval guns, and we heard that 4 divisions of troops would be landing there this morning, and our mission was to clear the way for the Marines and Army units to turn the Americans with bombshells! ”

To the delight of Vals, the lads were neither overly excited nor lifeless when they heard this, and under his long-term teaching, the lads began to grasp the essence of the tradition of the Air Force not being arrogant or discouraged!

"Although this is a front-line bombing mission that everyone ********, I still have to remind you that you must see the signal clearly before dropping bombs, and don't drop bombs on our own heads!" Valls reminded without tire. Although the German army has long applied radio beacon technology to military affairs, it is far from being called precision bombing, and at best it is a guide for the strategic bombing of large aircraft groups, but it is difficult to play a role in tactical bombing. As a result, at present, the German ground forces need to use colored signal flares or fireworks to guide when calling their own planes for support, but such visual guidance will inevitably be biased, especially on the battlefield where the combat situation is more complicated, and accidental hits still occur from time to time.

"Sir, don't worry!" The lads confidently replied, "We don't let bombs fall where there are friendly troops, forts near the coast, artillery positions in the rear, and chariots hidden in the sand, they are our prey, aren't they?" ”

Valls smiled, for these dive bomber pilots who had been trained for a long time and fought many times in real combat, it was really a very pleasant thing to fight with air supremacy.

Although the speed of the Ju-33 was not as fast as that of its predecessors, it was much faster than its predecessors, and just 40 minutes later, the small group flew into battle with a deadly high-explosive aerial bomb along with an overwhelming array of fighters.

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