"Boom!"

A flame rose again from the May Square in front of the pink Rose Palace, and a large column of smoke was thrown into the sky with gravel, dirt or other things, and then fell heavily to the ground, completely covering an 88mm anti-aircraft gun nearby. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The New Asbanian gunners, who had almost lost their lives, were not intimidated, and without even brushing the smoke and dust off their bodies, they once again threw themselves into the battle with all their might.

One after another, 88mm fixed-height fuse shells purchased from Germany were stuffed into the breech, and then the fuses were pulled, and under the thrust of gunpowder deflagration, the shells burst out and rushed up to an altitude of five or six thousand meters, exploding between the seemingly dense group of American bombers, and exploding dense "salutes" in the air. But not a few American planes were shot and crashed!

But the fire and machine groups, which looked very dense from the ground, became scattered and sparse at an altitude of more than six thousand meters. The sky was so wide that the artillery fire and planes scattered all at once. The American planes passed through the sparse artillery fire, and only a small fraction of the 128mm radio proximity fuse shells (fired by the Luftwaffe's anti-aircraft artillery units) posed some threat. However, because there was no fire control radar to help with aiming, the power of these German anti-aircraft guns was not fully utilized.

However, from time to time, extremely fast surface-to-air missiles that take off from the ground can often take down the powerful and massive B-17 and B-24 bombers. It's a very good day, and both the visually controlled Rhine Daughter missile and the Waterfall missile using a variety of guidance methods can achieve good results.

The Luftwaffe and Navy now have a total of five surface-to-air missile batteries deployed in Buenos Aires, with a total of 20 launchers capable of firing at least 60 missiles per hour. With a 20%-30% hit rate, you can always take out a dozen or twenty American bombers.

However, this loss is really nothing for the American bomber group that almost obscures the sky from the sky.

The bombardment continues! Hundreds of tons of bombs and napalm were dropped, screeching and falling to the ground, muffled bomb explosions resounded throughout the city, and gray-white flames mixed with gunsmoke and suffocating heat flew away in the sun.

……

"Mr. President, I just received a report from the air defense command of the southern region that the Americans dropped a large number of napalm......"

A new Asbanian Army officer in a colonel's uniform hurried into the president's temporary office in the basement of the Rose Palace and saw Federal President Juan Brown. Peron is still with Evita, who is stunningly beautiful but annoying (to the disgust of the high-flying new Asbanian army colonel). Duvalt spoke.

The latter is the Secretary of the Ministry of Labor of the Government of the New Federation of Asbania. It doesn't seem to be a big official, but it's powerful. Because the Minister of Labor of the New Federation of Asbania is Juan. Perón himself, and this ministry is also a key ministry in the realization of the so-called "social justice of the New Federation of Asbania", and at the same time the most powerful ministry in the government of the New Federation of Asbania!

And in the American imagination, Juan. Unlike Peron, the head of the army, who relied on soldiers with guns to maintain his dictatorship, Peron, who came to power through a military coup, is now based not on the army, but on the working people of New Asbania. It turned out to be in Mistress Evita. Under the influence of Duvalt, Juan . After coming to power, Perón did something that could not be believed in the politics of a South American country - he actually made good on the promise he made to the people at the time of the seizure!

For example, land reform aimed at having land for the tillers, real raising of wages for the working class, using state funds to build housing for workers, and nationalizing foreign (American) investment in New Asbania, etc. Under this series of measures to buy people's hearts, not only the original Argentine people at the bottom of the country have greatly increased their favorability towards Peron, but even the other two subjects of the federation, Chile and Uruguay, have begun to regard Perón as their father of the nation.

So neither the night air raids of the Americans on Buenos Aires nor the attack on Chile swayed Juan. Peron's reign in New Asbania. But the scale of the air raids on Buenos Aires today seems to be a bit bigger!

Although hidden in the basement of the presidential palace, Juan . Peron could still sense the scale of the Americans' air raids by the constant falling dust from the ceiling and the dull roar that seemed to be tight.

And even more so Juan. Peron was worried that these American bombers dropped not only ordinary bombs, but also napalm that could cause a fire! These napalm may not pose much of a threat to the wealthy, where buildings are very empty, but they are a deadly danger to the slums with dense shantytowns. Just a few petrol bombs can set the entire block on fire! And the southern part of the city of Buenos Aires, which has just been hit by napalm, is full of shantytowns where the poor gather.

It is clear that the Americans had done their homework before the bombing, and they knew exactly where to drop the terrible napalm in order to do the most harm to the inhabitants of Buenos Aires.

"What? The Americans dropped napalm on the Flores region? "Evita. Duvalt stood up suddenly, a pair of beautiful eyes erupted with anger and a few crystal tears, his pink fists were clenched tightly, and his voice trembled a little, "How can they treat those innocent people like this?" I lived there and there were a lot of children and old people......"

"How's it going there?" Juan. Peron frowned.

"Mr. President, very bad...... The fire was so big that it was impossible to control it, and I was afraid that large slum slums would be burned down. ”

"Is it that serious?" Perón took a breath, and although the poor people of Buenos Aires were now so supportive of him that the pro-American elites did not dare to use street politics against him, it was not known how many poor people had lost their lives and homes in the air raids...... It's really hard to predict whether people's hearts will change because of this!

"Juan," Evita reminded, "we must rush to the Flores area as soon as the bombing is over to comfort the people there." The Ministry of Labor has long prepared relief materials and organized doctors to carry out rescue at any time. ”

Peron nodded, pleased with the efficiency of his secretary. "Evita, you go first." Peron furrowed his brow and said, "I'll go and meet with Admiral Falkenhorst and Admiral Canaris later...... Now they must be urged to send more fighters to defend Buenos Aires, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable! ”

……

On the Atlantic coast, near the port of Buenos Aires, smoke filled the air, and artillery fire into the sky was more numerous and more intense than elsewhere in the city. After the bombing of the Buenos Aires military port, the German antiaircraft artillery unit took over the air defense of this area, deployed a large number of 128mm anti-aircraft guns that could fire radio proximity fuses, and also set up several missile firing positions, and even the number of anti-aircraft balloons was more than in other places.

And the slum of Buenos Aires, which is being hit by napalm, is near the port area, and the fire is spreading everywhere, and many new Asbanians (Argentinians) crying out and fleeing their homes, mostly old people, women and children, have fled to the heavily guarded port area, and some of them have been placed in solid basements - there are many strong buildings in the port area with basements, which are also the home port of the former Argentine Navy, and there are many fortresses and anti-artillery facilities belonging to the navy, which can be used as anti-aircraft shelters - But there are still others who refuse to enter the bunker at all, and just look at their homes that have turned into a sea of fire and cry. Because their family is still there, there is more than luck!

Generals Falkenhorst and Canaris also did not drill dugouts, and their headquarters were located in a former Argentine naval coastal defense battery. This battery is a product of the South American naval competition in the early 20th century, and it is very strong enough to resist the bombardment of the 356mm main guns of the Chilean Admiral Latorre-class battleships, and now the high-explosive shells dropped by the Americans naturally can't help it.

The two German generals stood at an observation hole facing the city and looked out, looking at the city that had been flooded by the fire.

"God, where the hell did these Argentines offend the Yankees?" "The Yankees actually sent so many bombers," Falkenhorst said. ”

Although warned by the intelligence services for a long time, Falkenhorst was still not convinced that there would be hundreds to a thousand planes to bomb Buenos Aires.

"It's a sign of weakness!" Canalis shook his head and said, "The Americans did not dare to do anything with Europe, nor did they dare to attack Santiago (Canaris did not know that the Americans were preparing to storm there), but only the defenseless poor Argentine...... Just when Kennedy and Hess met to negotiate. This shows that the Americans, eager for peace, are unwilling to offer sincere conditions and can only intimidate us with such massacres of civilians. ”

"Will it work?" Falkenhorst asked, "Will Argentina delay Perón because of this?" ”

Canaris snorted, "Maybe, maybe not." But we certainly have a way to maintain Peron's regime, and now that the whole of Europe is behind Peron, the pro-American faction in Argentina has no choice. ”