Chapter 370: Dunkirk (Medium)

The retreat from Dunkirk Hitler did not make the mistakes of the Second World War and did not order the ground armored forces to stop advancing. But instead the armored forces were ordered to carry out a quick refurbishment, and they immediately entered the battle.

As early as May 26, Guderian assembled a tank group to attack Dunkirk, and asked Hitler for permission to lead his troops to storm the allied blocking line, break through the Dunkirk port area, and deal the final blow to the British and French forces.

At this time, the commander of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Goering Colin (who seemed to only brag, could only brag) persuaded Hitler that the Dunkirk port area was low-lying and criss-crossed, and the canals were not suitable for tank combat. Asking Hitler to destroy the remnants of Britain and France with air force bombers and closing the English Channel, which was approved by Hitler.

And on the naval side, the Baltic Fleet, which had been staying on the German mainland, also quietly left.

However, the next day the Air Force lost and could not really blockade the English Channel. Guderian's armored forces, which had already finished recuperation, received Hitler's order to immediately attack Dunkirk.

After Colin's toss, he almost missed the opportunity to encircle and blockade Dunkirk, and waited until Hitler found that Goering's cowhide had blown up before sending Guderian to attack, and at this moment many Allied soldiers had completed the retreat.

The German armored group, led by tanks, began an attack on the Allied forces in Dunkirk. For the first time, however, the German attacking forces were met with very heavy resistance.

The Allies had expected a major German attack, and the heavy weapons that had been prepared to be discarded in the retreat came in handy. 1,600 large-caliber heavy guns, shells were constantly pouring down on the German armored forces.

In the small city of Dunkirk, the Allies had a very strong defense, with 1,600 artillery pieces, 950 anti-aircraft guns, 700 anti-tank guns, 83,000 vehicles, 95,000 motorcycles, 900 tanks, 28,000 machine guns, 7,400 anti-tank guns, and 800,000 tons of military supplies.

Together with the fighters that took off from the British mainland, Germany's advantage here was not very great.

On the ground, the dense anti-tank guns made it difficult for the German tank units to advance, and the twin anti-heavy guns were constantly firing at each other.

In the sky, the fighters of the two sides were intertwined, and the dense fighters blocked the entire sky.

Britain from Mosquito fighters to Spitfires and hurricanes, from Mosquitoes to Spitfires and hurricanes, are constantly seen in the skies over Dunkirk. And Germany did not show weakness, and the Hawk-2, BF109K fighters also continued to fly over Dunkirk. Every minute planes fell, some Allied planes, some German planes.

The UK has some advantages due to its proximity to the distance and the long time spent in the air. However, the Germans soon understood their inferiority, and soon a large number of Warhawk-2s were sent into battle. In this air battle, only the time spent in the air by the Warhawk-2 could be compared with that of the British fighters. And it is fast, not weaker than the British all-wooden Mosquito fighter, and in several engagements, the results of the Warhawk-2 are brilliant. Defense is also good, with a low percentage of destroyed numbers.

At Andriy's suggestion, Hitler sent all of his Warhawk-2s at once. Thousands of Warhawk-2s swept the sky. This is Hitler's most powerful air force at the moment, all of which are Chinese Warhawk-2.

After clearing the British air power over Dunkirk, the planes flew straight to the British Isles, followed by three bomber air squadrons, with only one purpose, to destroy British airfields, so that Britain could not dispatch planes for a short time.

In order to wipe out the 400,000 Allied soldiers in Dunkirk, Hitler had already taken out his air force base. Throwing all the planes purchased from China into the battlefield at one time, he is making a crazy gamble.

And the Allied Command, far away in London, was already full of noisy voices at the moment. More than a thousand warplanes flew straight for London, followed by countless bombers. Such a force plunged the Allied command into a huge panic.

After receiving the order of the command, the planes at many airfields in the United Kingdom took off urgently, but when they encountered the Warhawk-2 in the sky, they were basically shot down as much as they flew. Effective interception is simply impossible. When the quantity and quality reach a certain quantity, unless it is a more powerful force to deal with it, it is only a drop in the bucket.

Air raid sirens also sounded over London, and the silence was shattered by the sound of cacophony sirens. The panicked crowd was running around, and the lucky ones had taken refuge in bomb shelters. However, many more people are running through the streets like headless flies.

When the German aircraft group entered the skies over London, the British air defense forces on the ground began shelling. The sky was filled with barrage in an instant, but the planes in the sky didn't care about those anti-aircraft guns at all, climbed to the highest ceiling, and dodged a lot of anti-aircraft fire, except for those latest anti-aircraft guns, the rest of the old anti-aircraft guns were simply out of reach.

Chinese fighters have a standard, that is, the ceiling can reach 12,000 kilometers. And there are not many anti-aircraft guns on the British side that can hit 12,000 meters, many of them can only hit 10,000 meters, and they are just wasting their efforts.

The bombing came quickly, and there was no need for low-altitude bombing at all for such a target as an airfield. For a time, countless explosions were heard throughout the land of London, and all the Allied airports in London were heavily bombed.

After the bombing of the airport, the German side stopped there. Dropping the remaining ammunition in the heart of London, the city of the Empire on which the sun never sets for the first time ushered in its catastrophe.

However, the German side was not without losses, and many aircraft were shot down by anti-aircraft guns. But compared to the results of destruction, such losses are not unacceptable. The bombing came and went quickly.

When the German bombers flew away, smoke billowed all over London, many houses were blown up, craters appeared on the ground, and wounded people and corpses could be seen everywhere in the streets. The consequences of the war are very visible to the citizens of London.

However, this was only an episode of the retreat from Dunkirk, and the British were unable to send fighter jets to support Dunkirk in the first place. At this time, the sky over Dunkirk was full of German fighters. Formerly the Allied fighters of Germany's opponents, now their opponents are ground-based anti-aircraft guns.

The 400,000-strong Allied forces also had nearly 1,000 anti-aircraft guns, including many anti-aircraft machine guns. Before, because the fighters of the two sides were strangled together, the air defense forces on the ground were only staring dryly, but now the sky is full of German planes. There was room for the Allied air defense forces below.

Despite the large anti-aircraft fire of the Allied forces, scattered in places like Dunkirk, it was simply impossible to form an effective dense network of fire. Under the attack of the German Stukka, the Allied anti-aircraft fire points were quickly removed one by one. Then the German bomber units bombed the Allied heavy artillery units, and there was no cover, and under the bombing of the planes, the more than 1,000 artillery pieces of the Allied forces soon suffered heavy losses.

And the German armored forces, with the cooperation of the air force, still quickly approached. With a combined air-ground strike, the Allied defense line looked very tenacious, but under the barrage of steel, it was quickly torn open. German armored forces began to encircle the Allied forces.

The Allied tanks and anti-tank guns were quickly submerged in the huge German tank group, and for a time the Allied soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the defending troops were quickly divided and surrounded.

On the first day of the offensive alone, the Germans destroyed and captured 50,000 Allied troops, completely tore apart the defensive line built by the Allied forces, and crippled the heavy defensive weapons of the Allied forces.

on the English Channel.

Under the heavy fire of German artillery, thousands of ships of all kinds headed in the direction of Dunkirk.

It was an eccentric "armada": there were brightly colored French fishing boats, tourist boats carrying passengers, maintenance boats, tugboats, small escort boats, minesweepers, trawlers, destroyers, British air rescue ships, radar sentinel ships...... Someone joked: "Where does all that England can float?" All went to Dunkirk."

This extremely bizarre and indescribable fleet was piloted by all sorts of British and French. Among them were bankers, dentists, taxi drivers, speedboat drivers, dock workers, teenagers, engineers, fishermen, and civilian officials...... Among them were the delicate-skinned Sea Scouts and the bronzed-skinned old man with pale hair. Many of them were clearly poor, they had no coats, they wore shabby sweaters and sanitary shirts, they wore cracked galoshes, they were covered in the sea and rain, and they were ......hungry in the bone-chilling wind.

The strange fleet was bombarded by artillery fire, unarmed and unescorted, but the brave people faced the rain of bullets and gunpowder smoke and fire, and moved forward nimbly on the surface of the sunken ship, knowing that hell was ahead, and they were not afraid.

The British government and navy mobilized large numbers of sailors to mobilize the people to rescue the army. Their plan was to try to evacuate 30,000 people.

There are many complaints and quarrels about the impending tragedy. They lashed out at the incompetence and ** of the upper echelons, but still threw themselves into the danger of withdrawing troops. So there was a strange "armada" that sailed to Dunkirk.

The spirit is commendable, but no matter how brave it is, it is flesh and blood, and it will be finished if the bullet hits.

The Luftwaffe, which had eliminated the ground air defense forces, also bombed and strafed ships in the English Channel. The H-2s that bombed London were all replaced with small aerial bombs, and the dense aerial bombs continued to fall into the English Channel. Many of the Allied soldiers who had boarded from Dunkirk sank to the bottom of the sea with the ship, and the water was littered with Allied soldiers diving into the water, struggling in a rain of bullets and artillery.

Without anti-aircraft fire, without the support of the Air Force, the ships in the English Channel were just live targets, and there was simply no chance of leaving anything to chance.

It's not 40 years later, it's 41 years now, and there is no thick fog in the English Channel to help the Allies evade the planes. In this plane, Hitler did not give a stupid halt to advance, even if there was a small mistake, but it reacted quickly. In addition, there were weapons and equipment sold by China to Germany, and Hitler's determination was even stronger, and he directly crossed the channel to attack London, paralyzing the Allied airfields. This was the result of heavy losses for the Allies.

And Churchill's statement yesterday has become a joke today. Today's defeat is full of irony for him.

(To be continued)