The retreat of the Anglo-French forces can be said to have gone smoothly in the thirtieth day, God is the God of Westerners, but on this day God did not think of the Germans.

On May 30, 1940, the weather was really good enough, but how good was the weather?

On this day, the Dunkirk area was very humid in the air, the fog almost covered the beach, there was light rain from time to time, and the ground was filled with gunsmoke, and the visibility was very low, and it was difficult for the Luftwaffe to take off, let alone attack.

It rains a lot, and as a rule of thumb, the sea is rough if not huge, but in fact, the English Channel, which is known for its high winds and waves, is uncharacteristically calm. As a result, a large number of small ships mobilized by the British, many of which were river vessels, were able to go to sea and reach Dunkirk to pick up the retreating officers and soldiers. The weather was too suitable for retreat, and the eight ships of the Maritime Resistance Army did not find a single free to transport personnel.

But such weather could not stop the German ground forces from attacking. Li Guang listened to the sound of the cannon getting closer and closer, and was extremely anxious, and in order to prevent it, he set all these hundreds of cannons to shoot Zhu Yuan, and the shells were loaded.

Li Guang's artillery array was something that any regular officer would despise. This is also too blatant. On the bare beach, a square array of 100 guns was laid out, without any concealment. If this is bombed by German planes, it will definitely be a death.

Although Li Guang's knowledge of war was not as good as that of the British and French regular officers, he was not so idiotic as to be so stupid. According to Li Guang's words, this is called waste utilization, once, I mean, once it has played a role?

In the afternoon, the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army on the beach further expanded this artillery array. In the British and French forces, the largest number is not heavy artillery, but the French 1917 type 75mm guns, the number of 75mm guns collected by the naval resistance army in the past few days is amazing, and there are more than 100 guns of this type alone at the moment. And that's just a piecemeal collection. It is said that this cannon, the French army was equipped with a total of 4,000 guns, and it was the leading artillery of the French infantry.

The soldiers not only arranged more than 100 75mm guns neatly, but also lined up more than 40 85mm guns under the legal system.

By evening, more than two hundred and fifty guns had been placed in this artillery position. For such a long time, Li Guang disturbed God several times, who knew that God really gave face, the weather has always been either wind, rain or haze, and the Germans did not see a single plane.

Li Guang's throat was burning in a hurry, so many artillery pieces, so many ammunition and materials, could only be placed on the beachhead.

The snobbery of the Anglo-French forces was brought to the extreme on this day. None of the thousands of wounded on the beach were able to board the boat during the day. In the eyes of the generals, intact soldiers were obviously more valuable, and artillery, as the most valuable part of the army arms, was clearly prioritized for retreat.

The so-called humanity is nothing more than a stuff in the mouth of Westerners. Li Guang fiercely despised the British and French forces.

The British and French forces knew very well about the blatant collection of arms by the Naval Resistance Army, but not a single officer or soldier raised any objection to this kind of behavior, which shows that the military spirit has been dissipated to the extreme at this time.

Li Guang put on such a hundred-gun array, originally thought that it would definitely be affected by the coalition forces, whether it was ordered to fire support, or the fire to cover a certain area is understandable. After all, so much artillery is definitely a significant strategic strike force.

In the afternoon, Li Guang even asked Navy Lieutenant Smith to inform the army command, but to Li Guang's amazement, no one cared, and no one showed the slightest attention to such a powerful artillery group. None of the commanders made a request for artillery support.

Major Smith, who was in charge of liaison between the Naval Resistance Army and the coalition forces, explained the reason to Li Guang with a wry smile. Ostensibly a lack of gunners. But this reason is really unreliable, you must know that after a few days of retreat, there are still nearly 200,000 troops in the encirclement, and it is not a problem to find a few hundred gunners at all.

Major Smith even revealed that many officers made a lot of nonsense about the 100-gun array arranged by Li Guang, what violated tactical principles, and the layman's comments were like surging water in the English Channel. In short, none of the officers and soldiers wanted to enter this artillery position, and they were all worried about the German artillery counterattack.

Although this is a practical situation, after all, this artillery array is unobstructed, and once it is returned fire, it is not difficult to destroy, and even if the artillery positions are so dense, it will cause the explosion of artillery shells. But this is definitely not the real reason, the real reason is only one point, the Anglo-French forces now only want to retreat and do not have the courage to fight back.

In the southwestern direction, which Li Guang was most concerned about, the Germans had completely occupied Calais and were storming Gravolina.

Gravolina is also a small port town, almost halfway between Calais and Dunkirk. It was the only place for the Germans to attack Dunkirk from Calais, and there was not only a train track, but also a road. After the Anglo-French forces implemented flood defenses, this was the only advance hub of the German armored forces, which can be described as a key point on the battlefield.

The shore artillery of Calais to the German army has already affected the arms delivery of the Maritime Resistance Army, and if the German army occupies Gravolina again, then the sea passage of the Naval Resistance Army is simply a dead end, and I am afraid that it will be difficult for even a ship to pass. After all, the coast near Gravolina is much closer to the route, less than three kilometers.

Gravolina could not be occupied by the Germans until the Naval Resistance Army was filled with the Liberty Wheel. If the Germans had occupied Gravolina, it would have been less than eight kilometers from the temporary docks of the Naval Resistance Army. For the sake of the British and French forces, and even more for himself, Li Guang decided to use artillery fire against the Navy.

More than 200 guns were divided into two gun groups, and a total of more than 40 cannons were responsible for the shelling of Calais. And light artillery with a firing range of more than eight kilometers was responsible for striking the perimeter of Gravolina.

Li Guang's decision was actually quite risky, not to mention the counterattack from the German army. Due to the extremely poor level of gunners of the Naval Resistance Army, the shelling of Calais would not kill the British and French troops, but it could also kill and injure the residents of the city.

And the shelling of Gravolina was even more dangerous, and the rookie gunners were likely to blow up the Anglo-French troops on the defensive line.

Li Guang made a plan, and after a lot of efforts, Major Smith found a few British and French gunners with early boarding as bait, and these gunners carefully calculated and set the shooting Zhu Yuan according to the map, and then hurriedly withdrew from the artillery position.

At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, after a long period of busy work, the soldiers of the Naval Resistance Army finally made preparations. Too much artillery, too few personnel. Five hundred soldiers had to serve two hundred and fifty artillery pieces, which was too much work.

Even though there are many loopholes, Li Guang is very satisfied, and being able to station all the more than 200 guns is already quite a good thing.

With Li Guang's order, more than two hundred cannons roared together. After firing with four guns the night before, the fighters of the Navy's resistance army had a lot of understanding of how to adjust the firing unit. But it's impossible to get it right.

It is not uncommon for thousands of artillery pieces to appear in a battle on the European battlefield, but such intensive artillery bombardment is rare, and during Li Guang's few days in Dunkirk, although the artillery roared, it was rare for hundreds of artillery to fire in a salvo.

The reason why there was no such large-scale artillery bombardment was that the main force of the Germans was the armored units that attacked from the Ardennes Mountains, and the heavy artillery clusters reached the outskirts of Dunkirk by the 30th. This is why it was only in the thirties that the German artillery began to shell the beach.

And the organizational system and command system of the Anglo-French forces were simply a mess after the rout. The fact that the French army was on its own turf and that hundreds of heavy guns could get bogged down in the quagmire was enough to show the failure of the command system. The route of the march of such an important strategic cluster was not surveyed in advance.

The chaotic command system of the coalition forces simply cannot integrate combat effectiveness. Therefore, the artillery support of the British and French forces was mostly a small group of several guns.

The Germans were unprepared, and the first round of shelling achieved amazing results. The long-range cannon fire, although not accurate, fell near the shore guns in the harbor. It was the poor aiming level of the Naval Resistance Army that made this shelling look more like a covering strike.

And the achievements of the light artillery group are even greater, since these guns do not have a clear target at all, and the chosen target is only a road node. Li Guang also has no way of knowing the information on the front line, but he has read a lot of military books in recent years, and he also knows some basic principles, anyway, no matter what kind of battle, the node of the road is the key point. In order to avoid bombing the Chinese, British and French forces, the firing range is almost always at the maximum.

Miracles on the battlefield are everywhere, and the shelling actually deflects the road nodes not a little, but at least a kilometer. But the effect was just as good, this round of shelling destroyed a German artillery position, and the movement caused by the explosion of the shells on the German artillery position was extremely large, and Li Guang on the pickup could see it clearly at a distance of 20 nautical miles.

Half an hour later, the gunners of the Naval Resistance Army roughly adjusted the cannon to shoot at Zhu Yuan, and once again exerted their might.

In this way, the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army fired more than ten rounds in a row during the night, but they did not receive an effective counterattack from the Germans. In fact, the Germans counterattacked aggressively, and the shells kept firing at the artillery positions, but it was clear that their artillery was not having enough range. The Germans were running for a long time, and it was impossible to carry more shells, and it was no longer wasted after a few rounds.

The Germans did not suffer much damage during the night, but their minds were full of questions. In order to be able to strike at the artillery positions of the Naval Resistance Army, the artillery of the Germans did not transfer positions at all. However, the naval resistance army seemed to know that the opponent's artillery range was insufficient, and did not counterattack the opponent's position in the slightest. Instead, they bombed the port and a small road junction. The Germans didn't know that the rookies of the Naval Resistance Army did not know how to calculate the trajectory at all, and they did not know anything about such difficult actions as artillery counterattacks.

To counterattack the opponent's artillery position, it is necessary not only to be able to adjust the shooting elements yourself, but also to calculate the opponent's location according to the trajectory of the opponent's shells. This Dongdong is high-tech in this era, not to mention the naval resistance army, even the German army can't pull out many masters.

Rookies have the advantage of being rookies, and in the artillery bombardment on the night of 30 days, the most definite results were the ports and wharves of Calais, and the shells were swayed out at any cost, and the Germans were not to mention setting up artillery positions here, and I am afraid that it would be extremely difficult to even transport artillery to the port. Both roads and facilities, after a night of bombardment, have returned to the Stone Age.

The submarine acted as an observation post, and by the morning it was confirmed that the batteries on the shore had been destroyed, which was a real surprise, and the most definite result of the overnight shelling.

This was the smoothest day for the retreat of the coalition forces, and it was also the most unhappy day for Li Guang.

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