On the morning of the 28th, the Dunkirk area was filled with fog, and the Luftwaffe, under Goering's strict orders, disregarded the influence of bad weather, dispatched two bomber groups, and after arriving at Dunkirk, they were finally forced to return with bombs because of poor visibility.

The British took advantage of this opportunity to organize the retreat of officers and men, and due to the serious damage to the port, the role of the beach and the breakwater of the port became more and more important. Eight landing craft of the Maritime Resistance Army shone on this morning, and their transportation efficiency far exceeded those of the British boats. More than half of the coalition soldiers rescued in the morning were transferred from the eight landing craft to warships or civilian ships.

The large-scale bombing of the German army did not work, and of course they were not reconciled, and they continued to carry out disruptive air raids on Dunkirk in small formations of 3 to 5 planes in an attempt to interfere with the retreat of the British army.

But the British soon found that the German air raids did little damage, most of the bombs fell into the sea and open areas, and even if a few bombs exploded near the soldiers' assembly site, the soft sand could absorb most of the energy of the explosion, and even the explosion around them was only a shock, splashing mud and sand.

Seeing this, the British soldiers waiting for the retreat came out of their hiding places one after another, some played football and cricket on the beach, some bathed in the seawater, and some even leisurely played with sand sculptures, seemingly indifferent to the imminent death.

Li Guang also deeply admired this point, and it was normal for the Chinese army in China, especially the miscellaneous army, to collapse if such a situation was encountered. The fighters of the Naval Resistance Army were also extremely unaccustomed to this kind of disturbing bombing, and in two or three days, the fighters had seen the war in Europe, and they had grown extremely fast. Although there are inevitable concerns about this kind of disturbing bombing, they still diligently search for weapons and ammunition on the battlefield. Li Guang once saw many comments on the Internet, saying how incompetent the British army was and how the French army could not fight, but when you really got in touch with these soldiers, you realized that the training of the British army was not without merit. Li Guang saw that the retreat of the British army was the most organized, and the soldiers lined up to get on the boat, and there was no scramble.

This alone is difficult to achieve unless it is a fully trained and psychologically strong unit. On the outer battlefield, the battle between the British and French forces and the German army was also extremely fierce, and the British and French forces were not about to collapse in front of the German armored clusters. According to Li Guang's understanding of the British and French forces, apart from the tactical inconsistencies of the two armies, the biggest problem now is that they lack fighting spirit.

This morning was not a good thing for Li Guang, the mountain of weapons did not have time to be transported to the free ship, and the eight landing craft did not have a little free time.

In Li Guang's belly, time passed second by second. The weather gradually began to clear and the fog gradually cleared. Both the British and French forces and the naval resistance forces ushered in the most critical moment.

The Luftwaffe went on the offensive.

It had been three days since Li Guang arrived in Dunkirk, and for the first time he saw the combat level of the British Air Force.

The Luftwaffe and the British reached Dunkirk almost simultaneously.

At this point, the British did it perfectly. The British were fighting here on half of their home turf, and in the area on both sides of the English Channel, the British set up a large number of weather observation points, and accurately predicted when the fog would disappear.

The Luftwaffe was caught off guard and suffered a big loss in a single shot, and several fighters were shot down by the British. The Luftwaffe far outnumbered the British, but mostly bombers. And the British army was mostly fighters.

The German aviation industry was developed enough, but the British fighters were completely superior to the German bombers in the confrontation of the aircraft. In the first wave of confrontation between the Luftwaffe and the British Air Force, the British army was completely victorious.

The German bombers could only drop their bombs in a hurry and escape.

Coalition soldiers on the beach cheered wave after wave, cheering for the victory of the Air Force. But this is only the appetizer of the 28th air battle. In the following time, the Anglo-French army tasted the power of the Luftwaffe.

German bombers continued to be escorted by fighters, and the British Air Force began to get into a bitter battle.

The air battle in the afternoon was even more brutal, the number of British fighters was far from the opponent of the German army, and the British army's airfield was located in the British mainland, which was far away from the battlefield, and the rotation cycle far exceeded that of the German army. It was just after two o'clock in the afternoon, and the Luftwaffe had the upper hand completely.

The British Navy, transporting the retreating troops on the sea, was completely exposed to the threat of German fighters at this moment.

The Germans did not have torpedo planes, but dive bombers and horizontal bombers buzzed around the British battleships like flies.

At about 2:30 p.m., the most critical moment on the battlefield occurred. In the sky over the huge battlefield, there were no more than five British fighters, while the total number of German fighters exceeded 200.

God favored the Anglo-French forces at this moment, and the fog filled again. The British battleship was considered to have survived, and if the weather could last another twenty minutes, the British battleship would definitely suffer a fatal blow.

At noon on the same day, the Naval Resistance Army also ushered in its first battle.

A German fighter spotted the pickup and the Liberty wheel, or the pickup to be precise.

Worried about the air raids of German fighters during the day, Li Guang transferred the Liberty to the sea at a distance of 70 kilometers from Dunkirk. But the weather doesn't go your way, and the beach of Dunkirk is foggy, but the visibility in this area is quite good. Li Guang was clever but was mistaken by cleverness, and instead of hiding in the fog, he was discovered by German fighters far from the battlefield.

The moment the lookout post spotted the fighter plane, Li Guang's whole person became nervous. After a walk around the French soil in the morning, he took advantage of the fog and returned to the Liberty Wheel, where he took a look at his harvest with great interest. At this time, these huge gains have become extremely dangerous.

By the 28th, the free ship had been loaded with more than 6,000 tons of weapons and ammunition. If it explodes, it is no exaggeration to describe it as earth-shattering.

The previous efforts of the Naval Resistance Army for air defense were not in vain, and the smoke around the Liberty Wheel was steaming, obscuring the sight of the German pilots, who only found the pickup.

The German fighter plane spotted smoke and a destroyer on the sea, thinking that it had caught a fat sheep, but who knew that it was Hades, and a dive followed the pickup.

Seeing that the German fighters began to attack the pickup, Li Guang breathed a sigh of relief. The current Liberty Wheel can be said to have no self-protection, and if it is hit by a German fighter, even if it is not a bomb, but just a machine gun bullet, it may cause the whole ship to explode.

During the few days of rescuing the Anglo-French troops, there was no doubt that the fighters of an infantry company and an armored company were physically exhausted. But this is not to say that the fighters on the anti-aircraft artillery battery and the pickup destroyer are easy.

In addition to arranging for the stacking of supplies, these soldiers all stayed in the gun positions during the day, and even at night, a third of the personnel remained behind. It's no easy thing to be so heavily guarded in the Atlantic Ocean, where the damp and cold air makes everyone feel like they're being fished out of water.

The design of the destroyer Pickup focuses on a low center of gravity and a low freeboard structure, which is a bit obvious, and the firing platform is relatively stable. But it was also the low freeboard design that allowed the Atlantic wind and waves to hit the ship from time to time, and the soldiers' uniforms hardly dried. In the past few days, the officers and men on the pickup, from captain Huang Zhonghua to ordinary soldiers, have also had enough of the wind and frost in the North Atlantic.

The attack of the fighter planes on the ship can be said to be a matter of life and death, and the hard work of the naval resistance force has been effective at this moment.

The German fighters swooped down, and the first to meet the German fighters was not the rain of anti-aircraft guns, but three groups of 24 high-power searchlights. Intense flashes of light gathered on the German plane, making it impossible for the German pilots to distinguish what was going on, and then a rain of shells and bullets rained down on the plane.

The level of the gunners of the Naval Resistance Army is actually quite poor, but no matter how bad they are, they can't stop the artillery. At this time, it was not only the destroyer Pickup that fired, but also dozens of anti-aircraft guns on the Libership.

In one shot, the fighter plane was smashed to pieces in the air. What is a rain of bullets? This is the real rain of bullets, more than ten seconds, nearly 100 anti-aircraft guns, and the tongue of fire bursts out. The black smoke emitted by the volley exploded obscured the sky where the German fighters were located, and it lasted for a long time.

Ferocious, sharp. Li Guang was very satisfied with his battleship. And this is not the best state of this pickup destroyer, and now there are not many anti-aircraft guns, twin or triple mounted on the ship. In the future, the anti-aircraft guns on each gun emplacement were replaced with twin or triple guns. The firepower will be even more terrifying.

In Li Guang's plan, the cost of the pickup-class destroyer was more than $2 million, but if it was really equipped with antiaircraft guns according to Li Guang's idea, the cost would reach an astonishing $4 million. Anti-aircraft guns are valuable weapons, and the value of any anti-aircraft gun is not more than 10,000 US dollars, while the cost of a three-inch anti-aircraft gun is as high as more than 20,000 US dollars. Large-caliber anti-aircraft guns are even more expensive than heavy guns.

The pickup didn't even have an anti-aircraft gun before it sailed for Europe. But by this time it was already full of anti-aircraft artillery like hedgehogs.

Although it is only the beginning, the success of this battleship is obvious. Li Guang was secretly proud, if it were not for this European adventure, I am afraid that it would be impossible for the three pickup air defense destroyers to be equipped with a complete antiaircraft artillery group. This also made Li Guang look forward to the three-inch anti-aircraft gun on Dunkirk Beach even more.

Although the Naval Resistance Army is developing antiaircraft artillery, it is an antiaircraft gun, even if it is imitated, it cannot be completed in a day or two, and before equipping the antiaircraft artillery independently developed by the Shanghai Anti-Japanese Army, the pickup destroyer can have combat effectiveness, and the only channel Li Guang can think of is to "pick up garbage." If you want to rely on other industries to make money to complete these three destroyers, it will be too late in time.

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