When the Liberty was loaded at night, it was still a little closer to the coast, and the fog over Dunkirk had not yet cleared in the morning, and the Liberty Wheel was already far away from safety.

The Germans gave the British and French troops forty-eight hours, and Li Guang's memory did not know what would happen on the 27th. He can only do everything in his power to do a good job of air defense. Determined to make a fortune, if he was bombed by the Germans, Li Guang would be distressed to death.

For the sake of air defense, Li Guangke racked his brains and used all the air defense means he knew. During the day, smoke billowed around the free wheels, and countless scrap tires were ignited, emitting black smoke. Moreover, there were more than a dozen oil drums on the free wheel, burning heavy oil and rubber tires. The entire area where the Liberty Wheel is located is shrouded in smoke from a distance.

It was in the early morning that Li Guang, although he did not receive information from the British army, confirmed one thing, Calais had been captured by the Germans. The capture of Calais meant that the Liberty would not dare to approach Dunkirk again, even at night. After all, the closest location of the route is less than four kilometers from the port of Calais. After the Liberty Ship, I am afraid that the loading will have to rely on the landing craft ferry.

On the 24th and 25th, the battlefield around Dunkirk was quiet for 48 hours, and on the 26th, the fighting on the outer battlefield began to rage. The Germans have realized the big mistake they have made. With these two precious days, the Anglo-French army built a fairly strong defensive line on the outskirts of Dunkirk.

In the direction of Calais, which Li Guang was most concerned about, the Anglo-French forces established an important 'flood line' from Calais to Dunkirk, especially on the Graflin line between the two ports. The so-called "flood line" was to open the sluice gates along the coast between Dunkirk and Calais and flood the surrounding lowlands in order to block the German armored forces that were rapidly advancing north along the coast towards the Channel port.

Although Calais was occupied, the flood waters had not yet receded, and the German threat from the southwest was temporarily lifted, but for Li Guang, it was not particularly good news - German artillery could threaten the transportation of supplies by landing craft.

The situation around Dunkirk, Li Guang was most concerned about the direction of Calais and Graflin. It is the closest to the temporary pier set up by the Maritime Resistance Army. Calais is a good idea, fifteen kilometres from the temporary docks, but Graflin is much closer, less than eight kilometres. Once the Germans captured Graflin, heavy artillery could easily hit the beach where the Naval Resistance Army was located.

At eight o'clock in the morning, the question was thrown aside by Li Guang. The situation on the battlefield has changed again.

On the 26th, the Germans only sent a few warplanes to disturb Dunkirk, but did not bomb the beach. But on the morning of the 27th, the atmosphere over Dunkirk immediately became tense.

At eight o'clock, the 3rd and 2nd air forces of the Luftwaffe launched a major sortie to bomb the port area and beaches of Dunkirk, and on this day, the Germans dropped a total of 15,000 high-explosive bombs and 30,000 incendiary bombs, and Dunkirk was almost razed to the ground.

At half past eight, 200 sorties of fighters from the British Air Force took off from the mainland, doing everything they could to cover the boarding points on the beach and the ships on transport missions. Since the guano ship had already left Dunkirk in the early morning, the last landing craft had already pulled a batch of ammunition and headed for the Liberty ship just before the bombardment began.

Li Guang stood at the top of the pickup and observed Dunkirk with a large-aperture telescope. Offshore of the landing craft, he saw very clearly. The Luftwaffe bombarded extremely fiercely, and columns of smoke rose from the city of Dunkirk.

The landing craft has a displacement of less than 80 tons, but it is powered by a 400-horsepower diesel engine, which is quite fast even when fully loaded.

At this time, the sky in Dunkirk was clear, but the sea was rough, and the landing craft was not suitable for ocean navigation, and at this time it was like a leaf drifting on the sea.

Due to the sound of artillery in the direction of Calais last night, there was a temporary pause in the morning. Originally, Li Guang thought that even if the Germans occupied Calais, they would have to rest for a short time. Who knows, when the landing craft had just reached the position closest to Calais, the Germans opened fire.

Columns of water continued to rise in the air around the landing craft, and the landing craft was immediately in danger. Looking at the rising column of water, Li Guang judged that the caliber of the shore gun was not large, at most 150mm. However, a small landing craft could not withstand a heavy artillery, especially since there were dozens of tons of supplies and ammunition on board.

More than ten nautical miles away, Li Guang's heart was pinching. It can be seen that the cannonball is certainly not small, but the gunner is a rookie. The impact point is erratic, and there is no accuracy at all.

Li Guang scolded in his heart, the hateful French did not blow up such an important shore artillery battery, and left one for the Germans. In fact, Li Guang secretly cursed in his heart, but he also understood that even if there was no shore artillery, if the Germans deployed army artillery, they would still be able to block the waterway, after all, the waterway was too close to the coast, only about four kilometers.

Staff Officer Xue Chenggong's judgment was that the German Army was not proficient enough in the use of French shore artillery, but in fact, without the judgment of the staff officer, everyone could see that there was only one explanation for the failure of the shore artillery to hit the target within the direct firing distance.

In the thrilling fifteen minutes, the landing craft sailed out of the deterrent range of artillery fire without any danger.

After receiving the landing craft, the Liberty Wheel and the Pickup decided to put safety first and stay away from danger, and the two large ships immediately headed south with the landing craft submarine.

The contact between the pickup number and the beach has not been interrupted, and as a general, Li Guang's heart has been about one after another. Although the ships were far away from the battlefield, there were still fighters from two companies of the Naval Resistance Army on the beach of Dunkirk. The Germans bombed so frantically that Li Guang was very worried about the loss of his soldiers.

On this day, the officers and soldiers of the Naval Resistance Army saw for the first time the tragedy of the European battlefield. On the Chinese battlefield, the fighting between the Chinese army and the Chinese army was mainly ground troops, and although the air power of the Chinese army was far stronger than that of the Chinese army, the bombers of the Chinese army had a small bomb load and the number was insufficient, and the proportion of casualties caused to the Chinese army was not high, but more of a blow to the fighters' hearts on the battlefield. But in Dunkirk, the German bombers were simply overwhelming, and the bomb explosions were incessant, and the intensity of such strikes was not at all possible for the air force of the Japanese army.

On this day, more than a thousand Anglo-French troops were killed. This casualty was also due to the fact that the Germans' main objective was to bomb the port and not to launch an offensive against the Anglo-French forces on the ground.

In the Naval Resistance Army, especially in the Marine Corps, many officers who have experience in the battlefield are extremely satisfied with the weapons and equipment of the Naval Resistance Army. The company level can be fully equipped with light and heavy machine gun mortars, and even imitation 92 infantry guns. The battalion level can be equipped with imitation infantry guns. Such a configuration of weapons is simply unthinkable in the country. However, they found that this configuration could only be said to be normal or slightly stronger in the Anglo-French army.

Moreover, this seemingly formidable weapon configuration was still beaten back in the face of the overwhelming aerial bombardment of the Germans and the offensive of the armored forces.

After experiencing such a scene, the officers and men of the Marine Corps have a new understanding of the supremacy of firepower in Li Guangjianjun's thinking. And the navy has once again raised awareness, and the awareness of air defense has been raised again. The necessary surname of the Air Force was raised to a higher level.

The captain of the USS Pickup air defense destroyer is Huang Zhonghua. At the end of the First World War of Shixiangdao, Zheng Xuechang was promoted to the captain of a battleship, and Huang Zhonghua originally wanted to be the captain of a captured cruiser, in his concept, even a crippled cruiser was much stronger than a destroyer. After being appointed captain of the pickup destroyer, I was still a little depressed.

When he actually saw the power of the bomber, the concept immediately changed. He had a better understanding of the aircraft carriers and air strikes that Li Guang admired. And this is just the feeling he felt after seeing Germany use the fighter planes, not personally participating in the war, if he was personally involved, he would have felt even deeper.

And that night, the unpicky naval resistance army gained a lot, and only 150mm heavy artillery got five or six. And the biggest bonus of the night was the anti-tank gun. The number can no longer be verified, just eight anti-tank guns and eight landing craft made a trip. This is no longer a matter of support, but of tons.

The French on the beach were already a little anxious, according to the arrangement of the British Navy, the first day was all the late naval personnel, and these people had to arrange so many supplies of life after arriving in Britain.

And it was these actions of the British that made the French soldiers even more restless. Who knew that by the evening of the 27th, the French still had not been able to catch the flight.

However, it was difficult for the French soldiers on the beach to know the arrangement of the upper echelons, and the defensive line laid out by the British and French troops did not give the French who had already broken their hearts a little confidence. The indiscriminate bombardment of the Germans on the 27th exacerbated the fear of the French soldiers.

After the bombing, the fear of the French could no longer be controlled. The French officer was pointed to the head at a gun by the soldier and cried to his boss for help. Seeing that fratricidal was imminent, the French authorities could no longer sit still, and the British kept urging.

Even more shocking news was that on this very day, the Belgian army surrendered. The northern front of Dunkirk completely collapsed at this moment, and many people thought that the coalition forces still had a way to live, after all, hundreds of thousands of troops were defending to the death, and now many British and French soldiers had begun to despair. The 400,000 Anglo-French troops began to retreat to Dunkirk. At the moment of the surrender of Belgium, the Anglo-French forces were truly surrounded on three sides, and the staggering number of troops was compressed into a narrow area forty kilometers long along the coast and only nine kilometers inland, and the strategic depth was no longer possible.

The situation deteriorated, not to mention high-ranking officers, even ordinary soldiers could see that the English Channel to the west of France became the only hope for the coalition forces to survive.

And Li Guang, who is blind to history, only learned at this time that there were tens of thousands of Belgian troops on the coast. I'm sorry to die, but the Belgians don't seem to have any overseas territories, but it's nice to be able to knock on something else. (Belgium has a colony in Africa, Congo, but Li Guang doesn't know)

As a result, the signs on the eight landing craft and on the shore of the Maritime Resistance Force began to read: "British and Belgian soldiers, please get on board, French please stand back." ”

On the 27th, it was a great blow to the spirit of the French soldiers. During the night retreat on the 27th, although there were French soldiers on board, the number was less than 100, and the guano boats still did not transport the French. There was already a tendency to scratch on the beach, and there were even British and French soldiers with guns facing each other.

In the early morning of the 28th, a contract was signed, and the Polynesian Islands in the South Pacific Ocean have since become the territory of the Haitang State, thanks to the contribution made by the Haitang State to the French.

Even so, French historians analyzed after the war that if the French political axe had been wise, they would have promised earlier that the French [***] team would have rescued at least 8,000 more people, because the eight landing craft of the Naval Resistance Army were in contact with the French [***] team at the first time.

So far, Li Guang's goal has been achieved.

During the day on 27 July, the German army's wanton and indiscriminate bombing did not cause much damage to the naval resistance forces, and if we say that the losses were some weapons and ammunition that Li Guang regarded as his bag, some weapons and ammunition were blown up on the beach.

On the night of the 27th, the Luftwaffe's indiscriminate bombardment ceased for a short time, and the transport operation that night was extremely smooth, with only four or five thousand people transported out on this night in history, and thanks to the addition of four guano boats, 10,000 people were transported in one trip.

The transportation of the guano ship went quite smoothly. However, the number of rescue personnel on the guano boats was small, less than 4,000, because the British and French forces had placed almost all the wounded on three guano boats.

What was even more comforting to Li Guang was that none of the eight landing craft were lost during the day, and even in the course of transporting arms at night, they were not threatened by German artillery fire at the port of Calais.

Later, Li Guang figured out the reason, the British and French forces dropped a large amount of gasoline in the area between Canada and Graflin, and a German vanguard armored force was first blocked by floods, and then ravaged by fire. It is estimated that the Germans are now busy rescuing armored forces, and there are not enough troops, and there are no troops stationed in shore artillery.

The situation on land, Li Guang was most concerned about this direction, after all, the blocking position of the British and French forces was the closest to the landing site of heavy weapons built by the Naval Resistance Army.