When the sun shone on the earth again, hundreds of German bombers were as accurate as clocks, they appeared accurately above the target, after a week of preparation, Guderian's regiment, which received enough supplies and a large amount of support, finally began to attack this famous French harbor city, unlike previous bombing, this wave of bombers will focus on cleaning the support points and gun nests on the attack line, and the aircraft group is mainly composed of dive bombers, CARRYING HEAVY REINFORCED CONCRETE ARMOR-PIERCING SHELLS RANGING FROM 500KG TO 1000KG, THEY WILL CARRY OUT TARGETED KILLINGS OF EXPOSED CRITICAL SUPPORT POINTS.

The war has reached the most critical moment, both sides are doing their best, when the German bombers appeared in the sky, the Huaxia and British aircraft groups that took off from the rear airfields began to intercept, just after the end of the Battle of the Bay of Biscay to today only 2 weeks, Huaxia has transported another 700 Casa Falcon planes to Britain by sea, these planes quickly entered the battle as soon as they arrived in Britain, the Germans still underestimated the mobilized Entente, The replenishment of the air forces of the Entente in Brestany was at least 1.5 times faster than the Germans estimated! And the result of the miscalculation was that the Luftwaffe dropped the bomb almost bloodied!

These extremely fast, agile aircraft boast some of the best aeronautical performance of their time. The Cascha Falcon is enough to deal with all targets except for the four-engine heavy bomber, and the number of FW190 fighters of the Germans is actually not too much, especially after the previous period of attrition, the number of available FW190 fighters has declined too quickly, so most of the front-line airfields are BF109F fighters, if the FW190 fighters can still compete with the Shicha Falcon. So BF109F wants to compare with the opponent is difficult, the maximum speed is only 630 kilometers per hour BF109F2 why fight with the top speed of close to 720 Shicha Falcon 3 aircraft? Whether it's high or low. Shoot you to death! Not to mention the disadvantage of range, cannons, sights, and visibility. So at the beginning of the campaign, the Germans also overestimated their ability to stay in the air. The combat effectiveness and number of BF109 fighters that appear in the group do not correspond at all! And in the end the biggest victim even the German bomber forces! If proportionally, the proportion of bomber losses in the entire battle of Saint-Nazaire was the highest in the beginning of the war! Of course, this is not only the record of the Stone Tea Falcon, but also the anti-aircraft artillery of the Americans!

"When did the German fighter unit work so ineffectively! The opponent actually broke through their defense line with a single attack! "A JU88 bomber formation gave up the column formation of preparing for bombing, and was forced to adopt a circular defensive formation, all the machine gunners operated the 15mm machine guns in their hands and watched vigilantly at the flying Shicha Falcon, these ferocious birds of prey would swoop down from time to time and destroy a bomber with a clean point shot! In the distance, the BF109 fighter unit is still engaged with the opponent, and the Spitfire is responsible for holding the opponent down. The British also seem to have made a bloody investment. At least in this engagement, the Germans were surprised to find that they had no numerical superiority! "Descend altitude, it's time to enter the attack zone!" After losing nearly 30 percent of the bombers, the bomber formation finally entered the attack area, and the opposing fighters began to leave, and by virtue of this alone, the German commander could also be sure that there was an anti-aircraft artillery position below.

"Compared to those Stone Tea Falcons, I would rather face the anti-aircraft artillery of the Americans, because they have always been inaccurate!" The captain's words caused a burst of laughter in the channel. This half-joking statement apparently relaxed the nervous German pilots a little. At this time, the entire fleet is flying at a low altitude of about 1,500 to 2,000 meters. Sure enough, the anti-aircraft artillery of the Americans began to fire, and one by one the artillery raised its head from the camouflage and sprayed a deadly rain of bullets at the group of planes flying through the air!

Orange fires lit up on the ground. Strings of shells of various calibers exploded in the air. "How did the Americans hit more accurately this time?" The captain muttered to himself with some suspicion that the enemy's firepower density was not high, and it was not even as high as the usual bombardment. But for some reason, how did the opponent's attack accuracy improve? It has only been 3 minutes since the other party opened fire. Just one JU88 bomber was destroyed. And the other two planes were wounded by shrapnel and withdrew from the battle sequence!

"Probably because our bombing routes are relatively fixed. The other party already has a certain understanding of our flight altitude and speed, so when setting the fuse, it is specifically aimed at us? "The Germans thought of this at the first time, this kind of thing has happened before, but it is easy to deal with, just change the altitude a little and let the delay fuse explode too early or too late." The height of the entire fleet has risen by 500 meters! And just as he was giving the order, a shell suddenly exploded next to him, and scattered fragments tore off half of the wing of a bomber next to him!

Climbing could not save the German fleet, the American shells seemed to have eyes, they could always explode at the most suitable height and distance, one shell after another exploded in the German fleet, and the scattered fragments were like a steel storm that said that the planes in the formation staggered, and the more fortunate ones could barely fly, while the unlucky ones dragged puffs of black smoke to the ground! Experienced German pilots have already established that the Americans definitely used a special fuse, which he perceives the situation outside and detonates at the right time! The entire German fleet flew in a boiling cauldron, and the reich's elite suffered heavy losses in a deadly movement of flames, shrapnel and death.

THE FINAL DIVE ATTACK WAS NOT VERY EFFECTIVE, AND THE VARIOUS 40MM AND 20MM MACHINE GUNS EQUIPPED BY THE ALLIES BUILT A DENSE ENOUGH FIRE NETWORK AT LOW ALTITUDE WITH THE HELP OF FIRE CONTROL RADAR. "Dropping a bomb below 500 meters is almost looking for death! I saw with my own eyes more than one plane being hit into a fireball by hail shells during the dive, they used a new type of armor-piercing incendiary shell, the shell can easily penetrate the armor of the aircraft, and then burn inside, just one shell can completely destroy a single aircraft, and a twin aircraft can not carry 3 shells! A German pilot said with trepidation after the war. Eventually, when less than 40 percent of the remaining bombers returned exhausted and scarred, the Army was forced to attack without success. And the defeat of the Air Force hung over the Germans like a dark cloud, which seemed to indicate that the future battle would be quite difficult!

"Let's get started!" After the end of the bombing by the Air Force. The German Army's heavy artillery units have finally made their debut, if you look at it from the air. YOU CAN FIND COLUMNS OF SMOKE RISING FROM TIME TO TIME BEHIND THE GERMAN POSITIONS, ORANGE FLASHES ONE AFTER ANOTHER, GERMAN DEPLOYED ITS OWN FIREPOWER IN THE ORDER OF 105MM LIGHT HOWITZERS, 150MM HEAVY HOWITZERS, 210MM HEAVY HOWITZERS, 150MM CANNONS AND 170MM HEAVY CANNONS, AND THE ARTILLERY POSITIONS FORMED A CIRCULAR FIRE NETWORK, AND THE CORE OF ALL ARTILLERY ATTACKS WAS AIMED AT SAINT-NAZAIRE! This Entente's last bastion in France!

Countless scorching shells flew in the sky, their steel-forged bodies falling on the heads of the Allied forces with death and destruction, countless blasts and columns of smoke shining and rising over the target area. The heavy shelling even turned the entire soil layer over. "In the place after the German shelling, you can bend down and grab a handful of dirt and you will find the shrapnel contained in it!" A post-war memoir used very exaggerated words to describe the most fierce and bloody part of the entire French campaign!

The dense shelling continued to extend forward like a drum, and rolling barrages rolled back and forth on the position. They destroyed all the minefields, obstacles, and trenches that the French had painstakingly set up in a matter of minutes. And those well-established fortifications also suffered from the artillery fire, some less fortified areas finally collapsed under the continuous attack of artillery, the broken passages and fortresses that were opened more and more, and in the face of volcanic eruption-like fire, the Germans even thought that the other side could be brought to their knees by shelling alone! But is that really the case?

"Let's hope these old guys from the First World War will still be useful. These big guys are the last railroad guns of the French Republic, they are all here, and some even participated in the Battle of Verdun in World War 1! "In a grove northwest of Port Saint-Nazaire, huge steel monsters are revealing their hideous faces. Huge gun barrels began to rise gradually with the help of cranes and hydraulic equipment, and the camouflage nets that originally covered the surface of the guns were withdrawn. This is a real train cannon. They were the last large-caliber mobile guns in the French Army, and these big guys may have been quite old, and they even went back to before the start of World War I. But after a long period of baptism, the power of these big guys is still not to be underestimated!

In total, the French had more than 30 various train guns left. ALTHOUGH THE 520MM SUPER-CALIBER TRAIN GUN THAT ONCE APPEARED IN WAR 1 IS NO LONGER AMONG THEM, (ALTHOUGH THIS GUN IS POWERFUL, IT HAS A SHORT RANGE.) The top of the French army believed that in the future battles. The main role of the train artillery is to suppress the opponent's heavy artillery troops, rather than relying solely on the power of the shells. The latter can be compensated for with bombshells from bombers, and for artillerymen, range is life! BUT THESE TRAIN GUNS CONVERTED FROM 12-INCH L45 NAVAL GUNS AND 240MML50 NAVAL GUNS ARE STILL A DETERRENT FORCE! Especially the former, in the 1st battle, this kind of artillery can shoot more than 23KG heavy artillery shells at an elevation angle of 232 degrees for more than 26 kilometers!

Now, with the help of a series of measures such as optimizing the shape of the shell, using new propellants, and increasing the elevation angle, the maximum firing range of this gun has reached more than 39 kilometers! Such a range is already above all German field artillery! What's even more terrifying is that the new armor-piercing shells used by this artillery can completely destroy all field artillery bunkers, not to mention the improvised bunkers built with sandbags and civil engineering structure breastworks, even if you add a 2-meter-thick reinforced concrete cover to the artillery, this cannon can easily smash the bunker into pieces! And in order to improve the firing range of artillery, the French specially placed circular rails for these big guys, and with the help of the tracks, the 12-inch L45 railway gun is enough to cover most of the targets! Originally, because there was no air supremacy and inconvenient maneuvering, they had not been able to exert their might in the previous battles, but this time, under the full cover of the Allied air forces, these big guys finally had a place to use!

"The intelligence of aviation reconnaissance has come down, and the long-range artillery positions of the Germans have been marked, if the initial intelligence is correct, the artillery of more than 150MM invested by the Germans should account for about 4% of the total number of their front-line, Guderian is still very careful, they may have thought of our big killers!" Major General Sowayne, who commanded the train artillery unit, said to Dayan, who was next to him, that the latter's troops would serve as a general reserve, and that their station was very close to the train artillery unit, and the two had a good relationship.

"Then let's get started, get rid of their cannons first, and give the howitzers to the Americans' long-legged Tom," Rear Admiral Sovein ordered. This wave of counterattacks concentrated more than half of the long-range artillery of the Entente powers, and the long-legged Tom of the Americans and the behemoths of France would form the main force of the counterattack, and they fought on the principle that I can fight you, you can't beat me. THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF ARTILLERY OF THE ALLIES MAY NOT BE COMPARABLE TO THAT OF THE GERMANS BY SUPPRESSING THE 170MM HEAVY CANNON AND THE 150MM K18 CANNON THAT THE GERMANS WERE PROUD OF, AND THEN SUPPRESSING THE VARIOUS HOWITZERS AND 105MM CANNONS WITH THE LONG-LEGGED TOM WITH A RANGE OF NEARLY 28 KM, THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF ALLIED ARTILLERY MAY NOT BE COMPARABLE TO THAT OF THE GERMANS, BUT THE QUALITY OF THESE GUNS IS QUITE HIGH!

The cannonballs were loaded into the thick barrel under the action of the crane and the loading servo, the thick barrel began to rise, and the gun mount also slowly slid on the circular rails, all the preparations were ready, these former kings will use their actions to prove that in this new era, they are still an indispensable part of the battlefield, the huge barrel shrank back sharply, a huge fireball erupted from the barrel, and then a thick smoke began to spread around, and then the suffocating wind pressure and violent vibration, A loud thunderous sound pierced through the jungle, and a shell weighing nearly half a ton roared across the city and the line of fire of the twin battles and flew towards the German heavy artillery positions far behind!

"What's going on!" Guderian asked with some concern after looking at the huge fire that suddenly appeared in the distance and the column of smoke rising nearly a hundred meters high. "One of our artillery positions has been attacked, and the French have some heavy guns with a very long range, and we are firing at the enemy's naval guns, which is very unfair." The artillery major general next to him said with some frustration. At this moment, the French counterattack gradually entered a climax, more than 30 naval guns bombarded the artillery positions in the German rear, and under the cover of the air force, the French artillery school aircraft could actually provide more accurate information for the artillery in the rear, these terrifying guys poured deadly bullets to the target area, and the artillery positions were reduced to ashes in the violent explosion. A 450KG SHELL, EVEN IF IT IS ONLY A CLOSE MISS, CAN BE SAID TO BE A 170MM HEAVY CANNON THAT WILL BE BLOWN INTO A PILE OF SCRAP METAL! And the steel storm and strong wind pressure generated by the explosion made the German artillery around the artillery die!

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