Lacroix personally commanded the battle, and the attack proceeded according to the plans of the French, who did not have to worry about a counterattack from the German Army, which did not have heavy artillery that far and had little power if they could. The French very comfortably wiped the German Army off the ground piece by piece, and the French, who had been pressed and beaten by the German Army, finally let out a bad breath. As for the air force of the Germans? On this night when you can't see your fingers, it is quite difficult to knock out the opponent's battleship with ordinary attack aircraft! Moreover, the French battleships are equipped with radars, and if the opponent's large-scale swarm comes, the French fleet can run away, not to mention that the American and British night combat aircraft units said that they would provide cover for the French fleet.

The plan seemed seamless, and the French couldn't even think of any loopholes in their plan, well, just as the Luftwaffe couldn't think of how the French fleet would shell the army. As the saying goes, the situation is stronger than people, and when it comes to the critical moment, some tactics or means that were originally afraid to be used are also forced to catch ducks on the shelves, and you don't have to say it, the effect is occasionally really good!

The Luftwaffe was still very efficient this time, whether it was used or not, whether it could hit or not, under Kesselring's strict order, the Luftwaffe urgently took off more than 800 planes to rush to the battlefield! Of course, because of the haste, these planes could not be planned and then everyone went on the same day as the bombing during the day, but when the long-range early warning radar and the radar of the night combat aircraft appeared densely packed with light spots, the French were still taken aback, although the accuracy of the night bombing was originally a tragedy, and the accuracy of the night bombing of sea mobile targets was even more tragic, but any small probability event was afraid of a large sample size! Just think about it. If hundreds of planes bomb you, there will always be some bombs or torpedoes that can hit the battleship. The battleship was fine, if it was a cruiser. If you take a 500KG armor-piercing bullet or a torpedo, I'm afraid it's dangerous!

The US-British night fighters and the Germans' attack planes soon collided, and the US-British Mosquito night fighters had the dual advantages of flight performance and radar, and the twin 30MM guns on the back of the Mosquito aircraft and the two 20MM guns and two 30mm guns in the nose of the Mosquito aircraft could definitely be called big killers. Guided by ground-based radars and those of the French fleet, the Mosquito night fighters launched the first wave of interceptions.

"500 meters above your head, there's a bomber at 2 o'clock, pay attention to maintain speed and altitude, he's fast, and a little far away and you might get lost." The radar operator sitting in the back row stared at the light spots on the radar and said. The pilot in the front seat controls the aircraft to steer slowly. Then he flew to the belly of the DO217 bomber unconsciously. "He's right above us! Kill him! "ACCOMPANIED BY THE PILOT'S COMMAND, THE RADAR OPERATOR IN THE REAR CONTROLLED THE MOSQUITO PLANE'S OBLIQUE CANNON, AND THE 30MM GUN MADE A SOUND LIKE A PILE DRIVER, AND A SERIES OF FIREBALLS ERUPTED, DESTROYING THE OPPONENT IN JUST A FEW SECONDS!

In the dark night sky, instead of German bombers painted in Imperial Gray being destroyed, the violent explosions gave people a tragic and beautiful feeling like brilliant fireworks. The night fighters of the five brigades of the Allies tried extremely hard to resist the opponent's footsteps, and they were really efficient at the beginning, but when the German night fighters were put into the battlefield, the situation changed. The commissioning of the HE219 night combat aircraft, known as the Owl, put an end to the wanton slaughter of the Entente! For the first time, the HE603 fighter with the new DB219 engine caught up with the British Mosquito in speed, and the larger body meant that it was equipped with more personnel and a more powerful radar, without taking into account maneuverability. The HE219, which is equipped with a pilot, gunner and radar operator at the same time, is obviously more efficient in air combat than a two-person Mosquito aircraft, for no other reason than someone to help share the work!

The ground guidance system on both sides is not perfect. The Allied ground guidance system was largely destroyed, while the Allied ground guidance system had not yet been established. Both sides can only detect and attack their opponents with radars with single-digit detection ranges, and only if they are nearly in the same altitude range. In this case, the efficiency of both the attacker and the interceptor is fatally low. And when the night fighters of the Allied countries were put into the battlefield, it was even more chaotic, and the Allied pilots needed to beware of the situation where a hunter suddenly popped out of their prey, after all, judging from the radar echo, the difference between the JU88 and HE219, which were also twin-engine aircraft, was not very large. It's all a point of light, but it means the difference between a prey and a hunter!

"I didn't expect that up to now, the United States and Britain still have a large number of night combat planes in France. We underestimated our opponents. "Just when the two groups of aircraft were fighting together at an altitude of 5,000 meters, the Night Reaper unit under the Reaper Wing broke through the opponent's interception from a low altitude of 2,000 meters. They flew quickly with the help of ground guidance, turned on the search radar when approaching a distance of 30 kilometers to the target.

"I never think that the overall strength of our air force exceeds that of our opponents, and we have only a slight advantage in concentrating all our forces against part of the opponent's forces, and the technological advantage is not too long, and now our FW190 fighters are no longer in the limelight, the Chinese Shicha Falcon has more advantages, and the British are also equipped with new Spitfire fighters, and even more so in terms of electronic warfare. To be honest, I don't think much of the prospects for this war. Germany was at war with three first-class powers at the same time. A machine gunner next to him said.

"Stop talking, get to work, we've found the target!" The captain interrupted this somewhat decadent discussion, and at this time huge points of light had appeared on the radar screen of the HE177NT night bomber, these were the French battleships, and as the distance approached, the Germans could even see the huge fireballs sprayed by the battleship's guns through the glass window! These fireballs were like lights in the darkness of the night, pointing the Germans in the right direction! Although the radar could help the Germans find targets at night, all attacks and guidance had to be carried out by sight, and the JU88 high-speed bomber located at a distance of kilometers flew over the target area, ready to throw lights and lights to indicate the target for the bombers behind!

"They seem to be evading! They've found us! "When it came time to attack, the Germans ended up with a bad move. A new type of radar receiving antenna was installed on the battleships of the French, when the radars of the Germans began to scan the French battleships. The French radar technicians were aware of it, even though they did not know the identity of the other party. But German aircraft carrying anti-sea radars were also definitely a dangerous enemy at night! Especially in the narrow harbor area! So before the German planes attacked, the French fleet decided to withdraw from the bay and flee to the open sea! And as a result, the order of attack that the Germans had drawn up first was completely out of order!

"Hit the closest!" In the end, more than a dozen HE177 bombers participated in the attack and decisively targeted the two French cruisers closest to them! One was the heavy cruiser Tourville, and the other was the light cruiser Marseillaise! It is difficult to avoid the narrow strait, when several JU88 bombers flew over the fleet, several lights carrying parachutes fell from the sky, and the dazzling magnesium light instantly illuminated a large area of the sea!

In the course of a few minutes, the HE177 bomber behind quickly locked onto the target, and turned on the searchlight on its belly to continue tracking. Because the altitude is low, and the visibility range at night is small, so the Germans attack the distance is very close, when it is close to 4 kilometers, the anti-ship missile is thrown down, two things like small planes rushed to the target quickly, dozens of seconds later, the middle of the hull of the French heavy cruiser Tourville suddenly heard a loud bang! A point of light flashed suddenly, and then half of the bridge was enveloped in the shock wave and energy generated by the explosion! And the cruiser Marseillaise died more simply. After a Fritz guided bomb smashed the No. 1 turret in the front, the violent explosion directly detonated the ammunition depot under the turret, accompanied by a column of water hundreds of meters high and flames like a volcanic eruption, the battleship was shot from it to sink in less than a minute! Just a few minutes. Two cruisers, one sunk and one heavily damaged!

Fortunately, the Germans' luck was quickly exhausted, and the efficiency of night operations was already very low, and it was not easy to achieve such results in less than 10 minutes after the start of the attack. In the ensuing half-hour bombardment, the Germans sank the cruiser Tourville, which had been turned into a large torch. The only result was the shooting of two anti-ship missiles on the battleship Richelieu! A single shot smashed into the frontal armor of the turret, causing the main turret 2 to malfunction. Another bomb hit the upper deck, turning the 30-meter-long cabin into a sea of fire. Subsequently, the Luftwaffe, which had been depleted of ammunition, reluctantly left the battlefield. And the last operation of the French Navy on home soil also came to an end.

When the sun shines on the earth again. Guderian personally came to the scene of the shelling, the shelling of the French fleet was not long, probably less than 2 hours, but the damage caused was unprecedented, under this baptism of steel and flames, the German army suffered more than 6,000 casualties! And the loss of various artillery and armored units amounted to more than 200 pieces. More than 700 vehicles were lost, along with hundreds of tons of ammunition and more fuel and other supplies. Such losses were enough to make the Germans flesh ache. Look at the devastated battlefield and the various wreckage and craters left on it. Guderian's anger can be imagined. However, this blow did not make the Germans abandon the offensive, and on the afternoon of the second day of the shelling, the Germans resumed the offensive. And at this time, the Entente army, having lost the last hole card, could no longer resist the advance of the Germans!

The Luftwaffe, knowing that it was at a loss, decided to compensate the army with practical actions, and this time Kesselring did not preserve its strength, and the enraged Luftwaffe concentrated as many as 5,000 aircraft of various types to launch an attack on the Allied forces. Bombs rained down on Saint-Nazaire, who had been shrouded in explosions and flames. The German Army suddenly found itself that its artillery seemed to be of little use, and in less than 3 days the Germans wiped all of Saint-Nazaire off the map with thousands of tons of bombs. When the battle of Saint-Nazaire ended, when Guderian and others flew over the city by plane, they were surprised to find that the city that had been built for hundreds of years was only completely black, as shocking as the scars of the earth!

De Gaulle, one of the last French officers to leave the city, looked at the devastated city and the detachments of German troops, and he vowed to wash away the shame of France today! He did not consider himself to have failed, he believed that the arrogance of the Germans was only temporary, and that sooner or later he would re-set foot on French soil and get it back from the Germans with all his interest! France will eventually stand up. Sooner or later, the unfinished tasks of the First World War will have to be completed! The feud between the two countries, which began during the Franco-Prussian War, is finally coming to an end!

After several days of fighting, Saint-Nazaire finally fell, the last city to fall to France, and with the advance of the German front, the remaining cities in northwestern France surrendered, and most of the Entente and the French forces willing to resist had withdrawn, leaving only a dilapidated base and a fleet of scrap metal. Meiying walked very thoroughly, they took everything that could be taken away, and at the same time destroyed everything that could not be taken! At this point, the Battle of France, which had been fought for five months, finally came to an end. The Germans, having paid a heavy price, finally trampled the entire European continent under their feet!

And when Wilhelm II, who was overjoyed, learned that the last of the French resistance had been wiped out, he was ecstatic to think about how to go to the Palace of Versailles like his grandfather. He was curious to know what the difference was between the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles and the Hall of Mirrors under William I! By the way, there is one more thing to do, and that is another military parade on the Champs-Élysées in France! In addition to the siege of the historical Paris Commune that cannot be repeated, the German emperor wanted to do what his ancestors had done again! And his actions were finally stopped by his subordinates, for the simple reason that both the military and the political circles believed that the victory in France was only a phased victory, not a decisive one, and that the rest of the battle would be a long war of attrition, until the Entente could not afford it and was willing to shake hands with Germany!

And now, the problem that the Germans needed to solve was how to fight the Battle of Britain? Although the Luftwaffe believed that it might be difficult to achieve this goal, they also believed that if they could take advantage of the opportunity to suppress the opponent and attack the British heavy industrial base, they could delay the recovery of the British Royal Air Force so that the Germans could draw enough air power to deal with China and the United States. Therefore, Richthofen thought it necessary to launch a bombing campaign of the right size against Britain. But the Kaiser didn't buy it!

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