"Where will they go?" Kesselring stood on the edge of the sand table and looked at the approximate location of the opponent's aircraft group marked by the staff officer, and fell into deep thought, the first targets that were excluded were those scattered field airfields, these targets were very small, some airfields only had 8 fighters, and the other side had no need to kill chickens with knives. German troops in pursuit along the way? This is also not possible, because these forces are also relatively scattered. And the other side has clearly crossed the attack front of the German Army, and the other side has not moved.

After both of these are ruled out, the only targets worthy of such a large-scale attack are the landing site, the port, and the material transit station! Unfortunately, there were too many targets, and in a hurry, the Luftwaffe had too few fighters at its disposal. Thinking of this, Kesselring couldn't help but curse the long-range reconnaissance aircraft deployed in Spain and North Africa, they also mentioned in last night's telegram that the other side would go to France to resupply before launching an attack, who would have thought that the other side's bombs would fall on their heads this morning? Maybe half an hour, at most an hour, the other side will start bombing, even if it is too late to prepare now.

"All field airfields in central Italy were ordered to take off fighter jets and prepare for interception. Three fighter groups were transferred from the reserve to Pescara to take charge of air defense. "After a few moments, Kesselring had made up his mind that he could not take care of all the targets in a hurry, but as the largest port under German control and the closest to the front line, Pescara must not have any problems, and the cargo and throughput capacity there are too important for the current German Army and Air Force!" And let the other fighters go to Boboli, which is the material transfer point of our air force, which must also be kept! ”

"Are we going to let the reserves go to Boboli?" A staff officer asked. "It depends. The reserves could not leave the skies over Pescara until the enemy dropped bombs. "After a brief hesitation, Kesselring decided to put Pescara's defense first! But what he didn't expect was that. Just as his order was given, three fighter groups from Sarajevo had just taken off. The bombers of the 5 fleets had already dropped their bombs on the material transit center outside Boboli!

"Isn't the easy days too long? The Germans forgot even how to air defense? An American pilot looks at the ant-like car on the ground. and all kinds of supplies and supplies piled up on the freight yard, he said with some curiosity, the pilot was right, since the start of the war, the Luftwaffe bases have never been subjected to large-scale air raids, and the Allies provided Italy with more aircraft to the sea and tactical bombers to support the front line, and very little for the relatively large twin-engine bombers with a longer range and higher cost, let alone four-engine bombers. And because of the lack of covering forces. Therefore, the Italians did not launch a large-scale attack on the Allied airfields in the Balkans, but more on sea targets and the Allied ground forces in Italy itself, so the Germans did not attach much importance to the air defense of the ground.

"Let's start attacking as planned, and watch out for possible German fighters around! Let's move faster! The other party will soon come to put out the fire. "With the order to attack, the Entente attack aircraft units, which were in place almost at the same time, began to fly towards the target from all directions. All attack aircraft will attack their targets as planned, and with the exception of a small part of the fighters to suppress ground anti-aircraft fire, a large number of fighters will patrol the perimeter to maintain altitude in order to respond to enemy reinforcements.

Seeing hundreds of planes in the air rushing towards him, the Germans in the cargo yard were almost stunned. They spun their anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft guns aimlessly, trying to drive away the Grim Reaper flying in the air, and the Luftwaffe units, which had never encountered a large-scale air raid since the end of the First World War, were caught off guard by this sudden blow, and had just received the alert from above. It was said that the other side was going to launch a large-scale air attack, and before the person in charge of the transit station had time to set it up, the other side's bomb had already fallen. HASTILY STACKED WITH SANDBAGS AND LOGS, THE ANTI-AIRCRAFT BUNKERS SIMPLY COULD NOT HOLD BACK THE 20MM CANNONS AND SMALL BOMBS, AND SOME FIGHTERS CARRYING 60KG OF SMALL BOMBS LAUNCHED THE FIRST WAVE OF ATTACKS TOGETHER WITH DIVE BOMBERS. The roar of hundreds of machine guns and cannons overwhelmed the sound of the battlefield, and the muzzles of the guns were constantly beating and the rain of bullets swept to the ground.

The first wave of fighters responsible for suppression rushed to the target with their backs to the sun. The dazzling sunlight greatly interfered with the ground anti-aircraft guns using optical sights, reducing the strike efficiency of the opponent. The incoming fighters can rush to within a few hundred meters of the target and use machine guns to strafe the entire gun position, leaving even two light bombs behind before leaving. Soon, explosions rang out throughout the stop, fighter jets chased the scattered crowd like crazy, and the dive bombers that followed behind dropped bombs on the cargo yards and parking lots! Accompanied by a violent explosion, puffs of black smoke rose into the air, and the shock wave generated by the explosion threw goods, people and even cars into the air like a big hand!

The first thing to be attacked was a yard where various parts and equipment were stacked. Aero engines, various aircraft parts and maintenance equipment shipped from China are stored here, and under the mixed blow of high-explosive and incendiary bombs, expensive engines are blown into a twisted scrap of metal in half a minute. Various aluminum parts were also ignited by the flames, which made the flames of this metal even more difficult to extinguish. Then there is a parking lot next to it, where hundreds of trucks, tankers and half-tracks of all kinds are neatly arranged, and then they are cleaned up by various bombers like wheat! After a squadron of bombers dropped dozens of bombs of all sizes on the parking lot, they flew back and swept the remaining targets with machine guns, and several cars tried to run away from this Shura field, but in the end the result was either blocked by the destroyed cars, or they were shot from the air into a large torch!

With the bombs and cannons raging, the reconnaissance planes responsible for approving the bombing situation kept circling over the battlefield, watching the predetermined targets destroyed one by one, and the American major in the back seat was not satisfied, because until now the most valuable target had not been found! It's been bombed for a long time, where is the aviation fuel depot ?! Several pre-selected suspicious areas were washed by bombs, and no large explosions occurred. Seeing that one area after another was cleared, the major was also hesitating. What if you can't destroy the oil depot? The fighter unit in charge of air alert has already engaged the enemy planes that have rushed to the rescue, although it is still a problem, but in another twenty minutes it may be gone! By that time, whether or not key targets can be destroyed, the fleet will have to be evacuated!

"The Germans must have built the oil depot in the C5 area, and there is a huge underground warehouse underneath it, with a concrete layer about half a meter thick on it, and it allows cars to enter and exit." The Italian pilot who was in charge of flying the plane said. "So we can't destroy it?" The American Major said with some depression. It seems that it will be difficult to do this with either a 500KG armor-piercing bomb for a dive bomber or an 800KG bomb for a horizontal bomber. After all, the angle of the so-called dive bombing at this time will not be very good, restricted by the aiming accuracy, the low accuracy of horizontal bombing is one aspect, and the too low height also reduces the power of the bomb penetration!

"There is a way, in fact, our torpedo machine with 800KG bombs is not that it cannot dive, but that it is a question of whether it can be pulled up after diving, the situation is a little bad, we are doomed to lose another group of comrades today." The Italian pilot sighed, and the major noticed a few tears flowing from the corners of the other man's eyes.

"Really? I wish you every success. "Because of the noise, the major didn't hear the former very clearly, he only roughly understood that the Italians seemed to have a way to solve this damn concrete shell. In that case, let them do it, and the next scene will be remembered by this American major for the rest of his life!

An Italian torpedo squad flew over the target, they circled, and then the two planes broke away from the group and began to climb slowly, when the altitude reached more than 700 meters, the nose of the two planes dropped sharply and then slammed into the ground at an angle of about 70 degrees! "God, are they crazy? Dives under such a large load are simply looking for death! The major exclaimed.

"You're right, this is looking for death, so they are the most powerful bomb in the world, in order to make more people who are willing to leave the clutches of the Allies leave this occupied country, they have exchanged their lives for these people's tickets!" The pilot in the front seat choked up. The two fighters made a tooth-aching tremor and metallic distortion sound in the air, and some parts were even torn off the fuselage under the powerful impact, but the two pilots were still controlling the plane and falling towards the target area, they had no way to live, and there was no way to live from the moment they pressed the nose down! Because skydiving at such a large angle and speed is not conducive to suicide, not to mention that they have more important things to do!

At the last moment of the descent, the huge 800KG semi-armor-piercing shell broke away from the pylon and flew towards the target a few hundred meters away, and the fighter after losing the load struggled to pull it again, but the huge inertia still made the plane crash into the open space next to it, and the two 800KG bombs at this time had no less power than a battleship's main gun shell, and they also had a better landing angle!

With the violent impact, the two bombs successfully penetrated the reinforced concrete roof nearly half a meter later, and at the same time as drilling into the bunker, the time-delay fuse was also triggered, and the two bombs were detonated one after another in less than 1 second! An earthquake sounded from underground, followed by a massive explosion that resounded across the battlefield, billowing clouds of smoke and flames pouring out of the cover like a volcanic eruption!

Thanks to the book friend zhouyu1976 for the tip~~~~. (To be continued......)