Just when the two of them were grieving for their motherland, the sharp air raid sirens suddenly sounded in the sky. The portable hand-cranked air raid siren made a howl that pierced the eardrums, interrupting the painful thoughts of the two men at once.

"What's going on? What do you mean that the Germans almost never bomb the facilities in the city and sound the air defense battle siren?" Montgomery asked with a frown, holding a soldier who had hurried over to transfer his bed, but he soon knew the answer himself, because in the sky above him, one German bomber after another was already visible.

"Oh my God!" Montgomery lowered his head, and saw the chaos of civilians and soldiers, there were too many things in the whole city that had not been disguised and protected because of their hastiness, there were piles of supplies and fuel, ammunition and first aid supplies that had not been distributed, and of course there were wounded and civilians all over the ground, and on the contrary, because of geological reasons, there were very few facilities such as bomb shelters.

The hordes of German bombers obscured the sky, and it was not necessary to think carefully to know what kind of damage the Germans would bring to Alexandria this time, although he knew in his heart that this kind of thing would come sooner or later, but when he saw it with his own eyes, Montgomery realized that in this afternoon, the British would face their most terrible test of a month.

Due to the lack of artillery fire, most of the anti-aircraft guns in the city were sent to the outlying positions, either as temporary anti-tank missions or as support artillery, as with the German 88 mm anti-aircraft guns. Moreover, most of the artillery had already been lost in the fierce battles on the periphery, and there were only a few anti-aircraft weapons in the city that could moan at this time.

Yes, groan, in front of the overwhelming bombers of the Luftwaffe, the anti-aircraft fire of the British can definitely be described by the word groaning now, several small-caliber anti-aircraft guns spewed flames into the sky, but it did not disrupt the dense bombing formation of the German bombers in the slightest.

The local Egyptians looked up in horror and saw the bombers open the hatch under the belly, revealing terrible bombs. Then with the howling of the wind, the bombs were dropped one after the other, and then there was a terrible sound in the wind, which was the whistle of the wind blowing the bombs, and the whistle of death to harvest life.

One bomber dropped the bomb, dozens of bombers behind it dropped the bombs they were carrying, and then more bombers opened the hatches and dropped the bombshells they were carrying. So it was as if it was raining heavily throughout Alexandria, a rain of steel and destruction.

The British general, who had lost his palm, looked at the dense German bombers in the sky, smiled bitterly and sighed: "How can human beings resist such a terrible force? How can human bodies withstand the destruction of steel? How long can we hold out in the face of such a powerful war machine?"

"Sir, please get out of here with me at once! it's too dangerous!" the adjutant tugged at Montgomery's arm, hoping to take General Montgomery away, who was already there, but his efforts were clearly futile, and Montgomery stood there without the slightest intention of leaving.

Montgomery remembered what he had seen on British soil, where hundreds of German bombers appeared over London and dropped hundreds of huge bombs filled with terrible chemicals that made the flames burn so hard that they could not be extinguished. The whole of London was burning, the whole earth was trembling, and the civilization that mankind had built up over thousands of years collapsed and destroyed in ten minutes.

That kind of terrible thing, experienced once is enough to make people collapse, and Montgomery witnessed it twice, and what is even more tragic is that these two bombing targets are the cities he swore to defend, and the result is the same, the city he wants to defend is in ruins, and his efforts are in vain.

A bomb landed not far away, just in the middle of the crowd, and the huge flames devoured countless lives in an instant, and then the huge explosion spread to a wider area, tearing people's bodies apart and destroying them. Montgomery saw an arm fly to the rooftops around him, and a mangled body flew into the distance.

Then more bombs exploded, the most recent one exploding, sending a gust of wind that blew away the hat Montgomery was wearing. From time to time, there was a loud rumbling in the distance, the sound of buildings collapsing, and Montgomery remembered that the buildings in London were collapsing louder, because the buildings there were thicker and taller.

Before Montgomery could come to his senses, he was pinned on the head by his assistant, his lieutenant, and the guards around him, and a group of men led him to an anti-aircraft gun position not far away, where there was only a pitiful anti-aircraft gun, but there were sandbags of fortifications that served as cover.

The field hospital, which was originally overcrowded, was in chaos in an instant, people dodged the bombs dropped by the bombers, and then collided with each other, trampled under people's feet, white tents fluttered in the wind, gauze and sheets were blown away, and some precious equipment was scattered all over the ground, and no one cared at all.

The Germans dispatched a full 190 DO-217 bombers in one go, a number that was a bit terrifying for Alexandria. Not to mention the fact that there were 140 Stuka bombers on the front line, 50 FW-190D fighters with small bombs on their loads -- counting the 40 fighters in cover, Germany had more than 400 planes in total, which could almost be described as covering the sky and the sun.

Moreover, this time the Luftwaffe dropped bombs mixed with a large number of napalm incendiary bombs, which increased the power of destruction and destruction, and in an instant the entire Alexandria was filled with thick smoke, and some buildings were set on fire with a crackling sound. Even the sea was on fire, and some ships were set on fire.

Some of the wounded who were lying on the hospital bed, already struggling in pain, quickly ended their lives in this chaotic situation, they lay on the beds that no one cared about, struggling to sit up, but finally stopped breathing and hung their arms weakly.

More people were consumed by the flames and turned directly into charcoal, the sheets were ignited and turned into black powder, and the beds were burned and turned into twisted iron shelves. The wounded were glued to the chemicals in the napalm, and then frantically struggled in the flames, tearing off their own skin and letting out heart-rending screams.

The Luftwaffe's covering escort fighters began to dive and attack because of their idleness, firing their cannons through the crowd and knocking British soldiers carrying stretchers and medical equipment to the ground, blood staining the streets and littering corpses with newer corpses.

Montgomery was carried into a bunker full of sandbags by his men, and before he could recover his senses, he saw the only anti-aircraft gun not far away being visited by two Stuka bombers, one dropping its bomb and blowing the cannon into scrap metal, and the other with a 20-mm cannon that poured hundreds of shells, sending out a cloud of white smoke around the entire anti-aircraft gun.

Although the Germans bombed London on a larger scale and for a longer time, London had a relatively complete underground bunker structure, which could protect the lives of most people, while Alexandria's underground structure was almost zero, so the ability to withstand bombing was weaker.

All the buildings trembled at the sound of aerial bombs, and people watched in despair as their homes were destroyed, as their friends and relatives died, as everything they knew turned into rubble.

But the high-intensity bombing soon ended, and the German planes came and went faster. Because of the unprecedented scale of the bombing, the Germans were not prepared for a second bombing, and most of the bombers left in the direction of the sea after dropping all their bombs, and the few covering planes and Stuka were still circling and flying.

With tears in their eyes, they walked out of their hiding bunkers before the German planes had completely left, and began to salvage things that were no longer of much salvage value, some of whom had just been glued to their skin by the napalm sputter, which was now festering and charred and smelling of burnt.

Cries began to come from all directions, in fact, the cries had been there long before the bombing began, but the sound of explosions everywhere was so deafening that these hoarse cries were muffled. The voices for help also came sporadically, but in the crying, it seemed weak, and there was a deep feeling of powerlessness.

"General, you ...... Are you alright?" Montgomery's assistant asked Montgomery, who had not yet come to his senses, as the German bombardment finally came, but it came too quickly and without warning, and it also brought real destruction to the people in Alexandria.

Hundreds of soldiers died in the bombing, many more wounded and civilians died in the catastrophe, and more than 10,000 people died directly from the bombing, and those who were alive at this time did not know that the city's fresh water reserves and power systems were also destroyed, and the destruction of these living facilities would bring more deaths.

"I'm fine...... Go find a phone call, and quickly organize people to help rescue the wounded, and ...... Send someone to count the damage, and I want to get the damage report as soon as possible. Montgomery looked at the flames burning everywhere and muttered, "Quick! go and help!