Chapter 349: The Great Bombing of London

It was another fine day, and as Green and Kesselring stood on the cliffs of Cape Grenay, overlooking the English Channel, they saw the best-equipped and most majestic Nazi Air Force Group ever built, roaring across the coastline and toward the British capital.

The overwhelming number of planes one after the other, one after the other, covered the sky in a radius of 800 square miles.

Some of these fighters depict dragon heads, others are eagles, sharks and thunderbolts, glittering in the sun.

This is a flying army of 625 bombers, as well as 648 fighters.

As for the British Royal Air Force, they were worried about following the route of the invaders, and thought that the Germans would bomb radar stations, airfields, and docks everywhere as before, but they never thought that these thousands of planes had only one target today, that is, London, and when the Royal Air Force realized this problem, it was too late to defend.

The planes that obscured the sky roared and roared in the sky like a pack of ferocious beasts.

The inhabitants of the London ground were attracted by the loud sound of engines in the sky, and looked up at the sky.

Soon, they saw a dark cloud gradually filling the sky over London, the sun was obscured, the clouds were dispersed, and the hearts of all the inhabitants of London were sinking to the bottom.

"Air Raid ~~~~ Air Raid ~~~! Hide~~~! ”

The whole of London was boiling, and people screamed and fled in all directions, shouting and screaming aimlessly, until the German bombers dropped the first wave of bombs, and the huge humming explosions drowned out all the shouts of everyone.

The first wave of German bombers aimed at Thames Port, as well as the densely populated East End of London and the Ulwich Military Factory, and accurately dropped a number of high-explosive bombs.

Although all 23 squadrons of the British Royal Air Force had already taken to the air in an attempt to stop these bomber groups, they were still too late, and the German swarms of black bombers poured all kinds of bombs like fierce menacings, and in just one hour they successfully poured 3,600 high-explosive bombs and incendiary bombs of more than 300 tons into the ancient city of London.

For a time, all parts of London were in flames, and buildings were destroyed and collapsed, as if the whole world was burning.

A Nazi pilot witnessed the process from the skies and could not believe that there would be survivors of the bombing of London.

"Oh God...... This is more like a ruin than a capital. ”

The ground was shaking, the fires were burning, and the preparations made by the British residents were completely useless in the overwhelming sound of the explosions.

At this time, London was in flames, the north bank of the River Thames was bombed into a belt of burning ruins that was a mile and a half long and half a mile wide, and the town of Silvertown was completely engulfed in flames, and large and small industrial facilities, transportation hubs, electricity networks, civilian homes, and even the Houses of Parliament were destroyed one after another.

The sound of explosions, collapses, cries for help, screams, and the sirens of fire trucks mingled together, accompanied by choking black smoke soaring into the sky.

It was a day that every Londoner will never forget, a day in which more than 3,000 civilians were killed and wounded, countless houses were destroyed, cities were reduced to rubble, plants and trees were burned, and the whole earth and all people's hearts trembled, and the devastating bombardment continued until the night.

Margaret...... Margaret, where are you? Arthur...... John, are you still alive? ”

In the ruins of a half-collapsed and burning building, Tommy Shelby, dressed in an overcoat and a newsboy hat, struggled to get up from inside.

This is the headquarters of the Razors in London, and there is no doubt that they did not escape the overwhelming bombings.

A bomb hit their side roof, collapsing the walls in an instant, and almost all of the Razor's core members who were packing up their belongings were buried under the rubble.

Although Zhou Yu had already informed Tommy in advance, he said that the German army would carry out large-scale bombing today and let them hide in the bomb shelter in advance.

But the Razor Party has a large number of personnel, and the institutions are gradually bloated, and it is not that they can be withdrawn, they still have a lot of things to transfer.

But it was clear that the Germans would not wait specifically for their evacuation to begin bombing.

At Tommy's call, a ruin not far away was lifted from the inside, and Margaret, with blonde hair and a face covered with black dust, stretched out her hand and shouted, "Tommy...... My legs, my legs were pinned. ”

Tommy stepped on the ruins of various heights, quickly approached his sister, and picked up the bricks and rubble with his hands, and saw a long wooden pillar pressed right against her calf, crushing to death.

"Hell...... Is there anyone else alive? Come and help! ”

In the smoke and flames, Arthur, the eldest of Shelby's family, was covered with blood on half of his face, and he didn't know where he was injured.

He stumbled closer, one with Tommy, and lifted the thick wooden beam a little so that Margaret could pull her leg out.

John ...... What about John? Did you see John? And Finn and Ida. ”

Tommy grabbed Arthur by the collar and yelled, but the latter just shook his head blankly, and then sat down on the rubble, apparently fainting from blood loss. ”

"Big brother!"

Margaret limped to Arthur's side, tore off the corner of her skirt, and tightly wrapped the most conspicuous wound on her forehead for her brother, and then looked at his second brother Tommy helplessly.

Tommy looked at the group of departing German planes in the sky, took off his hat and threw it on the ground.

"...... All the razor-goers who can still move are here to save people! Send the wounded brother to the safe house and cellar! ”

Due to Zhou Yu's reminder, in fact, the Razors had already built safe houses in the suburbs, and also dug a lot of cellars and air-raid shelters underground to deal with the bombing of the Germans.

After waiting for the explosions to subside, more and more members of the Razor Party rushed to help, digging up corpse after body in the rubble, or brothers with only half a life left.

It wasn't until about eleven o'clock on the night of the bombing that Tommy finally found his younger brother, John Shelby, who had long been out of breath, at the bottom of the ruins of the headquarters.

"John! Damn it...... John ......"

In the former London Chinese Workers' Camp area, the branch of the Dragon Chamber of Commerce here was not as bloated as the Razor, and after receiving Zhou Yu's instructions, they all withdrew into the underground bomb shelter as soon as possible, and achieved zero casualties in this bombardment.

In charge of the business of the British branch of the Longhang Chamber of Commerce is the former deputy of Xie Sancong, named Dong Fang.

At this moment, they vigorously pushed open the door of the bomb shelter blocked by the ruins, and finally walked out of it.

However, everything in front of him made Dong Fang unforgettable for life.

The huge and prosperous city of London, like a trick, in less than a day, those buildings, those gardens, those bridges, those squares, all turned into the same thing, that is, ruins.

"Oh my God...... Let's see if we can still make a phone call and report the situation to headquarters. ”

"It's the boss!"

Dong Fang didn't let the employees of the Longxing Chamber of Commerce leave for too long, and after collecting some information, they hid in the bomb shelter again.

Zhou Yu told him that the Germans would continue to bring the same level of bombardment in the next few days, and it was obviously not the time for them to go out.