However, before Xiafei could answer, the sound of the engine from the air broke the tranquility here. With the help of the cover of clouds, the Bavarian bomber troops approached the French marching queue very smoothly, but the latter did not respond!
"Air defense alert! Evacuate immediately!" Xiafei's guards quickly pulled their commander to find a safe place, while other tanks and vehicles began to disperse. The anti-aircraft artillery was quickly unloaded from the transport vehicle and ready to fire in the air, and the machine gunners began to erect machine guns under the command of the officer. However, what the French did not expect was that the target of the K-6 bombers with 2 squadrons was not them, but flew to the rear of the French army a few kilometers away!
"Damn! They are attacking our transport troops and artillery! And at this time, the artillery is in an unfolded state, unable to move!" A terrible thought came out of Xiafei's heart.
A distance of several kilometers is only a few minutes away for an airplane. The time from the time the French saw the first airplane to the time the bomb was dropped on their heads did not exceed 5 minutes! At this time, at a distance of 5 kilometers from the battlefield, the French artillery, who had just completed the shooting mission and was about to finish work, was in a panic. They could only quickly find a hidden place, and then looked at the precious 105mm and 155mm howitzers. And the cannon was reduced to ashes under the German bomb!
The British fighters have not yet come. In fact, when Xiafei chose to make a deep assault, the British air defense umbrellas were more symbolic than practical. The British could only guarantee 4 to 5 hours of cover a day. At this time, Ying's first batch of planes were on their way, and the Bavarian Warhawks without any air threat once again demonstrated their amazing attack capabilities!
The 36 K-6 bombers were divided into two waves. The first attack directly fell on the artillery positions that had not been recovered after deployment. A dozen 105mm guns and several 155mm artillery were arranged neatly in the wilderness. Good target. More than a dozen bombers quickly passed from a height of 150 meters and poured more than 10 tons of bombs on this artillery position in less than 2 minutes. In an instant, the sound of the explosion shook the mountain, tens of thousands of square meters. The area is filled with fire and explosion. Pillars of smoke rose one after another, and countless monoliths and flames spread around. When the smoke gradually dissipated, the entire artillery position had been blown up like the surface of the moon. Nearly a hundred craters were scattered and left in the range. All the artillery is lost. If they are lucky, they can still see their former appearance, while those who are unlucky are directly reduced to a piece of broken copper!
After successfully covering the artillery positions that the French had neglected to guard, the K-6 bomber hovering in the air began to focus on the transport vehicles nearby. For these targets, the Germans continued to hover over the opponent like a windmill and bombs. The French, who was suppressed by alternate shooting with large-caliber machine guns, couldn't look up. A series of cheap 12.7mm bullets could easily break a transport truck worth tens of thousands of francs into a pile of fragments! The French tried to stop the air defense firepower, and then there was no scale and no unified command air defense firepower in the face of a large number of bombers. It can be described as powerless. The German bombs were prepared for air defense machine guns and antiaircraft artillery!
Several fiery snakes shot into the air from somewhere on the ground, and the scattered attacks drew a curved arc in the air. The French desperately dispelled the death **** on their heads. However, after a few bullets fell, a series of bullets scattered like a goddess. Flowers generally covered the entire position, and incidentally blasted several trucks nearby to pieces. The other two K-6 bombers flew over again from low altitude. The machine guns with more than two tails used more than four-digit bullets to clean up all the remaining valuable targets near the position in a very short time. net!
While the French artillery positions were suffering, the logistics convoy at the rear was also hit hard. Hundreds of wheeled trucks and carriages lined up neatly on the road. Originally, they thought that the front was at most a little bump. Trouble, at most, was a little time, so the formation was not disbanded, and a group of French soldiers rarely used this time to take a break and smoke a cigarette. However, what they were waiting for was not an order to open, but an incendiary from Bavaria!
Several chubby things fell from the air, making people think in a daze that what the other party threw was a gasoline can! But these unsightly appearances do not hinder the tremendous power of these bombs! Masses of huge flames rose in the air in the convoy. The semi-solid gasoline after adding coagulant was ignited and splashed around like a fire. They could absorb everything they encountered, and then would not burn everything out without extinguishing it! And some wood structures and flammable paints used in cars in this era undoubtedly greatly promote the efficiency of combustion!
Violent explosions and black powder churned in the air. Many trucks were detonated and their fuel tanks were completely turned into a sea of flames. The low-altitude K-6 bomber continued to spread flames and death like a demon from hell. In the caravan crackling burning and explosions are endless.
"The Germans seemed to have thought that we would deploy artillery positions here, and also thought of intercepting our transport convoy. The weapons they carried were very suitable for us." A French officer recalled afterwards. After being hit by a sudden blow, the French would not understand the reason for a while, after all, the bomber overhead was hovering in the air, and there was no time or energy to think about it. But there are always sensitive people who can feel the strange situation on the battlefield-why is the Luftwaffe's air strikes so precise? !
Soon the answer came out. When the Reaper in the air had not left, a team of wheeled armored vehicles rushed into the originally chaotic French army. A dozen 2-pounder rapid-fire guns aimed at the other team's rear weight. The convoy fired dense shells!
Long before the French forward hit the blockade, relying on the mobility of wheeled armored vehicles, the reconnaissance team had already circled behind the French. The French army didn't realize that the German army would come so fast at first, so the depth of defense on the flanks was not great, but even then, the seemingly bloated logistics team could not be killed by a reconnaissance team. Among other things, the anti-tank rifle equipped by the French and the special hardened tungsten alloy bullets can cause a lot of trouble to this thin-skinned armored vehicle.
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