1587 Ambush 5
However, before Xia Fei could answer, the sound of engines from the air broke the tranquility here. With the help of cloud cover, the Bavarian bomber troops approached the French marching queue very smoothly, but the latter did not respond!
"Air defense alarm! Evacuate immediately!" Xiafei's guards quickly pulled their commanders to find a safe place, while other tanks and vehicles began to disperse. The anti-aircraft artillery was quickly unloaded from the transport vehicle to prepare for air shooting, while the machine gunners began to set up machine guns under the command of the officers. However, what the French did not expect was that the target of the K-6 bombers with two squadrons was not them, but flew to the rear of the French army several kilometers behind them!
"Damn it! They are attacking our transport troops and artillery! And at this time the artillery is in a state of unfolding and cannot move!" A terrible thought came out from Xia Fei's heart.
A distance of thousands of meters is only a few minutes for the plane. It took no more than 5 minutes from the time the French saw the first plane and the bomb was thrown on their heads! At this time, 5 kilometers away from the battlefield, the French artillery position, which had just completed the shooting mission and was about to finish the work, was panicked. They could only quickly find a hidden place, and then watched the precious 105mm and 155mm howitzers and cannons turned into ashes under the German bombs!
The British fighter jets had not arrived yet. In fact, when Xia Fei chose to in-depth assault, the British provided air defense parachutes with symbolic significance than actual effects. The British could only guarantee to provide 4 to 5 hours of cover a day. At this time, the first batch of aircraft that were expected to arrive were on the way, and the Bavarian warhawks who did not have any air threat once again demonstrated their amazing attack capabilities!
The 36 K-6 bombers were divided into two waves. The first wave of attack fell directly to the artillery position that had not been recovered after the deployment. More than a dozen 105mm cannons and several 155mm cannons were arranged neatly in the wilderness and became the best targets of attack. More than a dozen bombs passed quickly from a height of 150 meters, pouring more than 10 tons of bombs on the artillery position in less than 2 minutes. In an instant, the explosion sounded like a mountain.
Shake, the range of tens of thousands of square meters was filled with flames and explosions. Smoke columns rose one after another, and countless pieces and flames spread around. When the smoke gradually dissipated, the entire artillery position had been blown up like the surface of the moon, with nearly a hundred craters scattered, leaving all the artillery in the range. They were lucky enough to see their former appearance, but they were not lucky enough to be restored to a piece of ragged iron!
After successfully covering the French's neglected artillery positions, the K-6 bombers hovering in the air began to look at the transport vehicles next to them. For these targets, the Germans kept hovering over the other side like windmills. The alternate shooting of bombs and large-caliber machine guns suppressed the French. A series of cheap 12.7mm bullets could easily turn a transport vehicle worth tens of thousands of francs into a pile of debris! The French tried to stop air defense fire, but there was no scale and unified command of the air defense fire. Facing a large number of bombers, the mother-and-child bombs left by the Germans were prepared for air defense machine guns and anti-aircraft guns!
Several fire snakes shot into the air from somewhere on the ground, and the scattered attacks drew curved arcs in the air. The French desperately dispelled the god of death on their heads. However, when several bullets fell, a series of bullets covered the entire position like a scattered flower of the goddess of heaven, and at the same time, they also blew the trucks next to them into pieces. The other two k-6 bombers were still unsatisfied and flew past low again. The machine guns with more than 2 tails were used to clean up all the remaining valuable targets near the position in a very short time!
While the French artillery positions were in trouble, the logistics convoy located in the rear was also hit hard. Hundreds of wheeled trucks and carriages were arranged neatly on the road. Originally, they thought that at most they would have had some trouble in front and a little time, so they did not disband. A group of French soldiers also rarely used this time to take a break and smoke a cigarette. However, what they were waiting for was not the order to drive, but the incendiary bomb from Bavaria!
A few round things fell from the air, making people feel that the other party was throwing gasoline barrels! However, these ill-looking appearances did not hinder the huge power of these bombs! Huge balls of flames rose into the air in the convoy, and the semi-solid gasoline after being ignited, splashed everywhere like a fire. They were able to absorb everything they encountered, and then they would never extinguish without burning everything! Some of the wooden structures and flammable paint used in cars in this era undoubtedly greatly promoted the efficiency of combustion!
The violent explosion and black powder churned in the air. Many trucks were detonated and the fuel tank completely turned the nearby sea of fire. The k-6 bombers hovered at low altitude kept spreading flames and death in the convoy like demons from hell. The crackling sounds of burning and explosions were endless.
"The Germans seemed to think that we would launch artillery positions here, and that we would intercept our transport convoys. The weapons they carried were very suitable for us." A French officer recalled later. After being hit suddenly, the French did not understand the reason for the time being. After all, the bombers above their heads were hovering in the air, and they had no time or energy to think about it. But there were always some people with keen minds who could feel the abnormal situation on the battlefield - why was the Luftwaffe's air strike so accurate?!
The answer soon came out. Before the god of death in the air had left, a team of wheeled armored vehicles rushed into the originally chaotic French army. More than a dozen 2-pound rapid-fire cannons aimed at another team of supplies with a remote position and fired dense shells!
Long before the French vanguard hit the blockade line, relying on the mobility of the wheeled armored vehicles, the reconnaissance team had already gone around the rear of the French. The French army did not realize that the German army would come so quickly, so the defense depth on the flank was not large, but even so, the seemingly bloated logistics convoy could not be killed by a reconnaissance team. Not to mention, the anti-tank rifles and special tungsten alloy hardened bullets equipped by the French could cause great trouble to this thin-skinned and large-filled armored vehicle.
Chapter completed!