Chapter 18: Thrilling Dawn (Revision)

Like most pilots, Jane. Merlin's Lafitte squad was also attacked by the Germans, and the hangar burned under the explosion of incendiary bombs, and two tents were hit by bombs, and all the pilots inside were killed or wounded.

The tent at Jane's field hospital had a Red Cross emblem on it, and was cared for by German pilots who were still somewhat chivalrous, and the bombs against them were not aimed at the target, but exploded at close range.

The pillars supporting the tent and the rope holding it in were severed by flying shrapnel, and the entire tent collapsed, lifting all the people inside.

In the absolute darkness, Jane, who has always regarded duty as life. Merlin felt scared for the first time, and the only thing he was glad for in his heart was that Tang Yunyang was not here. The frightening thing is that she has found happiness, and if she loses it now, she can't imagine how she will face it.

"Because of love, we are afraid, and because of love, we have to muster up the courage to face it bravely. No, I don't want to run away......"

Jane in the tent behind her. Merlin struggled as hard as she could, pushing the pillars that were pressing down on her and getting out of the collapsed tent, shocked by what she saw. Looking at the pilots and soldiers rolling in the blood, Jane. Merlin covered his mouth and stared at the ruined scene around him in a daze.

"Uh......h Woo...... Boom Boom Boom ...... Dadada......"

The sound of engines, machine gun fire, and bombs piercing the air adds a terrifying atmosphere to the entire Lafitte team's base. Officers and pilots on the run, infantry with rifles raised in vain to resist the attack from the air.

The ground shook under the explosion of the bomb, and the hit plane exploded into a cloud of fireball fragments. In the shock wave, the propeller spun and flew into the sky.

In the midst of the black plumes of smoke that rose from the bombs, Commander Jojes. Cynot's usual serene and slightly humorous expression was gone, and blood was dripping from under the hat on his head.

"Don't mess up, don't mess up, the pilots take off quickly, the infantry goes to the machine guns, and the fire is ......"

Amid loud shouts, the infantry in the gray uniforms of the French army raised their rifles and shot desperately into the sky. Louberry, holding a light machine gun equipped with a large number of French troops in his hand, spat out tongues of fire into the sky.

However, with the anti-aircraft guns already destroyed, the entire airfield was completely exposed to the attacks of German aircraft, and the anti-aircraft fire composed of some rifles and machine guns was almost negligible.

"Woo......"

In the midst of intense machine-gun fire and bomb explosions, the pilots of Lafitte's squad jumped onto the planes that the ground crew was desperately starting and began to taxi down the runway. Although the Germans carried out the world's first airfield assault aimed at destroying the opponent's air power, they did not destroy the runway, and of course they wanted to destroy the runway of the field airfield, and the power of the 12-kilogram bomb was a little less.

Many brave Allied pilots took off to meet the enemy, but due to their absolute numerical inferiority, they were quickly knocked down from the sky by albatrosses. Despite this, the planes of Lafitte's team, which began to taxi, rushed into the sky without the slightest fear.

As more and more Allied aircraft appeared over the airfields, at least making the dive attacks of the German flying team less brazen, the situation on the airfields seemed to have improved somewhat.

"Boom"

A bomb exploded nearby, and a strong wave of air pushed Jane. Merlin's body blew her long golden hair like a flag in the morning light. This brought her back to her senses. Intuitively, she thought she was going to take action.

Looking at the Allied airfield on the ground from the sky, although the airfield was a simple open space with no further facilities, the oil depot and ammunition depot erupted violently under the attack of bombs and bullets. It indicates that the Allied air teams will lose most of their combat capability for a considerable period of time.

"These damn Germans, they attacked our airfield, they went on the offensive!"

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At this time, General Xiafei, who was far away in Paris, was completely shocked by the news coming from the telephone receiver, and he had no idea that the Germans, who had just been badly damaged at Verdun, would launch a counterattack so quickly, and that it would be the main means of defense to attack him at the first moment.

He soon realized that Verdun's defenses were too weak, especially when the skies were in the hands of the Germans, and that his main means of defense was only the Emile. The 1st French Assault Cavalry Division led by Major General Derian, will they be able to withstand the German attack this time?

At Verdun, Petain's face was very gloomy as he dropped the telephone, and the smoke clouds of the explosion were constantly floating outside the wide open windows, sending the unpleasant smell of gunpowder in from the windows.

Here, the command center on the Verdun front was not only attacked by German bomber forces, but huge flying boats were dropping a considerable number of one-ton bombs from the sky.

"Boom"

With an explosion, fragments of buildings and equipment flew across the sky, and the earth shook like a strong earthquake, leaving people unable to stand on their feet and falling to the ground one by one.

This was enough to make all the French soldiers fly away, and the power of a 1-ton air-dropped bomb was definitely not comparable to the fire of any artillery on the ground. Although the "Big Belta" gun can fire nearly 1 ton of shells to targets up to 14.5 kilometers away.

However, the recent air superiority of the Entente has made this monster unable to even satisfy its range, and the Germans did not dare to take out this monster at all, otherwise according to the previous battle situation, it would have fallen into the bombing and strafing of Benlei-type attack planes long ago, just like the outcome of other heavy artillery.

The power of this one-ton bomb that fell from the sky was not blown. Although the Germans only brought in three ships, it was enough to terrify the French soldiers in the area where Verdun was fortified.

The thick, hard armored turret was easily pierced by the 1-ton bomb, the steel warhead smashed through the ceiling, collapsing and blocking the tunnel, and the basement was littered with flames and gas, and the explosions and shouts were mixed together, as if the end of the world was coming. In a state of high tension for fear of the next bullet hitting, the person became "hysterical".

In the face of the bombardment of such a situation, any evasion is completely negative.

A total of 21 of these one-ton bombs were dropped on the three airships, and two 230-mm heavy howitzers with armoured batteries were destroyed in the fort. It was these 21 bombs that made Fort Douomun, an important support point in the area where Verdun was fortified, almost completely incapacitated.

You must know that the actual combat significance of such a fortress is nothing more than the giant artillery inside, and if these cannons are destroyed, then it is completely pointless to spend so many troops to protect it.