"Boom!" A huge explosion sounded outside the fortress, and inside the fortress, a huge cavity was formed, making the sound even more deafening. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

What's going on? The commander of the fortress, Major Bridgeland, immediately knew that the situation was not good, and he shouted loudly: "Quick, go out and see!" ”

It's not bombing, there's no characteristic roar of bombers outside, and at the same time, it's not shelling, no cannon can hit so far, what should it be?

Nobody knows.

Now, they need to go out and check it out right away!

A platoon commander ran towards the passage of the fortress, but, when he ran there quickly, his face turned pale, damn it!

The exit of this passage was blocked by countless stones and soil! At this time, he had already thought of something, this was someone outside, creating an explosion, artificially blowing up the exit of the passage!

Eben? The Emar Fortress is impregnable, and its artillery fire controls all crossings within 16 kilometres of the Albert Canal and the Maas.

The entire fortress is built on a small granite plateau, with almost vertical cliffs to the northeast and northwest, about 40 meters high, under which the Albert Canal flows, and to the south by wide anti-tank trenches and 7 meters high protective walls.

The fortress was surrounded on all sides by the so-called "canal belt" and "trench belt", and reinforced concrete pillboxes were built, equipped with searchlights, 60-mm anti-tank guns and heavy machine guns.

It is a well-designed and built fortress complex. Through the 4.5 kilometers of underground tunnels, the battery battery, the rotating armored turret, the anti-aircraft gun position, the anti-tank gun position, the heavy machine gun position and so on are cleverly combined.

Relying on a powerful variety of weapons, plus the storage of ammunition, fresh water and food that can last for half a year. Under the heavy guard, the entire fortress is impregnable.

The use of ground weapons, even those proud Panther tanks, would have cost Germany dearly in occupying the place.

But now, the attack has changed!

Break through from the top of the fortress!

10 gliders successfully brought the squad of 80 people to the top of the fortress, and after coming down, they attacked like tigers returning to the mountain, according to the original plan.

Attack what?

Of course, it is to destroy turrets, pillboxes, and pit mouths one by one in succession and speed!

If the paratroopers had come down, they would not have been able to carry a large amount of explosives at all, but now they are different, they come down in gliders and at the same time bring a large number of explosives! It's two and a half tons!

"Da-da-da-da." The assault rifle fired at the opposite direction, and several Belgian soldiers were swept down, and then they quickly placed the explosives at the mouth of the tunnel, ran to a safe position, and detonated.

"Boom!" In the midst of a loud bang, the mouth of the pit collapsed!

Close the door and hit the dog!

The fortifications here are quite strong, and there are not many exits, as long as all the exits are blown up, the defenders of the fortress will be trapped inside!

A famous warrior, with the wind under his feet, ran in front of the target that had been trained many times.

The largest armament of the fortress was a 120-mm gun mounted on a rotating armored turret, which had an almost omnidirectional firing range.

Kill these turrets!

The sappers quickly placed the explosives on the outside of the turret, and then a loud explosion was heard again.

In order to be able to blast through the fortress with explosives, they specially developed a cone-bore charge explosive pack, which can penetrate 3 meters of concrete!

In a violent explosion, the turret was taken out.

Well trained and fast!

Blowing up the place, they continued to run to the next turret, but, when they came here, they sensed that something was wrong.

The armored bunker with a diameter of 5 meters here looks weak, huh?

"It's a fake model made of iron sheets, leave it alone!" Lieutenant Wichge shouted.

In the previous training, they had to build a one-to-one model based on aerial photos for training.

On the photo, they recognized some fake turrets, but, nevertheless, there were some that managed to fool them.

There is no need to waste ammo on the fake turret, now it must be solved as soon as possible!

The sound of explosions rang out one after another for ten minutes, and in these ten minutes, the 1st detachment successfully completed its mission.

They blew up and destroyed all artillery and military installations on top of the fortress, took control of the surface positions of the fortress.

And at this time, inside the fortress, Major Bridgeland was extremely angry.

Now, they couldn't see the situation outside, but the loud explosions made it clear to them that there must be something going on at the top, and that all the equipment on their side had been destroyed.

However, they can't help it!

All the passages are blocked, and they are trapped inside!

"Quick, quick, quick!" Major Bridgeland shouted loudly: "Hurry up and open the passage!" ”

Now, the Belgian soldiers inside the fortress are busy using their hands and shovels to move the falling cement and earth at the mouth of the tunnel, hoping to reopen the passage, and they can rush out and fight the German soldiers who don't know how to appear and kill the Germans.

However, the progress is too slow!

Lieutenant Weiqige, who had completed the task of controlling the top of the fortress, looked up into the distance, and the other three detachments were also nervously carrying out their tasks.

Eben? The Emar Fortress is surrounded by artificially dug canals, but there is still normal traffic, so on the northwest side of the Albert Canal there are three bridges: the Cannae Bridge, the Fron Hafen Bridge and the Feldwezlt Bridge, which are the only way to cross the canal from east to west.

Capturing the fortress is not considered to complete this surprise attack, and the three bridges must be captured to successfully complete the mission!

So, the first echelon of the attack, divided into four detachments, in addition to the 1st squadron of Lieutenant Wichge, there were three.

The 2nd detachment, codenamed "Cement", 96 people, together with the command of the Koch assault force, used 11 gliders and was tasked with seizing the Fron Hafen bridge.

The 3rd detachment, codenamed "Steel", consisted of 92 people, used 9 gliders, and was tasked with seizing the Feldwitzlt bridge.

The 4th detachment, codenamed "Iron", consisted of 90 people, using 10 gliders, and was tasked with seizing the Cannae Bridge.

They have to be fast! After all, the Belgians were prepared.

Each bridge was defended by 1 squad, which was not a large number, but, just in case, they had already planted explosives on the piers, which could be destroyed at any time.

Now that the battle was over on this side, Lieutenant Wichegg had time to pay attention to that side, and he only saw the gliders, all of which had landed at the western end of the bridge, and no gunfire was heard.

They swooped down on the bridge from behind the outpost, and before the defenders could react, they had already been captured!

Temporarily victorious!

Lieutenant Weiqige silently lit a cigarette, he knew that the mission of this surprise attack was over, but the hardest battle had just begun!