"The Air Force must suppress the train artillery of the French, because of the presence of these guys, the Army will lose at least 30 large-caliber guns every day! If this continues, it won't be long before we can only shoot at the French with mortars and self-propelled guns! We don't ask you to help us in any other way, but at least we have to do that, and only by suppressing the most formidable long-range strike firepower of the French will our offensive be carried out smoothly! If it can't be done, then the army can only delay the general offensive, and we can't let the soldiers on the front line make fearless sacrifices. "The setback of the attack on Saint-Nazaire even affected the top of the German army, and at the meeting, Field Marshal Kruger asked the air force to make relevant commitments, and there was a big kind of fight that if you don't agree, I won't fight."

And the air force agreed very neatly, because as long as there is time, this matter is not difficult to do, although at the beginning of the Battle of Biscay, the addition of the Chinese air force made the Luftwaffe suffer all the way. However, the scale of the Chinese Air Force participating in the war is limited after all, after a long war of attrition, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Air Force is also continuing to decline, and the superiority of aircraft performance does not mean everything, and the Luftwaffe has given full play to its numerical superiority after readjustment, and has worn away the opponent's combat effectiveness little by little with continuous high-intensity operations. The resulting vacancy was filled by Britain and the United States, and after a contest, the Luftwaffe, with its deep roots, began to gain the upper hand. And just this morning, I received a new telegram saying that two more disabled Chinese Shicha Falcon Combat Strength Wings had withdrawn north to the United Kingdom, which seemed to indicate that the air situation had changed.

What's more, the Luftwaffe still has more time to prepare, the German Army needs to rearrange the offensive after being frustrated, and the battlefield will be relatively calm in a short time, and the Luftwaffe can use this time to put the last nail on the coffin board of the Allied Air Force! Another reason why Richthofen agreed so simply was that the peace talks with the French went unusually smoothly, and during the war, Petain personally negotiated with the German side several times, except for the vague attitude of the other side on the naval question. All other conditions were accepted in full. In the eyes of Richthofen and others, it may not have been the German front that finally collapsed Saint-Nazaire, but a telegram from Paris!

The Luftwaffe did their best in the ensuing battle, but they did not give it their all. Some experienced air forces were transferred back from the front line to recuperate and replenish, while the remaining air forces had the idea of slowly depleting the opponent, seeking no merit but no fault. Bomber units rarely attack heavily fortified points in the daylight, but they wear down their opponents through non-stop air patrols and safaris. And at night, those specially modified night bombers hovered over the Brestany Peninsula like ghosts. At this time, although the radar system of the Entente countries was quite complete, but after losing the depth, the early warning time was greatly compressed, and the radar could detect the opponent in time, but it was difficult for the interceptor aircraft to take off in time to intercept! So the final result became that the Allied air force could only use anti-aircraft guns and searchlights against German bombers, and what was even more tragic was that many anti-aircraft guns were pulled out to hit tanks.

At a time when the Luftwaffe was beginning to gain an advantage, the German Army was also making final preparations. Manstein parachuted directly to the front line and began to work on the creation of a new armored assault group! Actually, in essence. Manstein's approach was not much different from Guderian's, except that more heavy artillery was moved to the front line. Among them is the German Army's new equipment for a short time, the Long-legged Tiger 170mm self-propelled cannon! And in order to be able to deal a fatal blow to the thick reinforced concrete bunker, the Germans specially equipped it with armor-piercing shells, and these big guys will be responsible for both remote suppression and targeted elimination programs.

But a simple 175mm cannon was not enough, the French had a very high level of engineering and technology, otherwise they would not have been able to build such a defensive system as the Maginot Line, although now this line of defense has become a small pie like the historical line of the same name. But the French's tech tree has no white spots, and it has finally found its place in Saint-Nazaire! Some of the French man-made fortresses were not impossible to destroy, but simply could not be hit with straight ballistic guns! The most important points of support in the entire Saint-Nazaire defense system are those lines deployed on the anti-slope or with the help of terrain cover. Regardless of the Air Force, the only ones that could crush these support points were the heavy mortars and assault tiger self-propelled guns, which were called Weygand equipment within the German army.

The former was born in response to the Maginot Line of the French. The Germans designed a special turf, and then installed a 420mm large-caliber short-barreled mortar on it! Although these grinding warriors failed to show their skills on the Franco-German border in the end, they still caught up with the tail of the European battlefield! They were transported from Italy, and then felt the front line through the muddled railroad that was bombed by the Germans, as well as by the French themselves. They will tell the French with reinforced concrete armor-piercing shells weighing 800kg what it means to smash eggs with a hammer! Originally, the Germans had heavier Karl heavy guns, but it was really difficult to transport, and they are still floating on the road. I was afraid that this battle could not be counted on, so the Germans assigned the most powerful bunker killers to the assault force were these 10 vehicles in total, weighing 85 tons. It can send 800kg of heavy reinforced concrete armor-piercing shells out of a 12-kilometer Weigang self-propelled gun! In order to ensure the safety of these artillery, the Germans specially sent engineering units to build artillery positions, and repeatedly asked the air force to suppress the long-range artillery and rocket artillery of the Entente!

Of course, a simple 10 Weigand equipment obviously could not quickly clear the defense group of Saint-Nazaire, and in order to deal with the second-level targets, the Germans also pulled a large number of 240mm self-propelled mortars to the battlefield, which was called the Tiger deformation car by the Germans. He can almost be seen as a miniature version of Wei Gang's equipment, capable of firing 180kg shells for 9 kilometers! Although it cannot be compared with Wei Gang's equipment in terms of firepower, it relies on its strong mobility and high rate of fire, as well as the number of equipment of up to 36 vehicles, which are very suitable for killing and injuring those large number of anti-aircraft artillery forts.

Just when the Germans were preparing to strike the final blow at Saint-Nazaire, the Entente were not idle, but unlike the Germans, in addition to strengthening the defensive line, they did more to evacuate the materials and personnel in the rear to prepare for the final evacuation. And in addition to this, the British also beat the doctrine on Petain! The Rangers, who had made a name for themselves in the Iranian desert environment, began to carry out the assassination of Petain and the capitulation faction of the French government!

Petain still took his own safety very seriously. Because he knew how much hatred he had done, although it was unlikely that the French army would directly riot and kill him, but thinking about the British who did everything, Petain was still a little afraid. Petain thought that he could rely on his own efforts and the efforts of the capitulation faction to suppress the French garrison in the suburbs of Paris, but it was a little difficult to completely subdue the British and Americans, and it would obviously be very risky to directly order the French army to attack the British and American ** teams, and it would cause a mutiny or directly provoke the other party.

So he is mainly passive defense. During the renegotiation, he first withdrew the British and French garrisons near Paris at the cost of opening part of the port, and at the same time arranged enough defensive forces every time he went out, and in order to ensure the safety during the negotiations, he even called in a tank platoon and an armored car company as an escort! And 5 bulletproof cars of the same specification are arranged! 5 stand-ins sat in each of these cars, while he himself chose an infantry fighting vehicle as a ride!

"The government in Paris had reached a de facto truce with the Germans, the entire Eastern Front had begun to be demilitated, and the French were busy packing up their weapons and reducing their personnel as the Germans demanded, and some of them were unwilling to give in. The forcible actions of Petain and others caused a certain amount of confusion, especially on the air side, almost all of the last combat-ready units of the French Air Force were on the Bresany Peninsula, and the air on the Eastern Front was undefended for anyone, whether it was us or the Germans, who could move in and out freely. Pétain's guards were strong enough on the ground, but they didn't expect our attack to come from the air! "The head of MI5 submitted a statement of plans to Churchill and hoped for support from the Royal Air Force! And Churchill agreed, and signaled that the sooner the better!

Thus, Petain was decisively tragic. On his way back to Paris at the end of a negotiation, he was confronted with his biggest crisis in decades! In the sky, a group of specially modified Mosquito bombers began to quickly approach the convoy, while on the ground. The British Rangers, armed with light armoured vehicles and jeeps, are also ready to attack!

"What are these guys doing? Fly so low? A French soldier sticks his head out of the half-track and looks at the mosquito bomber that is flying towards him. France and Germany had largely ceased fighting on the Eastern Front, and the armies of both sides were not moving much, let alone the air forces, and bombers were rarely seen in the skies, except for some fighter jets still patrolling, and low-flying fleets like this were even rarer.

"It seems to be a Mosquito light twin-engine bomber of the British. Look at his lines, how beautiful they are. His speed and performance were almost top-notch, and even the Germans' new planes could not necessarily hunt it down. What's even more unbelievable is that its main structure is actually wood! It is known as the miracle of wood. A sergeant next to him began to show his comrades knowledge. They commented very lightly on the British plane hovering overhead, and they didn't think about why a British plane suddenly appeared on their heads!

"The target has been found, but we can't be sure which vehicle the number one target is on, and I found at least five bulletproof sedans with the same shape throughout the convoy." Major York, who led the team, carefully piloted his plane around the convoy, his gaze scanning the ground again and again, hoping to find clues. Petain's security work was so good that even now, the British have not determined where the target is! After the debriefing, there was a silence on the radio, and as the minutes and seconds passed, Major York couldn't help but become a little anxious. Once the French find out that the situation is not right and flee in all directions, it will be difficult to fight! This convoy has dozens of vehicles of various kinds, and there are only 8 planes in the air!

"Hit the tanks first, then the armored vehicles, and leave the rest of the light units to the Rangers to deal with! Must be fast, not afraid of the wrong killing, afraid of the wrong place, all the people in this convoy are renegades! Utter capitulationists, they were enemies of the Entente. Do it! The voice on the radio was cold and resolute. Major York, who received the order, carried out decisively, and 8 Mosquito bombers divided into two groups to attack!

It has to be said that the British were still very well prepared, in other words, they were murderous enough! The 8 Mosquito bombers were divided into two groups, the first group was 4 bombers, the nose was equipped with 2 30mm cannons and 2, Mencispano 20mm cannons, the main role was to deal with skirmishers and lightly armored targets, and at the same time there were 4 250kg sub-bombs suspended under the wings. Half of these bombs are armor-piercing warheads, and the other half are high-explosive warheads, and their main role is mass destruction.

The second group also consisted of 4 bombers, but they were designed to deal with hard-armored targets, such as tanks. The nose of these aircraft was armed with a 6-pounder anti-tank gun, and under the wing were up to 24 rounds of 60-pounder rockets! Although the rockets hit only a few percent, even on average, a Mosquito bomber's rocket is enough to take out a tank, not to mention a 6-pounder gun to knock out the skull! On the ground, the Rangers, armed with 82mm mortars, 30mm guns, and 57mm guns, also moved into attack positions. More than 20 tanks of various types spread out an arc and rushed towards the goal, and at this time, the French finally realized that the meaning was inappropriate!

After the ground action team sent a signal that they were in place and ready to move at any time, the Grim Reapers, who had been wandering for too long, finally spread their wings! Pounced on the target below. The second group divided into two squads and began to attack the tanks and infantry fighting vehicles at the head and end of the convoy, while the first group pounced on the middle of the convoy! The slender cannon glowed in the sun, and the rockets and bombs under the wings hung high above the heads of the French like the blades of death!

"Death has come! The attack begins! When this secret phrase was transmitted to distant England with the airwaves, the hunting team opened fire at the same time! The roar of the 6-pounder cannon instantly resounded throughout the battlefield!

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