"Don't be nervous, boys, the fight should be a very pleasant thing for you. You are the elite of the Empire, the most elite warriors in the world. Our air force is also the most powerful air force on the planet, they will get rid of those annoying pillboxes, artillery and tanks, we are behind enemy lines, but the sky is our friend! A sergeant comforts his men on a JU transport plane for the first time.

The sergeant was not false, at least in this airspace the Luftwaffe was indeed the most powerful air force, and the various attack planes did sweep all the enemy units that could be found on the ground. In terms of sheer size, the Luftwaffe had already surpassed the battles of Florence and Naples in the number of aircraft that had been put into service. After all, this time the Germans mobilized 3 transport planes and gliders in the first wave alone! Together with the fighters responsible for escort, bombers and attack aircraft responsible for ground attack, this number reached almost 1! (Including bombers supporting the Ancona Front Army.) ）

"From the Balkans, through the Adriatic to Ancona, Foliño. The Luftwaffe planes formed an airtight corridor in the air, and our fighters were pushed aside from afar, and we could only see the transport planes and bombers flying slowly in the air, the former aiming at Foligno, while the latter attacked all the prey they could find, like vultures looking for carrion! The opposing side did not have a specific target for the attack, and the range of their attack covered fortifications and positions from the front. To the railway junction all the way to the logistics warehouses, the only relaxation is the airports everywhere, because these airports are still useful for them. Moreover, after the British and Chinese air forces went north, the combat effectiveness of the US and French air forces could no longer threaten their opponents. The commander of the US Air Force in Italy, General Lemay, wrote in a later report..........

Li May's report only gave a general description of the scale of the Luftwaffe's campaign. But a lieutenant colonel named Ridgway had a first-hand experience of the Luftwaffe's bombing of Foligno. "They are not just the grim reaper on the battlefield, but the rulers of the battlefield. They control the rhythm of the war, and even though we retain a considerable part of our forces and technical equipment in the bombing, they cannot play a role under the suppression of the other side. It was one of the most terrible battles I've ever experienced, and I've experienced the Florentine void. Although the opponent attacked fiercely, it only lasted for an hour. And this time the Germans attacked a bit like boiling frogs in warm water, and they continued to suppress us, which made me and my troops feel hopeless! This is something more terrible than indiscriminate bombardment. ”

Although Ridgway is in the Army. But his report was an inspiration for the U.S. Air Force. The task of the Air Force is not to shoot down the opposing fighters, to attack targets on the ground with bombers, this is only at the tactical level. The highest mission goal of the Air Force is control of the battlefield! This control has two aspects, one is temporal, and the surviving units that have survived through continuous suppression are also ineffective. And the other is spatially, completely locking a certain area! The outside can't get in, the inside can't get out!. …。

But these are all later, and at this time, Ridgway was directing his men to evade the attack of the other party in the southeast of the city. Li Qiwei's brigade was the one that was forced to stay here because of insufficient transportation, after a period of time. Part of his troops reached the front, while his regiment and others remained there. Although he has not been ill for a long time, although he has not yet been on the battlefield. But German air raids were also almost daily. During this time, Ridgway did not learn anything else, but his ability to dig bomb shelters, quickly evacuate troops, and organize anti-aircraft fire has grown completely. At this time, there was no radar, and the command system was relatively backward, and the role of a small number of medium-caliber antiaircraft guns was more to disperse and interfere with the enemy's bombing, and it was very difficult to shoot down enemy planes. …。

So Ridgway prefers those that are convenient for camouflage and can maneuver quickly. Small-caliber anti-aircraft guns with an extremely fast rate of fire. During his time in Foligno, he decisively mounted the MM Erley anti-aircraft guns and Bofors anti-aircraft guns on various half-tracks. Concentrate, then hide around the opponent's key targets beforehand. When the opponent's bomber enters the dive route and cannot effectively avoid the attack, it will suddenly attack. After a round, move your position and choose a place to continue the ambush. Not to mention, this method of attacking and hiding is really useful, and there are already as many as eight planes in Li Qiwei's hands, so Li Qiwei and his mobile antiaircraft artillery unit have the name of fly swatters. The Supreme Commander of Foinho thought that it would be more useful for him to swatt flies here than to go to the front, so Ridgway and his troops were left behind under various names. The front line is not very tight anyway. What's more, there are still not enough train wagons! …。

But this time, Ridgway's good fortune seems to have come to an end! The fly swatter squad hides around a marshalling station to prevent detection by the opposing side. They were all covered with canvas to make people think they were nothing more than a pile of goods. The marshalling station is the center of the railway station, and the marshalling station is responsible for arranging how to transport. So in the eyes of the attacker, it is much better to destroy the marshalling station than to blow up some cargo. And Li Qiwei took advantage of the other party's psychology to cleverly set up an ambush. Just when Li Qiwei was thinking about whether he could make the fly swatter team's record rise to double digits today, the roar in the air startled him!

"What are they going to do?!" Li Qiwei frowned as he looked at the group of attack planes getting closer and closer in the distance, and the opponent's attack formation was a mixed formation of two types of aircraft. One is an ordinary twin-engine bomber, while the other is like a twin-engine fighter to make a cameo appearance on a ground attack mission, but they are also professional, and two cannon hangers are suspended between the wing engines and the fuselage. At the same time, small bombs were mounted in the lower part of the auxiliary officer. For marshalling stations such a target. It is definitely better to use high-powered aerial bombs. But what do you mean by bringing small bombs for anti-infantry? It wasn't unthinkable that one day the Germans would take some action specifically against his fly swatter squad, but this anti-infantry bomb was not very lethal against armored anti-aircraft vehicles. The bombshell was inaccurate, and he couldn't figure out what the other party wanted to do.........

"Rapier squadron, you can attack the formation station, and if something happens, I can help you deal with those guys." Rudel said in the channel.

"Okay, Rapier understands, pay attention to their anti-aircraft guns, they will hide part of the firepower as a backhand, you must be careful." After a few seconds, the Rapier squadron leader replied. Rudel shook his wings to signal that he had received the information, and the Rapier squadron began to enter the dive course to open a gap for units on the ground.

Ridgway's layout is still very detailed, and the Erly anti-aircraft guns are deployed in the core area of the target. When the Rapier squadron began to bombard, the self-propelled anti-aircraft guns hidden around immediately died, camouflaged in the air to form a dense tongue of fire, at least 8 anti-aircraft vehicles, nearly 3 mm anti-aircraft guns and a large number of M machine guns, weaving an insurmountable net of fire in the low altitude. Tracer armor-piercing shells and high-explosive bombs drew a dangerous arc to bite the bombers trying to escape, a twin-engine bomber hurriedly dropped the bomb in the belly, and was about to climb and escape, when suddenly the rear of the right engine compartment was pierced by a series of mm high-explosive shells, billowing black smoke came out from the breach, just when the pilot was hurriedly controlling the flight attitude. Several armor-piercing shells were fired into the cockpit from behind the cockpit, directly cutting the pilot ......... in half.

"It's time for us to act, these anti-aircraft guns are too hateful, and keeping them is a big hidden danger to the Airborne Forces." Rudel began to fly quickly over the battlefield with two three-plane formations. "Pay attention to the north, there are new flies coming, they are going to drop bombs at low altitudes, everyone pay attention." The alarm from the observation post was quickly transmitted to the various gun emplacements that were fighting, but the American GIs who were fighting were not too concerned about this. According to past experience, the accuracy of horizontal bombing is generally not high. Not to mention that there was also sufficient armor protection on the hull. So they don't care. But this encounter can be described as empiricism killing people! …。

The other party is throwing bombs, but this bomb is not an ordinary high-explosive bomb, nor is it an anti-infantry submunition, but a kind of anti-armor submunition that uses a shaped warhead and has a certain anti-armor ability, the weight of each bullet is not large, only about kg, after throwing down, the tail of the bomb will open a parachute to stabilize the flight attitude, and when these bombs fall above the target, the metal jet generated by the shaped charge can penetrate the top armor of the vehicle, although this shaped armor-piercing technology is still very immature. The accuracy of spreading is also very problematic, but the number of drops in this wave is really a bit much, there are nearly 100 bullets in one kg of submunitions, and 6 planes have dropped more than 6 bullets. And the target against it is nothing more than a couple of half-track anti-aircraft vehicles! bombers flew past. It is like sowing seeds, leaving irregular spreading areas on the ground.........

"This little thing will suddenly explode when it comes into contact with the armor plate in the upper part of the hull, and then a flash of fire will directly tear the armor plate. Numerous fragments and high-temperature jets rampage through the vehicle's body, and an anti-aircraft vehicle was directly detonated, and the ammunition was blown apart. Countless small bombs like snowflakes fell from the sky, turning the surrounding area into a death zone, and if we were not far away, I am afraid that we would also be buried in this iron coffin. An American sergeant said with palpitations after the war. Although the momentum was huge, the actual strike effect was just like that, 6 kg sub-munitions threw hundreds of rounds of bullets in a small range, but only knocked out 4 anti-aircraft vehicles. However, this also opened a gap in the already dense air defense network.

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