stonecrandall Chapter 498
Chapter 498
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: 0.087s Scan: 0.114sMainz had the idea of rebuilding the empire and establishing the Third Reich a long time ago.
But he had not yet thought about whether to ascend the throne and become emperor.
There are advantages to being an emperor, and the emperor’s authority is unparalleled within the empire.
But being an emperor also has disadvantages. The fall of the Second Empire was largely due to a series of misdeeds by William II, an unqualified emperor.
Moreover, decades later, there are many countries in the world with kings, but almost no kings still hold real power. They have almost become mascots and have been stripped of power.
Rather than letting their descendants be stripped of power and become a decoration, it is better not to be an emperor and let them have the capital of fair competition. In this way, they will be more likely to regain the pinnacle of power in the future!
Of course, it is not the time to think about these issues. With a powerful enemy at hand, it is very dangerous to not think about how to defeat the powerful enemy, but to fantasize about how to gain benefits after defeating the enemy!
However, good news from the front soon came!
After the two returned to the headquarters, Guderian, who had disappeared for several days, finally sent a telegram saying that they had captured the Sedan area and were rushing towards the Strait of Calais!
“Great, this news comes at the right time!”
“Yes, as long as we control the Strait of Calais, we can completely cut off the retreat of the more than one million coalition forces in Belgium. As long as we can eat up this army, we can basically lay the foundation for our victory!”
In the headquarters, everyone seemed very excited after hearing this good news!
Guderian made a big splash!
Not only did they successfully complete the task of assaulting the Ardennes Forest, but they also quickly captured Bastogne and Sedan, turning the rear of the coalition upside down!
At this time, in Western Europe, the German army had built a huge encirclement on the battlefield, and the number of coalition forces in the encirclement was very huge. This was the main field force of the coalition. Once they were eaten up in Belgium, there would be no force in front of the German army that could stop them!
“Don’t be careless, the more it is now, the more you need to be careful!”
Although Mainz was very happy, he was not overwhelmed by the good news!
He knew very well that the main force of the German army had not entered the battlefield at this time and was still blocked in the area east of the Liege Fortress.
Although they cut off the retreat of the coalition forces, they only had a weak army behind them.
Once someone on the coalition side could react quickly, send troops from Gaul, and then join forces with the coalition forces in Belgium and other places to attack from both ends, then Guderian’s First Army would be in a very dangerous situation!
“Pass on my order, immediately let the Third and Fourth Army attack the Lie Ri Fortress, and let the Seventh and Second Army move south immediately to intensify the attack on the Allied forces trapped in the encirclement in Belgium and other places. Tell them that I don’t want to hear any reports on casualties. I only want Antweipu. You must take this city for me within two days!”
“”Yes, General, I’ll send them a telegram right away!”
Feeling Mainz’s tough words and firm tone, the smiles of everyone in the headquarters disappeared from their faces!
General Mainz was right, they had only surrounded the enemy and had not completely eliminated the enemy. Now was not the time to celebrate. As long as they had not eaten up this enemy in a day, they could not relax for a moment!
Because enemies in desperate situations are often the most terrifying, and they will do their best to survive!
Mainz’s eyes were fixed on Dunkirk. This was the key to this battle and the core place that would determine the outcome of this war!
“Guderian’s back is very empty, and there are reinforcements to protect them, so tell Goering to put the main force of the Air Force in the border area between Belgium and Gaul, and create an air restricted area for me here to provide cover for Guderian in the air!”
Guderian’s task is very heavy. He must sprint at full speed to capture Dunkirk before the coalition forces escape from the German encirclement, and keep the German encirclement from being broken under the attack of the Gauls in the Iron Tower City.
This situation of being attacked from both sides is a great test of Guderian’s combat command level!
If his troops fail to achieve any of these two goals, this surprise attack will most likely fail!
Therefore, in the absence of being able to provide Guderian with military support in a short period of time, Mainz can only send out the Air Force from the air to provide them with assistance!
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Goering’s air force has now entered the Rhine region, distributed in 33 airports on the front line of the Rhine region!
At this time, the air battle between the warring parties was extremely fierce over the huge battlefield in Western Europe!
The number of German fighters was far less than that of the coalition forces, but the performance of their aircraft was one generation ahead of the coalition forces, so after six or seven days of fierce fighting, the Germans had shot down more than 500 coalition fighters, and their own losses were less than 50, with a loss ratio of more than 10:1!
This exaggerated loss ratio made the fighter pilots of the coalition forces doubt their lives!
The planes on the opposite side were obviously so much less than their own, but why did they always lose more here after each fight?
At the beginning, they were still very unconvinced. Every time the Germans sent bombers out to attack them, they would immediately take off fighters to fight the enemy.
But gradually, as they fought, they found that their friendly forces were getting fewer and fewer, while the enemy was getting more and more!
With the addition of the main force of the German army, after shooting down a large number of enemy planes, the German advantage in the air began to gradually emerge!
A large number of Stuka dive bombers and B-29 strategic bombers began to attack the Allied airfields on the ground first, destroying dozens of airports and completely destroying the aircraft parked on the airports, which greatly damaged the Allied air force’s air power!
The fierce bombing of the German army made the Allied forces a little overwhelmed.
In order to preserve their strength, they had to withdraw their troops from the front line and withdraw the main force of the Air Force to Gaul or even the territory of the sun never sets.
However, this led to another problem. Their fighters had a poor range. If the airport was too far away from the battlefield, they would have to return to the airport soon after taking off because of fuel exhaustion.
This caused the Allied Air Force on the battlefield to completely lose air superiority and was gradually driven out by the Germans!
After driving out the Allied Air Force, the battlefield in Western Europe became the world dominated by the German Air Force! On
November 11, 192, the Battle of Dunkirk and Antwerp started at the same time. The German army dispatched three armies from southeast to north to attack these two places!
In Dunkirk, the First Army launched three fierce attacks on Dunkirk under the cover and support of the Air Force.
Perhaps knowing that their lives depended on the gains and losses of this city, the first batch of coalition forces that arrived here fought extremely bravely, set up several lines of defense outside Dunkirk, and desperately resisted the German attack.
However, under the condition of air support, they were bombed by the German Stuka dive bombers and suffered heavy casualties!
The attack characteristics of the Stuka dive bomber are to aim at a target, then quickly dive down from a high altitude, and drop bombs at an altitude of less than 200 meters close to the target. Some highly skilled pilots can even lower this altitude to 100 meters. At this distance, the bomb will fall straight down, just like a guided bomb, directly hitting the target, and the target has no room to escape!
The coalition forces had never seen such aircraft.
Not only did they have high accuracy in hitting targets, but they almost never missed a target.
As long as they were aiming at a target, they would be able to destroy it by diving down.
Unless the anti-aircraft firepower on the ground was very strong and could shoot them down before they attacked, otherwise the targets on the ground, whether they were cannons, tanks, fortresses, bunkers, etc.
, would be sent to the sky by bombs weighing 500 kilograms!
Moreover, this type of aircraft would make an extremely harsh sound when it was dive-bombing. Just hearing this sound could make people collapse!
Therefore, once these Stukas appeared, they immediately became the nightmare of the coalition forces. Under the Stuka’s indiscriminate bombing, almost all the fortifications and firepower points on the coalition positions were blasted to the top!
And they had been fighting with the Germans with their lives before, and they were buying time for their rear troops by exchanging their lives so that they could break through to Dunkirk and turn the tide of the war!
However, after the Stuka dive bombers joined the battle, their delaying tactics immediately failed. After being bombed to pieces, the positions hastily formed by the Allied forces were immediately beaten into a sieve, completely losing the ability to stop the German advance. So
Guderian took the opportunity to launch a fierce attack, taking down three enemy lines of defense in a row, and completely surrounded the Dunkirk area! On