Battle of the Third Reich

The large-scale bombing of the Luftwaffe continued until early in the morning, when groups of bombers flew slowly toward the French mainland in the morning, leaving behind a burning ruin.

This was an unprecedented air strike in the history of human warfare, and the German Air Force once again set a historical record. From 9pm on the 19th until 6am the next morning, during the entire 9-hour period, the Luftwaffe dispatched 2,300 sorties of aircraft to 27 cities and towns along the southern coast of the United Kingdom. As well as the bombing of military bases and ports, the scale is huge, the duration is long, and the damage to the target is heavy. It not only surpassed any previous air strikes by human beings, but also exceeded the imagination of all Air Force strategic experts.

In this airstrike, the Germans made full use of the air and ground radar systems to monitor the movement of each aircraft group. The ground command center used a radio navigation system and remote radio stations to guide all bombers on the bombing route, and finally reached the aircraft group. The time over the target is accurate to the minute. In this operation, the Germans showed their paranoia and rigor in their characters to the fullest. The whole battle was completely digitized. They made every walk into a list. Every feint or raid, every aircraft’s Entering and leaving, the German Air Force Ground Command controlled the rhythm of the entire air raid, and the Royal Air Force casually played with it.

At that time, no one thought that this air raid would directly affect the whole battle of the Battle of England. The ultimate defeat of the British Empire began this night.

The Germans had never put force directly on ordinary civilians like this night. Although some civilians died in previous bombings, they were caused by stray bullets around military targets. They were not targeted at ordinary civilians. Civilian attacks.

This time it was different. It looked like a massacre aimed at civilian targets. The center of dozens of cities was reduced to ashes, and several coastal towns were erased directly from the map. Tens of thousands of civilians died. Another hundreds of thousands of people are homeless, with direct economic losses reaching tens of millions of pounds, and the indirect losses are even more incalculable.

The cold-blooded bombing launched by the Germans not only hit the British government badly, but also caused a serious impact on the hearts of ordinary British civilians.

Before this day, the British had only seen the tragic phenomenon of the city being destroyed in newspapers and novels, and had never had such a real look and feel. The morale of the British was high for a time, because in those novels the brave Englishmen faced the enemy's artillery and united their hearts and ruled out all difficulties to win the final victory. Justice will always defeat evil, and the Germans are always the evil side. Is not it.

The Germans did bomb many British coastal targets, but most of them were military targets and airports far from the suburbs of the city. Occasionally, a few bombs fell into the urban area, bombing a building or collapsing the attic of a certain house. Some or some unlucky eggs have unfortunately become victims. Newspapers usually post a blurry photo in the second or entertainment version, which becomes the talk of the citizens after tea and dinner. After drinking a glass of whiskey, they can pat the newspaper to curse the German .

The east side of London was once severely hit by German bombers, where there were dense factories, workshops and countless simple board houses and shacks. On the bank of the river lined up a mile-long warehouse full of flour, food, raw silk and weapons and ammunition produced and waiting to be transported away.

In residential areas, thousands of poor people in London live there like mice. A single German bomb can destroy an entire shed. These wooden buildings are as easy to burn as matches. Swarms of poor people died like ants in flames, or were buried or burned to death. The fire brigade and the police are always late. Their job is to water the houses that are not on fire, lest the flames spread to other high-end neighborhoods. Then he waited for the flame to extinguish itself, and then packed up the remains of the victims in the darkened fire field, packed it into the already prepared pulp board coffin and dragged it out of the city to bury it. Avoid causing epidemics.

The ladies and gentlemen in London stood on the high roofs or towers and watched the billowing smoke of the Eastern District, cursing the cruelty of the Germans, and admiring the magnificence of the fire. They knew that there were people dying there, but who would care about these mice Life and death.

The East Side is a black hole in London, where most of the poor are at the bottom of the society, full of hooligans, thieves, robbers, scammers, gamblers, and either alcoholics or opium ghosts. The people there are ignorant, without possessions, cunning, greed, and moral corruption. There is no shame, opposition to the government, and contempt of authority. In addition to the mechanical work in the dark factory, the gangs are rampant in the dark alleys of the black street to do all the unseen illegal business. There are dozens of cases in those dark back lanes every day. Fighting or murdering, a noble gentleman entering those lots will not survive for an hour.

The disaster in the East End of London cannot be included in the fourth edition of the newspaper. At most, there is only a rough sketch and a few interviews with the district sheriff, indicating that the fire in a certain block is under control. The London police is serious and will wait. Protect the life and safety of every London citizen.

But this time, it was no longer small and dirty mice that were attacked, but the residents of the entire town, regardless of wealth, poverty, good or bad, good or bad, men, women and children, all became the targets of the Germans. In just one night, tens of thousands of ordinary people were burned, killed, smashed, and suffocated. The number of injured people was ten times that. Many people were terrible burns, which may last for a week. The death toll will soar.

The German bombs blew up the roof of the house, collapsed the tall gable, and the incendiary ignited the whole block. Countless people and their accumulated wealth turned into a pile of ashes, and the people who survived were more painful. They Losing property, houses, loved ones, career and work, all that remains is just a set of clothes and scars on the body. The government organized the first wave of rescue activities in the early morning of the next day. In addition to medical assistance, it also provided some food and clothing reserves, but based on the huge base of the victims, this is completely stretched, and even the tents on site Not enough, poor people can only sit on the field snuggling with each other.

The news spread across the south like lightning. For the first time, the British really felt the horror of war. Most of them were afraid. They could take up arms and shoot at German infantry, but they could not stop the disaster that fell from the sky. . The Air Force has proved their incompetence with facts. They can no longer defend the British sky. The Germans can attack any British town from the sky without any care, destroying all the things they want to destroy, and British civilians can only watch this happen, completely powerless.

So, from noon on the 20th, in the cities of southern England, a terrible wave of refugees suddenly broke out.

Urban residents waved ration cards and pounds, and searched all the food, fuel, clothing and daily necessities on the market. People are either single-family, or make friends. Taking all the vehicles they could find, carrying all the belongings they could take away, they hurriedly began to flee from their city.

On the roads from the southern coast to the northern inland, the escaping crowd of passengers stretched for tens of kilometers, and there were also a large number of vehicles and people pouring out of the villages and towns along the road to gather into this huge migration team, many There was severe congestion in the area.

Some people put all their property on the top of the vehicle, from pots and pans to fashionable furniture, luggage, food and drink, and piled up a hill. Severely blocked the view of the vehicles behind, which caused many traffic accidents.

On this chaotic road, all class divisions have been blurred, whether you are driving a Rolls Royce or a half-ton Ford. God treats everyone the same and does not run faster because he is noble.

Many of these fleeing citizens still carry weapons, and many of them even possess military rifles. They are all former National Guards.

The German bombing last night completely destroyed the self-confidence of the self-defense army members. These people have only now discovered that they did not join the self-defense army to defend any government and king. They don’t care about the life and death of the king’s family and Fatty Churchill, they care about their homes, their property and family members, and they join the SDF in order to protect these, pick up weapons, protect these things that must be guarded, and take away The evil Germans who walked with these treasures fought to the end.

But now, they have discovered that the development of the situation is not the case at all. The **** facts of the destroyed towns reveal a terrifying fact that the Germans can take away what they want without bombing, just by bombing. Guard everything. Of course, they were reluctant to stand still and carrying a rifle at the seaside could not withstand the German airstrikes. It seems luck to be able to stay with my family. Who can guarantee that the Germans will not launch this kind of terrorist attack again tonight, and who can guarantee that the next city that is not affected will be their own.

Subsequently, another unconfirmed message shattered everyone's last expectation, and London issued a notice "Cromwell". Although this phrase was only communicated to the inside of the army, there were many people in the self-defense force who had internal relations with the army. Soon everyone knew the secret order, and the Germans had begun to invade.

When the Self-Defense Force was at a loss, some more terrible rumors were heard. For example, there was already a German infantry division landing on Folkestone, the Germans dropped a paratroopers division in Heze, and the German navy was in Portsmouth. Sri Lanka has landed, and the British Army defenders in Dover are fighting the Germans, and they have already suffered heavy losses and failed to break into the army.

The morale left by the National Self-Defense Force was suddenly gone, and the Germans had landed, so what use was it for them to wander in these wilderness, most of the Self-Defense Forces chose their families in front of their families and the country, and those temporary organized companies immediately Disintegrated on their own, the team members brought their own equipment back to their homes, and then fled their families to the north. Everyone had a common idea. The farther away from the cities and villages the better before the next German bombing, Go north, go out of reach of the Luftwaffe and the Army.

By 2 pm on the 20th, most of the surviving coastal villages and towns have been turned into empty cities. In the panic tide, the local National Self-Defense Forces all disintegrated on their own, and local defense organizations everywhere collapsed. The established system disappeared, from the officers to the soldiers, all with their flags down, returning to their homes and mixing into the refugees who fled.

The refugees fled all the way to the north. No one dared to blow up the roads and bridges, set up roadblocks and landfills according to the orders of London. This is the way for the refugees to escape, and the guys who do so will be killed on the spot. .

When London finally got the news, the refugee wave had spread across the southern road network and the situation was completely beyond control. What even made Churchill vomit blood was that the refugee tide blocked most of the high-level roads and blocked the backup troops being moved to the coast. Especially the reorganized first armored division, those tanks can only be heavy now. The carrier went up and down, climbed down the road, and slowly walked along the road towards the designated area at walking speed. The commander said that if it went smoothly, it should be able to reach Folkestone the next morning.

Churchill inferred from the area bombed by the Germans that the Germans might land, which should be in the two harbour cities of Folkestone and Dover, and perhaps a stretch of beach between Heidze and Hastings. These areas have been extremely violently attacked. The buildings in the city have been seriously damaged. A large number of soldiers have been killed in the barracks. The proud large-caliber coastal artillery and train artillery have also been hit hard. The rails of the train guns were completely destroyed and held alive in the air defense tunnel.

The coastal artillery position in Dover was attacked by incendiary bombs, detonating the propellant stored in the air raid shelter, one 380 mm heavy gun was completely destroyed, and the other was slightly injured. Burned into metal residue.

What made Churchill most distressed was that his gas bombs stored in secret warehouses in various coastal towns were all burned in the warehouses. The Germans seemed to have super luck. Many of the towns attacked were gas storage sites, 400 Fifty tons of mustard gas became a violent combustion aid in the blaze. This poison will cause a violent explosion when exposed to an open fire. These towns are burned to ashes and there is no lack of credit for these things.

The strongest killer tool was abandoned by the other party before he made the move. Churchill thought at first that it might be a leak, but there were many towns in the bombing target that were ordinary material reserves and arsenals. In the end, he could only I think this may just be a tragic coincidence. God has not blessed the British Empire.

Right now, he has no way to deal with the mighty wave of refugees, but hundreds of thousands of people can't order the army to clear the field with weapons. They can only order the troops that are supporting to leave the road and advance from other paths or directly off-road. At midnight on the 20th, we arrived at Dover and Folkestone and entered the scheduled position. At the same time, he ordered the surviving garrison troops around Dover to enter first-level combat readiness and enter the coastal blocking position, striving to delay the first wave of German landings, waiting for reinforcements to arrive. Finally, he issued an order to the British Navy, and the local fleet immediately prepared to enter the strait, attacking all water targets, and it was important not to let any German board float across the strait. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and faster!