Take Taobao to fight against Japan

Shen Mao was also no exception, he was not willing to give up his most loyal and reliable close comrade-in-arms just like this, and continued to pull the trigger to shoot at a dive bomber in the northeast direction.

Boom boom boom!

A series of shells soared into the sky and fired continuously, tightly covering the attack route of the enemy's dive bombers.

However, the speed of the high-speed dive bomber is so fast that it seems that every shot is aimed at the bull's-eye, but in fact, it has missed tens of meters or even hundreds of meters in a short period of time that is almost negligible.

Without precise guidance, it is not so simple to kill such a high-speed dive aircraft, even with proximity fuze shells.

But there is a saying that is good, a blind cat can also meet a dead mouse, not to mention that Shen Mao is an experienced gunner. The incoming bomber was blown up in the air.

However, at this moment, a bomb was bombarding him at an extremely fast speed.

"Hold the grass!"

At the time of life and death, Shen Mao had no time to think about it, so he left the artillery emplacement as quickly as possible, and ran towards the nearest anti-explosion hole.

Chapter 1323

Boom!

However, this bomb came too fast and too violently. As soon as Shen Mao ran a few meters away, he exploded behind him, followed by an extremely powerful wave of air.

It felt like a heavy truck hit him from behind, and Shen Mao couldn't help speeding forward, and then his internal organs began to surge up, and he spurted out a mouthful of blood while he was still in the air.

thump!

Being thrown directly several meters away, Shen Maocai fell heavily to the ground, and then, then, his head tilted and he passed out.

"Ah, company commander!"

"Medical soldiers, come and save people!"

Hearing the sound of an explosion not far away, several artillerymen who arrived at the blast hole first ran out to check the situation, only to see that their company commander was "lying dead" on the ground at this moment, and his life and death were unknown. Everyone panicked for a while.

"Quick, shoot these damn Germans!"

"Oh Shet, I'm sending you to God!"

"Fak oil! Go to hell!"

Inspired and driven by the artillery unit of the Chinese Expeditionary Army, the British and American anti-aircraft machine gunners also put their crosshairs on a Stuka dive bomber that was diving at a crazy low altitude, and pulled the trigger with all their strength Crazy output.

Da da da, a string of bullets headed straight up, one by one, the light bullets drew a line of bullets in the air that disappeared in a flash.

The ground attack aircraft during World War II flew at relatively low altitudes. The German Stuka dive bombers could only drop bombs or use machine guns to attack ground targets when they dived to a certain height.

At this height, the ground anti-aircraft machine guns can completely hit the bomber and cause fatal damage.

Similarly, other bombers must lower their altitude in order to drop bombs accurately. The US B-17 bomber has a combat altitude of about 500 meters.

At this altitude, anti-aircraft machine guns, especially those mounted on tanks that move, still pose a great threat to the B-17 bomber.

Although these anti-aircraft machine guns are far less powerful than 88mm anti-aircraft guns, their rate of fire and sensitivity are far stronger than those of 88mm anti-aircraft guns, and they are still effective against these high-speed diving combat aircraft.

The collision of power and strength is often so simple and crude. In a series of fierce air defense battles where you die or you die, one after another bombers and fighter jets were beaten up, smoked and exploded in the air, and crashed on the island one after another. On, on the ocean.

At the same time, anti-aircraft artillery positions and anti-aircraft machine gun positions on Malta Island were subjected to frenzied strafing, bombing, and continuous destruction!

At this moment, the Italian fleet moored in the distance also began to approach the island of Malta. During the march, a series of large-caliber naval guns continued to spew flames, and began to bombard the coastline of Malta Island.

"What the hell is going on? Why did so many powerful anti-aircraft guns suddenly appear on Malta Island? When did these damn East Asian sick men land on Malta Island?"

On an Italian cruiser, Zando, commander of the Libyan Navy, was holding a binoculars and was concentrating on the battlefield where fierce fighting was taking place ahead. He watched with great pain as one plane after another was bombed down.

"General Zando, do you still think that the Chinese Expeditionary Army is an army like sand?"

Meneki, chief of staff of the Afrika Korps, also looked very ugly. Just yesterday, Malta Island was still pretending to be a dog, and the air force did not encounter decent resistance after repeated bombings.

Today, however, so many anti-aircraft artillery groups suddenly appeared out of nowhere, causing heavy casualties to our own air force and landing troops.

These newly emerged anti-aircraft guns are exactly the same as the 88mm anti-aircraft guns of the Third Reich, and they are also "blue out of blue and better than blue". Their shelling accuracy and operational sensitivity far exceed their own 88mm anti-aircraft guns.

What puzzled Meneki was that it was not the British and American troops who were proficient in manipulating these 88mm anti-aircraft guns, but a group of yellow-skinned oriental faces.

At this time, even if Meneki thought with his feet, he could know that these artillerymen must belong to the combat sequence of the Chinese Expeditionary Army.

If he hadn't seen all this with his own eyes, Meneki would not have believed that the Huaxia Expeditionary Army would have such advanced anti-aircraft guns and such a well-trained anti-aircraft gun unit!

"So what? No matter how powerful their anti-aircraft guns are, they will only be blown to pieces under the bombardment of the coalition air force and the fleet, and they will all be wiped out in the end!"

Although the loss of the air force exceeded expectations, Zando did not panic. As long as the opponent did not have fighter jets to do something, no matter how powerful the ground air defense force was, it would only have a limited effect.

However, Meneki threw cold water: "If it's just dozens of anti-aircraft guns, it won't change the overall situation, but do you think it's just like this?

Obviously, the ground troops stationed on Malta Island have also been greatly strengthened. If we want to successfully land on the beach and conquer Malta Island in a short period of time, it may not be easy. "

Speaking of this, Meneki really has a headache. It is very simple to destroy the air defense force and blow up the ground military targets, as long as you are willing to spend the cost.

However, the terrain around Malta Island is very strange, and there are very few places suitable for landing. When the troops attack, they must also withstand the attack of Gozo Island next to Malta Island.

The fort on Gozo Island has four 380mm guns and a large number of guns of different calibers. Although most of the models are relatively old, they are still very powerful.

And if they land by force, the troops will inevitably suffer heavy losses, and a strong attack is actually not a good choice.

To carry out such an amphibious landing operation, the required materials will also be an astronomical figure. In order to rely on Italy alone, it is definitely not enough. Rommel has to transfer a large amount of resources from Germany.

But the problem is that the existence of the island of Malta is really disgusting, and its strategic position is too important. It has always been a sharp dagger inserted in the heart of Rommel's African Army.

Although this dagger has long lost its sharpness under the long-term bombing and blockade, there is no direct and substantial threat to the supply line of the African Legion.

But after all, the island of Malta guards the Mediterranean waterway and is a nail for the British army in the Mediterranean.

Basically, any convoy departing from mainland Italy to North Africa may be detected by the Malta radar station.

Once discovered by the Maltese defenders, the British Mediterranean Fleet can quickly dispatch and sink all these transport ships into the sea.

Therefore, whether it is the head of state of Germany or the leader of the Italian party, the two leaders of the Axis powers have planned that once the situation in North Africa stabilizes, they will immediately capture the island of Malta to ensure that their transport ships will not be driven into the sea again. feed the fish.

However, due to various reasons, the battle plan to capture the island of Malta has been delayed until now, giving Yang Fan an opportunity!

Chapter 1324 Kill a Big Guy

Just when Meneki thought about it more and more, Zando suddenly said: "General Meneki, why don't we use the paratroopers to carry out airborne coordinated offensive operations?"

Meneki frowned, glared at him with some displeasure, and said, "The paratroopers are the most elite troops of the Third Reich, and every paratrooper is a valuable asset.

Under such unfavorable terrain and combat conditions, the use of paratroopers is undoubtedly letting the strongest elite of the Third Reich die in vain! "

Menegi's people are eager to win, and they really want to quickly conquer the island of Mata, so as to pull out this thorn in the flesh.

But he knew that the current geographical location and combat conditions were not suitable for paratrooper airborne at all.

In the history of modern warfare, there is a special kind of arms, they come suddenly like heavenly soldiers and generals, and may change the situation of the war, they are paratroopers.

Through the use of transport aircraft, well-trained squads are sent to designated locations to complete special tasks, which makes paratroopers an important part of the military of various countries.

Paratroopers began to appear in World War I, but due to the limitations of technology at the time, they were not used on a large scale.

During World War II, paratroopers became an important part of the German Blitzkrieg and were used by many countries before they developed rapidly.

Not every ordinary soldier is able to parachute. Parachuting requires professional training. There is no doubt about the quality of individual soldiers. To be a qualified paratrooper is largely a special force or a death squad.

On the battlefield, a commander would not let these elites go to the local positions for sightseeing. They often had special missions, such as taking out the enemy's important material points, cutting off the supply line, and even directly destroying the opponent's headquarters.

Therefore, in the face of this threat, each country does not allow such an enemy to exist in its own position, and will do everything possible to eliminate this threatening team.

Although the paratroopers are a huge threat after a successful landing, they are living targets in the air.According to incomplete statistics, the sacrifice rate of paratroopers in World War II was as high as 80%.

Many paratroopers were wiped out in the sky before they even landed. Even the elite were helpless in the air.

Not only that, once the paratroopers' parachuting point is exposed, even if they do not sacrifice in the air, they will be surrounded by enemy ground forces after successfully parachuting. That's why there is a saying that paratroopers are born to be surrounded.

In particular, airborne in the current era is inherently very dangerous. Even in a state of out-of-war, under the best weather conditions, the death rate of airborne is more than [-]%!

If you encounter severe weather conditions, the airborne death rate will even exceed [-]%!

This means that under bad conditions, nearly one-third of the paratroopers will be killed just by parachuting.

Under such circumstances, Menechi was naturally unwilling to waste the most elite paratroopers needlessly.

"Then what should we do? With such a hard landing operation, I am afraid that our losses will be quite heavy, and it will be difficult to break through the Allied defenses!"

Seeing that Meneki refused to use the most elite paratroopers, Zando suddenly became dizzy.

In fact, he doesn't care how many people will die in the attack. The key is to attack and land on the beach from the southeast corner of Malta Island. The difficulty is too great!

while talking,

"Quick, quick! Those bastards are attacking again, this time we will try to sink his big guy!"

On Malta Island, in a 234mm shore artillery battery, more than a dozen Chinese artillerymen are nervously preparing for the final battle.

At the same time, more than a dozen coastal defense guns hidden in various positions are also doing the same action, preparing to fire a salvo together after the Italian destroyer enters the optimal range.

马其他岛上英国守军掌握着一支颇具实力的岸炮部队，最初拥有4门380毫米岸炮、4门234毫米岸炮和6门152毫米岸炮，10门140毫米岸炮，隐蔽部署在数个阵地内。

但是在德意联军实施了长达半年之久的断断续续的海空火力轰炸下，大部分的岸防炮已经被摧毁，当前也就只剩下2门234毫米岸炮、4门152毫米岸炮，6门140毫米岸炮还能发挥作用。

After landing on the island, Yu Xueli and others not only urgently reinforced the remaining dozen of forts that had been seriously damaged, but also volunteered to take over a 234mm shore gun and two 2mm shore guns from the British army.

In the last battle, although they failed to sink the Italian battleships and cruisers that were bombarding the front, they also caused a lot of pressure and damage to the Italian fleet.

The island of Gozo, located 5 kilometers northwest of the island of Malta, is still in the hands of the British army at this time. There are still three 380mm coastal artillery and more than ten coastal defense artillery on the island that can play a role.

However, since the attacking position of the Italian fleet was far away from the effective range of the coastal defense guns of Gozo Island, they could only look at the ocean and sigh at this moment.

"Get ready, fire!"

When the Italian cruiser was within 3000 meters of the coast, the 234mm shore artillery controlled by the Tiger Army artillery opened fire.

Boom boom boom!

After hitting the first bird with a stick, the shore artillery group suddenly fired rapidly at the cruiser "Koro" approaching the coast. With loud noises coming out one after another, all the shells fired at the "Koro" crazily.

Due to the large distance to close targets, the hit rate of coastal defense guns is very high, hitting 12 consecutive bombs in a short period of time.

Although these shells could not penetrate the heavy armor, the anti-aircraft guns of the superstructure were destroyed, and seven anti-aircraft guns lost their combat effectiveness, ranging from 7mm guns to 20mm guns. Naval casualties.

After being attacked, the "Koro" immediately returned fire, trying to speed up and get out of the fire range of the turret, but the 140mm shore guns of other nearby turrets also began to shoot at it. The hull was shot repeatedly, the steering gear failed, and the speed dropped. .

The most terrible thing is that the hull caught fire, and then detonated a secondary battery ammunition depot.

After a violent explosion caused serious damage to the hull and further ignited the fuel depot, the "Koro" was finally irreparable.

Finally, after some struggles, this flamboyant Italian cruiser began to capsize irretrievably, and sank to the bottom of the sea in a short while!

"Great! Finally killed a big guy!"

"Brothers, work harder and keep working! Let these bastards come and go!"

"Verygood!"

"Ness!"

A burst of frenzied fire finally overturned a cruiser, and all the Allied officers and soldiers watching the battle on the shore danced with excitement.

The artillerymen did not stagnate at all, and soon locked their target on another cruiser.

Correspondingly, when these hidden coastal defense guns exposed their targets again, the Italian Navy battleships parked on the sea farther away, as well as the bomber fleet that was bombarding wildly above, "discovered the new continent" and launched attacks one after another. Target these menacing coastal defense guns!

Soon, large-caliber naval guns and heavy aerial bombs bombarded these coastal defense forts for free, and a moment later, earth-shattering explosions exploded crazily on the coastline of Malta Island.

The fierce life-and-death battle broke out again!

Chapter 1325

December 12, the last day of 31, Allied High Command, North Africa Theater, Cairo.

Yang Fan, Stilwell, Auchinleck, and Patton allied senior generals gathered together to discuss the current battle.

In the past few days, the German and Italian coalition forces have launched unprecedented frantic bombing and amphibious operations on the Malta Islands.

The Allied soldiers in the Malta Islands did not give up an inch of ground. They fought bloody battles with the Axis forces for a week, and withstood countless crazy attacks.

Two days after the German-Italian Allied Forces attacked Malta Island continuously, due to the extremely tenacious resistance of the Allied Forces, the German-Italian Allied Forces’ offensive was frustrated many times and suffered extremely heavy casualties. Gozo Island and Kemuna Island are two small islands north of the other islands.

Although it has been red eyed for a long time, the situation is stronger than others. Facing the unimaginable defensive power of Malta Island, the German-Italian coalition forces had to face the reality again and had to retreat to the next best thing.

In the early morning of December 12, it took the lead in launching an attack on Gozo Island, intending to capture one or two fulcrums in the Malta Islands first, and then slowly attack the Malta Islands.

Gozo Island is the second largest island in Malta. It is located 5 kilometers north of the west of Malta Island. The island is 14 kilometers long, 7.2 kilometers wide, and covers an area of ​​67 square kilometers. There are Conical Mountains on the island and many cliffs around it.