"Boom!" A huge explosion sounded outside the fortress. Inside the fortress, a huge cavity was formed, making the sound even more deafening.
what happened? The commander of the fortress, Major Bridgetland, immediately knew that the situation was not good, and he yelled: "Quickly, go out and see!"
It's not a bombing. There is no bomber's peculiar roar outside. At the same time, it is not a bombardment. No cannon can hit this far. What should it be?
Nobody knows.
Now, they need to go out and see immediately!
A platoon leader ran towards the passage of the fortress, but when he ran there quickly, his face suddenly turned pale, **** it!
The exit of this passage was blocked by countless rocks and soil! At this time, he had already thought of something. It was someone outside who created an explosion and artificially blasted the exit of the passage!
The Eben? Emaar fortress is solid, and its artillery can control all the ferry crossings within 16 kilometers of the Albert Canal and the Maas River.
The entire fortress is built on a small granite plateau. Its northeast and northwest sides are almost vertical cliffs, about 40 meters high. The turbulent Albert Canal flows through the cliffs, and the south is separated by a large anti-tank trench. 7 meters high protective wall.
All sides of the fortress are surrounded by the so-called "canal belt" and "trench belt", and are built with reinforced concrete bunker with searchlights, 60 mm anti-tank guns and heavy machine guns.
This is a well-designed fortress group. Through the 4.5-kilometer underground tunnel, the turrets, rotating armored turrets, anti-aircraft gun positions, anti-tank gun positions, and heavy machine gun positions are cleverly combined.
Relying on powerful weapons, plus storage of ammunition, fresh water and food that can last for half a year. Under heavy guard, the entire fortress is unbreakable.
If ground weapons are used, even those proud Panther tanks, Germany will be able to occupy here after paying a huge price.
But now, the attack method has changed!
Break from the top of the fortress!
10 gliders successfully brought a team of 80 people to the top of the fortress. After coming down, they attacked according to the original plan like a tiger returning to the mountain.
What to attack?
Of course, the turrets, bunkers, and tunnel openings were destroyed one by one in rapid succession!
If the paratroopers came down, they would not be able to carry a large amount of explosives at all, but now it is different. They took a glider and brought a large amount of explosives at the same time! Two and a half tons!
"Da da da." The assault rifle fired at the opposite side, and several Belgian soldiers were swept down. Then, they quickly arranged explosives at the entrance of the tunnel, ran to a safe position, and detonated.
"Boom!" Amidst the loud noise, the tunnel entrance collapsed!
Close the door and hit the dog!
The fortifications here are quite solid, and there are not many exits. As long as all the exits are blown up, the defenders of the fortress will be trapped inside!
A famous soldier, with wind blowing under his feet, ran to the target he had trained many times.
The biggest weapon of this fortress is a 10mm gun mounted on a rotating armored turret, which has an almost omnidirectional range of fire.
Kill these turrets!
The engineer quickly placed the explosives outside the turret, and then a loud explosion sounded again.
In order to explode the fortress with explosives, they specially developed a cone-shaped explosive explosive package that can penetrate 3 meters of concrete!
In the violent explosion, the turret was killed.
Well-trained and fast!
After blowing up here, they continued to run to the next turret, but when they came here, they felt something was wrong.
The 5-meter-diameter armored bunker here looks very weak?
"This is a fake model made by Ironhide, don't worry about it!" Lieutenant Wichig shouted.
In the previous training, they could only create a one-to-one model for training based on aerial photos.
In the photo, they recognized some fake turrets, but some fake turrets successfully fooled them.
There is no need to waste ammunition on the fake turret, it must be solved as soon as possible now!
One after another explosion sounded for ten minutes. During these ten minutes, the first team successfully completed the task.
They blew up and destroyed all artillery and military installations on the top of the fortress and controlled the surface positions of the fortress.
At this time, inside the fortress, Major Bridgetland was extremely angry.
Now, they couldn't see the situation outside, but the loud explosions made them clear that something must have happened at the top, and all their equipment had been destroyed.
However, they have no way!
All passages are blocked, they are trapped inside!
"Quick, quick, quick!" Major Bridgetland shouted loudly, "Quickly get through the passage!"
Now, the Belgian soldiers inside the fortress are busy with their hands, using shovels to move the falling cement blocks and dirt at the entrance of the tunnel, hoping to reopen the passage so that they can rush out, and the Germans who do not know how to appear The soldiers fought and killed the Germans.
But ~www.novelhall.com~ the progress is too slow!
Lieutenant Wichig, who had completed the task of controlling the top of the fortress, looked up into the distance, and the remaining three units were also nervously performing their tasks.
The Eben? Emaar Fortress is surrounded by artificial canals, but, after all, there is still normal traffic. Therefore, on the northwest side of the Albert Canal, there are Canney Bridge, Fronhafen Bridge and The three bridges of the Feldweizult Bridge are the only way to cross the canal from east to west.
To seize the fortress is not to complete this surprise attack. You must seize the three bridges to complete the task successfully!
Therefore, the first echelon of the attack was divided into four squadrons. In addition to the first squadron of Lieutenant Wichig, there were three more.
The code-named "Cement" unit, 96 people, together with the Koch Command, used 11 gliders, and the task was to capture the Fraunhafen Bridge.
The 3rd team is codenamed "Steel", with 9 people, using 9 gliders, and the task is to capture the Feldweizult Bridge.
The fourth team is codenamed "Iron", with 90 people, using 10 gliders, and the task is to capture Canney Bridge.
They must be fast! After all, the Belgians were prepared.
Each bridge is guarded by a squad, and the number of people is not too large. However, in order to prevent accidents, they have placed explosives on the piers and can damage the bridge at any time.
Now that the battle on this side is over, Lieutenant Wichig has time to pay attention to that side. He only saw the gliders, all landing on the west end of the bridge, without gunfire.
They swooped towards the bridge unexpectedly from behind the post. The defenders had not reacted before they had been captured!
Temporarily won!
Lieutenant Wichig lit a cigarette in silence. He knew that the mission of this surprise attack had ended, but the most difficult battle had just begun!
