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The Third Empire - Chapter 441

Published at 19th of October 2021 11:53:40 AM


Chapter 441: 441

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"Boom!" The huge explosion sounded outside the fortress and formed a huge cavity inside the fortress, which made the sound even more deafening.

What's going on? Major bridgeland, the commander of the fortress, immediately knew that the situation was bad. He shouted, "come on, go out and have a look!"

It's not bombing. There's no special roar of bombers outside. At the same time, it's not artillery. No cannon can hit so far. What should it be?

No one knows.

Now, they need to go out at once!

A platoon leader ran towards the passage of the fortress, but when he ran there quickly, his face turned white. Damn it!

The exit of this passage is blocked by countless stones and soil! At this time, he had thought of something. Someone made an explosion outside and artificially blew up the exit of the channel!

Eben? EMAR fortress is as solid as gold, and its artillery fire can control all ferries within 16 kilometers of Albert canal and MAS river.

The whole fortress is built on a small granite highland. Its northeast and northwest are almost vertical cliffs, about 40 meters high. The Albert canal with surging water flows under the cliff, and the south is separated by a wide anti tank trench and a 7-meter-high protective wall.

All sides of the fortress are surrounded by the so-called "canal belt" and "trench belt", and reinforced concrete bunkers are built, which are equipped with searchlights, 60mm anti tank guns and heavy machine guns.

This is an elaborate fortress group. Through the 4.5km long underground tunnel, the fort, rotating armored turret, anti-aircraft gun position, anti tank gun position and heavy machine gun position are skillfully combined.

Relying on various powerful weapons and the storage of ammunition, fresh water and food that can last for half a year. Under the heavy guard, the whole fortress is unbreakable.

If we use ground weapons, even those proud Panther tanks, Germany will be able to occupy it after paying a huge price.

But now, the way of attack has changed!

Break through the top of the fortress!

Ten gliders successfully brought the team of 80 people to the top of the fortress. After coming down, they attacked as planned like tigers returning to the mountain.

Attack what?

Of course, it is to destroy the turret, bunker and tunnel mouth one by one!

If paratroopers came down, they couldn't carry a lot of explosives at all, but now it's different. They came down by glider and brought a lot of explosives at the same time! Two and a half tons!

"Dada dada." Assault rifles fired at the opposite side, and several Belgian soldiers were swept down. Then, they quickly placed explosives at the mouth of the tunnel, ran to a safe position and detonated.

"Boom!" In the loud noise, the tunnel mouth collapsed!

shut the dogs up to beat them!

The fortifications here are quite solid, and there are not many exits. As long as all the exits are blown up, the garrison of the fortress will be trapped and die inside!

A famous soldier, with the wind at his feet, ran to the target that had been trained many times.

The biggest weapon of this fortress is the 120 mm artillery installed on the rotating armored turret, which has almost omni-directional firing range.

Kill these turrets!

The engineers quickly placed the explosives outside the turret, and then the loud explosion came again.

In order to use explosives to open the fortress, they specially developed conical hole charging explosive package, which can penetrate 3M thick concrete!

The turret was killed in the violent explosion.

Well trained and fast!

After blowing up here, they continued to run to the next turret, but when they came here, they felt something wrong.

The armored bunker with a diameter of 5 meters here looks very weak?

"This is a fake model made of tin. Don't worry about it!" Cried Lieutenant Vicky.

In the previous training, they could only make a one-to-one model for training based on aerial photos.

In the photos, they recognized some fake turrets, but some fake turrets succeeded in fooling them.

There is no need to waste ammunition on the fake turret. It must be solved as soon as possible now!

One after another, the explosion sounded for ten minutes. In these ten minutes, the first unit successfully completed the task.

They blew up and destroyed all artillery and military facilities on the top of the fortress and controlled the surface position of the fortress.

At this time, inside the fortress, major bridgeland was very angry.

Now, they can't see the outside, but the loud explosions make them clear that there must be a situation on the top, and their own equipment has been destroyed.

But they have no way!

All the passages are blocked. They're trapped here!

"Come on, come on, come on!" Major bridgeland shouted, "open the passage quickly!"

Now, the Belgian soldiers inside the fort are busy with their hands, shovel the concrete blocks and mud that they are carrying at the tunnel opening, hoping that they can re open the passage, and they can rush out to fight the German soldiers who do not know how to appear.

But the progress is too slow!

Lieutenant weiqige, who completed the task of controlling the top of the fortress, looked up at the distance, and the other three units were also carrying out their tasks nervously.

Eben? Emmal fortress is surrounded by manually dug canals, but after all, there must be normal traffic. Therefore, there are three bridges on the Albert canal in the northwest, namely canny bridge, fronhafen bridge and feldwezert bridge, which is the only way to cross the canal from east to west.

Seizing the fortress is not to complete the raid. You must seize the three bridges before you can complete the task successfully!

Therefore, the first echelon of the attack was divided into four units, including three in addition to lieutenant weiqige's First Squadron.

The second unit, code named "cement", 96 people, together with the Koch commando command, used 11 gliders to capture the fron hafen bridge.

The third unit, code named "steel", has 92 people and uses 9 gliders. Its mission is to capture the feldwezert bridge.

The fourth unit, code named "iron", has 90 people and uses 10 gliders. Its task is to capture canny bridge.

They have to hurry! After all, the Belgians were ready.

Each bridge is guarded by one squad, which is not a large number. However, in case of accident, they have long placed explosives on the piers, which can destroy the bridge at any time.

Now that the battle here was over, Lieutenant weiqige had time to pay attention there. He only saw those gliders falling at the west end of the bridge without gunfire.

When they came out from behind the post, they rushed at the bridge unexpectedly. The defenders had been captured before they reacted!

Temporary victory!

Lieutenant weiqige quietly lit a cigarette. He knew that the task of the raid was over, but the hardest battle had just begun!




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