Chapter 441: Turtle in the urn
"Boom!" A huge explosion sounded outside the fortress, and a huge cavity formed inside the fortress, making the sound even more deafening.
What's going on? Major Bridgetland, the fortress commander, immediately knew that the situation was not good, and he shouted loudly: "Hurry up, go out and have a look!"
It’s not bombing, there is no unique roar of bombers outside, and at the same time, it’s not shelling. No cannon can hit this far, what should it be?
No one knows.
Now, they need to go out and have a look!
A platoon leader ran towards the fortress passage, but when he ran there quickly, his face turned pale, damn it!
The exit of this passage was blocked by countless stones and soil! At this time, he had already thought of something. Someone outside created an explosion and artificially blew the exit of the passage!
The Eben Emal Fortress is solid, and its artillery firepower can control all ferries within 16 kilometers of the Albert Canal and the Maas River.
The entire fortress is built on a small granite high ground. Its northeast and northwest are almost vertical cliffs, about 40 meters high. The surging Albert Canal flows under the cliff, and the south is separated by a wide anti-tank trenches and a 7-meter-high protective wall.
Each side of the fortress is surrounded by the so-called "canal belt" and "trench belt", and is built with steel and concrete bunkers, equipped with searchlights, 60mm anti-tank guns and heavy machine guns.
This is a carefully designed and built fortress group. Through an underground tunnel of 4.5 kilometers, turrets, rotating armored turrets, anti-aircraft gun positions, anti-tank gun positions, heavy machine gun positions, etc. are cleverly combined.
With powerful weapons and the storage of ammunition, fresh water and food that can last for half a year, heavy troops guarded it, the entire fortress is unbreakable.
If ground weapons are used, even those proud Black Panther tanks will allow Germany to occupy this place after paying a huge price.
But now, the attack method has changed!
Break through the top of the fortress!
Ten gliders successfully brought a team of 80 people to the top of the fortress. After they came down, they attacked according to the original plan like a tiger returning to the mountain.
What to attack?
Of course, it is to continuously and quickly destroy the turrets, bunkers, and tunnel entrances one by one!
If the paratroopers came down, they would not be able to carry a large amount of explosives at all. But now they are different. They are taking a glider and bringing a large amount of explosives at the same time! It is a total of two and a half tons!
"Dadada." The assault rifle fired at the opposite side, and several Belgian soldiers were swept down. Then, they quickly placed the explosives at the entrance of the tunnel, ran to a safe position, and detonated.
"Boom!" With the loud bang, the tunnel entrance collapsed!
Close the door and beat the dog!
The fortifications here are quite solid, and there are not many exports. As long as all the exits are blown up, the defenders of the fortress will be trapped and killed in it!
A famous soldier, with a gust of wind under his feet, ran to the front of the target that he had trained many times.
The biggest weapon of this fortress is the 10mm cannon installed on a rotating armored turret, which has an almost omnidirectional firing range.
Kill these turrets!
The engineer quickly placed the explosives outside the turret, and then a huge explosion came again.
In order to use explosives to explode the fortress, they specially developed a cone-hole charge explosive pack that can penetrate 3 meters of concrete!
The turret was killed in amid the violent explosion.
Well trained and fast!
After blowing up the place, they continued to run to the next turret, but when they came here, they felt something was wrong.
The armored bunker with a diameter of 5 meters here looks very weak?
"This is a fake model made of iron, don't worry about it!" Lieutenant Vicheg shouted.
In 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 of them succeeded in fooling them.
There is no need to waste ammunition on the fake turret, it must be solved as soon as possible now!
The explosions came one after another for ten minutes, and within these ten minutes, the 1st team successfully completed the task.
They blew up and destroyed all artillery and military facilities on the fortress's top and controlled the surface positions of the fortress.
At this time, inside the fortress, Major Bridge Trund was extremely angry.
Now, they could not see the situation outside, but the huge explosions made them clear that there must be a situation on the top and all their equipment had been destroyed.
But, they have no choice!
All the passageway entrances were blocked, and they were trapped here!
"Quick, fast, fast!" Major Bridgetland shouted loudly: "Hurry open the passage!"
Now, the Belgian soldiers inside the fortress are busy using their hands and shovels to move the falling cement blocks and soil at the entrance of the tunnel, hoping to open the passage again, and they can rush out, fight with German soldiers who don’t know how they appear, and kill the Germans.
However, the progress is too slow!
Lieutenant Weiqige, who had completed the task of controlling the fortress, looked up at the distance, and the other three teams were also nervously performing their mission.
The Eben Emal Fortress is surrounded by a canal dug, but after all, it still requires normal traffic. Therefore, on the northwest side of the Albert Canal, there are three bridges, the Canny Bridge, the Froenhafen Bridge and the Feldwezelt Bridge, which are the only way to cross the canal from east to west.
Seizing the fortress is not considered completing this surprise attack. It is necessary to capture those three bridges to complete the mission successfully!
Therefore, the first echelon of the attack was divided into four squadrons, and in addition to Lieutenant Weiqige's first squadron, there were three.
The team code-named "Cement", with 96 people, and together with the Koch Assault Force Command, 11 gliders were used, with the mission to capture the Froenhafen Bridge.
The third team was code-named "Steel", with 9 people, using 9 gliders, and the mission was to capture the Feldwezelt Bridge.
The 4th team was code-named "Iron", with 90 people, and used 10 gliders, with the mission to capture the Canny Bridge.
They must be fast! After all, the Belgians were prepared.
Each bridge is defended by a squad, and the number of people is not large. However, in case of any situation, they have already placed explosives on the bridge piers and can damage the bridge at any time.
Now that the battle here is over, Lieutenant Vichge has time to pay attention to it. He only saw those gliders, all landing at the western end of the bridge, without gunfire.
Did they come out from behind the outpost and pounce on the bridge? Before the defenders could react, they were taken over!
Win temporarily!
Chapter completed!