The commander of the Eben Emaar Fortress, Major Jotland, received a call from the 7th Infantry Division headquarters last night to "be on strict alert" and had already ordered the troops to enter a war-ready state. The Bijun surveillance post also meticulously monitored the dark surroundings.

The sky began to light up slightly, and when the roar of the Stuka swooped down, the soldiers in the fortress knew they were under attack.

"Enemy attack! Stand your ground!!"

Before he finished speaking, several dull explosions came from above his head.

"Damn it!" Major Jotrand, who was inspecting various defense points through underground tunnels (there is a very complete tunnel system inside the Eben Emaar Fortress, similar to the French Maginot Line), knew from the sound that it was an anti-aircraft machine gun position. Being blown up, I couldn't help but curse. I complained in my heart about which idiot designed it. Such a large fortress only has four 62mm anti-aircraft machine guns. Doesn't this give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it?

But before he could curse a few words, with a sudden loud noise, the ceiling in front of him suddenly collapsed, and a huge metal object crashed down with the force of thunder and plunged into the floor.

"!!" Major Jotland stared at this huge creature that he had never seen before, and was stunned on the spot. The first thought that came to mind was that this was more than 20 meters deep underground. How did this thing get in?

But the next second, all the hairs on his body stood up.

Wait, this looks like an aerial bomb? ! !

"Oh God!!" The next second, Major Jotrand went to see God.

The earth-shattering explosion first destroyed everything around it, and then the violent shock wave carried scorching flames and swept away along the underground passages extending in all directions.

The bomb is usually called an earthquake bomb. After the first successful test of the original space-time bomb, the British couldn't wait to send it to the battlefield. No. 617 Squadron was ordered to bomb the Bielefeld railway bridge in German-occupied territory. The bomber dropped the Grand Slam at an altitude of 4,877 meters, and immediately after the bombardier issued a "bomb off target" report, the disappointed crew members embarked on their return journey.

However, after returning to the base, the bombing assessment report surprised the crew: the bridge was completely destroyed. It turned out that although the Grand Slam missed its target by more than 20 meters, the huge shock actually caused a small earthquake, and the resulting "seismic" effect caused the collapse of multiple spans of the bridge. The more than 90-meter-long bridge deck collapsed due to the shaking of the earth and was completely beyond repair.

Now, the strong shock wave made the entire fortress tremble.

A burst of dazzling electric sparks flashed from the wires on the ceiling. After the crackling sparks and the sizzling sound of electricity, the lights suddenly flashed, followed by a series of bangs. The light bulbs exploded one after another, and the entire fortress suddenly fell into darkness. among.

This is still a small problem. The weak links in the channel cannot resist the attack of this shock wave and begin to collapse. The fortress's passage network, which originally extended in all directions and looked at each other from end to end, was blocked into several sections.

The most terrifying thing is that the underground ventilation passages of the fortress have also been damaged to varying degrees, which can really kill people. You must know that even if you are trapped, you can survive for a long time as long as you have food and water, but if there is no air, surviving for even a few minutes is a problem.

The explosion just killed dozens of soldiers, stunned and injured hundreds of people, and many others were injured indirectly. There were also dozens of people who were trapped, and only a few dozen people could resist (this building There were 1,200 officers and soldiers stationed in the fortress. When the German army launched the attack, there were only 650 people in the fortress.).

"Tu tu tu tu." Several soldiers staggered to the entrance of the tunnel when they were knocked down by oncoming bullets.

"What's going on with these guys?" a German soldier muttered as he replaced a new magazine. "Can't you walk smoothly?"

Another soldier replied casually. "Who knows, maybe I just drank." As he said that, he placed an explosive pack on the top of the tunnel entrance.

If the paratroopers parachuted down, they would not be able to carry a lot of equipment, but they came by glider and brought two tons of explosives.

Their mission was to use these explosives to blow up all the exits of the fortress and trap the defenders inside. Fortunately, there are not many entrances and exits to this military fortress, and they have already blown up half of the exits.

After placing the explosives, they pulled the fuse and ran away quickly. A few seconds later there was a loud noise and the tunnel entrance collapsed!

In less than half an hour, all the exits of the Kung Fu Fortress were blown down. As a precaution, they also destroyed all the artillery and military facilities on the top of the fortress, completely controlling the surface position of the fortress.

"Lieutenant, we found several underground ventilation valves." Several soldiers reported to Lieutenant Weiqige, who was leading the team.

Lieutenant Weiqige rubbed his chin and thought for a while before giving the order. "Throw a few smoke bombs inside and block it!" Although smoke bombs are not as deadly as poison gas bombs, the smoke-generating agents of smoke bombs generally use substances such as yellow phosphorus, tin tetrachloride or sulfur trioxide; these things burn The resulting oxides are of course not very healthy.

"Yes." Several soldiers ran back to the vent valves, took out smoke bombs and threw them in. After shoveling a few shovels of soil, they blocked the vent valves.

At this time, the soldiers who were trapped underground were busy using their hands and shovels to move the fallen cement blocks and soil at the entrance of the tunnel, hoping to reopen the passage so that they could escape.

Suddenly someone stopped. "What does it smell like?"

"What does it smell like? Dig it quickly. Do you want to die trapped here?"

"No, it really tastes good."

"Hey, I smell it too. There's a smell of paste. Is there a fire somewhere?"

Several people took their portable flashlights and shined them everywhere, and suddenly they saw wisps of white smoke slowly falling from the vents above their heads.

Everyone suddenly screamed. "Oh my god, it's a gas bomb!!"

"Quick, get the gas mask!!"

"The gas masks are in the storage warehouse, and the way there is blocked!"

"Oh, God!!"

Just as the "Granite" commando successfully completed its mission, the "Steel" commando had also landed on the west bank of the Albert Canal and quickly captured the Feldweiselt Bridge; the "Concrete" commando occupied the middle Feldweiselt Bridge. Ronhafen Bridge.

The "Iron" commando team was unlucky. Although the glider was "silent", it could not be invisible to the naked eye. It was discovered by the military on the ground a few minutes before landing. The glider could only brave the enemy's intensive firepower to land forcefully. As a result, the "Iron" commando lost nearly one-third of its soldiers before driving away the Belgian army guarding the bridge and capturing the bridge.

Later, the engineers discovered that the piers of each bridge had been planted with explosives. If the German attack had not been caught off guard, these bridges would have been blown up, and the Germans would have had a hard time trying to cross the river.

The fall of the Eben Emaar Fortress shocked the Belgian senior officials who had previously patted their chests to ensure that the fortress was impregnable. After regaining consciousness, they hurriedly mobilized their troops and asked the surrounding armies to support the Eben Emaar Fortress, trying to recapture the fortress before the main force of the German army arrived.

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