Chapter 443 The Turtle in the Urn

"Boom!" A huge explosion sounded outside the fortress, and inside the fortress, a huge cavity was formed, making the sound even more deafening.

what happened? The commander of the fortress, Major Bridgetland, knew immediately that the situation was not good, and he shouted loudly: "Quick, go out and see!"

It's not bombing, there is no peculiar roar of bombers outside, and at the same time, it's not shelling, no artillery can hit so far, what should it be?

Nobody knows.

Now, they need to go out and see right away!

A platoon leader ran towards the passage of the fortress, 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, that someone was outside, creating an explosion that artificially collapsed the exit of the passage!

The fortress of Eben Emar was impregnable, and its artillery fire could control all the crossings of the Albert Canal and the Maas within 16 kilometers.

The entire fortress is built on a small granite high ground. Its northeast and northwest sides 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 trench and 7 meters high protective wall.

The fortress was surrounded on all sides by the so-called "canal belt" and "ditch belt", and was built with reinforced concrete bunkers, which were equipped with searchlights, 60mm anti-tank guns and heavy machine guns.

This is a well-designed and constructed fort complex. Through a 4.5-kilometer underground tunnel, artillery turrets, rotating armored turrets, anti-aircraft gun positions, anti-tank gun positions, and heavy machine gun positions are skillfully combined.

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

If ground weapons are used, even those proud Panther tanks, Germany will be able to occupy this place after paying a huge price.

But now, the attack method has changed!

Break through 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 tigers returning to the mountain.

Attack what?

Of course, the turrets, bunkers, and tunnel entrances are destroyed one by one in a continuous and rapid manner!

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 came down in a glider and brought a large amount of explosives at the same time! A full two and a half tons!

"Da da da." The assault rifle fired towards 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 location, and detonated.

"Boom!" Amidst the loud noise, the tunnel entrance collapsed!

Close the door and beat the dog!

The fortifications here are quite strong, 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 fighter, with wind under his feet, ran in front of the target who had been trained many times.

This fortress, the biggest weapon is the 120mm gun mounted on the rotating armored turret, with almost omnidirectional firing range.

Take down these turrets!

The sappers quickly placed the explosives on the outside of the turret, and then the loud explosion sounded again.

In order to use explosives to blast the fortress, they specially developed a cone-hole charge explosive pack that can penetrate 3 meters of concrete!

In the violent explosion, the turret was killed.

Well trained and fast!

After blowing up this place, they continued to run to the next turret, but when they got here, they felt something was wrong.

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

"It's a fake made of tin, leave it alone!" shouted Lieutenant Weickig.

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, however, some fake turrets managed to fool them.

There is no need to waste ammo on fake turrets, it must now be solved as soon as possible!

One after another, the explosions sounded for ten minutes. During these ten minutes, the 1st team successfully completed the task.

They blew up and destroyed all the artillery and military installations on top of the fortress and took control of the fortress' surface positions.

At this time, inside the fortress, Major Bridgetland was extremely angry.

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

However, they have no way!

All the passages were blocked, and they were trapped in it!

"Quick, quick, quick!" Major Bridgetland shouted loudly. "Quickly open the passage!"

Now, the Belgian soldiers inside the fortress are busy with their hands and shovels to move the fallen cement blocks and soil from the tunnel entrance, hoping to open the passage again, and they can rush out to meet the German who did not know how to appear. Soldiers fought and killed the Germans.

However, the progress is too slow!

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

The Eben Emar fortress is surrounded by artificially dug canals, but after all, there must be normal traffic. Feldwezelt Bridge, three bridges, is the only way to cross the canal from east to west.

Capturing the fortress does not count as completing the surprise attack. It is necessary to capture those three bridges to be considered a successful completion of the mission!

Therefore, the first echelon of the attack was divided into four divisions, in addition to Lieutenant Wichiger's 1st squadron, there were three more.

The 2nd detachment codenamed "Cement", 96 people, together with the command of the Koch assault force, used 11 gliders, and the task was to capture the Froenhaven Bridge.

The 3rd Detachment, code-named "Steel", with 92 people and 9 gliders, was tasked with capturing the Feldwezelt Bridge.

The 4th Division, codenamed "Iron", has 90 people and uses 10 gliders. The task is to capture Canny Bridge.

They have to be fast! After all, the Belgians were prepared.

Each bridge is defended by one squad, and the number of people is not large. However, in order to prevent accidents, they have already placed explosives on the bridge piers, and they can damage the bridge at any time.

Now that the battle on this side was over, Lieutenant Weickig had time to pay attention to that side. He only saw the gliders, all of which landed on the west end of the bridge, and there was no gunshot.

They unintentionally swooped towards the bridge from behind the post, and before the defenders could react, they were already captured!

Victory for now!

Lieutenant Weiqig lit a cigarette silently. He knew that the mission of the surprise attack was over, but the hardest battle had just begun!