The British fighter troops could not save their Strait fleet. The air defense shield of at least five squadrons of fighter jets blocked most of the British fighter jets from the battlefield, while the British battleships and armored cruisers on the sea were beaten to flee.

What unexpectedly surprised the British and German pilots was that at this time the German submarine also came up to grab the head! A British armored cruiser drove past a German submarine in a panic. When its slender hull appeared on the side of the u589 submarine numbered less than 900 meters, the German submarine officers and soldiers were overjoyed and fired four heavy carrier-based torpedoes without hesitation. So the German Air Force pilots in the air looked depressed! Their torpedoes had not been thrown yet, so why did the warship on the opposite side suddenly explode?

Attacking the British Strait fleet is only part of the mission of the German bomber force, not even the most important part. When the sea was already full of congestion, hundreds of German bombers began to bomb the British positions near Calais, and at the same time, the German troops on the ground immediately launched a breakthrough!

Boom! Huge columns of smoke rose above the front line of the British army, and the entire position was like a heavy hammer hitting the ground! When the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, a huge crater with a diameter of only more than 20 meters appeared on the British position, and outside the crater, the British corpses were covered with British troops. There were no traces of shrapnel on these bodies, but they were bleeding from the seven orifices and distorted faces. It was obvious that they were shocked to death by the shock waves generated after the explosion!

"It's the siege cannon! This is the power of at least 10 inches of artillery!" An British army exclaimed. The large-caliber artillery is extremely shocking and powerful even before the end of World War II! Even if these artillery with a caliber exceeding 10 inches can only appear a few, they can shake the entire front without being suppressed. This has been verified in the Lushun offensive and defensive battle in the Russo-Japanese War in history and this plane. Even the strongest bunker cannot withstand the repeated strikes of the large-caliber siege cannon!

This time, there are not a few large-caliber siege cannons appearing on the battlefield, but dozens! Two complete Austro-Hungarian siege artillery regiments have arrived on the battlefield and have completed the deployment! This 12-inch l18 heavy siege cannon produced by the Skoda military factory is definitely a fine product of this era. The artillery is deployed on a four-wheel chassis and can be transported into two parts: the barrel and the gun stand. The total weight of the battle is only 24 tons!

Two types of shells are used, one is a heavy shell. The bullet weighs 384kg and has an effective range of about 14 kilometers. The other is a light shell, with a bullet weighing 287 kg and an effective range of about 18 kilometers. Moreover, this cannon has a much higher elevation angle than the normal cannon and a curved trajectory. When the British fleet was still there, these heavy cannons with a relatively short range naturally could not play any role. But now, when the British fleet was unable to take care of themselves, the 36 12-inch heavy siege cannons were enough to let the British army on the opposite side know what thunder is!

"I feel like the entire position is like an earthquake. Not far away, the German siege cannons kept firing shells weighing hundreds of kilograms at us. When one shell fell, the entire trench was wiped out from the ground, leaving only a huge pit, weapon parts or charred corpses scattered around, telling us that there were once British positions here."

"The fire and support points of the civil structure we built on the periphery were broken like eggs under the blow of Skoda heavy hammer. The entire line of defense became fragmented under the continuous attack of the Germans. Our heavy artillery troops were suppressed by the Luftwaffe. In the rear, the sound of explosions and machine guns never stopped. As soon as you look up, you can see German planes hovering above our heads. Our fighting spirit was quickly worn out by the massive bombs and shelling of the Germans. You can only watch the German infantry follow the tanks and run over our defense."

"When the German shelling was suspended, when we could see the faces of the German soldiers opposite, most of them had their first reaction not to raise their guns to shoot, but to throw their weapons out of the trench, and then hold their heads in their hands to wait for being captured by the other party. The long-term battle has exhausted us. Watching comrades whom they know or don't know turn into corpses or minced meat every day has made us mentally on the verge of collapse. This time, the concentrated bombardment of the German heavy artillery completely collapsed, and I have also become one of the prisoners." A British officer wrote in his diary after the war.

When the British artillery positions in the distance were completely suppressed, and the front was concentrated by a large number of heavy artillery bombarded, and the tanks poured into the British defense line, it was only a matter of time before the British defeat. However, what the Germans could not have imagined was that this time, the German army encountered the first time a large number of British troops chose to surrender directly in the first wave of attacks. After two years of war, the British army, which was once known for its elite, was no longer famous as it was back then. In the current desperate situation, the British army's will to resist was directly collapsed. The seven British divisions outside the Port of Calais surrendered one after another within one day. In addition to the two divisions of British troops still stayed in the city, more than 80,000 British troops finally entered the German prisoner-of-war camp!

"Don't fight street battles with the British. We can just go around the edge of the city and occupy the port!" Lieutenant General Hall kept giving orders to the German army who was attacking. After tearing open the British defense line with heavy artillery, hundreds of tanks and a large number of infantry circled outside Calais and rushed directly towards the seaside port area. At this time, the British army remaining outside the city could no longer defend the most critical port for the British Expeditionary Force. Before four o'clock in the afternoon, the German armored troops finally rushed into the port area, controlled the port facilities and the British fleet remaining in the port. They began to build defensive positions and blasted the key facilities in the port area!

The Germans did it very thoroughly. Lieutenant General Hall did not know what the British would do next. They might concentrate their forces to retake it. For the British Navy, which has a large number of former fearless battleships and more than 2 or more old cruisers, the attack during the day was fierce, but it was not impossible to fight back. If they came over and supported British troops at night to continue to seize the position, then Lieutenant General Hall would still be in trouble. So, in the end, the Lieutenant General came up with a one-time and for all, and directly blocked the entire port area through blasting and a wreck! In this case, even if the British army recaptured it, it would be meaningless.
Chapter completed!