Chapter 160 The Burning Bridge

"Wow--" The roar of sharp shells finally broke the quiet bridge. The explosion spread around the bridge, and the Germans had begun to attack. The shells hit the British and Poles' positions like rain. The mud and stones were thrown high into the air, and then fell on the heads of the brothers behind the position.

"The Germans seem to be going to carry out a massacre!" Granary shrank his head, and then lay down close to the ground. Fortunately, the position of the scattered soldier pit they chose was relatively backward. Even so, they had to lie on their stomach tightly and dare not move at all. And the days of those British and Poles are even worse.

"Low posture, lower posture!" Wales roared loudly. Anything about him is optimistic about his brothers. Don't be the kind of lifeless thing to rob the British and Poles. However, according to the current situation, the brothers are basically willing to keep their posture very low.

The defensive position near the bridge turned into a sea of fire, with screams and calls to doctors from time to time. If a German bomb explodes, someone will be thrown out of the position by the bomb and turn into a corpse.

"God, God!" The bomb didn't explode, and Cap couldn't help but huddle in the scattering pit and calling God. He has never experienced such an attack. Even in Normandy, compared with now, it is too far away.

Webster also lay tightly in the scattering pit, holding his rifle. The loud explosion almost broke his eardrums. The voice of the Welsh lieutenant came from time to time. He was shuttling between his brothers' pits, constantly reminding his brothers. He suddenly had some intimacy with this guy who was not tall.

No one is willing to climb out of the pit, shuttle through the artillery fire, and constantly remind the brothers in the case of continuous gunfire. Suddenly, a shell exploded not far from Wales, and a huge air wave overturned him to the ground.

"Lieutenant--" Landorman shouted, climbed out of the scatter's pit and ran to Wales.

"Are you hurt? Lieutenant!" Randorman groped this on Wales and tried to find the wound.

Wales coughed violently for a while, and then raised his body and said, "No, Landorman, I was just knocked down by the air wave. Damn it, the Germans have lost their blood this time. I really don't know if we can hold on until Lieutenant Parks comes back.

"Martin!" Randalman shouted, "Come and help!"

Sergeant Martin climbed out of the scattering pit and ran towards the two. The violent explosion was almost suffocating.

"We took the lieutenant to the scattered pit!" Landorman and Martin picked up Wales and ran to their scattering pit.

Another cannonball flew over with a sharp roar and exploded beside them with a bang. The air wave overturned all three people. Wales was rolled over and rolled far on the ground.

"Damn it!" Martin muttered to himself, got up and shouted at Wales, "Lieutenant, are you injured?"

"Damn it, why do you always ask me such a stupid question?" The voice of Wales came from over there, "I'm not hurt. Well, I'll climb over by myself. You all go back to your scattered pit and stay well!"

At this time, Wales climbed over again, and then turned into Landorman's scattering pit. He pulled Randman in again. The two people's bodies were pressed into a ball, and it was hard to adjust.

"Da Niu, you almost crushed me to death!" Wales shook his head.

"It's better than being blown up by the Germans!" Landorman smiled and shouted outside the scattering pit, "Martin, come back to your scattering pit quickly." Then he stared at Martin until he hid in the scattering pit.

At this time, the roar of the plane suddenly came from the sky, gradually from far to near, and then the sound was soon submerged in the explosion of the shell.

"God, Ju-87 Skatu dive bomber and Heinkel He111 bomber." Wales lay in the skirmisher pit and looked up at the sky, and then exclaimed, "The British and the Poles are over!" He groaned almost in despair.

"This is really bad!" Da Niu Lan Daoman couldn't help saying something.

"The bridge is over!" Wales added a sentence. Obviously, with the 50 kilograms of bomb carried by the Henkel bombers, the Arnam Bridge will turn into ruins, and the retreat of the British and Polish troops will be completely cut off.

"Daes it, why don't the British set up positions on the north side of the bridge?" Randallman's heart was cold. Obviously, when he heard what Wales said, he suddenly understood and watched the Heinkel plane fly over the bridge and drop a blockbuster.

"Boom--", the huge explosion from the bridge shocked Admiral Urkert's heart, and then a chill in his heart. It seems that I still underestimated the Germans' determination to attack. Their troops now lack anti-aircraft fire, so they can only watch the bridge turn into a sea of fire under the repeated bombing of German planes.

The Stuka bombers repeatedly ravaged the British and Polish positions, making bursts of heartbreaking hissing, dropping bombs, and then harvesting life.

Urgt moved the headquarters into an underground bunker abandoned by the Germans. Even so, the explosions from time to time kept dust and stones falling from the bunker.

Admiral Urgt looked through the observation of the bunker and saw that the Arnam Bridge behind him turned into ruins under the bombing of German bombers. He couldn't help lamenting: "Now we are besieged again. It's great!"

Admiral Sushaboski also stood beside him, stunned, and muttered, "Are we going to swim back?" Obviously, the bridge has been blown up, and there is no point in sticking here except to increase the casualties of our own people. Everyone understands this.

Even if you want to swim over, there is another question now, when the German attack will stop. The current defensive positions composed of British and Polish troops have been bombarded by the Germans. It is believed that the German infantry will launch an attack under the cover of tanks. At that time, it was the desperate situation of the British army and the Polish army.

"Contact the Allied headquarters, right now! Let them try their best to support us. Admiral Urkert suddenly walked to the radio station and shouted at the second lieutenant, "Damn order, don't say four days, it's just a day. We can't hold it now."

General Browning heard Urquh's report and obviously realized that the Arham Bridge had been blown up, the whole plan had been ruined, and his hand couldn't help trembling gently. The Allies paid a huge price for this attack, and now the British First Airborne Division, which suffered the most, was still trapped south of Anum, with many casualties.

"We were hit by the destruction of the Germans!" General Browning gave the truthful response to General Breriton, the supreme commander of the Allied First Airborne Army. "Now most of the 1st Airborne Division and the Polish 1st Airborne Brigade are trapped on the Arnaum Bridge. The bridge has been blown up.

"God!" General Breitton took a breath of cold air, and the north of the Arnam Bridge was blown up, which meant that all the troops blocked by the Rhine would become Germans' dishes, which would make the Germans want to have a delicious meal.

"What can we do?" General Breliton looked at Browning. Now he is a little angry with Browning. At the beginning, it was because of his negligence that he did not pay attention to German intelligence. As a result, the Allied troops were constantly hit hard by the Germans throughout the operation, especially the losses of the British First Airborne Division.

"Maybe we can provide planes to support them to suppress the German bombing, but I'm not sure how useful it will be. But we have to give it a try. The rest is up to God's blessing. Browning was a little embarrassed. He knew that there was something wrong with General Breitton's attitude towards him now. "Maybe we can send someone to take advantage of the night to carry them by boat."

"God, how long will it take? The only tools we can use now are rubber boats, and the number is not very large!" General Breitton patted his head with chagrin, and he suddenly hated his hesitation and balanced the relationship between the United States and Britain and lost his ideas. General Taylor of the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army had already warned himself. But because of the balance of leadership, he had to compromise.

"General--" Browning looked at General Breitton a little distracted and couldn't help shouting.

General Breitton nodded to him and said, "In any case, we must rescue them by all means. I will explain the situation to Marshal Montgomery. Go and get ready. The sooner the better!"

"Yes, General!" General Browning rarely saluted General Breitton and then retreated. Obviously, all the elements now are tilted towards the battlefield of the Anum Bridge.

But it obviously takes a long time for the plane to take off from the British airport to reach the Arham Bridge, and the range of the fighter is relatively short, and it is impossible to provide long-term combat support in the sky. Everyone knows this, but since it is doing everything possible, nothing can be taken care of. .

"Lieutenant Wales, what should we do now?" When the German gunfire stopped a little, Gernery climbed into the fodder pit where Wales and Da Niu were together and said to him, "We can't die here with the British and the Dutch. To be honest, it feels really bad.

Wales nodded and said, "Of course, Lieutenant Parks has left us a way out, right here." With that, Wales took out the map and pointed to the map and said, "This is a ferry. The Germans have retreated from this ferry. We are going to occupy them, then cross the Rhine and meet the 82nd Airborne Division of the United States in Nijmegen."

"Oh, my God, the boss is really a good man. He is thinking about a way out, isn't he?" Gernelly couldn't help shouting happily, "What about the boss?"

"He will be with us at the ferry!"

Gerry was stunned and nodded: "That's great. God bless the head! To be honest, I really don't know how the boss did this. I hope he can kill that son of a bitch with one shot!"

"What about the British and Poles?" Daniu Landman couldn't help saying something.

Wales shrugged his shoulders and said, "I will inform them. If they are not so stubborn, I don't mind taking them with me!"

(to be continued)