Airplanes can fly, but bombs and torpedoes can not be thrown Raeder personally ordered before 4:30!

This is probably Robert. Ritter. Feng. The most ridiculous order Graeme had ever heard in the army. Isn't it true that if your Excellency Raeder doesn't give the order, the big guy will run away in vain? Is there such a war?

But no matter how ridiculous it is, it is an order, an order of the commander-in-chief of the Navy! As a soldier, you can only choose to obey. Thinking of this, Graham complained a little about Hirschman, can't he put his air force in the Air Force? The Air Force is under the control of the General Staff, and the General of the Kesselring Air Force is his own man, and he will not give such a ridiculous order.

"General, the plane is about to take off." An operations staff officer who had interned in the Japanese Navy was named Franz. Speer's aviation major walked up from the cockpit to Graeme's side, then sat down in the seat with his back against the bulkhead and fastened his seat belt again.

Four 1,200 hp BMW 323 air-cooled engines roared, and the cabin was noisy. Graeme's mood was even more irritable, probably to divert his attention, he suddenly asked the aviation major beside him, "Air raid plan, say it again!" ”

"Okay, General." Franz. Speer exclaimed that "according to intelligence, the British had only one naval airfield near Scapa Bay, had a very limited number of fighters, and 56 Zeros were responsible for solving them." So in the course of an air attack, it is not necessary to take into account the interference of enemy aircraft. ”

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Grim thought to himself: it would be a crime to miss it!

"And the bomber and torpedo fleets will be classified according to the type of aircraft," Franz. Major Speer went on to say, "The first sortie will be 110 He-111s, which will form 22 five-plane formations to penetrate from a low altitude of 500 meters and carry out horizontal bombardment, each of which will carry four SC-250 high-explosive bombs." Such bombs were essentially not armor-piercing, so the primary targets of these He-111 bombers were ground anti-aircraft artillery positions, ground facilities at naval bases; The second target was the oil depot at the Scapa Bay base, where at least 100,000 tons of fuel oil were stored, according to intelligence; The second target was the auxiliary ships in Scapa Bay. ”

At present, German aerial bombs are named according to their type and weight, for example, large-charge bombs are named SB, high-explosive bombs are named SC, fragmentation bombs are named SD, anti-armor bombs are named PC, and armor-piercing bombs are named PD. Add a few numbers to these names, which means how much weight of so-and-so bomb is.

Although there is a lot of weight in aerial bombs, many of them have not been put into practical use, and now there are two kinds of real large-scale equipment for troops, SC high-explosive bombs, which are actually ordinary bombs. The other is the PC anti-armor projectile, which can also be called an armor-piercing projectile, and the difference between it and PD is that the latter has an extremely thick wall and an elongated bullet body, which is used to deal with armored bunkers

-- It was used to blow up the Maginot Line.

The SC-250 is an ordinary bomb weighing 250 kg, and a He111 bomber can carry up to 8 SC-250s, but because of the increased range, the bomb load is reduced, and only 4 are carried. But 110 planes can also carry 440 bombs, enough for the British's drink at Scapa Bay.

Franz. Major Speer went on to say: "Next to the attack will be the 86 Ju.88s with specific dive bombing capabilities, which will drop SC-500 bombs in a shallow dive bombing manner. Although high-explosive, the bomb also has the ability to penetrate 35 to 50mm horizontal armor, so the Ju.88 group will attack aircraft carriers, heavy cruisers, light cruisers and destroyers in Scapa Bay. ”

In fact, the two weight bombs of SC and PC are quite different in the class below 500 kg, and when it comes to the classes of 500 kg, 1000 kg and 1400 kg, the difference between the two is not very large. Because the shells of bombshells are relatively thick and not easy to break, installing a delay fuse and replacing a solid warhead can use the SC as a PC. As for the serious PC-500, of course, there are also them, but the armor-piercing performance is only around 70mm and 80mm, and it is also very difficult to deal with the battleships/battlecruisers of the British with rough skin and thick flesh. And against aircraft carriers, treaty cruisers and destroyers with only thin armor, the SC-500 was more effective in striking because of its large charge - at least according to the German naval aviation.

Therefore, the result of the precise calculation of the staff officers of the Naval Aviation Command was to have 86 Ju.88s equipped with 172 SC-500s to kill and damage aircraft carriers, heavy cruisers, light cruisers, destroyers, auxiliary ships, such "lightly armoured" or "unarmoured" targets.

Because the Ju.88 has a certain dive bombing capability and a relatively high degree of accuracy in bombing, 172 SC-500s should be able to capsize most of the "British boats" in Scapa Bay.

As for the battleships and battlecruisers in Scapa Bay, they were all handed over to 84 He-115 torpedo attack aircraft.

Franz. "Eighty-four He-115 torpedo attack planes will strike at the same time as the Ju.88 dive bombing, taking a low-altitude horizontal penetration approach and forming a five-plane formation to attack the battleships and battle cruisers in Scapa Bay," said Major Speer.

The torpedo dropped by the He-115 torpedo attack aircraft was called the F5 type 450 mm steam gas aviation torpedo, the mine weighed 737 kg, and the warhead charge was 200 kg of Hexanite explosive. The power of this torpedo is not very great (aviation torpedoes, just nod their heads), and for cutting-edge battleships with mine-protection compartments (for example, Bismarck can defend against 300 kg of Hexanite-type explosives), it is impossible to get a single shot into the soul, and you have to shoot a dozen rounds to overturn it.

However, with 84 He-115s and 84 F5 torpedoes, the firepower should be enough.

"General," Franz. "Theoretically, our force in this sortie is enough to sink all the British ships in Scapa Bay!" ”

"Theoretically......" Graeme scratched his head and glanced at the powerful airborne radio installed in the cabin, "Now it's up to you to see if you can do this!" ”

Historically, when Hitler beat Britain, he actually lacked nothing, planes, submarines, and troops, everything! What is really lacking is the heart eye, a ruthless heart!

……

"Leader, now it's a war! If I defeat you, I'll have to go to the gallows! ”

Ludwig. Feng. General Heinsberg-Hersmann now has the heart to rush back to Berlin to stage a coup d'état! He didn't care about the Polish campaign now - it wouldn't be bad anyway with Manstein and Rommel, the two chief and deputy chiefs of staff. So from 1 p.m., he was in his office, carrying a phone and arguing with Hitler.

Because Hitler was suspicious of the action of sending 340 planes to attack Scarpa Bay - believing that this bombing would completely tear Britain apart, there was no possibility of compromise between the two countries.

But Hersmann knew very well: it was impossible for Germany to compromise with Britain! If Germany wants to win, it cannot show mercy to Britain.

"No mercy! You are merciful to the British and cruel to the Germans! "You are the leader and chancellor of the German people, not the prime minister of the United Kingdom!" Since the British want to fight now, it is life and death, there is absolutely no room for compromise and compromise, Britain must perish! Otherwise, Germany will perish! ”

"But Ludwig, we are almost the same race as England," Hitler was a big devil poisoned by racism, and he did everything to the detriment of the German people and himself. "If there is any country in the world that can cooperate with us to rule the world, it is Britain!"

"Leader, if there really was such a good thing, the last world war would not have been like that!" "And, even if you want to make peace with the British, you'll have to beat them up first!" ”

Hersman thought to himself: 340 planes alone would definitely not hurt the British, although the calculation of the naval aviation command was good, thinking that it could destroy the home fleet. But if we look at Pearl Harbor -- the Japanese were much better at bombing ships than the Germans -- it was nothing more than four sunk and three wounded battleships.

Now there may be 5 battleships / battlecruisers in Scapa Bay, as well as three old aircraft carriers. Even if it was a four-fold wound, it would not be a fatal wound for the mighty British Navy. Most of them still refuse to negotiate peace......

When Hersmann heard that Hitler did not speak, he knew that the other side still could not make a complete break with Britain -- if Hitler had beaten Britain half as ruthlessly as the Soviet Union, the world war would have been won!

So he could only persuade along with Hitler's thoughts: "Leader, now that the Polish campaign is going very well, our army will be able to attack the city of Warsaw in a few days." On the 6th, there will be another operation to drop Lviv. If today's air raids had been successful, Stalin would have entered the war, and then it would have been the Soviets and Germans against Britain and France...... This is a war that Britain cannot win, and perhaps they will consider peace talks. ”

There was a long silence on the other side of the phone, and then Hitler said, "Well, I approve this operation."

But...... In the future, such a large-scale operation against Britain will have to be planned and deployed with my consent. Because the war against Britain was not only a military issue, but also a diplomatic and political one. Ludwig, you must understand that we have no way to solve Britain by military means, and we can only win a more favorable peace from Britain by means of war to promote peace. (To be continued.) )