Chapter 1456: Revenge
c_t; "Do you really want to do this? London is not very valuable militarily, the British have long since moved a large number of workers and penalties to other places, and some of the remaining airports have long been taken care of by us, and I think it is a 'waste' to spend a lot of precious resources on the city and infrastructure that has nothing to do with the military. []-79 - London is so big that it will take at least 800 bombers to continue bombing for weeks if we are to hit it hard! The British, in order to defend their capital, have built the entire London borough into a full-fledged anti-aircraft fortress, and we don't need to ram into it! In the face of the Kaiser's envoy, the Red Baron still questioned the Kaiser's order and wanted the former to bring back his opinion, which was the third time he had rejected the Kaiser's order.
If it were to happen again, I am afraid that Baron Red, as the commander of the Air Force, would also be able to withstand the wrath of His Majesty the Emperor, he is a soldier and has an instinctive resistance to the act of pouring excessive firepower into the non-military realm, not to mention that this kind of behavior will lead to the loss of the Air Force, and even some irreparable situations will appear! After all, the old dog also has a few teeth, who knows what other big killer weapons the British are hiding? Not to mention anything else, the British still have thousands of tons of poison gas bombs, and if this thing is thrown down, no one will feel good!
"War is never a purely military matter, we need to destroy the British will to resist spiritually! We must show the British how powerful the Empire is! If we want to destroy something, we can do it, and London, the capital of the British Empire, and the heart of the world for hundreds of years! It was a political offensive, and when the British saw their capital in flames, their will to resist was naturally destroyed! We'll save you a lot of trouble. The envoy paused, thinking that he was the number one person in the Imperial Air Force in front of him, so he had to give the necessary face. I will bring your opinion to the Kaiser, and you can even arrange for the relevant people to present their interests to His Majesty. But I would like to give you some information in my personal capacity that the Kaiser is not very satisfied with the recent actions of the Air Force. If you reject it again this time, then you only have the right to choose to accept it. ”
In the end, the Kaiser's order was to prepare the air force for a massive air raid on London, and the ruler, who was half of the British royal family, had no so-called blood tendencies. Even he hated England and even his own mother. And now, the stubborn resistance of the British has plunged the Luftwaffe into a bitter battle, which makes Wilhelm, who had just started to fight smoothly, very angry, and the short-tempered Kaiser no longer wants to let the war drag on like this, and the so-called "chaos" of acute illness is "chaotic" to go to the hospital. At this time, the Kaiser decided to use all means to bring the other side to its knees, and even he considered using poison gas bombs against British cities!
The Kaiser's suggestion frightened the Red Baron, if these hundreds of tons and thousands of tons of mustard gas were thrown down, the consequences would be too serious, the Germans had not used poison gas, and the German army in World War 1 used chlorine gas on a large scale in order to break through the opponent's defensive line. Of course, soon Britain and France also recovered their ground with chlorine, and in the summary after the war, the German General Staff decided that it was of little military significance to use such a thing when both sides had large quantities of Chinese weapons. [There are almost all the books I want to read.,It's much more stable and faster than the general station.,There's no ads in the whole text.] Perhaps the biggest effect of this is to add a large number to the casualty statements of both sides at the same time, right?
But throwing chemical weapons at cities, especially mustard gas, is a crime against humanity! Mustard gas is more terrible than chlorine gas in World War 1, has more ways to disperse, is more deadly, and is difficult to treat. Mustard gas is the atomic bomb at the beginning of World War II, everyone has this thing, but no one dares to use it easily! To paraphrase a later generation, this kind of big killer is the biggest role in the warehouse, and if it is really used, it will not be beneficial to both parties. As an industrial power, the British likewise stockpiled large quantities of chemical weapons. The Red Baron doesn't want to put this thing out! Frightened and frightened, the Red Baron eventually gave up the idea of using chemical weapons at the cost of accepting the Kaiser's order to bomb London.
So, as the Battle of Britain entered its third week, the Luftwaffe finally began to bomb British cities on a large scale. And when the first large group of aircraft visited London, it meant that the entire battle for England entered the second phase! The 'engagement' between the two sides was no longer limited to military objectives, the Germans expanded the scope of their strikes, making this war even more brutal! This bombing is not as small as in history, hundreds of planes used to drop hundreds of tons of bombs and it was over, Germany in this plane is not comparable to the mustache of the Third Reich, both in terms of quantity and quality! According to Xu Jie's estimates, the technical level and strength of the Luftwaffe at this time were comparable to the aviation strength of the Allies in the whole of Europe in 1944 at the end of World War II! Just on the first day of the bombing of London. In total, more than 6,000 tons of bombs were dropped on 3,000 Luftwaffe planes in the city of London! At this rate, four days later, London will have more bomb yields than the Japanese in history!
The sudden strategic bombing caught the British a little off guard, a huge fleet of thousands of various aircraft tore apart the protection of the British Royal Air Force, and the 300 fighters of various types responsible for the defense of London fought hard in the situation of being at a disadvantage, but in the end they did not stop the German bombs from falling except for letting the Germans drop more than 100 planes! The British were stunned when thousands of bombs of various tonnages fell from the sky! They didn't expect the Germans to do such a 'bare' job, even during the Italian War and the French War, the Germans never destroyed a country's capital on a large scale!
The Germans saw Britain as the last nail in their hegemony, and they vented their anger on this centuries-old city! For a time, half of London was covered in gunpowder smoke and flames, and although the curtain of thousands of guns of various calibers deployed in the surrounding areas of London stained half of the sky red, the Luftwaffe, which suffered heavy losses, still blew several blocks of the British into a white ground, and countless bombs fell evenly on the ground like seeds spilled from a seeding machine, whether it was factories, houses or other infrastructure below, everything was silent!
If the citizens of London were historically more worried about the bombing of the Germans than the cold weather and fog, then the British smelled a kind of destruction from the overwhelming bombers and the ruins in this plane! That's right, the Germans are systematically destroying the foundations of the British state, both human and material; It even hit the will of the British to resist from the 'spirit' level!
Many British people were hesitant and frightened, and for the first time they realized that the destruction was so close to Britain! Before the outbreak of the British Air War, more than 90% of British people believed that the Royal Air Force and the Allies could hold off the German attack. And two weeks after the start of the air war, even a British farmer in the secluded countryside could find the crashed plane or wreckage in his potato field or in the nearby woods
After the wreckage, 2 percent of the British were shaken, and the cruel 'sex' of war was shown in front of the British public for the first time! Although the British politician is blocking the news. But people can still know through their own ways that a certain city has been bombed, a factory has been blown into ruins, and the third aunt of a relative's neighbor has been hit by a bomb, and the whole family has died.
If the war was so tragic that it was just a shadow of the wind at this time, then wait until tens of thousands of tons of bombs fell on the British capital! When the city's fires and smoke make it clear to people dozens of kilometers away. Many British people were really scared, and this panic spread around along the phone and telegrams!
However, for the British Royal Air Force, after the Germans launched a large-scale air raid on the city, the battle damage situation of the Royal Air Force has greatly improved, if at the beginning the British still need to continue to collect intelligence and then analyze the Luftwaffe's attack targets and routes, then a week after the start of the bombing of London, the British knew where the Germans were going to bomb with their eyes closed! The relieved British Air Force increased the protection of important cities such as London, and a large number of fighter jets and ground air defense units were deployed around London, and this method of setting up a trap for the other side to drill was more costly, tactically speaking. The British won victory after victory, but unfortunately, the Germans consumed it, and the British could not afford it! Or if they continue to fight like this, the nerves of the British are about to collapse.
You must know that although Germany has been subjected to such tragic urban carpeting operations as the bombing of Hamburg and the bombing of Dresden, there were almost no such long-lasting large-scale bombings of a city before the middle of the war. And the Germans bombed London for 1 week! After throwing away hundreds of planes around London, it is still 'strong'! It has the meaning of continuing to bomb and bombing directly until the British surrender! As a result, the British Air Force, which was 'forced' into a corner, had to do everything possible to stop the German bombing of the city, both for the sake of the inside and for the sake of face. At least let the Germans know that the old dog still has a few teeth!
"Since the Luftwaffe launched a massive bombing of London, there has been a sense of instability in both the government and the people, and our defense cannot be merely military. Politically and spiritually, it was also necessary to hold off the German offensive, and it was almost impossible for us to completely block the German bombardment of the city. So we had to think of some other way to boost morale, for example, by dropping bombs on the Germans! "At a meeting, Churchill gave orders to the heads of the Air Force with some anxiety!" We're going to make those Germanic butchers pay! They've expanded their target to civilian targets, and we can break those rules too! Sow the flames of revenge on the Germans! ”
Say the above sentence. Break the 'leg' below, the prime minister said that the air force should carry out a retaliatory operation against Germany, then the air force will have to come up with a plan, the British air force has strategic bombers, the number is quite a lot, and the state is very good, and there is no problem with navigation and other auxiliary equipment. However, how to implement it, it is worth considering to hit those targets, the prime minister's plan is definitely not to throw a few bombs symbolizing 'sex' into Germany and forget it, it must hurt Germany! Under the influence of this guiding ideology, some "radical" generals in the British Air Force also planned to retaliate by throwing poison gas bombs in large German cities. But soon, this plan was vetoed, and today the British dare to throw chemical weapons at the Germans, and tomorrow Germany will throw more chemical weapons over, which is clearly cost-effective for the British who are on the weaker side!
But if you simply use ordinary bombs to bomb, the effect is very limited, and the remaining more than 800 bombers of the British are enough to go back and forth? Maybe the first bombing will have some effect, but then the German night fighters will be able to intercept the British bombers under the guidance of radar, and in the case of almost equal technology, the losses are certain, 800 bombers really can't last long, and when the number of available planes is reduced to a certain level, the so-called strategic bombing is just like that! It's more about taking a stand and having no practical value! It was a problem to hurt the Germans as far as the British Air Force allowed!
A bunch of British officials began to analyze which bombing would be more appropriate in combination with maps and intelligence, and the officers put forward proposals such as attacking 'traffic' hubs, important symbols and 'sex' buildings, Berlin, or other series of proposals were ultimately rejected, and the reason for the veto was either that it would not hurt the opponent, or that the risk was too great. For example, in the attack on Berlin, although the Germans were much less guarded from the point of view of intelligence, the British were equally skeptical about the feasibility of crossing half of Germany into the skies over Berlin! Finally, one of the officers pointed to the Ruhr area and said: "What if we bomb the dam in the Ruhr area?" ”
"That's a great suggestion! Very valuable! Lieutenant General John Slesser, Chief of the Air Force General Staff, immediately nodded in support after hearing this. The dam in the Ruhr area is of great value, not only providing water for the 460 square kilometre Ruhr industrial area, but also as an important power station in its own right, as well as ensuring the depth of water for navigation in the upper reaches of the Ruhr River. If these dams across the river could be destroyed, it would not only be a heavy blow to German industry, but also a minimized negative impact, after all, morally speaking, because the Germans first carried out massive bombing of civilian targets and infrastructure, the British retaliated appropriately!
Well, now the plan is finalized, and now the question is, how can we destroy these dams one by one? Is the existing armament of the British capable? The British began a possible 'sexual' analysis!