"The last line of defense has been breached, and the goal is in sight." Grim said after looking at Florence, which had already appeared in sight, rather pleasantly. The result of the battle just now was even better than they had originally thought, the fierce attack of the opponent's four squadrons did not pose much threat to the group, only 6 heavy bombers were destroyed, and another 4 bombers were forced to turn back. Although most of the remaining planes were injured, it did not prevent them from continuing to fly to their targets.

(2 Strategic bombers in World War II are generally difficult to shoot down, and in the materials found by the author, the complete loss of strategic bombers in a battle generally does not exceed 8%).) Of course, it cannot be denied that there was such a thing as extremely high battle losses during the bombing of the bearing factory, but most of the time the battle losses were not high, and there were about one-third of these battle losses. Historically, the Luftwaffe could only achieve this kind of achievement with air-launched rockets, 30mm heavy aerial guns, and assault planes in the face of unescorted American bomber formations, and the fighter planes of the US imperialists in this plane could use 50 machine guns to achieve this achievement. ）

"The forward guide is ready to drop bombs." Strategic bombing is a delicate ...... It's not that flying over the target and dropping the bomb is the end of the matter, the bomb dropped in this way will hardly hit any target. Of course, after careful calculation, the hit rate of the hollow horizontal bombing is also very low, and less than 2 percent of the bombs may fall to the target area when the sad point is urgent. But from the point of view of destroying the city. Even if the bomb is thrown off, it will definitely not be wasted, it is nothing more than trying to blow up the factory and end up in the next block. This time, the Germans targeted the Allied transport hubs and airfields, but more than half of the bombs still landed on adjacent houses and civilian facilities.........

The bomb that guided the plane dropped was like a thunderbolt before a storm. Several squads of bombers flew in front of the entire group. Then the bomb was released at a specific target, and the 250kg incendiary bomb fell to the ground in a swaying manner, turning the hit building into a huge torch, and soon, several bombers determined several coordinates near the target area, and this coordinate was the flame. An irregular 4 variant appeared in the field of view of the subsequent German bomber units. They only had to drop bombs in this area to complete their mission, and the scattered anti-aircraft artillery fire was weakly attacking the invading enemy planes. From time to time, bombing points rose in the air. However, this was of little use for subsequent bombing.

"Disband the box, the first group starts dropping bombs!" The box formation that had made the US Air Force interceptor force break up finally began to dissolve, and began to reduce altitude, and the huge formation began to turn into a four-plane formation and fly towards the target area. With the opening of the magazine door. A round of bombs ranging from 100 to 250 kg poured out of the magazine. From the air, you can see dense small black dots flying from the sky above the bomber formation like a swarm of bees to the city below, and after tens of seconds, these swarms that indicate death finally hit the .........ground.

The huge air waves produced by the explosion can be clearly seen in the air, and the gray-white blast waves composed of high-temperature and high-pressure gases and various debris quickly spread, and a series of bombs fall on the ground, and a series of bombs rise and fall one after another on the course of the bomber's flight, and nothing on the ground is spared. It doesn't matter if you are a person, a vehicle or a building, everything was torn to shreds under the dense impact of high-explosive shells, and a deafening explosion was heard from the ground. At first, you can still distinguish the explosion point, but soon, all you can hear is the constant vibration and the sound of continuous explosions, and the centuries-old Florence trembles and moans under the attack of the bombers. And this is just the beginning, after sweeping the target area with high-explosive bombs, bombers carrying incendiary bombs begin to appear! The damage they cause will be even more terrifying. …。

"Sir. This bombing will definitely go down in history, and not only because it was the world's first strategic bombing of a city. All the more because he was the first bombing of civilian targets. The captain said to Grim. Although this mission exhilarated him, at the same time, the torment of human nature of this mission also made him feel a little hesitant. This is not the same as the use of poison gas, the former is excessive but after all used on the battlefield, and this time, they are using incendiary bombs to bomb cities almost indiscriminately, and God knows where these bombs will fall! …。

"We're soldiers, and we're on our first day to carry out orders, and we can't stop the operation until now, can we?" Grim said, turning his head. A few minutes later, Grim was still shocked by their masterpiece! The damage caused by the gasoline bomb cured by adding coagulants such as rubber was really unexpected, and they did not expect such a bomb to be so powerful.

The second batch of bombers began to enter the bombing route, in order to ensure accuracy...... They further reduced the flight altitude. Incendiary bombs fall from the magazine, which are so cheap to build that some don't even have the wings pressed, which you can think of as a special gasoline drum. After these bombs fell to the ground, they quickly turned into a burning fireball, and then began to jump around the city under the action of potential energy, and finally the bomb body could not stand the collision and exploded, turning into a flower of flame that heralded death, countless fireballs jumped and rolled on the ground, throwing clumps of napalm mixed flames on the surrounding buildings and people. Those who narrowly escaped the first wave of bombardment had barely come out of their bunkers before they could even breathe a breath of fresh air when .........they were knocked down by a wave of fire and heat in their faces.

Burning gasoline droplets flew everywhere, igniting everything they could touch, and when these demons attached themselves to people, they could not be hung up unless they could be shaved off with a knife and flesh, and the flames that could not be extinguished with water or other ordinary fire extinguishers would eventually turn the person into a moving torch. It ended in agony and despair. People rolled and fluttered on the flames, but this only allowed the flames to spread over a larger area. Everything on the ground was burning, and the crackling of wood, the collapse and breaking of metal beams, and the occasional explosion turned the entire target area into a territory.

A large number of materials and equipment stacked in the open air were ignited, and the storm created after hundreds of tons of ammunition was detonated tore everything within a radius of hundreds of meters to pieces, and a huge crater appeared on the ground, and this huge black spot could be seen even at a height of several thousand meters. The train dispatch station, the material dump, and the surrounding homes and hospitals were reduced to ashes by the indiscriminate attack. Countless lives were lost in just a few dozen minutes, and busy people were simply unprepared for such a terrible attack. Those who survived the catastrophe could only watch the sea of fire and ruins left behind by the German bombers. A single bombing reduced a quarter of the city to rubble. Humanity's finest weapons can wipe out centuries-old cities in just a few hours. The shock and horror was unprecedented..........

"We flew from an altitude of 2,500 meters, the ground was in flames, and the huge updrafts from the flames even caused the plane to sway, and we had to control our course well, and quickly pull up and flee after completing the mission. We destroyed everything, whether it was a target or a neutral unit, and we turned him into a sea of fire. A German pilot said.

"It's a very bad start." Grim, who was sitting on the plane, said as he looked at the city that had turned into a sea of fire in the distance. At this time, he was not excited in his heart about the success of this offensive, the strategic bombing was successful, it was terrifying. Germany can use it to bring down its own enemies, but again, its opponents can use the same methods against Germany. As a veteran, he did not think that the Luftwaffe alone could deal with the Entente and the Chinese Air Force. "Perhaps, in the future, the air force of Field Marshal Richthofen should study how to deal with the strategic bombing of the Entente." Grim said in his heart. …。

The bombardment of Florence didn't last long, but until two days later, the citizens of Florence were still fighting the fire demons. The German attack was so successful from a tactical point of view that the entire communications hub in central Italy was temporarily rendered useless by the blows of three strategic bomber wings, and the Allies and Italian armies in the north had to survive on reserves. And the Allied air forces throughout the center were also severely damaged in this engagement...... More than 15 squadrons of Allied fighters were involved in the interception mission, 10 of which were heavily damaged, losing about half of their fighters. (This includes losses from air battles, accident losses, and the scrapping of aircraft due to heavy damage.) Individual squadrons, after the battle, could not even make up the available aircraft of a small squadron ..........

"Someday. The Germans will be punished! This group of butchers. Tycho said after looking at the information coming from the front. Surprisingly, the German bombardment did not destroy Italy's determination to resist, and on the contrary, some of the otherwise neutral military joined Tycho's side. "Maybe in the end we'll fail. But we will never shake hands with those who have destroyed our homeland, and we will never sit with the puppets propped up by the Germans! This is a betrayal of the victims of the bombing of Florence! "Avenge the vain death of our compatriots in the bombing! This became the unanimous cry in Italy at that time.

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