Chapter 1232: Battle to the Midgame
"It's not a fight, it's a massacre! Although I have not been on the front line, I can imagine how helpless the boys of the bomber unit were, they could easily hunt down all the British bombers that came into view, they were not afraid of our self-defense firepower, easily caught up, and then killed them cleanly, as easily as picking up something that fell on the ground. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info This is a situation that we have never encountered, and their presence is a blow to the head of the developing Royal Air Force bomber unit!" In the diary entry of the day, the lieutenant general wrote.
Although, the Royal Air Force has a big business. But throwing away about 40 FB27 and O-400 bombers in two separate battlefields at once is definitely a huge loss for the Royal Air Force, you can compare it to the situation of the Royal Air Force in World War 2 in 1943 when 40 Lancasters were directly lost in one battle, and even more than this. What the? You say that if the FB27 is analogous to Lancaster in World War 2, then which is the V1500 analogue? That's at least B29! If you want to exchange it for money, not counting fuel, bombs and personnel, these 40 bombers alone are worth at least 400,000 pounds! If you change to a tank, you can build 80 to 100 of them! According to the British, this is equivalent to less than 2 hours to throw away two armored regiments ...... in World War I.
This loss alone was enough for Lieutenant Admiral Trenhard's flesh, and what made Lieutenant General feel even more heartache was that along with the loss of crew members of these bombers, 5 people on a bomber, 40 were 200 of the most elite crew members of the Royal Air Force. For this operation, these personnel were carefully selected, and the loss of one of them was regrettable. And now, more than 200 people died at once...... Despite the size of the Royal Air Force today, the death of so many elites in a very short period of time is definitely a real loss. As with the distribution of social wealth, a small number of pilots at the top have achieved most of their achievements, for example, in the case of German 2 war submarines, 5% of ace captains have obtained nearly half or even more of the results, and the losses of experienced bomber pilots are far more terrible than the losses in numbers! What's even more disturbing is that the bomber unit attacking Port Ereli has not yet received any news, and it's hard to say how the fight is going there!
"We have used more than half of our forces to attack Count Spee's fleet, and we have the full support of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, so there should be no problems." At this time, Vice Admiral Stadi, who was in the navy, was in a good mood. After all, it's not your own child, so you hang it.
Besides, it is worth exchanging 400,000 pounds worth of bombers for 2 fast battleships and 1 armored cruiser, even if it is not sunk, but it is okay to hit hard. At least that's how the economic accounts are counted! As for strategy, this is even more of a problem! In his opinion, killing the Allied Mediterranean Fleet is equivalent to winning the future landing battle, it is equivalent to killing Turkey, it is equivalent to opening up the passage with Russia, not to mention throwing 40 bombers, Vice Admiral Sterdy thinks that it is worth throwing away the Allied Mediterranean Fleet to beat the game! Of course, Lieutenant General Sterdy did not dare to make his words clear, otherwise he would have become the least persona non grata in the Royal Air Force.
"I don't know what the situation is now." Lieutenant General Sterdy asked.
"It's chaotic, haven't had any signal back for 45 minutes! All communication seems to have been cut off. I don't know if it's because of the chaos of wartime or if it's a technical problem. Lieutenant General Trenhard said with a gloomy face.
The technical problems he mentioned certainly did not mean that there was an accident with the telegraph on his side. For today's operation, the British prepared a whole dozen high-power telegraphs. Although radio communication was somewhat unreliable in this era, if there were enough backups, then it was still no problem, and in the British bomber force attacking Port Ereli, every V1500 was equipped with a telegraph, and every three twin-engine bombers were equipped with a medium-wave telegraph, and theoretically each four-engine bomber and each twin-engine bomber squad leader could communicate with the headquarters ....... But now, hehe.......
It is impossible for the Germans to destroy all the British bombers, then there is only one possibility, the British bomber units that entered the theater of war could not communicate because of the electronic interference of the Germans! Can't communicate....... This meant that the British bomber units that entered the battlefield became deaf and blind. Attacks will no longer be coordinated, and they will be more helpless in the face of threats.
"Did our Group A know that the Germans sent troops specifically against bombers?" Lieutenant General Trenchard asked.
"We sent a telegram 1 hour ago, but there was no response, and we don't know if they received it." The officers who assisted in the liaison had helplessness written on their faces.
"Bastard!" Lieutenant General Trenchard cursed in a low voice, and not just him, at this moment, on the sea and in the air outside Port Ereli, the Germans, the British, and the Russians were cursing this chaotic scene to the extreme, so chaotic that the three parties found each other, but no one dared to do it lightly! Such a scene can appear on the battlefield, and the commanders of the three parties are also drunk!
The first thing I found out was that the script was different from the reality, and it was the Russians who had a serious detachment! According to the understanding of the Russians, the previous plan was like this, in the case that the Germans did not know why, it was best to not even get up in bed, British bombers fell from the sky, output tons of damage, and sank or severely damaged the German main battleship, and then the Russians took advantage of the situation to enter and make up for it, and with the help ......of seaplanes, sank the German battleships in the harbor one by one with naval guns. Then call it a day!
But the current situation can be described by the word "slot"! The Russians also specifically considered the question of running out if the German fleet was not heavily damaged. Therefore, in order to ensure safety, the Russians deliberately chose a place 50 kilometers northeast of Port Ereli to standby. At the speed of the Russian fleet at 15 knots, minus the distance of about 12 kilometers of shelling, the distance between the two was 38 kilometers, and if the British began to bomb, the Russians would be able to bring the port of Erreli into their shelling range in an hour at most. And if the Germans had not been hit hard, but had rushed out, this distance would have been enough for the Russians to turn in smoothly.
But who would have thought that the plan did not change quickly! Before the British bombs were dropped, the observation posts deployed on the periphery of Port Ereli spotted the British bombers, and then, the fleet of the Earl of Spee decisively went out of the port to hide, so well, where to go after leaving the port? Naturally, it was far from the direction of the British bombers, and the British came from the west, so I went to the east, and then the Spey fleet, which was going east, found the Russian fleet waiting to pick peaches in the northeast .......
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