Chapter 291: The Aftermath of the Incident: The Farce of B-24
The Pearl Harbor incident was like igniting a volcano, burning the king of the Americas from a high viewing platform to the buttocks, jumping directly down the hill and into the huge fire pit of World War II.
"The big guy is out of the cage."
Dealing with some government affairs early in the morning, Zhang Shusheng unconsciously recalled the night attack of 'last night', because of the time difference, Hanjing time was already the third day, but the refreshing scenes of the night of the disaster were still replayed in his mind.
From beginning to end, he witnessed the final fall of the US Pacific Fleet, and all the aircraft carriers and large battleships that had escaped the catastrophe were sent to the bottom of the sea by Chinese night raiders to feed the sharks on the last disaster night.
In this disgraceful war, China's task force used a lot of advanced weapons and equipment, and its operational thinking was also very different from that of traditional fleet offensive and defensive warfare.
In terms of weapons, the first ocean expedition of the new aircraft carriers Da Chu and Da Yan tested the ocean-going capability of China's newly-built aircraft carriers, and the various complex sea conditions encountered during the period proved that the 'Warring States-class' medium-sized aircraft carriers are capable of playing a more important role in the main maritime battlefield of World War II in the future. In addition to aircraft carriers, the large Qinghaihu-class transport and supply ships and the newly built Southwest-class multi-purpose cruisers all performed excellently, and they performed well in navigation, wave-resistant capabilities and actual combat tests.
In addition to the new ships, other new equipment is also very prominent.
The Sea Hawk front-line reconnaissance plane/radar reconnaissance plane, the 'Sky Falcon' radar early warning plane with a new radar, the new 'Iron Curtain' electronic warfare jamming plane, the carrier-based aircraft with an extended range, the most powerful carrier-based multi-purpose bomber in service, large and medium-sized infrared night vision equipment, radio-guided bombs, and the latest horizontal bombing technology have all shown tremendous role and potential.
These weapons, from a purely technical point of view, are not very advanced, at least, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United Kingdom have a similar small amount of equipment into active service, or have corresponding technical reserves. Especially the Americans, a variety of equipment that is about to be mass-produced are not much worse than China's batch of equipment.
For example, the monthly production capacity of the B-29 strategic bomber by the United States is already skyrocketing, and it is expected that by early next year, a sufficiently large strategic bomber group will be formed.
"Unexpectedly, this time it made me carry a big black cauldron."
Thinking of the telegram intercepted by the intelligence department, which Yamamoto sent back to Yuben, Zhang Shusheng couldn't help but feel funny.
Yamamoto Isoroku said on the telegram "...... Fortunately, God bless Yamato...... An unprecedented victory...... Nearly total annihilation of the US Pacific Fleet ......"
Due to the meticulous planning and the commander's assessment of the situation, China's 'Operation Yellow Sparrow', an adventurous sneak attack, was finally blocked by the banner of Yu himself, and became a secret that was briefly buried. And even if Yamamoto fifty-six guessed the participation of the Chinese, he would not disclose this matter under any circumstances, and even if he returned to China, only a few people in his home country would know this secret.
Not for anything else, but because, the axe, it needs such a perfect victory, will not allow it to be mixed with any sand. This is exactly what Zhang Shusheng wants.
It seems that he has achieved a great victory that has made the entire Yamato nation crazy, and even hundreds of millions of people have celebrated together, but in fact, the real losses of the Americans were caused by the Chinese task force.
Looking at the heavy losses of the Pacific Fleet, the main achievements of the Combined Fleet were concentrated in the mid-to-late air battles over Oahu, ports and ground facilities, a small number of large warships, and most small and medium-sized ships, and they also achieved good results in the area of personnel and casualties.
Several large warships in Pearl Harbor were completely destroyed, millions of barrels of huge oil depots were bombed, and nearly nine aircraft carriers in front and behind all became victims of China's 'precision bombing'.
The battleships in Pearl Harbor suffered from stationary and could not move, and were subjected to horizontal bombardment in clusters. On the second day after the war, on the night of the sneak attack, which was collectively dubbed the 'Hawaii Disaster Night' by the world media, the capital ships of the US military were basically bombed and torpedoed by fighters equipped with infrared systems.
The Chinese task force premeditated its accession, which almost turned Pearl Harbor into a dead end for the Americans, and finally succeeded in 'assisting' Yue himself in sending the main force of the US Pacific Fleet into the Pacific Ocean to feed the fish.
Zhang Shusheng knew very well that judging from Yamamoto's 56 plan, if China had not joined, the Pearl Harbor incident, even if the combined fleet of the Chinese army was far larger than the original history, would still repeat the tragedy of just 'scratching the tiger's skin'.
The U.S. military will still find the best excuse for war, and the actual combat strength of the Pacific Fleet will not be too damaged.
Zhang Shusheng can foresee that if he does not lead China to get involved, in the next six months, the US political axe after the declaration of war will wield the dollar, turn on the final war machine, produce more and more warships, planes, tanks and artillery, and then send the US military to the European theater, to the Asian theater, and to the Pacific theater. Then he and Yu fought for the Pacific Islands...... However, this time, the Pacific Fleet is almost completely wiped out, and even if the Americans are furious, they must postpone the start of the Pacific War until the middle of next year, or even later.
It only takes a few heavy aerial bombs or torpedoes for a battleship to sink into the sea, but it takes at least a month, or even a few months, to build. Moreover, such huge losses, especially the loss of pilots and technicians, and ship crews, hurt the Americans even more.
It is an indisputable fact and an unstoppable trend for Americans to join the war and become the dominant party in the war, but Zhang Shusheng can let this opponent receive more resistance, instead of starting the war machine, waving dollars, and then relying on a large group of American warriors who stride forward with the Star-Spangled Banner to reap the fruits of the war and win the national fortune for two hundred years or even hundreds of years in one fell swoop.
Before his rebirth, Zhang Shusheng's feelings were not so deep, and at that time, it seemed that Americans were only decades ahead in various industries. But now, it is entirely possible that this decades of leadership will lead to an all-round lead of a race, and finally make the Americans the masters of the earth in one fell swoop at the beginning of the interstellar age.
The evolution of civilization, in the previous life, no matter how hard the Chinese people worked, they were far behind in many aspects. For example, in aerospace, the gap of those decades may not become a huge gap between first-class civilization and second-level civilization in the future.
The future of civilization is to go to the starry sky, in this life, Zhang Shusheng has the first opportunity, and with the help of the dream machine, if you can't let the Chinese people go ahead, win the national fortune, and finally completely solve the problems of these races when you enter the starry sky, it is a waste of the opportunity to be reborn, and live in vain.
"Knock Knock Knock ......"
"Come in."
"Chairman, Admiral Luo Feng is here." Mao Yun reported first.
"Well, let him in."
Zhang Shusheng packed up his thoughts, every time Luo Feng came, there would be some interesting information, involving all aspects of the current [***] political situation, he didn't come for two days, Zhang Shusheng felt that something was missing, and even wondered if he was able to get rid of 'voyeurism'.
"Chairman, today is not very good news." Luo Feng walked in, and after saluting, Zhang Shusheng motioned for him to do it.
"If there is good news every day, I can sit back and wait for China to become the world's number one power. Say, what intelligence. Zhang Shusheng smiled, how can there always be good news, good news but not bad news, that is a bad thing.
Luo Feng sat down half-sideways, and then said, "The B-24 bomber group that the Americans took off from the west found the return fleet of the Yue Army earlier today in Hanjing time. ”
"Oh? That's a coincidence. Zhang Shusheng stood up straight, walked to the chart, made a comparison, roughly calculated the time, and drew a circle on the chart. Is it in this area that you are catching up? If it weren't for the Seahawk front-line reconnaissance plane, we would not have been able to discover this retreat route of our own, and it was really lucky that the Americans could find it. ”
"Yes, Chairman. It's not just luck, though. After an urgent investigation by our agents in the United States, various sources of intelligence showed that the Americans urgently installed one of their latest airborne radars on the B-24 bomber, and only then did they catch up with him after many searches. Even if I had left half an hour earlier, the US bomber group would have no choice but to face the vast sea and return in vain. Luo Feng smiled, although this kind of coincidence seems incredible, the Americans really encountered it.
"Americans' luck isn't generally good." Zhang Shu knew a lot about the bold moves of the Americans in his previous life, and they were able to put the latest airborne radar on a few bombers in a day or two and urgently convert them into long-range planes for sea search, but this highlighted the Americans' powerful scientific and technological capabilities, and he was very skeptical that the Americans would be able to successfully find his combined fleet, and in addition to the new airborne radar, they might have also used some kind of radio detection means. ”
Luo Feng shook his head and said with some confusion, "Chairman, this is exactly what makes people confused. The Americans' B-24 bomber group did catch up with their own combined fleet. The information we received from the United States was that the commander of the US military reported to Washington that he had sunk a number of warships of the Chinese army, and the results were extremely brilliant.
However, the telegram that Yamamoto 56 sent back to China that we detected was completely different; the telegram said that the Combined Fleet encountered a group of American bombers, but the losses were zero, and the Americans made a high-altitude breakthrough and attacked the Yamamoto Fleet, but because of the fear of being attacked by the carrier-based planes of the Combined Fleet, this bomber group composed of more than 20 B-24 bombers dropped almost all of its bombs at an extremely high altitude, and except for a few near-bombs that caused some results, only one submarine carrier was seriously damaged. And even this submarine carrier can drive back to the original book. ”
"Sure enough."
Zhang Shusheng nodded, and said something that Luo Feng didn't understand, in fact, Zhang Shusheng was referring to the bombing of the US military. In the original history, during the Battle of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. military also carried out high-altitude horizontal bombing of the Chinese army, but the result was almost zero.
The group of bombers that the US military hastily took off, seemingly powerful, actually lacked neither high-altitude horizontal bombing capabilities nor fighter jets that could escort them.
When the Chinese task force finally bombed the warships in Pearl Harbor, it was still bombing at an altitude of 3,000 meters, and judging from this information, the Americans dropped bombs at an altitude of 7-8,000 meters because they were afraid of the carrier-based aircraft of the Chinese army.
At such an altitude, judging from the current horizontal bombing capabilities of the Americans, it is a good thing to be able to blow up a large area of sea fish, and to be able to get away with hitting a submarine carrier is already shit luck.
"That's not good news."
After thinking about it, Zhang Shusheng said bitterly that this time the US army's counterattack seemed to have a result equal to 0, but it actually exposed a lot of things.
"Yes, Chairman, that's what my subordinates think." Luo Feng nodded, as a professional intelligence leader, his analytical ability and strategic concept are also very strong, "The strategic bombing force of the US military is rapidly forming, and this operation of the B-24 aircraft group seems to have failed because its opponent is a fleet moving at sea. If the target is changed to land, or a city, a land battlefield, these strategic bomber groups will truly become the Grim Reaper over the battlefield.
The American tank began to start at full speed, and many weapons and equipment that far surpassed those of other countries also appeared. At present, except for us who can hold them down, in many other countries, the overall scientific and technological strength of the Germans is quite inferior to theirs. ”
Zhang Shusheng nodded, "Yes, that's what I'm worried about." However, there is another condition that restricts the surname, and that is absolute air supremacy. In the face of high-altitude and high-speed fighters, these strategic bombers, which do not have air supremacy, are just paper tigers.
Otherwise, even if our new strategic bomber is about to be finalized, it will be difficult to gain an overwhelming advantage.
Air supremacy is the most crucial thing. ”
"Judging from the progress of several of our science and technology projects, whether it is a fighter or a bomber project, there is no big problem." As the Minister of Intelligence, Luo Feng naturally knew that the Tianlong Jet had begun to enter the stage of mass production preparation, and the latest strategic bomber project had also reached the final acceptance stage, just waiting for the chairman to go to the acceptance.
Zhang Shusheng suddenly asked, "What happened to the jet fighter projects of the Germans and Americans?" ”
Luo Feng: "At present, the Germans are still one step ahead, the Germans' X-machine engineering has reached the stage of test flight finalization, although the surname can be worried, but in the latest test flight, the speed is approaching, although the maneuvering surname is not enough, but the speed is better than the traditional propeller fighter, there has been a qualitative breakthrough."
At present, three companies, including Boeing, have come up with plans for the Americans' jet fighter project, and Boeing has also produced a verification aircraft. However, if nothing else, American jet fighters will not appear on the battlefield until 1944 at the earliest.
Chairman of the National People's Committee, what is interesting is that after the success of the Zero fighter project, he blackmailed a batch of the latest technical information about jet fighters from Germany, and their jet fighter project, codenamed 'Sakura Fighter,' is also speeding up. ”
Although he hoped that he would always fly a propeller plane, as the relationship between the military and the Germans was further strengthened, and if he wanted to rely on his own strength to confront Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States, how could the Germans not pay a key price.
"None of this is to be feared, as long as we develop a more powerful spear and a stronger shield, the enemy's progress will only remain relatively advanced forever. I hope that this time the strategic bomber will be satisfied. ”
Three days later, that is, on Monday, he will go to a secret airfield in the southwest to personally inspect the T-40 'Wrath of the Heavens' strategic bomber, which China will rely on at the peak of World War II in the future.