Chapter 973: Ten Degrees Against the Torch
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Yang Qiu, who couldn't change out of sensitivity and couldn't explain it, didn't dare to linger any longer, and hurriedly pulled everyone back to běijīng. It wasn't until the plane took off that Yue Peng remembered the past and deliberately asked: "President, if we had a few nuclear or hydrogen bombs before the war, how would you fight this war?" Everyone pricked up their ears one after another, and they were also a little itchy, wondering if Yang Qiu had considered other plans at the beginning.
Yang Qiu squinted his eyes, and the corners of his mouth slowly opened and closed: "Modify two cargo ships and three large civilian passenger planes, and install them." Before the war, one sailed into New York Harbor, one sailed into the Thames, and three went to Moscow, Paris, and Washington. Woo Rìben, unite the Asia-Pacific region, Africa and South America, provoke yellow and white confrontation, and fool others to join in with the goal of the liberation of the whole world. The last one detonated. ”
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"Flutter!" Yue Peng took a sip of tea and squirted far away, his eyes widened in shock: "Are you serious?!" ”
In the midst of the terrifying words that no one knows whether it is true or false, the nuclear test site is gradually moving away under the wings, and a new journey has begun.
On the day of the end of the Battle of Wake Island, the Chinese Navy General Staff mobilized its fleet and issued a "ten-degree" plan to attack Truk, Wake Island, the Marshall Islands, and the Gilbert Islands (which were seized from the British after the war). Ten degrees refers to the fact that most of the target area of this attack is around 10 degrees north latitude. In order to seize all of Rìmoto's heritage in the Pacific Ocean as soon as possible, the navy can be said to have made every effort this time. A total of 165 ships, including the XN21 battle group, 542 carrier-based aircraft, 624 road-based aircraft, and five landing forces of the 1st Marine Division and 4 Army Divisions, were mobilized, with a total strength of 170,000. The commanders were Lieutenant General Pan Duheng, who became famous in the Battle of the Marianas, and Major General Dianlan, who made great contributions in the battle for Guam.
On February 27, the night of the end of the secret nuclear explosion test, the XN21 battle group completed its reorganization.
The 211th Aircraft Carrier Mobile Battle Group, the Guangdong and Guangxi aircraft carriers (Liaoning class), the battleships Dinghai and Ninghai, the Yarlung Zangbo River, the Lancang River light cruisers (Yarlung Zangbo class), eight Qinling-class destroyers.
The 212th Carrier Mobile Battle Group, the aircraft carriers Beihai and Balkhash (Beihai class), the battleships Dunkirk and Strasbourg, the light cruisers Xijiang and Dongjiang (Xiangjiang class), eight Qinling-class destroyers.
The 213th Aircraft Carrier Mobile Battle Group, the escort aircraft carriers Sun Bin, Li Mu and Wang Jian (General class), the light cruisers Xiangjiang, the Yangtze River and the Yellow River (Yangtze River), four Taishan-class and four Qinling-class.
The 214th cruiser battle group, the heavy cruisers Xi'an and Kunming (Xi'an-class), the heavy cruisers Taiwan Island and Hainan Island (Taiwan Island class), two Qinling-class and four Yongxing-class destroyers of the Polish Navy.
In addition, there are three frigate formations, two landing ship formations, a combat support group (four Xin'anjiang-class fast minelaying cruisers), one minesweeper, four submarines and two transport and supply groups.
At 21 o'clock local time, the fleet departed from Guam and the Palau Islands at the same time.
Same as rì, British Irish Sea, Bristol.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, the noisy sound of engines from far and near alarmed the city. Citizens who were accustomed to air raids quickened their pace, but the air defense bulletin, which had not sounded for a long time, made them stop and look up. Moments later, 122 red planes with eye-catching friend or foe identification sè noses, Chinese Air Force Thunderbolt fighters with golden sè dragon patterns, and 30 Yunyun 10 planes departed from Kashgar via Karachi, Djibouti, French West Africa and the Spanish Canary Islands.
The cheers resounded in the sky in an instant, and the beautiful and enthusiastic girls waved silk scarves.
People in war are the easiest, they just want to end their suffering as soon as possible, so they have a good feeling for all the countries and people who help them fight the enemy. Especially the Chinese Aid to Britain Flying Regiment, an army that fought bravely directly over the British Isles. What's more, the record of this army is so dazzling that even if politicians begin to welcome the United States, they cannot hide their light. In the past seven months, they have participated in a total of 174 large and small air battles, shot down and destroyed 1,123 enemy planes of various types, and lost only 133 of their own planes, 66 pilots, and 11 missing. The number of shots shot down accounts for 25 percent of the total number shot down since the outbreak of the British Sky War! Even Goering angrily called them "evil dragons". What a pleasure it is to make the enemy curse and hate, so the ordinary British affectionately call them the "Oriental Dragoons" after their insignia, so that even the official name of the British Flying Regiment was slowly abandoned.
The arrival this time was the second batch of "dragoons" who came to replace the rotation.
"Captain, long time no see." After Mo Yucheng jumped off the plane, he warmly gave Liu Mingchang, who came to greet him, a hug. The two have been partners since they joined the army, Liu Mingchang is the long plane, Mo Yucheng is the wingman, until he came to the UK, Liu Mingchang is the squadron leader, and Mo Yucheng is still the deputy captain.
"Good boy, it's all lieutenant colonels."
"It's not like you're not as good as the captain, you're both colonels. If you return to China for a year, you may be able to overcome that hurdle. After the two exchanged a few words on the runway, Mo Yucheng took out the list: "There are a total of 277 people with me, all of whom have 500 hours of flying experience." "Five hundred hours in the pre-war Air Force belongs to the jīng sharp standard. But now it can only be considered unsatisfactory, you must know that the first batch of "dragoons" averaged more than 700 hours of combat flight alone. The total flight time is more than 1,300 hours, and the total flight time of several Jīng Rui brigades in China has even exceeded 2,000 hours.
After reading the list, Liu Mingchang tapped his shoulder affectionately after stuffing it into his pocket and said, "We still have a week to leave, so we can arrange some veterans to make up for you." This is not the northwest and rìben, the Luftwaffe's style of play and tactics are very fierce, be careful. ”
"Don't worry, captain, before we came, we have all trained according to the German tactics you summarized, even if we set off tonight, we are not afraid." Mo Yucheng is full of confidence. He is not telling a lie, the British Aid Flight Regiment has summed up a lot of experience and lessons in the battle for more than half a year, and these have been taken home by the pilots who have been rotated back to China one after another, and have repeatedly simulated and practiced in the Wolf Mountain base, so the tactical literacy of the naval and air force pilots has been significantly improved compared with the early days.
"You kid, you're still so anxious."
"Isn't this a greedy captain, hehe, I heard before I came that you have shot down 13 BF109s, and 2 of the latest FW190s? Really! Then you'll have to tell me about it later. Mo Yucheng patted the sycophants and made Liu Mingchang laugh before asking: "By the way, I just saw that the bay is full of warships and transport ships, is there a big operation?" ”
Liu Mingchang nodded, lowered his voice and said, "The marshal said that a second battlefield will be opened in North Africa. ”
"Shall we go to war?" Mo Yucheng's expression of a war maniac made Liu Mingchang shake his head and smile bitterly. smiled evilly in his heart: "A bunch of babies who have never suffered hardship, I guarantee that none of you want to go to heaven after a month." He continued: "I don't know, Marshal Zhang has not returned from a meeting in London. Let's go, I'll take you to the captain first. ”
The two walked and chatted and walked towards the headquarters, and along the way, they could see British soldiers wearing "pot bottom helmets" and waiting solemnly in the anti-aircraft artillery position. The improvised rest sheds on both sides of the runway were full of pilots ready to go, and all the fighters had open cockpits, and some of them had not even filled the dense bullet holes. After reaching the end, a large pile of destroyed bomber and fighter wreckage caught Mo Yucheng's attention. Liu Mingchang saw that he was watching, and he also wanted to take this opportunity to remind him, introducing: "I didn't pay attention a few days ago, I was attacked by German bombers, and the entire squadron of H-6 was blown up. 48 were lost, and 13 fighters were lost. It's a small thing, and it's even worse in London! Last night alone, the U.S. Army lost 41 P-40 fighter jets, killing and wounding 19 people. If you want to bring everyone back to China in peace and security in half a year, give me an honest twelve-point jīng god! Jǐng precepts must be maintained every hour of every day! ”
The solemn tone and miserable scene finally made Mo Yucheng and the new "dragoons" realize the cruelty of the air battle in Britain.
So far, if we want to say which country among the Allies has consumed the most materials, it is China, which fought in the far northwest before the United States entered the war, and the total consumption of materials is more than that of Britain and Germany combined in the same year. The supplies that had been secretly stored for several years before the war had been completely depleted. But if you want to say who is the worst, it must be England who is facing Germany directly. Although Hitler temporarily abandoned the landing plan, Goering continued to bomb the British. After Coventry, Birmingham, Manchester, London and other places have been subjected to the strongest night bombardment since the start of the war, and the British Parliament even put forward the idea of abandoning London and retreating to Scotland, and even the "dragoons" had to withdraw to the second-line base, temporarily abandoning the strait to fully protect the airspace, which shows how great the pressure is. However, Britain did not lack counterattacks as it did historically, because China sold 1,000 H-6 bombers before the war, so after the outbreak of the Battle of Britain, China and Britain joined forces to continue to fight back against German coastal cities such as Bremen and Berlin. However, there is a problem with the survivability of the H-6 itself, otherwise it would not have been abandoned by the Air Force, so there were less than 400 aircraft left in the seven-month fierce battle. If it weren't for the gradual increase in British bomber production, and the Army's B-17s after the United States entered the war, I am afraid that Britain would have been passively beaten.
But even with the arrival of American troops, the situation was not much better, because the US Army Aviation that had just entered the war was seriously inexperienced in combat. Not to mention that compared with the pilots of China, Germany and Britain who have been fighting for almost a year, the rookie ratio with the British aviation school is not much higher. So in the past month's air battles, the Luftwaffe shot down more than 300 P-40 fighters in one go.
This situation made Churchill more and more worried, and he knew very well that Hitler's attention had to be diverted, otherwise Britain would be completely blown up by relying on the immature American army, even if the Germans abandoned the landing. Originally, his greatest dream was to lead the German army to the east, but the Soviet-German "warship trade" made him completely dead. Therefore, it actively seduced the American troops to land in North Africa, tried to divert Hitler's attention a little through North Africa, and then attacked Italy in one go, so that the German army had to focus on Italy and the Balkans. The idea was good, but Roosevelt didn't sell it! The two sides continued to argue until Malta was completely lost, and then they reached an agreement to launch a counteroffensive in North Africa first. However, in terms of the selection of landing sites and the projection of troops, the two families quarreled again.
Churchill was really annoyed! Because Roosevelt still did not want to offend Vichy France. He knew that there was a deep political purpose in this, and Roosevelt wanted to use this to deepen the relations between the United States and France, to drive a wedge between Europe after the war, and to achieve the goal of squeezing out Britain and occupying Europe! But the problem is that French West Africa, Algeria and Tunisia, controlled by Vichy France, have become a formidable obstacle to the counteroffensive in North Africa! So in his opinion, since he had already entered the war, he should go to his ** Vichy France! Hundreds of thousands of troops were transferred to Britain, and then the two joined forces to bulldoze the whole of North Africa, and it was right to counterattack Italy, which was the weakest, earlier.
Therefore, in addition to Yang Qiu, Churchill was also one of them.
Of course, there is still work to be done on the surface, so he also learned from Yang Qiu to immediately make a national speech and "comfort" his allies.
When the two came to the airport and set up the headquarters of a residential building, Liu Cui just put down the phone. Seeing that the two of them closed the documents in their hands, they flattened their mouths and frowned: "The marshal just called." Three days later, Operation Torch began, and the British and Americans were to land in Oran and Algiers at the same time. We need to send a squadron to Gibraltar to protect the landing grounds. After he finished speaking, without waiting for the two of them to react, his sharp eyes shasked Mo Yucheng: "Prepare, I will set off tomorrow afternoon, and I will take you to see the Luftwaffe!" ”
When you look at history and wars, there will always be many coincidences. Just twenty-four hours after the departure of the Chinese Navy's XN21 battle group, the USS Enterprise, USS Hornet, USS New Mexico, USS Mississippi battleship; HMS Glory, HMS Ark Royal, USS Nelson, and USS Rodney, a total of 137 ships, rushed out of Bristol Harbour and quickly disappeared into the deep night.
The fierce battles of the new year, accompanied by naval operations, once again swept the world......