Chapter 776: Strategic Bombing

In order to better attack Soviet Russia and weaken the combat effectiveness of the Soviet Russian army and the war potential of Soviet Russia, Cai Ye not only launched this winter offensive, but also used a large number of fighters to carry out large-scale bombing of large and medium-sized cities in Soviet Russia when the weather was fine.

The bombing of Soviet Russian cities was mainly aimed at industrial facilities and the military industry, and this bombing was carried out in a planned manner and with a very clear goal, and in this regard, Cai's bombing plan was supported by the Russian branch of the Iron and Blood Investigation Bureau.

The Russian branch of the Iron and Blood Investigation Bureau handed over all the information it had collected about the military factories in various cities in Soviet Russia to Cai Ng's Allied High Command, and Cai and Zhang Xiaozhun formulated a detailed bomber plan based on this information.

This bombing plan is called the Hyena Plan, the Hyena bombing plan is divided into three parts, the first step is to bomb the large military factories in several important cities of Soviet Russia, the large military factories in these important cities have relatively significant targets, and the first to be bombed should be taken for granted, after all, the target is too big, ordinary people do not know the military factories of these important cities, but it is difficult to help but have a heart to investigate, the first bombing of the military factories in these important cities will not cause a high degree of vigilance on the part of the Soviet and Russian sides, In fact, the details of the arsenals in various cities in Soviet Russia have long been clearly investigated by the Iron and Blood Investigation Bureau, and the purpose of this step is to cut off the production sources of a large part of the weapons and ammunition in Soviet Russia, and without the supply of weapons and ammunition from these important cities, the supply of weapons and ammunition to the Russian army will be greatly reduced.

The second step of the bombing plan was to bomb the arsenals of a number of cities close to the front line, if these arsenals close to the front line were blown up. The Russian army on the front line will basically be cut off from the supply of weapons and ammunition, at least the supplies in the rear will not be delivered in time.

The third step was to bomb the military-industrial complex and all industrial facilities in the country in the cities of the rear of Soviet Russia. If this step is completed, then Soviet Russia will completely lose the ability to continue to fight the Allies. After all, if weapons and ammunition cannot be supplied for the time being, the country will not be destroyed, but if even all industrial facilities are destroyed, then Soviet Russia will completely lose the ability to manufacture weapons and ammunition, which will be fatal.

On December 16, the hyena bombing plan was officially launched to implement the first step of the plan, and the Allied forces took off a total of 300 warplanes from three air force airfields, including Tallinn in Estonia, Riga in Latvia, and Ossad on the northern shore of the Black Sea, to St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Kiev respectively, preparing to carry out a devastating bombing of the military industrial enterprises of these three Soviet and Russian cities.

The decision to carry out the bombing on the 16th was a temporary decision, and the order was given at 7 a.m. on the 16th, with only two hours to prepare. This greatly reduces the possibility of leakage of bombing intelligence and achieves the suddenness of bombing.

The reason why Cai Ye did this was also no way, the current weather prediction technology is far less powerful than that of later generations, and the targets to be bombed are all in Soviet Russia, and the Allied meteorological department cannot predict the weather conditions in Soviet Russia.

Cai Ye got up very early this morning, he came to the command war room early, according to his previous deployment, the intelligence officers of the Iron and Blood Investigation Bureau in Russia will report the weather forecast for the day on time at 6:30 a.m. every day, and the results of today's report are very good. The weather in the three cities of St. Petersburg, Moscow and Kyiv was absolutely sunny, which was absolutely very rare, so Cai Ye immediately gave the Allied Air Force part an order, two hours later. That is, the first step of the hyena bombing plan was carried out on time at 9 a.m.

After Cai's order, the Allied Air Force quickly ended its morning exercise and breakfast at the air bases in Tallinn, Riga, and Osad, leaving only two hours to prepare. After breakfast, the combat pilots and ground crews at the three bases began to overhaul the fighters, refuel the fighters, load ammunition and so on.

8:45 a.m. All the pilots of the three bases got on the planes, and all the fighters who were ready to participate in the bombing were all ready. Just waited for the take-off order to be given.

At 8:50, the fighters began to enter the runway, each fighter was only a dozen meters away from each other on the runway slowly, this is the warm-up before takeoff, in the process of driving, the pilot checked the various switch buttons and safety escape ejection equipment for the last time.

At 8:59, the take-off order was officially issued, after receiving the take-off order, the front fighter just drove to the starting point of the runway and began to accelerate, the fighter behind did not stop, followed forward, when the speed of the first fighter rose to the take-off speed and began to climb, the second fighter also began to accelerate, the time distance between this is only fifteen seconds, the fighter flew into the sky one after another, even so, even if each airport has two large runways, it took 12 minutes for each airport to take off a hundred fighters, This is already the fastest take-off speed in the world at the moment.

At 9:13 a.m., all 100 fighters from each of the three airfields took off and flew in formation in the direction of their respective mission objectives.

It is unclear whether the weather forecast sent by the intelligence officers of the Russian branch of the Iron and Blood Investigation Bureau is accurate, at least after flying in a large formation of three groups for half an hour, there has been no thunderstorm area, and the weather is clear everywhere it passes.

The shortest flight distance was the route from Tallinn Air Force Airfield in Estonia to St. Petersburg, where the first bomber group flew over St. Petersburg in just one hour.

St. Petersburg is a great city, there are a lot of buildings with a long history, these buildings are very valuable, there are no plans to bomb these historic buildings in the battle order, and the pilots do not waste time and ammunition, but fly directly to the intended target.

St. Petersburg had a large military factory, which produced not only guns and ammunition, but also artillery of various calibers, including anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, far more than any other arsenal in Soviet Russia.

Because Cai Ye had taken very strict measures to keep the bombing plan secret, not only did the Soviet and Russian sides not get any information, but even the vast majority of high-ranking personnel within the Allied forces did not know about the air raid plan. When a hundred bombing formations of warplanes and bombers flew over St. Petersburg, the Russians did not even know that it was an Allied aircraft group.

A quarter of an hour before the three bomber groups arrived in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Kyiv, agents of the Iron and Blood Investigation Bureau carried out operations outside the arsenals in the three cities, killing the Russian soldiers guarding the gates, throwing explosives into the arsenals, and pouring barrels of gasoline on fire as they left, billowing smoke from the scene.

When the three bomber groups flew over the three cities, they saw the smoke rising immediately, and the pilots knew that this was where the arsenal was located, and one after another the fighters roared towards the place where the smoke rose.

In the blink of an eye, the group of planes reached the exact location of the arsenal in the sky above the thick smoke, and a large number of aerial bombs fell from the belly of the plane, and the bombs made a large number of screams when they fell in the air, and the Russians in St. Petersburg and Moscow had never heard such a sound, they had no feeling for this sound, but they did not know that it was a declaration before the coming of death.

When the first bomb landed in the arsenal and exploded, a loud explosion erupted, the explosion did not stop for a long time.

The arsenal was filled with a lot of bullets and shells that had just been produced, and the explosions of the bombs that fell from the sky caused the detonation of the stored shells and bullets in an instant, crackling like firecrackers.

The bombers in the sky did not drop a few bombs, and the arsenal below exploded, and the entire arsenal was within a radius of more than 100 meters, and the arsenal turned into a sea of fire, and thousands of workers working in the factory were killed in it.

The arsenal was solved, the entire first task was completed, and the bomber formations began to continue to bomb the factories in and out of Petersburg, and some tall and conspicuous buildings did not escape the fate of being blown up.

The bombing was over after only a quarter of an hour, and the arsenals, aircraft factories, and air force airfields in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Kyiv were all destroyed, as well as the few warplanes on the airfields, which shocked the Soviet and Russian high-level inexplicably, and at the same time, the bombing also exposed the true performance of the Chinese fighters.

This bombing made the situation worse on the Soviet and Russian sides, the supply of the Soviet and Russian armies was insufficient, especially in terms of weapons and ammunition, although the Tsarist Russia left a lot of capital to the Soviet Union, but the lack of raw materials made the weapons and ammunition produced by the Soviet and Russian sides limited, and now three large arsenals and airports have been blown up, which makes it more difficult for the Soviet and Russian fleets to supply ammunition, and more importantly, the only three aircraft factories have also been blown into rubble, and it will be difficult to manufacture aircraft in the future.

This bombing not only destroyed a large part of the Russian army's ammunition supply capacity, so that the Soviet army can no longer get fighters, but also destroyed the industrial base of the three largest cities, and this bombing also greatly shocked the Soviet Russian high-level, Vladimi, Trotsky, Stalin, Kalinin and Molotov who worked in Moscow were almost killed by bombs, Vladimi had been assassinated before, and his health has not been very good, this fright made his condition begin to deteriorate, he did not work for several days, It wasn't until a week later that his condition stabilized and he began to work again.

The large-scale bombing of Leningrad, Moscow and Kiev by the Chinese Air Force once again aroused the contradictions between the Soviet and Russian high-level leaders, and at a meeting, Vladimi and Trotsky were directly on the bar, Vladimi believed that at this time it was necessary to resolutely resist the attack of the Allied forces, and Soviet Russia would never compromise, but several high-level leaders headed by Trotsky believed that Soviet Russia had reached such a point that it could no longer fight, and the only way to preserve Soviet Russia was to conduct peace talks with the Allied forces, and the opinions of the two sides were completely to the left, so they quarreled. The meeting also broke up unhappily. (To be continued......)