Chapter 369: Friendship Airport

In these years, how easy is it to demolish civilization, and it will hit a nail household...... If you don't let go of a nail household like the multinational force, and the pressure of public opinion will not work, then there will be only forced demolition.

lost the two beans in his hand, Major General Liu Gen didn't seem to care at all, or he remembered all the resentment on the British king.

"Let you make a small report, let you fly Lao Tzu's lieutenant general! Boom to me, boom hard! ”

Advancing along the railway line, the 4th Guards Panzer Division bombarded all the way, leveling Oldham and destroying Halifax until it rumbled the tanks to the Multinational Force's outer line of defense in Leeds City.

Leeds, set against the backdrop of the Pennine Mountains and on the banks of the River Eyre, is one of the most important administrative, cultural and transport centres in the Midlands of England, as well as an international metropolis that emerged after the Industrial Revolution.

After the Allies liberated, or more accurately, flattened the two industrial areas of Liverpool and Manchester, Leeds became the largest city that a multinational force could control in England.

The multinational forces that had retreated all the way from Liverpool and Manchester were concentrated in Leeds. U.S. Lieutenant General Mandheling shouted, "No more retreat, fight to the death with the Allies in Leeds!" ”

"Fight to the death?" Admiral Xiao Guoxing got out of the armored command vehicle, twisted his waist and moved, and the joints on his body gurgled and clucked. I plucked a dog's tail grass on the side of the road, put it in my mouth, and hummed while chewing, "Don't pick wildflowers on the side of the road...... Don't pick white, don't pick ......"

The telegram sent by the staff officer was sent by Major General Liu Gen of the Forward Division, and the multinational troops seemed to be trying to play real this time, digging a number of trenches on the periphery of Leeds City, and building many bunker groups. It was also stubbornly resistant to the tentative attacks of the Allies, whether it was long-range artillery fire or anti-tank weapons in the trenches.

"I'm not afraid that you will fight to the death, but I'm afraid that you will flee when you hear the sound of cannons!" Xiao Guoxing spit out the dog's tail grass with a "poof". In Admiral Xiao's view, there was too much time delayed in the early stage of the public opinion war. This battle should have been fought like Liu Gen a long time ago, "civilized...... Civilization you lungs? This is the battlefield of life and death, should you be the store expansion of the snack street in Xuanwu District, the imperial capital? It's easy to talk about and discuss. ”

The multinational forces are a group of people who bully the weak and fear the hard, shouting non-stop before the war, but as long as the combined air-ground bombardment of the Allied forces is fierce to a certain extent, they will relent. "I did this earlier, and now I can hit Edinburgh and Glasgow!"

Although every time he called, General Xiao would learn from Jiang Shuai's tone and scold Liu Gen, who was violently demolished, but it was for the British reporters who accompanied the army. If you don't need artillery to bombard it, is it possible to let our Han army fill it with human lives? It's not like I haven't tried it!

In Bolton, the British insisted on fighting street battles, and the results were ...... As a result, after a week of fighting, only one brigade was returned from the two divisions.

His Majesty's goal of "ending the war in Europe by 1944" is just over two months away. According to the current course of the war, it will be very difficult to accomplish the goal. Just such a city is a city for competition, and it would be good to be able to hit Hadrian's Wall before the end of the year!

Xiao Guoxing was very anxious, but what better way. The Guards Corps is strong, but the American army is by no means a soft eggplant. In the case of absolute firepower superiority on the part of the Allies, it was still stubbornly resistant.

General Sun Liren's Chinese Expeditionary Force tried a roundabout assault, but the overly prominent assault force was quickly seized by the multinational forces, and if it were not for the rapid attack of the Guards Panzer Army, which tore a hole in the enemy's encirclement, nearly 100,000 expeditionary troops would have almost been dumpled.

Large-scale group operations with a scale of more than one million are really a little bit of a stealing trick. Although the time is very tight, I can only keep the formation like this and advance little by little.

Unlike Africa, and unlike the Siberian battlefield, the island of Great Britain is still too small, two or three kilometers wide from east to west, and mechanized troops can rush from the coast of the North Sea to the Irish coast in just a few hours. Whatever the strategy, it needs a certain amount of strategic space to move troops, but in England ...... Fight it, fight firepower, fight courage, fight logistics support.

For generals, brave first. But for the handsome, insight into the overall situation, strategy to achieve things! Perhaps this is the biggest reason why Admiral Xiao Guoxing has not been able to surpass the gods. While Admiral Xiao's armored command vehicle was crushing the broken bricks and tiles on the dilapidated streets of Manchester City, rolling forward amid the unpleasant squeezing sound and roaring engine sound, at Cambridge's Garden Castle, the Allied General Headquarters, Jiang Yunzhi stood solemnly beside the telephone.

He was waiting for a call, a call from the commander of the Air Force, Admiral Long Xiaotian.

A month earlier, three divisions of paratroopers had secretly arrived in Spain. And now, they are concentrated near Worth Bay. The island of Great Britain faces the European continent and has numerous bays, many of which are natural harbours. Worth Bay is the most unremarkable of them all.

In the whole bay, there are no large military ports or even commercial ports. Because in the era of the rise of the British Industrial Revolution, the natural environment around several rivers flowing to Worth Bay such as the Usher River was seriously damaged, and a large amount of sediment was brought by the river water, silting up Worth Bay. Originally, there were even waterways in Worth Bay that led directly to Cambridge, but after a few hundred years of the Industrial Revolution, these waterways had been filled with sediment and became fertile fields.

But Long Xiaotian liked it here, as an air force general, especially an air force general from a bomber unit, he fell in love with the large area of flat land outside Worth Bay at a glance.

There are no mountains around, and it faces the sea, so it's warm in spring...... Well, with a wide view, this is the best place to build a large airport. As for poor protection? So what's the matter! The sky is the sky of the Royal Air Force, and the sea is the sea of the Royal Navy, both above and below the surface of the sea.

The Royal Air Force urgently brought in a division of engineering troops, as well as nearly 100,000 European laborers, and a huge airstrip was completed within 20 days.

Four 2,500-metre long runways and two 1,500-metre short runways make the airport, named "Friendship", the largest military airport in England and even in the whole of Europe. Well, the airport's facilities are a little rudimentary, but "it's enough!" We just use it temporarily, and we will abandon it after the war, is it possible, can we build a modern airport for England for free? George's stumbling and not paying! ”

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When Long Xiaotian said this, he looked like a leader of a demolition team, the boss of the road, spitting stars flying around, and his face trembled.

600 "Tyrannosaurus Rex" large military transport planes and more than 500 small and medium-sized transport planes of various types, the model is more chaotic, there is a big Han "long-necked dragon"; There is also a Spanish propeller-type "Aunt Juncker"; Italian twin-engine G-222; There are even a dozen American C-47 air trains, which were sold by the United States to the Turkish Air Force before the war.

Of course, both in terms of aircraft performance and lifting capacity, there is a huge gap between these aircraft and the Y-39 "Tyrannosaurus Rex". It's just that His Majesty has always emphasized the issue of unity within the Allies, and has not looked at the few ugly and maddening SCs left in the British Air Force. 7. Did the high-altitude truck transport plane also be sent!

Admiral Long was very suspicious that the British had something in their heads, how they could have designed so many strange and ugly planes. Even if the two lightning bolts that start the upper and lower layouts, is this guy with a square side or a double tail to make a sensational?

Well, not to mention the fighters of the Guards Airborne Army, even the Toei paratroopers from Japan refused to board such aircraft for training. It's not that it's not because of the safety performance, it's just that ...... "It's too ugly, and it really affects the mood of training and combat." ”

The ugliest fighters must all be British, the bulkiest fighters must be Soviet ones, the most stylish fighters must be American, and the most practical fighters must be German and Han fighters? That, of course, is a strong and powerful force. 、

It's just that no matter how many people come, don't care if other people's planes are ugly or not, Long Xiaotian understands that as long as one plane takes off with the Allied fleet, it is equivalent to the country's participation in the Allied military operations.

Your Majesty, this is clearly a Microsoft inspection - bundling. Well, in this world, there is no Microsoft, the first home computer launched by Dahan, the name is Kirin. Remember Daming Lake...... Remember the lost motorcycle next to the red boulder?

......, it is a computer, it is Zhong Yi's graduation prize before crossing, a Kirin military computer.

Well, it is to pull other countries to act together, so that every war of his own will be based on the general good. In the future, a certain major country did just that, and the United Nations Security Council issued sanctions agreements to put a legal label on its own military operations. Later, in the face of resistance from other countries and unable to carry the banner of the United Nations, they simply pulled in a group of younger brothers and staged a Hollywood drama in which "the truth is always in the hands of the majority".

In fact, the "little brother" countries are also a group of characters who wave flags and shout and cheer for drums. Just like at the "Friendship" airfield, a few other transport planes were parked in the corner, and the white pilots had to move a small bench and get a handful of melon seeds.

On the short runway, the "Raptor" took off and the "Tianlong" took off, and after the escorted fighter plane group and the second-generation "Spinosaurus" early warning plane, which had been waiting in the air for a long time, completed the command docking, and then routinely checked the communication system and fire control switch.

In Western Europe, apart from the Allied planes, there were only German warplanes in the sky, and the German eagles would never cross the English Channel, and the skies over France were the borders of their patrols.

The German air force on the Western Front was careful to maintain a relationship with the Allies and not to invade the river, and it was necessary to maintain this tacit understanding with the Han army while the Soviet Red Army's counteroffensive was becoming more and more powerful.

Adolf knew very well that the current Germany was simply not capable of going to war on two fronts, the Soviet Union and the Allies. He was very envious of the chic way in which the Han army had fought simultaneously in the Mediterranean and Siberia before, and because of this, he did not dare to tear his face with the Great Alliance until the Russians were completely defeated. Arrogance does not mean ignorance.