On the one hand, this tortoiseshell operation is indeed a "forecast and revenge operation" for the US military planning to bomb the Chinese mainland, and on the other hand, Qi Yiming is tired of deepening and expanding the scale of the war, and he hopes that this world war will end as quickly as possible, and to do this, it is necessary to destroy the opponent's ability to multiply as quickly as possible.

The Western European agglomeration has an economy and population comparable to that of the United States, and although it is greatly unable to catch up with it in terms of resources, if it effectively integrates its forces, it can still cause great trouble for China, after all, they are all old capitalist powers.

The main purpose of Qi Yiming's Operation Tortoiseshell is to knock out the economic capacity of Western European countries, thereby greatly weakening NATO's power and weakening the United States in terms of military balance.

Chen Feng was sent to Europe to carry out the task of bombing several Western European powers, especially Germany and France. Although Italy and Spain are strong, they are still worse than Britain, France and Germany, and given that Italy and Spain both have comic records and limited military strength, Qi Yiming's worries about them are also relatively limited. Britain was separated by the English Channel, and also crossed the Franco-Germans, and was largely the last target until the Franco-Germans were completely defeated.

As the name suggests, the Third Air Strike Force in Europe under Chen Feng's command is mostly ground strike military aircraft, including a strong attack division and a tactical bombing division. The main battlefield of the Assault Division was in Czechoslovakia, and they were to cross Hungary to carry out air strikes on the German-Polish Army in Czechoslovakia, mainly with the task of close support. The Air Force now only has one strong attack aircraft model, the Qiang-7, and now many tasks for close battlefield support have been handed over to UAVs and even Tengu mechas. Moreover, the Air Force has no new plans to continue to develop close support attack aircraft.

Another tactical bombing division under Chen Feng is a little special, this tactical bomber division is not only equipped with two aviation regiments of backfire, but also equipped with two brigades of technical verification bombers, model H-10 "Chasing Fire", is a new type of stealth tactical bomber.

The fire-chasing tactical bomber is actually a new type of long-range tactical bomber pursued by the PLA Air Force after using the Tu-22M Backfire, although by the standards of many countries, the Backfire is already a strategic-level bomber, but for the positioning of the PLA, a range of less than 10,000 kilometers cannot be regarded as a strategic bomber.

Compared with the Ares bomber, Backfire has a supersonic flight speed, excellent flight performance, a larger bomb load and a range, making it have a better effect on long-range tactical bombing. What makes the Air Force a little regretful is that as a fighter developed in the seventies, although it has been improved by Chinese military workers, the old foundation is here, and there is not much hope for improving the Cheng dù, especially in stealth performance.

As a result, the Air Force pinned its hopes on developing an advanced tactical bomber with similar functions to Backfire, a structure that is not too complex, capable of mass production, and capable of stealth penetration. With such a demand, AVIC referred to Backfire and incorporated some new concepts to develop the H-10 fire-chasing tactical bomber.

With a length of 40.6 meters and a wingspan of 28 meters, the new bomber abandons the variable swept wing of the backfire in favor of a large area of diamond-shaped wings, with an empty weight of 46 tons and a maximum take-off weight of 135 tons. The built-in magazine alone allows the bomber to carry 22 tons of ammunition, and the two magazines can be equipped with six-round cruise missile launchers, which can fire up to 12 Longsword-21 air-launched cruise missiles with a range of 2,000 kilometers.

Its appearance is actually similar to an enlarged stealth fighter, and the purpose is to achieve the best flight performance while taking into account stealth. Naturally, the more critical element in achieving this is to have a good engine, which is obviously not difficult for the Chinese.

After testing the combat performance of the H-10, the Air Force requested Qi Yiming to first use the production capacity of the Red Alert base to manufacture a batch as an experimental product to test its actual performance on the battlefield, and Qi Yiming manufactured 16 H-10 tactical bombers and sent them to Chen Feng to participate in the actual battle.

Standing in the airport tower, Chen Feng looked at the fighters and bombers preparing to take off on the airport, and for a moment remembered the time when he was a deep pilot, he was only in his forties, and he was actually able to continue flying, and the fuselage of his F-14 Tomcat landline, which had been sent to the collection of the Military Museum as an important memorial, was engraved with as many as 33 stars. In modern air combat, Chen Feng can be regarded as an out-and-out trump card.

He has shot down Vietnamese, Malaysian, and Indonesian fighters in the South China Sea, shot down many Taiwan military fighters over the strait, shot down Iraqi fighters in the Persian Gulf, and shot down Mao Zi's fighter planes in Russia.

Thinking that he had planned to quit the army because he was disappointed in the Air Force, as well as the battle of his father's generation, Chen Feng couldn't help but feel emotional. No one would have thought that the air force of the Republic of China today could be so powerful, and the power of the Third Air Strike Force in Europe alone in his hands is enough to rival the air force of any country except China and the United States. The PLA Air Force has thousands of fighter jets, and I am afraid that this number will exceed 10,000 in a short time. After the chaotic period ended, when we watched other countries replace their fourth-generation fighters on a large scale, but their own countries did not even build third-generation fighters, radars needed to be imported, missiles needed to be imported, and now the fighter planes produced by China are sold all over the world, and the equipment level of fighter jets is leading in the world.

Chen Feng has been glad more than once that he was born in this era, and more than once glad that he did not retire from the army and change careers, but continued to stay in the Air Force.

"The 12th Bombardment Aviation Regiment asks to take off!"

"Permission to take off!" Chen Feng said in a deep voice, although he was no longer on the fighter, he still felt that he was a warrior in the air, but at this time he was piloting more fighters, and his strength was more majestic.

The target of the 3rd Air Strike Force was Germany, and they were to fly directly over Austrian airspace to bomb the industrial area centered on Munich in southern Germany, as well as a number of surrounding military installations. In this bombing campaign, German military installations were less important than the bombing of German factories and infrastructure, because the purpose of the bombing was not to strike at German military strength, but at German military potential.

Escorted by a group of J-11 Black Hawk fighters, 16 fire-chasing bombers carried out the first wave of strike missions, because these fighters were all stealth fighters, so they had an advantage in the surprise attack without warning. In fact, Austria never knew the whereabouts of the Chinese Air Force, nor did it send warplanes to intercept fighters and bombers that crossed its airspace. Until the first Longsword-21 stealth cruise missile was launched by the fire-chasing bomber, neither the German nor the Austrian army made any timely response.

The target of the cruise missiles was a German military facility located east of Munich, and the sudden bombardment of multiple cruise missiles caused a lot of losses to the German army, where the training of recruits was underway, and the Iron Cross was expanding, but it was bullied by a country that was still a **** in World War II. The German boot camp suffered severe losses, with more than 1,000 casualties in the airstrike, and this was not just the only target of cruise missiles.

When a German quartermaster warehouse, several airfields and some other military facilities were attacked by cruise missiles, the Germans immediately took action to protect other military facilities that were not attacked, but it was the blow from behind that really hurt the Germans.

Guided bombers carrying guided bombs did not carry cruise missiles and flew into German territory, and a large number of bombs were dropped, because the previous round of cruise missile bombardment made the German army completely focus on military facilities and completely ignore the protection of civilian facilities, and the bombing of guided fire chased became extremely easy.

A large area of the industrial area was ignited by the incendiary bombs dropped by the chasing fire, and the fire grew bigger and bigger, and eventually spread to the entire industrial area, and many German workers who had no time to escape were directly burned to death in the fire, and a large number of manufactured products and machines were also destroyed in the attack.

Not only that, but several natural gas power plants in Munich were also bombed, and the bombs directly turned the power plants into large bombs, not only cutting off the power supply to the city, but also causing horrific casualties from the explosions.

It was not until the end of the bombing that the fighters sent by the Luftwaffe arrived, and these IDS-type Tornado fighters were obviously not opponents in the face of the Black Hawk fighters escorting the escort, and the Black Hawks calmly covered the retreat of the pursuers, and there was still a lot of time to shoot down these German fighters, and then swaggered back to the Chinese air base in Zagreb under Chen Feng's order.

The bombing destroyed about a quarter of the industrial capacity of the Munich industrial area, and even more terrifyingly, caused nearly 10,000 civilian casualties, which was related to China's use of cluster bombs and incendiary bombs. Although the bombing effect was very good, it also completely aroused the anger of the originally moderate Germans, who claimed to be revenge, but before the revenge of the Iron Cross began, China beat them again.